Nuphar Luteum
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General
Nuphar Luteum.
Small Yellow Pond Lily. N. O. Nymphaeaceae. Tincture of fresh root.
Clinical
Cholerine. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia.
Headache
Impotence.
Psoriasis.
Rhus poisoning.
Seminal emissions.
Typhoid-fever.
Characteristics
Nuphar l., the Yellow Pond Lily, was proved by Pitet, and many of his symptoms have been clinically confirmed. Most marked was a yellow diarrhoea coming on in the early hours of the morning. With the diarrhoea is great exhaustion. Nuph. has cured many cases of diarrhoea so characterised, and even cases of typhoid fever.
Another marked feature of the proving was the excessive depression of the male generative system; and Nuph. has done good work in analogous conditions, and headaches associated therewith. The diarrhoea was < 4 to 6 a.m.; < after the least excess of any kind. Weakness and itching were < evening.
Walking = painful shocks in hams; and pain in flank, which was > by pressure. < Day after coitus.
Relations
Compare: Early morning diarrhoea, Sul., Nat. sul., Rumex, Pod. Sexual debility, Gels., Con., Dig., Nat. m., Chi.
Mind
Impatient of slightest contradiction.—Excessive moral sensibility, acute pain on witnessing sufferings of animals.
Head
Heaviness of head
Bruised shaking in brain
Dull pains in front part of base of brain on level of orbits
Bruised, painful shocks, r. anterior side of brain on walking
Lancination in r. and l. anterior lobes of brain
Headaches attending depressed states of generative organs.—(Pityriasis capitis very much aggravated, with much itching and falling out of the hair).
Eyes
When standing in sun brilliant sparks filled field of vision, converging from circumference to centre (an old symptom revived, and subsequently reproduced frequently, esp. after hard coughing).
Mouth
Sweetish taste.—Tongue white; mouth pasty.
Stomach
Painful sensation of weariness in stomach; digestion slow; wind colic, < early morning, with liquid, sour-smelling stools; with sexual weakness and pollutions;
< after coitus
Exhaustion in epigastrium.
Abdomen
Colicky pains all round waist; < 5 to 7 a.m.
Stool And Anus
Smarting and burning at anus after every stool
Stitches as from needles in rectum, above anus
Soft stools preceded by some colic for several days; or painless diarrhoea
Yellow diarrhoea, esp. very early in morning (4 to 6 a.m.)
Stools: liquid, yellow, fetid
Much exhaustion with stools; sense of exhaustion in epigastric region.
Urinary Organs
Urine deposits copious reddish sand, which is hard and adheres to the vessel.
Male Sexual Organs
Entire absence of erections and desire; voluptuous ideas which fill imagination do not cause erections
Penis retracted, scrotum relaxed
Diminution of lascivious thoughts and desires for some days; opposite effect during succeeding days
Weakening nocturnal emissions while convalescing from typhoid
Involuntary losses during sleep, at stool, and when urinating, with complete absence of erections; inability to effect coitus; weakness; impaired digestion; pale, languid
Lancinations in r. testicle; in l. testicle; with pains at extremity of penis.
Chest
Pain behind sternum, when running, as though subjacent organs violently shaken.
Back
Dull pain in l. lower lumbar region
When walking painful stitch to flank, > by pressure
Sensitive on renal region.
Limbs
Weakness and loss of power in limbs, < evening.
Upper Limbs
Lupus on arms.
Lower Limbs
Prickings back of l. thigh
Constant restlessness and fatigue of legs
Lancinations in plantar surface of r. great toe.
Skin
Violent itching
On different parts of body red blotches, tolerably regular in outline, ovoid or circular, prominent and covered with little silvery white scales; violent itching, < evening; as eruption disappeared, scales ceased to be reproduced, and skin at place of each blotch became pale red or yellowish.—(Rhus tox poisoning; relieved pain and swelling and hastened recovery. .)
Psoriasis; pityriasis capitis.