Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.76.08
665.76.08 Ipomoea alba, Convolvulus duartinus
Names: Ipomea bona nox, Convolvulus duartinus, Calonyction speciosum, Convolvulus Pulcherrimus.
English: Moonflower; Evening Glory.
Source: Mure.
Mind
Ailments from death of parents or friends.
Dreams: of spiders; flying; illuminations; teeth falling out; teeth being pulled out. Exaltation of fancies.
Forsaken feeling; sensation of isolation.
Discouraged.
Moral affections: want of moral feeling.
Prostration of mind, mental exhaustion, brain fag; mental languor.
Sadness, despondency, depression, melancholy.
Starting, startled, from sleep.
Hypochondria. Reveries in daytime.
Dreams: flying with lights under him and following a road, like an airplane.
Dreams: anger, angry, quarrels, strife.
Dreams: animals, spiders; dead people; ghosts, spectres; teeth falling out.
General
Sensation: constricting, cramping, burning.
Weather: chilly, lack of vital heat; > cold bath.
Sweat: profuse < in bed.
Time: >< morning.
Desire: spicy.
Aversion: meat.
Sleep: drowsy, < daytime.
Body
Vertigo with faintness.
Head: burning in frontal, heat at root of nose, ceasing after a cold bath; pain left temple.
Eyes: inflammation of left eye.
Face: red spot, right cheek, neck, < rising from bed.
Mouth: toothache; swelling of gums; tongue feels swollen; bad taste.
Throat: heat, dry, anterior and upper part of oesophagus; pain on each side of the thyroid cartilage.
Chest: deep seated pain under the right breast.
Abdomen: pain, + internal heat; violent colic with drawings.
Rectum: constipation; haemorrhage anus, < hard stool.
Urinary: urine red, yellow sediment.
Limbs: numb, right index and middle fingers, left scapular region, arms, < hanging down; pains in left shoulder in left wrist; sharp pain in right knee; pain fore part of left leg for four days; deep-seated pain in calves; shuddering, repeatedly.
Skin: burning, stinging.