LACTUCA.
CHEST.
►
Feeling of heaviness of the chest, in the evening, with a feeling of
filling of the air passages (after twelve hours), [7]. ► Pain in
the left chest, aggravated by the short hacking cough; the same
sensation in the right half of the chest was also caused by coughing
(after three hours), [7]. ► Sensation after waking, in the lower
anterior portion of the thorax, especially the left side, like that felt
in the muscles after physical exertion (second day), [7]. ► The
whole chest is full, painful, as if beaten, with slight trembling in it
(after one hour), [1]. [330.] ►
The feeling of fulness in the chest increases towards evening (first
day), [3]. ►
Feeling of anxious fulness in the chest (after four hours), [3]. ►
Feeling of tightness in the chest, which is felt about the heart, in the
afternoon (first day), [10]. ► Feeling as though the thorax were too
tight and constricted (fourth day), [3].
► Wakes from sleep several times at
night on account of great tightness in the chest, so that he suddenly
rises up anxious, and in the morning is very tired (first night), [1]. ►
A sensation of orgasm in the chest suddenly causes a transient
tightness, with subsequent spasmodic pain in the chest externally (first
day), [1]. ►
Readily attacked by orgasm and tightness of the chest after moderate
exertion, [1]. ► She feared to take a deep breath on account of
tightness in the lower portion of the chest; there was then felt a
slight shock (after two hours and a half), [8]. ►
Frequent alternations of tightness in the chest, heaviness on the chest
and need of deep breathing, yawning and stretching relieved for the
moment, [1]. ► He is sometimes awakened from sleep at night on
account of great tightness of the chest, so that he suddenly starts up
anxiously (first night), [1].
[340.] ►
Constrictive sensation, with a feeling of heaviness low down in the
chest, oppression and increased warmth, periodically increasing and
decreasing, lasting through the day (after one hour), [1]. ► The
thorax seems constricted; on deep breathing he is unable to expand it
completely (after ten hours, lasting till eighth day), [6]. ► Feeling
as if the region of the short ribs, especially the right side, were
spasmodically constricted (after eight hours, lasting till fourth day), [6]. ►
The chest feels compressed, tight, especially when sitting bent over, [9]. ►
On deep inspiration, the breath does not completely fill the chest, but
without the slightest painfulness in the chest (first hour), [4]. ►
Pinching and pressure in the upper half of the chest, with a sensation
of tightness and inclination to yawn and stretch the upper part of the
body (after a quarter of an hour), [1].
► The dull, painful sensation in the
chest is increased by deep breathing, [7].
► Dull, drawing pain in the chest in
the morning in bed, increased after rising (after twenty-four hours), [3]. ►
Dragging and orgasm in the chest, compelling rapid respiration (first
day), [1]. ►
Periodic twingings in the lower portion of the chest, with a feeling as
though the thorax were too tight (fifth day), [3]. [350.] ► Pressure in the upper part of the chest,
and weakness even to sinking down, after walking in the open air (fifth
day), [1]. ►
Violent pressure in the middle of the chest (first and second days), [1]. ►
*Cramping, pressive pains in various parts of the chest
(first, and also sometimes on the second day), [1]. ► Feeling
as of a strange weight in the chest while walking in the open air, [1]. ►
Heaviness, like a hundredweight upon the chest; she was obliged to
loosen the clothes, everything seemed too tight, and impeded respiration
(first day), [15]. ► Oppression of the chest, with dull pain
beneath the sternum (after eleven hours), [3].
► Feeling of oppression of the chest;
she is often obliged to take a deep breath and to rise from her sitting,
bent position, and stretch up the upper part of the body in order to
relieve it (first day), [13]. ► Slight oppression of the chest from both
sides and beneath the sternum, followed by a feeling of warmth in the
rest of the thoracic walls (after half an hour), [4]. ► Great
oppression of the chest, with periodic twinging pains in various parts
(third day), [1]. ► Anxious oppression of the chest, with
inclination to take a deep breath and yawn (first and second days), [15]. [360.]
► Transient stitches at times in the
left lobe of the lungs, with difficult breathing (fourth day), [3]. ►
Some transient stitches in the region of the cartilages of the upper
false ribs (after one hour), [7]. ► Violent, sore pain in the chest on
sneezing once, which afterwards changes to a pressure (soon), [1]. ►
The whole chest is painful while sneezing, [1]. ► A
waving sensation rises several times from the abdomen into the chest
(after one hour), [1]. ► He cannot endure anything tight about the
thorax (after half an hour), [9]. ► Sitting upright relieves the chest, [9]. ►
Front. ► Feeling of
fulness in the chest, beneath the sternum and more towards the left
side, extending to the clavicle, obliging him to take a deep breath
(after one hour and a quarter), [7].
► Pressure and tension beneath the
upper part of the sternum on moving, [1].
► Slight pressure beneath the
sternum, especially if the hand were pressed against it (second day), [4]. [370.]
► Transient pleuritic stitches to the
right of the middle of the sternum (after half an hour), [7]. ► Sides.
► Dull pain in the left side of the
chest, near the middle of the sternum, necessitating deep breathing;
soon after, the same sensation in the corresponding place in the right
side of the chest, more towards the upper part, which was soon relieved,
while it continued longer in the left side (after one hour), [7]. ►
Pressure in both sides of the chest, aggravated by inspiration, in the
morning (second day), [7]. ► *Pinching, dull, sticking pain, which becomes
seated in the upper part of the left side of the chest, with tightness
of the whole chest, periodically becomes more extensive, [1]. ►
Dull stitches in the right side of the chest, which leave a spasmodic
jerking sensation (after two hours), [1].
► Dull stitches in the lower portion
of the right side of the chest, extending towards the back, [1]. ►
Dull stitches from the left side of the chest to the scapula (first
day), [1]. ► *Several sharp stitches beneath the short ribs
of the left side (soon), [1].
► Transient burning-throbbing pain in
a small spot in the right side of the chest (after ten hours), [1]. ►
Mammæ. ► It increases the
milk, [33]. [380.] ►
It promotes and increases the secretion of milk which is inclined to dry
up, [26].
PULSE.
►
Pulsations 81 (before taking), 88 (after taking), 80 (next morning),
(average of all cases), [41]. ► Rather frequent pulse (half an hour after
1 drachm of Lactucarium), [37]. ► Pulse not remarkably changed, perhaps a
few beats slower than usual, [1]. ► Pulse retarded, [30]. ► Pulse
slower (from 10 to 15 grains of Parisian Lactucarium), [17]. ► Pulse
slow and tense (after twenty-four hours), [3].
► Pulse a few beats slower than usual
(first day), [1], [15]. ►
Depression of the pulse from 75 to 62 within an hour and a half, [39]. ►
Pulse diminished (from 6 to 8 grains of Parisian Lactucarium taken at
intervals of three or four hours during the day), [17]. [390.] ► Pulse reduced from 67 to 60; in some
persons the pulse was reduced from 10 to 12 beats, and in one individual
still more, [34].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Pain in the nape
of the neck when coughing (after seven hours), [8]. ► Tension
in the cervical muscles of both sides (after twenty minutes), [1]. ►
Tensive cramplike pain in the muscles of the neck in the right side
(after half an hour), [1]. ► Drawing and tension in the nape of the
neck, shoulders, and cervical muscles (first and second days), [1]. ►
Back. ► Pain in the spine,
extending into the cauda equina, and also streaming through the coccyx
(after two hours), [9]. ► Pinching pain, periodically extending
through the back, in various directions, [1].
► Drawing, frequently extending from
the small of the back to the groin towards evening (first day), [15]. ►
Bruised pain in the lumbar region (after ten hours to fourth day), [6].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Heaviness ot the limbs (first day), [11]. [400.]
► Limbs tremulous and weak (first
day), [1]. ►
Great weakness of the limbs, and disinclination to work, in the morning
after rising, for fourteen days, [4].
► The limbs frequently fall asleep
(first and second day), [11]. ► Pain in the limbs, [18]. ►
Cramplike pains, here and there (elbows, hands, fingers, lower legs),
which impede the function of the limbs; they do not last long, and soon
reappear in other places, [8]. ► All the limbs feel bruised, obliging
lying in bed the whole day (fourth day), [6].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Drawing in the arms, especially starting
from the elbow-joints, [1]. ► Frequent drawing and jerking in the arms
(soon), [15]. ► Periodic drawing and jerking in the arms
(soon), [15]. ► Fine stitch beneath the right arm (soon),
[4]. ►
Shoulder. [410.] ► Transient paralytic feeling in left
shoulder-joint (second day), [4]. ► Pains in the shoulders and limbs (from 10
to 15 grains of Parisian Lactucarium), [17].
► Sticking in the right axilla, as
from a small sharp instrument, lasting several days; the pain is
aggravated by pressure and by raising the arm, [4]. ►
Wandering-tearing pain as if in the bones in the joints of the right
shoulder and elbow, in the open air; it afterwards extends, now into the
wrist, now into the knees, now into the leg, now into the ankle, neck,
temples, etc., for a short time, lasting till the eighth day (after
eight hours), [6]. ► Arm. ►
Dull, very transient pain in the deltoid and pectoral muscles,
afterwards extending to the shoulders, during rest, [7]. ►
Cramplike pain on the back of the lower portion of the upper arm, which
is relieved by moving it (first and second days), [8]. ► Dull
drawing and feeling of weakness in the left upper arm (first day), [1]. ►
Pain as from a sprain in the deltoid muscle of the left arm, only while
the forearm is bent (after eighteen hours), [6]. ► Elbow.
► Dull drawing in the tip of the
right elbow (soon), [1]. ► Forearm. ►
Tearing pain in the right forearm, with a subsequent paralyzed feeling
in the little finger (after two hours), [1].
► Wrist. [420.] ►
Drawing pain in the external condyle of the left wrist (after one hour
and a half), [1]. ► Hand. ►
Trembling of the hands, [18]. ► Painful jerkings in the hands, [1]. ►
Cramplike drawing in the left hand (first day), [1]. ► Fingers.
► Feeling of heat in several fingers,
which leaves behind a weakness, [1].
► Pain in the middle fingers of each
hand, a kind of tearing (after three hours), [8].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Objective. ►
Gait unsteady; he reels to and fro (soon), [1]. ►
Staggering while walking (from 10 to 15 grains of Parisian Lactucarium, [17]; on attempting to walk, [18]. ►
Great weariness of the limbs and right arm (after half an hour), [5]. ►
Subjective. ► The limb
falls asleep while sitting (first day), [6].
[430.] ►
Heaviness of the limbs and tension in the hollows of the knees, while
walking, [1]. ► Drawing in the limbs and back (first
day), [15]. ►
Painful whizzing in the limbs, in the afternoon, while sitting quietly, [1]. ►
Thigh. ► Jerking in the
left thigh (after half an hour, and three hours), [1]. ► Knee.
► Tension in the hollows of the knees
on rising from a seat; the thighs feel bruised (after eight hours), [1]. ►
Leg. ► Trembling of the
left lower leg, in the afternoon (second day), [6]. ► Feeling
of heaviness like a stoppage of blood in the lower legs, while sitting
(first day), [14]. ► Cramp in the left calf while walking,
lasting about a quarter of an hour (after nine hours), [6]. ► Drawing
and a feeling of stoppage in the right lower leg, especially during
rest, [1]. ►
Dull drawing pain with a feeling of stiffness in the right lower leg, at
times extending up into the hip, [1].
► Foot. [440.] ► A
pain in the ball of the foot on the digital border of the second
metatarsal bone, and in the great toe of the left foot; the toes feel
grown together and drawn back, only when stepping upon them (fifth to
eighth days), [6]. ► Pain in the sole of the left foot as from
a stone-bruise, during rest, disappearing when stepping upon it, [8]. ►
Toes. ► Sensation beneath
the nail of the fourth toe as if suppurating, without any external
alteration; and pain on pressure (third day), [5].
GENERALITIES.
►
Objective. ► It causes
good nutrition, and diminishes corpulency, [26]. ►
Alarming convulsions in a lying-in woman (from the juice of the ordinary
salad), [16]. ► Weariness for twelve hours), [5]. ►
Weary and sleepy, contrary to habit (first day), [15]. ► He is
as weary and sick after a slight exertion in the house, as if he had
taken a long walk, in the forenoon (first day), [1]. ► Great
weariness and sleepiness throughout the day (first day), [14]. ►
Astonishing weariness (after one hour), [12].
[450.] ►
Great weakness (from 10 to 15 grains of Parisian Lactucarium), [17]. ►
Great weakness, immobility and general exhaustion, [18]. ►
General Exhaustion (from 10 to 15 grains of Parisian Lactucarium), [17]. ►
Subjective. ► (A truly
enlivening, invigorating power, from Lactucarium, in a hysterical
woman), [18]. ► Increased feeling of lightness (from 6 to
8 grains of Parisian Lactucarium), [17].
► Unusual lightness of the body in
the open air (after some hours), [1].
► Great lightness in the open air,
and an agreeable, healthy feeling in the whole body (after twelve
hours), [1]. ►
A peculiar indescribable sensation of lightness in the whole body
without narcotic effect and without any abnormality of the pulse (from 3
to 5 grains of Parisian Lactucarium), [17].
► Feeling as if the body were
swimming, in bed (soon), [1]. ► Periodic drawing in various parts of the
body (first and second days), [1].
[460.] ►
Sharp, cramplike, jerking pain becomes firmly seated close to those
parts of the body which bend (the neck, hypochondria, elbows, hips), and
especially occurs in the evening and during rest; it is not in the
joints, but only near them, and seems to prefer the extensor rather than
the flexor surface, and also to be worse in the morning, [8]. ► Desire
for the open air, [5]. ► She recovers in the open air; especially
the chest becomes freer, [13]. ► Inclination to sit upright, [9].
SKIN.
►
Inflammation and slight eruption caused on delicate parts of the skin by
the external application of the extract, [35],
[36]. ►
Fine sticking twinging and biting, here and there beneath the skin,
suddenly, [8]. ► Slight pain under the skin, here and
there, in the limbs, almost like a fine sticking, [8]. ►
Prickling pain beneath the skin of the nape of the neck, which gradually
becomes seated in a small spot beneath the right scapula, [4]. ►
Crawling itching on the left toes, and left fingers (third day), [5].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Yawning and
stretching of the limbs (from 10 to 15 grains of Parisian Lactucarium), [17]. [470.]
► Frequent yawning, [5]; (first day), [12].
► It promotes sleep, [26]. ►
Hypnotic effect, [41]. ► Inclination to sleep, [39]. ►
Inclination to sleep, which, however, does not follow, [17]. ► Great
sleepiness (after a quarter of an hour), [22].
► Great sleepiness, without being
able to completely overcome his previous wakefulness (half an hour after
10 grains of Lactucarium), [37]. ► Great sleepiness, with frequent yawning
(after two hours), [11]; (first
day), [1]. ►
Is obliged to go to bed earlier than usual, on account of great
sleepiness, [14]. ► Irresistible sleepiness (from 2 scruples
of Lactucarium), [27]. [480.] ►
Overpowering sleepiness, with nausea (from 2 scruples of Lactucarium), [37]. ►
It causes sleep (when put into a foot bath), [33]. ► She
falls asleep while at work, in the afternoon (first day), [13]. ► Quiet
sleep (in a hysterical woman), [18].
► Quiet sleep, in one suffering from
chronic wakefulness (from 5 to 8 grains of Parisian Lactucarium, taken
in the evening), [17]. ► Quiet and refreshing sleep, when taken in
the evening (from 6 to 8 grains of Parisian Lactucarium, [17]. ► Quiet,
natural, and refreshing sleep, with diminished warmth (from moderate
doses of Lactucarium), [32]. ► Quiet and gentle sleep at night, but
little sleep in the morning, contrary to habit (first day), [1]. ►
Very good sleep at night (first night), [6].
► Sleep at night sound and without
dreams, [4]. [490.] ►
Sound sleep full of dreams (first night), [1].
► Sound sleep, with emission of semen
without any sensation of it (first night), [1]. ► Deep
sleep, lasting five hours and a half (half an hour after 1 drachm of
Lactucarium), [37]. ► Deep sleep for five hours, without
stupefaction (from 1 drachm of Lactucarium), [27]. ► Heavy
sleep, without alteration of the pulse or increase of the secretions
(from 20 grains of Lactucarium), [37].
► Stupid sleep at night;
cannot rouse herself from sleep, in the morning, [1]. ► Sopor, [40]. ►
Sleeplessness. ►
Sleeplessness (boy), [42]. ► Little sleep, without special uneasiness
(second and third nights), [1]. ► Night very restless, with many vivid
dreams (first night), [3]. [500.] ►
Sleep restless, unrefreshing (from 6 to 8 grains of Parisian
Lactucarium, taken at intervals of three or four hours during the day), [17]. ►
Sleep at night restless; awakes in the morning with great
confusion of the head, [1]. ► Very restless sleep, wakes almost every
quarter of an hour (fourth to sixth night), [1]. ► Very
restless on account of headache, spasmodic cough and febrile heat
accompanied by dreams which he did not remember in the morning (third
and fourth nights), [6]. ► Long restless sleep (from 10 to 15 grains
of Parisian Lactucarium, [17]. ► Dreams. ►
She slept all night, but had many dreams (first and second nights), [15]. ►
Sleep full of dreams at night, contrary to habit (first night), [4]. ►
Dreams in the morning, contrary to habit, [6].
► Sleep at night sound, but disturbed
by vivid, unusual dreams (first night), [13].
► Voluptuous dreams, with emission,
during the morning sleep, [1]. [510.] ►
Heavy dreams (first night), [41]. ► Sleep at night sound, but with many
anxious dreams; waking with a dull headache, [10]. ► Sleep
at night sound, but disturbed by very anxious dreams (of shooting,
etc.), [11]. ►
Slept well at night, with remarkable dreams towards morning, as if he
were turning around in a circle, with one foot upon a pointed object
(first night), [4].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► The
temperature of the axilla was reduced from 1 to 1 1/2 Cent., by the use
of lettuce, [34]. ► Chilliness in a warm room (after one
hour), [11]. ►
Chilliness in a warm room; the hands and feet are cold, with cold
creeping over the head and back (after one hour), [1]. ► She
easily becomes chilly during the day (first day), [15]. ► An
unusual sensation, allied to coldness, but not unpleasant, [34]. ►
Slight shivering (after a quarter of an hour), [5]. [520.] ► Diminished temperature of the hands, [39]. ►
Coldness extending over the head and back, alternating with heat in the
face, in the forenoon (first day), [1].
► Feeling of coldness in the chest
(from 10 to 15 grains of Parisian Lactucarium), [17]. ►
Frequent coldness creeps over the back and head (first hours), [1], [13].
► Cold feet (after two and three
days), [1]. ►
Shivering as if creeping under the hairs, [4].
► Heat. ►
Temperature 29.9° C. (before taking); 30° (after taking), 29.9° (next
morning); (average of all cases), [41].
► Sensation of heat, intolerably dry,
especially on the lower legs, coincident with aching like that after
excessive exertion in walking; from 3 to 6 A.M. (third day), [6]. ►
Fever; very decided headache; even the scalp is painful to touch,
increased by tearing, which also affects the joints of the limbs, nape
of the neck, and face; towards evening the head became so heavy that she
was obliged to incline it forward; unusually dry, extremely distressing
heat in the head and upper part of the body, with icy coldness of the
feet, burning and lachrymation of the eyes; incessant, dry, hollow,
spasmodic cough, recurring periodically, increasing to threatened
suffocation, violently shaking the chest and head, together with
spasmodic and painful constriction of the abdominal muscles, and region
of the short ribs; at noon (third day), [6].
► Heat in the face, with a feeling of
swelling and trembling of the lips, several minutes after taking. ► Sweat. [530.]
► Sweat, during the night, [41]. ►
Slight general perspiration, at night (first and second nights), [1]. ►
Copious perspiration, [32]. ► Profuse sweat, [29]. ►
Outbreak of cool sweat (from 10 to 15 grains of Parisian Lactucarium), [17].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Mucus in throat; after rising, pain
in chest; pressure on both sides of chest; after rising, weakness of
limbs, etc.; pressure on both sides of chest; after rising, weakness of
limbs, etc. ► (Afternoon), Headache; towards evening,
feeling in chest. ► (Evening), After lying down, dyspnœa, etc. ► (In open air),
Pain in shoulder, etc. ► (Walking in open air), Pressure in upper
chest; feeling in chest. ► (After eating), Stitch through hypochondrium. ► (Rest),
Pain in deltoid muscle; drawing, etc., in lower leg; pain in left sole. ► (Standing),
Feeling of weight upon abdomen. ► (Warm room), Vertigo, etc.; pain in forehead. ► (Writing),
Burning in lids. ► Amelioration.
► (In open
air), General relief, [1];
especially of chest, [13]. ► (In bed),
Ill-humor. ► (Sitting erect), Chest symptoms.
SUPPLEMENT: LACTUCA.
Authority.
43,
Dr. Fischer, in Rust’s Mag., Lond. Med. Gaz., 1839-40, vol. i, p. 862
(Am. Obs., 1876, p. 80), general effects.►
It quiets without previously exciting,
and produces sleep without insensibility, lessens the action of the
heart, and produces a general tranquillity throughout the whole
constitution. In large doses it causes delirium without stimulating,
diminution of nervous power, disturbance of the digestive functions
without vomiting, [43].® 2000
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