# Haematoxylon Campechianum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Logwood is a well- known dye of commerce. The tincture was proved by Jouve in 1939 and 
some very distinctive symptoms were produced including general uneasiness with anxiety a rising from the 
stomach, and colic. Weak digestion accompanies and complicates most other conditions.  
General sensitiveness. Painful sensibility of the limbs with lassitude. Constriction in many parts, culminating 
in the stomach and abdomen. Colic with che st symptoms like angina pectoris. Sensation as if a bar lay 
across chest. Chilliness predominates, but the symptoms are better in open air.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse at night. Worse on stooping. Worse pressure. Worse touch.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Ill humor, sadness, melancholy.
- Inclina tion to repose, desire to weep.
- Difficulty when 
reflectingandexpressingone'sideas.
- Vexation.
- Anxiety at night.
- Anxiety arising from the stomach.
- Mistakes in 
speaking.
- Ill humor, sadness, melancholy.
- Inclina tion to repose, desire to weep.
- Difficulty when 
reflectingandexpressingone'sideas.
- Vexation.
- Anxiety at night.
- Anxiety arising from the stomach.
- Mistakes in 
speaking.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, so as to occasion falling and dullness of ideas.
- COMMENTS - Sensation as if a bar lay trans versely across from region of heart to right side with acute pain 
in left upper portion of chest.
- Haem.
- cured a case of herpes zoster with agonizi ng pain as if a bar lay across 
the chest, arresting the breathing.

### Head
- Head feels constricted, heavy, hot, painful.
- Constriction in the forehead and in the occiput with burning 
heat in the head.
- Headache at night, as from indigestion, with swelling of the stomach and abdomen, anxiety, 
 
 
inclination to vomit, sour risings of food.
- Headache in the forehead with inclination to vomit on stooping.
- Pain 
in left forehead, spreading over face and affecting left teeth.
- Head feels constricted, heavy, hot, painful.
- Constriction in the forehead and in the occiput with burning 
heat in the head.
- Headache at night, as from indigestion, with swelling of the stomach and abdomen, anxiety, 
 
 
inclination to vomit, sour risings of food.
- Headache in the forehead with inclination to vomit on stooping.
- Pain 
in left forehead, spreading over face and affecting left teeth.

### Eyes
- Redness of the conjunctiva.
- Red ness of the eyes with blue margins.
- Eyes downcast and surrounded 
by a livid circle.
- Heaviness in the eyes.
- Heaviness of the eyelids, compels them to close.
- Painful pressure on 
the eyes with sensation of constriction.
- Sensation as if sand were introduced into the eyes.
- Pupils contracted 
and sight confused.
- Mist before the eyes, on readi ng, the letters vanish.
- Ameliora tion of the symptoms when 
in open air.

### Ears
- Violent pain in right ear, extending to throat.

### Face
- Face pale, dejected and changed, discomposed.
- Pain in face.

### Throat
- Lower jaw with stinging in teeth and cheek.
- Throat feels contracted with burning pain during 
swallowing.
- Sore throat with difficult swallowing, inclina tion to swallow, salivation and smarting.
- Sensation of 
a-foreign substance in the throat with yawning and stretching.

### Chest
- Sensation as if a bur lay transversely across chest  from region of heart to right side with acute 
pain in left upper portion 
of chest.
- Constriction, extending from the chest to the epig astrium, with smarting and burning pain increased 
by the touch.
- Angina pectoris.
- Con vulsi ve pain in heart region with oppression.
- Great soreness in the region of the heart with anguish, 
redoubled throbbing, small pulse, burning in the hands and shivering of the body.
- Palpitations of the heart with 
diminished perspiration of the feet.
- Kidneys - Urine red, scanty and burning.
- Limbs - The limbs are painful and languid.
- Pain in left shoulder, as if inflamed.
- Suppression of the habitual sweat of the feet.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Painful digging from abdomen to throat, causing pain in region of heart with oppression.
- Painful 
swelling in the stomach with pressure at the epigastrium and risings of flatus.
- Colic, tympanitis.
- Borborygmi 
and diarrhea.
- Inclination to vomit, sour risings of food.
- Temperature - Chilliness predominates, shuddering, goose flesh.
- Tympanitic distention of the abdomen and rising of air.
- Tension and digging in the abdomen.
- Pain 
in the abdomen with yawning inclination to vomit and stretch.
- Borborygmi.
- Colic with painful sensibility of the 
abdomen to the touch, inflation.
- Colic and diarrhea in morning.
- After the colic, general cold with burning heat 
in the palms of he hands.

### Urinary & Genital
- Colic, as if the menses were going to appear with slimy, whitish discharge from the vagina.
- Weak 
feeling with painful bearing down sensation at menstrual period.
- Pain in hypogastrium, attended with 
slimy, whitish leucorrhea.

### Neck & Back
- Pain and chilliness between the shoulders.

### Skin
- Dry skin.
- Herpes zoster.

### Sleep
- Irresistible drowsiness.
- Frequent yawning.