# Echinacea

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Evening

## Keynote Indications
Bloodpoisoning or weak blood. Septicemia from a cut or wound, or after surgery (Pyrog.). 
Acute auto -infection, septic conditions, bites of poisonous animals, lymphangitis.  Tendency to ma -
lignancy in acute and sub-acute disorders. Gangrene (Rhus-t., Ars.). 
Snakebites, insect bites and stings. Venomous infection. Lymphatic inflammation, after crushing injuries. 
Foul discharges with emaciation and great debility. Cerebro spinal meningitis. Post -partum infections. 
Infections at the site of a vaccination. 
Ear infections. Fetid ozaena. Recurring strep throat. Beneficial in some cases of leucorrhea with bright yellow 
discharge, as from a suppurating surface. 
Boils, db not suppurate. Carbuncles, bluish-red color and intense pain. Erysipelas and foul ulcers. Goiter with 
exophthalmic symptoms. Pustules. Hemorrhoids. Diarrhea in typhoid. Gonorrhea.  
Asthenia, adynamia. Weak and tired, aching in muscles. Weakness felt more in stomach, bowels, heart, in 
knees, with vertigo. Useful in the last stages of cancer to ease pain (Ars.).

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from lying down. Bet ter rest. Pains come and go suddenly and are better by bending 
double. Worse after physical ormental exertion. Worse injury, operations. Worse cold air. Wors e evening. 
Worse after eating.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Prostration of mind.
- Slowness in every action, speech, pace.
- Confused, cannot exert mind.
- Depressed or cross.
- Brain fag and vertigo.
- Very nervous could not study.
- Aversion to thinking.
- Does not 
wish to think or study.
- Dullness from headache, with cross, irritable feelings.
- Becomes angry when corrected, 
does not wish to be contradicted.
- Prostration of mind.
- Slowness in every action, speech, pace.
- Confused, cannot exert mind.
- Depressed or cross.
- Brain fag and vertigo.
- Very nervous could not study.
- Aversion to thinking.
- Does not 
wish to think or study.
- Dullness from headache, with cross, irritable feelings.
- Becomes angry when corrected, 
does not wish to be contradicted.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with weakness, dizziness 
Echinacea angustifolia and profound prostration.
- Vertigo when changing position of head.
- COMMENTS - J.
- C.
- Fahnestock extensively proved the remedy, and additional symptoms were contributed 
by T.
- C.
- Duncan.
- With one exception the provers were males.
- The first symptom noticed was a biting, tingling sensation on the tongue, lips and fauces (Aeon.), with a sense 
of fear and pain about the heart.
- Febrile symptoms, full head, flushed face and accelerated pulse followed.
- Languor was experienced by many provers, and neuralgic, sharp, darting, shifting pains.
- Marked drowsiness.
- Catarrh of the digestive and respiratory tracts.
- Griping pains, offensive flatus and loose, yellow ish stool.
- In two pro vers there was found a diminution of red blood corpuscles after the proving.
- Chilliness (coldness of 
right leg) and sensitiveness to cold, worse from exposure to cold air.
- A remarkable case of vaccination poisoning is recorded in a man, 45, cured mainly by Echi.
- in 20-drop doses.
- The symptoms included an ebbed vitality.
- He became so weak he could not sit up, his hair fell out.
- and an 
eruption of psoriasis appeared on his limbs that extended to his body.
- The disease advanced rapidly, the nails fell off.
- Left iritis supervened and then keratitis of the right eye.
- Under 
Kali-i.
- and phosphoalbumen as a food, the hair ceased to fall out, but other symptoms became rapidly worse.
- Echi.
- was now given, and slowly the disease was arrested, then gradual improvement and an ultimate cure 
ensued.
- The report does not mention if the patient recovered sight in the left eye.

### Head
- Headaches with a peculiar, peri odical flushing of the face, dizziness and profound prostration.
- Enlarged sensation in brain.
- Sharp pain deep in brain, seems too large.
- Fullness in temples.
- Pain in 
temples on motion.
- Pulsatin g headache.
- Throbbing through the temples.
- Hot burning forehead.
- Dullness in 
head with cross, irritable feeling.
- Pain in forehead on sneezing (Nat-m.).
- Headache over eyes with sneezing.
- Headaches with a peculiar, peri odical flushing of the face, dizziness and profound prostration.
- Enlarged sensation in brain.
- Sharp pain deep in brain, seems too large.
- Fullness in temples.
- Pain in 
temples on motion.
- Pulsatin g headache.
- Throbbing through the temples.
- Hot burning forehead.
- Dullness in 
head with cross, irritable feeling.
- Pain in forehead on sneezing (Nat-m.).
- Headache over eyes with sneezing.

### Eyes
- Brows twitch.
- Feel hot on closing them.
- Lachrymation from cold air.
- Sharp pains in eyes and temples.
- Pains back of right eye.
- Eyes pain on looking at an object and will fill with tears, better by closing them.
- Eyes 
ache when reading.
- Sleepy sensation in eyes, but cannot sleep.

### Ears
- Shooting pain in right ear.

### Face
- Bluish.
- Face flushed.
- Red flushes from pain in head.
- Pale face with headache, vomiting.
- Fine eruptions 
on forehead and cheeks.
- Neuralgic pain in left upper branch of fifth nerve.
- Numbness of lips.

### Mouth
- Biting, tingling on lips.
- Corners of mouth and lips crack.
- Canker sores.
- Aph thae.
- Gums recede and 
bleed easily.
- Dry sensation in back part of mouth.
- Metallic taste.
- Bad taste in the mouth in the morning.
- Burning, 
peppery taste when taking remedy.
- Promotes the flow of saliva.
- Nose - Stuffiness of nostrils with mucus in sinuses and pharynx.
- Foul smelling dis charge, membranous 
formations protruding.
- Post-nasal catarrh with ulceration and fetor.
- Nose feels stuffed up.
- Right nostril raw, 
bleeding.
- Nostrils sore.
- Perspiration - Sweat chiefly on upper part of body.
- Sweats on forehead.

### Throat
- Sore throat, worse left side.
- Ulcerated sore throat.
- Mucus in throat with raw sensation.
- Constant 
clearing of mucus from throat.
- Frothy mucus, hawks from throat.
- Tonsilitis.
- Tonsils purple or black, gray 
exudation extending to posterior sinuses and air-passages.
- Irritation of larynx.
- Voice husky.
- Tongue - Tongue dry and swollen, sores, dirty brownish.
- White coating of tongue with red edges.
- Tongue, 
lips and fauces tingle with sense of fear about heart (Aeon.).
- Slight burning of tongue.
- Tongue, numb, with a 
peppery taste.

### Chest
- Pain as of a lump in chest and under sternum.
- Sharp, burning pain in sternum.
- Pain in pectoral 
muscles, diaphragm, right lung.
- Full feeling in upper part of lungs.
- Sore feeling.
- Constitutions - Broken-down and weak constitutions.
- Anxiety about the heart.
- Increasing but variable pulse.
- Rapid beating of heart.
- Slight pain over heart.
- Stitching pain in left chest (apex of heart).
- Tongue, lipsand 
Echinacea angustifolia fauces tingle with sense of fear about heart (Aeon.).
- Accelerated full pulse.
- Kidneys - Desire for frequent urination.
- Involuntary urination.
- Albuminous, scanty, dark urine.
- Urine increased, 
pale and copious.
- Sense of heat while passing urine.
- Pain and burning on urination.
- Pain as of a lump under the sternum.
- Burning under the left scapula.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Sense of something large and hard in stomach.
- Dull pain in stomach.
- Distension, eructations do 
not relieve (Chin.).
- Pain in stomach, going down through bowels, followed by diarrhea.
- Nausea with chilliness, 
better lying down.
- Sour, bloody vomit like coffee grounds.
- Nausea with eructation of gas.
- Sour belching, 
burning the throat, or tasteless.
- Heartburn.
- Teeth - Teeth sensitive to draft of air.
- Darting pains in the teeth, worse on right side.
- Neuralgic pains in superior 
and inferior maxilla.
- Dull aching of the teeth.
- Temperature - Irregular, chills, rise of temperature and sweat.
- Chilliness with nausea.
- Cold flashes all over 
 
 
back.
- Chill in left occiput.
- Temperature raised adegree with flushed face and fullness of head.
- Malarial fever.
- Abdomen tender, sensitive and tympanitic.
- Pain in right hypochondrium.
- Appendicitis.
- Pain about 
umbilicus, better 
by bending double.
- Cramping pain better passing flatus.
- Sharp, cutting, pains coming and going suddenly.
- Full feeling with borborygmus.
- Loss of appetite.
- Nausea, could not eat.
- Desire cold drinks.
- Desire for cold water.

### Urinary & Genital
- Seminal emissions.
- Soreness, pain in perineum.
- Perineum seems stretched.
- Pain in right spermatic 
cord.
- Testicles drawn up and sore.
- Pain in meatus while urinating.
- Discharges suppressed.
- Mucus from vagina in evening.
- Excoriating leucorrhea.
- Puerperal 
septicemia.
- Pain in right iliac region, which seems deep, lasting but a short time.

### Extremities
- Rheumatic pain after tonsillitis.
- Aching in limbs  and general lassitude, weakness.
- Pain between 
shoulders, which extends to axilla and down the arms.
- Sharp pain in left elbow.
- Pain in wrists and fingers.
- Pain 
in right thumb.
- Cold hands and feet.
- Hands are alternately numb or restless, on awakening.
- Chilliness in right 
leg.
- Left hip and knee pains.
- Pain in right leg.
- Liver - Hepatitis.
- As if a load in back part of liver.

### Neck & Back
- Chills up the back.
- Pain in back of neck.
- Dull pain in small of back over kidneys.
- Pain in lumbar region, 
 
 
worse from stooping.

### Skin
- Dry skin.
- Intense itching and burning of skin on neck.
- Blackness of external parts.
- Little papules on 
skin with redness, feeling like nettles.
- Small red pimples on neck and face.
- Recurring boils.
- Carbuncles.
- Irritations from insect bites and poisonous plants.
- Dissecting wounds.
- Lymphatics enlarged.
- Gangrene.
- Old 
tibial ulcers.

### Sleep
- Drowsy, could not read, with yawning.
- Sleepiness with confusion and weakness.
- Sleep disturbed, 
wakes often.
- Sleepiness after eating.
- Dreams about dif ficulties, laborious or quarrelsome, about exciting 
things, about dead relations.