HEDERA HELIX [Hed]:

- Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.

Common Ivy

Region

Metabolism

Upper digestive tract

THYROID

Glands Liver

Gall-bladder

Pancreas

Blood vessels. Heart

Sides: l. to r.

Worse

Early morning; 3 am

Night

Better Weakness

Open Headache

Air Coryza Fatigue Cough

Cold bath

Afternoon. Evening

Eating

Movement. Exertion

Rubbing

Scrofulous. Exudative. Calcareous

Saponosides triterpenic,

Chemical composition : Hederacoside HOH (Glucose,Arabinose, Hederagenine) Make up : Aged.

Defective metabolism. Scrofula: cervical glands (Cal-i.). Thyroid overaction, or underaction.

Catarrhal conditions : copious coryza, stools, urine, sweat.

Phosphorics, with hypoergic (indolent) state.

Extreme tiredness and languor; (>) in open air, physical exertion, during menses. Emaciation, with good appetite (Iod.).

Generalized tingling : in nerves, muscles, joints. (Not in Iod., nor pathogenetic of thyroidism).

Concretions : in joints (gouty); in gall-bladder (stones).

Rickety conditions. Acromegaly.

Hypertrophic : thyroid; prostate.

Dropsies : in brain (hydrocephalus, chronic).

Tension : in head, (eyes), throat. Convulsions.

Select Particulars Mind : Nervous, diffident, depressed. Drunkenness. Delirium; with chronic convulsions. Perpetual state of anxiety (>) open air.

Head : Pain (l. side). Frontal sinusitis. Vertigo (<) bending, rapid movement of head. Intracranial pressure. Chronic hydrocephalus (Calc-ph.). Eyes : Sand feeling in. Cataract. Used as a sternutatory for 'clearing the sight' from very early times. Nose : Coryza; (>) in open air (Iod. (<)), cold bath. Rhinorrhea cerebro-spinalis (i.e. coryza (>) hydrocephalus).

Throat : Pharyngitis. Pain in throat on swallowing (Iod. when not swallowing). Tonsillitis; septic.

HYPERTHYROIDISM; with marked anxiety (esp. about the heart), goitre, exophthalmos, tension in throat, increased (or loss of) appetite, insomnia, profuse sweat (Iod. none), extreme weariness and desire for open air.

Corresponds well with primary thyrotoxicosis and its complications esp. cardio-vascular and alimentary.

Stomach : Nervous hunger, (>) eating. Nausea. Vomiting. Spastic stomach, pain (>) eating. Anorexia.

Abdomen : Cholecystitis; gall stones. Chronic cirrhosis of liver, esp. secondary to gastritis, duodenitis or cardiac decompensation.

Rectum : Stools copious; fatty (Iod.). Worms.

Urinary : Hypertrophy of prostate. Diabetes. Polyuria. Sexual : L.ovarian pain (Iod. r.).Menses retarded or menorrhagia.

Respiratory : Bronchial asthma (of children). Bronchitis. Cough (>) in open air, (<) warmth, (>) cold bath. Emphysema. Tuberculosis.

Circulatory : Anxiety about the heart. Palpitation.

Angina pectoris : Constriction. Sudden stitches; needle - like pains. Myocarditis. Infarction. Decompensation. Goitre heart. Senile hearts. "One of our great heart remedies."

Blood-vessels: Arterio-sclerosis; coronary. Aneurysm. Varicose veins.

Locomotor : Stiff limbs in morning. Languor (>) exercising. Joints : Pains, (>) eating (Spon.). Chronic articular rheumatism. Arthritis deformans. Tuberculosis of joints (Iod.).

Skin : Acne. Small pustulous eruptions. Pruritus.

Relations : Gunp. antidoted mental depression, skin irritation and eruptions mistaken for scabies.Contains iodine; may therefore be called a "vegetable Iod."

Compare : Arali-r., Cal-fl., Fucus, Ginseng, Jab., Lycps., Nat- m., Sil., Spon., Thyr.