Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homœopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Leptandra.
A tincture is made from the fresh root of Leptandra
(Veronica) Virginica, Nutt.
General Action :- ►
An active
cathartic, with feeble action on the liver.
Generalities and Mind :- ►
Jaundice, with clay-colored diarrhœa, headache and the other symptoms
usual in such cases. ► Languor ; in morning. ►
Gloomy ; and irritable.
Head and Eyes :- ►
Headache ; agg. regions of causality ; with frequent pains in
bowels ; with distress in umbilicus. ► Dizzy when walking.
► Frontal ; pain ; on frequent waking at night ; agg.
walking ; deep in cerebrum ; deep in region of casuality ;
agg. temples ; with neuralgic pain in right temple ; with
sensation as if hair were pulled ; with aching in umbilicus. ►
Eyes smarting ; and sore ; and aching ; with pain in balls.
► Lids agglutinated in morning. ► Profuse secretion of tears.
Mouth :- ►
Tongue coated yellow
in morning ; coated yellow along centre. ► Taste flat in
morning ; unpleasant in morning.
Stomach :- ►
Great
appetite ; on waking at 5 A.M., amel.
breakfast, with pain in epigastric region. ► Sour eructations of
food at 10 A.M. nausea on rising in the night, with
deathly faintness. ► Aching in cardiac portion ; in S. and
umbilical region ; in epigastric region ; constant, in
epigastric and umbilical regions, with intermittent cutting ; burning
A. in region of S. and liver. ► Aching burning in morning on rising,
agg. 10 A.M., so that I cannot sit or stand still,
amel. 9 P.M. ► Distress in S. and small
intestines, with urging to stool and mushy fetid stool ; constant D.
in lower part of epigastrium and in umbilicus, with intermittent
cutting ; D., with burning, and in bowels ; burning D. in
epigastric and hypochondriac regions.
Abdomen :- ►
Rumbling, with
cutting and desire for stool. ► Aching ; in morning, with heat
and dryness of skin ; preventing sleep after midnight. ►
Distress in small intestines, with desire for stool, stool soft, fetid,
black. ► Cutting near gall-bladder. ► Aching in lower part of
right hypochondrium ; near gall-bladder,
with aching in umbilical region and rumbling in abdomen ; in
liver extending to spine, agg. region of gall-bladder.
Umbilicus :- ►
►
Distress ; with burning distress in back part of liver and in spine.
► Aching ; in region ; in region all the afternoon ;
frequently at night, with rumbling all day ; in region, with
intermittent sharp pains ; in region of U. and hypogastrium, also
constantly with intermittent sharp pains ; causing weakness and
faintness ; in region, then soft yellow stool ; in region of U.
and hypogastrium, agg. drinking cold water, with
aching burning in region of gall-bladder, chilliness along spine, urging
to stool, amel. profuse black stool, of the consistence of
cream, containing undigested potatoes, then hot
aching in region of liver extending to spine, with chilliness along spine,
then pain in whole abdomen, agg. umbilicus and hypogastrium, with rumbling
and urging to stool, amel. profuse, black, fetid stool that ran out in a
stream and could not be retained a moment.►
Frequent pains in umbilical and
hypogastric regions at night, being up all night with a patient, stool
running out in a stream at 3 A.M., then cutting in
intestines, then distress in stomach and small intestines, then at 8 A.M.
urging to stool, which could not be retained a moment, fetid, running out
in a stream, containing much mucus, then pain in hypogastrium, distress in
stomach and small intestines, with frequent pains in umbilicus causing
faintness and weakness, with rumbling, at 10 A.M.
stool that could not be retained, of water, much mucus and a little yellow
matter, then pain in umbilicus, burning aching in whole abdomen, with
rumbling and urging to stool, stool of water and mucus, then pain in
hypogastric and umbilical regions, another profuse thin stool, with much
mucus, then sleep from 3 to 5 P.M., on waking
distress in whole abdomen and urging, stool profuse, watery, mixed with
mucus, could not be retained, another stool of water and mucus, with part
natural fæces, fetid, and at 6 P.M. another stool
with much mucus, then cutting and distress in umbilical region, weakness
and faintness, another stool at 9 P.M., profuse,
could not be retained, then pain in bowels, the two next days no stool.
Hypogastric Region :- ►
►
Rumbling in morning, with distress and with soft, profuse, black, fetid
stool, then pain in abdomen. ► Aching in right inguinal
region, passing to right testicle.
Stool :- ►
►
Profuse, black, fetid, running out in a stream (Compare Arsen.).
► Clay-colored diarrhœa. ► Mushy ; and fetid ; then
weak feeling in bowels and rectum ; second part, the first part
natural. ► At first hard, black and lumpy,
then mushy. ► Omitted.
Clinical :- ►
It is
occasionally indicated by black, tar-like, pasty stools, generally
profuse and fetid. ► It has been used for pain in region of
gall-bladder extending to spine, with chilliness and diarrhœa. ►
Dysenteric diarrhœa has been reported cured.
Urine :- ►
Acid before the
proving, afterwards scanty, not affecting blue litmus paper, next day red,
afterwards neutral.
Back and Extremities :- ►
Aching
in lumbar region ; intermittent, sharp, with constant distress.
► Wrists lame in morning and aching, the pain lasting till noon,
agg. left.
Sleep :- ►
Sleeplessness.
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