Epiphegus Virginiana epiph.

Beechdrop (EPIPHEGUS - OROBANCHE)

A remedy for sick, neurasthenic, and nervous headaches, especially in women, brought on or made worse by exertion, shopping, etc. Tongue coated yellow; bitter taste. Drowsy after meals. Loose stools. Subinvolution, with painful menstruation and congestion.

Pressing pain in temples from without inwards, worse, left side. Viscid salivation, constant inclination to spit. Sick headache coming on when deviating from ordinary pursuits. Headaches from nerve tire caused by mental or physical exhaustion, preceded by hunger.

Worse, from working in open air. Better, from sleep.

Compare: Iris, Melilot; Sanguinar. Fagus-Beech-nuts--(headache and salivation; swelling on mouth; dread of water).

First to thirtieth potency.

A tincture is made of the fresh plant of Epiphegus Virginians, Bart.

Languid feeling. ▶ Aggravation from walking in open air; on rising from supine position. ▶ Amelioration in morning; A. after sleep. ▶ Fears death from palpitation; F. injury to her health from the drug. ▶ When writing, could not make the desired letters. ▶ Found himself using wrong words in writing. ▶ Difficulty in thinking correctly or in selecting proper words or expressions. ▶ Sensation as if something were wrong in his head, agg. forepart (morning after headache).

Headache; agg. rising up in bed; agg. working in open air. ▶ Head confused. ▶ Head full; in forepart. ▶ Pain in forepart of head; in middle of forehead; sudden, transient in middle of forehead; in right temple; left temple at night in bed, agg. rising up; left temple till bedtime; temples agg. right, leaving dull heavy pain agg. right; piercing in right temple; flying in temples; as from pressure of finger-ends in temporal fosse, from 3 P.M. till evening, agg. left side; pressing inward, in right temple. ▶ Pain in occiput; pressing outward in occiput in morning on rising, increasing till 4 P.M., then declining till 6 P.M. when it disappeared, agg. open air, motion, rising or stooping, amel. warmth of the room, eating or sleeping, with nausea. ▶ Fulness in occiput, with dizziness in forehead. ▶ Scalp feels tight during headache.

Sharp pain over centre angle of right eye. ▶ Smarting of eyes; of conjunctiva, with redness. ▶ Could not read because letters seemed blurred. ▶ Red face; cheeks, agg. left. ▶ Salivation; watery, constant spitting of clear, watery saliva. ▶ Almost constant desire to expectorate. ▶ Saliva viscid. ▶ Taste viscid; and sticky; T. bitter (secondary). ▶ Nausea. ▶ Gnawing in stomach, agg. motion, amel. eating and quiet. ▶ Acidity in stomach, with accumulation of flatus. ▶ Weight in stomach as from a cold substance. ▶ Loose stool, with griping. ▶ Stool difficult although soft. ▶ Palpitation which makes her weak. ▶ Pain in left shoulder; left knee, trembling of knees and lower limbs; of lower limbs, with weakness of them. ▶ Restless sleep, with much dreaming. ▶ Temperature lowered.

Several cures of "sick headache" are reported with the general characteristic of being caused by unusual excitement or fatigue, for example, visiting or shopping; some cases associated with nausea and vomiting.