SPIGELIA


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Spigelia from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to anaemic, debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis; scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici.

Body painfully sensitive to touch; part touched feels chilly, touch sends shudder through the whole frame.

Rheumatic affections of heart.

Nervous headache, periodical, beginning at cerebellum, spreading over head and beating in eye, orbit, and temple of left side; pain pulsating, violent.

Intolerably pressive pain in eyeballs; could not turn the eyes without turning the whole body.

Prosopalgia; periodical, left-sided, in the orbit, eye, malar bone, teeth; from morning till sunset; pain tearing, burning; cheek dark red.

Toothache from tobacco smoking.

Pains in chest are stitching, needle-like.

Dyspnoea; must lie on right side or with head high.

Chest affections, with stitch pains, synchronous with pulse, worse from motion.

Chill every morning, at same hour.

Sudden creeping chills.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.