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HYPERICUM. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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HYPERICUM.

HEAD.

►
Head feels dull (third day), [5b].
► Felt the dull head clear up
(directly after dose, fourth day), [5].
► Head dull, morning in bed (eighth
day), [5]. ►
Head heavy in the morning, improved towards evening (tenth day), [5e]. ►
Fulness of head (eleventh day), [5].
► Fulness of head and low spirits
this morning, which passed off in two hours, and was followed by a
feeling of stiffness in the eyes, as if after tears and a strained
painful feel in forehead, which went off after second dose (fifth day), [5d]. [360.]
► When she arose, felt the head full,
which cleared about an hour after breakfast (after first dose), [5f]. ►
Rose with fulness of head (second day), [5f].
► Fulness and pain, with heat in
vertex before waking (fifth day), [5f].
► Pain in head, worse after dinner
(fifth day), [5f]. ► Pain of weight in head, generally on the
passage of a heavy storm-cloud (seventh day), [5c]. ►
Headache in forehead, as if it were smashed, increased at night, and on
lying down; it increased next day, but was more towards the vertex
(seventh day), [5e]. ► After breakfast, pressure on anterior and
upper part of frontal (left side) bone (ninth day), [5b]. ►
Pressure in left temple after breakfast (eighth day), [5c]. ► Attack
of weakening, drawing pain in the scalp, over upper and anterior part of
parietal bone (left), for a few minutes (fifth day), [5b]. ► Back
of head feels bothered this forenoon (fourth day), [5]. [370.] ► After breakfast immediately felt a severe
scalp headache on the left side of occiput, sometimes it was sharp, at
others dull (second day), [5]. ► In the evening for a few minutes, felt as
if a violent headache with pressure were about to come on in left side
of occiput (first day), [5b]. ► Shoot of dull pain up left occipital
nerve, forenoon (seventh day), [5c].
► Creeping feeling in right side of
occiput after dinner (eleventh day), [5].

EYE.

►
After breakfast, slight aching over brows (ninth day), [5]. ► Burning
stinging in tarsi of left eyelids, at 9 P.M. (first day), [5a]. ► Sight
weak (sixth day); very weak (eighth day), [5c].
► Focal distance of vision
lengthened, this evening (first day), [5a].

EAR.

►
Simple pain in right ear at entrance of meatus (eighth day), [5]. ►
Pressure in right ear, with excoriated feel in pharynx on that side, in
the evening (eighth day), [5b]. [380.] ►
Sharp itching in right ear; meatus; goes off by touch, comes again
(first day), [5a].

NOSE.

►
Sneezing, nose dryish (first day), [5a].
► More than commonly sharp sneezing
fit after breakfast, with free nasal secretion (sixth day), [5c]. ►
Sneezing leaves a raw soreness in throat (fourth day), [5d]. ► Nose
dry on rising, and all day (third day), [5b].
► Nose dry (fourth day), [5b]. ►
Dryness of left nostril for a week past; crusts in it (fifth day), [5c]. ►
Rose with pain in bridge of nose (second day), [5f].

FACE.

►
Slight aching of the brows and face, which increase in the night to severe distressing ache in the right half of
face, in an old tooth more particularly (first day), [5a]. ► Dull
faceache, in afternoon and evening (second day), [5a]. [390.] ► The faceache left by diet and abstinence
from all sorts of artificial stimulus (after nine days), [5a]. ► Face
aching more or less all day (eighth day), [5b].
► Sleep disturbed by a faceache,
which came on in the afternoon, after eating mulberry tart (lasted
fourteen hours), (third day); pain in face (left side) increased (fourth
day), [5e]. ►
After breakfast pressure on malar prominences (second day), [5a]. ►
Pressure on malar bone, evening (fifth day), [5b]. ► Lips
dry (third and fourth days), [5b].
► Aching in the articulation of the
jaws (second day), [5f]. ► At 10 P.M., lancinations from
submaxillary gland of right side, down the neck, for a few moments
(first day), [5c]. ► Last night had severe aching in an old
stump of a right upper molar tooth, which kept me awake and restless; it
was best lying on that cheek and keeping quiet (sixth day), [5a]. ►
Took a glass of beer after dinner, and felt the old stump ache a little;
it went on to ache very badly during
the whole night (seventh day), [5b].

STOMACH.

[400.]
► Appetite increased, in the evening
(first day); in the morning (second and fourth days), [5d]. ►
Appetite for pickles, in the evening (sixth day), [5a]. ► No
great appetite for breakfast (third day), [5a].
► Thirst for wine, in
afternoon; took some (second day), [5].
► Eructations after taking medicine,
with taste of same (fifth day), [5a].
► Eructations after breakfast (second
day), [5c]; (ninth day), [5b]. ►
Awoke in the night with great nausea (sixth night), [5d]. ►
Flatulence and distension of stomach, after teatime (third day), [5e]. ►
Indigestion and flatulence in the night; awoke with distension and
cracking pain in lower belly (first night), which was relieved in the
morning by relaxation of the bowels, [5c].
► Ate plums and pickles, and had
dyspepsia and bilious diarrhœa (after nine days), [5a]. [410.] ► Stomach feels contracted and hot, in the
evening (third day), [5]. ► After breakfast, pressure in the stomach,
extending towards the back (fifth day), [5a].
► After meat at breakfast, felt
weight in stomach (eighth day), [5a].
► On rising in the morning, the
stomach felt hottish and uncomfortable, though only a small bit of bread
and mashed potatoes were eaten for supper, with half a glass of port
wine, in water; drank a glass of cold water and felt all right (ninth
day), [5b].

ABDOMEN.

►
Dragging pain in liver at point of false ribs, at 6 P.M. (fifth day), [5]. ►
Weight and dragging in liver, walking from Torwood, 11.30 P.M. (eighth
day), [5b]. ►
In the night awoke with distension and cracking pains in bowels (sixth
night), [5d]. ► Bowels full and flatulent, in the evening
(second day), [5d]. ► Crampy pains in abdomen (twelfth day), [5f]. ►
After tea pinching pains in bowels, which became much relaxed (fourth
day), [5f]. [420.] ►
In an hour felt pressure at left groin, towards ring (third day), [5c]. ►
Pressure in right iliac fossa, towards the ring (first day), [5a]. ►
Pressure on left inguinal ring, morning (sixth day), [5f].

RECTUM AND ANUS.

►
Peculiar slightly cutting warm pain all around rectum, internal to
sphincter, forenoon (fourth day), [5].
► Rectum felt as if dry, in morning
(seventh day), [5b]. ► Inclination to stool, at 6 P.M. (first
day), [5a].

STOOL.

►
Stool delayed till noon (fifth day), [5].
► Stool rather scanty and hard, and
constipated (seventh day), [5a]. ► Free evacuation of the bowels this
evening (seventh day), [5a]. ► Free and normal evacuation of bowels
(eighth day), [5a]. [430.] ►
Firm stool, in the morning (first day), [5b].
► Soft, yellow, bilious stool, at 4
P.M.; had a firm one after breakfast as usual (second day), [5b]. ►
Very free stool, bilious, soft (fifth day), [5b]. ► Stool
very hard and knotty (seventh day), [5b].
► Large, firm, hard, dry stool this
morning (eighth day), [5b]. ► Tolerably good stool, at 10 A.M. (first
day), [5c]. ►
Stool delayed till morning (ninth day), [5c].
► Bowels irregular; relaxed without
pain, morning or evening, for three days past (sixth day); constipation
(seventh day); bowels irregular (eighth day), [5d].

URINARY ORGANS.

►
At 4 P.M., walking, felt pressive pains for a few minutes in the renal
region (fourth day), [5a]. ► Squeezing pressure in the left kidney,
momentary (after one hour, second day), [5b].
[440.] ►
Biting stinging in orifice of urethra (fourth day), ([5a]. ► Warm
biting in urethra, afternoon (eighth day), [5c]. ► Urine
turbid (seventh day), [5d].

SEXUAL ORGANS.

►
Afternoon while walking, erotic ideas and erection (first day), [5b]. ►
Access of erotic ideas, very vivid for a quarter of an hour
(immediately, second day), [5]. ► Catamenia appeared this morning, with
less trouble than usual; greater quantity
(eighth day), [5e]. ► Catamenia increased in quantity; three
days previous to their appearance, great pinching in abdomen, with
diarrhœa; cold feet; headache, like wrenching pain over eyes, better in
motion; very severe pains in back. Catamenia attended with sickening
pains in belly, which she never had before, dull pain in head;
sensitiveness of the auditory nerves, Menses three days too early
(seventeenth day), [5f].

RESPIRATORY ORGANS.

►
Some scraping and roughness in the larynx, and upper part of pharynx and
mares, in the fog late at night (eighth day), [5b]. ► Slight
bronchial catarrh, without pain or illness, caused by the night fogs
(fifth day), [5c].

CHEST.

►
Pressure on chest at nipples, with a peculiar warm kind of formication
(third day), [5a]. [450.] ►
After breakfast, pressure on outer third of left clavicle (seventh day),
[5a]. ►
After breakfast, dull heavy pressure on right side of chest from seventh
rib down (fifth day), [5]. ► Single thrill of shooting pain in left
pectoral muscles (sixth day), [5a].
► Dull stinging in right pectoral
muscles, extending to back around ribs (third day), [5b]. ►
Sticking pain in left chest, among the tendons of serratus magnus
(seventh day), [5c]. ► Stinging-burning pain on edge of left
pectoral muscle, noon, one minute (fifth day), [5a]. ►
Creeping feeling in right breast up to the median line (eleventh day), [5].

PULSE.

►
Pulse accelerated after dinner (second day), [5]. ► Pulse
90, after breakfast, before stool, 10 A.M., fell to 80 at noon (seventh
day), [5c]. ►
Pulse 80 (eighth day), [5c]. [460.] ►
Pulse 82, at 10 A.M. (ninth day), [5c].

NECK AND BACK.

►
Awoke with pain in right trapezius muscle, early in morning; it went off
after washing (fourth day), [5b]. ► Aching of the back of the neck and upper
part of shoulders (trapezius), (fifth day), [5b]. ► Severe
pressive pain on top of right shoulderblade, afternoon (third day), [5c]. ►
Pressive pain in left shoulderblade, after dinner (eighth day), [5c]. ►
Cutting pains between shoulderblades on right side of vertebræ (tenth
day), [5]. ►
Stinging in back, near edge of right scapula, near spine, morning (sixth
day), [5b]. ►
Cutting pain under left shoulderblade, with pressure in stomach, after
dinner (seventh day), [5a].

EXTREMITIES.

►
Limbs heavy; felt fatigue in walking before dinner (eighth day), [5c]. ►
All articulations feel bruised (ninth day), [5]. [470.] ► Sawing pains in left hand and left inner
ankle (eleventh day), [5]. ► Tearing of outside of right knee,
followed immediately by severe pressure on upper part of shoulderblade
(right), (seventh day), [5c]. ► Flying pains in right shoulder, and also
in left calf (seventh day), [5a]. ► Lancing pains in left wrist and ankle,
and along inner border of left foot (third night), [5c]. ► In
bed, this morning, drawing under right malleolus and in right wrist,
momentary; also sticking jerking on centre of back of foot, with
fugitive feeling of fulness in left half of head (eighth day), [5a].

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.

► This morning, slight rheumatic drawing
aching in point of left shoulder (third day), [5b]. ► Slight
pains in the shoulder-joints, especially the left one, forenoon (third
day), [5a]. ►
Numbness in left arm awoke her three times; it went off after friction
(third night), [5d]. ► Pressure on right humerus, at insertion
of deltoid (ninth day), [5b]. ► Hard pain running down left median nerve,
followed by the above pain in front of thigh, in the evening (ninth
day), [5b]. [480.] ►
Slight ache in left elbow passing immediately to right forearm (ninth
day), [5c]. ►
Pain in right elbow very severe (fourth day), [5f]. ►
Weakness and strained feel in right elbow troublesome a month back, has
returned, and is aggravated by
second dose to-day; worse in lifting (second day), [5c]. ► Right
arm very weak and painful, just behind elbow-joint (second day), [5f]. ►
Rheumatic pains in right elbow (fifth day), [6f]. ►
Slightly lancing pains about head of right radius for a few moments
(first day), [5c]. ► On going to sleep starting in right
forearm above wrist (second day), [5].
► Pressive pains down left forearm,
on ulnar side (fifth day), [5a]. ► Jerking of tendons in left wrist on going
to sleep (sixth day), [5]. ► Pressive lancing pain on the middle
metacarpal bone of left hand (back), morning (sixth day), [5b]. [490.] ► Lancing pains in joints of left hand
fingers (first day), [5a]. ► Strained pain between index and thumb of
left hand, at 1 P.M. (eighth day), [5c].
► Lancing pain in phalanges of middle
and little fingers of right hand (fifth day), [5c]. ►
Cutting pains in the fleshy end of fingers, of late several times (sixth
day), [5c].

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.

► Crampy feel in the lower part of gluteal muscles, right hip; immediately on
its disappearing, flashing pain on back of left toes, 5 P.M. (ninth
day), [5b]. ►
Drawing in left buttock, under tube ischii, with same in right wrist,
slight (ninth day), [5b]. ► At night, after a walk, strained feel in
right ham (first day), [5b]. ► Pain in inner condyle on right thigh for
a moment; morning in bed (eighth day), [5].
► On walking in the afternoon, felt a
bruised pain in left thigh; muscles supplied by anterior crural nerve
are stiff and sore; this lasted some days, going and coming (ninth day),
[5]. ►
Left thigh sore and lame (tenth day), [5].
[500.] ►
About midday the pain in front of left thigh
returned, and came and went frequently (first day), [5c]. ►
Pressive pain on centre of front of left thigh, afternoon (fifth day), [5c]. ►
Pains in left thigh as before (sixth day), [5c]. ► Slight
shoots down the great sciatica on back of pelvis, in bed at night
(eighth day), [5]. ► Pain in right knee, morning (ninth day), [5]. ►
Starting of left leg on going off to sleep (third day), [5]. ►
Numbness in legs (twelfth day), [5f].
► Left leg numb, in evening (first
day), [5f]. ►
Left leg numb (second day), [5f]. ► Slight numbness in left leg after first
dose (second day), [5c]. [510.] ►
Cramp in left leg on going to sleep (fourth day), [5d]. ► Severe
diductive pains down nerves
of right leg, for a few moments,
afternoon (fifth day), [5c]. ► Flashes of weakening of drawing pain all
over front of left leg, all the afternoon, either walking or sitting
(fifth day), [5b]. ► Last night at 12 o’clock, coming home,
felt a sudden shoot of pain all over the front of left leg, apparently
in the periosteum, it recurred two or three times, and several times
to-day (fifth day), [5b]. ► Single biting on left shin (seventh day),
[5b]. ►
Biting on front of left shin, evening (seventh day), [5b]. ► Biting
on left shin (ninth day), [5b]. ► Tendency to tingling in leg, particularly
the left one (fifth day), [5a]. ► Pressure on left calf, as of a blunt
point, several times (eighth day), [5b].
► Painful drawing in right tibialis
anticus (after one hour, second day), [5b].
[520.] ►
Drawing in right calf (first day), [5a].
► Sticking stitching in inside of
right calf in walking, momentary, 4 P.M. (eighth day), [5]. ► At
breakfast felt a pressive drawing in the right tendo Achillis (sixth
day), [5b]. ►
Left ankle particularly liable to wrench (ninth day), [5]. ► Cramp
in left foot on going to sleep (third night), [5b]. ►
Pressive drawing on inner border of left foot, forenoon (sixth day), [5b]. ►
Twinges of pain along the external border of left foot, after dinner
(third day), [5b]. ► Lying in bed, the feet seem disposed to
tingle (second day), [5c]. ► On falling asleep at night, felt a slight
jerk in toes of left foot (fifth day), [5b].
► A gnawing in right toes, succeeded
by pressure and aching in middle of left thigh, about where the
sartorious crosses (ninth day), [5b].
[530.] ►
Frequent biting stinging in toes of right foot
(third day), [5a]. ►
Single biting on a toe of right foot (eighth day), [5b]. ► In the
morning early, stinging biting in back of toes, on right foot, in
attacks of a few moments (second day), [5a].
► Slight lancination, in fold of
skin, internal to great toe-nail of right foot, for a quarter of an hour
(after dose, fourth day), [5].

GENERALITIES.

►
Felt rather dull this morning, and languid; a dull day (third day), [5]. ►
On rising, feel rather weary and have foul tongue (fourth day), [5]. ►
Feel rather dull to-day (fourth day), [5c].
► Weary and heavy all day (eighth
day), [5]. ►
Unrefreshed on waking; languid in the morning; felt better towards noon
(third day), [5f]. ► At various times has felt fugitive pains
in the face, shoulders, limbs, and fingers, of a laming character
(twelfth day), [5f].

SKIN.

[540.]
► Papulæ on the middle of the right
sterno-mastoid muscle, such as had appeared before on the chest (fifth
day), [5b]. ►
Pimple on back, right side (fifth day), [5a].
► Very small pimple or boil on right
hip (sixth day); pimple rather sore under the friction of the clothes
(seventh day), [5c]. ► A cluster of itching, psoralike vesicles
on root of left thumb, in forenoon; gone at night (ninth day), [5].

SLEEP.

►
Felt as if under the influence of tea, and went to bed with the brain
excited; did not sleep soundly. Dreams vivid and active; next morning
found myself lying very much on the back and digging the head backwards
into the pillow (first night). Dreams active, confuses (third night).
Lay a good deal on back; sleep uneasy; threw the head back, and kept on
jerking it backwards (sixth day). This morning conscious of anxious
dreams, as if something important were left undone (seventh day). Dreams
busy (eighth night). Dreams full of bustle (ninth night), [5]. ► Sleep
disturbed and uneasy from faceache
(first night). Passed a bad night
from horrid sexual dreams; disturbed sleep (second night). Dreams horrid
and agitated, sexual (third night), [5a].
► Dreams confused (third night). In
spite of a bad night rose feeling well (eighth day). At night got late
to bed, and dreamed awful horrid dreams, as that God was far from me and
repudiated me, etc. (eighth night), [5b].
► Sleep full of dreams of Mormons, of
horses, fights, and great action (first day). Found myself very early in
the morning lying on my back,
dreaming some desperate horror, and half awake, saying to myself,
“Why should I fear, the Lord is around and about me” (second
day). Sleep disturbed by all sorts of horrid dreams; starting of the
legs when falling asleep; slight convulsive shocks and twitches
following up, preventing sleep; singular erethic state of nervous system
all night; erotic ideas and dreams (third night). Dreams active (fifth
day). Sleep disturbed by active dreams (eighth night), [5c]. ►
Restless night (third night), [5d].
► Sleep lighter, and is more
refreshed by it (tenth day), [5a].
[550.] ►
Slept badly; dreams of distress
(second night). Dreams distressing
(third and fourth nights), [5f].

FEVER.

►
About four hours after first dose felt a great coldness and numbness of
left leg, for ten minutes, while sitting, [5e].
► Feet cold (tenth day), [5c]. ►
Face hot and smarting, for two hours (third day), [5f].

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