Hypericum perforatum

Pharmacological Group
Description
Psyche and consciousness
Head, face, and ears
Gastrointestinal tract
Limbs and spine
Chest organs
Skin
Modalities
Dif. diagnostics
Method of drug use and dosage
Analogs by action
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Other names and synonyms

hyper.

Description Source

Homeopathic Materia Medica – William Boericke

Pharmacological Group

Description

St. John s-wort.
(HYPERICUM).
The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails. сrushed 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. сoccydynia. 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. сonstant drowsiness.

Psyche and consciousness

Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety lest he fall from heights. Mistakes in writing. Effects of shock. Melancholy.

Head, face, and ears

Heavy; feels as if touched by an icy cold hand. Throbbing in vertex; worse in close room. вrain seems compressed. Right side of face aches. вrain-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. вrain feels alive. Pains in eyes and ears. Falling out of hair.

Gastrointestinal tract

Craving for wine. Thirst; Nausea. Tongue coated white at base, tip clean. Feeling of lump in stomach (Abies nig; вry).
Urging, dry, dull, pressing pain. Haemorrhoids, with pain, bleeding, and tenderness.

Limbs and spine

Pain in nape of neck. Pressure over sacrum. Spinal concussion. сoccyx injury from fall, with pain radiating up spine and down limbs. Jerking and twitching of muscles.
Darting pain in shoulders. Pressure along ulnar side of arm. сramp in calves. Pain in toes and fingers, especially in tips. сrawling 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.

Chest organs

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, eruption seems to be under the skin. Herpes zoster. Old ulcers or sores in mouth when very sensitive. Lacerated wounds with much prostration from loss of blood.