Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homśopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
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Hydrocotyle.
A tincture is made of the dry plant, Hydrocotyle
Asiatica, L.
Generalities :- ►
►
Bruised feeling in all muscles ; B. feeling on waking.
► Wandering pains in muscles of chest and legs. ► Drawings in
several muscles. ► Malaise. ►
Weariness ; with heaviness and dullness ; and
unfitness for everything.
Mind :- ►
►
Gloominess. ► Misanthropy. ► Inclination for
solitude. ► Ennui. ► Indifference.
Head :- ►
Aching. ► Painful
drawing in almost all cranial nerves. ► Heaviness. ►
Congestion of blood. ► Vertigo ;
with torpor. ► Neuralgic pain in external frontal nerve. ►
Pain in posterior part of skull, with swelling. ► Occiput sensitive,
agg. touch. ► Constriction of back part of skull ; C. of
posterior and superior integuments of skull.
Eyes and Ears :- ►
Look unsteady.
► Injection of palpebral conjunctiva. ► Pricking in eyes.
► Vision dim. ► Dazzling. ► Pain in left internal meatus
auditorius. ► Ear, throbbing in right ; ringing ; ringing
in left, with stoppage ; confused noise in left ; blowing sound.
Nose :- ►
Swelling. ►
Tickling ; agg. left nostril. ► Feeling as before bleeding.
► Stoppage. ► Coryza ; dry. ► Bleeding.
Face :- ►
Intoxicated expression.
► Intermittent pain in left. ► Cheek-bone.
Mouth and Throat :- ►
Whitish
spots on left upper and under sides of tongue. ► Impediment in
speech. ► Redness of velum palati, with pain on swallowing, agg.
food. ► Hyperćmia of buccal mucous membrane. ► Saliva
increased. ► Taste insipid or bitter. ► Tonsils red. ►
Pricking in pharynx. ► Disorder of constrictor muscles of pharynx.
► Śsophagus dry and rough ; burning and pricking in O.
Stomach :- ►
►
Loathing of food. ► Anorexia ; then strong appetite.
► Aversion to tobacco-smoking. ► Eructations frequent ; acid
E. ► Nausea. ► Swelling of S. ► Contraction.
► Cramplike pain. ► Sensation as if gases collected into a
ball. ► Anxiety in region, with weight. ► Heat in region,
spreading out like a bar.
Abdomen :- ►
►
Borborygmi in different parts. ► Flatus. ► Violent
contractions of intestines. ► Pain ; every five minutes ;
agg. transverse colon. ► Constriction. ► Sensation as if all
organs were in motion. ► Pain in upper part of liver. ►
Obstruction in hepatic region. ► Heat in hypogastrium.
Clinical :- ►
Cirrhosis of the liver.
Rectum and Stool :- ►
Weight in
rectum. ► Burning in anus. ► Itching in anus. ►
Ineffectual desire. ► Stools dry, dark. ► Stools increased.
► Stools easier.
Urinary Organs :- ►
Feeling of
weight in prostate gland. ► Irritation of neck of bladder. ►
Constriction of bladder. ► Frequent desire to urinate. ►
Irritation of urethra. ► Urine increased. ► Urine becomes
brown on cooling. ► U. turbid, without sediment.
Clinical :- ►
Inflammation of the neck of the bladder in women, with inflammation,
heat, etc., within the vagina and neck of the womb. ► Pruritus of
the vagina.
Sexual Organs :- ►
Drawing in
spermatic cords, agg. left. ► Scrotum relaxed. ► Impotence.
► Indifference to intercourse. ► Vulva and vagina red. ►
Heat in bottom of vagina, at its orifice pricking and itching.
► Leucorrhśa increased. ► Pain in ovarian region. ►
Uterus, redness of cervix ; pain, agg. left side ; laborlike
pain in U. and appendages ; heaviness.
Respiratory Organs and Chest :- ►
Pricking in vicinity of glottis. ► Dryness of windpipe ; of
ventricles of larynx. ► Voice weak. ► Speaking soon fatigues.
► Irritation of air-passages. ► Difficult expectoration of
bronchial mucus. ► Breath short. ► Oppression of chest
relieved suddenly, then intermittent.
Heart and Pulse :- ►
Cardiac
spasm. ► Constriction of heart ; with quiet and regular pulse,
or with a few separate beats in certain arteries, or with hot flushes in
different parts of face. ► Irregular beating of heart. ► Pulse
stronger and fuller.
Neck and Back :- ►
Renewal of old
rheumatic pains in left rhomboid, agg. pressure. ► Bruised pain in
loins. ► Obstruction in region of kidneys, with heaviness. ►
Formication in kidneys.
Extremities :- ►
Contractions of
forearms and legs. ► Irresistible inclination to stretch. ►
Pain in all joints ; agg. left ; P. in all muscles. ► Sensation
as if hot water ran through marrow of bones. ► Weariness in all
muscles of shoulders. ► Crampy numbness of right forearm, hand and
fingers. ► Pain in finger-joints. ► Gait unsteady. ►
Inability to stand. ► Sharp pains in hips. ► Weariness in
muscles of thighs, with crampy movements in calves.
Skin :- ►
►
Spots almost circular, with raised scaly edges. ► Yellowish spots on
legs. ► Erysipelatous redness. ► Red points on
eyelids, left side of neck and both hands. ► Red spots covered with
whitish scales, on left side of neck. ► Lilac-colored spot, shaped
like an ear, on sole, the skin over it is depressed and walking is
painful. ► Erythema on face, neck, back, chest, arms and
thighs ; E., with much itching ; E., with copious sweat. ►
Miliary eruptions on neck, back and chest. ► Sudamina on abdomen. ►
Papules on face. ► Pustules on chest. ► Pricking on different
parts. ► Itching in several places ; I. at tip of
nose (in one had chilblain there every year).
Clinical :- ►
It has
cured lupus of suppurating variety. ► Lymphatic tumors. ► It
has ameliorated cases of leprosy, seems to have arrested the destructive
process ; it also has ameliorated cases of elephantiasis. ►
Numerous cases of eruptions, for the most part dry, with great
thickening of the epidermoid layer and enormous exfoliation of scales.
► It has cured psoriasis with the above indications, and has
greatly relieved forms of dry eczema ; excessive thickening and
exfoliation of the epidermis is a strongly marked indication for its use
(Kreos.).
Sleep :- ►
Yawning and
stretching. ► Sleepiness ; in the daytime. ► Heavy,
dreamless sleep.
Fever :- ►
Shivering in
afternoon. ► Cold hands and feet, with general condition resembling
precursory stage of fever, with alteration of pulse ; C. forearm,
hand, left foot and leg, amel. rubbing, but returning. ► Febrile
movements. ► Heat of skin ; H. in bones of leg ; in left
tibia ; in face in flushes ; in different parts of face in
flushes, agg. temporal regions. ► Profuse
sweat.
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