Materia Medica de A a Z

INULA HELENIUM (Inul)

A mucous membrane medicine. Bearing-down sensations in pelvic organs and bronchial symptoms are most marked. Substernal pain. Diabetes.

Head

Vertigo on stooping; throbbing after eating, pressure in temples and forehead.

Respiratory

Dry cough; worse at night and lying down; larynx painful. Chronic bronchitis; cough, with much thick expectoration, with languor and weak digestion. Stitches behind sternum. Teasing cough with much and free expectoration. Palliative in tubercular laryngitis.

Female

Menses too early and painful. Labor-like pains; urging to stool; dragging in genitals, with violent backache. Itching of legs during menses, chattering of teeth from cold during menstruation. Moving about in abdomen, stitches in genitals. Chronic metritis.

Rectum

Pressing toward rectum as of something extruding.

Urinary

Frequent urging to urinate; passes only in drops. Violet odor [Tereb (Ter)].

Extremities

Pain in right shoulder and wrist; tearing in left palm, unable to double fingers; pain in lower limbs, feet and ankles.

Relationship

Compare: Crocus (Croc); Ign; Arum dracontium (Arum-d) (loose cough worse at night on lying down).

Dose

First to third potency.