# Aristolochia Clematitis

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
The proving by Mezger made use of the spring rhizome. The experi ment was carried out 
by eighteen provers, of whom thirteen were women. The potencies 5x, 2x, 12x and the mother tincture were 
used in the proving. The experiment lasted for twelve weeks. 
It produced excess of estrogen hormones. Marked affect on the urinary passages , kidneys, venous system, 
skin. Irregular menses. Premenstrual insomnia with agitation and congestion of the pelvis. Joint pains improved 
by movement. State of fatigue, or the opposite. Worn out with vertigo, chilliness, slightly improved by heat. 
Hunger pangs and need to eat despite feeling nausea. Tendency to plumpness.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better during menses. Better from eli mination of secretion. Worse from suppression. Worse 
before and after menses.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Sensation of solitude.
- Fearforthe future.
- Rejects company.
- Psychosomatic complaints tending towards 
depression, especially in women who are going through the menopause (Sep.).
- Depression, ameliorated by 
fresh air and menses.
- Mental condition aggravated before and after periods, clearly ameliorated during 
menstrual flow.
- Sensation of solitude.
- Fearforthe future.
- Rejects company.
- Psychosomatic complaints tending towards 
depression, especially in women who are going through the menopause (Sep.).
- Depression, ameliorated by 
fresh air and menses.
- Mental condition aggravated before and after periods, clearly ameliorated during 
menstrual flow.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with headache in the morning, worse when learning forwards.

### Head
- Diffuse headaches, improved in the fresh air and by cold, damp compresses.
- Congestive headache 
(Bell.).
- Kidneys - Pain in the kidneys and bladder with a frequent urination.
- Bedwetting, especially in older women.
- Incontinence and compelling need to urinate.
- Pyelitis.
- Cystitis.
- Albuminuria with white discharge.
- Diffuse headaches, improved in the fresh air and by cold, damp compresses.
- Congestive headache 
(Bell.).
- Kidneys - Pain in the kidneys and bladder with a frequent urination.
- Bedwetting, especially in older women.
- Incontinence and compelling need to urinate.
- Pyelitis.
- Cystitis.
- Albuminuria with white discharge.

### Eyes
- Watering aggravated by light, reading.
- Burning and itching.

### Mouth
- Mouth painful, with cracked cor ners of the lips.
- Teeth painful, aggravated by cold food, ameliorated 
by hot food.
- Nose - Sinusitis.
- Coryza in the morning, improved by getting up, by fresh air.
- Watery flow, improved between 
8 a.m.
- and 9 a.m.

### Throat
- Throat discolored, yellow, dry.
- Tonsils inflamed, swallowing painful.
- Laryngitis.

### Chest
- Chest feels hard, like a breastplate.
- Constitutions - Hormonal imbalances.
- Subjects of a nervous constitution, with extreme sensitivity, and who 
cry easily.
- Tubercular conditions of the “worn-out” type.
- Bronchitis.
- Angina, laryngitis with hoarseness.
- Morning cough, thorax pain ful on left side.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Acrid dyspepsia.
- Temperature - Chilliness.
- Colic.
- Spasmodic colitis.
- Enteritis.
- Abdomen distended, painful, before and during menses.
- Breasts - Pain and feeling of hardening of the left breast.
- Pain in the breast.
- Cystic mastitis.
- Anorexia, nausea with vertigo and cold sensations.

### Urinary & Genital
- Brown discharge, watery flow.
- Eczema of the vulva.
- Sensual itching, aggravated before menses, 
ameliorated during menses, aggravated after menses.
- Menses absent, late or short, Blood black, withclotting.
- Varicocele.
- Dysmenorrhea.
- Infrequent menses.
- Amenorrhea.
- Metritis.
- After-pains with laryngitis.
- Vaginitis.

### Extremities
- Arthritis in women, with meno pause.
- Rheumatism of the knee.
- Limbs cold, with chilblains, skin 
discolored or red.
- Legs heavy before menses.
- Joint pains improved by movement, aggravated in the sitting 
position.
- Fingers and toes swollen before menses.
- Swollen, distended vari cosities before menses.
- Varicose 
veins.

### Skin
- Varicose eczema.
- Acrocyanosis in young girls .
- Burns, also for external use in compresses of liquid 
extract at 15%, diluted 1:50 in water.