Taraxacum Officinale
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General EN
Taraxacum.
Leontodum taraxacum. Taraxacum Dens-leonis. N. O. Compositae. Tincture of whole plant just before the perfection of the flower.
Clinical EN
Ague. Bilious attacks. Debility. Diabetes. Gall-stones. Headache, gastric. Jaundice. Liver, affections of. Neuralgia. Night-sweats. Rheumatism. Tongue, mapped. Typhoid fever.
Characteristics EN
The young leaves of the Dandelion are sometimes eaten in salads. They have a bitter chicory-like taste, as also has the root. Children eat the flowers, although they are supposed by them to cause bed-wetting. This has given rise to one of the popular names of the plant.
Its chief traditional uses are as a remedy for jaundice, liver obstruction, in dysentery, involuntary emissions, and in difficulties in passing water. Hahnemann's provings brought out these leading symptoms: "Painless urging to urinate;" and "frequent urging to urinate with copious discharge of urine." Hahnemann points out that this, with the thirst, may indicate Trx. in some cases of diabetes. Trx. has caused pains in both splenic and, liver regions, and has cured jaundice with enlarged indurated liver.
Cooper gives me the following case: An old Indian officer, when in India, suffered much from gall-stones, and was advised to take dandelion infusion every day. This he did, and soon the symptoms left him, and he remained free from them for over twenty years. A symptom in connection with disordered digestion, which has proved a good guide for Trx. in some cases, is the "mapped tongue." The tongue is coated white, and clears off in patches, leaving dark red very sensitive spots.
Treas. of Bot. points out that "the bright-yellow flowers of Trx. open in the morning between 5 and 6 o'clock and close in the evening between 8 and 9. Hence this was one of the plants selected by Linnaeus to form his floral clock." The symptoms of Trx. are < at night. Hands and nose cold at 8 p.m. "Cold finger-tips" is a guiding symptom.
Peculiar Sensations are: As if brain was constricted. As if teeth were set on edge. As if larynx were compressed. As if bubbles were forming and bursting in abdomen.
As of rolling and gurgling in right scapula. As if limbs were bound or powerless. Some leading indications are: Gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric headaches; the headaches are generally pressive. Pressure in lower occiput after lying down is characteristic.
Debility, loss of appetite, profuse night-sweats, especially when convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever. Restlessness of limbs in typhoid. Sweat between toes. The symptoms are: > By touch (jerking in right calf).
Rest <. (Almost all symptoms appear when sitting; lying down; resting.) Motion >. > In open air. Burning in throat is > by drinking.
Hahnemann's dosage was a single drop of the Ø tincture (M. M. P.).
Relations EN
Compatible: Ars. (night-sweats). Compare: In gastric and bilious affections, Bry., Chel., Hydr., Nux. Mapped tongue, Ars., Nat. m., Ran. s. Restlessness of limbs with tearing pains, Rhus.
Mind EN
Irresolution and dislike to labour.—Loquacity and inclination to laugh.
Head EN
Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering when walking in the open air
Drawing rain in l. temple while sitting, ceasing when walking or standing
Tearing pain in occiput
Pressure and heaviness in lower part of occiput, after lying down
Headache, as from contraction or expansion of brain
Heaviness and pressure in head
Lancinations in forehead and temples
Violent headache, felt only when standing or walking
Tension of scalp.
Eyes EN
Pain in eyes, as if a grain of sand were in internal canthus.—(Aversion to light) burning sensation, and burning shootings in eyes
Burn in l. eyeball
Inflammation of eyes with lachrymation and photophobia
Nocturnal agglutination of lids.
Ears EN
Shootings in ears
Drawing pain in external ear
Dysecoia in evening.
Face EN
Purulent pimples on face, cheeks, alae nasi, and (r.) commissures of lips
Sensation of heat and redness in face
Shootings and pressure in cheeks
Upper lip cracked.
Teeth EN
Toothache, with drawing pain in carious teeth, extending to eyebrows
Pressive pains in teeth
Teeth set on edge as from acids
Flow of acid blood from carious teeth
Bluntness of teeth
Hawking up of sour mucus, causing teeth to feel dull.
Mouth EN
Accumulation of acid saliva in mouth (with sensation as if the larynx were compressed)
Tongue loaded with a white coating, with exfoliation (it cleans off in patches, dark red, and they are very sensitive)
Tongue dry, loaded with a brown coating on waking in morning.
Throat EN
Sore throat, with pressive pain, as from internal swelling
Dryness, shootings, and bitter mucus in the throat
Hawking up of acid mucus.
Appetite EN
Bitter taste in mouth, with natural taste of food
Salt or acid taste of food, principally of butter and of meat
Tobacco-smoke is disagreeable, causes pyrosis, and interrupts respiration
Great chilliness after drinking, or eating.
Stomach EN
Bitter risings (eructations and hiccough)
Empty risings, esp. after drinking
Nausea (with inclination to vomit or vomiting) from very fat food, with anxiety and pressive headache, > in open air.
Abdomen EN
Pinching in abdomen
Pressive shootings in abdomen, and sides of abdomen, chiefly in l. side; in hypogastrium
Grumbling and movements (sudden sensation) in abdomen, as if bubbles were bursting in it.
Stool And Anus EN
Inefficient urging to go to stool
Evacuations several times a day, but accomplished with difficulty (even if stool is not hard)
Faeces of the consistence of pap, followed by tenesmus
Voluptuous itching in perinaeum (compelling one to scratch).
Urinary Organs EN
Frequent want to urinate (pressure without pain), with profuse emission.—Enuresis somni (?).
Male Sexual Organs EN
Pain in testes
Permanent erections
Frequent pollutions; on alternate nights.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Suppressed menses.
Respiratory Organs EN
Sensation as if the larynx were pressed together.
Chest EN
Pressure at chest
Shootings in chest and sides of chest
Jerkings in muscles of sides.
Neck And Back EN
Pressive jerkings and shootings in muscles of neck, (throat), and nape
Tearing from ear downward to the neck
Pressive pains in loins
Pressive and tensive shootings in back and loins, when lying down, with obstructed respiration
Pressing-stinging in spine and sacrum with dyspnoea
Gurgling and swelling in shoulder-blades and shoulders, with shivering over whole body
Vibration and quivering in r, scapula.
Upper Limbs EN
Pulsative throbbing and jerking in shoulders and arms
Jerkings of muscles of arms
Twitching in muscles of l. forearm
Shootings in arms and elbows
Drawings and tearings in forearm and wrist
Eruptions of pimples on hands and fingers
Icy coldness of ends of fingers
Pressive pain in three last fingers of r. hand.
Lower Limbs EN
Shootings in thighs, knees, calves, soles, and toes
Stitching pain in l. thigh
Pressive pain in l. calf
Jerking pain in r. calf, ceasing quickly when touched
Drawing pain in dorsum of r. foot; when standing; stitches when sitting
Severe or fine stitching pains in r. sole
Burning sensation in knees, legs and toes
Profuse perspiration between toes.
Generalities EN
This remedy acts well in all affections of the liver; sour taste; darting pains in outer parts Affections in l. upper side; r. lower side; back of foot; sole of foot.—< While lying down; from fat food; while resting.—> From moving; when walking Painful tenderness of all limbs, esp. when touched, and when they are in a false position The limbs are Movable, but it feels as if the power to move them were impeded
Sensation of weakness and uneasiness throughout body, with constant necessity to lie down or to sit Almost all symptoms appear while the patient is seated, and are dissipated by walking.
Skin EN
Unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skins
Stinging on skin
Eruption over body and limbs itching severely, and appears to be a mixture of lichen and urticaria
Biting in skin with sweat.
Sleep EN
Sleepiness, and going to sleep while listening to a scientific discourse
Sleepiness in daytime, and yawning while sitting
Vivid unremembered dreams; frequent waking and tossing.
Fever EN
Chilliness, esp. after eating and drinking
Chilliness, shiverings, all over, with pressive headache
Chill in open air.
Heat at night on waking, esp. on face and hands
Violent night-sweats, mostly before midnight, when just going to sleep
Very debilitating perspiration, causing biting on the skin.