ZINGIBER.
Zingiber officinale, Roscoe. (Amemun zingiber,
Linn.). Natural order,
Zingiberaceæ. Common names, Ginger;
(G.), Ingwer; (Fr.), Gingembre. Preparation,
Tincture of dried rhizome.
Authorities.
1,
Franz, Stapf’s Archiv, 13, Part 1, p. 182; (2
to 20, from Dr. Charles H.
Gundelach’s provings); 2, Ch. G.; 3, L.; 4,
E; 5, Mrs. E.; 6, Johnson, a student of medecine; 7, Miss. J. J.; 8,
Dr. Betts; 8, same a second proving;
9, Charles Arthur, a student of
medecine; 10, Mrs. T., subject to
colds; 11, Mrs. St.; 12, Lippe; 13,
C. Hg.; 14, Strumpf; 15, Shah Elkindi; 16,
Elbar; 17, Unknown; 18, Ebu Sina; 19,
Graves; 20, Alex. Tralles; 21, Gessner, Diss. de Zingiber, 1723 (Dr.
Roth, Journ. de la Soc. Gall. Mat. méd. Pure, vol. i, p. 313).
MIND.
►
Mind cheerful (third day), [6]. ► Mind cheerful, with a pleasing sensation
in his system, at 10 A.M. (first and second days), [8]. ► Was in
a good humor all the days of the proving, enjoyed company, was lively in
conversation, not so silent as usual (eleventh day); again (thirtieth
day), [2]. ►
Very irritable and sick during menstruation, [5]. ►
Irritable and chilly, in evening (third day), [10]. ►
Increased activity of the brain, [14].
► Strengthens the memory, [18]. ►
His memory is better since he began the proving (eleventh day), [2].
HEAD.
►
Feels confused and empty in his head (one hour and a half), [1]. [10.]
► Dizziness and heaviness in all her
limbs (third day), [10]. ► Rush of blood to the head, especially the
temples, pulse from 72 and weak to 84, full, in the afternoon (four
hundred and sixteenth day), [2]. ► Head feels sore to the touch; dull
headache, [8a]. ► Head feels as if pressed (ninth day), [11]. ►
Pressing headache, externally, disappears on touch, [1]. ►
Pressing pain, with heat all over the head, in the morning (sixth day), [7]. ►
Pressing-drawing headache, as if the right eye were pressing out, all
day, [1]. ►
By walking in the cold damp air experienced heavy pressure in the head,
from external to internal, affecting afterwards the whole body (third
day), [8]. ►
When stooping, sensation as if the contents of the head pressed into the
forehead and root of the nose (tenth day), [1]. ►
Headache, with heat in the head, [2].
[20.] ►
Headache, worse on moving; worse by stooping (ninth day), [2]. ►
Headache, with stiffness of the neck on the left side (eleventh day), [2]. ►
Headache, worse by noise, less after dinner (fifteenth day), [11]. ►
Heavy pressure throughout the whole head, as if from external to
internal (after fifteen minutes second day), [8]. ► The
circle of the pain extended in a line above behind the head through the
cerebellum; it was shifting, 12°30′; dull, heavy pain encircling the
head above the eyes, extending to the occiput (second day), [8]. ►
Pain encircling the head; dull, heavy pain, like a board pressing
through the whole head, continuing for one and a half hours, at 11 A.M.
(thirty minutes after 30th), [8a].
► Forehead. ► Headache when he exerts himself, a
drawing pressure on the frontal bone, [1].
► Slight dull pain over the left eye,
with stitches now and then, was a little worse by going into cold open
air, afternoon and evening (second day); dull, heavy, with stitches now
and then through the day (third day), [9].
► Over the left eye a dull headache,
from 9 till 10 P.M. (third day), [3].
► Frontal headache, in the morning
(twelfth day), [7]. [30.] ►
Headache, at first over the left forehead, then changing about, at 11
Am. (sixth day), [9]. ► Frontal headache, especially over the
eyes, worse when laughing or talking (third day), [6]; worse by stooping (second day), [6a]. ►
Sharp, aching, drawing pain over the eyebrows; aching of the eyebrows,
followed by nausea, lasting but a few moments, in a warm room; later,
more aching and heavier sensation than in the morning, extending all
around the head, more heavy on the left vertex, 12°15′; afterwards,
heavier over the right eye and left occiput; this diagonal direction it
took after the circular pain passed off; latter a pain over the right
eye, and heavy pressing pain in the left occiput, all in the warm room,
continued in the cold damp air, and in motion and by sitting at rest
(second day), [8]. ► Drawing, frontal headache, especially
over the root of the nose (at 6 A.M., fifth day, and on the ninth day), [5]. ►
Headache, a dull pressing, more in the forehead and temples ( eighth
day), with the same pain in the left eye (ninth day), [2]. ►
Drawing-pressing pain over the left eye, at 7 P.M., lasting ten minutes
(twelfth day), [5]. ► Pressing-drawing frontal headache, more
on the left side, at noon (fifteenth day); dull drawing with oppressive
heat (thirteenth day); afterwards pain over the eye, dull, pressive,
heavy all over, but more on the forehead, with stiff neck; 12 M. to 1
P.M., at noon (sixteenth day), [11].
► When in church, pain over the left
eye, drawing extended a little to the right, and settled then in the
right occiput, where she felt a heavy, drawing pain for about two hours,
with the headache in front, with nausea, and as if she were going to
faint; at the same time very chilly. All these symptoms disappeared when
she came home, in a warm room (twelfth day), [11]. ►
Twitching over the right eye and in the muscles of the neck (eighth
day), [9]. ►
Stinging pain over the left eye, at 5 P.M., when it passed off she had a
pressing frontal headache, the eyes were somewhat sensitive to the light
(sixth day), [11]. [40.] ►
Very fine but violent stitches in the forehead, [1]. ► Temples.
► After eating bread, immediately a
pressing headache in the temples, [1].
► Slight headache, pressing in the
temples (second day), [5]. ► Slight headache in both temples, dull and
sore feeling over the left eye, at 11 P.M. (second day); dull,
pressing-drawing headache, which at last settled in the right temple
(third day), [11]. ► Headache, mostly in the temples, and
stiff neck (ninth day), [7]. ► Dull, aching-pressing pain in the left
temple till she went to sleep, 8 P.M. (third day); pressing headache in
temples, in the afternoon (fourth day); dull pressing pain in both
temples, in the evening (fifth day); dull, pressing headache, especially
in the temples (twelfth day), [7].
► Pressing pain and numbness in both
temples, pressure over the eyes, heat in the face, fainting weakness
(seventh day), [10]. ► Headache internally above the temples,
like a pressing drawing, while walking in the open air, with the head
covered; it lessens when standing still, and when uncovering the head in
a warm room it disappears, [1]. ► Drawing pain in the left temple and over
the left eyebrow, at 5 P.M. (eighth day), [11].
► A beating pain in the left temple
(ninth day), [2]. ► Vertex and Parietals. [50.] ►
Pulsating pain in the vertex, right side (ninth day); worse by rising
(tenth day), [2]. ► Left vertex feels sore, more on touching
(third week), [7]. ► Dull heavy pain in the left vertex and in
the arms and legs, at 11 A.M. (third day), [10]. ► Dull
pressing headache on the left side, with heat in the head and much
thirst, in the evening (eighth day), [2].
► Occiput and External Head. ► Beating pressure in the left occiput, [2]. ►
Itching on the head and cheeks during the morning (second day), [9]. ►
Itching on the scalp (fifth day), [5].
EYE.
►
Pressure on the eyes (seventh day), [10].
► Pressure on the left eye (first
day, after 3 drops of tincture twice; also after chewing the root
several times, fifth day), [2]. ► Dull pressing in the left eye with the
headache (ninth day). [2]. [60.] ►
Pressure in and over the left eye; beating pressure in the left occiput,
in the evening (thirtieth day), [2].
► In the left eye, a sensation as
from a grain of sand, which ceases from rubbing (after thirty minute), [1]. ►
Smarting-burning pin in both eyes (second day); smarting burning in the
eyes all day (third day), [6]; the
same (second day), [6a]. ► The eyes are sensitive to the light
(sixth day); very sensitive, with stinging pain in the eyeballs, in the
afternoon and evening (seventh day), [10].
► The eyes are sensitive to the
light; affected by it, in the evening (sixteenth day), [2]. ► Painful
sensitiveness of the eyes by looking in the light (second day), [6]. ►
Eyes somewhat sensitive to the light, with the headache (sixth day), [11]. ►
Lids. ► Transient
sensation on the margins of the eyelids like a cutting from above
downward, [1]. ► Fine stitches inside the eyelids, [1]. ►
Lachrymal Apparatus. ►
Watery eyes (second day), [6]. ► Ball. [70.]
► Sharp drawing pain through and
around the eyeballs and through the superciliary ridges, [8a]. ► Vision.
► Sudden glimmerings before the eyes
(sixteenth day), [2].
EAR.
►
Drawing tearing in the right ear (third day); tearing at 7 P.M. (ninth
day), [3]. ►
During the day more sensitive to noise (fourth day); very sensitive to
noise (fifteenth day), [11]. ► Humming in the ears, [10].
NOSE.
►
Much sneezing, nine times in succession, and many times at tempts to
sneeze without success, at 6 P.M. (ninth day), [11]. ►
Discharge of pure water from the right nostril (fifth day); later, all
the symptoms of a cold in the head; running from the right nostril seems
worse (sixth day); the left nostril is becoming affected like the right
(eighth day); and the watery discharge from both nostrils is especially
in the open air (ninth day), [9]. ► Dryness of nose, it feels obstructed
(seventh day); with discharge of thick mucus (eleventh and previous
days), [2]. ►
While her cough is worse, streaks of blood in the watery discharge from
her nose (third day), [10]. ► Has a cold in the head (third day); the
same considerable discharge from the nose, first serous, then thicker;
posterior nares completely obstructed (next day after 30th), [8a]. [80.]
► Nose feels obstructed (second day);
since proving much thirst, dry in the mouth, obstruction in the nose,
cannot breathe through the nose (sixth day); when the obstruction passed
off she had more watery discharge from the nose (ninth day), [11]. ►
Sense of painful dryness in the nose (ninth day), [9]. ►
Intolerable itching in the nose, even not relieved by scratching, [1].
FACE.
►
Looks exhausted in the morning, blue rings below the eyes (before
menstruation), (fifth day), [5]. ► Drawing pain from the left upper jaw to
the temples (third day), [3]. ► Slight drawing pain in the left upper jaw
(fourth day), [4]. ► Drawing pain from the upper jaw to the
temple [3]. ►
Slight drawing pain in the left lower jaw, from the second molar tooth
to the first incisor (ninth day), [2].
► Drawing pain in the left lower jaw,
in the teeth, at 5 P.M. (second day); drawing-stinging pain from the
left lower jaw to the first incisor, at 10 P.M., and in the night (third
night), [5]. ►
Drawing pain in the left lower jaw, at 9 P.M. (sixth day), [10]. [90.]
► Drawing pain in the left lower jaw,
in the first two molar teeth (eighth and sixteenth days), [11]. ►
Soreness in the right lower jaw, with a little swelling, in the morning
(seventh day), [10].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► All the teeth of
the lower jaw begin to be painfully sensitive, with a pressing drawing
in their roots, [1]. ► Drawing pain in the left lower teeth to
the first incisor, she has a decayed tooth on this side, at 7 P.M.
(third day); returns after being in the air (fifth day), [7]. ► General
Mouth. ► Breath smells
foul to herself, as from a bad stomach (sixth day), [11]. ► Great
dryness of the roof of the mouth and posterior nares, which are entirely
stopped, [1]. ► Burning in the mouth, [14]. ► Saliva.
► Augments salivation, [14]. ►
Abundant saliva, [21]. ► Much saliva, with little vesicles on the
tongue and gums, which feel sore (ninth day), [11]. ► Taste.
[100.] ►
Bad slimy taste in the mouth with the diarrhœa, [17]. ► Slimy
mouth, bad taste in the morning (tenth day); very slimy taste on rising
(fifteenth day), [2].
THROAT.
►
Going home (10 P.M., January 2d), dryness of throat, feeling of swelling
externally, constant desire to swallow, and pressure, with slight
stinging pain (ninth and tenth days), [5].
► Dryness and obstruction of the
posterior nares (eleventh day); with discharge of thick mucus (sixteenth
day), [2]. ►
On awaking dryness of the throat and difficult swallowing, it is as if
there were an obstacle in the way (ninth day); same dryness in the
throat-pit in swallowing, something in the way over which it has to
pass, 7 to 9 A.M. (tenth day); same in the night; raised thick, hard
mucus (tenth the Zingiber (tenth day), [9].
► Soreness in throat and pit of
stomach, and looseness of mucus in throat (second day), [8]. ►
Tickling in the throat, more on the left side, for half an hour, at 3
P.M., till evening (second day), [4].
► Tickling in the throat more on the
left side, irritates to cough till evening; soon after 10 drops of 2d,
at 10 P.M.; tickling in the throat produces cough (ninth day), [2]. ►
Choanæ stopped up, [2].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. [110.]
► Was fond of smoking, but lost
almost all desire to smoke since taking the Zingiber (tenth day), [9]. ►
Much thirst, with heat in the head, [2].
► Much thirst with the headache
(eighth day), [2]. ► Much thirst (ninth and fifth days), [11]. ►
A night thirst; in the morning, dry lips and mouth (sixth to seventh
day), [11]. ►
Since proving much thirst, dry in the mouth (ninth day), [11]. ►
Thirsty all the time (fourteenth day), [11].
► Drinks water on account of the
rancid feeling, with the cough, [11].
► Eructations. ► Eructations of wind (soon after 5 drops
of x, fourth week), [3]. ► Eructations (eleventh day); much in the
evening, 11 P.M. (fourteenth day); in the evening (thirtieth day); at 5
P.M. (thirty-first day), [2]. [120.] ►
Much wind; eructations in the evening (third day), [3]. ►
Incomplete eructations, [1]. ► Nausea. ►
Nausea, [21]. ► Frequently a nauseous rising from the
stomach into the chest, [1]. ► On rising, qualmishness; much wind and
rumbling in the bowels, preceded by a slight drawing pain in the lower
part of the abdomen, at 7 A.M. (half an hour after 10 drops of the
30th), (nineteenth day), [2]. ► Nausea one hour, 7 P.M.; 7 to 8 A.M.
(second day); passed away near noon (second day), [8]. ► Slight
nausea, with empty feeling in the stomach, at 7.30 P.M. (fifteenth day),
[11]. ►
Nausea, after a short unrefreshing sleep; could not get to sleep again
(eighth night), [5]. ► Nausea with the headache (twelfth day), [11]. ►
Nausea and colic after drastics, [14].
[130.] ►
Nausea, with backache, [4]. ► Acidity of the stomach with the diarrhœa,
[17]. ►
Sickness, sick feeling through the whole day and night (third day), [8]. ►
Stomach. ► Promoting
digestion, [14]. ► Stomach has been out of order, with
sickening eructations (tenth day), [9].
► Weak digestion retarding the stool,
[16]. ►
Bread causes a pressure in the stomach (after one hour), [1]. ►
Soreness in pit of stomach and in throat (second day), [8]. ►
Heaviness, like a stone in the stomach, cannot sleep, feels nervous and
fidgety, with cramps, in the soles and palms, and a hoarseness such as
she had in the cholera; all in the evening after chewing ginger candy, [13]. ►
Pain in the stomach and backache, better after going to bed, [5]. [140.]
► A drawing pain went from the pit of
the stomach under the sternum, when it feels like flatulence (second
day), [11].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. Heavy pain in the right hypochondrium, towards
the back, especially when breathing deeply, at noon (fourth day), [3]. ►
Stinging pain in the left hypochondrium at night (eighth and ninth
days), [4]. ►
Stitching pain in the left hypochondrium (twelfth day), [7]. ►
Stitches in the spleen and pressure in the left eye; slight headache,
worse by moving, two hours, at 7 P.M. (second day), [2]. ► Umbilicus
and Sides. ► Slight
cutting pain in the left umbilical region (ninth day), [2]. ►
Unbearable sore pain on a small place in the right side of the abdomen,
in the middle of a line from the umbilicus to the hip-joint, all day
long, after eating a ginger-cake the evening before, [13]. ► General
Abdomen. ► Expanded
abdomen (eleventh day); distended (twenty-ninth day), [2]. ► Much
flatulency (seventh day); at 10 P.M. (ninth day); in the evening (tenth
day); before supper (sixteenth day), [2].
► More motions, at 10 P.M.; rumbling
in the left side of the abdomen, flatus; sometimes a slight pain through
the bowels (eleventh day), [2]. [150.] ►
Moving, rolling in the bowels (fifteenth day), [11]. ► Much
flatulency by rising from bed (eleventh day), [5]. ► Colic
and nausea after drastics, [14]. ► Contracting colic passes through the
abdomen, while standing; soon followed by desire for stool, [1]. ►
Colic the whole night, a feeling of weight and drawing, with flatulency
and much wind (seventh day), [5]. ► Sensation of nausea in the abdomen, two
hours after the usual stool, in the morning, [1]. ► Drawing
pain in the lower abdomen, [2]. ► Towards evening, a drawing downward in
the bowels and lower abdomen, especially in both sides, and when this
passed off she had nausea (eleventh day); pressing downwards in the
abdomen (twelfth day); drawing downwards in the bowels, at 8 P.M.
(twelfth day), [5]. ► Slight drawing pain low down in the
abdomen, passing from the right to she left side; it went higher up
before passing off (fifteenth day), [11].
► Drawing pain in the lower abdomen
and back, had to go to stool soon after, at 10 P.M. (third day); dull
drawing, more in the left side, at 7 P.M. (sixth day), [5]. [160.] ► Pressing-stinging pain in the bowels,
especially in the left iliac region, at 6.15. P.M. (sixteenth day), [2]. ►
Pressure in the left and right iliac region till he sleeps, 5 P.M.
(twenty-ninth day); pressing in the left, in the evening (thirtieth
day); sore, with pressing pain, at 5 P.M. (thirty-first day), [2]. ►
Pressing pain in the left inguinal region, with superficial soreness on
a small spot, at 2 P.M. (eleventh day); over Poupart’s ligament, at 8
P.M. (eleventh day), [2]. ► A sudden drawing-stinging pain in the
left iliac region, going upwards, at 3 P.M. (sixteenth day), [11]. ►
After supper felt quite a sharp pain in the
left iliac region, at 7 P.M. (fourth day); a short time after
breakfast (fifth day), [9].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
*In and around the anus a redness, inflammation, burning itching extends
higher up to the back, in a child after eating ginger, [13]. ►
Chewing ginger for an asthma, which it did not relieve; very soon hæmorrhoidal
tumors, very hot and painfully sore; the same whether sitting or lying.
Nux vomica cured them, [13].® 2000
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