Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.46.16
665.46.16 Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
Names: menas Night-flowering sad tree.
English: Sad tree; Night-Jasmine of India; Paghala tree.
Sanskrit: Sephalika. Hindi: Harsinghar.
Botany: Central India, small tree; flowers brilliant, highly fragrant, white and yellow, flowering only at night.
Source: Ghose, Anshutz. Boericke. Clarke.
Mind
Placing yourself out of the family. The family of your loved one has to be kept intact so you remove yourself and stop the relationship.
Morose, sulky, cross, fretful, ill-humour, peevish.
Restless, anxious, nervous, changes place continually.
Weakness of memory.
Fear: death, < alone.
Morose and taciturn.
Capricious humour.
General
Weather: < draught, > cold application.
Time: < morning.
Desire: drinks; thirst, insatiable, > vomiting, < before and during chill and fever.
Body
Fever: remittent, intermittent; double, quotidian, irregularly; bilious vomiting; before great thirst, yawning, stretching; during thirst, no sweat, + emaciation, + debility, + giddiness, + constipation.
Head: headache, dull, intense; drawing pain in temples.
Eyes: violent burning, heaviness.
Face: swelling.
Mouth: intensely dry; ulcers; taste bitter; offensive odour; profuse salivation; tongue coated, whitish, yellowish fur; lips sore.
Throat: dry.
Lungs: dry cough, < fever.
Heart: pulse very weak and small.
Stomach: uneasy, burning, > cold application; oppression at the pit; nausea, distressing, vomiting bitter, < at close of chill, < draught, < drinking water.
Abdomen: liver and spleen enlarged, stitching pain, tender, < touch.
Rectum: constipation, children; stool profuse, bilious stool with nausea.
Urinary: urine scanty, high coloured.
Limbs: sciatica; rheumatism; dropsy, swelling of the hands and feet.
Skin: dry heat.
