# Ailanthus Glandulosa

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Ailanthus acts upon blood disorganizing it and producing condi tions like low fevers, low 
types of eruptive diseases and hemorrhagic diathesis. Mucus membranes become hemorrhagic and ulcerative 
(Lach., Ars. ). Rapid prostration. Malignant and suppressed scarlatina. General stupor with sighing. Sepsis. 
Low types of eruptive diseases, diphtheria. Raynaud's disease. 
Lividity, stupor, fetor and malignancy. Thin, acrid discharges. The skin appears livid or purplish,  face 
dark as mahogany. Hot, sordes, throat swollen, purple, livid. Purpled appearance of the skin. Rash coming out 
in patches. Eruptions which are slow in appearing. Rashes often return annually.  
Follicular tonsillitis, streptococcus infec tion. Hemorrhagic diathesis. Low adynamic forms of disease with 
extreme prostration torpor, vomiting. Prostration at the outset of a disease. The patient is stupid, dull, delirious, 
weak. Semi-conscious, delirious, weak pulse, general torpor and prostration. Diarrhea, dysentery and great 
weakness.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from hot drinks. Better when lying on right side. Worse from suppressions. Worse raising 
up or sitting up. Worse walking, motion. Worse sight of food.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Confused mind, mental depression.
- Stupor or stoic indifference, with sigh ing.
- Dullness, must read a 
subject several times or figures over and over again.
- All the antecedents are forgotten.
- Constant muttering 
delirium with sleeplessness and restlessness.
- Raging delirium with brilliant eyes.
- Confused mind, mental depression.
- Stupor or stoic indifference, with sigh ing.
- Dullness, must read a 
subject several times or figures over and over again.
- All the antecedents are forgotten.
- Constant muttering 
delirium with sleeplessness and restlessness.
- Raging delirium with brilliant eyes.

### Vertigo
- Dizzy when rising up.
- COMMENTS - With the low fever of Ail.
- there is stupor orindifference with sighing.
- Constant frontal headache 
of a neuralgic character.
- Paroxysmal headache with drowsiness during the day, confused mind, depression.
- A feeling of fullness everywhere.
- A sensa tion of electric current passing from head into limbs was p rominent 
in the provings.
- The head is burning hot with piercing pains.
- The parotid glands are sensitive and enlarged.
- The attacks are characterized by fullness of head with heat, pains burning, darting in temples and occiput, 
vertigo and nausea.
- The throat is severely affected: thick, edematous, dry, choky feeling.
- Dry, rough, scrapy, worse morning.
- Livid, 
swollen with ulcers oozing a fetid discharge.
- The symptoms are better lying on right side (bronchial affections).
- Sitting up causes vomiting, dizziness.
- Motion causes staggering.
- Toothache is better walking.

### Head
- Frontal headache with drowsiness, dizziness and red -hot face, cannot sit up.
- Faint on rising up or 
 
 
vertigo worse lying.
- Passive congestion headaches.
- Suffused, dilated eyes, photophobia.
- Face dusky.
- Thin, 
copious, ichorous, bloody nasal discharge.
- Frontal headache with drowsiness, dizziness and red -hot face, cannot sit up.
- Faint on rising up or 
 
 
vertigo worse lying.
- Passive congestion headaches.
- Suffused, dilated eyes, photophobia.
- Face dusky.
- Thin, 
copious, ichorous, bloody nasal discharge.

### Eyes
- Conjunctivitis, smarting, aching, lachrymation, purulent discharge.
- Suf fused and congested, startled 
look when aroused.
- Photophobia.
- Pupils dilated and sluggish.

### Ears
- Pain in ear when swallowing.
- Parotid glands tender and enlarged.

### Face
- Mahogany colored, dark and swollen.
- Chronic speckled spotted face, a kind of acne.
- Face sallow, 
jaundiced, blue circles around eyes.
- Face red and hot, covered with a rash.
- Purplish face.
- Lips are swollen, 
cracked, ulcers near commissures.

### Mouth
- Tongue dry and brown, parched and cracked.
- Tongue moist, furred white, tip and edges livid.
- Neck - The neck is tender and swollen.
- Nose - Nostrils congested.
- Nose dry, secretion suppressed.
- Coryza, with rawness in nostrils, sneezing.
- Loss 
of smell.
- Thin copious bloody ichorous nasal discharge.
- Itching and uneasy feeling around the nose.
- Pulse - Rapid, small, weak.

### Throat
- Diphtheria and tonsillitis.
- Streptococcus infections.
- Inflamed, edematous, dusky red.
- Throat dark and 
swollen.
- Tonsils studded with many deep ulcers (worse left), with loose pultaceous discharge.
- Much swelling 
internal and external.
- Dry, rough, scraping, choking feeling.
- Hoarse, croupy voice.
- Pain in swallowing  
extends to the ears.
- Dry, foul fauces.
- Irritation and itching of posterior pharynx.

### Chest
- Stitching and aching in chest.
- Burning in right lung, contracted feeling in left.
- Chest feels strappe d, or 
as if air-cells stuck together.
- Constitutions - Suited to nervous, sensitive persons.
- Bilious temperament.
- Stout and robust.
- Hemorrhagic 
diathesis.
- Rapid, small pulse, weak, frequent, and irregular.
- Dull pain and contracted feeling in region of base of 
heart and through center of left lung.
- Kidneys - Urine scanty, suppressed, passed unconsciously.
- Breathing hurried, irregular, heavy.
- Dry, hacking cough.
- Lungs sore and tired.
- Deep, exhausting 
cough, with violent fits until sputum is raised.
- Sputa is blood - mixed, yellow, bitter, worse morning.
- Aphonia.
- Croupy choking.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Vomits food speedily during the chill, suddenly and violently when sitting up, with stupor.
- Peculiar 
feeling of emptiness in stomach.
- Teeth - Tearing in teeth.
- The teeth are covered with sordes.
- Temperature - Adynamic fever with weak heart.
- Cold sweat.
- Tenderness over liver region.
- Burning in the stomach and bowels.
- Tympanites.
- No appetite, everything tastes insipid, sight of foo d makes her worse, disgust for food.
- Hunger and 
distressing sense of general emptiness during chill.
- Thirst for cold drinks, brandy.

### Urinary & Genital
- Sore on prepuce, looking like incipient chancre.
- Malignant puerperal fever.
- Vomiting of pregnancy.

### Neck & Back
- Neck tender, and very much swollen.
- Constant sharp pains through small of back and hips.

### Skin
- The skin appears livid or purplish.
- Miliary, livid rash, returns annually.
- Large blisters filled with dark 
serum.
- Irregular, patchy, livid eruptions,  disappearing on pressur e.
- Cold skin.
- Eruptions in dark, sparse 
patches, appear slowly, disappear on pressure, but return slowly.
- Scarlatina maligna.
- Petechae.
- Skin mottled.
- Crawling all over the body.

### Sleep
- Drowsy, restless.
- Heavy, disturbed, unrefreshing.