# Heliotropium Peruvianum

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

## Keynote Indications
Helio, has been slightly proved. Cooper used this remedy clinically and considered 
hoarseness and “thick voice” a great indication. He cured clergyman's sore throat with it. 
Helio, has an action in uterine displace ment, leucorrhea, backache. There is a bearing down from heavy, 
waterlogged condition of the uterus. , 
Symptoms of pressure and tension were produced in many parts: pressure on the sternum impeding breathing, 
pressure on the head, on mons veneries, pain as if beaten in leg muscles.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Head symptoms better on walking in the open air. Other symptoms were worse after resting. 
Worse on inspiration.

## Symptoms by System

### Head
- Headache in forehead like a pressure and drawing pressing pain, better walking in open air.
- Headache in forehead like a pressure and drawing pressing pain, better walking in open air.

### Eyes
- Feeling of tension in left inner canthus extending down into nasal bone.
- As if a swelling were there.
- Eye 
seems drawn together and smaller.

### Throat
- Voice thick, clergyman's sore throat.
- COMMENTS - Cooper gave Helio, to a woman who had been advised by several surgeons to have various 
organs either braced up surgically or removed.
- She described the effect as having made her “feel just as if 
braced up” six hours after taking the dose.
- Helio, is especially indicated if there is also a tendency to loss of voice.
- It has also cured membranous 
dysmenorrhea.

### Chest
- Pressure and oppression of external parts of chest, without affecting breathing.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pressure in pit of stomach, worse on inspiration.
- Epigastric region is sore to touch, most violent 
after eating and in evening.

### Urinary & Genital
- Membranous dysmenorrhea.
- Leucorrhea.
- Pressure on mons veneries only when sitting.
- Uterine 
displacements with backache, especially if subject to loss of voice.

### Extremities
- Pain, as if beaten above ankle, extending up the muscles, even when sitting.
- Itching on tibia, with 
sensations as if there was an eruption.