Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Conium maculatum.
Mind and Disposition.
Hypochondria and hysteria from suppression of, or from too free an
indulgence in, the sexual instinct, with low spiritedness, anxiousness
and sadness.
Forgetfulness ; excessive difficulty of recollecting things.
Dread of men when they approach him ; nevertheless he dreads being
alone.
Inclination to start, as with fright.
[5] Want of disposition to work.
Head.
Giddiness when looking around.
Intoxication from the smallest quantity of stimulus ; even wine and
water in small quantities intoxicates him.
Apoplexy with paralysis (in old people).
Stupefying headache, first in the forepart of the head, later in the
back part, with coryza ; worse in the open air ; relieved on
stooping and moving the head.
[10] Tearing in the temples and sides
of the head, with the sensation as if the brain were gone to
sleep ; worse from contact, motion, and after eating ; better
in a recumbent position, or while stooping.
Lancinating pain, especially in the vertex.
Sensation of a great lump in the brain.
One-sided headache, with nausea.
Headache caused by too small but frequent stools, with tenesmus.
[15] Hydrocephalus ; the pains are
aggravated when awaking, after eating, in the open air ;
ameliorated on external pressure, on lying down, and on closing the
eyes.
Eyes.
Sensation of coldness or burning of the eyes in the open air.
Aversion to light, inflammation of the eyes.
Cataract from contusion.
Yellowish color of the eyes.
[20] Things look red.
Shortsightedness.
Ears.
Stitches in and around the em.
Accumulation of ear-wax looking like decayed paper or blood-red ;
hardness of hearing, ceasing when the wax is removed and returning with
the wax.
Great and painful sensitiveness of hearing.
[25] Roaring and humming in ears.
Induration of the parotid gland.
Nose.
Excessively acute smell.
Purulent discharge from the nose.
Frequent bleeding from the now (when sneezing).
[30] Sickly and pale complexion ;
purple bloated face.
Heat in the face.
Stinging, tearing faceache (at night).
Moist and spreading herpes in the face.
Cancer of the lips (from the pressure of the pipe).
[35] Dry and scaly lips.
Mouth and Throat.
Drawing, Extending from the jaws to the ears and heed.
Gnashing of the teeth.
Toothache in a hollow tooth when eating anything cold.
Gums swollen, blue-red, bleed readily.
[40] Stiff, swollen, painful
tongue ; dry tongue.
Involuntary deglutition, especially when walking in the wind.
Violent ptyalism.
Pressure in the œsophagus, as if a round body (globus hystericus) were
ascending from the stomach.
Spasmodic constriction of the throat.
Stomach and Abdomen.
[45] Nausea as soon as food is taken.
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
Great desire for coffee, for salt food and acids.
After taking milk sensation of inflation of the abdomen.
Suppressed eructations, with subsequent pain in the stomach.
[50] Sensation of soreness and rawness
of the stomach and of the abdomen when walking on the stones.
Spasmodic pains in the stomach.
Hardness of the abdomen from swelling of the mesenteric glands.
Lancinations in the abdomen, as if knives were plunged in ;
stitches in the spleen.
Emission of cold flatulence ; rumbling and grumbling in the
abdomen.
Stool and Anus.
[55] Constipation, with ineffectual
desire for stool ; constant urging, without stool.
Hard stool, with tenesmus (headache ; discharge of prostatic
fluid).
During stool burning in the rectum.
After stool tremulous weakness.
Frequent stitches in the anus.
[60] Heat in the lower part of the
rectum.
Diarrhœa ; stools undigested, with colic ; very debilitating.
Involuntary discharge of fæces during sleep.
Urinary Organs.
Strangury.
The flow of urine suddenly stops, and continues after a short
interruption.
[65] Urine thick, white and
turbid ; bloody.
Diabetes, accompanied by great pain.
While urinating, cutting pain in the urethra.
After urinating, burning in the urethra (in the morning) ; pressure
in the neck of the bladder, with stitches ; worse when walking,
better when sitting.
Pressure on the bladder.
[70] Frequent micturition, during the
night ; the urine cannot be retained.
Sexual Organs.
Men. Impotence ; insufficient
erections.
Excessive pollutions.
Discharge of prostatic juice, while expelling the fæces, during every
emotion.
Swelling of the testes (after contusion).
[75] Women.
Menstruation too early and too scanty.
Painful abdominal spasms during the menses.
Suppressed menstruation (with barrenness).
Acrid burning leucorrhœa, preceded by pinching pains in the abdomen.
Inflammation of the mammæ, with stitches ; scirrhus of the mamma
after contusion.
Respiratory Organs.
[80] Shortness of breathing when
walking ; suffocative attacks ; oppressed breathing, in the
morning, when waking.
Stitches in the chest (sternum).
Violent spasmodic nightly cough (hooping-cough), caused by itching in
the chest and throat, or from a small dry spot in the larynx, without
expectoration at night, and difficult, bloody, purulent, offensive
expectoration during the day.
Cough during pregnancy.
Aggravation at night, when lying down ; from acids and salt food.
[85] Cough relieves the tightness of
the chest.
Arouse cough, with inability to expectorate ; he must swallow what
he coughs up.
Cough, with pain in the abdomen.
Back and Neck.
Pain, as from a sprain in the left side of the back and neck.
Extremities.
Upper. Humid letters on the forepart of
the arms.
[90] The shoulder feels as if bruised
and sore.
Cracking in the wrist joint.
Lower. Red spots on the calves, which
turn yellow or green, as from contusion, preventing movement.
Cracking of the knee joint.
From a slight exposure of the feet he catches cold.
Generalities.
[95] Sensation of debility in the
morning, in bed.
Sudden loss of strength while walking.
Hysterical and hypochondriacal attacks.
Sleep.
Sleepiness in the daytime and early in the evening.
Fever.
Pulse irregular ; generally slow and full, alternating with small
and frequent heats.
[100] Coldness and chilliness in the
morning and forenoon.
Chilliness, with desire for heat, especially the sunshine.
Heat internally and externally, with great nervousness.
Heat, with profuse perspiration.
Perspiration day and night, as soon as one closes the eyes and goes to
sleep.
[105] Perspiration at night and in the
morning, smelling offensively, and causing biting on the skin.
Skin.
Swelling of the glands, with tingling and stitches after contusions and
bruises.
Humid tetters.
Blackish ulcers, with bloody, fœtid, ichorous discharges, especially
after contusions.
Petechiæ (in old persons).
[110] Urticaria, from violent bodily
exercise.
Conditions.
Especially suitable for old men.
Most symptoms appear while at rest, especially at night and in
periodical attacks ; some, when walking in the open air.
Bad effects from suppressed sexual desire, or from excessive indulgence.
The glands are much affected by contusions and bruises ; hard
swelling.
[115] Aggravation,
during eating, while standing, while lying down (cough), while at rest,
when lifting the affected part, from masturbation.
Amelioration in the dark ; from
letting the affected limb hang down, from moving, when walking.
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