Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
642.13.16
642.13.16 Nigella sativa
English: Black Cumin; Fennel flower; Blessed seed.
Mind
Apathy; indifference, inability to recollect.
Delirium, sopor, muttering; moaning; starting; slow in answering.
Nervousness, anxious fearfulness.
Fear of death, discouragement, tendency to start, lack of humour.
Great restlessness.
Diminished sensibility, peevishness, indifference; excessive anguish, with alternate feeling of coldness and drawing.
General
Sensation: bruised.
Weather: violent burning heat, with subsequent chilliness.
Type: livid, sunken countenance, with an expression of anxiety.
Desire: drinks, unquenchable thirst.
Body
Energy: weak low energy and stimulant.
Fever: periodic, tertian, quartan agues, with delirium.
Head: obtuseness; headache, migraine; pain violent, darting, digging, pressing, stitching, occiput, vertex, frontal; tearing and compression in the right temple; pain cutting, throbbing, middle of the brain.
Eyes: sunken countenance, brownish, red, dirty; without lustre, faint; vision dim; lame; paralytic eyelids; twitching of the right upper eyelid.
Ears: violent roaring; tingling, internal boring, aching pain, pressing from within outwards.
Nose: dry; colds, coryza, dry, afterwards fluent; injuries; cold tip; wings bluish, dilatation.
Face: pale, bluish; lips pale, trembling.
Mouth: dry; tongue red, dry, parched, coated whitish grey, difficult to move, trembling, cold tip; taste disgusting, rancid; saliva scanty, excessive.
Throat: dry; unintelligible, muttering speech; voice anxious, hurried, interrupted.
Lungs: cough dry, hacking; asthma; bronchitis and whooping cough; bronchial spasm; breathing short, slow, snoring, rare, deep, rattling; frequent sighing; yawning, occasionally a short and hacking cough; darting pricking transversely across the chest.
Heart: pulse frequent, tight, weak, intermitting; palpitation; pain; cholesterol high.
Chest: oppression; milk scanty, with violent aching in the cavity of the chest.
Stomach: irritation; throbbing; indigestion; belching; nausea; dysphagia; distension, < drinking.
Abdomen: intestines irritation; intestinal worms; colic, rumbling, gas, flatulence; gallstones; worms, parasites; jaundice; acute inflammation of the liver, < cold; right hypochondrium, swollen, tender; pain oppressive, lancinating, tearing, cutting, liver, < contact; enteritis, peritonitis; worms; inflation, distension; pain violent, lancinating, tearing, tender, < touch, < pressure; swelling pudendum; pain tearing, stitching, < slightest touch; diabetes.
Rectum: haemorrhoids; obstinate constipation; ineffectual straining.
Urinary: urine scanty; kidney stones; urine bright red, flaming, burning.
Male: testicle diseases.
Female: amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, fevers, paralysis
Back: bruised, lumba, < lying on the back.
Limbs: gout; aching bones; arthritis, rheumatism; pain sore, immobility legs.
Skin: leucoderma, allergies, ringworm; dog bites; spider bites