Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
663.55.17
663.55.17 Iresine calea, Achyranthes calea
English: Herb of fever.
Spanish: Herba du Tabardilla de Puebla.
Botany: Mexico; round stem, green, bluish-red hue when full-grown, gnarled and rugged, the leaves oval, spear-shaped and smooth.
Source: De Legarreta.
Mind
They beg forgiveness, desire to set their conscience right, excuse themselves.
Anxiety of conscience, remorse.
Begging, entreating.
Company, desire.
Company, aversion, not being spoken to, lie down in the dark, > silent persons; desire to be alone, aversion to answer, answers, monosyllabic.
Fear: suffering, panic.
Quiet, calm.
Religious, moral affections; low morale with uneasiness, twinges of conscience, religious preoccupation.
Apathy; indifference.
No sexual desire, aggravated by the cold.
Restlessness, nervousness.
Sensitive, oversensitive, < noise, < light.
Sadness, despondency, depression, melancholy.
Stupor, torpor; unconsciousness, coma.
Dreams: nightmare, in children.
General
Weather: < cold; < damp, < sudden changes of temperature, barometric pressure.
Sweat: scanty, in fever.
Desire: cold water but it tastes bad.
Aversion: solid food; food.
Sleep: stupor, wakes often but only for a short time.
Physical: > covering, despite of heat; > strong pressure; < movement; > rest; < light, > dark.
Body
General: acute congestive states.
Energy: fatigue, < work, < mental effort, > rest.
Fever: typhoid, typhoidal, intermittent, suffocative, heat, < resting, 38°C till 40°C.
Nervous: epidemic encephalitis; lymphocytic meningitis; neuritis, < cowpox, chicken pox and measles, psittacosis, rubella, scarlet fever, sepsis; torpor; indifference towards the environment.
Head: headache congestive, throbbing, < touch, > compression, > heavy pillow on the head, beating in the temporal arteries.
Eyes: bright, red; sensitive to light; burning; watering, bloodshot, hot, heavy, as sand in the eyes; drooping, eyelashes turn upwards; infected; yellow mucus secretion, > cold compresses; painful eyeballs, relieved by pressure of the fingers on the eyeball; dacryocystitis; blepharitis; conjunctivitis; keratitis; iritis.
Ears: itching, heat, dry; acute congestive otitis media; mastoiditis; strange noises in the head; cannot bear noise; auricle bright, red, tense; acute congestive otitis media; acute mastoiditis.
Nose: dry, blocked, painful; black secretion, relief from flowing; nosebleed, left side, < blowing the nose; maxillary sinusitis; frontal sinusitis; ethmoiditis.
Face: red, swollen, as from sun; pains, masseter, zygomatic muscles, > mouth open.
Mouth: hot, dry; dry, burning tongue; aphthae, < sun, < indigestion.
Throat: dry, burning, > swallowing; prickling, < cold drink; hoarse, < speaking in cold weather.
Lungs: breathing difficult, short, noisy, fast; cough very tiring, < catarrh; bronchopneumonia; pneumonia; pleurisy.
Chest: pain, pectoral muscles, intercostal; oppression, > deep, repeated inhaling.
Heart: weak; dry pericarditis; aortitis, syphilitic or atheromatous; aneurysm of the aorta; temporal arteritis; arteritis; myocarditis; pulse regular, slow, low, steady, strong, full.
Chest: acute mastitis; breasts sensitive to touch.
Stomach: acute epigastric pain, < cold; gastritis.
Abdomen: acute cholecystitis; haemorrhaging pancreatitis; acute colitis and enterocolitis.
Rectum: no urge; feeling of repletion.
Urinary: acute glomerulonephritis; pyelonephritis; kidney abscess; bladder ineffectual straining, burning in the urethra; frequent, pressing emission of small quantities of hot, clear, reddish urine; urethritis.
Male: penis hot, flaccid, relaxed; scrotum congested with veins standing out; ejaculation rare, erection incomplete, impotence; burning in the urethra after ejaculation; after acute testicular surgery.
Female: > menses; valvulitis; bartholinitis; vaginitis; metritis; salpingitis; dryness and burning in the vagina.
Back: pain aching, bruising, heavy loins, neck; cold sweat on the back; torticollis; lumbago.
Limbs: muscular rheumatism, pains, stiff in the long muscles; feet, hands burning; acute joint rheumatism; hands and feet also perspire; acute osteomyelitis in adolescents; malignant lupus erythematous.
Skin: dry, burning, red; impression of goose-flesh, < moving; painful dermatitis.