Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homœopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
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Pæonia.
A tinctures made of the fresh root of the Pæonia
officinalis, L.►
Compare Silicea,
(Sulphur, Ratan.).
Generalities :- ►
Weakness ;
when walking with heaviness of chest and limbs, so that often she must
stand still ; amel. eating, with heaviness of limbs. ►
Aggravation after sleep at night, at noon and in rainy weather.
Mind :- ►
Delirium. ►
Excitement. ► Apprehension ; in evening, with anxiety. ►
Ill humor. ► Depression ; after 5 P.M.,
with irritability.
Head :- ►
Pain and
confusion ; P., with dullness of it, roaring in ears and flickering
before eyes ; gnawing P. ► Fulness. ► Rush of
blood ; after 5 P.M., with pain below
forehead ; and to face, with sweat. ► Vertigo ; on
motion ; in a warm room, with confusion and heaviness of head ;
on walking, with staggering of limbs ; agg. walking about the
room ; amel. a glass of water, with nausea ; with heaviness,
dullness and heat of head. ► Pain in forehead ; in morning and
evening, and in orbits ; above left brow, with sticking. ►
Jerking tearing in right temple, extending into head. ► Boring
outward in right temple. ► Pain in left side of head after dinner.
► Pain in occiput ; in morning ; and in nape. ►
Heaviness in occiput.
Eyes :- ►
Red and watery. ►
Pain in left ; becoming a tearing, with inflammation, injection of
conjunctiva, difficult opening of eye on account of pain and photophobia,
with lachrymation. ► Dry, smarting, not easy to open. ►
Burning, itching and dryness ; burning of eyes and lids. ►
Conjunctivitis of ball and lid, with lachrymation and contraction pupils.
► Inflammation of left ball, with pain as if a grain of sand were
under upper lid. ► Sticking in right upper lid, towards inner
canthus. ► Itching in right upper lid at short intervals.
Ears, Nose and Face :- ►
Sticking
outward in right ear. ► Pinching behind right ear. ► Ringing
in ears ; in left. ► Stoppage of nose in evening ; in
morning in bed, with dryness. ► Face red and puffy. ► Pain
extending from articular fossa of lower jaw through inner ear, amel.
keeping jaws open for a long time, as, for example, when drinking, agg.
pressing them together. ► Crawling in upper lip.
Mouth and Throat :- ►
Tongue red.
► Biting posteriorly in palate in evening. ► Hawking caused by
tenacious mucus in throat, with scanty expectoration. ► Scraping in
throat, necessity to cough and hawk to loosen it, and feeling in posterior
nares as if full of mucus. ► Sensation as if an acrid, burning vapor
ascended throat. ► Heat in fauces extending to pharynx ; in
throat and œsophagus, agg. hawking. ► Swallowing difficult.
Stomach :- ►
Appetite lost.
► Thirst. ► Nausea ; (on entering a warm room after a
moderate walk, with seething in head, vanishing or obscuration of senses
and attacks of faintness). ► Vomiting and painful diarrhœa. ►
Periodical sticking upward from middle of epigastric region. ►
Cutting in region of stomach and transverse colon, then soft stool.
► Burning in epigastric region at night.
Abdomen :- ►
Rumbling. ►
Griping in forenoon, preceded and especially followed by anxiety,
trembling of limbs and arms, as if frightened, and apprehension when any
one spoke to him, unpleasant news affected him exceedingly. ►
Cutting ; in umbilical region. ► Colic ; with diarrhœa ;
transversely across upper A. ► Sensitiveness, agg. along transverse
colon and epigastric region, that were hard and retracted. ►
Crawling in A.
Anus and Stool :- ►
►
Biting itching in anus in afternoon, the orifice seems swollen.
► Diarrhœa five times ; sudden pasty
D., with faintness in abdomen and burning in anus after stool,
returning after six hours, then internal
chilliness, generally a few hours after he felt the worst. ►
Stools thin, frequent.
Clinical :- ►
Pasty
diarrhœa, followed by burning in anus and internal chilliness. ►
Hæmorrhoids, with ulceration ; the anus and surrounding parts are
purple and covered with crusts, ulcers within the anus, exquisitely
painful, the whole mucous membrane studded with ulcers and cracks.
► Fissures of the anus ; stools followed by burning and
biting, lasting several hours, has to walk the floor on account of the
pain, with exudation of offensive moisture (Sulph.
in part, Ratan.).
Urinary and Sexual Organs :- ►
Constriction in region of neck of bladder, so that urine passed only in
driblets. ► Frequent and copious micturition, disturbing sleep at
night. ► Micturition burning and urine scanty. ► External
genitals swollen and painful.
Chest :- ►
Sticking in left ; in
left, parallel with axis of body, and every inspiration from 3.30 to 5 and
at 9 P.M. ; in right side near sternum, on a
level with nipples, at 4 P.M. ; near right
nipple, agg. walking ; to right of ensiform process, with
pressure ; downward in left ; backward, as if through heart ;
through whole left half, beginning beneath clavicle and extending to
diaphragm, agg. region of heart at the moment of expiration and agg.
walking. ► Cutting in left side when sitting bent over. ►
Sharp pain in ribs above hepatic region, in morning. ► Pain ;
near middle of sternum ; beneath manubrium in morning ; near
both sides of lower part of sternum when eating ; in middle of
sternum, amel. night, agg. next morning and recurring all the
forenoon ; beneath heart, as from anxiety. ► Throbbing
extending through right side and from posterior part to nape, where it
ended in intermitting pinching. ► Rush of blood. ► Heat.
Pulse :- ►
Contracted.
Neck and Back :- ►
Periodical
sticking in last cervical vertebra ; S. in scapulæ ; in places
in back, amel. scratching. ► Pinching now in dorsal, now in
abdominal muscles. ► Griping now in dorsal, now in abdominal
muscles. ► Boring in left scapula, amel. motion.
Extremities :- ►
Jerking and
tearing. ► Paroxysmal tearing, then numbness. ► Weakness in
evening. ► Aching in right upper arm, extending to region of elbow,
amel. motion. ► Tense feeling in muscles across elbow on flexing
arms. ► Cramp in ulna at wrist. ► Sticking griping in left
wrist, behind thumb. ► Pain, almost a tearing, in left finger-tips.
► Dead feeling in one finger. ► Right ring finger, which
received four weeks previously a blow from a blunt rapier, seems as far as
the first and second phalanges dead, cold, devoid of blood, shrivelled,
yellow, and without sensation, in afternoon.
Lower Extremities :- ►
Cramp in
right knee when sitting. ► Sudden thrusts outward on inner side of
left knee. ► Sensation in lower part of calf as if aponeurosis of
muscles and tendons were tense or bruised, making walking difficult,
towards evening. ► Weary pain in ankles when sitting. ► Pain
in corns. ► Swelling of toes, with contraction, intermittent
sticking through them and burning itching. ► Sticking in skin of
right great toe, as if pressed by shoe, in evening. ► Pain in left
little toe as from pressure.
Skin :- ►
►
Painful ulcer, oozing offensive moisture, on perineum, near anus.
► Crawling in tip of nose ; in a spot on left forearm, with a
bristling sensation ; sticking, in the fingers, in the sides ;
drawing beneath umbilicus, amel. scratching. ► Itching in
concha ; on calves, amel. rubbing ; on head, chest and limbs,
with burning biting as from nettles ; prickling in open air, with
sticking ; prickling, in chest, then in axillæ and arms down to
sides of chest.
Clinical :- ►
Abscess
below the coccyx. ► Obstinate ulcer on the jaw. ► Ulcer on
right instep from blistering the foot. ► Large ulcer on lower part
of leg. ► Ulcer on the breast of an old lady, from an abscess
which had never healed.
Sleep :- ►
Sleepiness all the
afternoon. ► Starting on falling asleep, even during the day.
► Sleep restless and dreams unremembered ; restless, disturbed
the first night by burning in epigastric region, afterwards by voluptuous
dreams with emissions, or by anxious, sad and vivid dreams of death, etc.
► Sleep unrefreshing, disturbed by many and refreshing dreams.
► Dreams unremembered ; frightful, of the death of relatives,
etc. ; quarrelsome ; anxious ; vivid, wonderful and
amorous ; amorous, with emission ; amorous after midnight,
disturbing sleep ; of a ghost sitting upon his chest and oppressing
his breath, so that he often woke groaning ; of a figure sitting upon
his chest, making respiration anxious.
Fever :- ►
Shivering. ►
Coldness of one ear at 5 P.M., with heat of the
other. ► Coldness of limbs, with heat in face, back and chest.
► Heat at night disturbing sleep ; general, waking after
midnight, with heat in region of stomach. ► Hot skin. ► Heat
in head ; in face ; as from nettles, on chest, neck, back and
shoulders.
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