XEROPHYLLUM

Tamalpais Lily, Basket Grass Flower


  • Should prove curative in eczematous conditions, poison-oak, early typhoid states, etc.

Mind

  • Dull, cannot concentrate mind for study; forgets names; writes last letters of words first; misspells common words.

Head

  • Feels full, stuffed up, pain across forehead and above eyes. 
  • Great pressure at root of nose. 
  • Bewildered. 
  • Loss of consciousness. 
  • Pulsating headache.

Eyes

  • Painful, as of sand, smarting; difficult to focus for close work. 
  • Eyes feel sore, burn.

Nose

  • Stuffed; tightness at bridge of nose; acute nasal catarrh.

Face

  • Bloated in morning. 
  • Puffy under eyes.

Throat

  • Stitching pain upon swallowing.

Stomach

  • Feels full and heavy. 
  • Eructations sour; offensive, an hour after luncheon and dinner. 
  • Vomiting at 2 pm.

Abdomen

  • Intestinal flatulence. 
  • In morning rumbling in bowels, with desire for stool.

Rectum

  • Constipation, stools hard, small lumps. 
  • Difficult, soft stools, with much straining. 
  • Much flatus. 
  • Bearing-down pain in rectum.

Urine

  • Difficulty of retaining; dribbling when walking. 
  • Frequent urination at night.

Female

  • Bearing-down sensation. 
  • Vulva inflamed, with furious itching. 
  • Increased sexual desire, with ovarian and uterine pains and leucorrhea.

Respiratory

  • Posterior nares raw; discharge thick, yellow mucus. 
  • Sneezing. 
  • Trachea sore; lumps feel constricted.

Back

  • Feels hot from sacrum to scapulae. 
  • Backache, extending down legs. 
  • Pain over kidneys. 
  • Heat deep in spine.

Extremities

  • Muscular lameness, trembling. 
  • Pain in knees. 
  • Limbs feel stiff (Rhus).

Skin

  • Erythema, with vesication and intense itching, stinging, and burning. 
  • Blisters, little lumps. 
  • Skin rough and cracked; feels like leather. 
  • Dermatitis, especially around knees. 
  • Inflammation resembling poison-oak. 
  • Inguinal glands and behind knee swollen.

Modalities

  • Worse, application of cold water, in afternoon and evening. 
  • Better, application of hot water, in morning, moving affected part.

Relationship

  • Compare: Rhus; Anacard; Grindelia.

Dose

  • Sixth potency or higher.