SPIGELIA 30

Action of Medicine:

• This remedy is indicated in anaemic, debilitated subjects. with light hair, who are sensitive to the slightest touch.
• Every touch sends a shudder through the body. They are subjected to rheumatism.
• They are also subjected to periodical nervous and neuralgic headaches that begin in the base of the brain in the morning and spread up over the head and locate in the eye, orbit and temple on the left side.
• The pain is pulsating violent and throbbing. It recurs at regular intervals, and is worse from motion, stooping and concussion. The pain is relieved by firm pressure.
• It is of service in rheumatic ophthalmia and ciliary neuralgia; the pain is intolerable. It is useful in periodic prosopalgia of the left side. It involves the eye, orbit. malar bone, and teeth.
• The pain is tearing and burning in character, the cheek is dark red; it is worse during cold, rainy weather, and from an excess of tea.
• It is of benefit in worm affections There is paleness of the face, with blue rings about the eye, nauseated feeling, and colic around the navel.

References: A Manual Of Materia Medica, Therapeutics And Pharmacology By Blackwood, Alexander Leslie