Bellis perennis
(English Daisy)
PHARMACY
bell-p. Bellisperennis. English daisy. N.0. Composite Tincture of whole fresh flowering plant. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.
CLINICAL
- Acne
- Aching, pains
- Arterio-sclerosis
- Artery diseases
- Boils
- Blows
- Brain, softening
- Breast, tumors
- Bruises
- Cancer
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Conjunctivitis
- Debility
- Ecchymosis
- Exudations
- Falls
- Fatigue
- Giddiness
- Gout
- Headaches
- Hematoma
- Hemorrhages
- Hemoptysis
- Herpes
- Indigestion
- Injuries
- Joint, pains
- Lameness
- Masturbation
- Miscarriages
- Menopause
- Muscle, pains
- Mydriasis
- Neuragias
- Neuritis
- Organ, injury
- Overwork
- Pregnancy, complaints
- Psoriasis
- Railway spine
- Repetitive strain
- Rheumatism
- Sleeplessness
- Spleen, disorders
- Sprains
- Sore, pains
- Stasis
- Stomatitis
- Strains
- Strokes
- Swelling
- Tendonitis
- Trauma
- Tumors
- Uterus, fatigued
- Uterus prolapsed
- Varicose veins
- Venous stasis
HERBAL
The old name of "Wound-wort" or "Bruise-wort" shows one of the main spheres of the action of Bellis and allies it in action with its fellow composites, Amica and Calendula. The daisy is a flower that is repeatedly trodden upon and always comes up smiling afterwards. Being the "day's eye" may be the sign of its propensities for waking too early.
Burnett said, "It is a princely remedy for old laborers, especially gardeners." Overworked old laborers and workmen, head sufferings of elderly working gardeners, commercial travelers, railway spine. Burnett generally gave it in the mother tincture.
HOMEOPATHIC
Dr. Burnett is the chief authority for its homeopathic uses. "It acts very much like Amica, even to the production of erysipelas." He has cured with its aid several cases of tumors originating in a blow. "Stasis" and "fatigue" are the principal notes of the action. Exudations and swellings of many kinds. Fagged womb. Varicose veins. The giddiness of elderly people (cerebral stasis).
Back
- Sore, aching pains
- Backache from over lifting and strain
- Sprains with great soreness
- Backache or strain during pregnancy
- Lumbago from physical labor
- Falls on coccyx
- Railway spine
- Itching on back and flexor surface of thighs
Breasts
- Breasts and uterus engorged
- Breast tumor or cancer after injury
Causations
Ill effects of cold drinks, exposure to wet or getting chilled when overheated. Affections due to cold wind. Blows, falls, injury, accidents, surgical operations. Childbirth. Overexertion, overwork.
Chest
Constitutions
Suited to old gardeners, farmers, laborers, and commercial travelers. Carbo-fluorica types with tendency to visceral ptosis, laxity of the ligaments, and hemorrhages.
Eyes
- Eye injury or strain
- Catarrhal conjunctivitis
- Conjunctivitis with excoriation and irritating discharge
Female
- Painful menses
- Injury to female organs
- Uterus prolapsed
- Prolapse of the bladder and vagina
- Uterus tumors
- Pelvic cramping pain, spreading to the back
- Uterus feels sore, as if squeezed
- Tendency to hemorrhage
- Viscous, irritating leucorrhea
- Injuries, blows to pelvic organs
- Feeling of downward pressure in the uterus
- Soreness of uterus
- Metrorrhagia
- Metritis
- Cervicitis
- Varicose veins with pregnancy
- Uterine strain, soreness from prolonged standing or pregnancy
- Inability to walk during pregnancy
- Sore, aching pains after childbirth
Food
Insatiable hunger. Desire for exotic food. Effects of cold or iced drinks when heated.
Head
Headache from occiput to top of vertex. Forehead feels contracted. Bruised soreness. Shooting pain. Head heavy on waking with feeling of blood in the head. Attack of migraine with pain in the eyes and watery nasal secretion. Drawing pains in the head and around the trigeminal region. Headache better by holding the head tightly. Itching around scalp and over back, worse from hot bath and bed.
Heart
- Enlargement of heart
- Rhythmic anomalies
- Irregular pulse
- Extra systole
- Palpitations
- Spasms and precordial pain, spreading to the right shoulder
- Coronary thrombosis
- Angina pectoris
- Non-inflammatory lesion of the myocardium
- Cardiac neurosis
Limbs
- Injuries, blows, strains to limbs
- Muscular and joint rheumatism
- Sprains with great soreness
- Joints sore, muscular soreness
- Hematoma
- Tendonitis
- Bruised, aching, sore pains from injury or strain
- Post-traumatic and rheumatic myalgic pains
- Rheumatism in old laborers
- Swelling from injuries
- Pain down anterior of thigh
- Wrist feels contracted as from elastic band around joint
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Repetitive strain
- Hip pains, worse exertion
- Itching on back and flexor surfaces of thighs
- Varicose veins with bruised sore feeling
Liver
Tingling in the hepatic region. Chronic inflammation of the gallbladder.
Lungs
- Acute bronchitis
- Hemoptysis
- Pulmonary atelectasis
Modalities
Better from continued motion. Better pressure. Better cold applications. Better heat and food. Worse from injuries, blows, sprains. Worse exertion, lifting. Worse surgical operations. Worse left side. Worse immobility. Worse touch. Worse hot bath. Worse warmth of bed. Worse becoming chilled when hot. Worse before storms. Worse cold wind. Worse cold baths, cold drinks.
Mouth
- Stomatitis
- Angina
- Pain in the tongue and mucus membranes of the mouth
- Small ulcerations and cracks and chapping of the lips
- Lip herpes
- Burning sensation on the tip of the tongue and edges of the tongue are red
- Improved by drinking cold water
- Toothache improved by heat
- Impression that the teeth are too long
- Dental neuralgia
Nose
- Watery, irritating secretion
- Loss of sense of smell
- Nosebleeds
- Sinusitis
- Rhinitis
Rectum
Diarrhea and large amounts of gas. Yellow, painless diarrhea, foul odor, worse at night.
Skin
- Ecchymosis, swelling, very sensitive to touch
- Bruises and swellings
- Venous congestion due to mechanical causes
- Hematoma
- Acne
- Herpes
- Red papules and blisters
- Boils with itching and burning sensation
- Skin dry, cracked
- Itching, aggravated by heat in bed and in a hot bath, improved by the cold
- Exudations and swellings
- Anthrax
- Seeping eczema
- Nevus
Sleep
Sleeplessness due to sore, aching pains. Wakes early in the morning and cannot get to sleep again. Dreams of anger.
Stomach
Indigestion or stomach ache. Acrid dyspepsia. Aerophagy. Heavy feeling, vomiting, acrid belching. Cannot bear the weight of clothing on the stomach. Worse cold drinks. Worse when overheated, touch. Pain improved by eating and by pressure. Vomiting, or regurgitation.
Temperature
Fever with shivering.
Throat
Pain on swallowing, feeling of itching in the throat. Huskiness. Feeling of rawness of the mucus membranes, heavy cough. When coughing, feels a sharp pain in the thorax. Acute and chronic laryngitis.
Vertigo
Vertigo in elderly persons with cerebral stasis. Headaches with vertigo, improved by fresh air and by leaning over.
COMMENTS
Marked action on the female sexual organs, especially on engorged uterus and breasts. It relieves troubles of pregnancy including the inability to walk, varicose veins, weakness of bladder, constipation, hemorrhoids, prolapses. Given after childbirth, it will relieve pain and bleeding, help the sore, bruised tenderness of the uterine area.
Bearing down pains, sense of weight or a ball in the uterus or rectum, weak bladder or uterus since childbirth (Sep.). Mechanical symptoms, the "heavy, tired womb." For toning the uterus after many births. For profuse bleeding or weakness in the uterus since pregnancy, miscarriage, or abortion, with muscle soreness and bruised feeling. Sensation of being kicked, deep soreness (Am.).
Near and remote effects of blows, falls, accidents (trauma). Tumors or cysts from trauma. For sports injuries with chronic ache and pains, or arthritis in the joints from overexertion and bending. Tennis elbow, sprains. Aches and pains in the elderly and laborers are worse with weather changes.
Stasis and stagnation. Loss of tone after injury or trauma, especially to soft tissue. Sleeplessness from overwork. Fatigue from masturbation. Tired feeling with desire to lie down. Can cause sleeplessness. Waking at 3 a.m. "Waking up too early in the morning and cannot get to sleep again."
Stitches in spleen. For severe injury to spleen, sore and enlarged, knife-like pain, area becomes congested and bluish. It has produced acne, boils, rheumatic pains, giddiness. Headache from occiput to front, contracted feeling in front brain. A pain in the inner side of right arm as if a boil were developing.
ILL Effects of sudden, wet chill to heated stomach or body surface (Rhus-t.). Keynote "effects of cold or iced drinks when heated," dyspepsia, amenorrhea, skin disorders, rheumatism from this cause. Pre-eminently left-side medicine.
Burnett had a case of a tumor in the abdomen after injury to a rib. It became inoperable; he gave Bellis tincture, and seventeen days later the tumor was gone. He also gave it as a remedy for debility following acute attacks of gout, classing it with Vanadium of which it is a complement in degenerative states, as brain softening and atheroma of arteries.
Bell p. has been observed to cause dilation of the pupil when used locally.
RELATIONS
Compare: (1) Compare with Am. - aggravation from the slightest touch and from movement. (2) Calen., Hyper., Con., Ars., Ham., Staph. (3) In effects of brain fag, Pic-ac., Vanad. - degenerative states. (4) Ign. Unstable, nervous, weeping easily. (5) Sepia - effects of childbirth. After pains.
REFERENCES
Boericke, Clarke, Julian, Murphy.
