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Spigelia. (Spigelia Anthelmia.) – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

Main

[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6]
Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10]
Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15]
Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18]
Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23] Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30]
Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45]
Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

Spig. * Full text (90 Ko) * Red
and blue only
(50 Ko) * Red only

FEVER. [40] [Spig.]

Fever

Chill : often recurs at same hour each morning ; alternating with heat or sweat, on some parts, others being hot ; from least movement ; spreads from chest.

Heat : especially in back ; flushes, at night, with thirst for beer ; on face and hands, with chill in back ; with desire to uncover.

Sweat : chiefly on upper part of body ; night sweats ; offensive smelling, with heat at same time ; clammy, on hands ; cold.

   

ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] [Spig.]

Alternate : chill and heat or sweat.

Periodical : pain in head ; supraorbital neuralgia ; deafness ; prosopalgia ; cutting pains to shoulders, head and arms.

At 3 A. M. for two or three hours : violent pain in eyes, continuing until 3 P. M.

From 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. pain increases.

Every morning : at sunrise, headache ; attacks of excruciating pain in head at 4 o’clock ; each succeeding morning attack < ; chill at same hour.

From morning until sunset : prosopalgia.

Sunset : headache declines.

For half an hour : attacks of pain in chest.

For twelve hours : pain in scrobiculum.

For twenty-four hours : migraine.

For fourteen days : neuralgia comes on between 11.15 and 11.30 P. M., about fifteen minutes after lying down in bed.

Several times a week : headache.

For three weeks : rheumatic iritis.

For four weeks : inflammation of eye.

For four weeks : attacks of angina pectoris for fifteen years.

For two years : a throbbing lump in second intercostal space.

Ten years ago : struck over eye with a brick, extreme pain at irregular intervals.

   

LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] [Spig.]

Right : pressing pain in temple ; tearing in frontal eminence ; jerking tearing in zygoma ; pressive drawing in side of vertex and occiput ; cutting pain in forehead and temple, extending over eye ; eye inflamed ; contractive burning pain in
eyeball ; sticking pain in eyeball ; itching stitch in eyeball ; shooting pain through eye ; as if needles were thrust into eyeball ; itching in concha ; facial neuralgia ; burning in side of upper lip ; pain as if side of lower jaw would be torn out
of its joint ; pain from teeth into temple and ear ; pain in teeth ; stitches in side of tongue ; cannot turn head to side on account of pain ; itching stitch in testicle ; dull stitches in side of chest ; tearing boring pain beneath nipple ; pinching
pain beneath nipple ; swelling of joints of thumb, knee, foot and elbow ; pressive pain above wrist ; tearing pain in phalanges of thumb ; tearing in thigh.

Left : stitches in head and out of eye ; headache spreading to side of head, temple and eye ; violent pain in parietal bone ; burning pain in side of frontal bone ; violent stitches in temple ; burrowing pain in vertex and forehead ; violent pulsating
pain in temple and over eye ; neuralgia ; violent throbbing shooting over eye ; excruciating pain from deep in head affecting eye ; cataract of eye ; tensive pain in eyeball ; rheumatic iritis ; prosopalgia < ; neuralgia, beginning in malar bone ;
side of face as if it had been scorched ; as if muscles of side of face from forehead to neck and axilla were pierced with red-hot needles ; stinging darting in half of face ; facial neuralgia coming and going suddenly ; tearing, shooting from side of forehead to temple
< in supraorbital ridge, with ptosis of upper lid ; tearing pain in zygomatic region ; stitches in region of diaphragm ; pressure upon chest beneath clavicle ; violent stitch just beneath heart ; piercing pain through chest ; rheumatic troubles < on side
of chest ; severe pain in side of chest ; systolic blowing sound at apex of ventricle.

Shooting in walls of chest, under clavicle or on a line with heart ; twitching in muscles of forearm ; stitch in thigh ; itching stitch in thigh ; tearing pain in knee.

From left to right : pain passes around body.

From within outward : boring in head ; dull stitches on top of head ; tearing, boring pain beneath nipple ; pinching pain beneath nipple.

From without inward : pressure in temples.

From behind forward : pain through eyeball ; stitch in testicle and penis.

From below upward : pulling in legs.

   

SENSATIONS. [43] [Spig.]

As if he would fall ; as if he would be obliged to go to stool ; as if intoxicated ; as if head would burst ; as of a band around head ; as if head were tightly bound ; as of electric sparks in temples ; brain seemed to be loose ; as if
brain were shaking in skull ; as if nerves were being cut by a fine instrument in forehead and temple ; as if eye would be pushed out of head ; head as if too large ; as if hairs or feathers were on lashes ; upper lids hang as if paralyzed ; eyeballs as if too
large ; as if sand were in eyes ; as if needles were thrust into eyeball ; as if eye would be pressed out of socket ; as if eye would fly into pieces ; as if eye were being pulled forward and backward ; pain in eye as if it would drive him crazy ; as if ear
were loosely stopped or a thick mist were in front of it ; ears as if stuffed ; as if back of nose were lightly touched by hairs, or as if a gentle wind were blowing across it ; face feels as if it had been scorched ; as if all muscles of left side of face from head to
neck and left axilla were pierced with red-hot needles ; teeth as if too long ; as if left side of lower jaw would be torn out off its joint ; sensation resembling purring of cat ; as of a worm rising in throat ; as if a half fluid body were ascending in
throat ; as of a hard lump in stomach ; as if abdomen would burst ; as if all the intestines would be constricted ; suffocating as if from a quantity of water flowing into windpipe ; pulse as if a thread pulled through arteries ; as if heart were compressed or
squeezed with a hand ; as if heart were being crushed ; as if everything in chest were too short, loose and wabbling about ; as if something were tearing in chest.

Pain : at cerebellum ; in upper and lower jaw.

Excruciating pains : in eye.

Extreme pain : over eye.

Violent pain : in left parietal bone.

Sudden severe pain : in left side of chest ; about region of heart.

Severe pains : in all the limbs.

Excruciating, burning, stitching pains : from deep in head to eye.

Dreadful banging, throbbing, burning, tearing pains : in face and neck.

Sharp, stabbing, sticking pains : through eyeball back into head.

Stabbing pain : through eye.

Lancinating pain : in abdomen ; in sole of foot.

Violent throbbing, shooting pains : over left eye.

Cutting, piercing pain : through left chest, near sternum to back.

Cutting : in bowels ; at navel ; in abdomen ; extending to shoulders, head and arms.

Pressing cutting pain : in abdomen.

Shooting pain : through forehead.

Shooting pain : through eye, back into head ; in walls of chest.

Darting pain : through eyeball.

Stinging, darting pains : in left half of face.

Burning, twitching pains : in carious teeth.

Twitching pain : in several teeth.

Painful jerks : in nerves of a hollow tooth.

Violent stitch : in left side, just below heart.

Severe stitching pains : in cardiac region.

Stitching, needlelike pain : in chest.

Stitching pain : in eye and temple ; in calves.

Sudden stitch : extending to eye, zygoma, jaw, teeth, throat.

Violent burrowing stitch : in middle of eye and in inner canthus.

Boring stitch : in perineum.

Pulsating stitches : in frontal protuberances.

Stitches : in left side of head and out of left eye ; dull, on top of head ; in left temple ; from upper maxilla to vertex ; in region of diaphragm ; in abdomen ; under either nipple ; in chest ; about heart ; in heart ; between
heart and epigastrium ; in back ; in bends of elbows and joints of fingers and hands ; in joints of legs and feet and in thigh.

Fine stitches : in left temple ; in left side of tongue.

Persistent itching stitch : in left thigh.

Persistent tensive stitch : in left thigh.

Itching stitch : in right eyeball ; in right testicle and penis.

Dull stitches : in pit of stomach ; in right side of chest ; where heartbeat is felt.

A violent jerk : in head.

Very violent tearing : in occiput, forehead and temple.

Tearing pains : in occiput, in vertex and in forehead ; in lower jaw to ear and nape of neck ; in chest ; in phalanges of right thumb ; in left knee ; in limbs ; in joints.

Tearing, boring pain : beneath right nipple.

Tearing : rooting up pain.

Tearing, lightning-like twitches : in head.

Jerking tearing : in right zygoma.

Thrustlike tearing pain : in forehead.

Throbbing, tearing : in decayed teeth.

Burning or tearing pressive pain : in left zygomatic region.

Tearing, burning pain : shooting from left side of forehead to temple.

Burning, tearing pain : in brain.

Tensive, tearing pain : in forehead.

Drawing, tearing : in right thigh.

Rending, burning pain : in malar bone.

Digging pain : in carious teeth.

Burrowing pain : in occiput.

Pinching pain : in abdomen.

Griping : in bowels.

Cramplike grinding pain : across chest.

Boring : in forehead, vertex, cerebellum.

Pinching, drawing, itching pain : in external ear.

Pulsating pain : in left temple, and over left eye.

Neuralgic pain : in and about eye ; in face ; radiating to nose, face, temple and neck.

Cutting constriction : in chest.

Constant pressing burning and ulcerative pain : in thorax.

Contractive, burning pain : in right eyeball.

Burning pain : in right side of forehead to eyes ; in left side of frontal bone ; in face ; in instep.

Pressive, corrosive pain : in stomach.

Contusive pain : in knee.

Sharp sticking : just behind and above frontal eminence.

Constant sticking pain : in right eyeball.

Dull sticking : at point where beat of heart is felt ; beneath r. nipple ; in thorax.

Rheumatic pain : at nape of neck.

Tensive pain : in left eyeball ; in face.

Intolerable pressive pain : in eyeball.

Pressing pain : in top of head ; in right temple ; in right side of head and eye ; in eyeballs ; in ears ; above right wrist.

Numb pain : through head.

Stinging : in mouth ; in limbs.

Smarting : in nose.

Burning : in right side of upper lip ; in orifice of urethra.

Burning tension : in upper lip.

Burning itching : in palms.

Soreness : of body.

Painfulness : of cerebellum.

Bruised feeling : in spine.

Soreness : of scalp.

Painful numbness : of nape of neck.

Cramping sensation : from abdomen into chest.

Violent pressure : in forehead ; in both temples.

Painful drawing : on first joint of thumb.

Pressive drawing : in right side of vertex and occiput.

Drawing sensation : in region of heart.

Jerking : in both patellæ.

Pulling : in legs.

Throbbing : in face ; in teeth ; in lump in second intercostal space ; in chest ; of carotids and subclavian.

Pulsating : in both patellæ.

Heat : in back ; on face, and hands.

Dry heat and burning : in eyes.

Tingling : in œsophagus ; through body.

Tension : of scalp ; of groin.

Pressure : in stomach ; in head ; in precordial region ; in umbilical region ; in lower abdomen ; violent upon chest.

Constriction : in chest.

Heavy feeling : of body.

Weight : in precordia.

Oppression : of chest.

Tickling : in nose ; on back of nose ; in anus and rectum ; in windpipe.

Pricking : in lids.

Painful crawling : through whole body to head.

Dryness : of mouth.

Anxiety : in precordia.

Discomfort : in abdomen and thorax.

Lightness : of body.

Wabbling sensation : in abdomen.

Swashing : in brain.

Purring feeling : over heart.

Trembling : of arms.

Trembling feeling : in chest.

Tremulous sensation : in chest and temples.

Formication : in tongue, extending up into head.

Itching : in right concha ; in nose ; in anus and rectum ; on coccyx ; in pustules.

Coldness : of feet ; of body.

   

TISSUES. [44] [Spig.]

Neuralgic affections ; sensitiveness to concussion or shock.

Dropsy of internal parts.

Painful glandular swellings.

Rheumatism attacking heart.

   

TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] [Spig.]

Touch : dull stitches in head < ; headache < ; scalp sore ; eyeball sensitive ; face during neuralgia sensitive ; burning in upper lip ; cold sensation in teeth ; pit of stomach sensitive ; on epigastrium, flushing with sweat on
face ; acute inflammatory rheumatism ; sends a shudder through whole frame.

Lying on hand : headache >.

Wiping eyes : as if hairs were on lashes <.

Pressure : > pressing headache ; headache > ; neuralgia > by hard ; toothache < ; stomach not sensitive ; of clothes unbearable.

Rubbing : itching stitch in eyeball returns.

Jar, every : headache < ; or knock causes sudden painful crawling through whole body to head.

   

SKIN. [46] [Spig.]

Pale, wrinkled, yellow, earthy skin.

   

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] [Spig.]

Light hair, debilitated, pale, thin, bloated persons, complaining of weakness.

Worse from every shaking, commotion, or concussion.

Adapted to anemic, debilitated subjects, of rheumatic diathesis ; scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici.

Boy, æt. 5 ; stuttering speech.

Boy, æt. 10, three years ago had an attack of rheumatism, a year thereafter another attack, followed by dropsy, six weeks ago a third attack ; cardiac disorder.

Girl, æt. 14, after acute articular rheumatism ; endocarditis.

Girl, æt. 15, suffering seven years ; headache.

Boy, æt. 17, well developed, naturally vigorous and active, dark hair, blue eyes, fair complexion ; rheumatic carditis.

Girl, æt. 19, suffering from chlorosis ; headache.

Young man, æt. 19 ; iritis.

Miss R., æt. 23, complexion fair, hair dark, lymphatic temperament, after suppression of ague ; supraorbital neuralgia.

Alice T., æt. 23, suffering a month ; prosopalgia.

Miss W., æt. 23, suffering two years ; mitral insufficiency.

Man, æt. 25, choleric-sanguine temperament, strong constitution ; neuralgic headache.

Woman, æt. 26, ill since birth of last child, which was her fourth ; cardiac disorder.

Woman, æt. 27, nervous, ill seven years ; gastric disorder.

Woman, æt. 28, single, suffering four years ; neuralgia of tongue.

Woman, æt. 35, suffering one month ; conjunctivitis.

Woman, æt. 36, cook ; toothache.

Laborer, æt. 36, after rheumatism pericarditis.

Man, æt. 38, German, ten years ago was struck over left eye with a brick, since then suffering ; supraorbital neuralgia.

A lady, æt. 38, a brunette, of robust habit, mother of several children, had always a tendency to nervous affections, especially when under external influences ; neuralgia of face.

Miss H., æt. 44, suffering fourteen days ; facial neuralgia.

Man, æt. 51, suffering from rheumatic iritis ; ciliary neuralgia.

Shoemaker, æt. 52 ; toothache.

Lady, æt. 54 ; ciliary neuralgia.

Man, æt. 56 ; facial neuralgia.

Watchmaker, nervo-bilious temperament, always suffered when compelled to use persistently the eye-glass ; facial neuralgia.

   

RELATIONS. [48] [Spig.]

Antidoted by : Aurum, restlessness in limbs ; Coccul., Pulsat.

It antidotes : Mercur.

Compatible : Acon., endocarditis ; Arsen., Digit., Kali carb., heart symptoms ; Iris, prosopalgia ; Arnic., carbuncle ;
Zincum, heart disease.

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