Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homśopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
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Populus Candicans.
A tincture is made of the fresh buds, which is spring
are covered with a resinous gum.
Generalities :- ►
Emaciation.
► Rheumatic and gouty pains in muscles to ends of fingers and toes.
► Bruised, sore, swollen, inflamed, with burning pain ; B.
feeling the next day after a fitful, restless, dreamy sleep. ► Whole
body feels swollen, bruised, lame, sore and painful, exhausted as in dry,
sultry weather, movements heavy, labored, clumsy, stinging, restless
irritation as if an eruptive fever would come to
the surface, feeling as if sweat would break out. ►
Burning irritation of eyes, nose, skin, mucous membrane of mouth, throat
and air-passages and oppression of respiration and circulation. ►
Catarrhal feverish state of mucous surfaces. ► Pulmonic, cardiac and
capillary circulation oppressed, feels as if death must result, as if
there must be fatal organic lesions. ► Weakness. ► Stiffness
of muscles, tendons, ligaments, with lameness and with dry feeling in
cartilages, as if lame. ► Insensibility of
surface, agg. back and abdomen, so that rubbing and pounding were borne
without pain and insisted upon for the sake of warmth. ►
Aggravation morning ; A. before menses.
Mind :- ►
Hopeless foreboding,
agg. sleep. ► Fear and anguish. ► Feels unable to do anything,
but as though something must be done, as if the will were paralyzed as to
power, with the sense of suffering increased, no rest anywhere, mind
anxious, restless, oppressed and all functions seem spellbound, as if they
must act and cannot, cannot bear to see or be with any one, but restless,
unhappy, fearful and foreboding when alone, as if mind and body must be in
action and yet withheld from action by oppression and obstruction.
Head and Eyes :- ►
Confusion in
head, with expansive fulness, all parts feel lame, swollen, inflamed,
thickened, painful, burning, throbbing in head and brain, agg. cerebellum
and cerebro-spinal axis, dullness of the senses as from congestion.
► Boring through left temple. ► Weight on vertex. ►
Sensation as if left eye were twisted during the headache.
Face and Mouth :- ►
Face yellow.
► Tongue white, dry ; T. feels thick and numb ; T. and
mouth feel burnt and dry, but are moist, wants drank, but can take only a
little and feels worse after food and drink, as if mouth and stomach were
burnt, cold, warm, hot, sour, bitter and sweet things are repulsive,
nothing is relished. ► Speech thick. ► Taste bitter ; T.
sweet in morning.
Stomach and Abdomen :- ►
Appetite
lost, loathes meat. ► Nausea, with sinking in epigastrium. ►
Vomits bile. ► Wears her clothes loose. ► Flatulent colic
doubling the body forward. ► Pain in right hypochondrium, with
enlargement.
Stool, Urine and Sexual Organs :- ►
Stools watery, green, alternating with constipation. ► Constipation,
bowels feel hot and dry. ► Urine strong, high-colored, hot,
scanty ; U. increased, variously colored, red, dark, light,
phosphates abundant. ► Menses scanty, usually delaying, afterwards
absent, then abundant, early, with dysmenorrhśa, amel. hot clothes.
Respiratory Organs, Heart and Pulse :- ►
Dry cough when tired. ► Suffocation. ► Breathing dry,
asthmatic, with dyspnśa, sits bent forward, agg.
lifting arms. ► Pain in heart, stitches. ► Heart’s
sound irregular, usually muffled, with a systolic murmur, agg.
before menses. ► Palpitation when rising or lying on left
side, with vertigo. ► Pulse rarely exceeded 60.
Back and Extremities :- ►
Numbness in back radiating for spine. ► Burning weariness in small
of back. ► Finger-ends thickened, horny,
insensible to pinching and pricking.
Skin :- ►
Harsh, generally dry
and cold, with burning stinging below the surface,
as if eruption would appear, rarely blotches and fine papules. ►
Burning prickling on face, chest and hands, the parts became dark red and
swollen, and there were blisters as large as walnuts, hanging down like
bags of water, with water, acrid, sticky oozing, external heat like coals
of fire on skin, at times internal heat, with
cold skin, amel. hot applications, the eruption returned each
year with fear and expectation of
death, loquacity, discussing
repeatedly her symptoms, vertigo from lifting head.
Sleep :- ►
Sleepless after
midnight, with restless, agg. from early morning till noon. ► Dreams
frightful, vivid ; D. fearful, after fitful sleep.
Fever :- ►
Sudden coldness of
extremities, with numbness of them and heat of head. ► Fever and
unrest ; F., with congestion of brain, fulness, heaviness, dullness,
soreness, with expansive pressure, as if swollen, deadening heat in head
as if scorched by the sun, vertigo, oppression of vital forces and
circulation as if overheated, fatigue, faintness and burning, throbbing
oppression. ► Dry heat. ► Heat of cerebellum and neck, with
feeling as if the capillary circulation were congested and oppressed.
► Sweat on head and neck.
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