# Hedera Helix

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Afternoon

## Keynote Indications
The symptomatology was established by Mezgerin 1932 on seventeen people, using the lx, 
6x, and 15x potencies, for a period of twelve weeks. Easily tired, ameliorated by fresh air or noticeable increase 
in physical ability. 
Dr. Cooper's experience has shown it to have a relation to rickets and rickety conditions. Rhinorrhea cerebro-
 
 
spinalis. Hed. has been used for “clearing the sight” and Cooper said it has cured cases of cataract.  
Joint pains and circulatory complaints, especially in the middle of the night. Cardiac palpitations. Acts on blood 
vessels, menorrhagia. Menses reduced, vesicular eruption on the face and body. 
Swelling of the thyroid glands. Glándula sub-mentalis inflamed. Extreme anxiety with the feeling of constriction 
of the throat. Cough with laryngeal and tracheal irritation. Morbid hunger, gastric cramps. Diarrhea. Anus feels 
raw and sore. Hemorrhoids with rectal irritation and bleeding. 
Delirium and convulsions. Chronic hydro cephalus, rhinorrhea, and cerebro -spinalis. General improvement i n 
fresh air. but extreme sensibility to catching cold and to chills. Symptoms start on the left side and spread 
towards the right.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from fresh air. Better cold baths. Better in a room. Better move ment. Better fricti on, 
massage. Better in the afternoon and evening. Worse in the middle of the night. Worse 3 a.m.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Constant state of unrest and worry.
- Anxiety, which grows all the more as he feels incapable of 
mastering it.
- Insomnia.
- Psychological symptoms improve in fresh air.
- Constant state of unrest and worry.
- Anxiety, which grows all the more as he feels incapable of 
mastering it.
- Insomnia.
- Psychological symptoms improve in fresh air.

### Vertigo
- Vertigoon bending down and from rapid movement of the head.
- COMMENTS - Cooper published case of a woman of twenty, who was cured of chronic hydrocephalus with a 
single dose.
- When she was brought to Cooper, the circumference of her head was 27.5 inches, rendering her 
an object of wonder and ridicule and reacting on her disposition and nervous state.
- The condition had existed from childhood and was apparently growing much worse.
- There were two large 
edematous swellings on the nape of the neck, one on either side and immediately below the occiput, evidently 
the result of intra-hydrocephalic pressure.
- One drop of Hed.
- tincture was placed on her tongue.
- The next morning, clear fluid began dripping from the 
nostrils, a “cerebrospinal rhinorrhea” in face.
- This continued for three weeks, between twenty and thirty pocket -handkerchiefs were used in a day.
- Simultaneously the swellings began to diminish and had completely disappeared when the discharge ceased.
- Thirteen months later, when being mea sured for a hat, it was found that the size of the head was reduced to 
25 inches and no longer occasioned remark.
- When, later on, some symptoms of brain pressure seemed to threaten, a second dose of Hed.
- completely 
dispelled them.
- The disposition of the patie nt was completely changed from being nervous, unhappy and 
diffident, she became lively, cheerful and active.

### Head
- Catarrhal inflammation of the frontal sinuses with headache.
- Headache, espe cially in the left side of 
the forehead and nape of the neck.
- Neuralgic pains in the head, ameliorated by fresh air.
- Catarrhal inflammation of the frontal sinuses with headache.
- Headache, espe cially in the left side of 
the forehead and nape of the neck.
- Neuralgic pains in the head, ameliorated by fresh air.

### Eyes
- Feeling of sand in the eyelids.
- Cataract.
- Muscae volitantes.

### Ears
- Pain and buzzing.

### Mouth
- Transparent vesicles on the lips and on inside of cheeks in a group, cir cumscribed by ared ring.
- Toothache from hot and cold.
- Dental neuralgia.
- Nose - Hay fever.
- Acute and chronic rhinitis.
- Sinusitis (frontal, ethmoidal).
- Pharyngitis.
- Nasal discharge, worse 
in a warm room.
- Pain in the ethmoid and frontal sinuses.
- Chronic tracheitis, caused by a lesion in the nasal 
mucous membrane.

### Throat
- Chronic tracheitis.
- Pain around the tonsils and throat on swallowing.
- Hoarseness and inflammation 
of the larynx.
- Cough with a cold and inflammation of the pharynx, aggravated by heat and by sp eaking.

### Chest
- Angina pectoris.
- Needle-like pains in the precordial region.
- Palpitations and anguish with swelling of 
the thyroid gland.
- Myocarditis.
- Arterial sclerosis.
- Rhythmic anomaly, accompanied by tachycardia.
- Thyrotoxic 
tachycardia.
- Extrasystole or paroxysmal tachycardia, in a young subject with a normal heart.
- Kidneys - Frequent, abundant urination.
- Irritated cough with grayish or yel low sputum.
- Whooping cough.
- Bronchial asthma in children.
- Emphysema.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pain on empty stomach, amelio rated by eating.
- Nausea, gastric heaviness, stomach cramps.
- Gastritis.
- Stomach and duodenal ulcers.
- Temperature - Peripheral circulatory complaints.
- Feet and hands icy, red.
- Shivering and chilliness with bouts 
of perspiration and palpitations.
- Shivering and nausea in the evening until 4 a.m.
- Pancreatitis.
- Constitutions - Tubercular conditions, especially in phosphoric types.
- Lack of appetite or strong hunger pangs.

### Urinary & Genital
- Premenstrual leucorrhea.
- Acrid, scorching discharge.
- Menses late, shorter and less copious.
- Infrequent menses.
- Feels better during menses.
- Amenorrhea in young girls.
- Pain in the Fallopian tubes and 
left ovary.
- Sclera-cystic ovaritis, especially on the left side.
- Genital tuberculosis.

### Extremities
- Pain in the arms, legs, back and sacral region, sometimes ameliorated, sometimes aggravated by 
movement.
- Muscular rheumatism.
- Joint rheuma 
tism.
- Tubercular inflammatory dislocat ing rheumatism.
- Arthrosis deformans.
- Nocturnal paresthesia pains in 
the arms.
- Raynaud's syndrome.
- Liver - Inflammation of the gallbladder.
- Gallstones.
- Pain in the region of the gallbladder.
- Cirrhosis of the liver 
with cardiac decompensation.

### Skin
- Pruritus.
- Eruption of small pustules on the skin of the face and body.
- Prurigo.
- Urticaria.
- Labial and 
genital herpes.

### Sleep
- Wakes around 3 a.m., falls asleep again after eating a little.