Oleander
Remedy of skin eruptions on the scalp with oozing and crustiness. Peeling of skin from palms. Vertigo looking down. Inability to concentrate — reads without understanding. Heart weakness.
Source
Prepared from the fresh leaves of Nerium oleander (Apocynaceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Skin eruptions on scalp — oozing, crusty, bleeding, itching. Peeling of skin from palms in large scales. Vertigo when looking down, when rising from bed. Complete inability to fix attention — reads without retaining a word. Painless diarrhea with undigested food. Cardiac weakness with faintness and trembling. Numbness.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Cannot fix attention — reads but does not understand. Slow comprehension. Memory poor. Peevish, irritable. Difficulty in concentrating. Indolent.
General Symptoms
Worse from looking down, undressing, rest, after eating, in warm room. Better from looking sideways, in open air.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Vertigo looking down or rising. Eruptions on scalp — oozing, crusty, itching. Sensation of numbness. Headache better from looking cross-eyed.
Eyes
Letters run together. Sees double. Flickering before eyes.
Stomach
Ravenous hunger with trembling. Nausea. Vomiting of food and bile. Empty, gone feeling.
Abdomen
Borborygmi, rumbling. Offensive flatus.
Rectum
Diarrhea — painless, of undigested food. Involuntary stool when passing flatus. Burning at anus.
Chest
Palpitation with faintness. Heart feels as if squeezed. Anxiety in cardiac region. Pulse irregular.
Extremities
Numbness of extremities. Weakness. Paralytic feeling. Peeling of palms.
Skin
Eruptions on scalp oozing and crusting. Peeling of palms in large pieces. Violent itching, better from gentle rubbing. Sensitive to friction of clothing.
Modalities
Better From
Open air, looking sideways, gentle rubbing
Worse From
Looking down, undressing, rest, after eating, warm room, touch of clothing
Constitutional Type
Not strongly constitutional. Used for scalp eruptions with cognitive issues, cardiac weakness with skin symptoms.
Clinical Indications
Scalp eczema, peeling palms, vertigo, cardiac weakness, poor concentration, painless diarrhea, reading difficulty
Comparative Materia Medica
Graphites has crusty scalp eruptions with honey-like oozing. Mezereum has eruptions on scalp with thick crusts. Borax also has peeling of palms. Conium has vertigo on turning in bed.
Safety Information
Camphora, Sulphur.
Oleander is extremely toxic — all parts contain cardiac glycosides (oleandrin). Ingestion causes nausea, vomiting, fatal cardiac arrhythmias. A single leaf can be lethal to a child. Use only potentised forms.
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