Eryngium Aquaticum
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General EN
Eryngium Aquaticum.
Button Snake-root. N. O. Umbelliferae. Tincture of fresh root.
Clinical EN
Anus, prolapse of. Conjunctivitis. Constipation. Cough. Diarrhoea. Dropsy. Gleet. Gonorrhoea. Haemorrhoids. Influenza. Laryngitis. Leucorrhoea. Renal colic. Sclerotitis. Sexual weakness. Strabismus. Spermatorrhoea. Urine, incontinence of. Wounds.
Characteristics EN
Eryngium acts on the mucous membranes, producing thick yellow mucous discharges from eyes, ears, nose, mouth, bowels, urethra, and vagina. Haemorrhages from stomach and bowels. It is a vulnerary, antidoting the effect of blows. It causes headaches; expanding sensation in forehead; dull, dragging pain in occiput, neck, and shoulders.
Seminal and prostatic weakness. I. J. Whitfield has cured three cases of renal colic with calculi (two left side, the other not stated) with Eryng. a.
W. K. Leonard reports the following case: A young Methodist minister, apparently healthy, was just over his twelfth attack of renal colic. The attacks had recurred at intervals of two to four weeks and lasted from one to three days, and they were so weakening as to keep him incapacitated in the intervals.
He had had old-school treatment, including Morphine and Quinine, with no benefit. Eryng. a. Ø, five drops three times a day, put an end to the trouble. The attacks had been attended with severe nervous chills, and it was for these that the Quinine had been prescribed. Eryng. has a cough with a sense of constriction.
(Hale found it useful in epidemic influenza when there was raw smarting burning in throat and larynx, with constant irritating cough and expectoration of yellow mucus.) Loss of energy and nervous erethism. Most symptoms occur on left side, and extend or move from part to part. Motion < all symptoms. Bending head forward < head symptoms; turning eyes = pain in them.
< From mental exertion. Heat >.
Relations EN
Eryngium compares with the other Umbelliferae: with Aethus. in inability to concentrate thoughts; with Conium as a vulnerary; in discharge of prostatic fluid from slight causes. Compare: In pollutions, Chi., Gels., Phos. In urinary and urethral affections, Cannab. sat., Canthar., Dioscorea, Ocim. can. In constipation and rectal symptoms, Nit. ac. In influenza, Gelsem., Sticta.
Mind EN
Thoughts confused; cannot concentrate them on any subject; the effort = heavy full pain if persisted in.
Head EN
Vertigo
Expanding sensation in frontal region above eyes, < stooping; causing dimness of sight
Sharp, shooting pain over l. eye; when sitting in stooping posture, leaves eye, passes into neck and along muscles of shoulder, and beneath scapula
Shooting in coronary region and in r. side of face from eyes to teeth in morning
Dull dragging pain in occiput, neck, and shoulders; when less severe in head, is worse in shoulder
Scalp sore, combing hair = pain.
Eyes EN
Burning; sensitive to light
Effects of exposure to strong light: squinting; sclerotitis; watery or, purulent discharges
Purulent inflammation of l. eye; purulent, sticking discharge causing gumming of lids; conjunctiva granular and rough
Muscles of eyes feel stiff, pain on moving them quickly.
Ears EN
Bruised tearing pain; as if ears being torn off
Inflammation of Eustachian tube; l. ear swollen in and out, tender to pressure, constant aching, bleeding readily, thick white, bloody, foul-smelling pus
Continued singing and ringing, with creaking sound in l. ear.
Nose EN
Profuse thick yellow mucous discharge.
Mouth EN
Thick, tenacious, disagreeable mucus in mouth.
Throat EN
Smarting raw pain along l. side of throat; dry tongue.—Intense redness; slight swelling without pain; profuse secretion of thick whitish mucus.
Stomach EN
Partial anorexia
Nausea followed by acrid eructations
Hollowness or emptiness in stomach with heavy dragging pain
Spitting up of bright arterial blood, mixed with black clots, with burning in epigastrium after a blow on stomach
Burning in stomach or oesophagus after taking the drug.
Abdomen EN
Severe colicky or cramping pains in small intestines.—Severe pain in l. groin and testicle.
Stool And Anus EN
Mucous diarrhoea of children
Constipation
Stools dark leaden colour, dry, and very hard; tenesmus at stool with a sensation of cutting as they pass through anus
Haemorrhoids and prolapsus ani.
Urinary Organs EN
Frequent desire to urinate; stinging burning pain in urethra, behind glans, during urination
Must urinate every five minutes; urine dropping away all the time and burning like fire
Renal colic.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Desire suppressed, then excited with lewd dreams and pollutions
Discharge of prostatic fluid from slightest causes
Spermatorrhoea from onanism and excessive indulgence
Emissions at night with erections; followed by great lassitude and depression; partial impotence
Emissions without erections, day and night, followed by great lassitude; after injury to testicles
Gonorrhoea with painful erections
Gleet.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Leucorrhoea.
Respiratory Organs EN
Chronic laryngitis; short, hacking cough
Cough with sensation of constriction in throat
Oppression of chest, feeling of fulness, inability to take a long breath.