THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA
Chimaphila maculata
Spotted Wintergreen. Pyroleaceµ.
Grows in the woods of North America.
Proved by George H. Bute on himself and members of his family, also clinically verified by him.
Provings by Dr. H. P. Gatchell, in A. O., vol. xiii, p. 75, 1876. Prof. H. C. Wood, in his Materia Medica, p. 476, pronounces it “the inert congener of Chimophila umbellata.” The United States Dispensatory, Wood & Bache, says, “it probably possesses similar virtues.” The umbellata and the maculata, although easily distinguished, have been strangely mixed up, or still more strangely separated. By some the maculata has been pronounced inert. The Indians declared it to be poisonous. If the latter opinion rests on correct observation and experience, it could only be explained by the supposition that the maculata has volatile properties which the other has not. Both the Chimophila maculata and umbellata are old Indian and popular medicines. They are proved by Jeanes and G. Bute as long ago as 1840 and 1856. It was particularly the latter prover who began to separate the symptoms of the two. The Indian doctors used only the umbellata and avoided the maculata, which they thought poisonous, a difference which to us would be a recommendation. Darlington, Flora Cestrica, says, “maculata possesses properties similar to the umbellata, but in a lesser degree.” Rafinesque, a good authority, regards the effect in sickness, preferring maculata (mentioned in his book as a Pyrola), and gives each to a different sub genus, calling the maculata Chimophila and the umbellata Pipsissewa.
[It is against the genius of the Greek language to spell Kreosote with an a (See Gross’ Comparative Materia Medica), and a scholar will never adopt such Ballhornian improvements (See N. J. Lucas’ Dictionary of English and German language, vol. ii, p. 239), and yet we find the same blunder, in a reversed form, committed in spelling the Greek name of this dear little wintergreen.]
Sudden headache with dimness of visioná; she had to be led to bedá; felt light-headed.
Sensation of lightness in head.
Pressing frontal headacheá; < after lying down.
Sudden headache above eyesá; < on lying down.
Frontal headache with fulness in stomach and belching.
Rheumatic tearing pain in temples.
Dull, heavy pain in whole front and top of head.
Sharp pains and heat in interior of head, unfitting for exertion.
SIGHT AND EYES. [5] [Chim. m.]
Inflammation of eyes, with secretion of mucus.
HEARING AND EARS. [6] [Chim. m.]
Pressive pain, as from a swelling, extending from right ear downward, with toothache.
TEETH AND GUMS. [10] [Chim. m.]
PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Chim. m.]
Tensive pain in throat on swallowing.
Sore throat and swollen tonsils.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Chim. m.]
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] [Chim. m.]
Nausea, with inclination to vomit without being able to do so.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Chim. m.]
The acid of fruit produces pain in stomach.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Chim. m.]
Griping in abdomen, with nausea and lassitude in all the limbs.
Colic and flatulent distension, with drowsiness and sensation as if abdomen would burst, after supper.
Sensation of a heavy stone in abdomená; severe griping, with repeated stabbing pains upward, followed by diarrh£a.
Colic-like pains between pubes and navel.
Bowels hard and swollená; thinks the glands are swollen.
Bowels very painful, sore and hard.
Feels as if there was dropsy of abdomen.
STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Chim. m.]
Diarrheic stools containing air bubbles.
Diarrh£a accompanying worm fever.
After colic pains, a diarrh£a, not very weakening.
URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Chim. m.]
Had to rise twice a night to urinate.
Urine cloudy and red after standing.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Chim. m.]
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Chim. m.]
Stinging in labia, as if boils were there.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] [Chim. m.]
Feeling of roughness in throat when talking.
Feeling of soreness and dryness in larynx.
Hawking of tough mucus from larynx in morning.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Chim. m.]
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] [Chim. m.]
Blood as if heated, with prickling.
NECK AND BACK. [31] [Chim. m.]
Feels as if neck was tired and too small.
Sweat on back, with sensitiveness to cold air in morning.
Needle-like pains in sacrum and similar pains in hip bone.
Sensation in armpits, as if boils were there.
Sensation of swelling in armpitsá; pain from armpits to scapulµ.
Painful stiffness in right hip and leg as if bruised, at 5 P. M.
Pain as if beaten in calf and thigh, going downward in r. leg and coming up in left.
Pain in right foot, extending to knee and afterwards into thigh.
LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] [Chim. m.]
Limbs feel as if distendedá; a feeling like that from erysipelas.
REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] [Chim. m.]
Very nervousá; cannot bear anything at all.
At nightá; rose twice to urinateá: dry heat.
Morningá: hawking of tough mucus.
At 5 P. M.á: painful stiffness in right hip and leg.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] [Chim. m.]
Feels better in a warm room without being chilly.
Fever, with burning hot skin and thirst.
Exceedingly hot, as if blood boiling, but cannot sweat.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] [Chim. m.]
Sensation as of something passing downward on right side of body and coming up again on left, within the space of an hour.
Beaten feeling goes down right leg and comes up left.
Going upwardá: pain from right foot to knee and thigh.
Rightá: pressive pain from ear downwardá; arm feels paralyzedá; painful stiffness in hip and leg.
As if boils were in labia and in armpitsá; arm as if paralyzedá; as if neck was tired and too smallá; as if beaten, in calf and thighá; as if distended, limbs, like erysipelasá; as if blood was boiling or on fireá; as of something passing down right side of body and up leftá; as if abdomen would burst.
Painá: in and above foreheadá; in bowels, with headacheá; in teethá; in throatá; in stomachá; in bowelsá; from armpits to scapulµá; in bones of forefingerá; in right foot, knee and thighá; in bones.
Needle-like painsá: in sacrum and hip bone.
Pricklingá: in bloodá; Gripingá: in abdomen.
Colic painsá: between pubes and navelá; after stool.
Rheumatic tearingá: in temples.
Pressureá: frontal headache, as from a swelling from right ear downward.
Dull, heavy painá: in front and top of head.
Sorenessá: in throatá; in larynx.
Swelling sensationá: in armpits.
Painful stiffnessá: in right hip and leg as if bruised.
Heavinessá: in stomachá; as of a stone in abdomen.
Paralyzed feelingá: in right arm.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] [Chim. m.]
Exceedingly hot as of blood boiling, but cannot sweat.
Thinks diseases state of the blood irritates the skin, as before the eruption of erysipelas, scarlet fever, or measlesá; itches terribly.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] [Chim. m.]
Adapted to mild, amiable, refined, sensitive, intellectual persons.