Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Euphorbium officinarum.
Mind and Disposition.
Earnest quietness, driving one to occupy himself.
Serious and taciturn.
Head.
Vertigo when standing or walking in the open air.
Sensation of soreness (as if beaten) in the back part of the head ;
worse in the morning ; when lying ; from heat ; relieved
by motion and cooling the head.
Eyes.
[5] Smarting of the eyes, with
lachrymation.
Pale-red inflammation of the eyelids, with nightly agglutination.
Inflammation of the eyes, with itching of the eyelids and canthi of the
eye.
Diplopia ; seeing a person walk before him he imagines he sees the
same man walking after him.
Nose.
Discharge of a quantity of mucus from the posterior nares.
Face.
[10] Red, inflamed, painful swelling of
the face, with yellowish blisters secreting a thick yellow fluid.
Erysipelatous, inflammatory swelling of the cheeks, with vesicles full
of yellowish humour.
White, œdema-like swelling of the cheeks.
Mouth and Throat.
Toothache increasing when touched or when masticating.
The teeth crumble off.
[15] Ptyalism preceded by shivering or
with inclination to vomit, shuddering and griping in the stomach, the
saliva tastes salt.
Burning in the throat as from hot coal, extending to the stomach with
anguish (as if a flame were rushing out).
Dryness of the mouth without thirst.
Stomach and Abdomen.
Great thirst for cool drinks.
Vomiting (with diarrhœa).
[20] Nausea with shaking.
Burning (like fire) in the stomach and abdomen.
Spasmodic constriction in the stomach.
Spasmodic flatulent colic (in the morning in bed) with pain as if the
abdomen were pressed asunder, relieve by leaning his head upon the
elbows and knees.
Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen as after an emetic (morning).
Stool and Anus.
[25] Hard stool difficult to pass.
Stool like glue after previous itching of the rectum.
Violent itching of the rectum during urgent desire for stool, and after
the evacuation.
Burning sore pain around the anus.
Diarrhœa, with tenesmus, burning at the anus, and soreness in the
abdomen.
[30] Stool first thin, then knotty.
Urinary Organs.
Frequent desire to urinate with slight discharge of urine.
White sediment in the urine.
Itching stitch in the external portion of the urethra between the acts
of urinating.
Genital Organs.
Men. Erection without sexual desire.
[35] Discharge of prostatic fluid from
a relaxed penis.
Voluptuous itching of the prepuce.
Respiratory Organs.
Oppression of breathing, as if the chest were not wide enough, with
tension in the pectoral muscles, especially when turning the body to the
right side.
Stitches in the left side of the chest, during rest ; better during
motion.
Sensation as if the left lobe of the lung were adhering.
[40] Warm feeling in the middle of the
chest, as if hot food had been swallowed.
Dry hollow cough from tickling in the chest or throat.
Dry cough day and night, expectoration copious only in the morning.
Extremities.
Upper. Scarlet-red streaks on the
(left) forearm, itching when touched.
Paralytic tightness in the shoulder-joint (in the morning) worse on
moving the arm.
[45] Pain as from a sprain in the
(right) upper arm when moving the arm.
Cramp pain in the muscles of the right hand, when writing.
Lower. Pain as if sprained in the
hip-joint (on moving).
Burning pain at night in the femur, and hip-joint.
Pain as ; loin a sprain in the left thigh ; worse when
walking, disappears ; when standing.
[50] Cold perspiration of the legs in
the morning.
Great weakness of the legs.
Sore pain in the (right) heel, when walking in the open air.
The feet go to sleep frequently when sitting.
Sleep.
Sleepiness during the day-drowsiness after dinner.
[55] Sleeps with his arms extended over
his head.
Generalities.
Paralytic weakness in the joints, especially felt when beginning to
move.
Burning pain in the internal organs.
Rheumatic pains worse when at rest.
Fever.
Chilliness and coldness predominate.
[60] Chilliness when beginning to cat
and when walking in the open (not cold) air.
Chilliness with perspiration.
Chill over the upper part of the body with heat of the cheeks.
The body is cold, with internal burning heat.
Heat with aversion to be dressed, the clothing feels heavy -Heat only on
the head.
[65] Perspiration in the morning in
bed.
Cold perspiration on the legs (in the morning).
Skin.
Burning in the bones.
Caries.
Cold gangrene.
[70] Old, torpid ulcers.
Blood-boils.
Warts.
Burning itching which induces scratching.
Conditions.
Aggravation when at rest, while
sitting, from contact, or when walking in the open (not cold) air.
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