CAUSTICUM.
“Tinctura acris sine Kali.”
Preparation
, Distil a mixture of slaked lime and a solution of
Potassium sulphate according to directions given in the Homœopathic Dispensatory. The
distillate contains Potassium hydrate, but no lime nor Sulphuric acid. Some effects of
Caustic potash (Kali causticum, Potassium hydrate) are here included.
Authorities.
1, Hahnemann,
Ch. Kr., 3, 85; 2, Becher, ibid.; 3, Franz, ibid.; 4, Hartmann,
ibid.; 5, Herrmann, ibid.; 6,
Hornburg, ibid.; 7, Langhammer, ibid.; 8, N-g, ibid. (and compared with Hartlaub and Trinks, R. Aml., 2
and 3); 9, Rummel, ibid.; 10,
Stapf, ibid.; 11, Knorre, A. H. Z., 6, 37, fragment,
proving; 12, Berridge, fragment, proving, N. Am. J. of
Hom., N. S., 3, 499, effects of one dose of the 6000th (Jenichen) observed on a patient; 13, Dr. Pallas, Rec. de Mem. de Méd., 1825 (Frank’s Mag., 3,
807), a girl, aged 9, drank three swallows of a solution of a pound of potash in a quart of
water; 14, Prof. Parkes, B. and F. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1853
(Am. J. of Med. Sci., 1853, p. 453), effects of liquor potassæ, “especially on the
urine.”
MIND.
► Emotional. ► When she closes the eyes she sees only terrible visions and
distorted human faces, [1]. ►
Lively, joyous mood, first twelve hours, rapid flow of ideas; [This seemed to be the
curative action in one whose previous condition of disposition and mind had been the
opposite. -H.] but after twenty-one hours (in the morning after waking and through the whole
forenoon), anxious trembling, sleepy confusion of the head, heavy pressure in the occiput
and forehead, with heaviness of the limbs, constant pain in the joints and muscles of the
fingers, arms, shoulders, knees, and feet, [10]. ► Lively disposition the whole day, contented with himself and
very talkative; he constantly wished to talk with some one (curative action), [7]. ► Good-humored and talkative,
in the forenoon, [8]. ►
The child whines about every trifle, [1]. ► Although disputes (e. g.,
political) were brought to him, still he remained quite calm, though indeed, he felt
sensitive, yet he avoided speaking of it, and subdued his emotions (curative action), (the
first hours), [10]. ►
*Melancholy mood, [1]. ► *Melancholy before menstruation, as if everything was of a dark
color, [1]. ►
Sad, weeping mood, full of care, as if beside oneself, [1].
[10.] ► Sad and
somewhat anxious mood, [1]. ►
Excessively sympathetic; she is beside herself, with weeping and sobbing, and cannot be
contented when listening to accounts of the hardships of others, [1]. ► Anxiety the whole day, as
if he had done something bad, or apprehended it, or as if he had been unfortunate, [7]. ► Anxiety in the
morning on waking, [1]. ►
Anxiety in the evening before going to sleep; the boy could not fall asleep because he
constantly thought of anxious things; one could with difficulty induce him to go to bed in
the evening, [1]. ►
Anxiety and uneasiness at night did not permit her to sleep (twentieth day), [1]. ► Anxiety after the
stool, [1]. ► Anxiety
after the stool, heat in the face, and inclination to sweat, [1]. ► Anxiety with the physical
troubles, [1]. ►
Great anxiety throughout the day (thirteenth day), [1].
[20.] ► The greatest
anxiety for twelve hours, [1]. ► Anxious mood, as if stupefied (soon after taking), [8]. ► *Anxious uneasy mood,
as if something unpleasant impended; this unfits him for every work, [2]. ► Anxious solicitude
about every occurrence, [1]. ►
Anxious apprehension lest something evil should happen, with urging to stool, [1]. ► Constantly anxious and
sweaty (second day), [8]. ►
He was busy with thoughts of death, with uneasiness and great solicitude, [1]. ► Loss of courage, [1]. ► Fear and anxiety,
so that she does not wish to live, [1]. ► Fearfulness at night, [1].
[30.] ► Extremely
anxious fearfulness; was so anxious about a dog near by, which did not hurt her, that her
whole body trembled; every noise in the street made her apprehensive; and if she saw boys
climbing she was in the greatest uneasiness lest they should be harmed, [1]. ► *Great apprehension whenever
anything happens; despondent, depressed, most excessive exhaustion and prostration,
[9]. ► Full of
frightful ideas, in the evening, [1]. ► Sensitive and inclined to be angry, with great nervous
irritability, together with slight chilliness, and on motion easily heated, [1]. ► Very sensitive, hot-heated,
and vehement, [1]. ►
Irritable about trifles, [1]. ►
Extreme irritability of mind; the slightest vexation affects her whole body, so that her
knees sink under her, [1]. ►
Unbounded inclination to be out of humor, [1]. ► Out of humor and irritable (after four days), [1]. ► During menstruation
ill-humor and great weariness, [1]. [40.] ► Discontented with
herself, with gloomy looks, [1]. ► Peevish, irritable mood, [9].
► Peevish, weeping mood, [1].
► Peevish, irritable, takes no pleasure in music, [1]. ►► *Very peevish
(after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► *Fretful, [6]. ► Fretful and despondent, without being vexed (first day), [1]. ► Fretful the whole
day; everything which surrounded him made a disagreeable impression upon him, [7]. ► Fretful the whole day, out
of humor with himself, discontented, solicitous, and yet not disinclined to mental labor, [7]. ► Fretful, still,
and absorbed in himself, though previously he had been very lively, lasting half an hour
(immediately after taking), [8]. [50.] ► Very fretful and
indolent, [1]. ►
Contradictory, [1]. ►
Furiously opinionated and quarrelsome, [1]. ► Inclined to scold and make a disturbance, without being
peevish, [3]. ►
Inclined to scold and quarrel, with sullen mood, [6]. ► Quarrelsome (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ► He becomes easily violent
after the midday sleep, with great despondency, [1]. ► Persistent silence, difficult to overcome, remained after
the poisoning, [13]. ►
Long morose silence (after six hours), [6]. ► At one time excessively merry, at another depressed, [1]. [60.] ► Sometimes joyful, and soon afterwards peevish, [1]. ► Intellectual. ► Weakness of thought; slow succession of ideas, [3]. ► Absence of mind, with loss
of ideas, [3]. ► A
kind of loss of ideas; if he was doing anything it constantly seemed to him that he had
something more important to do, although he did not know what; he reflected about it, but
without thinking of anything, [3]. ► Disinclined to work (after ten and twenty hours), [1]. ► Disinclined to pay
attention, [3]. ►
Momentary absence of mind; he seemed to be thinking of something, but without having any
thoughts (after half an hour), [3]. ► Inattentive and distracted, [1]. ► Weakness of memory, [1]. ► He frequently
pronounces words wrongly and confuses syllables and letters (e. g.,
“cluent coryza”), for several days, [9]. [70.] ► Coma, [4].
HEAD.
► Confusion. ► Confusion of the head, the whole day from the morning, as if
in a close room where clothes were washed and dried; aggravated by stooping, not relieved by
walking in the open air, but on returning into the room, [1].
► Confusion of the head in the morning, with coryza, [1]. ► Confusion and heat
of the head (seventh day), [1]. ►
A momentary (painful, tensive) confusion of the head; almost like a slight throbbing
headache, disappearing after eating, [10]. ► Cloudiness of the head, [1].
► Feeling of stupefaction and drunkenness of the head
(after twenty-four hour), [1]. ►
Stupid feeling in the head the day after an emission, [1].
► The head feels dull and screwed together (after half an
hour), [8]. ► The
head feels dull and as if intoxicated, with redness of the face (after half an hour), [8]. ► Vertigo. [80.] ► Vertigo, as from
spirituous drinks, [6]. ►
*Vertigo, forwards and sideways, [1]. ► Vertigo, in the morning on rising from bed, [1]. ► *Vertigo at night in bed, on
rising, and lying down again, [1]. ► Vertigo in the open air; everything turned about with her;
persons seemed larger than usual to her; it disappears in the room, [8]. ► *During menstruation vertigo
and whirling in the head, worse on stooping; relieved in the afternoon, [10]. ► *Vertigo on looking
fixedly at one point, [1]. ► Vertigo on looking up (to a high tower), so violent that he
fell over, [9]. ►
Vertigo, almost like a loss of consciousness, after walking; while sitting, he nearly fell, [1]. ► Vertigo, when
standing, [1]. [90.]
► Vertigo, reeling, with heaviness of the head, while
standing and sitting, [1]. ►
Vertigo on stooping, which disappears on rising up, in the morning (second day), [8]. ► *Vertigo, relieved
in the open air, [10]. ►
Vertigo, with weakness of the head, [1]. ► Vertigo, and falling down without cause, [9]. ► Momentary vertigo while
sitting, as if he would stagger (after three hours and a half), [10]. ► Dizziness of the head, [10]. ► Dizziness of the
head, with anxiety of the whole body, [8]. ► *Dizzy the whole week, as from compression of the head, [1]. ► Dizzy in the
morning, with painful confusion of the head, [10]. [100.] ►
Feels drunken and dizzy, with distraction of thought, [1].
► General Head. ►
Involuntary nodding with the head, just as if some one pressed it down (while writing), [3]. ► Rush of blood to
the head, with heat in it, [1]. ►
Rush of blood to the head, and a sensation as if intoxicated, relieved in the open air
(after a quarter of an hour), [8]. ► Rushing of blood into the head, in the evening, [1]. ► After walking in
the open air a little, the blood rushes to the head and face; it becomes dim like a cloud
before the eyes, [1]. ►
Sensation as if the brain were loose and shaken, when walking in the open air, [1]. ► Stitches in the
head, with warmth in it, [8]. ►
Tearing in the head, neither aggravated nor relieved by motion lasting several days, more or
less severe, [1]. ►
A sticking-tearing in the head which commences in the forehead and extends to the right side
through the whole head, [4]. [110.]
► Throbbing pain; very painful throbbing in the cerebral
arteries, [1]. ►
Jerkings and severe beatings in the head every minute, in all positions, during rest and
motion, [1]. ►
Headache at night, as if an ulcer were in it, [1]. ► A morning headache, which had existed a long time, disappears
(curative action), [8]. ►
Forehead. ► Stupefying pain in the forehead,
when sitting and reading, which was not relieved on walking or standing, [7]. ► Headache, as if something
were forced in between the frontal bone and the cerebrum, or as if the place behind the
frontal bone were hollow, [3]. ►
The whole brain was painful on shaking the head, [1]. ► Warmth in the head internally, an hour after dinner, [8]. ► Sensation of
internal heat in the head, without external heat (after half an hour), [8]. ► Sensation in the head as if
everything would come out in front, on stooping, [10].
[120.] ► Headache,
with nausea, [1]. ►
Compressive headache, [6]. ►
A jerking-pinching pain through the head, [9]. ► Painless digging in the whole head, [1]. ► Pressive headache from all
sides, with pinching in the ear and boring toothache, [1].
► At times a pressure deep in the head, with heaviness of
the head, [1]. ►
Screwing in and heaviness of the head, relieved in the open air, [8]. ► Sticking headache, more
especially in the orbits, the whole night, not during the day, [1]. ► Stitchlike headache, in the
morning on waking, and almost the whole day, [1]. ► Burning headache in the forehead, as if the forepart of the
brain were inflamed, after returning into the room from the open air, [3]. [130.] ►
Tension and warmth in the forehead and nose, with slight drawing in the eyes from time to
time, [1]. ►
Tensive and drawing headache between the eyes, [1]. ► Drawing in the left side of the forehead, [1]. ► Pressive pain in the right
frontal eminence, [1]. ► Pressive pain from the forehead to the eyes, [1]. ► Painful pressive cutting in
the upper part of the frontal bone immediately on moving the arms violently, while stooping,
[3]. ► Constrictive
pressure in the forehead, in the open air, which constantly became more violent the faster
he walked, and suddenly disappeared when stooping low down, [3].
► Sharp pressure in the left side of the forehead, [3]. ► A painful drawing
pressure in the forepart of the forehead, [4]. ► Rather sharp frontal headache (after the large flow of
urine), [14]. [140.]
► A tensive stitching from the lower portion of the
forehead to the upper part of the head (tenth day), [1].
► Shifting slow stitches in the left side of the forehead
above the eye, [1]. ►
Twitching headache in the right side of the forehead and head, [9]. ► Tearing pain in the middle
of the forehead and in the cervical vertebræ, during the day in a heated room and in
tobacco-smoking; and especially at night, when he was unable to sleep on account of it, [1]. ► Severe throbbing
in the forehead for three days, several afternoons, with tension in the neck (after twelve
days), [1]. ► A
painful pressive throbbing in the forehead, as with a dull point, [6]. ► Dull painful throbbing of
the arteries of the head above the orbits, [3]. ► Temples. ► Burning in
the right temple and side of the forehead, [8]. ► Tension in the right temple and in the eye, as if it were
paralyzed, [1]. ►
Violent drawing pain in the temple, gradually increasing to its highest, and then suddenly
disappearing (after twenty-four hours), [9]. [150.] ► Pressive headache on
the upper margin of the temporal bone, [3]. ► Pressive headache in the right temple, [1]. ► Pressing-out headache in
the temples day and night, with nausea amounting to vomiting (ninth day), [1]. ► Stitches in the temples,
[1]. ► Dull
stitches in the left temporal bone, which always spreads in a circle, when the pain is
relieved or disappears (ninth day), [1]. ► Painful tearing in the right temple, [8]. ► Painful tearing in the left
temple at 4 P.M., [8]. ►
Throbbing headache in the right temple, on motion; when quiet it is only a pressive pain, [1]. ► Vertex. ► Burning in the vertex (after ten hours), [8]. ► Frequently repeated cold
burning in front of the vertex (after fourteen hours), [8].
[160.] ► Frequent
drawing in the left side of the top of the head, [1]. ► A sudden pressure, as from a sharp stone falling upon it, in
the vertex, in the region of the coronal suture, [6]. ► Pain in the top of the head, as if the brain were torn or
shattered, especially in the morning on waking (after three hours), [1]. ► A sticking-tearing,
extending into the left side of the vertex (sixth day), [8].
► *Throbbing in the vertex, mingled with stitches, by
paroxysms, [1]. ►
Beating and throbbing in the whole vertex, as if everything would be forced out, in the
morning after rising, lasting two hours (second day), [8].
► *Pain in a small spot on the vertex, as if bruised or
beaten, only on touch, [1]. ► Pain on the top of the head, on pressure or touch, [1]. ► Parietals. ► Tension in the left side of the head, [1]. ► Pressive pain in the right
side of the head, extending into the eye, [1]. [170.] ► Pressive pain in the
right parietal bone and both temples, [1]. ► Stitches in the right side of the head, for half an hour, [1]. ► Stitches in the
left side of the head, several evenings, [1]. ► Tearing in the left side of the head, especially in the
forehead and temple, which began in the evening and constantly increased with swelling of
the painful side (after sixteen days), [1]. ► Violent tearing in the left side of the head, [8]. ► Occiput. ► Sensation in the occipital bone as if the part were numb,
pithy, or dead (after a quarter of an hour), [3]. ► Sudden pain in the occipital bone while sitting, as if
something in the muscles had been displaced, [3]. ► Drawing pain in the occiput, [9].
► Tensive headache arising from the nape of the neck
(after twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
Drawing pressure in the right side of the occiput and muscles of the neck, which was
increased on rapid walking, arising in the open air, [3].
[180.] ► Several
stitches in the occiput, for half an hour, [1]. ► Throbbing pain on the right side of the occiput; on rubbing,
it extends further upward towards the vertex, where it continues to pain for a long time, as
if beaten (after one hour), [8]. ► External Head. ►
Falling out of the hair, [1]. ►
Movement of the scalp towards the forehead (thirteenth day), [1].
► Painfulness of the scalp when rubbed, [1]. ► Tearing-burning in the
scalp in front of the vertex, in the evening (thirteenth day), [8]. ► *Itching in the scalp,
[1]. ► *The skin of the
head is tense, [1]. ►
Sensation of trembling or shaking in the skin of the right temple, which lasts till lying
down; a peculiar sensation, but not painful, [8]. ► Creeping sensation on the vertex, [1]. [190.] ►
Itching on the forehead, [1]. ►
Stinging-itching on various parts of the head, in the right and left parietal bones, on the
forehead, the right cheek, behind the left zygoma, extending towards the ear and upward to
the temporal bone, [3].
EYE.
► Inflammation of the
eyes, with burning and pressing pain (fourth day), [1].
► Inflammation of the eyes, with pressure in them during
the day, and agglutination in the morning, [1]. ► Weakness of the eyes, [1].
► Dry sensation in the eyes, with pressure in
them, [10]. ► At first,
dryness of the eyes in the morning, and stiffness, followed by lachrymation, [10]. ► Heat in the eyes,
[1]. ► *Burning in the
eyes, without redness, [1]. ► *Burning and dryness of the eyes, from 4 P.M. till
evening, [8]. [200.]
► *Burning and stinging, as with needles, in the eyes,
with dryness and photophobia, from 6 to 8 P.M., [8]. ►► *Pressure in
the eyes, as if sand were in them, [1]. ► Pressure in the eyes, as if they were pressed inwards and
tried to come out, [1]. ►
Pressure in the right eye, as from a swelling of the lids, which are really red, with watery
eyes, [3]. ►
Pressure in the left eye, as if it would be pressed out, [3].
► A very painful pressure in the eyes, in the morning,
before he can open them; if he closes them again, the pain is relieved, [1]. ► Internal pressure of the
eye, as if it would be distended, [3]. ► Pressive pain in the eye, increased by touch, [1]. ► Pressive pain over
the right eye, as if the upper lid would be pressed down (after three-quarters of an hour), [4]. ► *A rubbing, as of sand
in the eyes, [3]. [210.]
► Tearing and pressure in the eyes, [1]. ► Biting in the eyes, as from
salt, [10]. ► *Biting
and pressure in the eyes, which seem heavy, with redness of the lids, [1]. ► *Itching of the eyes,
especially in the lids, [3]. ► Itching in the right eye, which disappears on rubbing, and is
followed by lachrymation, [8]. ►
Itching in the left eye, which disappears on rubbing (half an hour after dinner), [8]. ► Brow and Orbit.
► Twitching in the left eyebrow (second day), [1]. ► Drawing in the
arch of the right eyebrow, [1]. ►
Pressure in the orbits and behind the eyes, [3]. ► Slow pressure above the right orbit, [6]. [220.] ►
Frequent drawing and pressure between the eyes, [1]. ► Lids. ► Inflamed lids
from time to time, with accumulation of hard matter between the lashes, [1]. ► Visible twitching of the lids,
and of the left brow, [1]. ►
Sty on left lower lid at outer end, for three or four days (first day), [12]. ► Sty on inner end of left lower lid, with watering of left eye, for a day
or two (eight day), [12]. ►
Agglutination of the eyes in the morning, [8]. ►► *Inclination to close the eyes; they close involuntarily,
[1]. ► *Sensation as if
the eyes would close from weakness, [1]. ►► *Sensation of heaviness in the upper lid, as if he could not
raise it easily, or as if it were agglutinated to the
lower lid, and could not be easily loosened, [1].
► Opening the eyes is difficult, with sensation as
if the lids were swollen, mostly in the morning, [1]. [230.] ► Burning in the left
lid, [9]. ► Burning
pain on the margins of the lids, as from burning with gunpowder, [6]. ► Sensation as if the lids
were swollen, mostly in the morning, [5]. ► Pressure in the upper lid, as if a sty would appear, [1]. ► Pressure in the
upper lid, as from a swelling, as if a sty would form, [3].
► Biting in the lids, [9].
► Smarting pain in the left lid (after four days), [9]. ► *Itching on the lower
lid and on its inner surface, with burning as soon as he touches the eye or moves it,
[1]. ► Dry matter
in the canthi, [7]. ►
*Burning in both inner canthi (after three and four days), [1]. [240.] ►
An itching sore pain in the right inner canthus, in the morning, after waking, as if salt
had got into the eye, which obliges him to rub it vigorously, which, however, increases the
sensation so that lachrymation is produced, without redness of the eye, [10]. ► Itching in the inner
canthus of the right eye, with lachrymation (after three-quarters of an hour), [8]. ► Itching in the
inner canthus of the left eye, which disappears on rubbing, [8].
► *Itching, like fleabites, in the left inner canthus, with
desire to rub it, [3]. ► Voluptuous itching of the right canthus, which obliges him to
rub it, lasting an hour (after eight hours), [7]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ►
Lachrymation of the eyes, even in the room, but mostly in the open air, [1]. ► Unusual
lachrymation of the eyes, in the room, without redness of them, [2]. ► Watering of the eyes,
especially in the open air (second and third days), [8].
► The previously watery eyes become better (curative
action), [8]. ► Ball.
► Distending pain in the right eyeball, [3]. [250.] ►
Itching in the right eyeball, in the morning (second day), [8].
► Pupil. ►
Dilated pupils, [2]. ►
The pupils at first seem contracted, but after ten or twelve hours are dilated, [10]. ► Vision. ► *Photophobia the whole day; he was constantly obliged to wink,
[1]. ► Photophobia;
the eyes are painful on motion, more on looking at the bright daylight, [1]. ► Small round objects pass
before his vision while lying down, even with open eyes, [3].
► Flickering before the eyes, [1]. ► Flickering before the eyes,
like a veil before them, [1]. ►
*Flickering before the eyes, as from swarms of insects, [1]. ► If he looked a long time at
anything, objects flickered before his eyes, and everything ran together, which was followed
by pressive pain in the eyes, [1]. [260.] ► Sparks of fire before
the eyes, even on a bright day, [1]. ► *If he winks, he sees sparks of fire before the eyes, even on a
bright day, [1]. ►
It becomes black before the eyes, for half an hour (fifth day), [1]. ► *The eyes become dim, and the
vision indistinct; it seems as though a thick cloud were before the eyes, [8]. ► Obscuration of the
eyes at times, as from a veil, [1]. ► Obscuration of the eyes frequently, as if a membrane were
drawn over them, [1]. ►
*Obscuration of the vision for a moment, on blowing the nose, [1]. ► Obscuration of the eyes in
the morning, when blowing the nose, as if a membrane were drawn from the inner canthus over
half the pupil, [1]. ►
Obscuration of the eyes frequently, especially if he looks at the light, as if he were
blinded by a strong light, and could see nothing, [3].
► *Obscuration of the eyes, as if a veil were drawn before
them, when standing, [3]. [270.] ► Obscuration of the
eyes; something seemed to come from the head into the left eye, and the light looked as if
there were many points of light in a black circle, [1].
► *Dimness of vision, [9]. ► Dim vision, as if a thin
membrane were drawn over the eyes, or as if a cloud were before them, increased by wiping
and rubbing, [4]. ► Dim
vision, as from a thick cloud before the eyes, in the morning, after waking; she
could not see for a long time, until she had washed (second day), [8]. ► While reading, some of the
letters became invisible, [9]. ►
Farsightedness, the first day; he was unable to read without glasses, [1].® 2000
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