CLEMATIS ERECTA

Virgin's Bower


  • Scrofulous, rheumatic, gonorrheal, and syphilitic patients. 
  • Acts especially on skin, glands and genito-urinary organs, especially testicles. 
  • A remedy of much importance in disturbances of sleep, and neuralgic pains in various parts. 
  • Many of these pains are relieved by perspiration. 
  • Muscles relaxed or twitching. 
  • Great emaciation. 
  • Great sleepiness. 
  • Distant pulsation in whole body.

Head

  • Boring pain in temples. 
  • Confused feeling; better in open air. 
  • Eruption on occiput at base of hair, moist, pustular sensitive, itching.

Eyes

  • Heat in eyes and sensitive to air; must close them. 
  • Chronic blepharitis, with sore and swollen meibomian glands. 
  • Iritis, great sensitiveness to cold. 
  • Flickering before eyes. 
  • Pustular conjunctivitis, with tinea capitis; eyes inflamed and protruding.

Face

  • White blisters on face and nose, as if burned by sun. 
  • Swelling of submaxillary glands, with hard tubercles, throbbing, aggravated on being touched. 
  • Pain in right side of face to eye, ear and temple; better, holding cold water in mouth.

Teeth

  • Ache; worse, at night and from tobacco. 
  • Teeth feel too long.

Stomach

  • After eating, weakness in all limbs and pulsation in arteries.

Male

  • Ilio-scrotal neuralgia. 
  • Testicles indurated with bruised feeling. 
  • Swelling of scrotum (Orchitis). 
  • Right half only. 
  • Troubles from suppressed gonorrhea. 
  • Violent erections with stitches in urethra. 
  • Testicles hang heavy or retracted, with pain along spermatic cord; worse, right side.

Urinary

  • Tingling in urethra lasting some time after urinating. 
  • Frequent, scanty urination; burning at orifice. 
  • Interrupted flow. 
  • Urethra feels constricted. 
  • Urine emitted drop by drop. 
  • Inability to pass all the urine; dribbling after urinating. 
  • Pain worse at night, pain along the spermatic cord. 
  • Commencing stricture.

Skin

  • Red, burning, vesicular, scaly, scabby. 
  • Itches terribly; worse, washing in cold water; worse face and hands and scalp around occiput. 
  • Glands hot, painful, swollen; worse inguinal glands. 
  • Glandular indurations and tumors of breast. 
  • Varicose ulcers.

Modalities

  • Better, in open air. 
  • Worse, at night, and warmth of bed (washing in cold water); new moon--(monthly aggravation).

Relationship

  • Compare: 
    • Clematis vitalba (varicose and other ulcers); 
    • Sil; Staph; Petrol; Oleand; Sarsap; Canth; Phos ac; Pulsat.
  • Antidotes: Bryon; Camph.

Dose

  • Third to thirtieth potency.