Caladium Seguinum
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General
CALADIUM. [Calad.] Caladium Seguinum. Hering. Araceae.
Mind
► Unconsciousness or coma. ► Delirious, unintelligible murmuring. ► Aversion to the medicine ; required a desperate effort to overcome it. ► Mind depressed. ► Very careful about his health ; apprehensive. ► Lascivious ideas. ► Restless, cannot control himself after smoking. ► After mental exertion, fainting. ► Forgetfulness.
Sensorium
► Vertigo with nausea, mornings, also with stitches in pit of stomach. ► Rocking, dizzy sensation, after lying down and closing the eyes, preventing sleep.
Inner Head
► Headache, left side, most in forehead and occiput. ► Forehead : pressure after smoking ; bursting pain ; boring. ► Drawing in occiput ; drawing-tearing up into the head. ► Heavy pressing pain after siesta. ► Heat rises from below into the head ; turns to on internal glowing ; periodical heat of head.
Outer Head
► Left half of head feels as if asleep. ► Pimples on the scalp, behind the ear, sensitive to touch.
Eyes
► Eyes feel to large and are inflamed. ► Burning in the eyes. ► Eyes close, even while walking in open air, with drowsiness before dinner. ► Stitches in the eyes.
Ears
► Sensitive to noise ; the slightest noise startles from sleep. ► Earache during the fever. ► Burning of upper margin of auricle. ► Throbbing and formication around the right ear.
Nose
► Sudden burning in nose, as from pepper, finally sneezing and fluent coryza. ► Discharge of blood and mucus when blowing the nose. ► Painful pimples on right side of septum.
Face
► Heat in the face. ► Sensation as if a spider-web were sticking here and there. ► Flies are attracted to the face and head.
Lower Face
► Lying with mouth half open, coma, in typhus.
Teeth
► Drawing : in left molars ; from right ear to the teeth. ► Boring toothache.
Tongue, Etc
► Taste : insipid ; herbaceous. ► Tongue swollen.
Mouth
► Burning in the mouth and fauces.
Throat
► Scratching sensation in throat as from something sharp, or with dry sensation and much hawking. ► Dryness and burning in throat. ► Fauces and pharynx dry, not the mouth. ► Hawking phlegm and vomiting, after smoking.
Desires And Aversions
► Thirst and want of appetite, before coma. ► Thirstless, even aversion to cold water ; drinks only warm drinks. ► Eats, but without hunger.
Eating And Drinking
► Cold water : 14.
Warm drink : 14.
Drink : 17.
After eating : 26.
Nausea And Vomiting
► Frequent eructations, of very little wind, as if the stomach were full of dry food. ► Nausea, with stitches in the pit of stomach ; with hollow feeling in the stomach and faintness. ► Acrid, sour vomit, makes the teeth feel too long.
Stomach
► Fluttering, as from a bird, in the stomach, causes nausea. ► Fine, jerking stitches in pit of stomach, which is drawn inwards with each stitch, worse sitting ; causes weakness and nausea. ► Burning in stomach not relieved by drink. ► Cutting, as with glass, in the pit of stomach and in the left flank ; preventing sleep after midnight. ► Throbbing and heaviness in pit of stomach after walking.
Hypochondria
► Stitching, pressure and dull pressing jerks in region of spleen.
Abdomen
► Throbbing mostly above and to right of navel. ► Spasmodic cutting below the navel ; must bend double. ► Abdomen sore to touch, as if beaten, after the cough. ► Burning in the hypogastric region.
Stool, Etc
► Scanty, putrid-smelling flatus, in the evening. ► Stool : soft, yellow ; soft, afterwards of thin red blood.
Urine
► Sensation of fulness in the bladder, region of bladder sore to pressure. ► Stinging deep in the hypogastrium. ► Violent pain during urination. ► Urine : offensive ; with sediment.
Male Sexual Organs
► Sexual desire with relaxed penis, or painful erections without desire. ► Impotence, with mental depression. ► Glans : very red, covered with fine red points ; dry, with desire to rub it. ► Prepuce much swollen at the margin, sore and painful. ► Parts larger, as if puffed, relaxed and sweating. ► Swelling of scrotum. ► Pimples on the mons veneris.
Female Sexual Organs
► Pruritus vaginae ; induces onanism ; during pregnancy.
Larynx
► Larynx and trachea seem to be constricted ; impedes deep breathing.
Breathing
► Breathes in sighing jerks, during unconsciousness and great heat. ► Asthma : great oppression, could scarcely get his breath ; feels as if mucus would, cause suffocation, but without anxiety ; attacks after eating, or after siesta ; when the rash on the forearm disappears ; in alternation with rash on chest.
Cough
► Sudden and involuntary, caused by an irritation high up in the throat ; it is a half cough, half moan. ► Cough : weak, toneless ; panting, preventing sleep at night.
Lungs
► Stitches in chest ; to left of sternum ; in right side with anxiety, better lying on right, worse lying on left side.
Heart And Pulse
► Pulse : hard and bounding in intermittent ; very frequent, hardly to be felt in typhus.
Outer Chest
► Rash on the chest.
Neck And Back
► Rheumatic pain between the shoulders ; can hardly turn in bed. ► Sacral region and back feel bruised, morning when rising.
Upper Limbs
► Pain in the shoulder, with headache. ► Arms "asleep" on waking in the morning. ► Pricking in palms like from pains and needles, has to rub them hard, toward evening, lasting till sleep. ► Rash on forearm.
Lower Limbs
► Furuncle on buttock, pained severely when sitting. ► Left knee : throbbing pain when lying, evenings ; as if being forced asunder ; cracks on stepping and impedes walking. ► Sticking and stitching in corns on left little toe.
Limbs In General
► Limbs weak, cannot get out of bed. ► Feels as if beaten in all the joints, heaviness in the limbs, mornings.
Position, Etc
► Walking : 5, 17, 33.
Stepping : 33.
Rising : 31.
Sitting : 17, 33.
Can hardly turn : 31.
Lying down : 2, 33.
Better lying on right, worse lying on left side : 28.
Nerves
► Lies unconscious ; with single jerks, sometimes affecting the whole body.
Sleep
► Sleep disturbed by every slight noise, even rattling of paper. ► Starting in sleep, moaning and groaning.
Time
► Morning : 2, 31, 32, 34.
Evening : 20, 32, 33, 40.
Night : 27.
Before midnight : 40.
After midnight : 17, 40.
Temperature And Weather
► Open air : 5.
Chill, Fever And Sweat
► Chill in the evening, with coldness going from the abdomen to the feet and fingers. ► Chill after midnight. ► Heat only internal, with throbbing in the body. ► Heat before midnight, during sleep, passing of quickly on awaking. ► Sickly sweat, which attracts the flies very much. ► With the breaking out of sweat, amelioration of all the complaints.
Attacks
► Periodical : 3.
Sides
► Right : 6, 7, 10, 19, 28.
Left : 3, 4, 10, 17, 18, 28, 33.
Below upwards : 3.
Sensations
► Stitches, like with needles, in various parts of body.
Tissues
► Loss of fluids. ► Dryness ; inflammation of mucous membranes. ► Dropsical swellings.
Contact, Injuries, Etc
► Touch : 4, 19, 46.
Pressure : 21.
Desire to rub : 22.
Must rub : 32.
Scratching : 46.
Skin
► Sudden, violent, corrosive, burning, often on small spots, i. e., cheeks, nose, toes, etc. ; must touch the parts, but cannot scratch them. ► Rash : on chest, alternating with asthma ; on the forearm.
Stages And States
► Lax phlegmatic temperament.
Relationship
► Antidote to Calad. : Capsic. ► In poisonings with Calad., the juice of sugar cane. Ignat. relieves the stitches ; Carb. veg. relieves rash on arms ; Hyosc. lessens night cough ; Zingiber relieves asthma. ► Following Calad. well : Acon., Canthar., Sepia, Pulsat. ► Complementary to Nitr. ac. ► Calad. antidotes : Mercur.