GNAPHALIUM.
Gnaphalium polycephalum, Michx.
Natural order
, Compositæ. Common names, Everlasting; (G.) Ruhrkraut;
(Fr.) le Cotonnière.
Preparation
, Trituration of dried leaves
and flowers of G. polyceph.; tincture of whole plant of G. uliginosum,
Linn.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. William Banks, provings, N. Am. J. of Hom., 7, 383, 1st and 2d dec.
trit. of leaves and flowers; 2, W.
J. A. Fuller, took 3d dec. trit. first, second, third, and fifth days; 3, Dr. Woodbury’s provings, Trans. Mass. Hom.
Soc., 2, 15, took 15 drops of tinct. of Gnaphal.
uliginosum, first day; 25 drops, fourth day; 50 drops,
seventh day; 4, ibid., after last
proving, took 1/2 ounce of Gnaphal. polyceph.;
5, Mrs. S., gave 15 drops to each of
three children (aged 4, 6, and 8) on going to bed, ibid.; 6, Mrs. S., took 10 drops, then 15 and 25
drops of tinct. of G. uliginosum.
MIND.
►
Very irritable, for two or three days, after the diarrhœa (all three
cases), [5].
HEAD.
►
Giddiness, especially felt immediately after rising from a recumbent
position, [1]. ► From 3 to 4 P.M., a slight headache, and
muddiness of feeling, about my head, which I endeavored to dissipate by
smoking, at 8 P.M., failed of success, and had a “night-sweat”
and headache, which was somewhat relieved by bathing the head with bay
rum (sixth day), [2]. ► When I first awoke, felt a fulness about
the temples, like the incipient threatenings of a nervous headache
(which is periodic with me, usually occurring after excessive smoking,
or severe mental effort or anxiety); removed by a thorough washing of
the head with cold water (second morning), [2]. ► Pain in
the back of the head, of dull, continuous character, [1].
EYE.
►
Slight pains about right eye, after rising (fifth morning), [2]. ►
Shooting pain in the eyeballs, occasionally felt, [1].
FACE.
►
Dull, heavy expression of countenance, with appearance of slight
bloatedness, [1]. ► Neuralgic pains of an intermittent form
of superior maxillary of both sides, [1].
MOUTH.
►
Tongue. [10.] ► Tongue furred, on rising, at 7 A.M.
(third morning), [2]. ► Tongue covered with long white fur, [1]. ►
Mouth. ► Mouth dry, on
rising, at 7 A.M. (third morning), [2].
► Mouth parched and tasting badly, at
2.30 A.M. (second night), [2]. ► When I first awoke, my mouth felt
slightly “furry;” and tasted unpleasantly; removed by thorough
washing with cold water (second and seventh morning), [2]. ► Taste.
► Flat, sweetish, sickening taste in
mouth, [1]. ►
Taste in the mouth like that after chewing slippery-elm bark, after the
powder (second day), [2].
THROAT.
►
A sort of gurgitation in my throat, half sour, half bitter, not an
unusual thing with me, at 5 P.M., it soon passed away (second day), [2].
STOMACH.
►
Diminished appetite, [1]. ► Indifferent, almost to aversion, to food,
for two or three days, after the diarrhœa (all three cases), [5]. [20.]
► From time to time obstinate attack
of hiccough, [1]. ► The youngest had violent vomiting and
purging, like cholera morbus, before morning; the purging continued
through the next day, at intervals of increasing length, [5]. ► Much
flatus of stomach, with windy eructations and slight nausea, [1].
ABDOMEN.
►
Borborygmus, with frequent emission of flatus, [1]. ► Unusual
rumbling (borborygmus) in the bowels, with slight griping pains during
the day; in the evening, a diarrhœic stool, with uneasiness in the
bowels until falling asleep (first day), [3].
► Slight pain and flatulence in my
bowels, at 7 A.M. (third morning), [2].
► Slight bellyache, on waking, at 6
A.M. (fourth day), [2]. ► A slight bellyache when I first got up,
which soon disappeared (fifth morning), [2].
► Colicky pains in various parts of
the abdomen; abdomen sensitive to pressure, particularly in the region
of the cæcum, [1]. ► Sensation of weight in the pelvis, [1].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. [30.] ► Some looseness of bowels, with passage of
pale-colored fæces, [1]. ► Three loose and watery discharges, with
great pain and nausea, before morning (first night); profuse diarrhœa,
attended with great pain in the abdomen all day (second day); discharges
more natural, less pain (third day), [4].
► The two older children had
diarrhœic discharges in the morning, and several times during the day
following, attended with irascibility of temper, and pain in the bowels,
[5]. ►
Diarrhœic stool, very copious and watery; before morning (seventh
night), and two more before noon (eighth day); nausea and pain in the
abdomen all night (seventh night); urine scanty as before; dark-colored,
liquid offensive stool at the usual hour in the morning; the pain in the
bowels continued nearly all day (ninth day), [3]. ►
Diarrhœic stool early in the morning, and a second before noon, with
pain and rumbling in the abdomen, diminished urine, loss of appetite and
taste (fifth day), [3]. ► Copious diarrhœic discharge, preceded
and attended with nausea, pain and rumbling in the bowels; the pain and
borborygmus continued for two days, [6].
► After breakfast a good stool; in
the afternoon another large stool (fourth day), [2]. ► My
rumbling bowels sent me to stool before breakfast (a most unusual thing
for me); had a stool, neither very easy, very full, nor loose (third
day), [2]. ► Constipation. ►
Constipation, continuing two or three days, succeeded the diarrhœa (all
three cases), [5]. ► Bowels constipated; no stool; (after
diarrhœa), (sixth, tenth, and eleventh days), [3]. [40.] ► Tried hard and long to effect a stool,
but without success, at 7.45 A.M., after breakfast (second day), [2].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Pain in the kidneys, [1]. ► Sensation of fulness and tension in the
bladder, even when it has just been emptied, [1]. ► Very
frequent, but slight evanescent pains in the region of the prostate
gland, [1]. ►
Large quantity of pale, inodorous urine passed, which is remarkably free
from sediment, [1]. ► Urine scanty and red as before (second
day), [4].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Awoke during the night with an erection, and urgent desire for an
embrace, a thing which never occurred before (third night); on waking
about 6 A.M., had another erection (fourth day), [2]. ► Another
erection on waking up (a thing which has occurred each morning), (fifth
morning), [2]. ► Another erection, but less violent than
the previous ones (sixth morning), [2].
► Had an erection, but not a violent
one (seventh day), [2]. [These
erections have never been accompanied by desire;
rather mechanical than passional.] [50.]
► Occasional stinging in the glans
penis, [1]. ►
Increased of sexual passion, [1].
CHEST.
►
Pains in the chest, darting from side to side, [1].
BACK.
►
Numbness of lower part of back, with lumbago, [1].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Feeling of debility in the arms, as if
incapable of raising the lightest weights, [1]. ► Pains
of a rheumatic character, in the elbows and shoulders, [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Feeling of numbness, occasionally taking
the place of the sciatica, and then exercise on foot is excessively
fatiguing, [1]. ► *Intense pain along the sciatic nerve,
which is continued to its larger ramifications, [1]. ► The
sciatica was produced only on myself; General Norris, who was suffering
from an attack of that disease when we began our provings, was in a few
days completely cured of it, [1]. ► Rheumatic pains in the knee and
ankle-joints, [1]. [60.] ►
Frequent cramps in the calves, [1].
► Cramps of the feet, especially when
in bed, [1]. ►
Gouty pains in the great toes, [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Great weakness and prostration as the result of the diarrhœa, [4]. ►
Felt languid all the morning (sixth day), [2].
► Felt exhausted and uneasy at night,
perhaps from over mental and physical effort during the day (fourth
night), [2].
SLEEP.
►
Waked up in the night by the sickness of my child; awoke again in the
morning, tired and unrefreshed (sixth morning), [2].
FEVER.
►
“Night-sweat” (sixth night), [2].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Furred tongue; bad taste;
bellyache; erections. ► (Night), Sweat. ►
(In bed), Cramps of feet. ► Amelioration. ►
(Washing parts with cold water),
Fulness about temples; furry feeling in mouth; bad taste. ► (Bathing head
with bay rum), Headache.® 2000
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