Pointers to some Hayfever
remedies
by Dr. Margaret Lucy Tyler
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
Allium Cepa * Arsenicum * Arsenicum Iodatum * Arum Triphyllum * Arundo
Mauritanica * Bromium * Carbo Vegetabilis * Dulcamara * Euphrasia * Gelsemium * Kali Iodatum * Kali
Phosphoricum * Lachesis * Naja
* Natrum Muriaticum * Nux
Vomica * Psorinum * Ranunculus
* Sabadilla * Sanguinaria
* Silica * Sinapis Nigra
* Sticta Pulmonaria * Wyethia
* Zincum
*
Dr Margaret Lucy TYLER (1857-1943)Allium Cepa
Begins sneezing, with increasing frequency.
Watery discharge drips from nose; excoriates lip and wings of nose. (Ars., Arum trip.) Rawness in
nose; copious lachrymation. Fluid from nose excoriating: from eyes bland. (Reverse of Euphrasia). Generally begins left side and goes to
right. Every year in August (Naja) morning coryza
with violent sneezing: very sensitive to odor of flowers and skin of peaches. Spring coryza:
Hayfever in August every year on
rising from bed, and handling peaches.Arsenicum
Discharge burns a red streak over upper lip and
about wings of nose, with sneezing and profuse, watery nasal discharge The typical Ars. patient is anxious, restless, often
asthmatic, when his worst hour is soon alter midnight. Sneezing a prominent symptom, but
sneezing no joke. Starts from tickling in one spot nose; after sneezing tickling as bad as
before. Hay asthma.Arsenicum Iodatum
Hay fever with fetid, corrosive discharge.
Discharges excoriating, thick and
yellow, resembling honey. (Graph.)Arum Triphyllum
A prickling sensation that cannot be left alone.
Pinches and pricks, and bores into the nostrils, however sore. A dreadful catarrh. Nose
stopped, worse left side. Sneezing worse during the night. Fluent acrid coryza, with
lachrymation usually bland. (Comp. Allium Cepa.)
Fluid from nose, produces rawness, smarting, burning: leaves red streaks as it flows over
skin’. (Ars.) – KENT.Arundo Mauritanica
KENT gives this drug in black type in the
Repertory for Hay Fever. Hay fever begins with burning and itching of palate and
conjunctiva. Coryza with snuffling. First water runs from the nose, later green mucus. With
sneezing, pieces of indurated greenish mucus. Itching, burning, dryness of Schneiderian
membrane. Curious symptoms, when sneezing, stitches in loins.Bromium
Fluent coryza with frequent violent sneezing. Corrosive soreness under and margins of nose. Right nostril more affected. Aversion to smoking: to
drinking cold water.Carbo Vegetabilis
Frequent sneezing, with constant violent crawling and tickling in nose;
lachrymation and biting pain in and above nose. Ineffectual desire to sneeze, with crawling
in left nostril. Watery discharge, and sneezes day and night. Suffers from heat: is chilled
by cold: sweats in a hot room. No comfortable place.Dulcamara
Nostrils stopped up, cannot breathe through
nose. (Lach) Constant sneezing, profuse watery
discharge from nose and eyes. Worse open air: better in
closed room: worse near newly cut grass: better at Seaside. (Nat.mur.) Eyes swelled and full and most affected, then
nose, then again eyes. Dulc. cannot stand cold and
wet: worse from chill when hot.Euphrasia
Profuse acrid lachrymation, with profuse bland
coryza (reverse of Allium Cepa). Short-acting
remedy: very useful in catarrhal affections without fever. Sneezing; fluent bland coryza
with acrid tears Eyes worse open air, and wind.Gelsemium
Sneezing: hot face: feeling of great weight and tiredness in whole body and limbs.
Violent morning paroxysms of sneezing: tingling in nose. Watery, excoriating discharge. Curious symptom, a feeling
from throat up to left nostril, like a stream of scalding water.Kali Iodatum
Violent sneezing, acrid, watery discharge. Worse cool air, worse open air:
but patient feels better in open air: i.e.: finds no quarters for relief. Frontal sinuses
involved with the coryza; much pain in forehead, eyes, cheekbones.Kali Phosphoricum
Hay fever, said to be prophylactic. Itching in posterior nares. Sneezing ; at 2 a.m. Eyes burn,
sting, swim in tears. Tongue coated like stale brownish liquid mustard.Lachesis
Paroxysms of sneezing worse after sleep even in the day time. Headache
extending into nose, with frequent and violent paroxysms of sneezing. Mucous membrane or
nose thickened: dry stuffed sensation
through head: face red, puffed: eyes seem almost pressed out. Red, sore nostrils and lips.
Lach. is purple: sleeps into aggravation; throat
sensitive to touch or pressure.Naja
Much sneezing: water runs from nose: cannot lie
down at night; dryness of air passages
of nose. Hay fever. Suffocative attacks in August.
(All. Cepa.). Like Lach. wakes suffocating
gasping, choking. Rawness of trachea and larynx, as if excoriated.Natrum Muriaticum
Squirming as from a small worm. Watery discharge
from eyes and nose. Severe coryza, had to lay a towel under nose. Woke with headache; after
rising nasal discharge with violent and frequent sneezing. Loss of taste and smell: cough
from tickling in throat pit. Lachrymation acrid; canthi red and sore. Characteristics: Worse
in sun; desire for salt in hay fever, better at seaside. Recorded case, cured by a swim in
the sea.Nux Vomica
Distressing prolonged paroxysms of sneezing.
Excessive irritation in nose, eyes. face; – Heat as if a hot iron plate were near it.
Itching extends to larynx and trachea. Nux
is very irritable: very sensitive to cold.Psorinum
A sort of continuous hay fever, runs all the
year and ripens up in the Fall. Catarrhal state of eyes and nose. Nose dries up part of the
time and runs part of the time: must continually use handkerchief. “Hay fever a
difficult condition to fit a remedy to; constitution must be built up before hay fever will
cease” – KENT. Must wrap up in hottest summer. Wants head covered. Skin greasy, oily,
looks unwashed.Ranunculus
Eyes smart; lips burn and are sore. Nose
stuffed, especially evenings, with pressure root of nose and tingling and crawling inside. May attack posterior nares:
hawks and swallow in effort to scratch affected part. (Comp.
Wyeth.) Hoarseness: stitching pains chest: muscles
sore.Sabadilla
Spasmodic sneezing: fluent coryza. Nostrils
stuffed up: inspirations through nose laboured: snoring. Itching in nose; bleeding from
nose. (Zinc.)Violent sneezing; with copious watery
discharge. Severe frontal pains and redness eyelids. Very sensitive to smell of garlic.Sanguinaria
Rose colds in June. Sensitive to flowers and
odors. Hay fever with burning in nose, throat – dry:
as if mucous membranes would crack open. Dry burning in larynx with hoarseness of chest with
asthma. Palms dry, burning, wrinkled. Burning palms and soles: puts them out of bed. (Sulph., Puls., Cham., Med.)Silica
begins with itching and tingling in nose.
Violent sneezing and excoriating discharge. Itching in
posterior nares, or orifice of Eustachian tubes. (Ars., Sil., Wyeth.)Sinapis Nigra
Mucous membrane of nose dry and hot: worse afternoon and evening: one nostril
affected, or alternate nostrils. Nose swollen, stuffed: discharges a thin acrid mucus. (Ailanthus.) Eyes suffused, itch, smart .Sticta Pulmonaria
Constant need to blow nose, but no discharge
results on account of dryness. Nose is
stuffed up; secretion drying so rapidly it cannot be discharged. Almost constant sneezing;
tingling right side nose. Fullness right side forehead to root nose. Excessive dryness of
soft palate. Tickling high up in pharynx.Wyethia
Peculiar itching
in roof of mouth (Arund.),
for relief patient must draw tongue back and forth over soft palate; with this coryza,
sneezing, etc.Zincum
Frequent sneezing starts with cutting-crawling
in nose, without coryza; or fluent coryza; sensitive nostrils; crawling
in nose; frequent sneezing. Itching in left nostril: in right: followed
by frequent sneezing. Much burning in eyes. Itching. Photophobia. Overworked;
over-excitable; extremely over-sensitive. (Nux.)
Characteristic: Burning whole length of spine: fidgety feet; relief with menstruation.Dr. Margaret Lucy Tyler
The copy I have is in the same style
of typography as “Pointers…”Copyright © Margaret Tyler 1912
Mise en page et arrangements Copyright © Sylvain Cazalet 1999
* Photograph courtesy of Peter Morrell