SENEGA.
Polygala senega, L.
Natural order
, Polygalaceæ.
Common name
, Seneca snake-root.
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 8,
from Thomas Massie, “An Experimental Inquiry into the Properties of
the Polygala Senega,” Inaug. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania,
1803). 1, Mr. Lawrence, took 20
grains of powdered root; 2, Mr.
Ligget, took same; 3, Mr. Wilson,
took same; 4, Mr. Towles, took 10
grains of the resin dissolved in spirit; 5,
a lady, took 20 grains of resin in spirit; 6,
Massie, took 10 grains of the gum dissolved in water; 6a, same,
took 20 grains of same; 7, Ths.
Redman, took 20 grains of gum in water; 8,
Mr. Pendergrast, took 32 grains of gum in pills. (Nos. 9 to 34,
from Seidel’s collection, Archiv f. Hom., 9, 2, 175, and Stapf’s
Beiträge); 9, “N-g;” 10, “S,” from pounding the root; 10a, from
10 drops of tincture; 10b, from 15 drops; 10c, from 20 drops; 10d, from 30 drops; 10e, from 5 grains of powdered root; 11, from 1 drop of tincture, in a young
woman; 12, a man, symptoms from 10
drops of tincture; 12a, from 15 drops; 12b, from 2 grains of powder; 13, 15 drops of tincture, in a man; 14, from 40 to 60 drops of tincture, in a
man; 15, 1 drop of tincture, in a
girl of fifteen years; 16, 10 drops
of tincture in a man; 17, in a man,
from 10 drops of tincture; 17a, from 20 drops; 17b, from 50 drops; 18,
Arnemann, Arznm., Göttingen, 1795, p. 452; 19,
Bouvard, Mem. de l’Acad. Paris, 1739, p. 53; 20,
Von Ammon, Heidlb. Annal., 5, 2, 231; 21,
Genesius, Handb. der Prak. Heilm., Stendal, 1791, p. 477; 22, Horn, Ueber die Erkeunt. u. Heil. d.
Pneumonie, Frankf. A.M., 1802; 23,
Hecker, Kunst die Krank., Erfurt, 1805, 1, 389; 24,
Lœsecke, Mat. Med., Berlin, 1785, p. 242 (general effects, T. F. A.); 25, Med. Jahrb. d. K. K. Oest., 13, effects
of infusion of 1 ounce of root; 26,
Mœnch, Arznl., Marburg, 1800, p. 212; 27,
Ratzeburg, Handb. d. Zoopharm. f. Thierærzte, Berlin, 1803, part 2; 28, Richter, Arznm., Berlin, 1827, 2, 134
(effects of chewing the bark of the root, T. F. A.); 29, Sundelin, Handbuch der Spec. Heilm.,
Berlin, 1833, 2, 176, effects of 1 scruple of powdered root; 30, Von Sand and S. Hahnemann, Die
Keunzeichen etc. der Arznm., Dresden, 1787, p. 55; 31, Voigtel, Arznm., Leipzig, 1817, 2, 2,
190; 32, Vogt, Pharmacod., 1828, 1,
607; 33, Willmann, Animad. de Nat.
Hydropis, p. 119; 34, Jahn, Mat.
Med., 1818, 2, 518 (effects of strong infusion, personal experience, 3d
ed., 1814, Vol. 2, p. 958, T. F. A.); 35,
Bigelow, Am. Med. Botany, 2, 99, 1818, effects of root; 36, same, a man with rheumatism took a
wineglassful of infusion; 37,
Lembke, N. Z. f. Hom. Kl., 13, 161, proving with repeated doses of 5 to
10 grains of the extract.
MIND.
►
Cheerful mood (first days), [10d].
► (Cheerful, disposed to work),
(after half an hour), [9]. ► Cheerful, and childishly playful; a
slight cause makes him mad and vehement (first days), [10e]. ►
Cheerful, but irritable, and becoming easily vehement when excited
(third and fourth days), [10a]. ► Frightful anxiety, [34]. ►
Anxiety and vertigo, from large doses, [29].
► Anxiety, [21]. ►
Feeling of anxiety, with somewhat accelerated breathing (after half an
hour, [13]. ►
Hypochondriac mood and irritable (eighth and ninth days), [10e]. [10.] ► Melancholy mood, evening (first day), [13]. ►
(Fretful mood, forenoon), (second day), [12b].
► Phlegmatic; inclines to quarrel and
give offence, [10d]. ► He recollects suddenly, without any
cause, unimportant regions which he had seen long ago, and which had
never made a deep impression upon him, [10c].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
*Confused feeling in the head (soon), [10c]. ►
Vertigo, with roaring in the ears (soon), [10e].
► Vertigo, in large doses, [29]. ►
*Slight vertigo before the eyes (soon), [15]. ►
Vertigo in the head, continuing for a few moments, as if the blood
ceased to flow, and as if the ideas were arrested (first day), [15]. ►
Dizziness in the head, with flat taste in the mouth, the first days, [12b]. [20.]
► *Reeling sensation in the head
(after a quarter of an hour), [12].
► General Head. ►► *Dulness of the head, with pressure and
weakness of the eyes (fifth day), [10e]. ► *Dulness
in the head (after a quarter of an hour), [12a], [12b].
► Dull headache, early in the morning
(second and third days), [10c]. ► Dull pressing headache (soon), [10d]. ►
Heaviness of the whole head, continuing six hours (soon), [12]. ► *The head
feels heavy, [9], [10a]. ►
Violent rush of blood to the head when stooping, especially to the
eyeballs, where a painful pressure in experienced (first, second, and
third days), [10a]. ► *A sort of aching pain in the head, in the
sinciput and occiput, not increased by pressure; this headache came on
every day, and was especially felt when sitting in a warm room; it was
accompanied with a pressure in the eyes, which did not bear touch.
On the fifth day nausea supervened after dinner, with inclination to
vomit. The pain seemed to be relieved by leaning the head quietly on the
arm, but exercise in the open air diarrhœa would set in, which however
was not the case. After the nausea had passed off, after the lapse of
one hour and a quarter, a peculiar though not unpleasant sensation was
felt in the parotid gland, and a simple pain in the pit of the stomach,
rather external, [14]. ► Violent beating headache, with pressure
in the eyes, diminished appetite, bruised feeling, and general feeling
of malaise (sixth day), [10c]. [30.] ►
The headache is relieved by cold, [10d].
► Disagreeable sensation of emptiness
in the head (third day), [10a]. ► Boring stitches in the head (second and
third days), [10c]. ► Forehead. ►
Dull sensation in the right half of the forehead, like pressure (third
day), [17a]. ►
Violent aching-beating pain in the forehead, in the evening (first day),
[13]. ►
Sensitively painful drawing in the forehead, several times (second day),
[10d]. ►
*Pressing pain in the forehead and in the orbits, after dinner,
especially in the left side of the head; relieved in the open air
(third day), [10e]. ► Sensation of pressure in the forehead,
continuing one hour (after a quarter of an hour), [12]. ►
Headache, more towards the forehead (after one hour), [12a]. ►
Transient tearing pain in the left half of the forehead (third day), [17a]. ►
Temples. [40.] ► Violent pressure in the right temple, [37]. ►
Pressure in the temples, in the forenoon, toward the forehead (after six
days), [12]. ►
Sudden pressure in both temples, [37].
► Tearing and drawing pains in the
temples, extending down into the face (sixth day), [10e]. ► Occiput.
► Simple pain in the occiput,
afterwards extending to the temples, and finally affecting the whole
head (after half an hour), [12b]. ► Aching-stupefying pain in the occiput,
toward evening (second and third days), [10c].
► Simple pain in the occiput, [14]. ►
External Head. ► Itching
of the scalp, early in the morning (fourth day), [10e]. ►
Shuddering over the scalp (soon), [10d],
(after five hours), [10c].
EYE.
►
*When looking at an object intently or permanently the eyes tremble and
run (after three hours and a half), [13]. [50.] ► He stares at one object; sensation as if
it were difficult to move the eyes (soon), [10a]. ► *Weakness
of the eyes, with slight burning and lachrymation (fifth
day), [10d]. ► *Weakness of the eyes (soon), [10e]. ►
*Weakness of the eyes when reading, with lachrymation on exerting them
too much (second day), [13].
► Extreme sensitiveness of the eyes
to light (after three-quarters of an hour), [13]. ►
Dryness of the eyes, with sensation as if the eyeballs were too large
for the orbits (after one hour and a quarter), [13]. ►
Considerable dryness and smarting pain, as of soap, in the eyes (after
one hour and a half), [10]. ► Drawing in the eyes, changing into a
cooling sensation and leaving tears behind (third day), [10c]. ►
Tensive sensation in the eyes, with too great sensitiveness to the light
(fourth day), [13]. ► Pressure in the eyes when stooping, as if
a fluid were pressing into the eyeballs and distended them, the first
days, [10a]. [60.] ►
Pressure in the eyes in the evening, at candlelight (first day, [10c]. ►
Pressing in the eyes (sixth day), [10e].
► Painful pressure towards the eye,
as if the eye would be pressed out of the socket, disappears in half a
minute, leaving a dull feeling, early in the morning (second day), [14]. ►
Burning in the eyes when reading or writing (first day, [10e], toward evening (second and third days), [10c]. ►
Burning and pressure in the eyes, toward evening (second and third
days), [10c]. ► Orbit. ►
*Aching pain over the orbits (after eleven hours, and on the
second day), [13]. ► Pressure over the left eye (after one
hour), [13]. ►
Sensitive pressure in the orbits (after two hours), [12b]. ► Lids.
► Bloated eyelids (the first days), [10a]. ►
Swelling, burning, and pressure of the eyelids, without any considerable
redness of them (fifth day), [10e].
[70.] ►
Swelling of the eyelids, the first days, [10c].
► Both lids of the right eye are
inflamed and swollen, especially toward the inner canthus, with painful
pressure (sixth day), [17a]. ► *Pimple (hordeolum) on the margin of the
right lower eyelid (eighth day), [10e].
► Vesicle of the size of the head of
a pin on the margin of the left upper eyelid, occasioning a troublesome
pressure in the eye, upon being opened, the vesicle discharged a clear
fluid and the pressure disappeared (third day), [17]. ► Early
in the morning the eyelashes are full of hard mucus (first day), [10c], [10d].
► Secretion of much mucus in the
Meibomian glands (second day), [13].
► Secretion of a quantity of hard
tenacious mucus in the canthi, during the night (first night), [13]. ►
The lower eyelids are spasmodically drawn towards the nose, continuing
several days (after one hour), [10d].
► An almost constant twitching and
jerking in the lower eyelids causes lachrymation (fifth day), [10d]. ►
Constant twitching in the right outer canthus (first day), [10e]. [80.]
► Jerking in the right upper eyelid
(tenth and eleventh days), [10d]. ► Jerking in the eyelids (first day), [10e]. ►
Pressure in the right upper eyelid, toward the inner canthus (fifth
day), [17a]. ►
Burning pain in the margins of the eyelids, early in the morning (second
and third days), [12]. ► Slight burning in the lids when writing
(first day), [15]. ► Violent crawling in the eyelids, with
sensation as if sand had got into them (fourth day), [13]. ►
Pulsation in the right lower eyelid (eighth day), [10e]. ► Lachrymal
Apparatus. ► Slight
lachrymation, and sensation as if threads were hanging before the eyes,
especially in the right eye, in the open air, [10e]. ► Some
lachrymation, in the open air, [10e].
► Ball. ► *Drawing and pressure in the eyeballs, with
diminution of visual power (after three and four hours), [10d]. [90.]
► Intense pressure in the eyeballs
(after one hour), [11]. ► Pressure in the right eyeball (first
day), [15]. ►
Sharp pressure deep in the left eyeball (after one hour), [10b]. ►
Considerable pressure in the eyeballs, now in the right, now in the
left, [10c]. ►
Drawing in the eyeballs, with diminution of visual power (second day), [10e]. ►
Pupil. ► Contracted and
sluggish pupils (first days), [10].
► Vision. ► *Weakness of sight and flickering before the
eyes when reading, obliging me to wipe them often, but which
were aggravated thereby (first and third days), [10d]. ►
Impaired vision by a glaring light (first day), [10c]. ► *Objects
look shaded, [10b]. ► *While reading the eyes feel dazzled; this makes
reading difficult (first day), [10c].
[100.] ►
*Flickering before the eyes and weakness of sight, when continuing to
read or write (after ten hours), [13]. ► At
noon she saw several times a shining spot on the wall at side of the
eye; it disappeared on looking directly at it (third day), [11]. ►
*When walking towards the setting sun he seemed to see another smaller
sun hover below the other, assuming a somewhat oval shape, when looking
down, disappearing on bending the
head backwards and on closing the eyes, [14]. ►
Illusions of sight (first days), [10a].
► Shadows before the eyes (second
day), [10a]. ► *Flickering and running together of letters when
reading (after one hour a quarter), [13].
EAR.
►
Dull pain in the right ear (after half an hour), [10a]. ►
Sensation of painful pressure in the right ear when chewing, [14]. ►
A cooling sensation frequently extends through the left ear (second
day), [10e]. ►
Feeling of warmth in the right ear (after half an hour), [10a]. [110.]
► Painful sensitiveness of hearing
even to usually agreeable sounds (after one hour), [13]. ► Slight
humming in the ears, which feel stopped (third day), [17a].
NOSE.
►
Coryza, continuing two days (after six days), [12]. ►
Frequent sneezing, [12]. ► Sneezing and tickling in the nose, [9]. ►
*Sneezing for five minutes, and so violent and long-continued, that the
head became quite heavy and dizzy; afterwards a large quantity of thin
watery mucus flowed from the nose (second day), [17b]. ►
Sneezing several times when pounding the root, [10]. ►
*Troublesome dryness of the Schneiderian membrane (after one hour and a
half), [13]. ►
Troublesome feeling of dryness in the nose (first days), [11]. ► Great
dryness of the nasal fossæ, with discharge of a few drops of blood
(second day), [10c], [10d]. [120.]
► Itching in the nose, [9]. ► Smell
before the nose, as of a malignant ulcer (after two hours and a half), [13].
FACE.
►
Paralytic feeling in the left half of the face (after one
hour), [10a].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► The lower front
teeth are extremely sensitive on inhaling through the mouth cold and
damp air, [14]. ► Simple pain in single teeth and the jaws
(third day), [10b]. ► Slight burrowing in the upper left molars
(after three hours), [10b]. ► Tongue. ►
White-coated tongue (after three hours and a half), [13]. ►
Yellowish-white coating of the tongue (first days), [10c]. ► Slimy
tongue, early in the morning, and unpleasant slimy taste in the mouth, [14]. ►
The middle of the tongue is dry, without any coating (after one hour and
a half), [13]. [130.] ►
Disagreeable scraping on the posterior part of the tongue and in the
throat, with frequent accumulation of saliva in the mouth, [29]. [Symptoms 139, 218, 240, 248, 267,
299 were occasioned within six hours by taking a scruple of the powdered
root every two hours.] ► Creeping
under the tongue (after four hours), [10d].
► Slight burning sensation in the tip
of the tongue, [14]. ► General Mouth. ►
Putrid smell from the mouth, the first six days, [10e]. ►
Dryness in the mouth (after two hours), [10d].
► Dryness in the mouth and throat,
with accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat (first day), [10c]. ►
Excessive dryness in the mouth and larynx, early in the morning and
forenoon; continuing for many days, [12].
► Dryness of the mouth, one hour
after increased secretion of saliva, [12].
► Astringent acridity affecting the
mouth, and especially the uvula, [30].
► The whole of the mouth and fauces
were burnt, so that only mild or liquid papescent food could be taken, [25]. [From 1 once of the roof to 8
ounces of water.] [140.] ► Smarting-burning sensation in the region
of the palate, as if the skin had become detached, [14]. ► Slight
prickling and stinging in the mouth, with accumulation of saliva (first
day), [15]. ►
Tensive sensation, which had shifted from the palate to the articular
fossæ of the lower jaw (after a quarter of an hour), [13]. ► Saliva.
► Increased secretion of saliva, with
contractive sensation in the mouth (after one hour and a half), [10e]. ►
Frequent spitting and running of saliva from the mouth, [9]. ► When
smoking he spits more than usual; the saliva is quite watery (first
day), [17]. ►
Increase of saliva in the mouth (after a quarter of an hour), [10c]; (after five hours), [10d]. ►
Increased secretion of saliva (after seven hours, [13]. ►
Ptyalism, [24]. ► Copious ptyalism, [27]. [150.] ► Viscid saliva in the mouth (second and
third days), [10d]. ► Taste. ►
Diminished taste (first day), [10e].
► To the extremely nauseous taste of
the medicine I attribute the sinking of the pulse, [6]. ►
Unpleasant and somewhat acid taste; after chewing, it leaves a sensation
of acrimony in the mouth, and still more in the fauces, if it has been
swallowed, [35]. ► Flat taste in the mouth, early in the
morning (first days), [10b], [10d], [10e].
► Nauseating sweetish taste in
throat, several days (after four days), [17b].
► Bad taste, and a peculiar rumbling
in the stomach, [16]. ► Taste of urine (immediately), [12]. ►
Metallic taste (after two hours and a half), [13].
THROAT.
►
Early in the morning, he frequently hawks up lumps of gray mucus,
accompanied with an irritation in the larynx, inducing a short and
hacking cough (first day), [17b]. [160.] ►
Increased secretion of mucus in the throat, inducing a short and hacking
cough, continuing for three weeks, [12a].
► Secretion of a whitish tenacious
mucus in the throat (after two hours and a half), [13]. ►
Accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat (first day), [10e]. ►
Accumulation of mucus in the throat, with dryness in the mouth (after
two days), [10e]. ► Constant inclination to clear the throat,
and to swallow the saliva (after three hours and a half), [13]. ►
Scraping and dry sensation in the throat, making it difficult for him to
talk, and obliging him to cough (second day), [10a]. ►
Scraping in the throat and on the back part of the tongue, with
accumulation of saliva (immediately), [9].
► Scraping sensation in the throat
(soon), and when pounding the root, [10].
► Scraping sensation in the throat,
which obliges him to hawk frequently (first, second, and third days), [11]. ►
Scraping and rough sensation in the throat, accompanied with an
accumulation of tenacious mucus (fifth day), [10d]. [170.]
► Tickling-scraping feeling in the
throat, evening (first day), [13].
► Roughness in the throat almost
bordering on hoarseness, in the forenoon, the first four days, [12]. ►
Roughness and dryness in the throat, with dry cough (fourth day), [13]. ►
Raw feeling in the throat when clearing it (first day), [10c]. ► Sore
feeling in the throat, for three days (after one hour and a half), [12a]. ►
Constrictive sensation in the throat (soon), [15]. ►
Dryness and roughness in the throat, early in the morning when waking
(second day), [10d]. ► Great dryness in the throat, which makes
speech difficult (third day), [11].
► Pressure in the throat when
swallowing the food (after three hours and a half), [13]. ►
Burning in the throat, [34]. [180.] ►
Burning and scraping sensation in the throat (immediately), [10d]. ►
Burning-scraping sensation in the throat, obliging him to swallow
frequently (soon), [10e]. ► Fauces. ►
Inflammatory swelling of the whole of the fauces, especially the uvula
(after one hour and a half), [13].
► Tenacious mucus in the fauces,
early in the morning (after two days), [10d].
► Contracts the fauces, [27]. ►
Dryness in the fauces, with transient stitches, especially in the uvula
(after half an hour), [13]. ► Scraping sensation in the fauces,
obliging one to clear the throat frequently and to swallow the saliva
(after a quarter of an hour), [13].
► Scraping in the fauces
(immediately), [37]. ► Burning sensation in the fauces, [9]. ►
Sensation of constrictive irritation in the fauces, [28]. ►
Œsophagus. [190.] ► Sensation in the œsophagus, which he
compared to a burning, with a considerable discharge of mucus from the
trachea (in ten minutes); continued in a slight degree (after one hour
and a half), [1]. ► The sensation in the œsophagus,
mentioned in the preceding experiment, was very considerably felt,
accompanied with a large discharge of mucus by hawking (immediately), [2]. ►
Same irritation in œsophagus mentioned hitherto, [3]. ► A great
deal of irritation and roughness in the œsophagus, with a good deal of
nausea (immediately); some irritation in œsophagus (in forty minutes), [4]. ►
Disagreeable sensation in œsophagus (in ten minutes); irritation in
œsophagus still remained (in forty minutes), [5]. ►
Sensation in the œsophagus as if the membrane had been abraded, this
continued upward of an hour (in five minutes), [6]. ►
Irritation in the œsophagus, [6a].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ►
Diminution of appetite (first day), [10c],
[10e]. ►
Want of appetite, [9], [20]; at breakfast (after half an hour),
[10e]; (second day), [29]; (third day), [17a]. ►
Complete want of appetite, the first three days, [13]. [200.] ► Increased thirst (first days), [10a], [10b],
[10c], [10d], [10e].
► Much thirst, with roughness and
dryness in the fauces (third and sixth days), [13]. ►
Thirst, with dryness of the palate (after eleven hours), [13]. ►
Eructations. ► Tasteless
eructations, [37]. ► Rising of air, [9]. ►
Eructations, [10e]; several times
(first day), [10a]. ► Inclination to eructations, [9]. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. ►
Much nausea (in ten minutes); nausea so much increased as to be quite
distressing, and the medicine was with difficulty retained on the
stomach (in twenty minutes); somewhat diminished (in thirty minutes);
still more so (in forty minutes); quite gone (in sixty minutes), [8]. ►
Great nausea, with retching (immediately), [10e]. ►
Considerable degree of nausea (in ten minutes); nausea subsided (in
forty minutes), [5]. [210.] ►
Nausea (in thirty minutes); increased (in forty minutes), [2]. ► A good
deal of nausea (immediately); some nausea (in forty minutes), [4]. ►
Nausea after dinner, with inclination to vomit (fifth day), [14]. ►
Nausea, caused by small doses, [26].
► Nausea, [31]. ►
Nausea, in the stomach, [9]. ► Some nausea, [6a]. ►
Qualmish feeling in the stomach, with accumulation of water in the mouth
(after five hours), [17]. ► Retching and vomiting, with discharge of
much watery mucus (first day), [29].
[See note to symptom 139] ► Retching
after small doses, [32]. [220.] ►
Most violent vomiting and purging, which lasted the whole night,
accompanied with profuse diaphoresis, [36].
► Copious vomiting (in five minutes),
[7]. ►
Vomiting and diarrhœa, [22]. ► Emetic, in large doses, [35]. ►
Vomiting and anxiety, [21]. ► Vomiting and purging, from strong doses, [26], [28],
[29], [32]. ►
Sometimes excites vomiting, [18]. ► Inclination to vomit during the siesta
(first day), [10c]. ► Stomach. ►
Rumbling in the left side of the epigastrium, [9]. ► The
sleep is disturbed several nights in succession, at 3 A.M., by an
aching, almost cramp-pain in the stomach, [12b].
[230.] ►
Colicky pains in the epigastric region, towards noon (sixth day), [13]. ►
Aching, almost spasmodic pain in the stomach, the first night, returning
for several nights, [12b]. ► Warmth and oppression in the epigastrium,
during inspiration, [14]. ► Feeling of emptiness in the stomach, [9]. ►
Pain in the stomach, from large doses, [28],
[32]. ►
Gnawing sensation in the epigastrium, before a meal, although he has no
appetite (third and fourth days), [10e].
► Sensation of gnawing hunger below
the pit of the stomach (third day), [10e].
► Feeling of pressure in the pit of
the stomach, [12]. ► After supper, a painful-digging pressure
below the pit of the stomach, with discomfort in the whole body (eighth
day), [10d]. ►
Pressure in the pit of the stomach and umbilical region (third day), [17a]. [240.]
► Disagreeable oppressive sensation
in the stomach (second day), [29].
[See note to symptom 139] ►
Disagreeable pressure at the stomach, the whole day, [9]. ► Digging
pain in the epigastrium, with disposition to flatulence and sudden
outbreaks of ill-humor, evening (seventh day), [10d]. ►
Painful and repulsive sensations in the stomach, [31]. ► Some
cutting in the epigastrium (the first hours), [16]. ►
Violent burning and pressure in the stomach, from small doses, [29]. ►
Burning in the stomach, at last retching and vomiting, [9]. ►
Considerable burning in the stomach and bowels, [19]. ►
Considerable burning in the stomach, changing into a fatiguing retching
and vomiting of much mucus (first day), [29].
[See note to symptom 139] ► Disturbs
the digestion, [23]. [250.] ►
Deranged digestion and vomiting, in powders of from 10 to 15 grains, [29]. ►
Much heat in stomach (in twenty minutes), [2].
► Warm feeling in the stomach (first
hours), [16].
ABDOMEN.
►
Boring pain in the left hypochondrium, in the evening (first day), [13]. ►
The aching pains in the umbilical region appear in the afternoon,
increasing in the evening, especially during rest (first days), [17b]. ►
Shifting-boring pain in the umbilical region (after ten hours), [13]. ►
Loud rumbling and pinching in the left side of the abdomen, [9]. ►
Sudden pressure in the right side of the abdomen and chest, in the
evening when sitting (after two hours), [14].
► Drawing sensation as of a foreign
body, between the abdominal integuments on the right side, when walking
(second day), [10a]. ► Very profuse emission of flatus, [37]. [260.]
► Motions and rumbling in the
abdomen, at times, the first hours, [16].
► Rumbling in the intestines (after
two hours and a half), [13]. ► Colic from large doses, [31]. ► Colic
during dinner (first day), [10e]. ► Colic, after some hours, disappearing
after a diarrhœic stool, [9]. ► Griping in the abdomen, with inclination
to stool (after two hours), [10c].
► Violent cutting from the abdomen to
the pit of the stomach, the first hours, [16].
► Severe pinching in the abdomen,
ceasing after some liquid stools, (See note to symptom 139.), [29]. ►
Pressing in the hypogastrium, soon after emission of flatus (after half
an hour), [9].® 2000
Article