ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS

Scientific / Botanical Name ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS Common Name Scarlet Pimpernel Abbreviation ANAGALLIS Source
Materia Medica ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS
Origin
Medicine Type
Family

Keynote / Introductory Description

Marked skin remedy with intense itching and tingling, useful for warts, splinters, dropsy and hydrophobic conditions.

Modalities

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Dose / Potency

First to third potency.

Relationship

Contains Saponin. Compare: Cyclamen; Primula obconica.

Compare

Cyclamen, Primula obconica

Complementary

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Head

Great hilarity. Supra-orbital headache with bowel rumbling and eructations, better coffee. Sick headache and facial muscle pain.

Face

Pain in facial muscles.

Urine

Urethral irritation with sexual inclination, burning urination, agglutinated orifice and urine passing in several streams requiring straining.

Extremities

Rheumatic and gouty pains, shoulder and arm pain, cramps in thumbs and fingers.

Skin

Intense itching, dry bran-like eruptions on hands and fingers, palms affected, grouped vesicles, ulcers and joint swellings. Softens flesh and destroys warts.

General Description

ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS
Scarlet Pimpernel
(ANAGALLIS)

Marked action on skin, characterized by great itching and tingling everywhere. Favors expulsion of splinters. An old medicine for hydrophobia and dropsy. Possesses power of softening flesh and destroying warts.

Head.--Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and eructations; better from coffee. Sick headache. Pain in facial muscles.

Extremities.--Rheumatic and gouty pains. Pain in shoulder and arm. Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers.

Urine.--More or less irritation in urethra, inclining to coition. Burning pain on urinating, with agglutination of orifice. Urine passes in several streams; must press before it passes.

Skin.--Itching; dry, bran-like eruption, especially on hands and fingers. Palms especially affected. Vesicles in groups. Ulcers and swellings on joints.

Relationship.--Anagallis contains Saponin.

Compare: Cyclamen; Primula obcon.

Dose.--First to third potency.