BUXUS SEPERVIRENS

Buxus Sempervirens

(Box Tree)

PHARMACY

bux. Buxus sempervirens. Box tree.

N. 0. Euphorbiacae. Tincture of the young leaves and twigs.

Historical dose: AU potencies.

CLINICAL

• Abdomen, pains.
• Coldness.
• Convulsions.
• Diarrhea.
• Dizziness.
• Faintings.
• Nausea.
• Rheumatic pain.
• Sleepiness.

HOMEOPATHIC

Faintings. Strong forcing pains, like those of labor, in the lower part of the abdomen, which varied greatly in intensity, and lasted from twenty or thirty seconds to a minute or longer.

Pretty frequent desire to urinate, but no increase in amount of urine emitted. Slight increase in frequency of pulse. Slight degree of nausea on one or two occasions.

Senseless and unconscious, with ice-cold hands and feet, half-closed eyes, dilated pupils, respiration very slow, almost imperceptible, action of the heart intermittent, scarcely perceptible, anus relaxed, wide open, limbs relaxed. He fell to the ground unconscious, with loud cries and convulsions.

MIND

Mental and physical prostration. Emotional. At times, painful weeping, with grinding of the teeth. Sadness. Wakes in bad humor. She seemed to have some consciousness, as was shown by the look of her eye when her name was called aloud.

ABDOMEN

Labor-like pains in lower abdomen.

EARS

Noise in the ears, extending to the occiput, like letting off steam.

EYES

Dimness of sight. Optical illusions.

FOOD

Appetite when beginning breakfast, but it suddenly ceases after taking a little milk.

HEAD

Giddiness of the head. Weight in the head, especially the top of the forehead, at 4 p.m.

KIDNEYS

Sudden pain, with lancination, in the urethra, above the fossa navicularis, for two minutes.

LIMBS

Rheumatic pain in the right thigh.

Trembling of the knees and of all the limbs with violent emotion, when hearing others talk about the disease he is afraid of having. Weakness of the knees when going upstairs. Swelling of the ankles, less at night.

MOUTH

Clammy mouth with bad breath. Bitter mouth.

PERSIRATION

Profuse sweat during sleep, ceasing on waking. Very fetid sweat under the axilla and on the scrotum.

RECTUM

Tenesmus and pressure in the sphincter ani, with pricking, but ineffectual urging to stool. Diarrhea in the morning. Unusually easy stools. Watery, greenish, fetid stools. Copious, light-colored, watery, fetid stools.

SLEEP

Sleepiness. Drowsiness in daytime. Falls asleep late. Distressing dreams about wanting to save an asphyxiated child, whose parents will not let him treat it. Dreams about a conflagration, with small flames.

STOMACH

Violent vomiting and purging. Heaviness in the stomach all night, relieved by applying the hands. Borborygmi. Vague and transient, but very acute, pains in the stomach.

TEMPERATURE

Coldness and shrinking. The whole head, especially the nape of the neck, is cold. Face and limbs cold. Icy coldness under the shoulder blades, in bed, even when well covered up. Coldness even to the marrow of the bone.

VERTIGO

Dizziness. Faintings.

RELATIONS

Compare: Gels., Chin.

REFERENCES

Desai.