SENEGA

SENEGA. [Seneg.] Seneca Snake-root. Polygallaceae.

► Cheerful, but irritable, easily becomes vehement when excited. ► Phlegmatic. ► Anxiety with accelerated breathing.

► Confused feeling in the head. ► Dulness, with pressure and weakness of the eyes. ► Slight vertigo before the eyes.

► Head feels heavy. ► Sort of aching in forehead, sinciput and occiput ; comes every day, is felt when sitting in a warm room and accompanied by pressure in eyes, that does not bear touch, though headache is not worse from pressure ; better from exercise in open air. ► Pressing pain in forehead and orbits after dinner, especially in left side of head ; relieved in the open air.

► Aching over the orbits, eyes tremble and water when he looks at an object intently or steady ; eyes weak and watery when reading. ► Weakness of sight and flickering, must wipe the eyes when reading, but they are aggravated thereby. ► Evenings, on walking towards setting sun, seems to see another sun beneath the first ; on turning eyes outward it appeared like a compressed oval, and disappeared when head was bent backwards and when eyes were closed. ► Promotes absorption of lens fragments after operation for cataract. ► Paresis of the left oculo-motor nerve, with paralysis of the superior rectus muscle ; patient could see clearly only by bending head backwards which relieved double vision. ► Drawing and pressure in the eyeballs, with diminution of visual power. ► Eyes pain as if pressed out, or as if balls were being expanded, especially in the evening and in candle-light. ► Hypopion in scrofulous patients. ► Cilia hang full of hard mucus ; smarting of the conjunctiva, as if soap was in the eyes ; mornings ; blepharitis ; sometimes lids stick so after sleep, they must be soaked before they can be separated.

► Troublesome dryness of the Schneiderian membrane. ► Smell before the nose as of a malignant ulcer. ► Sneezes so often and so violently that the head grows dizzy and heavy ; followed by thin coryza.

► Coated white, yellowish-white, or slimy in the morning, with slimy, unpleasant taste. ► Taste : bad, with rumbling in stomach ; metallic ; like urine.

► Mouth and throat dry ; tenacious mucus difficult to hawk up ; scraping and roughness ; constriction in the fauces ; hawking.

► Eructations, which relieve the mucus and hawking. ► Nausea with vomiturition ; burning in the stomach.

► Pressure below the pit of the stomach ; senses of gnawing hunger. ► Digging pain in the epigastrium, disposition to flatulence and to outbursts of ill-humor.

► Purging, vomiting and anxiety ; watery stools, spurting from the anus. ► Stools scanty, hard, or dry and large, insufficient.

► Urine diminished, dark-colored, foams when shaken. ► Urine acrid, increased in amount. ► Urging and scalding before and after micturition ; mucous shreds in the urine ; on cooling becomes thick and cloudy, or deposits a thick sediment, yellowish-red, with upper stratum yellow and flocculent.

► Tenacious mucus causing hawking or coughing ; often an irritating, shaking cough as in old cases of bronchitis. ► Sudden hoarseness when reading aloud. ► Hoarse ; throat so dry it hurts when he talks.

► Short breathing and oppression of the chest on going up stairs. ► Dyspnoea as from stagnation in the lungs ; also on awaking and during chill. See 37, 40, etc.

► Dry, with oppression of chest and roughness in throat ; short, hacking, from mucus or from irritation in larynx, worse in the open air and from walking fast. ► Cough often ends in a sneeze (often in common colds). ► Shaking cough like whooping-cough from burning and tickling in the larynx in the morning, with copious, tough, white, mucous sputum (like white of egg). ► Soreness of the chest, dry cough, throat dry, hoarseness ; later much mucus in bronchi and trachea. ► Cough worse evenings ; at night, during rest, sitting, lying on (left) side, and in a warm room.

► Orgasm of blood ; oppression with flushes of heat ; oppression especially during rest ; tightness. ► Certain movements cause pain, as if chest was too tight ; disposed to expand the chest, this leaves soreness. ► Shooting stitches in the chest, worse during inspiration, during rest. ► Dull stitches and burning pain in left chest when lying on the right side. ► Walls of chest sensitive or painful when touched, or when he sneezes (often as a remnant of colds on the chest). ► Burning sore pain under the sternum, especially during motion and on deep inspiration. ► Stepping hard, walking fast or running, causes pulling sore pain, as if through mediastinum. ► Accumulation of much mucus in larynx, trachea and chest. ► Is said to be useful for hydrothorax after inflammations in chest.

► Violent boring pain in region of heart. ► Heart's beat shakes the whole body ; violent palpitation while walking.

► Pressing pain between the scapulae especially when stepping hard, or on other movements which concuss the chest. ► Pulse rather hard and accelerated.

► Many symptoms worse during rest. Also See 27, 28. ► Exercise : 3. Motion : 28. Bending head back : 5. Going up stairs : 26. Walking, walking fast : 5, 27, 28, 30. Sitting : 3, 27. Lying on sides : 27, 28.

► Debility, with stretching of the limbs, confusion, heaviness and beating in the head. ► Legs feel weak ; joints feel lame. ► Weakness seems to originate in the chest. ► Lassitude and slight trembling of upper limbs. ► Faintness, when walking in open air.

► As soon as he lies down evenings, heavy sleep. ► Restless sleep, full of dreams ; awakens often from all dull stitches and tightness in chest.

► Day : 3. Evening : 5, 27. Night : 27. Morning : 5, 11, 27.

► Warm room : 3, 27. Open air : 3, 27, 36, 40.

► Chilliness, weakness of feet ; chill in open air ; dyspnoea. ► Shuddering over back heat in face, weak, burning eyes, beating headache, difficult breathing, body feels bruised. ► Flushes of heat : see 28. Skin hot. Skin becomes warmer and moister.

► Diseases of mucous membranes ; especially of the lining of larynx, trachea and bronchi. ► Catarrh that tend to leave sore and tender places in the walls of the chest, as though there were left circumscribed spots of inflammation.

► Touch : 3, 28, 46. Stepping hard : 28, 31. Wiping eyes : 5.

► Burning vesicles, itching when touched. ► Bites of poisonous, enraged animals.

► Best suited for the phlegmatic, also for fat children predisposed to catarrh ; or to the sluggish, who react from colds imperfectly.

► Compare : Sapon., Calc. carb., Caustic., Baryt. (in fat children) ; Aspar. (bronchial and cystic catarrh, both drugs have difficult detachment of mucus, turbid urine with burning, etc. Senega, more a shaking cough ; Aspar., one that causes gagging latter has, too, more weakness of heart, and tendency to gravel and gout in old people) ; Bryon., Scilla., Hepar, Cubebs, Copaiva (last two in frothy urine with mucous shreds).