• Complaints, worse in open air
• Visual disturbances, flickering or spots of various colours with vertigo, headache, gastric or uterine complaints

Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Sow-bread
Family: Primulaceae
Prover: Dr Hahnemann and the Vienna Society
Duration of Action: As per Dr Clarke, 14 to 20 days
Temperament: Leuco-phlegmatic
Thermal Relationship: Chilly patient

Introduction and History: Cyclamen has a traditional reputation as a remedy for disorders of the uterus and it’s appendages.

Preparation and Parts Used: It is prepared from the tincture of the root gathered during spring.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is best suited to leuco-phlegmatic people with anaemic and chlorotic conditions; easily fatigued and as a consequence are not inclined to any kind of labour; feeble or suspended functions of organs or special senses.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It mainly acts on the digestive tract and sexual organs, vision, cerebrospinal axis, etc.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

It is a cerebrospinal irritant, through it the female sexual organs and gastrointestinal tract are affected.

It acts on the head, producing stupefaction, vertigo, dull pressing headache, obscuration of sight, dilatation of pupils, sleep disturbances due to bad dreams, excessive sadness and melancholy.

Acts on the gastrointestinal canal causing vomiting and purging, sometimes vomiting of blood with cold sweat, ringing in the ears and swimming of the head.

It acts on the female generative organs. It causes profuse menstruation; blood is black and lumpy and attended with labour pains.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. There is terror of conscience. Self reproaches.
2. Sadness as if he had committed a bad act or has not done his duty.
3. Grieves over duty neglected.
4. Depression with weeping; desire to be alone. Dull, sleepy and morose.
5. A joyous feeling alternates with irritability. Silent weeping.
6. Hallucinations as if two people were lying in her bed.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Pains: Pains are pressive, drawing or tearing in parts where bones lie near the surface.

Headache: Headache, especially in anaemic patients, with flickering before the eyes; dim vision worse on rising in the morning.

Flickering: Flickering before the eyes; fiery sparks, as of various colours, glittering needles, dim vision of fog or smoke.

Gastrointestinal tract: Satiety after a mouthful of food; food then becomes repungant, causes nausea in throat and palate.

Taste: Saliva and all food has a salty taste.

Disagrees: Pork disagrees.

Menses: It is useful for pale, chlorotic constitution having, deranged menses, accompanied by vertigo, headache and dim vision. Menses are too early, too profuse, black and clotted, membranous; better during flow.

Burning pains: Burning sore pain in heels, when sitting, standing or walking in open air.

Appetite: Loss of appetite and even aversion to food.

Thirst: Generally thirstless except fever.

Aversions: To bread and butter, fatty things.

Desires: Lemonade, inedible things, sardines.

Important Characteristic Features

Female reproductive organs: Menses are too soon or too late; irregular or suppressed; copious, prolonged or scanty. Flow is black and clotted. Labour-like pains during menstrual period, commencing in the small of back and running down each side of the pubes. Uterine haemorrhages. Menses Suppressed, palpitation of the heart, weeping, aversion to company and dread of open air.

Rush of blood to head and scanty flow. Suppressed menses from overexertion or being overheated. Fainting during menstrual period. After menses, milk in the mammae. Complaints after weaning. Worse sitting and lying at night.

Gastrointestinal affections: Disgust for meat, craves sardines. Satiety after first few mouthfuls then loathes food. Stomach weak. Nausea after eating. Eructations. Vomiting is watery, mucoid, after eating in the morning. Aching in the stomach and burning in the oesophagus, better by walking about. Fullness as if he had eaten too much. Weight in the stomach after eating. Colicky pain in the abdomen, gnawing pain after eating and better by walking about. Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen. Worse after eating, night. Better walking about.

Diarrhoea: Watery, forcible stools, odourless, brownish-yellow, after taking coffee; in chlorotic women subject to sick headaches and menstrual irregularities. Colic and urging before and after stool. Worse in the evening.

General Modalities

Aggravation: In open air, after eating, cold water, cold bathing, in the evening, menses aggravates, sitting and lying at night.

Amelioration: By walking about.

Remedy Relationships

Follows well: Phos, Puls, Sep, Sulph.

Antidoted by: Camph, Coff, Puls.

Comparison

Chlorosis: Cycl, Ferr, Chin.

Headache with scintillations: Cycl, Iris, Kali-bi.

Dim vision during headache: Cycl, Iris, Sulph.

Dim vision on waking: Cycl, Puls.

Dosage: Low and medium potencies; 3x to 30c.

Repetition: Mostly in single doses when constitutional symptoms are present. Lower potencies maybe repeated in specific conditions.

Therapeutic Value: Anaemia, Bone pains, Chlorosis, Coryza, Diplopia, Dyspepsia, Enteralgia, Headaches, Hiccoughs, Menopause, Prostatitis, Rheumatism, Strabismus, Urethritis, Vertigo, Writer’s cramps.