Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Prunus spinosa.
Mind and Disposition.
Restlessness, which does not allow one to remain quiet in one place,
walks about constantly, with dyspnœa and short breathing.
Head.
Heaviness of the head, also with vertigo.
Pressing in the head, as if the brain were pressed out through the skull
with a plug.
Stitches in the scalp.
Eyes.
[5] Pain in the right eye as if it were
torn asunder.
Itching in the corners of the eyes and in the edges of the lids.
Ears.
Pain as if pressed out in the right ear.
Nose.
Pain as from pressing asunder above the nasal bones.
Mouth and Throat.
Burning of the tongue as if scalded.
Stomach and Abdomen.
[10] Sensation of repletion in the
stomach ; a very mall quantity of food satisfies the appetite.
Sensation of fulness in the pit of the stomach, as after a full meal, or
as from overlifting, with shortness of breathing.
Ascites, with loss of appetite, scanty urine, hard, knotty stool, which
is difficult to pass.
Incarcerated flatulency (on the bladder, with spasms, compelling one to
walk stooped).
Pain in the right inguinal region as if hernia would produce.
Stool and Anus.
[15] Stool hard, difficult to expel, in
small pieces, with stitches in the rectum.
Diarrhœa with nausea, feces consisting of mucus, with burning in the
rectum as from a wound.
Urinary Organs.
Tenesmus vesicæ.
Strangury ; continuous urging to urinate, with burning-biting in
the bladder and urethra ; when the effort is made to urinate,
burning in the urethra, so that one must bend double without being able
to urinate.
Urgent desire to urinate ; the urine only reaches the glans penis
and causes there violent pains and spasms, also with tenesmus in the
rectum ; the pain in the bladder is momentarily relieved as soon as
the urine descends in the urethra.
[20] Scanty secretion of urine,
brown ; must always press a long time before passing any urine, and
then in a feeble stream.
Spasms in the bladder, disturbing the sleep at night ; burning in
the sphincter vesicæ.
In the, urethra burning-biting ; great soreness, so that he can not
touch it.
Sexual Organs.
Men. The prepuce is drawn behind the
corona glandis, the penis becoming smaller.
Women. Tickling, itching in the region
of the ovaries, not relieved by scratching and rubbing.
[25] Menstruation too early, with
violent pain in the small of the back.
Metrorrhagia of thin pale blood, becoming more watery the longer it
lasts.
Leucorrhœa, excoriating, coloring the linen yellow.
Respiratory Organs.
Breathing difficult, caused by a sensation of heaviness in the lower
part of the thorax.
Back.
Back and small of the back feel stiff as from overlifting.
[30] Stitches between the
shoulder-blades on drawing a long breath.
Pain in the small of the back when sitting.
Extremities.
Upper. Pressure on the right shoulder,
extending to the deltoid muscle, preventing one from raising the arm.
Sensation as if sprained in the right thumb, hindering one from writing ;
cannot bold the pen.
Lower. Pain in the hip, worse in the
forenoon, and free from it after midnight.
[35] Pain in the first joint of the big
toe, as if it were pulled out.
Restlessness in the legs, has to change the position continually.
Fever.
Chilliness in the evening must go to bed, is inclined to stretch
himself.
Dry heat over the whole body, with pain in the corona glandis and
redness of the prepuce ; burning on the genitals, relieved by
perspiration, and ceasing when going to bed.
Perspiration during sleep, only in the face.
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