PLANTAGO.
Plantago major, Linn.
Natural order
, Plantaginaceæ.
Common names
, Plantain, Wegerich.
Preparation
, Tincture of the whole plant, or of the root.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. Alfred Heath, Hahn. Month., 1868, 3, p. 332, proving with 12th dil.,
one dose first and third days, 6th dil. eighth and thirteenth days; 1a, same,
2d dil., a dose first and second days; 1b, same, tincture, 6 drops first and
second days, 5 drops third day; 1c, same, 12th dil., first, second,
seventh, and tenth days (Nos. 2 to 11, provings by Dr. F. Humphreys, from
Monograph, 1871); 2, Dr. Humphreys,
effects of 1st dec. dil., first, second, and fifth days; 2a, same,
effect of tasting tincture; 3, J. R.
Earhart, subject to rheumatic pains during damp weather, took 1st dec.
dil., 5-drop doses, first, second, third, fourth, sixth, eighth and
fourteenth days; 4, John Fox, aged
thirty, 1st dil., night and morning, for four days; 5, S. C. Warren, 5 drops of 2d dil., one
dose; 6, J. B. Wood, 1st dec. dil.,
repeated doses for seven days; 6a, same, 1st dil., every forty-eight
hours; 7, Dr. F. Bishop, 2d dil.,
repeated doses for two days; 8,
Warren Freeman, took 2d dil., twice daily, for two weeks; 8a, same,
took 1/2 dil., repeated doses of 8 drops for three days; 8b, same,
took 4 drops of 1/2 dil., twice daily; 9,
Mortimer Slocum, 1st dil., repeated doses for five days, and on ninth,
tenth, and eleventh days; 10, T. C.
Bunting, 1st dec. dil., repeated doses for four days; 10a,
same, second proving 1st dec. dil., doses, first, third, and sixth days;
10b,
same, 2d dil., two doses; 11, W. A
Leavanway, 1st dec. dil., repeated doses for four days; 12, additional proving by Dr. Heath, N. Am.
J. of Hom., 1873, p. 502, a woman suffering from watery discharge from
the nose, and an enlargement in upper abdomen, took the 12th dil. (from
root and seeds), three times a day for a week; it removed her troubles
and caused new symptoms; she continued the drug another week and
suffered from its effects.
MIND.
►
Great nervous excitability and trembling of the whole body, with pulse
at 120 (fourteenth day), [4]. ► Highest degree of excitability
(twenty-first day), [4]. ► General depression and despondency,
though the weather is bright and beautiful (fourteenth day), [3]. ►
Feel very much out of sorts; low-spirited, with inclination to do a lot
of work, but get tired and irritated as soon as I begin (eighty-fourth
day), [1]. ►
Feeling of suppressed irritability (after one hour and twenty minutes,
second day), [1b]. ► Very irritable and easily vexed, with an
excitement of the nervous system (tenth day), [4]. ►
Irritable and vexed mood, with utter inability for any mental exercise
(twelfth day), [4]. ► Great feeling of irritation; cannot bear
to be spoken to (fifth day), [1c].
► Irritable feeling, with slight
headache in the right temple (sixth day), [1c].
[10.] ►
Low spirits; irritable; disinclination to work (seventeenth day), [1c]. ►
Great irritation with the severe headache; cannot bear to be spoken to
(fourth day), [1]. ► *Rather irritable (twentieth day), [1]. ►
Irritable, with nausea and giddiness, with trembling sensation in the
right arm (twenty-ninth day), [1].
► Irritable feeling, with slight
headache (fifty-third day), [1]. ► Impatient to get anything finished
(second day), [1c]. ► Impatient and restless mood, with a dull,
stupid, or muddled feeling in the brain; very irritable and morose
temper, worse in the evening (third day); very irritable and restless
mood; easily vexed (fourth day), [4].
► Restless disposition, and dull
feeling over the sinciput (eleventh day), [4].
► Desire to do several things at
once, but no inclination to move and do one, with the loss of appetite
(sixteenth day), [1]. ► Feeling great desire to be at home when
abroad (twenty-ninth day), [1]. [20.] ►
Meditative mood or internal revery, and unable to associate my mind with
any external object, with the feeling of great prostration (eleventh
day), [4]. ►
Inability to think, with restlessness at night
(seventh night), [9]. ► From the fifteenth to the twenty-first
day I have ceased to take notes, for the reason that my mind has been in
such a confused state, and a disrelish as well as a great difficulty for
any abstract reflection or mental exercise of any kind, that I have
found it too difficult. I might say, however, that the symptoms, from
the fifteenth to the twenty-first day, were, in their general features,
the same as on the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth; if any
difference, the nervous and cerebral continued to increase in their
severity until the twenty-first day, which, as well as during the whole
proving, were worse in the evening, and gradually increased in severity
until next morning, with some exceptions; but whether these exceptions
assumed the same regularity as I find on examining my notes of the first
six or eight days, namely, worse two successive nights and better the
third, I am not able to say. On the thirtieth day, my mind is still
confused, making study, for any length of time, impossible, [4]. ►
Mind confused, and entirely unable to listen to the lectures; feeling of
great prostration, with utter inability to think; attempting to exercise
the mental faculties, would increase the depression, and rapid
respiration would ensue, with a feeling of great anxiety; at 12 M., was
obliged to leave the college and lie down (fourteenth day), [4]. ►
Mind somewhat confused (first day), [4].
► Mind inactive, with a dull, muddled
feeling in the head (fifth day); very inactive all day, worse in
afternoon and evening, with shifting pains in various parts (fifth day),
[4]. ►
Aversion to study or thinking (third day), [7]. ► Bad
memory (seventeenth day), [1c].
HEAD.
►
Giddiness with the irritable mood (twenty-ninth day), [1]. ► Violent
irritation of the brain; bruised, maddening feeling; cannot bear the
slightest contradiction (sixteenth day), [1].
[30.] ►
Feeling of irritability about the head, in different parts; fine
stitches (eleventh day), [1c]. ► Irritable feeling in the head, with
soreness of the eyes, at 9 A.M. (second day), [1a]. ► After
dinner, I had a dull, painful, stupid feeling in my head, with
considerable fever (seventh day), [8a].
► Dull feeling of the head or slight
headache, during the day (fourth day), [6].
► Dull feeling in the head (first
day), [4]. ►
Muddle and confused feeling in the head, with inability to think, which
lasted all day, and worse in the evening (second day), [4]. ► Dull,
stupid, or muddled feeling in the brain, with the impatient and restless
mood (third day), [4]. ► Dull, muddled feeling in the head, with
the inactivity of mind (fourth day), [4].
► Head is clouded, heavy, and dull
(fourteenth day), [2]. ► Heaviness and weariness in the head, in
the evening, relieved by holding the head backwards, with slight
stiffness of the neck (nineteenth day), [1].
[40.] ►
Pain now in the head, then in dorsum of big toe (sixth day), [4]. ►
Dull stupefying pain in the whole head, relieved by motion and
aggravated by study (eighth day), [4].
► Pain in the head, relieved by
pressure, for a few seconds, or from contact with anything cold (fifth
day), [1c]. ►
Pain over the left eyebrow, and deep in the scalp; bruised, dull aching,
relieved by shutting the eyes, at 9 A.M. (second day), [1a]. ►
Occasional pains in the head, during the evening (sixth day), [2]. ►
Twinges of pain in different parts of the head; now in the right temple,
extending backward; then through the occiput from ear to ear; then in
other parts of the head more or less severe (seventh day), [2]. ►
Pains in the head, most in the left temporal region, all the time, or
with but little intermission (fourteenth day), [2]. ► Pain in
the head, on turning round, as if the brain were stretched (eighteenth
day), [1]. ►
All the pains at times in the head, but very slight (nineteenth day), [1]. ►
Occasional darting pains in the head (fourth day), [3]. [50.] ► Shooting pains in the head, occurring
frequently during the day, mostly in the right parietal region,
sometimes in the left (seventh day), [3].
► Pains in the head, continuing all
day, not so bad in the afternoon (ninth day), [3]. ► Pains
in the head and various parts of the body, at different times throughout
the day (tenth day); still felt, but at longer intervals, and with
diminished intensity (eleventh day), [3].
► Pains in the head continue at
irregular intervals (after five hours, fourteenth day), [3]. ► Pains
in the head (seventeenth day), [3].
► Severe headache over the left eye
and side of the head, with great irritation (fourth day), [1]. ►
Violent, bruised sort of headache (on waking in the morning) over the
scalp and back of the head; unable to rest long in one place on the
pillow; relief for a time by resting on the part in pain (tenth day), [1]. ►
Headache as usual (thirty-ninth day), [1].
► Slight headache, with irritable
feeling (fifty-third day), [1]. ► Awoke in the morning with headache in the
left half of head, principally in the temple; bruised sensation; midday,
bruised sensation all over the head, as if beaten, with pain extending
to the top of nose (fifth day), [1c].
[60.] ►
Stupid headache, etc. (thirtieth day), [4].
► Slight headache, a heavy
sensation in the head and inclination to drowse (five hours after first
dose, third day); same kind of headache in the forehead (eighth day), [9]. ►
Slight headache and some chilliness (sixth day), [2]. ► Slight
headache (sixth day), [6]. ► Oppression deep in the head, and sense of
something lying in the head, through from one ear to the other (second
night), [2]. ►
Feeling of swelling about the head (fifth day), [1]. ► Fulness
of the head, and sore feeling in the temples (twenty-fourth day), [1c]. ►
The whole front half of the head, face, jaws, and gums feel sore and
bruised (twenty-sixth day), [1c]. ► Fine stitches, before and above the ear,
feeling as if the bone were swollen, with stiffness (twenty-sixth day), [1c]. ►
Forehead. ► Feeling of
irritation in the forehead (second day), [1c].
[70.] ►
Dull oppressive feeling through the forehead, with sometimes a dull pain
extending across from the temporal bones, apparently at the base of the
brain. I thought probably this might be the effect of a cold, [8]. ►
Dull pains over the frontal region and extending of the eyes (sixth
day), [4]. ►
Pain in the forehead over the eyes, with tenderness on pressure (eighth
day), [4]. ►
Aching pain in the left frontal protuberance, lasting a few minutes and
occurring frequently, and tenderness on pressure (ninth day), [4]. ►
Boring pain in the left frontal eminence (tenth day), [4]. ►
Transient boring pains in the right frontal eminence (eleventh day), [4]. ►
Dull pain over the eyes, relieved by exercise and motion (twelfth day), [4]. ►
Headache in forehead and over the right eye and temple; worse on
movement, with pressure over the eye (twenty-ninth day), [1]. ►
Headache over the right eye, in the evening (forty-third day), [1]. ►
Headache over left eye, same as before, passing off after eating
(seventy-sixth day), [1]. [80.] ►
Pain or fulness over the eyes, with the stuffed-up nose (thirty-fifth
day), [1]. ►
Bruised feeling of forehead, with dimness of the eyes (thirty-eighth
day), [1]. ►
Bruised sensation in the forehead and temples (twenty-sixth day), [1c]. ►
Temples. ► (A stupid sort
of feeling in left temple towards the eye, relieved by the free use of
the finger; liable to such pains in east winds; generally confined to
left side; occasionally in the right; dull, stupefying pain with sleepy
feeling and mistiness, causing me to wipe a supposed film from the eye,
feeling as if a hair were hanging over the eye; sleep often removes the
headache; the other parts of the brain seem to think clear enough, but
the affected part unfit for use; when this headache comes on, spit a
quantity of brown, dirty-tasting saliva; pain relieved by pressing my
hand on anything hard behind the left neck at base of occiput, on any
part of the left side of the head between cheek-bone and occiput),
(twenty-second day), [1]. ► Severe pain in left temple; a sort of
cloudy sensation (twenty-seventh day), [1].
► Sharp pains in the left temple,
transient (while sitting by the furnace and after having been out),
(seventh day), [2]. ► Sometimes fleeting pains in both temples,
passing in and upwards (thirteenth day), [2].
► Pains of a shooting character in
the mastoid process (ninth day), [3].
► Dull boring pain in the left
temple, in a small spot (eighth day), [4].
► Transient boring pain in the left
temple, in a small spot (eleventh day), [4].
[90.] ►
In the evening, in both temples, boring-aching pain, worse in a warm
room (twenty-sixth day), [1c]. ► Slight headache in the right temple, with
irritable feeling (sixth day), [1c].
► Headache in the left temple with
the flushed face (twelfth day); headache continues (fifteenth and
sixteenth days), [1c]. ► Headache; left temple and left side of
head (intense) relieved by pressure (forty-second day), [1]. ► Bruised
feeling, with fulness in both temples (after one hour and twenty
minutes, second day), [1b]. ► Bruised sensation in both temples
(twenty-fourth day), [1c]. ► Vertex and Parietals. ► An intermittent, pulsating, aching pain
on the vertex of the head, in a small spot beneath the scalp (ninth
day), [11]. ►
Dull feeling over the sinciput, and restless disposition (eleventh day),
[4]. ►
Dull stupefying pain in the sinciput, and finally extending to each side
of the occiput (twelfth day), [4].
► Dull pain in the right side of the
head, rather on the right parietal protuberance and frontal eminence, [5]. [100.]
► Shooting pains in left parietal
region, several times during the afternoon (fifth day), [3]. ► Pains
in the head, parietal regions, more in the right than in the left, and
generally lasting only a few minutes (ninth day), [3]. ► Pains
in the head of a shooting character, sometimes in the right parietal
region, sometimes in the left (ninth day), [3]. ►
Shooting pains in right parietal region (after one hour, fourteenth
day), [3]. ►
Pain in the right parietal protuberance (after three hours, fourteenth
day), [3]. ►
Occasionally shooting pains in the right parietal region (eighteenth
day), [3]. ►
At 6 P.M., while walking and driving in cool air, pain in left side of
head, from over the left eye back toward the occiput; somewhat sharp,
soon passing off (fifth day), [2].
► Pretty severe pain in the left side
of the head, from the forehead extending deep into the brain, coming on
in paroxysms (sixth day), [2]. ► Some pain in the left side of the head,
at 10 A.M. (ninth day), [2]. ► Pain, by turns, in the left side of the
head (tenth day), [2]. [110.] ►
Fleeting pains in the left side of the head (thirteenth day), [2]. ►
Headache, in the morning on waking; left side, more or less during the
day (thirty-first day), [1]. ► At 10 P.M., occasional headache in the
left side of the head, somewhat deep in the brain (eighth day), [2]. ►
Some headache in left side of head, at intervals (tenth day), [2]. ►
Occasional headache in the left side of the head (twelfth day), [2]. ►
Bruised, irritable feeling in the left side of head, relieved by lying
on it and by pressure (seventeenth day), [1c].
► Great irritation and irritable
feeling in left half of head as before, with coldness of body and
shivering (eighty-fourth day), [1].
► Occiput and External Head. ► Dull boring pain in the occiput (twelfth
day), [4]. ►
Dull pain in the occiput; these pains pass off quickly (after three
hours, fourteenth day), [3]. ► Headache, in the morning, principally in
the back of the head, lasting till after tea, in the afternoon
(forty-fourth day), [1]. [120.] ►
Cannot rest the head five minutes in one place, with pain all round the
back of the head; temporary relief on changing its position, with thirst
(sixteenth night), [1]. ► Temporal arteries much distended, also
the superficial vessels of the frontal region; this symptom has been
somewhat present during the whole proving, and even quite prominent now
(thirtieth day), [4]. ► Slight eruption on the forehead, which
soon disappeared, with the itching of the scalp (third day), [6]. ►
Pain in the left side of scalp, on turning the head suddenly, as if the
brain turned over (eighteenth day), [1].
► Itching of the scalp, with slight
eruption on the forehead, which soon disappeared (third day), [6]. ►
More or less itching of scalp, every day (sixth day), [7]. ► A pin
on anything behind the ear causes great irritation; obliged to remove it
(twenty-sixth day), [1c]. ► Itching of the scalp, morning (nineteenth
day), [6]. ►
Excessive itching of left scalp, for one hour, at 10 P.M. (second day), [7].
EYE.
►
Eyes looked very red and inflamed (third day), [7]. [130.] ► Feeling as if a hair were hanging over
the eye, with the headache (twenty-second day), [1]. ► After
going to bed, sharp pain for some moments over the right eye, extending
to the temple (first night), [10a].
► Bruised pain in left eye,
especially on light pressure, one hour (fourth day), [10a]. ►
Soreness of the eyes, with the irritable feeling in the head (second
day), [1a]. ►
Dimness of the eyes, with the bruised feeling in the forehead
(thirty-eighth day), [1]. ► Brow and Orbit. ►
Slight pricking; bruised feeling in the left brow, for a few minutes, in
the evening (nineteenth day), [1].
► 12 M., a sharp, darting pain in the
superior and outer side of the socket of the right eye (eighteenth day),
[11]. ►
Pain in the orbits of both eyes; worse on pressure (seventh day), [4]. ►
Dull pain in the orbit of right eye, as if bruised, and worse upon
pressure (twelfth day), [4]. ► Dull, aching pain deep in right orbit,
lasting only a few moments (after fifteen minutes, sixth day), [3]. [140.]
► Occasionally dull, stupefying pains
deep in the orbits (nineteenth day), [3].
► Lids and Ball. ► Soreness of the eyelids (twenty-fourth
day), [1c]. ►
Soreness of the lids, with the stuffed-up nose (thirty-fifth day), [1]. ►
Œdema of eyelids, on rising (second day); œdema and redness of
eyelids, after rising (fourth day), [7].
► Unnatural sense of dryness of the
eyelids, continuing for several hours (sixth day), [2]. ► Itching
of the right eyelid (seventh day), [2].
► Stiffness and itching of eyelids,
at 10 A.M. (ninth day), [2]. ► Severe painful stitches, first in the
left, then in the right eyeball, more at the internal canthus, for an
hour (sixth day), [2].
EAR.
►
Pulsating pain in the left ear (eighth day), [4]. ►
Shooting pain in the left ear, lasting several minutes (tenth day), [4]. [150.]
► Pains often centre in the ear, most
in the left, beginning in the head, at 10 A.M. (fifteenth day), [2]. ►
Sensation of hearing more acute; noise is painful; trembling sound, [5]. ►
The least noise appears to go through one (fifth day), [1c]. ►
Ringing in the ears (sixth day), [2].
NOSE.
►
(At 6 P.M., frequent sneezing, with discharge of sanious mucus from left
nostril), (second day), [3]. ► Excoriation and ulceration of the right
nostril (sixteenth and nineteenth days), [1].
►► Sudden discharge of
clear water from the left nostril, without pain, about ten or twelve
drops, [1a]. ►► Sudden discharge of yellowish
water from the right nostril, about a dozen drops, repeated twice within
the hour, but not so much in quantity, at 11.30 A.M. (second day), [1c]. ►
Profuse discharge of sanious mucus from left nostril, continuing all day
(third day); discharge not so copious; the right nostril is now affected
(fourth day); not so copious or watery (seventh day; not so profuse, but
of a greater consistence), (tenth day), [3].
► Thick discharge from the nose
(thirty-fourth day), [1]. [160.] ►
Considerable discharge from nose, and partial stoppage (forty-ninth
day); for several days past considerable discharge from the nose, with
obstinate stoppage (fifty-third day), [1].
► Catarrh returned, her handkerchief
being saturated with yellow water from the
nose, like saffron (after two weeks), [12]. ►
Fulness and stoppage of the nose (thirty-third day), [1]. ► Nose
stuffed up, with pain or fulness over the eyes, with soreness of the
lids (thirty-fifth day); nose still stopped up (thirty-sixth day), [1]. ►
Fine, drawing sensation over the bridge of nose (fifth day), [1c]. ►
Fulness about the root of nose (seventeenth day), [1c]. ► Sore
feeling of the left nostril, sore to the touch (eleventh day), [1c]. ►
Dryness of nose (seventeenth day), [1c].
► Tingling sensation about the root
of the nose (twenty-fourth day), [1c].
► Sensation across the bridge of the
nose, as if the nasal bones were being pressed together or pressed
inward, at four P.M. (sixteenth day), [3].® 2000
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