Helonias Dioica – Blazing Star

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh rootstock of the plant Chamaeliri- um luteum [L.] A. Gray, which occurs in North America. N.O. Liliaceae.

The main indications are:

Melancholia and depression. Albuminuria and diabetes. Prolapse of the uterus. Dark, offensive leucorrhoea. Vaginitis. Muscular rheumatism with burning pains, relieved by motion. Lassitude.

Throughout the whole remedy there runs an unaccustomed lack of energy, weak- ness and exhaustion, with irritable mood, irascibility, despondency and a predilec- tion for solitude. There is weakness of intellect, vertigo and pressing, pulsating headaches, a sensation of heaviness and tiredness predominating, especially in the sacral area and loins, with a spasmodic pain to the left of the spine as far as the iliac crest, nocturnal back pains, a lame pain in the whole back and violent pains in the right hip joint.

Thus Helonias Dioica is especially suited to states of exhaustion and weakness of the nervous system, in neurasthenia, and also in albuminuria from various causes and diabetes mellitus, and also in kidney and bladder conditions with urinary com- plaints, cystitis and weakness of the bladder (cf. Causticum). Also in amenorrhoea where lack of energy predominates.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Chamaelirium luteum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for helonias dioica: nephritis; prolapse of the uterus; exhaustion, emotion- al discord or upset.