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Physostigma Venenosum

30CPhysostigma
Calabar Bean · Ordeal Bean · "The Myopic Glaucoma Remedy"
phys.PlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts primarily on the spinal cord and nervous system, causing muscular tremors, paralysis, and significant effects on the eyes and heart.
📖 Boericke writes:
This remedy and its active principle, Eserine, form a valuable addition to Materia Medica. Stimulates heart, raises blood pressure, and increases peristalsis. Causes contraction of the pupil and of the ciliary muscles. Induces a condition of short-sightedness.Spinal irritation, loss of motility, prostration, with very sensitive vertebrae Fibrillary tremors. Rigidity of muscles; paralysis. Depresses the motor and reflex activity of the cord and causes loss of sensibility to pain, muscular weakness, followed by complete paralysis, although muscular contractility is not impaired. Paralysis and tremors, chorea. Meningeal irritation, with rigidity of muscles. Tetanus and trismus. Polymyelitis anterior. Eserine is used locally to producecontraction of pupil.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who are prone to spinal irritation, muscular tremors, and weakness, often with a sensitive nervous system and tendency toward spastic conditions.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Eserine is used locally to produce contraction of pupil.
introduction
Pain over orbits; cannot bear to raise eyelids.
head
Night-blindness (Opposite: Bothrops); photophobia; contraction of pupils; twitching of ocular muscles.
eyes
Spasm of ciliary muscles, with irritability after using eyes.
eyes
Increasing myopia.
eyes
Tongue feels sore on tip.
mouth
Fluttering of heart felt in throat.
heart
Pain in right popliteal space.
extremities
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for headaches with eye sensitivity and conditions involving stiffness of the head and neck muscles.
Constant pain on top; vertigo, with constrictive feeling of head.
Pain over orbits; cannot bear to raise eyelids.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis; general tetanic rigidity.
Spastic conditions of the face-muscles.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Night
fear of mischief upon waking
ear noises after lying down
↑Better from
Lying on back
heart action
💊 Dosage & Potency
3X
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝Internally
Primary Dosage
1/60-1/40 gr
Other
🕒As directed
📝Eserin Salicylate hypodermically for post-operative intestinal paralysis
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Atropia
🔄 Compare With
Curare →Gelsemium Sempervirens →Muscarin →Conium Maculatum →Urinum →Uricum Acidum →Piperazinum →ThebainumEserinum →
📚 Sources & References

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