LAMIUM.
Lamium album, Linn.
Natural order
, Labiatæ. Common names, Dead-nettle; (Germ.),
Taub-Nessel; (Fr.), L’Ortie Blanche.
Preparation
, Tincture of (leaves and)
flowers.
Authorities.
Archiv f. Hom., 12, 2, 179; 1, Hahnemann; 2,
Franz; 3, Kummer; 4, Langhammer; 5,
Stapf.
MIND.
►
Weeping mood; she wept as if she had been abandoned, [1]. ►
Extraordinary sadness; he thought he had been blamed for reverses for
which he was blameless, and in consequence was obliged to suffer; though
not without desire for work, [4]. ► Anxiety during the chill; she could find
rest neither while sitting, standing, nor walking, [1]. ►
Discontented with his work (after four days), [3]. ► One or
another text recurs constantly in her thoughts numberless times in
succession, and she is unable to prevent its repetition in her mind, so
that at last she becomes sad about it, and thinks she shall lose her
reason, [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion. ► Confusion of
the head; he cannot perfectly collect his senses, and is obliged to make
an effort in talking, [2]. ► General Head. ►
Great mobility of the head, especially from before backward, [3]. ►
Headache in the morning on waking and on walking in the open air, [1]. ►
Headache, worse on rising from a chair, better while sitting, [1]. [10.]
► An indescribable headache deep in
the brain, like the beginning of a very violent headache, and as if she
was about to be very sick, worse when rising up after stooping (it
disappeared at night during sleep); (after two hours), [1]. ►
Headache in the morning in bed, worse while lying down, a confusion as
after a night’s debauch: the head feels as though constricted with a
cord; it disappears on rising, [1].
► Headache like a compression of the
brain from all sides, so that the most violent pain is in the middle of
the brain (immediately), [1]. ► Headache about 10 P.M.; at first some
stitches here and there, and then throbbing and violent shaking chill in
bed, [1]. ►
Headache (like a tearing) lasting from 6 P.M. till midnight, [1]. ►
Temples. ► Pressive pain
in the right temporal region (after one hour), [3]. ►
Drawing, needlelike stitches in the left temple, [4]. ► Very
acute pain in the temples, as if internally sore, [2]. ► Occiput.
► Pain in the occiput, as if it were
lying upon a stone, and as if the bed were too hard, when lying upon
either side, [1]. ► External Head. ►
The scalp is very tense, especially in the region of the coronal suture
(after six hours), [3].
EYE.
[20.]
► Itching in the canthi at various
times, especially in the evening; is obliged to rub them (after twelve
hours), [3]. ►
Itching on the lower lid which compels rubbing (after one hour), [3]. ►
Pressure on the eyeball, and dim indistinct vision, especially in the
evening, [3]. ► Pupils extremely dilated (after seventeen
hours), [4]. ►
Contraction of the pupils (after three hours and a half), [4].
EAR.
►
Deafness, [1].
NOSE.
►
Sneezing from time to time; several drops of water flow from the nose at
times (after a quarter of an hour), [3].
► Violent coryza (after a few hours),
[2]. ►
She blows blood from the nose, [1].
► Bruised pain in the soft parts on
both sides of the nose, but not painful to touch, [1].
FACE.
[30.]
► Stitches in the right side of the
lower jaw, behind the ear, [1].
THROAT.
►
Thick mucus, which has a very sour taste, is raised from the fauces by
hawking (after one hour), [3]. ► Sore throat internally when swallowing
(after a chill), as if a lump were in the throat; next morning there was
not only the same pain on swallowing, but also a pain in the tonsils on
moving the neck, on swallowing, and feeling of it, [1]. ►
Scraping in the throat, [5].
STOMACH.
►
Thirst. ► Constant thirst,
though not during the chill, [1]. ► Eructation. ►
Empty eructations (immediately), [3].
► Acid eructations, [5]. ►
Waterbrash, two evenings in succession, [1].
► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea and vomiting of food eaten an hour
and a half previously, preceded by unusual heat and great weariness and
exhaustion; therewith, it became black before the eyes, [2]. ► Stomach.
► Pressure beneath the pit of the
stomach while eating, during he was qualmish and nauseated, almost as in
waterbrash, but no liquid came into the mouth, [1]. [40.] ► Stitches in the pit of the stomach, [1]. ►
He feels the pulse in the pit of the stomach, and even sees it
externally, [2]. ► Crawling in the stomach, with
qualmishness, [5].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Rumbling
in the hypochondriac region (after eight to ten hours), [3]. ► A dull
uneasy pain in the hepatic region, which could only be relieved by
laying the hand upon it, [1]. ► Bruised pain in the abdominal muscles
beneath the false ribs, [1]. ► General Abdomen. ► Unusual distension of the abdomen, for
several days, [1]. ► Sensation in the abdomen as if diarrhœa
would come on, followed by a pasty stool (after a few hours), [2]. ►
Colic as from incarcerated flatus (after three-quarters of an hour), [4]. ►
Griping colic, as from incarceration of flatus, which, after a
subsequent stool with emission of much flatus, still continues for some
time (after twelve hours), [4]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. [50.] ► A
griping in the lower abdomen, and most violent excitement, as if
menstruation would come on, lasting two days (after three-hours), [1]. [In a woman who had been for some
time free from menstruation on account of her age.] ► A dragging in the left side of the
abdomen down in the public region, as if a hernia would protrude there, [2].
STOOL.
►
A dragging and pressure, as if for stool, though only in the rectum;
soon followed by a start stool, [3].
► Stool pasty, hard, with the passage
of some blood, [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► Some moisture
flows through the urethra (after two days), [3]. ►
Sensation in the urethra as though a drop of water were flowing through
it, though no moisture was noticed at the orifice (after six to ten
hours), [3]. ►
Painless sensation, like a burning, in the middle of the urethra when
not urinating (after four hours), [3].
► Micturition. ► Urging to urinate, with extremely little
discharge (after one hour and a half), [4]. ►
Frequent urging to urinate, with more scanty discharge than usual (after
two hours), [3]. ► Frequent micturition, [5].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. [60.] ► Tickling in the glans penis (after half
an hour), [3]. ► Female. ►
Great excitement in the uterus (in the lower abdomen), but especially a
cutting above the hips, as if menstruation would suddenly appear, though
it had just ceased, [1]. ► Discharge of leucorrhœa, with a biting
sensation of the parts (after one hour), [1].
► A few drops of leucorrhœa
frequently passes from the vagina, [1].
► Profuse leucorrhœa, without
sensation (after ten hours), [1]. ► Menstruation some days too early and very
scanty (after five days), [1]. ► Menstruation eleven days too early, at
the new moon (after seven days), [1].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
The voice is very weak and unsteady, as in one who feels anxious, [2]. ►
When speaking, he cannot get his breath; his chest feels quite weak, [2].
CHEST.
►
A feeling of pressure on the chest and nausea which make him very
anxious, [2]. [70.] ►
Burning in the middle of the chest or in the œsophagus, always after
eating or drinking, [1]. ► A pressive pain above the left nipple,
most violent while slumbering; noticed while partly waking from sleep,
but not when fully awake, [3]. ► Pain from the left breast to the shoulder
as if beaten and strained, [1].
BACK.
►
Pain in the small of the back, as if it had been beaten, [2]. ► Dull
stitches in the region of the right kidney on taking a deep breath
(after ten hours), [3].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► A drawing tearing here and there in the
upper and lower limbs (after twenty-four hours), [3].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Heaviness and weakness of the right arm,
especially during rest (after four hours), [3]. ► Bruised
pain in the inner surface of the arm, especially at the bend of the
elbow, mostly noticed on stretching out the arm, [1]. ►
Crawling numbness, and a feeling as if asleep, of the back of the hand
and ball of the thumb (sensitive to touch), with a painfulness of the
skin of these parts, only on moving the hand, and a fine sticking
smarting as if they had been switched, [1].
► Cramplike tearing in the muscle of
the right thumb (after three hours), [4].
[80.] ►
Drawing tearing in the first phalanx of the left index finger (after
three hours), [3]. ► Drawing tearing on the first joint of the
two last fingers of the right hand (after six hours), [3].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Intermitting drawing, pressive tearing on the
lower posterior muscles of the right thigh (while sitting),
(after fourteen hours), [4]. ► Pain in the bend of the thigh as if
bruised, or as if he had walked a long distance (on moving about and
when sitting), (after eight hours), [3].
► Tension across the middle of the
calves while walking, as if they were unyielding, [2]. ► A
cramplike pain and a bruised sensation externally in the right fibula, [2]. ►
Gnawing, pressive pain in the lower portion of the tibia and in the
ankle, with a sensation of heat and a feeling as if the part were
swollen, [2]. ► Cramplike pressive pain on the ball of
the left great toe, while sitting (after two hours and three-quarters), [4].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Uneasiness of mind and body, so that he took up a book and laid it down
again, sat now here, now there; always according to involuntary fancies
(after two to ten hours), [3]. ► Great uneasiness and anxiety; they did
not allow him to remain in any place; with trembling of the limbs, [2]. [90.]
► General weakness of the body (after
eight hours), [3]. ► General weakness, mostly in the hands,
during the chill, [1].
SKIN.
►
A pimple in the fold near the right wing of the nose, which itches and
is painfully sore when touched, [1].
► A blister forms on the heel from
slight rubbing while walking, which breaks and becomes a long-lasting
ulcer, superficial, with a red and swollen areola, and painful like a
smarting and fine sticking and afterwards a biting; in the morning in
bed; it is painful in the evening, smarting and sticking, worse while
lying (after twenty-four hours), [1].
► A corroding, fine sticking-itching
on the arms, hands, and neck, [1].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Wakefulness and restlessness; she was unable to fall asleep in the
evening and frequently woke, [1]. ► Difficult falling asleep at night, and
after falling asleep, a vivid, anxious dream, which woke her; but after
falling asleep again she dreamed the same thing, [1]. ► Vivid,
disagreeable, anxious, unremembered dreams, [4]. ► Dreams
that menstruation, which had recently ceased, would reappear, [1].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Paleness of
the face and chilliness over the whole body, with internal trembling, at
4 P.M.; the whole body was covered with gooseflesh, especially painful
as if sore and abraded when touched on the upper arm, on the outer side
of the thigh, together with anxiety and uneasiness, she tosses about
here and there, wanted to sleep but could not, [1]. ► Heat.
[100.] ►
Burning heat of both cheeks, without redness or thirst (after
twenty-four hours), [4]. ► Burning heat of the cheeks, with cold
hands, without thirst (after twenty-four hours), [4]. ► Sweat.
► Perspiration in the morning in bed,
together with chilliness and gooseflesh, with anxious heat on the
slightest motion or exertion of even talking immediately disappearing
when at rest or on ceasing to talk, whereupon the chilliness immediately
returned; therewith the hands were sweaty internally, [1].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), On waking, headache; in bed, worse
while lying down, disappearing on rising, headache; in bed perspiration,
etc. ► (Evening),
Itching in canthi; waterbrash. ► (In open air), Headache. ►
(Drinking), Burning in chest, etc. ► (Eating),
Pressure beneath pit of stomach; burning in chest, etc. ► (Rest),
Heaviness, etc., of arm. ► (Rising from stooping), Indescribable
headache. ► Amelioration. ► (Sitting),
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