scutellaria laterifolia
Materia Medica
This is a nervous sedative, where nervous fear predominates. Cardiac irritability. Chorea. Nervous irritation and spasms of children, during dentition. Twitching of muscles. Nervous weakness after influenza.
Mental: Fear of some calamity. Inability to fix attention (Aethus). Confusion.
Head: Dull, frontal headache. Eyes feel pressed outwards. Flushed face. Restless sleep and frightful dreams. Must move about. Night terrors. Migraine; worse, over right eye; aching in eyeballs. Explosive headaches of school teachers with frequent urination; headaches in front and base of brain. Nervous sick headaches, worse noise, odor light, better night; rest, 5 drops of tincture.
Stomach: Nausea; sour eructations; hiccough; pain and distress.
Abdomen: Gas, fullness and distention, colicky pain and uneasiness. Light colored diarrhoea.
Male: Seminal emissions and impotency, with fear of never being better.
Sleep: Night-terrors; sleeplessness; sudden wakefulness; frightful dreams.
Extremities: Twitchings of muscles; must be moving. Chorea. Tremors. Sharp stinging pains in upper extremities. Nightly restlessness. Weakness and aching.
Compare
Cyprip; Lycopus