I must say that the provers did not go into the details as much as was desirable. Likewise, I may say the same of the blood tests made, but what was given is very valuable.
I could give you an expression of its special action, but will merely give you the symptoms collected and then you can make your own deductions.
Echinacea Angustifolia.
A collection of symptoms from twenty-five different provers, anatomically arranged:
MIND.
- 3 Dullness in head, with cross, irritable feeling.
- 2 So nervous could not study.
- 3 Confused feeling of the brain.
- 2 Felt depressed and much out of sorts.
- 3 Felt a mental depression in afternoons.
- 1 Senses seem to be numbed.
- 5 Drowsy, could not read, drowsiness.
- 2 Vertigo when changing position of head.
- 3 Drowsy condition with yawning.
- 2 Becomes angry when corrected, does not wish to be contradicted.
SENSORIUM.
- 5 General depression, with weakness.
- 8 General dullness and drowsiness.
- 4 General dullness, unable to apply the mind.
- 5 Does not wish to think or study.
- 3 Restless, wakes often in the night.
- 2 Dull headache, felt as if brain was too large, with every beat of heart.
- 5 Sleep full of dreams.
INNER HEAD.
- 5 Dull pain in brain, full feeling.
- 5 Dull frontal headache, especially over left eye, which was relieved in open air.
- 2 Severe headache in vertex, better by rest in bed.
- 5 Dull headache above eyes.
- 4 Dull throbbing headache, worse through temples.
- 3 Head feels too large.
- 1 Dull headache, worse in evening.
- 2 Dull headache, worse in right temple, with sharp pain.
- 3 Dull pain in occiput.
- 3 Dull headache, with dizziness.