THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA
Arundo mauritanica
An Italian Grass. Tincture of the Root Sprouts.
Proved and introduced by Doctor F. Patti, Chagon a Duc de Sorentinoá; published in J. de la S. Gall., vol. vii, p. 345, in 1856. Clinical observations from B. Dadea, Compendio Materia Medica Pura, vol. i, p. 282, 1874.
Laughs easily, a stupid hilarity.
Anxiety diminished in open air.
Anxiety from accumulation of mucus in bronchi.
Dulness of mind and indifference to painful sensations.
Vertigo on getting out of bed.
Deep-seated pain towards frontal lobes and sides.
Painful undulation in frontal region.
Burning pain in interior headá; pain and heat in forehead.
Pain in right temple to top of head, makes sleepy.
Sudden formicating pains through temples.
Formication and stupefying pain on top of head, going down to neck.
Deep-seated pains in sides of head.
Formication and pricking in foreheadá; itching on different parts.
Pustules with red areola, suppurate and form crusts, with children.
Pricking in left temple and on top of head.
Hair falls off entirely in children.
Inflammation of eyes, in children.
Light intolerable, at noon and evenings.
Undulating, luminous openings appear wherever he looks.
When looking steadily, pricking in orbit.
Pricking pain in vault of orbitá; gets heavy and sleepy.
Pricking, itching and burning in eyes, the left worse.
Itching of conjunctivaá; burning pain in sclerotica.
Lids jactitate, are heavy, red, burning, itching, swollen.
Intolerable itching in brow and left eye.
Burning, pricking (l.), formication.
Catarrhal, rheumatic, or scrofulous ophthalmia.
HEARING AND EARS. [6] [Arund.]
Noise in ears, sound as of little bells.
Pain at base of outer ear (l.).
Formication in left external ear.
While children complain they keep fingers in ears.
Pain burning, and intolerable itching in canals.
Burning, itching in auditory canals coincide with pain in sublingual glands.
The inflammation of ears commences with shooting pains, begins in concha, extends to external meatusá; finally, with itching a discharge of blood.
Hemorrhage of bright red blood (l.).
Itching, burning, dryness of Schneiderian membrane.
Burning in inner walls of nose.
When sneezing, stitches in loins.
In beginning water runs from nose, later green mucus and thick, white, slimy massesá; with sneezing, pieces of indurated greenish mucus.
Itching, pricking all overá; formicationá; pain in left half of face.
Pain and burning in right cheek.
Gums red, sensitive, swollen, bleeding.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Arund.]
Bitter mouth on waking`mornings.
Pain in sublingual glands. See 6.
PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Arund.]
Burning, itching and irritation of palate.
Eruption of red points on palate in children.
Burning and redness in £sophagus.
Stoppage of air (from stomach ?) in £sophagus.
Obstruction prevents swallowing.
Burning and pain on swallowing.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Arund.]
Longing for acids, and acid food.
Constant thirst in childrená; after waking in morning.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] [Arund.]
Attacks of very painful nausea.
Nausea on getting up in morning.
Vomiting of frothy, viscid matter after cough. See 27.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Arund.]
Acute pain in pit of stomachá; pain on pressure.
Pain all around epigastrium, pricking through it.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Arund.]
Pain in colon, right and leftá; pricking in it.
Wandering pains through bowels.
Movements in bowels as if caused by a living thingá; as of a worm crawling on right side.
Noise in bowelsá; borborygmus.
Bowels painful when pressed by hand.
Pain throughout hypogastriumá; burning and pricking after coughing.
Pain, burning and formication in loins.
Stitches in loinsá; stitches when sneezing.
Pricking pains in loins, corresponds to like pains in pit of stomach.
STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Arund.]
The stools at first hard, soon become loose.
Constant diarrh£a of nursing children.
Serious diarrh£a with teething children.
Liquid diarrh£a in children, with red blood.
Descent of hemorrhoids before stool.
Stools followed by burning at anus.
Hemorrhoids, with prolapsus recti.
Red urine with sandy sediment.
Urine deposits a great deal of red sand. Compareá: Lycop.
After urinating, weightá; burning, itching in urethra.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Arund.]
Sexual desireá; lascivious ideasá; frequent erections.
Pain in spermatic cords after coition.
Difficult breathing during coition.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Arund.]
Violent desire for coition, or aversion to it.
Pain in uterus with meteorism before catamenia.
Menses too early and very profuse.
Hemorrhage of black, clotted blood.
Heat, with formication beginning at loins, rising to shoulders, and extending to hands.
Pain starting from left side of jaw, running along left eyebrow, thence extending to shoulders and loins, finally settling on pubis, burning there like fire.
Pain in loinsá: with coughá; before first menstruation.
Painful constriction of pubis and loins, prevents walking.
Pain beginning in kidneys, passing on to lumbar region and extending to pubis.
Burning pain from kidneys passing through left ileum to pubis.
PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] [Arund.]
Excessive secretion of milk, causes pain in left breast.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] [Arund.]
Larynx obstructed after coughing. See 27.
Whistling, etc., in bronchi when breathing.
Short, difficult breathingá; also during coition, or on walking, going up-stairs.
Attacks of dyspn£a, with diffuse sweat.
Sputa in beginning bluish, then white, and so alternately.
After expectorating, bruised feeling in pit of throat.
After cough, burning in hypogastrium.
After coughing, larynx obstructed, prevents wind and sputa from coming up, causing afterwards vomiting of frothy, viscid matter.
Cough at noon, midday and evenings.
Dry cough evenings, with pains in pit of stomach, with viscid vomitingá; followed by burning at pit of throat.
Expectoration difficult, early mornings.
Sputa whitishá; round, ash-colored clots.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Arund.]
Accumulation of mucus in bronchi causes anxiety.
Pain in chestá; pricking in chestá; under clavicles.
Pain in right chest, towards midnight.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] [Arund.]
Pulse rises to 90, later lessening.
Abnormal movements of heartá; oppression of it.
Startings in necká; formicating pain on l. side of it.
Feeling as of a worm crawling on neck.
Acute pain under left scapula.
Weakness of arms, acute painá; formication.
Coldness in shoulders, in both armsá; heat and heaviness in left arm.
Burning pain passing from arm to wrist, from there to forefinger, and then to thumb.
Pain beginning in elbow, ending in ring finger.
Pain in right wrist, and burning heat in one or the other.
Burning, jerking pain in right wrist.
Formicative pain, with heaviness in left wrist.
îdema of hands, especially in children.
Burning pain in both hands, as if plunged in boiling water.
Pain in fingersá; in metacarpal joints and first phalanges.
Towards midday attack of pain extends to loins, knee and foot.
General redness of legs owing to an eruption of very small points, with violent itching.
Burning pain from hip to heel, like sciatica.
Cramps in knees, often with a sensation of heat.
Pain in left calf, most when standing up or when walking.
Burning pain in heelsá; pricking in heels.
îdema of feet and ankles, < on movement.
Copious and offensive sweat of feet.
Burning and swelling of soles, as after a long journey.
Beating and burning heat in soles.
LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] [Arund.]
Pain in limbs as if tightly bandaged.
Formicating pains rising from loins to shoulders and settling on left clavicle.
REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] [Arund.]
When walking and going upstairs, difficult breathing.
When standing, pain in left calf.
Twitchings and inclination to yawn.
Sleeps by dayá; sleepless at night.
Sleepiness, with burning in eyes.
Sleeplessness and weeping at night, in childrená; excessive heat.
On waking, bitter mouthá; after waking, thirst.
Getting up in morning, vertigo.
On waking, nausea, hoarseness.
Towards nooná: attack of pain.
At nooná: shunning of lightá; cough.
Most effects from noon till evening.
Eveningá: shunning lightá; coughá; dry cough, etc.
Before midnight, quotidianá; towards midnight, pain in r. side of chest.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] [Arund.]
Desire for open air with cough.
Quotidian fever before midnight.
Fever preceded by coldness, with thirst.
Feverish paroxysm, with burning pain and formication all over body.
Febrile paroxysm, with nausea, coldness, thirst, pain in bowels and salivation.
Excessive heat at nightá; nightly fever.
A sensation of burning heat, together with numerous prickings, rises from loins, passes over shoulders and then invades middle of head and face, preceded by perspiration, in women.
Constant sensation of heatá; is burnt in sun and frozen in shade.
Alternate heat and coldness on different parts of body.
Tendency to sweatá; motion causes profuse sweat.
Fever ends with sweat, most on shoulders and chest, sometimes with vertigo.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] [Arund.]
As of an insect crawling over body.
As of a worm crawlingá: in abdomená; on neck.
Pain in limbs as if bandaged tightly.
Hands as if plunged in boiling water.
Acute painá: in pit of stomachá; at umbilicusá; in anus.
Stitchesá: in loinsá; in thighá; in kneesá; in toes.
Burningá: in headá; in eyesá; in scleroticaá; of lidsá; in orbitá; in auditory canalsá; in noseá; in right cheeká; of palateá; in £sophagusá; in hypogastriumá; pilesá; in urethraá; from kidneys through to pubisá; in nipplesá; in arms and handsá; in elbowsá; in right wristá; in right thumbá; from hip to heelá; in thighá; in kneesá; in heelsá; of solesá; in toes.
Prickingá: in left templeá; in vertexá; in foreheadá; in orbitá; in eyesá; in faceá; on point of chiná; through epigastriumá; in spleená; in coloná; in hypogastriumá; in loinsá; in anusá; in bladderá; in uterusá; in vulvaá; under left breastá; in chestá; in arteriesá; in finger tipsá; in axillaá; in heel.
Wandering painá: through bowels.
Painful undulationá: in frontal region.
Constrictioná: of pubis and loins.
Formicatingá: through templesá; on top of headá; in foreheadá; in left eyeá; in left eará; from loins to shouldersá; in chestá; in armsá; in handsá; on left clavicleá; of left wrist.
Undefined painá: frontal lobes and sides of brainá; in foreheadá; in right temple to top of headá; in occiputá; at base of eará; at root of noseá; in masseter musclesá; in sublingual glandsá; in left half of faceá; around epigastriumá; in liverá; in coloná; in hypogastriumá; at pubic regioná; in kidneysá; in spermatic cordsá; in loinsá; in nipplesá; in chestá; in arms and handsá; in kneesá; in left calfá; in uterusá; from left jaw along eyebrow thence shoulder, loins, settling in pubisá; in right wristá; in fingers.
Itchingá: on headá; in eyesá; of lidsá; in browá; in auditoryá; in noseá; in faceá; of palateá; in urethraá; eruptions.
Mucous membranes of eyes, ears, nose, palate, etc.
Pains and prickings in glands.
Feeling as of an insect crawling over loins, shoulders, and sometimes entire surface of body.
Redness of skin, like a birth mark.
Skin in children turns blue at height of fever.
Eruptions resembling itch on breast, in children, and also behind ears.
Itching papular eruption in children.
Erysipelas on various parts of body.
Itching miliary eruption on loins.
Pustules like of scabies, with intolerable itching, discharge when opened by friction a watery fluid.
Suppurating pimples on chest and arms.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] [Arund.]
Diseases of women and children.
No gramineµ are known by their morbid influence, except some poisoning symptoms of Lolium.
Ananth. has been proved by Houat. Sacch. off. is well known by provings and cures, but has no similarity with any tincture of roots.
The disjunctive similars are principally Sulphur, Calc. ost., and Lycop., one of the principal family in our armamentarium.