OLEANDERLiquid

Oleander is a potent homoeopathic medicine derived from leaves of Nerium odorum (Rose-laurel), shrub belonging to the Apocynaceae family. This medicine acts primarily on the nervous system, skin, and heart, offering remarkable results in cases of paralysis, skin eruptions, and emotional dullness. It is especially suited for conditions marked by cramp-like contractions, hemiplegia, delayed mental faculties, and violent skin itching with numbness. Characteristic sensations include weakness, coldness in limbs, double vision, and eruptions that bleed or ooze with the slightest friction.

Common Name

Hindi: Kaner
English: Rose-laurel

SBL’s Oleander can be helpful in the following conditions:

Nervous System and Paralysis
• Highly useful in hemiplegia and paralytic weakness, especially in the lower limbs.
• Relieves painless paralysis of the legs and feet with loss of animal heat.
• Assists stiffness of joints, especially in fingers and limbs with edema and burning sensation.
• Cramp-like contractions of upper extremities and lack of motor control.
• Difficult, unclear articulation with general weakness and sluggish nervous response.

Skin Conditions
• Indicated in severe pruritus, with scurfy pimples and moist eruptions that bleed or ooze.
• Soothes burning, itching skin worse at night and from slightest friction.
• Assists sensitive, chapped, or numb skin with herpes-like or humid patches behind the ears and on scalp.
• Manages dry skin with absence of perspiration and soreness at points of contact.

Cardiac and Respiratory Trouble
• Palpitation with weakness, throbbing, and a hollow or empty feeling in the chest.
• Assists dyspnea and asthmatic sensations when lying down.
• Relieves chest oppression, as if a weight were pressing down, with obtuse stitches.

Emotional Dullness
• Supports cases of mental dullness, indolence, and slow perception.
• Assists melancholic states accompanied by obstinate constipation.
• Aids memory weakness and general mental lethargy or emotional apathy.

Headache and Double Vision
• Relieves vertigo on looking down or rising, often with nausea or diplopia.
• Headache with bursting pain and numbness, affecting concentration and clarity.
• Useful in double vision, eye strain, and sensations as if eyes are drawn backward.
• Watery eyes during reading and inability to focus directly on objects.

Face and Appearance
• Face pale, sunken, with blue rings around the eyes and a fatigued expression. Dull and stupefying pressure in the bones of the face, and esp. in the zygomatic process, extending deeply into the head.
• Eruptions or rough patches behind ears and on forehead, often associated with itching.

Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Complaints
• Canine hunger with hurried eating, even without true appetite.
• Helps in vomiting of greenish water or undigested food. Sensation of emptiness in stomach, with fulness of abdomen.
• Borborygmus with foul flatus, gnawing sensations near the navel, and inuseful urging.
• Manages burning pain in the anus and undigested stool passed involuntarily with gas.

Extremities and Circulation
• Cold feet, persistent chilliness, and edema of hands and fingers.
• Swelling and venous congestion in limbs with numbness and cramping.
• Weakness and stiffness in joints, affecting mobility and coordination.