Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.76.17
665.76.17 Ipomoea purpurea
Source: North American.
Use: psychedelic.
Mind
Ailments from rave late-night activity, erratic eating and sleeping rhythms.
Intense anxiety with palpitations, < night, in children.
Sensation: stuck to old patterns.
Delirium, delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, excitability, mumbling, muttering, typhomania.
Company: aversion; > alone; desire for solitude.
Loss of memory and prostration.
Sensitive, oversensitive, < noise.
Behaviour erratic, destructive, violent.
Nervous, restless, erratic; agitation; hysteria.
Energy: fatigue, weakness; mental confusion.
Dull, toxic, hung over, addictive habits.
Sadness, tears, hypersensitive to noise.
Dreams: delirious.
General
Type: neuro-bilious, hypersensitive; left.
Sweat: cold, palms, feet, soles.
Time: < morning, < 9 am; < night.
Desire: water; stimulants, caffeine, cocaine, amphetamines.
Aversion: fatty foods, meat, milk; food, anorexia.
Food: < fatty foods.
Sleep: restless; sleepy; sleeplessness, complete.
Physical: > lying down.
Body
Fever: feverishness.
Infection: syphilis.
Nervous: convulsions, epileptic; catatonia.
Vertigo: nausea, > lying down, < night, > upright position, > pressure.
Head: headache, heavy, right then in left temple, jaw, eye, forehead, with a unilateral perspiration; irritation of the brain; itching of scalp.
Eyes: smarting, itching of internal canthus of left eye; pupils dilated.
Ears: noises, humming, buzzing.
Face: swelling; pain, left upper jaw; contraction, masticator muscles.
Nose: dry, smarting, nostrils; smell acute; purulent discharge; sneezing.
Mouth: red; tongue as if swelling, swallowing; taste, bitter.
Throat: dry; pain in left tonsil; swallowing difficult, < liquids, constant desire to.
Throat: larynx constriction, trachea.
Stomach: acrid dyspepsia; rumbling, grumbling, left epigastric region; vomiting, yellow: green.
Lungs: irregular breathing; cough.
Heart: pulse accelerated, rapid and irregular, extrasystole; palpitations with anxiety and hysterical spasms; hypertension.
Chest: spasms, constriction.
Stomach: acrid dyspepsia, hiccough; vomiting, bilious.
Abdomen: distended, flatulence; heat epigastrium > stools; viral jaundice; sharp, cutting pain, superior flexure of colon, descending colon, above umbilicus; rumbling of flatus, region of sigmoid flexure; cholecystitis; biliary sycosis syndrome.
Rectum: ineffectual straining; stools soft, orange-yellow.
Urinary: pain, colic, kidney, right, towards the left ureter, + nausea; urethra, pain, burning, < urination; urine, scanty, sediment.
Back: ache, lumbar, left, muscles, > lying down, < stooping.
Limbs: cold, sweating; heaviness of the back and neck, aggravated at night, on going to bed; muscular spasms, with fatigue; neuromuscular and arthritic pains; aching, top of right shoulder, small of back.
Skin: yellow, dry, despite cold sweating.