SPIGELIA.
Spigelia, anthelmia, L.
Natural order
, Loganiaceæ.
Preparation
, Tincture prepared from the
powdered plant.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 21,
from Hahnemann, Mat. Med., 5). 1,
Hahnemann; 2, Becher; 3, Franz; 4,
Gross; 5, Gutmann; 6, Hartmann; 7,
Hermann; 8, Hornburg; 9, Kummer; 10,
Langhammer; 11, Meyer; 12, Stapf; 13,
Walther; 14, Wislicenus; 15, Bergius, Mat. Med., p. 97 (observation); 16, Patrick Browne, Gentleman’s Mag., 1751,
p. 544, and Natural History of Jamaica, p. 156 (statements); 17, Chalmers, on the Weather and Diseases of
South Carolina, Lond., 1776, 1, p. 67 (observations); 18, Linning, see Spigelia Marilandica; 19, Martin, in Konigl. Vetensk. ak.
Handlingar, f. a., 1771, (not accessible, -Hughes); 20, W. Wright, in Samml. br. Abh. f. pr.
Aerzte XIV, III (Lond. Med. and Phys. Journ. VIII, 217, observations,
-Hughes); 21, Sdin., from Helbig
Heraklides, 1, 59; 21a, Hg., ibid.; 22,
Sharp, Essays, effect of one drop of 1st cent. dil.; 23, ibid., same dose; 24, ibid., a third dose.
MIND.
►
Unnaturally joyful mood, [12]. ► Lively, quiet, and contented mood without
care, with all the pains and troubles, [7].
[For a long time before he was always solicitous and suspicious
(secondary action, curative action). -Hahnemann.] ►
Lively, contented, and trustful mood, alternating with palpitation and
anxious oppression of the chest, [4].
► After the first day the mind was
more active and lively than usual, [9].
[Curative reaction. -Hahnemann.] ►
Uneasiness and apprehension; could not remain anywhere, [1]. ► Could
not enjoy himself with others, though at the same time he was not sad
(after seven hours), [6]. ► He sits as if lost in thought, and stares
at a single point (after three hours), [9].
► Anxious forebodings, therewith
inclination to a peevish, indolent mood, [2].
► Anxiety and apprehensive solicitude
for the future (after ten days), [14].
[10.] ►
Deep thought about his future (after twenty-four hours), [10]. ► Sad
and peevish (with redness of the face), [1].
► Mood sad, at the same time very
peevish, [1]. ► Sad mood, at the same time despondency
and fearfulness (after half an hour), [13].
► Gloomy mood for three hours,
followed by a joyous and excited mood; gloomy again in the afternoon, [3]. ►
Earnestness; he is vexed if one jokes in the least with him, [5]. ►
Easily angered, [9]. ► He is very peevish and sensitive about
everything that does not seem good, for many hours, [11]. ►
Extreme ill-humor, in the evening; he could kill himself, with
chilliness of the body (after eight days), [1]. ► Mental
indolence and great forgetfulness, [2].
[20.] ►
Lack of attention, [5]. ► Every work associated with mental exertion is
difficult, [7]. ► Does not talk willingly (after seven and
a half hours), [11]. ► His memory seemed more trustworthy, and
more active than before (after five days), [2]. ► Great
forgetfulness, loss of memory, [11].
► Weakness of memory; he cannot think
of the things that he knows best, [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion and emptiness in the head, in the upper part of the forehead;
the scalp is very sensitive to touch, and the hair seems to bristle
(after three hours), [3]. ► Vertigo, as if he were intoxicated and
had not a firm step (after fourteen hours), [10]. ►
Vertigo; after standing a few minutes he is in danger of falling, [1]. ►
*Vertigo; whenever he looks down he thinks that he will fall over,
[1]. [30.]
► Vertigo; on looking in front of him
he is in momentary danger of falling forward, [11]. ►
Vertigo whenever he turns his head, in walking; but on looking straight
ahead he feels nothing, in the open air (after five hours), [3]. ►
Vertigo; while walking he staggered, as if he would fall to the left
(after four hours), [10]. ► When walking he became dizzy; everything
seemed to turn in a circle; he was obliged to stop; he seemed
intoxicated, [1]. ► Vertigo while sitting, standing, and walking
(most tolerable while lying), the head sinks backward, with nausea at
the palate, and discomfort in the abdomen and thorax; in the abdomen a
pinching pain, with a sensation as if he would be obliged to go to
stool, whereupon he loses all consciousness, [7]. ► General
Head. ► Heaviness and pain
in the head on shaking it, [1]. ► Dulness of the head, [1]. ► Dulness
of the whole head (after half an hour), [5].
► *Dulness in the whole head, together
with a pressure from within outward,
in the forehead (after five days), [5]. ► Dulness
in the whole head, in the evening; he seems quite confused, [3]. [40.]
► Painful dulness in the head, [12]. ►
*Constant dulness in the head, so that every work associated with
reflection was difficult, [7].
► Dulness of the head, especially of
the right side, [21a]. ► The head seems stupefied, as after
smoking strong tobacco (after half an hour), [13]. ►
Sensation of emptiness, and dizziness in the head, as in intoxication,
while sitting (after one hour), [6].
► Pressure in the cerebrum and
cerebellum, which, at the same time, causes dizziness, [11]. ► *Constant
pressive headache, worse on stooping (after thirty-five
hours), [5]. ► *Sensation in the brain, as if the head were
tightly bound, lasting a long time (after twenty-eight
hours), [5]. ►
Headache like confusion, [1]. ► *Headache like a heaviness; on drawing the
facial muscles it seems as though the skull would burst upward and
asunder, [1]. [50.] ►
The headache is worse when lying down, better when walking, [11]. [Alternate action. -Hahnemann.] ► The headache is worse in the open air, [5]. ►
*Does not dare to shake the head; it hurts into the brain, and he
becomes dizzy, [1]. ► When speaking loud, or coughing, the head
hurts as if it would press out, [1].
► He does not dare to stoop; it then
seems as if the brain spread out and would force out in front, [1]. ►
A thrust like violent pressure in the head from without inward toward
the middle of the brain, in one point, caused by every step when walking
in the open air (after six hours), [6].
► Sensation of swashing in the brain
when walking, [11]. ► Swashing in the brain when walking; he feels
every step, [5]. ►► *Fine burrowing-tearing pain in the
brain, especially violent in the left parietal bone, on motion, on
walking, and especially violent on making a false step, towards evening; several evenings in succession
(after eleven hours), [7]. ► Forehead. ►
*Pain in the forehead, [17].
[60.] ►
Confused headache in the forehead and temples; at the same time a
sensation of compression in both sides forward, [12]. ►
*Boring headache in the forehead, [5].
► Pain, as if there were a heavy
weight beneath the left frontal eminence, [4].
► Pressure from without inward in the
left frontal eminence, externally and internally in the brain at the
same time, [7]. ► *Pressure from within outward, in the right
frontal eminence (after an hour and a quarter), [6]. ►
*Violent pressure and pressing outward, in the forehead
(after two hours), [6]. ► *A pressing outward in the forehead, on stooping
(after three-quarters of an hour), [5].
► *Pressure in the forehead, as if the
brain would press out, momentarily relieved by pressure with the hand,
[11]. ►
Pressive headache in the whole forehead, [8].
► *Pressive headache from within outward,
in the left side of the forehead (after half an hour), [5]. [70.]
► Tearing pressure in the head, from
the left frontal eminence to the occiput (after thirty-four hours), [7]. ►►
*Tearing pressure from within outward, in the frontal bone
(after eight days), [14]. ► *Tensive-pressive headache from within
outward, in the forehead (after thirty-four hours), [5]. ►►
*Tensive tearing pain in the forehead, especially beneath the left
frontal eminence extending towards the orbits (after six
hours), [4]. ►► *Thrustlike-tearing pain in the forehead,
worse in the right frontal eminence, that
causes an involuntary fixing of the eyes on the object at which he is
looking, while standing and sitting (after twenty-seven
hours), [6]. ► *Very violent tearing in the forehead, occiput,
and temples, [11]. ►► *While taking the Spigelia, a shoot of
pain through the forehead was felt, [24]. ► Large
pulsating stitches in the forehead from evening till morning, so that he
could cry out; together with hammering in the ears, [1]. ►►
*Sharp sticking just behind and above the right frontal eminence,
[4]. ►►
*Burning pain in the right side of the forehead, extending to the eye,
so that he could not turn it without pain, [11]. [80.] ► *Burning pain in the left side of the frontal
bone (after thirty-one hours), [5].
► A shaking and swashing in the
forehead, even on moving the head, [11].
► Temples. ► Very violent pressure in the temples
(after one hour), [6]. ► Violent pressure from without inward, in both
temples, especially in the right temple (after fifty-six
hours), [6]. ►
Violent pressure in the right temple, gradually extending more and more
(after two hours and three-quarters), [6].
► Drawing pressure in the left temple
frequently recurring, [9]. ► Tearing thrusts in the right temple
(after fifty hours), [6]. ► A tearing pressure, and as the pain
became a little better a dull sensation, as of a swelling in the left
zygomatic process, [4]. ► *Jerking tearing in the right zygoma
(after thirty hours), [6]. ► *Violent, fine stitches, as from electric
sparks, in the left temple, [8].
[90.] ►
Burning in the left temple, externally, [5].
► Burning headache in the left
temporal region, and in the forehead, [8].
► Vertex and Parietals. ► Pressive drawing in the right side of the vertex
and occiput, [7]. ► Violent pressive pain in a small spot in
the crown, [5]. ► Itching crawling in the left side of the
vertex (after thirty-two hours), [5].
► *Pressing asunder headache in the right
side (after eighty-two hours), [5].
►► *A pressive pain in the right
side of the head, involving also the right eye, in the morning, in bed,
but still more after rising; the pain was deeply seated, was unaffected
by pressure, was very acute on motion; on suddenly turning the head the
brain seemed to be loose; every jar, step, even straining at stool,
aggravated the pain when present, or produced it when not already
present, [21a]. ► Pressive headache in the left half of the
brain, immediately, [5]. ► Jerks and thrusts in the left side of the
head (after fifty-four hours), [6].
► Intermittent, contractive,
tearing-sticking pain in a small spot in the left parietal bone, more
posteriorly, seeming to be rather external, [4]. [100.] ► Slow tearing stitches in the left side of
the head, [6]. ► Occiput. ►
The occiput is heavy and drags down like a weight, [1]. ► Drawing
dulness in the occiput, in the evening, while walking in the open air
(after ten hours), [3]. ► Pain in the occiput, as after a blow, [1]. ►
Pain in the occiput, as though an artery were beating against an
obstacle, [1]. ► The occiput is especially painful; cannot
lie upon it, [1]. ► The occiput is painful to touch in the
region of the crown, and even when not touched it is painful, as if
ulcerating, and from time to time there is a dull sticking jerking,
which seems to penetrate deeply into the brain, [1]. ► Violent
pains in the occiput and nape of the neck, about 3 or 4 A.M.; it seemed
stiff; in the morning he could not move the head till after he had risen
and dressed, when the pains disappeared, [1].
► Boring headache in the occiput and
vertex, as if it were attempting to draw the head backward, [2]. ►
*Burrowing and burrowing-tearing pain in the occiput, in the left side
of the vertex and in the forehead, more violent on motion, as also on
every loud noise, and when he speaks loudly, or even on opening the
mouth slightly, most tolerable while lying (after twelve
hours), [6]. [110.] ►
Most violent pressure inward in the left side of the occiput, during
which he could not stoop without aggravating the pain, unless he pressed
the hand hard against the painful spot, [11].
► Intolerable bubbling pain in the
occiput, violently increased at first on walking, afterwards by the
slightest motion; most relieved by leaning backward while sitting; lying
horizontally aggravated it, [11]. ► *Violent jerks in the occiput, and then in the
temples on every step, while walking in the open air (after
twenty-eight hours), [6]. ► Pressive stitches in a small point in the
left side of the occiput (after forty-nine hours), [6]. ► External
Head. ► (The scalp is
covered with pimples), [1]. ► *The scalp is sore externally, and the hair is
sore to touch, [1]. ► *Sensitiveness of the whole head to touch,
especially on moving the scalp, [14]. ► The
scalp seems contracted and tense, [9].
► A crawling itching on the forehead
that provokes much rubbing, [1]. ► Biting pain in the skin on the left side
of the forehead (after thirty-four hours), [5]. [120.] ► Burning in the skin of the temple, in
front of the right ear (after seventy-five hours), [5]. ► Burning
in the skin of the right temple near the eye, [5].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Yellow rings
around the eyes, [9]. ► Redness of the white of the eye, with
injected bloodvessels, [20]. ► Redness and inflammation of the white of
the eye, in the morning; the lids are so heavy that he can scarcely open
them, [3]. ►
Much hardened mucus in the eyes, frequently all day, [1]. ► Great
moisture in the eyes, without sensation, [1].
► The eyes are very weak, apparently
with an internal impediment; wherever he turns them they remain, and he
does not know what he is looking at, like one whose vision has vanished,
[1]. ►
The eyes seem dim and weak, with unchanged pupils, [2]. ► Eyes
look dim and weak (after seven days), [14].
[130.] ►
Eyes appear bright and sparkling, as they generally do before the
eruption of small-pox or measles, [16].
[Hahnemann’s s. 105, revised by Hughes.] ►
Eyes seem distended, [16].
[Original revised by Hughes.] ►
Subjective. ►► *The eyes
hurt on motion, as if too large for their orbits, [11]. ►►
*He could not turn the eyes in all directions without pain, [11]. ►
*Pain in the eye, [17].
► Pain as if sand were in the eyes, [1]. ►
Dry heat in the eyes in the afternoon, [9].
► Burning pain in the left eye
towards the temple (after thirty-three hours), [5]. ► Burning
pain in both eyes, so that he was involuntarily obliged to close them,
and could not open them for five or six minutes, with a feeling of
anxiety as if he would never be able to open them again; on opening them
after the pain had disappeared vision was prevented by a fiery sea of
blood-red masses rising up, with lachrymation and great dilatation of
the pupils; the vision returned (after fourteen days), [2]. ►
Sensation as though the eyes were watering, which was not the case, with
slight pressure in them; the vision, however, is just as much affected
as in lachrymation (after twenty-six hours), [7]. [140.] ► *Violent burrowing stitch in the middle of the
eye and in the inner canthus, that does not prevent vision, but presses
the upper lid downward (after seventy-four hours), [6]. ►
Crawling in the eyes, [19]. ► Brow and Orbit. ►
Burning itching in the right eyebrow, relieved by scratching (after
twenty-six hours), [5]. ► Burning pain in the left eyebrow, [5]. ►
Swelling on the temporal side of the orbit, with pressive pain and
painful soreness to touch, [1]. ► Dull pressure above the orbits (after ten
minutes), [14]. ► Violent pressure above the right orbit,
with a dull pressive pain in the whole head (after two hours and a
half), [6]. ►
Pain pressing from without inward, at the side of the right eye (after
three hours), [6]. ► *Violent pressive pain in the bone of the left
orbit, on the temporal side near the malar bone, followed by
swelling of the bone, which is sore to touch, [1]. ► *Pain as if
the left orbit were pressed from above downward, [4]. ►
Lid. [150.] ► Eyelids so relaxed and paralyzed that
they hang low down and must be raised with the hand, with greatly
dilated pupils, [15]. ► Sensation as if a hard substance were
under the right upper lid, relieved by rubbing (after four days), [5]. ►
Ulcerating and biting painful soreness of the margins of the lids, [1]. ►
Pain as if the upper lids were hard and immovable; he could not raise
them easily, [1]. ► Burning pain beneath the right eyelid
(after three hours and a half), [5].
► Burning pain in the right external
canthus, [5]. ► Fine painful cutting as with a knife, on
the margin of the left lower lid (after nine hours), [6]. ►
Sticking pressure beneath the lids of both eyes (after two hours and a
half), [2]. ►
A very fine but painful sticking, like a needle-stitch, in the margin of
the right upper lid (after twenty-three hours), [6]. ►
Sticking pain in the right inner canthus (after eleven hours and a
half), [5]. [160.] ►
Some recurrent stitches in the left eyelids, [11]. ►
Lachrymation. ► Trickling
lachrymation; much biting, acrid water runs from the eyes, [1]. ►
Ball. ►► *Intolerable
pressive pain in the eyeballs, still more painful on turning the eyes;
on attempting to look with the eyes turned he became dizzy, so that he
was obliged to turn the whole head, [11]. ► *Pressive
pain in the eyeballs, [1].
► *A contractive burning pain in the
right eyeball, [5]. ► *Tensive pain in the left eyeball
(after forty-nine hours), [5]. ► *Constant sticking pain in the right eyeball,
also on moving it (after twenty-four hours), [5]. ► *Itching
stitch in the right eyeball, that returned after rubbing
(after one hour), [3]. ► Itching in the left eyeball, that
disappeared on rubbing, [5]. ► Pupil. ►
Pupils unchanged, but looking weak and dim, [2]. [170.] ► Dilatation of the pupils (after a short
time), [9]; (after a small dose), [15], [17].
► Vision. ► Whenever he fixes his gaze vision
vanishes, [1]. ► Farsighted; can see clearly at a distance
but not near, [1]. ► He does not see as distinctly as usual,
and when writing is obliged to make great effort, as if water were in
the eyes, [7]. ► It constantly seemed as though feathers
or hairs were in the eyelashes, or as if a fog were before the eyes;
this sensation was aggravated by rubbing (after one hour), [6]. ►
Impending amaurosis, [17].® 2000
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