WYETHIA HELENOIDES

Poison-weed


  • Has marked effects on the throat, and has proven an excellent remedy in pharyngitis, especially the follicular form. 
  • Irritable throats of singers and public speakers. 
  • Useful also in hemorrhoids. 
  • Hay-fever symptoms; itching in posterior nares.

Head

  • Nervous, uneasy, depressed. 
  • Dizzy. 
  • Rush of blood to head. 
  • Sharp pain in forehead.

Mouth

  • Feels as if scalded; sensation of heat down esophagus. 
  • Itching of the palate.

Throat

  • Constant clearing and hemming. 
  • Dry, posterior nares; no relief from clearing. 
  • Throat feels swollen; epiglottis dry and burning. 
  • Difficult swallowing. 
  • Constant desire to swallow saliva. 
  • Uvula feels elongated.

Stomach

  • Sense of weight. 
  • Belching of wind alternating with hiccough. 
  • Nausea and vomiting.

Abdomen

  • Pain below ribs of right side.

Stool

  • Loose, dark, at night. 
  • Itching of anus. 
  • Constipation, with hemorrhoids; not bleeding.

Respiratory

  • Dry, hacking cough, caused by tickling of the epiglottis. 
  • Burning sensation in the bronchial tubes. 
  • Tendency to get hoarse talking or singing; throat hot, dry. 
  • Dry asthma.

Female

  • Pain in left ovary, shooting down to knee. 
  • Pain in uterus; could outline its contour.

Extremities

  • Pain in back; extends to end of spine. 
  • Pain right arm, stiffness of wrist and hand. 
  • Aching pains all over.

Fever

  • Chill at 11 am. 
  • Thirst for ice-water during chill. 
  • No thirst with heat. 
  • Profuse sweat all night. 
  • Terrific headache during sweat.

Relationship

  • Compare: Arum; Sang; Lach.

Dose

  • First to sixth potency.