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Xanthoxylum

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General

XANTHOXYLUM. [Xanthox.] Prickly Ash. Rutaceae.

Mind

► Nervous, frightened feeling. ► Depression and weakness.

Inner Head

► Dullness. ► Bewilderment ; pain in back of head. ► Throbbing headache ; over right eye, with nausea. ► Pain over the eyes with throbbing above root of nose. ► Aching and flashes of throb-like pain as if top of head was about being taken off. ► Tightness of the scalp : 23.

Nose

► Right nostril seems filed up. ► Discharge of mucus, of dry and bloody scales.

Mouth

► Peppery taste in mouth, fauces and throat.

Throat

► Peppery sensation ; soreness, with expectoration of tough mucus. ► Feeling of a bunch in left side of throat when swallowing, shifting to right.

Desires And Aversions

► No appetite.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Sense of oppression at stomach ; frequent chills : 40.

Stomach

► Feeling of fullness on pressure. ► Fluttering.

Stool, Etc

► Griping pains 7 A.M. ; with thin, brown stools, mixed with mucus.

Urine

► Profuse, light-colored urine : nervous women.

Female Sexual Organs

► Ovarian pains extending down the genito-crural nerves : 33. ► Dreadful distress and pain ; headache ; menstrual flow too early and profuse ; pains down the anterior of thighs ; neuralgic dysmenorrhoea.

Pregnancy

► After-pains, when of the above character and with profuse lochia.

Larynx

► Hoarse, husky feeling in the throat.

Lungs

► Desire to take a long breath. ► Tight feeling about the chest, inclined to gape.

Lower Limbs

► Severe neuralgic pains in the course of the genito-crural nerves : 23. ► Excessive weakness of lower limbs ; chlorosis.

Limbs In General

► Pains in the limbs, neuralgic, shooting. ► Numbness and weakness.

Nerves

► Pricking sensation ; shocks as from electricity. ► Numbness, worse on left side.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chills, pains in limbs ; nausea : 16. ► Flashes of heat. ► Sense of heat in veins.

Tissues

► Acts upon the nervous system, mostly upon the sensory nerves, but causes a marked depression of vitality, a non-reactive state, hence its use in chlorosis, measles, neuralgia, etc., when there is sensorial and bodily depression. ► Mucous membrane smarts as from pepper. ► Catarrh.

Skin

► Measles, dulness, bewilderment, drowsiness, want of sufficient development of the eruption (See catarrhal symptoms. Clinical, but trustworthy).

Relationship

► Compare with : Act. rac., Gelsem., Bellad.