SCUTELLARIA LATERIFOLIA

  
SCUTELLARIA LATERIFOLIA
Skullcap

This is a nervous sedative, where nervous fear
predominates. Cardiac irritability. Chorea. Nervous
irritation and spasms of children, during dentition. Twitching of
muscles. Nervous weakness after influenza.

Mental.–

Fear of some calamity.
Inability to fix attention (Aethus). Confusion.

Head.–

Dull, frontal headache.
Eyes feel pressed outwards. Flushed face. Restless sleep and frightful dreams. Must move about. Night terrors. Migraine; worse, over right
eye; aching in eyeballs. Explosive headaches of school
teachers with frequent urination; headaches in front and base of brain. Nervous sick
headaches, worse noise, odor light, better night; rest, 5 drops of tincture.

Stomach.–

Nausea; sour eructations; hiccough; pain and
distress.

Abdomen.–

Gas, fullness and distention, colicky pain and
uneasiness. Light colored diarrhśa.

Male.–

Seminal emissions and impotency, with fear of never
being better.

Sleep.–

Night-terrors; sleeplessness; sudden wakefulness;
frightful dreams.

Extremities.–

Twitchings of muscles; must be moving. Chorea.
Tremors. Sharp stinging pains in upper extremities. Nightly restlessness. Weakness and
aching.

Relationship.–

Compare: Cyprip;
Lycopus.

Dose.–

Tincture and lower potencies.