Mirza Tahir Ahmad James Tyler Kent
Senecio is commonly used in the treatment of gynaecological problems of young girls. During early adolescence, the periods may become irregular on exposure to the cold. If not treated properly in time, the condition may last throughout their life. In addition to Calcarea Phos, Senecio is also famous in the treatment of this condition. Young girls do not usually complain out of shyness. They may be careless in taking a cold shower, submerge their feet in cold water, remaining wet and exposed after a shower or walking in the wet weather with naked feet. This can result in serious irregularity of menstruation. All these symptoms can be treated with Senecio.
Bleeding is the hallmark of Senecio. The patient bleeds from everywhere, especially the areas where the mucous membranes and the skin join (junctional areas).
There are important urinary symptoms associated with Senecio. There is a constant burning pain along the urethra and continuous urge to pass urine. Senecio is also famous for the treatment of arthritis. For the kidney pain of Senecio, Pareira and Berberis work as adjuvants. However, if other symptoms of Senecio are present, this alone may be curative.
The headache is not very severe but stuns the patient. Sometimes the patient feels sharp pain in the left eye, radiating to the left temple area. There is a lot of sneezing and a burning sensation in the throat. The teeth become very sensitive. There is pain on the left side of the face. The inside of the mouth, palate and throat become dry, causing difficulty in swallowing.
The griping pain in the abdomen disappears after passing stools. Thin watery stools may also contain some hard faecal matter. The urine is very scanty and of dark colour. It may be mixed with blood or pus. The children may also suffer from irritation of the bladder, causing frequent burning urination. The patient may also develop headache and pain in the abdomen.
Young girls may experience irritation of the throat, chest and bladder before the onset of periods. These symptoms become relieved after the periods finish. In case the periods stop and the patient starts bleeding from the nose, then Senecio may be found useful.
Displacement of the uterus, burning urination or stoppage of urine, severe inflammation of the kidneys and fever with chills are all the symptoms of Senecio, to be treated with Senecio.
Senecio illnesses become worse at noon and at night. The patient contracts common cold in the open air. The symptoms ameliorate with the onset of menstrual bleeding. The patient feels better if his attention is diverted.
Potency: 30 to 200
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad
SENACIO AUREUS
In some parts of the country where it grows it is called Golden Ragwort, in others Huckleroot.
It is an old domestic remedy and one only proved in a fragmentary way. Many of these medicines that have become household remedies should be properly proved. Only in this way can their power and influence be known, i. e., they can be used properly only when indicated by the symptoms they can produce.
Women: Senecio, is to be studied in relation to young girls with menstrual irregularities.
Those who have suppression of the menstrual flow from getting wet, from getting the feet wet, those who have menorrhagia, a copious menstrual flow which continues until they are anemic; and those also who suffer from dysmenorrhœa, the pains being most violent. In this remedy, with these general features, the young girl gradually tends toward catarrhal phthisis.
The menstrual flow is suppressed sometimes many months, she begins to look pale, has a dry, hacking cough, with bleeding from the lungs instead of the menstrual flow, a vicarious spitting of blood.
There is a catarrhal state throughout the chest. They are pallid and weakly girls. They tell you they have lost their menstrual flow, and have a chronic cough, are sensitive to every draft of air, are always taking cold and finally expectorate profusely.
The phthisis may go on as catarrh of the chest for years, but at last a miliary tuberculosis sets in and takes the patient off with what is known as acute consumption. Especially is this condition associated with disorder of the menstrual flow and a general catarrhal state.
"Phthisis, with obstructed menstruation."
When the symptoms agree in this kind of a case Senecio is a most useful medicine for establishing the menstrual flow. You will know that it is acting well by the fact that the cough gradually diminishes. Of course a great many medicines will be suited to such general states, but this one has an unusually marked and special relation to these cases. In certain regions, Senecio has been used as a domestic medicine, an old woman's remedy for bringing on the menstrual flow.
You will be struck on reading over this remedy with the tendency to hemorrhage from all the mucous membranes of the body. There is coryza with nose-bleed; spitting of blood from the throat and chest; hemorrhage from the lungs; a catarrhal condition of all the mucous membranes with a tendency to haemorrhage: congestion and inflammation of the kidneys with haemorrhage.
You know how commonly these cases end in dropsy. These waxy, anaemic, chlorotic girls, who have lost their menstrual flow, become dropsical after slow hemorrhage from the uterus, kidneys and bladder.
"Dropsy from anaemia."
It is a medicine of the highest order for hemorrhages in catarrhal conditions.
Urinary: It has also in its proving many distressing symptoms of the urinary organs.
Painful urination. Uncomfortable heat in the neck of the bladder. Renal colic, the pains being so great that they produce nausea.
Renal dropsy. Intense pain over right kidney, etc. The whole urinary tract is painful and subject to bleeding. But bleeding especially in the absence of the menstrual flow is the feature of this remedy.
Wherever there is an inflammatory spot or catarrhal condition of the mucous membrane it will bleed in case the menstrual flow does not appear.
We have other medicines having the symptoms of vicarious haemorrhage, such as Hamamelis, Phosphorus and Bryonia, but Senecio has this condition strikingly and is one of the newer remedies for such condition.
"Dysmenorrhoea with urinary symptoms; cutting in sacral and hypogastric regions."
"Hacking cough at night."
"Amenorrhoea from a cold; nervous irritability; lassitude; dropsy."
"Menstrual irregularities in consumptive patients."
"Mucous rattling with suppressed cough."
Leucorrhoea especially in chlorotic girls. It is a marked remedy in chlorosis, in the anemic state with a green hue, called "green sickness" by the laity.