PHYSOSTIGMA VENENOSUM- a snapshot

  • Uncommon mental activity
    • Can’t sleep thinking, or continue Even during sleep
  • Trembling and tremors from mental or physical exertion
  • Ill effects of grief, emotions, blow, injuries.
  • Eyes- marked effect on eye
    • Accommodation affected
    • Astigmatism/ increasing myopia
    • Tremor of ocular muscles
    • Muscae voliantes
    • Eyestrain/ spasm after using eyes for long
    • Nystagmus
    • Night blindness
    • Lagopthalmos
    • Blood shot eyes
    • Glaucoma after injury to eye
    • Post diphtheric ocular paralysis
  • Spine
    • Creeping numbness in spine
    • Spine sensitive to touch
    • Burning and tingling along spine
    • Lost reflexes or paralysis
    • Impaired locomotion(gels)
    • Locomotor ataxia
  • Cerebrospinal meningitis
  • Polio
  • Numbness
    • In hands and feet
    • Associated with heart pains
  • Pulsation
    • Pulsations all over body
    • Pulsation in the throat
  • Horror of cold water
    • Can’t bathe
    • Disgust of cold drinks
  • Piles following childbirth
  • Exerting the will >
  • Left sided complaints
  • Offensive odor from hands
    • Sweat on excitement
  • Pains
    • Shuddering pains from least draft of air
    • Or loss of sensibility to pains
    • Pain after eating, in stomach, extends to chest
    • Pain in rt ear while writing
  • Progressive muscular debility
  • Overpowering sleepiness
  • Tongue feels scalded, oily.
  • Lying on abdomen >

(Think of this remedy in neurological conditions sp demyelinating disorders with eye involvement.)

(Common name- Calabar beans

Prepared from- beans which are toxic)