H.M.M.
RECONSTITUTED about NOSODES and SARCODES
according to Dr John Henry CLARKE.
By Dr Robert Séror.
Sarcodes (24)
Adrenalinum
* Aranearum Tela * Calcarea
Carbonica Ostrearum *
Calcarea Ovi Testæ * Carbo
Animalis * Castor Equi * Cervus
* Colostrum * Conchiolinum
* Fel Tauri * Gadus
Morrhua * Helix Tosta * Hippomanes
* Lac Caninum * Lac
Felinum * Lac Vaccinum * Oleum
Jecoris Aselli * Oophorinum * Orchitinum
* Ovi Gallinæ Pellicula * Pulmo
Vulpis * Sphingurus * Thyroidinum
* Urinum
Adrenalinum
Extract of supra-renal bodies.
A Sarcode.
Tincture or trituration.
Clinical (Adrenalinum)
Addison’s disease.
Adrenal neuralgia.
Bronzed skin.
Debility. Hæmaturia.
Hyperæmia.
Palpitation.
Tachycardia.
Characteristics (Adrenalinum)
Adrenalin
has cured a number of cases of Addison’s
disease and has arrested others.The leading features of this affection may be taken as guides for
its use :Bronzing of skin ;
Loss of strength ;
Wasting ;
Exceedingly rapid pulse.
It has cured a case of hæmaturia accompanied by pain in the
adrenal region.It has been used locally in cases of hyperæmia of the conjunctiva,
dissipating it almost immediately, and thus rendering operations
possible.It appears to possess a very powerful local action over dilated
blood-vessels.When injected into the circulation blood pressure rises, the
arteries being contracted.The general muscular system is affected, a slight stimulus
producing prolongedcontraction.
Aranearum Tela.
(Sarcode)Cobweb (of black spider found in barns, cellars, and dark places).
Tincture or trituration.
Clinical (Aranearum tela)
Sleeplessness.
Characteristics (Aranearum tela)
Cobweb has been used as a remedy from ancient times.
It has also been experimented with on healthy persons.
It very rapidly lowers the frequency of the pulse rate.
In some it has produced “a calm and delightful state of
feeling, followed by a disposition to sleep. ““The most delicious tranquillity, resembling the action of
opium, and followed by no bad effects. “Twenty grains given to an old and infirm asthmatic produced
“slight but pleasant delirium. “Muscular energy is increased, could not be kept in bed, but danced
and jumped about the room all night.Relations (Aranearum tela)
Compare :
Ledum
palustre, Kalmia, Bryonia alba.
Calcarea
Carbonica OstrearumImpure Calcium Carbonate.
Ca CO
3.
Including symptoms of Calcarea acetica, and
Calcarea
ostrearum, a
trituration of the middle layer of oyster shells, of both of which Hahnemann
made provings.Koch’s
provings
were made from carbonate of lime precipitated from a solution of chalk
in hydrochloric acid.Trituration.
Clinical (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Abdomen, large.
Acidity
.
Alcohol, effects of.
Anæmia.
Ankles, weak.
Appetite, depraved.
Beard, sycosis of.
Bone, disease of
.
Brachial neuralgia.
Breasts, painful.
Bronchial glands, affections of.
Calculus
.
Caries.
Cataract
.
Chilblains.
Chorea.
Cold.
Consumption.
Corpulency
.
Coryza.
Cough
.
Coxalgia.
Croup
.
Crusta lactea.
Debility
.
Delirium tremens.
Dentition
.
Diabetes.
Diarrhœa.
Dropsy.
Dyspepsia.
Ear, affections of.
Epilepsy
.
Epulis.
Eyes, affections of
.
Fever, intermittent.
Fistula.
Gall-stones.
Glandular swellings
.
Gleet.
Goitre
.
Gonorrhœa.
Gouty swellings.
Headache.
Hernia
.
Herpes.
Hydrocephalus
.
Hypochondriasis.
Hysteria.
Impotence.
Joints, affections of.
Lactation, defective.
Leucocythæmia.
Leucorrhœa.
Lupus
.
Masturbation.
Melancholia.
Menstruation, disorders of
.
Milk-fever.
Miller’s phthisis.
Miscarriage.
Molluscum contagiosum.
Nævus
.
Nervous fever.
Neuralgia.
Night terrors.
Paralysis.
Parotitis.
Peritonitis.
Perspiration
.
Plethora.
Polypus.
Pregnancy
.
Prosopalgia.
Psoriasis palmaris.
Ranula
.
Renal colic.
Rhagades.
Rheumatism
.
Rickets.
Ringworm
.
Sciatica.
Scrofula.
Skin, affections of.
Sleep, disorders of.
Sleeplessness.
Smell, disorder of
.
Spinal affections.
Stone-cutter’s phthisis.
Strains.
Sycosis.
Sycosis menti.
Tabes mesenterica
.
Tapeworm.
Taste, disordered.
Teeth, carious.
Toothache.
Trachea, affections of.
Tuberculosis.
Tumours
.
Typhoid.
Urticaria.
Uterus, affections of
.
Varices.
Vertigo.
Walking, late.
Warts
.
Whitlow.
Worms
.
Characteristics (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Calcarea
is
one of the greatest monuments of Hahnemann’s genius. His method of
preparing insoluble substances brought to light in this instance a
whole world of therapeutic power formerly unknown.Moreover,
Calcarea
is one of the polychrest remedies, and ranks with Sulphur
and Lycopodium
at the head of the antipsorics. It is absolutely essential to a
correct appreciation of the homœopathic materia medica that these
three medicines should be thoroughly known, as these are in a sense
the standards around which the rest are grouped. All three have a very
wide range and deep action.They have many symptoms in common, but
Calc.
is somewhat sharply distinguished from Sulphur
in that it is a chilly remedy, the patient seeking warmth, whilst the Sulphur
patient is < by heat, and > by cold. Calc.
has cold, clammy feet, “as if there were damp stockings on”
; Sulphur
has characteristically hot,
sweaty feet. The “sinking sensation” common to all three is
most marked with Sulphur
at 11
a. m. , with Lycopod.
at 4
p. m. , with Calcarea
at any time.
Calcarea
is
closely allied to Belladonna,
Nux, Puls. ,
and Rhus
in its action. It follows well Sulph.
and Nit. ac.
, to both of which it is complementary. It is inimical to Bryonia,
and should not be given immediately before or after that medicine.
Like many of the other carbonates, Calc.
carb.
corresponds to persons of soft fibre with tendency to be fat.“This remedy is particularly adapted to the real
Leucophlegmatic
Constitution.
Where we find a large
head, large features, pale skin, with a chalky
look, and (in infants) open fontanelles, we may think strongly of Calc.
c. ”
(Guernsey).The scrofulous constitution embraces a large number of
Calcarea’s
characteristic effects : fat children rather bloated than solid, pale
but flushing easily. Fair ; slow in movement ; of irregular growth,
large heads, with wide-open fontanelles ; large abdomens ; irregular
and partial sweats : the head sweats profusely, wetting the pillow for
a space around the head ; enlarged and hard lymphatic glands. Icy
coldness in abdomen. In addition there are night terrors ; child wakes
at 2
or 3
a. m. screaming, cannot be made to understand, remembers nothing of it
in the morning.Children are slow in teething and walk late. Sourness is one of the
characteristic notes ofCalc.
c. ; the body
is sour ; taste sour ; sour stool and urine. All the symptoms are made
worse by taking cold. In all cases where there is improper nutrition
and imperfect digestion, such as described above, and where there is
chilliness, aggravation from contact with water and from cold, cold,
clammy feet and sinking sensations, Calcarea
will most likely prove the remedy.
Calc
. also
corresponds to ailments following losses of fluids, such as from self
abuse ; and it corresponds to a form of menorrhagia, the flow being
excessive and the intervals shortened. Periods return too soon after
excitement. There is often pain in the breasts before the flow
commences, as with Conium.
But if the menses are scanty or absent, and the Calc.
characteristics of chilliness and cold, clammy feet are present, Calc.
will still be the remedy.Suppression of menses in women of full habit after working in
water. Bearing-down pains. Ovarian or uterine pains, right side,
extending down thighs ; < on reading or writing (left,Lil.
t. ). In
addition to the cold symptoms there are sensations of heat and burning
: heat in and on the vertex. In connection with this the sweat of the
head must be remembered. It occurs chiefly on occiput and forehead
(that of Sil.
is all over). There is > uncovering during the heats (as with Lyc.
and unlike Sil.
).Burning in soles of feet at night ; burning in back of hands. The
characteristicCalc.
hand is soft, warm, and moist ; a boneless hand. Also hands inclined
to chap. There are copious night sweats, which may be sour or
odourless. Foot-sweat, sour or odourless. The sweats of Calc.
give no relief. Bloody sweats. Among other heat symptoms is hot
breath, with heat in mouth. Rumination is among the Calc. effects.
Nausea after drinking water, even ever so little ; but
not if iced.The “sinking” sensation of
Calc.
has some modifications. There is ravenous hunger ; hunger and feeling
of emptiness immediately after a meal, and in the early morning. If he
doesn’t have his breakfast at the proper time, a headache comes on.
Craving for eggs ; for indigestible things, chalk, coal, &c.
Nausea when fasting. Sour eructations. Sour diarrhœa.Sour body smell. Milk disagrees ; sour vomiting of large curds.
Inability to swallow solids. Chronic disease of left tonsil ; feeling
of lump in left side of throat which he wants to swallow down. Pain
from left tonsil to ear.Semi-lateral swelling of tongue. The prosopalgia of
Calc.
is > warm fomentations, like Pul.
Biliary colic : cutting pain under right scapula running to right
hypochondrium and epigastrium. Crawling in rectum as from worms.
Burning in rectum. Weight in lower rectum. Stools hard and pasty ;
like chalk or clay offensive ; undigested. Ardor urinæ ; offensive
urine. Impotence penis cold and relaxed.
Calcarea
is
related to the pretubercular stage of phthisis ; it is more especially
suited to affections of the right apex. Stitching in chest and sides
of chest when moving and when lying on affected side. The cough is
provoked by going into a cold room ; by chilliness. Tickling cough,
sensation of feather in throat. I have cured with Calc. a “fat
cough” ─
i. e. , a cough
with easy expectoration of a little mucus ─
and an
arsenical cough (brought on by sleeping in a room having an arsenical
wallpaper) which waked the patient in the middle of the night, causing
him to sit up and cough till phlegm was raised.Rattling in the chest ; miller’s and stone-cutter’s phthisis ; old
suppurating cavities. Swelling of cervical and bronchial glands.
Scrofulous glands and scrofulous diseases of bones ; spinal curvature
; rickets. Swellings ; false appearance of fat ; milk leg > by
elevating the limb, < hanging it down. The same conditions mark the sciatica ofCalc.
, which follows on working in water. Rheumatic and gouty conditions
from wetting. Joints crack and crepitate as if dry.The skin is rough and scaly and inclined to chap. Rhagades. Chapped
hands. Chilblains from wetting. Eruptions. Cooper has cured with it
psoriasis palmaris. Eruption behind right ear. Warts and polypi.Calc.
is an eminently sycotic medicine, as the early morning aggravation
would indicate.The mental and nervous systems of
Calc.
are no less remarkable than the bodily. The Calc.
patient is slow in movements (Sul.
quick and active). The state of mind is one of apprehension. The
patient fears she will lose her reason, or that people will notice her
mental confusion.Fears she has some fatal disease, especially heart disease.
Shuddering and dread as evening, draws near. Sees visions on closing
eyes (hence useful in delirium tremens). Cries out, twitches, grasps
at flocks ; restless and anxious though unconscious (nervous and
typhoid fever) ; beside herself with anguish ; on the borders of acute
mania. Evil forebodings ; talks of Mice, rats, murders. Forgetful.The epilepsy of
Calc.
has an aura spreading up from the solar plexus, in which case the
convulsion comes on immediately ; or it may be like a mouse running on
the arm ; or it may run down from epigastrium into uterus or limbs.
The causes are fright, suppressed eruptions and discharges, sexual
excesses. Rush of blood to head ; a sensation of something rising up
from epigastrium to head is very characteristic. Trembling, twitching
; internal trembling sensation on awaking.Fainting, coming on in the street with sensation of something
rising from stomach to head. Talking = a feeling of weakness which
compels him to desist. Exertion or excitement = exhaustion, though he
may feel well before. Ascending = great weakness. Exhaustion in the
morning.Vertigo : tendency to fall to left ; to either side ; backward.
Caused by turning head ; < looking upward ; going (especially running) upstairs. Sensation as if in a dream.Calc.
is one of the remedies that has been used for the sensation of
levitation. Aversion to darkness. Cloud coming over head. In sleep the
mental symptoms come out again : the patient is either abnormally
sleepy or sleepless. Wakes 3
a. m. , and cannot get to sleep again ; tosses about. Horrible
phantasms.The child wakes in the night screaming and cannot be pacified ; in
the morning remembers nothing of it. Chews and swallows in sleep.
Frightful dreams of sickness, death, and smell of corpses.Neuralgias and paralyses are among the
Calc.
effects. A remarkable case (of Dr. Mayntzer’s) improved by Silic.
and cured by Calc.
is quoted in Hom.
League Tract,
vol. ii. p. 108.
A girl of nineteen had had for some months neuralgic pains in both
arms, coming on every evening, lasting all night, and being replaced
during the day with sensation of lameness and weakness. Pressure and
movements aggravated. Hands trembling, numb, fingers often remained
opened out stiff and could not be bent.The
Silica
symptoms are : “Tearing pains in upper arm. Pain as of
dislocation at wrist. Cramp pain and lameness of hand on slight
exertion. Gone-to-sleep feeling of hands at night. Numbness and
formication of hands. Restlessness and trembling in right arm. ”The symptoms of
Calc.
are : “Bruised pain of arms on moving or grasping. Pain as if
sprained in wrist, with shooting and tearing in it when moved. Tearing
in whole arm, shooting, tearing pain in upper arm and elbow. Nocturnal
tearing and drawing in arms. Spasmodic tearing pain on outer side of
forearm from elbow to wrist. Cramp in whole of one or other arm. Cramp
in hands at night until she rises in morning. Cramp-like contraction
of fingers. Pain and weakness of hands ; trembling of hands in
morning. Weakness and a kind of lameness of arm. Fingers feel furry.
” Both remedies were given, and great improvement occurred under Silic.
, but as the pain was not gone the patient took Calc.
(which was only to be taken in case of need) on the fifth day. On the
sixth day the pain was gone “as if blown away,” as the
patient expressed it ─
and no wonder !
It would be difficult to find a closer simillimum. The general
condition of the patient underwent a complete change for the better at
the same time. Both remedies were given in globules of 6th.
Dr. Van den Neucker (H.
Recorder, 1886,
p. 139)
once cured a baker of paralysis of both arms with Calc. ; and also a
case of paralysis with many symptoms of locomotor ataxy in a lymphatic
blonde girl of nineteen.According to Guernsey
Calc.
is in general a right-side remedy. It affects specially right external
head ; right eye ; right face ; right abdominal ring ; sexual organs
right side ; right back ; right upper extremities. Left
side neck and nape of neck ; left chest ; left lower
extremities. Complaints prevailing in inner parts. Among the sensations
of Calc.
are : Pain as if the parts would burst, were pressed asunder, were
pushed asunder ; as if cold, damp stockings were on the feet. Creeping
on the limbs like a mouse. Pain as if sprained in outer parts.
Sensation of dust in inner parts as the eye, bronchial tubes.
Pricking, darting, jerking, trembling ; itching > by scratching. It
is often indicated in epilepsy, disposition to strain a part by
lifting heavy things, pricking corns, polypus, cysts, occurring in
leucophlegmatic constitutions. Where a cold wind strikes the body and
it immediately runs to the teeth, causing them to ache. Ranula.
Flatulence or gurgling in right hypochondrium. Cramp in legs at 3
a. m. Hands chap from hard water.Alexander Villers cured with
Calc.
c. 200
in rare doses a case combining many of the features of the remedy. The
patient, a lady, æt. 20,
very despondent through long-continued depressing circumstances,
became very nervous. She was companion to an exceedingly deaf lady,
whose voice was high-pitched.This, with the strain on her voice to make herself heard, caused
headache through temples > by rapid motion of head. Outdoor
exercise was accompanied by hard pressure on chest, which only
eructations seemed to relieve. Bowels constipated. Menses every
fortnight, with backache and great prostration. Under the remedy,
repeated at rare intervals, the menses came on monthly, headache and
pressure on chest disappeared.Among the Conditions of
Calc.
, dread of the open air ranks most prominently ; the least cold air
goes right through. Great sensitiveness to cold, damp air. Also cannot
bear sun. The slightest change <. Dread of bathing and water. There is inclination to stretch and put the shoulders back ; but straightening < rheumatism. Calc.
is hydrogenoid and sycotic ─
sensitive to
cold and damp and early morning aggravation. Warts and polypi also
point to the same constitutional state.The
Calc.
patient generally feels better when constipated. The diarrhœa of Calc.
is generally < in afternoon. There is painless hoarseness < in morning. "The Calc.
pains are most generally felt while lying in bed, or while sitting ;
they are felt in the parts upon which the body has been lying for a
time” (Teste). There is < after midnight and in early morning ; on awaking. Chill at 2 p. m. In the evening, 6 to 7, there is fever without chill, < from working in water or bathing, < at full moon ; at new moon and at solstice. < After eating (smoked meats, milk) ; when fasting. < By mental exertion (writing). < From pressure of clothes. < From lifting ; from stooping. < Walking in open air, cold air, wet weather, to which he is very sensitive. < From letting limbs hang down. In spite of the sensitiveness to cold, cannot bear sun. < From light in general ; from looking fixedly at any object ; from looking upward ; from turning the head. Some symptoms are > inspiring fresh air ; and
during heat, uncovers. > After breakfast ; on rising from drawing
up limbs ; from loosening garments. > In the dark when lying on the
back ; after lying down ; from rubbing, from scratching ; in dry
weather ; wiping or soothing with the hands ; from being touched.
Great weakness on ascending, on walking, talking (chests feels weak),
or excitement.Relations (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Antidoted by :
Camph. , Ip. , Nit. ac. , Nit. sp. dulc. , Nux, Sul.
Antidote to :
Bism. , Chi. , Chi. sul. , Dig. , Mez. (headache), Nit. ac. , Phos.
Follows well :
Cham. , Chi. , Con. , Cup. , Nit. ac. , Nux, Pul. , Sul.
(especially if the pupils dilate).
Followed well by :
Lyc. , Nux, Pho. , Plat. , Sil. Hahnemann says that Calc. must not
be givenbefore
Nit. ac. , or Sul.
Complementary :
Bell.
Incompatible :
Bry.
Compare :
Alum. and Am. mur, (tightness of chest) ; Arn. (strains, &c. )
; Arsen. (swollen mesenteric glands). Calcarea ovi testæ, Calc. ars.
, Calc. ph. , and other Calcareas. In ardor. urinæ (Sep. , burning
and cutting ; Canth. , cutting) ; losses of fluids (Chi. , Sul. ) ;
left tonsil (Bar. c. , Sul. , Lach. ) ; nausea when fasting (Pul. ,
Lyc. , Sil. ) ; leucorrhœa, acrid or bland (Graph. , Sul. , Alum. ) ;
glandular enlargement ; alcohol, effects of (Ars. , Chi. , Nux, Lach.
) ; acid stomach (Chi. , Lyc. , Sul. , Pul. , Rob. ) ; menses too
copious and too early (Bell. ) ; one side of tongue (Lauro. , Sil. ,
Thu. ) ; waking at3
a. m. (Bellis, Nux, Kali c. , Ars. , Sep. ) ; swelling and painfulness
of breasts before menses (Con. Con. is an anti-fat, like Calc. ,
precedes and follows it well ; suits well Calc. subjects who have
scanty menses, Bell. corresponds otherwise) ; dread of losing senses
(Lyc. , Nux, Sul. ) ; levitation, as if raised from the ground (Sil. ,
Can. i. , Sticta, Gelsem. , Asar. , Thu. ; Phos. ac. has feeling as if
legs were raised above the level of head) ; prosopalgia > by warm
fomentations (Pul. ) ; sinking immediately after meals (Ars. , Cin. ,
Lyc. , Staph. , Ur. n. ) ; cough when eating or in open air Rx. c. (after
eating, Nux, Ip. ; < change of temperature, Lach. ; < current of cold air, Sil. , Nat. c. ) ; ravenous hunger (Ars. , Calc. , Cin. , Iod. , Sil. , Stp. ) ; hot breath (Sul. , Rhus) ; aversion to darkness (Am. m. , Carb. a. , Stro. , Val. , Stram. ) ; > uncovering (Aco. ,
Camph. , Fer. , Iod. , Lyc. , Pul. , Sec. , Sul. , Ver. ) ; vertigo on
turning head or looking up (Pul. , looking up ; Sul. , looking down) ;
vomits milk (Æth. , Ant. c. ) ; tightness of chest (Alum. , Am. m. )
; child chews and swallows in sleep (Amyl. , Bry. , Ign. ) ;
convulsions, scarlatina, headache (Bell. ) ; weak from talking (Cocc.
, Stan. , Sul. , Ver. ) ; epilepsy (Cupr. ) ; nævus (Fluor. ac. ) ;
diarrhœa, cholera infantum (Ip. ) ; constipation, intertrigo, gout,
ophthalmia, gonitis, epilepsy, typhus (Lyc. ) ; intertrigo, &c.
(Cham. ) ; canker sores, quinsey, heart, stool, sweat, especially on
chest with old people (Merc. compare the Hydrarg.
cum creta of
the old school) ; burning on vertex (Phos. , Sul. ) ; rheumatism from
damp, ophthalmia, inflamed glands from strains (Rhus─Rhus
is a very close analogue of Calc. ; Bell. , Dulc. , Nux, Puls. , and
Rhus may be regarded as the acute satellites of Calc. ) ; desire to be
mesmerised (Phos. , Sil. ), nævus, mesenteric glands (Sil. ) ;
epilepsy, aura of mouse running up arm (Sul. Sul. should be given
first, and if it does not cure, then Calc. ) ; polypus (Teuc. ) ;
scarlatina (Zn). ; sunstroke and sun headaches (Aco. , Glo. , Lach. ,
Lyc. , Sul. , Nat. c. , Nat. m. headache > by heat of sun, Stro. ).Teste puts Calc. in the Pulsatilla group of remedies. He says there
is a “sort of negative relation between the symptoms of Merc.
sol. , or rather between those of Nit. ac. and the symptoms of Calc.
This contrast has struck me several times, and it is the most
remarkable for this reason, that Nit. ac. is one of the best antidotes
to Calc. “Causation (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Alcohol.
Cold, moist winds.
Excessive venery.
Fright.
Injury to lower spine.
Losses of fluids.
Mental strain.
Over-lifting.
Self-abuse.
Strains.
Suppressed eruption.
Suppressed menses.
Suppressed sweat.
Symptoms.
Mind (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Absence of will.
Anxiety and anguish, excited by fancies, or frightful stories, also
with shuddering and dread during the twilight, or at night.Anxious agitation, forbidding rest.
Apprehensions.
Aversion to others.
Children are self-willed.
Delirium with visions of fires, murders, rats and mice.
Despair in consequence of the impaired condition of the health ; or
hypochondriacal humour, with fear of being ill or unfortunate, of
experiencing sad accidents, of losing the reason, of being infected by
contagious diseases.Discouragement and fear of death.
Disgust and aversion to all labour whatever.
Disposition to take alarm.
Disposition to weep, even about trifles.
Dizziness of mind.
Easily frightened or offended.
Excessive anguish, with palpitations of the heart, ebullition of
the blood, and shocks in the epigastrium.Excessive ill-humour and mischievous inclination, with obstinacy
and a disposition to take everything in bad part.Great weakness of memory and of conception, with difficulty in
thinking.Impatience, excessive excitability, and excessive liability to
mental impressions ; the least noise fatigues.Indifference, apathy, and repugnance to conversation.
Loss of sense and errors of imagination.
Melancholy, dejection, and sadness.
Sadness, with heaviness in the limbs.
She fears she will lose her understanding, or that people will
observe her confusion of mind.Solitude is insupportable.
Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, and to take one word for
another.Vexation and lamentation, on account of old offences.
Head (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Attacks of semi-lateral headache, with risings and nausea.
Buzzing and pains in the head, with heat of the cheeks and in the
head.Congestion in the head.
Congestion of blood to the head, with heat and stupefying headache
; with redness of the face and bloatedness ; < in the morning when awaking, and from spirituous drinks.Dizziness after scratching behind the ear ; or else, before
breakfast, with trembling.Drawing pains in the right side of the forehead ; the part is
painful when touched.Falling off of the hair (sides of head
─
temples).Fulness and heaviness of the head, esp. of the forehead, with
shutting of the eyes, < by movement and physical exertion.Head compressed, as if by a vice.
Headache every morning on waking.
Headache from over-lifting, straining the back, or from having
wrapped the head in a handkerchief, or in consequence of a chill.Headache, with empty eructations, and nausea, vertigo ; < from mental exertions, stooping, or walking in the open air ; > by
closing the eyes, and by lying down.Heat in the vertex.
Icy coldness in and on the head, esp. at the right side, with pale,
puffed face.Immense size of the head, with the fontanel open in children.
Movement of the brain on walking.
Painful sensibility in the roots of the hair.
Pains in the head, producing giddiness, pressive or pulsative, < esp. by reading, writing, or any other intellectual labour, as well by spirituous drinks, or by stooping.
Pains of hammering in the head, which force the patient to lie
down, and which appear esp. after a walk in the open air.Piercing in the forehead, as if the head were going to burst.
Pressive pains at the vertex, appearing in the open air.
Profuse perspiration, mostly on the back part of the head and on
the neck (in the evening).Pulsations in the occiput.
Scabs on the scalp.
Scaling off of the skin at the scalp (dandruff ; milk crust).
Shooting pains in the head.
Strong disposition to take cold through the head.
Sweat on the head (profuse, particularly where it stands out in
large, bead-like drops, and in such profusion as to soak the pillow
thoroughly ; it may run down upon the face and neck) in the evening.Tensive and cramp-like pains, with pressure outwards, commencing
from the temples and extending to the vertex.Tumours and boils in the scalp, which tend to suppuration.
Vertigo at night, in the evening, or in the morning.
Vertigo, sometimes with obscuration of the eyes, on mounting to a
great height, or only a flight of stairs, on walking in the open air,
on turning the head briskly, or after a fit of anger.Eyes (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
A dark spot is seen before the eyes, on reading, to accompany the
letters.Aching in the eyes.
Closing of the eyelids in the morning.
Confusion of sight, as if there were a mist, a veil, or down,
before the eyes, chiefly on reading, and on observing an object
attentively.Dimness of the cornea.
Eyes inflamed, with redness of the sclerotica and abundant
secretion of mucus.Flow of blood from the eyes.
Great photophobia and dazzling from too strong a light.
Inflammation and swelling of the corners of the eyes.
Inflammation of the eyes from foreign bodies coming into them ; in
infants or scrofulous subjects.Itching and shooting in the eyes.
Lachrymal suppurating fistula.
Lachrymation, esp. in the open air, or early in the morning.
Obscuration of the sight on reading, or after a meal.
Presbyopia.
Pressure, itching, burning and stinging in the eyes.
Pupils greatly dilated.
Quivering in the eyelids.
Red and thick swelling of the eyelids, with abundant secretion of
humour and nocturnal agglutination.Sensation of cold in the eyes.
Smarting, burning, and incisive pains in the eyes and the eyelids,
esp. on reading during the day, or by candle-light.Ulcers, spots, and opacity of cornea.
Ears (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Crackling and detonation in the ears, when swallowing and when
chewing.Hardness of hearing, esp. after the suppression of intermittent
fever by Quinine.Humid eruption upon and behind the ears.
Humming, buzzing, tingling, or rumbling, sometimes alternately with
music, in the ears.Inflammatory swelling of the parotids.
Internal and external inflammation and swelling of the ear.
Polypus in the ears.
Pulsation, beating, and heat in the ears.
Purulent discharge from the ears.
Sensation, at intervals, of stoppage in the ears, and hardness of
hearing.Shootings in the ears.
Nose (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Coryza, alternately with cutting pains in the abdomen.
Dry coryza, in the morning, with frequent sneezing.
Epistaxis, chiefly morning and night, sometimes producing fainting.
Excessive fluent coryza.
Fetid odour before the nose, as if from a dunghill, rotten eggs, or
gunpowder.Fetid smell from the nose.
Inflammation of the nose, with redness and swelling, chiefly at the
extremity.Obstruction of the nose by yellowish and fetid pus.
Painful dryness in the nose.
Polypus of the nose.
Sense of smell dull, or exceedingly sensitive.
Ulcerated and scabby nostrils.
Face (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Acute pains in the face and the bones of the face.
Attacks of torpor and paleness in the lips, which appear as if
dead.Ephelis on the cheeks.
Eruptions and scabs on the lips and round the mouth.
Erysipelas in one cheek.
Face pale and hollow, with eyes sunk and surrounded by a livid
circle.Fissures in the ulcerated lips.
Heat, redness, and puffing of the face.
Itching and eruption on the face, chiefly on the forehead, in the
cheeks, and in the region of the whiskers, sometimes humid and scabby,
with burning heat (sycosis menti).Lips cracked.
Milk crusts.
Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.
Pale bloatedness of the face.
Red patches on the cheeks.
Swelling of the face without heat.
Swelling of the upper lip.
Ulcerated corners of the mouth.
Yellow colour of the face.
Teeth (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Difficult dentition.
Fetid odour of the teeth.
Fistulous ulcers in the gums of the lower jaw.
Painful sensibility of the gums, with shootings.
Ready bleeding and swelling of the gums, with throbbings and
pulsations.Sensation of lengthening and loosening of the teeth.
Toothache at night, as if from congestion of blood.
Toothache, aggravated or excited by a current of air, or by cold
air, or by taking anything too hot or cold, or by noise, or else
during and after the catamenia ; the pains are, for the most part,
shooting, piercing, contractive, pulsative, or gnawing, and digging,
with a sensation as of excoriation.Mouth (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Accumulation of mucus in the mouth.
Burning and pain as of excoriation on the tongue and in the mouth.
Constant spitting of acid saliva.
Cramp-like contraction of the mouth.
Dryness of the tongue and of the mouth, chiefly at night and in the
morning on waking.Ranula under the tongue.
Swelling of the tongue, sometimes on one side.
Tongue difficult to move, with embarrassed and indistinct speech.
Tongue loaded with a white coating.
Vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue.
Throat (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Affection in the throat after straining the back.
Constriction in the throat, and cramp-like contraction of the
gullet.Excoriation of the gullet, with shooting and pressure on
swallowing.Hawking up of mucus.
Inflammatory swelling of the gullet and of the uvula, which are of
a deep red colour, and covered with vesicles.Sore throat, as if from a plug or a swelling in the gullet.
Swelling of the amygdalæ, with sensation of contraction in the
throat on swallowing.Appetite (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
After a meal, heat or inflation of the abdomen, with nausea and
headache, pain in the abdomen or in the stomach, or else risings and
water-brash, or dejection or drowsiness.After having taken milk, nausea or acid regurgitations.
Bulimy, generally in the morning.
Burning or constant thirst, esp. for cold drinks, and often with
total absence of appetite.Continued violent thirst for cold drinks (at night).
Hunger, a short time after having eaten.
Insipidity, or sickly or sour taste of food.
Prolonged distaste for meat and hot food.
Repugnance to tobacco-smoke ; desire for salt things, for wine, and
for dainties.Risings, with taste of undigested, or bitter, or sour food.
Unpleasant taste in the mouth, mostly bitter, or sour, or metallic,
esp. in the morning.Weakness of digestion.
Stomach (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Black or sanguineous vomiting.
Cramps in the stomach at night.
Eructations tasting like the ingesta.
Flow of saliva from the stomach, even after a meal.
Frequent nausea, esp. in the morning, in the evening, or at night,
sometimes with shuddering, obscuration of sight, and fainting.Inflation and swelling of the epigastrium and of the region of the
stomach, with painful sensibility of those parts to the touch (they
look like a saucer turned bottom up).Pain, as of excoriation, and burning in the stomach.
Pinchings, cutting pains, and nocturnal aching in the epigastrium.
Pressive, or pinching pain in the stomach, or cramp-like and
contractive pains, chiefly after a meal, and often with vomiting of
food.Pressure on the stomach, even when fasting, or in coughing, or with
pressure on the hypochondria, or else with squeezing as if from a
claw, on walking.Pyrosis after every meal, and noisy and constant eructations.
Regurgitation of sour substances.
Sour vomiting, esp. in children, and during dentition.
Sour vomitings.
The vomitings appear chiefly in the morning, at night, or after a
meal.Vomiting of food, or of bitter mucus, often with incisive and
cramp-like pains in the abdomen.Abdomen (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Colic, with cramp-like and gnawing contractive pains, esp. in the
afternoon, and sometimes with vomiting of food.Enlargement and hardness of the abdomen.
Frequent attacks of griping, chiefly in the epigastrium.
Frequent gripings and shootings in the sides of the abdomen, in
children.Inability to wear tight clothes round the hypochondria.
Incarceration of flatulency.
Pain, as of excoriation and burning, in the abdomen.
Painful pressure, pullings, griping, and shootings, or heaviness or
traction in the groins.Painful pulling from the hypochondria and the back, with vertigo
and obscuration of sight.Pains generally shooting, or tensive, or pressive, with swelling
and induration of the hepatic region.Pressure of wind towards the inguinal ring, as if hernia were about
to protrude, with noise and borborygmi.Sensation of cold in the abdomen.
Shootings or pinchings, and aching in the abdomen, even without
diarrhœa.Stinging pain in the liver (during or after stooping).
Swelling and induration of the mesenteric glands.
Swelling and painful sensibility of the inguinal glands.
Tension and inflation of the abdomen.
Tension in the two hypochondria.
The pains in the abdomen appear chiefly in the morning, in the
evening, or at night, as well as after a meal.Stool and Anus (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Affections of the rectum, as fissures, which are very painful,
bleeding after every stool, followed by extreme exhaustion.After the evacuation, dejection, and relaxation of the limbs.
Before the evacuation, great irascibility.
Burning eruption, in the form of a cluster, in the anus.
Burning in the rectum and in the anus, with itching and tingling.
Constipation.
Cramps, tenesmus, and contraction of the rectum.
Diarrhœa of sour smell ; putrid ; during dentition.
Diarrhœa, of a sour smell, or fetid, or yellowish, in infants.
Difficult evacuation, and only every two days.
Ejection of ascarides and of taenia.
Evacuations like clay, in small quantity, knotty, or serous, or in
the form of pap.Evacuations suspended, hard, in small quantity, and often with
undigested substances.Excoriation at the anus, and between the buttocks and the thighs.
Flow of blood from the anus during the evacuation, also at other
times.Ineffectual efforts to evacuate, sometimes with pain.
Involuntary and frothy evacuations.
Prolapsus of the rectum during evacuation.
Relaxation of the abdomen, frequent or continual ; two evacuations
a day.Swelling, and frequent protrusion of hæmorrhoidal excrescences,
esp. during the evacuations, with burning pain.White evacuations, sometimes with streaks of blood and hepatic
pains, on touching the region of the liver, and on breathing.Urinary Organs (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Abundant discharge of mucus with the urine.
Burning in the urethra, when making water, and at other times.
Deep-coloured urine, without sediment.
Flow of blood from the urethra.
Passing of blood.
Polypus of the bladder.
Tenesmus of the bladder.
Too frequent emission of urine, even in the night.
Urine red like blood, or a brownish red, of an acrid, pungent, and
fetid smell, with white and mealy sediment.Wetting the bed.
Male Sexual Organs (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Absence of pollutions, or great frequency of them.
After coition, confusion of the head and weakness.
Erections of too short continuance, and emission of semen too slow
and too feeble during coition.Flow of prostatic fluid, after evacuation and emission of urine.
Increase of sexual desire, with voluptuous and lascivious ideas.
Inflammation of the prepuce, with redness and burning pain.
Lancinations and burning in the genital parts, during the emission
of semen in coition.Pressure, and pain as from a bruise, in the testes.
Weakness of the genital functions, and absence of sexual desire.
Female Sexual Organs (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Before the catamenia, mammæ swollen and painful, fatigue,
headache, disposition to be frightened, colic, and shivering.Breasts painful and tender before menses.
Catamenia premature and too copious.
During the catamenia, congestion in the head, with internal heat,
or cuttings in the abdomen, and cramp-like pain in the lumbar region,
or else vertigo, headache, toothache, nausea, colic, and other
sufferings.Flow of blood at a time different from the catamenia.
Inflammation and swelling of the womb, with redness, purulent
discharge, and burning pain.Inflammatory swelling of the mammæ and of the nipples.
Itching in the womb.
Itching or pressing in the vagina.
Leucorrhœa before the catamenia.
Leucorrhœa, with burning itching, or else like milk, flowing by
fits, and during the emission of urine.Metrorrhagia.
Milk too abundant, or suppressed.
Miscarriage.
Pain, as of excoriation and ulceration, in the nipples.
Prolapsus uteri, with pressure on the parts.
Shootings in the orifice of the matrix, and pressive pain in the
vagina.Sterility, with catamenia too early, and too profuse.
Suppressed menstruation, with full habit.
Swelling of the glands of the breast.
Varices in the labia majora.
Voluptuous sensation in the genital parts, with emission.
Respiratory Organs (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Abundant accumulation of mucus in the larynx and in the bronchia.
Cough excited by playing on the piano, or by eating.
Cough in the evening, in bed, or at night, when asleep, or in the
morning, and generally violent and dry (with expectoration during the
day, but not at night), sometimes even spasmodic.Cough, with expectoration of blood, pain of excoriation in the
chest, vertigo, and unsteady walk.Cough, with expectoration of thick mucus ; gray ; bloody ; purulent
; tasting sour ; or yellowish and fetid, generally at night, or in the
morning.Cough, without expectoration, excited by a tickling in the throat,
and often accompanied by vomiting.Expectoration of purulent matter, on coughing.
Frequent or long-continued hoarseness.
Hoarseness (painless).
On coughing, pressure in the stomach, shootings or shocks in the
head, and pains in the chest.Sensation, as if something were torn loose in the trachea.
Short cough in the day, as if from a feather in the throat.
Tickling cough, caused by a sensation of dust in the larynx.
Ulceration of the larynx.
Ulceration of the lungs.
Chest (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Anxious feeling in the chest.
Anxious oppression of the chest, as if it were too narrow, and
could not be sufficiently dilated.Burning in the chest.
Great difficulty of respiration.
Obstructed breathing on stooping, walking against the wind, or on
lying down.Oppression at the chest, as if from congestion of blood, with
tension, mitigated by bringing shoulder-blades together.Pressure on the chest.
Sensation of fatigue in the chest after speaking.
Sensation, as if respiration were obstructed between the
shoulder-blades.Sensibility, and pain, as from excoriation, in the chest. esp.
during inspiration and on being touched.Shocks in the chest.
Shootings in the chest and the sides, esp. during movement, on
breathing deeply, and when lying on the side affected.Shortness of breath, chiefly on ascending.
Urgent inclination to inspire deeply.
Wheezing respiration.
Heart (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Palpitation of the heart, also at night, or after a meal, sometimes
with anxiety and trembling movements of the heart.Pricking shootings in the muscles of the chest.
Shootings, pressure, and contraction in the region of the heart.
Neck and Back (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Drawing between the shoulder-blades, or pressive pain, with
sensation of suffocation.Hard and painful swelling of the glands of the neck.
Hard and strumous swelling of the thyroid gland.
Nocturnal pains in the back.
Pain in the small of the back (as if sprained) ; he can scarcely
rise from his seat, after being seated.Pains in the lumbar region, when riding in a carriage.
Pains, as of dislocation, in the loins, back, and in the neck, as
if caused by a strain in lifting a weight.Pressive pain between the shoulder-blades, impeding breathing, when
moving.Rigidity of the neck.
Shooting pains in the shoulder-blades, loins, and back.
Suppuration of the axillary glands.
Swelling, and distortion of the spine.
Tumour between the shoulder-blades.
Limbs (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
As if the parts would burst ; were pressed, or pushed, asunder ; as
if cold, damp stockings were on the feet ; sensation of crepitation ;
cramp pain in the muscles ; creeping on the limbs like a mouse.Upper Limbs (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Acute, cramp-like pains in the forearm.
Arthritic nodosities, swelling of the wrist, and of the joints of
the fingers.Contraction of the fingers.
Cramp, and cramp-like pains, in the arms, hands, and fingers.
Drawing pains in the arms, even at night.
Frequent paralytic weakness in the fingers.
Furunculi on the forearm.
Furunculi on the hands and the fingers.
Hands and fingers dead, even in a warm temperature, and esp. on
taking hold of an object.Heavy movement of the fingers.
Pains, as of dislocation, in the wrist-joint (right).
Panaris.
Perspiration of the palms of the hands.
Sudden attacks of paralytic weakness in the arms (left).
Sweating of the hands.
Swelling of the hands.
Swelling of the veins of the hands.
Tingling in the fingers, as when they are asleep.
Trembling of the hands.
Warts on the arms and on the hands.
Lower Limbs (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Burning in the soles of the feet.
Contraction of the toes.
Corns on the feet, with burning pain, as of excoriation.
Cramps in the hams, the calves of the legs, the soles of the feet,
and the toes, chiefly on extending the legs, pulling on boots, or
during the night.Cramps in the legs.
Drawing lancinations, or incisive, acute pains in the hips and in
the thighs, chiefly when resting upon them.Drawings, shootings, and acute pains in the knees, esp. when
standing or sitting, also when walking.Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the legs.
Furunculi on the feet and legs.
In the evening, coldness and numbness of the feet ; esp. at night,
in bed.Inflammatory swelling of the instep.
Itching in the thighs and the feet.
Limping, which occurs when resting on the toes in walking.
Pain, as of dislocation, in the joints of the hips, knees, and the
feet.Painful sensibility of the great, toe.
Phlegmasia alba dolens.
Red spots on the legs.
Sweating of the feet.
Swelling of the knees.
Swelling of the malleoli and of the soles of the feet.
Tearing and stinging in the knee.
Tension in the ham, when in a squatting position.
The child is late learning to walk.
The legs go to sleep when one is seated.
Ulcers on the legs.
Varices in the legs.
Weight and stiffness of the legs.
Generalities (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Arthritic nodosities.
Arthritic tearing in the muscles.
Attacks of torpor and paleness of some parts of the body, which
appear as if dead.Bleeding from inner parts.
Bloatedness of the body and of the face, with enlargement of the
abdomen, in children.Cramps and contractions of the limbs (which draw the limbs
crooked), esp. of the fingers and toes.Ebullition of the blood, mostly in plethoric individuals, and often
with congestion in the head and chest.Emaciation (with swelled abdomen), without failure of appetite.
Epileptic convulsions, also at night with cries ; during the full
moon ; with hallooing and shouting.Excessive dejection, sometimes with violent fits of spasmodic
laughter.Fainting, esp. in the evening, with obscuration of the eyes, sweat
on the face, and cold in the body.Fatigue and nervous weakness, often with paleness of the face,
palpitation of the heart, vertigo, shivering, pain in the loins.Frequent trembling of the whole body, increased in the open air.
General uneasiness in the evening, as preceding an attack of
intermittent fever.Great fatigue after speaking, or after a moderate walk in the open
air, as well as after the least exertion, with ready and abundant
perspiration.Great plumpness and excessive obesity.
Great tendency to strain the back in lifting, often followed by
pains in the throat, or stiffness and swelling of the nape of the
neck, with headache.Great tendency to take cold, and great sensibility to cold and damp
air.Great uneasiness, which forces the patient to move constantly and
to walk much.On walking in the open air, sadness with tears, headache, inflation
of the abdomen, palpitation of the heart, sweat, great fatigue, and
many other sufferings.Pain, as from a bruise, in the arms and in the legs, and also in
the loins, esp. on moving, and on going upstairs.Pulsative pains.
Sensation of coldness in inner parts.
Sensation of dryness of inner parts.
Shootings and drawing pains in the limbs, chiefly at night, or in
summer, and on change of weather.St. Vitus’ dance.
Startings in different limbs.
Stinging and cutting in outer and inner parts.
Strong desire to be magnetised.
Tendency in children and young persons to grow very fat.
Tendency of the limbs to numbness.
The sufferings are periodical and intermittent.
The symptoms are aggravated or renewed after labouring in the
water, as well as in the evening, at night, in the morning, after a
meal, and every second day.Trembling of the inner parts.
Visible quivering of the skin, from the feet to the head, with
which he becomes dizzy.Want of strength, and dejection, chiefly in the morning early.
Wrenching pains.
Skin (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Arthritic nodosities.
Bloatedness.
Burning, smarting, itching.
Corns, with pain as of excoriation, and burning.
Encysted tumours, which are renewed and suppurate every month.
Ephelis.
Eruption of lenticular red and raised spots, with great heat, much
thirst, and want of appetite.Erysipelatous inflammations.
Flaccidity of the skin.
Flaws in the fingers.
Furfuraceous coating of the skin ; burning ; chapped.
Furunculi.
Humid, scabby eruptions and tetters, or in form of clusters, with
burning pains.Itching pemphigus over the whole body.
Nettlerash, mostly disappearing in the fresh air.
Panaris.
Polypus (nose, ear, uterus).
Skin excoriated in several places.
Skin hot and dry during motion.
Skin of the body rough, dry, and as if covered with a kind of
miliary eruption.Skin unhealthy ; every injury tends to ulceration ; even small
wounds suppurate and do not heal.Swelling ; softening ; curvature of ; stinging in ; caries and
distortion of the bones.Swelling and induration of the glands, with or without pain.
Varices.Ulceration of the bones.
Ulcers deep ; fistulous ; carious.
Ulcers with too little pus.
Visible quivering of the skin from head to foot, followed by
giddiness.Warts.
Sleep (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
At night, agitation, asthmatic suffering, anxiety, heat, pains in
the stomach and in the precordial region, thirst, beatings of the
head, toothache, vertigo, headache, ebullition of the blood, fear of
losing the reason, pains in the limbs, and many other sufferings.Dreams frequent, vivid, anxious, fantastic, confused, frightful,
and horrible ; or dreams of sick and dead persons.Drowsiness in the day and early in the evening.
During sleep, talking, groans, cries, and starts, anxiety which
continues after waking, or movements of the mouth, as if one were
chewing or swallowing.Fearful of fantastic dreams during sleep.
On waking, lassitude, exhaustion, and desire to sleep, as if the
patient had not slept at all.Retarded sleep and sleeplessness from activity of mind, or in
consequence of voluptuous or frightful images, which appear as soon as
the eyes are shut.Sleep disturbed, with tossing about and frequent waking.
Sleep of too short duration, from eleven in the evening till two or
three in the morning only.Snoring during sleep.
Waking too early, sometimes even at midnight.
Fever (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Excessive cold, internally.
Frequent attacks of transient heat, with anguish and beating of the
heart.Heat in the evening, or in bed at night.
Heat with thirst, followed by chilliness.
Nocturnal sweat, chiefly on the chest.
Profuse sweat by day, after moderate corporeal exercise.
Pulse full, accelerated or tremulous.
Quotidian fever towards two o’clock in the afternoon, with yawning
and cough, followed by general heat, with desire to lie down, at least
for three hours, after which the hands become cold ; all with absence
of thirst.Shivering and shuddering, principally in the evening, or in the
morning after rising.Sweat in the morning.
Sweat with anxiety.
Tertian fever in the evening, at first heat of face, followed by
shivering.
Calcarea Ovi Testæ.
Egg-shell.
Trituration of the shell, not including its lining membrane.
Clinical (Calcarea ovi testae)
Leucorrhœa.
Warts.
Characteristics (Calcarea ovi testae)
This preparation of
Calcarea
has been used in preference to others in cases of simple bland
leucorrhœa.Water in which eggs have been boiled is popularly supposed to have
the property of causing warts if brought in contact with the hands.This suggests
Calc.
ov. test. as
possibly the best Calcarea
preparation to prescribe in cases of warts.No doubt
Calc.
ov. test. has
the general properties of Calc.
carb. ostrear.
(i. e. , ordinary Calc.
carb. ),
but it has been little used clinically,“Backache, as if broken in two,” is a keynote.
Carbo Animalis.
Animal Charcoal.
Contains Calc. phos. C (impure).
Made from charred ox-hide.
Trituration.
Clinical (Carbo animalis)
Acne rosacea
.
Aneurism.
Appetite, disordered
.
Breast, cancer of.
Bubo
.
Cancer.
Cataract.
Coccygodynia.
Constipation.
Cough.
Empyema.
Eructations.
Face, eruption on
.
Gangrene.
Glandular indurations.
Hæmorrhoids
.
Headache.
Home-sickness.
Hypertrophy.
Lactation, effects of.
Legs, pains in
.
Leucorrhœa.
Lumbago.
Nose, affections of
.
Otorrhœa.
Pancreas, indurated.
Perspiration, altered
.
Pleurisy.
Polypus.
Scrofula.
Strabismus.
Syphilis.
Tongue, affections of.
Trachea, affections of
.
Ulceration.
Uterus, cancer of.
Vision, disorders of.
Characteristics (Carbo animalis)
Carb. an
. is
suited to old persons, greatly debilitated, especially when there is
venous plethora, and blueness of skin.“Gone” feeling from loss of fluids.
A peculiar symptom is : A feeling of looseness
─
of eyes in
sockets ; of brain on motion or coughing.Affections from loss of animal fluids, especially nursing women.
Aversion to cold (
Carb.
v. to heat).Aversion to dark.
Axillary glands inflamed buboes in groins.
Buboes.
Cancer of breast with burning, drawing pains through breast.
Cancer of uterus, burning pains down thigh.
Complaints occurring in scrofulous or venous constitutions.
Constipation where patient thinks bowels will be moved but only
wind passes.Copper-coloured eruptions show the appropriateness of the drug to
many cases of constitutional syphilis.Disagreeable smoothness of the teeth.
Discharges are ichorous ; but the discharge from piles is
inodorous.Carb.
an. 3x
trit. has been used for insufflation in aural polypi.Expectoration is greenish, purulent, offensive (
Carb.
v. yellow, more
fetid).Far-sighted (
Carb.
v. is
near-sighted).Fear of the dark and < on closing eyes is very marked.
Glands of stony hardness.
Gnawing pains in tibiæ (during the night), such as usually
followed cold feet.Green, purulent, horribly offensive expectoration.
Hearing is confused ; cannot tell the direction from which sounds
come.Hunger in early morning.
It has cured many cases of injured coccyx and of neuralgia of the
bone.It is often indicated in the last stage of pneumonias, bronchitis,
phthisis.Nausea at night.
Objects seem farther apart and brighter.
Right chest is most affected.
Sweat stains yellow.
The goneness of
Carb.
a. is not >
by eating (Carb.
v. >
eating).The leucorrhœa stains linen yellow.
The lumbago of
Carb.
an. occurs when
walking, standing, and lying ; feels as if the back were broken.The mental state is one of low spirits, sadness ; weeps when she
eats ; easily frightened, afraid in the dark ; home-sick ; wants to be
alone.The pains in the coccyx are peculiar ; a dragging, bruised pain,
when touched it becomes burning.There are many sensations of coldness : in chest ; about stomach.
There is a hoarse, suffocating cough producing a shaking of the
brain as if it were loose.There is a smothering feeling on closing eyes.
There is an ichorous otorrhœa ; and swelling of the periosteum
over the mastoid bone is very characteristic.Tip of nose red ; or blue.
Too weak to eat.
Ulceration, gangrene, and decomposition are marked, and may be
looked upon as the counterpart of the antiseptic properties of the
crude substance.Weakness of nursing women ; can hardly walk across the room.
Weeps when she eats.
A. W. K.
Choudhury
reports a case of cough of two years’ duration, in an unhealthy boy of
twelve, cured by Carb.
a. The symptoms
were : “Cough evening and morning, or after
lying down,
especially at night,
thick or frothy whitish or yellowish sputa, sweetish when thick ; < lying on right side ; < from exposure to air, to which he is very sensitive. Great tendency to catch cold. "< After shaving.
< From sprains from touch.
< Lying on right side (cough).
After menses, throbbing headache, < in open air.
Pressure with hand > coldness of stomach.
Rest < head symptoms.
Symptoms are < in cold air ; > in warm room.
Weakness < during menses.
Relations (Carbo animalis)
Compare
: Calc.
phos. (nearest analogue ; Carb. an. contains Calc. ph. ) ; in
indurations, suppurations, &c. , Bad. , Bro. ; loss of fluids,
Chi. ; Graph. ; nostrils adhere to septum, Pho. ; gone feeling, loss
of fluids, induration of cervix, pressure an back, groins, and thighs
during menses, Sep. (Sep. has not the venosity, the copper-coloured
face, flatulent gastric disturbances, or offensive ichorous
discharges, or throbbing headache after menses of Carb. an. ; Carb. v.
has not the indurations of Carb. an. or Sep. ) ; Coccul. has the same
weakness and prostration as Carbo an. , but in the case of the latter
the weakness is in consequence of the loss of fluid, whilst with
Coccul. it is part of the general effect of the remedy. Puls. ; Sil. ;
in vertigo with epistaxis, Sul. ; aversion to darkness, Am. m. , Bar.
c. , Calc. , Stro. , Stram. ; hunger in early morning, Ant. c. , Asar.
, Calc. , Sabad. ; swelling behind ear, Caps. , Aur. ; burning pains,
Caps. ; weakness of nursing women, Oleand.Antidoted by
:
Ars. , Camph. , Nux, Vinegar.Antidote to
:
Effects of Quinine.Complementary
:
Calc. phos.Causation (Carbo animalis)
Eating decayed vegetables.
Eating spoiled fish.
Eating.
Lifting.
Loss of fluids.
Quinine.
Strain.
Symptoms.
Mind (Carbo animalis)
Alternate feeling of gaiety and gloom, or of irascibility and
ill-humoured taciturnity.Confusion of ideas and dullness, esp. in the morning.
Discouragement and despair.
Disposition to be frightened.
Fear and apprehension, esp. in the evening.
Fright in the dark.
Nostalgia and mournful feeling of isolation, with tears.
Weeps during a meal.
Head (Carbo animalis)
Acute, drawing pains in the teguments of the right side of the
head.Congestion and internal heat of the head.
Headache at vertex as if skull torn open.
Headache in the morning, as after a debauch.
Headache in the open air, and aggravated by damp weather.
Heaviness, esp. in the occiput, with bewilderment.
Pressive headache, even after a meal, forces the closing of the
eyelids.Scabs and eruption on the head.
Sensation of torpor in the head.
Sensation of wavering of the brain, at every movement.
Sensibility of the scalp to the pressure of the hat.
Tension of the skin of the forehead, and of the crown of the head.
Vertigo, esp. in the evening or in the morning, and sometimes with
nausea in the act of rising, after remaining long in a recumbent
posture, or with obscuration of the eyes, on moving the head.Eyes (Carbo animalis)
A net seems to swim before the eyes.
Presbyopia with dilatation of the pupils.
Sensation as if the ball of the eye were detached from the socket,
with weakness of sight.Ears (Carbo animalis)
Buzzing in the ears.
Confusion of hearing ; sounds reach the ears indistinctly, does not
know from what direction they come.Discharge of pus from the ears.
Running from the ears.
Swelling of the parotids.
Swelling of the periosteum behind the ear.
Nose (Carbo animalis)
Desquamation of the skin of the nose.
Dry coryza.
End of the nose red and cracked, with burning pain.
Epistaxis, preceded by vertigo, or pressive headache.
Fluent coryza, with loss of smell, sneezing and frequent yawning.
Nose swollen, with scabby pimples (as at the commencement of a
cancer?).Painful sensibility of the bones of the nose.
Stoppage of the nose.
Face (Carbo animalis)
Blisters on the lips.
Erysipelas in the face.
Heat of the face and head in the afternoon.
Lips cracked and bleeding.
Painless copper-coloured eruption in the face.
Shootings in the cheek-bones, in the teeth and jaws.
Spots in the face, which are smooth, palpable to the touch, and
rose-coloured.Swelling of the mouth and of the lips, with burning pain.
Teeth (Carbo animalis)
Excessive looseness of the teeth.
Pulling odontalgia on eating bread, or with dull pulsation after
drinking anything cold.Purulent vesicles in the gums.
Red and painful swelling and bleeding of the gums.
Tractive pains in the gums.
Mouth (Carbo animalis)
Burning vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue.
Dryness of the tongue and of the palate.
Fetid smell from the mouth.
Throat (Carbo animalis)
Accumulation of mucus in the throat, with coughing and rattling.
Sore throat, as from excoriation, with scraping and shooting from
the throat to the stomach.Appetite (Carbo animalis)
Acid and mucous taste.
Bitterness in the mouth, esp. in the morning.
Great weakness of digestion, to such an extent that almost all food
occasions suffering.Repugnance to fat and tobacco smoke, which cause nausea.
Stomach (Carbo animalis)
Burning pain in the stomach.
Considerable inflation after a meal.
Cramp-like or contractive pains in the stomach.
Empty risings with pain.
Faint, gone feeling ; also from suckling child, not > by eating.
Flow of sour water from the mouth.
Hiccough after a meal.
Nausea, also at night.
Noisy grumbling in the stomach.
Pressure at the stomach, as if from a weight, when fasting, and in
the evening, after lying down.Pyrosis, with scraping in the throat.
Risings with taste of food, or else acid.
Squeezing in the stomach, as if by claws.
Water-brash.
Abdomen (Carbo animalis)
Abdomen inflated and extended.
Constriction and squeezing, as if by claws, in the abdomen.
Cuttings and shootings in the groins.
Fetid flatulency.
Incarceration of flatus.
Inguinal hernia.
Loud rumbling in the abdomen.
Pain in the liver, as if from excoriation, when the region is
touched.Pressure and cuttings in the hepatic region.
Stool and Anus (Carbo animalis)
Before the evacuation, traction from the anus to the vulva.
Burning hæmorrhoidal tumours in the anus.
Burning pains and shooting in the anus, and in the rectum.
Discharge of taenia.
During stool, pain in the small of the back, with inflation of the
abdomen.Excoriation and oozing (inodorous) at the anus.
Fæces hard and knotty.
Frequent evacuations during the day.
Ineffectual efforts to evacuate ; discharge of wind only.
Sacral pains during the evacuation.
Tendency to galling at the anus from riding on horseback.
Viscid oozing at the perinæum.
Urinary Organs (Carbo animalis)
Burning soreness in the urethra when urinating.
Burning urine.
Emission of urine at night.
Fetid urine.
Involuntary emission of urine.
Urgent desire to make water, with abundant emission.
Male Sexual Organs (Carbo animalis)
Absence of sexual desire.
Frequent pollutions, followed by weakness and anxious inquietude.
Female Sexual Organs (Carbo animalis)
Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts.
Leucorrhœa burning, smarting, or which imparts a yellow tinge to
the linen.Menses are followed by great exhaustion.
Nausea of pregnant females, coming on principally at night ; faint
and empty sensation in the pit of the stomach is produced by nursing.Painful nodosities and indurations in the mammæ.
Premature catamenia.
Serous and fetid lochia.
Uterine hæmorrhages where there is much affection of the glands.
Respiratory Organs
Aphonia at night.
Cough < lying on right side.
Cough, with discharge of greenish pus (suppuration of the lungs).
Cough, with purulent expectoration, and shootings in the right side
of the chest.Dry cough at night.
Hoarse cough, with pain as of excoriation in the throat ; in the
morning, after rising.Matutinal cough with expectoration, excited by a sensation of
dryness in the throat.Matutinal hoarseness.
Oppression of the chest, esp. in the evening and at night.
Suffocating cough, esp. in the evening, after having slept.
Chest (Carbo animalis)
Far gone pleurisy.
Green pus from chest.
In pleurisy where everything is cured but the stitch, and that
remains.Oppressed respiration, esp. in the morning and after a meal.
Panting respiration.
Pleurisy assuming a typhoid character, sickly bluish colour of
skin, expectoration puriform, often putrid in character.Rattling in the throat, in bed in the evening.
Right side most affected, stitches in right side.
Sensation of cold in the chest.
Sharp burning stitches.
Shootings in the chest, as from an abscess, esp. on breathing.
Suffocating constriction of the chest, esp. in the morning, in bed.
Heart (Carbo animalis)
(Atheroma and aneurism. )
Palpitation of the heart, in the morning, in the evening, and on
singing in a public place.Neck and Back (Carbo animalis)
Burning in the coccyx, when it is touched.
Burning pain in the back.
Burning pain in the sacrum.
Contusive pain, with straining in the coccyx, or aching pain which
increases towards evening, so violent as to force the patient to curve
his body ; with pain as of an ulcer when the part is pressed.Induration of the axillary glands.
Moisture in the arm-pit.
Nocturnal pains in the back.
Painful swelling and induration of the glands of the neck, and of
the parotid glands, with shooting pain.Pressure and shooting in the loins, esp. on breathing deeply.
Tetters under the arm-pit.
Upper Limbs (Carbo animalis)
Aching in the bones, digging pains in the arms.
Pain as of dislocation in the wrist.
Painful tension and arthritic stiffness of the joints of the
fingers.Pressure on the shoulders.
Shootings in the fingers.
Torpor and numbness of the hands and of the fingers.
Lower Limbs (Carbo animalis)
Burning pain in the toes.
Coldness of the feet.
Cramps in the calves of the legs the legs and the toes.
Drawing and sensation of contraction under the knee.
Inflammatory swelling of the feet and of the toes, as if they had
been frozen with heat and burning.Loss of strength in the joints of the feet, which give way readily
when walking.Pain as from excoriation in the knees.
Pain as of dislocation when walking or moving the limbs.
Pullings and shootings in the legs.
Shooting pain in the (left) hip when seated (the pain causes
limping).Tension and contraction in the groins, which do not permit the legs
to be extended.Tension in the hams and the instep, with contraction of the parts.
Generalities (Carbo animalis)
Arthritic stiffness and gouty nodosities in the joints.
Burning pains.
Ebullition of the blood, and tendency to become easily overheated.
Excessive sensibility to the open air, and especially to the cold
air of winter.Great fatigue and weakness, produced esp. by walking, with easily
produced perspiration, chiefly on eating and on walking in the open
air.Nocturnal pains in the joints.
Numbness of all the limbs.
Pain as from a bruise, want of strength, and cracking in the
joints, which yield easily.Pressive pains in the joints, and the muscles of the limbs.
Spasmodic contraction of several parts.
Tendency to strain the loins.
Tension in some limbs, as if from contraction of the tendons.
Torpor of all the members, esp. of the head.
Skin (Carbo animalis)
Chilblains.
Erysipelatous inflammations.
Hard and painful swelling of the glands.
Itching over the skin of the whole body, esp. in the evening in
bed.Swelling of the external parts, with burning pain.
Sleep (Carbo animalis)
Frightful visions before going to sleep.
Sleep deferred, and nocturnal sleeplessness, caused, by inquietude,
anguish, ebullition of the blood, and fear of being stifled.Sleep, with unquiet dreams, tears, talking, and hollow groans.
Fever (Carbo animalis)
Chill, esp. in the afternoon, in the evening, and after eating.
Debilitating, and fetid sweat, esp. at night and in the morning,
principally on the thighs.Easily produced perspiration during the day, esp. at a meal, or
when walking.Excessive cold in the feet and in the hands in the evening.
Nocturnal heat.
Pulse accelerated, esp. in the evening.
Shiverings, esp. in the evening, in bed, with perspiration during
sleep.Sweat, which stains the linen a yellow colour.
Castor Equi.
The Rudimentary Thumbnail of the Horse.
A small, flat, oblongoval horn, wrinkled on surface, breaking off
in scales, darker than the hoof, growing on inner side of leg above
fetlock.Scales triturated.
Clinical (Castor equi)
Coccygodynia.
Epilepsy.
Nails, affections of.
Nipples, cracked ; ulcerated.
Warts.
Characteristics (Castor equi)
This is a very ancient remedy, and was proved and introduced into
homœopathy byHering.
It especially acts on the nipples, the nails, and bones, especially
causing pains in right tibia and coccyx.Burnett has cured with it a case of wart on forehead.
Relations (Castor equi)
Hep
. relieves
the sore nipples ; Thuja
has removed warts caused by Cast.
eq.
Compare :
Calc. oxal. , Hippoman. , Castoreum, Moschus.
Symptoms.
Mind (Castor equi)
Unusual laughter about things not funny.
Head (Castor equi)
Vertigo, headache, and nausea in mornings, sour stomach, and lack
of appetite.Appetite (Castor equi)
Desire, to smoke tobacco.
Abdomen and Stool. (Castor equi)
Colic with urging wakes him in the morning, followed by a very
thin, watery, somewhat burning stool ; with passage of offensive
flatus.Pain in left inguinal region.
Female Sexual Organs (Castor equi)
Breasts swollen, sensitive ; itching internally, painful on
descending stairs.Cracked, sore nipples in nursing women, excessively tender, cannot
bear touch of clothing ; even in neglected cases, ragged, nipples
almost hanging.Respiratory Organs (Castor equi)
Disagreeable sick feeling in larynx.
Heart (Castor equi)
Peculiar sensation about heart as of something alive struggling.
Back (Castor equi)
Pain in coccyx < every evening while sitting.
Weak spine.
Lower Limbs. (Castor equi)
Repeated pain in right tibia.
Generalities (Castor equi)
Epilepsy.
Syncope.
Skin (Castor equi)
Brittle nails.
Nails drop off.
Warts.
Cervus.
Cervus campestris.
Cervus brasilicus.
Brazilian deer.
Triturations of the fresh hide covered with hair.
Clinical (Cervus)
Sciatica.
Taste, altered.
Tongue, painful.
Characteristics (Cervus)
Mure
proved this
substance, and one symptom appears to be peculiar : “Taste of
doughy bread in the mouth. ”Relations (Cervus)
Compare :
Carb.
an. (charred ox-hide).Symptoms
.
Eyes (Cervus)
Sensitive to light, esp. sunlight.
Face (Cervus)
Face mottled.
Mouth (Cervus)
Coppery taste with heat in throat when taking the drug.
Taste of doughy bread.
Abdomen (Cervus)
Needle-like pain, intermitting in right groin, in direction of
joint, after walking.Pricking in navel when lying.
Upper Limbs (Cervus)
Numbness of arm on which he lies ; of hand and legs.
Lower Limbs (Cervus)
Frequent pain, now in left buttock now in thigh.
Sleep (Cervus)
Drowsiness and yawning.
Colostrum.
The milk first secreted after childbirth.
Solution
Clinical (Colostrum)
Diarrhœa.
Characteristics (Colostrum)
The symptoms of
Colost.
are purely clinical.Its use in diarrhœa was probably suggested by the purgative effect
ofColostrum
on the infant.Bell
gives the
indications as follows :Stools (Colostrum)
Bilious.
Excoriating.
Green.
Mucous.
Profuse.
Sour-smelling.
Watery.
Yellow.
Aggravation (Colostrum)
During dentition.
In nursing infants.
During Stool (Colostrum)
Colicky pains in hypogastrium.
Accompaniments (Colostrum)
Emaciation.
Fever.
Great nervous irritability, or listlessness.
Loss of appetite.
Pale face.
The whole body smells sour
.
Tongue coated white or yellow.
Vomiting of sour or bitter substances.
Conchiolinum.
Mother-of-Pearl.
Trituration.
Clinical (Conchiolinum)
Osteitis
Pyæmia.
Characteristics (Conchiolinum)
Observations made on workers in mother-of-pearl factories show that
inhalation of the dust produces catarrh of the respiratory organs,
and, later on, inflammation of the ends of bones.This always begins in the diaphyses, but may spread to the
epiphyses. It always attacks young subjects.First there is a more or less intense pain in the bone ; comes
suddenly ; at first continuous ; later intermittent.Soon after the appearance of the pain there is fever ; thirst ;
loss of appetite ; sleeplessness ; dark-coloured urine with sediment.
Then swelling occurs.The swelling always develops on one or the other end of a
diaphysis, never in the middle of it nor in the epiphysis.The swelling has a clear, sharp margin ; it is extremely painful to
the slightest touch ; at first soft, elastic and slightly fluctuating,
it may become as hard as a bone.Suppuration may occur.
The bones that have been affected are lower jaw, scapula, humerus,
radius, ulna, tibia, fibula, tarsal, and metatarsal bones.I cured with
Conch.
3
a delicate boy who at three different times had had pain in left knee.The left inner condyle was swollen and tender. The cure was rapid
and the general health much improved at the same time.
Conch
. has,
no doubt, a wide range of action in affections of bones, especially
when the growing ends are affected.
Calc. phos.
and Calc. c.
are its nearest
analogues.Fel Tauri
Ox Gaul.
Bilis Bovina.
N. O. Ruminantia.
Impissated gall triturated with sugar of milk ; or lower dilutions
may be made with water.Clinical (Fel tauri)
Asthma.
Constipation.
Diarrhœa.
Gall-stones.
Headache.
Indigestion.
Rheumatism.
Characteristics (Fel tauri)
Ox gall
is a
remedy of very ancient use.It is used in the old-school mostly as a purgative ; for preventing
putrefactive changes in the intestines, and for increasing
peristalsis.It is sometimes given along with
Opium
to prevent the constipating effect of that drug.In the stomach bile is a foreign body, precipitating pepsin and
causing irritation of the stomach.It does not aid the digestion either of albumen or of farinaceous
substances.Fel.
t. has
been proved homœopathically by Buchner,
and has produced a few characteristic symptoms :Diarrhœa,
Disordered digestion,
Headache,
It removed a tendency to sleep after eating.
Pains in joints, and cramps.
Several symptoms were noticed in nape of neck.
Relations (Fel tauri)
Compare :
Cholesterinum, Mercurius dulcis.
Symptoms
Mind (Fel tauri)
Greatly inclined to all kinds of business ; unpleasant impressions
did not affect him.Peevish, irritable mood.
Head (Fel tauri)
Confusion.
Violent headache in morning, on pressure upon r. temple, extending
on to occiput and nape of neck.Mouth (Fel tauri)
Tongue white.
Stomach and Abdomen (Fel tauri)
Gurgling in stomach and epigastric region.
Increased thirst.
Odorless and tasteless eructations.
Rumblings and motions in abdomen.
Violent peristaltic movements.
Stool and Anus (Fel tauri)
Stool thin with urging and sensation of warmth in anus.
Stool thin, pasty, followed by pressing although with crumbling fæces.
Urinary Organs (Fel tauri)
Urging.
Urine offensive.
Male Sexual Organs (Fel tauri)
Scrotum itching and afterwards becomes moist.
Chest (Fel tauri)
Anxiety in chest.
Constriction ; on waking at
3
a. m. cannot sleep again for tightness of breath and cannot remain
lying ; it seems as though something in throat prevented free passage
of the air ; > by deep inspiration and sitting upright.Neck (Fel tauri)
Tension in nape.
Limbs (Fel tauri)
Cramp in right toe.
Some tearings in left shoulder-joint, extending up to nape of neck.
Sleep (Fel tauri)
No inclination to sleep after eating, as he was accustomed to do.
Sound sleep in morning with some perspiration.
Gadus Morrhua.
Cod. N. O. Gadidæ.
Trituration of first cervical vertebra of the fish.
Clinical (Gadus morrhua)
Asthma.
Bladder, affections of.
Bone affections.
Cough.
Hands hot.
Phthisis.
Characteristics (Gadus morrhua)
Petroz
is our
authority for this medicine.Like
Ol. jec.
asel. , Gadus
has a powerful action on the respiratory apparatus.It is like
Lycopod.
in producing flapping of the alæ nasi.It also affects the bones and causes troublesome heat of the hands.
Hopelessness and desire for death are prominent.
Relations (Gadus morrhua)
Compare :
Ol. jec. asel. , Calc. c. , Calc. phos. , Conchiol.
Symptoms
Mind (Gadus morrhua)
Deep melancholy, paroxysms of helplessness, for forty-eight hours,
during which the desire for death is hardly controlled.Intellectual faculties torpid ; absence of ideas.
Head (Gadus morrhua)
Headache in the night accompanied by fever.
Eye and Ear (Gadus morrhua)
A noise (tic-tac) is felt in right ear, and pain if a noise from
exterior becomes predominant.Marked diminution of strength of hearing and sight.
Nose (Gadus morrhua)
Oscillation of wings of nose, accompanying very frequent breathing
as after exercise, at the time of waking and during the whole day.Face (Gadus morrhua)
Altered countenance.
Mouth (Gadus morrhua)
Dry mouth.
Teeth sensitive and set on edge.
Throat (Gadus morrhua)
Constriction of fauces, wheezing cough, with white frothy
expectoration.Waking in night on account of severe contraction in the throat.
Stomach (Gadus morrhua)
Loss of appetite.
Abdomen (Gadus morrhua)
Abdomen much distended.
Sensation of burning heat in whole hypogastrium.
While pains are felt in the chest, sharp pains in right side of
abdomen, in the groin, and in the kidneys.Stools (Gadus morrhua)
Soft stools, diarrhœa.
Urinary Organs (Gadus morrhua)
Sensation of swelling and fullness in bladder ; stitches in bladder
; almost impossible to urinate.Respiratory Organs (Gadus morrhua)
A few fits of coughing caused a sensation of painful ruffling of
the lungs, which seemed to change place and be contused.Breath short, laborious ; as if air passages were closed.
Contused pain in chest walls ; brought on by coughing, deep
inspiration, or motion.Fits of wheezing cough with pain deep in chest.
Light cough with expectoration of foamy sputa.
Lumps seem adherent to parietes.
Rush of blood to chest, without palpitation.
Sharp pains running through chest ; not < by walking, though renewed on first movement.
Sharp pains, burning shootings,
2
p. m.Very frequent breathing, with oscillation of wings of nose, as
after exercise, at time of waking and during the whole day.Very sharp pains in both lungs, esp. left, evening.
Violent pains in chest with orgasm.
Voice weak, exertion required to articulate distinctly ; words do
not come when wanted.Back (Gadus morrhua)
Constrictive pains in sides of trunk.
Pains in lower back and sacrum.
Sharp, lancinating pain in dorsal vertebræ.
Upper Limbs (Gadus morrhua)
Nails become soft.
Lower Limbs (Gadus morrhua)
Bruised sensation in femur from head of bone to patella.
Pain above left hip.
Slight lancinating pain in left knee, which bends involuntarily
when standing.Tearing pain in right buttock and thigh.
Fever (Gadus morrhua)
Dry heat in palms ; intolerable in evening.
Fever without chill.
Hands excessively hot and dry.
Very severe coldness from hip down to feet.
Helix Tosta.
Toasted snail.
N. O. Helicidæ.
Trituration.
Clinical (Helix tosta)
Hæmoptysis.
Phthisis.
Characteristics (Helix tosta)
Snails have a traditional virtue in curing consumption, and homœopaths
have put the remedy to the test by potentising it.W. H.
Leonard
(Med. Adv.
, XXII. 310)
reports two cases cured with Helix
t. c. m.(1) (Helix tosta)
A gentleman had frequent attacks of hæmoptysis.
Continuous hoarseness ; dry, tickling cough ; < at night, preventing sleep ; dyspnœa, < ascending stairs.
He had already had all the usual remedies.
Helix tost
. c.
m. , three powders given.There was no more hæmorrhage.
A few weeks later a return was feared and a few more doses were
given.Four months later the patient was greatly improved in health and
remained well.(2) (Helix tosta)
A lady of tubercular diathesis developed the disease after
confinement.Several well-indicated remedies failed to check its progress.
At length hæmorrhage set in.
Helix
was
given as in the other case with prompt effect.Hæmorrhage ceased ; cough and expectoration gradually improved,
and in eight months the patient was well and remained so.
Hippomanes.
“A normally white, usually dark olive green, soft, glutinous
mucous substance, of a urinous odour, which floats in the allantois
fluid, or is attached to the allantois membrane, of the mare or cow,
chiefly during the last months of pregnancy” (Hering).
Trituration of the dried substance taken from the tongue of a
newly-born filly.Clinical (Hippomanes)
Chorea.
Melancholia.
Prostatitis.
Wrist, paralysis of ; rheumatism of.
Characteristics (Hippomanes)
The clinical experience with this remedy has been so limited, that
but few characteristic indications have been made out.These, however, are peculiar :
Icy coldness in stomach.
Paralysis of wrist in morning in bed.
Violent pain in wrists.
Weakness of hands and fingers so that he cannot hold anything.
A case of chorea was cured on these last symptoms.
There is weakness, restlessness, melancholy.
The headache is > lying on painful side, < walking in sun.
Chilliness, > from being covered.
A peculiar sensation is as if the head would fall forward on
walking ; as of a plug in the throat ; as if a swelling retarded the
flow of the urine.There is desire to lie down, but no relief on doing so.
Relations (Hippomanes)
Antidoted by :
Coffee. Caust. relieved the paralysis of wrist.
Compare :
Anac. (plug sensation).
Symptoms
Mind (Hippomanes)
Melancholy ; a young man sits in the corner and does not want to
have anything to do with the world.Restlessness ; must move from place to place.
Head (Hippomanes)
Headache > when lying on painful side ; < when walking in sun.
Headache, with giddiness, heat in head, sleepiness, yawning,
thirst.Pressive pain in temples.
Sensation of lightness in head.
The hair becomes nearly dry ; falling off of hair.
The head feels so heavy that it falls forward if he raises himself.
Violent headache ; heaviness on vertex ; when walking it feels as
if head would fall forward.Eyes (Hippomanes)
Painfulness of eyes when moving them, with headache.
Stitches in eyes (with headache).
The light of the candle looks blue.
Nose (Hippomanes)
Bleeding of nose in morning.
Sensation of coldness when drawing the air in.
Face (Hippomanes)
Involuntary twitching of under lip.
Mouth (Hippomanes)
Bitter taste in mouth.
Increased secretion of saliva, with headache or sore throat.
Tongue coated white, with redness of tip.
Throat (Hippomanes)
Painfulness of left tonsil.
Sensation of plug in throat (left side).
Appetite (Hippomanes)
Desire for acids, and aversion to sweet things.
Stomach (Hippomanes)
Icy coldness in stomach.
Nausea, esp. in a draught of air.
Sensation of emptiness in stomach (and head).
Stool and Anus (Hippomanes)
Hard stool, in balls.
Soft stool, with vomiting ; discharge of prostatic fluid after
micturition.Spasmodic contraction of sphincter ani.
Urinary Organs (Hippomanes)
Drawing pain from anus through urethra.
Frequent discharge of watery urine.
Urine discharged in a small stream, with straining
─
It feels as if
a swelling retarded it ; prostatitis.Male Sexual Organs (Hippomanes)
Drawing pain in testicles.
Prostatitis.
Sexual desire increased.
Female Sexual Organs (Hippomanes)
Menstruation too early.
Respiratory Organs (Hippomanes)
Cough, barking, during sleep.
Larynx feels raw, as if air were too cold.
Tickling in throat when breathing.
Chest (Hippomanes)
Stitches in left side of chest.
Limbs (Hippomanes)
Heaviness in limbs.
Upper Limbs (Hippomanes)
Formication on right hand.
Great weakness of hands and fingers, so that he cannot hold
anything.Left arm feels as if paralyzed.
Paralysis of wrist, every morning in bed.
Sensation in wrist as if sprained, esp. left
Violent pain in wrists.
Lower Limbs (Hippomanes)
Cold feet.
Cramps in soles of feet, in evening.
Weakness and sensation of dryness in foot joints and soles of feet.
Weakness, and as if sprained, in knees.
Generalities (Hippomanes)
Chorea.
Desire to lie down, with no relief on doing so.
Great weakness and debility, with pale face.
Great weakness of body and mind.
Skin (Hippomanes)
Itching as from flannel on skin, esp. on chest and between
shoulders.Fever (Hippomanes)
Chill, > being warmly covered in bed.
Chill, beginning in back.
Heat in evening, with dull headache.
Lac Caninum.
Bitch’s Milk.
Clinical (Lac caninum)
Arms, varicosis of.
Breasts, painful.
Chancre.
Croup.
Diphtheria.
Dysmenorrhœa.
Epulis.
Eyes, affections of.
Gonorrhœa.
Headache.
Ichthyosis.
Leucorrhœa.
Neuralgia.
Ovaries, affections of.
Ranula.
Rheumatism.
Sciatica.
Spinal irritation.
Stomach, affections of.
Syphilis.
Throat, sore.
Ulcers.
Uterus, affections of.
Vaccinosis.
Varicose veins.
Warts.
Characteristics (Lac caninum)
Lac caninum
is not a novelty in remedies. “Dioscorides, Rhasis, Pliny, and
Sextus recommended it for the removal of the dead fœtus. Sammonicus
and Sextus praise it in photophobia and otitis. Pliny claims that it
cures ulceration of the internal os. It was considered an antidote to
deadly poisons. ” (Quotation by Hering. ) Hering adds that the
remedy was revived by Reisig, of New York, who used it successfully in
the treatment of diphtheria.After Reisig the remedy was used by Bayard and Swan, to whose
indefatigable exertions we owe the present status of this medicine.
Swan’s potencies were prepared from Reisig’s17th.
The provings were made with the 30th and upwards and are published
in a little volume by Swan and Berridge. As in the case ofBufo,
Castor equi,
and other remedies of ancient times, homœopathy has stepped in to
confirm the accuracy of the old observers. In the provings a large
number of the symptoms were manifested in the region of the throat,
the effects being diagnosed as actual diphtheria in some instances.It is in diphtheria, both as curative and prophylactic that
Lac
can. has won
its greatest fame ; and the provings and clinical experience have
developed a grand characteristic in this and other affections ─
an alternation
of sides, often very rapid. “Soreness of throat commences with a
tickling sensation which causes constant cough then a sensation of a
lump on one side, causing constant deglutition this condition entirely
ceases, only to commence on the opposite side, and often alternates,
again returning to its first condition ; these sore throats are very
apt to begin and end with the menses. ”This “alternation of sides” once led me to the cure of an
eczematous condition of the eyelids in a child. The child’s aunt, who
brought her to me, casually remarked that it often left one side
entirely and went to the other and then back again.Lac
can. cleared it
up in a very short time. Rheumatic and other affections having this
peculiarity of changing from side to side are very likely to be
benefited by Lac
can. From
diphtheria, with its fetid discharges, it is not a far step to ozæna,
and Lac can.
has proved itself curative in a number of cases. Corners of mouth and
alæ nasi cracked. It has cured a case presenting the following
characters : Crusts under which grey matter forms. Throat bad,
swallowing difficult ; mucous follicles swollen, covered with
cream-coloured mucus. Nose bad ; feared destruction of bones. Bloody
pus discharges several times a day. Bones of nose sore to pressure. In
addition to the changing sides characteristics Lac
can. has :
“Inflamed surfaces (of throat) glistening.
”The same appearance when found on ulcerated surfaces in the skin is
a leading indication forLac
can. The mental
symptoms are remarkable. One prover had delusions about snakes ;
imagined she was surrounded by them ; was afraid to close her eyes at
night for fear of being bitten by a large snake which she imagined was
beside the bed. Awoke in the night with a sensation that she was lying
on a large snake.After menses, imagined all sorts of things about snakes. These
snake-symptoms led to a cure. E. T. Balch (H.
P. , x. 286)
asked for advice in this case : “Maud R. , 10, demi-brunette, of
healthy parents, one and a half years before fell forward and hurt her
chest whilst playing. Nothing was thought of it at the time, but when
brought to Dr. Balch she was pale, emaciated, capricious, no desire
for play. Sleep disturbed by frightful dreams, during the day
piteously begs her mother to take her, she is so afraid. She
feels as though snakes were on her back.
In response to advice tendered one dose of Lac.
can. 50m. was
given, dry, and in twenty-four hours the child became more lively and
cheerful and very soon all abnormal sensations disappeared. Another
mental curiosity which has proved a useful pointer is this :
“Imagines he wears some one else’s nose. ” Restlessness,
nervousness, and prostration appear in the provings and show the
relation of the remedy to diphtheritic paralysis as well as to
diphtheria itself. In one prover the symptoms occurred periodically :
< in morning of one day and < in afternoon of next. Wandering rheumatic pains.The sensation of lightness or levitation was noticed
─
seemed to walk
on air ; not to touch the bed when lying. Cannot bear one part of her
body to touch another ; must even keep her fingers apart.The symptoms in general were < at night.
< After sleep.
Cold application > pain in upper jaw and teeth ; and cold water
gave momentary > to sore throat.Cold washing = pain in herpetic eruption.
Cold winds and cold, sharp air <.
Flexion >, extension <.
Going up and down stairs = pain in heart.
Pains in ankles, forehead, and upper jaw were > by warmth.
Rest and lying down > most symptoms ; motion <.
Touch < (external throat ; breasts, causing sexual excitement).
Walking = leucorrhœa, < sores between labia and thighs.
The Schema comprises both caused and cured symptoms ; the latter
are bracketed or have the name of the disease in which they occurred
appended in brackets.Relations (Lac caninum)
[According to Nichols, Lac. can. “acts best in single dose ;
if repeated should be given at exact intervals. “]
Compare :
Lachesis
is the nearest analogue (throat, ovaries, symptoms changing from side
to side ─ Lach.
left to right ; < after sleep ; fainting on raising arms) ; Lac. vac. deflor. (dreams of going on a journey). Lac. vac. coag. , Lact. ac. [The following were mostly supplied by Lippe to Swan's arrangement. ] Weak memory for what she has read, not for other things (Lach. , Nat. m. , Staph. ). Absent-minded (Anac. , Caust. , Con. , Dulc. , Lach. , Nat. m. , Sep. ). Crying, fearing she was contracting consumption (Calc. , Guar. , Sep. ). Exalted feeling in sensorium (Plat. ). Headache < in cold wind, > in warm room (Aur. , Nux v.
, Rhus). Headache < by noise > by keeping quiet ; confused
feeling in head (Calc. ). Must have light, but intolerant of sunlight
(Aco. , Bell. , Calc. , Gels. , Ruta, Stram). Soreness and scabbing of
nostrils (K. bi. , Thu. ). Lips dry and peeling (Nat. m. ). Throat
sensitive to touch externally (Lach. ) ; < by empty swallowing (Ign. ). Breasts sensitive to pressure (Calc. , Murex) ; to deep pressure (Merc. ) ; as if full of very hard lumps, very painful when going up and down stairs (Bell. , Calc. , Carb. an. , Lyc. , Nit. ac. , Phos. ) ; soreness and enlargement (Bell. , Bry. , Calc. ). Small, round, or irregular grey white ulcers on tonsils and fauces (Merc. i. ). Discharges of diphtheritic matter from vulva and rectum (Apis). Empty, weak feeling in stomach-pit (Dig. , Ign. , Pet. , Sep. ) ; pain as from a stone or undigested food in stomach-pit (K. bi. ). Pain in right ovarian region (Ap. , Lyc. , Pallad. ). Sensation as if breath would leave her when lying down, must get up and move about (Grind. ). Sciatica (Cur. , Graph. , Gnap. , K. bi. , Ir. v. , Lach. , Phyt. , Tell. ). When walking seems to be walking on air ; when lying does not seem to touch the bed (Asar. , Chi. , Coff. , Nat m. , Nux, Op. , Rhs. , Spi. , Stram. , Thuj. , Stict. pul. , Phos. ac. ). Dreams of going on a journey (Lac. v. deflor. , Laches. , Sang. , Sil. ). Spreads fingers apart (Secale ─
in spasms).
Retina retains impressions of objects (Tuberc. Nicotin. Lyc. , ear
retains impression of sounds). Red spot before vision (Dubois. Hyo. ).
Flatus from vagina (Bro. , Lyc. , Nux m. , Nux v. , Sang. ). < Going down stairs (Borax). Diphtheria (Diphtherinum, Merc. cy. , Gels. ). [Hydrophobinum is a dog-engendered nosode and must be compared with Lac. can ; Lach. is one of its antidotes. ] Cannot bear one finger to touch the other (Lac. f. cannot bear one foot to touch the other).Causation (Lac caninum)
Result of fall.
Symptoms.
Mind (Lac caninum)
(Attacks of rage, cursing and swearing at the slightest
provocation. )(Thinks she is looked down upon by every one, and feels insulted
thereat. ).Absent-minded.
After menses, imagines all sorts of things about snakes.
Anxious.
Cannot bear to be left alone for an instant (diphtheria).
Cannot remember what she reads, but can remember other things.
Could not bear to have any one part of her body touch another ;
felt if she could not get out of her body in some way, she would soon
become crazy ; could not think of anything but her own condition.Cross and irritable ; while headache lasted.
Depression.
Easily excited ; easily startled.
Fear : of disease ; of consumption ; of heart disease ; of falling
downstairs.Feels weak, and nerves so thoroughly out of order, that she cannot
bear one finger to touch the other (nervous throat affection).Felt very short in morning while walking ; ditto in evening.
Finds it very difficult to read understandingly anything requiring
a mental effort to follow it.Fits of weeping two or three times a day (metritis).
Horrible visions, fears they will take objective form ; when
sitting still and thinking.Illusions or hallucinations about snakes ; imagines they are all
around her ; that they are creeping into her bed ; fears to close her
eyes.Imagines that he wears some one else’s nose (diphtheria).
In writing, uses too many words or not the right ones ; very
nervous.Is impressed with the idea that all she says is a lie ; that all
her symptoms are unreal, and the result of a diseased imagination ; it
seems to be very difficult to speak the truth, but continually
distrusts things ; when reading anything she rapidly changes the
meaning, omitting or adding things.Very restless ; cannot concentrate her thoughts or mind to read ;
wants to leave everything as soon as it is commenced.Wakes at night with a sensation that she was lying on a large
snake.When speaking, substitutes the name of the object seen for that
which is thought.Woke at daylight, feeling that she was a loathsome, horrible, mass
of disease.Head (Lac caninum)
(Headache over eyes, < when sewing ; frontal and occipital, < turning eyes up. ).
(Occipital headache, with shooting pains extending to forehead. ).
(Sick headaches beginning in nape ; the pain settling gradually in
right or left forehead. ).Constant noise in head very confusing ; < at night, and much < at menses (metritis).
Darting pain across forehead and over eyes.
Dizzy sensation with slight nausea.
Dull pain in right temple and right eye, with pressure on vertex
during menses.Excessive dandruff on head for past week.
Head very sore, and itches almost all the time, < at night.
Headache < by noise or talking, > by keeping quiet ; confused
feeling in head.Headache first on one side of forehead, then on the other.
Headache in upper part of forehead, with sensation of a broad band
pressed firmly across forehead from one temple to the other.Headache over both eyes, extending back over left ear.
Headache over left eye on first waking, and great pain in pelvis,
most marked at right ovary.Intense headache, entirely > by cold-water application, but soon
returned, not, however, as severe.Neuralgic pain in left side of head, followed by a film over left
eye, wants to rub it off ; not > by rubbing.On going into the cold wind, felt a terrible pain in forehead as if
it would split open, > on going into warm room.Pain in forehead, afternoon, first on left side, then on right,
over left eye principally.Pain in left occipital region running up when moving head.
Pains in head during day, first on one side then on the other ; it
seems perfectly unbearable ; > on first going into the air, but
soon grows <.Sensation as if brain were alternately contracted and relaxed,
several times rapidly ; generally only when lying down ; at various
times all through proving.Sharp lancinating pain, in a zigzag line from right side of
forehead to an indefinite point in occiput ; instantaneous, and
sometimes repeated ; as soon as it is felt, she lays aside whatever
she is doing and lies down, from an indefinite dread that it will
return ; if at night, she goes to bed at once ; has great dread of the
pain, though not very severe ; recurred for several days.Sharp pain like a stab in right temple, at
7
p. m.Sharp, throbbing pain in right side of forehead ; then in left side
of forehead slightly.Slight pressure on vertex and over eyes, the day before menses
ceased.Slight roughness of skin of forehead, as of numerous pimples.
Sore pimples on scalp, which discharge and form a scab ; extremely
painful when touched, or on combing hair.Stiffness in occiput on turning head, with soreness on pressure.
Throbbing pain just over right temple, then sharp pain in socket of
right eye and in right temple, disappearing quickly.Eyes (Lac caninum)
(Sees faces before her eyes, < in the dark ; the face that haunts her most is one that she has really seen. ).
Darting intense pain round left eye.
Eyes slightly swollen ; profuse lachrymation ; with catarrh.
Heaviness of upper eyelid, with pain above left eye ; burning in
left eye ; agglutination of left lids (rheumatism).Looking at different objects causes eyes to ache.
Occasionally when looking at an object sees red spots on it.
Pain in eyes when reading ; followed by a film over them,
apparently requiring to be wiped off before she can see.Pricking sensation in eyeballs ; eyes sensitive to cold air.
Sharp pain in socket back of right eye, followed by tenderness in
right temple ; both transient.Small floating discs before eyes occasionally, and showing primary
colours at edge of discs.Tendency in retina to retain the impression of objects, esp. of
colours ; or somewhat of the object last looked at is projected into
the next.Upper eyelids very heavy, can scarcely keep eyes open ; very
sleepy.When reading the page does not look clear, but seems covered with
various pale spots of red, yellow, green, and other colours.While looking at an object appears to see just beyond or out of the
axis of vision, an object passing across the field of sight ; but on
adjusting the eye to see it, it is gone ; it always appears as a small
object, like a rat or bird, sometimes on the floor, at others in the
air.Ears (Lac caninum)
(Green, odourless discharge. ).
(More than any other remedy, relieved deafness from hereditary
syphilis. )(Sounds seems very far off. ).
At night a buzzing in right ear.
No pain during day, but is awakened several times during night by
sore aching pains in middle and external ear of side on which she is
lying ; soon passes off when the pressure is removed.Noises in ears ; sensation as though ears were full.
Pain in right ear, sometimes intense.
Reverberation of voice as if speaking in a large, empty room ; with
pain in frontal region, first over one eye and then over the other.Ringing in right ear.
Very sharp pain in right middle ear, while walking in wind ; had to
cover it with hand, which gave entire relief ; sharp pain in right
side also.Nose (Lac caninum)
(Profuse nocturnal nasal discharge, like gonorrhœa, staining
pillow greenish yellow. ).All drinks return by the nose, nothing being swallowed
(diphtheria).Bad smell in nose.
Cannot bear smell of flowers ; they seem to send a chill over her.
Fluent catarrh from both nostrils, with sensation of fullness in
upper part of nose.Left nostril first dry, afterwards discharging a thin, ichorous
fluid, excoriating nostrils.One side of nose stuffed tip, the other free and discharging thin
mucus at times and thin blood ; these conditions alternate, first one
nostril stopped up and the other fluent, andvice
versa
(diphtheria).Sore on right side of septum of nose ; next day nose sore, constant
inclination to pick at it and get the scab off ; nose still sore on
sixth day, and on seventh day was very painful to touch ; but on
eighth day scab came off nose, leaving it as well as ever.Stuffed feeling in nose and throat.
Watery discharge, followed by dry sensation in nose.
Face (Lac caninum)
Burning, flushing of face.
Jaw cracks while eating (dyspepsia).
Lips dry and peeling off.
Marked pallor of face.
Pain as from a knife-thrust from under left zygoma up to vertex.
Right cheek burns like fire, and is red after coming in from the
cold.Teeth (Lac caninum)
Gums swollen, ulcerated, retracted, bleeding, teeth loose ; caused
by defective nutrition and exposure.Pain in left upper molars, coining from left temple through left
ear.Teeth sensitive to cold water.
Mouth (Lac caninum)
Breath very offensive (diphtheria).
Frothy mucus in mouth < by going into open air, and after eating.
Inside of lower lip feels tender and sore, and looks very red.
Mouth and throat covered with aphthous yellowish-white ulcerations,
easily bleeding.Mouth constantly full of mucus, but a constant inclination to
swallow, which = pain.Mouth very dry.
Roof of mouth very sore, with blisters that break and leave loose
skin ; any seasoned food causes great pain.Saliva : increased, slightly viscid ; ran from mouth during sleep.
Swelling of left sublingual gland ; ranula.
Talking is very difficult, and there is a disposition to talk
through nose (nervous throat affection).Taste : putrid ; of lead, afternoon.
Tongue coated brown.
Tongue dirty, deeply coated near back and centre, except on edges,
which are bright red ; at9
p. m. tongue looks patched.Throat (Lac caninum)
Constant inclination to swallow, which causes pain extending to
right ear.Diphtheritic patch appeared first on right tonsil, then on left,
and frequently on alternated sides ; the swelling of submaxillary and
lymphatic cervical glands also alternated in like manner ; there Was a
noticeable < after a cold storm from north-east.Feeling of a lump in throat, which goes down when swallowing, but
returns ; throat < right side ; < on swallowing saliva ; afterwards, throat which had been getting well, suddenly one evening grew rapidly <, but this time on left side.In morning throat very sore ; right tonsil covered with ulcers and
patches, which extended over palate and covered left tonsil ; next day
membrane extended across posterior wall of pharynx ; uvula elongated,
accompanied by chilliness, high fever, pains in head, back, and limbs,
great restlessness, and extreme prostration. This was pronounced to be
“severe diphtheria,” but it soon got well.Quinsy ; alternating sides ; thick, tough pieces of diphtheritic
membrane coming away, and new membrane constantly re-forming ;
swelling in throat so large and tense that mouth could not be closed.Sore throat, alternating sides, beginning and ending with menses.
The diphtheritic deposits look as if varnished ; exudations
migratory, now here, now there (diphtheritic croup).Throat feels stiff (diphtheria).
Throat sore : with severe headache ; pain extending to chest ; dry
and sore ; deep red colour on either side of throat opposite tonsils ;
on left side ; painful to external pressure on both sides.Tickling and sense of constriction in upper part of throat, causing
constant dry, backing cough.Appetite (Lac caninum)
Appetite improved ; increased.
Aversion to anything sweet.
Cannot satisfy her hunger.
Considerable thirst.
Craves milk and drinks much of it (diphtheria).
Desire for highly-seasoned dishes, which is very unusual ; has used
pepper, mustard, and salt freely.Great hunger for large quantities, often.
No appetite (diphtheria ; acute rheumatism).
Stomach (Lac caninum)
At
10.
15
a. m. , empty, weak feeling in stomach-pit ; next day, same at 6
p. m.At
5
p. m. while smoking a cigar, great nausea with severe pain in
stomach-pit ; vomiting seemed imminent, but the sensation ceased in
four or five minutes.Burning in epigastric region, feeling of a weight and pressure of a
stone in stomach.Nausea > by eructations of wind.
Nausea, with headache, on waking ; continuing all morning.
Weak, sinking feeling at stomach-pit, on waking in morning.
Abdomen (Lac caninum)
Abdomen swollen, and sensitive to deep pressure, which also =
nausea, the nausea passes off when pressure is removed.Abdomen very sensitive to pressure and weight of clothes, entirely
> by removing them, during very profuse menses.Feeling of tension in left groin ; does not want to walk or stand,
as it < the sensation ; > by flexing leg on abdomen.Felt as though abdomen and chest were firmly compressed all over,
as if the skin were contracted.Headache (left) on first waking, and great pain in pelvis, most
marked at right ovary.Pain and burning in left side of abdomen and pelvis, with weight
and dragging on that side ; clothes feel very heavy.Pain in pelvis, principally over right ovarian region.
Pain in right side of pelvis ; while it lasted there was no pain in
left side.Pains in abdomen intermittent.
Pressure from within outwards, as if contents of abdomen would be
forced out literally, just above pelvis.Sensation while walking as if abdomen would burst.
Very acute pain in left groin, extending up left side to crest of
ilium ; > by stool ; sometimes the pain is in track of colon.Stool and Rectum (Lac caninum)
Constipation ; occasionally natural passages ; urgent desire for
stool, but passes nothing but wind, or possibly one or two small
pieces like sheep-dung ; considerable wind in abdomen, with rumbling,
but never any pain.Frequent desire for stool all through provings.
Great constipation before and after menses ; bowels very loose (not
diarrhœa) during menses.Profuse diarrhœa, with colic pain ; diarrhœa watery, profuse,
coming out with great force.When having a soft passage great tenesmus ; rectum does not act as
if it had lost power, but as if it could not expel fæces because they
are soft, and adhere to the parts like clay.Urinary Organs (Lac caninum)
(Nocturnal enuresis, a specific. )
Constant desire to urinate, passing large quantities frequently ;
at night she dreams of urinating, and wakes to find an immediate
necessity ; a less strong and healthy person would probably have wet
the bed.Frequent desire to urinate, which if not immediately attended to
causes pain in bladder ; a numb, dull sensation ; if not > by
urination it spreads over abdomen and left side to ends of fingers ;
never in head ; would frequently wake at night dreaming of the pain,
and would have to urinate to > it.Sensation after urinating, as if bladder still full ; continued
desire to urinate.Urination causes intense pain in urethra, soon passing off.
Male Sexual Organs (Lac caninum)
(Small sore at entrance of urethra ; parts of glans around urethra
an open ulcer, exhaling most fetid smell, and with most excruciating
pain ; red, glistening appearance. ).Chancre on prepuce, left side of frenum ; penis greatly swollen ;
chancre like a cauliflower excrescence, red, smooth, and glistening.Gonorrhœal pains, intermittent, in front, middle, or posterior
part of urethra ; when the gonorrhœa is >, catarrh sets in.Right spermatic cord, low down, sore to touch.
Sexual desire quite marked.
Female Sexual Organs (Lac caninum)
(After-pains very distressing, extending to thighs, rather < on right side. ).
(Several cases of membranous dysmenorrhœa. ).
After two doses of c. m. rapid decrease in size of breasts and
quantity of milk in a lady who wanted to wean her child.Breasts painful ; feel as if full of very hard lumps, < going up or down stairs.
Breasts seem very full.
Breasts sensitive to deep pressure.
Breasts very sore and painful, with sharp, darting pain in right
ovarian region extending to knee, very painful and must keep leg
flexed (1st
d. after miscarriage at 6th
month).Breasts very sore and sensitive to pressure for a day or two during
menses.Constant pain in breasts, they feel very sore when going up or down
stairs.Constant pain in nipples.
Constant pain in right ovary.
Dries up the milk when nursing.
Dysmenorrhœa, pain in left groin, with bearing down and
nervousness.Escape of flatus from vagina.
Galactorrhœa (many cases).
Given for an ulcerated throat to a nursing woman, it cured the
throat and nearly dried up the milk.Great swelling of left labia, and terrible, pain while urinating ;
(from gonorrhœa).In afternoon, intermittent, sharp pains in right ovarian region.
Intense painful soreness of vulva, extending to anus, coming on
very suddenly about noon, and lasting for about two hours ; came on
again during evening ; could not walk, stand, or sit ; > by lying
on. , back and separating the knees as far as possible.Itching in left side of labia, with rough eruptive condition on
left side of vagina, with acrid leucorrhœa ; excoriating severely.Itching of vulva.
Leucorrhœa all day, but none at night, even after taking a long
walk.Loss of milk while nursing, without known cause.
Menses scanty ; terribly cross and impatient first day ; on second
day, severe paroxysmal pains in uterine region, causing nausea ;
occasional pain in left ovarian region, passing about half-way down
thigh, on upper part of it ; all these pains > by bending backwards
; pain and aching in right lumbar region when leaning forwards (as in
sewing) even for a short time ; entire > when bending back.Menses scanty at first ; with pain in left ovary.
Menses very profuse ; abdomen very sensitive to pressure and weight
of clothes, entire > by removing them.Menses very stringy and sticky, cannot get rid of them.
Pain in left ovarian region, and all across lower part of abdomen.
Pressure on anterior part of vulva, entire > by sitting ;
sensation as if everything were coming out at vulva ; with frequent
desire to urinate and smarting in urethra.Raw and bad-smelling sores between labia and thighs, in folds of
skin ; < when walking, would rather keep still all the time ; these sores are covered with a disgusting white exudation.Severe pain in right ovarian region, completely > by a flow of
bright-red blood, which lasted an hour, and did not return.Sexual organs extremely excited ; very much < from the slightest touch, as putting the hand on the breast, or from the pressure on vulva when sitting, or the slight friction caused by walking.
Sharp pains beginning in left ovary, and darting like lightning
either towards right ovarian region, or else up left side and down
arm, or sometimes down both thighs ; but generally down left leg to
foot, which is numb, pains like labour-pains ; accompanied by great
restlessness of legs and arms, and great aching in lumbar region ; (5th
d. after premature labour).Sharp, lancinating pains like knives cutting upward from os uteri,
and as these were being relieved, sensation as of needles darting
upwards in uterus.Slight leucorrhœa during the day, < when standing or walking.
Urination caused intense pain in vulva, when even the least drop of
urine came in contact with it.Respiratory Organs (Lac caninum)
Cough from tickling in upper anterior part of larynx, < when talking and also when lying.
Cough from tickling under middle of sternum.
Cough with pain and oppression of chest ; it jars her all over.
Loss of voice, cannot speak in a whisper (pharyngitis).
Marked soreness on touching larynx (diphtheria).
Sensation as if the breath would leave her when lying down and
trying to sleep ; has to jump up and stir around for an hour or so
every night.Slight hoarseness, with now and then a change of voice, after
waking, but soon passing away.Chest (Lac caninum)
Clavicles sore to touch.
Feeling of oppression and tightness behind sternum, with desire to
draw a deep breath.Lungs feel as though fast to chest, < while writing.
Sharp pain in right breast at
4
p. m.Stabbing pain in right lung, just below nipple, preceded by pain in
stomach-pit as of a stone or undigested food.Terrible dyspnœa immediately after sleep, first on left side of
chest ; the dyspnœa compelled her to be lifted upright with violent
exertion to get breath ; there was sharp pain in region of heart with
each of these attacks ; after the medicine had but one attack of dyspnœa,
and all the pain was referred to right side of chest (acute
rheumatism).Heart (Lac caninum)
Palpitation of heart, irregular, causing shortness of breath.
Neck and Back (Lac caninum)
Aching pain, < by stooping, > by leaning back, with weakness
; this pain extended around left side of pelvis (leaving the back) to
inside of thigh followed by a bloody leucorrhœal discharge after six
hours, which came all at once, leaving labia extremely sensitive.Backache nearly all day between scapulæ, < after becoming warm, somewhat > by leaning back.
Lameness and cutting pain under left scapula, < turning in bed.
Neck stiff (rheumatism, neuralgic headache ; diphtheria).
Pain in sacrum < by riding (not by walking. ).
Sharp neuralgic pain under right scapula.
Sharp, cutting pain under left scapula, shooting forwards through
lung.Spine aches from base of brain to coccyx (pharyngitis).
Limbs (Lac caninum)
Aching pains in limbs and back.
Burning of hands and feet at night (ovaralgia. )
Rheumatism beginning in soles flying from joint to joint and side
to side, < every evening and by movement and touch ; numb pains in ankle.Upper Limbs (Lac caninum)
From draught in evening, sudden, violent pains in right shoulder,
so much so that when retiring she could not raise arm to finish
toilet, as if disabled by dislocation.Painful eruption on axillæ, like moist herpes, exceedingly painful
on washing them. Veins in hands look bluer than usual, they are
swollen.Painful swelling and hardness, with suppuration of left axillary
gland ; menses came on at same time.Pains down right arm and in fingers, which feel cramped ; does not
seem to have the same power in right hand.Palms and soles burning hot.
Perspiration in axillæ, stains linen bright orange colour, no
smell.Right wrist lame and painful.
Sensation as if an insect were crawling on shoulders and neck,
occasionally on hands.Sharp pain round left arm, as of a cutting instrument ; felt
principally at the vaccination-cicatrix ; passed from thence to left
elbow and disappeared ; (forty-five minutes after first dose. ).Sharp, shooting pains in ball of right thumb.
Trembling of left hand, as in paralysis agitans.
Two warts on little finger noticed to be leaving.
Very fetid perspiration in axillæ, staining linen brown.
Woke at night feeling very chilly, with sharp pain in left hand,
and sensation in left arm as if asleep ; lasting fifteen minutes.Wrists very lame, esp. right, which has sharp pains passing from
thumb to little finger.Lower Limbs (Lac caninum)
(Articular rheumatism in right hip and knee-joints, esp. former ;
she was seated in an armchair, unable to move, complaining of bruised,
smarting, lancinating pains in both joints and in lumbar region with
swelling of affected joints ; pains < by slightest motion at night ; by touch and by pressure of bed clothes ; next day pains and swelling had gone to left hip and knee joints, leaving right almost free ; the ensuing day they had almost entirely disappeared from left hip and knee-joints and had again attacked right hip and knee ; complaining, moaning, and sighing on account of her sufferings and probable termination of her illness).(Partial paralysis of right leg from miscarriage ; leg numb and
stiff, but cannot keep it still ; feels > flexing it on abdomen. ).A few days before menses, inside of both thighs became raw and
painful when walking, they then broke out with large, flat, red
pimples ; the soreness soon left ; but the pimples remained.Cramps in feet.
Ecthyma : on right leg.
Feet swollen and very sore, causing considerable pain while
walking.Intense, unbearable pain across super sacral region, extending to
right natis and down right sciatic nerve ; pain so severe as to
prevent sleep or rest (sciatica).Numb pains chiefly in ankles, < while quiet, with swelling ; veins of ankles distended ; > while extreme heat is applied
(rheumatism).Numbness and paralytic feeling in inner side of both knees,
extending to both big toes.Pain in right hip and leg while walking, with a trembling of leg,
and slight feeling of uncertainty, esp. on going down stairs
(metritis).Rheumatic pains in left hip and along sciatic nerve ; wandering
pains in nape of neck, with stiffness ; pains in one or other shoulder
; pain above left eye and heaviness of eyelid ; burning in eye,
agglutination of eyelids ; sensitiveness to light (sciatica and
rheumatism).Sensation of numbness in left leg with great heat as if burning,
but cool to touch ; brought on by pressure.Stiffness through thighs, < on attempting to move after sitting.
Varicose veins on outer right thigh, from hip to knee.
Veins of feet and ankles very much swollen.
Skin (Lac caninum)
Crusts on skin, under which greyish yellow matter formed and was
squeezed out.Every scratch gets sore.
Herpetic eruption in both axillæ, with light brownish scab,
extremely painful when washing ; eruption most in right axilla, and in
both instances appeared previous to pain in labiæ, which was followed
by a discharge of blood from vagina.Icthyosis, with branlike desquamation of skin.
Sensation as if an insect was crawling on shoulders and neck,
occasionally on both hands.Shining, glazed, and red appearance of ulcers on shin and wrist
(syphilis).Sleep (Lac caninum)
At night lies with left leg flexed on thigh, and thigh on pelvis ;
restless ; < after sleep (ovaralgia).Cannot find any comfortable position in bed ; there is no way that
she can put her hands that they do not bother her ; falls asleep at
last on her face.Cried out and talked in sleep (diphtheria).
Dreamed a large snake was in bed (tonsillitis).
Dreams frequently that she is urinating, and wakes to find herself
on point of doing so, requiring immediate relief.Got to sleep late ; profuse sweat during sleep ; felt feverish all
night ; in morning > in every way.Great desire to sleep (diphtheria).
Symptoms < after sleep (diphtheria).
Fever (Lac caninum)
Chilly feeling lasting all day.
Cold chills run down back, hands as cold as ice (on entering house
4
p. m. ; 6.
30
entire > after a good dinner).Dry, hot skin (diphtheria).
Exhausting sweats ; after sleep.
Fever and chills for a few days, and up and down every few hours.
Intense fever on waking in morning, with perspiration.
Internal chilliness with external warmth.
Perspired considerably through night, sweat having a rank smell
(acute rheumatism).Wakes at night in cold perspiration, with fearful foreboding
(metritis).Lac Felinum.
Cat’s Milk. Dilution.
Clinical (Lac felinum)
Ciliary neuralgia.
Dysmenorrhœa.
Headache, Keratitis.
Mouth, inflammation of.
Stye.
Throat, catarrh of.
Characteristics (Lac felinum)
This is another of the remedies introduced by
Swan.
The full pathogenesis appears in Med.
Visitor, Aug. ,
1893,
part having already appeared in H.
W. , XVIII. 15l.The greatest number of the symptoms were experienced in the head
and eyes, and many of these have been confirmed.Here is one from Swan ;
“Terrible headache penetrating the left eyeball to centre of
brain, with pain in left supra-orbital region extending through brain
to right vertex” (H.
W. , XVIII.
429).Many eye cases are on record. Swan benefited this case ; “Pain
in eyes back into head, extremely sharp, with a sensation as if the
eyes extended back. Great photophobia ; any continued glare causes the
pain” (H. W.
, XVII. 54).
Berridge reports this case ; “Mr. H. , 37.
Left eye inflamed three weeks ; deep red ; photophobia ; on left
segment of cornea an ulcer.For three nights pain like a knife running from left eye to left
occiput, on lying down, especially on left side. Burning in left
temple, near eye, < at night.Lac.
fel. 40m.
(Fincke) every four hours. Eye was better next day, and steadily got
well. The pain ceased first. ”Berridge remarks that “< lying on left side" has been verified by him in another case (
Lach.
has < lying on painful side ; Zinc.
< lying on unpainful side─
H. P. , vi. 376).
One of the provers took 17th,
and afterwards 1m.
(Fincke) potency. Another prover took the 200th.Among the verified symptoms are ; Morbid conscientiousness ;
heaviness in forehead ; scalded sensation on tongue ; absence of
appetite.The eye affections are mostly accompanied by shooting pains from
eye backwards. Styes were present in some cases. (In the Schema cured
symptoms are bracketed or have the name of the disease in which they
occurred appended in brackets. )Relations (Lac felinum)
Compare ;
Lac. can. , Lac. def. , & c.
In eye affections, Spigel. Stye, Staph. , Puls. , Hep.
Symptoms
Mind (Lac felinum)
Fear of falling downstairs, but without vertigo.
Great depression of spirits.
Mental illusion that the corners of furniture, or any pointed
object near her, were about to run into eyes ; the symptom is purely
mental ; the objects do not appear to her sight to be too close
(asthenopia).Morbid conscientiousness ; every little fault appeared a crime.
Very cross to every one.
Head (Lac felinum)
Acute pain in frontal region.
Acute pain on vertex.
Acute pain over left eye and temple.
Burning in left temple near eye, < at night (keratitis).
Crawling on top of brain (asthenopia).
Dull pain in forehead in region of eyebrows.
Headache over eyes (left).
Heaviness in forehead.
Heavy pressure in sides of head and vertex.
Intense pain early in morning on vertex, and left side of head ; it
commences just in front of vertex, with a flush of heat which extends
front about an inch, and is followed by the intense pain ; the heat
and pain then spread, never crossing median line, down left side as a
veil, taking half the nose and jaws, and entering ear, causing her to
close the eyes from its intensity ; during the pain, head drawn down
so that chin pressed heavily on chest, and her agony was so great that
she had to hold the head firmly in her hands, and rush through the
house from room to room screaming (from the17th
potency).Intense pain from head along lower jaw, causing mouth to fill with
saliva.Pain commencing with a chilly sensation at root of nose ; also a
cold pain passing up median line to vertex, and passing down to ear
(like the previous symptom).Pain in forehead, occiput, and left side of head, with rigidity of
cords of neck (splenius and trapezius), and heat in Vertex ; the pain
in forehead is heavy, pressing down over eyes (headache).Pain in head < from reading.
Pulsations in head with sensation of heat in forehead, and
constriction across bridge of nose.Sharp lancinating pains passing zig-zag down left side of head
about every ten minutes from vertex towards left ear.Terrible headache penetrating left eyeball to centre of brain, with
pain in left supra-orbital region extending through brain to vertex
(headache).Weight on vertex (asthenopia).
Eyes (Lac felinum)
(Ciliary neuralgia. ).
(Have had great success with it in eye cases, esp. where there is
severe pain in back of orbit, indicating choroiditis.(Twitching of eyelids right and left).
(Ulceration of cornea. ).
[Left eye feels hot and adheres in morning.
Darting pain going backwards in centre of right eye, < at night (keratitis).
Eyes ache by gaslight. (Cured in various cases of ulceration of
cornea)].Eyes feel as if sunken in head, and left eye occasionally waters.
Eyes get bad every September.
Heavy pressure downwards of eyebrows and eyelids, as if the parts
were lead.If she lies on left side. right eye feels as if it were moving
about and too heavy, with great pain.Inclination to keep eyes shut.
On looking fixedly, reading, or writing, darting pain from eyes
nearly to occiput ; much < in right eye (asthenopia).Pain in eyes, back into head, extremely sharp, with a sensation as
if eyes extended back ; great photophobia to natural or artificial
light ; any continued glare results in this pain (improved).Pain in right lower orbital border as if sore, with tenderness
there on touch, and shooting in right eye.Photophobia.
Right eye inflamed, with shooting backward where the white spot is
; left eye also inflamed, but without shooting.Sharp lancinating pain in centre of right eyeball extending
externally to temple and frontal region over eye, with intense
photophobia, redness of conjunctiva and lachrymation ; < by reading or writing ; the pain appears to be in interior of eyeball, and extends thence to posterior wall of orbit, and then to the temples, with throbbing ; dim sight when reading ; also constipation, loss of appetite, lassitude in legs (choroiditis).Sharp lancinating pain through centre of left eyeball, leaving in
very sore internally, and causing profuse lachrymation (from the1m.
).Stye on left upper lid.
Twitching of outer end of left upper lid, inside.
Two styes on right lower lid.
When reading letters run together, with dull aching pain behind
eyes, or shooting in eyes, the confused sight and shooting being < in right eye ; symptoms excited by catching cold or by over-fatigue (asthenopia).White spot on outer edge of left cornea, with red vessels running
up to it from conjunctiva, and shooting pains from the spot to
occiput.Nose (Lac felinum)
Cannot bear the smell of clams, of which she is naturally very
fond, and cannot eat them.Teeth (Lac felinum)
Pains in all the teeth as the hot pain from head touched them.
Mouth (Lac felinum)
(Dryness of mouth. )
Brassy taste in mouth.
Elongation of palate.
Loss of taste.
Redness under tongue, on gums, and whole buccal cavity.
Salivation, tongue enlarged and serrated at edges by teeth.
Sensation as if tongue were scalded by a hot drink.
Small white ulcers covering tongue and whole buccal cavity.
Soreness and sensation of ulcers on tongue and roof of mouth.
The parts of mouth seem to stick together, requiring an injection
of air or saliva to separate them.Very sore mouth.
Throat (Lac felinum)
Mucus in pharynx between head and throat is thick, yellow, tough,
stringy, expectorated with difficulty, and has a sickish sweet taste.Posterior wall of pharynx slightly inflamed, with sensation of
soreness.Stringy, tough mucus in pharynx, cannot hawk it up and has to
swallow it ; when it can be expectorated it is yellow.Tough mucus in pharynx.
Stomach (Lac felinum)
After eating feels swollen ; has to take off her dress and loosen
clothes.Great desire to eat paper.
Great soreness and sensitiveness of epigastric region.
Heat in epigastrium.
No appetite.
Occasionally very slight nausea.
Stomach sore all around just below the belt, < left side.
Abdomen (Lac felinum)
At midnight, sensation of a cold bandage over lower part of
abdomen.Great weight and bearing down in pelvis, like falling of the womb,
as if she could not walk ; < when standing.Pain in abdomen and back, as if menses about commencing.
Pain in bowels.
Pain in pelvis through hips on pressure, as when placing arms
akimbo.Stool and Rectum (Lac felinum)
Natural stool, but very slow in passing, at
2
a. m.Stool long, tenacious, slipping back when ceasing to strain ;
seeming inability of rectum to expel its contents.Urinary Organs (Lac felinum)
(Obstruction in urinating, has to wait. )
Frequent desire to urinate, urine very pale.
Female Sexual Organs (Lac felinum)
(Dragging pain in left ovary. )
Furious itching of vulva, inside and out ; yellow leucorrhœa.
Leucorrhœa ceased on third and reappeared on fourth day.
Respiratory Organs (Lac felinum)
Dryness of rim of glottis.
Chest (Lac felinum)
Very much oppressed for breath, continuing for several days ; it is
a difficulty in drawing a long breath, or rather that requires the
drawing of a long inspiration, for it seems as if the breathing was
done by upper part of lungs alone.Upper Limbs (Lac felinum)
Pain in right side of left wrist when using index finger.
Lower Limbs (Lac felinum)
Left foot feels cold when touched by right foot.
Legs ache.
Generalities (Lac felinum)
(Constant nervous trembling, esp. of hands, as in drunkards. )
Entire right side from crown to sole felt terribly weak, heavy, and
distressed, so that it was difficult to walk.Sleep (Lac felinum)
Dreamed of earthquakes.
Dullness, sleepiness, gaping.
Heavy, profound sleep, not easily awakened.
Fever (Lac felinum)
Cold and heat alternately, each continuing but a short time.
Lac Vaccinum.
Cow’s milk.
Dilution.
Clinical (Lac vaccinum)
Albuminuria.
Blindness.
Diabetes.
Headache.
Milk, intolerance of.
Rheumatism.
Sternum, pains in.
Tongue, ulcers on.
Characteristics (Lac vaccinum)
Lac vac
. was
proved by J, C. Boardman,
of Trenton,
New jersey (H. W.
, XIX. 402).Swan’s
200th
potency was used. I have given the symptoms in the Schema. To these
might be added the effects of milk on persons intolerant of it.The headaches, biliousness, and constipation frequently induced by
milk are well known. The headaches were well brought out in the
proving.Milk frequently aggravates rheumatism ; and
Burnett
has observed that children who drink much milk after their teeth are
grown become very liable to colds.The keynote of
Lac
can. is
alternation of sides ; in Lac
vac. the
symptoms appeared both sides simultaneously.The great thirst and excessive flow of urine suggest diabetes.
Swan
gives a brief proving (H.
P. , ix. 252)
and some cures. The cures were :
Short rheumatic pains in knee and ankles on walking ; passing
fetid flatus.Fever at night followed by profuse sweat all over ; the fever was
preceded by chilly feeling, beginning at shoulders, then running up
from feet to head ; headache.Flat white ulcers on tongue, sensitive, covered with white slimy
mucus, extending to sides of cheeks.Brown crusts, having greasy appearance, especially in corners of
mouth, like “butter-sores. “Fulness of head, as if too large and heavy. Vertigo. Eructations and passing of much flatus. The symptoms of
Swan’s
proving (by Miss H. from the 1m.
of Fincke)
are included in the pathogenesis.Relations (Lac vaccinum)
Compare :
Lac. v. def. , Lac. v. flor. , Lac. can.
Symptoms.
Mind (Lac vaccinum)
General nervousness, with depression of spirits, feeling as though
about to hear bad news.Mental confusion, lasting a long time after proving.
Head (Lac vaccinum)
A creeping sensation, or screw-like or vertical motion, began over
left eye, and continued upwards to vertex, next the same motion or
feeling began two inches behind left ear, and likewise went upwards to
vertex ; also a pressure on vertex, with a sensation of heat when hand
was applied (1h.
).Sensation like a fire-ball in each temple simultaneously (
20
m. ).Vertigo : falls backwards if she closes her eyes.
Woke in morning with an aching pain all over head, most severe in
occiput.All these symptoms passed away except pain on top of head, which
feels as though something heavy were laid there, and occasionally a
sharp pain simultaneously (3
1/2
h. ).Eyes (Lac vaccinum)
Blindness of both eyes, which came on three or four times in
succession, lasting only a second at a time, then passing entirely
away, leaving a pain in each temple, on top of head, left ear, and
below left ear in the neck (2
1/2
h. ).Dull pain over right eye, and very, slight dull feeling over left
eye.Eyes have a blur, or dimness, or obscurity of sight, off and on for
a few moments at a time.Ears (Lac vaccinum)
Ears felt stopped up ; felt deaf in both ears, although she could
hear as before.Mouth (Lac vaccinum)
Acid saliva staining handkerchief yellow.
Had a dirty, yellow-coated tongue, which felt parched.
Sour taste.
Throat (Lac vaccinum)
Sensation of plug in throat or larynx.
Appetite
Thirst for cold water in quantities ; drank three tumblerfuls
during evening.Stomach (Lac vaccinum)
At
10.
30
a. m. sour taste ; nausea, but no rising or vomiting (1
h. ).Contractive, pressing pain in stomach-pit, > by external
pressure.Had a swelling or bloating of stomach (
3rd
d. ).Abdomen (Lac vaccinum)
Pain proceeding from sternum, extending across abdomen about an
inch below umbilicus.Stool (Lac vaccinum)
Obstinate constipation.
Urinary Organs (Lac vaccinum)
Filled a large iron spoon with the urine and boiled it for twenty
minutes ; it left quite a mass of albumen, about a quarter of the
whole ; specific gravity1030.
Frequent discharge of clear urine, nearly colourless, no sediment.
In afternoon was obliged to urinate every fifteen minutes, in large
quantity each time ; was afraid to go across the street to a store for
fear it would overtake me before I could return ; it all passed off
the same night.The density of urine varied during a few days from
1,013
to 1,028,
colour clear, odourless, acid reaction.Urine was not increased in morning, but was dark red, without
sediment.Yesterday the urine turned blue paper red ; to-day it turns the red
paper blue (13th
d. ).Female Sexual Organs (Lac vaccinum)
White watery leucorrhœa ; pain in sacrum.
Respiratory Organs (Lac vaccinum)
Sensation of plug in throat or larynx.
Chest (Lac vaccinum)
A sharp pain appeared in a spot the size of a shilling on each side
of sternum and about middle of chest, with a sense of suffocation.Later a burning sensation in same region.
Same pain, extends across abdomen about five inches lower down
(about an inch below umbilicus) ; it did not seem to involve the
bladder ; no rumbling or passing of flatus.Sharp pains in left lower chest, or in region of lower lobe of left
lung ; the pain was momentary, and did not return (5th
d. ).Sharp pain began in right chest, about three inches below clavicle
; it passed upwards to top of right shoulder, then down arm and
forearm to thumb, and then passed off.Back (Lac vaccinum)
Pains in sacrum.
Limbs (Lac vaccinum)
All the joints of body, esp. knees, feel weak and powerless, as
when half drunk.Upper Limbs (Lac vaccinum)
A clammy sticky coldness in both hands and both feet
simultaneously.Fingers of both hands, esp. when stretched out, tremble and quiver
as from extreme weakness.Sharp pain under left scapula, about three inches down from top ;
it then passed upwards to top of left shoulder, then down arm and
forearm and hand to the four fingers of the left hand and then passed
off.Soon afterwards an aching pain was felt in left hip-joint, which
soon passed off.Lower Limbs (Lac vaccinum)
Aching pain along both thighs on outer side and terminating in both
knees.Aching pains in bones from both hip-joints to both feet ;
simultaneously also burning sensation in both feet.Aching pains in both knees like a rheumatic pain ; they began
simultaneously in both knees, but the right was most severe (5th
d. ).On going upstairs the knees trembled or quivered or were extremely
weak, so as to be unable to take a step forwards.Piercing or lancinating pain in each hip-joint, not severe.
Generalities (Lac vaccinum)
She was so suddenly prostrated mentally and bodily that she was
unable to collect her thoughts or use a pencil to write her symptoms I
was therefore compelled to witness and ask questions and record them
after the proving was nearly over she said she had so much mental
confusion that she could not get mentally clear enough to feel her
thoughts or express them ; she could only give direct short answers to
questions ; as for writing her symptoms, she had no physical power to
do it. In2
h. all symptoms subsided gradually, but still there was a general
trembling or quivering of whole body as well as the fingers. In 6
1/2
h. nearly relieved, except great physical prostration ; mind is again
normal.The pains in chest, abdomen, hips, thighs, and knees were all felt
on right and left sides simultaneously.Sleep (Lac vaccinum)
Dreams of trying to lay out a corpse, &c.
Gait is unsteady.
General restlessness and bad dreams.
Head feels all over heavy, dull, aching, drowsy, wants to go to
sleep.Must force herself to keep awake.
Must force herself to keep her eyes open, for if she shuts them she
cannot avoid falling backwards and down to the floor. In7
h. said she still felt sleepy, and could have fallen
asleep in a minute at any time during the whole day.Slept well all night, and woke in morning free from pain (
8.
30
a. m. ).Fever (Lac vaccinum)
A slight fever over the entire body with a moisture in both hands,
and aching in legs from thighs to knees, both sides simultaneously.Also pain on left side of head, extending from neck to top of head,
and a chilling sensation with it.Hands became hot and dry, a decided fever heat of hands.
Oleum Jecoris
Aselli.Oleum jecoris Morrhuæ.
Cod-liver oil.
Oil obtained from the livers of Gadus morrhua and some other allied
fishes.N. O. Gadidæ.
Tincture.
Trituration.
Clinical (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Addison’s disease.
Alopecia.
Amenorrhœa.
Anæmia.
Asthma.
Bones, affections of.
Bright’s disease.
Cold abscess.
Constipation.
Coryza.
Cough.
Diarrhœa.
Dwarfishness.
Emaciation.
Fever.
Fistula.
Goitre.
Dr. Charles S. Neidhard (
1809-1895)
àHair, abnormal growth of.
Headache.
Heart, palpitation of.
Intermittent fever.
Joints, stiffness of ; fistulæ and abscess around.
Liver, diseases of.
Lumbago.
Phthisis.
Pneumonia.
Rheumatism.
Ringworm.
Sacralgia.
Sciatica.
Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Sleeplessness.
Spinal irritation.
Vision, affections of.
Characteristics (Oleum jecoris aselli)
The number of people who “cannot take cod-liver oil” is
very great ; which means thatOl.
j. a. is a
pathogenetic as well as a curative agent.Neidhard
proved
it and elicited some very definite symptoms, and to these have been
added effects, curative and pathogenetic, observed on patients.The oil contains a large number of proximate principles of great
complexity, to which its specific medicinal properties are due.Recent developments of sarcopathy mark out
Ol.
j. a. as a
liver remedy, an ally of Cholesterine,
and this the provings confirm.Very decided pains in the liver and liver region with great
soreness were noted inNeidhard’s
provings, and these symptoms give one of the keynotes of the remedy ─
Soreness.Not only the liver, but the throat, chest, abdomen, kidneys,
ovaries, joints, and back are all sore ; the spine is sore as in
spinal irritation.Another keynote is the occurrence of palpitation of the heart as a
concomitant of other symptoms ; with cough ; with short breath.Allied to this is a “sense of fluttering, like the movements
of a watch, commencing in region of sacrum, gradually rising to
occiput, and in its ascent affecting abdomen and chest, so that the
patient is transfixed, unable to move hand or foot ;” also
“creeping sensation all over with a rush of blood to heart.
“The reputation of
Ol.
j. a. as a
remedy for phthisis and scrofulous affections is shown by the provings
to be specific, whatever food-value the oil may possess in addition.“Dry, hacking cough night-cough ; cough with tough
expectoration, yellow or white soreness of chest, especially on
coughing ; sharp stitches here and there, through chest ; burning
through to back ; burning in spots,” are among the symptoms
experienced. The fever symptoms are strongly marked, both hectic and
intermittent.One very characteristic feature is :
“Fever < towards evening with burning in palms.
“Chills running down the back.
Feet constantly cold.
Ol. j. a
. is
a chilly medicine : sensitive to draughts ; feels as if continually
taking cold.The cough is < from exposure to cold ; < in damp weather.
The sensitiveness to chill and damp is part of the intermittent
fever action of the remedy, and along with it is affection of the
spleen, which is the seat of several symptoms. During the chill and
before it there is thirst.When the fever came on the cough was >. The
yellowness
of Ol. j. a.
appears not only in the expectoration, but in the coating of the
tongue, yellow mucus from sore throat, and a yellow Leucorrhœa.On the female sexual organs
Ol.
j. a. has a
powerful action, increasing the menstrual flow and restoring it when
in abeyance. Burnett
has shown that ringworm generally has its constitutional basis in a
consumptive habit, and Bacil.
has again and again proved the remedy.This is paralleled in a local use of the anti-phthisic
Ol.
j. a. which was
taught me by Dr. Noë Walker.In recent ringworm the application of the plain oil at bedtime is
at once the most innocent and most effectual of local measures that I
know. Before the application the part should be washed well with soft
soap.Another use of the remedy taught me by the same authority is as a
general application in the case of emaciated, dwarfish, chilly babies
and children. A nightly rubbing with the oil soon revolutionises their
condition.The nutrition of the skin is improved and the medicinal properties
of the oil are absorbed without any tax being put on the organs of
digestion.Burnett
says olive oil acts as well. That may be, but it does not act better.
I have no comparative figures to refer to.When the symptoms indicate
Ol.
j. a. it should
certainly have the preference. Defective nutrition ; anæmia ;
weakness and emaciation ; deficiency of animal heat. Children who
cannot take milk.The headaches are usually frontal ; over right eye ; bursting after
coughing. Other symptoms are : Red face (also in hectic). Voracious
appetite. Foul breath.Symptoms go in all directions
─
from above down
; from below up ; from front to back ; and from back to front. One
curious symptom was abnormal growth of hair on the face of a woman.
Another was passage of mucus from urethra, with burning, during stool.Symptoms are < by touch ; by riding ; by a fall. < By motion ; raising arm ; stooping ; bending side inwards ; walking. Laughing < cough. Lying down = oppressed feeling ; and < cough. Coughing = soreness of chest ; headache. Fever > cough. < From draught of air ; exposure to cold ; living in cold, damp localities.
Relations (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Antidoted by :
Iris v. (chill with sick stomach and diarrhœa).
Compare :
Cholest. , Fel. , and sarcodes generally. In phthisis, ringworm ;
emaciation, Bac. , Pho.Emaciation and ravenous appetite, Iod.
Heavy eyelids, Gels. , Op.
Intolerance of milk, Æthus. , Calc. , Lac v. , Mag. c.
Pains in head with cough, Caps. , Bry. , Nat. m. Chilly ; effects
of damp localities, Nat. sul. , Aran.Symptoms.
Mind (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Feels miserable all over, with great nervous irritation.
Sensation as if out of her mind.
Head (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Aching about inner part of right eyebrow as if in periosteum.
Bursting headache after coughing as if head would split.
Dull aching pain in forehead.
Giddiness in head.
Pain from occiput to forehead with nausea.
Steady aching sensation from left to right temple.
Eyes (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Aching pain in right eye when using it.
During chill, blindness.
Everything turns black.
Eyes swelled.
Heaviness over eyes with dry and parched hands.
Lachrymation when walking in open air (< left).
Lids so heavy, can hardly raise them.
Ears (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Deafness in left ear, abscess in right
Fetid discharge from ears.
Nose (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Chronic catarrh and ozæna.
Dry coryza, cough and sneezing.
Fluent coryza, hoarseness and rawness of chest.
Nose-bleed when sleeping, with amenorrhœa.
Face (Oleum jecoris aselli)
A growth of short, thick hair on chin and upper lip (in a woman).
Face red.
Mouth (Oleum jecoris aselli)
(Fetid breath cured. )
(Putrid smell from decayed tooth ceased whilst taking the oil. ).
Parched feeling in mouth.
Tongue : loaded ; coated yellow.
Throat (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Chronic sore throat, with expectoration of yellow mucus.
Soreness in throat after hawking up phlegm.
Thyroid gland swollen.
Tickling in throat ; weakness in breath.
Stomach (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Acid vomiting with the chill.
Appetite lost ; could not take milk.
Burning in stomach.
Nausea.
Thirst : great ; constant ; before and during chill.
Vomiting ; of bile and mucus with bitter and acid taste at
expiration of chill.Voracious appetite diminished (in rickety children).
Weight in stomach.
Abdomen (Oleum jecoris aselli)
(Atrophia mesenterica).
Aching in spleen region on breathing and coughing, with pain at
apex of scapula (at end of chill).Beating pain in spleen.
Flatulence relieved.
Heavy pain in right side with numbness of right arm as if dead.
Jerking, drawing pains in region of spleen.
Soreness and heaviness in region of liver < by exercise ; sore like a boil on pressure.
Stool and Anus (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Constipation.
Diarrhœa : at night and early morning ; with the chill.
Urinary Organs (Oleum jecoris aselli)
(Incontinence cured).
Acceleration of urinary secretion.
Discharge of mucus from urethra with burning, every morning during
stool.Soreness in kidneys, following soreness in liver.
Urine with bricky sediment.
Female Sexual Organs (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Acts as emmenagogue.
Increase of menstrual flow so strong as to render a suspension of
the oil necessary.Leucorrhœa : yellow ; with weak back.
Menses reestablished (cure).
Soreness of both ovaries ; dysmenorrhœa.
Respiratory Organs (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Breath short, with palpitation of heart ; asthmatic.
Cough : all night ; hard spells in morning ; hacking ; tickling in
middle of upper chest with palpitation ; violent with retching, night
and day ; with stitches, on raising arm ; < from draughts of air ; < lying down at night, prevents sleeping ; loose all day ; from exposure to cold, damp weather ; with emaciation and weakness ; >
when fever comes on.Expectoration : yellow or yellowish-green, saltish, tough ; tough
white ; white ; bloody mucus.Chest (Oleum jecoris aselli)
(Phthisis. )
Burning and heat in left chest ; through to back, with cough.
Burning pains in spots in some one portion of chest.
Oppression, with heat.
Pain right side above and below scapula ; breathing there is
arrested by soreness ; sharp stitch left side.Pain through lower chest to back.
Pains in upper chest on coughing.
Pneumonia of both upper lobes of lungs.
Sensation of excoriation in left chest ; < upper and lower part of left chest, extending to back.
Soreness : all over chest or in centre with hacking cough and
aching between shoulders, < right side ; in chest and stomach with cough ; < by motion.Weakness in breast ; tickling in the throat.
Weakness in chest and back (< left).
Heart (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Palpitation of heart ; with cough ; with short breath.
Pulse accelerated, soft, and small.
Rush of blood to heart, with a creeping sensation all over body.
Sudden stitch in heart.
Neck and Back (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Fluttering from sacrum to occiput.
Often placed hand on sacrum to support it ; often complained of
pain in region of sacro-iliac joint ; walking increasingly difficult.Pain through back.
Sharp, heavy aching pain in lower spine.
Soreness from back to neck.
Spinal irritation, sore to touch.
Weakness and dull aching in sacral region, > by pressure.
Limbs (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Continual aching and sore pain in elbow and knee-joints.
Movements in joints were limited ; esp. elbows and knees ; flexion
and extension caused excruciating suffering.Upper Limbs (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Hands dry and parched with pain in spleen.
Pain in bones of left arm.
Rheumatic pains in shoulders.
Lower Limbs (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Abscess appeared on left gluteus maximus near anus, and discharged
three times ; afterwards another boil right side of chest.Feet constantly cold.
Fistulæ and abscesses round joints.
Hip-joint disease ; esp. when originating in bone (rather than in
synovial membrane).Rheumatic pain in left foot.
Sciatica with atrophy of affected limb.
Soreness of both feet.
White swelling of knee.
Generalities (Oleum jecoris aselli)
(Emaciated person gains weight. ).
Atrophy.
Contraction of muscles : musculo-fibrous rheumatism.
Creeping sensation all over body with rush of blood to heart.
Fluttering (like a watch) rising from sacrum to occiput, affecting
abdomen and chest in such a way that she becomes transfixed, unable to
move hand or foot, and arresting movement if in motion at time of
seizure.Soreness all round body to back.
Stitches and bearing down in one or other sides ; < bending side inward.
Skin (Oleum jecoris aselli)
An eruption of small red spots, like psora, appeared, and from that
time she made rapid progress.Eruptions : papular ; vesicular ; herpetic.
Ichthyosis.
Lupus.
Scrofulous ulcers discharging a large quantity of pus ; cold
abscesses.Skin red all over, at night in bed, with irritability, > in
morning.Sleep (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Dreams of seeing objects in the room during sleep.
Less sleepy than usual.
Sleepless after
3
a. m.Fever (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Chill :
3
a. m. ; in evening ; with some vomiting and purging for six hours ;
with spasmodic pain in region of navel (returned every evening for
four days, relieved by Iris v. ).Chills from occiput down back and round abdomen.
Chilly on going to bed ; afterwards heat, < in hot room ; burning face.
Cold perspiration all day.
Constantly chilly ; feels as if constantly taking cold.
Fever and excitement every night producing wakefulness.
Fever followed by violent sweat, esp. of head, neck, and arms.
Flushes of heat ; face red, stomach hot, heat to tips of toes.
Heat in palms ; every night.
Sweat : every night ; with smell of the oil ; only on lower limbs.
Tertian intermittent.
Oophorinum
A Sarcode.
Ovarian Extract.
Trituration of expressed juice of ovary of sheep or cow.
Clinical (Oophorinum)
Acne rosacea.
Climacteric, sufferings of.
Flushings.
Nervousness, climacteric.
Ovaries, tumours of ; disease of.
Prurigo.
Characteristics (Oophorinum)
On the analogy of the action of
Thyroidin
in myxœdema, Ooph.
has been used with much success in cases of suffering following
excision of the ovaries, and for the climacteric sufferings of women.I have had good results with it in such cases in the lower
triturations.It has been suggested as a remedy in ovarian cysts.
E.
Saalfeld
(quoted H. W.
, XXXII. 296),
in view of Landau’s
observations on the effect of Ooph.
on the nervous sufferings of women at the climacteric, gave Ooph.
to women suffering from acne rosacea and other skin disorders of the
climacteric.A woman, 20, after double oophorectomy had lichen-like eczema.
This was greatly relieved by
Ooph.
as well as the accompanying nervous symptoms and adiposity.He obtained good results also in some non-climacteric cases as :
(1)
Acne
and seborrhœa in chlorotic women.(2
) A
case of prurigo which had lasted from childhood in a woman of 26.In this case the itching was > for a short time after the
period.This >
during
menses may
prove a keynote, and relates the remedy to Zinc.Orchitinum.
A Sarcode.
Spermin.
Testicular Extract.
Trituration.
Clinical (Orchitinum)
Climacteric, sufferings of.
Debility.
Senility.
Sexual weakness.
Characteristics (Orchitinum)
The use of a testicular extract in cases of senile decay and
nervous breakdown was first proposed byBrown-Sequard,
and formed one of the examples by which he illustrated his doctrine of
“inner
secretions. ”He maintained that the various glands of the organism had, in
addition to their obvious secretion or excretion, an additional
secretion which was not obvious, but which materially contributed to
the welfare of the organism.The doctrine is now generally accepted, and the use of the
Sarcodes
in general medicine is based upon it.Homœopathy can use these remedies in both ways.
Orch
. has
been used with success, in the triturations, in climacteric sufferings
; and in old-school practice in the sequelæ of ovariotomy, in cases
of debility, sexual weakness, and premature senile decay.Relations (Orchitinum)
Compare :
Oophorin.
Ovi Gallinæ
Pellicula.Membrane of the Shell of a Hen’s Egg.
The fresh membrane is triturated in 0. 95 alcohol, allowed to
digest several days, and then potentised (Swan).
Clinical (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Amenorrhœa.
Catarrh.
Coryza.
Heart, oppression of.
Hip, left, pain in.
Leucorrhœa.
Menstruation, irregular.
Ovaries, pains in.
Post-nasal catarrh.
Pruritus vulvæ.
Throat, sore.
Uterus, misplacements of ; prolapse of ; retroverted ( ?).
Vertebræ, pain in.
Vulva, soreness of.
Characteristics (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
This preparation was made by
Swan,
and proved by a young lady, a patient of J. C. Boardman.Swan’s
paper was
read before the Denver
Homœopathic Club,
and published in a number of Med.
Visitor, the
date of which I have lost, with additions from H.
P. , XIII. 323.Under
Calc.
ov. test. I
have given an account of the action of Egg-shells in leucorrhœa, and Swan
adds that it has an ancient reputation for “immoderate flux of
the courses” (like our Calc.
c. ),
and for nocturnal enuresis.The Egg-shells were anciently used powdered fresh or roasted, and
as such were and are much used in the treatment of oxyuris
vermicularis.Swan
prepared
the membrane. As an ovarian product it might be expected that all
parts of the egg should have an action on ovaries. It is recognised
that as an article of diet in some forms eggs have a stimulating
effect on the sexual functions.The provings of
Ovi
g. p. bear
out this relation. The first prover was a young lady who was known to
be unable to bear any extra exertion, but the details of this were not
known until after she had taken the first dose of the c. m. sent by Swan.This had the effect of removing suddenly the whole of the trouble
which prevented her from exerting herself─
a left ovarian
pain extending down the left limb, brought on some years before, when
she felt something “give way” in the groin whilst shovelling
snow.The sensitiveness to exertion never returned, though the dose
created much disturbance of the generative functions before it had
finished its action.The symptoms of the second prover, a married woman who took the
30th,
confirmed the symptoms, both cured and pathogenetic, experienced by
the first.This prover had also hæmorrhage from the rectum ; incontinence of
urine whilst sneezing or coughing ; post-nasal catarrh.Yingling
contributed this case to Hahn.
Adv. (quoted Amer.
Hom. , XXII. 412)
:H. E. , 42, blonde, had these symptoms : A dull, hard, heavy aching
in region of heart ; generally about apex ; extending at times to left
ovarian region. Occasionally a cutting which extends to base of heart
and prevents breathing ; after the cutting a sensation as if something
went “thud,” after which pain seems to recommence at apex.
At times heavy aching in base of heart, which makes breathing very
difficult.Only bending backward > respiration.
Ovi
g. p. (a
preparation of Fincke’s)
one dose, dry on the tongue. In a very few minutes the pain was all
gone. “Feels splendidly since taking the remedy. ” Without
knowing what it was, said she had “a taste of fresh eggs in the
mouth since taking the powder. ”Among the noteworthy features of the provings are :
Suddenness
of onset and ceasing ; both provers manifested these. Jerkings on
going to sleep and in sleep ; heat in sacrum, the rest of the body
being cool.The bearing-down sensations in the uterus were very marked. Pushing
and rushing feeling in womb, as if blood might rush out in torrents
(which sometimes happened and sometimes did not).Sensation as if something turned over inside.
The symptoms were :
< by movement ; reaching lifting arms ; over-exerting.
< At menses : before, during, and after though some symptoms were > when flow appeared.
> Bending backward (dyspnœa in cured case).
> jarring or beating breast (dyspnœa).
< Pressure and touch (abdomen, breasts, ovaries) ; intolerance of pressure of clothing.
< Descending stairs.
< At full moon.
Relations (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Compare :
Calc. ov. test. (leucorrhœa, &c. ).
Clinkers in catarrh, K. bi.
In pains in heart and left ovary, Naja.
Sensitiveness to touch and pressure, Lact. , Lyc.
Suddenness of pains, &c. , Bell. , Lyc.
Symptoms > by flow, Lach.
Causation (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Over-exertion.
Strain.
Symptoms.
Mind (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
(Deep melancholy ; in connection with ovarian pain. ).
Depression before menses.
Hopeless, tearful mood.
Profound melancholy, without knowing cause, passing off like a
cloud.Head (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Aching pain, afternoon, from back of left ear, extending down
towards shoulders half-way from neck.Dizziness, fear of failing, and catching her breath on descending
stairs ; or walking on anything narrow when raised above the ground.Fulness of head with great pressure outward in mastoid region, with
headache in occiput (cured).Occipital headache.
Whirling sensation in head and sense of depression.
Eyes (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Sensation of a shade over eyes.
Sharp darting pains in left eye through to occiput ; very violent
compelling him to press eye to prevent its leaving its socket, which
it seemed as if it would do (Ballard).Sunken eyes, haggard look.
Nose (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
From a slight change of underclothing, severe cold and coryza, with
much mucous discharge from nose, came suddenly, lasted three days,
ceased as suddenly, much mucus discharged from nose (quite different
from usual colds).Sensation of severe cold, sneezing catarrh, cracked lips.
Face (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Eruption of small pustules on forehead and chin.
Looks haggard ; eyes sunken ; skin discoloured, dark.
Slight soreness and stiffness of jaw (passed off in a few hours).
Mouth (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Exceedingly acid saliva. (cm)
Exceedingly and peculiarly offensive breath during menses (a lady
near said it was indescribable, seemed to enter her mouth and pass
directly to her womb).Taste of fresh eggs in the mouth.
Throat (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Sensation of dryness causing cough, tonsils inflamed on one side (
Kalm.
>).Sore throat left side as if it had been scalded ; lasted several
days, only at night ; catarrh with hard clinkers hawked back, which
would invariably shoot down the throat.Sore throat with sensation of a lump on left side low down causing
cough ; throat looked inflamed ; tonsils swollen.Stomach (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Burning and heaviness in pit of stomach (cured).
Nervous dyspepsia ; low spirits ; very weak ; sleeplessness
occurring every week.Sensation of lump between lower end of sternum and back as if a
hard potato had been swallowed ; with this severe sacral pain
(relieved with cm).Vomited three gall-stones.
Abdomen (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Between periods, left side of abdomen very sore, with sharp pains
occasionally darting through it, and bearing down in womb as if weight
hanging to it.Distended almost to bursting, before menses, with bearing-down
pain.Heavy pressing down in lower abdomen.
Pain in hypogastrium, < on side lain on, and in sacrum when lying on back.
Suddenly a pain in epigastrium passing down in middle line, then
pain in left ovary to left limbs.Stool and Anus (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Constipation ; stools irregular, from five to eight days.
Diarrhœa mixed with corrugated skins.
Diarrhœa with cutting colic pains (was icy cold), in a collapsed
state.During menses, followed by burning at anus ; hæmorrhage from
bowels.Griping cramps and diarrhœa coming suddenly ; at night.
Increased peristalsis.
Stool mixed with a sand-like substance that fell heavily to bottom
of vessel and was voided with much pain.While riding in cars, sudden (bright) hæmorrhage from rectum,
severe pain across sacrum.Urinary Organs (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Every time she sneezes or coughs the urine spurts out (after
cessation of menses).Urine dark yellow-red.
Urine scalds vulva, esp. right side, which itches intensely.
Female Sexual Organs (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
(At age of sixteen, whilst shovelling snow, felt something give way
in left groin, causing great pain, extending down thigh to knee, feet,
and toes, compelling her to keep in bed ; afterwards always set up
afresh by any slight extra exertion, using arms, reaching up, lifting
; also and esp. whilst menstruating when the ovarian pain was <, and severe bearing-down pains were added ; entirely > by keeping
quiet and idle. TookOvi
p. g. cm (Swan)
whilst in the middle of an attack from over-exertion. In about an hour
the pains left
suddenly, she
got up and dressed, and was never affected by exercise again).After menses cannot bear pressure of clothes, has to suspend them
from shoulders (passed off suddenly).After menses, leucorrhœa, thick, white, cream-like ; preceded by
sharp pain in womb as during menses ; leucorrhœa lasted as long as
menses, occurring every morning and not on alternate days as menses
did.After menses : slight pain in front of left thigh ; sore spot on
pressure in left ovary ; breasts sore, sensitive to pressure.At
8.
30
a. m. seized with a pain in epigastric region passing down middle
line, then pain in left ovarian region, then left hip, then back of
left thigh to hollow of knee, with weakness of left side, and esp.
left limb ; then another discharge of blood, coming on alternate days.Before menses for twenty-four hours, depression, dull, digging
pains in lower abdomen.Between periods bearing down as if weight hanging to womb.
During menses excessively and peculiarly offensive breath.
During menses very sleepy.
Four days later, whilst playing banjo, seized with whirling
sensation in head, sense of depression, weakness, giving-way feeling
in lower limbs and knees, followed by a pushing down (no pain),
rushing feeling in womb followed immediately by a profuse flow of
blood, rushing out, lasting an hour and then ceasing, during flow
other symptoms completely >.Heavy pressing down in lower abdomen.
Itching of right labia extending outward to edge.
Menses flowed all night, colourless, profuse, penetrating clothing
; in morning began to be red, profuse, painless.Night before menses, awaked
1
a. m. with pushing sensation downward in lower abdomen as though the
blood might rush out in torrents, suffering intense, but no blood
appeared or any fluid, till following night, when menses came on ;
during the sensation abdomen was distended as if it would burst.Pains and aches in uterine region and left ovary as if menses
coming on (eighteen days before due).Sensation as if menses coming on (but they did not).
While stooping had a pain in left lower abdomen, and a sensation as
if something within her turned or rolled over ; ever since has felt
exceedingly well, more joyous and happy and more free from attacks of
depression ; no pain ; no blood ; no leucorrhœa.Respiratory Organs (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Violent cough, with coryza, oppression, and tightness of chest.
Chest (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Breasts sore, sensitive to pressure (after menses).
Congested, suffocative feeling in chest as from wind, in centre
under sternum, > beating it with the hand ; by jarring ; (query :
in heart ?).Tightness across chest, oppression.
Heart (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Dull, heavy aching in region of heart, generally apex, with cold,
numb feeling internally, extending at times to left ovary (cured).Back (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Awakened at night with much heat in sacrum, rest of body cool ;
good deal of aching pain across sacrum and nates.Backache, with feeling as if a vertebra had dropped out of lumbar
region, and as if spine were tied together with strings.Pain in every vertebra of spine.
Severe pain across sacrum (with hæmorrhage from rectum).
Sharp pain through spine crosswise.
Lower Limbs (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Ache over left hip, seemed to extend in deep, > during menses,
< after.Pain in left hip (from ovarian region), down back of thigh and knee
; whole limb weak.Generalities (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Debility with dread of motion ; wants to keep quiet.
Intolerance of bands on wrists, arms, waist, or garters.
Weakness and giving way feeling, < in lower limbs, esp. knees, followed by pushing down, rushing in womb.
Sleep (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
During sleep, and immediately on going to sleep, whole body jerked
(during menses).Very sleepy during menses ; between the hours of
10
a. m. and 3
p. m. suddenly taken with intense drowsiness, sometimes overcoming the
will to keep awake.Fever (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Griping chills.
Pulmo Vulpis.
A Sarcode.
Fox’s Lung.
Trituration.
Clinical (Pulmo vulpis)
Asthma.
Bronchitis.
Catarrh.
Lungs, œdema of ; catarrh of.
Characteristics (Pulmo vulpis)
Recent discoveries in the uses of tissues and organs as remedies
have thrown light on many curiosities of ancient medicine.As the fox is probably the longest-winded of all animals, the
doctrine of signatures pointed to his lungs as a likely remedy for
short breath.Grauvogl
has put
on record this case (quoted Hom.
News, XXV. 490)
:Woman, 65, much reduced in flesh by a persistent condition of humid
asthma. It commenced with, chronic catarrh and symptoms of œdema of
the lungs.Strong, sonorous bubbling, now rattling, now whistling sounds over
whole chest, and at some distance away ; perceptible also to hand laid
on chest.Accelerated short breath amounting to suffocation, even without
corresponding heaving of the chest, frequently with cough and
inability to expectorate.[Sometimes, in light cases, there is no catarrh present, and only
persistent shortness of breath, becoming a paroxysm of asthma on the
least bodily exertion. ]The patient could only live sitting up, bent forward ; constant
lividity of face, lips, and extremities, and dropsy of legs.Heart’s pulsations irregular, and death seemed imminent.
Pulmo
vulpis 1x
gr. i. was given,
and repeated in an hour.Visible improvement set in but without increased expectoration.
After a third powder the patient was able to lie down, and fell
into a refreshing sleep lasting several hours. In eight days she
engaged in her domestic duties.Sphingurus.
Spiggurus Martini (
Mure).
Histrix subspinosum.
Histrix prehensilis.
Tree Porcupine.
N. O. Sphingurinæ.
Trituration of prickles taken from one of the sides.
Clinical (Sphingurus)
Hair falling out (head ; beard).
Jaw-joint, pains in.
Stammering.
Zygoma, pain in.
Characteristics (Sphingurus)
The Old World porcupines have the name Histricinæ, those of the
New World Sphingurinæ.Mure proved the
3x
trituration of the prickles.The most noteworthy symptoms were
:
Embarrassed speech.
Falling out of the hair, of whiskers especially ;
Itching of the pubes after taking tea.
Nausea at sight of food.
Pain in the jaw-joint and right zygoma.
The symptoms are :
< Lying down.
< After tea.
> Walking in open air.
> After dinner.
Symptoms.
Mind (Sphingurus)
Capricious mood.
Everything is disagreeable to him.
Head (Sphingurus)
Boring pain in skull after breakfast.
Darting through left skull-bones.
Dizziness behind the head.
Hemicrania.
Prickings on vertex.
The hair falls off.
Eyes (Sphingurus)
Lachrymation.
Ears (Sphingurus)
Deafness in left ear.
Whizzing and buzzing in ears.
Face (Sphingurus)
Desquamation of whiskers.
Pain in articulation of jaw.
Pain in right zygoma.
Mouth (Sphingurus)
Bitter mouth, with salt taste.
Bleeding of gums.
Embarrassed speech.
Stomach (Sphingurus)
Constrictive pain in stomach.
Desire to vomit at sight of food.
Drowsy after dinner.
Dry and full feeling in stomach at night.
Nausea, with piercing pain in back.
Shootings in epigastrium.
Abdomen (Sphingurus)
Pain around navel.
Painful swelling of abdomen before dinner.
Sense of fullness in abdomen.
Urinary Organs (Sphingurus)
Itching of pubes after taking tea.
Pain in urethra after urinating, < stooping.
Violent pains in left kidney.
Respiratory Organs (Sphingurus)
Cough with pain in chest.
Chest (Sphingurus)
Pain in intercostal muscles.
Pain in right side as from a plug.
Heart (Sphingurus)
Stitch in heart.
Neck (Sphingurus)
Constriction from neck to diaphragm.
Upper Limbs (Sphingurus)
Pain at lower end of right forearm.
Pain in right arm as if extension were prevented by a string.
Pain in right arm, as if broken.
Lower Limbs (Sphingurus)
Cracks between toes.
Heat and numbness of feet.
Knees give way.
Lancing pain in right big toe.
Generalities (Sphingurus)
Numbness.
Passing pains in toes, right temple, and one canine tooth.
Symptoms < lying down ; > walking in open air ; > after
dinner.Weakness.
Skin (Sphingurus)
Itching all over with bleeding after scratching.
Sleep (Sphingurus)
Merry dreams.
Morning dream about a serpent.
Yawning.
Fever (Sphingurus)
Shuddering with chattering of teeth.
Shuddering.
Thyroidinum.
Thyroidin.
Thyroid Extract.
A Sarcode.
Trituration of the fresh thyroid gland of sheep or calf.
Attenuation of a liquid extract of the gland.
Clinical (Thyroïdinum)
Abscess.
Acromegaly.
Albuminuria ; of pregnancy.
Amblyopia.
Amenorrhœa.
Anæmia ; acute pernicious
.
Angina pectoris.
Backache.
Chilblains
.
Constipation.
Convulsions, puerperal.
Diarrhœa.
Diuresis.
Dropsy.
Dysmenorrhœa.
Ear, middle, affections of.
Eczema.
Fainting.
Fibroma.
Fractures, ununited.
Goitre ; exophthalmic.
Hair, new growth of ; falling off.
Heart, failure of ; valvular disease of.
Hysteria.
Hystero-epilepsy.
Ichthyosis.
Idiocy.
Leprosy
.
Mania.
Milk, deficiency of.
Myxœdema.
Neurasthenia.
Obesity.
Œdema.
Optic neuritis.
Paralysis ; of hands and arms.
Paraplegia.
Phthisis.
Pityriasis rubra.
Psoriasis
.
Puerperal fever.
Rupia.
Scleroderma.
Syphilis.
Tetanus.
Characteristics (Thyroïdinum)
When the treatment of myxœdema and allied diseases by
“Thyroid feeding” was introduced by Murray in1892,
many accidents occurred from overdosing. A large number of the
pathogenetic effects I collected (H.
W. , XXIX. and
subsequent volumes) and arranged in Schema form (H.
W. , XXIX. 251)
along with cured symptoms, giving the authority and reference for
each. In my subjoined Schema I have omitted the references.Cured symptoms I have bracketed, unless otherwise indicated. Marc
Jousset collected other symptoms inL’Art
Médical, and I
have added some of these, together with others from later observers.
The first published case treated with an attenuation was one of my own
(H. W.
, XXIX. 111)
: Eleanor N. , 17,
suffered from fits of “hystero-epilepsy” for ten months,
following a chill. At first the fits had been frequent, latterly only
before the menstrual period.The fits sometimes lasted half an hour, were preceded by swelling
of limbs and face, which sometimes occurred without the subsequent
fit. She bit her tongue in the fits. Other symptoms were : pains in
legs, back, and head (occiput and vertex) ; swelling of throat
compelling her to loosen her clothes. Menses after an absence of four
months returned excessively. Much left ovarian pain and tenderness.
Despondent, feeble heart sounds ; pulse120
; could not lie down for palpitation and headache. Legs so weak she
could not stand. Thyroid very slightly enlarged. Constipation.
Sleepless, has had to take hypnotics regularly of late. A brother of
the patient was epileptic. Lach.
did some good, especially improving the sleep ; but no solid progress
was made till Thyr.
3x,
gr. ii. thrice daily, was given on November 1st.
On November 4th
she could lie down flat ; on the 15th
she could walk with assistance ; on the 29th
the headache had ceased ; on December 6th
she could walk alone quite well and the bowels acted without enema for
the first time. The mental condition improved, the prominence of the
eyeballs disappeared, and she left the hospital perfectly well before
Christmas. With Thyr.
1m
F. C. Skinner cured a case of dysmenorrhœa in a goitrous subject. In
a case of valvular heart disease following rheumatism in a man, 24,
Thyr.
3x,
gr. ii. thrice daily, quickly relieved a squeezing pain at the heart
with inability to lie down and materially hastened the patient’s
recovery. The action of Thyr.
on the heart is most profound. Fatal syncope has occurred in a number
of cases under “Thyroid feeding. ”Cyanosis was produced in many cases. Severe angina pectoris was
produced by it in a patient to whom Burnett gave the3x.
The connection between the heart and the thyroid gland is very close,
as seen in cases of exophthalmic goitre. Many cases of the latter
affection have been cured with Thyr.
In myxœdema, cachexia strumipriva, cretinism and similar conditions
the thyroid gland is absent or defective, and the idea of the Thyroid
feeding is to supply a physiological want. A state of puffiness and
obesity may therefore be regarded as a keynote indication for Thyr.As drugs act sometimes in opposite ways, I gave
Thyr.
3x
gr. ii. to a living skeleton of a child aged five, and looking not
more than two, who had been kept in a box in a cellar all his life
till brought into hospital, when he weighted 14
1/4
pounds. Under Bac.
200
and careful feeding he gained 1/4
pound a week.When I commenced
Thyr.
he put on weekly 3/4
pound, and gained the use of his legs, being able to stand by holding
on to a chair. In a case of universal and very aggravated psoriasis in
a schoolboy, fair, very chilly, cold, clammy hands and feet, Thyr.
3x
and later 30
(which seemed to act better than the lower attenuation) completely
cured after a prolonged course. An obese lady, æt. 60,
developed diabetes.I cured her completely of the diabetes with
Thyr.
3x
and 30.
She has now for many years been able to take any kind of food. (On her
husband, a spare
man, who also was diabetic Thyr.
had no effect. ) Skin cases in great variety have been cured with Thyr.
in substantial doses : Pityriasis rubra, intense redness, and
scaliness of legs, and also with intense itching ; Ichthyosis ;
syphilitic eruptions ; scleroderma. The nutrition of the bones is
affected, and acromegaly has been relieved and united fractures made
to unite. Thyr.
has increased the flow of milk in nursing women when the flow has been
deficient. It has cured cases of tetany both operative and idiopathic.The keynote in these cases appears to have been “< of spasms by cold. " Many cases of insanity have been cured with it, including a case of puerperal insanity with fever. H. O. Nicholson (
B.
M. J. , June 21,
1901)
relates a case of eclampsia of pregnancy : A woman, 32,
in her third pregnancy, had a fit on October 3rd.
Thyroid feeding was begun next day. Marked improvement followed. Œdema
of face and body diminished. On October 23rd
patient was about her usual duties.On November
6th
she was delivered of a healthy boy without any untoward symptoms. Thyr.
, according to Nicholson, is diuretic, like Urea
; and Nicholson explains its action in eclampsia as being effected
through its enabling the kidneys to carry off the toxins resulting
from fœtal metabolism. Thyr.
is antagonistic to Adrenalin
in that the latter contracts, whilst the former dilates the
arterioles. Among the pathogenetic effects of Thyr.
, optic neuritis and accommodative asthenopia have been observed. Some
curiosities have been noted in the action of Thyr.
on the growth of hair. Myxœdema patients lose their hair as a rule,
and Thyr.
when successful restores the growth. But in some cases the opposite
effect has been noted. In one case of myxœdema the hair had fallen
off the head and face and a thick growth appeared on arms and chest.
Under Thyr.
the latter disappeared, and the hair on the head and face grew again (L’Art
Méd. , LXXXII.
44).The pains of
Thyr.
are stitching, aching, or heavy pains, and tingling sensations. At the
point of injection when administered subcutaneously brawny swelling
occurred in one case (which may suggest scleroderma) followed by
abscess of slow development. Persons suffering from skin diseases were
found tolerant of much larger doses than myxœdemics. In a number of
cases latent phthisis has been lighted up into activity. Syphilis,
both secondary and tertiary, has been vastly relieved by Thyr.
Hansen mentions fibroma uteri as having been cured by Thyr.
, and Burford supports this. “Brawny swelling” is a keynote
of Thyr.
pointed out by Burnett. With Thyr.
3x
gr. vi. thrice daily he cured a case of dropsy and albuminuria which
had been given up by several doctors. Burnett noticed that the
swelling was brawny.Soon after commencing
Thyr.
the patient passed a quantity of fluid from the feet and got quite
well. The symptoms are : > By rest. < By least exertion ; by stooping. (Heart was < lying down. ) < By cold. (Thyr.
treatment nearly always raises the bodily heat. )Relations (Thyroïdinum)
Compare
Myxœdema ; psoriasis, &c. , Ars. [I permanently cured a case
of myxœdema with Ars. high, before the Thyroid method was introduced
(H. W.
, XXVII. 443) ; arsenic has been found to be a normal constituent of
the healthy thyroid gland]. Phthisis, Bac. [I have found Thyr. follow
Bac. well. Greenfield (see H.
W. , XXIX. 7)
found tuberculosis very common in myxœdemics, in five out of seven
fatal cases it was widespread and advanced ; he also found it in one
case of sporadic cretinism. Young, of Switzerland, has cured cretinism
with Bac. ] Syphilis, Merc. , K. iod. , Syph. Goitre, exophthalmic,
Spo. , Iod. , Spi. Diuresis, Urea. Optic neuritis, Tab. , Carb. s.
Dilated arterioles (Adren. , opp. ). Ununited fractures, Symph. Wakes
with headache, Lach,Follows well
Lach. , Bac.
Symptoms.
Mind (Thyroïdinum)
“All progressed cases of myxœdema show some mental aberration
which tends towards dementia, usually with delusions, the latter
taking the form of suspicion and persecution. Occasionally actual
insanity is present in the form of mania and insanity. “.Acute stupor alternating with restless melancholia at times could
not be got to speak, but would lie on floor with limbs rigid at other
times would weep and undress herself ; at times dangerous and
homicidal, would put her arms round the necks of other patients so
tightly as almost to strangle them ; (in this case the insanity was
primary and the myxœdema secondary ; both conditions were removed).Angry.
Became a grumbler.
Delirium of persecution (three cases observed, one fatal, the
result of takingThyr.
in tablets to reduce obesity).Depression.
Evinced increased vivacity by quarrelling with another patient
about a trifling difference of opinion.Excited condition, lasting all the rest of the day, grunting
continuously and laughing in a way that was peculiar to herself.For several hours in what can only be termed a hysterical
condition.Fretfulness and moroseness gave way to cheerfulness and animation.
Had frights.
Irritable and ill-tempered.
Mental aberration dating three years before onset of myxœdema,
subject to attacks of great violence, with intervals of depression and
moroseness.Profound depression.
State of idiocy ; fearful nightmares.
Sudden acute mania occurring in myxœdema, perfectly restored
mentally and bodily underThyr.
Very excited ; excited state followed by considerable depression.
Head (Thyroïdinum)
(Constant headache, pains in occiput and vertex. ).
(Headaches in case of acromegaly. ).
Awoke about
4
a. m. with sharp headache and intense aching in back and limbs, which
continued for three days and compelled him to keep his bed.Black hairs growing among the grey.
Ever since taking the first thyroid [had had five glands
altogether, at intervals] he had a strange heavy feeling in his head,
with vertigo and palpitation on stooping.Feeling of lightness in the brain, scarcely amounting to giddiness.
Fresh growth of hair (many cases).
Fronto-coronal headache about two hours after each tabloid.
Headache (with fever symptoms) ; disappeared on suspending
treatment, reappeared seven days after recommencing.Headache and pains in abdomen.
Headache.
In a case of myxœdema the patient lost all the hair of his head
and face and had thick growth over his arms and thorax ; underThyr.
the hair of the head and face grew again and that of the arms and
chest fell off.In one case of scleroderma and in one case of myxœdema the hair
fell off permanently.Much giddiness and headache for twenty-four hours.
Persistent frontal headache after taking one tabloid for four
successive days.Vertigo.
Eyes (Thyroïdinum)
(Prominence of eyeballs
─
exophthalmic
goitre. ).Accommodative asthenopia.
Optic neuritis (in five persons, four of them women, under
treatment for obesity ; no other symptoms of thyroidism).Ears (Thyroïdinum)
Hyperplasic median otitis with sclerosis and loss of mobility of
the ossicles (rapid amelioration─
several cases).Moist patches behind ears heal up (case of psoriasis).
Face (Thyroïdinum)
Burning sensation of lips with free desquamation.
Faintness, with great flushing of upper part of body and pains in
back.Flushing : with nausea and lumbar pains ; loss of consciousness,
tonic muscular spasm ; immediate ; with rise of temperature, and pains
all over ; suddenly became breathless and livid.In lupus of face, tight sensation, heat, and angry redness removed.
Swelling of face and legs.
Mouth (Thyroïdinum)
(Ulcerated patch on buccal aspect on left cheek near angle of
mouth. )Feverish and thirsty.
Great thirst.
Tongue became thickly coated.
Throat (Thyroïdinum)
(Full sensation. ).
Goitre reduced.
Goitre, exophthalmic, cured.
Stomach (Thyroïdinum)
Always felt a sensation of sickness after the injections.
Dyspeptic troubles.
Eructations.
Feels tired and sick.
Gastro-intestinal disturbance and diarrhœa.
Increased appetite with improved digestion.
Loss of appetite.
Nausea soon after taking the gland.
Nausea, slight vomiting.
Nausea, with flushing and lumbar pains.
On five occasions the patient (a woman) vomited the thyroid.
Sensations of faintness and nausea (after a few injections).
Slight nausea recurring on thinking of it.
Abdomen (Thyroïdinum)
Flatulence increased, followed later in the case by amelioration.
Headache and pain in abdomen.
Stool (Thyroïdinum)
Constipation.
Diarrhœa ; with gastro-intestinal disturbance.
Relief of constipation with more natural actions.
Urinary Organs (Thyroïdinum)
Albuminuria.
Diabetes mellitus ; caused and cured.
Increased flow of urine.
Increased urination, usually with clear, pale yellow secretion.
Slight trace of albumen found in urine.
Female Sexual Organs (Thyroïdinum)
(Constant left ovarian pain, and great tenderness).
(Painful and irregular menstruation. ).
(Puerperal eclampsia. )
(Puerperal insanity with fever. ).
Acts as a galactagogue when milk deficient ; when the deficiency is
associated with a return of the menses it will suppress the latter.Increased sexual desire.
Looks pale and feels ill.
Menses profuse, prolonged, more frequent ; early amenorrhœa.
Pain in lower part of abdomen, headache and sickness (in girl of
sixteen, probably menstrual effort provoked byThyr.
; no catamenial flow appeared).Six days after commencement of treatment menstruation, which had
been absent over a year, reappeared and continued profusely (in
several cases of myxœdema with or without insanity).Respiratory Organs (Thyroïdinum)
(Voice became clear. ).
Dormant phthisis ; lighted up the disease in five cases.
Slight attack of hæmoptysis, followed by cough and signs of
phthisis at apex of left lung.Heart and Pulse (Thyroïdinum)
(Jumping sensation at heart. )
(Rapid pulsation, with inability to lie down in bed. ).
A systolic cardiac murmur was less loud after the treatment than
before.Complained occasionally of a feeling of faintness, not occurring
particularly after the injections.Death, with all the symptoms of angina pectoris.
Degeneration of heart muscle in animals.
Frequent fainting fits.
On one occasion, after exerting herself more than she had done for
a long time previously, “suddenly became extremely breathless and
livid, and felt as if she was dying ;” > by rest in recumbent
position and stimulants.On trying to walk uphill died suddenly from cardiac failure.
One patient showed extraordinary symptoms after the injection ; the
skin became so livid as to be almost blue-black.Palpitation on stooping.
Pulse rose to
112.
Relaxation of arterioles.
Sensations of faintness and nausea.
Tachycardia and ready excitability of the heart persisting for
several days after the feeding was stopped.Two fainting attacks.
Weakness of heart’s action.
While stooping to put on her shoes she “fainted” and died
in half an hour.Back (Thyroïdinum)
(Backache. )
Flushing of upper part of body and pains in back.
Flushing, nausea, and lumbar pains, lasting a few minutes.
Intense aching in back and limbs, which continued for three days.
Stabbing pains in lumbar region.
Limbs (Thyroïdinum)
(Acromegaly, subjective symptoms. )
Intense aching in back and limbs, lasting three days.
Pains in arms and legs, with malaise.
Quivering of limbs ; tremors.
Skin of hands and feet desquamated.
Upper Limbs (Thyroïdinum)
After injection, to a great extent lost the use of her hands for
two days ; recurred later, lasting a few hours.Arms less stiff and painful (psoriasis).
Felt queer and unable to raise her arms (after injection, another
case).Lower Limbs (Thyroïdinum)
Feet repeatedly peel in large flakes, leaving a tender surface.
Incomplete paraplegia.
Œdema of legs appeared, and subsequently subsided and continued to
reappear and subside for a month.Pain in legs.
Profuse flow of fluid from feet (in case of dropsy cured by
Thyr.
).Swelling of face and legs.
Tingling sensation in legs.
Generalities (Thyroïdinum)
“A series of abscesses resulting from the injections, but
probably originating from an accidental abscess quite independent of
them. “.(Acromegaly, headaches, and subjective symptoms. ).
(Fractures refuse to unite. ).
(Hystero-epilepsy with amenorrhœa. ).
(Tetany. ).
A peculiar cachexia more dangerous than myxœdema itself.
A small abscess formed.
Aching pains (many cases).
Aching pains all over.
Aching pains in various parts of body.
Agitation.
Anæmia and debility.
Brawny swelling at point of injection, followed by abscess of slow
development.Diffused pains.
Epileptiform fit, after which he was unconscious for an hour ; next
day felt better and warmer.Fainting attacks (many cases).
Feels tired and sick.
Gained a stone in weight.
Hysterical attack.
Incomplete paraplegia.
Increased suppuration in case of lupus.
Infiltration rapidly absorbed (psoriasis).
Loss of consciousness and general tonic muscular spasm for a few
seconds.Lost weight enormously (many cases of myxœdema).
Malaise > by lying in bed.
Malaise so great she refused to continue the treatment.
Myxœdema removed (many cases).
Myxœdematous patients are always chilly ; the effect of the
treatment is to make them less so.Nervous and hysterical, had to have nurses to watch her.
Pains over whole body.
Persons suffering from skin disease can bear much larger doses than
those suffering from myxœdema.Rapid gain of flesh and strength.
Rest in recumbent position > extreme breathlessness with
lividity, felt as if dying.Stabbing pains.
Stooping = palpitation.
Syphilis secondary and tertiary.
Tremors, quivering of limbs, complete unconsciousness.
Skin (Thyroïdinum)
(Psoriasis ; redness and itching reduced ; eruption separating and
being shed in great scales, angry, inflamed appearance completely
gone. ).(Rupia. ).
(Symmetrical serpigenous eruption ; dark red ; edges raised and
thickened. ).(Syphilitic psoriasis. ).
(Teething eczema. ).
Arms less stiff and painful ; swelling diminished.
Crusts separated, leaving faint red skin ; eruption not nearly so
painful.Eczema : irritation of skin markedly allayed.
Flushing of skin.
Lupus : tight feeling, heat, angry redness removed ; suppuration
increased.Moist patches behind ears heal up.
Peeling of skin beginning on legs and extending over whole surface
; skin has since become comparatively soft and smooth.Peeling of skin of lower limbs, with gradual clearing (eczema).
Psoriasis ; eruption extended and increased.
Scattered pustules of eczema mature quickly or abort.
Scleroderma.
Skin became so livid as to be almost blue-black.
Skin has desquamated freely, but there has been no perspiration or
diuresis.Skin of hands and feet desquamated.
Sleep (Thyroïdinum)
Awoke about
4
a. m. with sharp headache.Continual tendency to sleep.
Exited condition ; could not sleep.
Fearful nightmares disappeared.
Insomnia.
Fever (Thyroïdinum)
Always felt hot, and had a sensation of Sickness after the
injections.Felt better and warmer.
Flushing : with nausea ; with loss of consciousness.
Flushing of upper part of body and pains in back.
Profuse perspiration on least exertion.
Rise of temperature ; diaphoresis.
Temperature never rose above
99°
but she felt feverish and thirsty.Temperature rose to
100°
F. , and remained there several days ; pulse 112.
Urinum.
Dilutions.
Urine.
Clinical
Acne.
Boils.
Dropsy.
Ophthalmia.
Scurvy.
Characteristics (Urinum)
Under
Urea
Allen
gives some symptoms observed on a man who, for a skin affection, drank
in the morning the urine he had passed the night before.The symptoms were severe, consisting of general-dropsy, scanty
urine, and excessive weakness.These symptoms I have arranged under
Urinum.
Urinotherapy is practically as old as man himself.The
Chinese
(Therapist,
X. 329)
treat wounds by sprinkling urine on them, and the custom is widespread
in the Far East. Taken internally it is believed to stimulate the
circulation ; and is valued as an active oxytocic.The parturient woman drinks the urine of a male child four to five
years old, and the part voided in the middle of micturition. The child
urinates into three vessels, the woman drinking the contents of the
second. In theBrit.
Med. Jour. of 1900
a number of instances of Western urinotherapy were given (collected
H. W. , XXXV. 507).To these
Cooper
has made some additions (ibid.
, p. 584).The cases are these : (
1)
A youth for crops of boils which nothing could remedy was recommended
to drink every morning for three mornings a cupful of his own urine.
Then after an intermission of three days to resume, and so on till
cured. He was cured on the ninth day.(
2)
“Blackheads” cured inexactly the same way.This patient drank it when fresh.
(3) Chronic bronchitis much relieved. This patient was deaf, and
misunderstood the doctor’s direction to bring some of his urine. He
thought drink was the word and acted accordingly.(
4)
Ague (in the Lincolnshire
fens).(
5)
Urticaria.(
6)
For thrush it is a custom in Yorkshire to wipe the baby’s tongue with
its own napkin.(
7)
For pimples and blotches the negroes of Barbados
drink their urine and apply it locally.(
8)
For ophthalmia in children it is the custom in Switzerland
to bathe the eyes in the children’s own urine.Cooper
mentions
the case of a man who suffered very much from weak and inflamed eyes
until he adopted this plan, which after a time cured him.Cooper
also
mentions that a celebrated breeder of cattle and horses succeeded in
getting his animals’ skin into an astonishing condition of fineness by
giving them about a tablespoonful of old human urine with every meal.Kraft (A. H. , XXVII
.
4)
mentions that urine has been used as a remedy for croup. S. Mills
Fowler (M. A.
, XX. 281)
mentions the use of urine as a remedy for scurvy in the Civil
War.In
Andersonville
prison the starving prisoners were dying by hundreds of scurvy, and
Mr. T. (who told the story) was one of the sufferers. His legs were
flexed upon the thighs and the thighs upon the body in such violent
contraction that it was impossible to extend them an inch, and any
attempt to do so was attended with shocks of pain as from an electric
battery.He could only move on his elbows and rump. Within the stockade were
growing two large turpentine trees.Of the pitch from these trees the patients would take enough to
make their urine “clear and white as crystal. ” The urine
voided was allowed to stand till it began to sour, which took twelve
to twenty-four hours. The patients then took a “good
swallow” four or five times a day.They felt the good effect of every dose. The treatment cured Mr. T.
and all his companions in misfortune who adopted it.These cures are to some extent analogous with nosode cures, as the
patients drank their own urine ; butUrinum,
Urea, Uric acid
are also medicines on their own account, and rank with the Sarcodes.The symptoms of uræmia may be taken as a pathogenesis of
Urinum
for the use of the attenuations. Urea
cured renal dropsy, and Urinum
produced it.The skin action of
Urinum
is remarkable in connection with its use in the dressing of leather ;
no substitute having been found for it in this.Relations (Urinum)
Compare :
Urea (probably urine owes its chief effect to urea), Ur. ac. , Urt.
urens.Symptoms.
Head (Urinum)
Heaviness of head, < on stooping.
Face (Urinum)
Countenance pale, expression heavy and vague.
Face very much swollen.
Stomach (Urinum)
Little thirst.
Abdomen (Urinum)
Fluid in abdomen and in parietes of chest and belly.
Urinary Organs (Urinum)
Urine scanty, thick, deep brown, and very offensive.
Generalities (Urinum)
Anasarca ; generally more marked in upper than in lower parts of
body.Heaviness, heavy for work, having neither his usual life nor warmth
in him.Loses her breath if she walks quick, is obliged to stop.
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