Angustura vera

Angustura vera
(bark of galipea cusparia)
* Rheumatic and paralytic complaints - great difficulty in walking.
* Crackling in all joints.
The greatest craving for coffee is a characteristic symptom.
Caries of long bones.
Paralysis.
Tetanus.
Stiffness of muscles and joints.
Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucousmembranes.
Head
- Oversensitive.
- Headache, with heat of face.
- Acute pain in cheeks.
- Drawing in facial muscles.
- Pain in temporal muscles, when opening the jaws.
- Pain in articulation of jaw, in masseter muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much.
- Cramp-pain on the zygomatic arch.
Stomach
- Bitter taste.
- Irresistible desire for coffee.
- Pain from navel into sternum.
- Atonic dyspepsia.
- Belching, with cough. [Ambra.]
Abdomen
- Diarrhoea and colic.
- Tenesmus with soft stool; chronic diarrhoea, with debility and loss of flesh.
- Burning in anus.
Back
- Itching along back.
- Pain in cervical vertebrae.
- Drawing in the neck.
- Pain in spine, at nape of neck and sacrum, worseon pressure.
- Twitching and jerking along back.
- Bends backward.
Extremities
- Stiffness and tension of muscles and joints.
- Pain in limbs on walking.
- Arms tired and heavy.
- Caries of long bones.
- Coldness of fingers.
- Pain in knees.
- Cracking in joints.
Skin
- Caries, very painful ulcers which affect the bone.
Relationship
- Compare : Nux; Ruta; Mercur.; Brucea.
- -Bark of Nux vomica or angustura falsa. (Tetanicspasms with undisturbed consciousness,
worse noise, liquids, paralyzed lower extremities, worse least touch, cries for fear of being
touched. Painful jerking of legs; cramp-like pain in knees; rigid and lame limbs of paralytics.
For pain in the passing of calculus.)
Dose
- Sixth potency.