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Senega

Snakewort

7 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • With mucus symptoms, especially of the respiratory tract, and distinct eye symptoms of a paralytic type, are most characteristic.
  • Circumscribed spots in chest left after inflammations.

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Mind & mood

  • Suddenly remembers unimportant regions which he saw long ago.
  • Inclined to quarrel.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Walking in open airDuring rest

Better

From sweatBending head backwards

Symptoms by body part

Head

Dullness, with pressure and weakness of eyes. Pain in temples. Bursting pain in forehead.

Eyes

Hyperphoria, better by bending head backwards. Acts on the rectus superior. Blepharitis; lids dry and crusty Dryness, with sensation as if too large for orbits. Starting. Watering eyes. Flickering; must wipe eyes frequently. Objects look shaded. Muscular asthenopia. Double vision; better only by bending head backward. Opacities of the vitreous humor. Promotes absorption of fragments of lens, after operation.

Nose

Dry. Runny nose (cold); much watery mucus and sneezing. Nostrils feel peppery.

Face

Heat in face. Burning vesicles in corners of mouth and lips.

Throat

With mucus inflammation of throat and fauces, with scraping hoarseness. Burning and rawness. Sensation as if membrane had been abraded.

Respiratory

Hoarseness. Hurts to talk. Bursting pain in back on coughing. Mucus discharge of larynx. Loss of voice. Hacking cough. Thorax feels too narrow. Cough often ends in a sneeze. Rattling in chest. Chest oppressed on ascending. Bronchial mucus discharge, with sore chest walls; much mucus; sensation of oppression and weight of chest. Difficult raising of tough, profuse mucus, in the aged. Asthenic bronchitis of old people with chronic interstitial nephritis or chronic emphysema. Old asthmatics with congestive attacks. Exudations in Pleura. Hydrothorax. Pressure on chest as though lungs were forced back to spine.

Urinary

Greatly diminished; loaded with shreds and mucus; scalding before and after urinating. Back, bursting distending pain in kidney region.

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