Materia Medica de A a Z

SENECIO AUREUS (senec)

Its action on the female organism has been clinically verified. Urinary organs also affected in a marked degree. Backaches of congested kidneys. Early cirrhosis of liver.

Mind

Inability to fix mind upon any one subject. Despondent. Nervous and irritable.

Head

Dull, stupefying headache. WAVELIKE DIZZINESS from occiput to sinciput. SHARP PAINS OVER LEFT EYE, AND THROUGH LEFT TEMPLE. Fullness of nasal passages; burning; SNEEZING; profuse flow.

Face

Teeth very sensitive. SHARP, CUTTING PAIN left side. DRYNESS of fauces, throat, and mouth.

Stomach

Sour eructations; nausea.

Throat

Dry mouth, throat, and fauces. Burning in pharynx, raw feeling in naso-pharynx, must swallow, though painful.

Abdomen

Pain around umbilicus; spreads all over abdomen; better, stool. Thin, watery stool, intermingled with hard lumps of feces (Ant-c). STRAINING AT STOOL; THIN, DARK, BLOODY, WITH TENESMUS.

Urinary

Scanty, high-colored, BLOODY, with much mucus and TENESMUS. GREAT HEAT AND CONSTANT URGING. Nephritis. Irritable bladder of children, with headache. Renal colic [Pareira (Pareir); Ocim (Oci); Berb].

Male

Lascivious dreams, with involuntary emissions. PROSTATE ENLARGED. Dull, heavy pain in spermatic cord, extending to testicles.

Female

MENSES RETARDED, suppressed. FUNCTIONAL AMENORRHOEA OF YOUNG GIRLS with backache. Before menses, inflammatory conditions of throat, chest, and bladder. After menstruation commences, these improve. Anaemic dysmenorrhoea with urinary disturbances. Premature and too profuse menses (Calc; Erig).

Respiratory

Acute inflammatory conditions of upper respiratory tract. Hoarseness. COUGH LOOSE, with labored inspiration. Chest sore and raw. Dyspnoea on ascending (Calc). Dry teasing cough, stitching chest pains.

Sleep

Great drowsiness, with unpleasant dreams. Nervousness and sleeplessness.

Relationship

Compare: Senecio Jacobaea (Senec-j) (cerebro-spinal irritation, rigid muscles, chiefly of neck and shoulders; also, in cancer); Aletris (Alet); Caulop (Caul); Sep.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency. Senecin, first trituration.