BADIAGA.
Spongilla fluviatilis
(Spongia palustris, Linn.). Section
Protozoa of the animal Kingdom. Common name, Fresh-water
sponge. Russian name, Badiaga. Preparation,
Trituration of the dried sponge gathered in autumn.
Authorities.
(Hering’s Résumé, Hahn. Monthly, 2, 123). 1, G. Lingen, effects observed from triturating the drug; 2, L. Bedford, provings with the 30th dil.
MIND.
► A moan or shriek,
caused by the pain in the side, [2]. ► In spite of the headache, he is still clear in his mind, and
more inclined to mental activity than before, [1].
HEAD.
► Dull, dizzy feeling
of head, [2]. ►
Headache, does not affect the mind, [1]. ► Headache commencing between 1 and 2 P.M., lasting till
between 6 and 7 in the evening (seventh and ninth days), [2].
► Headache with inflamed eyes, [2]. ► During the day, more or
less headache, with pain in eyeballs, worse in the left;
more from 1 o’clock in the afternoon till 7 in the evening (sixth day), [2]. ► Headache from 2 P.M. till 7
P.M., with slight aching pains in the posterior portion of both eyeballs, and in
the temples (fifth day), [2]. ►
Headache, coryza, and some other symptoms, better on the fifteenth day, less during the
afternoon (twelfth day). ► Dull during the afternoon,
beginning at 1 o’clock (thirteenth day), [2]. [10.] ► Headache and soreness
of the body, aggravated from 7 to 10 in the evening, on a rainy day (fourteenth day); slight
on the fifteenth day, from 1 to 3 in the afternoon (sixteenth day), [2]. ► Frontal headache, during
the forenoon, worse in the temples, and extending into the
posterior portion of the left eyeball, aggravated by moving the eyes (tenth day);
the same on the eleventh day, but worse in the afternoon until late in the evening; the same
the thirteenth day, extending to both eyeballs, aggravated by
moving them in either direction; worse in the afternoon, with heat in the
forehead and dull aching in the temples, [2]. ► During the afternoon, heat, pain, and congestion in the
forehead, worse at 7 in the evening (tenth day), [2]. ► Congestion in forehead, [2].
► In forehead, drawing, [1].
► In temples and eyeballs, pain; to the temples from
eyeballs, [2]. ► A
very severe headache on the top of the head, remains the same in all positions, better at
night after sleeping, and better in the morning,
returning violently after breakfast, lasting several days. C. Hg. ►
Scalp sore to the touch, with tetter-like eruption on the forehead, and dull, dizzy feeling
of the head during the forenoon (twelfth day); soreness less on the fifteenth day, [2]. ► Itching of the
scalp, with much dandruff, like tetter, and dryness of the hair, thirteenth day; tetter less
on the fifteenth day; all disappeared on the seventeenth day; hair again soft and oily; this
whole change taking place last night mostly, [2]. ► An excess of dandruff or dry tetter-like appearance of the
scalp, with slight itching (eleventh day), [2].
EYES.
[20.] ► Under the eyes, blue, [2].
► Scrofulous inflammation of the eyes, with hardening of
the Meibomian glands. N. N. ► The right eye is irritated
and somewhat inflamed, with headache during the afternoon, same as the seventh and eighth
days, [2]. ►
Bluish-purple margin of the eyelids, and blueness under the eye (twelfth day), [2]. ► Twitching of the
left eyelid, [1]. ►
Headache extending to the eyeballs, [2]. ► Pain in left eyeball from trembles; from forehead, [2]. ► Pain in the left
eyeball and temple, quite severe, extending to the left side of the head and forehead
(eleventh day), [2]. ►
Pains in the eyeballs extending into the temples, aggravated by turning them in either
direction (ninth day), [2]. ►
At 3 P.M., in the posterior portion of the right eyeball, a severe intermitting pain, more
or less severe during the afternoon (third day); same, and in temple (fourth day); in left
eye (sixth day), [2]. ►
Slight aching pains in the posterior portion of both eyeballs and in the temples (with
headache from 2 P.M. till 7 in the morning), (fifth day), [2].
[30.] ► The left eyeball
quite sore, even upon closing it tightly (twelfth day), [2].
EARS.
► During the
afternoon, very slight shocks heard in the ear as of very distant
artillery (nineteenth day); the same three or four times during
afternoon and evening (twentieth day); occasional and momentarily up to the
twenty-seventh day, [2].
NOSE.
► Occasional
sneezing, with more profuse coryza, most on the left side, with occasional stoppage of the
nose; worse in the afternoon and evening (eighth day), [2].
► Sneezing with coryza at times during the day,
with a cough as from cold, more during the afternoon (fifth day); cough causing sneezing and
profuse coryza (seventh day), [2]. ► Sneezing, fluent coryza, with stoppage at the nose at times
(tenth day), [2]. ►
Profuse discharge from the left nostril (twelfth day); thick yellowish mucus, more during
the afternoon; it is also hawked up (thirteenth day), [2].
► His catarrh lessened perceptibly, [1]. ► Coryza and cough (ninth
day), [2]. ►
Itching of the left wing of the nose, [1].
FACE.
► Pale, ashy or lead
color of the face (twelfth day), [2]. [40.] ► Left cheek and malar
bone quite sore to the touch (thirteenth day), [2]. ► Stiffness in the maxillary joints. C. Hg.
MOUTH.
► In a decayed
back-tooth, drawing, [1]. ►
During the afternoon, the mouth and breath hot and feverish, with
thirst for large quantities of water at a time (tenth day), [2]. ► Mouth and tongue as if
scalded, [2]. ► Bad
taste in mouth, evening, [2].
THROAT.
► Hawked up a viscid
solid lump of bloody mucus in the morning (twelfth day). Next day, when first
getting out of bed, a mass of hard, gluey, bloody mucus, tough and
dry (thirteenth day), [2]. ► Throat inflamed and sore, especially on swallowing, 2
P.M. (eleventh day); increasing same day; quite inflamed and sore, especially on swallowing,
while most other symptoms are better or disappearing (twelfth day), [2]. ► Throat quite sore; tonsils
red and inflamed, aggravated much on swallowing; 2 P.M. (thirteenth day); especially upon
swallowing solids (fourteenth day); disappeared (fifteenth day), [2].
STOMACH.
► Good appetite,
with less thirst, and with a feeling as if the mouth and tongue had been slightly scalded
with hot tea (twelfth day), [2]. ►
But little appetite; took toast for dinner; at 7 in the evening, for tea, a small piece of
toast and cup of tea, with a bad appetite and bad taste in the mouth (eleventh day); better
on twelfth day, [2]. ►
Diminished appetite; bowels costive; urine high-colored (tenth day), [2]. ► Thirst for large quantities
of water, [2]. [50.]
► Less thirst, with a good appetite, [2]. ► At 8 A.M., a severe
lancinating pain in the pit of the stomach, extending to the vertebra opposite, and to the
right scapula, and at times to the right side, resulting there in a pleuritic pain; also, a
pleuritic pain on the left side, which, as well as on the right side, is aggravated by
contortions of the body, and on full inspiration (tenth day), [2].
ABDOMEN.
► A lancinating
pain, with a bounding movement in the region of the liver, lasting but a few minutes (eighth
day), [2]. ►
(Indurated inguinal glands. Popular remedy, [°].) ► (Syphilitic bubo in the left groin; a longish swelling as
hard as a stone, uneven, ragged, like a scirrhus; at night, violent lancinations, as if with
red-hot needles, [°].) Rosenstein. ► (Buboes originating by consensus or cellular irritation, with
shooting pains, if suppuration has not commenced, will disappear in three days completely,
if, with rest, low diet, and cold local applications, the tincture of Badiaga is given, one
drop in a tablespoonful of water, every three or four hours, [°].)
Rosenstein. ► (Buboes, with decided fluctuation, are
scattered and absorbed from six drops of the tincture every day in water, [°].) Rosenstein.► (Hæmorrhoids.
Popular remedy, [°].)
URINARY ORGANS.
► Severe,
sharp lancinating pain in and near the orifice of the urethra, lasting but a few minutes, at
noon (third day), [2]. ►
Urine high-colored (tenth day), [2]; and reddish
(twelfth day), [2].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
[60.]
► Breath hot and feverish, [1].
► *Occasional severe paroxysms of spasmodic cough, ejecting
viscid mucus from the bronchial tubes, which at times comes flying forcibly out of the mouth,
more during the afternoon, caused by a tickling in the larynx as if
a particle of sugar was being dissolved in the throat (sixth day). Similar
paroxysms during the seventh day, at times causing sneezing, with profuse coryza, most from
left nostril; worse after 1 P.M. (seventh day). During the eighth day quite severe, more in
the afternoon (eighth and ninth days), [2]. ► Cough with yellowish mucous expectoration (tenth day); not as
severe the eleventh day, while other symptoms are about the same, and better in the warm
room (eleventh day); less severe and less frequent (twelfth day); much better (fourteenth
day), [2]. ► Cough
causes a sneezing, [2]. ►
While lying on the right side in bed, and at the moment of becoming unconscious by sleep,
severe oppressive suffocative attacks from suspended respiration, causing a quick effort to
prevent suffocation, by changing position. This is an old symptom, aggravated during the
past week; he often avoided going to sleep in such a position on this account (eighteenth
day), [2].
CHEST.
► Pleuritic pain on
full inspiration, [2]. ►
Pain in the upper part of the right chest. C. Hg. ►
Pleuritic pain, also on the left (tenth day); increased, with stitches in both sides,
aggravated on motion or full inspiration, afternoon (tenth day); increased, with soreness of
the whole body, especially the chest; aggravated during the afternoon and evening (tenth
day), [2]. ► A
severe, sharp, lancinating pain in the right supraclavicular region, in or near the
subclavian artery, lasting several minutes during the evening (thirteenth day); lasting but
a few minutes and less severe (fourteenth day); severe lancinating drawing from three to
five minutes, 9 o’clock, evening (fifteenth day); slight, for a minute at a time, till the
twenty-seventh day, [2]. ►
Severe stitches in the sides, especially the right side, from the seventh to the eighth rib,
aggravated by the least motion (tenth day); severe, especially in the posterior portion of
right side; neither soreness nor stitches remaining in the left side (thirteenth day); the
right side also better, and many other symptoms (fourteenth day), [2]. [70.] ►
During the afternoon, severe stitches in the sides, especially the posterior portion of the
right side, aggravated by the slightest motion, with severe aches and pains in various parts
of the body (eleventh day); all gone (sixteenth day), [2].
► Pain in the right side only on contortions of the body
(fourteenth day), [2].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Severe,
vibrating, tremulous palpitation of the heart, even while sitting or lying quiet, upon the
least elating or other emotion of the mind (twelfth day), [2].
► While lying in bed, forcible pulsations of the heart
felt and heard, extending from the chest up into the neck upon the slightest emotion or
thought (twelfth day), [2]. ►
Palpitation of the heart, with a fluttering and vibrating upon the slightest emotion of the
mind (thirteenth day), [2]. ►
Occasional spells of severe jerking, fluttering palpitation of the heart, upon a sudden
elating thought or emotion of the mind, even while sitting or lying (fifteenth day), [2]. ► To-night, while
lying on the right side, the heart is both heard and felt to pulsate from the chest up to
the neck (fifteenth day), [2]. ►
Midnight, while in bed, vibrating palpitation of the heart, lasting but a few minutes, after
which, while lying on the right side, a sensation as if the lower lobe of the left lung was
settling down or being collapsed; it appeared to have settled from three to four inches,
lasting five minutes, and was relieved by changing position (twenty-seventh day), [2].
NECK AND BACK.
► Up into
the neck, palpitation, [2]. ►
A very stiff neck, C. Hg. [80.] ►
Occasional severe drawing pains in the nape of the neck, lasting but a few minutes at a time
(eighteenth day), [2]. ►
Stitches and stiffness in the nape of the neck, aggravated by flexing the head back and
forth, or felt a few minutes at a time, while sitting still (seventeenth day), [2]. ► Soreness and lameness,
with stitches in the nape of the neck, aggravated by bending the head back and forth
(thirteenth day), [2]. ►
(Glandular swellings on the left side of the face, throat, and neck, nearly all of the size
of a hen’s egg, some hard, some suppurating; they disfigured and enlarged the whole region
considerably since his early youth, now twenty years; 30th, in often-repeated doses,
lessened it very much, more than half the former size, [°].
► In the scapula, pain from pit of stomach, [2]. ► Severe pain in or
near the head of the right scapula, lasting but a few minutes (tenth day), [2]. ► Painful drawing near the
spine to the left, downwards from the shoulder-blade; a similar sensation in the forehead,
and slightly in a decayed back tooth, [1]. ► Severe lancinating pains and stitches in the posterior right side
below the scapula, aggravated very much by throwing the shoulders back and the chest
forward, or contortions of the body; at times eliciting a moan or shriek, caused
by the pain (twelfth day), [2]. ►
In vertebra, opposite pit of stomach, pain from front to back, [2]. ► Pain in the small of the
back, hips, and lower limbs (eleventh day), [2]. [90.] ► In the afternoon,
sharp pain felt in the right kidney, lasting but a few moments (twenty-seventh day), [2].
EXTREMITIES.
► Pain in the
front of the upper part of the right shoulder, afterwards in the left shoulder and arm, C.
Hg. ► Palms of the hands hot and dry (tenth day); dry and
husky (eleventh day), [2]. ►
Lower limbs pain, [2]. ►
Hips pain, [2]. ► A
pain in the right knee-joint, lasting about twenty minutes, 2 P.M. (ninth day), [2]. ► Pain in the left
knee-joint on going up or down stairs (twelfth day), [2].
► Several hard, small lumps along the shin bone, C. Hg. ► An intermitting pain in the muscles of the lower posterior
third of the right leg, with a sore, contracted, clumsy, bruised feeling of the anterior
muscles of the lower third of the right leg, which is aggravated by flexing the foot and
going up stairs, when the toes have a tendency to drop down, as if the foot was asleep,
though without the sensation as if asleep (sixth day), [2].
► The intermitting pain in the posterior muscles of the
right leg has not been felt since yesterday, but there is an aggravation of all the symptoms
in the anterior portion of the same leg to-day, especially when going upstairs, walking or
flexing the foot, so as to render it quite painful and awkward (seventh day). The sore,
numb, clumsy, bruised feeling in the right leg is ameliorated by remaining quiet in the
house, aggravated by going up and down stairs several times during the afternoon, rendering
it necessary to go up slowly, on account of the uncertainty of step, and tendency of the
toes to drop down, which makes it necessary to step higher with the right foot (eighth day),
[2]. [100.] ► A pain running from the anterior of the right leg to the
posterior of the right thigh, between 12 o’clock and 1 in the afternoon (ninth day), [2]. ► The anterior
muscles of the right leg sore as if beaten, and a contracted feeling, sore upon going
upstairs or walking, with a numb feeling while sitting or lying (tenth day). The constant
sore numb feeling of the muscles of the leg continues to be more or less aggravated at
times, especially on going upstairs, or flexing the foot (fifteenth day). Soreness and
numbness better, and only slightly troublesome, on going upstairs (sixteenth day), [2]. ► Lessened hard
cellular swelling of both legs, C. Hg., [°]. ► Severe crampy pains in metatarsal bones of both feet, [2]. ► Sharp, stinging
pain in the posterior portion of the right heel, aggravated by the slightest pressure,
lasting but a few minutes (eleventh day), [2]. ► Bad ulcers on the feet of horses. (Popular remedy, [°].) ► Hurts of the
hoofs of horses. (Popular remedy, [°].) ► In toes, a tendency to drop down as if asleep, [2]. ► Chilblains. (Popular
remedy, [°].)
GENERALITIES.
► During the
afternoon, severe aches and pains in various parts of the body, with severe stitches in the
sides, especially the posterior portion of the right side, aggravated by the slightest
motion (eleventh day); all gone (sixteenth day), [2]. ► A general soreness of the muscles and integuments of the whole body,
especially the integuments, aggravated on motion, and especially by the friction of the
clothes (eighth day). Flesh and integuments feel sore to touch,
even of the clothes, with sensitiveness to cold and cold air (ninth day). Sore as if it had been beaten, and very sensitive to touch or the
friction of the clothes (tenth day); less during the afternoon (twelfth day); also less
sensitive to cold and to cold air, and to touch (thirteenth day); all gone (sixteenth day), [2].
SKIN.
► On forehead,
tetter-like eruption, [2]. ►
Itching on scalp, [2]. [110.]
► Scrofulous diseases, particularly swollen glands.
(Popular remedy, [°].) ►
Bruised spots from falls or being beaten. (Popular remedy, [°].)
► Sensitive to cold and cold air, [2]. ► Friction of clothes
aggravates soreness of skin, [2]. ► Flesh and skin sore to the touch; cheek and malar bone, [2].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Restless night, could lie a short time only in one position, on account of soreness of the
muscles and whole body (eleventh and twelfth days), [2].
► Awoke with frightful dreams, and severe crampy pains in
the metatarsal bones of both feet, lasting from fifteen to twenty minutes, at 3 to 4 o’clock
(third day), [2].
FEVER.
► Heat in forehead, [2]. ► Feverish hot
breath and mouth in afternoon, [2]. ► Hot and dry palms of hands, [2].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), Hawking
bloody mucus; when first getting up, hawking mass of bloody mucus; 8 o’clock, pain in pit of
stomach. ► (Forenoon),
Frontal headache; dull, etc., feeling of head. ► (Noon), Pain in urethra. ► (Afternoon), Between 1 and 2 o’clock, dull headache; 1 to 7
o’clock, headache; beginning at 1 o’clock, dull headache; until late in evening, frontal headache; heat, etc., in forehead; at 3 o’clock, pain in
eyeball; shocks in the ear; sneezing, etc.; discharge of mucus from nostril; mouth, etc.,
hot and feverish, etc.; 2 o’clock, sore throat; paroxysms of cough;
same, after 1 o’clock; pain in kidney; 2 o’clock, pain in knee; pains in various parts. ► (Afternoon and evening), Shocks heard in ears; sneezing, etc.; pleuritic stitches. ► (Evening), 7 to 10
o’clock, on a rainy day, headache, etc.; 7 o’clock, heat, etc., in forehead; bad taste in
mouth; pain in supraclavicular region; 9 o’clock, severe drawing in same. ► (Midnight), In bed,.
palpitation of the heart. ► (2 P.M. till 7 A.M.),
Headache, etc. ► (Ascending
stairs), Pain in right leg; sore feeling in leg; numbness in leg. ► (Bending head back and forth),
Stitches, etc., in nape of neck; soreness, etc., in the same. ►
(Bending foot), Pain in right leg; numbness in same. ► (After breakfast),
Headache on top of head returns. ► (Contortions of body), Pleuritic pain; pain
in right side. ► (Friction
of clothes), Soreness of skin. ► (Full inspiration), Pleuritic pain;
in afternoon, pleuritic stitches. ► (While lying on right side), In bed, at moment of becoming
unconscious in sleep, suffocative attacks; pulsations of heart heard, etc.; sensation in
lung. ► (Mental emotion or
thought), Spells of palpitation. ► (Motion), Stitches in sides;
soreness of muscles, etc.; pains in various parts. ► (Moving eyes), Frontal headache.
► (Pressure), Pain in
hell. ► (Going up and down
stairs), Pain in leg; pain in knee joint. ► (On swallowing), Throat inflamed, etc.; sore throat. ► (Throwing shoulders back and chest
forward), Pains in side. ► (Turning the parts in either direction), Pain in eyeballs. ► (Walking), Pain in right
leg. ► Amelioration. ►
(Morning), Headache on top of head. ► (Afternoon), Headache,
etc. ► (Night), After sleeping, headache on top of head; palms in the buboes, [°]. ► (Changing position), Sensation in lungs. ►
(Warm room), Cough.® 2000
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