Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homśopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Oxytropis Lamberti.
A tincture is made of the entire plant. ► This is
one of the family of “Loco” weeds of the western plains, which
have proved to poisonous to horses ; there seems no doubt that, like
its ally, the Lathyrus (chick-pea), of Europe, it produces congestion of
the spine and paralysis, possibly also convulsions.
Allies :- ►
Physostig.,
Lathyrus.
Generalities :- ►
Pains come and
go quickly, but muscles stay sore and stiff after the pain is gone ;
P. in helix of left ear for two or three minutes, then between eyes, went
up over head and down to base of brain, heavy aching in lumbar region for
a short time, pain across base of brain, gone in a minute, next down
inside of left leg from groin to knee ; frequent fine P. allover
body, amel. 3 P.M.►
Sick, exhausted feeling at 10.30 A.M.
► Languid all the forenoon. ► No life.
► Feeling as if I would lose consciousness, or as if I would fall
when standing. ► Inability to move around on account of uncertain
feeling of numbness, with prickling in left arm and hand. ►
Aggravation of any symptom from thinking of it ; A. on
alternate days ; from eating. ► Amelioration after sleep ;
after stool ; from motion and
going into cool, open air.
Mind :- ►
►
Disinclination to talk, study, or work, desire
to be alone. ► Sadness ; all day ; on rising,
with weariness. ► Weak, cannot study with the usual vigor,
forgetful. ► Forgetful of words and names. ► Less above to
concentrate thoughts.
Head :- ►
Aching ; from 2
till 4 P.M. ; from 2 till 5 P.M.
► Pressure, amel. sleep ; agg. moving legs, with strange
sensation in it ; with heavy pain and with pain in eyeball. ►
Full, uncomfortable feeling ; F., with heat of head, coldness of feet
and instability when standing on sitting. ► Vertigo, with
uncertainty of gait. ► Pain over right eye. ► Dullness in
frontal region, obliging me to lie down. ► Weight in forehead on
waking, gradually increasing till 2 P.M., then
gradually decreasing. ► Pain in vertex and occiput in forenoon, over
eyeballs about 12 P.M. ► Sensitiveness of the
side on which I lie. ► Pain as if a weight were attached to lower
edge of occiput.
Eyes :- ►
Dull feeling. ►
Pupils dilated. ► Vision blurred. ► When reading it seems as
if a light were reflected from a bright copper plate seem at the left
side, as if the light were at the end of the room.
Nose :- ►
Pressure over bridge.
► Feels as if sunburnt, red and shiny, agg. alć. ► Dryness
and scabs. ► Fluent coryza in evening, with sneezing ; bloody,
fluent C.
Ears and Face :- ►
Roaring in
ears. ► Pain in left lower jaw.
Mouth and Throat :- ►
Tenderness
of molars. ► Gum-boil on left lower gum. ► Dryness of mouth,
agg. morning. ► Salivation. ► Taste metallic ; in morning
on waking ; T. greasy. ► Throat sore ;
and dry. ► Inflammation of pharynx, “husky” feeling.
Stomach and Abdomen :- ►
Appetite
increased ; lost. ► Eructations as if I had taken
soda-water ; empty E. ► Nausea in forenoon on lying down, amel.
rising, returning on lying down again ; intermittent N. all day.
► Soreness of stomach. ► Epigastric region tender at 10 P.M.
► Lancinations through abdomen in evening. ► Sharp pain
running across A. from right to left. ► Colic, with looseness of
bowels (constipation was marked when I began). ► Griping in
umbilical region working down, at 8 P.M., then
discharge of flatus at 10 P.M.
Rectum and Stool :- ►
Sore
feeling in rectum. ► Crawling in rectum. ► Urging, amel.
emission of flatus. ► Stools slipping from
anus like lumps of jelly ; and mushy, of carrion
smell ; and sphincters seemed relaxed.
► Stool hard and unsatisfactory ; hard at first, then diarrhśic.
► Stool dark brown. ► S. frequent ; omitted.
Urinary Organs :- ►
►
Urging always on thinking of it, urine profuse, light-colored,
of strong odor. ► Urine profuse ; and clear like water ;
and dark. ► Urine scanty and looking like that of a child troubled
with worms, light red, stain on bottom of vessel ; scanty, with
irritation, muscles of bladder seem to contract.
Sexual Organs :- ►
Intermittent
pain in glans. ► Bruised pain in testicles extending along spermatic
cord and thigh ; B. feeling after going to bed, beginning in right
testicle and extending to left. ► Desire
diminished ; lost, almost impotent.
Respiratory Organs and Chest :- ►
Mucus in larynx, hard to cough up. ► Dry cough from any exercise.
► Breathing short and quick on account of full feeling in abdomen,
after lying down. ► Pain in upper part of right lung. ►
Oppression of lungs at 9 P.M. ► Tightness
across chest in morning, with hacking cough. ► Warm tingling under
skin of left side of chest.
Heart and Pulse :- ►
Pain over
heart like a wave. ► Palpitation after lying down at night. ►
Pulse 84, intermittent, at 2 P.M.
Neck and Back :- ►
Pain in nape
and stiffness in muscles. ► Sore feeling in right muscles of neck.
► Back weak. ► Pain in kidneys, agg. right, with
tenderness ; heavy P. in kidneys on waking.
Extremities :- ►
Stitches in
right leg and knee and right wrist in forenoon, leaving tired feeling in
joints, flesh on under side of these limbs felt sore all the afternoon.
► Cutting running from point of shoulder down front of chest to
point of hip-bone. ► Sharp pain in left shoulder extending down arm,
agg. around shoulder-joint, lasting till after sleep ; in left,
extending down arm, with coldness. ► Rheumatic pain in shoulder and
arm ; intermittent, at lower end of left radius. ► Pain
streaking along ulnar nerve from tip of fourth finger. ► Flesh of
arms and hands feel as if I had taken a heavy cold. ► Gait
uncertain. ► Weakness of knees ; of left, with rheumatic pain.
► Pain in left great toe-joint.
Sleep :- ►
Twitching of all
muscles just as I would go to sleep. ► Frequent waking. ► Did
not sleep well, dreamed, woke at 4 A.M. feeling
stupid and weary. ► Dream of spiders, bugs, etc. ; D.
pleasant ; lascivious.
Fever :- ►
Chilliness all day,
with sweat of feet and axillć, sensitiveness to cold air ; C.
between shoulders going down to feet at 11.40 A.M.,
stomach feels cold, repetition of all pains, also peculiar crawling in
bowels like a contraction of muscles, agg. around navel, as chill goes off
smarting in throat and feeling as if lungs and bronchi would shut,
breathing hard, C. pass off about 1 P.M. with sweat
of palms and soles, changeable pains until 3 P.M.,
no thirst, at 1.30 grasping pain in left ovary for an hour, pain in
abdomen as before stool, stool thin, yellow, felt bad at the same time for
three days, then for four weeks on every seventh day had a chill with all
the symptoms recorded, after the first chill cold feeling in spine for
eight weeks.
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