Senecio aureus
Remedy of suppressed menses with vicarious symptoms. When menses are suppressed, cough with bloody expectoration appears instead. Functional amenorrhea. Catarrhal conditions from suppressed menses. Prostatic congestion in old men.
Source
Prepared from the whole fresh plant of Packera aurea (Asteraceae) at flowering.
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Suppressed menses with vicarious bleeding — when menses stop, hemorrhage appears elsewhere (lungs, nose, stomach). Functional amenorrhea in young women. Cough with bloody expectoration replacing suppressed menses. Prostatic congestion and irritation in elderly. Renal colic. Catarrhal conditions from menstrual suppression.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Nervous, irritable. Sleepless. Despondent during amenorrhea.
General Symptoms
Female reproductive and catarrhal. Worse from suppressed menses, cold, damp. Better from menstrual flow, warmth.
Physical Symptoms
Female Genitalia
Amenorrhea — functional, in young women. Vicarious menses — nosebleed, hemoptysis, hematuria replace menses. Dysmenorrhea with bearing-down. Leucorrhea. Menses irregular, too early, too late.
Respiratory
Cough with bloody expectoration — vicarious menses. Catarrh from suppressed menses.
Urinary
Renal colic. Cystitis. Strangury. Mucous discharge. Prostatic irritation in elderly men — frequent urging.
Male Genitalia
Prostatic congestion. Frequent urination. Dribbling.
Nose
Epistaxis — vicarious for suppressed menses.
Modalities
Better From
Menstrual flow, warmth, onset of menses
Worse From
Suppressed menses, cold, damp, sitting, puberty
Constitutional Type
Young women with functional amenorrhea. Elderly men with prostate. Those with vicarious hemorrhage from suppressed menses.
Clinical Indications
Amenorrhea (functional), vicarious menses (hemoptysis, epistaxis), dysmenorrhea, prostatic congestion, renal colic, catarrh from suppressed menses
Comparative Materia Medica
Pulsatilla has amenorrhea but with weeping and changeability. Bryonia has vicarious menses (nosebleed replacing menses). Phosphorus has hemoptysis but with more chest weakness. Conium has prostatic enlargement with ascending paralysis.
Safety Information
Not well established.
Contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids — hepatotoxic with chronic use. NOT safe for prolonged crude internal use. Use potentised forms only.
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