ANGUSTURA.
Galipea cusparia, St. Hil. (Bonflandia trifoliata, Willd.: Angostura
vera). Nat. order, Rutaceæ. Preparation,
Trituration and tincture of the bark.
Authorities.
[Nos. 1 to 9, from H. Mat. Med. Pura; No. 10,
New Archives, 8; No. 11, N. Z. f. H. Kl., 1872.] 1, Hahnemann; 2, Franz; 3, Michler; 4, Mossdorf; 5, Gross; 6, Harnisch; 7, Wislicenus; 8, Langhammer;
9, Meyer; 10,
Schreter; 11, Lembke.
MIND.
► Greatly excited and
extravagant spirits, with drawing in the limbs, as if the tendons were tense, in the
afternoon (after two days), [2]. ►
Anxiety, [10]. ►
Lachrymose and irritable, [10]. ►
Marked ill-humor; everything vexes her, [10]. ► He is easily frightened, and starts, [2]. ► Pusillanimity, [1]. ► He has not
confidence enough in himself to undertake and perform voluntary motions, [1]. ► Prone to anger; every
trifle irritates, [10]. ►
Ill-humor and peevishness (after twenty-four hours), [7].
[10.] ►
Discouragement; dissatisfaction with his situation; he does not bear a joke; slight offences
fill him with bitterness (after twelve hours), [7]. ► Liveliness and activity of mind, [6]. ► He feels cheerful and
lively when performing no intellectual labor, but becomes dizzy when reading; he then falls
asleep immediately, [2]. ►
Lively mood when walking in the open air (immediately), [2].
► In the afternoon, great animation and facility of
intellect; he comprehends everything much more easily than on the first day, and more easily
than formerly, but he feels unable to dwell upon his subject, owing to some internal
uneasiness, such as is experienced by those who anticipate some great pleasure, or also
owing to all sorts of plans crowding upon his mind (after thirty-five hours), [2]. ► For the first three
afternoons the body feels warm; on the third afternoon, extreme liveliness and quick memory;
however, he is not able to think of anything attentively, being prevented by the intrusion
upon his mind of a rather agreeable project which he almost believes to be real and
feasible, and which exclusively absorbs all his attention; it is a sort of vivid, waking
dream (after four days), [2]. ►
Lively mood; he is confident he can achieve everything with vigor (after forty-eight hours),
[7]. ► Great
absence of mind; when occupied with something serious, his attention is constantly arrested
by other things (after forty-five hours), [2]. ► Sometimes he is lost in reverie, and even complete absence of
thought; he easily falls asleep when reading, [2]. ► Uncomfortable early in the morning; frequent yawning and want
of disposition for any kind of work (after four days), [2].
HEAD.
[20.] ► Suddenly, great confusion of the head, as from a skin drawn
over the brain, half an hour (after a quarter of an hour), [4].
► Confusion and dulness of the head, as after
intoxication, [3]. ►
Confusion and sense of contraction of the head, when walking rapidly, [2]. ► Confusion of the head;
pullings in the forehead, [1]. ►
Vertigo, [10]. ►
Periodical vertigo, [10]. ►
Vertigo in the open air (after twenty hours), [1]. ► Vertigo from the occiput when sitting; throbbing in right
temple, [10]. ► He
is attacked with a feeling of vertigo when crossing a running water or walking by the side
of a ditchful of water; he fears he will sink down, [2].
► Dizziness, [10]. [30.] ► Swaying of the head, [10]. ► Head drawn first
to the right side, then to the left, [10]. ► In the open air, she was attacked with a little headache and
heat (towards evening), [1]. ►
Headache occurred only when there was heat in the face, [2].
► Fulness in the forehead, [10].
► Headache always occurred towards evening, when it
became dark, and continued until the moment he fell asleep, [5].
► Heaviness in the head when sitting, [10]. ► Heat around the head, with
sweat upon the forehead, early; when in bed, [1]. ► Heat rising to the head, [10].
► Cramplike headache, [1].
[40.] ► Frequent
pressure in the head (immediately), [11]. ► Pressure in the head (and toes), (immediately), [11]. ► Headache, as if
everything in the brain were moving about, with oppressive and boring pain, especially in
the temples; when laying the forehead upon the table he feels, in the first moments, nothing
except some tension; soon, however, the pains return less violent, and assume their original
violence as soon as the head is raised (after twelve hours), [5].
► Early, after rising, great heaviness in the forehead,
without any confusion (after three days), [2]. ► Sometimes, very severe boring in the forehead and sides of
the head (third day), [11]. ►
Drawing in the forehead (after nine and a half hours), [11].
► Pressure in the forehead, [6]. ► Pressure in the forehead
(immediately), [11]. ►
Pressure in the forehead (after one and a half hours), [11].
► Headache; pressure in the forehead, over both eyes, as
if the contents would come out, both at rest and in motion, [1].
[50.] ► Very severe,
frequent pressing pains in forehead, with the sensation of heaviness (after four hours), [11]. ► Pressive headache
in the forehead, towards evening, with great heat in the face, [2]. ► The brain in the forehead
feels bruised; increased by stooping, and diminished in the open air (immediately), [1]. ► Severe repeated
pains in forehead and temples (after four hours), [11].
► Drawing in the forehead and pressure in the temples
(immediately), [11]. ►
Continual itching stitches in the forehead and temple, externally, which do not go off by
rubbing, [7]. ► The
temporal muscles feel dead, numb, as if something were pressing out there, [1]. ► Tensive pain in the temporal
muscles, when opening the jaws, [1]. ► Boring headache in the temples, [1]. ► Drawing and oppressive pain
in the temporal region, [6]. [60.]
► Pressure in the temples (immediately), [11]. ► Pressure in the temples
(after one hour), [11]. ►
Pressure on the temples, as from a plug, several times (after one hour), [11]. ► Tearing headache, rather
externally, extending from the vertex over the temples (after twenty-four hours), [7]. ► A stitch, as from
electricity, starting from the temples upwards and downwards, [1].
► Intermittent prickings in the right temporal region,
more externally (after four hours), [8]. ► Roaring in the temples and sides of the head (immediately), [11]. ► Boring and
pressure in vertex (soon after taking), [11]. ► In the evening, drawing and oppressive headache on the right
side of the head, with pressure on the lower jaw (after sixteen hours), [2]. ► Drawing on the sides of the
head, then several times drawing in the legs and feet (early in morning), [11]. [70.] ►
Pressure on both sides of the head (soon after taking), [11].
► Pressure on the sides of the head (immediately), [11]. ► Twitchings at a
small place under the skin of the right parietal bone; when pressing upon the part, it pains
as if it were bruised (after one hour), [4]. ► Headache; pressure in the occiput in the afternoon, [1]. ► Pressure in the
left hemisphere when stooping; relieved on raising the head again (immediately), [4]. ► Drawing at the
sides of the occiput (immediately), [11].
EYES.
► The eyes are red,
and burn; in the morning they are agglutinated, [1]. ► Violent burning in the inner half of the eyes themselves, and
in the internal corners; afternoons and evenings, [1].
► Tension first in one, then in the other eye; it seems
from behind forwards, early in the morning (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► Pressure in both eyes, as
if a bright light were irritating them, and as if they became weary, [1]. [80.] ►
A few stitches over the eyes, [1]. ► Eyes feel as if there was sand in them, [10]. ► Pressure on the right eye
and the orbit, in the evening (after fourteen hours), [2].
► Severe pressure above the right eye and deep in the
right orbit (after one and a help hours), [11]. ► Slight twitchings between the eyebrows while reading, [1]. ► Feeling of dryness
under the upper eyelids, [1]. ►
Sore pain in the eyelids, [1]. ►
Stitches in the right eyelids (after eight hours), [11].
► Itching stitches in the upper eyelid, which cannot be
removed by rubbing (after one hour), [7]. ► Dilatation of the pupils (after thirteen hours), [8]. [90.] ► Contraction of the pupils (after three and a half hours), [8]. ► He sees much
farther and more sharply than usual, [6]. ► Farsightedness; he saw distinctly objects at a distance;
whereas he generally was short-sighted, (after two and a half hours), [8]. ► Early, on rising, dimness
before the eyes, as if the cornea were obscured (after twenty-four hours), [2]. ► There seems to be a light
vapor before the eyes, which soon passes off, [1].
EARS.
► Tearing in a boil over
the right mastoid process (after a quarter of an hour), [4]. ► Heat of the ears and both
cheeks, [1]. ►
Pinching in the external ear, [1]. ► Heat in the lobules, [1].
► Sensation as if something were before the ear, and as
if something were inserted in it, [1]. [100.] ► Throbbing pain behind
the ears, on the side of the neck, as if the carotid were beating, [1]. ► Burning in the internal
ear, in the region of the tympanum, [1]. ► Several transient drawings, now in the right, now in the left
ear, [1]. ►
Stitches in the ears (after one hour), [11]. ► Stitches deep in the right ear (after one and a half hours), [11]. ► Very painful
tearing twitchings in the right internal ear; they gradually become drawings (after one
hour), [4]. ►
Tearing twitchings before the left car (after one hour), [7].
► Stitches in the meatus auditorius externus, [1]. ► Hearing is much
more acute than usual (after five and a half hours), (curative reaction), [2]. ► Ringing in the right ear
(after thirty-three hours), [8].
NOSE.
[110.] ► Sensation of a corrosive soreness deep in the nose
(immediately), [1].
FACE.
► Internal and
external heat of the face, immediately after supper, [4].
► Drawing in the facial muscles (after one and a
half hours), [11]. ►
Drawing in the muscles of the face, (after one hour), [11]. ► Drawing in the muscles of the
face, right side (immediately), [11]. ► Stitches in the right facial muscles (after one and a half
hours), [11]. ►
Prickling in the facial muscles (after one and a half hours), [11].
► Feeling of heat in both cheeks, without any external
perceptible warmth, [1]. ►
In the evening, hot feeling in the cheeks, which, however, do not feel warm when touched
(after twelve hours), [2]. ►
Pressure, sometimes very severe, in the facial bones, especially in the zygoma (after ten
hours), [11]. [120.]
► Cramplike pain at the zygoma (after a quarter of an
hour), [7]. ►
Stitches in the left zygoma (after one and a half hours), [11].
► Pain in the masseter muscles, as if one had fatigued them
by chewing too much, [1]. ► Cramplike pain near the articulation of the jaw, in the masticator
muscles, especially when at rest; the pain is diminished by opening or closing
the jaws, [1]. ►
Pressure several times in the right maxilla (after one hour), [11].
► Drawing in the maxilla (after one and a half hours), [11].
MOUTH.
► Drawing pain in
the two right upper incisors, [4]. ► Throbbing toothache in a hollow tooth, in the evening after
lying down (after fourteen hours), [7]. ► Slight drawing in some of the upper molar teeth, which,
however, cannot be defined, [4]. ►
Drawing pain which, to judge by the feeling, is between the crowns of the middle upper right
molar teeth, and may be palliated by touching the teeth with the cold finger (after one
hour), [4]. [130.]
► Sticking-drawing in the right upper gums (after three
hours), [4]. ►
White tongue, with a feeling of roughness (after twelve hours), [8]. ► Burning, as of pepper, on
the left side of the tongue, almost on its border (after three hours), [8]. ► Stitches several times at
the tip of the tongue (after eight hours), [11]. ► Pinching stitches in the tip of the tongue, which are
extremely painful, even when the tongue is not moved (after six hours), [7]. ► In the evening, during
slumber, his mouth had become filled with a viscid, insipid, and foul phlegm; he could not
drink enough, [2]. ►
Great dryness of mouth and lips, without any thirst (after three hours), [2]. ► Much saliva flows from the
mouth, [10]. ►
Bitter taste in the mouth after the usual smoking, [3].
► Bitter taste in the mouth, and several slight
eructations after dinner, which he ate with a good appetite (after thirty hours), [2]. [140.] ► Foul, flat taste in the mouth for a short time (after two
hours), [4]. ►
(Bread tastes sour to her), [1]. ►
Taste in the mouth as of peach-pits, [1].
THROAT.
► Frequent
roughness in the throat; he must hack, without being able to expectorate anything (after six
hours), [1]. ►
Roughness and dryness in the back part of the palate and fauces, without any thirst, worse
when swallowing (after twenty-five hours), [8].
STOMACH.
► Although his
appetite is very great, yet he does not relish his food; it seems offensive to him; at the
same time a fulness in the chest, owing to suppressed eructations; he feels unable to
satisfy his appetite by eating a plentiful dinner (after six hours), [2]. ► Loss of appetite while at
dinner, [10]. ►
Desires this thing and that, but is disgusted with everything brought to her, [10]. ► Particular aversion to
meat, [10]. ►
Thirst, [10]. [150.]
► Great desire for cold drink (after fifteen hours), [8]. ► Raging desire to
drink, but it forsook her when she put the glass to her lips, [10].
► He has no desire for drink, nevertheless he craves warm
drinks more than cold; he did not feel any chilliness after the cold drinks, [1]. ► Eructation of water, [10]. ► Many empty
eructations after a meal, [1]. ►
Bilious eructations, [1]. ►
Frequent hiccough (after three hours), [8]. ► Sense of nausea in the stomach (after one hour), [7]. ► Nausea, with
waterbrash, [10]. ►
Nausea, especially during a meal, [3]. [160.] ► Empty feeling in
stomach, [10]. ► In
the beginning of the meal cutting pain in the stomach, like soreness; it went off during the
meal (after three days), [2]. ►
Nausea during a walk, as if he would faint, accompanied by great lassitude all over, which
did not abate by sitting down; afterwards it seemed as if the nausea rose into his head, and
he felt hungry, [1]. ►
Cutting-tearing in the pit, increased by moving the trunk, after dinner, [7]. ► Cramplike, pinching pain
below the pit of the stomach, in the evening, when sitting (after thirteen hours), [2].
ABDOMEN.
► Cutting under
the short ribs, in the right side of the abdomen, when moving the trunk (after forty-eight
hours), [5]. ► Loud
rumbling in the abdomen, [1]. ►
Audible rumbling in the abdomen, with eructations, [2].
► Fermenting and rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa
would come on, accompanied by incarceration of flatulence (after three hours), [3]. ► Painless motions,
grumbling, and gurgling in the intestines, continuing almost unceasingly for three hours, [4]. [170.] ► Emission of stinking flatulence, [4]. ► Slight warmth over the
abdomen, [10]. ►
Cramplike colic when walking, [2]. ► Stitches in the abdomen, followed by drawings, [1]. ► Drawing pain, as from a
bruise, in the right side of the abdomen, when walking in the open air (after one hour), [2]. ► Dull stitches in
the abdomen, on the left side near the navel (after twenty-four hours), [5]. ► Dull, shaking, transient
shootings here and there, in the left side of the abdomen, [5].
► Cutting in the hypogastrium transversely over the
pubis, with pressure towards the rectum (after a quarter of an hour), [4]. ► Cutting and gurgling in the
hypogastrium, transversely over the pubis, when taking warm milk (after three-quarters of an
hour), [4]. ►
Pressure in the hypogastrium, from within outward, accompanied by anguish (after sixteen
hours), [2]. [180.]
► Sense as of drawing and cramping in the pelvis, when
walking, [1]. ►
Dull stitches in the left os innominatum, just behind the hip-joint; they occur in short
paroxysms, and are increased by every motion, [5]. ► Pains in the sacrum and abdomen, as if things wound together
lay in the abdomen, and were sore and paralytically pressed upon the sacrum, preventing her
from walking about, as if she were too old and too tired; stooping was also difficult, [10]. ► Cramplike
pressure over the pubis when sitting, as if something were boring out there (after twelve
hours), [2]. ►
Periodic throbbing and contraction in the abdomen, in a spot above the mons veneris, [10]. ► Several times a
sensation in the intestines as if diarrhœa would come on, [4].
► Pinching in the right lumbar region when at rest, [7]. ► Cutting pain in
the left lumbar region, from within outwards (after three hours), [7]. ► Cramplike pain at the upper
border of the ilium, extending to the spine (after twelve hours), [7].
STOOL AND ANUS.
► During a
soft stool there was a painful tenesmus of the rectum, as if it had been contracted, with
distension of the hæmorrhoidal veins, and a burning pain, as if the rectum were being
corroded (after two days), [2]. [190.] ► Sensation in the
rectum, as if it would protrude; this symptom is followed by a yellow, soft, very profuse
evacuation (after one and a half hours), [2]. ► Frequent urging in the rectum, as if diarrhœa would come on
immediately, with shiverings over the face, [4]. ► Stitching in the rectum, [10].
► (Tingling-itching of the rectum, as from ascarides), [1]. ► Protrusion of hæmorrhoids
during a hard, knotty stool, with contractive pain and sticking after feeling a contraction
of the rectum the day before, [10]. ► Hæmorrhoids remain protruded, even during the night, [10]. ► Indications of
diarrhœa, with drawings through all the intestines (after three hours), [2]. ► Frequently slight desire
for stool; he felt as if the passage would not take place; upon much straining a few hard
pieces came out (after twelve hours), [8]. ► Thin, copious stool, without any pain (after two hours), [5]. ► The stool was not
as thin as might have been expected from the indications of diarrhœa, [4]. [200.] ►
Three profuse, very thin stools within four hours, [4].
► Early in the morning, diarrhœa comes on after previous
colic and nausea; the last evacuation was only mucus, [1].
► Colic and diarrhœa; the last evacuation is only mucus
(after twelve and eighty-four hours), [1]. ► Every evacuation is followed by shiverings over the face and
goose-skin, [4]. ►
Sensation as if stool had not been passed sufficiently, as if more would come, [4]. ► Daily stool, as
usual, only more hard; usually has soft stools, [11]. ► Moderate costiveness, [2].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Tenesmus
of the bladder, followed by the profuse emission of white urine; tenesmus after micturition
(after thirty-six hours), [2]. ►
Inclination to pass urine during the day; the urine is of a light color, and is passed in
large quantities (after one and a half hours), [11]. ► Frequent desire to urinate, with but little urine (after two
hours), [8]. [210.]
► Frequent micturition (after one hour), [11]. ► Burning after micturition;
one is obliged frequently to urinate, although but a few dark-yellow drops are emitted each
time; they cause a burning each time, [1]. ► Urine copious, and nearly as light-colored as water (after
one hour), [11]. ►
Orange-colored urine, soon becoming turbid (after twenty-four hours), [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Stitches,
sometimes itching, of the prepuce, [1]. ► Voluptuous itching of the tip of the glans, which forces one to rub;
when walking in the open air (after six and a half hours), [8].
► Itching of the scrotum, [1].
► Drawing in the left spermatic cord, alternating with
twitches, accompanied by a sensation of shivering in the neighboring parts of the scrotum
and thigh, [4]. ►
Prolapsus uteri, [10]. ►
Rapid successive stitches in the uterus, relieved by bathing with cold water, [10]. [220.] ► Short-lasting pressure in the right ovary, [10]. ► Itching pimples on the
left labium major (these usually appear when the menses have been retarded some time); they
burn when urinating; larger pimples on the labia minora, that itch when touched, [10]. ► Discharge of
milky mucus from the vagina, [10]. ► A slight yellowish discharge from the vagina the day before
the menses appear, [10]. ►
Irritation and raging in the genitals, [10]. ► Transient irritation in the genitals, and a contraction of
the ligaments of the uterus, [10]. ► Itching and swelling of the genitals, without voluptuous
sensation, [10]. ►
Itching in the genitals, obliging her to scratch so as to draw blood; after which it abated,
[10]. ►
Disagreeable tickling in the genitals, [10]. ► During her morning sleep she had a pollution, and was out of
humor after it, [10]. [230.]
► Menses appears two weeks later than usual, [10].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
►
Trembling sensation, internally, resembling hiccough, during an inspiration; the inspiration
is made in two jerks, from within outwards (after eight hours), [2]. ► Frequent irritation to
cough, caused by a tickling arising from under the sternum and extending into the back, [10]. ► Irritation to
dry, hacking cough, [10]. ►
Scratching (Kratzen) in larynx, with short cough (after nine and a half hours), [11]. ► Tickling in the
larynx, inducing a dry, short, and hacking, cough, continuing a long time (after two and
three-quarters hours), [8]. ►
Stitch in the epiglottis (immediately), [1]. ► Tenacious phlegm in the trachea, difficult to hawk up (after
ten and eleven hours), [2]. ►
The voice is louder and firmer (curative), (after five and a half hours), [2]. ► Hoarseness, occasioned by
much phlegm in the throat (after ten hours), [2]. [240.] ► Cough, as if
something weighed on his lungs, [10]. ► Frequent dry cough (after rising in morning), [11]. ► Frequent short cough,
followed by one hiccough, [1]. ►
Some hacking cough, [10]. ►
Violent cough, deep from the trachea, early in the morning, accompanied by expectoration of
yellow mucus (after twenty-four hours), [8]. ► A short and hacking cough the whole day, owing to a tickling
in the larynx, only when walking in the open air, with a rattling in the chest and
expectoration of much yellow mucus, [8]. ► Expectoration of sourish, salty water, [10].
CHEST.
► During a walk,
peculiar sensation of lightness and well-feeling in the chest (after two hours), [11]. ► Pain in the
muscles of the chest when moving in bed, early in the morning, and, during the day, when the
arms are brought together, they pain as if bruised; on touching the parts, they feel no
pain, not even when breathing, [1]. ► Quickly passing tightness of the chest (immediately), [1]. [250.] ► Tightness of the chest and pressure in the left side, when
walking fast (after twelve hours), [2]. ► Cramp in the chest, as if one had suddenly taken a
violent cold, [9]. ►
Pressure on the chest, toward the axilla and on the tendon of the pectoralis major (after
three days), [2]. ►
Cutting pressure through the thorax, from within outwards, with a sense of anguish (after
half an hour), [7]. ►
Sharply pressing, almost pinching, pain at a small place in the upper portion of the chest
(after fifteen hours), [1]. ►
Oppression of the chest, [10]. ►
Great oppression of, and pressure upon, the chest, with pressure on the sides of the frontal
bone, and violent palpitation of the heart, towards evening, when going upstairs (after two
hours), [2]. ►
Drawing pains in the muscles of the thorax (soon after taking), [11]. ► Painful sensitiveness of
the chest, even when pressed only feebly (after twenty-four hours), [7]. ► Cutting pressure in both sides
of the chest, first only during expectoration; afterwards changed to cutting thrusts, which
continue even on holding the breath (after one hour), [7]. [260.] ►
Lying on the side is painful, [10]. ► Cutting stitches in the last rib during an inspiration, and,
moreover, before going to sleep and after lying down, [1].
► Feeling as if the lung were turned over, [10]. ► Contractive pressure in
the ribs, above the hypochondria, but more in the right side, [10].
► Painful contractive sensation on right side of chest,
when touching it, as if it were bruised; worse when raising her arm, [10]. ► Pressure across the whole
right side of the chest and abdomen, as if these parts were being compressed in front and
behind, accompanied by sharp cutting, downward, in the sternum and in the spine, increased
by inspiration and every movement of the trunk (after five hours), [7]. ► Dull stitches between the
top of the left shoulder and the neck, [5]. ► Stitches in the right side of the thorax, with feeling of
lassitude in the knees (after one hour), [11]. ► Very sharp itching stitches in front, in the last true rib of
the right side, which, in the beginning, do not pass off by scratching, but afterwards
disappear of themselves (after twenty-four hours), [2].
► Stitches in the left side of the thorax; in the
shin-bones when walking (after two hours), [11]. [270.] ► Sticking in right
lung, extending under right shoulder, [10]. ► Oppression in the sternum, [10].
► Several times, severe pressure on the right side of the
sternum, as from a blunt body (immediately), [11]. ► When taking as deep an inspiration as possible, it seems to
be arrested under the upper portion of the sternum; he there feels a pain like a dull, still
stitch or pressure (after seventy-two hours), [5]. ► Pressure several times on the left side of the sternum (after
one hour), [11]. ►
Cutting thrusts in the sternum and spine, from without inwards (after thirty-six hours), [7]. ► Single stitches in
the sternum, when sitting (after twenty-eight hours), [8].
► Sensation under the sternum as if a sore place were
being scratched, the size of a finger; worse every second day, [10].® 2000
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