ADLUMIA FUNGOSA

ADLUMIA FUNGOSA

(Climbing Fumitory)

PHARMACY - adlu. Adlumia fungosa. Climbing fumitory. Fumaria fungosa.

N.O. Papaveraceae.

CLINICAL - Bladder, disorders. Chilly. Constipation. Dyspnea. Flatulence. Head-ache. Impotence. Infertility. Kidney stones. Nail. disorders. Nausea. Nightmares. Meteorism. Palpitations. Rash. Styes. Vertigo. Weakness.

HERBAL - Fumaria species have long been valued as medicinal herbs for chronic skin rash and kidney stones, in which its success was a scribed to its sweat-inducing capacity, as well as us blood purifying effect by means of the inner organs.

French and German physicians prefer it to most other medicines as a purifier of the blood. 

Sometimes the dried leaves are smoked in the manner of tobacco, for disorders of the head. The plant was also believed to be useful m infertility.

HOMEOPATHIC- Sense of weakness. must lie down. Great weari11ess towards end of after,0011. must lie down. Chilliness, yet better open air. Pain extends to left scapula or to left arm. Meteorismus from smoking. Slow growth of nails.

MIND - Causeless sadness. Sadness and joyless for days. Difficult concentration. Mistakes in writing. Euphoria when weariness subsides.

Mouth - Discoloration of tongue. Tongue coated white.

Abdomen -Flatulence. Distended sensation in abdomen and rumbling. Pressure in hepatic region. Pressing pain in epigastrium after eating, better lying on abdomen. Sensation of weakness m abdomen at II p.m.

Chest - Oppression in left side of chest.

Eyes- Styes. lower lid of right eye. Swelling of lower lid of right eye.

Female - Sexual power diminished.

Food- Desires cold milk. Better cold food. Worse beer, fats, sausages. Intolerance to fatty food. Nausea from sausage.

Head - Headache, worse 3 a.m. Headache

better fresh evening air, better rainy weather. Headache and nausea and vertigo. Congestion of head and face from flatulence pressing upward. Right-sided headache.

Heart - Palpitations of heart.

Limbs - Pain in finger joints.

Lungs - Dyspnea. Sensation of breathless-ness.

Male - Sexual power diminished. Impotence. Too quid. ejaculation.

Modalities- Better fresh evening air. Better lying on abdomen. Better pressure. Better coffee. Worse evening. Worse after exposure to heat of sun. Worse 3 a.m. Worse afternoon, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Rectum - Constipation, difficult discharge of soft stool. Ineffectual urging and straining. No stool for days. Frequent urginin afternoon, but passes only yellow mucus. Flatulence and, oft stool. Meteorism Frequent stools at 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Hard, knotty stool. Soft, light-colored stool.

Sleep - Disturbed sleep. Wakes at 3 a.m., tosses about and finally falls asleep again. Restless sleep from constipation during daytime. Falling asleep difficult from palpitations of heart. Sleepiness during daytime, worse in afternoon, irresistible desire to lie down. Frequent waking with to renting thoughts. Nightmares. Frightful dreams. even during short afternoon naps.

Stomach - Pressing pain in stomach after meals. Nausea and pain in epigastrium extending to left scapula. Nausea from smoking. Nausea from beer. Nausea better after eating.

Vertigo – Vertigo on slight exertion. Vertigo with headache and nausea.

REFERENCES - Bayr. Grieve.