Anagallis arvensis

Anagallis arvensis
(scarlet pimpernel)
* Marked action on skin, characterized by great itching and tingling everywhere.
* Favors expulsion of splinters.
* An old medicine for hydrophobia and dropsy.
* Possesses power of softening flesh and destroying warts.
Head
- Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and eructations;
better from coffee.
- Sick headache.
- Pain in facial muscles.
Extremities
- Rheumatic and gouty pains.
- Pain in shoulder and arm.
- Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers.
Urine
- More or less irritation in urethra, inclining tocoition.
- Burning pain on urinating, with agglutination oforifice.
- Urine passes in several streams; must press before it passes.
Skin
- Itching. dry, bran-like eruption, especially on hands and fingers. Palms especially affected.
- Vesicles in groups.
- Ulcers and swellings on joints.
Relationship
- Anagallis contains Saponin, q.v.
- Compare : Cyclamen; Primula obcon.
Dose
- First to third potency.