Centaurea Tagana.
Centaurea tagana. N. O. Compositć. Tincture of root.
Clinical.─
Coryza. Diarrhśa. Eyes, inflammation
of. Fevers. Home-sickness. Influenza. Intermittents. Sight, vanishing of.
Characteristics.─
The Centaureas
are allied to the Thistles. Dr. Chagon, Duc de Sorentino, experimented with the root of Cent. t. The symptoms of congestion are very marked: “Blood
surges pain fully at every movement.” A bright servant-girl who took it seemed
stupefied for several days. “The earliest symptoms appeared a quarter of an hour after
taking the medicine, viz., those of the arms together with dull pains in the hypogastrium,
shiverings and general heat, especially on forehead, which was covered with sweat. These
were followed by a stupefying pain in temples, frontal protuberances, orbital arches and
eyes. Next came the following symptoms: Dimness of sight; appetite alternating with nausea;
increase of saliva and vomiting; running of the nose; lachrymation; eructations; rapid
sinking of strength; general uneasiness; confusion of mind; weariness; dull sunken eyes
spasmodic sweating; itching, and pricking in the skin; drowsiness and thirst. A state of
reaction, after four or six hours brought some quiet. Next day, in the forenoon or towards
evening, the above symptoms reappeared but with less violence, and some of them assumed a
periodic form. Then ensued coryza, colic, diarrhśa, fevers of various types, pains in the
arms, dry cough, &c. The action ended with the symptoms of catarrh, of angina, and of
fever in the forenoon, and with confusion and pain in the forehead” (Allen). The above
gives a general idea of the action of this remedy. The symptoms are <
at night; in the morning on waking; by movement; during and after urinating. > By eating.
Relations.─
Compare:
Bell., Cedron, Card. b., Card. m.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Home-sick.─Easy
temper, alternating with contrary mood.─Hilarity.─Absent-minded.─Idiocy.─Confusion
of mind.─Stupefied for several days.
2. Head.─
Stupefying confusion towards forehead.─Stupefying
pain in temples, frontal protuberances, orbital arches and eyes.─Uneasiness
in brain.─Deep-seated extensive pain in forehead.─Pain
in and under occiput.─Pain in forehead preceded by sweat; < by walking.
3. Eyes.─
Wandering look.─Eyes
sunken and dim.─Pain in l. eye; burning above eyebrows; in lids; in
sclerotica.─Lids heavy.─Smarting, itching,
inflammation.─Lachrymation.─Sight vanishes entirely
for a moment.
4. Ears.─
Itching and tingling in ears.─Pricking
behind ears.
5. Nose.─
Sneezing and coryza; almost complete
loss of smell.
6. Face.─
Face looks earthy; with a stupid
expression.
8. Mouth.─
Red streak along middle of tongue.─White
streak l. side of tongue.─Dry mouth not relieved by drinking.─Mouth
bitter in morning.─Taste impaired.─Continual
salivation.─Increase of saliva alternating with dry mouth.
9. Throat.─
Uvula and tonsils inflamed.─Raw
pain preventing swallowing.
11. Stomach.─
Appetite alternating with nausea.─Thirst:
not allayed by drinking; with dry throat; before and during fever.─Difficult
eructations, which stop in the chest, with burning.─Nausea. with cold
sweat.─Vomiting.─Pricking and burning in
epigastrium.
12. Abdomen.─
Pain in r. hypochondrium.─Griping
at night with continual discharge of flatus.─Colic.─Dull
burning in hypogastrium.
13. Stool.─
Diarrhśa on waking in morning.─Yellowish
diarrhśa at night.─Copious stools.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Pain in bladder, < by movement.─When urinating: pain in
bladder; weight in bladder.─Ardor urinć.─Burning in
urethra after urinating.─Urine: at first scanty, afterwards abundant;
deposits a flaky mucous sediment.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Firm nocturnal erections.─Desire
without erection.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Dryness of vagina.─Itching
and heat in labia majora and minora.─Whitish leucorrhśa.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Tickling in larynx; in
throat causing cough.─Cough: on waking in morning; dry, in evening or at
night.
18. Chest.─
Pain in r. clavicle.
19. Heart.─
Lancination as from a thorn in heart.─Sensation
of dilatation of heart, with anxiety.─Pulse slower.─Pulsation
stronger in some arteries than others.
20. Back.─
Burning pain in l. scapula.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Inclination to stretch out the
arms.─Arms so weak, can hardly lift them.─In bed,
arm lain on becomes numb.─Extensor muscles seem too short.─Pain
all through arms.─Swelling of veins of hands.─Thumb
cannot be clenched.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Wants to stretch legs.─Paralytic
weakness of legs, walking difficult.─Pain in hips and thighs when
walking.
24. Generalities.─
Remains for an instant as if
thunderstruck; staggers as if drunk.─Prostration, rapid sinking of
strength.─General uneasiness.
25. Skin.─
Miliaria.─Sudden
eruptions on loins.─Violent itching and pricking all over: nose;
hypogastrium; backs of hands, chiefly fingers; loins and thighs; preventing sleep.
26. Sleep.─
Drowsy night and day; cannot keep eyes
open.─Voluptuous dreams.
27. Fever.─
General or partial coldness.─Shiverings
and general heat, esp. on forehead.─Warmth with sexual excitement.─Heat:
internal; with or without subsequent sweat; with pain and fulness in forehead.─Sweat:
profuse; cold; cold on forehead; at night.® 2000
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