OLEANDER

  
OLEANDER
Rose-laurel
(NERIUM ODORUM)

Has a marked action on the skin, heart and nervous system, producing and
curing paralytic conditions with cramp-like contractions of upper extremities. Hemiplegia.
Difficult articulation.

Mind.–

Memory weak; slow perception. Melancholy, with
obstinate constipation.

Head.–

Vertigo and diplopia, when looking down. Vertigo, when
looking fixedly at an object, and on rising in bed. Pain in brain, as if head would burst.
Numb feeling. Dull, unable to think. Indolence. Eruption on scalp.
Humid, fetid spots behind ears (Graph;
Petrol) and occiput, with red, rough, herpetic spots in front. Corrosive itching on forehead and edge of hair; worse, heat.

Eyes.–

Can see objects only when looking at them sideways.
Eyes water on reading. Double vision. Sensation as if eyes were
drawn back into the head.

Face.–

Pale, sunken, with blue rings around eyes (Phos ac).

Stomach.–

Canine hunger, with hurried
eating, without appetite. Thirst. Empty belching. Vomiting of food; greenish
water. Throbbing in pit.

Abdomen.–

Borborygmus, with profuse, fetid flatus. Gnawing
around navel. Ineffectual urging. Undigested feces. Stool passes
when emitting flatus. Burning pain in anus.

Chest.–

Oppression as from a weight; asthmatic when lying
down. Palpitation, with weakness and empty feeling in
chest. Dyspnśa. Obtuse stitches in chest.

Extremities.–

Weakness of lower limbs.
Paralysis of legs and feet. Want of animal heat in limbs. Cold feet. Painless paralysis.
Constant cold feet. Swelling, burning stiffness of fingers. Veins and hands swollen. Śdema.
Stiffness of joints.

Skin.–

Itching, scurfy pimples; herpes; sensitive and numb.
Nocturnal burning. Very sensitive skin; slightest
friction causes soreness and chapping. Violent itching eruption,
bleeding, oozing; want of perspiration. Pruritus, especially of scalp, which is
sensitive.

Modalities.–

Worse,
undressing, rest, friction of clothes.

Relationship.–

Compare: Con; Nat m;
Rhus; Caust; Lathyr. Oleander contains Oleandrin and also Nerein which latter is
said to be closely related if not identical with Digitalin. The pulse becomes slower, more
regular, more powerful. Diuresis; palpitation, śdema
and dyspnśa of valvular disease disappear.

Antidotes: Camph; Sulph.

Dose.–

Third to thirtieth potency.