OLEANDER - NERIUM ODORUM [Olnd]:

- Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.

Rose Laurel

Region

Nutrition of

Digestive tract

Chest

Heart

Nerves:C-S; Motor Solar plexus

Neuro-musculatures

Scalp. Skin

L. side

Worse

Rest. Lying (oppression, teeth)

Looking sideways

Walking (dyspnea)

Exertion

Undressing

Rising (heavy limbs etc.)

Long after eating

After suckling

Touch (mind, skin)

Rubbing

Thinking of it

Fats. Radish. Honey

Coffee

Better

Lying (vertigo, head)

Walking (anxiety)

Diversion

Discharges sweat deflation

Citrus fruits

Brandy

Neurotic. Apprehensive. Congestive. Anaesthetic

Paralytic. Neurasthenic. Pre-ataxic. Senile.Tense

Depression ` Congestion ` Paralysis

A congestive - paralysing depressant. Localized congestions (hyperacidogenic or otherwise) with their ramifications (Chin.,Raph.), with resulting atony and paralyses (or spasms like Phys.). Numbing tensions, congestions, or paralyses.

Weakness and general lassitude, a severe sick feeling; indolence, aversion to do anything, even faint and down-hearted with a general giving way; legs (esp. knees) painfully weak, heavy or tired (on rising) as after a long walk or standing (Led., Nux-v.). Great muscular weakness; weariness in bed in morning; reeling / whirling on rising and tottering while walking (Ambr.). Weakness on rising from stomach or abdomen.Tremulous weakness: hands tremble when writing, when hungry or while eating (Cocc.); after nursing babe, (Voluptuous trembling).

Decline. Loss of vital : irritability (Carb-v.), reaction (Op.), heat (Chin.). Rapid decline and ebbing vitality (Hyd-ac.,Kali- ph.). Faint-like languor, with anxiety, as if life were about to terminate; a little walk is so fatiguing; even syncope; (>) after sweat. Functional torpor (Carb-v.); gastro-intestinal (e.g. lientaria, enuresis); digestive failure (athrepsia); dull mental functions (Alum.). Senile involution (Carb-s.).

Simple paralysis without tissue damage. Painless paralysis (Op.). Paresis after infantile paralysis (Lath.). Post-apoplectic hemiplegia. paraplegia, paralysis of legs, with crampy convulsions in arms, preceded by weakness (of legs) with numbness of soles when walking (Sec.). Paralytic rigidity of limbs. Wrist drop (Plb.). Functional paralysis with bowel incontinence and some heart damage, preceded by vertigo. Spinal congestion and paralysis (Nux-v., Phys.).Paralysis agitans. Momentary paralytic numbness (of arm etc.), on waking (Chel.).

Sensation of vibration and resonance in the whole body, or in legs and feet, but esp. in soles ("strumming'?). Buzzing, whizzing, humming, or surging ("Quivering" in Rep. cp. Lec.,Lyss.); in legs, esp. soles.

Localised emptiness or fullness (due to congestions).

Emptiness in (upper) abdomen and / or chest (Cal-phos., Dios.).

Emptiness in pit of stomach or abdomen with fullness in chest (Puls.).

Emptiness in pit of stomach with fullness in abdomen (Chin.).

Emptiness in chest with oppression / fullness in pit of stomach (Nat-p.),or with tension in abdomen and palpitation.

Pains: burning. Pressing. Cramp-like drawing (in ears, limbs).

Numbness in : skin, head, back of nose, upper lip, arms, feet, soles (Onos.). Whole body anaesthetic. Tingling in : palms, soles.

Cramps in : whole body, head, arms, fingers, legs, feet, (toes). Violent contractions of muscles of l. side. Jerks of limbs during sleep. Tension in whole body.

Convulsions : eyes turned up, lock-jaw, thumb clenched on palm. More of upper part of body.

Dropsy. Oedema of limbs.

Veins of hands stand out; emaciation.

Injuries: bites and stings (external).

Select Particulars

Mind : A neurotic, but not hysterical (unlike Gel., Ign., Raph.). Nervous and anxious; after conversation (Ambr.) with urging to stool (Arg-n., Gel.). Lack of confidence. Restless; feet fidgety (Ars., Caust., Zinc.). Heedless. Ailments from scorn. Cannot bear the slightest handling (interference); angry even at a touch ("touchy").

Dementia : slow perception (Carb-s.). Weak memory. Absent- minded, distracted. Sopor ; coma.

Head : Vertigo, with anxiety; on rising; walking in open air; looking down or fixedly; while eating. Reeling, whirling (and staggering). Prodromal / prehemiplegic vertigo of apoplexy (a congestive narcotic depression of sensorium, like Op.); or of paralysis.

Headache : Stupefying. Bursting, splitting. (<) morning to evening. (>) looking cross-eyed (squintingly) or sideways (askance).

Scalp : Gnawing-itching. Itching-numbness. A biting-itching eruption. Crusta lactea oozing a sticky fluid.

Eyes : Feel drawn backward into head (Crot-t.,Lach.). Lachrymation, burning and tension (in lids) when reading.

Dim vision, (<) looking sideways. Diplopia (<) looking down. Horizontal hemiopia. Momentary blindness. Ears : Noises : Ringing. Singing. Wailing (as of wind). Whirling (Chin-s., Mill.). "Hearing increased by (acute to ?) noises" (Lilienthal); but dull to human voice. Face : Stiff jaw muscles. Pale, sunken (morning); with blue rings around eyes. Trembling of lower jaw on yawning. Numbness of upper lip. Mouth : Toothache (only) when chewing; drawing, night, lying, with anxiety, nausea and polyuria. Gums bluish white (Plb.). Dry mouth. Taste: mawkish; flat. Tongue: numbness (Gel.); paralysed; articulation difficult; white coated. Throat : Choking, with suffocation (like Lach.); in weak women, during lactation. Sharp pressive pain in l. side of outer throat (Cocc., Dios.); numbness (Gel.); in heart trouble or acidity; congested. Alimentary : Averse to cheese. Desires : cream, butter, sweets. Thirst for (very) cold water. Ravenous hunger / goneness with hasty eating and trembling hands, without real appetite. Gnawing around navel (Grap.). Impaired digestion. Acidity : heartburn; burning in oesophagus down to stomach (also in chest; even in anus, between stools). A gastro-pecto-cardiac syndrome: distress and anxiety in (l.) chest and pit of stomach, soreness there, pain in l. sterno-mastoid and l. little finger, numb l. toes, flatulent twinges (Lyc. complementary. Like Carl.). Paralytic digestion: All food turn acid or into gas; vomiting or lienteric stools long after eating (even next day). Frequent eructation and rumbling. Pit of stomach: emptiness (sans appetite) with nausea, not amel. after eating, but (>) eructations, (<) morning with precordial anxiety (Phos.). Sinking in, (>) after brandy. Oppression when lying. Distress (also in abdomen or heart). Apprehension (or urging to stool) from emotions (Ambr.,Gel., Lyc.). Pulsations in, like heart beats.

Emptiness in abdomen, in morning with anxiety (Nat-m.); after stool. Gastro-enteritis; with anguish; with skin (Crot-t.); involuntary stool when deflating (Alo.). Diarrhea of phthisis (Rumex.); chronic. Paralytic bowels; obstipation; with melancholia; stools do not force out (unlike Crot-t.). Tabes mesenterica ?

Urinary : Involuntary (stool and / or) urine. Diabetes insipidus; polyuria after coffee (Ign.).

Respiratory : Aphonia; reflex (Bry.).

Breathing: deep, slow, weak; stertor (Trin.). Dyspnea; oppression, when lying ((>) rising), standing or walking, causing deep anxious, laboured respiration. Constrictive. Congestive tightness; from flatulence (Raph.). Breathes with great heaving of chest, after palpitation, sans mental anxiety. Chest feels expanded.

Pleurodynia and perichondritis. Pains in chest, sides (esp.l.), sternum. Obtuse stitches in l. chest, sternum, diaphragm, (<) deep breathing, (>) eructations. Tenderness in r. (or l.) side.

Heart : Constriction. Congestion; sympathizing with chest (Rhus- t., Spig.), or vice versa. Anxiety, even anguish, sans anxious thought; or on thinking of it; distress; palpitation; from flatulence, before stool (Ambr.,Poth.); from sudden exertion (Dig.). Dull, drawing pain, (<) stooping (Lil-t.) and later during expiration. Stitches in precordium. (Neurosis cordis). Pulse : weak, intermitting, strong in carotids. Extremities : Burning stitch below, l. scapula. Congestive, incapacitating heaviness of limbs; paralytic rigidity; dull, benumbing pressure in limbs, or forearms and hands; heaviness on rising. Sleep : Yawning: frequent, followed by trembling and shuddering; with chilliness and trembling of muscles of lower jaw. Voluptuous dreams, with emissions. Sopor (Op.). Skin : Abrasile (Plb.). Sensitive, chafes, oozes or bleeds. Tense. Scurfy pimples, herpes. Leprous (Sec.). Biting itching on undressing; (>) heat; on first scratching. Desquamation of epidermis.

Thermic States : Cold: chest, hands (with hot face), feet (constantly). Chilliness predominant. Periodical chills.

Heat : flushes on hurrying (also anxiety), from mental work (Lach.) when contradicted. Sweat : dry skin, unable to perspire (a paralysis of function).

Relations : Antidotes : Camph., Sulph.

Contains Hydrocyanic acid. Prun-v is a mild Hyd-ac. (hence collateral). Also collaterals: Am-c., Chin.

Similars : Ambr., Ars., Carb-v., Carls., Conium., Dig., Dios., Gel., Lath., Lyc., Op., Phys., Raph., Rhus., Stry.

Chronics : Arg-n., Lyc., Nat-m., Syph.

Compatible : Bell., Bry., Calc., Con., Lach., Nux-v., Pul., Rhus-t.,Sep.,Sul.

Trios : Olean.-Lach.-Lyc. Olean.-Arg-n.-Nat-m.

Earlier Stage : Carls. Later stage : Phys.

Symbiotic : Kali-i.

Compare : Anac., Carb-s., Caust., Clem., Crot-t., Kre., Nat-m., Plb., Spi., Vinc.