HYOSCYAMUS.
FACE.
►
Objective. ► Intoxicated
look for a long time, [11]. ► *He has a laughing expression during sleep,
[1]. ►
Dull, haggard look, [95]. ► Looked rather confused (second morning), [86]. ►
Face lurid (after two hours), [14].
[Original corrected by Hughes.] ►
Face brown and turgid, [78]. ► *Countenance flushed, [84]. ► *Flushed
and excited countenance, [89].
► Face and neck flushed, swollen, and
dry (about five hours after first dose), [92].
[420.] ►
*Redness of the face, [62].
► Redness and congestion of the face,
which went off in half an hour (after 11 1/4 grains), [59]. ► *Face red,
distended, [9]. ► *Face red, turgid, [79]. ► Face
dark red, with blue lips, [68]. ► His face became bluish, [96]. ► *Paleness
of the face, [41]. ► The man’s countenance pale, [93]. ►
Face pale, [79]. ► Pale, sunken face, [59]. [430.] ► Face pale and covered with perspiration, [70]. ►
Features pale, lips blue (soon), [89].
► Frequent changes in the color of
the face, [42]. ► Face swollen, brownish-red, [8]. ►
Face and neck bloated, [91]. ► *Face distorted, [77], [80].
► Face distorted, livid, lurid, with
the mouth standing open, [12].
[Original corrected by Hughes.] ►
*Twitching of the muscles of the face, [91].
► Subjective. ► *Heat and redness of the face, [1]; of the skin of the face, [59a]. ►
Heat of the face, especially of the lobules of the ears, with somewhat
increased redness of the face and greatly dilated pupils, [4]. [440.] ► Burning heat in the face, in a warm room,
[4]. ►
Face cold, pale, [23]. [Previous
to death. -Hahnemann.] ► Cheeks.
► Twitching in the cheeks, [1]. ►
Lips. ► Distortion of
mouth, [68]. ►
Mouth distorted by risus sardonicus, [95].
► The mouth was drawn obliquely; this
drawing soon extended over the whole face, and afterwards over the whole
body, and became more and more violent, [71].
► Blisters on the lower lip, as large
as peas, [80]. ► Small white blisters on the lips, [80]. ►
Painful fever blisters on the lips, [1].
► Margins of the lips dry, [66]. ►
Chin. [450.] ► Chewing impeded, [23]. ► *Closure
of the jaws, with consciousness (after twenty-four hours), [1b]. ►
Jaws locked, [95]. ► Trismus, [68].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Teeth and all the
mouth covered with a yellowish mucus, the taste disgusting; in the
morning (after 18 3/4 grains), [59].
► Looseness of the teeth, with aching
and tingling in them, [1]. ► Gnashing of the teeth, [79]. ►
Sometimes they would grind their teeth, and push out their tongue, which were shaken to and fro with a trembling movement
(after eight hours), [72]. ► Frightful grating of the teeth, [80]. ►
Toothache, [20]. (Cases 20, 39). [460.] ►
Toothache, especially on chewing, as if the teeth would fall out, [1]. ►
Toothache during the perspiration, [20].
(Case 40). [Nine days after leaving off the medicine. -Hughes.] ► Toothache, the gum of the left side
seemed swollen, with dull pain in the teeth of the upper jaw, [4]. ►
A painful drawing in a single tooth, here and there, as if the tooth
would become hollow, [4]. ► Pressive-jerking toothache in a hollow
tooth, which extends to the temples; on biting on the tooth it seems as
if it were too long and loose (not aggravated on drawing in the air),
(after four hours), [5]. ► Tearing toothache, in the morning, with
rush of blood to the head, as if spitting of blood were imminent, [1]. ►
Toothache; tearing in the gum, especially on the entrance of cold air, [1]. ►
Pain in the soft parts behind the teeth, between the cheeks and gums (in
the evening during the febrile heat), [2].
► Tongue. ► Tongue pale red, dry and rough, [66]. ►
Thick coating on the back of the tongue, [80].
[470.] ►
White-coated tongue, [59]. ► Tongue coated white or yellowish, [59a]. ►
She put out her tongue very slowly and with difficulty; it was swollen,
brown and very dry (after four hours), [90].
► *Paralysis of the tongue, [63], [64],
[65]. ►
All three felt their tongues paralyzed and their throats so constricted
that they had to take the last mouthful out of their mouths with their
fingers, [93]. ► *Tongue dry, [81]. ► Tongue
dry, clean, [14]. ► Tongue and mouth parched (about five
hours after first dose), [92]. ► Heaviness of the tongue, [59a]. ► A
feeling of numbness in the middle of the tongue, as if it had been burnt
with hot food, very much aggravated on talking or drawing in the breath,
[4]. [480.]
► Burning and dryness of the tongue
and lips; they look like singed leather, [48].
► General Mouth. ► *Offensive odor from the mouth, [59a]. ►
Offensive breath and odor in the mouth, which he himself noticed, in the
morning on rising (after twenty-four hours), [1b]. ► Mouth
dry, [67], (after 2 to 3 1/4
grains); decreased (after 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 grains), [59]. ► Dryness of
the mouth, lips, and fauces, [60].
► Dryness of the lips, of the tongue,
of the soft palate, and the whole mucous membrane of the buccal cavity
(two hours after 1 1/4 grains), [59].
► Dryness of the mouth with the usual
accessories; taste metallic; head confused (one hour and a half after 18
3/4 grains), [59]. ► Dryness of the mouth and throat, with
hoarseness (after 2 grains), [59].
► Dryness of the mouth increased,
taste disgusting, the tongue furred yellow (seven hours after 3 1/4 and
4 grains), [59]. ► Great dryness of the mouth, [74]. [490.]
► Great dryness of the mouth and
throat, in the morning; no saliva in the mouth; without thirst, [50]. ►
Mouth and fauces become exceedingly dry (after 4 3/4 to 5 1/4 grains), [59]. ►
Mouth felt thick (after several hours), [86].
► Lips, tongue, and mouth appeared
thick (after several hours), [86].
► Feeling of warmth and dryness in
the mouth and fauces, [59a]. ► Saliva. ►
Accumulation of saliva, [1]. ► Accumulation of saliva with salty taste, [4]. ►
Great accumulation of saliva, [4].
► Bloody saliva in the mouth, with
bloody sweetish taste (after a few hours), [4]. ►
Frequent ecptysis, [20]. (Case
21). [500.] ► Slavering, [42].
[Original corrected by Hughes.] ►
Diminished secretion of saliva, [60].
► Taste. ►
Pasty taste, [59]. ► Flat, pasty taste, [59a]. ►
Disagreeable taste in mouth (after several hours), [86]. ► Mouth
unpleasant, [1]. ► Bitterness in the mouth, in the morning,
but food does not taste bitter (after twenty-four hours), [15]. ►
Bitterness in the mouth, and bitter eructations, [20]. (Case 28). ►
Taste bitter, [55]. ► Nauseous bitter taste, [56]. [510.] ► Loathsome bitter taste in her mouth
(after several hours), [86]. ► Sharp and bitter taste, causing vomiting,
[77]. ►
The saliva tastes salty, [1]. ► Speech. ►
*Speech impaired, [8]. ► *Speech confused, [80]. ►
Inability to speak distinctly, [71].
► *Speech difficult and irrational,
[78]. ►
He muttered but few inarticulate sounds, [96].
► Sometimes uttering inarticulate
sounds, and again speaking some words quite distinctly, [66]. ► They
lost their speech, [95]. [520.] ►
Speechless, with wild look, [68]. ► *Dumb, [28],
[36], [44].
THROAT.
►
Objective. ► Frequent
expectoration of mucus from the fauces by hawking (after a quarter of an
hour), [3]. ► *Spasm of the throat, [64], [65].
► The back of the throat is affected;
he points to is with the finger, as if something were sticking in it, [23]. ►
Subjective. ► Dryness of
the throat, [8]. ► Dryness in the throat (fauces horridæ), [48]. ►
Throat dry and constricted, with difficult swallowing, [78]. ► Great
dryness in the throat (after ten minutes), [90]. ► Great
dryness of the throat, and thirst, [2].
[530.] ►
Burning heat in the throat, [45]. ► *Constriction in the throat, [27], [36].
► Violent constriction of the throat
so that she was unable to chew and swallow food, [63]. ►►
*The throat feels constricted, impairing swallowing, [8]. ►
Pressure in the throat as from a swelling, when swallowing and when not,
[4]. ►
Biting sensation in the back of the throat, [1]. ►
Scraping in the throat, [51]. ► Scraping and dryness in the throat, [51]. ►
Scraping and roughness in the throat, [50].
► Scraping in the throat, with
hoarseness, [59a]. [540.] ►
Distressing scraping sensation in the throat and on the palate, as after
too much speaking, [4]. ► Roughness and scraping in the throat and
on the tongue, with quite moist mouth, [4].
► Fauces. ► Dryness of the fauces, [88]. ►
Dryness and tickling in the fauces, [59].
► Peculiar warmth, dryness, and
scraping in the throat and fauces, [59].
► Swallowing. ►► *Swallowing difficult, [66], [67].
► *Swallowing very difficult, [68]. ►
At the dinner table he wanted everything he could see or reach, yet
could not swallow readily, [91]. ►► *Inability to swallow, [47], [23],
[Original corrected by Hughes.] [87],
(after six hours). ► He desired to
drink, but was unable to swallow, [4].
[550.] ►
*Inability to swallow; twice he spits out the fluid taken into the mouth,
[24]. ►
Inability to swallow, on account of the dryness of the mouth and fauces,
[60]. ►
The throat seems so contracted and dry that a swallow of tea threatens
to suffocate him, [24]. [If one
groups the S. 522, 524, 527, 529, 530, 548, 764, 525, 552, 565, 566, 88,
89, 531, 533, 548, 550, 568, 549, 499, 968, together with the symptoms
of the mind and disposition, 1, 8, 62, 83, 101, 113, 76, 79, 81, 87,
102, 111, 951, 974, 1015, 1016, 1017, with the convulsions, 863, 1167,
1169, and some others, 422, 433, 1103, 1122, 1128, there appears a
tolerably accurate picture of the ordinary hydrophobia caused by the
bite of a mad dog, which, therefore, may and must be frequently cured
homœopathically by Hyoscyamus. The true history of this fearful disease
exhibits several varieties in men, for each of which must be given an
exactly appropriate remedy; among these Hyoscyamus is not the last. For
other cases Stramonium or Belladonna is the exact homœopathic remedy
according to the character of the attack. Belladonna has already made
some complete cures, and it would have made more if other substances had
not been combined with it impairing its power, and especially if it had
not been given in such excessive doses, and thus at times the patient
murdered by the remedy. Large doses of drugs
which are homœopathic to a disease are far for more injurious than
others which have no similarity or which have an opposite (antipathic)
relation to the disease. In homœopathic practice, when the totality of
the symptoms of a disease is similar to the symptoms of the remedy, it
is certainly a crime to give doses that are not very small, indeed, as
small as possible; if, under such circumstances, doses are given of the
size administered in the old blundering way, they act as real poisons
and are murderous. This I declare, convinced by a
thousandfold experience, universally true of the exhibition of
homœopathic remedies in general, and especially when the diseases in
acute, but more particularly true of the use of Belladonna, Stramonium,
and Hyoscyamus in hydrophobia, each according to its kind; let no one
come to me and say, “A certain case has one of these three
remedies, even in the strongest doses, and not too seldom, but every two
or three hours and nevertheless the patient has died.” Just so, I
say from full conviction, just on this account
has he died and thou hast killed him; hadst thou administered
the smallest portion of a drop of the fifteenth or thirtieth centesimal
dilution of the juice of one of these herbs (in certain cases, a second
dose after three or four days), then the patient would certainly have
been saved. -Hahnemann.] ► External
Throat. ► Veins of the
neck, extremities, and more particularly those of the face, were very
much distended, [96]. ► [A swelling which suppurates on the left
side of the neck], [20]. (Case
36). [The abscess was in the parotid gland; it never closed, and the
patient died with pulmonary disease. -Hughes.] ►
A tetanic contraction of the anterior muscles of the neck so excessive
that it was impossible to lay the head on the pillow, [93]. ► Sudden
violent sticking in the right side of the neck (in the region of the
upper insertion of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle), relieved by
pressure with the thumb (second day), [56].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► *Unusually
great appetite (at noon), [55a];
(after one hour and three-quarters), [56].
► Appetite lessened (after 2 to 3 1/4
grains), [59], [59a]. ►
Appetite and strength diminished from day to day, [20]. [Not found -Hughes.] [560.] ►
Appetite much diminished (after 11 1/4 grains), [59]. ► Loss
of appetite, [33]. ► Loss of appetite, with natural taste, [1]. ►
*Will not eat or drink, [71]. ► Aversion to food, with white coating on
the tongue, pasty taste, and offensive odor from the mouth (after 4 3/4
to 5 1/4 grains), [59]. ► Thirst. ►
Thirst and dryness in the throat, [11].
► Thirst caused by a sticking dryness
in the throat (after two hours and a half), [2]. ► *Great
thirst, [69], [84], [40].
[Original corrected by Hughes.] ►
Intolerable thirst, [9];
unquenchable, [40]. ► Insurmountable aversion to every kind of
beverage, [96]. [570.] ►
Eructation and Hiccough. ►
Ineffectual efforts to eructate, [56].
► Ineffectual efforts to eructate;
half suppressed incomplete eructations, lasting ten hours, [1b]. ►
Eructations, [59], [59a]. ►
Eructations and nasty taste, with inclination to vomit (two hours and a
half after 18 3/4 grains), [59]. ► Empty eructations, [55], [56],
etc. ► Frequent empty eructations
(after one hour and a half), [3]. ► Frequent tasteless eructations, [4]. ►
Hiccough, with cramps and rumbling in the abdomen, [20]. (Case 28). ►
Frequent hiccough (after one hour and a quarter, and later), [3]. ►
Violent hiccough, two midnights in succession, with involuntary
micturition and frothing from the mouth, [20].
[Not found. -Hughes.] [580.] ► Most violent hiccough, with constipation,
[20]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ► Most excessive hiccough, at night, with
diarrhœa, [20]. [Not found.
-Hughes.] ► Most excessive
long-continuing hiccough, after dinner, [20].
[Not found. -Hughes.] ► A kind of
heartburn, soon, and also returning in the afternoon, [52]. ► Nausea and
Vomiting. ► Nausea, [1], [20];
(Case 10), [27], etc. ► Nausea, amounting even to vomiting (after
1 grain), [59]. ► Nausea caused by external pressure on the
pit of the throat, which afterwards continued to itself, but disappeared
on stooping (after half an hour), [2].
► Nausea, qualmishness, [4]. ►
Nausea, vomiting, [7]. ► Nausea, and in one case vomiting, [59a]. [590.]
► Nausea and vertigo, [20]. (Case 13). ►
Considerable disgust after taking the dose (after 3 1/4 and 4 grains), [59]. ►
Qualmishness, [1]. ► Sick at stomach, but does not vomit
(nausea), [91]. ► Ineffectual retching, [68]. ►
Ineffectual efforts to vomit from time to time, [71]. ► *Vomiting,
[17], [20]. (Cases 6 and 7), [21], [27].
► The woman who had eaten the least
soon began to vomit, [93]. ► For several days he could only with
difficulty retain food without vomiting, [7].
► Frequent vomiting, [21a]. [600.]
► Vomited copiously after drinking
coffee, [86]. ► Profuse vomiting, consisting of white,
very tenacious mucus, [20]. (Case
21). ► Vomiting watery, with vertigo,
[20]. (Case 28). ► Vomiting of green bile and profuse
perspiration, followed by mental quiet, [20].
(Case 12). [After rage. -Hughes.] ►
Stomach. ► Inflammation in
the stomach, [6]. ► Weakness of the stomach, [43]. [The day after. -Hughes.] ► Pain in the stomach, [20]. (Case 21). ►
Feeling of warmth in the epigastric region, rising towards the chest, [56]. ►
Heat in the pit of the stomach, [56].
► Burning in the stomach, [9]. [610.]
► Fulness in the epigastric region,
with a distressing sensation of tension in the abdomen, in the evening, [4]. ►
Constriction about the pit of the stomach, [12]. ►
Pressure in the stomach after drinking water, [52]. ►
Frequent attacks of pressure in the pit of the stomach, which impedes
respiration, [1]. ► Paroxysmal pulsating pressure in the
stomach; afterwards this pressure returned and extended up to the right
side of the chest, [52]. ► Gnawing pressure in the stomach (after a
quarter of an hour), [52]. ► Pressive pain in the stomach, [51]. ►
Oppression of the stomach (after 11 1/4 grains), [59]. ► Weight
in the stomach, [42]. [Afterwards
S. 605; original revised by Hughes.] ►
*The epigastric region is sensitive to touch and painful, [1].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. [620.] ► Sensation as of incarcerated flatulence
in the left hypochondrium (after two hours), [52]. ► Some
stitches in the hepatic region (after half an hour), [1]. ► Umbilical.
► Movings in the umbilical region and
slight griping, [56]. ► Griping in the umbilical region, [56], [59].
► Griping as from flatulence in the
umbilical region (fourth day), [56].
► Pressure in the umbilical region, [1]. ►
Violent pressure in the umbilical region, sometimes less on pressure, [51]. ►
Cutting and griping in the umbilical region, like that preceding
diarrhœa; lasting two or three minutes, [56].
► Slight momentary cutting and
griping in the umbilical region (after ten minutes), [56]. ► *A
sticking in the umbilical region, during inspiration (after
five hours), [1]. [630.] ►
Sticking pain beneath the umbilicus, when walking, [1a]. ► General
Abdomen. ► Abdomen
distended, not sensitive, [68]. ► Abdomen distended; epigastrium not
tender, [84]. ► Considerable swelling of the abdomen,
with necessity to breathe deeply; sour eructations and diminished stools
(seven hours after 4 grains), [59].
► Unusual flatulence, after a very
moderate supper; frequent though difficult emission of flatus (after
fourteen hours), [1]. ► Rumbling in the abdomen, with violent
diarrhœa, [20]. (Case 31). ► Rumbling in the abdomen, even during the
diarrhœa, [20]. [Not found.
-Hughes.] ► Loud rumbling in the
abdomen, [56]. ► Discharge of flatus (two hours and a half
after 18 3/4 grains), [59]. ► Passage of large quantities of flatus
(first day), [56]. [640.] ►
Passed a large quantity of flatus (after second dose), [85]. ►
Emission of very large quantities of flatus, [55]. ►
Spasmodic contraction of the abdominal muscles, as if something alive
were within them (after three hours), [1].
[From the exhalation of the herb. -Hahnemann.] ►
Feeling of hardness in the abdomen, [1].
► Pain in the abdomen, [20]. (Case 39), [24],
[42], [48]. ►
Feeling of warmth in the upper and middle abdomen, lasting a quarter of
an hour, passing off with the discharge of flatulence, [55]. ►
Feeling of warmth in the abdomen, becoming after ten minutes a slight
cutting and followed by rumbling and gurgling like that preceding
diarrhœa, [55]. ► Burning sensation in the right side of
the abdomen, in a circumscribed spot (second morning), [52]. ► He
screams on account of pains, which seem as though they would burst the
abdomen; he thrusts the fists into his sides, [48]. ►
Griping in the abdomen, [55], [59a]. [650.]
► Slight griping, with soft stool
(after 11 1/4 grains), [59]. ► Pinching in the abdomen (after
twenty-six hours), [1b]. ► Drawing pain in the intestines (after
nine hours), [1b]. ► Pinching drawing in the abdomen, with
emission of much flatulence (after three hours), [2]. ►
Pressive flatulent colic in the upper abdomen; it distends the abdomen
in the evening after lying down, [1b].
► Cutting in the whole abdomen, [59]. ►
Cutting pains in the intestines, accompanied by drawing in the small of
the back, [59]. ► Cutting colic, [1]. ►
Transient sticking in the left side of the abdomen, [52]. ►
Coliclike pain, [43]. [660.] ►
Excessive flatulent colic, in the morning after rising from bed, a
griping pressing downward, like a weight in the lower abdomen, with
qualmishness and pain in the back, as if beaten, without emission of
flatus, during motion and rest (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► *Painful
sensitiveness of the abdominal walls, [1]. ► *Pains in
the abdominal muscles, as if he had fallen upon them, while siting
(after two hours), [1a]. ► *Pain in the abdomen (abdominal muscles), as
after excessive exertion or a strain (in the morning,
immediately after waking), [1]. ► Hypogastrium. ►
Hypogastric region distended and sensitive, [96]. ►
*Distension of the hypogastrium, which is painful to touch, [14]. [Original revised by Hughes.] ►► *Cutting low down in the abdomen,
[1]. ►
Transient attacks of cutting in a spot low down in the abdomen, beneath
the pubes (after six hours), [1].® 2000
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