LEPTANDRA.
Veronica Virginica, Linn. (Leptandra Virginica,
Nutt.).
Natural order
, Scrophulariaceæ.
Common name
, Culver’s Physic.
Preparation
, Tincture or trituration of
the root.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. Burt, provings with “Leptandrin,” doses 1 to 40 grains,
Hale’s New Remedies, 2d ed.; 2,
same, the day after last symptom and four days after last dose of
previous proving, began with fluid extract, and took repeated doses of
20 to 160 drops, ibid; 3, proving of
a student in Hahn. Med. Coll., repeated doses of Leptandrin first dec.
trit. for two weeks, ibid.
MIND.
►
Feeling very gloomy (after third dose, first day), [1]. ► Very
gloomy and irritable all day (second day), [2].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Very dizzy
while walking (third day), [2]. ► General Head. ►
Headache, [3]. ► Slight headache (four hours after first
dose, first day, and three hours after first dose, second day), [2]. ►
Severe headache, with frequent pain in the bowels, all day (fifth day), [2]. ►
Constant dull headache, very much worse in the regions of causality
(after second dose, second day), [1].
► Dull, slight headache, with slight
distress in the umbilicus (three hours after first dose, second day), [1]. ►
Forehead. ► Frontal
headache (three hours after second dose, third day), [1]. [10.] ► Slight frontal headache (four hours after
first dose, third day, and after fourth dose, second day), [1]; (after third dose, second day), [2]. ►
Slight frontal headache, with neuralgic pain in the right temple (after
fourth dose, second day), [2]. ► Slight frontal headache, with sharp pains
in the temples (three and eight hours after second dose, fourth day), [1]. ►
Slight frontal headache, with a dull, aching sensation in the umbilicus
(after second dose, first day), [1].
► Slept middling well, awoke several
times, and found that I had a severe frontal headache (first night), [1]. ►
Very severe frontal headache; walking makes it almost intolerable, at 8
A.M., and subsequently (third day), [2].
► Great frontal headache (third day),
[2]. ►
Dull, frontal headache (one hour after first dose, first day), [2]. ►
Dull, frontal headache, with a sensation as if the hair were pulled at
(after second dose, first day), [2].
► Dull, frontal headache, which is
very deep in the cerebrum (after third dose, third day), [1]. [20.] ► Constant, dull, frontal headache, worse
in the temples (two hours after first dose, first day), [1]. ►
Constant, dull, frontal headache, very severe, deep in the region of
causality (after third dose, first day), [1].
EYE.
►
Eyes ache and smart severely (after fourth dose, second day), [1]. ►
Eyes sore and smart severely (after second dose, second day), [1]. ►
Eyes smarting constantly, with dull pains in the eyeballs (after fourth
dose, second day), [2]. ► Eyes smart a good deal (after third dose,
second day), [2]; (three hours
after second dose, third day), [1].
► Eyes smart very much (four hours
after first dose, and after third dose, third day), [1]. ► Eyes
smart and ache very much (after third dose, first day), [1]. ► Eyelids
agglutinated (fourth morning), [1].
► Profuse secretion of tears (one
hour after first dose, first day), [2].
MOUTH.
►
Tongue. [30.] ► Tongue coated yellow (second morning), [2]. ►
Tongue coated yellow along the centre (third day, fourth and fifth
mornings), [1]; (fourth morning), [2]. ►
Taste. ► Flat taste in the
mouth (fifth morning), [1];
(second morning), [2]. ► Unpleasant, flat taste in the mouth
(fourth morning), [1].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Great appetite
(fourth day), [2]; (seventh day), [1]. ►
Awoke at 5 A.M. feeling very hungry, with great pain in the epigastric
region, and continued until I had taken breakfast (sixth day), [1]. ►
Eructation. ► Foot rises
very sour, at 10 A.M. (fifth day), [1].
► Nausea. ► Sick at the stomach, with deathly
faintness, immediately after rising in the night (first night), [2]. ►
Stomach. ► Good deal of
distress in the stomach and bowels, with a burning sensation (after
second dose, first day), [2]. ► Constant distress in the lower part of
the epigastric region and umbilicus; by spells there are sharp, cutting
pains in the same parts (two hours after first dose, first day), [1]. [40.]
► Dull, aching distress in the
stomach and umbilical region (one hour after first dose, first day), [2]. ►
Burning distress in the whole epigastric and hypochondriac regions
(after third dose, third day), [1].
► Constant aching distress in the
epigastric and umbilical regions, with sharp, cutting pains, by spells
(after fourth dose, second day), [1].
► Constant, burning, aching distress
in the region of the stomach and liver (three hours after second dose,
third day), [1]. ► Frequent pains in the epigastric region
all day (sixth day), [1]. ► Very severe pains in the stomach and
small intestines, with great distress and desire for stool (after fourth
dose, second day), [1]. ► Very severe aching distress came on in
the epigastric region, immediately after getting up; the distress in the
stomach is constantly getting worse, I cannot sit or stand still, it is
so severe, at 10 A.M.; the painful distress in the stomach has been
unendurable all the forenoon, it is a hard, aching, burning sensation,
and appears to be in the stomach; the painful distress has not been so
hard, at 9 P.M. (fifth day), [1]. ► Constant, dull, aching pain in cardiac
portion of the stomach (after third dose, second day), [2].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Dull pain
in the lower part of the right hypochondriac region (third morning), [1]. ►
Frequent, dull, aching pain in the lower part of the right hypochondriac
region, near the gall-bladder, with dull, aching distress in the
umbilical region, and rumbling in the bowels (four hours after first
dose); dull, aching distress in the whole of the liver, that extends to
the spine; the most distress in the region of the gall-bladder; great
distress in the whole of the bowels, with sharp, cutting pains,
rumbling, and desire for stool (after second dose, third day), [1]. [50.]
► Sharp, cutting pains near the
gall-bladder (four hours after first dose, first day), [2]. ► Umbilical.
► Slight distress in the umbilicus,
with dull, slight headache (three hours after first dose, second day), [1]. ►
Great distress in the umbilicus (after third dose, second day), [2]. ►
Constant aching distress in the umbilical region (after second dose,
second day), [1]. ► Constant, aching distress in the
umbilicus, with sharp pain by spells (four hours after first dose, and
after third dose, first day), [2].
► Dull, aching sensation in the
umbilicus, with slight frontal headache (after second dose, first day), [1]. ►
Dull, aching distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions (five
hours after first dose, fourth day, and three hours after second dose,
third day), [1]. ► Dull, aching distress in the umbilical
region, with very sharp pains by spells (after second dose, second day),
[1]. ►
Dull, aching distress in the umbilicus (five hours after second dose);
there has been a great deal of distress in the umbilicus, with a great
burning distress in the back part of the liver and spine (six hours
after second dose, first day), [2].
► Constant, dull, aching distress in
the umbilicus; at times there are very sharp pains in the same region
(after third dose, first day), [1].
[60.] ►
Constant, dull, aching distress in the umbilical and hypogastric
regions, with very sharp pains every few minutes; makes me feel very
weak and faint (after third dose, third day), [1]. ►
Frequent pains in the umbilical region (sixth day), [2]. ► During
the night have had frequent pains in the umbilicus, with much rumbling
all day (fourth day), [2]. ► Severe pains in the umbilical region, all
the afternoon (fifth day), [1]. ► Frequent severe pains in the umbilical
and hypogastric regions, being up all night with a very sick patient
(second night), [2]. ► For the last two hours have been in awful
pain and distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions; drinking
cold water aggravates the pain and distress very much; dull, aching,
burning distress in the region of gall-bladder, with frequent chilliness
along the spine; great distress in the hypogastric region, with great desire for stool (eight hours after
first dose). ► A very profuse black
stool, about the consistence of cream, with undigested potatoes in it,
gave relief, but was followed by great distress in the region of the
liver, extending to the spine; it is of a hot and aching character, with
chilliness along the spine; for the last five hours there has been
constant distress, with pains in the whole of the abdomen, but for the
last half hour the pains in the umbilicus and hypogastric regions have been awful to endure, with rumbling and great
desire for stool; a very profuse, black, fetid stool, that ran a stream
from my bowels, and could not be retained a moment; this gave great
relief, but did not stop the pain altogether (eight hours after second
dose, fourth day), [1]. ► General Abdomen. ► Great distress in the small intestines,
and desire for stool; stool soft, very fetid, and black (three hours
after first dose, first day), [2].
► Had a restless night, after
midnight; the pains and distress in the bowels prevented me from
sleeping (second night), [1]. ► Frequent pains in the bowels all day,
with severe headache (fifth day), [2].
► Frequent pain in the bowels; with
heat and dryness of the skin (fourth morning), [1]. [70.] ► Dull, aching distress in the bowels
(fourth day), [2]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ► Great rumbling and distress in the
hypogastric region, with a profuse, black, very fetid, soft, papescent
stool, with slight pain in the bowels afterwards (fourth morning), [1]. ►
Constant, dull, and aching pain in the right inguinal region, which
passes down to the right testicle; it is very hard to endure the pain in
the testicles (after third dose, third day), [1].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa of clay-colored evacuations, [3].
► Great distress in the stomach and
all the small intestines, with great desire for stool that could not be
retained one moment; ran a stream from my bowels, very fetid, with large
quantities of mucus in it, followed by severe pain in the hypogastric
region, at 8 A.M.; the great distress in the stomach and small
intestines continues, with frequent pains in the umbilicus that make me
feel very faint and weak; great rumbling in the bowels; stool that could
not be retained, consisting of water and large quantities of mucus and a
little yellow matter, followed by very hard pains in the umbilicus, at
10 A.M. (after the dose); constant, dull, burning, aching distress in
the whole of the bowels, with frequent pain and rumbling, and great
desire for stool; stool of water and mucus, followed by very hard pain
in the hypogastric and umbilical regions; another very profuse, thin
stool, with large quantities of mucus, two hours later; after sleeping
two hours awoke at 5 P.M. with great distress in the whole of the
bowels, and great desire for stool; profuse watery stool, mixed with
mucus, that could not be retained; another stool of water and mucus,
with part natural fæces, very fetid; another stool, with large
quantities of mucus in it, followed by sharp, cutting pains and great
distress in the umbilical region, feeling very weak and faint; an hour
later, at 6 P.M., another profuse stool that could not be retained,
followed by severe pains in the bowels, three hours later (third day), [2]. ►
Stool, which ran a stream from my bowels, followed by very severe cutting pains in the intestines,
at 3 A.M. (second night), [2]. ►► *Very profuse, black, fetid stool, that
ran a stream from my bowels (during abdominal pains; eight
hours after second dose, fourth day), [1].
► *Very profuse, black stool, about
the consistence of cream, with undigested potatoes in it
(during pain in bowels; eight hours after second dose, fourth day), [1]. ►
Soft, yellow, papescent stool, preceded by pain in the umbilical region
(sixth day), [2]. ► Soft, mushy stool (six hours after second
dose, first day), [2]. [80.] ►
Stool soft and mushy, followed by a very weak feeling in the bowels and
rectum (after second dose, third day), [1].
► Stool soft, very fetid, and mushy
(after fourth dose, second day), [2].
► Stool, first part natural, second
part soft and mushy (seventh day), [1].
► *Stool, first hard, black, and lumpy, afterwards soft and mushy
(after first dose, third day), [1].
► No stool (second and fifth days), [1]; (fourth and fifth days), [2].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urine acid (before the provings); slightly acid (second day); rather
scanty and does not affect blue litmus-paper (third day); very red, does
not affect blue litmus-paper (fourth day); neutral (fifth day), [1].
BACK.
►
Very constant distress, with very sharp pains by spells in the lumbar
region (three hours after second dose, fourth day), [1]. ► Dull
aching in the lumbar region (after third dose, third day), [1].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Both wrists are very lame and ache quite
severely in the morning; the left one aches the most; the pain lasting
till noon (fifth day), [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Feeling very languid (third day, fourth and fifth mornings), [1]. [90.]
► Quite weary and languid, can hardly
walk (third day), [2]. ► Feeling very tired, [1].
SKIN.
►
A severe attack of jaundice,
accompanied with diarrhœa of clay-colored evacuations, headache, and
the symptoms usually seen in such cases, [3].
SLEEP.
►
Sleepiness. ► Slept well
(fifth and sixth nights), [2]. ► Slept well; arose once in the night
(first night), [2]. ► Slept soundly (third night), [2]; (fourth and fifth nights), [1]. ►
Sleeplessness. ► Had a
restless night after midnight (third night), [1]. ► Lost my
sleep last night, and am feeling very bad to-day (fifth day), [2].
FEVER.
►
Skin was hot and dry, with frequent pain in the bowels (fourth morning),
[1].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Lameness, etc., of wrists. ► (Walking),
Dizziness; frontal headache.® 2000
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