Allium Cepa [All-C] এলিয়াম সেপা
All-c: সর্দির সাথে নির্জীবতা, নিদ্রালুতা ও একাগ্র মনোযোগে অসুবিধা, বার বার হাঁচি ও ক্ষতকর সর্দিস্রাব, স্রাব লেগে উপরের ঠোঁট ও নাকে প্রদাহ হয়, তার সহিত চোখ দিয়ে পানি ঝড়ে কিন্তু চোখের পানি ঝাঁঝালো নয়।
All-c: ব্রংকাই (বায়ুনালী) পর্যন্ত সর্দি বিস্তৃত হয়ে প্রচুর পরিমাণে কফ নিঃসৃত হয়, কাশি ও ঘড়ঘড়ানি থাকে, শুষ্ক কাশির ফলে কণ্ঠনালী ছিঁড়ে যাবে এমন অনুভূতি।
All-c: স্নায়ুর নানা স্থানে সুতার মতো লম্বা ও সরু ব্যথা।
All-c: পেটে বায়ু জমে।
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অ্যালিয়াম সেপা
অ্যালিয়াম সেপার প্রথম কথা—নাসিকা হইতে ক্ষতকর শ্লেষ্মাস্রাব ।
অ্যালিয়াম সেপা ঔষধটি পিঁয়াজ হইতে প্রস্তুত হইয়াছে। পিঁয়াজের গন্ধে নাক-চোখ দিয়া আমাদের কি পরিমাণ জল যে নির্গত হইতে থাকে তাহা কাহারও অবিদিত নাই। 1 অতএব চক্ষু এবং নাসিকা হইতে প্রচুর শ্লেষ্মাস্রাব অ্যালিয়াম সেপার বিশিষ্ট পরিচয়। কিন্তু বিশিষ্ট পরিচয় হইলেও বৈশিষ্ট্য তাহার সেখানেই নহে। অ্যালিয়াম সেপার বৈশিষ্ট্য নাসিকা হইতে ক্ষতকর স্রাব অর্থাৎ রোগীর নাসিকা ও চক্ষু হইতে প্রচুর শ্লেষ্মাস্রাব হইতে থাকে কিন্তু এই সঙ্গে আরও মনে রাখিবেন যে নাসিকা হইতে যে স্রাব হইতে থাকে তাহাতে নাকের পাতা দুইটি হাজিয়া যায় বটে কিন্তু চক্ষু হইতে যে জল পড়িতে থাকে তাহাতে চক্ষুর পাতা হাজিয়া যায় না । ঠাণ্ডা লাগিয়া নাক দিয়া ক্রমাগত কাচা জল পড়িতে থাকে । জল অত্যন্ত উত্তপ্ত এবং তাহাতে নাকের পাতা দুইটি হাজিয়া যায় । মাথার মধ্যে বা কানের মধ্যে ভীষণ যন্ত্রণা, কাশি, কাশির সহিত স্বরভঙ্গ, শ্বাসকষ্ট। কাশির ধমকে গলা বা বুক যেন ফাটিয়া যাইতে থাকে । জ্বর, জ্বরের উত্তাপ অবস্থায় পিপাসা।
হুপিং কাশি ও ক্রুপ ।
কাচা পিঁয়াজ খাইবার প্রবল ইচ্ছা। দাতের যন্ত্রণায়, দাত চুষিলে উপশম ।
অ্যালিয়াম সেপা ঠাণ্ডা লাগিয়া অসুস্থ হইয়া পড়ে বটে কিন্তু গরম ঘরে সে থাকিতে পারে না এবং মুক্ত বাতাসে উপশম বোধ করে । বামদিক আক্রান্ত হয় ।
অ্যালিয়াম সেপার দ্বিতীয় কথা—পেটের মধ্যে অতিরিক্ত বায়ু সঞ্চার ।
পিঁয়াজ খাইলে স্বভাবতঃই পেটের মধ্যে একটু বায়ুর উপদ্রব দেখিতে পাওয়া যায়। এই উপদ্রববশতঃ পেটব্যথা করিতে থাকে এবং সময় সময় তাহা এত ভীষণ ভাবে ব্যথা করিতে থাকে যে সোজা হইয়া থাকিতে পারা যায় না, উপুড় হইয়া চাপ দিতে বাধ্য হয় । ব্যথা নাড়ীর চারিদিকে বেশী দেখা দেয়। চলিয়া ফিরিয়া বেড়াইতে থাকিলেও ব্যথা কম পড়ে, বসিয়া থাকিলে বৃদ্ধি। দুৰ্গন্ধ বায়ু নিঃসরণ ।
শশা বা কাঁচা ফলমূল খাইয়া পেটব্যথা । ভিজা পায়ে থাকিয়া বা পায়ে ঠাণ্ডা লাগিয়া পেটব্যথা। পেটব্যথা বেড়াইতে থাকিলে কম পড়ে । পায়ে ঠাণ্ডা লাগিয়া কষ্টকর প্রস্রাব ।
আঙ্গুলহাড়া, বিশেষতঃ স্ত্রীলোকদের স্মৃতিকাগৃহে আঙ্গুলহাড়া। যন্ত্রণায় শিরা রক্তবর্ণ হইয়া উঠে। ঠাণ্ডায় উপশম ।
অস্ত্রোপচারের পর স্নায়ুশূল ( অ্যাসিড ফস ) ।
প্রসবের পর স্নায়ুশূল ।
কান কটকটানি – পুর্বে বৃদ্ধা স্ত্রীলোকেরা শিশুদের কানের ব্যথায় তাহাদের গলায় কাঁচা পিঁয়াজ ঝুলাইয়া দিয়া উপশম করিতেন। বৈকালে বৃদ্ধি । কানে পুঁজ ৷
স্নায়ুশূলের উপর অ্যালিয়াম সেপার এত ক্ষমতা আছে বলিয়া বোধ করি বিছা বা বোলতা কামড়াইলে দংশিত স্থানের উপর পিঁয়াজের রস মর্দন করিতে থাকিলে উপকার দর্শে। শক্তীকৃত মাত্রা অধিক ফলপ্রদ ।
নূতন জুতা পরিয়া ফোস্কা। আঙ্গুলহাড়া, হার্নিয়া, নাকে পলিপাস । সদৃশ ঔষধাবলী –( কর্ণশূল )–
দস্তুশূলের সহিত কর্ণশূল বা রাত্রে বৃদ্ধি— প্ল্যান্টাগো । শান্তশিষ্ট স্বভাব— পালসেটিলা ।
কোপন স্বভাব—ক্যামোমিলা ।
কর্ণশূলের সহিত বমনেচ্ছা — ভালকামারা ।
অ্যালিয়াম সেপা–হুপিং কাশি, ক্রুপ- কাশি ; ক্রমাগত গলা হুড়-
সুড় করিয়া কাশি, কাশি এত বেদনাদায়ক যে কাশিবার সময় গলায় বা বুকে হাত চাপিয়া ধরিতে হয় ।
এলিয়াম সেপা (Allium cepa)
(পেঁয়াজ)(লিলিয়েসি) শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লীর প্রদাহ সহ তরুণ সর্দি, প্রচুর লে সর্দি ।২; সর্দির কারণে ঘিনঘিনে অথচ প্রবল নয় এইরূপ শিরঃপীড়া, সেই সাথে তরল সর্দি যা সন্ধ্যায় বাড়ে, খোলা হাওয়ায় উপশম ও গরম ঘরে ফিরে আসলে বাড়ে (তুলনীয় = ইউফ্রে, পালস্) ।
এলিয়াম সেপা ।শিরঃপীড়া ঋতুস্রাবে কমে যায়; স্রাব বন্ধ হলে ফিরে আসে (ল্যাকে, জিঙ্ক) ।চোখ জ্বালা করে, চোখের ভিতর কামড়ায়, ধোঁয়া লাগার মত যন্ত্রণা হয়—চোখ ঘষতে বাধ্য হয়, চোখ জলে ভরে যায়, ভেজাভাব, চোখের কৈশিকাগুলো (capillary) যেন বেরিয়ে আসে, প্রচুর অশ্রুস্রাব হয় ।সর্দি–প্রচুর ও জলের মত পাতলা; নাস্রাস্রাবে হেজে যায় (কিন্তু) অশ্রুস্রাবে হেজে যায় না যদিও পরিমাণে প্রচুর (প্রচুর, হেজে যায় অশ্রুস্রাবে অথচ নাসাস্রাব হাজায় না = (ইউফ্রে) ।
ক্ষতকারী, জলের মত সর্দি নাকের ডগা দিয়ে ফোটা ফোটা ঝরতে থাকে (আর্স; আর্স-আইওড) । বসন্তকালের সর্দি, উত্তর-পূর্বদিকের ভেজা বাতাস লেগে সর্দিস্রাবে জ্বালা হয় ও নাক এবং ওপরের ঠোট হেজে যায় ।হে-ফিভার (শষ্য এবং ফুলের রেণু যখন বাতাসে ওড়ে সেইসময় এলাজিক) প্রত্যেক বসন্তকালে; বিছানা হতে উঠলে ভীষণ হাচি; পচি ফল নাড়াচাড়ায় হাঁচি ।নাকে পলিপাস (বহু তন্তু বিশিষ্ট টিউমার) (টিউক্রি-ম্যারাম; স্যাঙ্গুইনে; স্যাঙ্গুইনে-নাই; সোরি) ।
সর্দিজনিত স্বরযন্ত্রের প্রদাহ; কাশির ধমকে কণ্ঠনালী চেপে ধরতে বাধ্য হয়, মনে হয় যেন কাশিতে কণ্ঠনালী ছিড়ে যাবে ।
শূলবেদনা—পা ভিজে ঠান্ডা লেগে; অতিভোজনে; শশা অথবা স্যালাড প্রভৃতি খেয়ে; অর্শজনিত এবং শিশুদের বসলে বাড়ে চলাফেরায় কমে ।
স্নায়ুশূল-মুখে, মাথায়, গলায়, বুকের উপর—একগাছা লম্বা সুতোয় যতটা জায়গা লাগে ঠিক ততটা জায়গায় ।আঘাতজনিত ক্রনিক স্নায়ুপ্রদাহ; অঙ্গছেদনের পর কাটা অংশের মূলভাগে
স্নায়ুশূল, এতে জ্বালা ও হুলফোটানো ব্যথা ।আঙুলহাড়া, এতে হাতে লাল ডোরাকাটা দাগযন্ত্রণায় অস্থির হতে হয়; প্রসুতাবস্থায় আঙুলহাড়া ।
ঘষা লেগে—পায়ে বিশেষতঃ গোড়ালিতে ঘা হয়, হেজে যায় ।“পায়ে ঘষা লেগে ঘা হলে উপযোগী”—গ্রীসদেশের ডাঃ ডাইকোরাইড ।ফরসেপ সাহায্যে প্রসবের পর ফ্লেবাইটিস (ফ্লেবাইটিস = দীর্ঘদিন অঙ্গপ্রত্যঙ্গে একইভাবে চাপ পড়ে অপরিশোধ্য রক্তবাহী শিরা-উপশিরার প্রদাহ ফোলে, শক্ত হয়) ।
এ্যালেনস কী নোট সম্বন্ধ সাহায্যকারী ঔষধ ফস্, পালস, থুজা ।পলিপাস রোগে ক্যাল্কে-কা ও সাইলিশিয়ার আগে ভাল কাজ দেয় ।ইউফ্রেসিয়ার সমগুণ অথচ সর্দি ও অশ্রুস্রাব লক্ষণে বিপরীত ।জলে ভেজার কুফলে প্রযোজ্য (রাস-ট)।
বৃদ্ধি—বিশেষ করে সন্ধ্যাবেলায় ও গরম ঘরে (পালস্, খোলা হাওয়ায় বাড়ে = ইউফ্রে) । “,
উপশম- ঠান্ডা ঘরে ও খোলা হাওয়ায় (পালস্) । শক্তি—৬, ৩০ ।
এলিয়াম সেপা
(Allium Cepa) এলিয়াম সেপা প্রধানতঃ “সদ্দির জন্য ব্যবহৃত হয়। এই সর্দি নাকে, গলায়, কণ্ঠনলীতে এবং বায়ুনলীতে নানা মূর্তিতে প্রকাশ পায়। রােগী নিজে এবং তাহার সর্দির নানা মূর্তি নাসিকার সর্দি, কাশি, বায়ুনলী–প্রদাহ, অন্যান্য সকল উপসর্গ গরমে বাড়ে, গরম ঘরে বাড়ে, কেবল তাহার স্বরযন্ত্রের সুড়সুড়ি বাড়ে না, কিন্তু উহাও ঠান্ডা হাওয়ায় নিঃশ্বাস লইলে বাড়ে। এই ভাবে কাশি সময়ে সময়ে ঠান্ডা হাওয়ায় উদ্ৰিক্ত হয়, কিন্তু রােগী নিজে ঠান্ডা হাওয়ায় ভাল থাকে এবং উত্তাপে অত্যনুভূতি সম্পন্ন হয়। অধিকাংশ লক্ষণ,—নাসিকার “সর্দি” এবং সাধারণ লক্ষণসমূহ সন্ধ্যার দিকে বাড়ে। এই দুইটিই এলিয়াম সেপার সর্বাপেক্ষা বিশিষ্ট সাধারণ লক্ষণ। – বৃদ্ধা মহিলারা যে কান কটকটানির জন্য কানে এবং গলক্ষতের জন্য গলায় পিয়াজ বাঁধিয়া দিতেন, তাহাতে আশ্চর্য্য হইবার কিছুই নাই, কারণ ঠান্ডার কুফলে প্রায় সবদেশেই পিয়াজ খুব সচরাচর প্রযােজ্য হয়। যে–কোন দেশে ঠান্ডা, ভিজা, কনকনে হাওয়ায় এলিয়াম সেপার রােগগুলি উৎপন্ন হয়; ঐগুলি, যথা—সর্দি, লা–গ্রাইপ, ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জা অথবা যে কোন নামের রােগ এবং সাধারণতঃ ঐসঙ্গে রক্তসঞ্চয়জনিত শিরঃপীড়া থাকে । নাকের ক্ষততা;—চক্ষু হইতে প্রচুর জলস্রাব, উহা সৰ্ব্বদাই অবিদাহী; নাসিকা হইতে প্রচুর জলবৎ স্রাব, উহা সৰ্ব্বদাই ক্ষতকর। কণ্ঠনলী ও গলায় ক্ষততা বােধ, উহা বুকের ভিতর পর্যন্ত বিস্তৃত হয়। নাকের মধ্যে ক্ষততা বােধ। চব্বিশ ঘন্টার মধ্যেই উহা কণ্ঠনলীতে পৌছিয়া যায়। কণ্ঠনলীর সুড়সুড়ি হইতে কাশি এবং রাত্রে গরম ঘরে শুইলে উহা উদ্ৰিক্ত হয়। সন্ধ্যাকালে, শয়ন করিবার পর, এলিয়ামের কষ্টকর বৃদ্ধি–লক্ষণ দেখা দেয়। আমি রােগীকে কাশিবার সময় কণ্ঠনলীর যন্ত্রণা সম্বন্ধে এই বলিয়া বর্ণনা করিতে শুনিয়াছি যে প্রত্যেক কাশিতে তাহার মনে হয় যেন, একটা খোচা লইয়া কেহ নীচের দিকে বিধিয়া দিতেছে। প্রত্যেকবার কাশিতে কণ্ঠনলীতে ছিড়িয়া ফেলার ন্যায় ব্যথা। হাঁচি, সমস্ত শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লীর ক্ষততা এবং ঐ ছিন্নকর কাশি;—সব লক্ষণই গরম ঘরে ও সন্ধ্যার দিকে বাড়ে; পিয়াজ যে এই “সর্দি” কত শীঘ্র দূর করে তাহা দেখিলে বিস্মিত হইতে
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এক্ষণে আমরা সর্দির বিশেষ লক্ষণগুলি আলােচনা করিব। প্রাথমিক লক্ষণগুলির মধ্যে, হাঁচি হইতে থাকিবে, এবং উহা ক্রমেই আরও শীঘ্র শীঘ্র দেখা দিতে থাকিবে। নাক হইতে জলবৎ স্রাব গড়াইতে থাকিবে, উহাতে আগুনের ন্যায় জ্বালা থাকিবে এবং উহাতে উপর ওষ্ঠ এবং নাকের পাখা দুইটি হাজিয়া যাইবে, অবশেষে ক্ষত ও আরক্ততা দেখা দিবে। লক্ষ্য করিও যে, নাক হইতে যে জলবৎ স্রাব হয়, তাহাই ক্ষতকর; কিন্তু চক্ষুর স্রাব অবিদাহী। মনে রাখিও যে, আমরা যখন ‘ইউফ্রেশিয়ার বিষয় আলােচনা করিব, তখন ইহার ঠিক বিপরীত লক্ষণ দেখিতে পাইব। আমরা ঠিক এইরূপ নাসিকা হইতে জলবৎ স্রাব এবং প্রচুর অশ্রুস্রাব দেখিতে পাইব, কিন্তু এ ক্ষেত্রে অশ্রুস্রাবটিই ক্ষতকর এবং নাসিকার স্রাবটি অবিদাহী। সেপার নাসিকাস্রাবে উপর ওষ্ঠের উপরের লােমগুলি স্পষ্ট ক্ষয়িয়া যায়; এবং উহাতে এত রক্তসঞ্চয় : থাকে, যে, রােগীর নাকে দপদপানি ও জ্বালার সহিত পূর্ণতাবােধ দেখা দেয় এবং সময়ে সময়ে রক্তপাত হয়। চোয়ালের মধ্য দিয়া মুখমন্ডলে যন্ত্রণা এবং এই বেদনা মাথা পর্যন্ত বিস্তৃত হয়।
অপ্রবল সম্মুখ–কপালে শিরােবেদনা, মাথার পশ্চাদ্দিকের শিরঃপীড়া অত্যন্ত প্রবল এবং চক্ষুতে আলােক সহ্য হয় না; মাথার মধ্যে ছিড়িয়া ফেলার মত, ফাটিয়া যাইবার মত, দপদপকর বেদনা। [ অতঃপর, এই ঔষধের আরও একটি রূপ আছে। কেন যে ইহা বাম পার্শ্বে আরম্ভ হইয়া দক্ষিণ পার্শ্বে যায়, তাহা আমি জানি না, কিন্তু সাধারণতঃ এইরূপ ঘটে। এক পার্শ্বের নাক বুজিয়া যায়, নাসিকার বামদিক হইতে জলবৎ ক্ষতকর স্রাব হইতে থাকে তারপর চব্বিশ ঘন্টার মধ্যে দক্ষিণ পার্শ্বও আক্রান্ত হয়। “প্রভূত নাসিকাস্রাব, ভিজা, উত্তর–পূর্বের হাওয়া লাগিবার পর সর্দি।” ইহার অর্থ যে–কোন প্রকার ভিজা ঠান্ডা লাগাইবার পর,—কারণ বিভিন্ন দেশে বিভিন্ন দিক হইতে এরূপ হাওয়া প্রবাহিত হয়। সাবযুক্ত সর্দি, তৎসহ শিরঃপীড়া, চক্ষু হইতে অশ্রুস্রাব, ক্ষুধালােপ এবং খােলা বাতাসে কাশি ও কম্পন। “প্রতি বৎসর আগষ্ট মাসে প্রাতঃকালীন সর্দিস্রাব, তৎসহ প্রবল হাঁচি; রােগী পীচ ফলের খােসা ও ফুলের গন্ধে অত্যন্ত অনুভূতি সম্পন্ন।” এলিয়াম সেপা এই বিশেষ প্রকারের প্রতিশ্যায় রােগ আরােগ্য করে। লক্ষণ মিলিলে ইহা প্রতিশ্যায়–লক্ষণযুক্ত জ্বর কয়েকদিনের মধ্যেই সম্পূর্ণ দূর করে। তুমি হয়ত জান যে, প্রতিশ্যায়লক্ষণ জ্বরের প্রকৃত স্বভাব সাধারণত বােঝা যায় না। প্রকৃতপক্ষে ইহা পুরাতন ব্যাধির নূতন প্রকাশ অর্থাৎ উহা সােরাদোষের প্রকাশ এবং কেবলমাত্র সােরাদোষ নাশক ঔষধ দ্বারাই উহা নির্মূল করা যাইতে পারে। বহু ক্ষেত্রে আমি দেখিয়াছি যে, এক বৎসর এই প্রতিশ্যায়–লক্ষণ জ্বর একটি স্বল্পক্রিয় ঔষধ দ্বারা দূর করা হইল, কিন্তু পর বৎসর উহা ঠিক একইভাবে প্রত্যাবৃত্ত হইবে এবং হয়ত অপর একটি ঔষধের প্রয়ােজন হইবে। যেই প্রতিশ্যায়লক্ষণ জ্বর নিবারিত হইবে, অমনি তুমি তাহার ধাতুদোষ নাশক চিকিৎসা আরম্ভ করিবে। তুমি যদি খুঁজিয়া লইতে পার তাহা হইলে এমন অনেক লক্ষণ পাইবে, যাহারা তরুণ রােগ–লক্ষণ হইতে সম্পূর্ণ পৃথক। যতক্ষণ প্রতিশ্যায়–লক্ষণ জ্বর থাকে ততক্ষণ ঐগুলি দেখা যায় না। প্রতিশ্যায়–লক্ষণ জ্বর যখন প্রবল থাকে তখন ধাতুদোষ সংশােধক ঔষধ নির্ণয় করা কঠিন, কারণ তখন উহা তরুণ রােগের অনুরূপ। কিন্তু উদ্ভেদ, কাশি প্রভৃতি যে–কোন সােরাদোষের বিকাশের ন্যায়, উহাও একটি সােরাদোষের বিকাশ। এক বৎসর, হয়ত, নাসিকা পুরাতন রােগের এমন একটি বিশেষ মূর্তি প্রকাশ করিল যে উহা,–উদাহরণ স্বরূপ,—এলিয়াম সেপার উপযােগী হইল। আমার মনে আছে যে, একবার আমাকে একটি দূরবর্তী স্থানে এলিয়াম সেপা ব্যবস্থা করিতে হইয়াছিল। ঐ স্থানের নিকটে একটি ঔষধালয় ছিল। আমি ঐ ঔষধালয়ের কর্তাকে আমার রােগীর জন্য এলিয়াম সেপা পাঠাইবার নির্দেশ পাঠাইলাম এবং তিনি উহা নামাঙ্কিত করিয়া পাঠাইয়া দিলেন। রােগী ঐ শিশিটি রাখিয়া দিয়াছিল এবং পরবৎসর উহা সেবন করিয়াছিল, কিন্তু উহাতে কোনই ফল হইল না। লক্ষণগুলি মিলিয়া গিয়াছে বােধ হইলেও এইরূপ ব্যাপার সম্ভব। সােরাদোষদুষ্ট অবস্থায় অল্পকালক্রিয় ঔষধ পর্যন্ত নয়, উহা মাত্র একদিনই কাৰ্য্যকরী হয়। যে দীর্ঘক্রিয় ঔষধে রােগীর, প্রতিশ্যায়–লক্ষণ জুরের এবং তাহার অপরাপর লক্ষণের মিল থাকে, তাহাই প্রয়ােগ করিতে হয়। প্রতিশ্যায়–লক্ষণ জ্বর চিকিৎসার শ্রেষ্ঠ সময়–তরুণ আক্রমণ প্রশমিত হইবার পর হইতে পুনরাক্রমণের পূর্ব পর্যন্ত। এইরূপ করা হইলে, পরবর্তী আক্রমণটি যথেষ্ট পরিবর্তিত ভাবে, রােগীর পূর্বে যতবার আক্রমণ হইয়াছিল তাহা হইতে পৃথকভাবে উপস্থিত হইবে এবং পৃথক ঔষধ আবশ্যক হইবে। ধাতুদোষ সংশােধক ঔষধ ঠিকভাবে নির্বাচিত হইলে, এইরূপ ব্যাপারই ঘটিয়া থাকে। | এইসকল সৰ্দিরােগে, প্রদাহ শীঘ্রই কর্ণে, গলায় এবং কণ্ঠনলীতে বিস্তৃত হয়। বৃদ্ধা মাতারা শিশুর কর্ণবেদনা হইলে শিশুর কানের উপর পিয়াজ রাখিয়া দিতেন। ইহাতে বিস্মিত হইবার কিছু নাই, কারণ এই ঔষধের অধিকারে সকল প্রকার যন্ত্রণা ও কামড়ানি ব্যথা দেখিতে পাই। গলা হইতে ইউষ্টেচিয়ান নলের দিকে, ঝাকিমারা বেদনা। ভয়ানক কর্ণবেদনা; কর্ণ হইতে পুঁজস্রাব পর্যন্ত হয়। কর্ণে ঘণ্টাধ্বনি। কপাল হইতে কর্ণের দিকে সূচীবিদ্ধবৎ বেদনা। যন্ত্রণা, যেন মস্তকের গভীর প্রদেশ হইতে মােটা সুতা ধরিয়া টানিতেছে। হুপিং কাশির সহিত, সর্দির সহিত, স্বরযন্ত্র–প্রদাহের সহিত কর্ণে সূচীবিদ্ধবৎ, ছিড়িয়া ফেলার মত বেদনা। যে বাড়ীতে ঔষধের
একটি বাক্স থাকে, সেখানে কর্ণ–বেদনার জন্য পালসেটিলা একটি ধরাবাধা ঔষধ এবং একথাও সত্য যে, ঐজন্য কদাচিৎ ডাক্তার ডাকার প্রয়ােজন হয়। কর্ণের সহিত পালসেটিলার। এরূপ সম্বন্ধ আছে যে, উহা প্রায় সব ক্ষেত্রেই যে সকল অত্যনুভূতিযুক্ত শিশু করুণভাবে কাঁদিতে থাকে তাহাদের কর্ণবেদনা আরােগ্য করে। কিন্তু যে–সকল শিশু বদরাগী, যাহারা কিছুতেই সন্তুষ্ট হয় না, যে জিনিষ চাহিয়াছে, তাহা দিলে যাহারা হুঁড়িয়া ফেলিয়া দেয় এবং ধাত্রীর মুখে চড় বসাইয়া দেয়, তাহাদিগকে ক্যামােমিলা’ দিতে হয়। পালসেটিলা, ক্যামােমিলা’ এবং ‘এলিয়াম সেপা দ্বারা তুমি শিশুদের কর্ণশূলের বেশীরভাগ রােগীই আরােগ্য করিতে পারিবে। তারপর, এলিয়াম সেপার সর্দির সঙ্গে যে–সকল চক্ষু–লক্ষণ থাকে তাহা বিবেচ্য। মনে রাখিও যে ইহার চক্ষুস্রাব অবিদাহী। যদিও চক্ষের মধ্যে জ্বালা থাকে, তথাপি চক্ষের জল, গালের উপর দিয়া পড়িবার সময় ঐ স্থানে ক্ষতের সৃষ্টি করে না। প্রচুর, জ্বালাইনি অশ্রুস্রাব। সন্ধ্যাকালে, গরম ঘরে অশ্রুস্রাব।
১১ তম ) | পেয়াজ যে কিরূপ উদরবায়ুজনক উদ্ভিজ্জ তাহা আমরা সকলেই জানি। শিশুদের উদরাসূলে। ইহা একটি আশ্চর্য্য ঔষধ। কাটিয়া ফেলার মত, ছিদ্র করার মত, ছিড়িয়া ফেলার মত বেদনায় হতভাগ্য শিশুটিকে টানিয়া দ্বিভাজ করিয়া ফেলে। তলপেটে কওঁনবৎ যন্ত্রণায় সে চীকার করিয়া উঠে। “পেটে সূচীবিদ্ধবৎ বেদনা।” “উদরবেদনা যকৃৎ–প্রদেশে আরম্ভ হইয়া সারা পেটে ছড়াইয়া – পড়ে এবং নাভির নিকটে আসিয়া অধিকতর কষ্টদায়ক হয়, উঠিয়া বসিলে অধিক কষ্টকর হয়।” উদরে বায়ুসঞ্চয়জনিত শূলব্যথা। এলিয়াম সেপা হুপিংকাশির একটি আশ্চর্য্য ঔষধ এবং যখন উহা প্রযােজ্য হয়, তখন শিশুর, সচরাচর, অজীর্ণ, বমন এবং উদরে বায়ুসঞ্চয় থাকে; শিশু দুর্গন্ধ বায়ুত্যাগ করে, উদরবেদনায় দ্বিভাজ হইয়া পড়ে। এলিয়াম সেপা শিশুদিগের গুহ্যদ্বারের। স্পর্শকাতর, ক্ষত ও তাহা হইতে রক্তপাতও আরােগ্য করে।
তরুণ স্বরবিকৃতি, সর্দিজ স্বরভঙ্গ, কণ্ঠনলী হইতে প্রচুর সর্দিস্রাব। আমি পূর্বে যেরূপ কাশির কথা বলিয়াছি, তাহার সহিত আরও দ্রুত সমাগত কণ্ঠনালীর প্রবল প্রদাহ এবং তৎসহ কণ্ঠনালীতে ছিন্নকর বেদনা। কেহ কেহ ইহার বর্ণনাকালে বলিবেন যে, কিছু ছিড়িয়া আলগা হইয়া গিয়াছে—এরূপ অনুভূতি। যাহারা আরও সঠিকভাবে বর্ণনা করিবেন তাঁহারা বলিবেন যে, ইহা ? প্রত্যেক কাশির সহিত কণ্ঠনলীর মধ্য দিয়া যেন একটি কাঁটা টানিয়া লওয়া হইতেছে, এরূপ বােধ হওয়া। স্বরভঙ্গের সহিত কণ্ঠনলীতে সুড়সুড়ি। হুপিং কাশিতেও ঐ একই প্রকার কণ্ঠনলীর যন্ত্রণা থাকে। শিশু থর থর করে, কাঁপিতে থাকে এবং তুমি দেখিতে পাইবে যে, কণ্ঠনলীর ছিন্নকর বেদনার জন্য সে কাশিতে ভয় পায়। ঠান্ডা হাওয়ায় নিঃশ্বাসলওয়ায় কাশি এবং শ্বাসকষ্ট, তথাপি গরম হাওয়া গলার সুড়সুড়ি এত বাড়াইয়া দেয় যে, উহাতে রােগীর কাশি আরম্ভ হইবে। সুতরাং ঠান্ডা হাওয়া এবং গরম ঘর এই উভয়েই কাশি বৃদ্ধিপ্রাপ্ত হয়। সময়ে সময়ে সর্দি। বায়ুনলী পৰ্য্যন্ত নামিয়া আসে এবং দ্রুত নাড়ীসহ জ্বর দেখা দেয়। যদি কণ্ঠনলীতে সুড়সুড়ি, ঠান্ডা বাতাসে নিঃশ্বাস লইলে কাশি গরম ঘরে ও সন্ধ্যায় বৃদ্ধি এবং কণ্ঠনালীতে ছিন্নকর বেদনা থাকে, তাহা হইলে এলিয়াম সেপা এরূপ অবস্থা আরােগ্য করিবে। কাশিটি আক্ষেপিক প্রকৃতির এরূপ অথবা হুপিং কাশি সদৃশ। সেপায় ত্রুপ কাশি আরােগ্যের নিদর্শন আছে। বৃদ্ধা স্ত্রীলােকেরা ক্রুপ কাশিযুক্ত শিশুর গলায় পিয়াজ বাঁধিয়া রাখেন এবং নিশ্চিতই, ডাক্তার বিহীন গভীর বনের মধ্যে। এই ব্যবস্থা প্রাচীন মতাবলম্বী (এলােপ্যাথিক) চিকিৎসা অপেক্ষা ভাল। ডি বলে ।
“পরিচায়ক লক্ষণ” নামক পুস্তক হইতে একটি সুন্দর বর্ণনা উদ্ধৃত করা হইল। স্বরভঙ্গযুক্ত, কর্কশ, ঘংঘং করা, আক্ষেপিক কাশি, অবিরাম গলার সুড়সুড়ি হইতে উহা উদ্ৰিক্ত হয় কাশিতে কণ্ঠনলীর মধ্যে ক্ষতবৎ ছিন্নকর বেদনা উৎপন্ন হয়, ঐ বেদনা এত তীব্র ও ভয়ানক যে, রােগী। যন্ত্রণায় সঙ্কুচিত হইয়া পড়ে এবং কাশি চাপিয়া রাখিতে চেষ্টা করে।” “ভীষণ কণ্ঠনলীর কাশি, উহাতে রােগী কণ্ঠটি চাপিয়া ধরিতে বাধ্য হয়, মনে হয় যেন কাশির ধমকে উহা ছিড়িয়া যাইবে।” শিশু কণ্ঠনলী পর্যন্ত হাত তুলিয়া উহা চাপিয়া ধরে। এই অবস্থা একোনাইটে’ শিশু শুষ্ক ঠান্ডা হাওয়ায় উন্মুক্ত থাকার পর মধ্যরাত্রির পূৰ্ব্বে কর্কশ ঘংঘং করা কাশির সহিত জাগিয়া উঠে এবং কণ্ঠটি চাপিয়া ধরে। সুতরাং একোনাইট’ কখনই এলিয়াম সেপার স্থান গ্রহণ করিতে পারে না।
তাই প্রথম জয় আর একটি রােগের উপর এই ঔষধের অদ্ভুত কাৰ্য্য আছে ইহা আঘাতজনিত স্নায়ু–প্রদাহ; সচরাচর উহা অঙ্গচ্ছেদের পর, ছেদিত অঙ্গের অবশিষ্টাংশে দেখিতে পাওয়া যায়। বেদনা প্রায় অসহ্য হইয়া উঠে, উহাতে অতি দ্রুত রােগীর বলয় হইতে থাকে।
এলিয়াম সেপা
ALLIUM CEPA
রেড ওনিয়ন
একটি সর্দিজ অবস্থার ছবি তৎসহ হাজাকর নাসিকা স্রাব ও স্বরনলীর লক্ষন, চোখ থেকে যে জল পড়ে তা হাজাকর নয়, গায়কের সর্দি, গরম ঘরে বৃদ্ধি এবং সন্ধ্যার দিকে, মুক্ত বাতাসে উপশম, এইগুলি ঔষধটির চিত্র। বিশেষভাবে কাজ করে, ঠাণ্ডা, সঁতসেঁতে আবহাওয়ায় সর্দি। স্নায়বিক শূলবেদনা, সরু সূতার ন্যায় বেদনা, অঙ্গচ্ছেদ অথবা স্নায়ু আঘাতের পর। আঘাতজনিত, পুরাতন স্নায়ুশূল। নাক, মুখগহ্বর, গলা, প্রস্রাব থলি ও চামড়াতে জ্বালা। শরীরের বিভিন্ন অংশ থেকে প্রখর তাপ প্রবাহের ন্যায় অনুভূতি।
মাথা সর্দিজ মাথার যন্ত্রণা, অধিকাংশ ক্ষেত্রে কপালে বেদনা, গরম ঘরে বৃদ্ধি, সন্ধ্যার দিকে। মুখমণ্ডলে বেদনা। ঋতুস্রাবের সময় মাথার যন্ত্রণা থেমে যায়, আব বন্ধ হবার পর পুনরায় ফিরে আসে।
চোখ লাল। তীব্র জ্বালা ও যন্ত্রনা সহ জল পড়ে। আলাে সহ্য হয় না। চোখ বুজে যায় এবং জলে পূর্ণ, প্রচুর, অনুত্তেজক, অশ্রস্রাব, মুক্ত বাতাসে উপশম। চোখের পাতায় জ্বালা।
কান কানের যন্ত্রণা, যন্ত্রণা তীরবেগে কর্ণনালীর ভিতর দিয়ে যায়।
নাক—হাঁচি, বিশেষতঃ গরম ঘরে প্রবেশ করলে। প্রচুর, জলের মত ও তীব্র হাজার আব। নাকের মূল দেশে একটি পিণ্ডের ন্যায় অনুভূতি। হে ফিভার (স্যাব্যাড, সাইলে, সােরি)। বহমান সর্দি তৎসহ মাথার যন্ত্রণা, কাশি ও স্বরভঙ্গ। নাকের অবুদ বা পলিশ। * পাকস্থলী – প্রচণ্ড ক্ষুধা। পাইলােরিক স্থানে বেদনা। পিপাসা, ঢেকুর। বমি বমি
উদর পেটের ভিতর গুড়গুড়, দুর্গন্ধযুক্ত বায়ু নিঃসরণ। লে হাইপােগ্যাসট্রিয়াম স্থানে বেদনা। বসে থাকলে ও চলাফেরা করার সময় পেটে মূল বেদনা।
সরলান্ত্র—উদরাময় তৎসহ তীব্র দূর্গন্ধযুক্ত বায়ু নিঃসরণ। মলদ্বারে সূচ ফোটানাের ন্যায় অনুভূতি। মলদ্বারে চুলকানি। সরলান্ত্রে কিছু জ্বলার ন্যায় উত্তাপ।
প্রস্রাব মূত্রথলির ও মূত্রনলীর দুর্বলতা। প্রচুর প্রস্রাব তৎসহ সর্দি। প্রস্রাব লাল, তৎসহ মূত্রনলীতে চাপবােধ ও জ্বালা।
শ্বাস–প্রশ্বাস স্বর ভঙ্গ।ঠাণ্ডা বাতাসে শ্বাস নেবার সময় খুকখুককাশি।কণ্ঠনলীতে সুড় সুড় ভাব। মনে হয় কণ্ঠনলী যেন ছিড়ে গিয়েছে বা ফেটে গিয়েছে। বুকের মাঝখানে চাপ বােধ হওয়ার ফলে শ্বাস বন্ধ হয়ে আসে। আলাজিব স্থানে সংকীর্ণতা অনুভব হওয়া। যন্ত্রনা কান পর্যন্ত প্রসারিত হয়।
অঙ্গ–প্রত্যঙ্গ সন্ধিগুলি খোঁড়া। পায়ের গােড়ালিতে ক্ষত। হাতের আঙ্গুলে, নখের চারিপাশে যন্ত্রণাদায়ক লক্ষণ। পায়ের স্নায়ুশূল। পা ভিজানাের কুফল। অঙ্গ–প্রত্যঙ্গ বিশেষত বাহুতে ক্ষতের ন্যায় বেদনা ও পরিশ্রান্ত মনে হয়।
ঘুম – হাইতােলা তৎসহ ঝিমুনি ও মাথার যন্ত্রণা। স্বপ্ন দেখে। গভীর ঘুমে মুখ হাঁ। করে থাকে। রাত্রি ২টার সময় জেগে উঠে।
কমাবাড়া বৃদ্ধি ও সন্ধ্যায়, গরম ঘরে। উপশম : মুক্ত বাতাসে, ঠাণ্ডা ঘরে। সম্বন্ধ – তুলনীয় ও জেল, ইউফ্রে, কেলিহাইড্রো, একোনাইট, ঈপিকাক। অনুপূরকঃ ফসফর, থুজা, পালস। দোষগ্ন আর্নিকা, ক্যামাে, ভিয়েট। শক্তি – ৩য় শক্তি।
এলিয়াম সেপা
(Allium Cepa)
(Aljum of Atum, garlic. Cepa, ontant
বাংলায় পিঁয়াজ। ইহা লিলিয়েস্ট জাতীছু উক্তি। এতে ফসফরাস ও সালফার আছে। এই সরস সুপক্ক কষ্ট থেকে মূল অরিষ্ট তৈরী হয়।
ঐলিয়াম সেঁপার মূলকথা ১। সর্দি, পুনঃপুনঃ হাঁচি প্রভূত কিাই স্রাব (acrid), উহাতে উপর ওষ্ঠ
ও নাসিকা হেজে যায়। ঐ সঙ্গে চোখ থেকে জল ঝরে কিন্তু তা [ অনুত্তেজক (ইউফ্রেসিয়ায় এর বিপরীত)। ২। সর্দি বায়ুনলী (bronchi) পর্যন্ত প্রবাৱিত হয়, কাশি ও বুকে
শ্লেষ্মর অত্যন্ত ঘড়ঘড় শব্দ (চেলিডােনিয়াম)। ৩। উপচয় ** উপশম – | অপরাহ্নে ও গরম ঘরে বৃদ্ধি। খােলা বায়ুতে (সর্দি) উপশম।
৫ এলিয়াম সেপার – পর্যালােচনা যেই রান্নার জন্য কাঁচা পিয়াজ কাটে সেই জানে নাক ও চোখেৰু উপর এর কি বুকম ক্রিয়া আছে। এতে উপদাই জন্মে ও তাতে প্রবল ঘঁচি হয় ও চোখ দিয়ে জল পড়ে। এজন্যই হােমিওপ্যাথিক চিকিৎসার আরােগ্য নীতি অনুসারে পিয়াজ নাকের সর্দির ঔষধ স্বরূপ ব্যবহৃত হয় এবং অন্যান্য ঔষধের ন্যায় ইহাও বিশেষ প্রকৃতিগত লক্ষণ যুক্ত সর্দিতেই ব্যবহৃত হয়ে থাকে। | “এতে অবিরত পুনঃপুন হাঁচি হয়, তার মূঙ্গে প্রভূত জ্বালাকর স্রাব থাকে। এতে নাক ও উপরের ওষ্ঠ হেজে যায়। সন্ধ্যেবেলা ও ঘরের মধ্যে কষ্ট বাড়ে এবং খােলা বাতাসে উপশম হয়।”
এতে প্রভূত অশ্রুস্রাব হয় এবং তাতে চোখ জ্বালা করে ও টাটায় কিন্তু ঐ যাব অবিদাহ বা অনুত্তেজক অর্থাৎ এতে পরে চোখে যন্ত্রণা হয় না। এর সঙ্গে মাথা বেদনা থাকতেও পারে বা না থাকতেও পারে। যদি থাকে তবে উহ নাকে সর্দির মত গরম ঘরে বা সন্ধৈর দিকে ঝড়ে এবং খােলী বাতালে উপশমিত হয়। আমি একে শিশুদের ক্ষেত্রেই বিশেষ উপযােগী হতে দেখেছি। শিশুদের্ন নাকের প্রচুর সর্দির্ষাবে বা সর্দি নীচের দিকে প্রসারিত হয়ে বামুনলী আক্রমণ করলে এবং বায়ুনলীতে প্রভূত শ্লেষ্মা জন্মাননায় খুব কাশি ও শ্লেখার শব্দে ইহা বিশেষ ভাবে উপযােগী।
তবে নাকের সর্দি ও অশ্রুস্রাবএকসঙ্গে থাকলে এলিয়াম সেপা হােমিওপ্যাথিক ঔষধরূপে প্রচলিত হওয়ার পূর্বে ইউফ্রেসিয়া ৰূবহৃত হত। | * এই দুটি ঔষধের প্রধান পার্থক্য হল – এলিয়াম সেপা নাসিকার স্রাব বিদায়ী (acrid) বা উত্তেজক কিন্তু চক্ষুস্রাব অবিদাহী বা অনুত্তেজক (bland) কিন্তু ইউফ্রেসিয়ায় এর ঠিক বিপরীত।
তাই মনে হয় এদের একটি প্রধানতঃ নাকের উপর এবং অপরটি চৈাখের উপর ক্রিয়া করে। আর এই ভাবেই আমাদের ঔষধের পার্থক্য নির্ণয় করতে শিখতে হবে।
✅ আমাদের সফল চিকিৎসার প্রমাণ দেখতে লিংকে ক্লিক করুণ।
CEPA, ALLIUM [All-c]
+ Common Onion, Liliaceae
Introduction
In use as a medicine since time immemorial. Among the Egyptians it was hung up in noxious corners, carried about with one, taken for the consequences of bad water, used for the sting of insects, animal poisons, even the bite of the mad dog; it was applied as an irritant and to mature abscesses, even carbuncles; then it was used for frozen feet by Dioscorides, who states that it is “efficacious when feet are rubbed sore,” a symptom confirmed by the provings and verified in our practice. Then it was also used as a remedy for promoting the growth of hair and hoofs, as also for destroying warts and corns; it was given it for podagra. It was considered an eye remedy and an ear remedy, serviceable in angina and for loosening mucus it it rattled in the throat and bronchia of children and old people. It was given against flatulence and to promote the catamenia as well as the flow of urine. Dioscorides, and physicians following him, among the Arabiana, had a glimpse of the truth of similia, for they used the onion to cure the symptoms they knew it was capable of producing; but with Galen all reasonable investigation ceased.
It is mentioned in the Old Testament under the name Bejel, which the Hebrews craved, as in our time coffee and tobacco are craved.
Homer mentions it in Iliad XI, 629 and in Odyssey, XIX, 233.
Herodotus, Hist. II, Euterpe N. 125.
Hippocrates, Dediaete, II, 359; De Morbo Sacro, 302.
Theophrast, Bd. Vii, 4.
Plinius XX, (5) 20.
Oribasins, Med. Coll. XI, XV.
Aetius Tetr. 1, serm. 1.
Paulus Aegineta de re med. Vii.
In 1847, on September 15th, C. Hg. commenced his proving with a tincture prepared from the red Connecticut onion; he was assisted by Dr. Jeanes (whose preparations were made in water up to fourth dilution), Williamson, Neidhard, Lingen, W. Wesselhoeft, Geist, Eckel, Zumbrock, Alliborn and Raue. See American Drug Provings, or translations therefrom by Allen in his Encyclopedia.
To the original collection are added clinical notes from H. R.
Arndt, Hempel’s Mat. Med., vol. 1, p. 293; C.W. Balfour, A.O., vol. 4, p 344; Blakely, H. M., vol. 4,304; Greenleaf, Trans. N.Y.
Med. Soc., 1872, p. 596; Guernsey, H. M., vol. 3, p. 209; Helmuth, Am. Homoeopath., April, 1878; D. S. Kimball, M. I., vol. 3, p. 418; S. Lilienthal, N. Am. J. of Hom., Aug., 1870.
Mind
Apathetic, mornings.
Very melancholy. Catarrh.
Indefinable anxiety; walks about, and finally full of apprehension, throws himself on the bed and now gets up again; constant violent pains in L. side of abdomen, more in middle and lower part of abdomen and in region of bladder, with troubles in urinating and no stool; violent thirst; face expressive of anxiety and doubt; skin hot, especially in painful and sensitive places; pulse somewhat accelerated, full and hard.
Fears she will become distracted, from pain in suppuration of fingers.
Confused and absent-minded, in afternoon after wine and coffee.
Makes mistakes in spelling.
Sensorium
Vertigo on rising.
Dullness, pressure, fullness, heaviness in head, most in occiput, (<) evenings, (>) in open air, and (<) when returning to a warm room.
Dullness and confusion of head. Coryza.
Whooping cough.
Inner Head
Stitches as of needles in forehead.
Dull frontal headache. Coryza.
Dullness in forehead and whole head, as after inhaling chloroform.
Pain in forehead, with catarrh.
Pains deep in head, over l. brow.
Pains in both temples, most severe in r., (<) by winking; afterwards the pain extends over forehead, (<) on l. side.
Pain in temples, (<) after motion of eyelids.
As if swollen and heavy on crown.
Headache from both sides of head, downward and inward, towards middle.
Headache, first in occiput, then in forehead, over r. eye.
Intense pain in occipital region and cervical spine. Influenza.
Confusion in occiput, first on both sides and towards upper part, pressing down sideways, then behind ears and around whole occiput.
Severe headache, with slight coryza.
Whole head becomes hot.
Head full and heavy.
Fullness and heaviness in head, as if it was bound up, with flickering before eyes.
Pressive headache, with sensation as if whole head was wrapped up in warm water.
An electric shock passes through head.
Dull headache, with coryza; (<) in evening, (>) in open air, but aggravated when returning to a warm room.
Headache ceases during menses.
Catarrhal headache.
Outer Head
Stitches over whole l. forehead, externally; they draw into ear, upper jaw and teeth of same side; evenings.
Numbness in bones of skull, as if sleep.
Tingling pain behind l. mastoid process.
Sensation as if whole head was wrapped up in warm water.
Prickling sweat on bald vertex after each meal.
Falling out of hair.
Sight and Eyes
Eyes sensitive to light, particularly left.
Cloudy vision by candlelight.
Dullness of eyes, with aversion to light. Coryza. Pertussis.
Flickering and blinding before eyes; everything dances hither and thither.
A bright dazzling in distance and dimness near by.
Letters appear smaller; when getting sleepy, eyes dull, dim and sensitive to light. Coryza.
Burning, biting and smarting of eyes as from smoke, wants to rub them.
Itching, burning, stinging of eyes.
Sensation as if eye was hanging by a string or torn.
Drawing pain extending into l. eye from cheek.
Eyes red, itching, and sensitive to touch, l. worse.
Eyes watery and suffused, capillaries injected. Coryza. Muco- watery discharge from eyes and nose.
Excessive lachrymation, with redness of eyeballs, with frequent sneezing. Coryza.
Lachrymation of l. eye, with coryza, was much greater, eye was much redder and more sensitive to light than right.
Profuse bland lachrymation. Coryza.
Lachrymation is for most part in evening in warm room; l. eye weeps most and is more sensitive to light.
Shooting pain in r. lachrymal duct.
Winks with eyes, with pain in temples.
Smarting of inner surface of upper lids.
Swelling of lids and around eyes. Coryza.
Threadlike pain: over r. eye, towards root of nose; from cheek towards eye.
Needle stitches in eyebrows.
Itching in supraorbital region, more on l. side.
Heat in l. eyebrow.
Pain over r. eye to root of nose.
Catarrhal ophthalmia. Whooping cough.
Hearing and Ears
Noises in ears, buzzing and roaring; sounds appear to come from a distance.
Humming in ears on lying down.
Roaring in l. ear, as after a severe cold.
Tinnitus. Pertussis.
Hardness or dullness of hearing.
Stitches towards ear from l. forehead.
Pain, like thick threads, towards ear from deep within head.
Pains jerking from throat towards eustachian tube.
Chilling or burning twitching in region of r. eustachian tube near throat.
Earache.
Discharge of pus from ear.
Pain behind ears deep within head from backward and inward to ears.
Pecking behind r. ear.
Under l. ear a hard swelling, size of a hazelnut, extending from above angle of lower jaw to ear, from which pains go into ear, especially on pressure.
Smell and Nose
Epistaxis.
Dryness of anterior nares.
Nose stopped, nasal voice.
A feeling of tightness at root of nose.
Pain into root of nose from above r. eye.
Constant sneezing, with profuse acrid coryza, (<) on coming into a warm room. Pertussis.
Immediately after rising from bed in morning violent sneezing, as if it would tear her to pieces.
Crawling in r. nostril, as before sneezing; must frequently blow thin mucus out of nose.
Frequent sneezing, lachrymation, pain in forehead, acrid discharge from nostril, hacking cough on inspiring cold air, cold alternates with heat.
Profuse nasal discharge. Scarlatina.
Acrid discharge from l. nostril.
Cold begins mostly on l. side and goes to right.
Spring coryza.
Colds after damp northeasterly winds.
Fluent coryza, with headache, tears from eyes, feels hot and thirsty, with want of appetite; cough and trembling of hands; (<) evenings and in-doors; (>) in open air.
Ichor oozing out of nose. Second stage of scarlatina.
Ichorous fluid from nose, when singing. Convalescence from scarlatina.
Acrid watery discharge dropping from tip of nose.
Dropping from nose, watery discharge, burning and corroding nose and upper lip.
Spring coryza; tingling and itching in r. nostril.
Every year, in August, morning coryza, with violent sneezing; very sensitive to odor of flowers and skin of peaches (lasting two or three weeks).
Coryza, at times with stoppage of nose, so that she speaks through nose, at others with profuse mucous discharge.
Catarrh, with watering and smarting eyes, with violent sneezing; he must “take a long breath,” and then sneezes correspondingly.
Violent catarrh, after northeast wind and rainy weather; eyes suffused, lids very red, as from crying and rubbing them; nose dropping, throat sore, and some cough.
Coryza: after chilliness; after flushes of heat at evening.
Coryza, with burning of edges of nose, profuse discharge.
Coryza, (>) in open air and (<) in warm room.
Pertussis.
With coryza, trembling of hands, in evening.
Large pieces of a mucous polypus were blown out and dropping of water ceased. Polypus.
Nasal polypi.
Burning in edges of nose and lips. Coryza.
Upper Face
Expression of anxiety and despair, with pain in abdomen.
Threadlike pains about face, temples and ears. Pertussis.
Drawing pain in l. cheek going into interior of l. eye; (>) in cold air.
Threadlike pains in upper maxilla.
Throbbing, drawing, pressing pains, with swelling of cheek. Toothache.
Drawing stitches into upper jaw and teeth from l. forehead.
Warm spots on r. cheek.
Face hot, especially in evening.
Paralysis of l. half of face, also somewhat noticed in limbs of same side, too copious secretion of urine.
Eruption of nettle rash on face.
Upper lip red and sensitive from acrid nasal discharge.
Lower Face
Worse when chewing. Toothache.
Teeth and Gums
Toothache, with coryza, (>) when catarrh is worse, and (<) when catarrh ceases.
Toothache in molars, after exposure to damp cold wind, and (<) in warm room and from warm drinks; (>) from cold water and picking or sucking.
Toothache, going from l. to right.
Jerking pain in last molars.
Pressure in r. back teeth on going into a warm room.
In first upper teeth, r. side, sensitive drawing from root to crown; later same feeling in corresponding teeth on l. side.
Pressive pain in root of l. eye tooth disturbing sleep, with excessive heat in cheeks; (>) towards morning during sweat; cheeks feel swollen.
Feeling as if back teeth were too long, with some pain, during sleep; (>) on rising.
Drawing stitches into teeth from l. forehead.
Teeth are dirty and turn yellow.
Taste and Tongue
Disgusting taste in mouth; sweet and nauseous.
Burning taste, more on gums.
Loss of taste.
Tongue dirty, slimy and furred, especially in morning.
Dryness at root of tongue, on r. side.
Pains under tongue; small sore elevations at lower insertion of fraenum.
Inner Mouth
Aching like a large lump on root of tongue, roof of mouth, eustachian opening, extends towards ear.
Sensation of fullness and soreness behind palate.
Dryness and smarting above palate.
Dryness in mouth, on root of tongue, on soft palate and in throat.
Dryness in mouth, without thirst.
Mouth and tongue as if scalded.
Bad odor from mouth and throat. Toothache.
Expectoration of a lumpy mucus from posterior nares.
Throat
Lumps of mucus from choanae, in evening, having a nauseous taste.
Tough viscous mucus in fauces and throat.
Hawks up mucus of a sweetish taste.
Jerking pains from throat towards eustachian tube.
Sensation of fullness, soreness and coldness behind palate.
Drawing pain in l. side of throat, (>) by cold air.
Raw feeling in fauces, with tickling in region of epiglottis, first on l, then on r. side.
Soreness and dryness of throat. Influenza.
Pain in throat below larynx, as after swallowing too large a mouthful, or as if swollen; pain extends every little while into r. ear; whole afternoon, coming on at midday.
A constrictive pain in fore part of throat, low down in region of os hyoides, later low down posteriorly on r. side.
In throat and orifice of eustachian tube, chilling or burning twitching and gnawing, not painful.
A sense of nausea extending into throat.
Sensation as of a ball or lump in throat.
In pharynx feeling as if food remained stuck behind breast bone.
Heat low in pharynx, extending into stomach.
Numb feeling in posterior wall of pharynx.
Throat aches, as after taking cold.
Coldness in pharynx.
Dryness in throat.
Appetite, Thirst, Desires. Aversions
Canine hunger, or loss of appetite. Pertussis. Coryza.
Less appetite and increased thirst.
Violent thirst, with a severe cold, frequent sneezing, running of tears, pain in forehead, acrid discharge from l. nostril, hacking cough on inspiring cold air.
Thirst. Pertussis.
Desire for raw onions. Pneumonia. Yellow fever.
Eating and Drinking
Bad effects from eating spoiled fish.
After each meal a prickling sweat on bald vertex.
Stomach weak, cannot bear anything but raw onions. Yellow fever.
Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting
Hiccough.
Sour eructations.
Belching, with rumbling in and puffing up of abdomen.
Belching, with fever heat.
Nausea, squeamishness, comes from stomach up throat into fauces, more when rising.
Nausea forced up throat, like a thrust.
Horrible deathly nausea in stomach, with slight eructations, which relieve somewhat, after eating.
Scrobiculum and Stomach
Pain below sternum.
Pressure in epigastrium.
Pressure in stomach, with gaping.
Feels a pressure on cardia from behind.
Stomach feels empty, weak.
Pain below sternum to right, in region of pylorus.
Hypochondria
Pressure in region of liver, with crawls along back, and coldness.
Pains begin in hepatic region and spread over abdomen. Colic.
Stitches in l. side, (>). on lying.
Contracting sensation in spleen, with stitches while lying.
Abdomen
Colicky pain in region of navel, (<) on sitting, (>) when walking.
Wind colic. Pertussis.
Cutting in belly, like a thread, towards center.
Colic: from catching cold by getting feet wet; after eating too much ; after eating cucumbers, salad, etc.; hemorrhoidal; of children.
Severe pains in abdomen. Pertussis.
Colicky pains, beginning in hepatic region and spreading over whole abdomen, worse around navel; (<) when sitting; (>) when moving about and by passing flatus.
Violent pain in hypogastrium, to left, with urging to urinate; burning micturition. Incarcerated hernia.
Stitches in loins.
Deep in pelvis on a small spot to right, violent pressure and cutting as with small knives.
Flashes of heat in abdomen.
Abdomen puffed up, with rumbling, more to left; ineffectual urging to stool, with heat, some pains, difficult breathing, and inconvenience of clothing; (>). after wind passes freely.
Abdomen distended, dull in head, urging to stool ends with diarrhoea.
Rumbling in bowels, with stomachache, after breakfast.
Violent cutting pain in l. lower abdomen, with frequent desire to micturate, and burning micturition.
Heat in abdomen, with pain.
Ascites.
Annoying pains over middle of groin.
Pressure in l. inguinal ring.
Hernia in l. groin much protruded and strangulated; very severe pains from high up in l. side of hypochondrium drew towards incarcerated hernia; very restless; much fever, etc.
0 Periodic pains in pubic region, (<) on sitting.
Stool and Rectum
Flatus very offensive, and moist; mornings.
Bowels loose, after midnight, or towards morning, with offensive flatus. Pertussis.
Odorless masses of wind.
Urging to stool, with rumbling in bowels, but nothing passes.
Constipation, following intermittents treated by quinine.
Difficult passing of feces; passage interrupted.
Urging without a passage, but stitches in rectum.
Contraction, cutting, tearing pain at anus during stool, with irritation of hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoidal pains.
A very painful stitch extends along rectum downward.
Tearing jerks in anus; also biting and crawling.
In anus, and protruding hemorrhoids, a cold creeping, like a worm, more on l. side.
Itching at anus. Worms.
Rhagades in anus.
Blood passes with stool.
Urinary Organs
Pains in renal region and pressure in region of bladder.
Pertussis.
Region of bladder very sensitive, child screams if hand is placed there.
In bladder a burning pressure, afterwards in sacrum; pain in region of kidneys, more l. side; pain in groins.
Pressing and other pains in region of bladder.
Sensation of weakness and warmth in bladder and urethra.
Frequent urinating; with burning in urethra; urine very red; all day, still oftener evenings; especially with shuddering and chilliness.
Spasmodic strangury after getting feet and bowels cold.
Dribbling or spurting of urine, in old people.
Urine frothy and iridescent.
In albuminuria it diminished urging for frequent urination and also the quantity of albumen in urine.
Polyuria.
Increased secretion of urine. Coryza. Catarrh. Paralysis.
Urine: frothy and clear; red; reddish-yellow, with sandy sediment.
Male Sexual Organs
Increased sexual desire.
Erections, with painful tension, without sexual desire, in morning.
After coitus pain in bladder and prostate gland.
Weakness in hips interferes with coition.
Drawing in spermatic cords.
Pain from inguinal ring along spermatic cord.
Burning on glans penis and in urethra.
Pressive pains in bladder and prostate.
Pain in pubic region.
Female Sexual Organs
Pain in uterine region.
During menses, headache ceases and returns when they disappear.
Amenorrhoea.
Pregnancy, Parturition, Lactation
In childbed, panaritia. on several fingers, with red streaks up arm; pains driving to despair.
After forceps delivery, swelling of whole lower limb, exceedingly painful, mostly in thigh.
Voice and Larynx Trachea and Bronchia.
Tickling in epiglottis.
Catarrhal hoarseness. Pertussis.
Pain as if larynx would be torn when coughing.
Coryza.
Tickling in larynx, with hoarseness.
Tickling in throat, with aching in larynx. Pertussis. Throbbing in larynx, and sensation as if it contracted. Constant inclination to hack in order to relieve tickling in larynx.
Violent catarrhal laryngitis; hoarse cough seemed to split and tear larynx, causes watering of eyes, etc.
Acute bronchitis, going from l. to right.
Respiration
Oppressed breathing: from pressure in middle of chest; (<) in evening; in ascites. Pertussis.
Hacking and worrying till he cannot breathe. Coryza.
He must take a long breath, and then sneezes correspondingly.
On inspiring cold air, hacking cough.
On deep inspiration, sticking in l. side.
Cough
Laryngeal cough, frequently repeated. Coryza.
Severe laryngeal cough, which compels patient to grasp larynx; feels as if cough would tear it. Coryza.
Hoarse, harsh, ringing, spasmodic cough; excited by constant ticking in larynx; cough produces a raw, splitting pain in larynx, so acute and so severe as to compel patient to crouch from suffering, and to make every effort to suppress cough.
Pertussis.
Frequent cough, tension in upper part of chest, loss of appetite; (<) every evening.
Cough, with fullness in head, especially in occiput, with heat, copious fluent acrid coryza and profuse bland lachrymation.
Whooping cough.
Cough increases in evening.
Cough brought on by inhaling cold air.
Hacking cough from inhaling cold air.
Constant inclination to hack in order to relieve tickling in larynx.
Spasmodic cough simulating croup.
Inner Chest and Lungs
Pain in chest as though food had lodged behind sternum.
Stitches, with burning, in middle of l. side of chest, when talking a deep breath.
Pains here and there flitting through chest.
Pressure in upper middle part of chest makes respiration difficult.
Tension in upper part of chest, with coryza and cough.
Rattling in chest.
Tough mucus from chest.
Epidemics of autumnal influenza.
Incipient pneumonia in children.
Heart, Pulse and Circulation
Pulse more frequent and full; or, slow and hard.
Pulse full and accelerated.
Neck and Back
Intense pain in cervical spine. Influenza.
Pain in hand-breadth below r. shoulder, more towards spine, after long sitting.
Right shoulder blade painful on lying in bed.
Crawls in back; after sitting, pain under r. shoulder blade.
Stitches in lumbar region.
Pain in small of back, if bowels did not move.
Burning pressure in small of back.
Shiverings in back.
Chills run up back. Pertussis.
Chilly crawls run down back, most at night, more frequent urination, followed by heat and thirst.
Rigidity of spinal column in periodic attacks, accompanied by pain through whole chest.
Upper Limbs
Sweat in axilla.
Pain in r. shoulder blade, when lying in bed.
Pain under r. shoulder, in belly and pubic region.
Stitch runs through r. arm, from shoulder blade to elbow, with burning pain.
Pains from a blow in r. elbow joint.
Numbness in l. elbow, (<) on slight motion.
Needle-stitches in arms.
Pain in arms, more l. forearm.
Weak sensation, especially in arms.
Pain in middle of l. radius, (<) writing, (>) from rubbing.
Lame sensation in all joints of arm.
Pain on r. wrist, on back and extensor side, evenings.
Hands red and dry, as if he had been in the cold.
Pain in l. middle finger, and in r. fourth and fifth fingers.
Sweat in palms of hands.
Trembling of r. hand, he can hardly write.
Whitlow, on margin of skin around finger nails, inflamed and suppurating, pains up whole arm.
Voluptuous, corrosive itching, especially on palmar side of l.
thumb, from first to second phalanx, in evening.
Panaritium.
Suppuration, after a prick with a needle, under l. thumb nail; a red streak up to elbow, where a lump the size of a hazelnut is formed.
Lower Limbs
Weakness of hips. Pertussis. Interfering with coitus.
Excessive tired feeling in region of hips, in evening, on rising from sitting, and on walking.
Nettle rash on thighs.
Bruised feeling in l. thigh, near knee.
Pain, almost burning pressure, in upper part of l. thigh, towards outer side.
Pain on outer side of r. thigh, above knee.
Glowing sensation on outer side and upper part of both thighs.
Pain above knees.
Shooting pains in l. leg and r. foot.
Stitches in r. knee, from within.
Lameness in knee.
Paralytic pains in knee joint.
Burning pressure in middle of l. lower leg, then on right.
Pains in ankle joint.
Sore and raw spots on feet, especially heel, from friction.
Painful twitching on inner side of l. heel.
Pain in most external soft parts of r. great toe, and also in l.
middle finger.
Brittle hoofs and losing hair, with horses (tinct. in water).
Limbs in General
Soreness in limbs and aching in all bones, as after taking a cold. Coryza.
Tired feeling in all limbs.
Weak sensation in limbs after flatulent troubles.
Neuralgia of stump (after amputation), violent burning stinging pains.
Rest, Position Motion
In lying: increased earache, toothache, splenic pain.
Lying: stitches in spleen; in bed, pain in shoulder blade.
Sitting: (<) colic in region of navel and hepatic region; (<) periodic pains in pubic region.
Rising: vertigo; (>) toothache.
Walking: (>) colic in region of navel.
Motion: of eyelids, pain in temple; (>) colic.
Nerves
Weak and tired, has to lie down.
Deathly faintness after profuse micturition.
Lassitude. Pertussis.
Traumatic chronic neuritis; pain violent and wearing out the patient.
Neuroma.
Sleep
Yawning: with headache and cramp in stomach; with sleepiness; near objects seem distant.
Gaping in deep sleep.
Restless sleep, drowsy in morning.
At evening, walking in street, increased dropping from nose, from both nostrils, without sensation of coryza.
Wakes nights at 2 A.M., with excited pulse; cannot sleep again till morning; without any chill, only heat without any thirst; disappears mornings, but is (<) again for a few hours after breakfast, afterwards much prostrated.
Dreams: of being near the water; of battles, fights, precipices and deep wells; of storms at sea, high waves; annoying, in convalescents.
Time
2 A.M.: awakes; heat without thirst.
Morning: apathetic, restless, drowsy; violent sneezing; pressive pain in root of eye tooth (>) ; tongue dirty, slimy, furred; offensive flatus; bowels loose; erections; cannot sleep till morning.
In afternoon: confused and absentminded.
Worse in afternoon and evening; when lying down. Pertussis.
Evening: dullness, pressure in head (<) ; stitches l. forehead into ear; lachrymation; fluent coryza (<) ; face hot; raises lumps of mucus from choanae; frequent urination; pain in r. wrist; pain in fingers; dropping from nose.
In evening: after drinking beer and eating herring, excessive thirst; heat and severe coryza, with much lachrymation, headache, acrid, burning discharge from nose, so that upper lip became red and sensitive.
Temperature and Weather
Colds and toothache after damp cold wind and weather.
Bad effects from getting feet wet.
Warm room: (<) dullness, pressure, heaviness, (<) constant sneezing; agg. fluent coryza; (<) toothache.
Patient likes to wash himself frequently and is fond of being in open air. Toothache.
Cold water: (>). toothache.
Open air: (>) dullness, pressure, heaviness in head; (>) fluent coryza; (>) toothache.
Cold air: (>) drawing pain in l. cheek and throat; toothache; hacking cough.
Spring: coryza.
August: hay fever.
Autumnal epidemics of spasmodic cough.
Fever
Coldness alternates with heat. Catarrh.
Chills, followed by fever. Influenza.
Heat in head, on head, in brows, in face, in cheeks, in throat down to stomach and bowels.
Heat with coryza, alternating with cold and flitting heat over whole body and thirst; evenings.
Attacks of flushes of heat. Coryza.
Heat and thirst, with rumbling in belly. Coryza.
Heat, without thirst, 2 A.M., passes off by morning, (<) again after breakfast.
Heat. Pertussis.
Sweats easily and copiously.
Yellow fever.
Attacks, Periodicity
Periodic pain: in pubic region.
In Spring: coryza.
Every year in August: morning coryza; hay fever.
In Autumn: epidemics of spasmodic cough.
Locality and Direction
Downward and inward: headache. Right to left in upper half of body, left to right, in lower part, in provings.
Commencing l. side, going to right. Coryza.
Colds.
First l., then r.: nostril, acrid discharge; toothache; acute bronchitis.
Left: eye itches and is more sensitive to light and weeps more; pains deep in brow; forehead, stitches; tingling pain behind mastoid; itching in supraorbital region; heat in eyebrow; roaring in ear; ear, hard swelling; drawing in cheek, going to eye; forehead down to teeth, drawing stitches; face, paralysis; toothache; first upper teeth sensitive; pressive pain at root of eye tooth; drawing stitches in forehead; drawing pain in throat; raw feeling in fauces; stitches in hypochondria; violent cutting in lower abdomen; inguinal pressure; hernia; protruding hemorrhoids; pain in kidneys; sticking in lung on deep inspiration; elbow, numbness; pain in forearm; pain in fingers; thumb, itching; thumb nail, suppuration; bruised feeling in knee; thigh, pain; pain in leg; burning in lower leg; painful twitching in heel; pain in middle finger.
Right: pain in temple; pain over eye; shooting pain in lachrymal duct; thread pain over eye; chilling or burning- twitching in region of eustachian tube; pain in root of nose; nostril, crawling; cheek, warm spots; pressure in back teeth; first upper teeth sensitive; dryness of root of tongue; pain in ear; pain below shoulder; stitches from shoulder blade to elbow; pains in wrist; pain in fingers; hand, trembling; pain in thigh; pain in foot; knee, stitches; pain in great toe; pricking in arm.
Sensations
As if swollen and heavy on crown; as if whole head was wrapped up in warm water; as if eye was hanging by a string or torn; as if teeth were too long; as of a ball or lump in throat; as if larynx would be torn when coughing; as though food had lodged behind sternum; as of a large, aching pump on root of tongue; mouth and tongue as if scalded.
Severe pains: in abdomen.
An intense pain: in cervical spine.
Neuralgic pains, like threads: in face, head, neck and elsewhere; (<) evenings; towards ear from deep within head.
Splitting pain: in larynx.
Cutting: in belly, like a thread; in anus; deep in pelvis; in lower abdomen.
Stitches: as of needles in forehead; in eyebrows; in eyes; in ears; in upper jaw; towards ear from forehead; in rectum; in l. hypochondrium; in lumbar region; runs through arm; in skin; in l. side; in loins; in arms; in r. knee.
Sticking: in l. chest on inspiration.
Stinging: of eye.
Shooting: in l. leg and r. foot; in r. lachrymal duct.
Tearing jerks: in anus.
Tingling pain: behind l. mastoid process.
Jerking: from throat to eustachian tube; in molars.
Tearing: in anus.
Pecking: behind r. ear.
Burning-stinging: in stump after amputation.
Drawing: into upper jaw; in teeth; in spermatic cords; in head; in occiput; from l. eye into cheek; in l. side of throat.
Pressure: in head; in teeth; in epigastrium; in stomach; in region of liver; in pelvis; in l. inguinal region; in region of bladder; l. thigh; on cardia.
Soreness: behind palate; in limbs; of throat.
Raw feeling: in fauces.
Smarting: of eyes; of upper lids; above palate.
Scalded: mouth and tongue.
Biting: of eyes; in anus.
Gnawing: in orifice of eustachian tube; eyelids; nose; mouth; lips.
Burning: of eyes; taste; orifice of eustachian tube; throat; in edges of nose and lips; in urethra; in bladder; on glans penis; small of back; l. thigh; skin.
Burning twitching: in region of r. eustachian tube.
Paralytic pain: in knee joint.
Colicky pains: in region of navel.
Painful twitching: on inner l. heel.
Tired feeling: in limbs.
Bruised feeling: in knee; of thigh.
Aching: on root of tongue; roof of mouth; eustachian orifice; through body; in joints; in bones; in forehead and head; in temples; in cervical spine; over r. eye; in larynx.
Undefined pain: behind ears deep in head; under tongue; in forehead; in throat; below sternum; in hepatic region; in abdomen; over middle of groin; violent, in hypogastrium; inguinal ring; uterine region; small of back; l. thigh; r. wrist; above knees; over r. eye to root of nose; in renal region; region of kidneys; in bladder and prostate gland; in chest; in r. shoulder blade; in r. elbow joint; in arms; in left radius; in fingers; in ankle joints; in great toe.
Fullness: in head; behind palate.
Heaviness: in head; in occiput.
Throbbing: in larynx.
Empty: stomach feels.
Tension: in upper part of chest.
Tightness: at root of nose.
Constrictive: as if head was bound up; at root of nose; pain in throat.
Contraction: in spleen; at anus.
Tickling: in larynx; in epiglottis.
Itching: of eyes; in supraorbital region; at anus; in r. nostril; of thumb.
Electric shock: through head.
Numbness: in bones of skull; in posterior wall of pharynx; in l.
elbow.
Lame sensation: in all joints of arms; in knee.
Crawls: in r. nostril; along back; in anus.
Coldness: behind palate; in back; in pharynx.
Chilling: orifice of eustachian tube.
Warmth: of urethra; in bladder.
Glowing: on thighs.
Heat: without thirst; in head; with coryza; in pharynx and oesophagus; in flashes in abdomen; in l eyebrow.
Dryness: in mouth; above palate; in throat; of anterior nares; at root of tongue.
Tissues
All joints ache.
Nephritis.
Inflammations and increased secretion of mucous membranes.
Coryza. Pertussis.
Gangraena senilis, woman, age 80 (externally as a salve).
Phlegmasia alba dolens, after instrumental delivery.
Dropsy.
Brittle hoofs and falling out of hair, in horses.
Touch, Passive Motion, Injuries
Picking or sucking teeth: (>) toothache.
Touch: eyes sensitive to.
Rubbing: wants to rub eyes.
Pressure: (<) pain in swelling under l. ear.
Must grasp larynx.
Traumatic neuritis, pains violent and continuous, wearing out the patient.
After hurts and lesions, stiffness in back and periodic attacks, trismus and pain in chest.
Hurts do not heal.
Skin
Pricking, like from pins or needles, in skin, especially on head, on forehead, in brows, on throat and on r. arm.
Redness and itching of skin.
Nettle rash on thighs.
Measles, with strongly marked catarrhal symptoms.
Scarlatina, with characteristic running from nose and urinary symptoms.
Stages of Life, Constitution
Children. Coryza. Pertussis. Pneumonia.
Woman, aet. 80; senile gangrene.
An Old woman; whitlow.
Relations
Antidoted by: Arnic. (toothache), Chamom. (bellyache), Nux-vom. (coryza, recurring yearly in August; unpleasant sensations caused by handling peaches and some blossoming trees and plants; hay fever), Veratr. (colic with despondency), Thuja. (offensive breath and diarrhoea after eating onions).
Roasted coffee will remove onion breath.
Compatible: before Calc.ostr., and Silic. in polypus.
Incompatible: All-sat., Aloes, Scilla.
Complementary: Phosphor., Pulsat., Sarsap., Thuja.
Compare: Acon., Chlorine, Ipec.
Allium Cepa [All-c]
+ Common names Onion; (Germ) Zwiebelt; (Fr) Oignon
Introduction
Allium cepa, Willd.
Natural order: Liliaceae.
Preparation: Tincture from the red onion.
Mind
To Mandragora we may join the excessive use of garlic, onions, and leeks, because all physicians consider them very injurious, as occasioning deeply corrupted, malignant humidity, which inflame the blood, injure the eyes, the head, the brain, and stomach, predisposing to lethargy, sopor, somnolence, vertigo, epilepsy, and indeed insanity.
Onions go to the head with their acridity, and injure the brain, and if one eats too much of them they can indeed cause insanity and madness.
If many are eaten raw, they make a person foolish by reason of their aromas, which mount into the head.
If too many are eaten, the onion-juice takes away the senses, by reason of its great heat and acridity, and greatly injures the stomach.
I find something injurious in the onion, and consider the opinion of Spigelius well founded, that a too free and continued use of it as food causes disturbances of the brain.
Inexpressible anxiety, turning himself hither and thither full of the despair, with severe colic.
Pains with sore fingers, make him frantic.
Very melancholy, with catarrh.
In the afternoon, after wine and coffee, he was completely confused and absent-minded by much business, forgot and twisted everything in the utmost confusion (the fourth day).
He makes mistakes in spelling a foreign language.
Apathetic, mornings.
Working people take in the morning onions with bread and salt for the bad air, as they do treacle, but idlers are made foolish, melancholy, and sleepy by its use, Cardanus affirms that even the offspring of those who eat onions freely are disposed to insanity.
Head
Confusion of the head; with coryza.
Vertigo, etc.; (on rising up).
Head confused, especially in the forehead, after renewed eructations.
Confusion of the head, after it had risen up from the stomach into the throat.
Pain in both sides of the occiput, and a dull confusion from the crown backward and downward in the regions “conscientiousness” and “love of approbation;” continued the whole forenoon; went away in the evening after drinking beer.
Confusion in the occiput, first on both sides and towards the upper part, pressing down sideways, then behind the ears around the whole occiput (after one hour).
Pressure and confusion in the upper part of the occiput in the regions “conscientiousness,” “love of approbation,” and “caution,” the whole evening; better in the open air, worse on returning to the warm room (first day).
Headache.
But those in whom they produce headache should avoid them.
Make a decoction of leeks in water and bathe the head in it, for headache.
Raw, they are very injurious to the head and to the eyes.
They frequently excite headache in inflammatory constitutions.
They afflict the head and eyes, hence they should be avoided by those who study, and have a humid, weak head sight, and hearing.
If eaten too much, they cause headache.
Headache, better in the open air.
Headache, worse on return to the warm room, etc.
Headache in the room, evenings, with coryza.
Headache, with coryza.
Headache and coryza, worse evenings (fourth day).
Severe headache, with slight coryza.
Headache and gastric troubles.
Headache and yawning.
The whole head became hot (after cutting onions).
Heat of the head.
Heat and heaviness of the head, lasting from the forenoon till near evening; after cutting onions.
The head is full and heavy.
Fullness and heaviness in the head, as it were bound up, with flickering of the eyes.
Like electric shocks through the head.
Aching of the head.
Dullness in the head, with some coryza and lachrymation, in the evening on cutting onions.
Dull, oppressive pain in the head.
Heaviness in the head.
Oppressive headache over the eyes, frequently going through the head like an electric shock (the first day).
Pain in the forehead, with catarrh.
Stitches, as of needles, in the forehead.
Stitches over the whole left forehead, externally; they draw into the ear, the upper jaw, and the teeth of the same side (immediately after taking it); evenings.
Pains deep in the head over the left brow (after one hour).
Headache the next morning, especially in both temples.
Pains in; both temples, most severe in the right, aggravated by winking, afterward the pain extends over the forehead, worse on the left side.
As if swollen and heavy on the crown.
Pain left of the crown (after seventy minutes).
Headache, from both sides of the head, downward and inward toward the middle (after ten minutes).
Tingling pain behind the left mastoid process.
Headache in the region of the organ of “concentration, “.
Pains deep in the head, sticking to the ear.
Headache, first in the occiput, then in the forepart on the right side over the eye.
Headache on both sides of the occiput, afterwards in only two large round places in the upper posterior part of the head, in the region “love of approbation;” still later, a general and humming sensation of the part being asleep.
The pressure in the upper part of the occiput in the evening, became about eleven o’clock a sensation of being asleep; on touching it, he first noticed it was not in the scalp, but as if in the bone.
With pressive headache is the sensation, as if the whole head externally were wrapped up in warm water.
For alopecia, Hippocrates directed the spots to be rubbed with onion.
(The hair is made to grow by anointing the bald spots with onions). (It promotes the growth of hair in baldness better than Alcyonium). It may be used externally for making the hair grow, anointing the shaven head with it; the juice also makes the hair grow). (For promoting the growth of the hair, the head is washed at evening with French brandy which has stood over freshly cut onions). (Bald spots are to be rubbed with a cut onion till they are red, to make the hair grow).
Eyes
(Blue-eyed). (The eyes are no longer watery and dim; the sixth day; they have their natural lustre; the seventh day).
It causes biting in the eyes, irritates to tears (an undoubted action of onion).
At evening, on cutting up onions, there was a continual dropping from the eyes, then they become painful.
Pungent smell, biting, and weeping of the eyes, and sneezing, after taking it.
Causes lachrymation.
(The juice represses the excessive lachrymation).
The eyes water after a few hours (first day).
The left eye pains the next morning; fine stitches in it; after cutting the onions in the evening.
The lachrymation of the left eye, with coryza, was much greater, the eye was much redder, and more sensitive to the light than the right (first day).
Excessive lachrymation of the left eye, with redness of the eyeball, after frequent sneezing (third day).
The lachrymation is for the most part in the evening, in the warm room; the left eye weeps more, and also is more sensitive to the light.
Watering of the eyes and nose.
Lachrymation, with coryza.
Lachrymation (not excoriating), with coryza.
Burning in the outside of the right upper lid (after three minutes).
Burning in the lids.
As if there were smoke in the eyes under the upper lids, mostly in the night (the first day).
Redness of the lids, with catarrh.
After drinking coffee, an irritation on the left upper lid, which necessitates frequent rubbing; worse in the warm room, disappearing in the open air (the first day, and morning of the second).
Irritation of the left upper lid reappears very strikingly after the thirtieth.
Itching in the supraorbital region, more on the left side (after one hour).
Burning itching in the brows, the supraorbital region, and the upper lids; evening of the first day.
Heat in the left eyebrow.
Needle-stitches in the brows.
Pressive pain over the right eye (after twenty minutes).
Feeling of heaviness over both eyes and in the forehead; after a few minutes, lasting two hours. Pains in the eyes as if they would be torn out, as if the eye hung loose posteriorly, on a string, and could be bored into with the fingers and torn out.
Drawing pains in the left cheek, going into the interior of the left eye; better in the cold air (the second day).
Pain over the right eye to the root of the nose.
(Pain from the cheeks into the left eye). (Commencing ecchymoses in the eyes). (Ulcers, spots in the eyes). (Irritant affections of the eyes, used with ashes). (A stye is to be rubbed with a piece of raw onion). ( Swelling of the lids and around the eye, with coryza).
On becoming sleepy while reading, the letters appear to him very small (soon after the second dose).
Flickering and blinding before the eyes; everything dances hither and thither; therewith fullness and heaviness in the head, as if bound up; the whole head becomes hot, and feels swollen and heavy on the vertex, together with so much general weakness that she must lie down; after cutting onions.
A bright dazzling in the distance, and dimness nearby.
The eyes are sensitive to the light, particularly the left.
Cloudy sight by candlelight.
Ears
Pecking behind the right ear (after one minute).
Pains moving from deep within the head to the ears, like thick threads, about a finger in length, remaining in particular spots, from a pea to a hazel-nut in size (after fifty minutes).
Pain behind the ears deep within the head, from backward and inward to the ears; a sensation entirely new and peculiar to him (after one hour).
Stitches drawing from the left forehead into the ear.
Under the left ear a hard swelling the size of a hazel-nut, extending from over the angle of the lower jaw to the ear, from which pains go into the ear, especially on pressure.
A painful sensation from the throat to the ears (after five minutes).
Chilling, or burning twitching on the right side of the throat in the region of the Eustachian tube, then above it a kind of gnawing; neither painful (after one hour).
Pains in the throat drawing into the right ear.
The ears, the throat, especially about the root of the tongue, were decidedly affected (fifteen minutes after the second dose).
Stitches through the right ear the next morning. (Dropped into the ears, it removes the pains, as well as the roaring and ringing). (The heart of the onion is to be put into the ears for tearing in the ears). Ringing in the ears now and then; also soft, in both ears, as from sounds far distant (mostly in the right ear, from which he hears (fourth to seventh day).
Humming in the ears on lying down.
Roaring in the left ear, as heretofore only after a severe cold; afternoon of the first day.
Nose
Pain form over the right eye into the root of the nose. (Mixed with vinegar and put into the nose, it spots the bleeding, which the simple smell of the onion also does). (For nose-bleed, put onions on the neck).
At evening, walking in the street, increased dropping from the nose, quite unusual, from both nostrils, without the sensation of coryza (first day).
Copious watery discharge from the nose, and watering of eyes.
( Discharge of ichorous fluid from the nose in convalescing scarlet fever).
Crawling in the right nostril, as before sneezing; must frequently blow thin mucus out of the nose; one hour after one drop of the third (forenoon).
Frequent sneezing in the evening when he comes into a warm room (second day).
Sneezing.
Since collecting onions in the harvest, four years before, a brother and sister, each in the thirtieth year, experienced for the first time a coryza, recurring at the same time each year, and continuing two to three weeks; they would sneeze severely twenty to thirty times every morning, and were obliged to avoid peaches on account of their rough skin, as well as all flowering trees and plants (Nux vom. relieved very greatly, but still other medicines had to be administered).
The most violent sneezing, as if she would be torn to pieces, as soon as she steps out of bed.
In the evening, after drinking beer and eating herring, excessive thirst; heat and severe coryza, with much lachrymation, headache; acrid burning discharge from the nose, so that the upper lip became red and sensitive (first day).
Nasal discharge and headache, better in the open air, the first day; not so severe the next morning; at evening, worse in the room, distinctly relieved as soon as he goes into the open air, the second day; on awaking, very slight the third day; after repeating the dose, more severe.
Much irritation in the right nostril, soreness of the nose, sneezing, lachrymation, morning of the fourth and fifth days, with headache.
Some soreness of the nose yet (the eighth day).
Coryza, at times with stoppage, that she speaks “through the nose;” at times with profuse mucous discharge.
With coryza, trembling of the hands at evening.
Acrid discharge from the left nostril.
(After rapid alternations of cold and warm days, in November, 1852, a young lady complained that she had suffered for a few days from coryza; worse every evening.
Water ran profusely from the nose, she sneezed frequently, her head was confused, the lids and about the eyes were swollen, much lachrymation (not acrid, as in Euphrasia), frequent cough, tension in the upper part of the chest, loss of appetite.
She took Cepa in the evening, slept the whole night, was quite well the following day, and remained so ( Lippe).
(The nose is humid, with slight coryza, but with severe pain in the forehead, which this time was not relieved by lying, down, as is usually the case with her coryzas.
In a woman, 50 years old; better in the evening).
Fluent coryza, dropping clear water (on the right side, as usual with him); had not only lasted twelve hours, as customary, but many days, in spite of cold bathing; it disappeared within a few hours after Cepa.
Face
Expression of anxiety and despair with pain in the abdomen.
Pain in the right upper jaw like a thread in a nerve, which goes from above downwards, from the median line to the side, deep with the bone, at evening, the first day.
The pain in the right upper jaw on lying down in the evening, extends on the morning of the second day, from the nose outward and downward.
Drawing stitches from the left forehead into the upper jaw.
Severe pains (like neuralgia), from the upper half of the right eye to the root of the nose.
Drawing pains in the left cheek, extending into the left eye (third day). (Paralysis of the left half of the face, which is also somewhat noticed in the limbs of the same side, together with altogether too copious secretion of urine).
Spots warmer than usual on the right cheek (after fifty minutes).
Heat, especially in the face, every time after eating onions; several sisters.
Heat of the face in the evening. (Facial erysipelas).
Parree produced a nettle-rash eruption on the face and on the body, also on many in the family).
Swelling of the cheeks with toothache.
The upper lip is red and sensitive from the acrid nasal discharge.
Mouth
Pecking in the two hindermost back teeth (after three minutes).
In the first upper teeth, right side, sensitive drawing from the root to the crown (after thirty minutes); later, the same feeling in the corresponding teeth on the left side (the first day).
Pressive toothache in the right upper and lower back teeth, with the inclination to bore the tongue into and suck them, which relieves, lasting an hour; after traveling against the northwest wind, the fifth day; again the sixth day, after going against the northwest wind. Slight pressure in the right back teeth on going into a warm room.
At breakfast (with warm cocoa), painful; relieved by cold water (the seventh day).
At breakfast, the back teeth pain from eating bread, so that only soft food can be eaten.
A pressive pain remains for some time afterward.
Toward noon, the pain disappears on the right side, and settles in the root of the left eye-tooth; the gum around the root is inflamed; the pain frequently ceases suddenly and commences in an instant in a right back tooth; in the eye-tooth it is pressive, growling; cold water, cold in general relieves (the eighth day).
The pressive toothache comes on after walking against the north wind, is relieved by poking and sucking with the tongue; is much aggravated on eating warm soup, and disappears after a swallow of cold water; always the same after repeated experiments.
Pressive pain the root of the left eye-tooth disturbs the sleep, with excessive heat in the cheeks; towards morning, remission and sweat; the cheeks feel swollen (ninth day).
During sleep, feeling as if the back teeth were too long, with some pain; disappears on rising; two nights.
Drawing stitches form the left forehead into the teeth.
Immediately after eating onions, raging pain attacks a broken tooth.
Arnica, high in water, relieved just as speedily.
The teeth are a smutty yellow in the morning, they remain so the whole day, in one who has very white and wound teeth; continues three to five days.
The tongue has a foul coat, especially in the morning, on the back part, the third day; slimy, the fifth day.
The tongue is furred the next morning.
Dryness at the root of the tongue, on the right side.
Mouth and tongue as if scalded.
Pains under the tongue; at the lower insertion of the frenum it is surrounded with a half circle of small sore elevations, the next morning and the whole day.
The mouth is not as coated in the morning (the second day).
Dryness in the mouth, without thirst.
It causes an offensive breath ( general experience).
(Onions remove the bad taste in the mouth). (Onions remove the offensive breath). (The juice is of service in putrid sore mouths). (Antiscorbutic).
It has a sweet and aromatic acrid taste.
Sweet and nauseous taste after taking it, and so also on the third day.
On awaking, nauseous taste, the third day and morning of the fifth.
A sickly-sweet taste, also again, after the thirtieth, though in a less degree.
Burning taste, more on the gums and upper part. (Loss of taste).
Throat
The throat was decidedly affected, after fifteen minutes.
A constrictive pain in the forepart of the throat, low down in the region of the os hyoides, after five or six minutes; low down posteriorly on the right side, after seven minutes.
Drawing pain in the left side of the throat, relieved by cold air (second day).
Some redness on the back part of the palate on the right side.
Pain in the throat extending to the ear.
In the throat and orifice of the Eustachian tube, chilling or burning twitching and gnawing, not painful.
Heat low in the pharynx, extending into the stomach.
Pain in the throat below the larynx, as after swallowing too large a mouthful, or as if swollen; the pains extend every little while into the right ear; the whole afternoon, coming on after midday, ten drops.
In the pharynx, the feeling as if the food remained stuck behind the breast-bone.
Throat-ache, as if there was a lump in the throat, which is sore, but only on swallowing and elevating the tongue, the next morning (twenty-four hours).
(In chronic difficulty of deglutition, like a “ball in the throat,” she brought up a lump of mucus and was then relieved).
Throat-ache as after taking cold. (Soreness of the throat with catarrh).
A sense of nausea extending into the throat.
A benumbed feeling in the back part of the throat, persistent (first day).
Great dryness of the soft palate after breakfast, continuing two hours and a half (first day).
With great dryness of both nostrils, considerable thirst; white, frothy, tasteless mucus collects in the fauces, which is easily expectorated without cough.
Dryness in the throat.
He hawks up mucus which has a sweetish, nauseous taste, the third day.
Toward evening, collection of mucus behind the choanae.
In the posterior fauces, in the choanae, and on the posterior surface of the soft palate, a soft bland mucus constantly collects, which compels one either to swallow or hawk it up; evening of the first day.
In the morning, a raw feeling in the fauces, with tickling in the region of the epiglottis, first on the right, then on the left side; together with a sensation of weakness in the stomach, very annoying hiccough, and uprising of frothy salivary mucus fluid; eructation to backing to relieve the tickling in the larynx.
After breakfast, severe pain in the right ankle, and rumblings in the abdomen (second day).
(Diminished secretion of mucus in the throat, with chronic catarrh of the fauces).
Mucus in the fauces.
Stomach
(Loss of appetite with coryza, Lippe).
Onions promote an appetite, but if one eats too many they cause revulsion of the stomach.
The appetite is increased.
The appetite is excited even to canine hunger.
They produce an appetite which, however, disappears immediately as soon as he begins to eat; food is disgusting to him.
The priests were forbidden its use because it produced thirst.
Onions excite thirst.
Thirst excessive, with stomach-ache; with tympanitis.
Thirst, with heat, evenings, with coryza; after chilliness; after flushes of heat at evening. (Nausea).
A horrible deathly nausea in the stomach, with very slight eructations which, however, relieve somewhat; every day after eating; in one who did not know what she took.
Feeling of nausea after fifteen minutes.
Nausea in the posterior part of the throat, is forced up as with a thrust, after thirty minutes.
Nausea seems more properly to be seated in the stomach; very soon.
Nausea.
Slight warmth in the abdomen and squeamishness, soon after taking it.
Squeamishness and slight attacks of nausea from the bowels up into the throat, then slight confusion of the head; soon.
There are some who, smelling onions in a distant kitchen, taste them in their mouth, so that afterwards everything tastes of them and produces nausea. (Nausea on becoming erect).
Frequent eructations; he tastes onions in the afternoon, after taking four drops of the tincture in the morning.
Immediately after eating onions, long-continued eructations, but not after the tincture.
At evening, eructations of wind; flashes of heat over the whole body, and thirst (the fourth day).
Eructations still incessant on the morning of the fifth day, without repetition of the dose.
Eructations of wing; with distension of the abdomen; with rumblings.
Slight eructations relieves the horrible nausea in the stomach. (It stops sour eructations).
Even the smell of onions makes her vomit; she cannot swallow the tincture in water; it came up again, she is so averse to it.
Vomiting frothy, slimy fluid.
Vomiting, and disease which resulted in death, after eating onions.
Annoying hiccough.
Stimulates digestion.
Irritates the stomach and promotes digestion; excessive use, however, gives rise to dyspeptic troubles.
Raw onions give rise to injurious secretions in the stomach, thirst, inflammation, flatulence, and headache.
Feeling of emptiness, and drawings back and forth in the stomach, with some pain.
Sense of weakness in the stomach.
Pain on the left side of the stomach.
Oft-repeated pressure deep within the epigastrium, as i;f it were at the orifice of the stomach, and on the posterior side; evening at ten (the first day).
Dull pain below the breast-bone, more to the right side, on moving in bed; evening at ten (after five minutes).
Pain below the sternum on stooping, morning.
Pain in the region of the pylorus.
Pressure in the stomach and fullness in the head.
Pressure in the stomach.
Pressure in the stomach and yawning.
Heat extending into the stomach. After dinner all the symptoms vanish (after one and a half hours).
After supper the symptoms again disappears as after dinner, the first day.
Distension of the abdomen before dinner.
Pain in the bowels, worse after eating.
Abdomen
Pressive pain in the hepatic region, which extends through the whole abdomen.
The pains seat themselves for some time in the right hypochondrium, with which are cold shudders down the back, so that he can scarcely get warm, evening at nine (third day).
Stitches in the left side, toward evening the first day, morning of the second day, worse on lying the fourth day.
Contractive pain in the left hypochondrium, with the sensation of wind moving about.
Pain about the navel, an hour after dinner (3 P.M).
Pain in the umbilical region.
The pains in the bowels are most severe while sitting; on moving about there is passage of flatus and relief to the pains (the first day).
Half an hour after drinking coffee, in the afternoon, the pains in the bowels returned more severe, mostly in the left inguinal region, more pressing than burning, but with heat in the abdomen (second day).
With rumbling in the abdomen, the pains return more severe than before, with passage of much flatus; morning of the third day after the second dose.
Flatulent colic.
Pain in the abdomen and shoulder (right half ).
Pains in the abdomen, worse every time after eating.
Pain in the left side of the abdomen, as though he had punched himself in this place.
On walking, a sudden burning or chilling cutting a pain thin as a thread in the hypogastrium, from both sides inward toward the middle and upward (after one hour).
Burning glow or chilling sensation, as if scattered, with confused feeling in the right side of the abdomen; thereupon slight passage of half-loud very offensive onion flatus (after an hour and a half).
A warm or chilling sensation, as if a glow within beat against the abdomen, on the right side, and over the external and upper part of both thighs; evening of the first day from nine to ten.
Repeated later.
The sensation was as if a glowing heat beat against one, but without the same heat, only warmth.
Heat in the abdomen, with pain.
In pelvic region, internally on right side, above and inside of the groin, very severe pressure on a small spot; it seems to be on the inside of the pelvic cavity.
After twenty minutes, like a violent plain on a small spot, deep in the right side of the pelvis; evenings (first day).
Violent pains, like cuttings with very small knives, with a twisting motion deep in above the left groin, midway on line between the symphysis pubis and anterior superior spinous process of the ilium.
This pain moves, turning here and there in a small space; never had the like before (fourth and fifth days).
Pains in the left flank (second day).
Burning pressure in region of bladder; soon afterward in the small of the back (10 P.M., first day).
Pressive pains deep in pelvis (in prostate ).
Periodic pains in the pubic region, worse on sitting (the first day).
Sticking and pressive pain in posterior inguinal ring and spermatic cord (immediately).
(Hernia in left groin protruded and strangulated, Lippe).
Ate some small onions; in four hours, indefinable anxiety; walks about, and finally, full of apprehension, throws himself on the bed, and soon gets up again; constant violent pains in left side of abdomen, more in middle and lower part of abdomen and in region of bladder, with troubles in urinating, and no stool; violent thirst; in face, expression of anxiety and doubt; skin hot, especially in the painful and sensitive places; pulse somewhat accelerated, full, hard.
Woman, 40 years old, after eating cooked onion; the hernia in the left groin much protruded and strangulated; very severe pains from high up in the left side of the hypochondrium drew towards the incarcerated hernia; very restless; much fever, etc.; the hernia returned after a single dose of Aconite, and no farther remedies were necessary ( Lippe).
Pain, drawing from the region of the liver through the whole abdomen.
Colic, gastric, wind and hemorrhoidal colic; in more than twenty cases, by a physician who was severely attacked on a journey, and without other remedies, seeing a string of onions hanging up, took (with a Rademacherian intuitive remedial instinct) one of the largest of string, and devoured it with true canine hunger, and suddenly is enchanted by being free from colic.
Loeffler). (Colic after immoderate eating.
Loeffler). (Frequent pains in bowels in the summer, especially if he has eaten cucumbers, salad, or the like; this relieves nearly every time, and a second dose in rarely needed).
(In colic of children often useful). (Ascites (11 years old); roasted and rubbed in as a salve, with goose grease; even after twenty-four hours’ use, the water flowed from her by the quart; she became weak, that she was despaired of, but she rallied, and there was no relapse after six years.
Franks Mag).
Flatulent distension of the abdomen.
If too many are eaten, they distend the abdomen and cause flatulence. (Removes flatulence).
Make bad blood, afford little nourishment, puff up the abdomen, cause thirst, injure the bile.
Cooked, they become milder and sweeter, but still cause flatulence (Hahnemann).
Flatulence from raw onions.
In one woman, raw onions always caused much wind in the stomach, and eructations; cooked onions, never.
Immediately eructations of wind, then confusion of the head, especially in the forehead, and distension of the abdomen; afterwards urgency to stool, but only passage of wind, with weak feeling in the limbs, and at evening free expectoration of mucus; the distension of the abdomen continued till the next day, and ended with a diarrhoea, when all the other symptoms also disappeared (from fifty drops of tincture several times repeated).
Continued eructations, nausea, and pressure in the stomach, with rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, especially on the left side, where there is stitching and rumbling, and urgency to stool, which is ineffectual.
Rumbling in the abdomen, with passage of much wind through the anus, preceded by a sensation of heat and frequent eructations (soon after taking, the first day).
Frequent eructations, abdomen distended and painful; relieved every time after passing wind downwards, with internal heat (first day). Sensation as if the abdomen were much swollen, with sharp pain and oppression of breathing before and after diarrhoea.
Rumbling in the transverse colon, evenings, and sudden urgency to stool.
Rumbling in the bowels, with stomach-ache; epigastrium after breakfast; in left side of lower bowels.
The abdomen is distended before dinner, so that the clothes seem too tight (after one hour).
Lower abdomen very heavy, as if it were pressed upon, before and after standing; disappeared after bathing (the ninth day).
Heonionated (Zwiebelt) (Popular expression); the young people in Upper Lusatia say, if they wish to express themselves politely, “he has made a mistake” (Zweifelt)), without knowing how analogous the abdominal mistake is to the scientific.
Both are criticizable (Grimm).
Very offensive flatus, and moist; mornings.
Offensive flatus, with loud passage (after fifty minutes).
Frequent flatus, difficult to pass; evenings (the first day).
Flatus difficult to press out, odorless (the first day).
Frequent passage of flatus at a night.
Offensive, moist flatus (first day).
Frequent passage of flatus without pain.
Less passage of wind in the morning and all day; the few passages are (contrary to all habit) very offensive.
Exceptionally little flatus, almost none, in one who is accustomed to pass a great deal every morning, though he has eaten apples the previous evening according to his custom (the second and subsequent days); this diminished emission of flatus, mornings, and its offensive odor, lasted for over a year, after which the flatus was as odorless and abundant as before.
Pain in bowels relieved after passing wind.
Stool and Anus
Promotes defecation.
Soft evacuations without pain.
If he eats onions in the evening, he becomes sleepy, and his eyes heavy; the next morning, he has a regular and satisfactory stool.
After eating food seasoned with onions always diarrhoea, either the next night or towards morning.
Feeling of diarrhoea in the bowels, and soft stool without diarrhoea.
Purging (the third day and later).
Purging (third to seventh day), also nights.
Diarrhoea following distension of the abdomen, whereupon all troubles disappear. (Diarrhoea after midnight and toward morning).
Absence of evacuations, with most severe bellyache.
Difficult evacuation of faeces (at the usual time after breakfast); though without hard faeces, still he had to strain very hard (the third day).
The stool fails (the third day).
Stool on the morning of the fourth day, long and thick. (No stool for many days, with catarrh.
Satisfactory stools in the morning, in constipated habits.
Since an intermittent fever and large doses of China, two years previous, the prover had infrequent evacuations (four to eight days, without feeling the slightest desire); they occurred mostly at evening; since the proving, for a year and a half, he has had a stool nearly every morning, only very seldom omitting for two or three days.
Strong urging and pressure for a soft stool at the usual time (five or six days).
Sudden urging to stool, with rumbling.
Urging to stool, with rumbling in bowels, but nothing passes.
Urging to stool but only passage of wind.
A very painful stitch extends along the rectum down into its lower part (afternoons).
With an evacuation, it seems as if there were cracks on the inside of the anus (morning of seventh day).
In the anus, and some protruding hemorrhoids, a cold creeping, like a cool worm, more on left side (after one hour and later).
Biting in anus.
Blood passes with the stool (tenth to twelfth day); (had not happened since he proved Lithium).
Urinary Organs
Dull pains in right kidney region, and a very uncomfortable feeling of fullness in the bladder, with frequent urging to urinate (second day).
Most violent pains in region of bladder and uterus.
Pressure in the bladder.
Irritability of the bladder, and pain over the kidney region.
Very uncomfortable feeling of fullness in the bladder and urgency to urinate.
Pain in region of the bladder and in left side of abdomen.
(Weak feeling in bladder and urethra).
Very pleasant sensation of warmth in the urethra, without erections or sexual desire.
Copious urinating (afternoons).
Urgency to urinate and feeling of fullness in the bladder.
( Frequent urinating, with catarrh).
Frequent urinating, with burning in the urethra; the urine very red (second day); all day, still oftener evenings (third day); especially with shuddering and chilliness.
Frequent excessive urging to urinate, with dribbling burning discharge.
Is obliged to pass even small amounts of urine; this ceased after a few days, but again returned and remained a long time.
Urinating is more difficult.
Iridescent film on the urine in two cases.
Urine very frothy, but clear; the forth remains longer than usual.
Very red urine; with reddish-yellow, sandy sediment. (In albuminuria it relieved the frequent urinating, and even diminished the amount of albumen). (Pressure with the hand on the bladder increases the child’s cries). (Sensitiveness of the bladder and pain in the region of the kidneys, weak feeling of the bladder and urethra of long duration (cured by six doses). ( Polyuria). (Difficult micturition from spasmodic closure of the bladder).
Spasmodic strangury after getting the feet and bowels cold).
(Roasted and bound on to the navel; popular remedy). ( Dribbling or spurting urine in old people).
Sexual Organs
Increases coition and arouses sexual desire.
Increases virility.
Increases desire.
Mornings on waking, erections with painful tension, without sexual desire (eighth, ninth, and tenth days).
Drawings in right spermatic cord (first day).
Pain from inguinal ring along spermatic cord.
Burning in urethra.
Burning pain in forepart of the glans.
On account of weakness in the hips, he cannot finish coition, even after two or three repeated attempts (first day).
Pressive pains in bladder and prostate, deep in the pelvis, the next morning and forenoon, after coitus (fourth, fifth, and sixth days).
Violent pains in uterine region.
Brings on menses.
Brings on menses, but not very strong.
Juice mixed with wine brings on menses.
Shoved into the womb brings on menstruation.
Eaten raw, it expedites menstruation.
Expels urine and menses.
Macerated in vinegar it brings on menses.
Respiratory Apparatus
Tickling in the epiglottis.
Tickling in the larynx, with copious and troublesome collection of mucus in the fauces.
Tickling in the throat, with aching in the larynx.
Hoarseness.
(Hoarseness in spring).
Throbbing in larynx, and sensation as if it contracted.
Cannot breathe freely evenings; an obstruction in the middle of the chest, in the upper part.
Asthmatic breathing, as often before, at 11 P.M., after smoking tobacco.
Oppression of breathing, with ascites.
Relieved asthma and caused copious sweat. ( Pressure in the upper part in the middle of the chest, makes respiration difficult).
On deep inspiration, sticking i n the left side.
On inspiring cold air hacking cough.
Dryness and tickling in the throat, and hacking cough mornings (fourth day).
Constant inclination to hack in order to relieve tickling in the larynx. (Tickling in the throat and cough). (Short cough, which plagued him very much for a week). ( Violent catarrh in a boy, after northeast wind and rainy weather, eyes suffused, lids very red, as from crying and rubbing them; nose dropping, throat sore, and some cough). ( A severe cold, frequent sneezing, lachrymation, pain in forehead, acrid discharge from left nostril, hacking cough on inspiring cold air, cold alternates with heat; no stool for several days). ( Violent catarrhal laryngitis; the hoarse cough seemed to split and tear the larynx; cause watering of the eye, etc).
Chest
Pain in chest.
Pain in the chest, as though the food had remained lodged behind the sternum.
Stitches in the left chest with burning pain. ( The sticking pains in the left side are aggravated by every deep inspiration).
Sticking pain in various parts of the chest; most in region of cartilages of the fifth and sixth ribs. (Flitting pains in chest). (Tension in upper part of chest, with coryza and cough).
Heart and Pulse
Pulse accelerated, full, hard, with stomachache; excited nights.
Pulse harder evenings, only 82-84 beats (first day).
Neck and Back
Shiverings in the back.
Pains a hand’s breadth below the right shoulder, more towards the spine, after long sitting. (Pain of the right shoulder-blade, on lying in bed).
Stitches in lumbar region.
Pains in the loins, as he used to have if he had no stool for several days (third day).
Burning pressure in small of back.
Pain in region of left kidney, afterwards less severe in the right (first day), the following days in the left.
Aching in region of left kidney.
Dull pains in right kidney region, and a very uncomfortable feeling of fullness in the bladder, with frequent urging to urinate (second day).
(Pain in region of kidneys). (Pains over the region of kidneys).
Extremities in General
In all the limbs, especially on both arms, sore as if it were all scratched off, with tired feeling therein.
Rheumatic pains in the joints.
Troubles as after taking cold; the next day, pains in all the bones, aching in the throat, prostration, etc.
Restlessness in all the limbs; cannot hold them still.
Weak sensation in the limbs, with flatulent troubles. Neuralgia of the stump (after amputation), violent burning stinging pains. (Tincture).
Upper Extremities
Pain in shoulder and abdomen.
Sweat in axilla.
Weak sensation, especially in the arms.
A stitch run through the right arm, from the shoulder-blade to the elbow, with burning pain.
Needle stitches in the arms.
Numb sensation in the left elbow-joint, worse on slight motion (forenoons).
Numb sensation in left elbow-joint, with headache.
In right elbow-joint, pain as from a blow, seventh day at noon.
Painful affection of the left forearm especially in the radius on resting on the arm in writing; evenings (first day).
Pains in the middle of the left radius, disappears on taking hold of it and rubbing, but returns (second day).
Pains in the right wrist, on the back, and extensor side, evenings (first day).
Lameness in the joints of left hand.
Trembling of right hand, so that he can hardly write, evenings, with coryza (first day).
Trembling of right hand (also after X again).
Dry, red hands, as if he had been in the cold (third day).
Pain in left middle finger.
Pain in right fourth and fifth finger (soon).
Voluptuous, corrosive itching, especially on the palmar side of the left thumb, from the first to second phalanx, not on the ball, lasts all evening, till after 10 P.M. (first day).
Sweat of palm of hand.
Lower Extremities
Excessive tired feeling in the region of the hips, late in the evening, on rising from sitting, on walking, especially on going up steps (first day).
Weakness in the hips, nights.
Bruised pain in left thigh, in lower part on the side, very near the knee (first hour).
Pain, almost burning pressure in upper part of left thigh, toward the outer side (after seventy minutes).
Pain in left thigh, on the outer side, very near the knee, like the pain in the ankle (one and a half hours).
On the outer side and upper part of both thighs, a glowing sensation.
Nettle-rash on both thighs down to the knees, with heat; on rubbing, they itch, and at upper part, there are hard round pimples; in lower part, marbled spots; after a cold and other troubles.
Shooting pains in left leg and right foot.
Paralytic pains in the knee-joint.
Stitches in the right knee, as if coming from the bones, from within, extending outward, in front.
Burning pressure in the middle of the left lower leg, on a small spot externally, then on the right, just the same, but low down, evenings (first day).
Severe pains in right ankle, mornings.
Pains in left ankle (after one hour).
Burning pains around the left outer ankle, afterward lower down, and a burning pressure externally, then also internally (after one and a quarter hours).
Pains in the right foot, evenings (first day).
Painful twitching on inner side of left heel.
Pain in the most external soft parts of the right great toe, and also in the left middle finger.
Violent ticking pain in the metatarsal bones of the left great toe, repeated and becomes continued; evenings (first day).
(Places on the outside of the left ankle, rubbed sore and inflamed, and very painful, speedily cured, after other things tried in vain).
Generalities
Attacks at once the whole body, and causes a shock, with eructations of wind.
The whole body is set into a revolution which the prover is not in a condition to describe.
Such weakness over and over, that she must lie down.
Deathly faintness after profuse micturition.
Skin
External redness and itching of the skin.
A slight corrosive itching here and there, with which are little points, which cannot be very well described or seen; an indefinite desire to be rubbed or washed, but still a severe, distinct sensation, evenings, worse sitting still after going out (first day).
Stitches, as with needles, in the skin, especially on the head, on the forehead, in the brows, in the throat, and on right arm. (Nettle-rash on the thigh).
A wart between the left shoulder and side of neck begins to pain the next morning, is red and scratched off.
Fever
Unusual chilliness.
Frequent cold shivers creep along the back (first day).
Cold creepings along the back (fifth day).
Shivers down the back, especially nights in bed; he wants always more covering; therewith, he feels feverish in all his veins, and has sweat, especially in the axilla and in palms.
(Young man who did not know what he took).
Cold shivers down the back, with liver-pains (evenings).
Shivering and chilliness, with increased urinating.
Internal coldness, with subsequent heat and great thirst, which continues into the night (third day).
(Coldness alternates with heat, in catarrh).
It is injurious, by overheating.
Increased warmth of the skin.
Feverish through all the veins, with shivering in the back.
The juice arouses the circulation (Hahnemann).
Flitting heat now and then.
Internal heat, with rumbling in abdomen.
Heat in the head, on the head, in brows, in face in cheeks, in throat, down to stomach, in bowels.
Heat, with coryza, evenings, alternating with cold, and flitting heat over the whole body, and thirst, evenings.
Heat and thirst after coldness.
After eating onions, he feels as after taking cold; feverish, especially evenings, with heat in the face; tongue and mouth feel burnt and dry, without thirst; drinks only a small quantity, with restlessness in all the limbs, so that he cannot hold them still; the next day the tongue is coated.
Heat, without thirst, at 2 A.M., disappears mornings, worse again after breakfast.
Unusual sweating while working.
Sweat breaks out after larger doses, in three cases.
Sweat in axilla and palms.
Copious sweat. (Internal fever always produced and renewed from too much walking.
Wakes nights at 2 A.M., with excited pulse; cannot sleep again till morning; without any chill, only heat without thirst; disappears mornings, but is worse again for a few hours after breakfast; afterwards very much prostrated; Phosph., without result; Cepa cured).
Sleep and Dreams
With the sleepiness, near objects seem distant.
Much yawning, with headache and pressure in stomach.
Frequent internal, but not very deep, yawning (evenings) (first day).
Midnight, very sleepy, soon falling asleep; not easily disturbed sleep (first day).
If one eats much, it causes lethargy, a deep overpowering sleep.
Sopor.
Excessive use causes sopor.
Heavy sleep, sopor, lethargy, follow its use.
Causes heavy dreams, especially in those who have been lately ill.
Who will have pleasant dreams must eat a raw onion before going to sleep, without supper.
Constant dreams of battles, fights, precipices, storms at sea, and difficulty in reaching the coast, of deep wells, and efforts to get out of them.
Dreams of being near water two nights in succession.
Restless sleep, with swarming dreams.
Sleep disturbed by toothache.
During sleep, teeth feel too long.
Wakes at 2 A.M., with excited pulse; can no more sleep.
Mornings, after rising, sleepy and disinclined to work; every day.
Sleepy, mornings.
On waking, nauseous taste.
Conditions Aggravation
(Morning), Apathetic; sleepy; flatulence; erections, etc.; dry throat and cough; pain in ankle.
(Afternoon, after wine and coffee), Confused and absent-minded, etc.
(Evening), All catarrhal symptoms and pains; heat of face; eructation of wind; flashes of heat and thirst; pulse harder; pains in foot; heat and thirst; mucus behind choanae.
(Night), Passage of flatus.
(Nights, in bed), Shivers, etc.
(After midnight), Diarrhoea.
(In open air), Dropping from nose.
(In bed), Pain under breast-bone.
(Bending forward), Pain under breast-bone renewed.
(After breakfast), Dryness of soft palate.
(Breathing deeply), Sticking in side.
(Breathing cold air), Cough.
(In cold air), Coryza; pains in cheek and eye.
(After coffee), Eye symptoms; stomach-ache.
(After renewed eructations), Confusion of head.
(After eating), Pain in bowels.
(Lying), Pain in left side.
(Lying down), Roaring in ears.
(Motion), Passage of flatus, relieving stomach-ache.
(Motion of eyelids), Pain in temples.
(Slight motion), Elbow-joint feels numb.
(On resting the arm in writing), Pain in left forearm, etc.
(In room), Lachrymation and running from nose.
(Sitting), Pains in bowels; pain in pubic region.
(Sitting still), catarrhal troubles; itching of the skin, etc.
(After long sitting), Pain in back below right shoulder.
(Eating warm soup), Toothache.
(After too much walking), Renewed paroxysm of intermittent fever.
(On ascending steps), Hips tired.
(Warmth), Toothache.
(Warm room, on returning to), Pressure in head, sneezing, etc.; toothache; twitchings in upper lid; lachrymation; headache; catarrhal troubles.
(Northeast wind and rainy weather), Violent catarrh.
(Northwest wind, riding in), Toothache.
Amelioration
(Afternoons and evenings), Often quite well.
(In open air), Pains in limbs; pressure in head; pain in head; twitching in upper lids; catarrhal troubles.
(Bathing), Heaviness in bowels.
(Cold), Toothache; pain in throat.
(In cold air), Pains in cheek.
(In cool room), Catarrhal troubles.
(Cold water), Toothache.
(Passage of flatus, on motion), Stomach-ache; pain in bowels.
| Rubrics: 382 | All-c [1097/382] | Total |
| [Complete ] [Mind]ABSENT-MINDEDNESS:Afternoon:Coffee, after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]ABSENT-MINDEDNESS:Afternoon:Wine, after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]ABSENT-MINDEDNESS:Sleepiness, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]CONFUSION OF MIND:Afternoon:Coffee agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]CONFUSION OF MIND:Afternoon:Wine, after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]DREAMS:Vexatious:Convalescence, during: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]FULLNESS:Occiput:Coughing agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]PAIN, HEADACHE:Evening:Agg.:Coryza, in: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]PAIN, HEADACHE:Winking: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]PAIN, HEADACHE:Temples:Winking, on: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]PERSPIRATION:Pricking, vertex, while eating: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Eyes]IRRITATION:Lids:Upper, left: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Eyes]LACHRYMATION:Pain, with:Larynx, in: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]CORYZA:Chilliness:After: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]CORYZA:Peaches, from odor of: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]CORYZA:Singers and public speakers: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]CORYZA:Weather:Windy, in:Cold:Wet: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]CORYZA:Weather:Windy, in:Damp, wet: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]CORYZA:Weather:Windy, in:North east: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]CORYZA:Whooping cough, in: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]DISCHARGE:Singers and public speakers, in: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]DISCHARGE:Acrid, corrosive, excoriating:Left:Right, to: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]DISCHARGE:Acrid, corrosive, excoriating:Lachrymation, with bland: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]DISCHARGE:Profuse:Room, warm, agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]LIGHTNESS, ROOT: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]SNEEZING:Evening:Agg.:Room, on entering warm: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Nose]SNEEZING:Inspiration agg.:Deep: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mouth]NAUSEA:Rising agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mouth]PAIN:Constricting, tongue, low down in region of hyoid bone: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Teeth]PAIN, TOOTHACHE:Alternating:Coryza, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Throat]CHOKING, CONSTRICTING:Hyoideum, region of: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Throat]JERKING:Extending to:Eustachian tube: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Throat]SWALLOWING:Constant disposition:Lump in throat, from:Large: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Abdomen]PAIN:Cucumbers, after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Abdomen]PAIN:Hypogastrium:Coition, after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Bladder]URINATION:Frequent:Catarrh, in: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Larynx & Trachea]PAIN:Splitting: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Larynx & Trachea]PAIN:Splitting:Larynx, during cough: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Cough]INFLUENZA:During:Autumn: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Cough]WHOOPING:Evening:Lying agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Chest]INFLAMMATION:Bronchial tubes, bronchitis:Left:Right, to: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Back]PAIN:Dorsal region:Scapulae:Below:Right:Sitting:After: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Extremities]EXCORIATION:Feet:Heels: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Extremities]MILK LEG, PHLEGMASIA ALBA DOLENS, PHLEBITIS:Delivery, parturition, after, puerperal:Forceps delivery, after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Extremities]PAIN:Sore, bruised:Scratched off, as if: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Extremities]PAIN:Sore, bruised:Scratched off, as if:Upper limbs: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Generalities]FOOD AND DRINKS:Onions:Amel.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Generalities]FOOD AND DRINKS:Peaches:Agg.:Odor of: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Generalities]PAIN:Burning, smarting:Amputation, after, phantom pain: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Generalities]PAIN:Neuralgic:Thread, like a: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Generalities]PAIN:Stitching:Amputation, after, phantom pain: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Generalities]PAIN:Torn:Pieces, to, as if, asunder:Sneezing agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Generalities]YAWNING:Near objects seem distant, when: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Head]PAIN,HEADACHE IN GENERAL:Winking: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Eye]TEARS:Bland: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Nose]CORYZA:Peaches,from the odor of: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Nose]CORYZA:Wind,caused by :North-east,after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Nose]DISCHARGE:Excoriating:Left nostril,from: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Nose]DISCHARGE:Excoriating:Bland discharge from eyes,with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Mouth]PAIN:Constricting tongue,low down in region of hyoid bone: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Throat]CHOKING,CONSTRICTING (SEE LARYNX):Os hyoids,region of: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Abdomen]PAIN:Aching,dull pain (see Boring,Gnawing,etc.):Hypogastrium:Coition,after: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Abdomen]PAIN:Aching,dull pain (see Boring,Gnawing,etc.):Umbilicus:Walking:Amel: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Abdomen]PAIN:Cramping,griping:Wet,getting feet: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Bladder]PAIN:Coition,after: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Larynx and Trachea]PULSATING,LARYNX: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Back]PAIN:Dorsal region:Scapulae:Right:Lying,while: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Kent ] [Back]PAIN:Dorsal region:Scapulae:Right:Under:Sitting,after: | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Mind]ABSENTMINDED, (SEE FORGETFUL) :Coffee, after : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Mind]EXCITEMENT, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL :Alternates, with:Prostration, mental : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Abdomen]PAIN, HYPOGASTRIUM :Sex, after : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Abdomen]PAIN, UMBILICUS :Walking, while :Amel. : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Back]PAIN, SCAPULA, PAIN :Right :Lying, while : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Back]PAIN, SCAPULA, UNDER :Right, under :Sitting, after : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Bladder]PAIN, BLADDER :Sex, after : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Clinical]AMPUTATION, PAIN, PHANTOM PAINS :Neuralgia, of stump :Burning, stinging : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Clinical]GALLSTONE, PAIN, COLIC FROM :Abdomen, spreading, over : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Clinical]GANGRENE, GENERAL :Senile :Women, elderly : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Cough]HANDS, HOLDING ON,:Larynx : | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Eyes]READING, INABILITY FROM WEAK EYES, (SEE VISION, CHAPTER) :Letters, on blackboard, cannot see :Smaller, appear :Coryza, in : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Fevers]YELLOW, FEVER :Stomach weak :Craves raw onions : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Gallbladder]GALLSTONE, PAIN, COLIC FROM :Abdomen, spreading, over : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Generals]AMPUTATION, PAIN, PHANTOM PAINS :Neuralgia, of stump :Burning, stinging : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Generals]PAIN, GENERAL :Colic, pain :Spreading, over abdomen : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Headache]WINKING : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Hearing]TINNITUS, HEARING, (SEE NOISES IN EARS, RINGING) :Whooping cough, in : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Limbs]AMPUTATION, PAIN, PHANTOM PAINS :Neuralgia, of stump :Burning, stinging : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Liver]PAIN, LIVER :Abdomen, spreading over : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Nose]CORYZA, GENERAL, (SEE COLDS) :Peaches, from the odor of : | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Nose]CORYZA, GENERAL, (SEE COLDS) :Wind, caused by, cold west :North east, after : | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Nose]DISCHARGE, NASAL, (SEE CORYZA):Excoriating :Bland, discharge from eyes, with : | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Nose]DISCHARGE, NASAL, (SEE CORYZA):Excoriating :Left, nostril, from : | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Nose]DISCHARGE, NASAL, (SEE CORYZA):Excoriating :Upper, lip and around nose : | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Pregnancy]POSTPARTUM, GENERAL, (SEE CHILDBIRTH, CONFINEMENT):Phlegmasia, alba dolens :Forceps delivery, after, swelling of whole lower limb, painful, worse in thigh : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Throat]CHOKING, GENERAL :Hyoideum, region of : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Throat]CHOKING, GENERAL :Os, hyoides, region of : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Tongue]CONSTRICTING, PAIN, LOW DOWN IN REGION OF HYOID BONE : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Vision]DIM, VISION, (SEE AMBLYOPIA) :Sleepy, when getting : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Murphy ] [Vision]READING, INABILITY FROM WEAK EYES :Letters, on blackboard, cannot see :Smaller, appear :Coryza, in : | 2 | 1 / 1 |
| [Allen ] [C]COUGH:Hacking:Inspiration:Of cold air: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
7.0 All-c : Allium Cepa
DEMENTIA PRAECOX, CATATONIC TYPE [Dementia Praecox Catatonic Type]
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER By Rabe R F.
Volume
1948 Jan Vol LXIII No 7
Author
Taber Carr V.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Phos / All-c / Nat-m / Influ.
[ Read before Bureau of clinical Medicine, I.H.A., June 26, 1947].
V.TABER CARR, M.D.
Mrs. Nettie G-, age 34, is a white, married and undernourished female. She was committed December 12, 1932 to a State Hospital.
The patients mother was psychotic for four months in 1915. Her diagnosis was Manic Depressive, Manic type. Family history is otherwise essentially negative.
Normally possessed of a very cheerful disposition and quick in her actions, intellectually keen, it was not her good fortune to have educational advantages. She was more sympathetic and affectionate than the average. Her social activities were limited to a few. She was treated with respect as to her standard of morals and right living, and her morals and habits were the very best.
She was considered to be delicate as a child. Her first serious sickness was eleven years after her marriage at the age of 23 years. This was a severe attack of the “flu” beginning March, 1932, from which she did not recover. In July of the same year there was a period of two weeks when she had attacks of singing and praying, followed by several months of being retarded in her actions. Appetite was fair. insomnia was present, and she did not wish to leave her home.
On December 4, 1932 her husband, a World War I veteran, had a serious attack of pneumonia. The patient when normal was always much concerned about her husband and two children. Not recovering from the “flu” and caring for her sick husband, she went into a state of apprehension and mutism.
On admission to the Hospital in December of 1932 there was general muscular, rigidity with shyness and seclusiveness. In brief, her hospital course over the period of thirteen years was one of absolute mutism. When relatives visited she became agitated, would cry, wringing her hands. She, however, ate better and gained weight. More cooperative, she proved to be a good worker, kind and helpful to the patients. When not busy working or caring for patients she continued seclusive and uncommunicative.
THERAPY.
January 10, 1945. Phosphorus 200th was prescribed,not on any characteristic symptoms, but on the general aspect of the case. Patient was fair-skinned, blonde hair, sensitive nature with lively perceptions. Also she was a person with strong emotions plus psychotic symptoms as previously mentioned.
January 24, 1945. She wrote a letter for the first time while in the hospital. It was addressed to her husband and her sister, stating how much better she felt; that she was afraid to talk because she might say something wrong. She said it was a blessing that she was sent to the hospital because she refused to eat while at home.
On the evening after supper on this same day of her letter writing she was sitting on a cough with two patients, both on one side of her. On her other side a patient was standing near by in the door of her room. The patient was becoming furious because our patient and others were near her door. Nettie, our patient, could not stand for the verbal abuse,so she proceeded to accuse this angered patient of being inconsiderate of the patients and herself who were working to keep the ward clean, while she never did so much as to make her own bed.
The were the first words uttered by our patient during the thirteen years in the hospital. From then on she had attacks of excitement. She worried about her son in the Army. She would shout, sing and pray. During these attacks she gave her son over to Gods care and hoped he would be a good boy.
February 3,1945. she manifested the following symptoms; being so occupied with them she was unable even to care for her personal needs:.
She said electricity came into her room and shocked her. when her husband shaved electricity came to her. She admitted hearing voices when she was home, but could not elaborate on them. Anyone in her room drew blood from her abdomen. She says she is going to die. When she does she wants someone near her. She desired hot food and drinks, craved ice cream. Sensitive to the cold, she required much bed covering or would stand by the not air register.
Phosphorus 1M was given, followed in one week by disappearance of the symptoms and the patient went about her work as usual.
Nothing of note is to be recorded during the following ten months. As the case ceased to improve by return of symptoms, Phosphorus continued to be indicated. At the 50M potency reaction was less conspicuous, so we dropped to the 30th potency.
The last prescription of Phosphorus was December 13, 1945 of the 200th.
January 1, 194. Patient was having an Allium cepa type of rhinitis with lachrymation. The 200th fixed it. But February 4, 1940 the rhinitis returned in a more severe form. Now inflammation of the eyes with redness of the lids and the edges. The patient gave a past history of what appeared to be conjunctivitis (purulent) treated by Argyrol. Natrum mur. 10M was given. It required three ore prescription. After the 50M there was no recurrence of the eye trouble.
Only for minor ailments did the patient require treatment until on April 7, 1947 there appeared a severe attack of the “flu.” Only the symptoms common to this malicious malady were present. Then Influenzin Hispanica 10M was administered.
It is needless to say that this patient, 48 years of age, is now of sound mind after fourteen years. But her future may be a problem. About five years ago her husband took unto himself his housekeeper as common-law wife, illegally so, and he has a son by this woman, age three years. Our patient was told of this disgraceful affair a few months after she began to talk and to improve under the influence of Phosphorus.
It was surprising how sternly, with a minimum degree of emotion, she became reconciled to this event, and is satisfied to enjoy the affection of a son who is in training at West Point and a daughter, married and living in the old home town. ATHENS, OHIO.
DEMENTIA PRAECOX, PARANOID.
[ Read before Bureau of Clinical Medicine, I.H.A., June 26, 1947].
V.TABER CARR, M.D.
Frances P. S., Thirty-five years of age, white married female, was graduated from Ohio University in 1936. She taught Home Economics two years in a High School and has since been active and influential in several organizations.
She married at the age of 25 years and has two children aged seven and four years.
Personality: With a tendency to being quiet and reserved, she is congenial and deeply interested in her home.
History of Present Illness: While she was teaching school, at the age of 24 years, she became restless, more talkative than normal, with complaints of various things wrong with her. It is to be noted that she was afflicted with a severe frontal sinus trouble during this restless period. Following the above experiences and appendectomy was performed. The appendix was found normal.
Five year ago there was intolerance for iodine. It induced stomach acidity, nausea and emesis. During the spring of 1945 there was an attack of sinus trouble with a profuse, yellow, post nasal discharge. This condition was alleviated, but returned the following spring, 1946. Treatment during April proved successful in stopping the discharge. Almost simultaneous with disappearance of the discharge the patient suffered intense pain, shooting in character, in the forehead. With the lessening of the pain the patient began to imagine she had various ailments. The most disturbing was cancer. This prompted her to visit several doctors; naturally she derived no satisfaction.
She continued her normal activities in her church and Parent- Teachers Organization until she had a fainting attack. Then she said her eyes pained, and she complained of pains all over her body, more so in her hands and arms. Rubbing caused the pains to be bearable. It was then that she began to lose interest in her normal pursuits and wrote many pages on cancer. She in tended to publish this matter in book form.
Her husband, thinking a change would do her good, sent her from their home in Portland, Oregon to Athens, Ohio. She traveled with the two children as far as Omaha, Nebraska. Here she was taken off the train because of disturbing the passengers and the train crew.
A brother soon brought her and the two children to their destination. Admitted to the Hospital, September 20, 1946, the patent for the most part was cooperative but required close supervision. There were times when she was noisy, singing or shouting. One day she spent the day saluting the nurses as they passed by her door and she kept repeating, “1-2-3-4, Heil Hitler.” At first she was manic-like in her expressions and manner, viz., she came to the ward office saying. “Im (speaking her name) of the F.B.I. what can I do for you? What is this worth to you?” She then emptied the contents of her purse. Then she called attention to every piece of clothing she had on and told where it came from. From here on she rambled from one thing to another. However, every sentence indicated a delusion.
These delusions were many, fantastic, unsystematized and utterly illogical, the longer she remained in the hospital, viz., “The Navy took a shot at me once. They can kill my baby for Im the atomic energy. I belong to the F.B.I. My husband is in the Navy. I am full of electricity and atomic energy. I asked Dr. Dixon why he said I was the most brilliant woman who ever came in this office when I got a D in psychology.”.
In mood there was consistently a trend of indifference. On a few occasions she wished to see her children. She had apparently forgotten her husband. She doubted that there was anything wrong with her mind.
THERAPY.
Between September 27, 1946 and January 23, 1947 electric shock treatment were given in four short periods with two to five shocks to a period. Only temporary improvement resulted.
The following symptoms were considered on February 12, 1947, after a personal interview with the husband:.
- She always was sensitive to cold.
- Craved company. Never like to be alone. This was even manifested during her psychosis.
- She imagined she was sick with cancer, etc.
- There was misidentification of persons and things, her husband was someone else, a pencil belonged to the President of the United States.
- Many grandiose ideas.
- She is very affectionate.
- Suppression of nasal discharge.
- Rubbing alleviated pain.
Phosphorus 1M was given January 13, 1947. Unknowingly, it was given before her menstrual period by two days. Because the flow was so profuse with cramping pains she was obliged to remain in bed. There was also present a foul odor.
During the first ten days she experienced sharp pains in her forehead. Immediately this aggravation she became mentally normal.
Six weeks after receiving the Phosphorus she went to her mothers home, caring for her children. On May 31, 1947 she and her children returned do their home in Oregon.
In a letter dated October 9, 1947 the patient writes. “I am feeling better than I ever did. I weigh now 151 lbs., 15 pounds more than I ever did weigh. My two little children keep me busy.” ATHENS, OHIO.
NEURITIS
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER By Royal Hayes.
Volume
1949 Jul Vol LXV No 1
Author
Eugene Underhill.
Subject
Therapeutics / Cases
Remedy
Calen / Hyper / All-c / Phos / Arn / Bell-p / Led / Ruta / Rhus-t / Am-m / Staph / Nat-m / Calc / Bry / Carb-an / Dulc / Caust / Psor / Sil / Seneg / Cham / Calc-ars / Bell.
Read before Bureau of Clinical Medicine, I.H.A., June 17, 1948.
EUGENE UNDERHILL, JR., M.D.
Neuritis is defined as inflammation of a nerve. Pathological symptoms include pain, tenderness, more or less impairment of function, sensory disturbances and in severe cases areas of anesthesia and even paralysis.
Neuralgia, on the other hand, simply means nerve pain. A typical neuralgic pain is defined as severe, darting or throbbing in character, intermittent, with sensitiveness of the skin. Generally there is relief from warmth and pressure.
Back of both neuritis and neuralgia there is always some form of nerve irritation. Some cases are traumatic in origin, others toxic, still others are caused by nutritional deficiencies. Alcoholism and emotional stress are predisposing factors of considerable importance.
When the cause is traumatic such local treatment must be instituted as the case may require. Fixation and rest of the affected part may be indicated. There is always more or less damage to nerve tissue in any injury but the homoeopathic remedy by matching the symptoms of motor and sensory disturbance will afford the maximum of relief and restore function to the fullest extent possible.
Cases of nerve injury associated with a bone or periosteal bruise or where there are strained or over stretched tendons will respond to Ruta. Direct injury to nerves in which the tactile sense is highly developed will generally require Hypericum. This remedy is nearly always indicated following injury to the coccyx, also for bad effects following chilling of the buttocks and lower part of the back as from sitting for a long time on a cold, damp bench or on the cold ground. This form of chilling in which there is a damp, penetrating cold extending up the spine is one of the important predisposing causes of poliomyelitis. It is regrettable that the “March of Dimes” fails to provide enough pennies to inform the public of this fact and thereby prevent many cases of infantile paralysis. What are they waiting for, a new wonder drug or a polio-antitoxin?.
Punctured wounds of the extremities are best treated by cleansing the wound with Calendula solution and by giving Ledum internally in the thirtieth or two hundredth centesimal potency. This is a more effective prophylaxis against tetanus than the antitoxin and no risk of an unfavorable serum reaction is incurred. Hypericum may be required in the extremely few cases in which lymphangitis develops with red lines or streaks extending up the arm or leg.
Neuralgic pains in the stump of an amputated limb will generally be relieved by Allium cepa when the pains are fine, thread-like and shooting in character. Ammonium mur. is often indicated after amputation of the foot when there are tearing, stitching pains, worse in bed at night and better from massage. Arnica is the remedy following amputation through the fleshy parts of the arm or leg when there is the sore, bruised feeling and the history of considerable trauma to the muscular structure. Hypericum may be the remedy after amputation of the distal phalanx of any of the fingers following an accident in which the tip of the finger has been chopped or cut off. Sharp, shooting pains will extend up the arm, the pain being almost intolerable and associated, perhaps, with a degree of shock apparently out of proportion to the severity of the injury. Phosphorus is indicated after amputation in nervous, sensitive subjects when there was excessive bleeding during or following the operation and a weak, all-gone feeling with thirst for ice cold drinks. Staphisagria has sometimes been used on a routine basis after amputation but the indications are what might be called “clean cut” cases with little or no contusion and when the sensation as of a knife cutting persists long after the surgery.
A contusion causes local shock to the nerves in the involved area. A temporary paralysis results in an extravasation of blood from the capillaries into the surroundings tissues, then we have ecchymosis, bruise marks or a black nail if the injury is to the end of the finger.
These effects can nearly always be prevented by giving immediate and adequate mechanical support to the contused tissue until the local efferent nerves recover from shock. A severe hammer blow will not cause a black nail if very forceful pressure is instantly applied and maintained until the pain subsides, then ever so gradually relax the pressure.
Arnica is the remedy for bruises of the soft tissues and their nerves of supply. Painful soreness is characteristic with a bruised sensation which often extends beyond the area of trauma. Worse from light touch and better from hard pressure, worse from motion and better lying down. Arnica is often indicated following contusions to the abdomen.
Bellis perennis is especially suited to injuries to the blood vessels and following trauma to the coccyx, as in Hypericum. Often called for in gastralgia from ice cold drinks taken when overheated, also for neuralgia after exposure to cold and wet when overheated. As in Arnica, there is the sensation of bruised soreness. There is aggravation from cold and cold applications, amelioration from continued motion, as in Rhus tox.
Ledum is indicated following contusion of the eye with extensive ecchymosis and when there is marked relief from ice compresses.
Ruta for periosteal and bone bruises and for eye-strain from over-use of the eyes. Other remedies for eye-strain include Apis in which there is aggravation from heat and relief from cold applications; Natrum mur. when there are zigzags in front of the eyes and marked aggravation from sun-light and other bright lights; Senega when a certain object has been held in the field of vision for a long time and the eyeballs feel distended.
In the case of sprains as from over-lifting, over-exertion or trauma the most frequently indicated remedy is probably Rhus tox. with its aching, restlessness, aggravation when quiet and relief from continued motion. Often worse on beginning to move. Better from heat and worse from cold. Neuritis involving the left shoulder and arm after straining the heart from over-lifting or over-exertion. Involvement of the sciatic nerve, especially on the left side. Aggravation in wet weather, from getting wet and from dampness in general.
Calcarea carb., the chronic of Rhus tox. in the traumatic field. Bad effects from over-exertion whether mental or physical. Strained and sprained feeling following hill or mountain climbing. Aggravation from ascending is characteristic. Worse from cold and dampness. Plethoric type with easy sweating tendency.
Bryonia following injury to the chest and ribs with aggravation on the least motion and relief from pressure. Worse taking a deep breath, raising arms or coughing. Suited to cases of both pleurisy and intercostal neuralgia. Amelioration in either case by tightly strapping the chest.
Ruta for strained or over-stretched tendons, also for eye- strain as noted above. Worse from cold and from rest. Better from warmth and motion. Affinity for fibrous tissues, wrists, ankles and lumbar spine.
Ammonium mur. is frequently required for the chronic effects of sprains. Tightness as if the tendons were too short. Tense, sprained sensation in the groin with difficulty in walking erect. Better in open air and from continued motion.
Carbo animalis has the symptom “easily sprained from lifting even small weights”, also “great debility and easy spraining of the joints”. Elderly people who are feeble, subject to colds and when slight causes appear to produce unduly severe effects.
Sudden chilling when overheated or sudden suppression of sweat from a cold wind or in an air conditioned room when the outside temperature is in the nineties will often cause neuralgia or even a neuritis. In such cases Dulcamara may be the remedy when there is a sudden, severe drop in temperature from hot and dry to cold and wet in patients with a strong catarrhal predisposition. Causticum following exposure to dry, cold winds. Bells palsy, affecting especially the right side of the face. Paralysis of single muscles. Weakness of bladder with inability to control the urine.
Psorinum has an affinity for the nerve of supply to the deltoid muscle and has cleared many cases in psoric constitutions when the chronicity and recurrence are conspicuous features. Silicea following exposure to a draft, especially when perspiring, also for cases of neuritis following a suppressed foot sweat. Silicea patients are better from warmth and from wrapping up the affected part.
Anemia predisposes to many cases of neuritis. Toxic causes include many of the acute infections also malaria, gout, syphilis, lead poisoning and organic disease involving the cerebro-spinal axis. Dental caries and badly infected tonsils are responsible for some cases.
Remove the cause of the neuritis in so far as possible. Stop causing disease and then prescribe the indicated remedy. To neglect diet in patients with gout is to invite recurrence. Chronic lead poisoning or aluminum poisoning must be stopped at the source or the homoeopathic remedy will fail, or more correctly the physician will fail to cure the case.
Trifacial neuralgia (tic douloureux) cannot respond to proper treatment if there has been over-exposure to either the infra-red heat lamp or the ultra-violet, so called sun lump. Alcoholic injections and the x-ray have spoiled more cases than they have ever alleviated.
How foolish to prescribe “the apparently indicated remedy” in a case of beriberi without first removing the cause which is usually an obvious nutritional deficiency. Correct the diet and then prescribe the remedy. Either a food toxemia or a nutritional deficiency is the underlying cause of most cases of either neuralgia or neuritis. Much acute illness is due to a toxic over- load in the body. Much chronic illness is due to mild but multiple and therefore complex nutritional deficiencies, starvation in the midst of an apparent abundance of food.
As soon as an individual arrives at the age of personal responsibility, as soon as he is on his own, in other words, he then proceeds to cause disease through one or more avenues of unhygienic living:
- Emotional stresses and conflicts.
- Excesses and depletions.
- Nutritional deficiencies.
- Food toxemia.
The kind or type of disease from which he will suffer depends upon the direction of susceptibility in his own constitution. Disease attacks the weakest structures in the constitutional chain. The strong parts of the body are disease resistant.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
DISCUSSION.
- WILLIAM GUTMAN: I will never forget a case of acute neuritis because it was the most extreme expression of pain I have ever seen in my life and because it gives us such a good example of the importance of exact case taking.
A patient came to me with an acute neuralgia of both brachial plexi. He was rolling on the floor and crying out from pain. It was a terrific and terrifying picture. I was not able at first to establish a diagnosis, to get even words out of this man, but I found out, to make it short, that it was acute neuralgia of both brachial plexi due etiologically to suppression of sweat. He was standing in a draft in winter, sweating in his armpits just shortly before entrance to a house. I gave this man one dose of Belladonna 200. and the pain subsided in no time.
A couple of weeks later he was brought by car to my office in exactly the same condition, not the slightest difference, a terrific recurrence, maybe more terrific than the first one. Naturally, I gave a dose of Belladonna 200. No result. My office was full of people waiting, so this was one of the very few cases where I finally gave a hypodermic because the patient just begged me to do something in this terrific attack of pain. I did it with a very bad conscience, feeling I could make a chronic out of such a case, or a suicidal case out of such a condition. After fifteen to twenty minutes the pain subsided and he was brought home; but as I expected, in the late evening I was called again urgently to see the man. Naturally, I had given the man only a hypodermic, no curative remedy, so, seeing the patient again, I established that he was exposed to a situation which had caused a fit of anger which he had suppressed.
I gave him one dose of Chamomile. Within three minutes the pain was gone and never recurred. What the morphine could not do before fifteen or twenty minutes, being only a palliative, Chamomile in high potency did in three minutes and cured him.
It shows it is an example for teaching students how exact case-taking is in homoeopathy, even if you have a perfectly clear picture, and shows the extreme importance which Dr. Underhill stressed of the emotional influence in neuralgia.
- J. W. WAFFENSMITH: In reference to neuritis, very often we get typical Rhus toxicodendron symptoms and especially in sciatica, and there is a temporary favorable reaction to the Rhus toxicodendron but it doesnt hold.
I want to call your attention to Calcarea arsenicosa. It has been very beneficial to me in studying these cases. I had one case particularly through the winter, an aged gentleman whom I had treated constitutionally for several years, and he had this terrible case of sciatica, with characteristic Rhus symptoms, and the Calcarea arsenicosa fitted in nicely.
- A. H. GRIMMER: Dr. Underhill mentioned the effects of coffee, and it is true that excessive coffee predisposes not only to nerve conditions but extreme sensitivity. Here is a little remedy Clark mentioned, to add to what we know about Nux and Chamomilla and others, Guarana, a South American plant. Clark mentioned it as being a wonderful remedy for those who are prostrated or aggravated nervously or otherwise, from excessive coffee.
MY EXPERIENCE OF HOMOEOPATHY [Experience Of Homoeopathy]
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC WORLD ( A Popular Journal of Medical, Social, and Sanitary Science). By Ellis Barker J.
Volume
1932 Feb Vol LXVII No 794
Author
Hospital Secretary.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
All-c.
BY A HOSPITAL SECRETARY.
“THOSE tonsils must come out.” This was the unanimous verdict of several doctors on seeing a child who was ever pale, listless, constantly catching colds and entirely lacking in joyous well- being. Gargles and paintings were tried, but resulted in no improvement. So eventually those tonsils were taken out.
In the years following, the same symptoms and complaints continued and increased in intensity. all varieties of gargles, inhalants, pills, etc., were tried. they gave but little relief, neither did constant doses of tonic bring increased vitality. Aperients became an increasing necessity as well. Finally, throat specialists were consulted and their decision was another operation, which was to bring about as complete cure. The money on a second operation was spend in vain. Improvement was eagerly awaited, but did not come.
Then as a last hope-homoeopathy. Faith in matters medical has well disappeared, but the thorough form of questioning of a homoeopath quickly restored confidence. Nothing at all abnormal seemed too small or too insignificant to be disregarded. That sinking feeling at eleven oclock, the nose running in windy weather, those cold feet and white spots on the nails, the lack of perspiration, as well as the fact that sighing when upset was a habit, were all carefully taken into account. Habits of mind and body were not forgotten. Finally a thorough physical examination revealed that the general bodily condition stood in even greater need of attention than the throat.
Medicines in pilule form, which could be taken so easily and pleasantly began the treatment, together with an entire alteration in diet. It was delightfully astonishing to find that the medicines really did their intended work. The daily violent attacks of sneezing could be checked by just a single dose of three pilules. Abdominal pain, which had steadily been growing in intensity as months went by, vanished in a few days after taking just three drops. The breasts which contained small, hard lumps gradually became normal. A life-long flabbiness of the body as a whole was no longer obvious. It was also possible to question the easily excitable organs of sex, which had often been the source of much trouble and perplexity. The throat condition became better than it had ever been.
It is not difficult to pass judgment on the two methods. By the allopathic method, only one abnormality was found and attention was concentrated upon that, without further seeking. When medicines failed, orthodox medical men were content of perform operations before even a complete physical examination had been made or an alteration in diet suggested.
On the contrary, homoeopathy took into consideration the whole mind and body. Many defects were found and all these were eliminated by gentle medicines. Further-more, my diet was completely changed to my great-benefit.
Allopathy was given years in which to achieve good results and failed completely, while homoeopathy created an infinitely better state of health in but a few months.
Daily work in a large hospital, where orthodox methods are in use, gives one ample opportunities for knowing that ones own disastrous experience does not this reason, I would plead with great intensity the cause of homoeopathy.
The above account is absolutely genuine. The lady received Allium Cepa 1x for her violent sneezing fits, colocynthis 1x for abdominal pains, improved by doubling up, phytolacca 1x for her throat condition and swollen breast glands. For very obvious reasons she has chosen not to append her name. EDITOR, Homoeo. World.
ENGLISH EXCHANGES
Volume
1913 Vol 12
Author
John McLachlan
Subject
General Topics / Cases / Therapeutics
Remedy
Ars / Alum / Onos / Syph / All-c / Caps / Ox-ac / Bufo / Bry / Apis / Spig / Vesp / Staph / Camp / Aur / Stram / Tarent / Lach / Camph / Ant-t / Cact / Crot-h / Laur / Rhus-t / Bell / Sang / Sep / Carb-v / Mag-p / Thuj
A neuralgic patient
Case 1
The patient in question was a man of middle age, resident some twenty Miles from Oxford. His occupation was that of a road maker and mender. He came to me rather more than two years ago. The neuralgia had lasted for five years before I saw him. The pain was of sudden onset,
Violent and paroxysmal in character;
Periods of remission were growing shorter and shorter, so that the pain was nearly constant, with exacerbations;
In a line from before backward, on the right side of the brow and scalp;
Like a red-hot iron along a zigzag line;
When pain at its height the eye becomes red and waters much.
Usually begins at the inner angle of the right eye.
Touching the lip or moustache brings on the pain.
agg. cold air and draughts,
Warmth relieves.
It will be noticed that, as so often happens in long-standing cases, the pain had “overflowed” and involved the second division as well as the first, no doubt via the gasserian ganglion. The least touch on the forehead, over the course of the supra-orbital or supra-trochlear nerves, would start the pain at once. In fact, any form of external stimulus, such as a draught of air (first because it is cold, and second, because it moves the hairs of the moustache), movement of the facial muscles, especially of those round the mouth, because, to a certain extent these pull on the circum-orbital muscles; movement of the tongue in speaking or eating, etc., as all these movements tend to pull on the muscles in the painful area. When the pain was severe it was almost impossible to “wink” without starting the stabbing pains.
The pain was so severe and so persistent that he was fearful lest he might commit suicide. For. this reason he was pressed by “his own doctor” to go into the hospital and have the gasserian ganglion removed as the only possible chance of cure.
Medicines that have linear pains are not, so far as I know, very numerous, or at least the pains are not recorded as such.
Onos. has linear pains in left scapular region;
Syph. linear pain from or near one eye backward;
All-cepa and Caps. have pains like a long thread in prosopalgia;
Oxal-ac. pains in linear spots;
Persica, pains in vertical lines in abdomen heart and limbs.
Bufo has streaks of pain up arm;
Bryon. has drawing pains in bones as from a thread, through shafts.
There may be others, but these are all I remember at the present moment. Yet one would think that this form of pain ought to be very frequent, inasmuch as the nerve trunks and branches are all more or less linear. The explanation probably is that pain is so rarely felt in sensory nerve trunks, but only at the termination of the nerve where it reaches the skin and breaks up into its minute twigs.
Of the various medicines mentioned as having linear pains, Syph. seemed to fit my case best of all, so far as location was concerned; but my patient liked to be warm, and was relieved thereby, whereas Syph. prays to be kept cool, though at times it is sensitive to both extremes of temperature. Besides this, its characteristic aggravation was wanting-from sunset to sunrise, it prays for daylight as well as to be kept cool.
The list of medicines with burning pains are legion:
Arsen., of course, comes first to one’s mind, and its burning is relieved by heat (Lyco., Alum., Carbo-v.).
Apis has burning relieved by cold; Caps. burning is not relieved by heat.
Arsen. has further a sensation as if hot wire were thrust through or along the nerve, or as if pierced with red-hot needles (Apis, Spig., Vespa.),
Aggravation from touching the lip with anything (fork, spoon or any metallic substance), makes one think of Staph.
ARSEN. ALB. 200. I gave him three powders of the medicine to take home with him, with strict injunction to take one at a dose, and if he could discern the least improvement in the course of the next twenty-four hours, to take no more till the pain increased again; and even if the pain got immediately worse, not to take another powder.
In other words:
Distinctly better or distinctly worse, stop the medicine. To this rule, so far as I know, there are no exceptions.
I also told him how to know whether he was really getting better, viz.,
If the attacks conic less frequently,
Or are less severe when they do conic, in either case, cure is progressing, and should not be interfered with; for:
This is exactly the opposite of the natural course of a chronic disease.
I saw him a month later, when he said he was “much better.” He had taken two powders altogether. During the course of the treatment he had ARSEN. on various occasions, and in various denominations, from the two hundredth up to the millionth potency.
The case did riot go straight on to complete recovery; I do not think that such cases ever do. There are always ebbs and flows in the recovery just as there are in the natural course of the untreated disease.
Though the pain did not quite cease for something like a year and a half, yet after the first prescription the patient never again had that “terrible steady hanging pain,” which he dreaded so much.
That is the patient’s own description; whit it means exactly I do not know; but that it was something very bad there can be no doubt.
In four months from the first dose of Arsen. he said he was better than he had been for five years.
He had various other medicines course of treatment during his long a but it would be wearisome to go into all the details. On various occasions he complained of a sensation as if the heart turned over, for which he had Cactus (somersault sensation).
For this sensation other remedies should be compared such as Aur., Stram., Tarent., Lach. (and ceased beating), Camph. (as if it turned forwards).
For the sensations as if heart tumbled over, turned and twisted round, revolving sensation, somersault sensation, compare Ant-t Cactus, Crot-h., Lach., Lauro Tarent.
Magn-ph., very early in the case forced itself upon one’s attention I used it once in the 12x trit., but could not say that I noticed an special benefit from its use. The same applies to Thuja 200, am Staph. 30, though they may all haw done something towards the cure But I returned again and again to ARSEN.
On account of his exposed mode of life and frequent wettings, he had RHUS TOX. on various occasions, with, I believe, great benefit.
Sepia was also used on the idea that smoking night have something to do with the obstinacy of the pain.
Spig. was used once, chiefly because of the injected conjunctiva (Bell., Sang., Spig.); the tendency for the eye to “close down” with the pain (Kali., Spig.); the burning stabs (Sang., Spig., Staph.); the aggravation from chewing (Spig.).
But no medicine seemed to serve me so well as ARSEN., and I believe most, if not all, the credit of the cure is due to it.
-JOHN McLACHLAN, M.D.
October. 1913.
