NUPHAR LUTEUM.
Nuphar luteum, Smith.
Natural order
, Nymphæaceæ.
Common names
, Nixen-blume, Nenuphar Jaune.
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. Pitet, Journ. de la Soc. Gal., 3, p. 129, proving with 4th dil.,
taken irregularly for several days; 2,
same, subsequent proving, frequent doses of 4th and 6th dils.; 3, same, third proving with 6th, 7th, and 8th
dils., continued for twelve days. (Symptoms in brackets are
constitutional, that seem to have appeared as the effect of the drug in
depressing the vitality).
MIND.
►
Excessive moral sensibility, giving one great pain on witnessing the
sufferings of animals (eleventh day), [1].
HEAD.
►
General Head. ► Heaviness
in the whole head in the middle of the day (tenth day), [2]. ► Very
painful bruising shaking in the brain at every step in walking (eleventh
day), [2]. ►
Dull pains in the anterior part of the base of the brain, on a level
with the floor of the orbits (twentieth and following days), [3]. ►
Dull or tearing pains, sometimes in the forehead, at others in the whole
upper part of the head (tenth day), [2].
► Forehead. ► Pressive headache in the forehead and
left temple (ninth and tenth days); headache in the forehead, and by
turns in the left temple, ceasing in the open air (eleventh day), [1]. ►
Dull pains, sometimes lancinating, in the situation of the right
anterior cerebral lobe (twenty-fifth day), [2]. ► Dull
pains in the left anterior cerebral lobe (eleventh day), [2]. ► Dull,
deep lancinations behind the left frontal eminence (tenth day), [2]. [10.]
► Boring pain, in transitory attacks,
in the left anterior part of the forehead, in the evening (seventh day),
[2]. ►
Painful bruising shocks in the right anterior side of the brain when
walking (twelfth day), [2]. ► Lancinations in the left anterior part of
the brain (ninth and tenth days); similar, but less violent, sensations
on the opposite side (tenth day), [3].
► Temples. ► Painful pressure in the right temple
(tenth day), [3]. ► Very painful feeling of weight in the
temples, in the morning (twentieth and following days), [3]. ► Parietals.
► Acute lancinations in the left side
of the brain (twelfth and following days), [3]. ► External
Head. ► (Falling off of
the hair), (twenty-seventh day), [2].
► (Extremely violent itching of the
whole scalp, particularly at night), (twenty-seventh day), [2].
EYE.
►
Face pale, discolored eyes, though otherwise as well as usual (tenth
day), [2]. ► Brow and Orbit. ►
Painful heaviness in the orbit, at the base of the skull, a very
frequent symptom since the beginning of the proving (twenty-fifth day), [2]. [20.]
► Dull pain, and sensation of painful
weight in the orbit all day, since morning, in the right anterior
cerebral lobe and right side of the occiput (twenty-third day), [2]. ►
Dull pains occasionally beneath the orbital plate (eleventh day), [2]. ►
Dull pains at the base of the orbit, forehead, and occiput, on the right
side (twenty-fifth day), [3]. ► Vision. ►
(When standing in the sun, a quantity of brilliant sparks filled the
field of vision, converging from the circumference to the centre; frequently perceived subsequently, principally after
hard coughing), (twenty-third day), [2].
MOUTH.
►
Sweetish taste several times a day; taste of Nuphar at the root of the
tongue (fourth day), [2].
STOMACH.
►
Slightly painful over the whole anterior surface of the stomach
(nineteenth day), [2]. ► Weakness in the epigastric region, at
times (twelfth day), [3]. ► Sensation of weakness and slight pain on
pressing the epigastric region (nineteenth day), [2].
ABDOMEN.
►
General Abdomen. ►
Emission of flatulence, in the evening, with wind colic (seventeenth
day), [2]. ►
Some colic (sixth day), [1]. [30.] ►
Dull deep colic pains, during the day, all around the waist (eighteenth
day), [2].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Smarting and burning at the anus, after every stool (seventeenth day), [2]. ►
Stitches, as if from needles, in the rectum, above the anus (twentieth
and following days), [3].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► *Soft stools,
preceded by some colic, for several days (eighth day), [2]. ►
*Diarrhœic stools, morning and evening, preceded by violent colic pains
in the rectum, without having eaten more than ordinary (fifteenth day);
diarrhœa, preceded by violent colic pains in the rectum, all night
(sixteenth day); yellowish diarrhœa, two nights in succession, preceded
by violent colic pains in the rectum; six stools from 8 P.M. to 6 A.M.;
diarrhœic stool during the day, after breakfast, and another after
dinner; two during the evening (seventeenth day); two diarrhœic stools,
during the morning, preceded by colic pains in the rectum; two yellow
diarrhœic stools in the evening (eighteenth day); two yellow diarrhœic
stools between 4 and 5 A.M., and one during the day; diarrhœic stool in
the evening (nineteenth day); diarrhœic stool, in the morning
(twentieth day), [2]. ► *Yellow diarrhœa, especially very
early in the morning, for three days past; five or six stools a day,
without colic or epigastric trouble, except, at times, a sense of
weakness in the epigastric region (twelfth day); the diarrhœa
continues, notwithstanding a considerable diminution in the amount of
food taken; the stools are always more numerous towards 5 or 6 A.M.
(following days); soft diarrhœic stool, preceded by colic, which
disappeared after the stool (twenty-fifth day), [2].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urine. ► The urine
deposits a copious reddish sand, which is hard, and adheres to the
vessel (seventeenth day), [2].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Lancinations in
the right testicle (nineteenth day), [2].
► Dull transitory pain in the right
testicle, for several days in succession; a similar pain at the
extremity of the penis, on the right side; several lancinations in the
left testicle, with pains at the extremity of the penis, on the left
side (twenty-fifth day), [3]. ► Some pain in the right testicle
(twentieth day), [2]. [40.] ►
Diminution of erections and sexual appetite (twelfth and following
days), [3]. ► *Complete absence of sexual desire; penis
retracted; scrotum relaxed (eighth day), [2]. ► *Entire
absence of erections and sexual desires; the voluptuous ideas which fill
the imagination do not cause erection (tenth day), [2]. ►
Continued absence of erections and sexual appetite (eighteenth day), [2]. ►
*Diminution of lascivious thoughts and the sexual inclination, for some
ten days; opposite effects during the succeeding days, [1].
CHEST.
►
Painful sensation behind the sternum, when running, as though the
subjacent organs were violently shaken (ninth day), [2]. ► (Dull
wandering pains in the left side of the chest), (twenty-seventh day), [2].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Lumbar. ► Deep dull pain
at the lowest part of the left lumbar region and in the posterior
superior part of the external iliac fossa; it coincides with a similar,
but not constant, pain in the internal iliac fossa of the same side
(eighth day), [3]. ► Walking, even slowly, causes a painful
stitch in the left flank, which is relieved by pressure (twelfth and
following days), [3].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Thigh. ►
Frequent prickings on the posterior surface of the left thigh (sixth
day), [1]. ► Leg. [50.]
► Constant restlessness and fatigue
in the legs (tenth day), [2]. ► Painful drawings in the muscles of the
anterior region of the left leg (tenth day), [2]. ► Toes.
► Lancinations in the plantar surface
of the last phalanx of the right great toe, in the evening (eighth day),
[2]. ►
(Paroxysms of very acute, but transitory, pain in the inner border of
the last joint of the right great toe, when walking), (twenty-third
day), [2].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Weakness of the limbs, in the evening (twelfth and following days), [3]. ►
Great impatience at the slightest contradiction (tenth day), [2]. ►
Sense of weakness (nineteenth day), [2].
► The strength, flesh, and healthy
complexion, which had diminished, began to return (twenty-ninth and
thirtieth days), [2].
SKIN.
►
There appeared on different parts of the body a number of red blotches,
tolerably regular in outline, ovoid or circular, prominent, and covered
with little scales of a silvery white, in short, resembling psoriasis; there were a few on the posterior
surface of the arms, but they were most abundant on the anterior surface
of the legs; they itched violently, especially in the evening; friction
removed the little scales, which were rapidly reproduced, remained a few
days, and then fell off again from the scratching induced by the
itching; this eruption lasted a month and a half; as it disappeared, and
the scales ceased to be reproduced, the skin at the place of each blotch
became pale red or yellowish (after ten or twelve days), [1]. ► A red,
slightly prominent patch, covered with little white scales, and itching
violently, on the interior surface of the right arm, near the axilla
(psoriasis), (twentieth and following days); a red, oval, prominent
patch, as large as a five-cent piece (pièce de vingt-cinq centimes), on
the internal surface of the left arm, exactly like a patch of psoriasis, covered with silvery scales,
falling off and renewed again every few days, and itching violently,
especially in the evening (twenty-fifth day), [3]. [60.] ► (Aggravation of a moderate pityriasis capitis of several years’
standing; morning and evening, especially, the itching is intolerable,
and the comb brings away a great quantity of hair), (twenty-third day), [2]. ►
Sensations like fleabites, in different parts, for several days (eighth
day), [3]. ►
Sensation like fleabites, in different spots, on the legs, near the
ankles, and on the arms near the wrist; a similar sensation on different
parts of the skin of the body (twentieth and following days), [3].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Weight in temples. ► (Morning and
evening), Diarrhœa. ► (Middle of day), Head heavy. ► (Evening),
Pain in forehead; emission of flatulence; weakness. ► (Running),
Pain behind sternum. ► (Stepping), Shaking in brain. ► (Walking),
Shocks in brain; stitch in left flank; pain in great toe. ► Amelioration. ►
(Open air), Headache. ► (Pressure),
Stitch in left flank.® 2000
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