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Hypericum perforatum

St. john's-wort

8 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Crushed fingers, especially tips.
  • Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use.
  • Punctured wounds.
  • Relieves pain after operations.
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  • Quite supersedes the use of Morphia after operations. (Helmuth.)
  • Spasms after every injury.
  • Coccydynia.
  • Spasmodic asthmatic attacks with changes of weather or before storms, better by copious phlegm coughed up.
  • Injured nerves from bites of animals.
  • Neuritis, tingling, burning and numbness.
  • Constant drowsiness.

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Mind & mood

  • Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety lest he fall from heights.
  • Mistakes in writing.
  • Effects of shock.
  • Melancholy.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

In coldDampnessIn a fogIn close roomLeast exposureTouch

Better

Bending head backward

Symptoms by body part

Head

Heavy; feels as if touched by an icy cold hand. Throbbing in vertex; worse in close room. Brain seems compressed. Right side of face aches. Brain-fag and neurasthenia. Facial neuralgia and toothache of a pulling, tearing character, with sadness. Head feels longer-elongated to a point. In fractured skull, bone splinters. Brain feels alive. Pains in eyes and ears. Falling out of hair.

Stomach

Craving for wine. Thirst; Nausea. Tongue coated white at base, tip clean. Feeling of lump in stomach.

Rectum

Urging, dry, dull, pressing pain.

Back

Pain in nape of neck. Pressure over sacrum. Spinal concussion. Coccyx injury from fall, with pain radiating up spine and down limbs. Jerking and twitching of muscles.

Extremities

Darting pain in shoulders. Pressure along ulnar side of arm. Cramp in calves. Pain in toes and fingers, especially in tips. Crawling in hand and feet. Lancinating pain in upper and lower limbs. Neuritis, with tingling, burning pain, numbness and flossy skin. Joints feel bruised. Hysterical joints. Traumatic neuralgia and neuritis.

Skin

Hyperidrosis, sweating of scalp, worse in morning after sleep; falling of hair from injury; eczema of hands and face, intense itching, rash seems to be under the skin. Herpes zoster. Old ulcers or sores in mouth when very sensitive. Lacerated wounds with much extreme weakness from loss of blood.

Listed for these health issues

NeurastheniaSpeech DifficultiesUrine-BrownLumbagoBites and StingsInjuriesShocksSurgical Shocks and Post-Operation Ailments

Often compared with

Ruta graveolensCoffea crudaBryonia alba

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