Allium Sativum
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General EN
Allium Sativum.
Garlic. N. O. Liliaceae. Tincture of fresh bulb.
Clinical EN
Alopecia. Asthma, periodical. Bronchitis. Catarrhs. Colic. Constipation. Cough. Coxalgia. Dandriff. Diabetes. Diarrhoea. Dypepsia. Fevers. Headache. Hip, rheumatism of. Hoarseness. Menorrhagia. Menses, disorders of. Ophthalmia. Rheumatism. Salivation. Scurvy. Skin, affections of. Sprains. Whitlow. Worms.
Characteristics EN
Teste places All. sat. in the Bryonia group along with Lyc., Digit., Nux v., Coloc., Ign., all of which act with much power on carnivorous animals and hardly at all on herbivora. All are suited to persons who are disposed to excesses at table, have strong constitutions, dark complexions, firm flesh, though occasionally disposed to obesity. The All. sat. patient is rather a gourmand than a glutton. It suits persons who eat a great deal more than they drink.
In the mental sphere there is anxiety and impatience. Fears he won't recover; that he won't be able to bear any medicine; fear of being poisoned. Teste has cured with it, chronic dyspepsia in old, fleshy persons, whose bowels were deranged by the least irregularity of diet; chronic bronchial catarrh with profuse mucous expectoration; periodical asthma; a case of permanent dyspnoea; rheumatism of hip; swelling of breasts after weaning. He also greatly relieved with it cases of diabetes mellitus.
The pains of All. s. are mostly pressive from within outward (i.e., distensive, like those of Bry.); stinging, or stinging and burning; or stinging with paralytic weakness; or tearing and crampy. Sometimes they increase gradually to a high point and then decrease gradually (like Sul. and Stan.). Garlic has been used as a condiment from ancient times, and also as a remedy against worms and fevers. Though closely related to All. cep. it is incompatible with it, and not very like it in action.
It produces headache in connection with digestive troubles and also with menstruation. Heavy headache, can hardly open eyes, > onset of menses, < after. Catarrhal ophthalmia returning every night on trying to read. Coryza, moist, dry, thin, fluent, with pressive pains above root of nose.
Scurvy gums; sore mouth. All. sat. is one of the remedies for "hair" sensation: Sensation of hair on tongue < reading. (Many of the pains of Cepa are thread-like.) Copious sweetish saliva. The digestion is disordered by slightest irregularities in diet.
Pressure in epigastrium and transverse colon > by pressure and sitting bent. The menses are profuse. During menses there is soreness of vulva and thighs, mammae swollen and painful to touch. There are some characteristic respiratory symptoms.
Bronchial catarrh with gelatinous, difficult expectoration. Cough, giving rise to most fetid breath like Capsicum. Cough when smoking. The hip is the seat of many rheumatic pains.
Tearing in hip. Pain in psoas and iliac muscles < least movement, though he can lift the limb with the hands. The skin is sensitive, dry, shrivelled. Herpetic itching, burning, red or whitish spots on swollen surface.
Baldness; scurf, skin peels off hand. The skin over joints is tight.
It is suited to fleshy people and those used to high living. Change of temperature <. Open air < chest complaints. Moist heat < pains in limbs.
Damp cold weather = tearing and stinging in different parts of body. Reading < eye and mouth symptoms. Aggravation from reading is noteworthy. It is found also under Cina.
The vertigo of All. sat. is brought on by looking long and steadily at anything: this is probably, in essence, the same modality as < by reading. Many symptoms are < in evening and night; also in the morning on waking. Sitting bent >; pressure < pains in abdomen. Every step = excruciating pain in intestines.
Walking < pains in limbs.
Relations EN
Compare: All. cep. (which see). Ornithogalum umbellatum (stomach affections); Bry., Caps. (fetid breath with cough), Coloc. (colic; hip-pain); Ign.; Kali bi. (ropy expectoration; hair on tongue); Rhus and Hyo. (fear of being poisoned); Lyc., Nux v., Seneg. Antidoted by: Lyc. Complementary: Ars. Incompatible: Alo., All. cep., Scilla.
Causation EN
Drinking bad water. Gluttony.
Mind EN
Sadness
Weeping during sleep
Fears he will never get well; fears he cannot bear any medicine; fear of being poisoned
Sensitive
Impatient
Impulse to run away.
Head EN
Vertigo on looking steadily at anything for a long time
Short-lasting vertigo, and only on rising from a chair
Heaviness in forehead, almost preventing him from opening his eyes
Dull pain in occiput in morning, while lying on the back
Headache: with mucus in the throat; before menses, ceasing when they occur and returning after; in dyspeptic subjects.
Eyes EN
Catarrhal ophthalmia at night; smarting, burning lachrymation; agglutination; returns every night when he tries to read.—Tarsi sore with irritation.
Ears EN
Catarrhal deafness.—Hardened ear-wax and crusts.
Nose EN
Coryza rather dry than fluent, with pressive pain from above the root of the nose
Smarting at junction of alae nasi and face
Blowing blood from the nose in the night.
Face EN
Lancinations on one side of the face.—Dry lips.
Mouth EN
Tickling sensation in the lower teeth
Swelling of lower gums
During night, and in the morning, troublesome feeling as of a hair on her tongue; renewed on waking
Tongue pale-red with effaced papillae
Dryness of palate
Very copious flow of sweetish saliva into the mouth in the forenoon, after meals; more esp. after supper and during the night
Hot taste in mouth, proceeding from throat, strongly reminding him of garlic, immediately after taking the medicine, and returning after breakfast to such a degree as to cause a flow of saliva
The symptoms of the mouth are < by reading.
Throat EN
Sensation as of something cold rising in throat
Sensation as of a hot and smarting vapour rising in the throat
Mucous accumulations in the throat, in the morning, with heavy head
Sticky feeling in throat with dryness, tickling, heat, and raw feeling in larynx.
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Appetite and Stomach
Voracious appetite
Great hunger from weakness of stomach without appetite
Desire for butter
Thirst; preventing sleep
Burning eructations, after a meal
Eructations exciting copious salivation
The slightest deviation in diet disturbs the bowels and digestion
Complaints from bad water; from gluttony
Chest complaints < after eating
Burning in stomach, which is not painful when not touched, but is very sensitive to the least pressure
Lancinations
Weight in stomach which prevents sleep
Pressure inward as from a stone in epigastrium
Pressure in upper abdomen;
> by sitting bent and pressing with both hands; pain became unendurable on walking out.
Abdomen EN
Wind colic; twistings and pinchings round navel
Incomplete (as if interrupted) emission of fetid flatus
Every step on the pavement caused excruciating pain as if the intestines would be torn apart, > by lying down
Everything seemed to drag downward
Weight in hypogastrium, immediately after a meal, without urging to stool or urinate.
Stool And Anus EN
Expels flatus
Stool first fecal, then watery and hot
Involuntary stools
Diarrhoeic stool, 3 a.m., preceded, accompanied, and followed by cuttings in abdomen and loins
Normal stool immediately after a meal
Stool delayed from morning until after dinner, great urging; with stool heat in rectum
Constipation with almost constant dull pain in bowels
Haemorrhoids
Prolapsus ani
Worms.
Urinary Organs EN
Urine increased
Whitish very abundant urine, becoming cloudy from nitric acid
A kind of diabetes
Dark brown with copious sediment
Lessened urine.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Menses too early; headache and dizziness lessen as the flow becomes established
Suppurating pimples on vulva
Suppurating pimples on vulva during menses
During menses extensive excoriations of skin of internal portions of thighs
Bright red spots, with itching and smarting on the inside of the labia majora and at entrance of vagina.—(Said to be injurious during pregnancy and nursing.)
Retained placenta
Dull stitches in r. mamma
Breasts swell after weaning
Swelling of breasts, sensitive to touch
Eruption of red blotches between the breasts and around the nipples.
Respiratory Organs EN
Difficult respiration as if sternum compressed
Periodic asthma
Painful irritation of windpipe when coughing
Scraping in larynx exciting dry cough
Almost continuous mucous râles in bronchi
Cough seeming to come from stomach
Cough giving rise to perceptible fetid smell
Dry cough after eating
Morning cough, after leaving his bedroom, with extremely copious mucous expectoration
Sudden paroxysms of hard, dry cough while smoking, compelling him to desist
Great difficulty in expectorating a glutinous mucus
Expectoration of thin, yellowish, purulent-looking blood-streaked mucus of putrid odour
Cough < bending head; after eating; by open air.
Chest EN
Pain in l. chest with dark urine.—Darting pain in the chest which prevents sleep.
Heart EN
Leaping beats of the heart.
Back EN
Red spots like ringworm on the back
Itching between shoulders
Tearing pain in sacrum
Cutting pain in sacrum in morning
Simple pain in coccyx.
Upper Limbs EN
Painful feeling of contraction in arm
Pain in forearm; seems as if paralysed
Burning, then moisture in palms
Some red spots appear on hands
Skin peels off the hands
Tearing pains in fingers extending below the nails.
Lower Limbs EN
Rheumatism of hip
Tearing pain in hip
Intolerable pain in common tendon of psoas and iliacus muscles;
< from least movement; trying to cross legs causes him to cry out; but this causes no pain if he lifts the limb gently with his hand;
< 8 p.m. in bed, cannot then change his position or sleep
Weakness in lower limbs; painful weariness in the thighs
Legs do not grow as rapidly as the rest of the body
Pain as from a sprain in ankle-joint; in toe-joints
Tingling in feet; burning in soles; stiffness in feet
Pains < by changes of temperature.
Skin EN
Skin sensitive
Loose; dry; wilted skin
Swelling with itching and burning
Red spots; on hands, on chest, on back
Herpetic itching burning, red or whitish spots on a swollen surface.
Sleep EN
Drowsiness after a meal
Muscles twitch on falling asleep
Sleep prevented by: stitches on chest; weight on stomach; thirst
Coldness felt in sleep and awakening him frequently
Dreams: of water and storms; of rapid transit from place to place; anxious; continuing after waking.
Fever EN
Chilliness on one side only
Shivering before midday and in evening
During coldness, redness of face
Vomiting during the fever
Sweat in afternoon
Sweat: acrid; causing itching; fetid.