Helonias dioica

Helonias dioica
(unicorn-root)
* Sensation of weakness, dragging and weight in the sacrum and pelvis, with great languor
and prostration, are excellent indications for thisremedy.
* There is a sensitiveness expressed as a consciousness of a womb.
* Tired, back achy females.
* The weakness shows itself also in a tendency to prolapse and other malposition of the
womb.
* The menses are often suppressed and the kidneys congested.
* It seems as if the monthly congestion, instead of venting itself as it should through the
uterine vessels, had extended to the kidneys.
* With it all, there is a profound melancholia.
* Patient must be doing something to engage the mind.
* Remember it, for women with prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury
(better when attention is engaged-hence when the doctor comes), or for those worn out with
hard work; tired, strained muscles burn and ache; sleepless.
* Diabetes mellitus, and insipidus.
* Constant aching and tenderness over kidneys.
Mind
- Profound melancholy.
- Patient is better when kept busy, with mind engaged, when doing something.
- Irritable; cannot endure the least contradiction.
Head
- Burning sensation on top.
- Headache, better mental exertion.
Back
- Pain and weight in back; tired and weak.
- Aching and burning across the lumbar region; cantrace outlines of kidneys by constant
burning.
- Boring pain in lumbar region, extending down legs.
- Great languor, better exercising.
Female
- Dragging in sacral region, with prolapse, especially after a miscarriage.
- Pruritus vulvae.
- Backache after miscarriage. [Kali c.]
- Weight and soreness in womb; conscious of womb. Menses too frequent, too profuse.
- Leucorrhoea.
- Breasts swollen, nipples painful and tender.
- Parts hot, red, swollen; burn and itch terribly.
- Albuminuria during pregnancy.
- Debility attending the menopause.
Urine
- Albuminous, phosphatic; profuse and clear, saccharine.
- Diabetes.
Extremities
- Sensation as if a cool wind streamed up calves of legs.
- Feet feel numb when sitting.
Modalities
- Better, when doing something (mental diversion).
- Worse, motion, touch.
Relationship
- Compare : Agrimonia-Cockleburr-(painful kidneys,impaired digestion and menstrual
difficulties; Bronchorrhoea and catarrh of bladder.Cough with profuse expectoration attended
with expulsion of urine. Tincture 1-10 gtt).
- Aletris; Lilium; Puls.; Senecio; Stannum.
Dose
- Tincture, to sixth attenuation.