# Cyclamen Europaeum (HMT)

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

## Keynote Indications
Cyclamen Europaeum is prepared from  the root of a plant famous for
the bizarre stories surrounding it.

Cyclamen is the remedy full of conf licting qualities.  Its patient does
not want to move at all, ev en though movement relieves his
symptoms.  The patient is afraid  of going into the open although the
open air relieves his symptoms, especially those of cold and cough.
His desire not to move or walk around is based on the weakness of his
body.  Associated with this reme dy are the symptoms of severe
diarrhoea and vomiting, severe stomach  upset, and a salty taste in the
mouth.  In women, the menstr uation becomes irregular.  Periods
become more frequent, copious in amount and the blood is black
and clotted.  With movement, the bleedin g becomes less.  All these
are signs of Cyclamen.  Cyclamen is very important in the treatment
of progressive anaemia resulting fr om excessive menstrual bleeding.
Both sexes can have various kinds of  disorders of the urinary system
and of sexual weakness.

The Cyclamen patient is very  restless at night.  He feels weak on
walking, although, walking relieves hi s aches and pains to some
extent.
In a patient of Cyclamen, the mental state fluctuates.  Out of sudden
happiness, he may become delirious or then feel tired and down.  His
mind is empty.  He does not even want to speak.  He is irritable and
hates to do anything.

A female Cyclamen patient feels lonely and presumes that everybody
is talking ill of her.  A number of  young girls have the same feeling.  I
have tried Sulphur and Stramonium to treat such girls, but did not find
any obvious beneficial effects.  Pe rhaps, Cyclamen could have been
useful.
In Cyclamen, the headache is very severe.  It f eels as if the head is
going to explode.  It starts in th e morning.  The patient sees stars
before the eyes.  The eyesight becomes blurred.  A peculiar type of
eye squint, in which the eyeballs turn inwards, is very amenable to
treatment with Cyclamen.  The eyes feel warm.  There is double
vision (diplopia).  At times, the eye conditions can be secondary to the
stomach upset.  The pupils become dila ted.  Half of the field of vision

is lost (hemianopia) and spots of di fferent colours appear before the
eyes.
In Cyclamen the right ear hurts , feeling drawn in.  Thundering
noises are heard in the ears so the hearing is also affected.

In Cyclamen, there is a feeling of burning, dryness and scraping  in
the throat.  The patient does not usually feel thirsty, but during a fever,
especially in the evening, he feels very thirsty.

The stomach symptoms  of Cyclamen are comparable to those of
Pulsatilla.  The patient hates fatt y food.  His stomach feels hot and
burns and is much worse after drin king coffee.  A typical symptom of
Cyclamen is that every time the patient drinks coffee, he will have
diarrhoea. The hiccuping associated  with stomach upset is also a
characteristic of Cyclamen.  Cyclamen is similar to Gelsemium
regarding the feeling of the dryness of the mouth, lack of thirst and
excessive urination .  Usually, the patient also sweats much less,
however, while sick, he sweats a lot.  The quantity of the urine is
much increased .  The urine is colour less like water and passed
frequently.

The phlegm in a patient of Cyclamen is whitish.  It means that the
invasion by the bacteria has not been  severe and the obvious infection
has not been established.  In Cy clamen, the patient experiences a
suffocating cough.

The superficial bones hurt.  There is severe cramping of the right
thumb and the index finger , which becomes worse on writing.  The
heel of the foot thro bs like an abscess .  Sometimes this kind of pain
may be associated with the formation of bone spurs which need
needing prolonged treatment as a result of which, the excessive
outgrowth of the bone may stop.  Once these spurs develop to a
significant size, surgery is indicated.  The remedies implied to relieve
this kind of heel pain are Arnica, Ledum, Ruta, Calcarea Flour, Rhus
Tox, as well as Calcarea Carb.

In Cyclamen, scratching relieves th e itching.  The itchiness (pruritis)
is relieved at the onset of menstruation.

Potency 30 to 200

## Symptoms by System