Materia Medica de A a Z

OREODAPHNE CALIFORNICA (oreo)

Neuralgic headache, cervico-occipital pain, cerebro-spinal meningitis, atonic diarrhoea, and intestinal colic.

Head

Dizziness; worse on stopping or moving. Head heavy, eyelids heavy, twitching. Intense aching, WITH PRESSURE AT INNER ANGLE OF EITHER ORBIT, generally left, extending through brain and across scalp to the base of the occiput; worse light, noise; better, closing eyes and perfect quiet. Constant, dull ache in CERVICAL AND OCCIPITAL REGION, extending to scapula down spine, into the head; pain into the ears. Great heaviness of head, with constant desire to move the head, which does not relieve. Drooping eyelids. Twitching. Atonic diarrhoea.

Stomach

Eructations, with nausea and shuddering.

Dose

First to Third potency. Olfaction of the tincture.