Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Gummi gutti (Gambogia).
Mind and Disposition.
Cheerful, talkative, feeling of ease, great lightness of all his
motions.
Head.
Heaviness in the head with drowsiness and pain in the back.
Heat rises to the head, with perspiration.
Pain in the vertex, as if bruised, in the forenoon ; relieved in
the open air.
Eyes.
[5] Itching of the inner canthi, with
discharge of acrid, corrosive tears after rubbing ; relieved in the
open air.
Nightly agglutination.
Itching of the eyes in the evening.
Burning of the eyes, relieved by walking in the open air.
Ears.
Lancination in the ears.
Nose.
[10] Ulceration of the right nostril,
with burning pain.
Dryness of the right nostril.
Sneezing (in day-time).
Much mucus in the nose, smelling like pus.
Mouth and Throat.
Feeling, of coldness in the points of the incisors.
[15] Dry mouth.
Burning of the anterior half or only of the tip of the tongue, which
feels hard.
Sore pain in the throat, which is felt when even touching the outer side
of the neck.
Stinging in the right side of the throat during and between the acts of
deglutition.
The throat feels swollen.
Stomach and Abdomen.
[20] Bitter taste in the mouth.
Nausea, with accumulation of water in the mouth and gulping up of sour
water.
Violent empty eructations.
Horrid vomiting and purging, with fainting.
Empty feeling in the stomach and abdomen.
[25] Ulcerated pain in the stomach,
relieved by eating.
Dartings ; in the stomach, causing one to start.
Inflation and tension in the abdomen.
Burning in the region of the liver.
Gnawing, in a small spot below the umbilicus.
[30] In the groins sticking, tension.
Rumbling in the bowels.
Stool and Anus.
Frequent emission of flatulence.
Hard, insufficient stool, with violent urging pressing, and protrusion
of the rectum.
Hard stool, succeeded by burning at the anus.
[35] Diarrhœa, with burning pain and
tenesmus, protrusion of the anus, pinching around the umbilicus.
Watery diarrhœa with colic and tenesmus.
Stools yellow or green, mixed with mucus.
Urinary Organs.
Emission of a few drops at a time, then intermitting, and finally
returning, with burning at the orifice.
Sexual Organs.
Women. Menses too early and too
profuse.
Respiratory Organs.
[40] Sensation of soreness in every art
of the chest.
Pressure in the middle of test.
Stitches ; going from both sides of the chest towards each other.
Back.
Pain in the small of the back ass if bruised or as if sprained.
Gnawing in the os coccygis.
Extremities.
[45] Upper.
Stitch on the top of the right shoulder.
Stinging and numb feeling in the ball of the right thumb.
Lower. Cramp in the calf, with
contraction of the toes.
Heaviness and languor of the feet.
Sleep.
Drowsiness the whole day.
Generalities.
[50] Itching and formication in various
parts.
Pains, as if bruised.
Burning-stinging pain.
Gnawing.
Fever.
Chill, proceeding from the back, with coldness of the whole body from
evening till morning.
[55] Chilliness is accompanied by empty
eructations, yawning, thirst, pain in the small of the back, biting as
of ants over the whole body (by night), excessive stitches in the ears.
Increased warmth, with anxiety and perspiration.
Night-sweat all over.
Violent thirst in the evening.
Skin.
Intolerable itching and formication in various parts.
[60] After scratching, burning and
ulcerative pain.
Itching blisters on both hands, first pale, then red.
Conditions.
The majority of ailments come on while sitting, and go off during motion
in the open air.
Aggravation in the evening and at
night.
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