Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
644.75.05
644.75.05 Linnaeosicyos amara
Names: Trichosanthes amara.
Hindi: Karela.
Mind
Despondency.
Colour preference: 18A.
Desire: cold things; food, extreme hunger, < morning; drinks, thirst.
Time: < 11 am.
Sleep: sleepy, yawning.
Physical: <- covering; - > a bath; - > stretching of limbs.
Body
Energy: exhausted, weak, < stools.
Fever: chilliness, burning body; chronic malarial fevers, kala azar.
Vertigo: giddy << lying in bed, as if head is rolling along with the bed.
Head: headache, < fever.
Eyes: yellow; pupils dilated.
Mouth: dry; slimy salivation; taste insipid and bad; waterbrash.
Throat: dry; sore; burns, < vomiting.
Heart: pulse almost imperceptible, very feeble, weak, thread like, excitable, accelerated, quick.
Stomach: nausea, < smell of medicine; vomiting, stringy mucus, streaked with blood, < drinking water; belching; gurgling.
Abdomen: empty; uneasy; hot, < 11 am; pains, liver, < sneezing, < coughing and movement; gurgling; distension; enlargement of spleen and liver; jaundice.
Rectum: stool painless, copious, green yellow, frothy, bilious, liquid, mixed with bile and mucus, bloody stool; urging; smarting, burning pains; prolapse; diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera.
Urinary: urine red, small quantity, suppression, retention.
Limbs: swelling of lower extremities.