# Nepenthes Distillatoria

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

## Keynote Indications
The Nep. symptomatol ogy was established by Julian with a group of twenty -one people, 
five men and sixteen women, using the 15x, 6x, and 3x potencies and placebo in 1960-61. 
Julian stated, “It is possible to confirm without being misleading, that is digestive and genital infections, for 
which we have described the clinical indication above, Nepenthe is a sure and faithful remedy of great value.” 
Feeling of general, cerebral and physical tension. General fatigue with complete exhaustion around 3 p.m. 
Weariness and prostration, followed by a general improvement. Extreme tiredness with shivering. 
Feverish, irritated, restless, hasty in actions. Over activity. General internal trembling, ameliorated by resting. 
Diminution of nervous tension. Pain in the ‘nerves,’ unfamiliar, new depressive sensation.  
Painful sensitivity of the scalp. Dryness of the skin. Dyspepsia with dryness in the mouth, hunger-pangs, feeling 
of bruising in the epigastrium. Abdominal distention. Menstrual disorders with female frigidity. Hyperthyroidism.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better in the fresh air. Worse at night. Worse towards the end of the day. Worse on the left side.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Optimism, everything seems easier, less wasting.
- Hasty in actions.
- Irritation.
- Impatience, nerves jangle 
and feeling of anguish.
- Anguish, accompanied by sadness and depression.
- Neurosis from anguish.
- Depressive 
state with prostration, sadness and fatigue.
- Fatigue, prostration, sadness.
- Neurasthenia.
- Apathy.
- No desire to 
smoke.
- Narcolepsy.
- Hypochondria.
- Optimism, everything seems easier, less wasting.
- Hasty in actions.
- Irritation.
- Impatience, nerves jangle 
and feeling of anguish.
- Anguish, accompanied by sadness and depression.
- Neurosis from anguish.
- Depressive 
state with prostration, sadness and fatigue.
- Fatigue, prostration, sadness.
- Neurasthenia.
- Apathy.
- No desire to 
smoke.
- Narcolepsy.
- Hypochondria.

### Head
- Migraines.
- Head heavy.
- Migraines.
- Head heavy.

### Eyes
- Pricking of eyelids.
- Conjunctivitis.
- Female - Hypogastric heaviness.
- Congestion of the pelvis.
- Feeling 
of swelling 
of whole body 10 days before menses.
- Menses repeat after a period of amenorrhea lasting 6 months.
- Menses 
early by 5 days and copious.
- Secondary amenorrhea.
- Metrorrhagia and menorrhagia.
- Endometriosis.
- Stinging, 
needle-like, flashing pains around the right ovary in the morning.
- Left ovarian pain, spreading to the left kidney.
- Cystic ovaritis.
- Frigidity.
- Diminution of sexual desire.
- Infertility.

### Mouth
- Peculiar indefinable taste in the mouth.
- Insipid taste.
- Persistent taste of pimentos in the mouth.
- Taste 
like iron in the mouth during the morning.
- Burn ing flavor with feeling of dryness in the mouth.
- Dryness in the 
mouth, especially the pharynx with expulsion of mucus.
- Palate rough.
- Gingivitis.
- Nose - Head cold.
- Atrophic rhinitis.
- Dryness of the nasal mucus membranes.
- Dry cough.

### Throat
- Larynx, sensation of hardness, sensitive on palpation.
- Laryngitis.
- Tongue - Glossitis.
- Tongue dry, thick.
- Feeling like parchment at the tip of the tongue and below the roof of the 
mouth.
- Tingling at the tip of the tongue.
- The median line of the tongue stands out from the tip to the root.
- Tobacco aggravates the tongue complaints.

### Chest
- Retro-sternal discomfort after meals.
- Constitutions - Pre-senility.
- Carbo-flouric constitution.
- Thyroid conditions with cancerous tendency.
- Syphilitic 
poisoning.
- Feeling of a lump in the precordial region and in the arms, fairly violent, but not spreading and 
 
 
disappearing gradually after half an hour, not aggravated by movement.
- Habitual hot flushes.
- Cardiac neurosis.
- Digestive cardiac pains.
- Kidneys - Increased urinary excretion.
- Polyuria in the morning.
- Reflex cough, related to the thyroid area.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Gastric pains.
- Gastric dyspepsia.
- Swelli ng, heaviness in the stomach with the need to take deep 
breaths, ameliorated by alkalis, by walking in the open air.
- Feeling of bruising in the stomach.
- Stomach cancer.
- Dull aching in the liver.
- Feeling of a hard ball in epigastric region.
- Distention.
- Flatulent dyspepsia.
- Gastric and duodenal ulcers.
- Diaphragmatic hernia.
- Appetite wanting.
- Hunger with feeling of weakness.
- Hunger-pangs at 6 a.m.
- and around 11 a.m.
- Feeling 
of thirst.
- No desire to smoke.

### Extremities
- Cramps in the left leg, soothed by bending the leg.
- Arthrosis of the hip.
- Pains in the left hip.

### Neck & Back
- Pains in the lumbar region when bending down.
- Lumbar area is fatigued.
- Chronic lumbar rheumatism.
- Torticollis.

### Skin
- Dryness of the skin and muc us membranes.
- Dry skin on the face with small eczematous eruptions.
- Ichthyosis.
- Pityriasis-type eczema.
- Herpes on the upper lip, on the right side.
- Rapid, clear 
regression of malleolar edema.
- Violent itching, situated at the fold of the left elbow.
- Labial herpes.
- Painful 
sensitivity of the scalp.
- Hair is more alive and is easier to arrange.

### Sleep
- Yawning, after eating, sleepiness.
- Sleep light and disturbed.
- Insomnia at first, then deep sleep.
- Wakes 
early.