COCCUS CACTI.
Coccus cacti, Linn. Class,
Insecta; Nat. order, Hemiptera; Common name, Cochineal. Preparation, Tincture and triturations.
Authorities.
(1
to 28, Austrian
provings, Oest. Zeit. f. Hom., 4, 500) 1, Dr. Caspar, aged 30, took the 1st dil.,
morning and evening, for ten days; 2,
Dr. A. F., aged 30, took the “100th dil.” (15th cent. dil. of
Hahnemann); 3, Dr. Frölich,
“100th, 60th, and 30th dils.;” 3b, same prover took “3d and 1st
trits.;” 3c,
same prover took 10-drop doses of tincture; 4,
Theresa Kummer, aged 33, took “60th, 30th, 12th dils. and 3d
trit.;” 5, Fr. Gottwald, aged
33, took 3d dec. dil. every other day for ten days, then every three
days for three weeks; 6, Dr. Huber
took repeated doses of 6th and 4th dec. dil.; 7,
the same prover took 3d, 2d, and 1st trits.; 8,
Dr. W. Huber took different dils., 30th to 7th; 9,
the same prover took triturations, 6th to 1st.; 10,
same prover took tincture, 40 drops first day, 50 drops second day; 10b, same
prover, 60 to 120 drops tincture; 11,
Dr. Lach took 5 grains of Cochineal dissolved in hot water, on the
third, eighth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth days, and 10 grains on
twentieth day; 12, Dr. J. G. M.,
aged 57, took repeated doses of the “100th dil.;” 13, Dr. Marenzella took “100th, 60th,
and 12th dils.;” 14, Dr. J. O.
Muller took 100th, 60th, 30th, and 3d dils.; 15,
Dr. Schweikofer took tincture, first day 10 drops, doubling dose each
day to seventh day (640 drops); 16,
same prover took triturations (6th to 1st), doses of 45 to 200 grains; 17, Dr. Schweikofer’s wife, aged 42, took
12th, 9th, 6th, 3d, and 1st dils.; 18,
same prover took triturations, 6th to 1st; 19,
Schweikofer’s son, aged 15, took 1 to 30 grains of powdered drug; 20, Dr. Wachtel took 100th to 6th dils.; 21, same prover took 3d to 1st trits.; 22, Theresa N., aged 36, took 100th and 30th
dils.; 23, Dr. Wurmb took tincture; 24, Prof. Zlatorovich took 1st dec. trit.
daily from 8th of February to 7th of July; 25,
Rudolph S., aged 21, took 10 grains of 1st dec.; 26, Eduard K. took 1st dec. trit.; 27, H., medical student, took 1st dec. trit.;
28, Adolph S., aged 25, took 1st
dec. trit.; 29, Dr. Reil’s provings,
Hom. Vierteljahrschrift, 1, 194, having for eight days previously kept
accurate records of his urine, took tincture, increasing from 5 to 100
drops daily; 30, Lembke, effects of
the powder on point of knife, six doses, A. H. Z., 49, 185.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Great
excitement after two glasses of beer, which was not relished; in the
open air it seemed as though the pulses beat more violently than usual,
with general sensation of heat; this lasted an hour, and gradually
disappeared while walking (in the evening, beer caused no change in his
condition), [8]. ► Unusual liveliness and clearness of mind
(second day), [14]. ► Became lively for the first time towards
evening (second day), [14]. ► Talkative mood, [3]. ► Joyous
mood, [17]. ►
Depressed mood (first day), [16]. ► Anxious sensation, with uneasiness, [5]. ►
Apprehensiveness, [5]. ► Apprehensiveness in the evening, [5]. [10.]
► Apprehension (first day), [14]. ►
Irritable mood, [18]. ► Very irritable and out of humor, morning
and evening (first day), [14]. ► Out of humor, with irritable mood (fifth
day), [11]. ►
Ill-humor without cause; in the evening it was followed by a lively
mood, [5]. ►
Fretful mood (eighth day), [16]. ► Intellectual. ►
Less mental activity than usual, [12].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head, [8], [13], [19].
► Confusion of the head throughout
the day, [5]. ► Confusion of the head the whole day
(second day), [3]. [20.] ►
Confusion of the head, especially on the vertex (seventh day), [15]. ►
Confusion of the head, as after drinking too much, [8]. ►
Confusion of the head on the vertex (third day), [15]. ►
Confusion of the head, with slight vertigo in the morning, [5]. ►
Confusion of the head in the forehead, with sensation of heaviness and
dulness, in the morning on rising, [12].
► Confusion of the head in the
evening, [5]. ► Confusion of the head after breakfast, [5]. ►
Confusion of the head, as before the outbreak of violent coryza,
relieved in the open air, [13]. ► Confusion of the head in the forehead,
with pain extending across the left frontal eminence, involving a small
portion of the left half of the forehead, the parietal bone, and the
temple, and reaching to the zygomatic portion of the right jaw, leaving
a general sensation along all those parts of a dull tearing or cutting,
transient (after one hour), [14]. ► Slight confusion of the head, [7]. [30.]
► Great confusion of the head (third
day), [10]. ►
Great confusion of the head, in the evening while walking (especially on
the vertex), (seventh day), [15]. ► Great confusion of the head in the
evening, with pressive pains on the vertex, with burning in the skin of
the forehead, lasting into the night, [24].
► Dizzy confusion of the head (first
day), [14]. ►
Dizzy confusion of the head, in the morning on waking, [9]. ► Head
was confused and felt intoxicated, especially towards evening, [9]. ►
Slight vertigo, [5]. ► Transient vertigo, [5]. ►
Dizziness, as after intoxication, after eating (first day), [14]. ►
General Head. ► Rush of
blood to the head, [21]. [40.] ►
Rush of blood to the head, on going into a warm room after a walk; he
was obliged to leave the room, when he felt better, repeated three times
in one forenoon, [8]. ► Headache, not relieved in the open air
(first day), [22]. ► Headache in the morning on waking; it
soon ceased, but frequently returned for a short time through the day
(sixth day), [22]. ► Headache, with such great weakness that
she was obliged to sit down frequently during a hurried walk (after 3d
trit.), [4]. ►
Headache, consisting of fulness, with increased warmth and slight
stupefaction (second day), [14]. ► Sensation of swelling of the head, [5]. ►
Dull pain in the whole head all the forenoon, aggravated by violent
motion of it, [8]. ► Pressive pain in the brain, especially at
the bridge of the nose, [8]. ► Pressive headache, like that frequently
experienced with disordered stomach, [13].
► Pressive headache, as after
drinking too much, in the morning after waking, disappearing after
rising, [8]. [50.] ►
Pressive headache in the evening (third day), [22]. ►
Pressive headache, aggravated by stepping hard (first day), [10]. ►
Painful stitches shoot through the brain, [24].
► His accustomed beer caused headache
(second day), [10]. ► The headache and chest symptoms were
somewhat relieved after lying down, for some hours in the forenoon
(fourth day), [10]. ► Forehead. ►
Indefinite pain in the forehead, aggravated by shaking or turning the
head, or even moving it, [9]. ► Dull headache above the right eye, in the
morning on waking, [6]. ► Dull, burrowing, frontal headache, [2]. ►
Pressive pain in the right side of the forehead, sometimes extending to
the occiput (first day), [2]. ► Dull pressive pain in the forehead (first
day), [14]. [60.] ►
Pressive frontal headache at breakfast, which was eaten without
remarkable appetite (fourteenth day), [11].
► Tearings in the frontal bone, [30]. ►
Tearing pain, extending from the felt eye up into the forehead, in the
evening after lying down, [9]. ► Temples. ►
Violent raging pain, extending from the right eye along the squamous
portion of the temporal bone, on its inner side to the occiput; it seems
a though a fluid were injected paroxysmally into a small blood-vessel, [8]. ►
Sensation as if the temples were too narrow, [12]. ►
Pressure in both temples, [5]. ► Pressive pain in the right temple, [1]. ►
Pressive pain in the left temporal region soon after rising, which
frequently extended to the left eye, and lasted nearly the whole day, [23]. ►
Slight pressive pain, extending from the temples towards the vertex,
which completely disappeared after the customary washing with cold water
(second day), [11]. ► Sticking pain in both temples, with
painful sensation of fulness of the whole head (3d trit.), [4]. [70.]
► Dull sticking pain in the left
temporal region, lasting several minutes, disappearing on pressure, but
returning on leaving off the pressure (seventh day), [16]. ►
Violent throbbing and pressive pains in both temples, lasting more than
an hour, equally during rest and motion, frequently alternating with
heat and redness of the face (second day), [20]. ► Vertex.
► A painful elevation on the vertex
as large as a pea, lasting the whole day, [24].
► Severe pressure and burning pain in
the vertex, in the morning on waking, lasting an hour, but on rising
after a short subsequent sleep it disappeared, [24]. ►
Sensitiveness of the head on the vertex, [24].
► Parietals. ► Dull burrowing headache in the posterior
portion of the right parietal bone, paroxysmal, continuing only a short
time, while lying in bed in the morning (one hour after 25 drops), [6]. ►
Rather severe sticking in the head, in the coronal suture of the right
side, [24]. ► Occiput. ►
Sensation as though a hot constricting band extended from one mastoid
process across the occiput to the other; this region seemed tense and
constricted; the condition became worse, until at last it affected the
whole skull, in which the pain seemed to fix itself, and it seemed as
though the bones became drawn closer and closer together, also involving
the whole scalp (in which the pain appeared to be seated), and which
seemed to be drawn tighter and tighter about the skull (second day), [14]. ►
Dull boring pain in the left side of the occiput towards the ear, [6]. ►
Indefinite drawing and pressing in the occiput, temples, and right eye, [1]. [80.]
► Pressure and sensation of warmth in
the occiput, at 6 P.M. in a warm room, [8].
► Pressing pain in the occiput, with
sensation as if the scalp were swollen; this sensation extended to the
left cheek and side of the nose, [1].
► External Head. ► Gooseflesh at the roots of the hairs and
bristling of the hair (second day), [14].
► Sensation as if the scalp were
drawn tightly over the skull (after one hour), [14]. ►
Stitches in the occiput like the bite of a leech woke him from sleep and
caused scratching, [6]. ► Crawling pain in the scalp on walking,
which obliges him to scratch (eleventh day), [11].
EYE.
►
Pressure upon the left eye, especially at the inner canthus, [8]. ►
Brow and Orbit. ► Frequent
pressive pain in the superciliary ridges during the whole proving, [20]. ►
Pressive pain in the orbits, [21].
► Lids. ►
Slight agglutination of the eyes, [24].
[90.] ►
Frequent twitching-like jerking in the left lower eyelid, [6]. ► Slight
burning in the margins of the lids, [24].
► Feeling as though the margins of
the lids were swollen, [23]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Increased lachrymation, especially in the
open air, so that the eyes were constantly swimming in tears of a
thicker consistence than natural, [20].
► Conjunctiva. ► Inflammation of the conjunctiva of the
eyes, to which he was subject, [12].
► Conjunctiva of the right eye
inflamed, [12]. ► Ball. ►
Sensation as of a foreign body in the eyes between the lids and balls, [23]. ►
Pressure in the left eyeball, [23].
► Frequent smarting pain between the
left eye and lid, as though a hair were between them, [6]. ►
Smarting-biting between the eyeballs and lids, as if a hair were between
them, on waking in the morning, obliging him to rub them, [6]. ► Vision.
[100.] ► Sight much weaker than usual, [12].
EAR.
►
External. ► Constant
pressive-tensive pain in the left mastoid process, [6]. ► Drawing
pain on the convex surface of the left concha, especially severe on
touch, [7]. ►
Violent biting-sticking in the left antitragus, [6]. ► A
pressive sticking pain above and behind the left ear, increased to a
painful burrowing congestion, that only seldom remitted, and when worst
extended not only to the left side of the neck and clavicular region,
but also to the last back teeth of the left lower jaw and the left side
of the occiput, [7]. ► Drawing-tearing pain upon and behind the
left ear, followed by constant roaring in it, [6]. ► Severe
and deep stitches in front of the left ear, between the antitragus and
zygoma, [7]. ►
Frequent biting stitches in the left antitragus, [7]. ►
Violent, pressive, throbbing pain in the left mastoid process, which at
times increases to a burrowing from within outward, when warm in bed
before midnight; when most severe it extends into the left ear, in the
left occipital region, the last back teeth of the lower jaw, and along
the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle to the left claviculo-pectoral region;
on touch the parts pain as if suppurating, [7]. ► Pain in
the region of the right parotid gland, followed by a similar pain in the
submaxillary gland under the tongue, with constant accumulation of
saliva in the mouth, [6]. ► Internal. [110.]
► Stoppage of both ears, with
sensation of pressure in the meatus auditorius (sixth day), [20]. ►
Sensation as if the external auditory passages were closed, with
crackling in the right ear (aggravation of the usual roaring in the
ear), [12]. ►
Feeling as though the left ear were stopped, or the hearing impeded,
with tensive-pressive pain in the left mastoid process, extending to the
clavicular region of the left side and to the last back teeth of the
lower jaw; aggravated by lying upon the ear, lasting the whole day, with
short intervals, [7]. ► Pressive pain in the right Eustachian
tube, aggravated by turning the head to the right side and on
swallowing; this occurred suddenly an hour before dinner, and suddenly
and completely disappeared after warm soup (seventh day), [2]. ►
Drawings in the right ear, and also at times in the left, [23]. ►
Drawing in the right meatus auditorius, lasting the whole evening, [23]. ►
Frequent painful drawing within the right ear, [6]. ► Painful
cramplike drawing within the right ear, [6].
► A drawing pain within the right
ear, which at times became sticking, with great roaring in the left ear,
[7]. ►
Severe stitches in the left ear, [5].
[120.] ►
Violent stitches within the right ear, followed by aching in the back
teeth of the right upper jaw, [6].
► Biting stitch in the right meatus
auditorius, and in the right temporal region, [6]. ►
Transient drawing-twinging pain within the left ear, [6]. ►
Throbbing pain within the left ear synchronous with the pulse, [7]. ►
Rhythmical throbbing in the ear upon which he was lying (first day), [14]. ►
Tickling and itching in the left meatus auditorius, frequently repeated
through the day, and afterwards becoming a pressure in the concha (third
day), [20]. ►
Tickling and voluptuous itching in both ears, from the external canal
through the inner ear to the mouth, lasting only fifteen or twenty
seconds, [6]. ► Itching in the right external meatus
auditorius, obliging him to bore in with the finger, [7]. ► Itching
and roaring in the left ear, [6]. ► Much itching within the left ear, [7]. [130.]
► Severe itching and roaring in the
left ear, [7]. ► Itching within the ear is especially
noticed on going from the cold air into the warm room, [7]. ► Hearing.
► Impaired hearing, [24]. ►
Difficulty in hearing, as if the ears were stopped with cotton, [5]. ►
The left ear seems stopped, so that he hears less distinctly than usual,
[7]. ►
Cracking in the left ear on empty swallowing, [7]. ►
Cracking in the left ear and a sensation as though earwax would flow
from it, on swallowing saliva, [7].
► Loud ringing within the left ear,
with bruised pain about the outer left ear, especially in the mastoid
process; the pain extends down the left side of the neck to the
clavicular and pectoral regions, [6].
► Great roaring in the ears, as from
a storm in a forest, [6]. ► Extremely troublesome roaring in the left
ear, [7]. [140.]
► Seething-roaring in the left ear, [6], [7].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Redness of
the nostrils, with sensitive soreness in them (after 3d trit.), [4]. ►
Crusts from on the outer margins of the nostrils, [5]. ► A
yellowish pulverulent substance on the margin of the nostril, [24]. ►
Sneezing, with cough and expectoration, [5].
► Violent sneezing, [21]. ►
Violent repeated sneezing in the morning, with discharge of mucus from
both nostrils, [13]. ► Frequent sneezing, [5], [13]. ► Frequent sneezing, several times in
succession, [24]. ► Frequent sneezing in the evening, [23]. [150.]
► Frequent sneezing, with dry cough, [5]. ►
Very violent paroxysms of sneezing, with burning in the mucous membrane
of the nose and on the margins of the wings, as from pepper; these
attacks of sneezing occurred nearly every half hour, but the burning of
the nose was quite constant (third day), [14].
► Secretion of much mucus in the nose
(third day), [10], [24]. ►
Secretion of much mucus in the nose, without the usual catarrhal
symptoms, [24]. ► Very great secretion of mucus in the
nose, [24]. ►
Secretion of thin white mucus in the nose, [12]. ►
Profuse discharge of thin mucus from the nose throughout the day, [5]. ►
Slight coryza, with sticking pain in both temples, rawness and soreness
of the throat (third day after 3d trit.), [4].
► Subjective. ► Nose dry, stopped, [1]. ► Dryness
of the mucous membrane of the nose and throat, somewhat relieved by
water, [5]. [160.] ►
Dryness of the mucous membrane of the nose and throat, so that no mucus
could be loosened, either by blowing the nose or hawking, [20]. ► On
account of the dryness of the posterior nares he was frequently obliged
to draw water through the nostrils; after the water he was able to
dislodge some hard masses of mucus by blowing the nose, followed by
relief for a short time, [12]. ► Pressive pain above the arch of the nose
and in the frontal sinuses, [12]. ► Sensation of stoppage of the nose, with
watery discharge from it (3d trit.), [4].
► Itching in the nose, followed by
frequently repeated violent sneezing (ninth day), [16].
FACE.
►
Redness of the face and hands, with distension and throbbing of the
vessels (first day), [14]. ► Crawling and drawing in the left side of
the face and nose, corresponding in extend to the infraorbital plexus of
nerves, and resembling prosopalgia (second day), [14]. ► Cheeks.
► Crawling in the malar bones, [20]. ►
Crawling, beginning in the left malar bone, extending across the back of
the nose to the right cheek, repeated three times during the day (third
day), [20]. ►
Crawling sensation, extending from the right malar bone across the back
of the nose to the left cheek, in the evening (second day), [20]. [170.]
► Sensation of heaviness in the left
upper jaw, as if the teeth were pressed out of their sockets (third
day), [2]. ► Lips. ►
Small cracks in the lips, which seem covered with meal (eighth day), [20]. ►
Sensation as though the lower lip were drawn from both sides towards the
middle (frequently alternating with the pulsating beats in the heart), [9]. ►
On chewing, pain in the left articulation of the lower jaw, with
cracking in it when swallowing, [7].
► Sensation of soreness in the
toothless places of the lower jaw (sixth day), [20].® 2000
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