Phellandrium Aquaticum
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General
Phellandrium.
Oenanthe phellandrium. Phellandrium aquaticum. Water dropwort. Fine-leaved water-hemlock. Horse-bane. N. O. Umbelliferae. Tincture of fresh ripe fruit.
Clinical
Abdomen, coldness in. Asthma. Breasts, affections of. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Ciliary neuralgia. Coryza. Cough. Headache. Influenza. Intermittent fever. Nipples, painful. Phthisis. Sleepliness, excessive. Tongue, soreness of.
Characteristics
Phelland. which, like Oenanthe croc., grows in moist places, and even in the water itself, has not shown the poisonous properties of the latter. The provings were made by Nenning and Richter with tincture of the seeds. The symptoms show a general resemblance to those of the poisonous Umbelliferae—vertigo, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, drowsiness and weakness, but Phelland. is easily distinguished from the rest in its particular features. The provings developed many symptoms in both mammae, especially the right, stitches shooting inward being most marked.
Clinical experience in nursing women has further brought out its characteristics. The keynote is "Intolerable pain in lactiferous tubes between the acts of nursing." It has also "Pain in nipples on each application of child." Either breast may be affected, but the right breast and nipple were more affected than the left. The breast and chest symptoms have led to the use of Phelland. in phthisis and other chest affections, and it is in right-side affections that Phelland. has done its best work.
The cough is continuous and suffocating; the sputa purulent and horribly offensive. There are also offensive eructations, smelling of bed-bugs. There is burning as from vesicles on the tongue, and again the right border is most affected. Nausea sick, empty, faint feeling at epigastrium.
Burning and stitches. Desire for acids" is a leading symptom. The headaches and eye-pains are a leading feature of Phelland. Headaches involving the eyes; with inflammation of the eyes.
Heavy headaches; as if a crushing weight were on vertex; as if the head would be drawn back by a weight in the nape. Ciliary neuralgia. Obscured vision. Phelland. has the sense of enlargement of the head with fulness.
Abnormal sleepiness following confinement has been cured by it. Goullon, junr., calls attention to the value of Phelland. as a cough remedy (H. R., iii. 151). He regards it as a "universal cough remedy," but particularly useful in phthisicy coughs.
He gives this case: Mrs. E., of spare build, has almost always a slight cough, and has had repeated attacks of influenza of weeks' and even months' duration. Of late she suffers early in the morning with continuous cough for an hour or more accompanied by dyspnoea and prostration. Phelland. 2x in water, thrice daily, effected a rapid cure.
Phelland. 2x also cured a young teacher who was harassed by a chronic persistent cough. A. J. T.
(H. R., i. 170) with Phelland. 200 removed in an inveterate coffee-drinker this symptom: "In the evening turns purplish-red in the face, with staring eyes and extreme difficulty in breathing." He found in an old repertory under Phelland.: "Livid redness of face 7 to 8 p.m." Ussher (H. W., xxiv. 20) had a patient who suffered from excessive sleepiness after the birth of her last child. She would even go to sleep standing over her washtub.
Phelland. Ø, and later 200, repeated thrice daily, quickly relieved her. Peculiar sensations are: As if head were moving to and fro. Sound in brain as if striking a piece of silver. As if a stone or lump of lead on vertex.
As if a red-hot iron were moved close to left side of neck. As if blood-vessels in whole body were in vibrating motion. Though there were many symptoms of heat and burning, symptoms of coldness are also pronounced. Coldness of head with headache (also sweat with headache); coldness in abdomen, with movements; icy coldness after stool.
Phelland. is suited to: Persons of a feeble, irritable, lymphatic temperament, with weak and deficient nutrition. The symptoms are < in open air; after dinner; during and after eating; on appearance of menses; sitting; standing; lying down; after spirituous drinks; after drinking water; while swallowing; after stool (coldness in abdomen). > In open air (vertigo and head symptoms); during dinner (headache); eating bread (sore throat); motion, in open air; lying on left side; scratching; rubbing.
Chilliness predominates, and the catarrh and asthma of Phelland. are > in warm and < in cold seasons. Open air = sense of intoxication; < vertigo. < During increasing moon.
Relations
Antidoted by: Rheum (diarrhoea). Compare: Breast symptoms, Con., Phyt., Bry., Ol. an. (Ol. an. has stitches shooting out; Phelland. stitches shooting in).
Painful nursing, Crot. t. (pains in breast go through to back when nursing), Bov. (empty feeling). Stitches, K. ca.
Headache involving eyes, Onos. Pains in right chest, Zn. (right apex, Calc., Ars.; r. middle, Sep.; right base, Chel., Lachn., K. ca., Sep.; left apex, Ars.; left base, Ox. ac., Sul.). Last stage of phthisis, sputa terribly offensive, Sil.
Offensive breath with cough, Caps. Sleepiness, Op., Nux m.
Mind
Character sad, anxious, profoundly meditative, sometimes given to extravagant merriment.—Peevish arrogance.
Head
Confusion in head, as from intoxication
Heaviness of head, as if too large and too full; as if it would be drawn back by a weight in nape
Vertigo, which almost occasions falling backward, forward, or sideways, esp. to side to which one turns in room;
< (sometimes >) in open air, > by lying down
Sound in brain as if one were beating on a metal that was freely swinging, which woke him, after which the sound died away (5 a.m.)
Headache, which disappears in open air, and during dinner
Headache with perspiration on top of head, fifteen minutes after dinner, soon followed by coldness of the head
Dizzy headache in (l.) forehead with increased warmth of head and hands without perspiration
Headache involving nerves going to eyes, crushing feeling on vertex with burning of eyes and lachrymation
Painful heaviness of vertex as if a hard body were lying on it
Pain like weight on vertex with aching, burning, shooting pains in temples
Compressive pain in sides of head
Digging pain in head
Ebullition of blood, with heat and throbbing in head
In occiput: intermitting pressure; burning, constrictive sensation; tearing; burrowing; stitches
Itching, biting like flea-bites in scalp.
Eyes
Itching in eyes
Burning sensation in lids, morning and evening
Frequent twitching of l. lids
Twitching of lids, which close easily from a sensation of heaviness and sleepiness
Dryness of eyes, with shooting and burning pain
Frequent tearing in upper r. orbital margin in the bone
Ciliary neuralgia, < attempting to read or sew; fearful intolerance of light; lids swollen and half-closed
Lachrymation, esp. in open air
Sight cloudy, as if directed through a fog, < when looking intently at any object.
Ears
Tearings and boring in ears.—Singing and noises in r. ear.
Nose
Nostrils red, burning, and (with upper lip) swollen
Itching, confluent vesicles in nostrils
Loss of smell
Coryza, with obstruction of nose, can only breathe through mouth.
Face
Heat in face
Livid redness of face from 7 to 8 p.m
Tension in skin of face
Violent, and almost tearing, quivering in cheek.
Mouth
Toothache with tearing or shooting pain
Gums red, swollen, and painful
Dryness of mouth and throat at night
Increase of frothy saliva in mouth, which it is necessary to expectorate
Burning pain and burning vesicles on tongue (r. margin towards lip)
Clammy or cheese-like taste
Sweetish taste after drinking water
Beer has a bitter taste.
Throat
Sore throat, with pressive and shooting pain when not swallowing, and during empty deglutition, but not when swallowing food.
Stomach
Thirst for milk and for beer, with repugnance to and dread of water
Desire for acid drinks with thirst
Disgust and nausea with inclination to vomit and to eructate
Offensive risings, which have the smell of bugs, or with taste of food
Pain in stomach, as if it were empty
Sensation as if stomach were full of water, that would run up, followed by a sensation as if a large round body were twisting about in stomach, that afterwards fell downward, followed by rumbling in stomach
Burning pain in stomach.
Abdomen
Pinchings in the abdomen
Sensation of coldness in the abdomen, with movements in intestines
Icy coldness in intestines; after stool; after spirituous drinks
Burning extending from abdomen up into stomach, following eructations of the drug
Pinching and cutting pains as if diarrhoea would come on
Cutting and pinching in hypogastrium
Dull stitch in r. flank; on bending to that side violent shock in r. inguinal region, after dinner
Incarcerated flatus in hypochondria and lumbar region.
Stool And Anus
Hard faeces, with clawing and pressure at anus
Liquid evacuation, with tenesmus, followed by pain as of excoriation in anus
Abundant expulsion of flatus during and after the evacuation
Burning in anus
Itching in anus that becomes a burning after rubbing.
Urinary Organs
Pale and scanty urine
Desire to urinate, but only very little passed, with violent burning in evening
Urine pale, almost greenish.
Male Sexual Organs
Itching on prepuce, > by scratching.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses too early
At commencement of menses, lassitude, yawning, and bruised pain in thighs
She could neither sit, stand, nor lie for the pain
Menses flowed only morning and evening, and rather more profusely than usual
Menses that had just begun ceasea
Menses twelve days early, lasting only a day and a half, very scanty, though without any difficulties, quite unusual
Pain in nipples on each application of child
Always after nursing intolerable pain in r. breast along course of lactiferous tubes; physical and mental distress; hysterical weeping; this occurred some time after micturition, the nipples were sore with purulent discharge, the pain appearing after nipples were healed
Intolerable pains in lactiferous tubes between the acts of nursing.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness and roughness in throat and fluent coryza
Suffocating, dry cough, with shortness of breath
Nocturnal cough from accumulation of mucus in throat
Frequent expectoration of mucus, without cough, in morning
Shortness of breath, esp. when walking.
Chest
Oppression of chest when standing and taking a deep inspiration
Stitches in chest.—(Phthisis, esp. of r. lung cavity; burning on breathing; continuous cough; profuse sweat; diarrhoea vomiting of, food; copious purulent sputa, terribly offensive; emaciation.)
Pressure on side of chest in bed in morning, which disappears when lying on the side affected
Sharp stitches, extending inward beneath l. mamma, not affected by breathing
Painful tearing stitches extend through whole l. mamma
Violent stitch through r. mamma, near sternum, extending to back between shoulders, then down into r. side of sacrum, that was very painful on breathing, immediately after dinner
Biting sticking in r. nipple, evening before lying down.
Neck And Back
Sensation on l. side of neck below jaw as if red-hot iron were moved along close to the part
Tearing in l. side of neck to jaw
Stitches: between shoulders; in lower end of l. scapula; in sacrum
Pain as from a bruise in loins when seated.
Upper Limbs
Tearing in shoulders and arms.
Lower Limbs
Tearing along anterior surface of r. thigh
Vibration in calves
Sensation as of congested blood in knees.
Generalities
Tearing pains in limbs.—Sensation of trembling in all the vessels of the body.—The majority of symptoms appear when patient is quietly seated, standing, or lying down; they are > by movement and in open air.—Great dejection and lassitude.
Skin
Itching, sometimes burning or smarting, disappearing quickly when the parts are scratched.—Small blue spots, like petechiae.
Sleep
Sleepiness during day, with frequent yawning
So sleepy would fall asleep standing at work, lasting an hour
Retarded sleep
Frequent and early waking, or prolonged sleep in morning
Dreams: of lightning with fright; of a robbery in which he received many blows.
Fever
Predominance of shivering, sometimes with shaking chills, generally neither accompanied nor followed by heat or thirst
Shuddering, generally in evening, sometimes as if cold water had been poured over body
Inability to urinate the day after ague attack
Accelerated pulse.