About Xerophyllum

Also known as Xerophyllum , Tamalpais Lily, Basket Grass Flower, Xylosteum, Lonicera Xylosteum.

It is useful in treating skin complaints and intermittent fevers.

Causes & Symptoms for Xerophyllum Asphodelodies

• It is an indicated remedy for skin complaints and flatulence.
• It is useful in painful complaints during the menses.
• In eczematous conditions of the skin it gives good results.

Patient Profile Of Xerophyllum

Mind: Weak memory with dullness of mind, cannot concentrate mind for study, forgets names, writes last letters of words first or misspells common words.

Head: Fullness and heaviness of head with pain across forehead and pressure at root of nose. Loss of consciousness, with pulsating headache.

Eyes: Irritation of the eyes, as of sand with smarting pain. Eyes feel sore with burning sensation and difficulty to focus.

Nose: Blockage of nose with tightness at the bridge of nose and running nose.

Face: Swollen in morning with puffiness under eyes.

Throat: Stitching pain in the throat while swallowing.

Stomach: Fullness and heaviness of abdomen from excessive flatulence. Sour eructations, with offensive odor, an hour after eating and vomiting at 2 pm.

Abdomen: Flatulence with rumbling in bowels and desire for stool.

Rectum: Stools hard in small lumps. Soft stools, passed with difficulty and straining and much flatus. Bearing down pain in rectum.

Urine: Incontinence of urine where urine dribbles when walking.

Female: Bearing down sensation in the abdomen. Inflammation and itching of the parts with increased sexual desire. Ovarian and uterine pains with white discharge from vagina.

Respiratory: Frequent sneezing with discharge thick, yellow mucus. Rawness of posterior nares and constricted feeling in the trachea.

Back: Backache with heat along the back extending down to legs and pain in the kidney region.

Extremities: Weakness and lameness of muscles with trembling. Stiffness of limbs with pain in the knees.

Skin: Redness of skin with vesicular eruptions and intense itching, stinging, and burning. Skin rough and cracked, feel like leather. Eruptions especially around knees with swelling of glands behind knees and groins.

Modalities: Worse from application of cold water, in afternoon and evening. Better by application of hot water, in morning and moving the affected part.

Dosage: Please note that the dosage of single homoeopathic medicines varies from drug to drug depending upon the condition, age, sensitivity and other things. In some cases they are given as regular doses as 3-5 drops 2-3 times a day whereas in other cases they are given only once in a week, month or even in a longer period. We strongly recommend that the medication should be taken as per the physician's advice