Agraphis nutans
Name: Agraphis nutans, Scilla nutans, Hyacinthus nonscriptus
Abbreviation: Agra.
English: Bluebell, Wild Hyacinth
German: Hasenglöckchen
French: Jacinthe sauvage?
Dutch: (Knikkende) sterhyacint
Source: Murphy, Vermeulen
Stage: 13
Flower of grief and mourning. Named after Hyakinthos, a charming youth from Sparta, whom both Apollo and Zephyrus loved (Apollo is the Sun God and Zephyrus the Greek personification of the western wind and for the Romans the messenger of spring). Hyakinthos preferred the Sun God to the God of the West Wind, who sought to be revenged, and one day when Apollo was playing quoits with the youth, a quoit (a disk blown by Zephyrus out of its proper course) killed Hyakinthos. Apollo, stricken with grief, raised from his blood a purple flower, on which the letters Ai, Ai were traced. As the English variety of Hyacinth had no trace of these mystic letters, older botanists called it Hyacinthus nonscriptus, or 'not written on'. The later name Agraphis is of similar meaning, being a compound of two Greek words, meaning 'not to mark'.
The bulb contains inulin but no starch [which in many other monocotyledons is found in company with inulin]. Also contains a very large quantity of mucilage. The bulb has diuretic and styptic (samentrekkend/bloedstelpend) properties [comp. Squilla].
The plant grows in sheltered places and Dr. Cooper gives better from shelter (Retreat: Stage 13) as a leading indication.
Clarke regards it as one of the leading remedies in cases of adenoids.
Dr. Cooper gives: "Adenoids with enlarged tonsils, frequently accompanying dentition." Mind
Mutism of childhood unconnected with deafness (Autism or cararrh of ears).
Generals
Take cold on exposure to cold winds (DD Acon. and Sil.)
Worse: Cold drinks, ice
Physical
Tendency to free discharges from mucous membranes esp. in throat and ear troubles. Catarrhal conditions of ears, nose and throat.
Hearing impaired: enlarged tonsils, adenoids; frequently accompanying dentition. Mucous diarrhoea following suppressed coryza.
Diarrhoea after cold drinks. Diarrhoea after taking cold.