INDIGO TINCTORIA

Indigo--Dye-stuff


  • Marked action on the nervous system, and of undoubted benefit in the treatment of epilepsy with great sadness. 
  • Excited mood and desire to be busy. 
  • Neurasthenia and hysteria. 
  • Pure powdered Indigo placed on the wound cures snake and spider poison (Kali permang; Golondrina; Cedron). 
  • Stricture of esophagus; blue color (Cupr).

Head

  • Vertigo with nausea. 
  • Convulsions. 
  • Sensation of a band around forehead. 
  • Undulating sensation through whole head. 
  • Sensation as if brain were frozen. 
  • Gloomy; cries at night. 
  • Hair feels pulled from vertex. 
  • Head feels frozen.

Nose

  • Excessive sneezing and bleeding from nose.

Ears

  • Pressure and roaring.

Stomach

  • Metallic taste. 
  • Eructations. 
  • Bloating. 
  • Anorexia. 
  • Flushes of heat rising from stomach to head.

Rectum

  • Falling of rectum. 
  • Aroused at night with horrible itching at anus.

Urinary

  • Constant desire to urinate. 
  • Urine turbid. 
  • Catarrh of bladder.

Extremities

  • Sciatica. 
  • Pain from middle of thigh to knee. 
  • Boring pain in knee-joint; better, walking. 
  • Pain in limbs worse after every meal.

Nerves

  • Hysterical symptoms where pain predominates. 
  • Excessive nervous irritation. 
  • Epilepsy; flashes of heat from abdomen to head; fit begins with dizziness. 
  • Aura from a painful spot between shoulders. 
  • Reflex spasms from worms.

Modalities

  • Worse, during rest and sitting. 
  • Better, pressure, rubbing, motion.

Relationship

  • Compare: Cuprum; Oestrus cameli, an Indian medicine for epilepsy.

Dose

  • Third to thirtieth potency.