Oleander



Ears

Acute aching in ears. Cramp-like drawing in ear. Singing, tinkling, and rumbling in ears. Red and rough tettery spots in fore part of ear, with fetid running (ulcers) behind (and around) ears.

Nose

Stupefying and dull pressure in nose. Itching round nose.

Face

Face pale and wan (sunken in the morning), with blue circles round the eyes. Dull and stupefying pressure in the bones of the face, and especially in the zygomatic process, extending deeply into the head. Heat of cheeks without redness, and *vice versa. Paleness, alternately with deep redness, of face. Red swelling of face, round eyes. Tuberculous eruption on face and forehead. Lips brownish and dry. Sensation of numbness and swelling in upper lip. Swelling round commissures of lips. Lower jaw trembles with yawning. Stiffness of muscles of jaws.

Teeth

Toothache (only) during mastication, with incisive pressure. Tearing and drawing in teeth (molar, left upper second bicuspid), sometimes at night, but only in bed (with anxiety, nausea, and frequent micturition), and which disappear on getting up. Sensation of looseness in teeth, with gums of a bluish white.

Mouth

Dryness of mouth, and tongue loaded with a white coating. Rough, foul, white tongue, with raised papilla. Tongue red and raw where touched with *Oleander leaf, the patch involved the side and part of upper surface, and was still present a year after. Loss of speech.

Throat

Burning pain in throat. Numb sensation ascending from throat externally to head. Sensation as if a cool wind were blowing on left side of throat. Sharp pressive pain on left side of throat, near Adam’s apple. Irritation of pharynx. Pain as of a dull point pressing on oesophagus (right side), cervical muscles also painful to external pressure.

Appetite

All food has a mawkish (flat) and insipid taste (in evening). Clammy taste in mouth. Bulimy, with tremor of hands, from eager craving for food, often with absence of appetite. Violent empty eructations, while eating. Thirst, especially for cold water. Dizziness while eating greedily at noon. Empty goneness after eating, better by brandy.

Stomach

Risings of a putrid smell. Violent, empty risings, sometimes after a meal. Nausea, with inclination to vomit, accumulation of saliva in mouth, followed by violent hunger. Sickness and prostration follow the dose, feels queer all next day (cure followed. (***R.T.C.). Vomiting of food, or of bitter serum, of a yellowish-green colour. After vomiting ravenous hunger and thirst, with great weakness over whole body. Sensation of emptiness in stomach, with fullness of abdomen. Beatings and pulsations in epigastrium, as from being over-heated. Beatings and pulsations in pit of stomach as if the beats of the heart were felt through whole thorax.

Abdomen

Pinchings in the abdomen, as if caused by diarrhoea. Shootings and gnawings in the abdomen. Stitches and gnawing about the navel. Sensation of emptiness and weakness in the intestines. Gurgling and borborygmi in the abdomen, with excessive emission of flatus of a putrid smell.

Stool and Anus

Ineffectual want to evacuate. Liquid, soft, yellow faeces. First diarrhoea, then hard, difficult stools, during pregnancy. Evacuation of the food which he had taken on the previous day. Evacuation, almost involuntary, of undigested matter, imagines he is only emitting flatulence. Chronic diarrhoea, undigested food, worse in morning. Burning pain in anus before and after evacuation, and at other times. Involuntary stools, in children when passing flatus (every time they pass wind they soil the diaper.).

Urinary Organs

Increased secretion of urine. Brownish, burning urine, with whitish sediment. Frequent emission of urine, especially after partaking of coffee. Nausea and frequent micturition at night when lying down, with anxiety and drawing in molar teeth.

Female Sexual Organs

After nursing, tremors, so weak she can scarcely walk across the room.

Respiratory Organs

Short, shaking cough, provoked by tickling in pharynx. Violent shaking cough from tickling in larynx. Accumulation of viscid mucus in trachea.

Chest

Oppression of chest when lying down, with deep and slow respiration. Weak respiration. Oppressive and compressive pain, or sensation of emptiness in chest. Dull or tensive lancinations in chest, in sternum, and sides (left), especially on taking a full inspiration (and expiration). Sensation of coldness in chest. Stitches in diaphragm.

Heart and Pulse

Drawings about heart, worse by stooping, and lasting during expiration. Violent and sometimes anxious palpitation of heart, with a sensation as if chest were dilating. Pulse very changeable and irregular, weak and slow in morning, full and rapid in evening. (A principal heart remedy. ***R. T. C).

Neck and Back

Violent pulsation of the carotids. Tearing in nape in bed in evening. Pain in back as from a strain. Tensive, burning, and acute lancinations in back.

Limbs

Severe cramps in limbs. Numbness of upper and lower limbs.

Upper Limbs

Wrenching pain in arms on lifting them. Jerking in muscles of arms. Cramp-like drawings and tearing in arms and fingers. Dull aching in forearms, hand, and fingers, as if caused by a blow or a bruise. Veins of hands swollen. Swelling and rigidity of fingers, with burning pain. Fingers rigid and thumbs turned into palms.

Lower Limbs

Contusive pain in buttocks. Sensation of weakness in thighs, legs, feet, and soles, as if those parts were benumbed. Great weakness of knees. Dull aching, and sometimes shooting in thighs, feet, and toes. Paralysis of legs and feet, painless. Left knee that had stiffened becomes supple (in a case of general paralysis of insane. ***R. T. C.). Sensation of vibration and resonance in legs and feet, especially in soles. Cramp-like drawing in legs and feet. Cramps in calves when seated. Constant coldness of feet.

Generalities

Cramp-like tension, as if the bones were broken, in limbs and other parts of the body. Cramping of entire body gradually creeping on (cured. ***R. T. C.). Convulsive spasms with clammy and cold skin, pulse scarcely perceptible. Great weakness, which scarcely permits walking. Sensation as if inner parts were distended, pulsations in outer parts. Fainting as from weakness, better by perspiration. Buzzing or humming in body. Sensation of vibration and resonance in whole body. Tension in whole body. Paralytic rigidity of limbs and painless paralysis. (One of the best remedies for paralysis. ***H. N. G.). Want of animal heat in limbs. Syncope. as from weakness, sometimes with loss of consciousness, which disappears after perspiring. Weakness and general lassitude, with trembling of knees when lying down, and of hands when writing. Languor, as if life were about to terminate. Inclination to stretch the limbs. Torpor and insensibility of whole body. Symptoms generally on left side, left ear, affections of scalp.

Skin

Violent itching of various parts of body, eruption, bleeding, oozing out of fluid, forming scabs. Dropsy of outer parts. Chapping of skin, want of perspiration. Numbness of skin, or itching numbness. Gnawing itching, which compels scratching, sometimes when undressing. Skin very sensitive, with redness and excoriation, even when gently scratched.

Sleep

Frequent yawning, with shuddering and jerking of muscles. Want to lie down, with a sort of coma. Very difficult waking in the morning, can only leave his bed by great exertion. Sleeplessness and agitation at night. Agitated and lascivious dreams, and frequent waking. Voluptuous dreams with seminal emissions.

Fever

Frequent fits of quick shuddering. Sensation of heat, with general shivering. Transient heat, especially during intellectual labour. Flushes of heat periodically, especially from bodily or mental exertion. Pulse frequent and full, or irregular and variable. Chilliness and chills over the whole body periodically, with heat of face and coldness of hands. External chilliness with internal heat without thirst. Want of vital heat. Febrile chilliness over whole body, without thirst or subsequent heat. Cold, clammy sweat.

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