Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homśopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Senega.
A tincture is made of the dried root of Polygala
Senega, L.
General Action :- ►
It presents
imperfectly two important phases : (1) Laryngo-bronchial catarrh,
with numerous characteristic indications, and (2) paralytic symptoms
everywhere, but most pronounced in the eye and larynx. ► Closely
allied to Causticum, partly to Phos.
and Spongia.
Generalities :- ►
►
Weakness, with trembling of upper limbs (Caust.) ;
W., stretching of limbs, confusion, heaviness and beating in head ;
with yawning ; with mental indolence and bruised pain in muscles of
thighs ; even to nausea ; physical and mental. ►
Faintness in afternoon on walking in open air. ►
Amelioration from sweat.
Mind :- ►
Cheerful ; and
childishly playful, but a slight cause made him mad and vehement ;
(and disposed to work). ► Hypochondriac and irritable ; H. in
evening. ► (Fretful in forenoon.). ► Anxiety ; with
accelerated breathing. ► Phlegmatic, inclined to quarrel and to give
offense. ► Suddenly remembers unimportant regions which he saw long
ago and which never made a deep impression upon him.
Head :- ►
Boring stitches.
► Aching ; in morning ; amel. cold ; beating, with
pressure in eyes, diminished appetite, bruised feeling and malaise. ►
Dullness ; with pressure and weakness of eyes. ►
Heaviness. ► Emptiness. ► Rush of blood on
stooping, agg. eyeballs, where there is painful pressure. ►
Vertigo ; in morning, with flat taste ; with roaring
in ears ; as if blood ceased to flow and as if ideas were arrested.
Forehead :- ►
Tearing in left
half. ► Pain ; over orbits ;
over left eye ; in right half ; after
dinner, and in orbits, agg. left side of head, amel. open air ; in
sinciput and occiput every day, agg. sitting in a warm room, with pressure
in eyes, which did not bear touch, on the fifth day nausea
after dinner, the pain amel. leaning head on arm, but exercise in open air
gave the greatest relief, with sensation as if diarrhśa would come on,
which was not the case, after the nausea a peculiar but not unpleasant
sensation in parotid and external pain in prćcordial region. ►
Beating pain in evening. ► Painful drawing.►
Tearing in temples extending into face,
with drawing pain. ► Pain in temples ; right ; towards
forehead, in forenoon. ► Pain in occiput ; afterwards extending
to temples and finally to whole head ; stupefying, towards evening.
► Itching on scalp in morning.
Eyes :- ►
Staring, with sensation
as if it were difficult to move eyes. ► Pressing ; towards
evening, with burning ; in evening by candle-light ; as if it
would be pressed out of the socket in morning, then dull feeling ; as
if a fluid pressed into balls and distended them, on stooping. ►
Dryness, with smarting as from soap ; D., with sensation as if balls
were too large for orbits. ► Burning when reading or writing.
► Drawing changing into coolness, then lachrymation. ►
Lachrymation in open air ; and sensation as if threads
were hanging before eyes, agg. right ; left
on looking intently, with trembling of eyes. ► Pupils
contracted and sluggish.
Lids :- ►
Swelling ; with
burning and pain ; of right, agg. towards inner canthus, with
inflammation and pain. ► Pimple on margin of right lower. ►
Vesicle on margin of left upper, causing pressure in eye, on being opened
it discharged clear fluid. ► Lashes full of hard mucus in morning.
► Jerking ; of right upper ; of lower, causing
lachrymation. ► Lower spasmodically drawn towards nose. ►
Pressure in right upper, towards inner canthus ; burning P. in
margins in morning. ► Burning when writing. ► Pulsation in
right lower. ► Crawling, with sensation of sand in them.►
Much mucus in Meibomian glands ;
hard, tenacious mucus in canthus at night. ► Twitching in right
outer canthus. ► Pain in orbits ; in balls ; right
ball ; now right, now left ball ; in
balls, with drawing and diminished vision ; sharp, deep in
left ball.►
Sensitiveness to light ; with
tension in eyes. ► Weakness ; when
reading, with lachrymation on exerting eyes too much ; on continuing
to read or write, with flickering ; when reading, with flickering,
obliging one to wipe eyes often, but which were aggravated
thereby ; with burning and lachrymation.
► Objects looked shaded. ► Vision dazzled ; when reading.
► Flickering when reading, with running together of letters.
► Illusions. ► When walking towards
the setting sun and looking down he saw an oval smaller sun hovering below
the other, amel. bending backward and
closing eyes. ► A shining spot on wall at side of eye at
noon, amel. looking directly at it.
Clinical :- ►
Opacities of the vitreous. ► Valuable to promote absorption of
fragments of lens after operation. ► Paralysis of the left
oculo-motor nerve, with double vision, amel.
only by bending the head backward. ►
Partial paralysis of the upper lid. ► Catarrh of conjunctiva.
► Muscular asthenopia (Caust.).
Ears :- ►
Pain in right ; in
right when chewing. ► Warmth in right. ► Coolness often
extends through left. ► Hearing painfully sensitive. ►
Humming, with stopped sensation.
Nose :- ►
►
Dryness ; with discharge of a few drops of blood. ►
Itching in nostrils. ► Sneezing ; and tickling in
nostrils ; causing heaviness of head and
vertigo, then flow of much watery mucus from nose. ►
Coryza. ► Smell before nose as of a malignant ulcer.
Face :- ►
►
Paralytic feeling in left half.
Mouth :- ►
Burrowing in left
upper molars. ► Pain in teeth and jaws. ► Lower incisors
sensitive on inhaling through mouth cold or damp air. ► Tongue
coated white ; coated yellowish-white ; slimy in morning, with
unpleasant slimy taste ; creeping under T. ; dry in
middle ; burning in tip. ► Mouth and fauces burnt. ►
Smarting burning in palate as if skin were detached. ► Tension in
palate extending to articular fossć of lower jaw. ► Astringent
acridity, and agg. uvula. ► Dryness ; in morning and forenoon,
and in larynx ; and in throat, with tenacious mucus in throat ;
then salivation. ► Salivation ; with prickling and stinging in
mouth ; with contractive sensation in mouth ; watery, when
smoking. ► Viscid saliva. ► Putrid smell. ► Taste
metallic ; T. of urine ; bad, with rumbling in stomach ;
acrid, agg. fauces ; nauseating sweetish in throat ; flat in
morning ; diminished.
Throat :- ►
Inflammatory swelling
of fauces, agg. uvula. ► Hawking, easy of white mucus ; H.
up lumps of gray mucus in morning, with irritation in larynx inducing
hacking cough ; of mucus from trachea ; of small lumps of
tenacious mucus from larynx. ► Tenacious mucus ; in
fauces in morning ; whitish. ► Constant inclination to clear T.
and to swallow. ► Scraping ; in fauces ; with roughness
and tenacious mucus ; and in back part of tongue, with
salivation ; with dryness, making it difficult to talk and obliging
him to cough ; obliging hawking ; in fauces, obliging one to
clear the throat often and to swallow saliva ; burning, obliging
frequent swallowing ; tickling, in evening.►
Pressure on swallowing food. ►
Soreness. ► Roughness in
forenoon ; in evening, with dry cough and
oppression of chest ; in morning on waking, with
dryness ; with dryness and dry cough. ►
Rawness when clearing it. ► Constriction ; in
fauces. ► Constrictive irritation in fauces. ►
Burning ; in fauces. ► Dryness, which makes speech
difficult ; D. of fauces, agg. uvula, which stitches.
Śsophagus :- ►
►
Irritation ; and roughness. ► Sensation as if membrane had been
abraded. ► Burning, with discharge of mucus from trachea.
► Disagreeable sensation.
Clinical :- ►
Catarrhal inflammations of the throat and fauces, with scraping,
hoarseness, etc.
Stomach :- ►
Gnawing hunger below
pit in morning. ► Appetite diminished ; lost ; lost at
breakfast. ► Thirst ; with dryness of palate ; with
roughness and dryness in fauces. ► Eructations ; of air.
► Nausea ; after dinner ; during the siesta ; with
salivation. ► Retching ; fatiguing, with vomiting and discharge
of much watery mucus. ► Vomiting, with diarrhśa ; V., with
anxiety ; copious ; violent, all night, with violent purging and
profuse sweat.►
Digging below pit after supper, with
discomfort in whole body. ► Pain ; in pit ; all day ;
almost cramplike, disturbing sleep every night at 3 A.M.
► Oppression. ► Burning ; changing into fatiguing
retching and vomiting of much watery mucus. ► Emptiness. ►
Digestion disturbed.
Abdomen :- ►
Rumbling ; and
motions. ► Emission of flatus. ► Cutting extending to pit of
stomach. ► Griping, with inclination to stool. ► Pinching,
amel. liquid stools. ► Colic ; during dinner ; amel.
diarrhśa. ► Burning. ► Rumbling in left hypochondrium.
► Boring in left hypochondrium in evening. ► Upper A., cutting ;
digging towards evening, with disposition to flatulence and sudden
outbreaks of ill humor ; pain towards noon ; gnawing before a
meal, without appetite ; oppression during inspiration, with warmth.
► Rumbling in left side, with pinching. ► Sudden pressure in
right side of A. and chest in evening when sitting. ► When walking,
drawing as of a foreign body between integuments on right side. ►
Shifting boring in umbilical region. ► Pain in umbilical
region ; in afternoon, agg. evening and rest. ► Pressing in
hypogastrium, then emission of flatus.
Anus :- ►
(Beating) pressure
after stool.
Stool :- ►
Watery. ► Diarrhśa ;
copious, light-colored, spurting away almost without sensation ;
indications of D., which did not take place. ► Papescent ; with
rumbling and emission of flatus. ► Constipation. ► Hard, large
and difficult ; H., scanty, rare ; H., scanty, then pressing in
rectum. ► Delayed. ► Frequent. ► Increased.
Urinary Organs :- ►
Micturition
frequent and increased ; frequent, but less urine at a time and
lighter colored ; frequent, urine grayish, depositing a cloudy
sediment. ► Involuntary micturition at night in sleep ; when
dreaming (he did not urinate before retiring). ► Sticking along
urethra in morning after emission of dark yellow urine. ► Burning
when urinating ; in morning, with sensation as if urine had to open a
passage ; in evening, with pressure ; B. pain along urethra
after micturition.
Urine :- ►
Copious ; every
time that he drinks ; and acrid ; with pressure in urethra. ►
Diminished. ► Frothy and dark ; F. in a patient
whose chest was affected. ► Orange-colored, clear, becoming turbid
when standing and depositing on all sides of vessel a white sediment. ►
Mixed with threads of mucus, after cooling it was thick and cloudy.
► Turbid in morning as soon as it cools ; T. after standing,
and depositing a reddish sediment mixed with mucous flocks. ► As
soon as it cooled in morning it deposited a thick sediment, the lower
layer yellowish-red, the upper yellow, flocculent.
Clinical :- ►
Urine
greatly diminished ; loaded with shreds and mucus ; with
scalding before and after urinating.
Sexual Organs :- ►
Cramplike pain
in glans. ► Tickling in prepuce and glans. ► Burning in glans
when urinating. ► Erections at night ; painful E., and desire
increased, then diminished.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
►
Sudden hoarseness when reading. ► Tearing and stinging in larynx and
trachea. ► Cough ; from sudden tickling in throat ;
at breakfast. ► Dry cough ; from tickling in throat ; with
concussion of whole chest. ► Hacking cough
from irritation in larynx ; H.
cough in forenoon from mucus in larynx, agg. open air and walking
fast ; in open air ; from mucus in throat. ► Cough, with
expectoration of tenacious mucus. ► Expectoration ; desire for.
► Frequent and deep inspirations. ►
Short breath on ascending stairs, with oppression of chest.
Clinical :- ►
Loss of
voice in singers, with severe burning and hawking. ► Catarrh of
the larynx, the voice is very unsteady, and the vocal cords are
partially paralyzed, sometimes expectoration of tough mucus (Caust.).
► Laryngeal catarrh, with cough, agg. before breakfast. ►
Bronchial catarrh, with soreness of the walls of the chest, much mucus,
great oppression of breathing and sensation of weight in chest (Phos.).
► Bronchial catarrh, cough agg. evening and night, in warm room
and lying on right side (Spong.).
► Bronchial affections in cold weather, in the aged, much
difficulty in raising tough, profuse mucus, with hard, loud, accelerated
breathing and anxiety (Ammon.).
► Whooping cough, tough expectoration, like the white of egg.
Chest :- ►
Shifting twitching in
various parts. ► Sticking through left half ; under left short
ribs ; in a spot in left side in evening, with sore pain ; in
left half in evening when lying on right side, with burning pain ; on
inspiration during rest ; in a spot in left when walking ; when
walking in open air, then oppression, with debility in lower limbs, sweat
and almost faintness ; in a spot in left during rest, with burning
pain ; in right lower intercostals, more internally ; in left
half, agg. sitting or lying ; left upper part, agg. rest, with
burning pain ; deep in a spot in left half, agg. cough and various
motions ; in middle, amel. deep inspiration ; right upper part,
with clawing ; intermittent, in middle ; shifting, with
tightness, difficult breathing, shuddering over back and occasional pain
here and there about head.►
Pinching. ► Boring in left side,
agg. region of heart ; in lower half, agg. above heart ; B.
becoming seated in region of heart, whence it shoots to left axilla.
► Clawing in different parts ; in left half in afternoon,
alternating with pulsations ; in left half, agg. lying on right
side ; agg. left half, with restlessness and anxiety during rest.
► Racking as if everything in it were sore when stepping hard or
running.►
► Pain ;
below sternum ; in morning on waking ; in front in morning on
touch and during inspiration ; in afternoon after smoking
tobacco ; at night on waking ;
below sternum when sitting erect ; in sides of lower part when
sitting ; beneath sternum when sitting, next day it increased and
descended towards pit of stomach ; through middle on concussion, agg.
along dorsal vertebrć ; in walls, agg.
touch, amel. deep inspirations ; agg. pressure ; agg.
rest ; in middle, agg. rest ; superficially in pleura, agg. rest
agg. left half, whence it proceeds ; under upper part of sternum on
bending head forward, gradually changing into colic ; sudden, in a
spot in right side when walking ; shifting ; beating, at a spot
below short ribs, agg. inspiration and agg. right side.►
Sore pain in left side ; S. pain on
bending forward, with pulsations, but vertigo on bending backward ;
between third and fourth left ribs, agg. pressure or increased to
sticking ; as if it would burst, on sneezing, though sneezing
relieves chest ; pulling backward (as if in mediasteum) on stepping
hard, walking fast or running, making every movement difficult ; burning
under sternum, agg. motion and deep inspiration (Caust.,
Sang.). ► Burning pain ; in a spot in left in
afternoon, with disagreeable mood ; in left half in evening when
sitting ; in left in evening when lying on left side ; in left
in evening, with anxiety in chest.►
►
Oppression ; agg. rest ; agg. open air and during a
walk, with pain through chest towards scapulć ; in left side,
increased almost to pain. ► Tightness ;
in upper part, with crawling ; on certain movements, agg. stooping,
with disposition to expand chest by stretching, this leaves soreness.
► Compression ; in upper part, agg. rest ; from sides
towards front towards evening. ► Pressure outward. ► Tension
in lower part during deep inspiration. ► Drawing extending to
axillć ; deep burning.►
Crawling ; in spots in
pleura ; in upper part, agg. rest, with twitching ; in lower
part, with prickling. ► Orgasm of blood in
afternoon, with oppression of chest,
flushes of heat in face and frequent pulse ; orgasm of blood towards
evening when at rest, with creeping ; with stitches ; when
sitting, almost causing faintness. ► Burning ; under sternum,
extending to back. ► Pulsations. ► Sensation of stagnation in
upper part of lungs, agg. rapid walking.
Clinical :- ►
Congestion of lungs, with great dyspnśa. ► Śdema of lungs, with
rattling in chest. ► Pneumonia of right lung, violent stitches,
rattling of mucus in chest, etc. ► Hydrothorax. ► Great
soreness of walls of chest from coughing, pressure, sneezing or moving
arms. ► Very valuable for exudations in pleura after Bry.
has ceased to act.
Heart :- ►
►
Boring in region ; more on outside. ► Pain in region
during deep respiration ; in region when walking, with oppression and
difficult breathing. ► Violent beating, shaking the whole chest.
Pulse :- ►
Rapid ; and
hard ; and full ; and full, irregular ; and soft,
unequal ; afterwards slow. ► Slow.
Neck and Back :- ►
Drawing in
cervical glands. ► Pain in back ; in region of sacrum ;
under left scapula when sitting, agg. evening ; between scapulć,
agg. stepping hard or by any movements that concuss chest ; drawing,
along base of left scapula.
Extremities :- ►
Tensive pain in
joints, agg. knees and ankles. ► Paralytic drawing downward in left
arm. ► Paralytic pain from left elbow to little finger, with
drawing. ► Sprained pain in right wrist. ► Sticking in left
palm ; in palms, with crawling and prickling. ► Painful drawing
in metacarpal bone in left thumb ; in finger-joints. ► Lower
limbs weary. ► Bruised pain in thighs and gluteals. ► Sprained
pain in hip-joint on turning thigh when standing. ► Pain in hip,
knee and ankle as after a long walk. ► Pain in left ankle. ►
Weariness of feet, agg. forenoon.
Skin :- ►
Pimple painful on
touch ; pimples burning and itching when touched, on upper lip, near
nose and left corner of mouth. ► Itching between nates, amel.
scratching ; of legs, agg. evening in bed, scratching causes burning.
Sleep :- ►
Sleepiness in evening.
► Stupefying sleep. ► Sleep sound, full of dreams, with
confusion of head on waking. ► Anxious jerking of upper arm during
siesta. ► Sleep restless ; and full of dreams ; with
unremembered dreams ; and interrupted, owing to oppression of
chest ; and frequent waking on account of sticking and tightness in
chest.
Fever :- ►
Shivering, with
weakness in feet ; S. over scalp. ► Febrile excitement, with
shuddering over back, heat in face, weak, burning eyes, beating headache,
difficult breathing, sticking in chest, general bruised feeling and
frequent pulse. ► Heat in left half of face. ► Heat of
skin ; under skin of back, agg. between scapulć, with itching.
► Sweat.
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