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Pimpinella

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Pimpinella Saxifraga · Burnet Saxifrage · "The Burnet Saxifrage Cough Remedy"

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🎯 Pimpinella acts primarily on the nervous system and circulation, producing marked chilliness, congestive headaches, and a sensation of sinking in the internal organs.

📖 Clarke writes:

Pimpinella saxifraga. Burnet saxifrage. Bibernell. N. O. Umbelliferae. Tincture of the fresh root.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Symptoms obtained by chewing the fresh root

•Symptoms obtained from proving the 1x potency

•Pains and sensations extend from one part to another

•Direction of symptoms: principally from above downward

•Direction of symptoms: from before backward (temples to nape; forehead to eyes; nape to shoulders)

•Direction of symptoms: from within outward

•Symptoms alternate between different parts

Temperament & Physical Profile

•Chilliness is a marked symptom

•Chilly in the back even in a warm room

•Sensitive to draughts

•Great drowsiness

•Weariness and falling asleep of parts rested on

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Symptoms aggravated by reading

•Symptoms aggravated by writing

•Symptoms aggravated by reflecting

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Sensation of coldness in occiput as from a cutting wind behind

•Cold stream from hip and into right leg

•Rush of blood to head, followed by nose-bleed

•Whizzing in head

•Roaring in ears

•Sinking sensation in intestines

•Frequent yawning

•Desire to take a long breath, which was difficult

•Aggravation morning (vertigo, sweat)

•Aggravation afternoon (heat and rush of blood to head)

•Aggravation by chewing

•Aggravation by rest (weary pain in limbs)

•Aggravation by standing

•Aggravation by stooping

•Aggravation after stooping

•Aggravation by walking

•Aggravation by opening window

•Aggravation in warm room

•Aggravation much if a window was opened

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Extreme sensitivity to draughts and cold air, with chilliness in the back even in a warm room.

Clarke

Congestive headache with rush of blood to the head, often followed by nose-bleed.

Clarke

Sensation of a cold stream or sharp draught blowing on the occiput from behind.

Clarke

Sinking sensation in the intestines as if they would fall down from their own weight.

Clarke

Pains that shift or extend from above downward and from before backward.

Clarke

Great drowsiness and weariness, with parts rested upon falling asleep.

Clarke

Frequent yawning and a difficult, labored desire to take a long breath.

Clarke

Whizzing and roaring sounds in the head and ears.

Clarke

Acrid, burning, or earthy taste in the mouth, often with increased saliva.

Clarke

Stiff neck with pressive, tensive pain extending to the shoulders.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤Head

Congestive headaches, vertigo, and sensations of coldness or pressure in the occiput.

Pain in occiput, WORSE reading or thinking.

Vertigo: inclination to one side, morning, on rising

dizzy confusion.

Heat, rush of blood and confusion of head, soon followed by nose-bleed

afternoon.

Rushing in whole head, esp. down back part, with pressure.

Whizzing in head and sounds as in an empty barrel.

Dulness and heaviness in head, with drowsiness when reading.

Head feels tied up and compressed.

Sticking in forehead, extending to both sides along eyes.

Sticking burning from vertex to both sides and down over temples.

Pressing and pushing from temples to occiput and nape.

Sensation of coldness in occiput as though a sharp draught constantly blowing from behind

in a closed room.

Tension and pressive pain from occiput into nape.

Acute stitches in occiput concentrated in protuberance.

Itching on vertex.

Shivering of scalp, hair bristles.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Morning

vertigo

sweat

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Glonoinum →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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