Hypericum
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1999 May / Jun VOL VIII NO 3.
Dr P I Tarkas
Dr Ajit Kulkarni
'Hyper

Make up - Plethoric with great soreness. The Arnica of nerves. Highlights: Bad effects of shock, of fright, of mesmerism; first coitus, separation, unemployment; following chilling of the buttocks and lower back from sitting for a long time on a cold damp bench or on cold ground.

Nervous disorders arising from fall or hurts. Injury to parts with rich nerve supply. Nerves: Hyperesthesia of wounded surface.
Neuritis : Ascending, traumatic or otherwise, chronic, tingling, burning, numbness and fuzzy skin.
Neuralgia of stump after amputation.
Shuddering; a sense of internal quivering.
Spasms; after injury; from blows upon the head, knockings.

Tetanus; prevents
Trembling and salivation after anaesthesia.
Tension from appointments or ordeals; nervous trembling. Weakness; paralytic weakness.
Worse on change of weather.
Postural paresis (eg pressure of body on limbs). Paresis after needle prick. Spastic paralysis.
Pains : shock due to pain from injury to nerves (Acet-ac, Arn) violent, shooting, lancinating along nerves, towards trunk, down side of heart or chest, in epigastrium, infra scapular spine, fingertips etc. with crawling and numbness.
Injury: Lacerated, injured or inflamed nerves, injury to or reflected from brain or cord; of (cicatrices)
Mashed fingers, silver under nails, gunshot, gaping wounds, dog bite, rat bite injections injury to nerves or acupunctured wounds, amputations, scoops when the appearance of the perforating wound is greater than appearance would suggest.
Concussion of brain and spine, in railroad accident, railway spine.

Tissue:
Glands; lymphanagitis, red streaks along arm or leg after punctured wounds.
Blood: prevents sepsis. Local congestion, capillary erythrism and great nervous depression after wound.
Mucous membranes; dry, nose, lips mouth, rectum.
Bones: bunions, corns, rheumatism etc when the pains so disproportionately severe as to show nerves are attacked. Tearing, rheumatic shaking pains, < before storm, during damp weather compound fracture.
Nails: treading on nails.

Salient features:
Mind: Shock, mental nervous, emotional of separation, (of mal adjustment) of fright, of grief, (girls newly wedded) of injury.
Excited, as after tea. Delirium. Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety lest he fall from height. Forgetful. Makes mistakes in writing. Melancholy. Nervous depression after injury nervous trembling (Arg-n)

Head: Vertigo, with urging for urination, at night.
Headaches: undulatory morning headaches. Traumatic headaches, bursting, aching pains, after Arnica has controlled the congested, bruised condition, > bending head backward, pain extends into zygoma and cheeks. Throbbing in vertex, < closed room.
Brain fag and neurasthenia. Brain seems compressed; feels alive, pressed as under. Head feels drawn to a , elongated upward or extending upward like a conical hat.
Fractured skull, bone splintered.
Falling of hair, from headaches after concussion. Prespiration on hair, rest of body burning hot, < morning and after sleep.
Meningitis : great anxiety, tearing stitches in brain, beating on vertex, tongue white or yellow, thirst- (warm drinks), hacking cough, face hot, bloated, traumatic cerebral and spinal meningitis.

Eyes: Pains, stitches in Rt eye; burning, stinging in tarsi. Irritation of optic nerve, from injury. Stye on Lt lower lid. Pain due to anterior synechia old cicatrice from injury.

Ears: Pains. Acute hearing, during catamenia. Hot

Nose: Acute smell. Dry crusts. Picking continually.

Face: Facial neuralgia, Rt red eruption around mouth and on Rt ear. Yellowish green scabs with cracking and moisture. Lips dry, feel hot.

Teeth: In decayed tooth at night, severe aching;> lying on affected side and keeping quiet, holding cold water in mouth, from neuritis or exposed nerve endings (during dental procedure or otherwise).

Mouth: Tongue coated white or dirty yellow; white at base, tip clean. Sore (see skin). Dry, burning, inflamed tongue from a bite. Old ulcers and sores in mouth when very sensitive. Lockjaw (as a preventive).

Throat: As of a worm in throat. Scraping in trachea, during foggy weather. Hot rising in esophagus after fright or with anxiety.

Stomach: feeling of a lump in stomach Abies-c pressure on eating little or nothing. After milk, oppression in evening. After a little rice.

Thirst: desires warm drinks; (milk) or thirst- less with dry mouth. Craves: wine, pickles, hot milk.

Abdomen: tympani tic distension of laparotomy; on waking ;< after stool.

Rectum: dry, urging. Dull pressing pain. Bleeding piles with pain and tenderness (Anal part is rich in sentient nerves). Ulcerative colitis after spinal injuries (in a sepia woman).

Stools: summer diarrhoea with eruptions. Cholera morbus.Diarrhoea, driving out of bed in morning, from excitement after concussion with catamenia. Constipation, violent tenesmus, discharges of a hard little ball.

Urinary: see thermic.Retention after pains or shock or injury (eg in delivery). Urine-Beer coloured, peculiar sweetish odour. Frequent urination after shuddering followed by tenesmus vesicae.
Male: sexual functions excited.
Female: menses, delayed by fortnight, with tension in uterine region, headache.
After pains, after instrumental delivery.
Schirrhus of breast after injury. Sore vulva from use of pessaries.
Milky white excoriating leucorrhoea of little girls.

Respiratory: scraping and hoarseness in trachea in foggy weather. Asphyxia after a fall.
Spasmodic asthmatic attacks, with changes of weather from clean to damp, before storms, in foggy (not necessarily in damp weather), after brain concussion or a fall (years before) with sensitive spine> by profuse expectoration and perspiration; < lying on back
Expectoration: gelatinous, granular white mucus.
Whooping cough < 6-10 pm

Heart: feels as if it will fall down. Palpitation and local congestion, capillary erethism, with or without hemorrhage, with nervous depression (following injury).

Pulse: rapid, hard and frequent.

Back: painfully sensitive spinal tenderness with paroxysms of terrible pain, screaming if approached (Arn), in different joints with nausea.
Consequences of spinal concussion. Coccyx injury during labour. From a fall, with pain in nape of neck and hips < motion, touch.
Severe backache before menses. Cutting between scapulae.

Extremities: crawling sensations in hands and feet, they fell fuzzy, sticking in them, as from needles, feet pithy. Sensation as if foot was strained or dislocated. Articular rheumatism, much effusion, muddy urine. Joints feel bruised. Hysterical joints. Flying and darting in shoulders.
Traumatic neuralgia and neuritis. Sciatica after injury, numbness in Lt leg after long sitting.
Compound fractures of hands and feet with great laceration of soft parts.

Skin: eczema of hand and face, intense itching, eruption seems to be under skin. Itching, in sacral region, < undressing. Eruptions, with diarrhoea in summer. Skin rough as if full of small knots.
Painful boils and abscesses, not suppurating. Painful wounds before suppuration. Old ulcers or sores in mouth when very sensitive. Hard, dry, yellow crusts from on wounds or open sores. Modifies and some-times arrests ulceration and sloughing.
Herpes Zoster. Tetters. Netterash on both hands.< evening.

Sleep: constant drowsiness. Insomnia after strain on brain due to nerve injury.
Dreams: vivid, distressing, that God has repudiated him, anxious, as if something important were left undone, horrid, of horses, fights and great action, of climbing mountains, business. Thermic: chill at 4 pm with desire to urinate.
Heat with delirium, wild staring look, hot head, throbbing carotid, bright red, bloated face.

Relations: Arn, represent the primary condition of congestion and bruise. Hypericum. Later for the hyper has a greater and winder shock, affects nerves ending, has little muscular involvement Arn has less spinal involvement. "Hyper holds the same relation to laceration that Arn does to contusions."

Led seems to supply the gap left by Arn, Calen, Staphis and Hyper.
Compare Aco, Cham, Coff ( exalted sensitveness).
All-c, Bellis, Con, Led, Staph, (wounds), Hydrop, Lach, (bites).
Nux-v, (Tetanus), Gels, Lathy, (spastic paralysis ).
Antidotes. Effects of mesmerism.
Antidotes by Ars, Cham.

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