Generalities
Commonly known as Prickly Ash, exerts its influence on nerves; female sexual organs; respiration and left side. Paralysis of single members; hemiplegia. Grinding, shooting, radiating, sudden pains; neuralgia. Neurasthenic patients who are thin; emaciated, poor assimilation, with insomnia. Pricking sensation; shocks as from electricity. Numbness of left side. Mucous membranes smart as from pepper. As if floor were soft like wool, on walking. Injury to nerves.
Worse
Sleeping. Dampness. Getting feet wet. Suppressed menses.
Better
Vomiting. Lying down. Drinking of ice water.
Mind
Nervous frightened feeling. Did not care if she lived or died.
Head
Throbbing headache; pain as if top of head would fly off. As if head is divided into two parts. As of a tight band around.
Throat
Peppery taste in mouth and throat. Feels hollow.
Stomach
Dyspepsia from excessive eating and drinking.
Female
Ovarian neuralgia with pain in hips and lower abdomen. Violent, agonizing, grinding, dysmenorrhoeal pain, not better in any position; pains go to thighs or radiate over whole body, even to heart. After-pains with lochia; with characteristic pains. Menses; too early and profuse; thick almost black blood. Leucorrhoea, replaces menses. Amenorrhoea.
Respiratory
Constant desire to take a deep breath. Oppression of chest. Constant dry cough day and night.
Extremities
Soreness of thighs before menses. Neuralgic shooting pains in limbs. Hemiplegia (left). Sciatica worse in summer. Coccyx; Very sensitive, seem elongated.
Sleep
Dreams of flying.
Related
Ars; Lachesis