RHODODENDRON.
Rhododendron chrysanthemum, L.
Natural order
, Ericaceæ.
Common names
, Siberian R.; Sibirischen
Schneerose.
Preparation
, Tincture of the leaves.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 24,
from Seidel’s collection, Archiv fur Hom., 10, 3, 139). 1, Whale, took 5 to 30 drops of the tincture;
2, Henke, took tincture, 6 drops; 2a, same,
12 drops; 2b,
same; 2c,
same, 24 drops in morning, 12 drops in evening; 2d, same, two doses of 6th dil.; 2e, same,
20 drops of 6th dil.; 3, Herzog, 10
drops of tincture; 3a, same, 15 drops; 3b, same,
20 drops; 3c,
same, 30 drops; 3d, same, 50 drops; 3e, 1
drop of 3d dil.; 4, Helbig, 20 to 60
drops of tincture; 5, Seidel, took
10 drops of tincture, in morning; 5a, same, took 20 drops; 5b, same,
20 drops; 6, “O,” 10 drops
of tincture, in morning; 6a, same, 20 drops of tincture; 7, “A,” 10 drops of tincture, in
evening; 8, “Sch.,” 24
drops of tincture, in the morning; 9,
Arnemann, parkt. Arzeinm., 1819, p. 494; 10,
Edinburgh Dispens., 1797; 11,
Guthrie, Edinb. Comment., v. 4, 471, effects of infusion in patients; 12, Home, Chem. Versuche, p. 157; 13, Hope, in Cullen’s Mat. Med.; 14, Kölpin, prakt. Bewerk. ueber d. gebr. d.
Sibir. Schneerose, in Gichtkn, Berlin, 1779; 15,
Loeske, Mat. Med.; 16, Metternich,
ueber Schneerose in Gicht, Mainz, 1810; 17,
Murray, App. Med., p. 75; 18,
Plank’s Chir. Pharm., Wien, 1786, p. 190; 19,
Prakt. Mitthl, 2, 1827; 20, Richter,
Arznm., II, p. 803; 21, Ritter, in
Hufeland’s Journal, xx, 3, 129; 22,
Schwartze, pharm. Tabellen, Leipzig, 1833; 23,
Stark, Handbuch, 2, 88; 24, Voigtel,
Arznm., 1817; 25, Cattell, Br. J. of
Hom., 11, 342, from Pallas, Pharmacologie, and Stephenson, Med. Bot.; 26, Lembke, N. Z. f. Hom. Kl., 4, 197, took
tincture, 10 to 100 drops; 27,
Berridge, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1871, p. 57, a man took one dose of the
200th dil., Lehrmann.
MIND.
►
Delirium; he staggers; tosses his head about and reels; after a short
time falls asleep upon his knees; in vain he attempts to rise, but is
overcome with sleep for an hour and a quarter, during which he starts
continually and appears terrified, but awakes cheerful, [25]. ► A sort
of delirium, [10]. ► Mental derangement, [22]. ►
Frightful visions, [22]. ► Gloomy mood, indifferent, [2c]. ► Fits
of anxiety, [14], [24]. ► He is
peevish, without any apparent cause, [2c].
► Indifferent phlegmatic mood; he is
neither affected by pleasant or unpleasant impressions, [5a], [5b].
► Aversion to everything, especially
to earnest occupations, [4]. [10.] ►
*While talking he easily forgets what he was talking about; he does not
recollect what he had been talking about, till he has thought awhile, [1]. ►
Forgetfulness and sudden disappearance of all thoughts, he omits words
in writing, [3a]. ► Stupefaction, [19], [20].
► Loss of sense, [20], [24].
► Obscuration of the senses, [20].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
The head feels wild and confused (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ►
The whole head feels wild and confused, with pressure in the forepart of
the head (after one hour and a half), [5].
► The head feels wild and confused,
with drowsiness (tenth day), [3b].
► The head feels as if he had been
revelling the whole night (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Reeling
sensation in the head, as if intoxicated (immediately), [3]. [20.] ► At night he was affected by a sort of
reeling, [4]. [20, 323, 481, 518
are primary symptoms of Rhod., which Dr. Helbig has observed in
patients.] ► Reeling sensation in the
head; his brain feels as if surrounded with a fog, [1]. ► Makes
the head feel wild and confused, [14].
► Intoxication, [20], [22].
► A sort of intoxication and loss of
sense, [14]. ►
The head is easily obscured, [17].
► Obscuration of the head, and want
of attention, [1]. ► Affects the head like brandy, [11]. ►
Vertigo, [20], [24]. ►
Vertigo when sitting (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ► Vertigo
and sleep, [12]. ► Vertigo to and fro, such as is occasioned
by strong tobacco, [19]. ► Vertigo, as if the head would fall
backward more and more, with anguish, when lying in bed (soon), [7]. [30.]
► Turn of vertigo (second day), [4]. ►
Whirling vertigo when lying in bed; decreasing after a few minutes, and
on the second evening, [7]. ► Giddy vertiginous sensation when writing,
disappearing by motion in the open air (second day), [3a]. ►
Dizziness and dulness in the forehead, [3a],
[3b]. ►
Giddiness, [22], [24]. ► General
Head. ► The head feels
heavy and dull, [1]. ► Dulness of the head, immediately
after rising (after a few minutes), [8];
(first day), [5b]; (second day), [3a]. [40.]
► Dulness of the head, with drawing
in the eyes, increased in the open air (first day), [7]. ► Dulness
and heaviness of the sinciput, immediately after rising (fifth day), [3d], [3e].
► The head feels dull and wild, as
after an intoxication (first day), [3].
► Early in the morning, when waking,
the head feels dull, the nose is obstructed, and he has a humming in his
ears (sixth day), [3c]. ► Dull headache in the evening (after
eleven hours), [3a]. ► Excessive headache, as if the whole of
the brain were oppressed with a weight of lead, early in the morning
(third day), [5a]. ► *Early in the morning, when in bed, he is
attacked with a headache which almost deprives him of his senses,
decreasing after rising (third day), [5]. [45, 46, 65, were observed the day after a
glass of wine. See S. 58, 62.] ►
Headache, with sensation as if everything in the head would fall out of
the forehead, [1]. ► Headache, towards evening, [1]. ►
Headache, as if a catarrh were about to set in (fifth and sixth days), [8]. [50.]
► The whole of the brain is painful,
as if it were pressed too hard against the skull, [1]. ► Racking
sensation in the head, when walking, as if the brain were shaken from
all sides, especially from above, [1].
► Affects the head, and causes
headache, [12]. ► Beating headache (second day), [3c]. ►
Burning stitch through the head (first day), [4]. ► Forehead.
► Dulness of the head, especially of
the frontal region, with aching pain in the left temporal region; the
pain and dulness are alleviated for a short time by laying the head upon
the table; both disappear by exercise in the open air, [2]. ► Aching
pain in the left frontal region (after one hour), [3c]. ► Aching
pain in the forehead (eighth day), [3c].
► *Aching pain in the left half of the
forehead, spreading towards the left temporal region, continuous,
increased by the use of wine (after half an hour), [2d], [2e].
[See note to 46.] ► Tension in the
left portion of the frontal bone, [19].
[60.] ►
Tension, with pressure in the front part of the forehead, [19]. ►
Painful pressure in the left frontal bone, as if with the thumb, [19]. ►
Fine drawing tearing close to the os frontis; it feels like a forcing
and pressure, and is increased by drinking wine; continued after half an
hour, [2d], [2e]. [See note to 46.] ►
Violent drawing-tearing pain in the forehead, in the direction of the
temples and eyes, especially when moving about in the house (first day),
[5]. ►
Violent drawing in the left part of the os frontis, followed immediately
by a cold transient shuddering across the face, [19]. ► (Dull
drawing pain over the left eye), (fifth and sixth days), [5]. [See note to 46.] ►
Stitching headache, particularly in the neighborhood of the forehead
(fifth and sixth days), [8]. ► Intense pain in the region of the right
frontal bone, pressing from within outward, [1]. ► Beating
pain in the forehead, with pressure as if everything in the head would
come out there, going off by rest (after twelve hours), [1]. ► Beating
sensation in the left frontal region (second day), [3a]. ► Temples.
[70.] ►
Aching pains in the left temple, [1].
► Aching-drawing pain under the left
temporal bone, [1]. ► Hard painful pressure in the left
temporal region, as if seated in the bone, [4]. ► Painful
pressure in the left temple, from without inward (third day), [4]. ►
Pressure in the temporal bones, [19].
► Pain under the left temporal bone,
pressing from within outward, [1].
► Drawing pain under the right
temporal bone, pressing from within outward, [1]. ►
Tearing-boring pain in the left temporal region, [2a], [2b].
► Slight cold crawling above the
temporal region, [19]. ► A few short, violent stitches in the left
temporal region (after ten minutes), [2].
► Vertex and Parietals. [80.] ►
Aching pain in the vertex (tenth day), [3c].
► The vertex is painful when touched,
as from suppuration, [2b]. ► Dulness of the sinciput; when moving the
head, a pain is experienced in the forehead, [4]. ► Aching
sore pain in the right hemisphere of the brain and cerebellum, when
sitting, [1]. ► Aching sore pain in the left hemisphere
of the brain, when lying down, disappearing on sitting up, [5]. ►
Shootings in the left half of the head (third day), [3d]. ►
Transient dull stitching pains in the left half of the head (after five
hours), [8]. ►
Beating pain in the right half of the head (eighth day), [3c]. ►
Tearing pain in the right half of the head (fifth day), [3b]. ► Occiput.
► Dull pain in the occiput, early in
the morning (second day), [5]. [90.] ►
Aching pain deep in the right side of the occiput, with paroxysmal
drawing from below upward (first, second, and third days), [5b]. ►
Dull pressure deep in the occiput, in the evening (first and second
days), [5b]. ►
Violent pain in the right half of the occiput, as if a foreign body had
been forced in that part (tenth day), [5a].
► Contusive pain in a small place
externally on the right side of the occiput, with alternate drawing in
the direction of the ear, [7]. ► External Head. ►
Several painful pustules on the forehead (eighth day), [3d]. ►
Pustules on the forehead, [4]. ► The scalp is painful to touch, [2]. ►
Pinching pain in the skin of the forehead, over the right eyebrow, [1]. ►
Transient biting in various parts of the head (second and third days), [4]. ►
Violent itching of the hairy scalp (first day), [5]. [100.] ► Itching of the hairy scalp, as if
occasioned by vermin, for several evenings, [2e]. ►
Itching pinching sensation in the skin of the right eyebrow, [1]. ►
Itching of the hairy scalp, obliging one to scratch; scratching changes
the itching to a burning, the first evenings, but decreasing from day to
day, [5d].
EYE.
►
When reading and writing the eyes feel somewhat weak (first hours), [5a]. ►
Burning in the eyes when looking intently at an object, [2a]. ►
Burning in the eyes when looking at the daylight, shortly before rising
from bed, [2b]. ► Dry burning in the eyes (sixth day), [5]. [106, 146, 304, 365, 371, 643, were
observed from ten drops of tincture, in a girl of twenty years, whose
menses had been suppressed for six months, and who was suffering with
tightness of the chest, heaviness, and drawing in the limbs in
consequence; she recovered perfectly a few weeks after taking the
Rhododendron.] ► Slight burning and
pressure in the eyes (first day), [5a].
► The right eye is affected with a
burning pain, and the sight seems to be dim, in the evening when
reading, [2]. ► Periodical burning in the eyes without
inflammation, early in the morning (first day), [7]. [110.] ► Burning and feeling of dryness in the
eyes, especially in the evening (fifth day), [2e]. ► *Burning
pain in the eyes; when reading or writing he has a feeling of heat in
his eyes, [2b], [5a]. ►
Periodical smarting pain in the right eye, [5]. ►
Shooting pain in right eye from centre to inner corner (sixth day), [27]. ►
Itching of the eyes, [17], [22]. ►
Orbit. ► Sticking pain,
with pressure around the margin of the left orbit, with spasmodic
contraction of the left eyelids, [2].
► Lids. ►
Suppuration of the eyelids, at night (first nights), [5a], [5b].
► Swollen eyelids, which become
easily red (first day), [5a]. ► Moisture of the eyes, and agglutination
of the lids, [2b]. ► Twitching of the right upper eyelid
(after nine hours), [3b]. [120.] ►
Frequent twitching of the left upper eyelid, for some time, [4]. ►
Painful pressure in the right internal canthus, as of a grain of sand, [1]. ►
Burning and pressure in the inner canthi, early in the morning, with
increased secretion of mucus in them (second day), [5a]. ► Lachrymal
Apparatus. ► Lachrymation,
[14], [17]. ►
(Lachrymation in the open raw air), [2e].
► Ball. ►
Sticking pain in the right eyeball, as with a red-hot needle, darting
from within outward, [1]. ► Pupil. ►
Dilatation of the pupil, [1]. ► The right pupil is very much dilated, the
left contracted, with pressure in the left eyeball (first day), [5]. ►
Right pupil smaller than left (seventh day), [27]. ► Vision.
► Sensation as of a gauze before the
eyes (second day), [3a].
EAR.
[130.]
► Tickling in the left external
meatus auditorius, changing into a pain on boring with the finger, for
hours, [2c], [2e]. ► *Violent
pain in the right outer ear, commencing in the morning, and continuing
nearly all day (second day), [5].
► Pain in the right ear, as if the
ear were being pressed asunder (after nine hours), [1]. ►
Periodical boring or drawing pain in and around the ears (first days), [5b]. ►
Darting pain in the left ear and in the left temporal region (seventh
day), [3c]. ►
*Tearing sensation in and about the right ear (after two hours), [3a]. ►
Stitches in the right ear, slow and pressing, from within outwards, [1]. ►
Transient stitches in the left ear (thirteenth day), [5]. ► Beating
sensation in the left ear (thirteenth day), [3c]. ►
Sensation in the left ear, as if a worm were creeping in it (second
day), [3a]. ► Hearing. [140.]
► Buzzing in the left ear, all the
forenoon, which is most distinct when whistling, [1]. ►
*Constant buzzing in the ears, and a sensation as if water were rushing
into them; loud sounds re-echo for a long time (fourth and sixth days), [3e]. ►
*Humming and ringing before the ears (soon after taking the drug, and on
the second evening while lying in bed), [7].
NOSE.
►
Continued violent sneezing, with heat in the face, early in the morning
when rising (ninth and tenth days), [3c].
► Several times sneezing, and an
increased discharge of thin mucus from the nose, in the forenoon (first
day), [5a]. ►
Moderate bleeding from the left nostril (after half an hour), [8]. ►
Violent fluent coryza, with headache and roughness of the throat (eighth
and ninth days), [5]. [See note to
symptoms 106.] ► Fluent coryza, with
diminution of smell and taste (eighth day); continuing for a fortnight, [3b]. ►
Fluent coryza, alternating with obstruction of one nostril (fourth day),
[2e]. ►
Increased secretion of mucus in the nose, as if a catarrh would set in
(first day), [7]. [150.] ►
Increased secretion of mucus in the nose in the open air (first days), [5a], [5b].
► Increase of nasal mucus while one
or the other nostril was stopped near the root of the nose (third and
fourth days), [7]. ► Dry coryza, with frequent sneezing
(eighth day), [3c]. ► Stoppage of the nose, early in the
morning (first days), [5b]. ► *Stoppage of the left half of the nose, near the
root, worse in the morning before rising; during the day the stoppage of
the left nostril alternates with that of the right, but the nose was
never stopped entirely; less in the open air; continued
(immediately), [2d]. ► Stoppage of the left nostril, [5a], [5b].
► Stoppage of the left nostril, early
in the morning; several mornings in succession, [3c]. ► *The left
nostril was stopped near the root, with sore pain, accompanied with a
sensation of accumulation of mucus, in the open air, [2], [2a],
[2b], [2c]. ►
Troublesome dryness of the nose (after eight hours), [5]. ► Itching
and creeping in the nose, [14]. ► Smell. [160.]
► The smell and taste are altered;
all things smell and taste alike (sixth day), [3c].
FACE.
►
Drawing from the left half of the face into the left eye, leaving a
pressure behind in the eye (after half an hour), [5]. ►
Prickling biting in the cheek, for several days, coming suddenly and
passing off soon, [4]. ► Considerable dryness of the lips (after
half an hour), [6], [6a]. ► Dry
and burning lips, [2a], [2b].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► *Toothache;
the approach of a thunderstorm or of cloudy
windy weather, is always preceded by a pain, which partakes of the
character of drawing aching (and cutting); the thunderstorm
set in in one or two, the cloudy and rainy weather several hours after
the toothache; the pain commenced in the ear, at least was in connection
with a pain in the ear, [4]. ► The whole night he had a pain in the left
lower jaw and teeth, accompanied with otalgia; the right side of the
head was affected in a similar manner, but less violently; pressure
seemed now to relieve, now to increase the pain; the warmth of the bed
had no influence on the pain, [4].
► *Occasional grumbling and tearing in
the four first anterior molar teeth, for a short time; now in the upper,
now in the lower jaw; now on the right, now on the left side,
[2], [2a], [2b],
[2c]. ►
Violent drawing pain in the teeth of the right lower jaw, disappearing
by eating (fourth day), [7]. ► Drawing in the left molar teeth,
recurring (first day and afterwards several times), [5b]. [170.] ► Drawing and pricking pain in one of the
left molar teeth; it does not bear touch (second day), [4]. ► A
(tearing) sharp aching pain in the upper molar teeth, increased by warm
food, and by staying in a warm room, towards evening (first day), [4]. ►
Tearing in a hollow tooth, [5].
[172, 223, 363, are primary symptoms observed in a female patient.] ► *Transient pain in single teeth,
recurring especially in damp weather, and
before a storm, [5a], [5b]. ►
Dull stitching in the hollow tooth of the left upper jaw, [1]. ►
Prickling and biting in the front teeth, [4].
► Gum. ►
Aching pain, as if swollen and sore, between the gums of the right lower
jaw and the cheeks (second day), [4].
► Continuous, not very troublesome
itching of the gums, obliging one to rub them frequently (third and
fourth days), [7]. ► Tongue. ►
The tongue has a greenish coating, with bitter taste in the mouth, [1]. ►
On one side of the root of the tongue and gums, he has a painful,
somewhat swollen spot, [4]. [180.] ►
Burning on the tongue during an inspiration, [2a], [2b].
► Prickling sensation on the tongue
(after half an hour), [6]. ► General Mouth. ►
Small vesicles on the inner surface of the lower lip, and the lower
surface of the tongue, occasioning a biting pain when eating (third
day), [7]. ►
Great dryness of the whole buccal cavity (after half an hour), [6], [6a].
► Dryness of the mouth, [20], [22],
[24]. ►
Burning and a feeling of heat in the posterior part of the mouth, as if
catarrh would set in (after thirty hours), [2d]. ►
Contractive sensation along the left Stenonian duct (second day), [2a], [2b].
► Saliva. ► Accumulation of saliva in the mouth
(after two hours), [3]. ► The saliva is somewhat increased, and has
a sourish taste, early in the morning (first days), [5a], [5b].
► Much saliva in the mouth, [19]. ►
Taste. [190.] ► Altered taste; all things taste alike
(first days), [3a], [3b], [3c].
► Continually sourish, saltish taste
in the mouth; he experiences nausea when swallowing the saliva, early in
the morning (first and second days), [7].
► Flat bitter taste (after one hour),
[6]. ►
Putrid bitter taste on the posterior part of the tongue (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Putrid taste in the mouth, early in the
morning (after twenty-four hours), [1].
► Taste of straw in the mouth, all
day, [1]. ►
Sourish taste in the mouth, [1].
THROAT.
►
Roughness in his throat, early in the morning, [4]. ►
Scraping sensation in the throat; sensation as if tenacious mucus were
adhering to the trachea, which he is unable to cough up, during a walk, [1]. ►
Burning in the throat and palate, after eating bread, in the forenoon
(first and third days), [2b]. [200.] ►
Simple pain in the posterior surface of the throat, during the
deglutition of food, in the evening (first day), [3a]. ►
Tickling in the throat excites a cough, [1].
► Uvula and Fauces. ► Stitches in the uvula (after one hour), [6a]. ►
It contracts the fauces and has a burning taste, [18]. ► Scraping
and scratching sensation in the fauces; sensation as if those parts were
lined with mucus, [2], [2a], [2b].
► Burning in the fauces, with
constrictive feeling in those parts, [20].
► Burning and constriction of the
fauces, [17], [22], [24],
etc. ► External Throat. ► Drawing stitches, they seem to extend
from the left submaxillary gland towards the cheek (third day), [4].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ► The
appetite was good, but speedily satisfied (second, third, and fourth
days), [2d], [2e]. ► He is
easily satisfied, and feels very weak after satiety, [4]. [210.] ► Loss of appetite, [5]. [See note to symptom 172.] ► Thirst, [11],
[14], [22], [24],
etc. ► The thirst is somewhat
increased, [5]. ► Troublesome thirst, [9], [19]. ► Eructations. ►
Tasteless eructations, [19]. ► Some eructations (after a few minutes), [8]. ►
Rising of oppressive wind, after dinner, causing a burning through the
whole chest, which extended as far as the dorsal vertebræ, [1]. ►
Uprising of a rancid fluid, occasioning a scratching sensation in the
throat, [2d]. ► Uprisings of a small quantity of a
bitter-tasting liquid, [5b]. ► Empty eructations, [2a], [2b],
[2c], [2e]. ► Nausea and
Vomiting. [220.] ► Nausea, [12],
[17], [24], [25].
► Considerable continuous nausea,
with inclination to vomit (soon), [7].
► Nausea, as if one had taken an
emetic, with indication for stool, [1].
► It occasions nausea and slight
vomiting, [15]. ► Nausea, accumulation of water in the
mouth, and inclination to vomit, [4].
► Nausea when stooping, diminished by
an eructation (soon), [3a]. ► Nausea, with pressure in the pit and
region of the stomach (after twenty-four hours), [3e]. ►
Nausea, with accumulation of water in the mouth (after half an hour), [3c]. ►
Vomiting of a green bitter substance, [17].
► Vomiting after taking anything
fluid, especially cold water, which weakens the effects of the drug, [11]. [230.]
► Vomiting from large doses, [14], [16],
[24]. ►
Stomach. ► Superficial
pain, here and there, in the pit of the stomach and the region of the
short ribs, especially on the left side; the pain is now a fine, now a
dull stitching, accompanied with pressure (third and fourth days), [5b]. ►
Continuous aching pain deep in the pit of the stomach, accompanied with
alternate drawing and dull stitching along the union of the short ribs,
frequently increasing to oppression of breathing, anxiety and heat in
the face, especially in the afternoon, when standing (third, fourth, and
fifth days), [3b]. ► Aching pain in the pit of the stomach,
when stooping and when pressing inward, [3b].
► Continual aching pain in the pit of
the stomach, before, during, and after dinner (after one hour), [3b]. ►
Aching pain in the pit of the stomach, at night in bed (first night), [3a]. ►
Aching-clawing pain in the pit of the stomach, sometimes spreading into
both hypochondria and impeding respiration (second day), [5b]. ►
Paroxysmal drawing-aching pain in the epigastrium, with nausea (third
day), [7]. ►
An unusual gnawing sensation (sensation of hunger) in the region of the
stomach, before a meal (first day), [5].
► Slight pressure in the pit of the
stomach (first day), [3]. [240.] ►
Troublesome pressure in the region of the pit of the stomach (first
days), [3a], [3b], [3c].
► Sharp pressure in the pit of the
stomach, an hour after dinner (first day), [5b]. ►
Pressure and cramplike drawing deep in the pit of the stomach, an hour
after dinner (second day), [5b]. ► *Contractive pressure in the pit of the
stomach, with tightness of breathing; several evenings during a walk, [2c]. ►
Pressure at the stomach, after drinking cold water (eighth day), [3c]. ►
Pressure in the epigastrium, after dinner (third day), [5a]. ►
Pinching in the pit of the stomach, [3c].
► Pinching pain, after supper,
transversely across the epigastrium (sixth day), [5]. ►
Cutting, afterwards aching pain in the epigastrium, after a meal (after
two hours), [3a]. ► Pain in the stomach, [16]. [250.] ► Unpleasant creeping sensation in the
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