Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Drosera rotundifolia.
Mind and Disposition.
Anxiety, especially in the evening and when left alone.
Dread of ghosts.
Great mistrust.
Trifles vex him very much.
[5] Self-willed ; obstinacy ;
insists upon carrying out his plans.
Head.
Vertigo when walking in the open air.
Pressing headache (temples), with stupefaction and nausea
(morning) ; worse when stooping and from heat ; better from
motion and in the cold air.
Eyes.
Stitches in the eyes (when stooping).
Presbyopia and weakness of the eyes.
[10] Contraction of the pupils.
Gauze before the eyes ; when reading, the letters appear blurred
and pale.
The eyes are dazzled by day-light and candle-light.
Ears.
Sticking pain and aching, especially when swallowing.
Hardness of hearing, with buzzing in the ears.
[15] Roaring, humming, and drumming in
the ears.
Face.
Pale face, with sunken eyes.
Small pimples in the face, with fine, sticking, pricking sensations.
Face-ache, aggravated by pressure and contact.
Black pores on the chin.
Mouth and Throat.
[20] Sensation of dryness in the
throat.
Hæmorrhage from the mouth.
Ulceration of the velum.
Stinging in the throat during deglutition.
Sensation in the pharynx as ; if crumbs of bread had remained
behind.
[25] Difficulty of swallowing solid
food, as if the œsophagus were contracted.
Scraping in the throat from eating salt food.
Hawking up of green or yellow mucus.
Stomach and Abdomen.
Thirst in the morning (during the hot stage of the fever and not during
the cold stage).
Aversion to pork.
[30] Frequent singultus.
Water-brash.
Vomiting of mucus and food when coughing.
Vomiting of bile (morning) ; vomiting at night.
Nausea after eating fat food.
[35] Vomiting of blood.
Colic after eating sour things.
Sensation of constrictive pain in the hypochondria ; he has to
press on them with the hand when he coughs.
Clawing sensation in the pit of the stomach.
Stool and Anus.
Diarrhœa, stools consisting of bloody mucus ; after the stool,
pain in the abdomen and small of the back.
Urinary Organs.
[40] Frequent desire to urinate, with
scanty urine, -frequently only a few drops.
Frequent urination at night.
Dark urine, of strong smell.
Watery, inodorous urine (with fetid stool of white mucus).
Sexual Organs.
Women. Suppressed menstruation.
[45] Menstruation delayed.
Leucorrhœa, with labor-like, spasmodic pains in the abdomen.
Respiratory Organs.
Bad, offensive-smelling breath when coughing.
Oppressed breathing when talking ; mostly while sitting.
Sensation of oppression in the chest, as if the voice and breath were
retarded when speaking and coughing.
[50] Hooping-cough ;
attacks ; every one to three hours, with barking or dull-sounding
coughs, choking the breathing, caused by tickling or dryness in the
throat, or from a sensation of a soft feather in the larynx ;
expectoration, only in the morning, yellow and bitter ; has to
swallow this mucus down.
Aggravation, after lying down, and
still more increased after midnight ; when at rest ; when
lying in bed ; from heat ; from drinking ; from singing
and laughing ; after having had the measles.
Cough, with vomiting first of the food, and later, at the end of the
attack, of mucus.
Cough, causing sensation of constriction of the chest ; he has to
press the hand on it.
Cough, with expectoration of bright red frothy or of black clotted
blood.
[55] Cough, with the sound of dryness
in the pharynx.
Cough when singing, causing smarting in the larynx.
Barking cough.
Dry, spasmodic cough, with gagging.
Hooping cough, with hæmorrhage from the mouth and nose, anguish, blue
face, wheezing breathing, suffocation.
[60] Expectoration green.
Continuous roughness and dryness in the larynx and trachea.
Sensation as if a soft body were lodged in the larynx.
Alternate soft (yellow, green, or gray) or hardened mucus in the
trachea.
Inflammation of the larynx and pharynx, causing pain when talking.
[65] Deep, cracked voice.
Laryngeal and tracheal phthisis.
Pain (soreness) in the chest, from sneezing and coughing ; he has
to press his chest with the hang.
The, sternum is painful, as from subcutaneous ulceration, when pressing
on the part.
Black pores on the chest and shoulder.
Back.
[70] The back is painful as if bruised,
particularly early in the morning.
The nape of the neck is stiff and painful to the touch.
Extremities.
Upper. Nightly rheumatic pain in the
humeri, going off, during motion, in the day.
Fingers spasmodically contracted ; when grasping any thing they are
rigid.
Lower. Violent stitch in the os
ischium, on rising from a seat.
[75] The feet feel constantly
chilly ; are covered with cold sweat.
Sleep.
Sleepiness at noon and at sunset.
Frequent starting during sleep.
Frequent waking with perspiration, or as if too wakeful.
On waking, great weariness.
Generalities.
[80] Rapid emaciation (with acute
phthisis laryngealis).
Epileptic attacks, with twitching of the limbs ; after the attack,
hæmoptysis and sleep.
Gnawing, stinging pains in the joints.
All the limbs feel sore, as from too hard a bed.
Fever.
Chilliness, with coldness and paleness of the face and cold extremities.
[85] In the morning hours, coldness of
one side (left) of the face, while the other side (right) is hot.
Chilliness and chill while at rest ; finds it everywhere too cold,
even in bed.
Chilliness during the day, heat during the night.
Heat almost exclusively in the face and on the head.
Warm perspiration at night, especially after midnight and during the
morning hours, mostly in the face.
[90] Intermittent
fever, with sore throat and nausea.
Skin.
Gnawing-stinging in the long bones ; worse during rest.
Violent itching while undressing ; when scratching, the skin
readily peels off.
Conditions.
Most ailments are worse during the night and towards morning ; from
heat and during rest (while lying down).
Aggravation from a light (eyes), after
understanding (itching) ; on getting warm in bed (cough ; pain
in the long bones).
Copyright
© Médi-T 2006