Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.55.14
665.55.14 Scutellaria lateriflora
English: Mad-dog; Skullcap; Virginian Skullcap.
Content: sodium chloride.
Mind
Ambitious, great expectations of themselves; high strung neurotic women.
Anxious, fastidious woman who worry a great deal.
Frustration about their health.
Hermit, has to force himself to socialise, withdrawn into themselves and having little contact with others or the doctor.
Confused, in talking, moving back to symptoms previously expressed and trying unsuccessfully to express them clearly; inability to fix attention.
Ailments from emotional excitement, from a rigid stepmother in puberty, being left alone by parents.
Prostration of mind from over-study or night-watching.
Striking, knocking his head against wall.
Memory weakness, loss.
Narcissist.
Strong desire to move about.
Delusion: not being in the world, as if reality is askew.
Fear: some calamity, something terrible will happen, in children, < night; animals, snakes; deep water.
Dreams: disagreeable, unpleasant; frightful; nightmare; troubles; vexatious.
General
Weather: < damp weather.
Desire: vinegar, pasta, feta, sweet, tea, bread, fat, milk.
Aversion: banana, fat.
Food: < tobacco.
Sleep: insomnia, restless; night terrors, sleepless, < nervous excitement.
Physical: < nickel, < abuse of benzodiazepines.
Body
Nervous fear or excitement predominates; chronic fatigue syndrome, < after influenza.
Infection: recurrent flu, sinus infections, suppressed with antibiotics.
Nervous irritation and spasms, chorea, in children, < dentition.
Vertigo: dizzy, feeling off-balance, < activity.
Head: dull frontal headache.
Eyes: aching in eyeballs.
Ears: tinnitus.
Nose: sinusitis.
Throat: dry, < night, < lying; sore, inflammation; tonsils, inflammation, recurrent, swelling, < night; swelling of thyroid gland.
Lungs: collapsed; pleurisy.
Chest: milk absent.
Heart: irritability.
Stomach: nausea, gas, fullness, distension without modalities.
Urinary: urine diminished.
Female: menses copious, long; weak before menses.
Limbs: twitching of muscles.