Flor de piedra Prover: W. Schwabe
HOMEOPATHIC -- Sudden tiredness, especially in the morning. General nausea. Emaciation from the pituitary or the thyroid gland. Neuro-endocrine complaints, congestion of the thyroid with vago-sympathetic disharmony. Headache, vertigo, constriction of the neck, morning fatigue. Distention and spasmodic diarrhea. Pain in the heart and liver. Cardiac complication of hyperthyroidism. Pituitary diabetes. Congestion of the thyroid. Feeling of tightness around the neck.
CLINICAL - Cholecystitis. Colic. Colitis. Diabetes. Dysthyroidism. Exophthalmus. Goiter. Hyperthyroidism. Hypothyroidism.
Constitutions - They are tubercular, nervous, phosphoric or phospho-fluoric types.
Modalities - Better from o
MIND - Increase in general activity, mentally alert, clear-headed, bright, then slow, woolly, depressed.
Abdomen - Wakes at 2 a.m. with abdominal pains, ameliorated by going to stool. Heavy, full feeling and abdominal distention.
Cannot bear the pressure of underclothes. Pressure in the right iliac region.
Back - Pain in the right shoulder on lifting the right arm.
Blood - Disorders of the basal metabolism. Hypo-cholesterolemia.
Chest - Right subcostal pain. Feeling of oppression in the thorax, rather more to the right that the left side. Thoracic pain, worse by movement and deep respiration.
Ears - Pruritus of the auditory canal.
Eyes - Stye on the lower right eyelid. Diminution in visual activity. Eyes blood-shot. Orbital pain of a pressing type, when reading.
Female - Menses infrequent. Menses abundant, but late by five days. Greenish vaginal discharge.
Food - Extreme thirst.
Head - Left frontal and headache. Left temporal headache, ameliorated in the open air. Headache increased in the evening.
Headaches, as though the brain would burst with visual disturbances and zigzags at the edge of the field of vision.
Heart - Palpitations.
Kidneys - Abundant urine.
Limbs - Painful drawing feeling in the left arm with formication in the left hand. Painful drawing and pricking feeling in the left arm, elbow and hand. Heaviness in the legs. Feet cold. Sharp, cutting pain in the left knee, worse when walking. Drawing pain in the right thigh down to the calf and heel. Right foot slightly edematous and sensitive to pressure.
Lungs - Irritating, dry, hacking cough.
Mouth - Mouth dry with difficulty in swallowing. Diminution in sense of taste. Ulcers in the mouth and on the lips and tongue. Heartburn.
Nose - Dryness in the nose. Fits of sneezing.
Rectum - Tendency to diarrhea with grayish or pale yellow stools.
Sleep - Sleep disturbed, fiery, hot feeling in bed.
Stomach - Acrid dyspepsia. Nausea and epigastric discomfort.
Temperature - Profuse sweating and hot flushes.
Throat - Throat dry, empty swallowing to clear the throat. Feeling of a lump in the back of the throat. Stabbing pain in the throat, worse during the morning.
Vertigo - Vertigo and tendency to fall to the left.
COMMENTS - Freiwald reports favorable results in thyroid infections, using the potencies 3x and 6x and in infections of the liver and bladder, using 4x and 6x.
Juliette Fourmon reports some clinical successes in goiter cases, hyperthyroidism. Also in a case of bilateral degenerative labyrinthitis. M. Tetau has made a general review of thyroid disorders and their homeopathic and biotherapeutic treatm
COMPARE - (1) Iodum - Anxious, cannot stay still, emaciation, hoarseness, diarrhea. Precordial anxiety with palpitation at the slightest exertion. (2) Hedera Helix. (3) Nat-m. Emaciation of the upper part of the body, headache, dryness of the mouth and fissure
on the middle of the lower lip. Abnormal desire for salt. (4) Tuberculinum - Asthenia, emaciation, erratic pains, constant need to move,diarrhea in the morning, sweating at the least physical or mental effort.
SOURCES - Julian.