Indigo tinctoria

Indigo tinctoria
(indigo-dye-stuff)
* Marked action on the nervous system, and of undoubted benefit in the treatment of epilepsy
with great sadness.
* Excited mood and desire to be busy.
* Neurasthenia and hysteria.
* Pure powdered Indigo placed on the wound cures snake and spider poison. [Kali permang.;
Golondrina; Cedron.]
* Stricture of oesophagus; blue color. [Cupr.]
Head
- Vertigo with nausea.
- Convulsions.
- Sensation of a band around forehead.
- Undulating sensation through whole head.
- Sensation as if brain were frozen.
- Gloomy; cries at night.
- Hair feels pulled from vertex.
- Head feels frozen.
Nose
- Excessive sneezing and bleeding from nose.
Ears
- Pressure and roaring.
Stomach
- Metallic taste.
- Eructations.
- Bloating.
- Anorexia.
- Flushes of heat rising from stomach to head.
Rectum
- Falling of rectum.
- Aroused at night with horrible itching at anus.
Urinary
- Constant desire to urinate.
- Urine turbid.
- Catarrh of bladder.
Extremities
- Sciatica.
- Pain from middle of thigh to knee.
- Boring pain in knee-joint; better, walking.
- Pain in limbs worse after every meal.
Nerves
- Hysterical symptoms where pain predominates Excessive nervous irritation.
- Epilepsy; flashes of heat from abdomen to head; fit begins with dizziness.
- Aura from a painful spot between shoulders.
- Reflex spasms from worms.
Modalities
- Worse, during rest and sitting.
- Better, pressure, rubbing, motion.
Relationship
- Compare : Cuprum; Oestrus cameli, an Indian medicine for epilepsy.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.