FAGOPYRUM.
Fagopyrum esculentum, Mœnch. (Polygonum Fagopyrum,
Linn.)
Natural order
, Polygonaceæ.
Common names
, Buckwheat; (Germ.),
Bachweisen; (Fr.) Le blé noir. Preparation,
Tincture of the whole mature plant.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. Dexter Hitchcock, Am. Inst. of Hom., 1873, took 16th dil. daily,
first to eleventh days, 3d dil., eleventh to twenty-third days; 2, same, proving by E. E. Case, with 1st
dil., first to sixth days; 3, same
prover took 16th dil., first to sixth and twelfth to seventeenth days; 4, same, W. E. Rounds took 10th dil., first
day; 5, same, M. A. Wilson took 16th
dil., two days; 6, same, E. L.
Kingsbury took 16th dil., first to seventh days; 7, same, G. A. Adams took 16th dil. for eight
days; 8, same, H. W. Westover took
1st dil., two days; 9, same, George
E. Hitchcock took 1st dil., two days; 10,
same, Emma Scott took 15th dil., first, eighth, tenth, eleventh,
thirteenth to seventeenth, twenty-fourth, twenty-eighth to thirty-fifth,
then the 1st dil., forty-third, forty-fifth, forty-seventh,
forty-eighth, and forty-ninth days.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► In an
exceedingly happy state of mind (forty-fifth day), [10]. ► Don’t
want to speak or be spoken to, in the afternoon (fifteenth day), [3]. ►
Mind depressed (eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth days), [1]. ► Never
before felt much depression of spirits (twenty-seventh day), [15]. ►
Irritable (seventeenth day), [1]. ► Great irritability on mind (ninth day), [5]. ►
Feel cross and irritable all the evening (sixth day), [1]. ► Have
not felt so cross and irritable since I can remember (fifth day), [1]. ►
Intellectual. ► Mind
active, at 5 A.M. (twenty-third day), [1].
[10.] ►
Have less inclination than usual to mental exertion, cannot settle my
mind on one thing, cannot think clearly. Undertook to study this
afternoon, but could not, I felt so uneasy (second day), [4]. ► At 11
P.M. do not feel as much like study as usual (first day), [4]. ► No
inclination to mental labor (twenty-ninth day), [10]. ► Can’t
fix my mind on anything, or remember what I read even for a few minutes
(twenty-fifth day), [1]. ► Am unable to study, in the evening
(nineteenth day), [1]. ► Have for several days been entirely
unable to listen to lectures (twenty-seventh day), [1]. ► Mind
clouded, at 1 P.M. relieved by eating (twenty-third day), [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Head confused (forty-eighth day), [1].
► Confusion of head, in the afternoon
(forty-first day), [1]. ► Head confused and some of the old feeling
of suffocation, in the forenoon (thirty-first day), [1]. [20.] ► Feeling of confusion of the whole head
(fifth day), [5]. ► Whole head feels confused, in the
afternoon (thirty-fourth day), [1].
► Vertigo and confused feeling in the
head (fifth day), [1]. ► Vertigo and fulness of the head upon
rising, relieved by sitting, still, at 10 P.M. (sixteenth day), [3]. ►
Slight vertigo, with nausea (sixth day), [2].
► Dizzy feeling, and dull pain all
through the head (fifth day), [1].
► General Head. ► Head feels heavy (seventeenth day), [1]. ►
Head tired and confused, at 10.30 A.M., headache at 3 P.M. (thirty-third
day), [1]. ►
Pain in the head (twenty-sixth day), [1].
► Severe pain in the head, which
extends from the irritated surface of the nose through back of the eyes
to the forehead (fifth day), [1]. [30.] ►
Pain through the whole head and occiput, to the back of the neck,
relieved by pressure and gentle motion, especially in the cool air
(fifth day), [1]. ► Feeling of heat in the head, and as if
the head was too heavy; temporary relief from bending the head back, but
soon followed by pulsating and pressure in the head. At 2 P.M. one heat
seems to increase, and yet but little redness of the face (sixth day), [1]. ►
Head hot (forty-third day), [1]. ► Head hot and neck tired; dull pain all
through the head in the evening (thirtieth day), [1]. ► Heat of
head and pain remaining in the forehead until evening, when it went to
the vertex also. Late in the evening it extended to the root of the nose
(forty-fifth day), [10]. ► For a few minutes a feeling of fulness in
the head (second day), [8]. ► Bursting pains in the head and
prostration, lasting for some time (eighth day), [1]. ► Pain in
the head, bursting outward all the afternoon; bursting pressure,
especially in the temples and forehead (fifth and thirtieth days), [1]. ►
During the afternoon and evening, bursting out headache as usual, with
inability to apply the mind on account of its increasing the pressure in
the head (ninth day), [1]. ► Headache during the afternoon, pressing
outward, especially in the occiput, relieved about 10 P.M. (third day), [1]. [40.]
► Pressure outward in the head, with
steady pain in the morning (eighth day), [1].
► After retiring head feels as if it
would split (thirty-third day), [1].
► Head feels congested and aches, in
the afternoon (seventh day), [3]. ► Congestive headache after eating, in the
afternoon (fourth day), [3]. ► Feeling of congestion and as if the eyes
were pressed out from behind (fifth day), [1].
► Through the day, aching of the
head, more in the forehead, and especially back of the eyes, pressing
outward (sixth day), [1]. ► Dull aching through the whole head, in
the morning (sixth day), [1]. ► Woke with headache and pain behind the
eyes (eighth day), [1]. ► Soon after rising, headache came on
(tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth days), [1]. ►
Headache with pressure, in the morning (fifty-first day), [1]. [50.] ► Headache increased after retiring
(fifteenth night), [1]. ► Headache at 1 P.M., relieved by eating
(twenty-third day), [1]. ► Headache and pain in my eyes come on;
this is severe; slightly relieved by cold application, in the morning
(forty-third day), [1]. ► Dull headache (thirteenth and
twenty-first days), [1]. ► Dull headache and pains through the
chest, in the afternoon (fifty-first day), [1]. ► Dull
headache comes on at 8.20 A.M.; increased at 4 P.M.; neck feels very
tired, and constant heavy aching pain from occiput down the neck, and
dull pressing-out pain in the head (thirty-second day), [1]. ► Dull
headache, and pain extending down the back of my neck, which feels very
tired (forty-ninth day), [1]. ► Pressure in the head (twenty-third and
thirty-seventh days), [1]. ► Pressure and fulness in the head (fifth
day), [1]. ►
Pressure in the head and dull pain in the occiput, in the morning
(twenty-fourth day), [1]. [60.] ►
Pressure in the head, aggravated by mental exertion; difficult to
listen, but not so difficult as yesterday, at 5 P.M. (seventh day), [1]. ►
After retiring pressure in the head and some headache (thirteenth day), [1]. ►
Pressure and heat in the head, at 3.50 P.M. (twenty-third day), [1]. ►
Pressure in head; occasional sharp pains through the head, more through
the right eye and temple, in the forenoon (fortieth day), [1]. ►
Pressing headache, especially back of the eyes (seventh day), [2]. ►
Pulsating in head severe, and nearly the whole scalp feels as if raised
by the throbbing (thirty-fifth day), [1].
► Throbbing all through my head,
which now has a sharp aching pain all through, extending to the eyes,
and through them; stooping aggravates, at 8.30 P.M. (thirty-first day), [1]. ►
Head feels weary, at 2 P.M. (forty-second day), [1]. ► Head
feels weary; dull pain from back of the eyes through the head and
occiput, in the forenoon; pain in the occiput and severe pressure
through the head and back of the eyes, in the eyes, in the afternoon
(twentieth day), [1]. ► 10.30 P.M., have a weary feeling in my
head, also, at 11 P.M., a tensive feeling in the whole upper part of the
head (first day), [4]. [70.] ►
Surging through the head, which feels hot (fifth day), [1]. ► All
head symptoms aggravated by bending the head forward (seventh day), [3]. ►
Head and eyes worse, from motion or reading (fifteenth day), [3]. ►
Head symptoms relieved by walking in the open air, in the afternoon
(fourth day), [3]. ► Forehead. ►
Intolerable headache extending from the forehead to the roots of the
nose (ninth day), [5]. ► Fulness of the front and upper part of
the head (one hour after second dose, sixth day), [2]. ► Fulness
in the forehead, somewhat aggravated by study (fifteenth day), [10]. ►
Arose with a slight fulness in forehead, which soon passed away (ninth
day), [3]. ►
Sense of fulness in forehead and occiput, in the morning. Sharp,
short-lasting pain in left temporal region off and on during the day; on
walking out in afternoon, experienced a feeling of fulness in left
frontal eminence (eleventh day), [10].
► Up all night, which brought on
congestive headache, frontal (thirty-fourth night), [10]. [80.] ► Congested headache and fulness in the
front part of the head, with nausea; slightly relieved after a
light-brown soft stool, with much flatus, in the afternoon (fifteenth
day), [3]. ►
Feeling as if the blood rushed to the forehead (forty-fourth day), [10]. ►
Aching in the forehead, about the eyes and back of them, in the
afternoon (third day), [3]. ► Frontal headache; head feels hot
(twenty-eighth day), [10]. ► Frontal headache, with fulness and heat
(thirtieth day), [10]. ► Slight frontal headache in the morning
upon waking, and when first moving around (fourteenth and forty-sixth
days), [10]. ►
Slight frontal headache commencing soon after taking the drug, worse in
afternoon, and still worse in evening (forty-fifth day), [10]. ► Severe
headache back of the eyes; head hot and full, in the afternoon (eighth
day), [3]. ►
On first day of menstruation a severe frontal headache, more on felt
side, congested and aggravated by movement (sixty-fifth day), [10]. ►
Pressure in the forehead and back of the eyes aggravated by bending
forward, also by mental application (sixth day), [1]. [90.] ► Dull pressing pain in the forehead,
temples, and back of the eyes, at noon (seventh and tenth days), [3]. ►
To-night throbbing headache in the left frontal region, aggravated by
movement (fifty-fourth day), [10].
► About 10 P.M. a sharp cutting from
the outer angle of the frontal bone, left side, backward and inward
(second day), [4]. ► Pain in the temples and back of the eyes,
right side worse than left, at 7.30 P.M. (second day), [3]. ► Pain in
the temples and back of the head upon rising, relieved by bending the
head back, aggravated by stooping. Pressive headache, starting sometimes
with shooting from the back of the eyes to the back of the neck, in the
afternoon (fourteenth day), [3]. ► Feeling of fulness in the temples,
lasting about three hours (after half an hour, first day), [9]. ►
Feeling of fulness in the temples, and an occasional darting pain back
of the left eye (after twenty minutes, second day), [9]. ►
Pressing out in the temples (sixth day), [1].
► Pressing out in the temples and
some pain back of the eyes, at 5 P.M. (seventh day), [1]. ► Darting
pain in right temple (after four hours, fifth day), [2]. [100.]
► Bruised sore feeling of left
temple, and pain on opening the mouth, at 1 P.M. (thirtieth day), [10]. ►
Vertex. ► Pain in top of
head during the evening (forty-ninth day), [10]. ►
Pressing-out pain in top of the head, soon (thirty-second day), [10]. ►
Parietals. ► Head, pain in
left side, through left eye and in left parietal bone, all from within
outward. Dull pain all through the left side of the head, greatly
aggravated by sitting still or thinking; relieved in the open air, also
by talking (fifth day), [7]. ► Dull pain in the left side of the head;
pain extends from the left eye through into the occiput, and down the
left side of the neck (thirteenth day), [7].
► Slight headache, pressing outward
in the fronto-parietal region, lasted about an hour (after one hour,
first and second days), [2]. ► Occiput. ►
Back of head tired (forty-eighth day), [1].
► Pain in the occiput, with sense of
weariness in the back of the neck (fifth day), [1]. ► A sharp
and sticking pain in the occiput, right side especially (fifth day), [1]. ►
Sharp darting pain in the left occipital region radiating to the left
side, very persistent and very
marked (second day), [6]. [110.] ►> External Head. ► Sharp threadlike pains of scalp
(forty-ninth), [10]. ► Itching creeping sensation of the scalp,
momentarily relieved by scratching, but followed by aggravation; lasted
nearly two hours (after one hour and a half, third day), [2]. ► Itching
of the scalp occurred frequently, with a sense of heat (first day), [1]. ►
Itching of the scalp, and especially about the mastoid processes (sixth
day), [2]. ►
Itching of the scalp, especially back of the ears, at noon (second day),
[3]. ►
Itching about the occiput (fifth day), [3].
► Itching of scalp, occipital
portion, and of nose, which has become more swollen and excoriated
(fourth day), [1]. ► Occasional itching of the scalp,
especially of the occipital portion. This comes on while sitting still
in a warm room (second day), [1]. ► Terrible itching of the scalp, at 7 P.M.
(second day), [5].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Eyes red and
swollen, but not agglutinated in the least (eighteenth day), [1]. [120.]
► Eyes get red and smart in the
morning (thirty-second day), [1]. ► Eyes red, sting, and itch in the morning
(twenty-eighth day), [1]. ► Eyes red and lids somewhat swollen as
yesterday; outer canthi itch, as also the margins of the lids, in the
morning (eighth day), [1]. ► Eyes red; lids swollen; pain through the
back part of each eye, especially the left; itching of the eyes upon
motion and of the margins of the lids, in the morning (sixth day), [1]. ►
Eyes swollen (twenty-first morning), [1].
► Eyes inflamed and hot, some itching
and smarting (sixth day), [3]. ► Subjective. ►
Eyes feel dry and smarting, particularly at the external canthi, all the
time, as if I had not slept enough (thirtieth day), [10]. ► Eyes
feel dull; not as sore as yesterday, but have dark rings around them
(sixth day), [1]. ► Eyes feel hot and congested in the
morning (seventh day), [3]. ► Eyes hot, burning, and glassy; eyeballs
look as if covered with tears in the evening (seventeenth day), [3]. [130.]
► Pain in the eyes and temples on
rising (fifth day), [3]. ► Dull, oppressive pain in the left eye
(second day), [6]. ► Pain in eyes sharp and continued,
extending to the right ear, in the evening (nineteenth day), [1]. ►
Eyes feel sore and hot (third day), [1].
► Eyes sore and smarting, closing
them hurts, more under lid of left eye (thirty-third day), [1]. ►
Smarting of eyes and lids commencing yesterday afternoon; may be owing
to March wind (forty-fourth day), [10].
► Eyes feel sore on moving them; hot
and watery; pressure back of them, in the afternoon (eighth day), [3]. ►
Eyes feels tender to the touch (sixteenth day), [3]. ► The
eyes feel sensitive on closing them tightly, and there is a roughened
feeling upon motion of the lids, especially of the left eye (first day),
[1]. ►
Eyes, roughened feeling; conjunctiva reddened, more of left eye; itching
of the outer canthi (fifth day), [1].
[140.] ►
Eyes feel as if roughened; external canthi sore, with constant burning
irritation, relieved by moving the lids very slowly (second day), [1]. ►
Eyes feel as if filled with sand about 9 P.M. (thirty-third day), [10]. ►
Itching in both eyes (eighteenth day), [1].
► Eyes itch, especially the left eye
(fourth day), [1]. ► During morning, eyes itch and look watery
(fortieth day), [1]. ► Eyes feel worse after a walk in the
afternoon, probably from the brightness of the sun (fourth day), [3]. ►
Orbit. ► Some pain back of
the eyes in the evening (thirtieth day), [1].
► Occasional darting pain back of the
left eye, lasting about three hours (after half an hour, first day), [9]. ►
Not much headache, but some indefinite pains back of the eyes and in the
occiput (seventh morning), [1]. ► Lids. ►
Lids swollen in the evening (nineteenth day), [1]. [150.] ► Lids swollen and itch, but never
agglutinated in the morning (seventeenth day), [1]. ► Has
granular lids (thirty-sixth day), [3].
► Meibomian glands of left lower lid
inflamed; lids of both eyes very red and sore in the afternoon
(thirty-fourth day), [1]. ► During the proving. I had drooping of the
right eyelid, which I hardly think came from this, but it has now
disappeared (thirty-third day), [1].
► Lids feel much swollen; objects
blurred, as if a thin secretion over the eyes obstructed the light;
still the eyes feel dry and are red; have a kind of glassy look
(seventeenth day), [1]. ► Eyelids sore and itch at 9 A.M.
(twentieth day), [1]. ► Smarting of the eyelids in the forenoon
(fourth day), [3]. ► Itching of the lids, arms, etc., at 5
P.M. (seventh day), [1]. ► Itching of the eyelids; smarting of the
eyes at night, aggravated by reading; redness of the eyes (sixth day), [7]. ►
Acute itching of the margins of the lids (sixth day), [1]. [160.] ► Sharp, cutting pain over external canthus
of left eye (fifth day), [5]. ► Outer canthi itch (eighth day), [3]. ►
The outer canthi itch and smart at 11 P.M. (seventh day); outer canthi
itch, as also the margins of the lids (eighth day), [1]. ► Lachrymal
Apparatus. ► Eyes watery
and swollen on rising, burning and sore; some bland lachrymation,
especially of the left eye, does not flow over cheek, but eyes have a
watery look, at 9 A.M.; hot, itch and smart; margins of lids smart;
tears increased by reading; eyes feel sore, and as if pressed out, but
held back by cords, at 10 P.M. (fourteenth day), [3]. ► Right
eye watery in the evening, with smarting of the lids of both eyes, as if
I had a cold in the head (sixteenth day), [10].
► Conjunctiva. ► Conjunctiva reddened (eleventh day), [1]. ►
Ball. ► Aching pain deep
within the eyeballs, and a pressing outward; also many shooting pains of
short duration, both within and around the eyes; conjunctiva reddened;
itching of the edges of the lids and burning; things seem obscure and
wavy (fifth day), [1]. ► Feeling as if the eyes were pushed out
and at the same time held back by cords (sixth day), [2]. ► Sharp
stitches deep within the eyeballs (sixth day), [1]. ► Vision.
► Eyes feel blurred, and objects
appear indistinct (sixth day), [1].® 2000
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