Is of much use in infantile colics when the child seems to be full of wind. Oxaluria, with excess of urea; increased specific gravity. Where the system is broken down, bowels constipated, muscular weakness, and waste of nitrogenous materials, Senna will act as a tonic. Ebullitions of blood at night. Acetonæmia, prostration, fainting, constipation with colic a flatulence. Liver enlarged and tender.
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Commentaries
Commentary and literature analysis from various clinical authorities:
- ACCUMULATION OF FLATUS DISCHARGE FETID
- ACCUMULATION OF FLATUS WITH GRUMBLING FETID FLATUS
- ACETONEMIA PROSTRATION FAINTING CONSTIPATION COLIC
- ACETONEMIA PROSTRATION FAINTING CONSTIPATION WITH COLIC
- ACETONURIA FAINTING CONSTIPATION WITH COLIC FLATULENCE
- ACETONURIA PROSTRATION FAINT CONSTIPATION COLIC
- ACT ON RING WORM
- ASTHMA SKIN DISEASE DANDRUFF ECZEMA CONSTIPATION
- ATONY OF THE RESORBENT VESSELS DROPSY
- BACKACHE DUE EXCESSIVE NITROGENOUS WASTE DEPOSIT OF URATES IN URINE
- BLOOD PURIFIER
- BOWELS CONSTIPATED MUSCULAR WEAK WASTE OF NITROGENOUS MATERIALS
- BRONCHITIS TOUGH MUCUS EFFORT HAWKING FOR ITS EXPULSION
- BURNING IN RECTUM WITH STRANGURY OF BLADDER
- BURSTING PAIN IN FOREHEAD
- CHILD TURNS BLUE ALL OVER DURING ITS CRIED DUE FULL WIND
- COLIC FLATULENT OF INFANT
- COLIC INFANT WITH WIND SLEEP LESSNESS
- CONSTIPATION ASTHMA RATTLING IN THROAT WITHOUT PHLEGM DYSPNOEA
- CONSTIPATION WITH COLIC FLATULENCE
- DANDRUFF ECZEMA ITCH SCABIES PSORIASIS RINGWORM
- DIABETS URINE CONTAINS SUGAR ACETONE OXALATE AND PHOSPHATE
- DIARRHOEA WITH STRAINING AND PROLAPSE IN CHILDREN
- DIARRHOEA WITH STRAINING AND PROLAPSE RECTUM
- DROPSY AFTER ALBUMINURIA
- DROPSY OF THE CHEST BOWELS AND WOMB
- DYSPEPSIA COLIC PAIN DURING EVACUATION
- DYSPNOEA ASTHMA OF SUFFERING FROM SKIN DISEASE
- EBULLITION OF BLOOD NIGHT DISTURBING THE SLEEP
- ECZEMA THROUGH OUT BODY
- EXHAUSTION BREATH HARD FROM SLIGHTEST EXERTION
- EXHAUSTION SINKING AFTER MEAL WITH EXCESS OF NITROGENOUS WASTE
- FAINTING CONSTIPATION WITH COLIC LIVER ENLARGE
- FLATUS WITH GRUMBLING AND FERMENTATION
- FUNGI LIKE PENICILLINUM
- HABITUAL LAXATIVE WITH MANY PEOPLE
- INFANT SLEEPLESSNESS WITH CRIES
- INFANTILE COLIC WHEN THE ABDOMEN IS DISTENDED WITH GAS
- INFANTILE COLIC WHEN THE CHILD SEEMS TO BE FULL OF WIND
- INFLAMMATION OF THE PLEURA
- INFLUENCING MAINLY THE SMALL INTESTINES
- INJURY EYES SURGERY COMPLICATION OF AFTER
- IRRITATION OF WHOLE MUCOUS MEMBRANE ALIMENTARY CANAL EVEN NOSE
- IRRITATION WHOLE MUCUS MEMBRANE ALIMENTARY CANAL
- LIVER ENLARGED AND TENDER
- LIVER ENLARGED ANOREXIA AND WEAKNESS
- LOOSE MUCUS STAGNATING AND RATTLING IN CHEST
- OLD AGE PHLEGM IN CHEST RATTLING AND WHEEZING
- OXALUMINARIA WITH UREA
- OXALURIA EXCESS OF UREA
- OXALURIA PHOSPHATURIA AND ACETONURIA
- PHOSPHATURIA AND ACETONURIA OXALURIA WITH EXCESS OF UREA
- PROLAPSE RECTUM AND SORE ANUS IN CHILDREN
- REPEATED SNEEZING HEAT OF HAND
- RING WORM ECZEMA SCABIES PSORIASIS
- RINGWORM BEDSORE
- SCABS TURNED TO THINK SCALE SULPHUR
- SINKING IMMEDIATELY AFTER MEAL
- SKIN DISEASE WITH CONSTIPATION DYSPEPSIA
- SNEEZING CAUSED HEAT OF HANDS
- SYSTEM IS BROKEN DOWN BOWELS CONSTIPATED MUSCULAR WEAKNESS AND WASTE OF NITROGENOUS
- TEETH SENSITIVE TO COLD DAMP AIR
- TONIC FOR EXHAUSTED FROM THE EXCESSIVE WASTE NITROGENOUS
- URINE ACETONURIA
- URINE CONTAINS SUFFICIENT STARCH ALBUMEN BLOOD
- URINE INCREASE UREA CHLORIDE OF SODIUM EARTHY PHOSPHATE URATES
- URINE OXALURIA PHOSPHATURIA AND ACETONURIA
- URINE SPECIFIC GRAVITY DENSITY INCREASED HYPERAZOTURIA ACETONURIA
- WOUND BY RING WORM AND EXISTENCE OF SYPHILIS
- APPETIZING AGENT ANTI POISONOUS BLOOD PURIFIER EXPECTORANT
- APPETIZING AGENT ANTI POISONOUS BLOOD PURIFIER
- ASTHMA RATTLING IN THE THROAT
- ASTHMA RATTLING IN THROAT DYSPNOEA SKIN DISEASE
- ASTHMA RATTLING IN THROAT WITHOUT PHLEGMATIC EXPULSION
- ASTHMA RATTLING SKIN DISEASE ITCH GENTILE
- ASTHMA TIGHT CHEST AND SHOR BREATHON WALK
- BREATHES HARD FROM THE SLIGHTEST EXERTION
- CHEST PAIN FROM MOVING
- COLIC ARISES OUT OF INCARCERATION FLATUS
- COLIC FULL OF WIND
- CONSTIPATED MUSCULAR WEAKNESS WASTE OF NITROGENOUS MATERIALS
- CRAMP IN THE STOMACH ASTHMA
- DYSPNOEA ASTHMA SKIN DISEASE
- ECZEMA SCABIES PSORIASIS RINGWORM DANDRUFF
- ECZEMA SCABIES PSORIASIS RINGWORM
- ECZEMA SCABIES PSORIASIS
- EXHAUSTED FROM THE EXCESSIVE WASTE
- EXHAUSTION SINKING IMMEDIATELY AFTER MEALS
- EXHAUSTION WITH EXCESS OF NITROGENOUS WASTE
- FRIGHTENED OF BEING ILL
- HEAD DANDRUFF ECZEMA ITCH
- INFANTILE COLIC ABDOMEN IS DISTENDED WITH GAS
- IRRITATION OF WHOLE MUCOUS MEMBRANE ALIMENTARY CANAL
- MALFORMATION OF THE FINGER NAILS
- OXALURIA WITH AN EXCESS OF UREA
- PAIN GASTRIC REGION TO LUMBAR VERTEBRAE
- RESTLESS AND TOSSES ABOUT IN AGONY
- SKIN DISEASE CONSTIPATION DYSPEPSIA
- SKIN DISEASE OF THE PENIS ITCH
- SKIN DISEASE WITH CONSTIPATION
- SNEEZING EXHAUSTION AND PANTING BREATH DYSPNOEA
- STUFFED CORYZA HOARSENESS
- SWEAT IN THE AXILLAE
- TONIC BROKEN DOWN BOWELS CONSTIPATED
- TONIC EXCESS OF NITROGENOUS WASTE
- TONIC MUSCULAR WEAKNESS WASTE OF NITROGENOUS
- URINE CONTAINS SUFFICIENT STARCH BLOOD
- URINE CONTAINS SUFFICIENT STARCH
- WHEN EXERTING THE BODY STITCHES IN ARM
- WHEN WORKING CHEST HEAD PAIN
- WOUND BY RING WORM GOOD RESULTS
Clinical Applications
Compare: Kali carb; Jalapa . Antidotes: Nux; Cham.
Key Symptoms & Indications
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Is of much use in infantile colics when the child seems to be full of wind. Oxaluria, with excess of urea; increased specific gravity. Where the system is broken down, bowels constipated, muscular weakness, and waste of nitrogenous materials, Senna will act as a tonic. Ebullitions of blood at night. Acetonæmia, prostration, fainting, constipation with colic a flatulence. Liver enlarged and tender.
Physical Symptoms
Stool
Fluid yellowish, with pinching pains before. Greenish mucus; never-get-done sensation ( Merc ). Burning in rectum, with strangury of bladder. Constipation , with colic and flatulence. Liver enlarged and tender, stools hard and dark, with loss appetite, coated tongue, bad taste, and weakness .
Urine
Specific gravity and density increased; hyperazoturia, oxaluria, phosphaturia, and acetonuria.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
Explore detailed descriptions for this remedy across famous historical textbooks:
SENNA
Stool
Fluid yellowish, with pinching pains before. Greenish mucus; never-get-done sensation (Merc). Burning in rectum, with strangury of bladder. Constipation, with colic and flatulence. Liver enlarged and tender, stools hard and dark, with loss appetite, coated tongue, bad taste, and weakness.
Urine
Specific gravity and density increased; hyperazoturia, oxaluria, phosphaturia, and acetonuria.
Relationship
Compare: Kali carb; Jalapa.
Antidotes: Nux; Cham.
Dose
Third to sixth potency.
Senna.
Clinical
Colic; flatulent, of infants. Exhaustion. Nitrogenous waste. Sleeplessness. Sneezing, with heat.
Characteristics
Used as a laxative in ordinary practice, Senna has proved an excellent remedy in the colic of infants, with incarcerated flatulence and sleeplessness. Infantile colic when the patient seems full of wind.─The symptoms of the Schema are mostly derived from overdosings. A peculiar symptom is: "Repeated sneezing, which caused heat (especially of hands), exhaustion, and panting breathing," Exhaustion is typical of Senna. Farrington says it is one of the best remedies in the materia medica for "simple exhaustion with excess of nitrogenous waste." The exhaustion is exemplified in the sinking immediately after meals. The pods caused a nasty unclean smell from the body of a woman taking them for constipation (R. T. C.).
Relations
Compare: Infantile colic and sleeplessness, jal. Exhaustion, K. ca. Sinking after meals, Ars., Cin., Lyc., Sil., Stp., Ur. nit., Calc., Iod., Sep., Tab.
2. Head
Heaviness of the head when stooping, as if it were pressed down.
5. Nose
Repeated sneezing, which caused heat (esp. of hands), exhaustion, and panting breathing.
6. Face
Livid lips.─Commissuræ of lips covered with small burning vesicles.
11. Stomach
Anorexia.─Thirst.─Empty, or watery and fetid, risings.─Loathing and nausea, with inclination to vomit.─Sinking immediately after meals.
12. Abdomen
Colic, esp. in little children.─Painful colic from incarcerated flatulence (particularly in young children).─Sensation of coldness in the abdomen, with emptiness and uneasiness in the stomach.─Accumulation of flatus, with grumbling and fermentation in the abdomen, and discharge of fetid flatus.
13. Stool and Anus
Two liquid stools with griping pains.─Loose evacuation, with tenesmus, and followed by a burning sensation in the anus.─Diarrhœa with straining and prolapsed rectum and sore anus (cured in children.─R. T. C.).
24. Generalities
Universal swelling.─Exhaustion.─Unclean body swell.
26. Sleep
Ebullition of blood, esp. at night, disturbing the sleep.─Sleeplessness, with cries and tossing, esp. in the case of infants.
27. Fever
Heat (esp. of hands).
Senna.
Abdomen and Stool.
Painful colic from incarcerated flatulence (particularly in young children).
Diarrhoeic stools, followed by tenesmus and burning at the anus.
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Third to sixth potency.
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