Ailanthus Glandulosa


Ailanthus Glandulosa signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Ailanthus Glandulosa is used…


      The Tree of Heaven. (Eastern Asia, cultivated as a shade-tree in North America.) *N. O. Simarubacae. Tincture from flowers beginning to open.

Clinical

Acne. Cerebrospinal meningitis. Chancre. Coryza. Diphtheria. Headache. Mumps. Puerperal fever. Rheumatic fever. *Scarlatina. Syphilis. Typhoid fever. Typhus fever.

Characteristics

Corresponds to conditions characterized by certain livid or purpled appearances of the skin. Rash coming out in patches. Eruptions which are slow in appearing. Low adynamic forms of disease with extreme prostration, torpor, vomiting. Prostration at the outset of a disease is a leading indication for it. The patient is stupid, dull, delirious, weak. It has proved of signal service in cases of malignant and suppressed scarlatina. The head is burning hot, with piercing pains. The parotid glands are sensitive and enlarged. The attacks are characterized by Fulness of head with heat, pains burning, darting in temples and occiput, vertigo and nausea. The rash of *Ailanth. often returns annually. A feeling of Fulness everywhere, and a sensation of passage of electric current from head into limbs are prominent in the provings. With the low fever of *Ailanth. there is stupor or indifference with sighing. There is constant frontal headache of a neuralgic character. Paroxysmal headache with drowsiness during day, confused mind, depression. The throat is severely affected: thick, oedematous, dry, choky feeling. Dry, rough, scrapy, worse morning. Livid, swollen, with ulcers oozing a fetid discharge.

The symptoms are better lying on right side (bronchial affections). Sitting up causes Vomiting, dizziness. Motion causes staggering. Walking about better toothache.

It is suited to nervous, sensitive persons. Bilious temperament Stout and robust.

Relations.

Ailanth. is *related *botanically *to: Ptelea and the Xanthoxylceae. *It is antidoted by: Alcohol, Rhus t., Nux-v. *Compare: Am-c., Arnica, Arum-t., Aloe (dull frontal headache); Baptisia, Bryonia, Gelsemium, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, nitricum acidum, Nux-v., Phytolacca, Hydr- ac., Rhus-t., Stramonium, Echi.

Mind

Anxiety and restlessness. Low-spirited, continually sighing. Extreme irritability. Semi-conscious, cannot comprehend what is said to him. Stupor, delirium, and insensibility. Constant muttering delirium, with sleeplessness and restlessness. Since the poisoning all antecedents are forgotten, or remembered as matters belonging to another, or read about. Raging delirium with brilliant eyes.

Head

Severe headache, delirium, with fever and anxiety. Severe headache, with dizziness, and red, hot face, cannot sit up. Dizzy when rising up. Dull, heavy pressing in forehead, disinclined to think or act. Darting through temples and occiput, with confusion of ideas. Head burning hot with piercing pains.

Eyes

Eyes suffused and congested, startled look when aroused, pupils dilated and sluggish. Photophobia. Conjunctivitis, smarting, aching, lachrymation, purulent discharge.

Ears

Pain in ear when swallowing. Parotid gland sensitive and enlarged.

Nose

Copious, thin, ichorous, and bloody discharge from the nose. Nostrils congested. Nose dry, secretion suppressed. Coryza, with rawness in nostrils, sneezing. Loss of smell.

Face

Face sallow, jaundiced, blue circles round eyes. Face red and hot, covered with a rash. Face mahogany-coloured. Great prostration, and countenance indicative of much distress. Purplish face. Irregular spots. Lips swollen, cracked, ulcers near commissures.

Mouth

Teeth covered with sordes. Tearing in teeth (left) and face worse lying down, better walking about, and by external pressure. Tongue dry, parched, cracked. Tongue moist, furred white, tip and edges livid.

Throat

Throat tender and sore on swallowing, or on admission of air. Throat sore on swallowing, hawks up a greenish purulent matter. Diphtheria, with extreme prostration. Throat livid, almost purple, swollen, tonsils prominent, and studded with many deep, angry-looking ulcers, oozing a scanty, fetid discharge, external neck swollen and sensitive. Irritability of the throat, and hawking up of mucus, puruloid, hard white lumps. Thick, oedematous and dry choky feeling in throat. Throat dry, rough and scrapy, worse in morning.

Stomach

Vomits food speedily during the chill, suddenly and violently When sitting up, with stupor. Thirst for cold drinks, for brandy. Peculiar feeling of emptiness in stomach.

Abdomen

Tenderness over liver region. Burning in stomach and bowels. Tympanites,.

Stool

Thin, watery, offensive diarrhoea, passing involuntarily with the urine. Stool frequent, watery, forcibly expelled. Tapeworm.

Urinary Organs

Scanty or suppressed urine, passed unconsciously, acid.

Male Sexual Organs

Sore on prepuce, looking like incipient chancre.

Female Sexual Organs

Malignant puerperal fever. Vomiting of pregnancy.

Respiratory Organs

Breathing hurried, irregular, heavy. Cough deep, exhausting, dry, hacking, in violent fits, before retiring or on rising, until sputum is raised. Sputa: blood-mixed, yellow, bitter, worse morning. Aphonia. Croupy choking.

Chest

Stitching and aching in chest. Lungs sore and tender. Tired feeling in lungs, almost too much exertion to breathe. Burning in right lung, contracted feeling in left Chest feels strapped, or as if air-cells stuck together.

Heart

Rapid, small pulse, weak, frequent, and irregular. Dull pain and contracted feeling in region of base of heart and through center of left lung.

Neck and Back

Neck tender, and very much swollen. Constant sharp pains through small of back and hips.

Generalities

In low adynamic forms of disease, with extreme prostration, torpor, vomiting, pulse small and rapid, purplish appearance of the skin. Prostration at very onset of the disease. Stupid, dull, delirious, weak. Puerperal fever characterized as above.

Skin

Skin cold, dry, livid. Eruption scanty with sore throat, of a bluish tint, livid, forehead and face of a purplish colour. Body and limbs covered with an irregular patchy eruption of a livid colour, disappearing on pressure, returning very slowly. Large blisters filled with dark serum. Eruptions of miliary rash in patches of dark, almost livid colour, most on forehead and face.

Sleep

Drowsy, restless, soon passes into insensibility.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica