JUGLANS CINEREA

Butternut


  • A faulty elimination that produces jaundice and various skin eruptions, is pictured by this drug. 
  • The sharp, occipital headache, usually associated with liver disturbances, is very characteristic. 
  • Pain in chest, axilla and scapula, with suffocative sensation. 
  • Feeling as if all internal organs were too large, especially those of left side. 
  • Cholelithiasis.

Head

  • Dull, full head. 
  • Eruption on scalp. 
  • Sharp, occipital headache. 
  • Head feels enlarged. 
  • Pustules on lids and around eyes.

Nose

  • Tingling in nose; sneezing. 
  • Coryza, preceded by pain under sternum, with threatening suffocation. 
  • Later, copious, bland, thick mucous discharge.

Mouth

  • Acrid feeling in mouth and throat. 
  • Soreness in region of tonsils externally. 
  • Dryness of root of tongue and fauces.

Stomach

  • Atonic dyspepsia with much eructation and flatulent distention. 
  • Soreness in region of liver.

Back

  • Muscles of neck rigid, lame. 
  • Pain between scapula and under right. 
  • Pain in lumbar vertebrae.

Skin

  • Red, like flush of scarlatina. 
  • Jaundice, with pain about liver and right scapula. 
  • Itching and pricking when heated. 
  • Pustules. 
  • Eczema, especially on lower extremities, sacrum and hands. 
  • Erythema and erysipelatous redness.

Stool

  • Yellowish-green, with tenesmus and burning at anus. 
  • Camp diarrhea.

Modalities

  • Better, getting heated, exercise, scratching, on rising in morning. 
  • Worse, walking.

Relationship

  • Compare: 
    • Juglandin (duodenal catarrh; bilious diarrhea); 
    • Chelidon; Bryon; Iris.

Dose

  • Tincture, to third potency.