RUMEX CRISPUS.
Rumex crispus, Linn.
Natural order
, Polygonaceæ.
Common names
, Yellow Dock; (G.), Krauser
Ampfer.
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. Henry A. Houghton, Inaug. Thesis, Hom. Med. Coll. of Penna., 1852,
took 6 drops of 1st dil.; 1a, same, repeated after three days; 1b, same,
after five days, took 10 drops of 1st dil., first, fifth, sixth,
eleventh, and thirteenth days; 1c, same, sixteenth days later, took 15
drops of tincture, first and twelfth days, and 20 drops, twenty-first
day; (Nos. 2 to 8, provings by Dr. B. F. Joslin, published in
Am. Hom. Rev., Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1858, and in Monograph); 2, E. M. K. took a solution of 1 drop of
tincture in half a glass of water, a teaspoonful twice daily for four
days; 2a,
same, repeated doses of 3d dil., in water, for thirteen days; 2b, same,
took globules of 6th dil., repeated doses, for eight days; 3, H. M. Paine, took 10 drops of tincture,
first day; 6 drops, third day; 3a, same, twelve days later, took 10 drops
first day, and 15 drops second day; 3b, same, seven days later, took 10 drops,
first and fourth days; 15 drops, twice, fifth day; 20 drops, evening,
eighth day; 3c,
same, two months later, took tincture, repeated doses of 10 and 15
drops, for thirty-four days; 3d, same, took 10 drops on first, twice on
third, and once on fourth days; 3e, same, took 10 drops first, second, and
third days; 4, Wm. E. Payne, took 15
drops of tincture, evening, first day; 5 drops, morning, second day; 6
drops, fifth day; 4a, same, took 10 drops, 1st dil., repeated
doses first, second, third, fifth, and sixth days; 4b, same,
took 3d dil. first and third days; 5,
Dr. Edw. Bayard, took one dose of 30th dil., at 8.40 P.M.; 6, Dr. Wallace, symptoms; 7, Dr. B. F. Bowers, took a dose of 12th
dil.; 7a,
same, repeated; 7b, same, a dose of 30th dil.; 7c, same,
a dose of 12th dil.; 8, Dr. M. J.
Rhees, took tincture, 1 drop, first day; twice, second day; once, third
day; 10 drops, fourth, fifth, and sixth days; 20 drops, seventh day; 8a, same,
took 6th dil., repeated doses, for five days; 9,
Dr. H. C. Preston, U. S. J. of Hom., 1, 1860, appendix, p. 27, a man
took 5 drops, first day; 10 drops, second, third, and fourth days; 5
drops, fifth day; 1 drop, sixth and seventh days; always at 4 P.M.; 10, Dr. Clark Wright, Am. Inst. of Hom.,
1860, p. 60, took two doses of the 6th dil.
MIND.
►
Irritability of temper (ninth day), [2a].
► Temper more irritable than usual
(second day); great irritability of temper (after three hours, fourth
day), [2]. ►
Irritability and restlessness (fifteenth day), [2]. ►
Depression, as if some evil was impending (eighth day), [5]. ►
Indifference to surrounding persons and things (third day), [2]. ►
Stagnation of ideas, with great lassitude and uneasiness, in the evening
(third day), [2].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo (within half an hour), [7c].
► Vertigo with the nausea (tenth
day), [2]. ►
Dizziness several times (first day), [9].
[10.] ►
Rose in the morning with slight feeling of oppression in head (third
day), [2b]. ►
A heavy feeling in head, during the evening (first day), [2a]. ►
Fulness in the head, with the feeling of languor (second day), [8]. ►
Feeling of languor and universal heaviness, with fulness in the head and
chest (half an hour after second dose, second day), [8]. ► Dull
heavy feeling in head, during the evening (seventh day), [2]. ► Dull
heavy headache, accompanied with deepseated soreness of eyes, during the
day, worse in the forenoon (fourteenth and fifteenth days), [1b]. ►
Dull heavy headache, from 10 A.M. until night; not so severe after 2
P.M.; disappeared at night (second day), [1].
► A dull heavy headache during the
day, less severe in the afternoon (second day); dull heavy headache
during the day (third day), [1a]. ► A dull heavy headache, with deepseated
soreness of the eyes most of the day (second day), [1c]. ► Dull
headache during the forenoon (seventh, eighteenth, and twenty-fifth
days), [1c]. [20.] ► A
great deal of dull heavy headache during the day (tenth day), [1c]. ►
Dull heavy headache through the day (fourteenth day); during the
forenoon (fifteenth day), [1c]. ► Dull headache followed the sharp pain and
rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening (twenty-fourth), [1c]. ► Some
headache accompanied the pain in the lungs, [1c]. ► The
headache mentioned in Rumex crispus is increased by motion, [1c]. ►
Headache all the forenoon (tenth day), [9].
► Slight headache after retiring late
at night (seventh day), [2]. ► Slight headache, [1]; (third, thirteenth, and twenty-third days), [1c]; (fourth day), [1a]. ► Pain
in the head on movement (tenth day), [5].
► Headache, with coryza, [7]. [30.]
► Slight pain in head before
breakfast (second day), [3c]. ► The head began to ache, and ached
severely until going to sleep, towards midnight (after three hours); the
headache returned on waking, and continued until noon, next day; it was
dull (third day); very severe (fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth
days); continued the whole forenoon (tenth day); affects most frequently
the temples; is felt in the occiput (sixth and eighth days); over the
right eye (sixth and seventh day); in the forehead (twelfth day), [9]. ►
Awoke with a bruised sensation in the brain, increased by moving,
stooping, and by any sudden movement of the head. This bruised sensation
continued until noon, and suddenly disappeared after dinner (seventh
day), [4a]. ► Forehead. ►
Dull bruised feeling in the forehead, most severe in the right side of
the forehead, worse when moving the head, when it feels as if the brain
were loose for a few minutes (first day); continued until morning, when
it was worse than last evening (second morning), [8a]. ► *Dull
headache and slight bruised feeling in the forehead, nearly
all day (fourth day), [8a]. ► Dull headache in the forehead, with heat
and redness of the face, after singing, in the evening (fifth day);
entirely relieved, after sixth dose, [8a].
► Dull aching pain through the whole
forepart of the head, at 11 A.M. (fourth day), [3a]. ► Dull
aching in the forehead attended the toothache (after three hours, second
day), [8]. ►
Slight dull pain in the frontal region, with indisposition to thought
(after one hour, fourth day), [2].
► Frontal headache, with the feverish
symptoms (tenth morning), [2]. [40.] ►
Fulness and aching through the front part of the head and temples (three
hours after second dose, second day), [8].
► Headache in forehead, increased
soon after fourth dose, connected with a pungent tingling sensation in
the occiput, where phrenologists locate philoprogenitiveness, [8a]. ►
Pain over right eyebrow, with sensation of stoppage in left ear (after
one hour and a quarter), [7c]. ► Sensation across the forehead, as if the
brain were loose, when moving the head, and as if it were bruised; this
continued until after breakfast, next morning (after two minutes), [8]. ►
Pain over right eyebrow (after one hour), [7c];
(sixth day), [1c]. ► Pain on the right side of the forehead in
the region of causality (after one hour and fifty minutes, seventeenth
day), [5]. ►
Slight frontal headache, with shooting pains, at 7.30 P.M. (tenth day);
slight frontal headache (twelfth day), [2a].
► Slight frontal headache, increased
by motion (fourteenth day), [2]. ► Slight aching pain in the forehead, at 9
P.M. (second day), [30]. ► A sharp pain in the forepart of the head,
in the open air (sixth day), [5]. ► Temples. [50.]
► Pain in right temple, then in the
left (fifth day), [9]. ► Pain in the right temple (seventh day);
in the morning (eighth day), [9]. ► Severe pain for an hour in right temple
(twelfth day), [9]. ► Dull aching pain in the left temple (one
hour after second dose, second day), [9].
► Pain in left temple (after one
hour), [7c]; in the afternoon, [9]. ►
Vertex and Parietals. ►
Aching and pressure in the top of the head (one hour after second dose,
second day), [8]. ► Sharp pain, piercing, in the left side of
the head, for a short time (after three hours, second day), [8]. ►
A darting pain in left side of head, for about half an hour, at 11 A.M.
and 8 P.M. (third day), [3a]. ► Occiput. ►
Dull aching pain low in the occiput (one hour after second dose, second
day), [8]. ►
A dull aching pain in the occiput, which comes and goes, in the
afternoon (eleventh day), [5]. [60.] ►
Pungent drawing pain in the left side of the occiput, with a similar
pain in the left nostril, and a feeling as if coryza would ensue
(eighteen hours after second dose), [8a].
EYE.
►
Pains in both eyes, more severe in the right (after three hours), [9]. ►
Pains in both eyes, heavy and dull (second day), [9]. ► Pains
over the left and in both eyes with soreness to the touch over left
(fourth day), [9]. ► Pains in or over either or both eyes
(fifth and sixth days), [9]. ► Pains in either eye (seventh day), [9]. ►
Pains in the right eye, and in both (ninth and tenth days), [9]. ►
Pain in the right eye, both eyes all the forenoon (tenth day), [9]. ►
Pains in right eye, deepseated (third day), [9]. ► Pains
in the right eye (eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh days), [9]. [70.]
► Pains dull and steady in the right
eye (after three hours), [9]. ► Pains sharp, shooting, in the left eye,
running to the right jaw and arm (after three hours), [9]. ► Pain
over the left eye, with soreness to touch (fifth day), [9]. ► For
several nights eyes have felt somewhat sore, as if the eyelids were
inflamed and dry, particularly in evening, though no external signs of
inflammation present themselves (fifteenth day), [2b]. ►
Lachrymation (sixth day), [9].
EAR.
►
Pain in both ears (seventh day), [9].
► Pain in right ear (third and sixth
days); repeatedly (seventh day), [9].
► Pain in the right ear, in the
morning (eighth, ninth, and eleventh days), [9]. ► Pain in
the left ear and running to the shoulder (fourth day), [9]. ► Pain in
left ear (fifth day), [9]. [80.] ►
Pain in the left ear, in the afternoon (eighth day), [9]. ► Boring
pain just behind the base of the left ear (two hours after second dose,
second day), [8]. ► Heavy throbbing in the ears, synchronous
with the pulsations of the heart, attended the stinging almost itching,
pain in the left side of the chest (after one hour, fourth day), [8]. ►
Sensation of stoppage in left ear, with pain over right eyebrow (after
one hour and a quarter), [7c]. ► Sensation as if the ears were obstructed,
especially the left one; the prover’s own voice (as well as the voices
of others) sounds strangely to him, producing a kind of titillation in
the ear, and having a peculiar ringing confusing sound, and yet the
sense of hearing is as acute as ever; continued eighteen hours (after
six hours, sixth day); still continues, but not to so great a degree;
attended by slight ringing in the ears, at 10 P.M. (eighth day), [8]. ►
Constant roaring in the left ear, as if a conch-shell were held before
it, the whole day, attended by a feeling as if a fine thread were tied
tightly around the neck just below the ears; the roaring is not relieved
by pressing the finger into the ear; this continued for a week, and then
gradually disappeared (after nine days), [3].
► Ringing in the ears, [7a], [7b].
NOSE.
►
*Sneezing, [7b]. ► Epistaxis from the slightest picking of
the nose (tenth day), [1c]. ► Epistaxis from picking the nose was quite
frequent during the proving, [1c].
[90.] ►
Epistaxis (thirteenth day), [2a]. ► Coryza, with yellow expectoration from
posterior nares (seventh day), [2a].
► *Coryza with headache, [7]. ►
Some coryza, and obstruction of voice (fifth day); a slight coryza
(sixth day), [2]. ► Slight coryza (seventh day), [2b]. ►
*Great desire to pick the nose, was quite frequent during the
proving, [1c]. ► Sensation of great dryness in the nose,
the whole day and night (fifth day), [8].
► Dull pain in the nose (fifth day), [9]. ►
Pungent drawing pain in the left nostril, with a similar pain in the
left side of the occiput, and a feeling as if coryza would ensue
(eighteen hours after second dose), [8a].
► *Suddenly seized with a sharp
tingling sensation in the Schneiderian membrane, followed by violent and
rapid sneezing, five or six times in succession, with a watery discharge from the nostrils
(after half an hour, third day), [4b].
FACE.
[100.]
► Great paleness of face while
standing (tenth day), [2]. ► Pain in the side of the face, including
the right temple and ear; also left side of the upper lip (first day), [9]. ►
Pain in left side of the face (third day), [9]. ► Pain in
right jaw, in the morning (eighth day), [9].
► Pain in the right jaw and molar
teeth (first day), [9]. ► After retiring late at night had
lancinating pains in lower jaw, at root of left canine tooth (seventh
day), [2].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Pain in the teeth
of both sides, in the morning; in the front teeth in the afternoon
(ninth day), [9]. ► Dull aching pain in the right molars,
both upper and lower, which is entirely relieved after eating dinner
(third day), [8a]. ► Severe dull aching in the right molars;
relieved by rinsing the mouth with cold water (tenth day), [8]. ►
Grumbling stinging toothache in the right superior molars, while riding
in a cold wind, attended with a dull aching in the forehead (after three
hours, second day), [8]. [110.] ►
Dull transient pain in teeth (fourth day), [2]. ► Pain in
the under jaw and teeth, in the front teeth, also on the left side, half
an hour (eleventh day), [9]. ► Pain in the teeth, in the morning (eighth
day), [9]. ►
Pain in the teeth of lower jaw of the left side (seventh day), [9]. ►
Running pains in teeth; in all the upper teeth (twelfth day), [9]. ►
Sharp pain in the teeth (second day), [9].
► Tongue. ► Tongue coated white, with the feverish
symptoms (tenth morning), [2]. ► *Tongue coated yellow (tenth and
seventeenth days), [5]. ► Tongue heavily coated (second and fifth
days), [9]. ►
Feeling of dryness of the anterior part of the tongue, with a feeling in
the stomach of repletion, and as if one had eaten spice (seventh day), [5]. [120.]
► The anterior part of the tongue
felt dry and hot (after forty minutes), [5].
► Soreness of the right edge of the
tongue (after one hour and fifty minutes), [5]. ►
Sensation of excoriation at edges of the tongue, which is sore when
touched by the teeth, with a feeling as if the anterior part of the
tongue had been scalded (twelfth day), [5].
► Sensation as if the tongue and
mouth were burnt, with the flatulency, [7a].
► Dryness of the mouth and tongue, at
night (fourth day), [8]. ► Saliva and Taste. ► Flow of saliva (within half an hour), [7c]. ►
Rose in the morning with bad taste in the mouth (third day), [2b]. ►
Woke with a bitter taste in the mouth (second day), [2a]. ► Nasty
taste in the mouth (second day), [9].
► Flat taste in the mouth, on rising,
in the morning, was quite frequent during the proving, [1c].
THROAT.
[130.]
► Thick yellow secretion from
posterior nares (tenth day), [2]. ► Feeling of dryness in the posterior nares
(fifth day), [8]. ► The throat is dry, and deglutition
difficult (eighth day); same dryness of throat (ninth day), [9]. ►
Sensation as if a lump or ball were sticking fast in the throat, which
is not relieved by hawking or swallowing (after half an hour, fifth
day), [8]. ►
Aching sensation in the throat, as if a lump were sticking in the gullet
(twenty hours after fourth dose), [8a].
► Sore throat on the left side on
swallowing (sixteenth day), [5]. ► Sore throat on the left side during empty
deglutition (seventeenth day), [5].
► Throat sore, with feeling of lumps
in it when swallowing (tenth day), [22].
► All the morning had feeling of
rawness in upper part of throat, with secretion of phlegm (tenth day), [2a]. ►
*Scraping in the throat, with symptoms of slight cold, in the
evening (eighth day), [1b]. [140.] ►
Tickling in the throat, soon after taking the drug, then throat a little
sore (fifth day), [9]. ► Fauces and Pharynx. ► Much tough mucus in the fauces, which is
very difficult to eject (seventh day), [8a].
► Aching in the pharynx, and
collection of tough mucus in the fauces, with a slight inclination to
cough, in the evening (fifth day), [8a].® 2000
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