ANGUSTURA VERA
Keynote / Introductory Description
Rheumatic and paralytic remedy with stiffness, crackling joints, tetanic tendency and intense craving for coffee.
Modalities
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Dose / Potency
Sixth potency.
Relationship
Compare: Nux, Ruta, Mercurius, Brucea. Angustura falsa noted for tetanic spasms and rigid limbs.
Compare
Nux, Ruta, Mercurius, Brucea
Complementary
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Mind
Oversensitive.
Head
Oversensitive with headache and facial heat. Cheek, temporal, jaw and zygomatic pains.
Face
Acute cheek pain, facial muscle drawing and jaw pain.
Mouth
Bitter taste.
Stomach
Irresistible desire for coffee, pain from navel to sternum, atonic dyspepsia and belching with cough.
Abdomen
Diarrhoea, colic, tenesmus, chronic diarrhoea with debility and burning anus.
Rectum
Burning in anus and tenesmus with soft stool.
Back
Itching, cervical and spinal pain, jerking and backward bending.
Extremities
Stiff tense joints, walking pain, heavy arms, cold fingers, knee pain and cracking joints. Caries of long bones.
Skin
Painful bone ulcers and caries.
General Description
ANGUSTURA VERA
Bark of Galipea Cusparia
Rheumatic and paralytic complaints with great difficulty in walking. Crackling in all joints.
Great craving for coffee is characteristic. Caries of long bones. Paralysis. Tetanus. Stiffness of muscles and joints. Oversensitive.
Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucous membranes.
Head.--Oversensitive. Headache with heat of face. Acute cheek pain. Drawing in facial muscles. Pain in temporal and masseter muscles when opening jaws. Cramp pain on zygomatic arch.
Stomach.--Bitter taste. Irresistible desire for coffee. Pain from navel into sternum. Atonic dyspepsia. Belching with cough.
Abdomen.--Diarrhoea and colic. Tenesmus with soft stool; chronic diarrhoea with debility and emaciation. Burning in anus.
Back.--Itching along back. Pain in cervical vertebrae. Drawing in neck. Pain in spine, nape and sacrum, worse pressure. Twitching and jerking. Bends backward.
Extremities.--Stiffness and tension of muscles and joints. Pain in limbs on walking. Arms tired and heavy. Caries of long bones. Cold fingers. Knee pain. Cracking joints.
Skin.--Caries and very painful ulcers affecting bone.
Relationship.--Compare: Nux, Ruta, Mercurius, Brucea. Angustura falsa: tetanic spasms with consciousness, worse noise, liquids and touch; painful jerking and rigid limbs.
Dose.--Sixth potency.