Hypericum perforatum

Hypericum perforatum
(st. john's-wort)
* The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails.
* Crushed fingers, especially tips.
* Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use.
* Prevents lockjaw.
* Punctured wounds.
* Relieves pain after operations.
* Quite supersedes the use of Morphia after operations. (Helmuth.)
* Spasms after every injury.
* Has an important action on the rectum; haemorrhoids.
* Coccydynia.
* Spasmodic asthmatic attacks with changes of weather or before storms, better by copious
expectoration.
* Injured nerves from bites of animals.
* Tetanus.
* Neuritis, tingling, burning and numbness.
* Constant drowsiness.
Mind
- Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety lest he fall from heights.
- Mistakes in writing.
- Effects of shock.
- Melancholy.
Head
- Heavy; feels as if touched by an icy cold hand. Throbbing in vertex; worse in close room.
- Brain seems compressed.
- Right side of face aches.
- Brain-fag and neurasthenia.
- Facial neuralgia and toothache of a pulling, tearing character, with sadness.
- Head feels longer-elongated to a point.
- In fractured skull, bone splinters.
- Brain feels alive.
- Pains in eyes and ears.
- Falling out of hair.
Stomach
- Craving for wine.
- Thirst; Nausea.
- Tongue coated white at base, tip clean.
- Feeling of lump in stomach. [Abies nig.; Bry.]
Rectum
- Urging, dry, dull, pressing pain.
- Haemorrhoids, with pain, bleeding, and tenderness.
Back
- Pain in nape of neck.
- Pressure over sacrum.
- Spinal concussion.
- Coccyx injury from fall, with pain radiating up spine and down limbs.
- Jerking and twitching of muscles.
Extremities
- Darting pain in shoulders.
- Pressure along ulnar side of arm.
- Cramp in calves.
- Pain in toes and fingers, especially in tips.
- Crawling in hand and feet.
- Lancinating pain in upper and lower limbs.
- Neuritis, with tingling, burning pain, numbness and flossy skin.
- Joints feel bruised.
- Hysterical joints.
- Tetanus. [Physost.; Kali brom.]
- Traumatic neuralgia and neuritis.
Respiratory
- Asthma worse foggy weather and relieved by profuse perspiration.
Skin
- Hyperidrosis, sweating of scalp, worse in morning after sleep; falling of hair from injury;
eczema of hands and face, intense itching, eruptionseems to be under the skin.
- Herpes zoster.
- Old ulcers or sores in mouth when very sensitive.
- Lacerated wounds with much prostration from lossof blood.
Modalities
- Worse, in cold; dampness; in a fog; in close room; least exposure; touch.
- Better, bending head backward.
Relationship
- Compare : Ledum (punched wounds and bites of animals); Arnica; Staphis.; Calend.; Ruta;
Coff.
- Antidotes : Ars.; Cham.
Dose
- Tincture, to third potency.