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Rumex Crispus. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4] Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6]
Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9] Lower face.

[10] Teeth and gums.


[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14] Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15]
Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22] Male sexual organs.

[23] Female sexual organs.

[24] Pregnancy. Parturition..


[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30] Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34] Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44] Tissues.

[45]
Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

Rumx. * Full text (55 Ko) * Red
and blue only
* Red only

LOWER LIMBS. [33] [Rumx.]

Stitching in back of right hip ; limping walk.

Legs ache.

Stitch-like pain in knee joint, when standing.

Legs covered with small red pimples.

Feet cold.

Feet sensitive ; stinging in corns.

   

REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] [Rumx.]

Lying down : cough < ; soon after burning pain near heart ; while in the act, burning pain in chest ; stinging in region of heart <.

Lying quiet : distress or pain in pit of stomach >.

Lying on left side : pain near heart >.

Standing : stitch-like pain in knee joint.

Motion : pains in head ; pressure in pit of stomach < ; causes nausea.

Talking : tight, suffocative, heavy ache in epigastrium <.

Turning on left side : cough <.

Walking : pain in hypochondrium.

Going up stairs : pulse accelerated.

   

NERVES. [36] [Rumx.]

Great debility ; averse to work ; indifferent to his surroundings.

Restlessness in evening.

Sensitive to open air.

   

SLEEP. [37] [Rumx.]

Sleep disturbed ; wakeful, restless ; short naps and unpleasant fancies, even when awake.

Unpleasant dreams.

Unquiet sleep, dreams of danger and trouble Wakes early, with headache.

   

TIME. [38] [Rumx.]

Morning : headache after waking ; bitter taste ; sudden urging to stool drives him out of bed ; diarrhœa ; rawness in throat ; weak and exhausted.

At 2 A. M. : dry cough commences.

Afternoon : copious, colorless urine ; stitch on margin of sternum ; fever.

At 3.30 P. M. : stitches in left lung.

Evening : lids inflamed < ; fluent coryza < ; heat of face < ; hoarseness < ; cough < ; hoarseness.

Day and night : aching in lungs.

Night : fluent coryza < ; nausea ; desire to hawk phlegm ; latter part, cough < ; burning, stinging pain in chest <.

   

TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] [Rumx.]

Warmth : prurigo >.

Covering mouth with bedclothes : prevents cough.

While undressing : itching on various parts, < in lower limbs.

Changing rooms : cough <.

Change from cold or cool to warm air : provokes cough.

Open air : sensitive to ; urticaria <.

Cool air : cough < ; vesicular eruption itching when exposed.

Exposure to cold : aphonia.

Cold : prurigo <.

Cold air : desire to hawk phlegm < ; cough < ; inhalations cause cough.

   

FEVER. [40] [Rumx.]

Chilly, < on back ; colic, nausea, stitches near middle of chest.

Increased frequency of pulse, and afternoon fever.

Sensation of heat, followed by that of cold, without shivering.

Flushes of heat < on cheeks.

Sweat on waking from a sound sleep.

   

ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] [Rumx.]

From 5 to 9 A. M. : five stools.

From 6 to 10 A. M. : four stools.

Every ten seconds : cough.

Every morning for four days : diarrhœa.

After 7 P. M. : irritability of trachea <.

At same time each day : sudden change of voice.

Several times a day : coughing spells lasting one and a half hours at a time.

Every night at 11 P. M., between 1 and 2 A. M. and at 2 and 5 A. M. : attacks of cough.

For several years : at times dry cough.

   

LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] [Rumx.]

Right : pain in side of occiput ; pain in hip ; dull pain on side of sternum ; pains in side of chest ; shooting pain in chest ; mucous rale at apex of lung ; stitches in back of hip.

Left : sharp pain in side of head ; aching in breast ; sharp pain in chest ; tubercles in apex of lung ; burning soreness of bronchus ; pain in side of larynx ; stitches in lung ; soreness in bronchus ; when turning on side, cough ; fine
stitches in lung ; stitching or stinging pains through lung ; side feels sore when turning ; stitch along margin of sternum ; burning, stinging pain near heart ; burning stinging near nipple ; > lying on side ; burning stinging pain in whole side of
chest ; almost itching pain in chest ; sharp pain in axillæ ; pain in centre of lung.

   

SENSATIONS. [43] [Rumx.]

Eyes pain as if from dryness ; tongue as if burned ; as of a lump in throat ; as of a hard substance in pit of stomach ; as of a bunch in throat or behind sternum ; as of pressure of a stick in rectum ; as if urine could not long be
retained ; as if she could not get another breath ; as if air did not penetrate chest ; as if a feather were swaying to and fro in bronchi ; as if head would fly into pieces ; as if he might raise blood any minute ; as if cough did not reach low enough down to
raise phlegm ; as if heart suddenly stopped beating.

Pain : in pit of stomach ; in hypochondrium ; in abdomen ; in head ; in larynx ; in stomach ; through both lungs ; in chest ; in centre of left lung ; in left side just below nipple ; in shoulder down to elbow.

Severe pain : in both sides as if in lungs.

Sharp pains : in chest and abdomen ; on left side of sternum ; near left axilla.

Darting pain : in left side of head.

Piercing : in left side of head.

Shooting : from pit of stomach to chest ; in left chest ; on each side of lower end of sternum ; in abdomen.

Burning, shooting pain : in right chest.

Wrenching pains : in right side of chest.

Stitches : in left lung ; very acute along left margin of sternum ; in back of right hip.

Sharp stitching pains : in stomach into chest ; in back of r. hip ; through left lung.

Stitchlike pain : in knee joint.

Burning-stinging pain : in left side, near heart ; in back.

Stinging, almost itching pain : in left side of chest.

Burning pain : in left side of chest near sacro-iliac symphysis.

Raw pain : just under each clavicle.

Griping : near navel ; in lower part of abdomen.

Aching : in pharynx ; in left breast ; in epigastrium ; in forehead ; in pit of stomach and above it on each side of sternum ; from shoulder blades down back or kidneys ; in anterior portion of both lungs ; in region of heart ; in legs.

Tight, suffocative, dull, heavy ache : in epigastrium through to back.

Sprain-like aching : near sternum.

Pressing aching : in back at lower border of scapula.

Dull pains : on right side ; in occiput ; in forehead ; on right side of sternum ; in region of heart.

Burning : in region of heart.

Burning sensation : through upper lobes of lungs.

Sharp, tingling sensation : in Schneiderian membrane.

Stinging : in region of heart ; in corns.

Soreness : behind sternum ; in eyes ; burning of larynx and throat ; of larynx and chest ; of trachea ; lower part of trachea.

Raw sensation : in larynx ; in trachea ; under clavicles.

Excoriated feeling : in upper part of throat ; in chest ; behind sternum.

Bruised feeling : in forehead.

Scraping : in throat.

Tenderness : in larynx and trachea.

Distress : in stomach pit.

Tickling : in throat pit ; in suprasternal fossa and behind sternum.

Heavy throbbing : through chest.

Heaviness : in stomach or epigastrium.

Pressure : in stomach ; in pit of stomach, extending toward throat.

Hardness : in abdomen.

Dull feeling : in head.

Distension : in stomach.

Fulness : in abdomen.

Weak feeling : in epigastrium.

Dryness : of tongue and mouth.

Dry sensation : in nose.

Itching : deep in ears ; at anus ; in various parts on lower limbs.

Coldness : of fingers ; of hands ; of feet.

   

TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] [Rumx.]

Touch : on throat pit ; cough <.

Pressure : on larynx, cough < ; on throat pit, cough < ; on trachea causes severe cough.

Riding : stitch along margin of sternum.

   

SKIN. [46] [Rumx.]

Itching in various parts, < on lower limbs, while undressing.

Eruption covered uniformly several regions of skin with exception of face ; itching more of a pricking than a burning character ; < by cold, and > by warmth. θ Prurigo.

Contagious prurigo or “army itch.”

Stinging-itching, or prickling-itching of skin.

Vesicular eruption, itching when uncovered and exposed to cool air.

Prairie itch.

Urticaria ; < in open air.

   

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] [Rumx.]

Boy, æt. 4 ; cough.

Boy, æt. 5 ; diarrhœa.

Girl, æt. 6, suffering three weeks ; cough.

Girl, æt. 6, after catching cold ; cough.

Girl, æt. 12, suffering four days ; diarrhœa.

Joseph H., æt. 13, subject to violent attacks of inflammatory rheumatism, heart being implicated ; pain in cardiac region.

Miss C., æt. 20, robust, healthy, after exposure ; aphonia.

Woman, æt. 22, feeble constitution, strumous, subject for several years to subacute rheumatism ; cough.

Miss W., young lady of highly nervous temperament ; cough.

Man, æt. 23, nervous temperament, suffering several years, thinks himself consumptive ; cough.

Miss B., æt. 25, clear, white, very smooth skin, rather pale, dark-auburn hair, full round figure, after catching cold three months ago ; sore throat, aphonia.

Man, æt. 26, nervous, sanguine temperament ; cough.

Man, æt. 26, dark complexion, married ; incipient phthisis.

Mrs. G., æt. 30, suffering five days ; cough.

Woman, æt. 35, married, suffering four days ; diarrhœa.

Mrs. A., æt. 45 ; cough.

Lady, æt. about 50, suffering three weeks ; pain in stomach.

Lady, æt. about 50, suffering four days ; diarrhœa.

Man, æt. 70 ; diarrhœa.

Farmer, suffering three years ; prurigo.

   

RELATIONS. [48] [Rumx.]

Antidoted by : Camphor., Bellad., Hyosc., Conium, Laches., Phosphor.

Compare : Apis, Bellad., Calc. carb., Caustic., Cistus, Dulcam., Eryngium, Hepar sulph., Iris, Iodium, Juglans, Laches., Lycopod., Lobelia, Mercur., Nuphar, Phosphor., Podoph., Rheum, Sanguin., Spongia, Sulphur.

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