Veratrum Album
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General EN
Veratrum Album.
Veratrum album. White-flowered Veratrum. White Hellebore. N. O. Melanthaceae (of the Liliaceae). Tincture of the root-stocks collected (in the Alps and Pyrenees) early in June before flowering.
Clinical EN
Amenorrhoea. Anaemia. Anasarca. Angina pectoris.
Apoplexy. Asthma. Bronchitis. Cholera asiatica.
Cholerine. Colic. Collapse. Constipation.
Coprophagia. Cramps. Debility. Diaphragm, affections of.
Diarrhoea. Dysmenorrhoea. Emphysema. Epilepsy.
Fainting. Gastric catarrh. General paralysis. Headache; sick; nervous.
Hernia. Hydrocephaloid. Hysteria. Influenza.
Intermittent fever. Intussusception. Labour, constipation after. Lips, cracked.
Liver, hyperaemia of. Lock-jaw. Lungs, oedema of. Mania.
Measles. Mendacity. Melancholia. Meningitis.
Menstruation, nausea before; diarrhoea before. Neuralgia, palpebralis. Nyctalopia. Oesophagus, stricture of.
Peritonitis. Pernicious fevers. Plica polonica. Pneumonia.
Pregnancy, imaginary. Ptosis. Pyaemia. Rheumatism.
Salivation. Scarlatina. Sleep, whining in. Spleen, swollen.
Sternum.
Throat EN
Toothache.
Typhoid fever.
Vertigo.
Water-brash.
Whooping-cough.
Yellow fever.
Characteristics EN
In his Helleborism of the Ancients, Hahnemann showed that Verat. alb. was the principal agent used at Anticyra and other places in Greece to produce the evacuations which were regarded as an essential of the "cure." Spring was deemed the most favourable season and autumn the next. Among the diseases in which the treatment was employed were "mental derangements, epilepsy, spasms of the facial muscles, hydrophobia, ptyalism of the pancreas, diseases of the spleens, goître, hidden cancer," &c.
(Hahnemann quoted by Teste). Hahnemann says (M. M. P.) that doubtless many patients were cured, but not a few succumbed to the enormous doses given.
These doses he showed were quite unnecessary, when the symptoms of the proving are taken as guides. The "evacuant" use of Ver. gives one of the keynotes for its homoeopathic use—its discharges are copious; copious stools, copious vomiting, copious urine, copious salivation, and copious sweat. The discharges drain the tissues like cholera, in which disease its pathogenetic effects render it one of the first remedies, ranking with Camp. and Cupr. in Hahnemann's trio. The discharges exhaust the vitality as well as the tissues and cause vertigo; blackness before the sight, fainting, collapse: "Rapid sinking of forces; complete prostration; cold sweat and cold breath." "Skin blue, purple, cold, wrinkled; remaining in folds when pinched." "Face hippocratic, nose pointed." "Hands icy cold." "Face and legs icy cold." This coldness is another of the keynotes of Ver.
It is one aspect of the fever-producing power of the drug: "Coldness of the whole body." "Coldness running over whole body soon after taking it." "Feeling of internal chill ran through him from head to toes of both feet at once." "Continued rigor in back and over arms." Very characteristic are: Cold feeling in abdomen;" "coldness as of a piece of ice on vertex;" "cold nose;" "face cold and collapsed;" "cold tongue;" and most characteristic of all, "cold sweat on forehead." Along with the coldness is blueness of face and extremities.
Ver. is like cholera in that coldness predominates in its fever, but it has also "heat and redness of face and hands." With the fever there is apt to be delirium and prolonged sleep. The delirium may develop great intensity and violence: "Fury: tears his clothing; bites her shoes to pieces and swallows the fragments; cursing; stamping; wants to run away; makes a great noise." These and kindred symptoms seem to indicate Ver. in acute affections attended with delirium; and also in cases of mental alienation, which was prominent among the affections treated with the drug by the ancients.
Hahnemann says of Ver. that it has the power "to promote a cure of almost one-third of the insane in lunatic asylums (at all events as a homoeopathic intermediate remedy)." One of the symptoms taken by Hahnemann from Grading is this: "He swallows his own excrement," which Goullon has verified (Z. Berl. V. H.
A., xix. 156): a child had a craze for eating its own faeces, or dung lying in the street. Ver. 2., thrice daily, cured in a month. The mania of Ver. may be of the exalted kind, religious or sexual. Imagines she is pregnant and will soon be delivered; nymphomania; puerperal mania; mania for kissing everybody have been cured by Ver.
Generally there will be collateral Ver. symptoms to confirm the choice: coldness, blueness, collapse, fainting, vomiting, or diarrhoea. Ver. is a great fainting remedy. There is fainting from emotions, from the least exertion, from retching, from stool. Sinking feeling during haemorrhage.
The gastric conditions are characterised by extreme hunger; craving for cold food and refreshing things; thirst for ice-cold water. This last is very characteristic, and appears in the chill and heat of fever. The copiousness of the stools distinguishes Ver. from Camph. The evacuations are apt to be green, vomit, stool, urine.
The characteristic diarrhoea of Ver. is: frequent, greenish, gushing; mixed with flakes; cutting colic, with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over; prostrating, after fright; < least movement; with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead during stool and prostration after. "Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea "is a keynote of Ver. The constipation of Ver. is no less characteristic: no desire; stools large, hard; in round black balls; from inactive rectum; frequent desire felt in epigastrium; painful of infants and children; of women after confinement.
Ver. is a great pain producer, and the pains of its neuralgias (dysmenorrhoea, migraine) are often accompanied by diarrhoea, vomiting, cold sweat, fainting, or prostration. This case was reported in P. C. J.
H. (vii. 150): Prosopalgia, right-sided, kept an anaemic woman awake and in misery for several days and nights from the crushing paroxysmal pain, causing sweating and prostration. Ver. cured at once. E.
F. Watts (A. H., xxi., 317) had this case: Mrs. C. had severe nervous headaches for years.
Any over-exertion, as riding or working on hot days, would excite them. They frequently began in occiput, settling sometimes in one eye sometimes in the other. Spi. and Sil. gave no relief. One day Watts noticed that the brow contracted and eyelids nearly closed with the intensity of the pain.
Ver. was now given and relieved at once. Gee (M. A., xxv. 22) cured this case with one dose of Ver. 200: Mrs. L., widow, 43, had sciatica four years.
Pain sharp, transient, darting upwards and downwards and from both sides to centre. Heat <; "the cooler the better." Cold sweat with the attacks. Headache from both temples to base of brain < by heat.
Vertex itches during attacks. Pain compels her to move about, but no > from motion. The cramps of Ver. are part of its general convulsant properties. The convulsions of Ver. may be tetanic, with lockjaw, or epileptic.
The eyes are particularly convulsed or the lids paralysed. There may be vanishing of sight or sparks before the sight or night-blindness. Dryness and burning are leading sensations as in other parts. Dryness is felt in nose, mouth, palate, throat.
Ver. has a sharp action on the respiratory organs and has cured many cases of pneumonia when the mental and other symptoms of Ver. have been present. A leading local symptom is tickling: Tickling deep in trachea and bronchi. "Tickling in chest, as if it would provoke cough, in middle of sternum." This symptom helped me to the remedy in the following case: Mrs. W. 30, had much pain inside throat.
Painful ulcer in mouth. Throat sore and inclined to be ulcerated. Tickling all over inside of chest and throat; outside tender. No pain on swallowing.
Has had cold and cough some time, cough hurts chest. Stan. had no effect. Ver. 1m thrice daily gradually removed all symptoms. Ver. meets cardiac debility, following acute diseases; pulse thread-like; faints in morning; face red when lying down or sitting up, deadly pale; hands cold, clammy.
Ver. is Suited to (1) the extremes of life—children and old people; (2) lean, choleric, or melancholy persons; (3) young people and women of a sanguine or nervo-sanguine temperament (of mountaineers Teste);
(4) people who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction; (5) persons of gay disposition; (6) of fitful mood; (7) anaemic persons.
Peculiar Sensations are: As if pregnant or in throes of child-birth. As if he had a bad conscience, or had committed a crime. As if in a dream. As if things whirled in a circle.
As if a lump of ice on vertex. Burning in brain. As if head would burst. As if heat and cold at same time on scalp.
Hair as if electrified. Eyelids as if rubbed sore. As if inner surface of lids too dry. As if hundreds of fine needle-points were thrust into eyelids.
As if ears were stopped. As if alternate current of cold and warm air coming out of ear. As if nose dry. As if teeth were filled with lead.
As if tongue too heavy. As of dust in throat. As if mouth lined with mucus. As if something alive running from stomach into throat.
As from ravenous hunger, pain in stomach. Radiating pain from abdomen. Distress over heart and epigastrium. Sinking, empty feeling in abdomen.
As of knives cutting bowels. As of hot coals in abdomen. Pinching as with pincers in abdomen. As if intestines twisted into a knot.
As if cold water running through veins. Arms as if bruised or broken. As if bones of l. forearm were pressed. As if arms too full and swollen, feel cold when raising them.
As if hands had been asleep. As if a heavy stone were tied to feet and knees. Limbs pain as if exhausted by excessive fatigue. As if she would have to fly away.
Electric pains occur in various parts. The symptoms are: < By touch; pressure-shock of injury. Slight wounds = fainting. Rest > palpitation.
Horizontal position > vomiting, cough, and general condition. Stooping < headache; = rush of blood to head. Motion <. Throwing back head > asthma.
Walking > jerks in limbs; neuralgia of arms and legs; pain in feet and knees. Least exertion = fainting; cough; sweat. < Night; and morning on waking. Warmth <.
Hot water <. Drinking <. Cold food and drink < cough. Drinking cold water on a hot day = diarrhoea.
< Damp weather. < Change of weather. (Rheumatism < in wet weather which drives patient out of bed Nash.) < Sharp, cool air = dry tickling cough.
< Before and during menses; before and during stool; after stool; during sweat. < from fright.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: (Poisonous doses) Strong Coffee; Camph. (pressive pain in head with coldness of body and unconsciousness after Hahn.);
Acon. (anxious, distracted state with coldness of body or burning in brain Hahn.); Chi.
(other chronic affections from abuse of Ver.—e.g., daily forenoon fever Hahn.); Staph. (most cases
Teste). Antidote to: Ars., Chi., Cup. (colic), Op., Tab.; removes the bad effects of Opium and Tobacco. Follows well: Ars., Arn., Chi., Cup., Ip.;
Camph. (Cholera); Am. c., Carb. v., Bov. (in dysmenorrhoea with vomiting and purging).
Lyc. and Nux in painful constipation of infants. Followed well by: Puls., Aco., Bell., Cham., Rhus, Sep., Sul. Compare: Electric sensations; tickling, prickly sensations, Veratrin. Cold sweat on forehead (Tab. over entire body).
Mania with desire to cut clothes, Trn. Lascivious talk, amorous or religious, Hyo., Stram. Fainting from least exertion, Carb. v., Sul. Sinking during haemorrhages (Trill., fainting).
Sensation of lumps of ice on vertex with chilliness, Sep. Facies hippocratica, Aco. Craves acids or refreshing things, Ph. ac. Cold feeling in abdomen, Colch., Tab, Vomiting < by drinking.
Ars. Vomiting < by least motion, Tab. Cholera after fright, Aco. Prostration after vomiting, Ars., Tab.
Large hard stools, Sul., Bry. Round black balls, Chel., Op., Pb. Frequent desire for stool felt in epigastrium, Ign. (Nux, in rectum).
Weakness at menses, Alm., Carb. an., Coccul. Collapse, cholera, coldness, < by heat, Camph. (Camph. has scanty, Ver. copious stools). Rheumatism < in wet weather, which drives patient out of bed, Cham.
Delirium, Bell., Stram. (these have not the cold surface and cold sweat of Ver.). Fright = Diarrhoea, Gels. Cholera, jat. c.
(vomits ropy, albuminous matter with purging); Pod. (painless); Ir. v.
(better for summer complaints; excoriated, raw feeling at anus); Crot. t. (single gush; every attempt to eat or drink = stool); Elat.
(olive-green stools). Suppressed scarlatina, Zn. (Ver. has succeeded when Zn. has failed to = reaction). Emaciation about neck, Nat. m.
(Ver. especially in whooping-cough). Weak from talking, Stan., Coccul., Sul., Calc. Collapse, diarrhoea, vomiting, Ant. t. (Ant. t., more drowsiness;
Ver., more cold sweat). Neck muscles too weak to hold head up, Ant. t. Craves cold drinks, Ars. (Ver. is between Ars. and Nux
Teste.) Purging and collapse, Hell. (Hell., apathetic). Pressure in vertex with pain in stomach > pressure < motion, Puls. Abdominal pains, Coloc.
(Ver. must walk about). Pain = fainting, Cham., Hep., Val. Convulsion after sudden emotions, Ign. Convulsions with spasm of glottis, Nux (Ver. secondary to exhausting diseases).
Intermittent fever, Lach. Cough followed by belching, Amb., Sul. ac. Alarmed about soul's salvation, Sul. Windy colic and spasms of women, Castor.
(with yawning), Diosc. (> moving about). Desire to ramble hither and thither, Bell. As if in a dream, Amb., Anac., Calc., Can. i., Con., Cup., Med., Rhe., Val., Ziz.
Umbilical hernia with absence of urging, Bry., Nat. m.; (with urging, Nux, Coccul.). Faintness connected with evacuations, Ap., Nux m., Pul., Spi. (with scanty stools, Crot. t., Dulc., Ox. ac., Pet., Sars., Sul.).
> Uncovering, Aco., Calc., Camph., Fer., Iod., Lyc., Pul., Sec., Sul. Griping, cutting, tearing, and spasmodic pains in body, Col., Dulc. Laughing and weeping by turns, Aur., Pal., Lyc., Stram., Alm., Pho., Sep., Sul. Loquacity, Cup., Hyo., Lach., Op., Stram.
Gossiping, babbling, Hyo. (Ver. on religious subjects). Kisses everybody, Agar. Averse to hot food, Pho.
Cold drink < cough (> Caust.). Night-blindness, Nux, Bell. Smell of manure or smoke before nose, Anac. "Evacuant" action, Lobel.
Causation EN
Fright. Shock of injury. Disappointed love. Injured pride or honour. Suppressed exanthema. Opium. Tobacco. Alcohol.
Mind EN
Affections of the mind in general; tired of life, but fear to die; amativeness; haughtiness; delirium; madness; sensitiveness; memory weak, or entirely lost (H.
N.
G.)
Melancholy dejection, sadness, and inclination to weep
Inconsolable affliction, with howlings and cries on account of imaginary misfortunes
Melancholy, head hangs down, sits brooding in silence
Excessive anguish and inquietude, with apprehension and troubled conscience, esp. at night, or in morning, often also when getting out of bed, or rising from a seat
Strong tendency to be frightened, and timidity
Deadly anguish
Discouragement and despair (hopelessness of life)
Busy restlessness, constant motion, with great inclination for labour
Disposition to be angry at the least thing, often followed by anxiety, and palpitation of the heart
Woman, 66, after paralytic seizure became maniacal, extremely angry, constantly accusing her nurses, pupils contracted, continual excitement, often incoherent: a dose of Ver. a. increased these symptoms, and then a single dose of Ver. v. Ø calmed all down (R.
T.
C.)
Loquaciousness, he talks rapidly
Swearing, inclination to run away, tearing things
Is conscious only as in a dream
Cannot bear to be left alone; yet persistently refuses to talk
Strong disposition to silence, with abusive language on the slightest provocation; if he talks he scolds, and the voice is weak and scarcely audible
Disposition to converse about the faults of others.—(He hunts up other people's weak sides and reproaches them.)
She is continually accusing and scolding her husband when dying of phthisis
Never speaks the truth; does not know herself what she is saying
Erroneous and haughty notions
Thinks himself distinguished; squanders his money, proud of his position
Imagines he is a hunter
Immoderate gaiety and loquacity
Fury, with impulse to bite, to tear everything, and to run away
Loss of memory
Absence of ideas
Loss of sense
Insanity, he wants to cut up everything
Unusually joyous mood
Mild delirium, with trembling excitement
Mental alienation and insanity, with singing, whistling, laughing, inclination to run from place to place, extravagant and haughty ideas and actions, or else a disposition to ascribe to one's self diseases which are altogether imaginary (thinks herself pregnant, or that she will be delivered soon)
Persistent raging with great heat of body
Swallowing his own excrement
Paroxysms of amorous or religious alienation
Mental disorders, with lechery and obscene talk
Kisses everybody; before menses
Puerperal mania and convulsions
Nymphomania with violence and destructiveness
Violent delirium (religious or exalted)
Suicidal tendency from religious despair.
Head EN
Confusion in head, as if all within it were in motion, esp. in morning
Dulness of all the senses
Whirling vertigo
Intoxication and dizziness
Vertigo, esp. when walking
Vertigo: with cold sweats on forehead; with loss of vision; sudden fainting; from opium eating; from abuse of tobacco and alcohol
Fainting from least exertion, turning in bed, straining at stool, retching, slight wounds, pains; loss of fluids; anxiety, nausea, convulsive, twitchings
Fainting with lockjaw, convulsion of eyes
Fits of headache, with paleness of face, nausea, and vomiting (of green mucus)
Headache with painful stiffness of nape of neck
Headache with (profuse) flow of urine
Sick-headache in which diuresis forms a crisis
Headache, by paroxysms, as if the brain were bruised or torn (with pressure)
Heaviness of the whole head
Pressive headache, often in vertex, or else semilateral, with pain in stomach
Violent headache which disappears on appearance of menses
During menses (which had not occurred for six weeks) headache, esp. in morning, with qualmishness;
> evening
Headache, with nausea and vomiting
Neuralgia of head with indigestion, features sunken
Constrictive pain in head (and gullet)
Incisive pain in vertex
Shaking in head, with jerking in arms and paleness of the fingers
Blood rushes violently to head when stooping
Hyperaemia of brain from whooping-cough
Pulsative headache
Burning pain in brain
Sensation of a cold wind blowing through head
Headache as if brain were broken
Sensation of coldness and heat in the exterior of head, with painful sensibility of the hair
Crawling, bristling sensation (r. side of head) as if the hair were electrified; with slight shivering of skin under hair
Plica polonica
Coldness at vertex as if there were ice upon it (with icy-cold feet and nausea;
< when rising from the bed;
> from external pressure, and when bending head backward)
Sensation of warmth and coldness on head at same time
Head burning hot; limbs alternately hot and cold
Head hot and covered with sweat; children rub head, cannot bear to be left alone; put hands to head (typhoid)
Scalp very sensitive, with headache
Cold sweat on forehead
Sensation of soreness of the head, with nausea
Neck too weak to hold head up.
Eyes EN
Pain in the eyes, as if the eyeballs were bruised
The eyeballs are turned upwards
Painful tearing or compression in eyes
Permanent burning in eyes
Redness of eyes
Painful inflammation in eyes, esp. r., and sometimes with violent headache, and nocturnal sleeplessness
Eyes dull, clouded, yellowish
Blueness of eyes
Eyes surrounded by blue or black rings
Eyes fixed, watery (sunken, with loss of lustre), and as if they were covered with albumen
Excessive dryness of eyelids
Profuse lachrymation, often with burning, incisive pains, and sensation of dryness in eyes (and lids, with redness)
Agglutination of the eyelids during sleep
Trembling of upper eyelids
Neuralgia palpebralis
Paralysis of eyelids
Eyes convulsed and prominent
Pupils strongly contracted; or perceptibly dilated
Loss of sight
Diplopia
Nocturnal blindness
Sparks and black spots before eyes, esp. when rising from a seat, or getting out of bed.
Ears EN
Shootings in ears
Pressure and constrictive sensations in ears
Alternate sensation of coldness and heat in ears; as if an alternate current of cold and warm air were coming out of the ear
Deafness, as from obstruction in ears
Sensation as if a membrane were stretched over ear
Humming, with sensitiveness to noise
Roaring in ears, esp. when rising from a seat.
Nose EN
Nose grows more pointed; seems longer
Icy coldness of nose
Inflammation and pain, as from ulceration, in interior of nose
Contractive or depressing pain in nasal bone
Nose-bleed. at night; during sleep; from one nostril only; before menses
Smell of manure, or smoke, before nose
Distressing sensation of dryness in nose
Violent and frequent sneezing
Coryza.
Face EN
Face pale, cold, hippocratic, wan, with the nose pointed, and a blue (or green) circle round eyes
Bluish colour of face
Yellowish colour of face
Redness of one cheek, the other is pale
Alternate redness and paleness of face
Redness of face when lying down, paleness when getting up
Burning heat, deep redness, and perspiration on face
Cold perspiration on face (esp. on forehead).—(Periodical neuralgia of face and head, with coldness of hands and tendency to faint
R.
T.
C.)
Drawing and tensive pains in face, on one side only, and extending to, ear
Jerkings and pinchings in muscles of face (when masticating).
Lockjaw
Risus sardonicus
Pustules in face, with pain, as from excoriation, when touched
Acne
Miliary eruption on cheeks
Bloatedness of face
Lips: bluish or hanging down; dry, black, parched; wrinkled, pale or black and cracked
Froth from mouth
Eruption on the commissures of the lips
Acne round the mouth and chin
Cramp in the jaw
Pain and swelling of the submaxillary glands.
Teeth EN
Toothache with headache, and red, bloated face
Toothache (sometimes pulsative), with swelled face, cold perspiration on forehead, nausea, and vomiting, painful weariness, and coldness of whole body, prostration of strength, even to fainting, internal heat, and insatiable thirst
Aching, and sensation of extreme heaviness in teeth, with drawing pain during the mastication even of soft food
Grinding of teeth
Looseness of teeth.
Mouth EN
Mouth dry and clammy
Burning in mouth and throat
Salivation, with nausea, or with acrid or salt taste
Much flow of saliva from the mouth like water-brash
Froth before mouth
Sensation of coldness, or burning in mouth and on tongue
Inflammation of interior of mouth
Tongue, dry, blackish, cracked, or red and swollen
Tongue loaded with a yellow coating; or cold and withered
Biting taste as from peppermint in the mouth
Stammering
Loss of speech
Sensation of torpor, and great dryness in palate (with thirst).
Throat EN
Sore throat, with constrictive pain of contraction (as by a pressing swelling) esp. during deglutition
Contraction of gullet, as from a pressive swelling
Swelling of the gullet, with danger of suffocation
Sensation of coldness, or burning in back of mouth and gullet
Dryness in throat, which cannot be mitigated by any drink
Roughness, dryness, and scraping in throat
Exophthalmic goître (Kirsch).
Appetite EN
Insipidity of the saliva in the mouth
Bitter, bilious taste in mouth
Water tastes bitter
Putrid taste in mouth, like manure, also herbaceous taste
Cooling, or sharp taste in mouth and throat, as from peppermint
Insatiable thirst, with craving, principally for cold drinks
Craves ice
Appetite and craving for food, also in intervals between vomiting and evacuation
Raging and voracious hunger
Hunger and thirst with profuse flow of urine
Bulimy
Ardent and continued desire for acid or cool things (fruits)
Craves: fruits; gherkins; citric acid; salted things; herrings; sardines
Aversion to hot food
After eating, however little may be taken, immediate vomiting and diarrhoea
Nausea, with hunger, and pressure at the stomach, when eating
After a meal hiccough, inclination to vomit, and regurgitation of bitter serum (of bile; of bitter substances; greenish).—> From eating meat and drinking milk.—< From potatoes and green vegetables.
Stomach EN
Risings with taste of food
Violent empty risings, also after a meal
Bitter or sour risings
Frequent and violent hiccough
Qualmishness and salivation with closure of the jaws
Violent nausea, which frequently almost induces syncope, and generally with excessive thirst (and increased flow of urine)
Frequent or continued nausea, also in morning
Extreme nausea causing one to retch and strain with great violence, sometimes with vomiting, sometimes not
Great nausea before vomiting
Waterbrash
Violent vomiting, with continued nausea, great exhaustion, and want to lie down, preceded by coldness of hands, with shuddering over whole body, accompanied by general heat, and followed by ebullition of blood and heat in hands
Vomiting of food
Bitter, or sour vomiting
Vomiting of froth and of yellowish green or white mucus; with cold sweat
Green vomit
Vomiting of green mucus
Vomiting of mucus at night
Vomiting of black bile and of blood
Continued vomiting, with diarrhoea, and pressure in the scrobiculus
The least drop of liquid, and the slightest movement, excite vomiting
Painful contraction of abdomen, when vomiting
Pain in stomach, with hunger and burning thirst
Excessive sensibility in region of stomach and scrobiculus
Pyloric end of stomach affected (Bayes)
Pains come some minutes after eating.—(Severe gastralgia an hour or two after meals, a pain extends from middle of sternum to below ribs, must hold stomach from the violence of the pain, but the pressure does not >, the pain then extends to above hip, is accompanied by distressing vomiting, brings up a quantity of stuff like vinegar; the pain = thirst, and lasts eight to ten hours; she trembles with it
R.
T.
C.)
Excessive anguish in pit of stomach
Intermittent neuralgia in girl, 11, about 4 p.m. throws up quantity of wind, about 5 p.m. agonising pain sets in like knives cutting the bowels every few minutes, lasting one or two minutes; so intense that it took three or four men to hold her; attacks end by sighing (Kitching)
Painful distension of pit of stomach
Emptiness and uneasiness in stomach
Cramp in stomach
Pressure in scrobiculus, extending sometimes into sternum, hypochondria, and hypogastrium, esp. after a meal
Acute pains in stomach and epigastrium
Burning sensation in pit of stomach
Inflammation of stomach.
Abdomen EN
Tensive pain in hypochondria as from flatulence
Shaking in spleen, while walking, after a meal
Spleen swollen
Hyperaemia of liver with cholera-like symptoms, or with asthma
Diaphragmatis with peritonitis, vomiting, and coldness
Colic in umbilical region
Excessively painful sensibility of the abdomen when touched
Nocturnal pains in abdomen, with sleeplessness
Swelling of the abdomen
While vomiting abdomen is painfully contracted
Abdomen hard and inflated
Tension in the hypochondria and umbilical region
Cramps in abdomen, and colic
Colic: cutting; griping and twisting, esp. about navel, > after stool; as if intestines were twisted in a knot; flatulent; cold sweat;
< after eating
Pressive, drawing pains in abdomen, when walking, in evening
Cuttings (in abdomen) as by knives, accompanied by diarrhoea, and thirst, with flow of urine
Burning sensation throughout abdomen, as from hot coals
Cold feeling in abdomen
Pain in entrails, as if they were bruised
Inflammation of intestines
Inguinal hernia
Incarcerated hernia
Protrusion of hernia during cough
Flatulent colic, with noisy, gurgling borborygmi in abdomen
The longer the flatus is retained, the greater the difficulty with which it is expelled
Violent expulsion of flatus upwards and downwards.
Stool And Anus EN
Constipation, sometimes obstinate, mostly from inactivity of rectum, and often accompanied by heat and headache
Faeces hard, and of too large a size
Unsuccessful urging to stool
Constipation of nursing infants
Violent and painful diarrhoea, often with tension of abdomen, preceded and followed by gripings
Watery diarrhoea, < from motion; desire for very cold drinks
Complaints before stool, during, and after
Copious evacuations
Rice-water stools with tonic cramps
Simultaneous purging and vomiting
Cholera, cramp, cold tongue and breath, feeble, hoarse voice, wrinkled fingers, retention of urine
Sudden vomiting and purging
Diarrhoea of acrid matter, with burning sensation in anus
Nocturnal diarrhoea
Loose blackish, greenish, brownish, evacuations
Flaky, green stools, like spinach
Loose, sanguineous evacuations
Sudden involuntary evacuation of liquid faeces; when expelling flatus
Diarrhoea of phthisis
During the evacuation, great lassitude, shivering, with shuddering, paleness of face, cold perspiration on forehead, and anxiety, with fear of apoplexy
Fainting during stool
Burning sensation in anus, during evacuation
Pain, as from excoriation in anus
Pressure towards anus, with blind haemorrhoids
Verminous symptoms.
Urinary Organs EN
Retention of urine
Want to urinate, while bladder is empty, with pain as if urethra were constricted behind the glans
Urine diminished, yellow and turbid even during emission
Flow of urine, with raging hunger and thirst, headache, nausea, colic, hard faeces, and coryza
Involuntary emission of urine; during cough, in typhoid
Acrid urine
Deep-coloured or greenish urine
Dark red urine, discharged frequently, but in small quantities
Pressive pain in the bladder, and burning sensation when urinating.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Excessive sensibility of the genital organs
Excoriation of prepuce
Drawings in testes.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Catamenia premature and profuse
Catamenia suppressed
Before catamenia: headache, vertigo, epistaxis, and nocturnal perspiration
At commencement of catamenia: diarrhoea, nausea, and shivering
During catamenia: headache in morning, with nausea, humming in ears, burning thirst, and pains in all limbs
Towards end of catamenia: grinding of teeth, and bluish colour of face
Nymphomania: before menses: from unsatisfied passion or mental causes; from disappointed love; puerperal mania; during confinement
Metritis
Menorrhagia
Dysmenorrhoea: with prolapse; nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, exhaustion; cold sweat; chilliness; pain in kidneys and uterus before and during menses
Amenorrhoea
Strangulated, prolapsed vagina, with cold sweat, exhausting vomit and diarrhoea
Suppressed catamenia, lochia, and secretion of milk, with delirium
Sexual desire too strong, particularly in childbed;
< at night; nymphomania (of lying-in women); complaints during menstruation, as, e.g., vomiting and diarrhoea, which may occur at these times
Threatened abortion, with cold sweat, nausea, and vomiting
During pregnancy wants to wander about the house; taciturn; haughty; thirsty; hard faeces, inactive rectum
Vomiting of pregnancy
Labour pains exhaust
Suppression of lochia or milk with nymphomania
Puerperal mania, wants to kiss everybody
In childbed: impudent behaviour; nymphomania; exhaustion
Eclampsia
Painfulness of breasts.
Respiratory Organs EN
Respiration oppressed; voice hollow; weak
Chest loaded with mucus, with roughness and scraping in the throat
Spasmodic contraction of glottis with dilated pupils
Suffocative constriction in larynx
Tickling very low down in trachea, provoking cough without expectoration
Cough, excited by a tickling, deeply seated in the bronchia, with easy expectoration, or else dryness
Cough, irritation referred to lowest part of sternum; pressure at stomach-pit, or over abdomen = cough immediately (Bayes)
Dry, tickling cough, after walking in sharp, cold air
Cough provoked by drinking, esp. cold water
Violent cough, with continued risings, as if about to vomit
Cough in the evening, with salivation
Dry, burning cough, generally in evening and morning
Cough, with pain in side, weakness and obstructed respiration
Hollow, deep cough, always in three or four shocks, as if proceeding from abdomen, with incisive pains in abdomen
Lancinations towards inguinal ring, when coughing
Cough, like whooping-cough, with vomiting
Cough, with yellowish expectoration, on entering a warm room, followed by pain, as from a bruise in chest
Cough, with copious expectoration.
Chest EN
Obstructed respiration, often to the verge of suffocation, generally produced by a spasmodic constriction of throat and chest
Shortness of breath on least movement
Dyspnoea and impeded respiration, also when seated
Chest very much oppressed, with pain in side, during an inspiration
Pressure at chest, esp. in region of sternum, and principally after eating or drinking
Sensation of fulness in chest, which induces frequent eructations
Squeezing in chest, esp. after drinking
Cramp in chest, with painful constriction
Spasmodic contraction of muscles of chest
Incisive pain in chest
Tickling in chest, as if it would provoke cough, in middle of sternum
Shootings, by paroxysms, in chest, with obstructed respiration
Slow, sharp stitches near nipples, which at last itch.
Heart EN
Violent palpitation of heart, which pushes out the ribs, with choking, and severe fits of anxietas praecordium
Pulse slow, almost lost
Great activity of arterial system
Angina pectoris
The blood runs like cold water through the veins.
Neck And Back EN
Rheumatic stiffness in nape, extending to sacrum; with vertigo, moving
Paralytic weakness of the muscles of neck (esp. in whooping-cough) which become incapable of supporting head
Muscles of nape paralysed
Pain (back and small of back feel sore and bruised) as of a fracture in loins and back, with drawing pressure, esp. when stooping and rising
Squeezing (tension like cramp) between shoulder-blades
Pain in scapulae, extending over whole back, with diuresis, thirst, and constipation.
Limbs EN
Painful paralytic weakness in all limbs
Numbness, tingling, or falling asleep of the limbs
Stiffness of limbs, < morning and after a walk
Trembling of limbs
Shooting in limbs as from electric sparks
Pain as from fatigue
Nails blue from coldness
Pains in limbs resembling a bruise, < during wet, cold weather;
< in warmth of bed;
> walking up and down
Icy coldness of limbs; of hands and feet.
Upper Limbs EN
Paralytic pain, as of a fracture in arms, from shoulder-joint to wrist
Jerking in arms
Coldness or sensation of fulness (heaviness) and of swelling in arms
Constant sensation of numbness in arms
Pain in middle of l. forearm as if bones were pressed together
Trembling of arms, on grasping an object
Shocks in elbow, as from electricity
Dry tetters on hands
Tingling in hands and fingers
The hands go to sleep and feel like dead
Numbness and paleness of fingers
Icy coldness and blueness of hands
Drawings and cramps in fingers
Nails blue.
Lower Limbs EN
Paralysis in hip-joint (first r. then l.), with difficulty in walking
Paralytic pain, as of a fracture in legs
Arthritic tearing and drawing in legs and feet
Constant sensation of numbness in legs
Tension in tendons of ham, as if they were too short
Pain, as of a fracture in knees, when going downstairs (or when stepping)
Shocks in knee, as from electricity
Extreme and painful heaviness in knees, legs, and feet, with difficulty in walking
Violent cramps in calves and feet
Rapid swelling of feet
Icy coldness of feet
Trembling of feet, with coldness, as if cold water were circulating in the part
Shootings (stitches) in (great) toes
Stinging, in toes when standing
Painful gout in feet
Lancinations, and pain as from excoriation, in the corns of the feet.
Generalities EN
[We may think of this remedy where there is a marked debility or exhaustion from functional or physical disturbance, as e.g., in whooping-cough, patient will cough until completely exhausted, and then have a cold perspiration on the forehead; or there may be a great exhaustion obliging one to lie down after the passage of a stool, even though it be soft, with cold sweat on the forehead Affections in general of the sexual organs, principally on r. side; on crown of head, esp. for sensations felt there; appearing in the rear of the navel; small of the back
Countenance is almost always changed presenting an unnatural appearance Dry mouth Inguinal hernia Flatus in general; flatulent colic
Urine very dark; blackness of outer parts, staggering when walking, from debility; drowsiness; dry exanthema.—< After drinking; before and during menstruation; before and during stool (feeling very weak and turn pale during stool); often after stool; during perspiration H. N. G.]
Paroxysms of pain, which always occasion, for a short time, delirium and dementia Drawing pain in limbs, esp. during a long walk Pressive pain, as of a fracture, in limbs, muscles, and bones Paralytic pain in limbs, as after great fatigue or exhaustion
Tearing in extensors, when seated Pains (rheumatic) in limbs, which are rendered insupportable by the heat of bed, > on getting up, and which disappear completely when walking, generally manifesting themselves towards 4 or 5 a.m Pains in limbs, < in spring and autumn by bad weather, when it is cold and damp Pain < by hearing another speak
Relaxation of muscles Continuous weakness and trembling Fits of cramp, and convulsive movements of limbs Tetanic stiffness of the body
Attack of spasm, with clenching of jaws, loss of sense and movement, and convulsive jerking of eyes and eyelids; before the attack, anguish, discouragement, and despair.—(Epileptic fits.) Tonic spasms, sometimes with contraction of palms of hands, and soles of feet, which are spasmodically drawn inward Several of the symptoms are renewed by rising up, and > by lying down Sudden, general, and paralytic prostration of strength
Excessive chronic weakness, which does not permit to be seated, nor to remain lying down, or else excited by the least movement Tottering gait Syncope, sometimes also on the least movement (characteristic) General emaciation
Tingling in whole body, as far as ends of fingers and toes The patient is affected by the open air Inflammation of inner organs, esp. those of digestion Sporadic and Asiatic cholera.
Skin EN
Miliary eruption, which itches in the heat, and burns after being scratched
Measles, tardy and pale; skin livid; haemorrhages but no relief; drowsy, weak, vomiting
Scarlatina in hot weather, eruption bluish, burning heat of limbs alternating with coldness
Nettle-rash
Dry eruption, resembling scabies, with nocturnal itching
Dry tetters
Desquamation of the epidermis (of indurated or thickened portions of the skin)
Skin flabby and without elasticity (the folds remain in the state into which the skin has been pressed)
Whitish colour of the skin
Skin anaemic or cyanotic
Skin blue, purple, cold.
Sleep EN
Yawning
Drowsy insensibility, or coma vigil, with incomplete consciousness, starts with fright, and eyes half open, or shut only on one side.—(Drowsy in evening, yet cannot sleep at night
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Nocturnal sleeplessness, with great anguish
Sleep, long, uninterrupted, heavy, too profound
Sleep, with the arms passed over the head
Dreams anxious, of being bitten by a dog and cannot escape; of being hunted of robbers, with frightened awakening and a fixed idea that the dream is true; of quarrels; frightful, followed by vomiting of a very tenacious, green mucus
Moaning or whining during sleep
Sleep with thirst and diuresis.
Fever EN
General coldness of whole body, and cold, clammy perspiration, esp. on forehead
Coldness of the skin even when covered up warmly
Coldness of single parts
Shuddering, and shivering, with thirst for cold water
Coldness over the back
Shivering with sensation of coldness in the limbs, esp. shoulders and arms, as if ice-cold water streaming through the bones, in a warm room
Coldness of the feet as if ice-water running into them, with trembling
Shuddering, and cutis anserina, after drinking
Chill < by drinking
Fever, with external coldness
Violent shivering and shaking (followed by heat and slight thirst), then perspiration, which soon changes to coldness
Chilliness and coldness predominate, and run from below upwards
Shiverings, at first with much thirst, followed by shivering alternately with heat, then permanent heat, with thirst
Fever, with internal heat only, and deep-coloured urine, or with vomiting and diarrhoea, or with constipation; during the shivering, vertigo, nausea, and pains in loins and back
During the heat, continual coma, or delirium, with redness of face
Heat only internal, with thirst, but without desire to drink
Heat in the evening, with perspiration
Heat suddenly alternating with chilliness
Fever before midnight, and in morning quotidian, tertian, or quartan
Creeping running from head to toes
Pulse slow, and almost extinct, or small, quick, and intermittent
The blood runs like cold water through the veins
Perspiration in general; complaints concomitant with
Perspiration easily excited during day, by least movement
Violent perspiration in morning, in the evening, or all night, as well as during every stool
Cold, sour, or putrid perspiration, sometimes colouring linen yellow, always with deathly paleness of face
Intermittent fever: external coldness, with dark urine and cold perspiration, desire for cold drinks, and chill with nausea; afterwards heat with unquenchable thirst, delirium, redness of face, constant slumber; finally perspiration without thirst, and very pale countenance
Sweat only on hands.