Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Sambucus nigra.
Mind and Disposition.
Periodical delirium, with visions and hallucinations.
Very easily frightened ; trembling, anxiety and restlessness.
Fright followed by suffocative attacks, with bluish, bloated face.
Head.
Tension in the head ; when moving it sensation as if it were filled
with water.
[5] Sudden jerks through the head.
The head is bent backwards.
Face.
Face bloated, dark blue.
Heat and perspiration in the face.
Red, burning spots on the cheeks ; great heat of the face ;
circumscribed redness of the face.
Numb tension, as from swelling in the cheeks and on the nose.
Mouth.
[10] Tearing and stinging in the teeth,
with the sensation of swelling of the cheeks.
Dryness of the throat and mouth, with thirstlessness.
Stomach and Abdomen.
Vomiting, first of food, later of bile.
Colic pain, with discharge of much flatulence, from taking cold.
Painful pressure in the abdomen, with nausea, when leaning against a
hard edge.
Urinary Organs.
[15] Frequent urging to urinate, with
profuse discharge of urine.
Respiratory Organs.
Breathing through the nose impeded, with dry coryza, especially in
infants.
Quick, wheezing, crowing breathing.
Suffocative attacks when waking after midnight out of a slumber, with
half-open eyes and mouth, with bloated blue hands and face, and heat
without thirst.
Oppression of the chest, with pressure in the stomach, and nausea.
[20] Nightly suffocative attacks, with
great restlessness ; shedding of tears and throwing about of the
arms.
Hoarseness, with much tough mucus in the larynx.
Inflammation of the larynx and trachea ; croup ; accumulation
of mucus in the larynx.
Attacks of suffocative cough in children, with crying.
Hooping-cough ; suffocative, hollow, deep (hooping) cough, caused
by a spasm in the chest, with expectoration only during the day of small
quantities of tough mucus.
[25] The cough is worse at or soon
after midnight, during rest, when lying in bed, or with the head low,
from dry cold air.
Extremities.
Upper. Paralytic heaviness in the
elbow-joint.
Trembling of the hands when writing.
Stitches in the wrists.
Dark-blue bloatedness of the forearms and hands.
[30] Lower.
Sharp, deep stitches in the tibia.
Œdematous swelling of the feet, extending to the legs.
Sensation of coldness, numbness and deadness in the middle of the
(right) tibia.
Icy-cold feet, with warmth of the body.
Generalities.
Dropsical swellings of the body.
[35] General trembling, with anxiety
and ebullitions of blood.
Sleep.
Sleepiness without sleep.
Frequent awakening, as in a fright, with anxiety, trembling, dyspnœa,
as if he would suffocate.
Slumber with the eyes and mouth half-open.
During the sleep dry heat, after awakening profuse perspiration.
Fever.
[40] Pulse generally small and very
quick, at times intermitting.
Chilliness over the whole body, with tingling here and there.
Chill, with very cold hands and feet.
Dry heat over the whole body as soon as one falls asleep after lying
down, with aversion to be uncovered, and without thirst.
Burning heat in the face, with very cold feet.
[45] Profuse perspiration day and
night, but only when awake ; first breaking out in the face.
Very debilitating perspiration.
Night-sweats, except on the head, increasing towards morning.
Continued perspiration while awake, changing into dry heat as soon as
one goes to sleep.
Intermittent fever ; chills over
the whole body, with cold hands and feet ; followed by intolerable
dry heat, without any thirst, accompanied by dread of being uncovered,
afterwards copious sweat, without any thirst ; the sweat even
continues during the apyrexia.
[50] Bloatedness and dark-red swelling,
with tension after contusions.
Conditions.
Most ailments appear while the body is at rest, and are relieved by
motion.
Sitting up in bed gives relief.
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