Trituration of the bean.
Common Name: Physostigma, Calabar Bean, Eserinum
Mind and Head
Exhaustion, cannot remember anything. Difficult thinking, cannot concentrate the mind.
Confusion and dizziness, dull, heavy, oppressive headache, intolerable pain over both eyes.
Constriction as from a bandage or tight cap pressed down indicates Physostigma
Eyes, ear, nose
Intense burning pain and effusion into the eyeball. Sharp stitches in right eyeball, better by motion in open air.
Sharp pain in supraorbital region, sharp, shooting pains, and drawing, twisting sensation in eyes.
Lids heavy, cannot bear to raise them, congestion of the eyes, with tonic spasms, rigidity
Sharp, shooting pains in the ears. Hissing, buzzing, ringing in the ears.
Twitching in nose and involuntary expansion of nostrils indicates Physostigma
Mouth and Throat
Numbness of lips, numbness and tingling of tongue and lips.
Profuse salivation, thick, leathery saliva. Constriction of throat
Tonsils enlarged, swollen, elongated uvula indicates Physostigma
Stomach and abdomen
Sensations of contraction and tension. Weak feeling in stomach.
Burning in stomach with hot eructations, prickling, sharp pains, darting pains
Severe pain in umbilical region, shooting pains, colicky pains, dull pain in groins.
Stool and Anus
Stool irregular and loose, evacuation painful, rectum protruding, swollen and very sensitive.
anus sore and inclined to protrude, piles indicates Physostigma
Urinary complaints
Frequent desire to urinate, often ineffectual. Sore feeling in region of kidneys.
Male complaints
Frequent erections with but slight desire. Strong-smelling sweat about genitals.
Female complaints
White discharge worse by exercising during the day. Pain as if menses were coming on, Menses irregular.
Neck and Back
Stiffness in neck. Backache in renal region, restless all night, no better in all positions
Pain in back between hips, with numbness of womb indicates Physostigma.