LAPATHUM.
Rumex obtusifolius, Linn.
Natural order
, Polygonaceæ.
Common names
, Radix lapathi, Radix
patientiæ, Grindwurz. (Note: This
is doubtless the old officinal Lapathum acutum, now known as R.
obtusifolius, from the blunt-pointed lower leaves. Consult figure in the
old Herbal of Matthiolus and Camerarius.)
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authority.
Dr. Widenhorn, Archives de la
Méd., Hom., 2, 1835, p. 305. ►
Sadness and moroseness alternating with gayety. ►
Headache at the vertex. ► Pressive
headache, in the morning; it seems as though the head were swollen. ► Headache in the top of the head, as after
intoxication. ► Bleeding of the nose.
► Blowing of blood from the nose. ► Pain in the pit of the stomach, with loss
of appetite, and weight in the stomach. ►
Feeling of distension in the left hypochondrium. ►
Extension and pressure, especially in the morning, with production and
emission of flatulence. [10.] ► Drawings in the left hypochondrium. ► Pain in the kidneys for five hours, with
pressure from without inwards. ► Weak
feeling in the internal genital parts. ►
(Leucorrheal flow for five days, very copious, thick, whitish, with constriction and expulsive efforts from top to
bottom of the womb, and pains in the kidneys). ► Weariness. ►
Bruised pain in all the limbs. ►
Excessive coldness in feet, as well inside as outside, so that it was
almost impossible to warm them.® 2000
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