Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
644.75.14
644.75.14 Luffa operculata
English: Sponge cucumber; Wild loofa.
Mind
Irritability; morose; chagrin; violence, malicious, rage, vexation, << being disturbed.
Avoidance of people.
Wants total rest.
Irritability, < being questioned, disturbed.
Restless.
Dreams: anxious, of music and noise.
General
Sensation: cutting; stabbing; lancinating; pinching; stitching, sharp.
Weather: > fresh air; > open air; < warm room; < dry air.
Sweat: copious, < sleep.
Desire: diluted vinegar; lemon; food, extreme hunger, insatiable thirst and hunger.
Aversion: fats; spicy.
Sleep: disturbed, < 3 am; sleepy by day, sleepless at night.
Physical: < motion; > rest, quiet.
Body
General: emaciation; prostration
Head: violent headaches, forehead to nape of the neck; pain pressing, bones of the skull.
Eyes: muscae volitantes.
Nose: coryza; discharge abundant, sour, foetid; post-nasal mucus, < open air, > heat; acute rhinitis; nosebleed; hayfever, allergy, < pollen.
Mouth: dry, tongue.
Throat: dry; pharyngitis; hoarse.
Lungs: breathless, < least effort; asthma.
Heart: tachycardia.
Stomach: diffuse gastric pains.
Abdomen: pain, indescribable.
Rectum: constipation.
Female: menses delayed, profuse, late; vaginal discharge colourless, < after menses.
Back: stabbing pain in back and neck.
Limbs: hot and numb, < 3 am.