Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Oleander (Nerium oleander).
Mind and Disposition.
Absence of mind, want of attention.
Slowness of perception.
Indolence, aversion to do any thing.
Head.
Vertigo when rising from bed, or if looking fixedly at any object, or
when looking down while standing.
[5] Heaviness of the head ; better
when lying down.
Biting-itching on the scalp, as from vermin, principally on the back
part of the head and behind the ears ; relieved when first
scratching it, which is followed by burning and soreness, which gives
place to biting-itching ; worse in the evening when undressing.
Humid, scaly, biting-itching eruption on the head, especially on the
back part of the head.
Eyes.
When reading ; burning and tension in the eyelids ;
lachrymation.
Double vision.
Ears.
[10] Herpes and ulcers on and around
the ears.
Face.
Pale, sunken face in the morning with blue rings around the eyes.
Alternate paleness and dark redness of the face.
Numbness of the upper lip.
Mouth and Throat.
Toothache only when masticating.
[15] Drawing in the molar teeth at
night when lying down, with anxiety, nausea and frequent micturition.
Bluish-white gums.
The papillæ are elevated, dirty-white.
Loss of speech.
Dryness of the mouth and white tongue.
Stomach and Abdomen.
[20] Ravenous hunger with trembling of
the hands and hasty eating without appetite.
Much thirst, especially for cold water.
Violent empty eructations, while eating.
Vomiting of food and bitter greenish water.
After vomiting ravenous hunger and thirst.
[25] Sensation of emptiness in the
stomach, even after eating.
Beating and pulsation in the pit of the stomach as if the beats of the
heart were felt through the whole thorax.
Stitches and gnawing about the navel.
Rolling and rumbling in the intestines, with emission of a great
quantity of fetid flatulence.
Stool and Anus.
Ineffectual urging to stool.
[30] Almost involuntary discharge of
undigested stool.
The food which he had taken on the previous day passes off undigested
and almost without effort ; imagines he is only emitting
flatulence.
Chronic diarrhœa ; undigested food, worse in the morning.
Burning at the anus before and after the stool.
Urinary Organs.
Urinary secretions increased with frequent micturition, especially after
drinking coffee.
[35] Brown, burning urine, depositing a
white sediment.
Respiratory Organs.
Viscid mucus in the trachea.
Oppressed breathing when lying, as if the chest were too narrow, with
long, deep breathing.
Violent shaking cough from tickling in the larynx.
Sensation of emptiness and coldness in the chest.
[40] Dull stitches in the left side of
the chest and in the sternum, worse when taking a long breath.
Violent, anxious palpitation of the heart ; the chest feels
expanded.
Extremities.
Upper. Swelling and stiffness of the
fingers, with burning pains.
The veins on the hands are swollen.
Lower. Paralysis of the legs and
feet ; painless.
[45] Great, weakness of the legs,
especially of the knees.
Constant cold feet.
Buzzing sensation in the legs, especially the soles of the feet.
Generalities.
Painless stiffness and paralysis of the limbs.
Insensibility of the whole body.
[50] Want of animal heat in the limbs.
Painless paralysis.
Faintish weakness of the whole body ; when standing trembling of
the knees, when writing trembling of the hands.
Fainting as from weakness, relieved by perspiration.
Sleep.
Frequent yawning, with chilliness and trembling of the muscles.
[55] Restless, voluptuous dreams and
frequent waking.
Fever.
Pulse very changeable and irregular ; weak and slow in the morning,
full and rapid in the evening.
Chilliness and chills over the whole body, periodically, with heat of
the face and coldness of the hands.
Chilliness and want of animal heat.
External chilliness with internal heat without thirst.
[60] Flushes of heat periodically,
especially from bodily or mental exertion.
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