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APHIS CHENOPODII GLAUCI. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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APHIS CHENOPODII GLAUCI.

Insect belonging to the Aphidæ. The plant lice from Chenopodium glaucum.


Authority.

Dr. Meyer, Archive, 15, 2, 179, proved the third
dilution.

HEAD.

► Headache violent,
pressing, especially in the forehead, worse on each movement; it feels as if the brain
swashed hither and thither; now and then a deepseated pain in the occiput (ninth day).

EYES.

► Burning of the
lids, for several successive evenings.

EARS.

► Painful tearing
transient alternately in each ear (first day).

NOSE.

► Eruption on the
right nostril and left upper lip, with burning pain, as in coryza (second day). ► Sneezing (second day). ►
Fluent coryza (second and third days). ► Fluent coryza in
the evening, with a pulse of 85 (third day). ► Fluent
coryza, with burning at the nostrils (fifth day). ►
Coryza, with burning biting on the nostrils, especially on the septum (seventh day).

FACE.

[10.] ► Face pale, inclining to yellow (fourth day). ► Flushes of heat in the face, with confusion of the head, as
in threatening coryza (seventh day). ► Great inclination
to sweat in the face (first day). ► Dryness of the lips
(eighth day). ► Dry lips in the morning (fourth day).

MOUTH.

► Tearing-drawing
pain in a hollow back tooth, toward noon; it gradually increased and spread to the other
teeth on the right side, to the ear, temple, and the cheek-bones; worse in bed, and only
relieved by a general warm sweat, after some hours (twelfth day). ►
Painful vesicle on the tip of the tongue (twelfth day). ►
Breath warm (eighth day). ► Dryness of mouth and throat with
frequent accumulation of mucus
, several days. ►
Increased warmth in the mouth; the breath is warmer (fourth day). [20.]
► Inflammation of the palate (second day). ► Scraping sensation in the palate (first day). ► Constantly increasing collection of mucus in the mouth and
throat (fourth day). ► Profuse accumulation of insipid
mucus in the mouth and fauces (third day). ► Increased
secretion of frothy mucus in the mouth and throat, and frequent inclination to raise it by
hawking (first day). ► Accumulation of mucus in the mouth
(of an unpleasant flat taste); frequent hawking from the throat and repeated spitting
(second day).

THROAT.

► Dryness in the
throat causes much thirst (first day). ► Burning in the
throat (second day). ► Cutting burning sensation in the
whole throat, particularly in the palate, especially caused by inspiration (first day). ► Burning-biting pain in the soft palate (eleventh day).

STOMACH.

[30.] ► Appetite for meat and bread lost (ninth day). ► Thirst (ninth day). ► Much
thirst at evening (twelfth day). ► Frequent eructations
of air tasting of the food (daily).

ABDOMEN.

► Rumbling of
flatus in the bowels, with passage of considerable (third day). ►
Gurgling of flatus about with some passage of it (fourth day). ►
Flatus in the bowels causes griping (fifth day). ► Dull
griping in the intestines from time to time, as if a stool would soon follow, with passage
of more flatus than usual (first day). ► Painful cutting
griping in the small intestines (fourth day). ► Frequent
colic, griping in the bowels at night (first day).

STOOL AND ANUS.

[40.] ► Several ineffectual urgings to stool (in the rectum and
bladder), (eleventh day). ► Urging to stool, soon after
rising in the morning, with a thin, pasty evacuation; repeated several times through the
day, with constantly increasing gripings, burning in the anus and urging to stool (second
day). ► Two thin stools towards morning with griping and
pressure in the rectum (tenth day). ► Stool several
times, thin fluid mucus mixed with flakes of dark blood, with griping and dragging in the
rectum, during the forenoon (ninth day). ► Stools almost
every hour, with griping in the bowels, painful pressing in the rectum, bladder, and urethra
(ninth day). ► Stool thin, pasty, frothy, with burning in
the anus (sixth day). ► Stool thin, pasty, acrid, with
burning pain in the anus (fifth day). ► Stool thin,
pasty, preceded by griping in the bowels, accompanied by burning of the anus, and urging to
repeated evacuations (third day).

URINARY ORGANS.

►
Irritation in the urethra, as from something acrid, compels frequent urinating (sixth day). ► Burning in the orifice of the urethra, on urinating (second
and third days). [50.] ►
Burning in urethra (sixth day). ► Urine burns when
passing through the urethra (ninth day). ► Frequent and
profuse urination; urine deep yellow, and slightly foaming (fifth day). ► Urine frothy, brownish-red, deposits a thick yellowish
sediment (twelfth day).

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.

►
Painful sensitiveness of the right side of the larynx, externally (first day). ► Irritation in the larynx, as from burning acid, which
sometimes causes a cough and frequently hawking (seventh day). ►
Irritation to cough, in the region of the larynx (second day). ►
Constant irritation in the larynx to hawk frequently, provokes a cough, which expectorates
mucus; the irritation is a tickling burning, sometimes a stinging sensation (fourth day). ► Burning, scrapy feeling in the larynx (fifth day). ► Tickling, burning sensation in the larynx (fifth day). [60.] ► Violent sneezing,
which pains the larynx (fifth day). ► Voice sometimes
hoarse and rough, cleared by much hawking (fifth day). ►
Dry cough, caused by irritation in the throat (fourth day). ►
Cough from irritation in the larynx, worse from 4 to 6 P.M. (seventh day).

HEART AND PULSE.

► Pulse
accelerated (ninth day). ► Pulse more accelerated and
tense (fourth day). ► Pulse accelerated, forenoon, with
sensation of burning in the palms of the hands, and inclination to sweat in them (third
day).

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.

►
Limbs pain as if bruised, with frequent drawing-tearing pains, from above the knee down to
the foot, especially on the tibia and in the soles (ninth to thirteenth days).

LOWER EXTREMITIES.

► Tired
feeling in the legs, especially in the knees (thirteenth day)? ►
Feet cold up to the knees (ninth day). [70.] ► Stinging-burning pain in the corns, alternating between the
little toes (first day).

GENERALITIES.

► Feeling of
fatigue (fourth day). ► Very weak and prostrated at
evening (tenth day). ► Drawing-tearing pains, here and
there, especially above the knee (eleventh day). ► Pains,
drawing tearing, in various parts of the body, shoulders, arms, ears, temples, hollow teeth
(ninth day). ► Feeling of irritation or congestion in all
the pelvic viscera; desire to urinate, to a stool, voluptuous irritation in the prepuce,
pressure and urging in the bladder (eighth day).

SLEEP AND DREAMS.

►
Sleepless night (ninth and tenth days). ► Voluptuous
dreams, and two emissions (seventh day).

FEVER.

► Frequent
chilliness over the whole body, especially the back (daily). ►
Chills run up and down the back (ninth day).

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