Helonias Dioica

Blazing Star ; Starwort ; Unicorn Plant. Melanthacese.

A plant indigenous to the United States and Canada; grows in low groundR and shady hilly places; flowers in June. The fresh, bulbous root is gathered for the tincture before flowering.

Introduced by C. B. Parr. Provings by Fully, Branch, Burr, Clark, Paine, Hale and Jones. See Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. .565. Clinical Authorities. — Melancholia, Dunham, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 499;. Affections of stomach, Coe, Close, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 493 ; Gastric disturbances, Coe, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 499 ; Pain in kidneys, Rogers, Farrington, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 497; Bright' s disease, Jones, Am. Ham. Obs., vol. 10, p. 53; Diabetes, Oehnie, Rane's Pee, 1874, p. 211 ; Pane's Poth., p. 648; Diabetes mellitus, Schweizer, Rane's Rec, 1875, p. 166; Albuminuria, Farrington, Pane's Rec, 1874, p. 216; Am. Journ. of Ham. Mat. Med., vol. 6, p. 332; Disease of kidneys (2 cases), Rogers, N. A. .1. H., vol 15, p. 319; Profuse urination, Martin, Trans. Ham. Med. Sac. Pa., 1881, p. 265; Urinary difficulties, Rogers, Howard, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 495 ; Uterine displacements, Foster, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 498 ; Uterine displacements with leucorrhoea, Navarro, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 26 ; Uterine hemorrhage,. Hale, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 497 ; Menorrhagia, Burr, Eggert, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 497 ; Amenorrhoea, Coe, Farrington, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 497 ; Leucorrhoea^ Gushing, Lilienthal, IST. A. J. H, vol. 23, p. 498 ; Climacteric affection, Jones, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 498 ; Threatened abortion, Frost, Rane's Eec, 1875, p. 183; Painin back, Jones, N. A. J. H., vol. 23, p. 498; Post-diphtheritic debility, Ockford^ Rane's Eec, 1875, p. 10 ; Chlorosis, Hughes, Pharmacodynamics, p. 398.

Mind p. 545

▌ Great weakness of memory.

▌ Dull, inactive and gloomy.

▌ Restless, wants to be continually moving about.

▌ Desire to be let alone; conversation is unpleasant.

▌ Irritable; cannot endure the least contradiction or receive suggestions in relation to any subject.

▌ Fault finding.

▌ Always better when doing something, when the mind is. engaged.

▌ Profound melancholy; deep, undefined depression of mind.

Sensorium p. 545

Dizziness; fretful; everything turns in a circle; anaemia.

▌ Pain in head is < by stooping, and attended by increased vertigo.

Inner Head p. 545

Fulness and pressure in forehead or vertex; < or renewed when thinking thereof

Pain in forehead as if a band about an inch wide were drawn across it from temple to temple.

Pressing pain in one or both temples (in a small spot); "a burning sensation " in top and front of head, > by motion and mental exertion, < when either is desisted from.

Pressure from within upwards to vertex, < by looking steadily at any fixed point.

Pain in occiput, with pulsative pain in vertex, vertigo, < stooping.

▌ Uterine and hysterical headache.

Upper Face p. 545

│ ' Expression of suffering.

▌ Pale, earthy face.

││ Face swollen.

Taste and Tongue p. 545

Bitter, disagreeable taste, every morning, 5 A.M., on awaking; lips, tongue and fauces dry.

││ Tongue white. θ Diabetes.

Tongue red at tip and borders, white in centre.

Inner Mouth p. 545

Salivation of pregnant women and teething children.

▌ Mouth gets sore; stomatitis materia.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 545

▌ Loss of appetite, eructations, fulness, cramp, and painful congestion of stomach.

▌ Appetite 2)oor, food tasteless; "bilious;" sleep)y during day.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 546

Empty eructations.

▌ Tasteless eructations and flatulence, causing nausea.

▌ Nausea at supper.

▌ Vomiting of food. θ Dropsy.

▌ Obstinate vomiting in Bright's disease.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 546

Constricting, pressing pain in stomach.

▌ Cramp-like pain in stomach.

▌ Burning in stomach; burning and aching in spine; eructations.

▌ Irritable stomach, with general dropsy.

▌ Idiopathic diseases of stomach, or sympathetic gastric disorders which accompany uterine and renal diseases; loss of appetite, eructations, fulness, cramp and painful congestion, with depression of spirits.

"▌^ Hypochondria. ▌Pain in 1. side, as if in spleen, which feels as if distended, causing a dull ache.

Abdomen p. 546

▌ Motion and rumbling in abdomen, as if diarrhoea would come on; cramps in stomach.

▌ Colic-like pains in hypogastric region, off and on all day.

▌ Burning in lower third of abdomen.

Stool and Rectum p. 546

▌ Stool: loose; yellow in morning; lumps of feces in evening.

Urinary Organs p. 546

▌ Burning sensation at kidneys; can trace their outlines by burning; at 2.30 p.m., dull heat and pressure in vertex, as if skull were too full.

▌ Weariness, languor, weight in region of kidneys; mind dull, inactive; afternoon and evening.

▌ Pain in kidneys with albuminous urine.

▌ Congestion of kidneys with albuminuria from amenorrhoea.

▌ Right kidney sensitive.

▌ Burning scalding when urinating; desire frequent and urging.

││ Strangury,

▌ Involuntary discharge of urine after bladder seemed to be emptied.

Urine: profuse, clear, light colored; albuminous; diabetic.

▌ Great emaciation and debility ; can walk but a few steps at a time; complete loss of appetite; pale, chlorotic skin ; tongue red at tip and edges, white in centre; headache in occiput in morning; immediate vomiting of animal food unless some acid was taken with it; constant aching and extreme tenderness in region of kidneys, especially the right; aching in region of bladder; intense cutting, tearing pain in urethra when urinating; very frequent desire to urinate; urine limpid when first voided, but depositing after a time, a lead-colored, flocky sediment, adhering to vessel; the amount of urine reached nearly three quarts a day.

▌ Restlessness, constant "fidgety " desire to be doing something, low spirits, burning aching in lumbar spine, frequent profuse urination, urine pale yellow, sp. gr. 1,013, reaction faintly acid; must get up several times at night to urinate; debility, easily fatigued, palpitation from going up stairs; feels her weakness less when she is at work ; in evening, sensation as if cold wind was blowing up limbs from heel to popliteal space; appetite poor; bowels relaxed; sleep difficult and unrefreshing. θ Ante-desquamative stage of Bright's disease.

▌ Pain in region of kidneys; painful stiffness of back;

, burning, scalding pain when urinating; frequent and urgent desire to urinate, with emission of large quantities of red urine; complete impotence.

▌ Scanty menstruation, heaviness, languor, drowsiness, albuminous urine. θ Albuminuria.

▌ Chronic albuminuria.

▌▌ First stage of diabetes insipidus and nervous of women, with congestion of lower third of medulla spinalis.

▌ Dull, gloomy and irritable; melancholy; complete impotence; pain and lame feeling in back; numbness in feet, going off by motion. θ Diabetes.

▌ Lips stick together; thirst; restlessness; emaciation; urine profuse, clear; linen coming in contact with urine becomes stiff; large quantities of sugar in urine.

▌▌ Saccharine diabetes.

Male Sexual Organs p. 547

Sexual desire and power increased.

Unusually strong and frequent erections at night.

▌ Impotence, complete or partial.

Female Sexual Organs p. 547

▌ Loss of sexual desire with or without sterility.

▌ Profound melancholy, deep, undefined depression, with a sensation of soreness and weight in womb; a " consciousness" of a womb

▌ Ovarian pains; soreness and heaviness in hypogastrium.

▌ Dragging weakness in sacral region, with prolapsus; also at climaxis, with marked debility; profound mental gloom.

▌ Uterine displacement in weak patient; dyspeptic, lethargic, or indisposed to move about; aches and feels tired all the time; uterus sensitive; feels uterus move when she moves, it is so sore and tender; miscarries easily; depressed spirits.

▌ Prolapsus uteri and ulceration of cervix ; discharge constant, dark, badly smelling; flooding on lifting a weight, and on least exertion ; face sallow, having an expression of suffering ; great vaginal irritation ; pain in small of back.

▌ Uterus low down, fundus tilted forwards; finger passes with difficulty between os and rectum.

▌ Prolapsus uteri, leucorrhoea; os protrudes externally.

▌ Prolapsus uteri dependent upon want of tonicity.

▌ Feeble women, with prolapsus or other displacements ; aqueous, abundant leucorrhoea.

▌ Prolaj)sus uteri with tendency to miscarriage.

││ Pain in lower part of back, through to uterus, piercing, drawing.

Great uterine hemorrhage all through proving ; j)ain in back, through to uterus.

▌ Profuse flooding, with serous leucorrhoea, much uterine and ovarian pain ; climaxis.

▌ Excessive uterine hemorrhage.

▌ Menorrhagia from active congestion.

▌ Menorrhagia from ulcerated os or cervix, blood dark and bad smelling, and continuing a long while ; very profuse flow at every period, so that her strength is exhausted, and she suffers from debility; flow increased by least exertion; complexion pale, sallow, earthy-looking.

▌ Menstrual flow too profuse; from atony of uterus; passive flow; < from slightest motion; dark colored, coagulated, of bad odor; face pale; face earthy color; feeble from loss of blood.

▌ Menses too frequent and profuse in women who are feeble from loss of blood ; flow passive, dark, coagulated, offensive.

▌ Frequent and profuse menstruation when patients lose

│ more blood than is made in inter-menstrual period, with pain in back, and frequent palpitation of heart.

▌ Atonic and passive menorrhagia.

▌ Dysmenorrhoea occurring in delicate women, of lax fibre, or who are chlorotic; sharp cutting and drawing pains during period, passing from back through uterus; swelling of mammae, with considerable tenderness of mammae and nipples; painful soreness over the ovaries.

▌ During menses, weakness, weariness, lassitude.

▌ Scanty menstrual flow, with heaviness, languor, drowsiness and albuminous urine.

▌ General weariness and languor; gloominess and dulness of mind; amenorrhoea from general atony and torpid condition of whole body.