CHIONANTHUS VIRGINICA

Fringe-tree


  • This remedy is often of service in many types of headaches, neurasthenic, periodical sick, menstrual and bilious. 
  • Taken for several weeks, drop doses, will often break up the sick headache habit. 
  • The pain in the forehead, chiefly over eyes. 
  • Eyeballs very painful, with pressure over root of nose. 
  • Hepatic derangements. 
  • Jaundice. 
  • Enlarged spleen (Ceanoth). 
  • Jaundice with arrest of menses. 
  • A prominent liver remedy. 
  • Gallstones (Berberis; Cholest; Calc). 
  • Diabetes mellitus. 
  • Paroxysmal, abdominal pain.

Head

  • Listless, apathetic. 
  • Dull frontal headache, over root of nose, over eyes, through temples, worse stooping, motion, jar. 
  • Yellow conjunctiva.

Tongue

  • Broad with thick yellow fur.

Mouth

  • Dry sensation not relieved by water, also profuse saliva.

Abdomen and Liver

  • Aching in umbilical region, griping. 
  • Feels as if a string were tied in a "slip-knot" around intestines which was suddenly drawn tight and then gradually loosened. 
  • Sore; enlarged, with jaundice and constipation. 
  • Clay-colored stool, also soft, yellow and pasty. 
  • Tongue heavily coated. 
  • No appetite. 
  • Bilious colic. 
  • Hepatic region tender. 
  • Pancreatic disease and other glandular disorders.

Urine

  • Large amount of high specific gravity; frequent urination; bile and sugar in urine. 
  • Urine very dark.

Skin

  • Yellow; marked moisture of skin. 
  • Sallow, greenish, itching.

Relationship

  • Compare: Cinchona; Ceanoth; Chelidon; Carduus; Podophyl; Lept.

Dose

  • Tincture and first attenuation.