Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.76.04
665.76.04 Convolvulus scammonia, Convolvulus stans
Names: Convolvulus scammonia is an unresolved name.
Names: Ipomoea stans, Convolvulus stans, Convolvulus scammonia, Aleppo scammony.
English: Scammony.
Spanish: Tumbavaqueros.
Mind
Imbalance, < late-night activity, < erratic eating and sleeping rhythms.
Anxiety, intense, terror, < night, in children, + palpitations, < away from parents, homesick.
Ailments from: excitement, anxiety.
Company: aversion, fear; > alone, desire for solitude; shy, insecurity.
Memory weakness, lost; prostration of mind, mental exhaustion, brain fag, confusion.
Sensitive, oversensitive, < noise; hyperaesthesia.
Excitement, excitable, hysteria.
Restless, nervous, agitation.
Sad, despondency, depression, melancholy, weeping, tearful.
Borderline schizophrenia; phobic obsessive neurosis.
Delirium: hallucinations, muttering, mumbling, typhomania; schizophrenia, catatonic.
Delusions: imaginations: visions.
Dreams: delirious.
General
Type: nervous, bilious, hypersensitive, phosphoric, fluoric.
Time: < 9 pm till 5 am.
Desire: cold water.
Aversion: fats, rich food, meat, milk.
Food: < fatty foods, fat, rich food.
Sleep: restless; sleepiness; sleeplessness, complete.
Physical: < noise; > lying down.
Body
Fever: feverishness, total insomnia, cold sweats, contracture of the masticatory muscles; syphilis.
Nervous: convulsions, epileptic, epilepsy; catatonia.
Vertigo with nausea, > lying down.
Head: headache, < night, > rising; irritation of the brain.
Eyes: pupils dilated.
Ears: buzzing.
Mouth: discoloured, feeling of swallowing his tongue; bad taste in the mouth.
Throat: dry, constant need to swallow, swallowing difficult.
Throat: larynx constriction.
Lungs: irregular respiration.
Heart: palpitation with anxiety and hysterical spasms; pulse accelerated, frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid, irregular; extrasystole; hypertension.
Chest: spasms; constriction.
Stomach: acrid dyspepsia; yellow-green vomiting, bilious; hiccough.
Abdomen: distended; heat in the epigastrium, > stool; cholecystitis; biliary sycosis syndrome; viral jaundice.
Rectum: ineffectual straining; stools soft, orange-yellow.
Urinary: pain, colic, left kidney, towards left ureter, pains with nausea.
Back: heavy, neck, < night, < going to bed; pain, aching, in the left lumbar muscles < bending down.
Limbs: cold, sweating, heavy; joints painful; muscular spasms, with fatigue; Gunter's paralytic myoglobinuria, painful attacks of muscular contracture, with fever and with haemoglobin in the urine; neuromuscular and arthritic pains.
Skin: discoloured, yellow, dry, despite cold sweating.