XANTOXYLUM FRAXINEUM
Prickly Ash - (XANTHOXYLUM)
Prickly Ash - (XANTHOXYLUM)
Its specific action is on the nervous system and mucous membranes.
Paralysis, especially hemiplegia. Painful hæmorrhages,
after-pains, neuralgic dysmenorrhœa, and rheumatic
affections, offer a therapeutic field for this remedy, especially in patients of spare habit
and nervous, delicate organization. Indigestion from over-eating or from too much fluid.
Sluggish capillary circulation. Neurasthenia, poor assimilation, insomnia, occipital
headache. Increases mucous secretion of mouth and stimulates the secretion from all glands
with ducts opening in the mouth.
Mind.--Nervous, frightened. Mental depression.
Head.--Feels full. Weight and pain on vertex. Pain over eyes,
throbbing pressure over nose, pressure in forehead; head seems divided; ringing in ears.
Occipital headache. Sick headache with dizziness and flatulence.
Face.--Neuralgia of lower jaw. Dryness of mouth and fauces.
Pharyngitis (Wyethia).
Abdomen.--Griping and diarrhœa. Dysentery, with tympanites, tenesmus; inodorous discharges.
Female.--Menses too early and painful. Ovarian neuralgia, with
pain in loins and lower abdomen; worse, left side,
extending down the thigh, along genito-crural nerves. Neuralgic
dysmenorrhœa, with neuralgic headaches; pain in back
and down legs. Menses thick, almost black. After-pains
(Arnica; Cup; Cham). Leucorrhœa at time of menses.
Neurasthenic patients who are thin, emaciated; poor assimilation with insomnia and occipital
headache.
Respiratory.--Aphonia. Constant desire to take a long breath;
oppression of chest. Dry cough, day and night.
Extremities.--Paralysis of left side following spinal
disorders. Numbness of left side; impairment of nerves of motion. Hemiplegia. Pain in nape,
extending down back. Sciatica; worse, hot weather. Anterior, crural neuralgia (Staph). Left arm numb. Neuralgic shooting pain, as from
electricity, all over limb.
Sleep.--Hard and unrefreshing; dreams of flying. Sleeplessness
in neurasthenics.
Relationship.--Compare: Gnaph;
Cimicif; Staph; Mezer; Piscidia-White dogwood--(a nerve sedative. Insomnia due to worry, nervous excitement, spasmodic coughs;
pains of irregular menstruation; regulates the flow. Neuralgic and spasmodic affections. Use
tincture in rather material doses).
Dose.--First to sixth potency.
