FAGOPYRUM ESCULENTUM

Buckwheat


  • Its action on the skin, producing pruritus, is very marked. 
  • Visible pulsation of arteries. 
  • Fluent coryza. 
  • Offensive excretions. 
  • Itching erythema. 
  • Pruritus senilis. 
  • Post-nasal catarrh; dry crusts, granular appearance of posterior nares with itching.

Head

  • Inability to study or remember. 
  • Depressed and irritable. 
  • Itching of eyes and ears. 
  • Pains deep in head, with upward pressure. 
  • Itching in and around eyes and ears. 
  • Head hot, better bending backward, with tired neck. 
  • Occipital headache. 
  • Bursting pains. 
  • Cerebral hyperemia.

Nose

  • Sore, red, inflamed. 
  • Fluent coryza, with sneezing, followed by dryness and crust formation.

Eyes

  • Itching and smarting, swelling, heat and soreness.

Throat

  • Soreness and feeling of excoriation, deep down pharynx. 
  • Uvula elongated, tonsils swollen.

Stomach

  • Eructation of scalding, hot, acid, watery substance; better, coffee. 
  • Bad taste in the morning. 
  • Persistent, morning nausea. 
  • Drooling.

Heart

  • Pain around heart, better lying on back, extending to left shoulder and arm. 
  • Throbbing in all arteries after retiring. 
  • Palpitation with oppression. 
  • Pulse irregular, intermittent, rapid. 
  • Light feeling in chest.

Female

  • Pruritus vulvae, with yellow leucorrhea, worse, rest. 
  • Burning in right ovary.

Extremities

  • Stiffness and bruised sensation in the muscles of the neck, with sensation as if nape of neck could not support head. 
  • Pain in shoulder, with pain along fingers. 
  • Vehement itching in arms and legs; worse towards evening. 
  • Feet numb and pricking. 
  • Streaking pains in arms and legs.

Skin

  • Itching; better by bathing in cold water; worse scratching, touch and retiring. 
  • Sore red blotches. 
  • Blind boils. 
  • Itching of knees and elbows and hairy portions. 
  • Itching of hands, deep in. 
  • Vesicular, pustular, phlegmonous dermatitis. 
  • Skin hot, swollen.

Modalities

  • Better, cold water, coffee; worse, in afternoon; from sunlight, scratching.

Relationship

  • Compare: Dolichos; Bovista; Urtica.

Dose

  • Third potency and 12x.