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PREFACE.
SHOULD these pages impress British medical
practitioners with a conviction that all medicines
possess the faculty of creating disease, and con-
sequently that every grain introduced into the
system beyond what is requisite for the cure of a
disease must be injurious, I shall have been abun-
dantly repaid for the labour bestowed in preparing
them for publication. The knowledge that much
injury, enduring sometimes for months or even
years, may be occasioned by the large and fre-
quently repeated doses usually prescribed, would
necessarily induce physicians to be more cautious
in the administration of their remedies. Added
to this also I should naturally experience the de-
light every friend to the well being of mankind
would feel, could I succeed in communicating to
my professional brethren the deep conviction
which every year's experience only serves to
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strengthen in me, of the blessing which the im-
mortal discoveries of Hahnemann are calculated
to confer on the human race.
Many practitioners, it is hoped, will be enabled
by means of this work to test the truths of Ho-
mœopathy, who from their insufficient acquain-
tance with German, are otherwise deprived of
the advantage of studying the science in that
language. It is intended chiefly as an aid to
Hahnemann's voluminous work, "Reine Arz-
neimittellehre" of which a translation is now
in course of publication by my talented friend
Dr. Quin, and to Hahnemann's important and
more recent work "Die chronischen Krank-
heiten," and in some cases as a substitute for those
works. It is, indeed, only where all the symp-
toms of the case to be treated are to be met with
in this publication, that those works can be dis-
pensed with; but, in all cases, it will greatly
assist in the selection of the suitable remedy, by
directing the attention in its search through those
larger works.
The dose in which the apsoric medicines are
taken, in order experimentally to ascertain their effects,
is that usually prescribed by the old school, re-
peated at short intervals, until the subject of the ex-
periment comes fully under their influence.
The
antipsoric remedies being for the most part inert
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V
until triturated, are taken in globules of a high
dynamization, and the dose doubled every day
until evident effects result; the medicine is then
discontinued, and the symptoms which arise care-
fully noted.
In this work, the usual name given to a dis-
ease is often employed to express the assem-
blage of symptoms which belong to that dis-
ease, in order to lead to more minute inquiry
by directing attention to the collection of symp-
toms represented by that name. The effects
of the medicines are taken chiefly from Dr.
Bönninghausen's "Versuch über die verwandt-
schaften der homöopathischen Arzneien" and
from his "Uebersicht der Haupt-wirkungs-
sphäre der antipsorischen Arzneien," and partly
from Jahr's "Handbuch der Haupt-anzeigen für
die richtige Wahl der homöopathischen Heil-
mittel."
Some apparent contradiction in the symptoms
described may occasionally be noticed, but as the
primary and secondary effects of medicines are
not yet in many instances fully determined, it was
deemed generally advisable to insert both. The
primary are those on which the chief reliance
should be placed; the secondary or contrary symp-
toms are probably the efforts of nature to restore
the natural state. That a distinct classification is
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much needed, no homoeopathist denies, but as this
must be the result of careful and often repeated
experiments, we must, I believe, be satisfied to
wait the progress of time, and the gradual im-
provement of the science to supply the deficiency.
I have refrained from mentioning the strength
in which the remedies should be employed in the
treatment of disease, as this must necessarily
vary according to the nature of the case and the
susceptibility of the patient. The dose, however,
can scarcely be too minute when the remedy is
perfectly homoeopathic to the symptoms. As a
general rule in the treatment of acute diseases,
the best plan is to dissolve one or more globules of
the remedy in six or eight table-spoonfuls of water,
and to administer a tea-spoonful once every hour,
or more frequently in urgent cases, until amelio-
ration of the symptoms is perceptible; it should
then be given at longer intervals or discontinued.
By this means aggravation is avoided. In chronic
affections the remedy should be dissolved in a
considerable quantity of water, and a table-spoon-
ful taken every day fasting, the dose being varied
according to circumstances. The diet should be
so regulated that nothing producing medicinal ef
fects be taken as a part of it.
I have made some alteration in the order in
which the parts of the body are described, so as
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PREFACE.
vii
to approximate it to that usually followed in this
country, and have prefixed the antidotes to each
remedy as far as they are at present known. The
medicines which are marked with an asterisk are
ranked among the antipsorics.
Perspicuity rather than elegance of language
has been attended to; the object being to give to
each word the exact sense of the original German.
Indulgence is solicited for any errors which
may appear. It is hoped they will be attributed
not so much to want of care and attention, as to
the difficulty in ascertaining the exact meaning of
many of the provincial terms employed by the
subjects of Hahnemann's experiments and obser-
vations.
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CONTENTS.
Introductory Observations
Aconitum Napellus
Angustura.....
Antimonium Crudum
Arnica Montana
*Arsenicum Album
Assafoetida
*Belladonna...
Bryonia Alba
*Calcarea Carbonica
Cannabis Sativa
*Carbo Vegetabilis
*Causticum
China
Chamomilla
•
Cina
Cocculus
Coffea
Colchicum Autumnale
*Colocynthis...
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Cuprum Metallicum..
Crocus Sativus
Digitalis
Drosera Rotundifolia
*Dulcamara
Ferrum Metallicum
•
*Graphites
Helleborus Niger
*Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum
Hyoscyamus Niger
Ignatia Amara
Ipecacuanha...
Ledum Palustre
*Lycopodium
*Mercurius
Moschus
Nux Vomica...
Opium
*Phosphorus
Pulsatilla
Rheum
Rhus Toxicodendron
Sabina
Sambucus
*Sepia
Spongia Marina Tosta..
Squilla Maritima
Stramonium
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*Thuya Occidentalis
Veratrum Album
Viola Tricolor
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INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.
THE proud position which homoeopathy has now
attained, not only in Germany, its birth-place, but
in almost every country of Europe and America,
renders it at least unwise and impolitic, in any
person professing the art of medicine, to reject
that system without a full and fair examination.
The striking fact that its numerous professors have
all been educated in, and have practised on, the
old principles of medicine, that they are all con-
verts from the ancient school, and that, with the
consequent knowledge of both doctrines, they
now declare homoeopathy to be of incalculable
importance, would render such rejection even
culpable.
A circumstance tending happily to pave the
way for the final and complete admission of the
truths of homœopathy, is, that physicians, who
do not profess to adopt this system, do yet, in
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many instances, cure their patients on the homœo-
pathic principle; a fact proved by experiments
on healthy subjects, which show that the medicine
employed in such cases is always precisely the
one capable of producing "a disturbance in the
organism similar to the disease which it removes."
That such accidental or empirical treatment
(for it is founded on no defined principle) should
frequently be unsuccessful, it is but natural to
expect; for the large doses, usually given, can
often serve only to aggravate the malady, in con-
sequence of the vis vitæ being too feeble to re-act
against them. By such doses, may often be
often be pro-
duced violent commotions, evidenced by vomiting,
purging, perspiration, &c., which exhaust the ac-
tion of the remedy, without its even reaching the
disease. In spite of these difficulties, however,
some medicines, sulphur, mercury, cinchona and
a few others, are so generally successful in the
cure of a certain class of affections, that they
have been dignified with the title of "specifics."
The secret of the action of these medicines is
now explained: they cure diseases, because they
are capable of exciting similar affections in healthy
subjects. The homoeopathic cure is effected in
obedience to the law that forbids the existence of
two similar diseases in the same person. The
medicinal action, once established, overcomes the
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diseased action; but the homœopathic action,
being of limited and generally determinate dura-
tion, gradually subsides and leaves the part in
its normal state. On this foundation, similia
similibus curantur, this law of nature, rests the
colossal structure raised by Hahnemann, which,
confirmed as it is by innumerable experiments, no
ingenuity or sophistry can shake.
As the direct action of medicines has thus been
unknown to us, so has their indirect action. It is
indeed a circumstance deserving the most careful
consideration of medical men one to which,
until the time of Hahnemann, little or no attention
had been paid that all medicines produce this
double action on the living system. The animal
organism does not resemble inanimate matter in
passively receiving the impressions made upon it:
it is endued with a power of re-action, and no
attack is ever made on it in opposition to its
natural state or function, without an effort on its
part to repel the invasion. The simple experi-
ment of plunging the arm into cold water will
convince us of the truth of this law. When thus
exposed to a low temperature, the arm becomes
pale and shrinks; but when withdrawn, the whole
of its surface soon becomes red, and there is felt
in it a tingling sensation which shows that the
nerves participate in the change it has experienced.
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It hence follows that those who rely for success
on the permanence of the primary action, must,
except in peculiar cases, be ultimately disap-
pointed; for no sooner has the secondary action
commenced than the medicine is no longer anti-
pathically applicable to the case, and the morbid
action re-establishes itself. In proof of this,
I need only refer to the well-known fact that
diarrhoea, checked for a time by opium, generally
returns with renewed violence when the primary
action of the medicament, constipation, has ceased;
and to the melancholy truth, that chronic consti-
pation, after being relieved for a moment by the
primary action of aperient medicines, returns with
increased obstinacy on the secondary action of
the remedy being established.
The double action of every medicine becomes
even more baneful when remedies are admin-
istered merely for the sake of raising up a counter-
irritation in some distant organ. By this proce-
dure, adopted perhaps to cure some trifling ail-
ment, not only are healthy organs subjected to
violent action and their natural state disturbed,
but their functions are sometimes permanently
deranged, and innumerable instances prove that,
in this way, new diseases, which end only with
the patient's life, are often produced.
It is, indeed, my firm conviction that the unne-
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cessary employment of violent remedies is the
cause of a great proportion of our diseases. It
is to be deplored that medical men should not
reflect that drugs are not like food; that every
grain of medicament taken into the system beyond
what is absolutely necessary, is injurious to the
patient; that it must go on producing its effects
until, with its expulsion from the body, its period
of action has expired; that thereby a constant
irritation is created in organs on which that par-
ticular medicine acts specifically; and that irrita-
tion at length gives rise to disease. Would they
but calmly reflect on these facts, they would cer-
tainly hesitate to run the risk of exciting to mor-
bid action organs previously healthy.
This subject merits the most serious examination
of all those who practise medicine scientifically,
all who humanely feel that, in relieving a patient's
sufferings, it should never be at the cost of
greater subsequent mischief, and that, if absolute
good cannot certainly be effected, the greatest
possible precautions should be taken that no ad-
ditional evils be excited.
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In this respect, the advantages of homoeopathy,
as taught by Hahnemann, are very evident; for
the doses prescribed, while adequate to every
rational purpose, are so minute that, if they should
not cure, at least they cannot injure. Should
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the medicine, in spite of every care bestowed in
selecting it, be not homoeopathic to the case,
however great may be its power of acting on the
irritable fibre, it is too weak to injure sound parts
-no trifling consideration certainly in the estima-
tion of the patient.
The power of the minute doses administered by
homœopathists will be doubted only by those,
who, having had no opportunity of witnessing the
effects of remedies not only prepared by tritura-
tion and succussion, but administered homœopa-
thically, can judge only from their experience of
drugs administered in their ordinary state, and on
a different principle.
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It will be evident to all, who reflect on the
subject, that remedies administered on the prin-
ciple, similia similibus curantur, and for the purpose
of producing symptoms similar to those of the
disease, must, in order to act mildly, be given in
much smaller doses than when employed on the
opposite principle. Hahnemann at first gave these
medicines in nearly the usual doses; but he soon
learned (by experience alone, be it observed) to
employ the minute doses and the high dynamiza-
tions which he now insists on as essential to a
speedy and durable cure.
The divisions, which he has found it necessary
to employ, are indeed so minute, that it has been
doubted whether matter has any thing to do with
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the remedial action of the dose. It has been
supposed that there is a principle inherent in
every medicinal substance, though differing as to
properties in each a principle analogous to
electricity, which once set free, is developed to an
almost indefinite extent; and that accordingly the
properties of the medicament previously latent,
not its quantity, constitute its efficacy. Thus it
is not strictly medicine in the ordinary acceptation
of the term, that is administered by the homeo-
pathist, but a power unknown till the time of
Hahnemann.
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When a medicine is administered, which is
capable of producing nearly the symptoms of
the disease to be treated, it must of necessity act
on the precise point which is the seat of the dis-
order. This part being in a state of great excite-
ment and susceptibility, it is not surprising that
even the most minute dose, brought thus to act
directly upon it, should prove efficacious. If a
scalded hand be held at some distance from the
fire, the pain occasioned by the heat becomes
intolerable; while the sound hand, held at the
same distance, is scarcely sensible of warmth;
yet is this the same degree of heat, applied in one
instance, to a part in a state of morbid excitement,
and in the other, to a part in its natural state and
consequently less susceptible.
As this, which in all cases will supersede the
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necessity for the harsh, painful, and often danger-
ous means hitherto employed, is a power of won-
derful activity, and demanding the greatest caution
in application, it is evident that, when we select
a medicine perfectly homeopathic, the dose can
scarcely be too minute, in order to supplant the
morbid action by medicinal action, without aggra-
vation. It is precisely for this reason that it is of
such vast importance to administer remedies in
doses the most minute, provided they be but suffi-
cient to make any impression. The action of the
diseased organ is then changed, which is all that
is requisite.
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On this head, I regret to say that a few of the
German homœopathists, regardless of the debt of
gratitude they owe to Hahnemann, now rival the
first opponents of the art in their dissent from its
founder. They give him credit for the discovery
of the principle, but for little else. They dispute
the power of high dilutions, and maintain that
stronger doses are requisite to produce effects;
overlooking the fact that the more violent the
irritation, the more minute should be the dose;
that the effects of a larger one than is absolutely
necessary are justly to be dreaded, because any
further stimulus is calculated to produce such
aggravation as may endanger the life of the patient,
or at least overcome the power of vital reaction
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!
and destroy all chance of the cure which a minute
dose might safely effect.
One of the strongest arguments against the
innovation of Drs. Trinks and Griesselich is, that
Hahnemann (who has never blushed to confess
that further experience has constantly instructed
him) is so far from increasing, that we find him
year after year diminishing, the strength of his
doses, and loudly exclaiming against those who, by
thus retrograding, deprive the art of one of its
proudest boasts, that of curing cito, tute et
jucunde. Such has been and still is the conduct
of our leader, and those who have been so fortu-
nate as to follow his practice can attest its astonish-
ing success.
Homœopathy, then, cures by the administration
of medicines whose primary effects are analogous
to the perceptible signs of each particular disease.
The treatment according to this plan presupposes
therefore: first, an acquaintance as extensive as
possible with diseases; 2dly, an acquaintance with
the powers of medicines.
Hitherto it has been deemed essential to pos-
sess a knowledge of the precise nature of diseased
action. Were it possible to ascertain this — im-
properly termed the proximate cause, it would
undoubtedly assist our efforts; but unfortunately
it has not hitherto been in the power of man to
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discern it. Accidental causes, such as the irrita-
tion occasioned by a bullet, a spicula of bone, or
others equally evident to our senses, must of
course be removed before we can expect to effect
a cure; but the proximate cause of disease, more
correctly its real nature, is at present beyond our
comprehension. It is indeed humiliating to con-
fess that we know absolutely nothing of the pre-
cise nature of disease, and that it is improba-
ble we ever shall know it, because disease is
a dynamic change too intimately connected with
the principle of life to be made evident to us.
Centuries have elapsed without any thing being
discovered of the real nature of fever; innumer-
able have been the theories respecting that affec-
tion alone; and explanations the most opposite
have been given of it. Inflammation too is in
reality equally unintelligible. The same may be
said of many other diseases, although men of the
highest capacity and attainments have devoted
every power of their minds to the investigation.
The result of this searching for the nature of
disease, which perhaps can never be discovered,
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*It may be urged that, in consequence of the progress which
anatomy has made, the changes occurring in disease are gene-
rally known; and it is true that microscopic observations have
led to the discovery of many changes before imperceptible; but
these are more frequently the result of disease, than disease itself.
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has been a continual changing in the mode of
practice according to the prevalent hypothesis
respecting it. The history of medicine, in truth,
is not unlike the passing figures of a magic lan-
thorn; and Dr. Stevens, speaking of the various
theories of fever which have successively prevailed
and been rejected, likens them to the "evanes-
cent spectres" of Macbeth, they come like
shadows, so depart." One hypothesis appears
only to make room for another; the advocates of
one system destroy the fragile building erected by
those of another, and probably follow an exactly
opposite course. It could scarcely happen other-
wise; for hitherto medicine has rested on no
solid basis or definite principle. Now, for the
first time, it happily rests on a law of nature to
which all must yield.
Since, therefore, the physician cannot penetrate
into the mysteries of life, it becomes his duty to
examine, with the most scrupulous minuteness,
the symptoms of the case before him, and to al-
low none of these to escape his observation.
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By thus acting, he must necessarily inquire into
those symptoms which are most intimately linked
with the nature of the disease; and by tracing it
as far as possible, he may learn all that can be
discovered by human skill- as much in truth as
if he had fixed on a certain collection of symp-
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toms as the faulty ones, and had attributed all the
mischief to them. He must, however, be parti-
cularly careful not to attribute too much impor-
tance to any particular set of symptoms, for that
would render him liable to commit the fatal error
of attributing effects to causes with which they
have no connexion, incurring the danger of form-
ing deductions from false premises.
An intimate acquaintance with the various
branches of medical education is certainly indis-
pensable to the homœopathic physician, for with-
out it, he can never discriminate between the
original symptoms and those which are merely
dependent on them, and which would necessarily
cease on their removal. Without this knowledge,
he would lay stress on those symptoms which
are in reality of little importance being created
secondarily by the disturbance of the organ af-
fected. The great desideratum, therefore, is the
formation, in the mind, of a complete portraiture
of the malady; and in proportion to the accuracy
with which this is done, the selection of the remedy
will become more simple and more accurate.
A most important part too of the education of
the physician must be the obtaining an intimate
knowledge of the properties and powers of the
remedies to be employed. And surely it is not
too much to ask that, before a medicine is admin-
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istered, its virtues should be accurately known.
Had Hahnemann done no more than point out the
fallacy of judging of the properties of a drug by
its effects in disease, he would have deserved, as
even his opponents acknowledge, the gratitude of
mankind.
When medicines are given in the old practice,
it is indeed almost impossible to distinguish be-
tween the effects of the remedies and the symp-
toms of the malady. The medicines of the Allo-
pathists are seldom or never given alone; in one
prescription are collected together various drugs,
the effects of one of which must be confounded
with those of another; so that distinction is im-
possible. As hitherto, moreover, medical men
have not sufficiently considered the power of
medicines to create disease, they have seldom for
a moment imagined that the symptoms witnessed
could be owing to any thing but the malady.
When once, therefore, the more obvious effects of
the medicine had shown themselves, they natu-
rally attributed every other occurrence to the dis-
ease.
The course pursued by Hahnemann to deter-
mine the properties of medicinal agents has been
more rational and more philosophical. None of
the effects observed by him could reasonably be
attributed to any thing but the medicine adminis-
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tered; for the subjects of the experiments were
healthy persons; and where there could be the
least suspicion that they had contracted a natural
disease, or had committed any excess that could
render the result of the trial uncertain, the expe-
riment was discontinued and recommenced under
more favourable circumstances.
Although the practice of homoeopathy may at
first sight appear extremely simple, it is never-
theless attended with great and numerous diffi-
culties.—To ascertain the totality of the symptoms,
demands a most scrupulous examination of the
patient; no symptom, however trifling apparent-
ly, must pass unnoticed; and the discrimination
of the physician must be particularly exercised in
deciding on their relative importance; in order to
determine which of them are characteristic.
The patient must not only relate his sufferings
in his own terms; but the physician must
make himself intimately acquainted with their na-
ture; whether pain is increased or diminished by
particular postures; the parts which it affects;
whether it is increased or diminished by pressure ;
what is the effect of heat or cold, and of moisture
or dryness of the atmosphere; how the attack
commences and declines; and what precedes and
follows it. Being satisfied on these points, he
may proceed to ascertain the exact character of
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the pain, whether it be dull, sharp, shooting,
burning, compressing, tearing, &c. The dispo-
sition of the patient also becomes the subject of his
observation; for this is powerfully affected by
some medicines, which consequently are more
particularly adapted to such symptoms as they
produce.
In proceeding in this investigation, chemistry,
anatomy, and physiology or a knowledge of the
laws which regulate the animal œconomy, are
brought into use; and no one, who is not possess-
ed of this information is competent to make the
scientific examination essential to the successful
treatment of the case.
The portraiture of the disease as already indi-
cated being completed, the next object is the se-
lection of a remedy, and this selection is a most
arduous part of the duty of the physician. In this
operation, his natural good sense and judgment,
his talent of observation and comparison, are put
to the test; and every branch of medical educa-
tion is often brought into action.
Among the pathogenetic effects of various sub-
stances, filling numerous volumes, there appears
at first sight so great a similarity, that an inex-
perienced person would imagine any of the reme-
dies to be suitable for the case; for there are few
which, if long continued, do not occasion disturb-
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ance, under particular circumstances, in almost
every organ; and the shades of difference in
these medicinal diseases are often so slightly
marked that it requires the greatest nicety to de-
cide on the proper remedy. Yet no two remedies
produce symptoms exactly the same.
Having discovered the remedy corresponding in
every particular with the symptoms of the case to
be treated, it is then administered in the most mi-
nute dose.
A certain time, varying according to the vio-
lence and nature of the disease, is suffered to
elapse before another dose of the same kind is
given; but, if the symptoms have changed their
character, a different homoeopathic remedy is
given, until the disease is subdued.
As the constitution has not been weakened by
violent remedial measures, such as bleeding, purg-
ing, blistering, &c., and the action of the part
affected has been simply changed from a morbid
to a healthy state, the period of convalescence is
in general astonishingly short; the equilibrium
which had been disturbed being restored, the
functions are carried on in their usual course.
Where allopathic doses are had recourse to on
every trifling ailment, they never leave the system
free from their influence; and the diseases that
arise solely from the abuse of medicine are thus
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rendered exceedingly common. — - How infinitely
superior in this respect is homœopathy! What
an immense advantage does that patient possess
who is treated according to its principles! Not
an atom more of medicine than is absolutely re-
quisite to conquer the disease is taken; and con-
sequently, when that has ceased, and the healthy
action has returned, he has no injurious conse-
quences occasioned by the remedy and often en-
during for weeks or months to contend with, and
health resumes its wonted course
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It is delightful to reflect on the change that
homoeopathy, as its practice progresses, must pro-
duce on the health and strength of mankind; and
as the blessing of health is not confined to the in-
dividual, but extends to offspring, the benefits of
this art will become every day more evident.
The vital power, unenfeebled by the influence of
large doses of drugs will possess sufficient force
more effectually to resist the action of external
agents; and therefore it may be expected (and
this really occurs) that the person who never
takes any medicine but in minute homoeopathic
doses, will enjoy more constant and robust health
than he, who, for every ailment, takes, in large
doses, remedies, the greater part of which serves
no purpose but that of occasioning derangement,
and eventually disease in other organs.
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A most important part of the system of Hahne-
mann, and one which, if relinquished, would tend
to destroy more than half the benefit of his great
discoveries, is that portion of his doctrines which
relates to the origin of chronic disease.
Hahnemann, observing the obstinacy of chronic
diseases, and their tendency to return even when
treated by homoeopathic means, was led to suppose
that there must be some cause for this difficulty in
the treatment. It was not, however, until he had
long and repeatedly examined the subject, that he
suspected what his more recent experience has
confirmed. He now considers the origin of chronic
disease to be threefold - Psora, Sycosis, and
Syphilis; and no one can carefully peruse his
immortal work, "Die Cronischen Krankheiten,"
without conviction of the justness of his reasoning.
He was led to this discovery by observing the
fact that chronic diseases, not syphilitic, after hav-
ing been arrested and apparently cured by the ordi-
nary Homœopathic remedies, not only reappeared,
but were attended at each reappearance by a new
train of symptoms; and this he saw happen after
every apparent cure. He concluded, therefore,
that in chronic disease, there is a deeper evil, hav-
ing a more extensive sphere of action, the exis-
tence of which is demonstrated by the new symp-
toms which it successively developes.
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This latent vice or taint, the predisposing cause
of so much suffering, he calls chronic; and the
essential property of this chronic vice is, that it
cannot be overcome by the strength of the con-
stitution even the most robust, neither does it
yield to the most severe regimen. In short, of
itself, it never ceases, but goes on increasing with
its years, and passing from one severe form to
another still more severe, until death puts a ter-
mination to it, in as far as the individual patient is
concerned. Thus one disease succeeds another;
and it is not difficult to perceive that the new
diseases are but isolated fractions of a general
vice.
It is not to be wondered, that this virus, thrown
back into the system and giving rise to chronic
disease, should admit of effects so varied, when
we recollect that the symptoms must necessarily
differ according to the part of the body attacked.
From the derangement of the functions of parti-
cular organs, different
different symptoms would arise
according to the particular office of that organ, its
connexion or sympathy with others, the idiosyn-
cracy of the patient, &c.
The two other causes of chronic diseases are
much more limited in operation; the specific for
syphilis being known, and sycosis being much
less common and less virulent, though sufficiently
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so to be a frequent source of suffering, in conse-
quence of the almost entirely local treatment
usually applied to it. Thus indeed the external
sign of the virus is destroyed, but it is only to
reappear in a different part of the body, or to
occasion dangerous symptoms, by attacking a
vital organ.
Since this great discovery of their cause, chronic
diseases have no longer refused to obey the homœo-
pathic law; for by the administration of that parti-
cular class of medicines, termed antipsoric, of which
we already possess a considerable number, the virus
is effectually eradicated. These remedies are of
themselves capable of producing diseases similar
to the productions of this hydra; and they possess
the immense advantage, (in which indeed their
efficacy chiefly resides) of prolonging their effects
for weeks or even months, and are consequently
able constantly to oppose the chronic miasm,
which all other medicines, in consequence of their
short-lived action, are incapable of effecting.
PATHOGENETIC EFFECTS.
ACONITUM NAPELLUS.
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Antidotes. ACID. VEG., VINUM.
Head. Head-ache, confined to a small spot at the
vertex, caused by being touched, or by a current of air
passing over that part of the head; constrictive, or pinch-
ing head-ache, especially over the root of the nose, with
temporary loss of memory; sensation of pressure in the
forehead and over the eyes; feeling of heaviness, fulness,
and forcing outwards in the forehead, especially on lean-
ing forward; shooting or beating in the head, or a sen-
sation of drawing in one side of the head; determin-
ation of blood to the head; inflammation of the brain;
dropsy in the ventricles of the brain; sensation of wavering
in the brain, when moving, drinking, or speaking; a feel-
ing as if a cold ball were ascending from the lower part of
the abdomen to the head; head-ache occasioned by a
cold, with a buzzing in the ears, catarrh, and pain in the
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bowels; head-ache which increases while speaking or
moving, and which diminishes when in the open air.
Mind. — Weakness of memory; inability to think,
with a sensation as if all activity of the mind passed to the
pit of the stomach; unsteadiness of the ideas.
Disposition. Whimpering, whining, and complaining
during the pains; inconsolable anguish, with complaints
and reproaches; dread of death, and superstitious pre-
dictions relative to the day of death; impatience of noise;
fearfulness; great peevishness; angry violence.
Giddiness. — Bewildering of the head, (Eingenommen-
heit,) as if it were nailed, especially in a warm room;
giddiness, with failure of sight, or the fear of falling down,
on stooping or rising from a seat; giddiness with
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nausea.
Sleep. Frequent yawning; great inclination to sleep,
even while walking, especially after dinner; drowsiness,
with anxious fancies; light sleep; agonizing dreams and
night-mare; dreams that give an accurate explanation of
circumstances which were previously unintelligible.
Eyes. Acute inflammation of the eyes, especially with
dull redness of the vessels; inflammation of the eyes,
arising from cold, or the entrance of foreign bodies; in-
flammation in the eyes of young infants; inflammation,
and firm swelling of the eye-lids, with tensive pain, espe-
cially in the morning; extremely painful inflammation of
the eyes,
with a copious discharge; dryness and heaviness
of the eye-lids; contraction of the eyes, with drowsiness;
sensation of swelling in the eyes; protrusion, cramp, and
distortion of the eyes; eyes fixed, staring; dilatation of
the pupils; attacks of sudden, temporary blindness; in-
tolerance of light, or a desire for it.
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ear.
Ears. Inflammation of the ear; humming before the
T
Nose. A benumbing contraction at the root of the
nose; bleeding at the nose; increased sense of smell.
Mouth.- Dryness of the mouth; moist tongue, with a
sense of dryness in the mouth; a creeping sensation, as
well as a burning, shooting pain in the tongue; inflam-
mation of the palate and tongue; a smarting at the
orifices of the salivary ducts, as if gnawed; flow of saliva,
with shooting in the tongue; spitting of blood.
Teeth. Throbbing pain in the teeth, after taking cold,
with determination of blood to the head, and burning
heat in the face.
Face.Face and lips livid, distortion of the face;
sensation of swelling on the cheeks; inflammatory, rheu-
matic, or creeping pain in the face, with swelling of the
lower jaw; hot, puffed face; perspiration of the upper lip,
or of the cheek on which the patient lies.
Throat. Pain in the throat, of a constrictive nature,
similar to that which might arise from taking any thing
astringent; a sensation of crawling in the fauces, a
shooting, choking sensation in the throat, while swallow-
ing or speaking; a burning, or shooting in the throat,
with difficulty in swallowing; inflammation of the soft
palate, the uvula, and pharynx, with dark redness of the
parts.
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Taste. A bitter or putrid taste; great thirst, with
—
parched mouth; desire for wine; long continued want of
taste, and loss of appetite.
Stomach.-Pain in the stomach, after eating; con-
strictive pain in the stomach, and at the pit of the sto-
mach, as if from a load, with tightness of breath; con-
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striction of the stomach, similar to that which is caused
by eating any thing astringent; inflammation of the sto-
mach, and diaphragm; swelling at the pit of the stomach,
and the hypochondria, with throbbing heat, increased by
pressure.
Nausea.- Nausea in the morning, fasting; inclination
to vomit, after taking sweet, or fat substances, and on
going into the open air; vomiting of bilious matter, or
bloody phlegm; vomiting of blood.
Eructation.-Ineffectual desire to eructate: pyrosis,
with nausea, and buzzing in the ears.
Hypochondria.-Tension and pressure in the hypo-
chondria, as if from a load; constriction in both hypo-
chondria; pressing, throbbing, burning, or smarting pain
about the liver; inflammation of the liver; inflammation
of the kidneys, with violent stitch-like pain about the loins,
and suppressed urine.
Abdomen. A pain, as of drawing, in the abdomen,
when stooping forward; contraction and griping, with re-
traction of the navel; flatulent cholic in the hypogastria,
especially at night; intolerable griping, in the morning,
while in bed; inflammation of the bowels, with a burning,
shooting, and throbbing sensation, about the navel; swell-
ing of the abdomen, as from dropsy; abdomen painfully
sensitive to the touch; flatulence, with borborigmus, es-
pecially in the night.
Fæcal Discharge.- Costive motions, with forcing; fre-
quent, small, soft motions, with tenesmus; clay-coloured
motions; watery diarrhea; involuntary motions, caused
by paralysis of the sphincter ani; discharge of ascarides;
pain in the rectum; shooting, pressive pain, at the anus ;
bleeding piles.
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ACONITUM NAPELLUS.
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Urinary Discharge. Retention of urine, with pressure
in the bladder, and pain in the kidneys; frequent, and
painful inclination to make water, attended with anxiety;
flow of urine, with perspiration, diarrhoea, and pain in the
bowels; involuntary flow of urine from paralysis of the
neck of the bladder; scanty emission of deep-red, or
brown, scalding urine, with brick-coloured sediment; the
urine, after standing for a time, depositing blood.
Genital Organs. - Inflammation of the labia, the
womb, or the ovaria; menses of too long duration; menor-
rhagia; furor at the commencement of the period; viscid,
yellow leucorrhæa.
g
Respiratory Organs. - Violent sneezing, with pain in
the lower part of the abdomen, or interrupted by pain in
the left side; benumbing sensation in the windpipe; in-
flammation of the windpipe; membranous croup; paraly-
sis of the epiglottis, and consequent liability to choke.
Breath. — Breath short and difficult, or quick and
slight; contractive oppression of the chest, with anxi-
ety and obstruction of breath; attacks of suffocation, with
great mental anguish; miller's asthma.
Chest. Pain in the chest, with a sensation of weight
and constriction; crawling pain in the chest; shoots and
stitches extending through the chest and sides, especially
when breathing or coughing; stitches in the side, with a
sensation of heat; inflammation of the lungs; great an-
guish in the chest.
Cough. Cough from smoking tobacco, or after drink-
ing; dry, short cough, especially after midnight; hooping-
cough; cough producing blood, with anxiety and alarm,
at night; at every shock, produced by coughing, violent
stitches in the chest, and sides of the chest.
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Heart.
Chronic affections of the heart, with difficulty
of breathing, and stitches in the region of the heart, when
moving, or going up stairs; palpitation, attended with
mental anguish, and general increase of bodily heat; over-
flow of milk.
Skin.
Ma p
Sensation of creeping in the skin, with scaling
and itching; spots like flea-bites; measles; purpura
miliaris; erysipelatous inflammation.
Fever. Cold shivers, with great redness of the face
and pain in the limbs; general cold shiverings in the even-
ing, with thirst, burning heat of the face, redness of the
cheeks, and a forcing out head-ache; great coldness, with
subsequent dry burning heat, great anxiety, and anguish of
mind, and oppression at the heart; burning dry heat, with
hot withered skin, great thirst; burning hot skin, with cold
shivers passing over it; internal dry heat, with coldness
of the whole body, and heat of the forehead and ears;
acute inflammatory fever; rheumatic, nervous, puerperal,
and milk fever; pulse hard or jerking, full or small.
Neck. Rheumatic pain in the nape of the neck, on
motion only; weakness and partial loss of supporting
power in the neck; with a feeling as if the flesh were loose.
Back. Pain in the sacrum, as if bruized; painful
paralytic stiffness in the loins and hip-joint; sensation of
boring in the sacrum and back; creeping sensation in the
spine; shooting flickering over the whole spine, especially
increased by inspiration.
M
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Upper Extremities.- Arms as if bruised and powerless;
sensation of weight in the arm, with sleep in the fingers;
swelling of the muscles of the shoulder, with a bruised
pain when touched; paralytic weakness of the fore-arm
and hand, when writing and at rest, diminishing on
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motion; coldness, numbness, and loss of feeling in the
hand; swelling of the hands; creeping sensation in the
fingers, in repose and also when writing.
Lower Extremities. The hip-joints and the thigh
feeling as if bruised or crushed by a heavy weight,
especially after lying down and sleeping; tottering gait,
arising from loss of power, and pain in the head of the
femur; looseness of the knee, with snapping; inflammatory
swelling of the leg and foot, with internal and external
heat; skin spotted red, and when touched
or in
motion, painful; tenderness in the ancle-joints with
despair and fear of death; heaviness of the feet; coldness
of the feet, and especially of the toes, and perspiration of
the toes, and soles of the feet.
Predominating Symptoms. — Shooting pain, with a
smarting sensation, especially in the viscera; pains as
of violent contusion; very violent paroxysms of pain;
external and internal dry heat in the parts affected;
determinations of blood to various parts; acute inflam-
mation of internal organs; acute rheumatic inflammations;
great susceptibilty of pain in the parts affected, when
touched or in motion; thirst and redness of face, while
suffering pain; aggravation of the symptoms in the even-
ing and early in the morning, and diminution of them in
the open air; various painful sufferings arising from fright,
and grief, and colds, particularly in women during men-
struation; gastric and bilious affections; general sore-
ness of the whole body, and particularly when touched;
jaundice with tenderness of the liver; swelling of the abdo-
men with a dark hue, extending over the whole body; great
inclination to lie down; weakness, and relaxation of
the ligaments; fainting fits, with sensation of ebullition
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of the blood, and determination of blood to the head
sense of coldness in all the veins, and a feeling as if the
circulation of the blood was stopped; sanguineous
apoplexy; cramps in children; rigid immobility of the
body resembling catalepsy, with screaming, grinding of the
teeth, and hiccough; great chilliness.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
The discovery of a medicine which would lower the
circulation or render it more uniform and steady, with-
out the disadvantages attendant on bleeding has long
been a desideratum. The Aconitum Napellus has at
length supplied this deficiency. Henceforth, the lancet
may be discarded, and the still more painful and tedious
modes of depletion, cupping and bleeding, may be dis-
pensed with.
The beneficial effect arising from the employment of
Aconite, in preference to the abstraction of a fluid essen-
tial to the strength of the individual, and to the necessary
performance of the functions, can with difficulty be esti-
mated by those who have not well weighed the importance
of the vital fluid. A robust countryman may, it is true,
bear the occasional loss of blood without any apparent
ill effects, but even he, if the loss be frequently repeated,
will find his fibres lose their tone, and that permanently.
If, however, the baneful effects may be perceived on one
whose system is invigorated by the pure breezes and
healthful occupations of the country, what must not be
the result in the inhabitants of towns? There, alas! the
vital power is too feeble to resist the unnatural loss, and a
variety of diseases, the consequence of the debility in-
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duced, make their appearance, and haunt the sufferer to
the grave.
If we consider the cases in which bleeding is had re-
course to, we shall perceive that they are for the most
part of such a nature, that it would not be reasonable to
suppose that there has been any additional quantity of
blood formed, of which it is imperatively necessary to free
the system. The time which elapses between the com-
mencement of an attack of inflammation, and the period
when it reaches such a height as, according to received
tenets, to require copious bleeding, is so short, that it can-
not for a moment be admitted that an increase in the
quantity of blood in the body has so suddenly taken place.
The change that occurs is, then, merely that from an
equal to an irregular distribution of the blood, and the
object should be simply to restore the equilibrium.
This may be accomplished by the employment of a
remedy, whose primary action occasions similar excite-
ment in the circulatory system, with at least as much cer-
tainty as by the use of the lancet, and more permanently.
The change will be more permanent, because the depres
sion is the result of re-action. The principle of preserva-
tion is so powerful in a living body, that no attack can be
made upon it without an effort to restore the equilibrium
by raising up a contrary action. Thus, when by the
evacuation of a large quantity of blood, the system is de-
pressed beyond its natural standard, a violent effort is
made to return to the former state; the pulse often be-
comes as quick and strong as before the bleeding, and a
kind of artificial strength is thus produced, which seems
to call for further depletion, until at length the powers of
life are so much depressed, that nature gives up the con-
test, and the patient sinks.
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ACONITUM NAPELLUS.
In so violent a disease as inflammation of a vital organ,
nature in her exertions to expel the morbific cause, needs
all her strength; and, by bleeding, not only is that strength
diminished, but the natural course of the disease is inter-
rupted, and a favourable termination often prevented.
The state of the system in which aconite is indicated,
is that wherein there are strength and frequency of pulse,
thirst and preternatural heat of skin. Its application it
may be imagined must, therefore, be very general in acute
diseases, and principally in those very cases in which
allopathy prides itself on its superiority. By the use of
aconite, even in a few hours the whole train of alarming
symptoms, attendant on those affections, is frequently
calmed in the most astonishing manner; the pulse gradu-
ally returns to its natural standard, and the convalescence,
which is generally tedious in consequence of the debility
induced by the ordinary modes of practice, is often so
short as to be scarcely perceptible; a patient awaking
from a refreshing sleep to the full enjoyment of his strength
and faculties.
The cases in which aconite may be expected to produce
the most favourable results are inflammatory fever, pleurisy,
pneumonia, croup, ophthalmia, angina tonsillaris, enteritis,
&c.; in all cases, in short, where active antiphlogistic
means are employed by the old school. It is often,
however, necessary, when the violence of the fever has
abated, to administer other remedies corresponding with
the symptoms that remain, in order completely to annihi-
late the disease. Not only in acute cases, but in those of
a chronic nature, aconite is a powerful auxiliary.
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ANGUSTURA.
Antidote.-COFFEA.
Head.-Pressive pain in the head, in the evening,
with heat in the face; pain in the head, as if pressed
within a vice; tensive pain in the muscles of the temples
on opening the mouth wide.
G
Mind. Extraordinary absence of mind, in the after
noon; great flow of ideas, like waking dreams.
Disposition.-Faintness of heart, and want of confidence.
in himself; great quickness in taking offence; excessive
excitability.
Sleep. Sleepiness in the evening, followed by great
wakefulness after midnight.
Eyes. Tension and pressure in the eyes, as if from too
strong light; spasmodic widely opened eye-lids; near
sight.
Pinching pains in the ears; diminution of
Ears.
hearing.
Face. Heat and blueish redness of the face; tension
in the muscles of the face; pinching pain in the cheek-bone,
and muscles of mastication; trismus; spasms of the
muscles of the face, with the lips far drawn back, and
the teeth bare; after the attack, the lips and the cheeks
remaining for some time blue; enlargement of the bones
of the lower jaw.
T
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Taste. Bitter taste in the mouth after eating or
smoking tobacco.
S
Appetite.- Total loss of appetite for solid food; the
patient liking only coffee; aversion to pork; thirst without
a desire to drink; irresistible desire for coffee.
Stomach. Cutting smarting pain in the stomach ;
pinching pain at the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen. Pinching pain in the lower part of the
abdomen; cutting pain in the lower belly after drinking
milk.
ANGUSTURA.
C
Fæcal Discharge. — Diarrhoea with tenesmus; slimy
stools.
M
Genital Organs. - Violent itching about the parts of
generation.
Chest. Painful cramp in the muscles of the chest;
pain as if of a bruise in the muscles of the chest, on
moving the arms; strong palpitation, with anxiety.
Trachea. Hoarseness from mucus in the trachea;
soft-toned voice.
Breath. Interrupted, convulsive breathing; pressive
oppression in the chest, when walking fast, and when
ascending.
Cough. Dry cough, with scraped feeling, and rattling
in the chest.
Fever. Cold shiverings, over the part affected; even-
ing and night, heat with bewildering of the head.
Bones.- Caries, and very painful ulcers, which affect
the bones, and penetrate even to the marrow.
Back. Painful stiffness between the shoulder blades,
and in the back of the neck; violent itching along the
back; opisthotonos; pain as of a bruise in the sacrum
early in the morning.
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ANGUSTURA.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
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Upper Extremities. — Pinching, drawing pain through
the arms, even to the fingers.
Lower Extremities.-Pinching pain, and pain as of a
bruise in the legs; pain on the inner side of the ancles
when ascending, which obliges the patient to walk limping.
Predominating Symptoms. — Tetanic cramps excited by
touch, drinking or noise; stiffness and stretching of the
limbs; spasmodic startings; paralysis.
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This bark when procured genuine is very active, and
may, from the symptoms it produces, be of great service
in tetanic cramps. It is of use in some kinds of tooth-
ache, particularly where the pain is pulsative, and occurs in
a decayed tooth.
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ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.
Antidotes. HEP. MERC.
M
Mind. Idiotcy; insanity; enthusiastic love and ex-
travagant ideas in the moonshine; determination of blood
to the head; pressing asunder head-ache; head-ache from
bathing or smoking tobacco; pains in the bones of the
skull; falling off of the hair.
Sleep. Great sleepiness in the day; somnolence, es-
pecially before noon.
Eyes. Inflammatory redness of the eyes and eyelids;
shooting pain in the eyes; concretion in the corner of the
eyes; intolerance of day-light.
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Ears. Difficulty in hearing, as if a membrane were
placed before the drum of the ear.
Nose. Excoriated cracked scurfy nostrils.
Mouth. Grinding of the teeth; salt saliva; flow of
saliva; muddy whitish-coated tongue.
Teeth. Bleeding of the teeth and gums; jerking pain
in hollow teeth increased by cold water.
Face.Sad countenance; blistered suppurating erup-
tion on the face, which forms a yellow crust; corners of
the mouth excoriated, cracked; swelling of the sub-
maxillary glands.
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Taste. Bitterness in the mouth; taste insipid..
Appetite.-Chronic loss of appetite; aversion to all
food; inclination for acids; extraordinary thirst, especially
at night.
Stomach.-Pain in the stomach, as if from overloading;
disturbance in the stomach from overloading it; cramp in
the stomach, with sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach,
and thirst.
Nausea. Digust, nausea and tendency to vomit after
disturbance of the stomach; nausea after drinking wine;
choking retching; tasteless vomiting; vomiting of mucus
and bile.
Flatulence. Much flatulence, with borborygmus in
the abdomen.
Eructation. Eructation, with taste of the food taken.
Abdomen. Puffiness and fulness in the lower belly,
after eating; violent cutting pain in the upper belly;
ascites.
M
A
M
M
Anus. Hæmorrhoids; continued discharge of mucus.
from the anus.
Fæcal Discharge. — Difficult hard motion; fæces too
thickly formed; diarrhoea alternating with constipation in
old people; papescent or watery diarrhoea with tenesmus.
Urinary discharge. - Copious discharge of urine with
mucus, with burning in the urethra, and pain in the
sacrum; involuntary flow of urine on coughing; dark
coloured urine; gravel.
Menses.
Menorrhagia.
Trachea. Heat in the throat, on motion in the open
air; loss of voice on being heated.
Breath. Short sighing breath; suffocating oppression
at the chest.
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ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.
Skin.-Psora; boils and blisters, as if from the stings.
of insects; nettlerash; chicken pox; gouty swelling;
fungus articulorum; fistulous ulcers; spots and freckles.
Fever. Great heat in sunshine; perspiration every
other morning; intermittent fever with disgust, nausea,
vomiting, bitterness of the mouth, and deficient (or im-
moderate) thirst; apprehension and anxiety about one's
lot; disquietude; desire to shoot one's self.
Neck. Rheumatic pain in the back of the neck.
Upper Extremities. - Rheumatic pain in the arms;
swelling, shooting and tension in the biceps muscle; in-
flammatory swelling of the fore-arm; slow growth of the
finger nails; wrinkling of the points of the fingers after per-
spiration.
Lower Extremities. - Rheumatic pain in the legs;
fungoid swelling on the knee; sensitiveness of the sole of
the foot on treading; great hornlike corns on the ball of
the great toe; inflammatory redness of the heel.
M
Predominating Symptoms. — Extraordinary corpulence
(or emaciation); dropsical swelling of the whole body;
the symptoms changing on recurrence from one side of
the body to the other; the gastric symptoms appearing
most violent after noon, the remaining symptoms, more
severe on motion and during warmth.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Antimonium Crudum will be found beneficial in some
cases of amaurosis; some affections of the chest, stomach,
bowels, and urinary organs; in inflammatory rheumatism
and cutaneous diseases; and in some kinds of intermit-
tent fever.
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ARNICA MONTANA.
Antidotes. CAMPH. IPECAC.
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Head. — Bewildering of the head, with shooting pain;
vertigo on raising or moving the head, or on walking;
giddiness, with tendency to fall forwards, during dinner;
giddiness, with nausea, by prolonged reading; cephalalgia
arthritica; stunning or tight pressive pain in the head,
more especially in the forehead, chiefly with heat in the
brain, and particularly on walking, going up stairs, think-
ing and reading, or after eating; spasmodic contraction in
the forehead, over the eyes, as if the brain were conglo-
merated into a mass, especially near a warm stove; pain,
as if from a nail in the temples; spasmodic tearing and
shooting in the head, chiefly in the temples; pain through
the head, as of cutting with a knife, with feeling of cold
after it, so that the hair stands on end; sensation of creep-
ing in the forehead, and over the orbits; rush of blood to
the head, with burning heat therein, the body being cool,
or of the natural temperature; head-ache from a blow, or
other mechanical cause; concussion of the brain (commo-
tio cerebri); weakness and weight of the head, so that it
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is difficult to hold it up; periodical pains in the head;
sensation of creeping at the vertex, externally; tightness
and immobility of the scalp.
Disposition.
Hypochondriacal anxiety; great rest-
lessness and anguish; despair; excessive irritability and
sensibility of mind; fearfulness; stubbornness; loss of
thought; distraction and dreaming while awake; loss
of consciousness, alternating with continual screaming.
ARNICA MONTANA.
Sleep. -Great drowsiness by day, with inability to
sleep; sleepiness early in the evening; unrefreshing
dreamful sleep; slumbering, with phantasms; catching
with the fingers at the bed-clothes, or in the air; agoniz-
ing, frightful dreams; terror and whimpering during
sleep; difficulty in recovering the recollection on awaking.
Eyes. Pains in the eyes, with dull pressure upon the
edge of the orbits, and round the eyes; creeping sensation
round the eyes; smarting pain of the eyes, and edges of
the eyelids, with difficulty of moving them; burning in
the eyes; inflammation of the eyes from mechanical
injury; redness of the white of the eyes; eyelids swollen,
with ecchymosis; eyes dull, dim, lustreless; copious flow
of burning tears; eyes half-closed, or projecting or staring,
expressive of anguish; darkness before the eyes.
Ears. Pain in the ears as from a blow or contusion ;
tearing in the ears; severe stitches in and behind the ears;
stitches like blows through the ears, on leaning the head
against any thing; difficulty of hearing, and rushing in
the ears, after mechanical injury also.
Nose.-Pain in the nose, as if from a shock or blow, and
sensation of creeping therein; pain of cramp at the root
of the nose; inflammation and swelling of the nose; ul-
cerated nostrils; epistaxis.
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Mouth. Dryness of the mouth, with thirst; saliva
tinged with blood; spitting of blood; dry, or white-coated
tongue; constriction of the palate, as if from taking any
thing astringent; smarting, and biting sensation, on the
tongue.
Lips. - Swelling of the lips; creeping sensation in the
lips; burning, hot, dry, and shrivelled lips.
Teeth. Incipient paralysis of the lower jaw; painful
swelling of the sub-maxillary glands; tooth-ache, with
hard, stiff swelling of the cheeks; tearing pain in the
upper molar teeth, when eating; sensation of looseness,
and elongation of the teeth; creeping sensation in the
gums.
Face.Face pale and sunken, or sallow and puffed;
redness and burning of one cheek only, the body being
cool; jerking, beating or creeping shudder in the cheeks;
heat of the face in the evening, the nose being cold; pains
in the face, resembling those of inflammation; hot, shining,
red, hard swelling of the cheeks; varioloid eruption on the
face, especially under the eyes.
Throat. Sore throat, as if from something hard in the
fauces; deglutition impeded by a kind of nausea, as if the
food would not descend; noise during deglutition; shoot-
ing in the throat, when not swallowing; burning in the
throat, with apprehension, as if from inward heat; inflam-
mation of the oesophagus; bitter tasted mucus in the
throat.
Klapp
G
Taste. Taste putrid, or slimy, or bitter, soon after
waking in the morning; thirst for water; inclination to
drink, with aversion to all liquids; aversion to meat, meat.
broths, and to smoking tobacco; desire for vinegar.
Appetite. Immoderate appetite in the evening, with
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sensation of fulness, and a sort of griping pressure in the
abdomen, immediately after eating; fretfulness after sup-
per, with a disposition to weep.
Stomach.-Pressure at the stomach, as if from a stone;
fulness in the stomach, and at the pit of the stomach, as if
arising from satiety, with loathing; sensation of flick-
ering, and conglobation at the pit of the stomach;
pinching, spasmodic snatching in the stomach; stitches
at the pit of the stomach, with pressure through to the
back, and constriction in the chest, increased by eating,
drinking, or by touching the part.
Nausea. Ineffectual efforts to vomit, also at night,
with pressure at the pit of the stomach, as if from vomiting
of coagulated blood; vomiting of blood; vomiting after
drinking milk.
Flatulence.- Much pain from flatulency; flatus smell-
ing like rotten eggs.
Eructation.
A
Eructation bitter, or putrid, or violent
without result, or interrupted; eructation of bitter or salt-
ish fluid.
Hypochondria. -Shoots through the spleen on walk-
ing; stitches under the left hypochondria, which take away
the breath; pressure in the region of the liver.
Abdomen. Pain in the abdomen, after lifting too
heavy weights, in pregnant women; hard swelling of the
abdomen, with cutting, smarting pain in the sides of the
abdomen, alleviated by the expulsion of flatus, every day,
from early in the morning, till two in the afternoon; sharp
shocks through the lower part of the abdomen; pain, as
of a bruise, in the sides of the abdomen.
G
Ma
G
Anus. Hæmorrhoids; pressure in the rectum.
Fæcal Evacuation. - Ineffectual efforts to go to stool;
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constipation; thin, pappy, sour-smelling evacuations, after
frequent fruitless efforts; frequent, small evacuations, of
mucus only; watery diarrhoea; evacuations of undigested
matter; involuntary evacuations in the night; bloody,
purulent evacuations.
Urinary Discharge. — Retention of urine, with squeez-
ing and pressure in the bladder; dysury; forcing efforts
to make water, with involuntary dripping; frequent dis-
charge of watery urine; brown urine, with brick-dust red
sediment; bloody urine.
Genital Organs. An itching red spot on the glans
penis; inflammation of the glans penis; bluish red swell-
ing of the penis, and of the scrotum, with tension; smart-
ing pain, and sense of hard, hot swelling of the testicle,
arising from a blow, with pain on walking, standing, and
on touching it; hydrocele; shooting in the testicles
and spermatic cords, even to the inguinal ring, during
rest.
Menses. Coming before their time; flow of blood
from the uterus, not during menstruation; very painful
and tedious after-pains.
Chest. Rheumatic stitches in the side; contractive
compression in the chest, and in the region of the heart;
pain of luxation, and of a bruise in the cartilages of the
ribs, at their articulation with the vertebræ and ster-
num.
G
Respiration. Oppression of the breathing; breathing
difficult; anxious puffing; rattling in the trachea; fetid
breath; shooting in the chest, with impeded breathing and
cough, increased by every motion.
Cough. Cough chiefly dry, from a creeping sensation
in the trachea, in the morning, after rising; cough in the
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night, during sleep; cough in children, after crying and
screaming; fits of hooping-cough, which come on with
crying; moist cough; hæmoptysis, with dyspnœa, sen-
sation of ebullition of blood; palpitation; periodical heat,
with increased spitting of bright frothy blood, with clots,
and mucus; during the cough, stitches in the head, or a
sensation, as of bruising, in all the ribs.
Heart. Sharp stitches at the heart; convulsive throbs
of the heart; perspiration of a reddish colour on the chest;
excoriation of the nipples.
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Skin. Anthrax; sting of bees; varicose veins;
wounds, as also bites; miliary and varioloid
erup-
tions, dark-red, blue, yellowish spots on the skin, with
extravasation of blood; hot, hard, red, shining swelling.
Fever. Great chilliness chiefly of an evening, as
if from the effusion of cold water; fever of an even-
ing; fever in the morning, first cold, then heat; in-
termittent fever, with much thirst, and much drinking,
before the cold fit, and with yawning, then heat, with
thirst, but less drinking; before the fever, traction in the
periosteum of all the bones; thirst, without external heat,
with contracted pupils; quick pulse; puerperal fever, with
the tertian type, and with watery diarrhea; nervous fever,
with loss of consciousness, without delirium.
<;
Back. Pain in the sacrum and the back, as if they
were crushed; feeling as if there was a lump in the back
creeping in the spine; pinching pain in the muscles of the
nape of the neck, especially in sneezing and yawning ;
weakness of the muscles of the neck; the head falls
backwards; painful swelling of the glands of the
neck.
Upper Extremities. Pain in the arm, as if it were
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crushed, with a creeping sensation; pain of luxation in
the joints of the arms and hands; jerking in the arms;
shooting in the axilla; veins of the hand swollen, with
pulse full and strong; pain, as of a bruise, in the hands,
with loss of power, on attempting to lay hold of any thing,
cramp in the fingers.
Lower Extremities. Legs and feet as if crushed;
tension, traction, and weariness in the thighs, increased by
walking; tearing pain in the knee, or tension, as if from a
shortening of the tendons, increased by walking; loss of
power, with cracking in the knees, and numbness of the
feet; tearing in the joints of the foot, and in the heel;
shooting in the ancle joints when in motion; creeping sen-
sation in the feet; erysipelatous inflammation, and swelling
of the feet, with heat, and tractive shooting pain; swelling
of the ancle joints, with soreness when in motion; dark-red,
blue and yellowish colour of the skin of the foot; hot
shining red swelling of the toes, and adjacent parts;
podagra.
Predominating Symptoms. - Chronic rheumatism, with
tensive tearing pain; shooting, creeping, or crippling
pains, as of fracture or a bruize, especially in the
limbs and joints, on motion; gouty affections; symptoms
arising from a shock, fall, contusion, strain, dislocation,
sprain; compression, shooting and creeping in the injured
parts; increase of the pains by speaking, blowing the
nose, moving, and even by noise; ill effects occasioned by
the abuse of cinchona ; ebullition of blood, and congestion
towards the head, with burning in the upper parts of the
body, the lower parts being cool; extreme sensibility of
the whole body, especially in the joints; heaviness and
relaxation of all the limbs; tingling in all the limbs on
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concussion of the body, or on ascending; jerks throughout
the body; the child stiffens, starts, cannot hold up its
head; fainting fits; wasting away; nervous and serous
apolexy.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
The Arnica Montana, is scarcely less extraordinary
in its effects than the Aconitum Napellus. Although
for the last two centuries this useful plant has been
employed, under the title of panacea lapsorum, as a
domestic remedy, by a few practitioners, among the
inhabitants of the mountainous districts, where it is in-
digenous, it was not till Hahnemann directed attention
to it, that its virtues became generally known.
Arnica is, in consequence of the faculty it possesses of
producing symptoms having a great resemblance to
those it relieves, a most efficacious remedy for various
injuries, the result of external violence. Contusions and
sprains are relieved by the use of Arnica, in so rapid a
manner, that one, who has not witnessed the result, could
not possibly credit its almost magical effect; and thus
the inflammation, which so often attacks a part that has
been violently injured, is generally prevented, and always
greatly diminished in severity. After the performance of
dangerous surgical operations, its application will in most
cases prevent the occurrence of sympathetic fever.
Although the property which Arnica possesses of di-
minishing or altogether obviating the danger resulting from
every species of injury from external violence, be the most
important, it is by no means the only one from which
advantage can be derived. It produces many other symp-
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toms corresponding to various diseases to which the human
frame is subject.
In many cases of pain in the chest, resembling pleurisy,
it is of great benefit. Inflammation of the face, and neck,
with swelling of the submaxillary and cervical glands, is
alleviated by it. The symptoms met with on the invasion
of some species of fever are successfuly combatted with
this remedy. Various bilious and gastric affections,
mucous diarrhoea and hæmatemesis may be arrested when
the general symptoms correspond with those that are
occasioned by Arnica. It is often found efficacious in
gout and rheumatism. In nocturnal coughs, short dry
cough, spitting of blood, palpitations and symptoms of
the nature of Angina pectoris, great benefit will be
derived from its use. Agitation during sleep, accom-
panied by frightful dreams, cries and convulsive startings,
are also among the symptoms relieved by its employment.
This is one of the few remedies employed by the
homœopathic practitioners externally. In external in-
juries a few drops of the tincture to an ounce of water,
may be kept constantly applied to the part by wetting
linen rags in the mixture.
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Antidotes. IPECAC., NUX VOM., SAMBUCUS.
"M
Head. Disorder and weight of the head in a room,
with amelioration in the open air; giddiness, with beating
in the head on rising; giddiness in the evening, which
causes the patient to hold by something for support on
closing the eyes; headache alleviated by the application
of cold water, but increased on its being discontinued;
pressive stunning headache, with weight in the forehead;
pulsative pain in the forehead, with inclination to
vomit; hemicrania; external soreness of the scalp, as
if from extravasation of blood, especially on its being
touched; swelling of the head and face; tinea capitis.
Disposition. Immense anguish and restlessness which
causes the patient to go in the day time from place to
place, and at night to leave his bed, especially in the even-
ing after lying down, or towards three o'clock in the morn-
ing on awaking; dread of solitude, of apparitions, and
of thieves; excessive fear of death, or desire to commit
suicide; irritability and aberration of the mind, from
drinking ardent spirits; peevishness about trifles; incli-
** The remedies marked thus are ranked among the Antipsorics.
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nation to speak of the faults of others; insanity; dulness
or weakness of intellect.
Sleep. — Somnolency in the evening; sleeplessness at
night, and continued restlessness, and tossing about;
starting of particular parts, or of the whole body on
falling asleep, or during sleep; continual semi-slumber
often interrupted by grinding of the teeth and lamen-
tation; restlessness during the night; anguish at the
heart, and severe burning under the skin, as if hot water
were flowing in the veins; frequent awaking, and diffi-
culty in going to sleep again, agonizing dreams.
Eyes. — Inflammation of the eyes, with violent burning
pain; gouty, scrofulous, and rheumatic ophthalmia ; inflam-
mation of the internal surface of the eyelid, with inability
to open the eyes; dimness and yellowness of the eyes; wild
staring look; distortion of the eyes, specks on the cornea.
Ears.—Whistling in the ears, with difficulty of hearing,
as if the ears were stopped.
Nose. Swelling of the nose; constant burning in the
nose; branlike desquamation of the skin of the nose;
cancer of the nose.
Mouth. Bleeding of the gums; stomacace; thrush;
bad smell in the mouth; brown or black, parched dry and
cracked tongue; swelling and mortification of the tongue;
hasty speaking.
Lips. Lips blackish, cracked, dry; eruption on the
lips, at the edge of the red part; cancer on the under lip,
with lardy surface, and hard rounded edges; swelling of
the submaxillary glands, with pressive and contusive pain.
Teeth.-Toothache in the night, with pain in the cheeks,
penetrating deep into the bones, even to the ears and the
temples, increased by lying on the side affected, and
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diminished by the warmth of the fire; pains in the teeth
which cause furious passion; feeling of elongation and
looseness of the teeth; grinding of the teeth.
Face.-- Face yellow and bluish, puffed or earthy; face
puffed or sunk, with hollow eyes, surrounded with a blue
circle, and sharpened nose; disfigured death-like counte-
nance; tractive shooting or burning pain in the face;
swelling of the face, especially under the eyelids; copper-
coloured eruption on the face; mealy spots on the face,
and round the eyes; crusta lactea, cancer of the face.
Throat. Sore throat on swallowing, as if from internal
smarting swelling; constriction in the oesophagus; im-
peded deglutition, as if from paralysis; burning pain in the
œsophagus; inflammation of the oesophagus.
Taste. Loss of taste of food; bitter taste after
eating and drinking; saltish taste; burning thirst for cold
water; continual longing for liquids, with frequent drink-
ing, but always little at a time; longing for acids and
spirits or coffee; aversion to eating food; pressure in the
œsophagus on eating any kind of food, as if it had not
descended.
G
ARSENICUM ALBUM.
Stomach.-Agonizing pain in the region of the stomach,
on vomiting; pressure at the stomach after eating; great
soreness and anguish at the pit of the stomach, and in the
stomach; spasmodic pains in the stomach; burning in
the stomach and at the pit of the stomach; inflammation
of the stomach; induration and cancer of the stomach.
Nausea. Rising of a sharp fluid; nausea on lying
down more especially on motion; constant nausea, with
vomiting and diarrhea; violent vomiting almost to stran-
gulation; chronic vomiting of all that is taken; vomiting
first of food, then of bile; vomiting of green matter, with
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diarrhœa, immediately after taking the least liquid;
violent vomiting of water and mucus; bloody aud black
vomiting.
D
Eructation. Eructation after eating, with pressure at
the stomach and nausea; rising of a sharp fluid.
Hypochondria. - Induration of the liver; numbness
extending from the left hypochondria even to the stomach.
Abdomen. Pains of the most violent kind in the ab-
domen, with great agony in the lower part of it; abdomen
swollen and hard: cutting pains in the abdomen, with
coldness or inward heat, thirst, and vomiting; sense of
weight in the abdomen, and diarrhoea; tearing pain in the
lower part of the hypogastium; nocturnal jerking pains
in the abdomen; hysteric cramps in the hypogastium ;
severe burning pains over the whole of the abdomen; in-
flammation of the intestines; swollen hardened mesenteric
glands; soft swelling of the abdomen, painful on being
touched; ascites; painful swelling of the inguinal glands.
Anus. Burning piles in the rectum and about the
anus; burning pain in the rectum; prolapsus ani.
Facal Discharge. - Great inclination to go to stool,
with griping, and burning smarting pain at the anus;
slimy, watery, green, yellow, fœtid, and undigested diar-
rhœal stool, at times also with worms; burning evacuations,
with violent cholic; bloody stools: involuntary motions.
Urinary Discharge. Retention of urine, and paralysis
of the bladder; difficulty and pain in making water;
involuntary flow of urine; bloody burning urine; cloudy
urine, with slimy sediment.
Madag
Genital Organs. Painful swelling of the genital
organs, even to gangrene; glans penis bluish red, with
fissures; erysipelatous inflammation of the scrotum.
E
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Menses. Menses too early and too copious, with
various pains and incommodities; excoriating acrid leu-
corrhoea; cancer of the uterus.
Hand
Chest. Pressure in the chest, especially in the
sternum; constriction at the chest on every motion,
with want of breath; hysterical cramps in the chest;
stitches in the sternum; chilliness in the chest and upper
part of the abdomen in the evening; burning and heat in
the chest; inflammation of the lungs ; dropsy of the chest.
Trachea. Inflammation of the trachea; phthisis
trachealis, with diminution of the secretion of mucus.
Respiratory Organs. - Excessive flow from the nos-
trils of acrid, burning water, with hoarseness and loss of
sleep; coryza, with bleeding at the nose and pressure over
the eyebrows; dryness and obstruction in the nose.
M
Breath. Breath short immediately after eating; sudden
dyspnoea, with want of breath, debility, and extreme
languor on motion; dyspnoea, with pressive pain at the
pit of the stomach; oppression at the chest in the cold
open air or on ascending; evening attacks of suffocation,
after lying down in bed; Miller's astlıma.
Cough. Cough with dyspnoea and viscous mucus in
the chest; cough without expectoration, especially after
drinking; dry evening cough, returning periodically; im-
mediate cough on coming into the air; nocturnal bloody
cough, with burning heat over the whole body; acute
suppuration of the lungs.
Heart. — Angina pectoris; palpitation of the heart with
great anguish, especially in the night; violent tumultuous
beating of the heart; cancer of the breast.
J
Skin. - Dry, parchment-like, or blue and cold skin;
miliary eruption, principally white; psoric blotches;
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variola; nettle-rash; petechiæ over the whole body, with
putrid fever; gangrenous blisters; suppurating tetters, with
severe burning pain; ichorous ulcers, with elevated edges
or thin scabs; gangrenous or carcinomatous ulcers;
insensible or extremely painful ulcers, with shooting and
burning pain, especially on the parts becoming cold; dis-
coloured nails; warts; chilblains; varicose veins.
C
Fever. General coldness of the body, with loss of
pulse, and cold clammy sweats; great cold and shivering
without thirst, chiefly in a room, or directly after drinking,
with paroxysms of pain or appearances of other symp-
toms at their commencement; shivering of an evening,
with twisting of the limbs and restless disquietude;
paroxysms of fever preceded by giddiness and great
debility, or with whizzing in the ears, or followed by
forcing compressive pain in the forehead; quotidian, tertian
or quartan ague, with indistinct interchange of cold and
heat, with restlessness and great thirst, or with absence of
thirst in the cold and hot fits; puerperal, mucous, putrid,
and slow nervous fever; gastric and bilious fever, with
vomiting, inward heat and great thirst during griping
diarrhœa; general burning heat at night, with burning in
all the veins, without thirst and without perspiration;
perspiration at the beginning of sleep or after the termi-
nation of an attack of fever.
Back. - Violent burning pain in the back, much in-
creased by being touched; tearing and dragging pain in
the back and between the shoulder-blades on lying down;
soft swelling without pain about the throat and lower jaw.
Upper Extremities. —Tearing pain in the arms and
hands; swelling of the arms, with foetid black blisters;
nocturnal drawing, tearing pain from the elbow to the
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shoulder; tearing and shooting pain in the knuckles of the
hand; cramp in the fingers; hard swelling of the fingers,
with pains in the bones of the fingers; discoloured nails.
Lower Extremities. - Cramp in the legs; tearing pain
in the legs from the hips to the ancles, with restlessness,
which compels the patient to be constantly moving the
limbs; nervous sciatica; paralytic weakness of the thigh;
pain in the knee joint; shortening of the tendons of the
hock; herpetic eruption in the hock; cramps in the
calves of the leg; white swelling of the thigh; old ulcers
in the legs, with burning and shooting pain; hard shining
burning swelling of the feet, with bluish black burning
blisters on the instep; pain in the balls of the toes, as if
galled by walking.
Predominating Symptoms. - Paroxysms of pain, with
anxiety, coldness, inclination to lie down, and sudden
extreme debility; paroxysms of pain which commence
with shivering; pain which occasions despair, or fits of
angry furious passion; nocturnal pains which are felt
even during sleep, and which are only to be endured by
walking about; the symptoms increased by hearing the
conversation of others, by lying on the parts affected, by
sitting after dinner, or by lying down in the evening; the
symptoms mitigated by external warmth, or by standing
and moving the body; daily intermittent appearance of
the symptoms, or periodical attacks every three or four
weeks; attacks of rheumatic pain of a tearing kind con-
tinuing for six days successively, with four days' interval;
burning pain in the internal and external parts; inflam-
mation of the internal organs, with violent burning pain;
gastric, bilious, hysterical affections; dropsical swellings;
scrofulous affections.
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Feeling of deadness in the limbs; extreme debility and
loss of strength; on lying down the patient feels strong
and wishes to get up, but sinks down again immediately;
fainting fits; emaciation; wasting and phthisis; jaundice;
chlorosis; puffiness of the limbs and face, with enlarged
abdomen and swelling of the glands; general anasarca ;
Asiatic cholera; obstinate influenza; trembling of the
limbs; convulsions; tonic spasms; paralysis.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
This powerful remedy is often required in practice, as
the immense number of symptoms it is capable of pro-
ducing in healthy individuals, necessarily renders it ap-
plicable to a great variety of diseases. It has been suc-
cessfully employed in various quotidian and other forms
of intermittents; shooting in the sternum; vomiting after
having eaten almost any thing; too copious menstruation
and other disturbances of that function; acrid leucorrhoea,
indurations of the liver; oppression at the chest on going
up stairs; fœtid breath; bleeding of the gums; homoptysis;
pressure at the sternum and stomach; shooting here and
there in the face; sleeping in the evening; shivering in the
evening, with anxious agitation; difficulty of going to sleep
after awaking during the night; lassitude of the legs;
contusive pains in the knees; painful swelling as if of exco-
riation in the fleshy part of the great toes; burning
shooting pain; old ulcers of the legs; dragging pains in the
hips, loins and thighs; varicose veins; tractive nocturnal
pains from the elbow to the axilla; painful swelling of the
inguinal glands.
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Antidotes.CAUST., CHINA, PULSAT. VIS ELECT.
Head. — Determination of blood to the head, with beat-
ing therein; pressive pain outwards, in the sides of the
head, temples and forehead; the pains in the head chang-
ing or disappearing on touching the part.
Disposition. Great irritability and sensibility of the
mind, with indifference to every thing; hypochondriacal
and hysterical disquietude and anxiety; wavering of the
mind, and fickleness.
ear.
M
ASSAFOETIDA.
J
Sleep.- Unusual inclination to sleep.
Eyes. Burning in the pupil of the eye, equally from
within or without; sense of dryness of the eyes.
Ears. Difficulty of hearing, with suppuration in the
P
Nose. Pressure in the nose, as if it would burst;
dead feel in the bones of the nose; flow of foetid pus
from the nose.
Mouth. Dryness and burning in the mouth and
fauces; a feeling of a body mounting upwards, even to
the fauces.
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Face. Tensive, numb feel in the cheek-bone, and
bones of the face; pressive feeling of deadness in the
chin.
Stomach. Pressure at the stomach after eating; sense
of fulness in the region of the stomach; pulsation at the
pit of the stomach; disturbance of the stomach from fat
food.
food.
liver.
Flatulence. Flatulent cholic; much foetid flatus.
Eructation. Sharp, rancid eructation, as after fat
Hypochondria. - Pressive, or shooting pains in the
Abdomen.Shooting out pains in the sides of the ab-
domen.
Fæcal Discharge. — Ineffectual efforts to go to stool;
fœtid diarrhoea, with griping, and exit of much fœtid
flatus.
M
—
Madag
ht
S
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Urinary Discharge. Brown, sharp-smelling urine;
cramp of the bladder during, and after making water.
Chest. Pressure at the chest, with difficult breathing;
beating in the chest; shooting pain in the chest from
within outwards.
Breath. Oppression at the chest, with quick breath-
ing, and small pulse; spasmodic dyspnoea, as if the lungs
could not dilate properly.
Heart.
Palpitation of the heart.
Skin. Hot dark-red swelling of single parts; external
inflammation, with tendency to suppuration; gangrenous
ulcers with bad pus, and painfulness round about them.
Fever. In the afternoon, heat of the face, without
thirst, and with anxiety and sleepiness.
Bones. - Painful inflammation of the bones; soften-
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arms and hands.
ing and bending of the bones (rachitis); thickening of
the bones; caries, with thin ichorous fœtid discharge.
Shooting pain in the shoulder-blades, and
Back.
muscles of the back and loins.
Upper Extremities. —
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ASSAFŒTIDA.
M
Starting of the muscles of the
Lower Extremities.
Starting of the muscles of the
legs and feet; swelling of the ankles; shooting pain and
beating in the great toes.
Predominating Symptoms. Jerking, and vibration of
the muscles in various parts; intermittent, dull, shooting
pains from within outward, ameliorated or changed on
touch, but being independent of change of position; puffi-
ness, and weight of the body; St. Vitus's dance; hysteric
attacks.
M
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Assafoetida is often required in the treatment of nervous
diseases; in caries, especially, when a venereal taint may
be suspected; in diseases of the bones, necrosis, exostosis,
especially of a scrofulous nature, and in rachitis.
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* BELLADONNA.
Antidotes.- COFF., HEP., HYOSC., PULS., VINUM.
Head. - Head-ache daily, from four in the afternoon
till three in the morning, increased by the warmth of the
bed, and by lying down; head-ache caused by cold strik-
ing the head; confused head-ache, especially in the fore-
head, with loss of consciousness, or with a feeling as if the
head would burst; periodical nervous head-ache; pressure
and feeling of swelling, and forcing asunder, in the brain;
tearing and shooting pain in the head; jarring head-ache on
walking fast, or going up stairs; determination of blood to
the head, with internal and external heat of the head, and
swelling and beating of the vessels; inflammation of the
brain; dropsy of the ventricles of the brain; undulating
sensation in the head, as if from the presence of water;
the head-ache increasing on moving the eyes, shaking the
head, leaning forwards or bending backwards, and by a
current of air; feeling as if of the skull being thin; pinching
pain in the scalp; copious perspiration of the scalp; shak-
ing the head, or throwing it back; boring with the head
on the pillow.
Mind. Loss of consciousness, and confusion of the
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F
ideas; loss of the senses, and of the power of thinking ;
confusion of the understanding after fright and mortifi-
cation; mania, with laughable tricks; illusion of phantoms
and frightful visions; raving; delirium; forgetfulness; im-
possibility to express oneself correctly.
Disposition. Restlessness and hypochondriacal de-
pression; howling, screaming, and spiteful crying of
children; anguish and disquietude; trembling, faint-
heartedness, and want of courage; distrust; weeping;
timidity, and inclination to run away; timidity; disinclin-
ation to speak; aversion to work and motion; great ob-
stinacy; insanity and fury, with biting, spitting, striking,
clamour and tearing things; shamelessness; hasty speak-
ing; tossing about and catching with the hands in the
air.
BELLADONNA.
M
G
Giddiness. Feeling of intoxication and reeling, espe-
cially after eating and drinking; giddiness with anguish,
loss of consciousness, and falling to the left side; ver-
tigo, with nausea, and glittering before the eyes, especially
on stooping and rising from a seat.
Sleep. — Sleepiness in the day, with disturbed sleep at
night; fruitless attempts to catch at things after sleep;
heavy sleep; sleep prevented by anguish, or disturbed
by anxious dreams; frightful visions and startings on
closing the eyes to sleep; fearful starting in sleep, the
eyes being open; nocturnal phantoms, with restlessness
and groaning; night-mare.
Eyes. Pain within the orbit; violent pressive pain
through the eyes to the head; determination of blood to
the eyes, with swelling of the vessels; sensation of heat in
the eyes; itching and burning of the eye-lids; the con-
junctiva red, relaxed; inflammation of the eyes, with swell-
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ing, redness, and reversion of the lids; ophthalmia from a
cold, in newly born babes, and also in gouty and scrofulous
subjects; medullary sarcoma in the eyes; yellowness of
the white of the eyes; specks on the cornea; dull, weak,
lustreless, or shining red, sparkling eyes; wild, unsteady
look; constant flow of sharp, burning tears; conglu-
tination of the eye-lids, and bleeding on attempting to
open them; weight, and paralytic falling of the eye-lid ;
half-open, projecting eye; distortion, cramp, and convul-
sive motions of the eyes, also excited by light; dilated
pupils; weakness of sight, with a mist before the eyes;
night blindness, beginning at twilight; amaurosis from
paralysis of the optic nerve; strabismus; double vision;
variegated appearance of a candle, with red colours around
it; sparks before the eyes; intolerance of light; desire
for light.
Ears. Ear-ache, with boring and screwing pain in
the ear, shooting pain in, and behind the ears; tearing
and shooting pain in the parotid glands, even to the
fauces; inflammatory swelling of the parotid glands;
inflammation of the internal and external ear, with puru-
lent discharge; difficulty of hearing arising from cold;
ringing and rushing noise in the ears.
Nose.-Pain in the nose on being touched, as of a bruize,
with burning sensation; nocturnal stitches in the nose;
inflammatory swelling of the nose internally and ex-
ternally; discharge of blood from the nose and mouth;
sense of smell extremely acute; sense of smell diminished;
fœtid smell from the nose.
Mouth. Dryness of the mouth, without thirst; feeling
of dryness, the mouth being moist; ptyalism in fevers;
reddish froth about the mouth; inflammatory redness and
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swelling of the inside of the mouth and soft palate; hot,
shrivelled, cracked tongue; tongue very red at the
edges, the centre being white; white, yellow, brown, or
slimy coated tongue; inflammatory swelling of the tongue;
sensation of weight in the tongue, with difficulty of enun-
ciation; stammering; nasal hissing tone of voice; loss of
the power of utterance.
Lips. Lips dark red; shrivelled, dry lips; swelling
and hardness of the lips; eruption painful to the touch, at
the corner of the mouth; half-open, or tetanic closure of
the, mouth; tearing pain in the lower jaw; shooting pain
and tension in the joints of the jaw; inflammation and
swelling of the submaxillary glands.
Teeth. Tooth-ache from taking cold, especially among
females; tooth-ache increased to an intolerable degree by
touch, air, and by eating; grinding of the teeth; swelling
of the gums, with burning and shooting pain.
Face. Redness of the face, with burning heat; bluish-
red puffed face; pale, sunken face, with distorted, anxious
features; jaundiced complexion; change of colour of the
face, sometimes bluish-red, sometimes pale; convulsive
motions of the face and mouth, which is drawn awry to-
wards the ear; violent, cutting pains, in the nerves of the
face; swelling of one side of the face; erysipelatous in-
flammation of the face; thickening of the skin of the face;
troublesome itching and irritation over the cheek bone
and on the side of the nose; crusta lactea.
K
BELLADONNA.
S
▬
Throat. Sore-throat, as if from swelling in the fauces,
compelling the patient to hawk; spasm in the fauces, with
swallowing difficult, painful, or impossible, whereby all
liquid to be swallowed is rejected through the nose; feel-
ing of contraction in the fauces; constant efforts to swal-
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low; shooting pain and pressure in the fauces and the tonsils
on swallowing and speaking; great dryness and burning
in the fauces; inflammation of the throat, with swelling of
the uvula and velum pendulum palati; inflammation,
swelling, and suppuration of the tonsils; inflammation of
the œsophagus.
Taste. — Loss of taste; bitter, putrid, or slimy taste;
sour taste of bread; excessive burning thirst, with aversion
to drink, or with constant desire to drink, with inability
to swallow a single drop; tormenting hunger; loss of ap-
petite; chronic disgust for food; dislike to milk, beer, and
acids.
Stomach. - Pressure at the stomach after eating; swell-
ing at the scrobiculus cordis, with pressive pain on
walking; chronic cramps of the stomach; pinching
pain at the scrobiculus cordis; want of irritability in
the stomach.
Nausea. - Nausea, with disgust to food, and bitter
taste; vomiting, and ineffectual choking retching; vomit-
ing of a slimy, watery, or acid liquid, or of bile; vomiting,
with diarrhoea after a chill; vomiting of blood.
Eructation. Ineffectual efforts to eructate; putrid
eructation; belching of the ingesta, with pressure at the
stomach; hiccough.
Hypochondria. Pain in the hypochondria; burning
in the left hypochondrium, and at the scrobiculus cordis ;
inflammation of the liver; inflammation of the kidneys,
with shooting burning pain, in the region of the
loins.
Ad
Abdomen. Pain in the abdomen, which no posture re-
lieves; painful swelling of the abdomen; violent pain in
the abdomen, below the navel, as if it were seized with the
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nails, increased by external pressure; hysteric spasms of
the bowels; smarting, raw pain, in the abdomen; flicker-
ing pain in the abdomen; shooting on the left side of
the abdomen, on coughing, sneezing, and on the part being
touched; feeling of stoppage of the circulation in the ab-
domen; inflammation of the intestines; stitches in the
region of the uterus; tenderness of the integuments of the
abdomen; itching of the abdomen; flatulent cholic,
with puffy swelling of the colon, alleviated by external
pressure.
Fecal Discharge. - Constipation; hard, scanty mo-
tions; frequent, small, slimy motions; involuntary mo-
tions; discharge of round worms.
Urinary Discharge. - Retention of urine; scanty dis-
charge of turbid, dark-coloured, or deep-red urine; fre-
quent desire to make water, especially in the afternoon
and evening, with discharge of pale-yellow urine; in-
voluntary discharge of urine when standing.
Genital Organs. Violent bearing down sensation;
false spasmodic pains; descent and hardening of the
uterus; determination of blood to the uterus; inflamma-
tion of the labia and uterus; cancer of the uterus; puer-
peral fever; lochia too feeble; catamænia before the time,
and too copious; menorrhagia, the blood being of a bright
red colour, or with discharge of fœtid clots, with bearing
down pain.
Mak
G
Chest. Pressure in the chest, with pain between the
shoulder blades, and shortness of breath; tension in the
chest; hysteric spasms of the chest; shooting pains in the
chest, with irritating cough; disquietude, with beating in
the chest; determination of blood to the chest; inflam-
mation of the lungs.
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Trachea. External painfulness of the larynx, with
constriction, attended with anxiety on touching it, as
also on breathing, speaking, and coughing; constriction
of the larynx; catarrh, with a feeling of tightness on the
chest; inflammation of the trachea.
Respiratory Organs. - Dryness of the nose; moist co-
ryza in one nostril, with fœtid smell.
Breath. — Breathing irregular, sometimes short, some-
times long, or short, quick, and anxious, with groaning;
danger of suffocation on swallowing, as also on turning and
touching the head; strong expiration.
Cough. — Cough, with dyspnoea, from determination of
blood to the chest, or with starting, shooting pain in the
region of the hips, as if the uterus were torn away; cough
after dinner, with expectoration of mucus; nocturnal cough,
chiefly dry, with tearing pain in the chest, or with coryza,
catarrh, and stitches in the sternum, or, in scrofulous sub-
jects, with rattling; dry cough day and night, with
tickling at the pit of the throat, or with head-ache, and
redness of the face; short dry cough; dry spasmodic
cough, with suffocative retching, especially after midnight;
paroxysms of hooping-cough, with weeping, or pain in the
stomach, previous to, or with sneezing after the attacks ;
cough, with expectoration of blood.
Heart. - Violent beating of the heart, which shakes the
head; pressure and tremor about the heart, with anxiety;
swelling and hardening of the female breast; cancer of
the breast; flow of the milk; milk fever.
C
Skin. Uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet colour of the
skin, with dryness, heat, itching, burning and puffiness of
the parts, especially of the face, neck, breast, abdomen,
and hands; true scarlatina; elevated, continuous, scarlet
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spots on the limbs; scarlet, miliary eruption over the
whole body; measles; eruption of blisters, with scabs,
whitish edges, and oedematous swelling; gangrenous
blisters; boils which continually return in the Spring;
bee-stings; chilblains.
Fever. Cold about the shoulders and back, with
nausea; cold shivers, with pain as of a bruize, and traction
in the back and limbs; cold of certain parts, as the
limbs, with burning heat of others, as the head; cold
and heat alternately; fever of an evening, first shivering,
then heat with thirst, determination of blood to the head,
and pressure in the forehead; continued fever, with ex-
acerbation in the evening; general continued internal and
external burning heat, with restlessness; quick, hard
pulse; beating of the arteries; inflammatory, catarrhal,
rheumatic, mucous, putrid, puerperal, milk, and nervous
fevers, with loss of consciousness, or with violent delirium,
screaming, raging, tossing about, and striking with the
limbs.
Neck.-Stiffness of the neck; painful swelling and
stiffness of the throat and back of the neck; painful
swelling of the glands of the neck; tearing pain in the
axillæ.
Upper Extremities. - Arms as if numbed, and painful;
paralytic, dragging pressure, and tearing pain in the arms;
inclination to stretch the arms; paralysis, and weight of
the arms; scarlet red swelling of the arms and hands;
pressing, tearing pain in the shoulder, passing quickly
down the arm, especially at night, diminished by external
pressure, increased by motion; painful starting cramps
and convulsions of the arms and hands; trembling of the
hands; tearing pressure in the wrist and knuckles at the
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root of the fingers and thumb; gouty stiffness of the
joints of the hand; the joints of the fingers easily
cracking.
Lower Extremities. Sciatica with shooting, or in
shocks; burning pain in the hip joint, extending towards
the uterus, most severe at night, and increased by the
slightest touch; stiffness in the hip after sitting, with diffi-
culty in getting up; spontaneous halting; tearing pain in
the legs, especially in the knees; weight, and lameness of
the legs and feet; cracking of the legs and feet on walking;
tightness of the tendons of the hough; white swelling of
the knee; swelling of the feet.
Predominating Symptoms.- Rheumatic pains of a
pressive, tearing nature, chiefly in the limbs; stitches in
the limbs; bruized pain in the limbs, and shafts of the
bones; bilious and gastric affections, chiefly with sour
taste of bread; ill effects arising from fright or mortifi-
cation; affections caused by a chill; ricketty and scrofu-
lous affections; jaundice; ill effects arising from the abuse
of valerian and mercury; determination of blood to various
parts; inflammation of internal organs, with tendency to
suppuration, or with nervous attacks; great irritability of
all the senses; hysteric attacks, of a spasmodic nature;
convulsive motions, and cramps of separate parts, and of
the whole body; convulsions in children, arising from
obstinacy; cramps, which bend the body backward; te-
tanic cramps; convulsive attacks, with stiffness of the
whole body, the thumbs being clenched; epileptic con-
vulsions; previous to the attacks, inclination to laugh, or
sensation of numbness, and creeping as of ants in the
shoulder joints, or cutting in the abdomen, and sensation
of something ascending to the head, and loss of conscious-
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ness; after the attacks, oppression at the chest, as if from
a load; renewal of the paroxysms on the slightest touch;
sanguineous and nervous apoplexy, with paralysis of se-
parate parts; restlessness, weight, and coldness of the ex-
tremities; trembling of the limbs when walking; lassi-
tude and weakness, especially in the legs; faint debility,
with sensation as of ebullition of blood, and determin-
ation of blood to the head; full habit of body; puffi-
ness of the body and face, with swelled abdomen, in
children.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Belladonna may be ranked among antiphlogistic re-
medies. Its employment in practice has hitherto been
dreaded by many practitioners; but no fear need be en-
tertained, if it is administered with due regard to the case
to be treated, and in the minute doses required on the
homœopathic principle.
The cases to which Belladonna is applicable, are so
numerous, that I must content myself with naming only
a few of the most important. The most severe cases of
cynanche tonsillaris may generally be arrested in the
course of a few hours, by the employment of a minute
dose, which should be preceded by Aconite, if much
fever is present. It is a remedy of extraordinary benefit
in scarlatina; and when given in the smallest dose, every
six or seven days, it acts as a prophylactic to the true
scarlatina described by Sydenham. Hahnemann is of
opinion, that it exerts a specific power over hydro-
phobia.
Belladonna has been used, with marked success, in
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inflammation of the brain, and its membranes, in apo-
plexy, epilepsy, some kinds of head-ache, tic-doulou-
reux, ophthalmia, erysipelas, spasmodic coughs, enteritis,
puerperal fever, inflammatory, and nervous fever. It is
likewise applicable to a great variety of the complaints
of children.
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BRYONIA ALBA.
Antidotes. RHUS, CAMPHORA.
Head. - Pressive pain in the head, with fulness and
weight in the forehead; as if every thing would come out;
heat in the head, with pain, as if it would be forced
asunder; head-ache on stooping, and motion aggravating
it; great greasiness of the scalp.
Mind. Nocturnal delirium; loss of memory.
Disposition.- Uncommon peevishness, irritability and
choleric violence; disquietude, with dread of the future
and of death believed to be near at hand; despair about
getting well; pusillanimity; constant tendency to weep.
Giddiness. Giddiness on rising or on getting up.
Sleep. - Yawning and sleepiness in the day time;
somnolence with half shut eyes; loss of sleep before mid-
night on account of thirst, heat and sensation of ebullition
of the blood; nocturnal delirium as soon as awake; som-
nambulism.
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Eyes. Burning pain in the eyes; inflammation of the
eyes, increased by warmth ; tearing and shooting pain in the
eyes; pressure in the eyes as if from sand; sensation of
pressing out of the eyes from the head; swelling, especially
of the upper eyelids; bloodshot eyes, and suffusion of tears
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in clear sunshine, better in cloudy weather, and in the
twilight; intolerance of light.
Ears.
Buzzing in the ears; cannot bear a noise.
Nose. Painful swelling of the nose, with inflammation
of the nostrils; frequent bleeding at the nose, also after
suppressed catamænia.
Mouth. Dryness of the mouth, fauces and tongue;
shooting pain in the throat on swallowing; middle of
the tongue coated.
Teeth. Starting tooth-ache, made worse by any thing
warm, diminished by lying on the painful side.
Face. Yellow pale colour of the face; heat of the
face with puffiness and redness; knots and hardenings in
the face like boils; withered, swollen, cracked, bleeding
lips; eruption, especially on the lower lip; trismus.
Throat.-Tension and stiffness in the neck and the
throat; eruption on the throat.
Taste. Insipid slimy taste; loss of the taste of food;
bitter taste in the mouth.
Appetite. - Morbid hunger; necessity to eat something
often; strong desire for coffee or for things which one
cannot take; aversion and disgust to food; violent thirst;
not drinking often, but each time a good deal.
Stomach. Pressure at the stomach after eating,
especially bread; stitches in the pit of the stomach, with
interruption of the breath on motion, especially on making
a false step; sensitiveness in the pit of the stomach on
touch.
de
Nausea. Vomiting of solid food, not of liquids;
vomiting after eating bread; vomiting first of bile then of
food; bitter vomiting of liquid after dinner; hæmatemesis.
Flatulence. Loud borborygmus.
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Eructation.-Frequent bitter or empty eructation after
eating; belching of the food without effort; pyrosis.
Hypochondria.- Stitches in the region of the liver on
being touched, on coughing, and on breathing; inflam-
mation of the liver and the diaphragm.
Abdomen.-Swelling of the abdomen after each repast,
going off without exit of flatus; hysteric cramps in the
lower belly; inflammation of the bowels; pain in the
belly after a chill; pain in the belly on motion, ameliorated
by binding tight; ascites.
Fæcal Discharge. — Very hard dry motions; chronic
constipation; foetid diarrhoea after previous griping;
diarrhoea and griping, alternately with constipation and
pain in the stomach.
Urinary Discharge. Diminished secretion of hot red
urine; white cloudy urine; incessant forcing, with in-
creased discharge of urine; on lifting any thing heavy,
urgency to make water with going away of the breath;
burning pain in the urethra.
Menses. Catamania before the time and too copi-
ous, with dark red blood; menorrhagia; suppressed cata-
mænia.
Chest. Stitches in the chest on breathing: cough on
motion alleviated on lying on the back; violent stitches on
the left side of the chest; inflammation of the lungs, with
stitches; pressure on the chest like a load; beating of the
heart, with oppression of breathing; painless knots and
hardening in the glands of the chest; the breasts of lying-
in women over-full of milk.
Respiratory Organs. - Chronic stoppage in the nose,
with dryness.
Breath. Respiration impeded on motion; anxious
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quick breathing; deep slow breathing on exertion; fatiguing
breathing with assistance of the abdominal muscles
intermixed with deep drawing; frequent sighing deep in-
spiration; constant inclination to draw a deep breath.
Cough. Dry deep cough after a tickling in the pit of
the stomach; in the morning, dry cough from tickling in
the throat, later, with expectoration of mucus; dry
spasmodic cough after eating and drinking, with vomiting
of the food; bloody cough, with clotted or brownish
blood; on coughing, bursting pain in the head, with
stitches in the sides of the chest.
K
S
Skin. Burning itching eruptions; miliary eruptions,
especially in children and lying-in women; petechiæ;
hard knots in various parts of the body; erysipelatous in-
flammation, especially in the joints; foul ulcers, and feeling
of coldness on the same.
A
Fever. - Prevailing chilliness and cold, often with heat
in the head, and thirst; internal heat, and thirst for cold
drinks; perspiration like oil; nocturnal perspiration, es-
pecially towards morning.
Bones. Pain in the bones, as if the flesh were
loosened.
Back. Shooting pain in the sacrum and in the back
and shoulder blades; bent gait, and while sitting from
painful stiffness in the sacrum.
Upper Extremities. - Tension and shooting tearing pain
in the shoulder joints and upper arm; swelling in the elbow
joints and hands, especially at the back of the hand; pain
as if from dislocation, in the joints of the hand on motion ;
starting in the fingers on moving the hands.
Lower Extremities. Cracking and slipping out of the
hip joint on walking; hot tense swelling of the thigh and
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leg, or of the feet, frequently only at the instep; tense
stiffness in the legs; pain, as from dislocation in the ancle
on walking and ascending; foul ulcers of the foot; gout
with shooting pain.
Predominating Symptoms. - Rheumatic and gouty pain
in the limbs with tension, made worse on motion and
touch; stitches in the joints; stiffness of the joints;
paralytic weakness of the limbs ; pale or red swelling and
immobility of the suffering parts; over-sensitiveness to
external impressions; the symptoms aggravated towards
nine o'clock in the evening, and on motion, in rare cases of
reaction also in repose; induration of the glands.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
There is a great resemblance between the effects of
Bryony and those of Rhus Toxicodendron; with this
important distinction, that the symptoms produced by
Bryony are excited or exasperated by motion, whilst rest
develops or aggravates those occasioned by Rhus. Bryony
is found useful in various fevers, and in spasms of the bowels,
particularly in women. It is of especial benefit in
affections of the chest, in pleurisy, pneumonia, hepatitis,
acute rheumatic fevers, erysipelas of the breast, asthma,
ascites and head-ache.
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*CALCAREA CARBONICA.
Antidotes. CAMPH. SPIR. ETH. NITRICI.
M
A
Great determination of blood to the head;
! Head.
beating and throbbing in the middle of the brain; weight
in the forehead; icy coldness in and on the right side of the
head; head-ache on one side, with eructation and tendency
to vomit; pain in the head from lifting heavy weights,
and from exertion of the mind; scurfiness and scabs on
the scalp; perspiration of the head in the evening; the
fontanels of the head remaining long open in children;
suppurating boils on the scalp; falling off of the hair.
Mind.-Bewildering of the head, as if a board were
pressed against it.
M
Disposition. Nervous susceptibility; disposition to
tears; anxiety, especially in the evening; fearfulness;
anxious solicitude about the future; despondency respect-
ing the disturbed state of health; obstinacy and fretful-
ness, especially in children.
Giddiness.—Giddiness on ascending high; in the morn-
ing before breakfast, dizziness with trembling.
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Sleep.-Sleepiness early in the evening, with inability to
go to sleep until late, on account of a throng of thoughts
and fancies, which cause anxiety; the sleep at night.
disturbed by heat, apprehension, dyspnoea, and restless-
ness; reveries and visions in sleep, with anxiety, which
lasts a long time on awaking.
Eyes. Pressive, burning, cutting pain in the eyes,
chiefly in the evening by candle light; inflammation of
the eyes, with ulcers and spots on the cornea; bluish dim
cornea, the eyelids being healthy; pupils very much
dilated; watering of the eyes in the open air; on look-
ing intently, dimness of sight like a mist before the
eyes.
Ears.- Pulsation in the ears; discharge of pus from
the ears; polypus of the ears; swelling of the parotid
glands; difficulty of hearing.
Nose.-Disagreeable dryness of the nose; inflammatory
redness and swelling of the nose; ulceration of the nos-
trils; diminution of the sense of smell.
Mouth.-Dryness of the tongue in the morning; indis-
tinct utterance.
Teeth.
Difficult and tedious dentition in children;
tractive shooting pain in the teeth, excited by cold and
draught of air; tooth-ache renewed by cold and warmth;
fistula dentalis.
Face.-Pale puffed countenance; moist eruption on the
forehead and cheeks; tearing pain in the bones of the
face; inflamed and suppurating encysted tumours in the
face; painful swelling of the submaxillary glands.
Throat. Spasmodic constriction, and contraction of
the fauces.
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Taste.-Sour taste either of the food, or when not eat-
ing.
Appetite. Frequent voracious appetite (bulimia) es-
pecially in the morning; constant violent thirst, with
total loss of appetite; thirst at night; continued disgust
to meat, and aversion to tobacco.
Stomach.—Great weakness of digestion; pressive cramp
in the stomach after eating, with vomiting of the ingesta;
swelling and tenderness of the scrobiculus cordis on pres-
sure.
Nausea. - Nausea in the morning; nausea after
drinking milk; vomiting of the food taken, with sour
taste.
Eructation. — Constant heart-burn after every meal.
Hypochondria. - Tight clothes on the hypochondria
insupportable; tension in the hypochondria; stitches in
the liver.
Abdomen.-Cutting pain in the upper part of the abdo-
men; fretting and gnawing pain in the lower belly; lower
belly hard and swollen; the mesenteric glands in chil-
dren swollen and hard; swelling and soreness of the in-
guinal glands.
Anus. - Prolapsus ani, with burning pain on going to
stool.
Fæcal Discharge. - Chronic looseness of the bowels;
sour-smelling diarrhoea in children; hard stools; consti-
pation; fretfulness previous to, and debility after going to
stool.
Urinary Organs.—Too frequent discharge of urine;
bloody urine; acrid fœtid urine; burning in the urethra,
whether making water or not.
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Menses. Menses too early and too copious; dis-
charge of blood at other periods than the natural ones;
itching burning milky leucorrhoea before the period.
Respiratory Organs.—Dry coryza and discharge coming
on late; running catarrh with ulcerated nostrils.
Chest.-Shooting pain in the sides of the chest on mo-
tion; smarting pain in the chest on inspiration; suppressed
or too copious secretion of milk in nurses; nocturnal weak-
ening perspiration on the chest; palpitation of the heart
after dinner.
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Trachea.
Continued hoarseness; accumulation in the
trachea of viscid mucus difficult to expectorate; dryness
of the larynx; swelling of the throat like goitre.
Dyspnoea, as if from accumulation of blood
in the chest; desire to draw a deep breath often.
Breath.
K
Cough. In the evening and at night, violent dry cough ;
during the day slight cough, as if from down in the
throat; cough early in the morning, with yellow, purulent
fœtid discharge, as if from ulceration of the lungs.
Skin. - Nettle-rash, which goes away in the cold air ;
moist tetters; encysted tumours which come on every
four weeks; many small warts, especially on the arms
and hands; polypus; the skin with difficulty heals; ex-
coriation in children; painful swelling of the glands.
Fever. Great internal coldness; frequent flying heats,
with anxiety; flushes of heat after dinner; copious per-
spiration on moderate exercise; perspiration at night and
in the morning, chiefly on the chest.
Bones. Swelling and softening of the ends of the
bones (rachitis); bending of the bones; caries.
Neck. Painful swelling of the glands of the neck,
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stiffness and weakness in the back of the neck, from lift-
ing heavy weights; swelling resembling bronchocele.
Back. — Pain in the sacrum and back after lifting any
thing heavy.
Upper Extremities. - Sudden weakness of the arms, as
if from paralysis; gouty swellings on the joints of the
hands and fingers; perspiration of the hands; deadness
of the hands and fingers; tips of the fingers thick and
swollen.
Lower Extremities.—Weight of the legs; late walking
in children; swelling of the knees with stitches; cramp in
the legs, especially from the knees to the toes; inflamma-
tory swelling and ulcers on the legs; copious perspiration
of the feet; coldness and deadness of the feet in the
evening.
Predominating Symptoms.
Nervous attacks, with loss
of strength and faintishness; great obesity and disposition
to grow stout in children and young people; great emaci-
ation and enlarged abdomen, the appetite being good;
sensitiveness to cold damp air; great fulness of blood;
epileptic attacks; easily hurt by lifting weights; renewal
and aggravation of the symptoms by water and on wash-
ing.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Calcarea is a remedy particularly suited to children,
but is often required in the treatment of the diseases of
adults. It is one of the most active of the antipsoric
remedies, and must, therefore, be exhibited with great
caution. It is found serviceable in many affections of the
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stomach, especially if of a spasmodic nature, or attended
with vomiting; in phthisis pulmonalis and dry chronic
coughs, in epilepsy, and chorea, and in various pustular
affections. Calcarea is an invaluable remedy in scrofula,
particularly in scrofulous enlargement of the mesenteric
glands, and in rickets.
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CANNABIS SATIVA.
Head.-Great determination of blood to the head, with
beating, and a not unpleasant warmth in it; pain in the
head, as if a stone lay in the vertex; feeling on the scalp,
as if cold water were dropping on it.
Mind. - Suspension of thought: too rapid flow of
ideas.
Antidote?
Disposition. Melancholy dejection; disposition to take
offence easily; insanity, with alternations of violence and
merriment.
Ma
Giddiness. Sensation of reeling in the head; giddi-
ness, with tendency to fall sideways.
Badg
Sleep. — Invincible sleepiness in the day-time; unre-
freshing sleep at night; loss of sleep at night from anxiety
and heat, as if from affusion of hot water.
Eyes. Inflammation of the eyes, with diminished
power of vision; weakness of the eyes, and indistinct
vision; dimness of the cornea; cataract.
Ears.-Beating and forcing sensation in the ears.
Nose.-Epistaxis after a feeling of warmth in the nose,
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which is dry; swelling and copper coloured redness of the
nose; dryness and heat of the nose.
Mouth.- Dryness in the mouth without thirst; difficult
utterance.
Taste.-Clayey taste in the mouth.
Stomach. Pain as of ulceration on pressure of the
stomach, disappearing after eating; cramp of the stomach,
with perspiration of the face, which is pale.
Nausea.-Vomiting of green bile.
Eructation.-Belching of bitterish, sour, acrid liquid.
Abdomen. Inflammation and pain of ulceration in the
region of the kidneys; bruised pain in the hypogastric
region; pulsation in the epigastric region, as if from
within outwards; ascites.
Fæcal Discharge.-Hardened fæces and constipation;
diarrhoea, with cholic.
Urinary Discharge. Retention of urine, as if from
paralysis of the bladder; discharge of a little bloody,
burning urine, by drops; turbid urine.
Genital Organs.-Gonorrhea; mucous discharge from
the urethra, without pain; shooting, burning and biting
pain in the urethra, on and after making water; inflam-
matory swelling of the præputium of a dark red colour.
Chest.-Inflammation of the lungs, with stitches in the
(left) side of the chest very low down.
Trachea. - Catarrh of the trachea; loss of voice.
Respiration. Asthmatical attacks of suffocation, dur-
ing which the breath can be drawn only in an upright
position; difficulty of breathing and dyspnoea, as if from
a load on the chest, with whistling, rattling respiration.
Cough. - Cough, without and with viscous green ex-
pectoration.
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Heart. The heart beating lower down than natural;
shocks and throbs in the region of the heart; inflamma-
tion of the heart; palpitation, causing anxiety.
Fever.-Cold shivers, with violent thirst; external cold-
ness of the body, with warmth of the face; burning heat
at night.
Bones.-Rheumatic traction, as if in the periosteum,
on motion.
Back.—Pain in the back, which prevents speaking, and
takes away the breath.
Upper Extremities.-Pain in the arms on moving them,
as if from violent contusion.
Lower Extremities. - Pain in the legs, as if from great
fatigue; debility, with heaviness and tottering while walk-
ing, and with dull pain in the knees, as if from extreme
fatigue; snapping of the knees on going up stairs.
Predominating Symptoms. Great lassitude after din-
ner, and after exercise; fatigue after bodily exertion; fa-
tigue from speaking and writing; tonic cramps, especially
of the upper extremities, and of the trunk.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Cannabis is of great utility in simple gonnorrhoea, and
various affections of the genital organs; in some diseases
of the chest; and in some affections of the organs of sense.
In Persia, an infusion of the stalks of hemp has long been
employed as a pediluvium, to relieve the fatigue occasioned
by long marches.
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Antidotes.-ARSEN., CAMPH., COFFEA.
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*CARBO VEGETABILIS.
Head. Violent determination of blood to the head;
head-ache, arising from being heated; weight in the head;
spasmodic tension of the brain; tractive pain in the head,
proceeding from the nape of the neck, with nausea; tear-
ing pain in the external part of the head, chiefly in the oc-
ciput, and in the forehead; painful sensitiveness of the
external head on pressure, of the hat for instance.
Mind. Flow of ideas slow; weakness of memory, oc-
curring periodically.
Disposition. - Peevishness and violence easily excited;
agony and restlessness in the evening; fear of ghosts in
the night.
Sp
Sleep. Sleepiness by day, which goes off on motion;
inability to sleep until late, and loss of sleep at night from
restlessness of the body.
Eyes. -Pain in the eyes, from straining the sight;
pressure and burning in the eyes; discharge of blood from
the eyes; agglutination of the eyes in the night, by sup-
puration; short sight.
CARBO VEGETABILIS.
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Ears. Each evening, heat and redness of the exterior
part of the ear; fœtid discharge from the ears; deficiency
of cerumen in the ears.
Nose. Scurfy red tip of the nose; violent continued
bleeding of the nose, especially early in the morning, with
paleness of the face before and afterwards.
Mouth. Stomacace; scraped feeling and burning in
the fauces; feeling of constriction in the throat, which
prevents deglutition; phlegm in the throat, easily brought
up by hawking.
Teeth. Cracked lips; contractive or tearing pain in
the teeth, excited by salt food; chronic looseness of the
teeth; separation and retraction of the gums from the
incisor teeth; gums bleeding easily and often.
Face. Greenish yellow colour of the face; swelling
of the face and lips.
Ja
Taste.- Bitter taste in the mouth; salt taste; the food
tasting as if salted; acidity in the mouth after eating.
Appetite. Immoderate hunger or thirst; continued
dislike to meat or fat.
Stomach.-Cramp in the stomach, with the sensation of
burning pressure; much flatulence, and great sensibility at
the scrobiculus cordis ; pain in the stomach, after the
loss of the fluids of the body, for instance, with women
giving suck.
Nausea.—Nausea in the morning; vomiting of blood.
Flatulence. Extraordinary production of flatus; fla-
tulent cholic; immoderate expulsion of fœtid flatus.
Eructation. Continued eructation of the food taken,
especially of fat.
Hypochondria. —Shooting under the ribs, especially in
the region of the liver; pain, as of a bruise in the hypo-
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chondria, especially in the region of the liver; jaundice ;
tight clothes about the hypochondria insupportable.
Abdomen. Great swelling and tension of the abdomen
from flatulence, with heat; griping in the belly under the
navel, from the left to the right side, with feeling of
paralysis in the right thigh; pain in the abdomen, from
riding in a carriage.
Anus.—Itching and burning at the anus; hæmorrhoids,
burning and bleeding on going to stool; smarting and
moisture of the perinæum.
Fæcal Discharge. -Fæces thin, pale, slimy; motions
difficult, though soft, with great efforts and burning at the
anus; constipation.
Urinary Discharge. — Frequent desire to make water,
with anxiety day and night; diabetes; involuntary emission
of urine at night; urine red, dark coloured.
Genital Organs.—Itching, burning, and smarting at the
pudendum; veins about the pudendum swollen.
Menses.-Menses too early and too copious, the blood
being pale, after previous spasmodic pains in the abdo-
men; acrid leucorrhea.
Chest. — Tightness in the chest; burning and smarting
pain in the chest; hydrothorax; phthisis pulmonalis ;
brownish spots on the chest; inflammation of the female
breast.
Trachea. Hoarseness, especially in the morning or in
the evening, aggravated by continued speaking; phthisis
laryngea et trachealis.
Respiratory Organs. — Coryza, with hoarseness and
creeping irritation in the nose; stoppage of the nostrils in
the evening; oppression on the chest, with hydrothorax;
shortness of breath on walking.
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Cough.-Spasmodic cough, three or four attacks daily;
in the evening, continued spasmodic cough; purulent dis-
charge from the lungs; hæmoptysis, with burning pain in
the chest.
Skin.—General itching in the evening on getting warm
in bed; burning on various parts of the skin; sores or
ulcers easily bleeding and foetid, with burning pain and
acrid ichorous pus.
Fever. Great chilliness and coldness of the body;
intermittent fever, with thirst only during the cold fit;
frequent flushes of heat; perspiration on eating; sourish
perspiration early in the morning.
Neck. Tearing pain in the muscles of the front and
back of the neck.
Back. — Rheumatic tearing pain in the back.
Upper Extremities. — Tearing pain in the fore-arm and
wrist; heat in the hands; paralytic weakness of the
fingers, on laying hold of any thing.
Lower Extremities.-Paralytic tearing pain in the legs;
perspiration of the feet; toes red, swollen, with shooting
pain, as if they had been frozen.
Predominating Symptoms. — Sleep of the limbs; pain
as of a bruise in the limbs, in the morning, after getting
out of bed; paralytic tearing pains in the limbs, with
flatulence; burning pains in the limbs, bones, and ulcers ;
ill effects of lifting heavy weights and taking cold; ill
effects of the loss of the fluids of the body, and the abuse
of cinchona bark; towards noon, general atony.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
This substance, commonly considered of no use in prac-
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tice, but as an antiseptic, has become, since Hahnemann's
extraordinary discoveries, a remedy of great importance.
It occasions congestion to the head, and is consequently of
benefit in head-ache, which is dependent on that state of the
circulation. It has proved serviceable in the congestive
stage of cholera Asiatica, in scorbutic affections, cramps
of the stomach, aud chronic bronchitis; and it promises to
become a valuable remedy in the treatment of ascites. It
is generally indicated where burning pain is complained of.
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nose.
Mag
Antidotes. SPIR. ÆETH. NIT., COFFEA.
Head. - Stitches in the temples; shooting pain and ten-
sion in the external part of the head.
Disposition. — Day and night sorrowful thoughts, with
weeping; fearful anxiety and apprehension; nocturnal
fearfulness; peevishness; opinion of being always right;
quarrelsome disposition.
Giddiness.
in the head.
Dizzy giddiness, with feeling of weakness.
Sleep. — Sleepiness in the day time; loss of sleep at
night, with anxiety; dry heat, and frequent starting;
anxious dreams.
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Toda
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*CAUSTICUM.
Eyes. Inflammation of the eyes and eyelids; ulcera-
tion of the eyelids; irritation in the eyes, as if from sand;
warts on the eyebrows; dark webs floating before the
eyes; incipient amaurosis and cataract.
Ears. Pain in the ears, as if every thing was forcing
itself out; painful swelling of the external ear; humming
and buzzing in the head, and before the ears.
Nose.
Eruption on the tip of the nose; warts on the
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Mouth.-Dryness of the mouth; much mucus in the
mouth and throat; inclination to swallow, with feeling of
swelling in the fauces.
Teeth.-Tearing pain in the teeth, and through the upper
and lower jaw; teeth very painful, as if lifted out of their
sockets; shooting pain in the teeth; suppuration of the
gums; fistula dentalis.
Face. Yellow complexion, especially in the temples;
eruption on the face and on the cheeks; paralysis of one
side of the face; sensation of cramp in the lips; tension
and tearing pain in the lower jaw and chin; trismus.
;;
Throat. Feeling of cold ascending in the throat
loss of the power of utterance from paralysis of the organs
of speech; swelling of the glands of the neck, like
goitre; stiffness and tight feel in the nape of the neck;
moist tetters at the back of the neck.
Taste. — Fat greasy taste in the mouth.
Appetite. — Aversion to any thing sweet; thirst for cold
drinks; extreme thirst, with little appetite.
Stomach.-Pains in the stomach, with heat in the head,
and shivering over the whole body, diminished by lying ·
down; cramp in the stomach; weight at the stomach after
eating bread.
Nausea. — Nausea during and after eating; vomiting
of sour water, with subsequent acid eructation.
Eructation.-Simple eructation; incomplete eructation,
with choking sensation.
Hypochondria. - Stitches in the liver; pressure of the
clothes about the hypochondria.
Abdomen.--Painful swelling of the abdomen; enlarged
abdomen in children; painful swelling of the navel.
Fæcal Discharge. - Chronic constipation; painful in-
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effectual efforts to go to stool, with anxiety and redness of
face; motions too thin; anxiety after the evacuation;
itching at the anus; blind hæmorrhoids; fistula in ano.
Urinary Discharge. — Frequent desire to make water,
with little discharge, combined with thirst; involuntary
discharge of urine by day and night; involuntary dis-
charge of urine, on coughing, sneezing and walking.
Menses. Catamænia retarded, but copious, the blood
coming away in clots; late appearance of the menses in
young girls; copious leucorrhoea.
Chest. Oppression at the chest; confined feeling at
the heart, with melancholy; stitches at the heart; palpi-
tation.
Trachea. Chronic hoarseness, with soft suppressed
voice; loss of voice from weakness of the muscles of the
throat; smarting feel in the larynx, even when not swal-
lowing; phthisis trachealis.
Breath. Spasmodic dyspnoea; insupportableness of
tight clothes on the chest, which confine the breathing.
Cough. Short dry cough; dry hollow cough, with
smarting pain in the chest; cough at night; pain in the
hip on coughing.
Skin. True psora; moist tetters; excoriation in chil-
dren; painful swelling of the veins.
Fever.-Great coldness; perspiration on walking in the
open air.
Back. Painful stiffness of the back, especially in get-
ting up from one's seat.
Upper Extremities.-Dragging and tearing pain in the
arms and hands; sensation of its being full on closing the
hand; shortening and hardening of the tendons of the fingers.
Lower Extremities. Pain as of dislocation in the
W
Mo
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hip joints on ascending; tightness in the joints of the
leg and foot; skin of the legs marbled; unsteadiness of
gait in children, easily falling; shortening of the muscles
and tension of the tendons of the feet; swelling of the
feet.
Predominating Symptoms.-Gouty and rheumatic tear-
ing pains in the limbs, diminished when in bed and by
warmth; shortening of the flexor muscles; crooked contrac-
tion of the limbs; paralytic trembling of the limbs, when
out of bed; in the evening, insupportable disquietude
through the whole body; epileptic cramps; St. Vitus's
dance; sensitiveness to draughts and to cold air; in the
evening, and in the open air, as also increased symptoms
after drinking coffee, the primary symptoms appearing
later, and the secondary, in similar circumstances, lasting
longer than those of the other antipsoric remedies.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Causticum is a remedy of great efficacy in rheumatism,
both acute and chronic. It is used with benefit in scrofu-
lous affections of the eyes, and in incipient cataract; in
incontinence of urine, ischuria and dysuria. It has often
proved successful in the treatment of the diseases of the
larynx and trachea, and has been of eminent service in
paralysis.
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Antidotes.-FERRUM, IPECAC., ARNICA, BELLAD., VERAT.
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Head. Rush of blood to the head; nocturnal pressive
head-ache, chiefly in the temples, with loss of sleep; pain
as of a bruise in the whole head, increased by exertion of
the mind; head-ache, as if the head would burst; slight
pressure, motion, and draughts of air increasing the head-
ache; painfulness of the external part of the head on
touching it lightly; perspiration of the scalp and of the
forehead.
Mind.Overstretching of the imagination, with slow
succession of ideas; making of projects.
Disposition. -Great anxiety and loss of courage; dis-
like to work; tranquil peevishness, with sighing and weep-
ing; great irritability, with pusillanimity and incapability
of supporting noise; contempt for every thing around one;
quarrelsome disposition inclined to passion.
Sleep.-Unconquerable sleepiness at day, in sitting and
after eating; disturbed sleep at night, with alarming
dreams; going to sleep late, on account of excitement and
flow of thoughts; reveries as soon as the patient goes to
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sleep; snoring or puffing expiration in sleep; disturbed
unrefreshing sleep.
Eyes.-Inflammation of the eyes, with redness of the
conjunctiva, and pain as if from sand on moving them,
worse in the evening; yellowness of the white of the
eyes; sensitiveness to strong light of the sun; cataract.
Bleeding of the nose, from relaxation of the
Nose.
vessels.
Mouth. In the morning, fœtid smell from the mouth;
much mucus in the mouth; tongue coated dirty white
or yellow; the voice for singing and speech, deep and not
clear; feeble voice.
Teeth.-Starting tearing pain in the upper back teeth,
after taking cold from a current of air; dull numb pain in
hollow teeth.
Face. Sunk, pale, hyppocratic face; earth-coloured,
yellow complexion; tic douloureux in the face, excited on
slight motion; arid, cracked blackish-coated lips.
Throat.Tension about the nape of the neck, and in
the muscles of the throat.
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Taste. Bitter taste of the food and drink.
Appetite. -No desire for food or drink; appetite for
many things, but not known for what; desire for sour
fruit; violent thirst for frequent, but each time only little,
drink; the thirst during the fever being principally be-
tween the cold and hot fit, and during the perspiration.
Stomach. Violent pressure in the stomach, after each
repast and drink; cramps in the stomach, from weakness
after loss of fluids; if supping late in the evening, no di-
gestion; milk easily disturbing the stomach; pressure in
the pit of the stomach; stitches in the scrobiculus cordis.
M
Flatulence. Exit of much foetid flatus; the flatus
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neither ascending nor descending; difficult though soft
motions; very weakening diarrhoea without pain; diarrhœa
after taking fruit; diarrhoea at night, of undigested fæces;
yellow, watery diarrhoea.
Eructation. Eructation, lasting a long time after
taking food.
M
Hypochondria. Painfulness in the region of the liver,
especially on slight touch; swelling and hardness of the
liver; shooting pain in the spleen.
Abdomen. — Considerable tympanitic swelling of the
abdomen; flatulent cholic, with tension and anxiety about
the upper part of the abdomen, and with a sensation as
if the lower intestines were constricted; fulness of the
lower belly; ascites.
Urinary Discharge.--Dark, turbid scanty urine; burn-
ing pain at the orifice of the urethra.
Genital Organs.-Determination of blood to the uterus,
with painful sense of weight in the genital organs; pain-
ful induration of the vagina.
Ja d
Menses. Catamænia increased, in black lumps; bloody
serous discharge from the vagina, alternating with purulent
matter; menorrhagia from atony of the uterus.
Chest. Stitches in the chest, pleura and sternum ;
suppuration of the lungs after haemorrhages (and copious
bleeding), with stitches in the chest, which are increased
by pressure; determination of blood to the chest, with
violent palpitation.
Respiratory Organs.—Coryza suppressed with head-ache.
Breath. Difficult inspiration, and quick expiration;
attacks of suffocation in the evening, and at night with
wheezing breathing, as from slimy mucus in the larynx ;
oppression at the chest, as if from fulness in the stomach,
and occasioned by speaking for a long time.
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Cough. -Nocturnal cough, with suffocation, and with
stitches in the chest; cough, with expectoration of coagu-
lated blood mixed with pus.
Skin. Yellowness of the skin; relaxed dry skin;
moist gangrene of external parts.
Fever.-Small quick, rather hard pulse; coldness in the
evening in bed; inability to get warm; after drinking, in-
creased cold, and must yet continue to drink; heat, with
desire to uncover the body; heat of long duration, with
delirium; intermittent fever, beginning with accessory
symptoms; intermittent fever of various kinds, but gene-
rally without remarkable thirst, during the cold and hot
fits; generally the thirst comes on before and after the
cold fit, and is more marked during the perspiration; ten-
dency to perspire; oily night sweats.
Back.-Perspiration in the back; pressure, as if of a
stone between the shoulder blades; pain in the sacrum at
night on lying on the back.
Lower Extremities. Weakness of the lower extremi-
ties, especially of the thighs; weakness in the knees;
swelling of the knees with heat, painful on being touched;
swelling of the feet.
Predominating Symptoms. - Paralytic starting tearing
pain throughout the body, especially in the extremities; at-
tacks of pain, which are excited by mere gentle touch of the
parts, and then often gradually mount to a fearful pitch;
going to sleep feel of the parts on which one lies; weak-
ness from loss of fluids, with over-irritability of the senses
and nerves, and great tendency to perspiration; great ex-
haustion and loss of strength; extreme emaciation; the
slightest draught of air bringing on the symptoms; at
night this state being at its worst.
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PRACTICAL REMARKS.
This is a remedy of immense utility in weakness, de-
pendant on the loss of the animal fluids. It is of use
in certain forms of diarrhoea; and that species of pain
which is increased by touch or moving the part, is alle-
viated by its employment. China is the specific for one form
of intermittent fever. Hahnemann, having observed an
ague occur whilst taking it, was led by this circumstance,
like Newton by the fall of the apple, to institute a series
of experiments the most interesting, because the most be-
neficial ever made.
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Antidotes. COFF., IGNAT., PULS., ACON.
K
M
CHAMOMILLA.
Head. Dragging tearing pain in the head, on one
side, even to the jaw; determination of blood to the head,
with beating therein, often only on one side; weight of the
head; headache from suppressed perspiration; hot clam-
my perspiration of the scalp and on the forehead.
Mind. Dulness of comprehension; waking dreams;
awkward stupidity.
A
Disposition. Anxious disquietude, with tossing about;
great anguish at the heart; impatience; incessant screams
and howls, with peevishness; ill effects of anger, with
violence, passion and heat.
Giddiness. Giddiness on sitting up after lying down.
Sleep. Somnolence, with short breath, groaning and
shrinking from fear; nocturnal loss of sleep, with anguish
and visions; howling, starting up, and tossing about in
sleep.
Eyes.
Burning heat of the eyes; inflammation of the
eyes and edges of the lower eyelids, with swelling of them;
rolling of the eyes and twitches of the eyelids; spasmodic
closing of the eyelids; dislike to too bright a light.
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Ears.
sitiveness of hearing.
Ear-ache, with shooting and tearing pain; sen-
Nose. - Bleeding at the nose; ulcerated nostrils; ex-
ceedingly sensitive smell.
Mouth. Fœtid breath.
.
Teeth. - Nocturnal insupportable dragging tooth-ache,
with hot redness of the swollen cheek, and thirst; tooth-
ache made worse from drinking warm liquids, especially
coffee; burning and swelling of the gums when a tooth
aches; affections of the teeth in children, with con-
vulsions.
G
Face. Puffing and redness of the face; heat of the
face, also when the body is cold; swelling of one cheek;
one cheek red, the other pale; starting of the muscles of
the face and lips; wrinkling of the forehead; hot, clam-
my perspiration of the forehead; deep clefts in the
lower lip.
Throat. Sore throat, with swelling of the parotid
glands; inflammation of the soft palate and tonsils; im-
possibility to swallow when lying, and to swallow solid
food; the food as it were sticking at the pit of the sto-
mach; red cracked tongue; convulsive motions of the
tongue.
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Taste. Foul or bitter taste in the mouth.
Appetite. Loss of appetite, and disgust for food;
great thirst for cold water.
Stomach. After every repast, violent pressure at the
stomach, as if from a stone; cramp at the stomach, after
anger; fulness at the pit of the stomach, with anxiety.
K
Nausea. Great nausea; tendency to vomit after drink-
ing coffee; vomiting of bile; acid vomiting.
Flatulence. Flatulent cholic, especially at night.
H
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Eructation. Sour eructation, which increases the
symptoms.
Hypochondria.
chondria; inflammation of the liver.
Glands.-
Inflammatory swelling of the glands.
Abdomen. Cutting, burning, and tearing pain in the
upper belly, with shortness of breath; cramps in the lower
belly; painful swelling of the belly, with inflammation of
the intestines.
M
G
S
Fæcal Discharge. - Diarrhoea at night, with frequent,
but slight discharge; greenish, chopped, loose motions;
mucous diarrhoea; diarrhoea, with griping and swelling of
the abdomen.
Urinary Discharge.
- Hot urine; anxious urgency to
make water.
Genital Organs. - Labour-like pain in the uterus;
anxiety and disquietude of lying in women, with feeble
pains.
Swelling from wind in the hypo-
Menses. Menorrhagia; discharge of foetid blood, in
clots; discharge of blood between the periods; acrid leu-
corrhoea.
P
Chest Burning in the chest; excoriation of the nip-
ples ;
scirrhous hardness and swelling of the mammary
glands; curdy milk and pus in the breast.
Trachea. - Whizzing and snoring noise in the trachea;
shooting, burning pain in the larynx, with hoarseness.
Throat. Inflammatory swelling, and hardness of the
glands of the throat.
Breath. Quick, rattling breathing; dyspnoea in the
region of the pit of the throat.
Cough. Dry cough, from a chill (of children, in
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winter), with tickling in the pit of the throat; nocturnal
dry cough during sleep.
Skin. — Skin of the whole body yellow; skin not heal-
ing; excoriations in children; eruption, with nocturnal
itching.
Fever.Shivering, with internal heat; shivering on
uncovering; fever heat, with violent thirst; burning heat,
with perspiration, and angry delirium, most violent at
night; acrid, sour-smelling perspiration.
Upper Extremities. — Going-to-sleep sensation of the
arms, on seizing any thing; convulsions of the arms, with
clenching of the thumbs; cold sweat in the palms of the
hands.
Predominating Symptoms.- Nocturnal paralytic tear-
ing pain in the limbs, with a feeling of deadness; con-
vulsive starting of the limbs; uncommon sensitiveness to
the open air, and great dislike to wind; over-sensitiveness
to pain, which appears insupportable, and leads to des-
pair; over-sensitiveness of the organs of sense, especially
from drinking coffee or narcotic palliatives; the pains at
night most violent, and attended with thirst and heat;
at the beginning of the pain, immediate weakness, even to
sinking down.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
The wild camomile, though considered of no importance,
is in truth a plant of great energy, and very extensive ap-
plicability. It is not suited to those who support patiently
their sufferings; but it is of great service in diminishing the
excess of sensibility to pain. It is remarkably suited to the
Bork
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.
diseases of children. Camomile has proved successful in
fever of a typhoid character, affections arising from sudden
grief or a fit of passion, jaundice occasioned by errors of
diet, by affections of the mind, or by a chill, probably
owing to spasm of the biliary duct, in diarrhoea, in inflam-
mation of some organs which has not attained much vio-
lence, puerperal fever and metritis, rheumatism when the
parts are not swollen, tooth-ache especially after cold,
gastric and hysteric affections, inflammation of the liver,
and catarrhal ophthalmia.
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CINA.
Antidotes.?
Head. - Pressive dull head-ache, increased by going
into the open air, and by exertion of mind; head-ache
before and after the attacks of epilepsy and intermittent
fever; starting backwards of the head.
M
Disposition.-Woful complaining and howling; peevish-
ness in a child, disregard to caresses, refusal of what is
offered to it, or to suffer itself to be touched.
Sleep.-Nocturnal restlessness and loss of sleep; yawn-
ing, with shivering and trembling; at night, disturbed
tossing about and screaming in bed.
Eyes. Pain in the eyes on their over exertion in the
evening by candle-light; dilated pupils; dimness of sight
on reading, going away on wiping them; aversion to light.
Nose. The child constantly rubbing the nose, and
thrusting his finger into it until blood comes.
Mouth. Dryness and rawness of the mouth.
Teeth. Grinding of the teeth; sensitiveness of the
teeth to cold air and cold drink.
Face. - Pale cold face, with cold sweat; pale sickly
complexion; puffed white and blueish colour about the
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mouth; pain in the face; tearing pain in the cheek bone,
made worse on pressure and touch.
Throat. Inability to swallow.
Appetite.
diately after a meal; increased thirst.
Stomach.-Griping pain in the bowels from worms;
painful twisting about the navel; disagreeable feeling of
warmth in the lower belly; swelling of the lower belly,
especially in children.
Cla
Nausea. Vomiting, with fever; vomiting of worms;
vomiting of slime and food.
Fæcal Discharge. - Constipation; discharge of asca-
rides and round worms; involuntary, weakening, whitish
diarrhoea.
Incessant hunger; hunger again imme-
Urinary Di scharge.-Involuntary discharge of urine at
night in bed.
Menses. — Catamania before the time, and too copious;
menorrhagia.
Respiratory Organs. Moist coryza, with burning sen-
sation in the nose; violent sneezing, with continued pain,
as if it would burst the head and chest.
Breath. — Short interrupted breathing; anxious oppres-
sion of the breathing, as if from cramp in the chest; whiz-
zing respiration.
Matt
Cough. Dry and spasmodic cough, with want of
breath, and startings of the limbs; hooping cough, with
stiffness of the child previous to the fit, and great pale-
ness of the face.
s
Fever. Coldness, with thirst; cold shivers, with trem-
bling even by the fire; heat, with paleness of the face;
nocturnal heat, with anxiety; intermittent fever, com-
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mencing with vomiting of ingesta, and with voracious ap-
petite; cold perspiration, especially in the face.
Back. Pain as of a bruise in the sacrum; feeling of
constriction round the loins.
Upper Extremities. - Cramp-like tearing pain in the
arms and hands; spasmodic closing of the hands; start-
ing in the fingers; weakness of the hand, so as to prevent
the holding of anything.
Lower Extremities. - Spasmodic stitches and starting
D
in the feet.
Predominating Symptoms.-Dull stitches here and there
on the body; starting and contortion of the limbs; stiff
stretching out of the body; paralytic pain in the arms
and legs; sufferings from worms in children; attacks of
epilepsy, with or without consciousness; nocturnal epilep-
tic convulsions; sensitiveness of the whole body, on touch
and motion; epilepsy, with lying on the back; violent
screaming, and throwing about the hands and feet; exter-
nal pressure renewing or increasing the symptoms; effects
of the loss of fluids.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
The properties of the artemisia santonica or semen
contrá, are not limited to that of merely relieving
the symptoms arising from the presence of worms. It is
used by the reformed school of medicine, with great ad-
vantage in hooping cough, and in some forms of inter-
mittent fever, with vomiting; in canine appetite, &c.
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COCCULUS.
Head.
Pressive or shooting pain in the forehead;
a sense of emptiness or hollowness in the head; head-ache,
with tendency to vomit; convulsive trembling of the head.
Mind. -Sitting absorbed in deep thought, and noticing
nothing around; time slipping away too fast.
Disposition. Mild indolent temperament; sadness
during sufferings; violent anguish; incapability of bear-
ing noise; timidity; ill effects of anger, with affliction.
Giddiness. Giddiness, with tendency to vomit on
sitting up in bed.
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Antidote. — CAMPHORA.
Sleep. -- Somnolence; sleepy confusion, while awake;
loss of sleep, from anguish and corporeal disquietude;
anxious dreams.
Eyes. Pain in the eyes, as if they were torn out of
the head; inability to open the eyes at night; contracted
pupils ; dimness of sight, and black specks before the
eyes; incipient amaurosis.
Nose.
Sense of smell increased.
Mouth. Dryness in the mouth and fauces; swallowing
prevented, as if from paralysis of the throat; bubbling
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froth before the mouth; difficult speech, as if from paraly-
sis of the tongue.
Face. Heat of the face, with redness of the cheeks;
distorted features; swelling and hardness of the submaxil-
lary glands.
Taste.Sour taste in the mouth, after eating and
coughing; tobacco tasting bitter; taste in the mouth, as
if from sulphur.
Appetite. — Aversion to food, drink, and tobacco; great
thirst, especially during eating; aversion to every thing
acid.
Stomach. Cramp at the stomach during and imme-
diately after eating, with violent pinching and snatching
pain; fullness and griping in the stomach, with oppression
of breathing.
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Nausea. Attacks of nausea even to fainting; nausea
and vomiting from going in a carriage and becoming cold.
Flatulence. Spasmodic flatulent colic at night, es-
pecially increased by coughing; the flatus ascending.
Eructation. Eructation, with nausea and pain in the
pit of the stomach; hiccough immediately after eating.
Glands.-Hard cold swelling of the glands, with shoot-
ing pain.
Abdomen. - Griping and pinching pain in the upper
belly, with oppression of breathing; constrictive pain in the
upper or lower belly; sense of emptiness in the lower
belly; hysteric cramps in the lower belly in women; pain
as of an ulcer in the belly; strangulated hernia.
Anus. Violent tenesmus in the rectum, after going to
stool.
Fæcal Discharge.-Hard motion only every other day;
motions delayed; fruitless efforts to go to stool, on ac-
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COCCULUS.
count of want of the peristaltic motion in the small in-
testines.
Urinary Discharge. - Watery urine; frequent efforts
to make water, with trifling discharge.
Genital Organs. - Bruised pain in the testicles; great
sensitiveness of the genital organs.
Menses. Catamænia before the time, with violent
spasmodic pains in the belly; catamænia suppressed, with
cramps in the lower belly.
Chest.Shooting pain in the chest; cramp-like con-
striction at the chest; burning in the chest, and up to the
throat; sense of emptiness in the chest; anxious beating
at the heart.
Breath. — Difficulty of breathing, as if from constriction
in the larynx.
Cough. — Cough, with oppression at the chest, which
comes on during the cough; irritation exciting to cough,
as if from narrowness of the trachea.
Skin.
Chlorotic complexion; ulcers very painful on
being touched; itching in the evening, on undressing, and
on feather beds.
Fever. - Constant chilliness when the skin is hot; in
the evening, cold and shivering, especially in the back;
weakening perspiration on motion; intermittent fever, with
cramps of the stomach, and paralysis of the sacrum.
Bones. - Bruised pain in the bones; tearing and
flickering sensation in the bones.
Neck.-Weakness in the muscles of the neck; cracking
of the cervical vertebræ.
Back. Paralysis at the back and sacrum; tabes
dorsalis.
Upper Extremities. Pain, as of a bruise in the bones
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COCCULUS.
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of the arms on lifting them up; going to sleep of the
arms; hot swelling of the hands.
Lower Extremities.— Paralytic immobility, and paraly-
sis of the lower limbs, beginning at the sacrum; bruised
pain in the thigh; inflammation and swelling of the knees,
with stitches; burning of the feet; hot swelling of the
feet.
Predominating Symptoms.
Paralytic immobility of
the limbs, with dragging pain in the bones; paralysis on
one side, with numbness of the limbs; hemiplegia; empti-
ness or constrictive feel of internal parts; hysteric cramps,
with sadness; inclination to trembling; gouty pains, with
swelling of the suffering parts; great fatigue on slight
exertion, even to fainting; insupportableness of the open
air, as well warm as cold; the symptoms increasing by
eating, drinking, sleeping, speaking, going in a carriage,
and smoking.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
This remedy is of very general utility in several species
of low fevers, in many kinds of pain in the lower bowels,
in various forms of paralysis, in some affections of the
mind, especially in females, and in spasmodic pains of
other parts of the body, which depress the patient's spirits.
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Antidotes.
ACON., Nux VOм., CHAM., IGNAT.
Head.
Violent determination of blood to the head,
especially after sudden joy; head-ache on one side as if a
nail were driven in; feeling in the brain as if torn.
g
COFFEA.
Mind. — Excited imagination and rapid flow of ideas;
sharpened power of thought; increased power of memory.
Disposition. Great excitement; over-irritation; over-
hastiness; loss of composure, with anxiety; immode-
rate outcries and complaints about trifles; over-sensi-
bility, with disposition to tears; great anguish at the
heart, and of the conscience; timorous anxiety, with fever.
Sleep. Loss of sleep on account of immoderate.
excitement of the mind and body.
Ears. Fine sense of hearing; music sounding too
loud; epistaxis.
Nose.
Sense of smell more acute.
Mouth. Swelling and painfulness of the velum pendu-
lum palati, increased on swallowing.
Starting tearing pain in the teeth, with rest-
Teeth.
lessness, anxiety and tendency to weep.
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Face. -Dry heat of the face, with red cheeks.
Taste. Sense of taste increased; the food tasting too
strong; sweetish taste in the mouth, as if from nuts or
almonds.
Appetite. - Great hunger, with quick greedy eating;
increased thirst, especially at night.
Stomach. Spasms in the stomach, as if from over-
loading it, with insupportableness of tight clothes on the
pit of the stomach.
Abdomen. Cramp-like pains in the abdomen, which
appear quite insupportable.
Fæcal Discharge. Motions several times a day and
soft; diarrhoea in children during dentition.
Urinary Discharge. Secretion of urine increased, es-
pecially at night.
Menses.
Menorrhagia.
Breath. Oppression at the chest; shortness of breath-
ing, during which the heaving of the chest is visible.
M
sacrum.
M
Cough. Short dry hecking cough, as if from con-
striction of the larynx; nocturnal cough from irritation;
cough during the measles.
Skin. — Eruptions on the skin, with great irritability.
Fever. Internal cold shivers, with external heat of the
body; in the evening after lying down, general sense of
heat without perspiration, with shivering in the back;
internal cold shivering, with heat of the head and perspi-
ration of the face.
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Neck.
Perspiration of the neck.
Back.-- Cold shivers in the back; paralytic pain in the
Predominating Symptoms. — Jerking in the limbs; great
mobility of the whole muscular system; increased sense of
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pain to such an extent as to cause despair, with inclination
to cry; immoderate activity of the vital *power; unusual
increased feeling of high health; dislike to the open air
which increases the symptoms; ill effects of taking wine,
catching cold, and immoderate joy.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
It may be surprising to many, that a substance so
generally employed should be used as a medicine. No
one, however, who has watched his sensations after taking
this enlivening drink, can fail to be convinced that it is
possessed of considerable power.
Hahnemann, many years ago, published a short treatise
in which the evil results of drinking coffee habitually, are
clearly pourtrayed.
It is on the contrary used with benefit in some head-
aches, over-excitement of the nervous system, and loss of
sleep. It also relieves over-acute sensibility to pain.
Hence its action as a palliative in frost-bites, drunkenness,
and suffocation; as also generally in all cases where a quick
stirring up of the power of life is the object in view.
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M
Head.
Pressive pain in the occiput excited by exer-
tion of the mind; tearing pain in the scalp; creeping irri-
tation on the head or on the forehead.
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE.
Mind. Absence of mind; forgetfulness.
Disposition. Morose ill humour; sufferings appear to
the patient intolerable; external impressions and causes
putting him quite beside himself.
Eyes. Ulceration of the meibomian glands, with
swelling of the eyelid.
Ears. — Tearing pain in the ear, with discharge from it
(after measles); creeping sensation in the ears.
S
Antidotes.NUX VOм., PULS.
M
M
Nose. —Sense of smell morbidly increased.
Mouth. Heat in the mouth; creeping irritation in the
gums; inflammation in the cavity of the mouth; copious
flow of saliva; loss of sensation and stiffness of the
tongue.
Teeth. Tearing pain in the roots of the teeth and in
the gums.
Face.
The features sad, mournful; yellowish spots on
the face; dropsical swelling of the face; creeping irritation
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in the face; feeling in the face as if the bones were forced
asunder.
Taste. The food tasting like old linen.
Appetite.
Loss of appetite; incessant violent thirst.
Stomach. Sensitiveness in the region of the stomach
on touch; burning or feeling of coldness in the stomach;
stitches in the pit of the stomach.
Nausea. Nausea from the smell of fresh eggs and
fat meat; violent vomiting of ingesta with bitter taste re-
maining afterwards; all motion renewing the vomiting.
g
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE.
Abdomen. Swelling of the lower belly with pressing-
down pain; burning or sense of coldness in the lower
belly; dropsy of the peritoneum, with a fold over the
groin.
Anus.-Creeping, tearing and burning pain at the anus.
Fæcal Discharge. Painful straining, with trifling
evacuation; constipation; diarrhoea of white slime only,
with violent straining.
Urinary Discharge.
Continual efforts to make water
with trifling discharge; scanty discharge of turbid red urine,
with burning and forcing in the urethra; whitish sediment.
Menses. - Catamænia before their time.
Chest. Pressive tension in the chest; cramps in the
chest; dropsy of the chest; stitches in the chest on inspi-
ration and coughing.
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Breath. Anxious oppression at the chest and difficulty
of breathing, diminished on leaning forward.
Cough. Frequent short dry cough; cough at night,
with involuntary discharge of urine.
Violent beating at the heart.
Edematous swelling and anasarca; suppressed
Maj
Heart.
Skin.
perspiration.
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COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE.
P
Fever. Quick irritable pulse; dry heat of the skin;
nocturnal heat with much thirst.
Back. Tearing pain in the back and sacrum; smarting
pain in the sacrum on touch.
Upper Extremities. - Tearing pain in the arms even to
the fingers; paralytic pain in the arms; creeping sensation
in the points of the fingers.
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Lower Extremities.—Tearing pain in the whole leg, even
to the toes; oedematous swelling of the legs and feet;
creeping sensation in the points of the toes.
Predominating Symptoms. - Creeping sensation in va-
rious parts of the body, as if after being frozen, on change of
the weather; during warm weather, tearing pain in the
limbs; during cold, shooting pain therein; tearing jerks like
electric shocks through one-half of the body, with paralytic
feeling; weakness like a sense of paralysis through all the
limbs; weakness from working at night and sitting up; fre-
quent starting with shrinking; the pains quite insupport-
able towards evening, and not diminishing before day-
break; sensitiveness of the whole body to touch or motion,
especially of the suffering parts.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Colchicum is of eminent service in some kinds of cholic,
and is of use in some forms of dysentery, and in arthritic
and rheumatic affections.
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W
Head. Pressive pain in the forehead, increased by
stooping, and lying on the back; attacks of hemicrania,
with nausea and vomiting, (daily, towards five o'clock in
the afternoon.)
M
Disposition. Anxious dejection, with morose dislike.
to speak; anxiety and disquietude; constant inclination to
weep; tendency to inward anger, with indignation; ten-
dency to run away.
Eyes. Burning, cutting pain in the eyes; acrid
tears.
Face. Paleness and relaxation of the face, with
sunken eyes; dark redness of the face; prosopalgia;
tearing, pinching pain in one side of the face.
M
*COLOCYNTHIS.
Antidotes.CAUST., CHAM., COFF.
C
M
Throat. Cramp in the fauces, with empty eructation,
and beating of the heart.
Taste. Great desire to drink, without thirst; insipid
taste in the mouth after every drink; bitter taste in the
mouth after each meal.
Glands. Painful swelling and suppuration of the
glands.
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Abdomen. Uncommon cholic-like pinching pain in
the lower belly, obliging to bend, with anxiety and dis-
quietude; constriction of the intestines; violent cutting pain
in the belly as if with a knife, with great cold, and tearing
pain down the legs; tympany, and pain in the belly, as if
the intestines were pinched between stones; great sensi-
tiveness, and bruised pain in the lower belly; violent exer-
cise, coffee and tobacco diminishing the pain in the belly,
but every other thing taken bringing it on again.
Anus. Painful swelling of the internal and external
hæmorrhoids; paralysis of the sphincter ani.
Fæcal Discharge. Constipation, and stools delayed,
in pregnant women; frothy, acid fetid diarrhoea; dysen-
teric purging, with discharge of slime and blood, and with
straining.
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Urinary Discharge.
Diminished secretion of urine;
fruitless efforts to make water; urine extremely fetid, and
immediately becoming thick, gelatinous, and glutinous;
during the pain, copious watery urine.
Genital Organs. - Paraphimosis.
Chest. — Painful knotted swellings in the female breasts.
Breath. Nocturnal attacks of dyspnoea, as if from
constriction of the chest.
Cough. Dry, short cough, from irritation of the la-
rynx; smoking tobacco immediately exciting continued
coughing.
Skin. - Itching over the whole body, with great rest-
lessness, especially in the evening in bed, with perspir-
ation following it; peeling off of the skin of the whole
body.
Fever. Hard, quickened pulse; great cold and shiver-
ing during the symptoms; dry heat of the skin; nocturnal
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perspiration, with urinary smell, especially of the head,
hands, legs, and feet.
Back.-Tensive pain in the back, from the shoulder
blades even to the neck.
Upper Extremities. - Swelling and suppuration of the
axillary glands; pinching pain in the hands and fingers.
Lower Extremities. - Sciatica; tensive pain in the
hips from the kidneys even down the thighs, as if the hip
joints were fastened with iron cramps; in walking, pain in
the thighs as if the psoas muscle were too short; stiffness
of the knee joint, which hinders sitting on a low seat.
Predominating Symptoms. Tearing stitches through
the whole body, lengthways; pinching pain, and drawing
together of the inward and external parts; stiffness in the
joints; starting of the muscles; general shortening of the
tendons; lying with the limbs all drawn together; faint-
ing, with coldness of the external parts; many symptoms
becoming better on motion; ill effects of internal mortifi-
cation and indignation, with concealed anger.
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PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Colocynth is particularly applicable to the treatment of
numerous kinds of cholic. It is of service in some dysenteric
affections, and various rheumatic complaints, and it has
been found beneficial in relieving the effects of grief.
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Antidotes. CoCCUL., NUX VOм., HEP.SULPH., Ipec.
IPEC.
S
Head. Pressive head-ache, aggravated by touch;
sensation of creeping in the vertex; inflammation of the
brain; the head drawn to one side.
Mind. Loss of the senses; exaltation of the mind;
attacks of insanity.
Disposition. -Extreme anxiety, like agony of death;
disturbed tossing to and fro; groaning; inclination to run;
timidity; being easily frightened; rage, and fury.
Giddiness. Giddiness attending most of the symp-
toms, with falling forwards of the head.
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CUPRUM METALLICUM.
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Sleep. Lethargy; deep sleep, with startings.
Eyes. Staring, sunken eyes; eyes turned upwards;
eyes closed; insensibility of the pupils.
Mouth.
mouth.
Face. Paleness of the face; great redness of the face;
bluish face and lips; spasmodic distortion of the face;
difficult dentition in children, with convulsions.
Throat. Burning in the throat; tip of the tongue
cold.
Hoarse screaming, as of a child; froth of the
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Taste. Sweetish coppery taste in the mouth.
Appetite. Hasty eating; inclination for cold things;
unquenchable thirst, with parched throat; audible gurg-
ling when drinking.
Stomach. Pressure at the pit of the stomach, in-
creased by touch; gnawing in the stomach.
Nausea. Nausea from the hypogastric region, as far as
the throat; violent choking retching; fetid or bilious vomit-
ing; vomiting of water, in which flakes are floating; vomiting,
with cramps in the hypogastric region, and convulsions.
Eructation. Hiccough before the attack of cramp.
Abdomen.-Violent pain in the abdomen, with anxiety;
pressure in the hypogastric region, as if from a stone, in-
creased by touch; very severe cramps in the stomach and
belly, with convulsions; corroding, shooting ulcers in the
bowels.
S
C
M
Facal Discharge. Stools retarded, with uncommon
heat; violent diarrhoea; watery diarrhoea, mixed with
flakes.
Urinary Discharge. - Flow of urine impeded; viscid,
very fetid urine; frequency of making water at night.
Menses. Catamænia lasting too long; suppression of
the catamænia, with cramps in the abdomen; spasms in
the chest, before the catamænia.
Chest. Painful spasmodic constriction of the chest ;
after fright or anger, (and before the catamania,) cramps in
the chest, which take away the breath.
Breath. Quick breathing, with wimpering and snor-
ing noise in the trachea; difficulty of breathing, with con-
vulsive workings of the abdominal muscles.
Cough. Incessant dry cough; cough without inter-
mission, which takes away the breath.
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CUPRUM METALLICUM.
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Heart.
Palpitation, with anxiety.
Skin. Dry, itchy eruption; old ulcers.
Fever.
Slow, almost imperceptible pulse; icy coldness
of the whole body; cold perspirations; paroxysms of
madness, ending with perspiration.
Bones. — Pains in the bones, as if they were broken;
caries.
Upper Extremities. — Starting tearing pain in the arm
and hand; the arms and hands marbled blue; startings of
the muscles in the fore-arms and hands; startings of the
fingers.
Updating
Lower Extremities. Weakness in the knee-joints;
startings of the muscles of the legs; painful pinching sen-
sation in the calves; starting of the toes.
Predominating Symptoms. - Violent convulsions, with
piercing screams; clonic cramps; cramps after previous
weeping; startings at night; epileptic fits; debility, and
great relaxation of the whole body; great emaciation;
touch renewing and increasing the sufferings.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Cuprum is used with advantage in asthma, chorea, epi-
lepsy, cholera, in painful menstruation, and in many ner-
vous affections in females.
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CROCUS SATIVUS.
Antidote. OPIUM.
Head.- Pain over the eyes, with a sensation of burning
and pressure in the orbits, especially in the evening by
candle-light; feeling of weight of the head, early in
the morning, with pressure on the vertex; tractive pain in
the forehead, with nausea; pulsation on one side of the
head and face; shocks in the forehead and temples;
sensation of relaxation of the brain on motion.
Mind. Forgetfulness; absence of mind; vivid recol-
lection.
Disposition.- Predominating disposition to melancholy,
often alternating with great cheerfulness and mirth; great
disposition to laugh, joke and sing, often during great
weakness; mirthful, sportive insanity, with paleness of the
face, head-ache and dimness of sight; restraint of the free
will; angry violence and passionate excitement, with
speedy repentance; alternation between severity and
mildness of disposition.
JA
Giddiness. Dull confused feel of the head, as if in-
toxicated, with dimness of sight; giddiness amounting to
syncope; giddiness on rising from a recumbent posture.
Sleep. Great drowsiness in the day time, especially
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after eating, also in the evening; somnolency, with dull
glassy eyes; singing, screaming and rising up during
sleep; frightful, pleasing or merry dreams.
Eyes.
Itching of the eye-lids; creeping irritation
of the eyebrows; pressive smarting burning pain in the
eyes and lids, especially on shutting them and when
reading; sensation of swelling in the eye-balls, as if from
weeping; dryness of the eyes; watering of the eyes while
reading; agglutination of the eyelids during the night;
visible twitching of the eyelids; weight and spasmodic
contraction of the eyelids; nocturnal cramp of the eyelids;
constant winking of the eyes; dilated pupils; constant
inclination to rub the eyes; dimness of sight, as if caused
by a veil, especially during the evening when reading by
candle-light; pale reddish appearance of the paper while
reading; flashes before the eyes.
Ears. — Ear-ache, as if pinched; ringing in the ears in
the evening after lying down; humming in the ears, with
difficulty of hearing, chiefly on stooping.
Nose. Epistaxis, with viscous black blood, often from
one nostril only, and often causing syncope even to fainting.
Mouth. The mouth feeling as if it were scratched and
scraped; accumulation of water in the mouth; tongue furred,
white and moist, with raised papillæ.
Lips.Cracked and chapped lips.
Face.-Colour of the face earthy; alternation of
redness and paleness of the face; glowing heat of the face,
especially in the morning.
Throat. -Sore throat, either as if the uvula were
relaxed, or the œsophagus closed with something solid, felt
during deglutition or in its natural state; scratched and
scraped sensation in the throat.
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CROCUS SATIVUS.
Taste. Taste offensive, bitter, sweet; sweet or bitter
taste at the posterior part of the mouth; constant thirst in
the evening, with sense of weakness in the stomach after
drinking; loss of appetite, with fulness after a scanty
meal.
Stomach. Weakness and unpleasant sinking at the
scrobiculus cordis ; sensation of leaping, as if from some-
thing alive in the scrobiculus cordis; burning sensation in
the stomach; rumbling and fermentation in the scrobiculus
cordis.
Eructation. Eructation of wind only, in the morning
fasting; heartburn, after having taken relishing food.
Hypochondria.-Shocks under the right hypochon-
drium.
Abdomen. - Abdomen full and tense; pain in the
abdomen like cholic; griping in the abdomen, after drink-
ing water; pain in the abdomen from taking cold; sensa-
tion of leaping in the abdomen, as if from something
alive; feeling of weight in the region of the uterus.
Anus. Itching and creeping at the anus; dull stitches
near and above the anus.
Menses. Determination of blood to the genital organs,
as if during menstruation; menses before the time and too
copious; painful menstruation; lochia too copious; menor-
rhagia of black viscous blood; sterility.
Chest. Shootings in the chest, especially in the sides;
sensation of leaping as from something alive in the chest;
shocks in the chest that impede respiration; feeling of
warmth ascending to the heart, with anxiety and constric-
tion, relieved by yawning.
G
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Breath. Frequent violent sneezing; husky voice, from
much mucus; difficulty of breathing; inclination to
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draw a deep breath on account of a sense of weight
about the heart; on inspiration, a feeling as if from the
vapour of sulphur in the throat; offensive smell of the
breath.
B
M
Cough. Violent, dry, fatiguing cough, very much
relieved by laying the hand on the scrobiculus cordis.
Fever. Fever, the cold preceding the heat.
Neck. Feeling of stiffness in the neck on motion;
external swelling of the neck.
Back. — Traction in the sacrum, with pain in the
pudendum.
Upper Extremities. — Pain in the shoulder joints on
moving the upper arm, as if the arm were loose and would
be dislocated; the arms and hands asleep, with immobility,
especially at night during sleep; a drawing, flickering
sensation in the fore-arm; weight and pain as of a bruise
in the fore-arm, after slight motion of it; burning creeping
and tension at the points of the fingers, as if from
stoppage of the circulation after walking in the open air;
chilblains on the hands and fingers.
Lower Extremities. — Feeling of weakness in the thighs,
on sitting down; nocturnal tearing pain in the legs, with
restlessness; pain as of a bruise in the calves; lassitude
in the soles of the feet, with burning and creeping sen-
sation; chilblains on the toes.
Predominating Symptoms. - Sensation of creeping, as
of something alive in various places; chorea; feeling of
looseness and snapping of the joints; numbness of par-
ticular limbs at night during sleep; amelioration of the
symptoms in the open air; appearance of many of the
symptoms at night, and aggravation early in the morning ;
sensation of ebullition of the blood through the whole
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body; discharge, from various organs, of viscous dark
blood; weight and bruised feeling in the limbs after the
least motion of them; remarkable change to the opposite
symptoms of body and mind; general extreme debility,
with fainting fits on motion; great lassitude in the
morning; trembling of all the limbs; scarlet redness of
the whole body; chilblains; suppuration of old wounds.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
This plant, though formerly much extolled as a medicine,
had undeservedly fallen into disrepute, until Hahnemann
rescued it from oblivion, and made known its highly
important properties. In hemorrhages, especially from
the uterus, when the blood is thick and of a dark colour, it
is particularly indicated, and also in epistaxis when the
blood is of the same character. It is particularly suited
to the female sex.
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DIGITALIS.
Head. In the evening, and at night, stitches in the
temples; after drinking any thing, especially cold; stitches
in the forehead, and down the nose; pressure in the fore-
head on exertion of the mind; feeling, on stooping, as if
something extraordinary had happened in the head;
feeling of itching, internally, in the head; dropsy of
the ventricles; the head constantly sinking back-
wards.
Antidotes.NUX VOм., OPIUM.
Disposition. Great anxiety, with tendency to weep,
and solicitude for the future; melancholy, with inclination
to weep.
Giddiness.
Giddiness, with trembling.
Sleep. Sleepiness in the day time, like lethargy; in-
terrupted sleep at night.
Kat
Eyes. - Burning pain in the eye-brows; blueness of the
eye-lids; inflammation of the Meibomian glands; glueing
together of the eyes from mucus; acrid tears in the eyes;
cloudiness of the chrystalline lens, without pain; dimness
of sight.
Mouth. The cavity of the mouth and throat rough,
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as if raw, and scraped; flow of sweetish saliva; tongue
blue.
Face. Paleness of the face; blueish, transparent
colour of the skin of the face; black, suppurating pores in
the face; blue lips; dry lips.
Appetite. Loss of appetite, with a clean tongue;
in-
clination for bitter food and sour drink; constant thirst,
with dry lips; bitterness of the mouth; sweetish taste in
the mouth, with constant collection of water; tastelessness,
or bitter taste of bread.
Stomach.
Extraordinary weakness of the stomach, as
if going to die, immediately after eating; cramp at the
stomach, with nausea and vomiting, relieved by eructa-
tion; stitches from the pit of the stomach towards the
sides and back.
Nausea. Nausea which continues after vomiting;
nausea and vomiting of the food immediately after eating;
after spitting, inclination to vomit the food; vomiting of
mucus.
Abdomen. Griping constriction in the belly, with feel-
ing of drawing together of the intestines; ascites.
Fæcal Discharge. - Fæcal diarrhoea, with admixture of
slime; watery diarrhoea; grey, ash-coloured motions;
white motions, like chalk.
G
Urinary Discharge. — Ineffectual efforts to make water,
with anxiety; constant efforts to make water, with slight
discharge of red urine; ability to hold the water longer
when lying down; frequent desire to make water, which
passes only little at a time, and in drops; excretion of
urine difficult, as if from contraction of the urethra; di-
minished secretion of urine, alternating at times with a
copious discharge of watery urine; urine dark brown, or
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DIGITALIS.
12.
red; inflammation of the bladder; cutting pain before.
and after making water.
Genital Organs. - Dropsical swelling of the genital
organs; hydrocele; the scrotum appearing like a bladder
full of water.
Chest. Sense of excoriation in the chest; feeling of
weakness in the chest, ascending from the stomach;
dropsy in the chest; anxious, violent, audible beating at
the heart, with feeling of contraction in the sternum.
Respiratory Organs. — Coryza, with hoarseness; dysp-
noa on lying down, or walking.
Cough. Dry cough, with pains in the shoulders and
arms; on coughing, sense of excoriation in the chest;
cough, with expectoration of blood; cough, with expec-
toration like boiled starch.
Mary Mag
M
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Skin. Gnawing itching, on not being scratched,
passing into burning, shooting pain; anasarca; jaundice.
Glands — Swelling and hardening of the glands.
Fever. Extremely slow pulse, quickened on the
slightest motion; general coldness, spreading from the
extremities over the body; violent nocturnal perspira-
tions.
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Lower Extremities. - Chronic sciatica; puffy swelling
of the knee, with shooting pains; during the day, swelling
in the feet; at night they become reduced again; coldness
of the hands and feet.
Predominating Symptoms. Shooting pain in the mus-
cles of the upper and lower extremities; great weakness,
resembling syncope, with sweating; attacks of uncommon
weakness, especially after breakfast and dinner; great
nervous weakness; dropsy of internal and external parts;
gouty swellings.
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PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Digitalis is very efficacious in certain forms of dropsy,
in a morbid flow of tears, in a species of salivation, with
strong fetid smell from the mouth, and in some diseases
of the heart.
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DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA.
Antidote.
Head. Pressive pain in the head, towards the fore-
head, and the cheek bone, especially on stooping; pain beat-
ing and forcing-outwards in the forehead; gnawing, itching
and smarting pain in the scalp, alleviated by rubbing.
Disposition. — Anxiety, especially in the evening, and
during solitude; dread of ghosts; disquietude of mind;
great distrust of others; obstinacy about trifles; the patient
beside himself; inclination to get drunk; desire to drown
himself.
CAMPHORA.
Giddiness.
Giddiness on going into the open air.
Sleep. — Sleepiness at noon, and in the evening at sun-
set; frequent jumping up, in fright, during sleep.
Eyes. Stitches in the eye, on stooping; dazzling of
the sight from light; long sight, with contracted pupils.
Ears. Shooting and constrictive pain in the ear, espe-
cially on swallowing; difficulty of hearing, with buzzing
and rushing noise before the ears.
Nose. Bleeding at the nose, morning and evening;
appearance of blood on blowing the nose; the pores of
the nose black; continued dryness of the nose; over-sen-
sitiveness to sour smells.
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Mouth. Sense of dryness in the cavity of the mouth;
bleeding from the mouth; ulceration of the velum
palati.
Face.-Paleness of the face, with sunk eyes; -erup-
tion on the face in blotches, with a pricking sensation;
pain in the face, aggravated by pressure and touch; black
pores on the skin.
Throat. Shooting pain in the fauces, on swallowing;
Scratching sensation in the throat, from salt food; diffi-
cult swallowing of solid food, as from narrowing of the
fauces; feeling in the fauces as if from portions of food
left behind; hawking of yellow or green mucus.
Taste. Bitter taste in the mouth, on eating; bread
tasting bitter; loss of the taste of food.
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mouth.
Appetite. — Thirst in the morning; thirst during the
hot fit, not the cold; aversion to pork.
Nausea. Nausea after fat food; in the morning,
vomiting of bile or of water only; vomiting at night;
vomiting of food and mucus; during, or after a fit of
coughing, vomiting of blood.
Eructation. - Constant collection of water in the
Ką
Hypochondria. — Contractive pain in the hypochon-
dria, during the cough; while coughing, pressure with the
hand on the part nécessary.
Fæcal Discharge.
Abdomen. Pain in the bowels after sour food.
Bloody, slimy, diarrhoeal stools.
Urinary Discharge. — Frequent making water at night;
brown, strong-smelling urine.
Menses. Menses suppressed; menses retarded; leu-
corrhoea, with labour-like pains in the lower belly.
Chest.- -Pain in the chest, on sneezing and coughing,
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so that pressure of the hand on the chest is necessary; pain
as if of festering, on pressing the sternum; black pores on
the chest and shoulders.
G
Trachea. Constant roughness and dryness in the
larynx and trachea; feeling of a soft body (as a feather)
in the larynx; alternately soft (yellow, grey, or green),
or hardened mucus in the trachea; inflammation of the
larynx and trachea, with pain in speaking; voice deeper
than natural; husky voice; phthisis trachealis et laryngea.
Respiratory Organs. - Foul-smelling breath on cough-
ing; dyspnoea on speaking, chiefly when sitting down; sense
of oppression in the chest, as if, on coughing and speak-
ing, something there impeded the voice and breathing.
Cough. — Hooping cough, especially in the evening and
night, with shocks quickly following one another, so that
the breath cannot be recovered; hooping cough, with
bleeding at the nose and mouth, and pains in the hypo-
chondria; cough, from contraction of the lower belly; on
coughing, the sound as if the windpipe were dry; on
coughing, the chest pinched together, and pressure neces-
sary thereon with the hand; cough from singing, which
excites a cutting sensation in the throat; cough, with
blood bright, red and frothy, or black and clotted; green
expectoration.
Skin. Violent itching on undressing; on scratching,
the cuticle easily coming off.
Fever. Internal cold shivers during rest, without
thirst; the body constantly cold during rest, even in
bed; intermittent fever, with sore throat, and tendency
to vomit.
Bones. - Gnawing and shooting pains in all the shafts
of the bones, worse during rest.
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DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA.
Upper Extremities. - Nocturnal tearing pain in the
shaft of the humerus, going away during motion; crampoid
crookedness of the fingers.
Lower Extremities. — Cold sweats; constantly dead-
cold feet.
Predominating Symptoms. Gnawing shooting pain
in the joints; paralytic pains, as of a bruize, in the limbs;
pain in the limbs laid upon, as if from too hard a couch ;
sudden emaciation; galloping phthisis; epileptic attacks,
with starting in the limbs; after the attack, sleep and ex-
pectoration of blood; most of the symptoms increased at
night, and towards morning, as also during warmth and
rest of the body.
D
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Drosera Rotundifolia is justly esteemed as a most
valuable remedy in hooping cough, after the febrile symp-
toms have been relieved. It is also often of service in
several species of chronic cough, and in various affections
of the chest.
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* DULCAMARA.
Head.-Feeling as of stupefaction in the head, and as if
a board were pressed against the forehead; pressive, stun-
ning head-ache, only partial; boring and burning sensation
in the forehead, with a flickering feeling from within out-
wards; determination of blood to the head, with humming
in the ears, and difficulty of hearing; sensation as if the
occiput were enlarged.
T
chill.
Antidote-?
Disposition. Inward disquietude; great impatience;
inclination to quarrel, without anger; delirium at night,
with aggravation of the pain.
Sleep. Great drowsiness in the day-time; disturbed
sleep at night, on account of heat and starting, especially
after midnight; waking very early in the morning.
Eyes. Pressure in the eyes, especially when read-
ing; a sensation as if the eyes darted fire; inflammation
of the eyes, also in scrofulous subjects; twitches in the
eyelid, when in the cold air; amaurosis; sparks before
the eyes.
Ears.
Ear-ache at night, with nausea, or after a
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Nose. Epistaxis, the blood being very warm, and of
a bright-red colour, attended with pressive pain over the
nose.
M
Mouth. Stomacace after a chill; salivation; dryness of
the tongue; paralysis of the tongue; difficulty in articu-
lating.
Face. Paleness of the face, with circumscribed red-
ness of the cheeks; eruption on the face; crusta lactea;
twitches in the lips in the cold air; swelling of the sub-
maxillary glands.
K
Throat. Sore-throat, as if from elongation of the
uvula, with pressive pain; burning heat of the palate;
inflammation of the throat, especially after a chill.
Appetite.-Taste, flat, saponaceous; violent thirst for
cold liquids, chiefly with dryness of the tongue, though
the flow of saliva is increased; hunger, but disgust to all
food; after a frugal meal, swelling of the abdomen and
scrobiculus cordis.
Ca
Stomach. Pressure at the stomach, even to the chest;
in the stomach, constrictive, pinching sensation, which
takes away the breath; drawing-in sensation at the scro-
biculus cordis, with burning pain.
Nausea. Nausea, and vomiting of viscous mucus.
Abdomen. Pain in the region of the navel; shooting,
griping, cutting pain about the navel; creeping, gnawing,
griping pain in the abdomen, as if from the presence of a
worm; pain in the bowels from a chill; ascites; swelling
of the inguinal glands.
Fæcal Discharge.
Sp
Toggl
Costiveness; diarrhoea after a
chill, with pain in the bowels; diarrhoea in pregnant, and
lying-in women; green, slimy diarrhoea, with discharge of
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blood, and biting pain at the anus; watery autumnal
diarrhoea, with cholic occurring at night.
Urinary Discharge. Retention of urine; scanty fetid.
urine; urine when first voided clear and viscous, then
cloudy, and afterwards clear again, with slimy sediment;
catarrhus vesicæ; gleet.
Genital Organs. Herpetic eruption on the genital
M
organs.
Menses. Catamania too copious, and behind time;
sterility; herpetic eruption on the labia.
Chest.Great oppression on the chest, especially on
inspiration and expiration; dull, blunt stitches in, and on
both sides of the chest; undulating pain in the left side of
the chest; ascites; violent palpitation of the heart, per-
ceptible externally, at night; suppression of the milk in
lying-in women after a chill.
M
Trachea. Chronic catarrh of the trachea and lungs.
Respiratory Organs. — Coryza, with obstruction of the
nostrils, worse in the cold air.
M
S
Cough. — Cough, with hoarseness; hooping cough after
a chill, excited by drawing a deep breath; moist cough;
cough, with expectoration of bright-red blood; mucous
phthisis; acute suppuration of the lungs.
Skin. Dryness and heat of the skin; nettle-rash;
eruption of vesicles, containing a yellowish watery fluid ;
eruptions appearing suddenly, after a chill; dry furfuraceous
eruption, falling off in scales; suppurating moist tetters ;
herpetic eruption, with scabs over the whole body; her-
petic eruption, with swelling of the glands; warts.
Fever. Cold, and frequent shiverings in the evening,
not ceasing even when near a warm stove; cold shivering,
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DULCAMARA.
then burning heat, with dull head-ache, red face, burning
heat of the palate, and unquenchable thirst for cold li-
quids; dry heat, and burning of the skin, attended with
spectral illusions and thirst; hard, tense pulse; mucous
fever after a chill; general perspiration, especially at
night; fetid perspiration, with copious flow of urine.
Back. Flickering, shooting, violent pain in the loins
over the hip, chiefly during rest; shootings and pressure in
the back and arms, chiefly at night, during rest; stiffness
of the nape of the neck; swelling of the cervical glands.
Upper Extremities. — Paralysis of the arms, with icy
coldness, as if from apoplexy; paralytic pain in the arms,
as if from a contusion, chiefly during rest; herpetic erup-
tion, and warts on the hands; perspiration of the palms
of the hands.
Lower Extremities. - Dragging, tearing pain, in the
lower extremities, especially in the thighs; puffiness and
swelling of the thigh even to the feet; burning sensation in
the feet and toes.
Predominating Symptoms.
Shooting, drawing, or
tearing pains in the limbs, especially after catching cold;
various complaints caused by a chill; aggravation of the
symptoms chiefly in the evening, at night, and during re-
pose; amelioration on motion; increased secretion and
excretion from the mucous membranes; swelling and in-
duration of the glands; scrofulous affections; emaciation;
indolent swellings; dropsical swellings of internal organs,
of the whole body, of the limbs, and of the face; speedy
swelling of the whole body; paralysis of the limbs;
great lassitude; ill consequences resulting from degener-
ated measles.
2.
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PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Solanum Dulcamara is specific in some epidemic fevers;
but its most remarkable property is its power of arresting
the ill effects of a chill, and thus often preventing the most
dangerous diseases from being established in the consti-
tution. Certain affections of the skin are treated with
benefit by this remedy.
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Antidotes.-CHINA., HEP.SULPH., PULS., Verat.
We
Head.-Violent determination of blood to the head,
with evident swelling of the veins; beating head-ache, re-
turning periodically; head-ache in the occiput, on cough-
ing; painfulness of the scalp, on being touched, with
falling out of the hair.
Disposition. Changeable humour; anxiety as if some
crime had been committed; wrangling violence, with dis-
position to be always in the right; changeableness of hu-
mour, one evening over-joyful, another sad and melancholy.
Giddiness.— Giddiness, on going down steps, or looking
at running water.
Sleep. Sleepy fatigue, without being able to go to
sleep at night; in the evening, going to sleep late; ability
to lie only on the back at night.
Eyes.- Weak, dim eyes, with blue circles around them;
inflamed eyes, with burning sensation therein; dimness of
sight in the evening.
Nose.-Bleeding at the nose in the evening; coagu-
lated blood constantly in the nose.
M
M
FERRUM METALLICUM.
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Face.- Earthy, jaundiced complexion; paleness of the
face, with little red spots, the cheeks being pale; pale
puffiness of the face, especially about the eyes; redness
of the face, with veins running over it; pale, withered
lips.
BANG
Throat.-Pressive pain in the throat, on swallowing.
Taste. Solid food tasting dry, and without succu-
lence.
Appetite.-Loss of appetite, especially before noon;
distaste for meat and sour food; beer, meat, and acids dis-
agreeing; insatiable thirst, or absence of thirst.
Stomach.-Cramp-like pressure in the stomach, after
eating, especially meat.
Nausea. - Vomiting of the food, immediately after
dinner; early in the morning, or in the night, vomit-
ing of the food, which tastes sour; vomiting after
taking eggs; every thing thrown up tasting acid and
sharp.
Eructation.-Sour eructation; bitter eructation after
taking fat.
Hypochondria.-Tension in the right hypochondrium.
Abdomen.— Hard swollen lower belly; cramps in the
muscles of the belly, as if the bowels were laced together,
especially on exertion in stooping, so that the patient can
only slowly raise himself up again.
Fæcal Discharge.-Watery diarrhoea, with burning at
the anus; diarrhoea of undigested food; slimy motions,
with discharge of ascarides.
Genital Organs. - Swelling and induration of the
vagina; sterility; abortion.
Menses.- Catamænia too early and too copious ; cata-
mænia suppressed; menorrhagia, with labour-like pains in
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the hypogaster, and glowing heat of the face; before the
period, labour-like pains, and shooting head-ache; con-
stant milk-white acrid, or mild, leucorrhoea.
Chest. — Stitches in the chest, on coughing; on cough-
ing, the chest paining as if it had been bruized.
Respiratory Organs. - Want of breath, chiefly during
rest; dyspnoea, especially when sitting, and after mid-
night; anxious oppression at the chest; in sitting still,
loud breathing, as if asleep.
Cough. Early in the morning, spasmodic cough, with
expectoration of transparent viscous phlegm, ceasing im-
mediately after eating any thing; spasmodic cough after
dinner, with vomiting of the food taken; in the morning
and night, cough with blood; early in the morning, copious
expectoration of pus; in the evening, after lying down,
the cough dry; in the day time, greenish expectoration
with cough, and slight streaks of blood; on coughing, the
breath failing, and after eating, better.
Skin. Muddy, earthy colour of the skin; ana-
Y
sarca.
Fever. Pulse full and hard; deficiency of natural
heat; sensation of violent ebullition of the blood; dry
heat, with inclination to uncover; perspiration in sleep,
and on the slightest motion; perspiration at night, smell-
ing fetid; cold, anxious perspiration, with cramps in the
muscles.
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Back.
Tearing pain between the shoulder-blades.
Upper Extremities. Nocturnal shooting and tearing
pain in the arms; paralytic, tearing pain from the shoulder
joint, down the muscles of the upper arm, and in the clavi-
cle, whereby raising the arm becomes impossible, but going
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FERRUM METALLICUM.
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off gradually on gentle motion; numbness, and crooked
drawing of the fingers.
Lower Extremities. - Nocturnal shooting and tearing
pain from the hip joint down the thigh, going away gra-
dually, on slight motion; numbness of the thigh; pinching
pain in the calves during repose, especially at night; swell-
ing of the feet even to the ancles; crooked drawing of the
toes.
Predominating Symptoms. -Extreme emaciation; de-
bility of the body, bordering on paralysis; restlessness of
the limbs; creaking in the joints in the day time; fre-
quent sudden cramps in the limbs; drawing of the limbs.
into a crooked form; inclination to lie down, from a feel-
ing of internal weakness; seizing, on going into the open
air;
ill effects of the abuse of cinchona bark, and of tea; at
night, and towards morning, most of the symptoms ap-
pearing; the attacks becoming worse on repose, especially
on sitting still, and better on gentle motion.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
This metal, hitherto deemed so innocuous, exerts, never-
theless, the greatest influence on the health. It is ob-
served, that persons residing in the vicinity of ferruginous
waters, are more liable to diseases, attended with debility,
than those, who live in places not exposed to the effects
of the exhalations arising from them.
The only rational mode of attempting to restore strength,
is by curing the disease which occasions debility, and if the
symptoms of the malady to be treated correspond with those
which iron is capable of producing on the healthy subject,
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FERRUM METALLICUM.
it will renovate the patient's powers; but when given
merely because it is imagined to possess inherent tonic
powers, it often fearfully increases the weakness.
Some cases of phthisis, when not too far advanced,
have been cured by this remedy, and it is often of signal
benefit in the treatment of chlororis, with the symptoms
of which affection those of iron so nearly coincide.
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Antidotes. ARSEN. NUX VOм., VINUM.
C
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* GRAPHITES.
Head. Every morning, violent head-ache even to
fainting, and cold perspiration; feeling of tension, and
constriction in the occiput, with stiffness of the nape of the
neck; head-ache on riding in a carriage; tinea capitis;
the hair getting grey, and falling off, even on the sides of
the head.
-
Disposition. Great irritability and peevishness; in-
ternal grief and despair, with much weeping; anxious dis-
quietude, which drives out of bed at night; in the morn-
ing, apprehension, irresolution, and hesitation; hysteria.
Giddiness. Feeling as if intoxicated, early in the
morning, on getting out of bed.
Sleep. In the evening, difficulty of going to sleep;
dizzy, weakening sleep, in the morning; at night, anxious,
fearful dreams.
Eyes. Pressure and shooting pain in the eyes, with
watering; inflammation of the eyes, with intolerance of
light, and red swollen eyelids; intolerance of day-light;
short-sightedness.
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GRAPHITES.
Ears. Dryness of the inner ear; eruption and ex-
coriation behind the ears; hardness of hearing.
Nose. - Troublesome dryness of the nose; black pores
on the skin of the nose; the nostrils ulcerated and scurfy;
discharge of fetid pus from the nose; great sensibility of
smell.
Mouth. Sour taste in the mouth; fetid smell in the
mouth, like urine.
Teeth. Shooting pain in the teeth after drinking any
thing cold, increased by warmth; swelling of the gums,
which easily bleed.
Face. - Pale, yellow complexion; flushes of heat in the
face; erysipelatous inflammation of the face; encysted tu-
mours on the face; distortion and paralysis of the muscles
of the face on one side, rendering speech difficult; ulcers on
the inner part of the lips; scurfy eruption on the chin, and
round the mouth; hard swelling of the submaxillary
glands.
Throat. Feeling as if of a ball or plug in the throat,
especially at night; spasm in the throat, obliging to
swallow forcibly.
Taste. Bitter taste in the mouth.
Appetite. Immoderate hunger; distaste to warm,
cooked food; in the morning, and after dinner, great
thirst.
Stomach. Great weakness of digestion; cramp in the
stomach, and sensation of pressure in the stomach, with
nausca, diminished by warmth of the bed; burning sen-
sation in the stomach, obliging to eat.
.
Nausea. Nausea in the morning; nausea and vomit-
ing after each meal.
Flatulence. Uncommon accumulation of flatulence in
Př
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the bowels, with tense swelling; great discharge of fetid
flatus.
Eructation.-Frequent sour eructation, with bitter
taste in the mouth.
Hypochondria. - Hardness in the region of the liver.
Abdomen. -Fulness and weight in the belly; hardness
in the lower belly; painfulness in the region of the groin,
with swelling of the glands.
Anus. Painful hæmorrhoids, with clefts between
them.
Fæcal Discharge. - Chronic constipation; hard, too
firmly formed motions; chronic looseness, the motions not.
sufficiently formed; slimy stools.
Urinary Discharge. Painful dysuria, with anxiety,
and scanty discharge, in drops, of dark coloured urine;
sour-smelling urine; discharge of urine during sleep; pain
in the coccyx, on making water.
Genital Organs. - Feeling of tension in the genital
organs; cedematous swelling of the præputium and scro-
tum; excoriation of the labia; painful swelling of the
ovaria.
Menses. Menses too late, too pale, and scanty; cata-
mænia commencing too late, in young girls; cramps in
the lower belly during menstruation; white, thin leucor-
rhoea.
Chest. Stitches at the chest, and beating of the heart,
on the slightest motion; hardness and swelling of the
glands of the chest; excoriation of the nipples, with blisters
thereon.
Respiratory Organs. - Daily coryza, on becoming
cold; nostrils obstructed, with head-ache, and nausea;
flow of mucus from the nose, smelling fetid.
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GRAPHITES.
Cough. — Cough in the evening or night, excited on
drawing a deep breath.
Trachea.-Sensitiveness of the larynx, with scratching
sensation therein, and hoarseness; the voice not clear for
singing.
Glands. - Hardness and swelling of the glands.
Skin. Feeling of dryness of the skin, and deficient
perspiration; erysipelatous inflammation; moist tetters,
and eruptions; excoriation, and spots with abraded cuticle,
in children; the skin not healing kindly; fetid pus, and
proud flesh, in ulcers; thick, stunted nails.
Fever. Cold in the evening; inability to perspire;
fetid perspiration on the least motion; fetid nocturnal per-
spiration.
Neck. Painful stiffness of the nape of the neck on
bending the head and lifting up the arms.
Back. Creeping sensation, as if from ants, in the
back; pain, as of a bruise, in the sacrum.
Upper Extremities. — Emaciation of the hands; crooked
drawing of the fingers; gouty knots in the fingers; exco-
riation between the fingers; thick, deformed nails.
Lower Extremities. Excoriation between the legs;
numbness of the thigh; stiffness and shortening of the
muscles of the hough; stiffness of the knee; coldness of
the feet in the evening, in bed; shooting pain in the heels;
drawing crooked, and stiffness of the toes; gnawing blis-
ters and ulcers on the toes, and excoriation between them;
thick, stunted nails of the toes.
Predominating Symptoms. - Great emaciation; easily
taking cold, and sufferings increased by being cold; draw-
ing sensation through the whole body, with tendency to
stretch and strain; going-to-sleep-feel in the limbs; shorten-
Są
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GRAPHITES.
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ing of the tendons; crooked contraction of single parts;
strong pulsation through the whole body, on every motion;
general attacks, without pain, which cause groaning;
after going into the open air, many of the symptoms dis-
appearing.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
It was little suspected, until within the last twenty
years, that when using a black-lead pencil, we held in our
hand a substance in which resided latent medicinal virtues,
of the most active nature. Dr. Weinhold first employed
graphites both externally, and internally, in herpetic erup-
tions; but since the great Hahnemann instituted experi-
ments on the healthy subject, the sphere of its usefulness
has been considerably extended.
Graphites is often used with advantage in deafness, with
buzzing in the ears; and it is a most serviceable remedy
in constipation. It is particularly useful in disorder of the
catamænial discharge, especially when scanty; and it is of
benefit in hæmorrhoids, excoriated nipples, and, more par-
ticularly, in moist, herpetic eruptions.
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S
Antidotes.-CAMPH., CHIN., VINUM.
Head. Dull painful bewildering of the head; burning
heat of the head, with paleness of the face; pressive pain
in the head from without inward; hydrocephalus; pain
as of a bruize in the inner and outer, upper and back
part of the head; boring with the occiput on the pillow;
moist scurf on the scalp.
Mind.-Stupefaction; dulness of the internal feelings, as
if a kind of stupor; frequent sitting as if in thought, with
staring on one point; a sort of diminished dominion of the
mind over the body; as soon as the attention and the
will are not fixed, the muscles refusing to do duty, thus, if
one addresses a patient when drinking, he lets the glass
unconsciously fall out of his hands.
Sleep. Feeling of being about to slumber, with
desire to lie down; great sleepiness in the day time;
slumbering, with half open eyes, and pupils turned
upwards.
Eyes. Feeling of pressure of the eyelids from above
downwards; dilated pupils; tendency to staring; intoler-
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ance of light, without perceptible inflammation of the
eyes.
Mouth. Blisters and aphthæ in the mouth and on the
tongue; dryness of the palate; very copious flow of saliva;
swelling and deadness of the tongue.
Teeth. In the evening and at night, shooting tear-
ing pain in the teeth, which support neither cold nor
warmth.
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Face.- Pale yellowish complexion; dropsical pale
swelling of the face; wrinkled forehead; cracked upper
lip; white blisters on the swollen lip; rawness of the
corners of the mouth, from a constant flow of saliva.
Appetite. Great appetite; aversion to fat and veget-
ables; absence of thirst; violent thirst.
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Stomach. Fulness and swelling at the pit of the
stomach; burning and biting pain in the stomach; pain-
fulness of the stomach, on coughing and on ascending.
Nausea. Nausea in the stomach, with immoderate ap-
petite and disgust to food.
Flatulence.-Exit of fetid flatus; mucous bilious diar-
rhoea, with tenesmus; frequent watery stools.
Eructation. Ineffectual eructation.
Abdomen. Swelling of the lower belly; griping in the
region of the navel; ascites; feeling of coldness in the
lower belly.
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Urinary Discharge. — Frequent efforts to make water,
with little discharge; stream weak; dark urine.
Breath. Difficulty of breathing, as if from dropsy of
the chest; attacks of suffocation, as if from constriction of
the throat and chest.
Cough. Slight dry hecking cough, on smoking to-
bacco.
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Skin.-Wan colour of the skin; sudden dropsical swel-
ling of the skin; falling off of the hair and nails; peeling
off of the cuticle, over the whole body.
Fever. Small, slow, pulse; chilliness and coldness of
the whole body, without thirst, and with heat in the head;
shivering, alternating with shooting pains in the limbs; in
the evening, burning heat externally, with shuddering inter-
nally, without thirst; in the evening in bed, heat and per-
spiration all over; after the fever, a feeling as if one had
laid long ill, and was now recovering.
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Disposition. — Extraordinary anxiety; sorrowful melan-
choly humour; hypochondria; involuntary sighs; nostalgia.
Neck. Swelling of the cervical glands.
Upper Extremities. Boring shooting pain in the joints.
of the hands and fingers; blisters between the fingers;
ulcers about the nails.
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Lower Extremities. - Stiffness of the joints of the hip
and knee; boring shooting pain in the joints of the knee
and foot; moist eruption of the feet; blisters between the
toes.
Predominating Symptoms. - Sudden relaxation of all
the muscles; the muscles refusing to act when the atten-
tion is not directed thereto; the patient unawares reeling in
walking, lets the bread fall from his hands, and the like.
Shooting boring pain in the periosteum, worse in the cold
air; convulsive movements of the muscles, especially in
sleep; the pains, (shooting, tearing, pressing,) frequently
passing across the parts; the symptoms getting worse
towards evening; the patient finds himself better in the
open air, with the feeling as if he had been a long
time ill.
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PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Helleborus Niger is salutary in some kinds of fe-
ver, in some diseases characterized by swelling, in
certain affections of the mind, and in various forms.
of dropsy.
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Antidotes. CAMPH., CHINA.
Head.-Pressive head-ache in the temples; shooting pain
in the head, after having walked in the open air; head-ache
in the night, as if the forehead would be torn off, increased
by moving the eyes; head-ache as if a nail were driven in;
great falling off of the hair; tinea capitis; swellings on
the head, which produce a smarting pain on their being
touched; cold perspiration on the head; pimples on the
forehead, which disappear in the open air.
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Disposition. - Peevishness and liability to sudden
passion; spirits sad and dejected, with inclination to
weep; extraordinary anguish, as if expecting misfortune;
quick hasty speech.
Giddiness.-Giddiness on riding in a carriage and on
shaking the head; giddiness, with fainting and fixed
staring of the eyes.
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Sleep. Great drowsiness, with spasmodic yawning
morning and evening; disturbed soporific slumber, with the
head thrown backwards; loss of sleep at night from a
crowd of ideas; obligation to rise suddenly, as if inca-
pable of breathing.
Eyes. Inflammation of the eyes and eyelids, with
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smarting on their being touched; abundant flow of tears;
nocturnal secretion, which closes the eyes; projection.
of the eyes; stiffness of the eyes; pustular eruption
beneath the eyes and on the eyelids; ulcers and specks on
the cornea; dimness of sight, especially in the evening by
candle-light; intolerance of light; objects appearing red.
Ears. Heat, redness and itching of the external ear;
shooting pain in the ear, on blowing the nose; buzzing and
beating in the ears; scabby eruption behind the ears.
Nose. Frequent bleeding at the nose; smarting of the
bridge of the nose, and a bruized feeling at the point of
the nose, on its being touched.
Mouth. Ulceration of the corners of the mouth;
vesicular eruption on the chin; boils on the lips, chin and
neck, producing a smarting pain on their being touched.
Teeth. Painful swelling of the gums of the molar
teeth, especially on being touched; dragging pain in the
teeth aggravated by eating and by being in a warm room.
Face. Great redness of the face; yellowness of the
face with a blue ring round the eyes; nocturnal heat of the
face; erysipelatous swelling of the cheeks; erysipelas of
the face; chronic eruption on the face.
Throat. Hoarseness of voice and hastiness of speech;
flow of saliva increased; scraped feeling in the throat, on
swallowing the saliva; a sensation when swallowing, as if
a plug stuck in the throat; shooting pain in the throat, as
if from splinters on swallowing, coughing, drawing a deep
breath, or turning the head; hawking up of mucus.
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Taste. Bitter taste in the mouth, whilst the food
retains the natural taste; desire for sour and sharp
things; great thirst.
Stomach. Pressure at the stomach, after a light.
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repast; swelling of the region of the stomach, which
prevents sitting, and obliges the loosening of dress.
Eructation. Eructation, with burning pain in the
throat; nausea in the morning; sour sickness.
Abdomen. Sense of snatching about the navel, with
nausea, anxiety and heat of the cheeks; shooting pain
in the region of the spleen; feeling as of a bruize in the
lower part of the abdomen, in the morning; flatulence, es-
pecially in the sides of the abdomen; swelling and suppu-
ration of the inguinal glands.
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Fecal Discharge. Difficult evacuation of soft fæces,
with much effort and tenesmus; fæces hard and dry;
stools bloody and slimy; fæcal diarrhoea with cholic;
greenish, yellowish, and clay-coloured evacuations.
Urinary Discharge. - Secretion of urine delayed; when
voided, thick and depositing a white sediment; urine dark-
red and scalding; urine acrid and burning, which excoriates
the prepuce; itching and shooting pain in the glans penis
and prepuce; sores on the prepuce resembling chancres.
Chest. Stitches in the sternum or towards the back,
on breathing and walking; pustules and ulcers on the
chest, with shooting and smarting pain on their being
touched; pain as of a bruize in the muscles of the neck;
shooting pain in the neck externally; violent throbbing of
the carotids.
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Respiratory Organs. — Catarrh with scraped feeling in
the throat; breathing anxious, short, wheezing, which com-
pels the patient to raise himself suddenly; paroxysms of
suffocation, which compel him to throw the head backward.
Trachea. Membranous croup in children; hoarse-
ness; phthisis trachealis.
Cough. - Deep moist cough; paroxysms of dry
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hoarse cough, with anxiety and choking sensation; crying,
after the cough in children; dry cough in the evening, ex-
cited by coldness of any of the limbs; dry cough increas-
ing towards evening, from an irritation at the upper part
of the trachea, or in the larynx; cough with pain in
the larynx; violent suffocating cough, with vomiting and
choking sensation; cough after every time of drinking;
hooping cough.
Skin. Indisposition of the skin to heal; ulcers bleed-
ing readily; nocturnal burning and throbbing in ulcers;
shooting and gnawing pain in ulcers; burning itching on
the body, and white vesicles after scratching; nettle rash.
Fever. Pulse quick and hard; great coldness and
shivering in the evening, not followed by heat; shivering
in the open air; shivering at night, with increase of pain;
great coldness, with clattering of the teeth, then heat with
perspiration, especially on the chest and forehead, and
trifling thirst; after a previous bitter taste in the mouth,
extreme coldness with thirst, an hour afterwards, much
heat, with sleep, during the fever, head-ache and vomiting;
nocturnal dry heat; nocturnal perspiration; perspiration
in the morning; clammy sour-smelling perspiration.
Back. - Tension in the back at night, on turning;
stitches in the back; violent pain in the sacrum, which
extends to the upper part of the thighs.
Upper Extremities. - Gritty eruption on the hand and
wrist; hot red swelling of the hand, with a wrenching
pain on its being moved; swelling of the joints of the
fingers; clefts on the hands.
Lower Extremities. Clefts on the feet; inflammation
of warts, with pricking pain; shooting pain in the corns ;
boils on the nates.
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Predominating Symptoms. - Swelling and suppuration
of the axillary glands; tearing pain in the superior and
inferior extremities; sudden weakness of the legs in
walking; weakness and trembling of the knees, on going
into the open air, with anxiety and general heat; in the
evening, fainting from the slightest pain; nocturnal painful
tension in the thighs, which prevents sleep; pricking pain
in the joints; paralytic drawing pains in the limbs.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Hepar Sulphuris is a remedy often required in homœo-
pathic practice. Not only is it almost indispensable in the
treatment of croup, after the administration of Aconitum
and Spongia, but it is frequently indicated in chronic dis-
eases, and it calms, in an extraordinary manner, the
nervous excitability produced by the abuse of mercury.
In scrofulous ophthalmia, it is also of signal benefit. It is
a very useful remedy in the treatment of constipation, and
appears to exert great power over the functions of the
liver.
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HYOSCYAMUS NIGER.
Antidotes CAMPH., BELLAD.
Head. Pain in the head, as if from shaking of the
brain; pressive stupifying pain in the forehead, especially
after dinner; constrictive stupid feel in the forehead;
hemicrania; undulating sensation in the brain; nervous
inflammation of the brain, also after exertion during the
winter cold; dropsy in the ventricles of the brain; sensa-
tion of rocking to and fro in the head.
Mind. Loss of memory; loss of consciousness, lying
with eyes shut, and talking irrationally of his affairs; im-
becility; a feeling of wanting nothing, with the exception
of liquids; speaking confusedly; delirium; doing the re-
verse of all one should; insanity, with loss of conscious-
ness and laughable jokes and gestures; obscene insanity.
Disposition.— Melancholy; wish to avoid society;
distrust; running out of the house at night; dread of being
sold or poisoned; inclination to laugh at every thing;
loquaciousness; jealousy; abuse and quarrelling; rage,
with beating and a desire to kill; hydrophobia; disorder
of the brain from drinking spirits.
Giddiness. Bewildering and weight of the head;
giddiness, as if from intoxication, or with dimness of sight.
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Sleep.-Strong ineffectual desire for sleep; not going to
sleep till late, and nocturnal over-cheerfulness; attempts to
seize things with the hands in bed and picking at the bed
clothes; smiling during sleep; starting fright which makes.
the patient rise in sleep.
Eyes.- Eyes weak and dim; red, projecting, staring,
distorted eyes; spasmodic closure of the eyelids; dilated
pupils; dimness of sight; short or far sightedness; false
vision; double vision; objects appearing much too large or
red; night blindness; incipient amaurosis.
Ears. Humming in the ears; difficulty of hearing.
Nose. Bleeding at the nose; compressive pinching
sensation at the root of the nose; loss of smell.
Mouth. Dryness of the mouth; flow of saliva of a
saltish taste, and of saliva mixed with blood; froth before
the mouth; bad smell in the mouth, which even the
patient perceives; burning sensation, and numbness of the
tongue, as if burnt; red tongue; paralysis of the tongue;
loss of the power of utterance.
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Teeth. — Tooth-ache; pulsating tearing pain in the
teeth from the cheek to the forehead, especially after
taking cold or in the cold air, with determination of blood
to the head, chiefly early in the morning; tearing pain
in the gums, with a buzzing sensation and a feeling of
looseness in the teeth; clenching of the teeth.
Face.Face cold, pale, blueish, or swollen, or very
red; pressive pinching sensation on the cheek bone; dry
lips; trismus.
Throat. Dryness of the throat and burning heat;
constriction of the throat, and impossibility to swallow
liquids; hiccup, especially after dinner.
Stomach. Cramp in the stomach, in periodical attacks,
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and alleviated by vomiting; painfulness in the pit of the
stomach, on being touched; burning pain in the stomach;
inflammation of the stomach and diaphragm.
Nausea. Nausea, on pressing the pit of the stomach;
choking feel and vomiting, which, with cutting pain in the
bowels, cause screaming; watery vomiting with giddiness;
vomiting of bloody slime and dark red blood.
Hypochondria. - - Dull pain in the region of the liver.
Abdomen. - Tense swollen belly, painful to the touch;
cholic cramps in the lower belly; cutting pain in the
bowels; shooting pain about the navel on walking and
breathing; inflammation of the intestines.
Fæcal Discharge. -- Constipation; frequent efforts to
go to stool, with trifling and rare discharge; watery
diarrhoea; diarrhoea in lying-in women; involuntary
stools.
Urinary Discharge. Retention of urine; frequent
desire to make water, with trifling discharge; abundant
clear watery urine; diabetes; involuntary flow of urine;
paralysis of the bladder.
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Menses. Menses too copious; menses suppressed
lochia suppressed; menorrhagia, bright red blood; during
menstruation, delirium, flow of urine, perspiration and con-
vulsive trembling; before menstruation, hysterical cramps.
and loud laughing; sterility.
Chest. Pressure on the chest, in the right side, with
great anguish and shortness of breath, on ascending steps;
cramps in the chest, with catching of the breath which
forces to lean forwards; shooting pain in the sides of the
chest; nervous inflammation of the lungs; affections of
the heart.
Trachea. Much mucus in the larynx and trachea,
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which renders the speech and voice husky; catarrh of the
bronchia.
Respiratory Organs. - Difficult rattling breathing.
Cough. - Constant cough on lying down, which goes
away on getting up; nocturnal dry spasmodic or irritating
cough; dry shaking cough, like hooping cough, (after and
during the measles), with smarting pain in the muscles of
the chest; greenish expectoration; incipient suppuration
of the lungs.
Skin.-Dry, rough, easily chapped skin; milliary
eruption from the abuse of belladonna; eruption of dry
pustules like confluent small-pox; brown spots on the body,
from time to time; frequent large boils; gangrenous spots
and small blisters on various parts.
Fever. Shivering from the feet to the head; violent
heat of the body, especially of the head; puerperal, putrid,
worm and nervous fever; contagious typhus.
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Back. Pain in the back, especially in the loins, with
swelling in the feet; shooting pain in the loins and
shoulder-blades; herpetic spots on the nape of the neck.
Upper Extremities. Trembling of the arms in the
evening, after moving them; painful numbness and stiff-
ness in the hands; swelling of the hands; closing of the
hands in a ball, and inclosing of the thumbs.
Lower Extremities. - Painful cramp in the thigh and
calves, which draws up the legs; gangrenous spots and
blisters on the lower extremities; stiffness and weakness
in the joints of the knees; swelling of the feet; drawing
crooked of the toes on walking and ascending.
Predominating Symptoms. Dull, dragging, cutting
and tearing pain in the limbs and joints; limbs cold,
falling asleep; hysterical affections; inflammation of
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internal organs, with nervous attacks; cramps, also from
worms, or in women in labour, or pregnant women; con-
vulsive motions and startings in single limbs, or of the
whole body, and on the least attempt to swallow liquids;
throwing about and beating with the hands and feet;
chorea; epileptic convulsions and apoplectic fits, also in
alternate attacks; fainting fits; great weakness and ener-
vation; paralysis; effects of disappointed love, with
jealousy; effects of taking cold, and influence of cold air;
the chief and greatest inconvenience arising after dinner.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
The power of Hyoscyamus in quieting nervous irritability,
especially in hysterical females, is very remarkable. It is
of great service in many kinds of cough, principally when
occurring at night and unattended with expectoration.
It is also useful in chronic coughs, where the expectoration.
is green and the bronchial tubes are filled with phlegm, and
likewise in some painful affections of the stomach. Hydro-
phobia is one of those dreadful diseases to which Hyoscya-
mus may, with a fair prospect of success, be applied when
the symptoms correspond with those it produces on the
healthy subject. In some hæmorrhages from the uterus,
it is useful. Its influence on the mind is very marked.
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Antidotes. COFF., PULS., CHAM., COCC., CAMPH., AUR.
Head. Hemicrania; on stooping forward the head-
ache increasing; pressive head-ache over the root of the
nose, with tendency to vomit, diminished by bending the
head forwards; forcing asunder pain in the head; pressive
pinching pain in the forehead and back part of the head,
with dimness of sight; pain in the head, as if from a nail
run into the brain; boring, shooting, tearing pain deep in
the brain and in the forehead, diminished on lying down;
starting, beating head-ache; bending backwards of the
head.
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Disposition. Sadness and tranquil grief, with sighs;
nocturnal attacks of anguish; indecision; impatience;
great timidity; peevish fretfulness; assurance; mild dis-
position and delicate conscience; inconstancy; change
from extravagant playfulness to sadness, with inclination to
weep; laconic way of speaking.
Giddiness. Vertigo, with sparkling before the eyes.
Sleep.-Profound lethargic sleep, with snoring inspira-
tion; excessive spasmodic yawning, especially early in the
morning and after sleep at noon; very light sleep;
disturbed sleep, with nightmare; starting of the limbs on
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going to sleep; dreams, with meditation and reflection, or
on the same subject the whole night.
Eyes. -Sense of pressure of the eyes; inflammation of
the eyes in scrofulous subjects; eyes bloodshot; watering,
and closing of the eyes from suppuration; convulsive
motion of the eyes and eye-lids; fixed look, with dilated
pupils; intolerance of light.
Ears. Swelling of the parotid glands, with pricking
pain; redness and burning heat of one ear.
Nose.-Itching of the nose; the nostrils ulcerated and
excoriated.
Mouth. The mouth and fauces inflamed and red;
constant secretion of mucus, or much sour saliva in the
mouth; aptness to bite the tongue on chewing or speaking;
moist white furred tongue; shooting pain in the membrane
covering the palate even to the ear.
Lips. - Lips dry, cracked and bleeding; smarting pain
in the inside of the under lip; corners of the mouth scurfy ;
convulsive motion of the corners of the mouth.
Teeth.-Tooth-ache, as if from taking cold, and as if the
teeth were shattered; difficult dentition in children; con-
strained feeling in the jaw.
Face. Complexion pale, red or bluish; redness and
burning heat of one cheek; convulsive twitching of the
muscles of the face; eruption on the face.
Throat. Sore throat as if from the presence of a plug,
even when not swallowing; sensation as if obliged to
swallow over a burning swelling; shooting sore throat,
especially when not swallowing; inflamed, hard, swollen
tonsils, with small ulcers; difficulty of swallowing liquids ;
constriction of the fauces.
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Appetite. Disinclination for food and drink, especially
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milk, and for smoking tobacco; the milk taken early in the
morning leaving long behind an after taste; after smoking
tobacco, hiccough.
IGNATIA AMARA.
Nausea. Nausea, with disquietude and anxiety; vomit-
ing of food, bile and mucus; periodical attacks of pain in
the stomach, disturbing sleep at night, and increased on
pressure; dull pressure or shooting pain in the scrobiculus
cordis; burning pain in the stomach; feeling of emptiness
and weakness in the scrobiculus cordis.
Flatulence. Borborygmus; flatulent cholic, especially
in hysterical persons.
Eructation. Gulping of ingesta or a bitter fluid,
especially after each time of eating and drinking.
Hypochondria.-Fulness and swelling of the hypo-
chondria, with tightness of breathing.
Abdomen. Pain in the bowels, first griping, then
shooting, in the sides of the lower belly; periodical cramps
in the lower belly, especially in sensitive persons; cramp-
like pressure, sometimes inward, sometimes outward, in the
region of the uterus; pulsation in the abdomen.
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Anus. Flow of blood from the anus; prolapsus ani
on going to stool; itching and creeping at the anus;
ascarides; contraction of the anus; constrictive smarting
pain at the anus, after a motion; stitches at the anus up
the rectum.
Fæcal Discharge. - Motions hard, with frequent inef-
fectual forcing; fæces whitish yellow, thickly formed,
difficult to pass; bloody mucous diarrhoea, with rumbling
in the bowels.
Urinary Discharge. Frequent and copious discharge
of watery urine.
Genital Organs.—Considerable itching about the genital
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organs; smarting at the edge of the prepuce; sensation of
flickering and pressure in the testicles, especially in the
evening on lying down; perspiration of the scrotum.
Catamænia retarded; menorrhagia; spasm
of the uterus; purulent acrid leucorrhoea, preceded by con-
strictive pressure in the uterus.
Menses.
Chest.
Pressure at the chest; constrictive feeling in
the chest; shooting pain at the sides of the chest; pulsa-
tion in the chest.
Respiratory Organs. Dry catarrh, with dull pain in
the forehead and hysterical excitement; dryness of the
nose; feeble voice; inability to speak loud.
Breath. Oppression at the chest and of the breathing,
especially at night; difficult inspiration, as if impeded by
a weight; want of breath in walking, and cough on stand-
ing still; Miller's asthma.
Cough. Cough, from constriction at the pit of the
throat, as iffrom sulphuric vapour; tedious nocturnal cough;
dry cough, with coryza continuing equally day and night;
dry harsh cough, after the measles; spasmodic cough,
which shakes the frame; dry cough, as if from a feather
in the throat, the more severely felt the more it prevails.
Skin. Itching, which is soon relieved by scratching;
chilblains; excoriation in children.
Fever. Cold shivers on the back and arms, with thirst
for cold water; during the cold, vomiting of food, bile or
mucus; fever, cold first, with thirst, then heat; cold
shivers, succeeded by external heat, and perspiration after-
wards; general heat (except on the feet,) with internal
shivering and redness of the cheeks; sudden transient
Alushes of heat over the whole body; anxious feeling
of heat, as if perspiration would break out; internal
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feeling of warmth, with perspiration; absence of thirst
during the heat and perspiration; catarrhal, rheumatic,
intermittent and slow nervous fever.
Back. Violent pain in the sacrum, of a shooting,
dragging or raking kind; bending backwards of the back ;
stiffness of the nape of the neck; compressive pain in the
glands of the neck.
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Upper Extremities.-- Insupportable paralytic wrenching
pains in the bones and joints of the arms, as if the flesh
were being taken off; convulsive startings of the arms, and
fingers; tearing pain in the arms, from cold air; tight
feeling in the wrist; warm perspiration of the hands.
Lower Extremities. Cutting tearing pain on the back
part of the thigh, on putting in action the muscles; weight
of the legs and feet, with tension in the legs and calves on
walking; knees hot, while the nose is cold; convulsive
startings of the legs; stiffness of the knees and feet
painful sensitiveness of the soles of the feet, on walking;
burning pain in the corns.
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Predominating Symptoms. Slight pain in various
parts, violent only on being touched; acute or sharp sense
of pressure in the limbs and other parts; forcing asunder
and constrictive pain in the internal organs; rheumatic tear-
ing pain in the limbs; pains as if the joints were dislocated
or sprained; weight or creeping sensation of going to sleep
in the limbs; convulsions and attacks of cramp, also hys-
terical and epileptic convulsions, especially after fright and
grief, or during teething in children; risus sardonicus;
Saint Vitus's dance; tetanic cramps; ill effects of fright,
inward grief, anger, and unfortunate love, with tranquil
sorrow; injurious effects of drinking coffee; scrofulous.
affections; gastric and bilious attacks; symptoms arising
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from worms; chlorotic affections; hysterical debility and
fainting fits; the symptoms appearing more especially
immediately after dinner, as also in the evening after lying
down, or early in the morning after getting up; pains
disappearing on lying on the back, either on the painful
side, or the sound side, and constantly on changing
position.
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PRACTICAL REMARKS.
This remedy is adapted to extremely irritable constitu-
tions those nervous habits which are alternately affected
by joy and sorrow, with desire to cry, succeeding each other
rapidly. It is of the greatest benefit in acute affections
occasioned by concealed grief. Thus many diseases arising
from that cause, may be overcome by having recourse to it.
Although the symptoms produced by Ignatia resemble those
of the Nux Vomica in many respects, it differs widely in its
effects on the mind. Attacks of epilepsy, brought on by
opposition to the patient's wishes or any other cause of in-
dignation, may often be arrested by this remedy, and some
recent cases of epilepsy, arising from fright, have been
cured by it; but other kinds of chronic epilepsy are pro-
bably never permanently relieved without the aid of the
antipsoric remedies. It is of benefit in chorea, hysteria,
pains in the abdomen, cramps of the uterus, and periodical
pains of the stomach.
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Antidotes.
Head.
Shooting pain at the crown of the head or in
the forehead; pain as of a bruise in the brain and bones of
the head, with nausea and vomiting; painfulness of the
occiput and back of the neck.
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IPECACUANHA.
Disposition. Great excitement of the mind, and im-
patience; quiet peevishness, with inclination to disdain
every thing; unbearableness of all noise.
Sleep.-Total loss of sleep; sleep with eyes half-open,
with restlessness and whining; frequent starting in
sleep.
B
Ma
ARN., ARS.
.
Eyes. Twitches in the eyelids; dilated pupils; dim-
ness of sight.
Ears. Chilliness, and sense of great cold of the ears,
during fever heat.
Nose. Violent bleeding at the nose; deficient smell.
Mouth. Red skin around the mouth; biting pain in
the mouth and tongue; difficulty of swallowing; flow of
saliva; yellow-coated tongue.
Teeth. On biting, tooth-ache in hollow teeth, as if
they were being extracted.
IPECACUANHA.
169
Ma
Face. Paleness of the face, with blue circles round
the eyes; convulsive startings of the muscles of the face
and lips; eruption and apthæ on the edges of the lips,
with biting pain; skin around the mouth red.
Throat. Swelling and suppuration at the pit of the
throat.
Taste.
Sweetish taste as of blood.
Appetite. Loss of appetite, as if from relaxation of the
stomach; aversion to all food; inclination for little dain-
ties and sweet things; absence of thirst; ill effects from
eating pork.
G
Stomach. Violent indescribable feeling of pain in the
stomach; sense of emptiness and looseness in the sto-
mach.
M
My
Nausea Nausea, as if from the stomach; tendency to
vomit, and choking sensation, after taking cold liquids,
and smoking tobacco; vomiting of all the food; vomiting
of bile; vomiting of green gelatinous slime; vomiting of
blood.
M
Abdomen. - Cutting and griping pain about the navel,
increased on motion; flatulent cholic, with frequent re-
laxed motions.
Fæcal Discharge.
Motions relaxed, as if fermented,
with nausea, and violent cholic; dysenteric evacuations,
with tenesmus; fæces covered with bloody mucus; bloody
motions; fetid evacuations.
Urinary Discharge. — Scanty dark-red urine; ineffec-
tual efforts to make water; bloody urine, with cutting
pain in the belly, and in the urethra, (after suppressed
psora).
Menses. Catamania before their time, and too copi-
ous; menorrhagia, with bright-red blood, in clots.
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IPECACUANHA.
Chest. Spasmodic contraction of the chest; throbbing
of the heart.
(Jap
Respiratory Organs. - Stoppage of the nostrils, and
dry coryza.
Breath. Fetid breath; anxious, hasty breathing; at-
tacks of suffocation in the room, becoming better in the
open air; loss of breath on the slightest motion; spas-
modic asthma, with constriction in the throat and
chest.
Cough. Dry cough from tickling, especially in the
upper part of the larynx; hooping cough; violent shaking
cough, each fit of coughing following the other in quick
succession, and not allowing time for breathing; suffo-
cating cough in the evening; incessant cough, with per-
spiration in the forehead, shocks in the head, choking sen-
sation, and vomiting; cough, with stiffness of the body,
and blueness of the face; cough, expectorating blood on
every exertion.
M
Shin. Miliary eruption (also driven in), in lying-in
women; during the nausea, violent itching on the healthy
skin of the arm and leg, with scratching.
Fever. Very quick pulse; deficiency of vital warmth ;
cold, with thirst; dry heat; the skin like parchment, at-
tended with anxiety; in the room, sudden heat, with per-
spiration and giddiness; nocturnal sour-smelling per-
spiration; intermittent fever, with slight cold fit, violent
heat, gastric symptoms, and oppression at the chest; ex-
acerbation of the fever, in the evening.
Bones. Pain, as of a bruise, in all the bones.
M
Opisthotonos and emprosthotonos.
Back.
Lower Extremities. A feeling in the hip joint, as if it
would be dislocated; convulsive starting in the legs and
IPECACUANHA.
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feet; nocturnal cramp in the muscles of the thigh, con-
tracting, and forming lumps; violent itching upon the
calves; ulcers of the feet, with black surface.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
2
Predominating Symptoms. - Great weakness, with dis-
gust for all aliment, and nausea during the symptoms;
bleeding from all the apertures of the body; sense of going
to sleep in the limbs; over-sensibility to cold and warmth;
startings in the limbs; tetanic cramp, bending the patient
forwards or backwards; stiff stretching out of the whole
body; apoplexy; effects of intemperance, taking cold, and
eating pork; diminution of the symptoms in the open air.
Experience has shown that Ipecacuanha is of use in
some kinds of sickness, in hæmorrhages, spasmodic asth-
ma which comes on in paroxysms, threatening suffoca-
tion, and in some species of tetanic cramps. It is of
benefit in some cases of intermittent fever. Various af-
fections, arising from the employment of arsenic where not
called for, and from the abuse of cinchona, give way to
Ipecacuanha. The sickness so common during the first
months of gestation, is often completely relieved by its
employment. It is of eminent service in apoplexy and
chronic pulmonary catarrhs. This remedy is particularly
suited to fair-haired persons.
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LEDUM PALUSTRE.
Antidote. CAMPH.
Head. Confused stupifying pain in the head; beating
head-ache which renders frantic; pressive pain in the head,
with dislike to have the head covered; feeling of shaking
of the brain on making a false step.
Disposition.
My
Violent choleric disposition; discon-
tent and misanthropy; love of solitude; great sternness.
Giddiness. Intoxicating giddiness, especially on walk-
ing in the open air.
Sleep. In the day time, desire to sleep as if from in-
toxication; loss of sleep at night, with restlessness;
reveries and fantastic visions as soon as the eyes are
shut.
Eyes. — Agglutination of the eyelids at night, without
pain or inflammation; violent suppuration of the eyes,
with fetid discharge; acrid tears; dilated pupils.
Ears.
Buzzing or ringing before the ears; difficulty of
hearing.
Nose. Burning sensation in the nose; epistaxis.
Face.Face alternately pale or red; dry tetters on
the face, with a burning sensation in the open air; dry
LEDUM PALUSTRE.
173
M
pimples on the forehead, like millet seed, of a red colour,
with shooting pain on touch; carbuncles on the face as in
spirit-drinkers; carbuncles on the forehead; swelling of
the glands immediately under the chin.
Throat.— Pricking sore throat, chiefly when
swallowing.
Stomach.-Pressure at the stomach, after eating even
a little.
Nausea. Nausea and tendency to vomit, on expec-
torating.
Abdomen. Sense of fulness in the upper belly;
diarrhoea, with belly-ache; every evening, belly-ache ;
ascites.
not
Fæcal Discharge. Constipation; fæcal diarrhoea,
mixed with slime and blood.
Urinary Discharge.- Frequent urgency to make water,
with slight discharge; frequent copious discharge of urine;
diabetes.
Genital Organs.-Inflammatory swelling of the penis
and glans.
Menses.
Catamania before the time and too copious,
with bright red blood.
Chest.— Burning smarting pain in the chest; stitches in
the chest; suppuration of the lungs; chicken pock on
the chest.
Trachea. Creeping sensation in the trachea; phthisis
trachealis.
Breath .--- Spasmodic double inspiration and hiccough,
as after obstinate pettish crying; obstruction of the
breath before the cough, as if in danger of suffocation ;
tight quick breathing; constriction of the chest, on walk-
ing and going up stairs.
M
174 *
LEDUM PALUSTRE.
Cough. Violent cough, with expectoration of bright
red blood; cough in the morning or only at night, with ex-
pectoration of pus; spasmodic cough like hooping cough,
with painful shaking of the head and of the whole chest.
Skin. Dryness of the skin and want of perspiration;
general anasarca; dry and violently itching tetters with
burning pain in the open air; anthrax; bluish spots on
the body like petechiæ.
Fever. General chilliness and want of the natural
vital heat; perspiration on the slightest motion; fetid.
sourish nocturnal perspiration, with inclination to un-
cover.
M
Back. Painful stiffness of the back and loins, on
getting up from a seat.
Upper Extremities. - Tearing pain in the joints of the
arm; stitches in the shoulders, on raising the arm; pressive
pain in the shoulder and elbow joints, worse on motion;
gouty knots on the joints of the hands and fingers; perspi-
ration of the palms of the hands.
Lower Extremities.
Paralytic weakness of the hip
joint; tearing pain in the joints of the hip, knee and foot;
swelling tension and shooting pain in the knees; obstinate
swelling of the leg and foot; podagra.
Predominating Symptoms. Painful swellings on the
joints; knotty gout in the joints; the warmth of the bed
unbearable on account of heat in the limbs; heat in the
hands and feet, in the evening; gouty tearing pain in the
joints, worse from warmth of the bed, and from evening
till midnight; hard hot swelling of the painful joints ;
emaciation of the suffering limbs; the pains in the joints.
alone increased on motion; ill effects of excessive spirit-
drinking.
p
S
LEDUM PALUSTRE.
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PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Ledum Palustre is indicated in those chronic diseases
which are chiefly characterised by a deficiency of animal
heat, and it is often of benefit in scurfy eruptions, rheuma-
tic and gouty affections.
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Add
* LYCOPODIUM.
Antidotes.
CAMPH., PULS.
Head.
Determination of blood to the head; every
afternoon, and also in the night, tearing pain in the fore-
head here and there; in the evening, pain in one side of the
head, very much increased by exertion of the mind; noc-
turnal tearing, boring, scraping pain in the external part
of the head; growing grey of the hair; bald-headedness ;
suppurating, foul-smelling eruption on the head.
Mind. - Diminished activity of the mind.
Disposition.- Much grief and melancholy, with despair
of the salvation of the soul; sensitiveness, which easily
produces tears; anxiety, with sadness, and inclination to
weep; nervous attacks; fretfulness and obstinacy; mis-
anthropy and anguish, on the approach of any one.
Giddiness. Vertigo on stooping, and in a hot room.
Eyes. Shooting and smarting sensation in the eyes, in
the evening, at candle-light; inflammation of the eyes,
with watering in the day-time, and agglutination at night;
dimness of sight, like feathers before the eyes; far-sighted-
ness; seeing only one-half of an object, perpendicularly;
intolerance of light.
LYCOPODIUM.
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Ada
Sleep. Sleepiness in the day, with going to sleep late,
from a flow of ideas; disturbed sleep, with anxious dreams,
and frequent waking.
M
Ears. Discharge from the ears; buzzing before the
ears; difficulty of hearing; sense of hearing too acute.
Nose. Ulcerated nostrils; over-sensibility to smell.
Mouth. Fetid smell of the mouth; dryness of the
mouth, without thirst, with stiffness of the tongue, and
indistinct articulation.
E
Teeth. The teeth becoming yellow; jerking pain in
the teeth, on eating; tooth-ache, with swelling of the
cheeks, diminished by warm things, and warmth of bed;
fistula dentalis.
Pag
K
Face. Paleness of the face, especially towards even-
ing; tawny, yellowish complexion, with deep folds; blue
circles around the eyes, and blue lips; frequent attacks
of heat in the face; suppurating ichorous eruption on the
face; freckles; swelling of the glands of the lower jaw.
Throat. Inflammation of the throat, with stitches, on
swallowing; swelling and suppuration of the internal
glands of the throat.
Taste. Loss of taste; in the morning, bitterness of the
mouth, with nausea; sour taste of the food.
Appetite. Bulimia; appetite going off after the first
mouthful; great inclination for sweet things; milk pro-
ducing diarrhœa; absence of thirst, with dryness in the
mouth.
M
Stomach.-Pressure at the stomach after each repast,
with bitter taste in the mouth; cancer of the stomach;
swelling at the pit of the stomach, and sensitiveness to
the touch, and to tight clothes.
Nausea. Frequent nausea; nausea in the morning,
N
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LYCOPODIUM.
fasting, and on going in a carriage; vomiting of food and
bile, at night.
Eructation.
Sour eructation; heart-burn; violent hic-
cough, coming on in paroxysms.
Hypochondria. Tension in the hypochondria, as if
from a hoop; inflammation of the liver; sense of indura-
tion of the liver; pressure and tension in the liver, es-
pecially after eating a good deal.
Swelling, inflammation, and suppuration of
Glands.
the glands.
Abdomen.
Disagreeable fulness, and swelling of the
stomach and lower belly; indurations in the lower belly;
griping pain in the upper belly; griping in the lower belly ;
ascites; bubonocele.
Anus. Itching, and feeling of tension in the anus;
cramp of the rectum.
Flatulence. Transposition of wind; deficiency in the
exit of flatus; constant borborygmus.
Fæcal Discharge. Continued constipation; costive-
ness, with ineffectual efforts; diarrhoea in pregnant wo-
men, the complexion being earth-coloured; pale, fetid
motions.
J
Urinary Discharge. Frequent efforts to make water,
with copious discharge; bloody urine; dark urine, with
diminished secretion; cramp in the kidneys.
Genital Organs. Gonorrhoea preputialis; chronic
dryness of the vagina; enlarged veins about the pu-
dendum.
•
M
Menses. Catamænia too copious, and lasting too long;
catamænia too scanty; sadness before the period; ex-
coriating leucorrhoea.
Chest. Constant sense of pressure in the chest;
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stitches in the left side of the chest, and (nervous or neg-
lected) inflammation of the lungs; dropsy of the chest;
liver-coloured spots on the chest; ichorous eruption
of the nipples; beating at the heart, especially during
digestion.
Respiratory Organs. Dry cough, with stoppage of
both nostrils.
Breath. Shortness of breath in children, especially
during sleep; all work shortening the breath; oppression
at the chest, increased on going into the open air.
Cough. Dry cough, day and night; cough at night,
which affects the stomach; cough at night without, and
in the day with, expectoration; tickling cough, from
drawing a deep breath; cough, with copious purulent ex-
pectoration; cough, with grey, salt-tasting expectoration ;
cough, with expectoration of blood.
Skin. Gnawing itching, on being heated in the day-
time; moist suppurating tetters; excoriations in children,
with moist surface; ulcers, with tearing pain, which at
night itch and burn to the touch; anthrax; liver-coloured
spots; freckles; varicose veins; gouty swellings; anasarca
of single parts, or of the whole body.
Fever. Deficiency of natural heat; in the evening,
sensation of ebullition of the blood, with disquietude and
trembling; feeling as if the circulation ceased; flushes
of heat over the body; in the evening, perspiration on
slight motion, especially in the face; clammy night-
sweats.
Bones. - Inflammation of the bones, with pain at
night; bending of the bones; caries; softening of the
bones.
Neck. Stiffness of the nape of the neck; skin at
N 2
180
LYCOPODIUM.
the back part of the neck yellow; swelling and stiffness
of one side of the neck; swelling of the glands of the
neck.
Back.- Nocturnal dragging and shooting pain in the
back.
Upper Extremities.-Nocturnal pain in the bones of the
arms; starting of the arms and shoulders; going-to-sleep-
sensation of the arms and fingers; dry skin of the hands;
redness, swelling, and tearing pain in the finger-joints.
Lower Extremities. Nocturnal tearing pain in the
legs; white swelling of the legs; swelling and stiffness
of the knee; constrictive pain in the calves on walking;
ulcers in the legs, with nocturnal, tearing, itching, and
burning pain; dropsical swelling of the feet; cold per-
spiration of the feet.
Predominating Symptoms. - Dragging and tearing pain
in the limbs, especially during rest, and at night, or every
other afternoon; numbness of the limbs; crooked con-
traction of single limbs; startings through the whole body;
uncommon emaciation; great internal loss of strength;
feeling the weakness most during repose, nevertheless
avoiding all motion; great desire for open air, or disin-
clination to the same; easy taking cold; the symptoms
heightened in the afternoon about four o'clock, but about
eight in the evening, with the exception of weakness,
better again.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
The pollen of the Lycopodium Clavatum is another of
those substances which were formerly used only as inert
powders, but which now become, when homoeopathically
LYCOPODIUM.
181
applied, active remedies. It is employed with advantage
in a great variety of chronic complaints. Amongst others,
constipation is one that very frequently demands the use of
Lycopodium. It is of signal benefit in moist herpetic
eruptions; it is of service in scrofulous affections, foul, ill-
looking ulcers, dry coughs, and in various affections of the
stomach.
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Antidotes,-ASSA., CAMPH., CHINA, MEZER., VIS ELECT.,
HEP., AC. NIT., OP., SASSA., SULPH.
Ską
MERCURIUS.
Head. Determination of blood to the head, with heat
therein; sense of weight in the head; pressive pain in the
forehead, as if the brain were being forced out; tearing,
burning head-ache in the temples; head-ache, as if the head
was firmly laced round with a band; tensive pain in the
anterior part of the head; dull pain in the posterior part of
the head; head-ache, as if the head would burst; burning
itching on the scalp and on the forehead, increased by
touch; feeling of tension over the head and face; per-
spiration on the head.
Mind. Stupefaction, and vanishing of ideas; great
absence of mind; delirium; spectral illusions; dulness,
and bewildering of the head.
Disposition. Great corporeal and mental disquietude,
in the evening and night; anguish and apprehension, at
night; disgust to life, and desire of death; peevishness
and snappishness; obstinacy and impatience; insanity,
with weeping; constant whining.
Pla
MERCURIUS.
183
M
Giddiness. Vertigo, with anxious heat and nausea;
giddiness as if from rocking.
Sleep. Great sleepiness in the day-time, and con-
tinual drowsiness; lethargy; going to sleep late, in con-
sequence of disquietude and anxiety; light, disturbed
sleep; frequent waking in the night; loss of sleep, from
sensation of ebullition of blood; anxiety, and frightful
spectral illusions.
Eyes. Forcible contraction of the eye-lids; redness
and swelling of the eye-lids; scurf on the eye-lids; erup-
tion around the eyes; inflammation of the eyes, with red-
ness of the white of the eyes, and intolerance of the light
of the fire; copious flow of tears; redness of the conjunc-
tiva; biting, and burning pain in the eyes, especially in
the open air; pressure in the eyes, as if from sand; eyes
heavy, without lustre; intolerance of light; dislike to the
light of the fire; temporary loss of sight; mist before the
eyes; sparks, appearance of black spots, or flies before the
eyes; amaurosis.
app
Ears. Tearing pain in the ears; shooting pain in the
ears; inflammation of the internal and external ears;
ulceration of the concha of the ears; discharge of blood
and fetid pus from the ears; spongy excrescence in the
ear; buzzing before the ears.
Mouth. Ulcers in the mouth, especially in the inner
side of the cheek, with burning pain; aphtha; fetid smell
of the mouth; swelling of the tongue; tongue loaded,
white or yellow; tongue dry and black; induration of the
tongue; inability to speak.
Teeth.Gums swollen, separating from the teeth, and
painful on being touched; pale gums; gums ulcerated and
indented, as if they were corroded; itching, burning, and
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MERCURIUS.
redness of the gums; gums spongy, and easily bleeding;
looseness, and falling out of the teeth; tearing pain in the
teeth, affecting the whole of one side of the face, excited
by cold and warm drinks, and by cold air, most violent at
night, alleviated by external warmth, and by rubbing;
tearing pain, at night, in the teeth, increased by eating;
stitches or shocks, at night, in the teeth, which reach even
to the ear and head; pain in the teeth, with swelling of
the cheeks.
Face. Earth-coloured, muddy complexion; jaundiced
complexion; redness of the face; face puffed; crusta
lactea; scabby eruption on the face; pustular eruption on
the chin; corners of the mouth ulcerated; blackish colour
of the lips and nose; burning pain, and dryness of the lips;
trismus, from tension in the articulation of the jaw, with
swelling of the submaxillary and cervical glands.
Throat. Inflammation and swelling of the uvula;
difficulty of deglutition; burning pain in the fauces; in-
clination to swallow, with a feeling in the throat as if
something stuck there, which must be swallowed; inflam-
mation, redness, and dryness in the throat; in swallowing,
shooting pain in the throat, and in the tonsils, even to the
ear, aggravated at night, and in the cold air; sensation as
if the food passed over an excoriated place; liquids to be
swallowed rejected through the nose; ulceration and sup-
puration of the tonsils; ulceration of the salivary glands;
syphilitic ulcers in the throat; copious flow of viscous,
fetid, and disagreeably tasted saliva; copious salivation.
Taste. -Taste putrid, bitter, or sour; insipidity of food.
Appetite. Voracious appetite; loss of appetite; speedy
satiety on eating; dislike to warm food; violent burning
thirst; thirst for beer; violent thirst for cold drinks.
C
MERCURIUS.
185
Stomach. Tension in the region of the stomach;
pressure at the scrobiculus cordis, even to the xyphoid car-
tilage; great weakness of digestion, with constant hunger;
burning pain at the scrobiculus cordis.
M
Eructation. Bitter eructations; empty eructations,
with putrid vapour in the mouth ; tendency to vomit, with
head-ache, giddiness, and heat; bilious vomitings at night;
vomiting of ingesta.
Hypochondria.-- Violent stitches in the region of the
liver; inflammation and induration of the liver; jaundice.
Abdomen. Gripings in the bowels; feeling of empti-
ness in the lower bowels; sensation as of something alive
in the abdomen; swelling of the lower part of the abdo-
men, painful on being touched, with rattling and rumbling
therein; pain in the bowels from exposure to cold, and
diarrhoea from the cold air of the evening; swelling, red-
ness, inflammation, and suppuration of the inguinal glands,
which are painful to the touch, and on walking.
Fæcal Discharge. Frequent desire and useless efforts
to go to stool, with tenesmus at the anus; evacuation of
undigested food, and acrid, bloody, tar-like matter; dys-
senteric diarrhoea, with tenesmus; bloody, acrid stools,
which excoriate the anus; slimy motions; motions as if
chopped; sour-smelling motions; soft motions; hard, vis-
cous stools; constipation; griping pain in the belly before
going to stool; burning at the anus on going to stool;
prolapsus ani, from pressure, and efforts, on going to stool.
Urinary Discharge. Continued violent efforts to
make water, at each time in small quantity and in a small
stream, so that it cannot be retained; involuntary flow of
urine; dark-red, brown, fetid urine; burning and shooting
pain in the urethra, when, or when not making water.
Jag
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MERCURIUS.
Genital Organs.
Swelling of the fore-part of the
penis, with suppuration between the glands and prepuce ;
gonnorrhoea preputialis; green or grey discharge from the
penis, resembling gonorrhoea, increased at night; swelling
of the prepuce, with inflammation on the inner surface of it,
and burning pain; blisters on the glans which become
ulcers, with caseous, lardy surface, and hard edges
(chancre); swelling of the testicles; procidentia uteri.
Menses.-Menses too copious, with anxiety, and pain in
the abdomen; menses too copious, and lasting too short a
time; suppressed menses; pus-like, excoriating leuchor-
rhoea.
Chest.
Compressive pain in the chest; burning pain
in the chest, even to the throat; stitches through the chest.
to the back, aggravated by coughing; palpitation of the
heart; swelling and deformity of the nipple.
Respiratory Organs. — Frequent sneezing, without ca-
tarrh; dryness of the nostrils; coryza, with stoppage of
the nostrils.
Breath. Shortness of breath, and dyspnoea, especially
on walking fast, and going up stairs; hoarseness of voice.
Cough. Dry straining cough, as if it would burst the
head and chest; dry, tickling cough; cough from irri-
tation in the larynx, or in the upper part of the chest;
cough, with spitting of blood.
Skin. Itching, watery eruption, which produces pus-
tules like psora; painful pustules, which itch on being
dried; scabby eruption; eruption like psora, which burns,
after being scratched; burning tetters; nettle-rash; milli-
ary eruption, which easily bleeds, on the arms and legs;
violent itching over the whole body, especially in the even-
ing, and at night, when warm in bed.
MERCURIUS.
Jonturas talk
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M
Fever. Sensation of violent ebullition and beating in
the arteries; pulse generally quick, feeble, and irregular ;
constant coldness of the body; in the evening and night,
rigors so as to be incapable of being kept warm, even near
a fire; shivering, alternating with heat; dry heat in the
evening; burning heat in the day and night, with increase
of the pain, on being uncovered; copious and sour-smell-
ing, nocturnal, perspiration; perspiration in the morning.
Neck. Painful stiffness of the throat and nape of the
neck; shooting pain in the neck; dragging pain in the
neck and back; painful swelling of the cervical and paro-
tid glands, with shooting and pressive sensation therein;
pain as of a bruise in the shoulder-blades, back, and
sacrum.
Upper Extremities. -Startings in the arms and fingers;
crooked contraction of the fingers; hot swelling of the el-
bow and fore-arm, even to the hand; perspiration of the
palms of the hand; deep, bleeding crevices, and cracks in
the fingers.
Lower Extremities. Shining swelling of the legs and
joints of the feet; painful swelling of the bones in the soles
of the feet; contraction of the legs, with cramps in the
calves and toes.
Predominating Symptoms. - Tearing pain in the mus-
cles and joints of the upper and lower extremities; shoot-
ing pain in the limbs and in the joints; feeling of lassitude
in the whole body, and pains in the bones; limbs asleep;
weight in all the limbs; restlessness in the limbs, in the
evening, with pain in the joints; great weakness on the
least exertion, with trembling, and sensation of ebullition of
blood; better in the morning, in warmth and repose; most
of the symptoms appearing in the night.
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MERCURIUS.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Mercury, the well known specific for syphilis, is also of
great service in bilious affections, whether acute or chronic;
in certain cutaneous diseases; in some kinds of rheuma-
tism; in affections of the glands; in apthous ulceration of
the mouth; in tooth-ache, especially if increased by
warmth; in mumps, and in mucous acid diarrhoea occur-
ring in children.
C
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MOSCHUS.
Head.
Violent determination of blood to the head;
pressive head-ache, especially in the forehead with nausea;
weight of the head; tension in the occiput even to the
neck.
M
Antidote.-CAMPH.
Mind. — Bewildering confusion of the head.
Disposition.—Hypochondriacal anxiety and peevishness.
Giddiness. — Giddiness on the slightest motion of the
head.
Sleep. Great sleepiness, especially before midnight;
loss of sleep of hysterical persons; lethargic sleep.
Nose. Creeping sensation at the point of the nose;
epistaxis.
P
Stomach. Fulness and tightness in the region of the
stomach; pressure at the pit of the stomach even to the
back.
Flatulence. Constant flatulence.
Eructation.
Frequent forcible eructation of air.
Abdomen. Fulness and tightness in the lower belly,
with anxiety and disquietude; tension and pressure in the
lower belly, proceeding from the stomach; hysterical
cramps of the lower belly (and uterus.)
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Fæcal Discharge. — Constipation lasting several days;
sweetish faint-smelling motions.
Urinary Discharge. — Ammoniacal-smelling urine, with
shooting pain.
Menses. — Catamania too early and too copious.
Chest. Spasmodic constriction of the chest, without
cough, especially if cold; painfulness of the chest under
the arms, if pressed upon; anxious palpitation.
Trachea. Sensation in the throat, as if from vapour
of sulphur, with constriction of the trachea.
Breath. Tightness of the breath from suffocating
constrictive feel of the chest as soon as cold.
MOSCHUS.
M
M
Skin. Insufferable burning pain in tetters.
Fever.- Full accelerated pulse; shivering which spreads
from the scalp over the whole body; every morning, trifling
perspiration.
Lower Extremities.
Feeling of coldness about the
legs; restlessness in the legs, with a feeling as if they
would become numb, obliging to move the leg.
Predominating Symptoms. - Pinching pain in the
limbs; pricking sensation in the limbs, with a feeling of
weight in them; trembling and shuddering through the
whole body; weakness, which is more perceptible during
rest than during motion; syncope, with head-ache follow-
ing; stiff
stiff cramp
tonic cramps in hypochondriacal
patients; the part laid on painful as if wrenched or
broken; the sufferings, especially of respiration, worse
on being cold; the open air appearing sensitively cold.
PRACTICAL RFMARKS.
Moschus, generally considered so harmless, is in reality
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a
very active medicine; and, in southern climates especially,
it acts so powerfully on the nervous system, that a person
having it about him would be shunned by the whole of
society. Various species of convulsions in children call
for this remedy. Many tetanic affections have been
relieved by it, and the tonic spasms of hypochondriacs are
arrested by its employment.
Those who are so incautious as to perfume themselves
with musk, pay dearly for their imprudence. Not only is
the nervous system thereby highly excited, but many
serious affections which they attribute to other causes are
induced by it.
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NUX VOMICA.
Antidotes.-VINUM, ACON., CAMPH., COFF., CHAM.
Head.-Determination of blood to the head, with great
heat therein; in the morning, giddy weight of the head;
head-ache from over exertion of the mind; head-ache on
one side, in coffee drinkers; pain, as of a bruise in the
brain; tearing pain in the occiput, even to the back of
the neck; perspiration, with anxiety; head-ache, with
vomiting of bile or sour matters; head-ache early in the
morning in bed, going off after getting up; the head-ache
becoming worse on going into the open air; sensitive-
ness of the scalp, when slightly touched.
Mind.-Great fatigue of the head from mental exertion.
Disposition. In the evening, great anxiety and dis-
quietude; excessive anxious scrupulousness; irritable hot
temperament; wicked malicious disposition; inclination
to reproach; morose stubbornness; timidity; thoughts of
suicide; on the sight of a knife, desire to stab oneself; on
the sight of water, desire to drown oneself, nevertheless
a dread of death; over-sensitiveness to external impres-
sions; time appearing very long.
Giddiness. In the morning and after dinner, intoxi-
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cating giddiness; intoxicating cloudiness of the head;
incommodities arising from yesterday's debauch.
Sleep.-Great sleepiness in the day and evening; going
to sleep late, from flow of ideas; waking after midnight,
about three o'clock, and falling at day-break into a rest-
less sleep of heavy dreams, from which the patient wakes
very much exhausted; the morning sleep increasing each
time the uncomfortable feelings.
Eyes. Inflammation of the conjunctiva, with stitches
and aversion to the light of the sun; extravasation of
blood in the white of the eyes, and bleeding of that part;
yellowness, especially in the lower half of the globe of
the eyes; in the morning, incapability of bearing day-
light; staring anxious look; flashes, like lightning before
the eyes.
Ears.—Tearing and shooting ear-ache; tension in the
ears on raising the head; on swallowing, pain in the ears,
as if something were pressed out.
Nose. Sensitiveness and inflammatory redness of the
inner part of the nose; in the morning, bleeding at the
nose; smell in the nose, like decayed cheese, or like
sulphur, or like snuff of candle going out.
Mouth. - Putrid fetid smell from the mouth; aphthæ in
the mouth (of children); inflammatory swelling of the
membrane covering the palate and fauces.
Teeth.-Smarting pain, or boring flickering sensation in
the teeth, increased by over-exertion of the mind; burning
shooting pain in the whole of one row of teeth ; tearing pain
in the teeth and jawbone, even through the bones of the
face, renewed by cold drink, diminished by warmth; tooth-
ache of wine and coffee drinkers; tooth-ache from taking
cold; whitish swollen gums; putrid bleeding gums.
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Face.
-Complexion pale yellowish, or yellowness about
the nose and mouth, or around the eyes; face red, swollen;
swelling of the cheeks on one side; tearing pain in the cheek
bone; painful desquamation of the lips; scurf on the
lips; kind of trismus; submaxillary glands swollen; shoot-
ing pain on swallowing.
Throat. Sore throat, as if from a plug in the throat;
smarting pain in the throat, on drawing in the cold air;
on swallowing, stitches in the throat, as if it were too
narrow; inflammatory swelling and shooting pain in the
uvula; thick white-coated tongue.
Taste. Sour taste in the mouth, especially in the
morning, and after eating and drinking; in the morning,
foul taste in the mouth; bread tasting bitter.
Appetite. Hunger, with dislike to all food, especially
bread, and coffee, and also to tobacco; voracious hunger, after
drinking beer; thirst in the morning; thirst, with aversion
to water and beer; desire for brandy or chalk; inconve-
niencies arising from bread and sour food; capability of
taking very fat things; warm food diminishing many of
these incommodities.
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NUX VOMICA.
Stomach. In the morning and after dinner, cramp in
the stomach, and pressure in the stomach, which drags
even to between the shoulders; burning pain in the region
of the stomach, and in the cardia; contractive cramp in
the stomach, chiefly with pyrosis; all liquids disturbing
the stomach; cramps in the stomach in drinkers of brandy
and coffee; pressure and tension in the scrobiculus cordis,
and tension between the shoulder blades; swelling at the
pit of the stomach, which pains on (slight) touch; dis-
turbance of the stomach from over-satiety; indigestion
after cold; induration of the stomach.
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My
Nausea. Nausea in the morning, and after eating;
ineffectual retching of drunkards; vomiting of the food;
vomiting of blood; vomiting of bile; nausea and vomiting
in pregnant women.
Flatulence. Flatulent cholic in the upper belly.
Eructation. Sour eructations; gulping up of blood;
pyrosis attending many of the symptoms; violent hiccup ;
rancid heart-burn after sour and fat food.
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Hypochondria.
Incapability of bearing tight clothes
about the hypochondria; inflammation of the liver; pres-
sure and shooting pain in the region of the liver; induration
of the liver.
Abdomen. — Fulness in the lower belly after eating but
little; inflammation in the abdomen; great sensitiveness
of the abdomen, especially on slight touch; pain in the
belly from cold; pains like those of labour in the lower
belly, and in the womb, which spread even down the legs;
forcing in the lower belly, towards the pudenda; painful-
ness in the muscles of the belly, on moving, pressing,
coughing, laughing, &c.; umbilical and inguinal hernia ;
excoriation of the pudendum.
Anus. - Painful dry hæmorrhoids.
Fæcal Discharge.-Chronic constipation; scanty black-
ish motions; constipation as if from inactivity of the
intestines; ineffectual efforts to go to stool; slight dysen-
teric diarrhoea, with tenesmus (after a cold); painful
diarrhoea alternating with constipation.
Urinary Discharge. - Retention of urine; painful in-
effectual efforts to make water; efforts to make water,
with discharge of a few drops of red burning urine;
bloody urine.
Genital Organs. - Gonnorrhoea preputialis; inflamma-
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tory swelling of the testicles; hydrocele; procidentia
uteri; determination of blood, with forcing towards the
female genital organs; after-pains, too strong.
Menses. Catamania too early, and too strong, with
dark black blood; renewed intermissive discharge of
blood, after the cessation of the catamænia; appearance
of new, and increase of old sufferings after the catama-
nia.
Chest. Pressive pain in the chest, as if from a load;
sensation of ebullition of blood in the chest, with pyrosis,
anxiety and heat; anxious palpitation.
Trachea.-Scraped feeling in the windpipe, after taking
cold; rough husky voice; catarrhal hoarseness, with
scratching feeling in the throat.
Respiratory Organs. During the day moist coryza,
worse in warm, and better in cool air; dry coryza at
night.
M
Breath. Attacks of suffocation from spasmodic con-
striction of the throat; after mid-night, paroxysms of suf-
focation from constriction of the lower part of the chest.
Cough. Dry cough, chiefly at night or early in the
morning; dry cough from exercise of the body and exer-
tion of mind; dry cough in the evening and at night,
with expectoration in the daytime; on coughing, bursting
pain in the head, and pain as of a bruise in the muscles
of the belly.
Skin. Jaundice colour of the skin; chilblains; blue
spots from extravasation of blood after contusion.
Fever. Chilliness, with or without thirst, chiefly with
pain in the sacrum; chilliness on the slightest motion;
heat, with or without thirst; heat before the cold and
during it; perspiration in the morning; fetid perspira-
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tion; perspiration after which the pains in the limbs are
relieved.
Neck. Stiffness in the nape of the neck; tearing pain
in the neck in the evening.
Back. — Tension between the shoulder blades; drawing
pain from the sacrum through the back, even to the
shoulders; pain as of a bruise in the back and sacrum,
so as to be unable to stir; paralytic pain in the sacrum,
(also after difficult labours.)
Upper Extremities. - Pain, as of a bruise in the shoul-
der joints; dragging pain in the arms; feeling of falling
to sleep and deadness of the hands; swelled veins in the
hands and arms.
Lower Extremities. - Numbness, stiffness and tension
in the legs; feeling of paralysis in the legs, with a painful
line down the inner side of the leg; tottering on walking
and unsteadiness of the legs; cracking of the knees;
painful swelling of the knee joints; cramps of the calves
at night in bed; feeling of going to sleep and dead feeling
in the soles of the feet; dragging pain in the feet on
walking; inability to lift them up.
Predominating Symptoms. Sudden stitches through
the whole body, in the morning in bed; general bruised
feeling; paroxysms of hypochondrical discomfort after
eating; the whole nervous system greatly affected; at-
tacks of discomfort returning periodically; great inclina-
tion to sit or lie down, and aversion to motion and the
open air; easily taking cold, and sensibility to draughts
of air; ill effects from taking cold; tearing pain of the
limbs, especially in stormy weather; feeling of weight and
tightness of the body alternately; leanness and thin
figure; ill effects of coffee, tobacco and spirituous drinks;
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ill effects of constant exertion of the mind, sitting up at
night, and a sedentary life; every exertion of the head
increasing or exciting the complaints; aggravation of
the symptoms on motion and slight touch, whereas firm
pressure relieves; in the morning on awaking, and after
dinner, the symptoms most violent; those symptoms which
arise in the open air and on motion, becoming milder in
the house and during repose, but also vice versa.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Nux Vomica is one of those medicines which exert
considerable power over the functions of the liver; and it
often relieves permanently those hepatic symptoms for
which mercury is commonly taken with only temporary
benefit.
The cases in which it has been employed with success,
are extremely numerous. Amongst others may be men-
tioned chronic catarrh, spasm of the stomach, head-ache,
angina, bronchitis, diseases of the eyes, rheumatic and
billous fever, jaundice, gastro-enteritis, hepatitis. Expe-
rience proves it to be of great benefit in constipation of
the bowels. It relieves the symptoms occasioned by an
over-indulgence in wine and coffee; also influenza and
common coryza; as well as too frequent and copious.
menstruation. The serious symptoms which sometimes
arise from cold are often removed by it. It should gene-
rally be administered at night, as it is thus less likely to act
violently than when given in the morning. It is particu-
larly suited to the male sex.
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Antidotes.-IPECAC., CAMPH., COFF.,
Head.- Great determination of blood to the head;
unusual weight of the head; head-ache increased on
moving the eyes.
Mind. Lively visions and increased courage, with
deadening and blunting of the general feeling; the power
of imagination raised even to ecstacy; imbecility and
stupidity; fantastic illusions and grotesque figures before
the eyes; insanity and delirium, especially of drunkards;
loss of sense and dulness of the mind and senses.
OPIUM.
Disposition.-Contentment and absence of care; sere-
nity and joyous humour; intrepidity and temerity; imme-
diate ill effects of fright, with dread; pangs of death;
forgetfulness of all sufferings on account of agreeable
visions.
Giddiness. On rising, stunning giddiness which com-
pels to lie down; stupefaction and bewildering of the head,
as if from intoxication.
M
Sleep. Dull unrefreshing sleep; dull sleep with eyes
half open and snoring on inspiration and expiration;
tendency to sleep, with dreams from which not to be
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OPIUM.
roused; not to be roused, especially early in the morning;
sleep after every attack.
Eyes. Red inflamed eyes; upper eyelid hanging
down loosely; half opened eyes turned upwards; staring
look; pupils dilated and immoveable; dimness of sight;
amaurosis and cataract.
Mouth. Dryness of the mouth with or without thirst;
impossibility to swallow; copious flow of saliva; paralysis
of the tongue and difficulty of speech.
Face.--Face swollen, dark red, hot; complexion blueish,
pale, earth-coloured; veins of the face swollen; relaxation
of all the muscles of the face and falling of the upper lip;
violent perspiration on the face; cramps in the muscles of
the face, especially round the mouth; trismus.
Throat. Considerable hoarseness, from dryness in the
throat; veins of the neck swollen, and strong pulsation of
the carotid arteries.
Appetite. Aversion to all food; violent thirst; absence
of thirst.
C
Stomach.- Feeling of weight and pressure in the stomach;
inactivity of the digestive organs; hard and swollen lower
belly; weight in the belly as if from a load; lead cholic;
incarcerated hernia.
Nausea. Fruitless vomiting, with choking sensation;
vomiting of ingesta after disturbance of mind, with violent
pains in the stomach and convulsions; stercoraceous vomit-
ing.
Fæcal Discharge. — Constipation from inactivity of the
bowels; spasmodic retention of the fæces, especially in
the small intestines; involuntary discharge of fetid fæces;
tenesmus.
Urinary Discharge. Retention of urine as if from
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inactivity of the bladder; scanty, dark red urine with
sediment.
Genital Organs. - Spasmodic labour-like pains in the
uterus ; intermittent pains in women in labour, with somno-
lency and startings.
Chest. Feeling of tension and constriction of the
chest.
Breath. Rattling breathing; deep snoring breathing,
with the mouth open; difficult and interrupted breathing,
as if from paralysis of the lungs; anxious oppression of
the breathing; attacks of suffocation in sleep, like night-
mare.
A
Cough.-Cough with interruption of the breathing and
blueness of the countenance; cough, with frothy expec-
toration of blood and mucus.
Skin. Dry burning skin; dropsical swelling of the
whole body; redness and itching of the skin; blue spots on
the skin.
Fever.- Full slow pulse; body cold and quite stiff; dry
burning heat of the skin; burning heat of the perspiring
body, with glowing redness of the face; uncontrollable hot
perspirations; fever, with heat; ¡dull slumbering snoring;
starting of the limbs; suppressed evacuations and hot
perspirations.
Back. Drawing sensation in the muscles of the back;
bending backwards of the back; pain in the sacrum.
Upper Extremities. Starting and convulsions in the
arms; trembling of the arms and hands; veins of the
hands swollen.
Lower Extremities. -Starting and convulsions of the
lower extremities.
Predominating Symptoms. -Trembling in the whole
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OPIUM.
body, with external cold thereof, and jolting and starting in
the limbs; convulsions, with sudden loud screams; stiffness
through the whole body during the attacks; a sensation of
buzzing through the whole body; loss of feeling in the
body and limbs; absence of pain during the symptoms;
complaint of nothing and desiring of nothing; tranquil
lying down; insensibility to external impressions and
medicines, with deficient reaction of the vital force;
internal feeling of strength and power; increased irrita-
bility and activity of the muscles subject to the will,
with diminution of these in those muscles which are not
subject to the will; renewal and increase of the symptoms
on being heated; applicable almost only to complaints just
or lately arisen; frequently applicable in drinkers and old
men.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
From the faculty this drug possesses of deadening pain,
there is none more frequently used, by the old school;
and
it is much to be regretted that its powers of procuring
relief are not as lasting as they are evident. Unfortunately,
it arrests pain only to increase the sufferings of the patient,
to render him more susceptible to the influence of his
disease, and to add to it the distressing and numerous
secondary effects of Opium. The employment of this
remedy in homœopathic practice, is by no means so fre-
quent as in common practice. There are many cases how-
ever in which it is called for and exerts the most beneficial
influence. The only way in which it can be expected to
calm pain permanently (except now and then at the very
onset of a disease, before it is fully formed), is when it
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answers homœopathically to the symptoms of the malady,
and by thus destroying that, the pain which was the result
of it naturally ceases. For instance, a dysentery occa-
sioned by the retention of hardened fæces may be cured
by Opium, because it depended on the retained fæces, to
which state Opium answers homœopathically.
The efficacy of Opium in those cases where the patient
lies in a state of stupor, feeling no pain, with the eyes half
open, the mouth open, and the breathing stertorous, proves
the truth of the principle; for assuredly no practitioner
acting on the opposite one, would, for a moment, think of
administering Opium in such a state of things. The fa-
culties being restored, pain becomes again perceptible, and
the physician is enabled to select his remedy according to
the nature of it. Opium is often required in the treatment
of constipation.
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Antidotes.-
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CAMPH., COFF., VINUM, NUX VOм.
Head. Determination of blood to the head, with burn-
ing sensation and beating in the forehead; head-ache in
the morning immediately on awaking; head-ache after
anger; weakness of the head rendering stepping hard,
music, laughing, &c., intolerable; pressive stunning head-
ache, with pale face; stitches over one eye; falling out of
the hair; sensation as if the skin of the forehead were too
tight, with anxiety.
* PHOSPHORUS.
Disposition.— Great irritability and easy getting into a
passion, with bad effects resulting from it; great anxiety
and disquietude, especially on being alone; timidity during
a storm, especially towards evening; aversion to labour;
misanthropy; state of somnambulism; shamelessness.
Giddiness. Vertigo in the morning on getting out of
bed; frequent giddiness at all times of the day; giddiness,
with nausea and pressive head-ache.
Sleep. — Lethargic sleep in the day time; going to
sleep late in the evening and loss of sleep at night on ac-
count of anxiety and restlessness; feeling of not having
slept sufficiently in the morning; great sleepiness and in-
dolence after dinner; somnambulism; frightful and horrible
dreams.
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Eyes.-Burning pain in the eyes, with copious watering of
them in the wind; pressure in the eyes, as if from sand,
with inflammation of them; swelling of the upper eyelid,
with difficulty of moving it; shortsightedness; black spots
floating before the eyes; blindness by day, every thing
appearing covered with a grey veil.
Ears. Violent tearing and shooting pain in the ears;
beating and buzzing in the ears; difficulty of hearing, es-
pecially the human voice; too loud echoing of the words
and tinkling of them in the ears.
Nose. -Swelling and redness of the nose; bleeding at
the nose, and blood on blowing it; continued dryness of
the nose; disagreeable smell from the nose; many freckles
on the nose.
Mouth. Dryness in the throat day and night; scraped
feeling and burning in the throat; saltish sweetish saliva, in-
creased in quantity; spitting of blood; hawking of phlegm
in the morning.
Teeth.
Tearing or shooting tooth-ache, increased in
the open air and by warm food; in the morning on chew-
ing, pain in the teeth as if they were ulcerated beneath;
gums swollen and very easily bleeding.
Face. Pale muddy complexion; swelling of the face,
especially under the eyes, with deep seated blue circles
round them; tension in the skin of one side of the face on
opening the mouth; tearing pain in the bones of the face;
corners of the mouth ulcerated.
Taste. Sour taste after eating.
Appetite. Loss of appetite and sense of fulness high
up in the throat; hunger after having eaten; longing for
something reviving; thirst, with loss of appetite.
Stomach. Fulness and pressure at the stomach; burn-
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PHOSPHORUS.
ing pain in the stomach and scrobiculus cordis; tenderness
of the stomach, on being touched; contraction of the
cardiac orifice of the stomach.
Nausea. In the morning, nausea with hunger; vomit-
ing, with violent pain in the stomach; vomiting of bile at
night.
M
Flatulence. Great pain in the abdomen from flatulence,
commencing about the lower ribs, especially after dinner ;
flatulent cholic deep in the abdomen; displacement of
flatus.
Eructation.-Spasmodic eructation, with pain about the
cardiac orifice of the stomach, as if something would give
way; acid eructation.
– My
Hypochondria. - Shooting pain in the hypochondria.
Abdomen. Swelling of the abdomen after dinner;
burning pain in the abdomen; in the morning in bed, tear-
ing pain in the abdomen; yellow spots on the abdomen.
Anus. Internal and external hæmorrhoids, easily
bleeding; paralysis of the sphincter ani.
Fæcal Discharge. - Chronic diarrhoea, as if from para-
lysis of the rectum, after previous rumbling in the bowels;
watery (often greenish) slimy diarrhoea; undigested loose
motions; watery diarrhoea, with flakes; discharge of
blood on going to stool; sudden slimy discharge from the
anus.
Urinary Discharge. Increased discharge of watery
urine; frequent but each time trifling discharge of urine;
bloody urine; many-coloured greasy pellicle on the urine;
jerks in the urethra, with burning pain when not making
water.
Genital Organs. -Stitches in the vagina even to the
uterus; catamænia before the time, and too copious, and
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lasting too long; discharge of blood in pregnant women;
acrid leucorrhoea producing vesicles.
Chest.-Determination of blood to the chest and violent
beating at the heart, especially after emotions of the mind;
inflammation of the lungs, with stitches in the sides of the
chest; ulceration of the lungs ; mucous phthisis; erysipelas,
with burning and shooting pain on the female breast; sup-
purating ulcers on the breast or festering pain of them,
after erysipelas.
Trachea. Chronic hoarseness and rawness of the
throat; loss of voice and dryness of the trachæa; phthisis
laryngea; membranous croup.
Respiratory Organs. Dry coryza; constant greenish
yellow discharge from the nose.
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Breath. Difficulty of breathing, with anxiety at the
chest; spasmodic dyspnoea; paroxysms of suffocation at
night.
Cough. Cough from tickling or itching in the chest ;
cough, with rawness and hoarseness in the chest or with
shooting pain in the throat; convulsive cough; dry seiz-
ing cough, with bursting head-ache excited by cold air or
loud reading; cough with saltish purulent discharge;
cough with expectoration of blood or viscid mucus.
Skin. - Yellow or brownish spots on the skin, especially
on the chest and abdomen; dry scaly tetters; copious.
bleeding of slight wounds; anthrax; spongy granulations;
chilblains; corns.
Fever. Frequent sensation of strong ebullition of
blood and quickened pulse; cold without thirst in bed in
the evening; internal sense of cold; internally flushes of
heat; heat at night; clammy night-sweats; perspiration in
the morning.
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PHOSPHORUS.
Glands. Affections of the glands, especially after
contusions.
Bones. -Swellings of the bones; rachitic affections.
Neck.—Thick neck; swelling of the cervical and axil-
lary gland, painful stiffness of the neck.
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Back. Shooting pain in the shoulder blades; pains, as
of fracture in the sacrum and back, preventing every
motion; burning pain in the sacrum.
Upper Extremities. -Trembling of the arms and hands.
on holding anything; burning sensation in the hands, with
swelled veins; stiffness of the arms; paralysis of the
fingers; chilblains on the fingers; deadness of the points
of the fingers.
Lower Extremities. - Wrenching pain in the hip joint;
dragging and tearing pain in the knee; weakness of the
lower extremities, especially of the legs; exostosis on the
tibia; painful swelling of the feet in the evening or after
walking; deadness of the points of the toes; chilblains
and corns on the toes.
Predominating Symptoms. Great emaciation; easily
taking cold and consequent tearing and shooting pain in
the limbs (vulgo body almanack ;) trembling of the limbs on
the least exertion; burning pain in the body and limbs;
sensation of violent ebullition of blood; congestion of
blood; bleeding from various organs; general weakness of
the nerves; weight and paralytic weakness of the limbs;
great sensibility to cold weather; sufferings increased by
change of weather and during thunder and lightning; most
of the symptoms occurring in the morning and evening in
bed, and after eating; many of the symptoms appearing
when eating, and ceasing afterwards.
Make a
PHOSPHORUS.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
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Phosphorus is of great benefit in many affections of the
chest, in chronic coughs, subacute inflammation of the
lungs, vomica, painful spasmodic affections of the bowels,
chronic diarrhoea, incipient amaurosis, derangements of
the catamania, some species of fever, diseases of the
bones, and consequently some of the worst forms of scro-
fula.
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Antidotes. CHAM., COFF., IGNAT, NUX VOм.
Head. Pain in the head from the abuse of mercury,
from catching cold, and disorder of the stomach from fat;
hemicrania, with nausea and vomiting; head-ache on one
side only; pain, as if the brain were torn asunder; pres-
sive head-ache; great heaviness of the head; head-ache,
as if the skull would burst, or the forehead and eyes drop
out, especially on moving the eyes and head; pain in the
head, as if it were screwed in; drawing, starting pain, or
in shocks, especially in the temples; boring, shooting
pain in the head, with dimness of sight, buzzing in the ears,
and giddiness; shooting pain in the head, with burning
sensation in the eyes; humming in the ears and giddiness;
rush of blood to the head, with painful shooting and throb-
bing in the brain, especially on stooping, and on exertion of
mind; humming noise in the head; crackling sensation in
the head on walking; head-ache from the nape of the neck,
and thence ascending to a spot where it feels contracted;
head-ache in the evening after lying down, or in the morn-
ing in bed; the head-ache generally increasing in the
evening, and lasting through the night; external drawing
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pain in the head on stroking the hair backwards; biting,
itching sensation on the head; small swellings on the
scalp, with pain as if ulcerated; pustular eruption on
the head.
Mind. - Inattention and absence of mind; inability to
express oneself correctly in speaking, and leaving out
single letters in writing; many ideas, but not in order;
delirium; loss of consciousness.
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Disposition. Sad, sullen, melancholy state of mind,
with inclination to weep; anguish and disquietude, chiefly
at the pit of the stomach, even to self-destruction, with
palpitation and trembling; misanthropy; mistrust; dread
of death; in the evening, fears of apparitions; timid,
morose disposition; faint-heartedness; anxious care about
household affairs; irresolution; whining, with capricious
desires; enviousness and covetousness; hypochondriacal,
surly fretfulness, especially in the evening about sunset;
meek, yielding disposition; rashness.
Giddiness.-Fatigue of the head from mental exertion;
disturbance and confusion of the head, as if from intoxi-
cation and sitting up all night; vertigo, or giddiness,
as if from intoxication, with internal heat in the head,
and attended with paleness of the face, chiefly in the
evening, or on sitting, and after dinner, also on sitting
up in bed in the morning, and on raising the eyes;
giddiness, with tendency to sickness and dimness of
sight.
Sleep.-Constant sleepiness, with dreaming; feverish in-
clination to slumber; inability to sleep until late; sleepless-
ness in the evening and night from too great a flow of ideas;
sensation of ebullition of the blood; flow of blood to the
head, and anxious heat; disturbed sleep at night, with
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frightful, disgusting, anxious dreams, and fearful shrink-
ing, speaking, sobbing and screaming in sleep; loss of
recollection on awaking at night, or with great anxiety of
mind and anguish of conscience; frequent wakings, and
long keeping awake in the night; starting of the body or
of a limb on going to sleep; lying on the back in sleep, or
with the feet drawn up, and the arms lying over the head
or crossway on the belly; night-mare.
Eyes.-Pain in the eyes, as if they were scraped with a
knife; burning pressure, or boring, cutting, or tearing and
shooting pain in the eyes; itching and burning pain in the
eyes; painful inflammation of the eyes and meibomian
glands, also after taking cold, or in new-born babes, and
likewise in scrofulous and gouty subjects; swelling and red-
ness of the eye-lids; hordeolum; dryness of the eyes and
lids; watering of the eyes in the open cold air; blear-eyes;
ulceration, with agglutination of the eye-lids; fistula
lachrymalis; haziness of the cornea; contracted pupils;
frequent dimness of sight; momentary loss of vision;
dimness of sight which forces to rub the eyes, especially
in the morning, on awaking after siesta, and in the even-
ing; short-sightedness; double vision; incipient amaurosis
and cataract; fiery circles before the eyes; aversion to light.
Ears. Pain in the ear, as if something was forcing
itself out; jerking, tearing ear-ache; itching, shooting pain
in the ear; rush of blood to the ears; inflammation of
the internal and external ear, with heat, redness and swel-
ling; painful swelling of the bones of the ear; discharge
of pus from the ear; burning, hot herpetic eruption on
the tragus; ringing, rushing and buzzing noises in the
ears; deafness, as if from stopping up of the ears, espe-
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cially after recession of the measles, or after a chill on the
head from frequent cutting of the hair.
Nose. The nose painful, as if ulcerated externally and
internally; the alæ nasi, moist and ulcerated; bleeding
from the nose on blowing it; epistaxis; discharge of pus
from the nose; smell in the nose, as if from an old cold
in the head.
Mouth. Dryness of the mouth in the morning; bad,
putrid smell of the mouth, especially in the morning and
at night; flow of saliva of a sweet taste, with inclination
to vomit; the tongue as if burnt and insensible; the
tongue yellowish coated, with viscous mucus; much mucus
in the mouth.
Lips. — Cracking of the lips, with peeling off of the
skin; tense swelling of the under lip; drawing, tearing
pain in the under-jaw.
Teeth. Tooth-ache from taking cold, especially in the
spring, generally with tearing pain in the ear; head-ache
on one side; coldness and paleness of the face; drawing,
jerking tooth-ache, as if the nerve were stretched, and
suddenly let loose, with prickings in the gums; beating
or flickering pain in hollow teeth, with sensation of
drawing up to the eye; increase of tooth-ache, chiefly in
the evening, and at night, and also from the warmth of
the room, and that of the bed, easily excited by the tooth-
pick and by eating, especially if any thing quite warm is
put into the mouth, and lessened by cool air; smarting
pain of the gums; pulsation in the gums.
Face.Paleness or sallowness of the face; changes in
the face from white to red; blue-red puffiness of the face;
features expressive of suffering; startings of the muscles
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of the face; skin of the face painfully sensitive to the
touch, as if it was galled; stretched feel in the face, as if
it were going to swell; shivering of one side of the face.
Throat.-Sore throat, as if raw and excoriated in swal-
lowing and without swallowing; sore throat in swallowing,
as if from straightening or internal swelling of the fauces;
shooting pain in the throat, with pressure and tension in
swallowing; inflammation of the throat, with dusky varicose
swelling of the vessels; dryness and viscous mucus in the
throat, especially in the night and early in the morning.
Appetite. — Taste insipid, putrid, empyreumatic, earthy,
pus-like; sweet taste on drinking beer; sour taste, especi-
ally after eating and drinking; bitter taste in the evening,
and early in the morning, but particularly on eating and
drinking, and chewing, more especially bread, or after
swallowing solids and fluids; taste of all food dimi-
nished; absence of thirst, or violent thirst, especially for
beer or powerful spirituous drinks, the tongue being moist;
aversion to food, especially to meat, bread, butter and
milk; disgust and disinclination to smoking; hunger, with
desire for food, without knowing for which; disorder of
the stomach from the fat of pork, or from pastry, coldness
of the stomach from ice, fruit, &c.
.
Stomach. Cramp of the stomach fasting and after
eating, or early in the morning, with snatching and pinch-
ing pain, ending at times in vomiting; pain in the pit of
the stomach, and in the hypochondria in pregnant women,
very much increased by sitting; pressure at the pit of the
stomach after each meal, with vomiting of ingesta; shoot-
ing pain at the pit of the stomach on making a false step;
creeping sensation at the pit of the stomach; pulsation
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perceptible at the pit of the stomach; inflammation of
the stomach.
Nausea. — Nausea, with inclination to vomit, especially
in the evening, or after eating and drinking, at times with
creeping sensation at the pit of the stomach; vomiting of
slime or bilious, bitterish, sour fluid; chronic vomiting
of ingesta, after every meal, but especially in the even-
ing, and at night; vomiting of blood; after the vomiting,
bitterness in the mouth, and the teeth set on edge.
Eructation. Eructation, with the smell and taste of
ingesta; sour or bitter bilious eructation and belching;
hiccough, especially on smoking tobacco, or after drinking.
Hypochondria.- Drawing sensation, or starting and
shooting pain in the hypochondria, as if from an ulcer;
inflammation of the diaphragm; pain in the bowels after
drinking.
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Abdomen.-Stretching pain in the abdomen, as if
thing were too full, with hard swelling; cramps in the lower
belly, also in pregnant women; griping pains deep in the
lower part of the abdomen, relieved by binding the abdo-
men; cutting pain in the bowels, especially in the evening,
also with diarrhoea; tearing and shooting pain in the
abdomen; feeling of stoppage of the blood in the lower
part of the abdomen; great sensitiveness of the parietes
of the abdomen; pressive, flatulent cholic, especially in
hysterical persons, with painful motion and rumbling
noise in the bowels, especially after supper or after mid-
night; exit of flatus, attended with cutting pain in the
abdomen; offensive flatus.
Anus. Discharge of blood from the anus, whether on
going to stool or not; hæmorrhoids, with chaps and smart-
ing pain.
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Facal Discharge.
Constipation; difficult evacuation
of the fæces, with painful forcing and pain in the back;
frequent urgency to go to stool, also at night, at times
with spasmodic pains in the belly; frequent soft or loose
motions, at times, only yellow slime, with some blood, and
mostly after previous griping; mucous diarrhoea after
measles; nocturnal watery or bilious diarrhoea, after pre-
vious moving sensation in the abdomen; white stools;
sharp biting evacuation; after going to stool, griping pain
in the belly.
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Urinary Discharge. Retention of urine, with redness
and heat externally in the region of the bladder; frequent
desire to make water, with cutting pressure on the bladder,
also in pregnant women, with dragging pain in the belly;
inability to retain the urine; involuntary flow of urine,
with exit in drops, sitting and walking; making water
during sleep; urine increased in quantity, clear like water,
without colour, or scanty red brown urine; gelatinous, or
violet, red-brick coloured sediment in the urine; bloody
urine, with burning pain at the orifice of the urethra.
Genital Organs. Gonorrhoeal discharge from the
urethra; shooting, itching and biting pain in the prepuce ;
itching of the scrotum, especially in the morning and
evening; inflammation and swelling of the testicle, also
after suppressed gonorrhoea, with considerable redness and
swelling of the scrotum, and violent pressive pains;
hydrocele; tearing, dragging pain in the spermatic cord,
even to the testicle; inflammation of the prostrate gland;
inflammation of the uterus; cutting pain at the os uteri.
Menses. Menses retarded, or suppressed, with cramps
in the lower belly; and other multifarious incommodities;
difficulty in the appearance of the first menstruation ;
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menses too early; menstrual fluid dark and slimy; pres-
sive weight in the belly; chilliness, stretching and yawn-
ing before menstruation; during menstruation, cramps in
the stomach, shooting pain in the sides, pressure in the
lower belly, and sacrum, with fruitless efforts to go to
stool; nausea and dimness of sight.
M
Chest. Pain in the chest, as if internally ulcerated;
cramp-like contractive tightness in the chest, especially
on breathing, often with sensation of ebullition of blood
and internal heat; tearing, cutting, shooting pain in the
chest and sides; nervous inflammation of the lungs; de-
termination of blood to the chest and heart, especially in
the night; frequent violent attacks of palpitation, often
with anxiety and mist before the eyes, or with want of
breath, especially on lying on the left side; sensation of
weight, pressure, and burning at the heart; chronic affec-
tions of the heart; disappearance of the milk in nurses.
Respiratory Organs.- Stoppage in the nose in the
evening; in the morning on blowing the nose, discharge of
thick yellow mucus; cold in the head, with loss of smell
and taste; chronic coryza, with yellow green fetid dis-
charge from the nose; hoarseness and sensation of raw-
ness which do not admit of speaking loud.
Breath. Want of breath, with anxiety and palpitation
on lying on the left side; rattling breathing; quick short
breath; asthmatic oppression of breathing, as if from
sulphuric vapour; shortness of breath after dinner; anxious
and cramp-like dyspnoea, as if the chest were too full,
and the trachea were constricted, chiefly in the evening
after eating, and at night, especially on lying horizon-
tally in bed; miller's asthma; attacks of suffocation in the
night.
pap
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Cough.-Loud cough, with catarrh, attended with itch-
ing, scratched feel, and dryness in the chest and throat;
dry cough, shaking the whole frame, chiefly in the morn-
ing or night, with choking sensation, and inclination to
vomit, with a feeling as if the stomach were inverted;
only slightly loose cough, with painful shooting in the
chest and sides of the chest; moist cough; cough, with
copious expectoration of bitter, yellow mucus; cough,
with greenish or bloody expectoration; consumptive cough;
acute suppuration of the lungs.
Skin. — Itching of the skin, mostly burning or pricking,
especially before mid-night on getting warm in bed, much
increased by scratching; nettle-rash; frequent external
redness even in the cold parts of the body; eruption
occasioned by taking too much bacon, with violent itch-
ing in bed; measles; varioloid eruption; chilled, inflamed,
Itching limbs; chapped skin; suppurating wounds; ulcers
which easily bleed, with biting, burning, shooting pain,
or with itching around the edges, the whole hard and of a
shining red.
Fever. - Cold and thirst predominating, especially dur-
ing attacks of pain in the evening; cold, with shooting
pain in the limbs, followed by some thirst, then heat
without thirst, and afterwards perspiration; during the
cold giddiness, stupefaction, head-ache, vomiting of
mucus, pain in the left side of the belly; incapability
of bearing external warmth; paroxysms of heat, with
anxiety; internal heat alone, without thirst; skin burning,
with profuse general perspirations; pulse quick and small,
or weak, or almost suppressed; thirst before the cold fit,
or after it before the hot fit; quotidian, tertian and quartan
ague, coming on in the evening, with bitter or putrid taste
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in the mouth, loss of appetite, hard red swelling of one
breast, great debility, and little sleep; relapses after ague
suppressed by china; typhus, nervous, mucous and puer-
peral fevers; perspiration often only on one side of the
body; perspirations at night and in the morning, often of
a bad smell.
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Back. Pain in the sacrum and back, as if after long
stooping, or from a band drawn through, with painful
stiffness; pains in the sacrum, resembling labour pains;
shooting pain in the sacrum and back, chiefly between and
in the shoulder blades; curvature of the spine; rheumatic
drawing and tense pain in the loins, and also in the
nape of the neck, with difficulty of motion; swelling
of the nape or side of the neck, with pain on touching
it, as if ulcerated beneath; creaking and cracking noise
in the neck and shoulder blades, on moving the parts;
itching pustular eruption on the neck.
Upper Extremities. — Drawing, starting, tearing and
shooting pain in the joints of the shoulders and arms;
paralytic pain in the shoulder joints, on lifting any thing
and moving the arms; burning pain of the arm in the
evening, with feeling of dryness in the fingers; pressive
weight in the arms from the shoulder to the fingers, with
the feeling of deadness, especially in the hand; tensive
feeling of stiffness, as if sprained, in the elbow, hand and
finger joints; veins of the fore-arm and hand swollen ;
drawing and tearing pain in the fingers; fingers asleep,
especially in the morning and at night; stitch-like painful
watery blisters between the fingers; panaris.
;
Lower Extremities. Sciatica, also chronic, with start-
ing, smarting pain, in the hip joint even to the knee
pain, as of ulceration in the nates, the muscles of the
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legs and soles of the feet; dragging and tense pain in the
thighs and legs, especially in the calves; paralytic bruised
pain in the muscles and bones of the thighs and legs;
inflammatory swelling of the knee, with transient shooting
pains; red, hot swelling of the legs and feet after sup-
pressed ague; violent dragging pain and lassitude in the
legs, with trembling, especially in the knees; varicose
veins on the legs; red, burning swelling of the instep and
sole of the foot, with stitch-like pain on touch and motion;
painful benumbed feel of the soles of the feet and balls
of the toes; boring, shooting and cutting pain in the
heels; stitches in the soles of the feet and points of the
toes.
Predominating Symptoms.-Starting, tearing and draw-
ing pain in the muscles of the limbs; attacks of gouty
and rheumatic pain, which become better in the open air,
but worse on going into a warm room, or in bed; pain, as
if from excoriation or an internal ulcer, especially on lay-
ing hold of the parts affected; tightness of the tendons;
twitching of the tendons; acute gout in the joints, with
pricking drawing pains; pain, as of a bruise on touching
the part; pain which quickly flies to other parts, with
swelling of the parts affected; gouty, red, hot swellings,
with pricking pains; incommodities, especially attended
with cold, thirst, paleness of the face and dyspnoea; symp-
toms affecting one side of the body; increase and renewal
of the symptoms on sitting down, especially after having
been long in motion, and on getting up after having been
long seated, as also on lying on the side or back, and dur-
ing repose generally; diminution of sufferings on sitting
after having lain down, or on turning on the back, on
motion, or walking, by external pressure, and in the open
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air; the state of health generally worst in the evening,
and before mid-night, seldom early in the morning; ill
effects occasioned by the abuse of mercury, cinchona,
chamomilla and sulphur, also from the waters of Egea
and Carlsbad, from fat pork and pastry, from taking cold,
or from taking wine, and from fear and inward grief;
bilious, gastric, scrofulous, rickety, hysteric and hypo-
chondriac affections; jaundice and chlororis; effects of
measles driven in; various affections of children and in-
fants at the breast, and especially of females, particularly
of pregnant women, women in labour, and giving suck;
particularly suited to the dull, phlegmatic, good-humoured,
tricky, temperament; cramps in internal organs; inflam-
mation of internal parts, with tendency to suppuration ;
varicose veins; congestions; swelling of the veins; crooked-
ness of the bones; caries of the bones; diseases of the
mucous membrane; general uneasiness and restlessness.
of the body permitting neither sleep nor rest, with con-
tinual inclination to stretch the limbs; frequent trouble-
some pulsation through the whole body, worse on motion;
frequent anxious trembling of the limbs, with sensation of
creeping and falling to sleep in the limbs during repose;
sluggishness and weight of the limbs, with paralytic weak-
ness and soreness of all the joints; the weakness in the
morning always worse on lying down; apoplexy; emacia-
tion, especially in children; susceptibility and aversion to
the open
air.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Pulsatilla is particularly beneficial in affections of the
digestive organs, in disturbance of the catamænia, es-
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pecially in chlorosis, and has often succeeded in relieving
some species of cynanche and ophthalmia. It is of
benefit in incipient phthisis, various affections of the
stomach and intestines, puerperal fever, and some kinds
of intermittent fever. It is peculiarly applicable to the
lymphatic temperament.
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RHEUM.
Cat
Antidote. - ?
Head. Weight of the head, with sensation of heat
ascending therein; confused, stunning head-ache, with
puffed eyes; beating head-ache.
M
Pod
Disposition. - Morose indolence, and brooding within
oneself; the child desiring all kind of things with impetu-
osity and crying; disquietude and peevishness; anguish
of death.
Sleep. Sleepiness in the day; loss of sleep, and rest-
lessness at night, with screams and tossing about, in chil-
dren; after sleep, want of recollection, head-ache, and bad
smell from the mouth; many sad, anxious dreams.
Eyes. Painful throbbing in the eyes; watery eyes;
contracted pupils; eyes weak, and blood-shot.
Ears. Clucking noise in the ears, (and a tight twitch-
ing of the muscles of the neck); beating in the ears.
Nose. Creeping sensation at the point of the nose.
Teeth. Difficult dentition in children; sense of cold-
ness in the teeth, with collection of much saliva.
Face.Tension in the skin of the face; inclination to
knit the brows; dragging, swelling, or slightly twitching
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sensation, from the lower jaw up to the temples; cold per-
spiration round the mouth and nose.
Taste. Insipid, slimy taste; bitterness of the food as
long as in the mouth.
Appetite. Hunger, without appetite; appetite for va-
rious things, but on the first mouthful, going away; aver-
sion to fat, or adhesive food; coffee repulsive, if not made
very sweet; violent thirst.
Stomach. Tension in the region of the stomach;
fulness of the stomach, as if from loading it.
Nausea. Nausea, as if from the stomach and lower
belly.
B
Flatulence. Rumbling, and cutting pain in the lower
belly, from flatulence.
Q
Abdomen. Tension, and swelling of the lower belly;
violent cutting pain in the belly, especially in the neigh-
bourhood of the loins, obliging to lie crooked; cutting
pain in the belly before, and during a motion; swelling,
twitching sensation in the muscles of the belly.
Fæcal Discharge.
Frequent ineffectual efforts to go
to stool; painful, forcing stool, excited by motion; pap-
like, sour-smelling motions, attended with shivering; mu-
cous diarrhoea; weakening diarrhoea; loose motions, with
griping, and subsequent forcing efforts.
Urinary Discharge. Increased flow of urine; reddish-
yellow, or greenish urine; feeble exit of urine, as if the
bladder were paralysed.
Chest. Crackling sensation, as if from small blisters,
in the muscles of the chest; stitches in the nipples; milk
in nurses yellow and bitter.
Breath. Dyspnoea, as if from a load on the upper
part of the chest.
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Fever. General heat, without thirst; on the slightest
exertion, perspiration on the forehead and scalp; cold
perspiration round the mouth.
Back. Stiffness in the sacrum and the hips.
Upper Extremities. - Starting in the arms and hands;
swelling, slightly twitching sensation, especially in the el-
bows; veins of the hand swollen; cold perspiration in the
palms of the hands.
S
Lower Extremities. Lassitude of the legs, as if from
over-exertion; swelling, slightly twitching sensation, from
the hough even to the heel.
Predominating Symptoms. Slightly twitching sen-
sation, as if from small blisters, in the muscles and
joints; pain in all the joints, on motion; going-to-sleep-
feel of the limbs whereon one lies; weakness, and weight
in the whole body, as if on awaking from a deep sleep.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Rheum is of service in a variety of complaints to which
children are subject, in numerous affections of the digestive
organs, and in some nervous affections.
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RHUS TOXICODENDRON.
Antidotes. BRYON., CAMPH., COFF., SULPH.
S
Head. Determination of blood to the head; weight
in the head; pressure in the temples, worse in the evening
in bed; heat in the head, especially after drinking beer;
painful, creeping sensation in the brain; feeling of lacera-
tion in the brain; on going up stairs, every step felt in the
head; shooting head-ache; head-ache in the back part of
the head, especially in the projection of the occiput; head-
ache after a cold bath; swelling of the head and face ;
tinea capitis, with thick scabs, destroying the hair, with
insupportable itching at night; dry tetters on the scalp;
small, soft boils, on the scalp.
Mind. Want of recollection; dulness of compre-
hension; delirium.
Disposition. Anxiety, with sadness, and tendency to
weep; anguish, like pangs of death; anxious desire to
commit suicide; great disquietude, which will not allow of
remaining still.
A
Giddiness. Giddiness, as if from intoxication, with
tendency to fall forwards or backwards, on getting out of
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bed; dull stupefaction of the head, with stupidity and
gloominess.
Sleep. - Spasmodic yawning, with wrenching pain in
the joint of the jaw; uncommon sleepiness, after eating;
loss of sleep, before midnight; ability to lie, at night, only
on the back.
J
Eyes. Inflammation of the eyes, with redness of the
white of the eye; oedematous swelling of the eyes, and
round about them; agglutination of the eyelids, at night;
paralytic stiffness of the eyelids, principally in the even-
ing; weak sight; incipient amaurosis.
Ears. Bloody, purulent discharge from the ears, with
difficulty of hearing; inflammatory swelling of the parotid
glands.
M
Nose. Bleeding at the nose, at night, and on stoop-
ing; ulcerated nostrils, with fetid discharge of pus; erysi-
pelatous swelling of the nose, which spreads under the
eyes.
G
Mouth. Saltish slime in the mouth; hawking of mu-
cus; ptyalism; feeling as if a skin were upon the tongue.
Teeth. In the evening, and at night, shooting, jerking
tooth-ache; creeping sensation in the teeth; tooth-ache,
diminished by warmth, and aggravated by cold; looseness
of the teeth, especially of the lower incisors; tooth-ache
after bathing.
Face. Sickly, pale face, with sharp nose, and blue
circles round the eyelids; disfigured, distorted face;
yellowness of the face, after each attack; swelling of the
face, with shining redness; erysipelatous inflammation of
the face, with little blisters full of a yellow fluid, and burn-
ing, creeping sensation; copper-coloured complexion, the
skin being clear; eruption on the face, with ichorous dis-
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t
charge; pinching pain in the joints of the jaw, or as if
they were dislocated, especially on yawning; inflammatory
swelling of the submaxillary glands.
Throat.
Feeling in the throat as if something was
torn off there; swallowing of solid food painful; narrowing
of the fauces and oesophagus; ability of getting down only
fluids; shooting pain, and pressure in the throat, on making
an effort to swallow; brandy burning violently through the
throat.
Taste. Foul taste in the mouth, with the right taste
of the food; sweetish taste in the mouth; bitter taste of
the food, especially bread.
Appetite. -Total loss of appetite, with aversion to all
food, especially bread and meat; thirst not to be quenched
by drinking, from dryness in the mouth or throat; noc-
turnal, feverish thirst.
Stomach. On touch, beating and pain in the pit of
the stomach, as if from an abscess; sense of coldness in
the stomach, with feeling as if it were full of stones; ful-
ness of the stomach after eating; pressure in the stomach
after eating bread; on stooping, or making a false step, a
feeling as if something were torn away in the pit of the
stomach.
T
C
Nausea. Nausea, with immoderate hunger, going
away after eating; nocturnal, gastric symptoms; speedy
vomiting during eating; vomiting of the food on coughing,
when lying on the back.
Eructation.-Violent eructation on sitting up, which
produces a creeping sensation in the stomach; pyrosis.
Glands. Inflammation, swelling, and induration of the
glands.
Abdomen. Painful swelling of the lower belly, after
M
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eating; feeling as of tearing, or falling away, in the lower
belly; contractive cramps in the lower belly, especially
about the navel; inflammation of the lower belly; feeling
as if a heavy load lay in the lower belly; scarlet redness
of the integuments of the lower belly, as far as to the na-
vel; pain as of an ulcer, in the integuments of the belly, on
stretching.
Fecal Discharge. Watery diarrhoea; diarrhoea at
night, with griping; motions frothy, or as if chopped;
dysenteric motions, with tenesmus; diarrhoea, alternating
with constipation; hard, delayed motions; ineffectual
efforts to go to stool.
Urinary Discharge. -Flow of urine, diminished when
drinking much; frequent, copious discharge of watery
urine; scalding urine; involuntary flow of urine, in re-
pose.
Genital Organs. —- Frightful eruption on the genital
organs; thickening of the scrotum; moist eruption on the
scrotum; swelling of the prepuce and glans penis.
Menses. Catamænia before the time, and too copious;
catamænia lasting too long, with scarcely any day's inter-
mission; discharge of blood, in pregnant women; dis-
charge of clotted blood, in lumps, from the uterus, with
labour-like pains.
Chest. Sense of constriction in the chest, in the region
of the scrobiculus cordis ; stitches in the chest, worse in
repose, as also on sneezing, and deep breathing; feeling of
debility in the lower part of the chest; beating at the
heart, with anxiety, on sitting; fluttering at the heart;
recession of the milk from the breast, with burning heat
over the body; flowing away of the milk from the breasts.
Breath. Anxious oppression of the breath, at the pit.
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of the stomach; tightness of the breath from pressure, and
painfulness at the scrobiculus cordis; shortness of breath
before going to stool; heated breath.
Cough. — Tickling cough, in the evening, producing
dryness in the throat; dry cough till midnight; dry cough
early, on awaking; cough, with expectoration of bright
red blood; on coughing, stitches in the chest; general,
profuse perspiration, and pain in the stomach.
Skin. Painful sensitiveness of the skin to the cold
air; burning, itching sensation, especially on parts covered
with hair; burning, vesicular eruption; nettle-rash, with
burning, itching sensation; burning sensation in the ul-
cers; eruption of tetters, alternating with dysenteric stools,
and affections of the chest; thickening, and hardness of
the skin; warts; clefts on the skin; chilblains.
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Fever. Fever in the evening, with diarrhoea; constant
shivering; constant cold creepings, as if cold water were
poured on the patient; feeling of coldness on every motion;
burning heat of the skin, quickly alternating with shudder-
ing cold; flushes of heat; breaking out of perspiration, on
sitting, often with violent trembling; perspiration during
the pain; perspiration at night, at the same time small
itching eruption; sudden hot creepings, with breaking out
of perspiration, spreading from the navel, and alternating
with cold, as quickly arising; coldness, with paleness, al-
ternating with heat, and redness of the face.
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Bones. Pain in the limbs, as if the flesh were beaten
from the bones, or as if the bones were scraped; inflam-
mation and swelling of the shafts of the bones.
Neck. Stiffness of the nape of the neck; pain from
over-lifting, down the neck, and between the shoulder-
blades.
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Back. Painful tension, and pinching pain between the
shoulder-blades; pain from over-lifting, in the shoulders
and back; cold creepings in the back; pain as of a bruize
in the sacrum, when sitting still, or lying on it, diminished
by lying on something hard.
Upper Extremities. - Tearing, and burning pain in the
shoulders, with paralysis of the arm, worse during repose ;
wrenching pain of the shoulders; paralysis of the arm,
with coldness, and loss of sensation therein; trembling
of the arms, from moderate exertion; swelling of the axil-
lary glands; erysipelatous swelling on the arms; hot swell-
ing of the hands, in the evening; veins of the hands.
swollen; cracked skin on the back of the hand; warts.
Lower Extremities. - Sciatica, on getting up from a
seat, and going up stairs; sciatic pain after immoderate
exertion; painful shock in the thigh, on putting the
legs forward, in walking, somewhat resembling cramp;
wrenching pain in the hip, knee, and foot joints; painful
swelling in the upper part of the knee; swelling of the
feet, in the evening.
Predominating Symptoms.
Great weakness, debility,
and bruized feel, especially on sitting, and generally on
repose; constant tossing about, in bed, whereby some
limbs are as if paralysed; in the morning, in bed, pain as
of a bruize in the limbs which have not been lain upon;
tension, dragging and tearing pain in the limbs, chiefly
with dead feeling, especially on repose; sense of tearing
away of internal parts; insupportableness of cold open air,
and consequent stitches in the joints; dislocation, and
wrenching pain in the joints; effects of immoderate ex-
ertion of the muscles, and of over-lifting; feeling of dead-
ness in the extremities, after previous starting, and creeping
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sensation therein; convulsive starting, and other ill effects
of cold baths; the increase of the symptoms in the evening
and at night, in repose, and from cold or on becoming cold.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
A characteristic effect of this plant is, that the symptoms
it occasions are more violent during rest, which is exactly the
reverse of Bryonia, although, in other respects, their effects
very nearly resemble each other. Rhus has been found of
signal service in some kinds of typhus. It is the principal
remedy for the relief of the results of violent muscular
efforts and contusions, and is efficacious in phlegmonous
erysipelas, many rheumatic affections, some diseases of the
, skin, as tinea capitis, some kinds of dysentery, paraplegia,
chronic rheumatism, and disorders of the digestive organs.
Rhus appears to be specific in injuries in which the liga-
ments and tendons have been wrenched; whereas Arnica
is particularly applicable where the parts have been in-
jured by external violence.
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SABINA.
Antidote. CAMPH.
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Head. — Pressing-asunder head-ache, especially in the
centre of the forehead and in the right temple, coming on
suddenly, and going off slowly; shooting head-ache.
Disposition. Hypochondriacal ill humour; dejection
and loss of spirits, with the feeling of general lassitude.
Giddiness. Dizziness, with sensation of ebullition of
blood and heat in the head.
Sleep. Loss of sleep after midnight, with great rest-
lessness, heat and copious perspirations.
Eyes.-The eyes without lustre; acrid tears; appear-
ance like clouds before the upper part of the eyes.
Nose.
Small blisters at the root of the nose, like little
grains.
Mouth. White saliva, becoming frothy on speaking;
bloody saliva; every morning the back part of the tongue
thickly coated yellow.
Teeth. Dragging tooth-ache, excited almost only on
chewing; nocturnal tooth-ache, as if it would burst, aggra-
vated by the warmth of the bed; gums, around broken
or hollow teeth, swollen.
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Face.-Pale face, the eyes being without lustre, sur-
rounded with a blue circle; a red patch on the cheeks
near the alæ nasi; blackness of the sebaceous glands of
the face and nose.
Throat. Smarting pain in the throat on swallowing;
choking pressure in the throat, as if from an internal
swelling.
Taste. Taste of fat in the mouth; bitter taste of the
food, of milk and coffee.
Appetite. - Desire for acids, especially lemonade.
Stomach. - Pressure at the stomach; stitches from the
scrobiculus cordis even to the back.
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Nausea. Vomiting of bile; vomiting of food taken
the day before and still undigested.
Eructation. Frequent and ineffectual eructation.
Abdomen. Uncommon swelling of the abdomen; pain
in the belly as if from a chill, with a feeling as if diarrhoea
would come on; labour-like pain in the belly; constrictive
pain in the region of the uterus; forcing towards the
pudendum; pain as of a bruize in the muscles of the
belly.
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Anus. -Bleeding piles; creeping sensation at the anus.
Fæcal Discharge.— Diarrhoea with much flatulence;
discharge of blood with slime.
Urinary Discharge. Frequent violent forcing, with
copious discharge of urine; retention of urine, with burn-
ing on discharging it in drops.
Genital Organs. - Inflammatory gonnorrhoea, with dis-
charge of pus; cartilaginous swelling on the dorsum penis;
burning smarting pain of warts on the glans; stitches
deep in the vagina; inflammation of the uterus after
labour.
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Menses.- Catamænia before the time, and too copious;
menorrhagia, with discharge of blood, partly bright red,
partly clotted, or with thin, liquid, discoloured, fetid blood ;
abortion, especially in the third month of pregnancy; fetid
leucorrhoea, after suppressed catamænia.
Chest. Feeling of not painful trembling and crepita-
tion under the sternum; sensible swelling of the mam-
mæ; creeping irritation on the nipple.
Cough. Dry cough and tickling sensation in the
trachea; bloody saliva, with or without cough.
Fever.Shivering, with dark appearances before the
eyes, and subsequent sleepiness; heat in the face, with cold
shivers on the rest of the body.
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Bones. — Dragging pain through the long bones.
Back. Pain at the back which obliges to bend back-
wards, and to draw in the part; labour-like pain in the
sacrum, with dragging sensation even to the uterus ;
paralytic pain in the sacrum.
Upper Extremities.- Wrenching pain in the shoulder
joints; stiffness of the wrist, with swelling and stitches,
which, on letting the hand hang down, increases to an in-
tolerable degree.
Lower Extremities.-Shooting pain in the hip-joint in
the morning, and on inspiration; ulcers on the shin bone,
with a lardy surface; podagra; swelling, redness and
stitches in the great toes.
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Predominating Symptoms. — Paralytic pain in the joints
after exertion; tearing shooting pain in the limbs, after
swelling; red shining swelling of the suffering parts; jerk-
ing throbs in the blood-vessels.
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PRACTICAL REMARKS.
The powerful effects of this plant on the genital
organs are too well known. It is of great service in some
kinds of menorrhagia, where the blood is florid and co-
agulates, as well as in rheumatic and gouty affections, in
some forms of leucorrhoea, and in phymosis arising from in-
flammatory action about the edge of the prepuce.
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SAMBUCUS.
Head. Pressive, benumbing head-ache, as if from in-
toxication.
Mind. Periodical delirium, with visions, and fan-
tastic illusions.
Disposition. Indescribable anxiety, with trembling;
uncommon timidity; constant fretfulness.
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Giddiness. Dizziness in the morning, on getting up.
Sleep. Loss of sleep, with sleepiness; slumber, with
the eyes and mouth half-open; starting out of sleep, with
anxiety, shortness of breath almost to suffocation, and
trembling.
Teeth. Tearing, and shooting pain in the teeth, with
feeling as of swelling of the cheeks.
Face. Puffed, dark-blueish face; red, burning spots.
on the cheeks; violent heat of the face; numb, tense pain,
as if from swelling, in the cheeks and nose.
Appetite. - Absence of thirst, with dryness of the
palate.
Stomach. - Dull pressure in the region of the stomach.
Abdomen. Griping pain in the abdomen, with much
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flatulence, after a chill; pressive pain in the abdomen,
with nausea, on leaning the abdomen against a sharp
corner.
SAMBUCUS.
Urinary Discharge. - Frequent desire to make water,
with scanty discharge; small stream of urine.
Genital Organs. — Swelling of the scrotum, (after an
injury).
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Menses.
Increase of catamænia even to menorrhagia.
Chest. Pressure at the chest, as if from a heavy load,
with suffocating anguish; phthisis pulmonalis, with pro-
fuse, weakening perspiration.
Trachea. Inflammation of the trachea; much viscous
phlegm in the throat.
Respiratory Organs.
Dry coryza (especially in chil-
dren at the breast), which hinders breathing through the
nose; quick whistling, crowing breathing; on awaking,
after midnight (from a slumber, with eyes and mouth half-
open,) attack of suffocation (like miller's asthma), with
the hands and face blue and swollen, with heat and thirst;
membranous croup; oppression at the chest, with pressure
at the stomach, and nausea.
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Cough. Attacks of suffocating cough, with screams;
rough, hollow cough, with great disquietude, and blueness
of the face.
Skin. Dark-red swelling, with tension after contusion.
Fever. Cold shivers, with very cold hands and feet;
feeling of burning heat in the face, the feet being icy cold,
without thirst; soon after lying down, general heat, with-
out thirst, and with dislike to uncover; a short time after
the heat is over, perspiration, first in the face; copious per-
spiration, after midnight; intermittent fever, with uncom-
mon weakening perspiration.
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Back. Stitches under the shoulder-blades from within
to without; pressive pain in the spinal column.
Upper Extremities. — Dark-blue puffiness of the fore-
arm and hands; stitches in both wrists; tossing about of
the hands.
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Lower Extremities. - Sharp, deep stitches on the shin-
bone; feeling of deadness, going-to-sleep-feel, and coldness.
in the middle of the right shin-bone; icy coldness of the
feet, the body being warm.
Predominating Symptoms. General trembling, from
anxiety, and feeling of ebullition of blood; dropsy;
phthisis; relief from sitting up in bed; most of the symp-
toms appearing on repose, and going away on motion.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Sambucus is used with benefit in various affections of
the respiratory organs, especially in children; and it re-
lieves many of the distressing symptoms in the last stage
of consumption.
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Head.-Attacks of boring head-ache forcing to cry out,
attended by vomiting, somewhat relieved by rest and ex-
ternal pressure;
pressure; head-ache as if from looseness of the brain
on shaking the head; in the evening after lying down or
early in the morning, tearing head-ache on one side; shoot-
ing head-ache on one side; from early in the morning to noon,
head-ache with nausea; on stooping, violent determination of
blood to the head, with beating or pressing asunder pain in
the head; involuntary starting of the head.
Mind. Incapacity for mental labour; absence of
mind; great weakness of memory.
Disposition. Anxiety in the evening in bed; anxiety,
with flushes of heat; timidity; indifference to relations
and family; angry sensitiveness and irritability; great ex-
citement in society; acute feeling; irritability.
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Giddiness. Giddiness as if all objects were moving, es-
pecially in the open air.
Sleep. -- Great sleepiness in the day; going to sleep
late; disturbed sleep from sensation of ebullition of blood.
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Eyes. — Falling of the upper eyelid, as if from para-
lysis; impossibility to open the eyes in the night; inflamma-
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tory swelling of the eyelids; inflammation and shooting
pain in the eyes, with over sensibility to day-light; yellow-
ness of the white of the eye; far-sightedness; a veil or
black spot before the eyes; in the evening, green appear-
ance round the candle-light.
Ears. Shooting pain in the ears; over-sensibility to
the sound of music.
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Nose. Point of the nose inflamed, swollen; ulcerated
nostrils; cancer of the nose; loss of smell.
Mouth.Tongue coated white; stomacace.
Teeth. Swelling and bleeding of the gums; shooting
or dragging tooth-ache, with great irritation; decay of the
teeth.
Face. Yellowness of the face, especially round the
mouth and across the cheeks and nose; pale puffiness of
the face; red roughness of the skin of the face; crusta
lactea; scabs on the lips and about the chin.
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Throat. Feeling, on swallowing, as if a lump were in
the throat; shooting sore throat, on swallowing.
Taste. Sour (or foul) taste in the mouth; food tasting
as if it were too much salted.
Appetite. Immoderate appetite and gluttony; disgust
to food, especially meat and milk; loss of thirst.
Stomach.-Shooting and beating pain in the scrobiculus
cordis; cramp-like pressure in the stomach; burning pain
in the stomach; on swallowing the food, a sharp pain in
the cardiac orifice of the stomach; feeling of emptiness in
the stomach and lower belly.
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Nausea. Nausea, in the morning fasting, and on going
in a carriage; vomiting of bile; vomiting in pregnant
women.
Flatulence. Borborygmus after dinner.
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Hypochondria.
Eructation.-Sour eructation; painful eructation.
Shooting pain in the region of the
liver, on motion; pain in the liver, on going in a carriage.
Abdomen.-Feeling of tightness and hardness in the
lower belly; burning and shooting pain in the lower belly;
corpulency of the lower belly (in mothers;) tearing pains
which extend from the lower belly even to the chest and
thigh; feeling of emptiness in the belly after eating.
Anus. Prolapsus ani, on going to stool; descent and
bleeding of hemorrhoids.
Fæcal Discharge. - Violent efforts to go to stool, which
produce an evacuation of mucus only; motions de-
layed, and constipation; motions too loose; weakening
diarrhoea; diarrhoea after taking milk; green loose motions.
(in children.)
Urinary Discharge. - Frequent efforts to make water,
with inability to pass any; involuntary discharge of urine
in the first sleep; turbid urine; smarting pain in the
urethra on making water.
Genital Organs. - Procidentia uteri; bearing down of
the uterus, making the breathing difficult; violent
itching eruption on the labia interna; excoriations in the
groins.
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Menses. Catamænia before the time and too copious,
with dark colour of the blood and increased sufferings;
catamænia suppressed; acrid leucorrhoea.
Chest.-Stitches in the chest, on breathing and on exer-
tion of the mind; phthisis, after inflammation of the chest.
Respiratory Organs.—Coryza with hoarseness; dryness
of the nose, which is stopped up; oppression of the chest,
as well from suppressed as too copious expectoration;
dyspnoea at night, and on walking.
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Cough. Early in the morning and in the evening, cough
with saltish expectoration; cough, with copious milky,
slimy, salt, or foul-tasted expectoration in the day time,
early in the morning and in the evening, tinged with blood;
dry (stomach) cough, with nausea and bitter vomiting in the
evening in bed; cough, with expectoration difficult to be
detached.
Skin. Painless ulcers; excoriation in the bending of
the joints; moist tetters, with itching and burning; un-
common sensibility of the skin.
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Fever. Shivering during the pain; chilliness; want of
vital heat; flushes of heat on sitting down and on going
into the open air; intermittent fever, with thirst, even
during the cold fit; violent perspiration on moderate
motion; sour perspiration early in the morning.
Back. Stiffness of the back even up to the nape of
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the neck; burning tearing pain in the sacrum.
Upper Extremities.-Scurf on the hands; burning pain
in the palms of the hands; peeling off of the skin of the
palms of the hands; painless ulcers on the joints and at
the tips of the fingers; whitlow.
Lower Extremities. Paralysis of the legs, especially
after anger; stiffness of the legs, after sitting a short time ;
coldness of the legs and feet; corroding blisters, and pain-
less ulcers, on the heel as well as on the joints and tips of
the toes; nails of the toes deformed.
Predominating Symptoms. Stiffness of the joints of
the hands, knees, and feet; shooting pains in the limbs ;
painful sensibility of all parts of the body; great sensi-
bility to the cold north wind; easily taking cold; after
getting wet through, violent fever-cold, then attacks of
faintness, and afterwards catarrh; feeling of powerful
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ebullition of blood at night, with beating at the heart;
disquietude and beating in all the limbs; burning pain in
various parts of the body; want of the natural heat of the
body; great ill effects of anger; loss of strength on
awaking; the symptoms violent on strong motion, except
riding, but appearing most violent on sitting still before
noon and in the evening.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
This remedy is very serviceable in head-ache attended
with vomiting, in some painful affections of the uterus, and
in constipation and herpetic eruptions. It is one of the
most beneficial remedies in lepra; and it is often required
in the treatment of mental diseases.
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Antidote. CAMPHORA.
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Head. Head heavy and full; dull head-ache, on the
whole of one side, on entering a warm room from the open
air; head-ache, with watering of the eyes on looking fix-
edly at an object; compressive head-ache, at times, with
contractive feeling; head-ache, as if the head would burst,
especially in the forehead; strong pulsation in the head;
determination of blood to the head; unpleasant sensitive-
ness of the scalp; violent itching of the scalp.
Mind. - Dulness of the mind, with total incapacity
for mental exertion.
Disposition. -Paroxysms of anxiety, with pain in the
region of the heart; inconsolableness and tears; great
timidity, and susceptibility of fright; obstinacy; wanton
and excessive mirth; great inclination to sing.
Giddiness. Giddiness, with reeling even to falling
down, also in the evening, or as if the head would
fall to one side; giddiness, with nausea in the night, on
awaking.
Sleep. Loss of sleep, with fanciful reveries and visions;
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phantasms, on going to sleep; sad, anxious, frightful
dreams.
Eyes. The eyes weak and dim, with puffiness of the
lids; pressure, and shooting pain in the eyes; ulceration,
with agglutination of the eyelids; yellow, scabby eruption
in the centre of the eyebrows; pressive weight in the eye-
lids; contraction of the eyelids, early in the morning;
short-sightedness.
Ears.Ear-ache, with contractive pain; pressure, and
forcing pain in the ears; ulceration of the external ear;
difficulty of hearing.
Nose. Bleeding at the nose, especially after blowing
it; eruption on the point of the nose.
Mouth. Mouth and tongue covered with little blisters,
with shooting and burning pain; salivation; feeble voice.
Lips. Eruption on the lips; crampoid pain in the
articulations of the jaw; swelling of the submaxillary
glands, with tensive pain.
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Teeth. The teeth, on chewing, as if on edge, and
loose; itching and shooting pain in the teeth; swelling of
the gums, with pain on masticating.
Face.Face pale, with sunken eyes; swelling of
the cheeks; itching and shooting sensation on the
cheeks.
Throat. Burning, shooting pain in the throat.
Taste. Taste diminished; taste bitter, in the throat
only; sweet taste in the mouth.
Appetite. Appetite trifling, and quickly satisfied;
great and insatiable hunger; smoking of tobacco dis-
agreeing; after eating, fulness and uncomfortable sensa-
tions in the abdomen, as if from indigestion.
Stomach. Stomach as if loose, with a sensation as if
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it were open; pressure in the stomach and scrobiculus
cordis; the clothes as if pressing on the stomach; contrac-
tive pain in the stomach.
Nausea. Nausea, with strong acid taste in the mouth;
vomiting, after taking milk.
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Eructation. Eructation, and cutting, tearing pain in
the stomach; bitter eructation; sour rising; frequent hic-
cough.
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Abdomen. Abdomen hard and tense; cramps in the
lower belly; flickering and choking feel in the belly; cut-
ting pain in the belly after dinner; borborygmus, espe-
cially in the evening, and early in the morning, on lying
down; pain as of hernia, at the inguinal ring; swelling of
the inguinal glands.
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Anus. During the motion, tenesmus at the anus;
itching, gnawing, and smarting pain at the anus; asca-
rides, and creeping irritation in the rectum.
Fæcal Discharge. — Motions hard and delayed; white,
loose motions; before the motion, shooting pain at the
anus, and rumbling in the belly.
Urinary Discharge. -Secretion of urine increased;
inability to hold the urine; small stream of urine; frothy
urine; thick, greyish, white, or yellow sediment in the
urine.
Genital Organs. - Pain in the testes, with a pinching
sensation; hard swelling of the testes, and spermatic
chord, with compressive pain.
Menses. Menses too soon and too copious; before that
period, palpitation of the heart, and pain in the back;
during the period, dragging pain in the thighs.
Chest.— Pain in the chest, with dyspnoea; fulness and
tightness of the chest; shooting pain in the chest; burn-
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ing pain about the chest; sensation of ebullition in the
chest, after the slightest exertion or motion, with obstruc-
tion of the breathing, anxiety, nausea, and debility even to
fainting; pain, and anxious feeling about the region of
the heart.
Trachea. Hoarseness, also with cough and catarrh;
voice not clear, weak, and lost, on attempting to sing or
speak; pain in the larynx, on touching and turning the
neck; pressure in the larynx, on singing; feeling of ob-
struction in the larynx, with the breathing impeded; in-
flammation of the larynx, of the trachea, and bronchia;
membranous croup; phthisis laryngea.
Breath. Breathing slow and deep, as if from de-
bility; whizzing inspiration; attacks of rattling in the
trachea.
Cough. Cough deep from the chest, with smarting
and burning pain therein; chronic cough, with yellowish
expectoration, and hoarseness; hollow, barking, dry cough
day and night, and increased towards evening.
Skin. Itching, and shooting sensation in the skin,
especially on getting warm in bed; creeping sensa-
tion on the skin, with redness, and heat of the parts,
after being scratched; red, itching spots on the skin;
itching eruptions; miliary eruptions; herpetic erup-
tions.
Fever. Coldness in the whole body, especially in the
back; flushes of heat; night-sweats.
Neck. Painful tension, and stiffness of the throat and
nape of the neck; large, hard swellings on the throat, (bron-
chocele), with pressive, creeping, and shooting sensation ;
cramps in the muscles of the neck.
Back. The sacrum and nates as if benumbed.
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Upper Extremities. Starting of the muscles of the
shoulder-joints; weight and trembling of the fore-arm and
hands; dragging pain in the fore-arm and wrists; large
blisters on the fore-arm; swelling of the hands, with stiff-
ness of the fingers; redness and swelling of the finger-
joints, with tightness on bending them; deadness of the
tips of the fingers.
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Lower Extremities. Starting of the muscles of the
nates; spasmodic drawing to and fro of the thighs; stiff-
ness of the lower extremities; dragging and tearing pain
in the legs and feet, also at night only.
Predominating Symptoms. - Affections of the glands
and lymphatic vessels; swelling and induration of the
glands; feeling as of a bruise in the arms and legs; be-
numbed feeling in the lower half of the belly; gene-
ral feeling of heaviness of the body; extreme relaxa-
tion of the mind and body; feeling better when re-
posing horizontally.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Spongia is the principal remedy in that hideous disease,
bronchocele, in consequence of its being capable of pro-
ducing a similar affection in the healthy subject. It
was employed in the thirteenth century, by Arnauld de
Villeneuve, for the cure of this disease; but unfortunately,
from its having been mixed with other drugs, it lost the
reputation to which it is entitled.
The most important virtue, however, of spongia, is that
displayed by its employment in the treatment of croup, a
disease justly dreaded by all parents. When the inflam-
matory symptoms have in some measure been subdued by
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aconite, spongia will generally be indicated, and its effects
are most beneficial. The two remedies just named are
often sufficient to arrest the disease; but hepar sulphuris,
or some other medicine, corresponding to the existing
symptoms, will frequently be required, in order to com-
plete the cure.
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SQUILLA MARITIMA.
Head. Pain in the head in the morning, soon after
waking, with painful, compressive weight; painful sensi-
tiveness of the upper part of the head, every morning;
pinching pain in the sides of the head; contractive pain in
the temples; dragging, shooting pain, in the head.
Disposition. Anxiety, with fear of death; moaning;
angry peevishness; disinclination to mental and corporeal
exertion.
Antidote. CAMPHOR.
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Giddiness. Giddiness, with nausea; giddiness in the
morning, with tendency to fall sideways.
Sleep. - Disturbed sleep, with frequent waking, and
tossing about.
Eyes. - Pain in the eyes, with a contractive sensation;
tearing pain in the eyes, as if behind the globe of the eye;
burning pain in the external canthus; swelling of the up-
per eyelids; widely opened eyes; fixed look; pupils con-
tracted, or very much dilated; dimness of sight.
Ears. Tearing pain in the ears.
Nose. Nostrils as if excoriated; moist eruption under
the nose, with shooting, itching sensation.
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Mouth. Mouth clammy, and full of mucus; blisters
on the tongue.
Face. The countenance sometimes very much de-
jected, sometimes appearing cheerful; face easily flushed.
on the slightest motion, and on speaking; the features
tense, distorted; cracked lips.
Throat. Throat as if raw and scraped; burning sen-
sation in the palate and throat; dryness of the throat.
Taste. Insipidity of the food; burnt taste in the
palate, on eating; disagreeable, sweet taste of food, espe-
cially of meat and soup.
Appetite. Loss of appetite; great thirst; voracious
appetite; weakness of digestion.
Stomach.-Pressure in the stomach, as if from a stone;
inflammation of the stomach.
Nausea. - Nausea, sometimes followed by vomiting;
constant change between inclination to vomit, and ten-
dency to diarrhoea; violent vomiting, with choking sen-
sation.
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Abdomen. Abdomen painfully sensitive, with soft
swelling; dragging and tearing pain through the bowels;
inflammation of the bowels; ascites; pinching pain, and
rumbling in the bowels.
Fæcal Discharge. Frequent exit of flatus; constipa-
tion; hard, insufficient motions; diarrhoea of brown mu-
cus, with exit of much flatus; ascarides, and many
small white filaments in the motions; fetid motions,
and discharge of undigested food; motions tinged with
blood.
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Urinary Discharge. - Secretion of urine diminished;
urgent desire to make water; great desire to make water,
with copious discharge of watery urine; diabetes; hot,
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dark-red urine, with red sediment; bloody urine; efforts,
after making water.
Genital Organs. — Pain, and a constrictive sensation in
the testes.
Menses.
Menorrhagia.
Chest. Pressure on both sides of the chest, chiefly on
inspiration; dull, pressive, or jerking stitches in the chest
and sides of the chest, on breathing and coughing; deter-
mination of blood to the chest; inflammation of the lungs
and pleura; hydrothorax.
Respiratory Organs. - Moist catarrh, with ulcerated
nostrils, and much sneezing; discharge from the nose of
acrid, excoriating mucus.
Breath. — Breathing quick and anxious, with dyspnoea.
Cough. Cough, from tickling sensation under the
xyphoid cartilage, or on drawing a deep breath; cough,
with retching, and a feeling of choking; violent cough,
with stitches in the side of the chest, on each fit of cough-
ing; cough, with painful shaking in the bowels; dry,
short cough, on each inspiration; rattling noise before the
cough; cough, with expectoration of mucus, and shortness
of breath.
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Skin. Itching, burning sensation on the skin; erup-
tion resembling psora, with burning, itching sensation;
excoriation between the limbs; cold gangrene.
Fever. — Shivering; hands and feet icy cold, the body
being warm; dry, burning heat.
Neck. Stiffness of the nape of the neck and throat;
rheumatic, dragging, and pinching pain in the muscles of
the neck; pimples on the neck, which pain only on being
rubbed.
Back. Itching eruption on the back.
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Upper Extremities. - Perspiration of the axilla; con-
vulsive starting of the arms; shooting pain in the joints of
the hands.
Lower Extremities. Convulsive starting in the lower
extremities; rheumatic, dragging pain in the thighs and
legs; burning pain in the ball of the great toe, as if after
being frost-bitten; perspiration of the toes.
Predominating Symptoms. Dull, rheumatic pain,
throughout the whole body, increased on motion, and
lessened in repose; undulating motion in various parts of
the muscles; attacks of convulsions and cramp; indura-
tion of the glands; inflammation of internal parts; drop-
sical symptoms; gastric affections; disquietude in the
limbs.
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PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Squilla is very seldom indicated in dropsy, as its primary
action is to increase the flow of urine, which becomes les-
sened as the secondary action is established. In diabetes,
it is often of much benefit. It is more hurtful than bene-
ficial in dry coughs; for, although at first a secretion is
occasioned by its primary action, it only renders this more
scanty by its secondary action, and thus makes the disease
more obstinate. In coughs attended with copious expec-
toration, it is, on the contrary, very useful; and is em-
ployed with benefit in some species of inflammation in the
chest.
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Antidotes. ACID. PLANTAR., TABACUM.
STRAMONIUM.
Head. Violent determination of blood to the head;
head-ache, with loss of sight and hearing; beating in the
vertex, with fainting fits; hydrocephalus; convulsive mo-
tions of the head.
Mind.
Disturbance of the mind, especially in drunk-
ards; fantastic delusions; delirium; libidinous or arro-
gant mania; insensibility to impressions on the senses; loss
of memory.
Disposition.
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Constant disquietude; excessive anguish
of mind; sadness, with agony and weeping; inconsolable-
ness about trifles; desire for light and society; melan-
choly; affectation of importance; fearful, or loquacious
insanity; change from laughable antics to sad gestures;
alternate buffoonery and seriousness; uncontrollable fury,
with great exertion of strength; beating around; shouting
with loud screeching voice.
Giddiness. — Reeling giddiness, with dimness of the
sight, and head-ache.
Sleep. Confused somnolence, with snoring; frightful
visions in sleep.
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Eyes. Red, inflamed eyes; staring, sparkling eye;
distortion of the eyes; distortion of the eyelids; inflam-
mation of the edges of the eyelids; pupils dilated; iris
insensible; short-sightedness; illusions of sight and hear-
ing; objects appearing blue.
Dryness of the mouth; bloody froth before
Mouth.
the mouth.
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Teeth.-Tendency to grind the teeth.
Face.Face red and swollen, from blood; stupid,
confused expression; anxiety and dread depicted in the
features and their movements; deep folds and wrinkles
in the face; mouth drawn on one side; yellow streaks on
the red of the lips.
Throat. Difficulty of swallowing, from spasmodic
constriction and dryness of the throat; swelling and para-
lysis of the tongue; stuttering, with distortion of the face;
total loss of the power of utterance.
bile.
Appetite. Violent thirst; dread or aversion to water,
and all liquid; total loss of taste in food, it having scarcely
any taste; bitterness of the mouth.
Stomach. Anxiety at the pit of the stomach, with
oppression of the breathing.
Nausea. Vomiting of sour slime; vomiting of green
M
Magg
Abdomen. - Hard, tense, swollen lower belly; painful-
ness of the belly on touch or motion; belly-ache, as
if the navel were torn out; hysteric cramps in the lower
belly.
Fæcal Discharge. Suppressed evacuations; motions
smelling like putrid flesh; discharge of blood from the
anus.
Urinary Discharge. — Suppressed flow of urine.
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Menses.
black blood; menorrhagia.
Chest. Cramps in the muscles of the chest; too
copious secretion of milk, in nurses.
M
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Catamania too copious, with coagulated,
Breath.
Skin. Effects of suppressed eruptions.
Fever. Small, quickened pulse; inflammatory fever,
with delirium; coldness of the limbs, with cold shivering
through the whole body, and startings; redness and heat
of the face, with cold hands and feet; heat, with anxiety,
thirst, and vomiting; frequent, copious perspiration.
Back.-Bending backwards of the body (opisthotonos).
Lower Extremities. Legs failing.
Breathing difficult, tight; frequent sighing.
Predominating Symptoms. Trembling of the limbs,
(also in drunkards); the muscles subject to the will more
obedient to it; starting in the limbs; creeping irritation in
the limbs; attacks of cramp; convulsions; St. Vitus's
dance; eclampsis; convulsions arising from touch, also
from light, and shining things; stiff immobility of the
body, with consciousness; bending backwards of the
body, with distorted features; insensibility; absence of
pain, during most of the symptoms.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
The primitive action of this plant does not excite pain,
properly speaking; but, during its secondary action, pain
appears; for a morbid sensibility of the nervous system
succeeds its stupifying influence. The primitive effect of
Stramonium is to increase the mobility of the muscles
subject to the will, and to suppress all the secretions and
excretions; during the secondary effect, the reverse takes
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place, the muscles become paralysed, and the secretions
and excretions are too abundant. Thus, then, when taken
in a proper dose, it calms some spasmodic, muscular
movements, and re-establishes suppressed evacuations.
Its efficacy, in many mental disorders corresponding to
its effects, is extremely great, as it is also in many con-
vulsive affections. It is of great service in some epidemic
fevers, where the mind and body are affected. Hydro-
phobia has yielded to the power of this remedy; but
Belladonna and Hyoscyamus are often required in the
treatment of that distressing malady.
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Antidote.-CAMPHORA.
Head. — Weight in the occiput, with peevishness on
awaking; pressive head-ache; pulsation in the temples;
head-ache, as if from a nail driven into the vertex;
violent pressing together sensation in the temples; start-
ing, tearing pain in the occiput; stitches through the
brain; head-ache, worse on bending forward, relieved on
bending the head backwards; itching, gnawing pain of
the scalp; veins of the temple swollen.
Mind.- Confusion of the brain, with inability to think.
Disposition. Restlessness; peevishness, and dejected
feeling; constant thinking over every trifle, with anxious
care for the future; disgust at life; ill-temper.
Giddiness. Giddiness on getting up from a seat, and
on looking upwards, aggravated also on lying down;
vertigo, as if swinging; in the morning, a feeling as if
intoxicated.
Sleep. Great sleepiness in the evening; late sleep, in
consequence of restlessness and dry heat; loss of sleep
at night, with restlessness and coldness of the body;
startings in sleep; many heavy and anxious dreams.
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Eyes. Eruption and tearing pain in the eyebrows;
inflammatory swelling of the eyelids; feeling of heat and
dryness in the external canthus; ulceration, with agglu-
tination of the eyelids; inflammation and redness of the
white of the eyes; burning pain in the eyes; feeling of
pressure in the eyes, as if from sand; veil before the eyes;
short-sightedness.
Ears. Violent tearing pain in the ears; ear-ache;
cramp and pinching pain in the external ear; stitches
from the throat to the ears; pressive pain behind the ears.
Nose.-Violent bleeding at the nose, especially on being
heated; painful scurf in the nose; hardness and swelling
of the alæ nasi, with painful tension.
Mouth.-Flow of saliva increased, with swelling of the
salivary glands; blisters and apthæ in the mouth; swel-
ling of the tongue; slowness of speech.
Lips. -Twitches in the lips; itching pimples on the
upper lip; pimples on the chin.
Teeth.-Pressive pain in the teeth, even to the jaw, after
drinking tea; gnawing pain in the teeth, aggravated by
mastication and cold food; swollen gums, with excoriated
feel.
Face. Burning heat and redness of the face; flushes
of heat in the face; pimples on the face; perspiration of
the face; boring pain in the cheek bone, diminished on
touching it.
M
Throat. Swelling and smarting pain in the inner
part of the fauces on smoking; pain in the throat on
swallowing the saliva.
Taste. A lardy and sweet taste in the mouth; want
of flavour in food, as if it was too little salted.
Appetite.-Quick satiety on eating; after eating, great
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laziness and debility; desire for cold food and drink;
injurious effects from eating fat things and onions; violent
thirst, especially at night and early in the morning.
Stomach. — Feeling of weakness in the region of the
stomach; vomiting of the food and of an acid fluid;
painful pressure about the scrobiculus cordis.
Eructation. Bitter eructations; eructation of food
after eating; rancid eructations, after eating fat things.
Hypochondria.—Pressive pain in the region of the liver
on motion.
Abdomen. - Swelling of the lower belly; colic in the
lower belly; feeling in the lower belly, as if something
alive were there; rumbling in the lower belly; sensation
of pressure in the pudendum from without inwards; pain-
ful swelling of the inguinal glands.
Anus.
Blood on going to stool; tearing pain in the
rectum upwards; contraction of the anus; condylomata
at the anus.
Fæcal Discharge.
Ineffectual efforts to go to stool;
difficult evacuation of a hard, thick, knotty motion; con-
stipation.
Urinary Discharge. — Frequent and abundant flow of
watery urine, also in the night; bloody urine; urine with
a cloudy sediment; burning pain in the urethra, especially
in the morning and at noon, and also after making water;
itching in the urethra; painful stitches in the urethra, and
at its orifice.
Genital Organs. -Swelling of the prepuce; sores re-
sembling chancres on the internal and external part of the
prepuce; warts on the glans and prepuce, moist and sup-
purating, especially at the increase of the moon; gonor-
rhœa balani; copious watery discharge from the penis;
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stitches in the penis, with inclination to make water;
burning stitches in the penis, which extend to the testicles
and even the navel; drawing upwards of one of the
testicles; violent perspiration of the scrotum; itching,
burning and biting pain in the female genital organs;
swelling and smarting of the labia; flow of mucus from
the female urethra.
Menses.
Menses in too small quantity.
Chest. Tightness in the chest, as if something were
adherent within; after drinking cold liquids, stitches in
the chest, unconnected with breathing; uneasiness in
the chest; sensation of violent ebullition of blood in the
chest, with strong audible beating of the heart; blueness
of the skin about the clavicle.
Trachea.
Shooting pain in the trachea; creeping irri-
tation in the trachea; hoarseness, as if from constriction
of the larynx.
Respiratory Organs.- Coryza, with stoppage in the
nose, and constant head-ache, which in the open air is ac-
companied with secretion.
Breath. Tightness of breathing, with anxiety, and
great thirst for cold water.
Cough. In the morning, cough from tickling irritation
in the trachea; grey, yellow, or greenish expectoration in
little balls, with cough; about three o'clock in the after-
noon, cough, with yellow mucous expectoration, and pain
in the scrobiculus cordis; cough from being heated.
Skin. — In the evening and at night, shooting pain and
itching of the skin; pustules like small-pox, with red
borders on the arms and legs; the affections of the skin
and other affections being frequently ameliorated by
touch.
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Fever.
Swelling of the veins; after midnight, shivering,
with yawning; cold shivering without thirst; in the even-
ing, sensation of violent ebullition of the blood, with
beating in the veins; heat in the evening, mostly in the
face.
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Neck. Painful swelling in the glands of the neck;
swelling of the veins of the neck; disquietude in the
throat and nape of the neck, and in the chest.
Back. - Crampoid pain
Crampoid pain on the sacrum; boring pain in
the back; in the morning after getting up, pain, as of a
bruise in the sacrum and loins.
Upper Extremities. - Drawing pain in the arms, as if
in the bones or in the periosteum; tearing pain and beat-
ing in the shoulders and arms, as if every part was ulce-
rated; shooting pain in the arms and the joints thereof;
starting in the muscles of the arms; cold feel in the arms
at night; veins of the arm swollen; itching of the arms;
red marbled spots on the fore-arm; feeling of dryness on
the skin of the hands; painful swelling and redness of
the tips of the fingers; creeping irritation and shooting
pain in the tips of the fingers; coldness and dead feel of
the fingers and tips of the fingers; the pains in the arm
increased by warmth, and on letting them hang down,
become better on motion in the cold air and after perspira-
tion.
Lower Extremities. - Drawing pain in the lower extre-
mities; stitches in the muscles and joints of the legs;
great weakness and lassitude of the legs, especially on
going up stairs; itching of the thighs; pustular eruptions
and ulcers on the thighs; itching white knotty swellings
on the calves; painful swelling and redness of the instep
and the tips of the toes; marbled red spots on the instep;
chilblains on the toes.
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Predominating Symptoms. - Aversion to motion; the
affections aggravated mostly in the afternoon, towards
three in the morning, and towards evening; becoming
lessened during repose.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Thuya Occidentalis is of great service in syphilitic
warts. It is of benefit in many painful affections of the
eyes, in incipient cataract, in some eruptions on the face
and in the nostrils, and in tic douloureux. It is the
specific of Sycosis, a virus considered by Hahnemann to
be one of the sources of chronic disease.
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Antidotes. COFF., CAMPH., ACON., CHINA.
Head. Hemicrania, with nausea, and vomiting; head-
ache, with painful stiffness in the nape of the neck; head-
ache, with flow of urine; head-ache in the paroxysms, as
if the brain were smashed or torn; pressive head-ache,
often in the vertex, or on one side of the head, with pain
in the stomach; constrictive pain in the head and in the
throat; cutting pain in the bones of the vertex; shaking
sensation in the head, with starting in the arms, and pale-
ness of the fingers; violent determination of blood to the
head, on stooping; beating pain in the head; burning
pain in the brain; external feeling of warmth and cold
upon the head, with sensitiveness of the bulbs of the hair;
sensation of great cold about the vertex, and in the feet;
cold perspiration on the forehead.
Mind. Loss of memory; want of ideas; loss of con-
sciousness; confusion of the mind, and insanity, with
singing, whistling, laughing, running about, and much
foolish and proud imagining and acting, or with previous
ungrounded and invented circumstances; attacks of re-
ligious and erotic madness; delirium.
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CON
Disposition. Melancholy dejection; dolefulness; in-
clination to weep; inconsolable grief, with howling and
screaming about a fancied misfortune; very great anguish
and dread, with fears and disturbed conscience, chiefly in
the night, or early in the morning, often also on each time
of rising from one's seat, or of lying down; great fearful-
ness; fright easily produced; expectation of death; want
of energy; despair; activity, and strong inclination to
work; great fretfulness from the slightest cause, often
followed by anxiety and palpitation; great inclination to
be silent, with abuse, on being provoked; inclination to
speak of the faults of others; extravagant cheerfulness and
loquaciousness; rage, with boisterousness; desire to bite
and tear every thing, and strong dispositon to run off.
Giddiness. Dizziness, as if nothing was firm in the
head, especially early in the morning; dulness of all the
senses; vertigo; intoxication and reeling.
Sleep. - Confused sleep, or slumbers with half-con-
sciousness, with shrinking from fear; while awake, the
eyes being half-shut, or shut only on one side; too sound
sleep; sleep, with the arms laid above the head; anxious
dreams; whining in sleep.
Eyes. Pain in the eye, as if the ball of the eye were
crushed; painful tearing, or pressing together pain in the
eyes; constant heat in the eyes; redness of the eyes;
painful inflammation in the eyes, with violent pain in the
head, and loss of sleep at night; eyes weak, dim, yellow-
ish; blueness of the eyes; watery appearance of the eyes,
as if smeared over with the white of an egg; great dryness
of the eyelids; copious flow of. tears, often with heat,
cutting pain, and feeling of dryness therein; agglutination
of the eyelids, in sleep; paralysis of the eyelids; eyes dis-
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torted, and projecting; very contracted, or remarkably
dilated pupils; temporary loss of sight; double vision;
night blindness; sparks and black spots before the eyes,
especially on rising from one's seat, or on lying down.
Ears. Shooting pain in the ears; pressure upon, and
forcing sensation in the ears; feeling of heat and cold
alternately, in the ears; difficulty of hearing, as if from
stoppage of the ears; buzzing in the ears, especially on
getting up from one's seat.
Nose. Nose icy-cold; inflammation, and pain as of
ulceration, in the interior of the nose; pain in the bridge
of the nose, as if pressed together, and forced in; bleeding
at the nose, at night, or from one nostril only; smell as
from something fetid.
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Mouth. Mouth dry and clammy; salivation, with
nausea, or acid, saltish taste; froth before the mouth h;
feeling of coldness or burning in the mouth, and on the
tongue; inflammation of the cavity of the mouth; tongue
red, swollen, or dry, blackish, and cracked; tongue coated
yellow; stammering; loss of the power of speech; feeling
of deadness, and great dryness of the palate.
Lips. Lips dry, blackish, and cracked; eruption at
the corners of the mouth; coppery eruption about the
mouth and chin; trismus; pain and swelling of the
submaxillary glands.
Teeth.-Tooth-ache, with head-ache, and red, swollen
face; feeling of pressure, and great weight in the teeth,
with dragging pain therein, on chewing even tender fåɔd ;
grinding of the teeth; looseness of the teeth.
Face.Face pale, cold, death-like, shrunk, with sharp
nose, and blue circles about the eyes; blueish coun-
tenance; burning heat, deep redness, and perspiration of
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the face; cold perspiration of the face; drawing, and
stretching pain on one side of the face, even to the ear;
starting and pinching pain in the muscles of the face;
pustular eruption on the face, which, after a time, smarts
on being touched; coppery eruption on the face; miliary
eruption on the cheeks; swelling of the face.
Throat. Sore throat, of a constrictive nature; choking
pain, especially on swallowing; narrowing of the fauces,
as if from a swelling which pressed thereon; swelling of
the fauces, with dangerous suffocation; feeling of coldness
or burning in the cavity of the mouth and fauces; dryness
in the throat, not to be appeased by any liquid; roughness
and scraped feeling in the throat.
Taste. Tasteless saliva in the mouth; bilious, bitter
taste in the mouth; herbaceous, putrid taste in the
mouth; cool, or biting taste in the mouth and throat, as if
from peppermint.
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Appetite. Insatiable thirst for cold drinks; appetite
and desire for food, also between vomiting and motions;
great hunger and voraciousness; ravenous appetite ;
constant, strong desire for sour things or cool things,
(fruit); aversion to warm food; after taking the slightest
food, immediate vomiting, and diarrhoea; at dinner,
nausea, with hunger, and pressure at the stomach.
Stomach. - Pain in the stomach, with great hunger
and thirst; great sensitiveness in the region of the sto-
mach; emptiness and weakness in the stomach; cramps
in the stomach; feeling of pressure in the scrobiculus
cordis even to the sternum, the hypochondria, and the
lower belly; burning pain in the scrobiculus cordis; in-
flammation of the stomach; affections of the stomach
resembling cancer.
VERATRUM ALBUM.
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Nausea. Great nausea, with inclination to vomit,
often even to fainting, generally with great thirst; fre-
quent or constant nausea; pyrosis; violent vomiting, with
continued nausea, great debility, and inclination to lie
down, cold hands, and shivering in the whole body first,
general heat therewith, and sensation of ebullition of blood,
the hands afterwards becoming hot; vomiting of the
food; sour, or bitter vomiting; vomiting of froth and
white or yellowish-green mucus; vomiting of mucus at
night; vomiting of black bile, and blood; constant vomit-
ing, with diarrhoea, and pressure at the pit of the stomach.
Eructation. - Eructation, with taste of what is taken;
forcible, empty eructation, also after dinner; sour or bitter
eructation; violent hiccough.
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Abdomen. Pain in the region of the navel; great
painfulness of the abdomen, on being touched; pain in
the belly, after taking cold, or after the abuse of cinchona;
belly-ache at night, with loss of sleep; swelling of the
abdomen; tension in the hypochondria, and region of the
navel; cholic-like cramps in the lower belly; dragging,
pressive pain in the belly, in the evening, on walking;
cutting pain in the belly, as if from knives, together with
diarrhoea, or with thirst and flow of urine; burning pain in
the whole belly, as if from red-hot coals; pain, as of a
bruise, in the intestines; inflammation of the bowels;
bubonocele; windy cholic, with loud borborygmus; flatus,
after being confined, passing off with difficulty; forcible
exit of flatus, upwards and downwards.
Fecal Evacuation. Constipation, also chronic, or in
children, chiefly as if from inactivity of the rectum, and
often with heat and head-ache; costiveness; motions
hard, and too thickly formed; violent diarrhoea and pain-
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VERATRUM ALBUM.
ful dysentery, either with tension of the abdomen, or with
previous or subsequent griping; acrid diarrhoea, with
burning at the anus; diarrhoea at night; bloody stools;
unperceived exit of thin fæces and flatus; on going to
stool, great debility, cold shivers, paleness of the face, cold
perspiration on the forehead, and anxiety, with dread of
apoplexy; burning at the anus, during a motion; pain, as
if chapped, at the anus; pressure towards the anus, with
blind hæmorrhoids; affections arising from the presence of
worms.
Urinary Discharge. Retention of urine; ineffectual
efforts to make water, the bladder being empty, with a
sensation as if the urethra were pinched below the glans;
scanty flow of urine, which is turbid even when voided ;
diabetes, with violent thirst and hunger, head-ache, efforts
to vomit, pain in the abdomen, constipation, and catarrh;
involuntary flow of urine; acrid urine; cloudy urine;
pressive pain in the bladder, and burning pain on making
water.
Genital Organs. Great sensitiveness of the genital
organs; excoriation of the prepuce; dragging sensation
in the testicles.
Menses.— Catamænia too early and too copious; cata-
mænia suppressed; before the catamania, head-ache,
giddiness, bleeding at the nose, and nocturnal perspiration;
during the catamænia, head-ache in the morning, with
efforts to vomit, buzzing in the ears, great thirst, and pain
in all the limbs; at the end of the period, grinding of the
teeth, and blueish countenance; lochia suppressed, with
delirium; nymphomania in puerperal women.
Chest. Pressure in the chest, particularly in the re-
gion of the sternum, especially after eating and drinking;
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sense of fulness in the chest, which forces to continual
eructation; pinching feel in the chest, principally after
drinking; painful, constrictive cramp in the chest; spas-
modic contraction of the muscles of the chest; cutting
pain in the chest; attacks of shooting pain in the chest,
with obstruction of the breathing; violent palpitation of
the heart, which raises the ribs, with obstruction of the
breathing, and attacks of very great anxiety at the heart.
Respiratory Organs. - Troublesome dry feel in the
nose; frequent, violent sneezing; coryza; catarrhal op-
pression in the chest, with rawness, and scraped feel in the
throat; inflammation of the bronchia.
Breath. Frequent obstruction of the breathing,
threatening suffocation, mostly from spasmodic constric-
tion of the throat or of the chest; shortness of breath, on
the slightest motion; dyspnoea and difficult breathing,
even when sitting; great oppression at the chest, with
pain in the side, on breathing.
Cough. Cough, from tickling in the lower part of the
trachea, dry, or with easy expectoration; violent cough,
with constant eructation, and tendency to vomit; cough
in the evening, with flow of saliva; dry cough, with heat,
chiefly at night, and early in the morning; cough, with
pain in the side, weakness, and difficulty of breathing;
deep, hollow cough, as if from the lower belly, with cutting
pains in the belly; on coughing, stitches through the
inguinal rings; fits of hooping-cough; cough, with much
expectoration.
K
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Skin. Miliary eruption, which itches in warmth, and,
after scratching, causes a burning sensation; nettle-rash;
dry eruption, resembling psora, with nocturnal itching;
dry tetters; scaling off of the cuticle.
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VERATRUM ALBUM.
Fever. - General coldness of the whole body, and cold,
clammy perspiration, especially in the forehead; shivering
and extreme coldness, with thirst for cold water; shivering
and goose skin, after drinking; intermittent fever, with
external cold alone; violent, shaking cold, then heat, with
some thirst, then perspiration, which soon changes to cold;
great cold, first with much thirst, then cold alternating
with heat, then continued heat with thirst; fever with
internal heat alone, and dark urine; during the cold, gid-
diness; nausea; pain in the sacrum and back; during the
heat, constant slumbering, or delirium, with red face;
quotidian or tertian ague, in the morning, or before mid-
night; slow, nervous fever; pulse slow and almost extinct,
or small, quick, and jerking; easy perspiration, in the
day, on every motion.
Neck. Rheumatic stiffness of the nape of the neck,
with giddiness, on moving it; paralytic weakness of the
muscles of the neck, which no longer support the head.
Back. - Pain in the sacrum and back as if of a bruise,
and dragging pressure, especially on stooping and rising.
Upper Extremities. Paralytic, bruised pain of the
arms, from the shoulder-joints even to the wrists; starting
in the arms; coldness, or feeling of fulness and swelling
of the arms; constant going-to-sleep-feel in the arms;
trembling of the arms, on taking hold of any thing; sen-
sation of concussion in the elbows, like electric shocks;
dry tetters on the hand; creeping irritation in the hands
and fingers; going-to-sleep-feel, and deadness of the fin-
gers.
Lower Extremities. - Paralysis in the hip-joints, with
difficulty in walking; paralytic, bruised pain in the legs;
gouty, tearing, and dragging pain in the legs and feet;
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continual going-to-sleep-feel of the legs; tension in the
ligaments of the hough, as if they were too short; pain as
of a bruise in the knees, on going down stairs; feeling of
concussion in the knees, like electric shocks; painful feel-
ing of weight in the knees, legs and feet, requiring assist-
ance in walking; speedy swelling of the feet; trembling
of the feet, with coldness, as if cold water were passing
through them; shooting pain in the (great) toes; painful
gout; shooting and smarting pain in the corns.
Predominating Symptoms. - Paroxysms of pain, in a
short time producing delirium and insanity; drawing pain
in the limbs, especially on walking far; pressive, bruised
pain in the limbs, in the muscles and bones; paralytic
pain in the limbs, as if after great fatigue and enervation;
tearing pain in the extensor muscles, on sitting down ; pain
in the limbs, appearing chiefly early in the morning, about
four or five o'clock, which cannot endure the warmth of
the bed, which becomes lessened on getting up, and which
ceases altogether, on walking about; in autumn and
spring, or in bad weather, these pains becoming worse;
when others are reading, the pain being increased; loose
feeling in the muscles; going-to-sleep-feel in the limbs;
stiffness of the limbs, especially in the forenoon, and after
walking; trembling of the limbs; violent shaking of the
limbs, like electric shocks; attacks of cramp, and con-
vulsive motions in the limbs; (epileptic convulsions;) tonic
cramps; bilious, gastric, hysteric, and hypochondriacal
affections of various kinds; sporadic, and Asiatic cholera;
ill effects of the abuse of Cinchona; scrofulous affections;
inflammation of internal organs, especially of the digestive
organs; renewal of many of the sufferings on getting up,
whilst on lying down they are not felt; general, paralytic,
T
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VERATRUM ALBUM.
quick sinking of the strength; great debility occasioned
by the slightest motion, or also great chronic weakness,
which permits only sitting or lying; tottering gait; swooning
fits on the slightest motion; general emaciation; creeping
sensation over the whole body, to the points of the fingers
and toes; sudden shock on going into the open air.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Veratrum Album is indispensable for the cure of several
kinds of insanity. Many paroxysms of violent pain,
which, from their severity, occasion delirium, yield to
this medicine. In some kinds of intermittent fever, at
east as an intermediate remedy, it is of use, as well as in
several hypochondriacal affections, and in some kinds of
inguinal hernia. It is of great benefit in vomiting, with
diarrhoea, and is one of the chief remedies in Asiatic cho-
lera.
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VIOLA TRICOLOR.
Head.
Weight of the head on raising it, which goes
away on stooping; pressing-out pain in the head; buzzing
sensation in the forehead, on sitting quiet; burning, shoot-
ing pain of the scalp, especially in the fore part of the
head, and in the temples.
Mind. Dulness of the intellect.
V
Antidote. —?
Disposition. Disinclination to serious occupation;
dislike to speak, and absorption in self; obstinacy and
stubbornness (in children); peevishness, and tendency to
weep; hastiness, as if driven by internal anguish, with an
inward feeling of great weakness, and sensation as if falling
were inevitable.
Sleep. Going to sleep late, on account of a flow of
ideas; frequent waking, as if from too much liveliness;
starting with the hands, in children, during sleep, the
thumbs being shut; with general dry heat, and redness of
the face.
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Eyes. Biting pain in the eyes; sinking of the eye-
lids, with sleepiness.
Face.Thickening of the skin of the face; tension of
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the skin of the face; crusta lactea, with burning itching;
heat, and perspiration of the face, after dinner; in the
evening, in bed, heat of the side of the face which is not
lain upon.
Abdomen. Shooting and cutting pain in the lower
belly, with tenesmus, and howling and screaming;
stitches in the parietes of the abdomen, and in the region
of the mons veneris; soft motion, as if chopped; frequent
desire to make water, with copious discharge; urine fetid,
like that of a cat; swelling of the prepuce; itching
stitches on the scrotum.
M
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Chest. Stitches in the chest, on the ribs, and in the
muscles of the chest; on lying down, anxious feeling
about the heart, with undulating, beating sensation.
Skin. Shooting, gnawing, miliary eruption; dry scurf
over the whole body; after scratching, a yellow fluid
appearing.
Fever. Immediately after dinner, great general heat,
especially in the face, with anxiety, perspiration, and op-
pression at the chest; nocturnal perspiration.
Back. Cramp and pain between the shoulder-blades,
with cutting and creeping sensation in the skin.
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Predominating Symptoms. -Shooting pains in the
limbs and joints; relaxation of the whole body, causing
sleep.
PRACTICAL REMARKS.
Viola Tricolor is of great service in various affections of
the skin, and particularly in crusta lactea.
PRINTED BY STEWART AND MURRAY, OLD BAILEY.
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UNIV. OF MICH.
JAN 18 1907
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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