Inula helenium

Inula helenium
(scabwort)
* A mucous membrane medicine.
* Bearing-down sensations in pelvic organs and bronchial symptoms are most marked.
* Substernal pain.
* Diabetes.
Head
- Vertigo on stooping; throbbing after eating, pressure in temples and forehead.
Respiratory
- Dry cough; worse at night and lying down; larynxpainful.
- Chronic bronchitis; cough, with much thick expectoration, with languor and weak digestion.
- Stitches behind sternum.
- Teasing cough with much and free expectoration.
- Palliative in tubercular laryngitis.
Female
- Menses too early and painful.
- Labor-like pains; urging to stool; dragging in genitals, with violent backache.
- Itching of legs during menses, chattering of teeth from cold during menstruation.
- Moving about in abdomen, stitches in genitals.
- Chronic metritis.
Rectum
- Pressing toward rectum as of something extruding.
Urinary
- Frequent urging to urinate; passes only in drops.
- Violet odor. [Tereb.]
Extremities
- Pain in right shoulder and wrist; tearing in left palm, unable to double fingers; pain in lower
limbs, feet and ankles.
Relationship
- Compare : Crocus; Ignatia; Arum dracontium (loose cough worse at night on lying down).
Dose
- First to third potency.