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Apis-Homoeopathic remedy


-by John Henry Clarke

virus. Honey-bee poison. N. O. Insecta. Tinctures are made of the whole bee; and of dilutions of the poison with alcohol.
Clinical.-Abscess. Ankles, swelling of. Apoplexy. Asthma. Bladder, affections of. Carbuncle. Chancre. Constipation; of sucklings. Diarrhoea. Diphtheria. Dissection wounds. Dropsy. Ear, erysipelas of. Erysipelas. Erythema nodosum. Eyes, affections of; optic neuritis. Feet, burning of. Gangrene. Gout. Hands, swelling of. Heart, affections of. Heat-spots. Housemaid's knee. Hydrocephalus. Hydrothorax. Injuries. Intermittent fever. Irritation. Jealousy, effects of. Joints, synovitis. Kidney, Bright's disease of. Labia, inflammation of. Laryngitis. Lichen. Meningitis. Menstruation, derangements of. Nettle-rash. Nose, redness of. Operations, effects of. Ovaries pain in; inflammation of; tumours of. Panaritium. Pannus. Peritonitis. Phlebitis. Pleurisy. Prostatitis. Punctured wounds. Red-gum. Rheumatism. Scarlatina. Self-abuse. Suppressed eruptions, effects of. Sycosis. Syphilis. Throat, sore. Tongue, oedema of; ulceration of. Trachea, irritation of. Tumours. Typhus. Urethritis. Urine, abnormalities of. Vaccination. Varicose veins. Variola. Wounds.
Characteristics.-The well-known effects of a bee's sting-burning, stinging, lancinating pain with excessive swelling-give leading keynotes for its employment in a great variety of conditions. In addition to these there is great sensitiveness of the surface to touch. General soreness: "every hair is painful to contact." Great debility as if he had worked hard; is compelled to lie down. Tired and bruised feeling. Great restlessness and fidgetiness (the Arsen. restlessness is more from mental anxiety). Trembling, jerking, and twitching. One half of the body twitching, the other lame or paralysed. Hemiplegia. Apis is more a right-side medicine; symptoms proceed from right to left (Rhus left to right) and from above downwards. In an involuntary proving of Apis in a woman (of forty, strong, florid, of full habit) Who kept bees and was frequently stung without constitutional effect, the following marked and peculiar symptoms were occasionally noted in addition to the better known ones (New. Eng. Med. Gaz., Nov., 1887): Stiffness of lower jaw, soon amounting to a sense of complete fixation. This stiffness extended to tongue and throat, rendering speech difficult and unintelligible, and causing a condition of extreme discomfort, the stiffness being accompanied by a feeling of constriction, which excited a single, spasmodic, backing cough at short intervals. Some difficulty in breathing, especially in inspiration. These symptoms were accompanied by a terrible restlessness. On a later occasion there was dyspnoea, face purple, head thrown back. The same symptoms as above recurred, but the throat was more swollen and the distress extended below the larynx to the upper part of the lung, which soon became very sore and sensitive. An hour after the sting on this occasion a violent cough came on. It seemed to be excited by the constrictive feeling in the throat, but it reached down to the sore place in the lungs, causing great distress. It was a deep, hard, ringing cough, lasting without intermission for three hours. Traces of the cough and soreness lasted for months. Another symptom was an ominous twitching of muscles of extremities controlled by hot foot and hand baths. Ledum gave almost instantaneous relief to the graver symptoms.
The burning symptoms of Apis are distinguished from those of Arsen. in being < by heat. The stinging appears in many diseases and conditions, causing the "crie cérébrale" in acute hydrocephalus and meningitis. Stinging pains in haemorrhoids. "Redness and swelling with stinging and burning pain in eyes, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles." Œdema of the throat may be accompanied with stinging pains, but if the case is more advanced it may be absolutely painless, and then it is more dangerous. (Bapt. has painlessness in throat affections but less oedema.-Nash.)
Apis has slow action and must not be changed too soon. Increased flow of urine shows it is having a favourable effect. The dropsies of Apis are characterised by a waxy hue of skin, whitish or yellowish; transparent swelling of eyelids; bag-like swelling under eyes; surface of body sore, bruised, or burning. In cardiac dropsy the feet swell after walking, and are intolerably sore and burning. In chest affections there is sensation of contraction (Lach.) and inability to lie down. Tension, swelling, and stiffness of limbs. This tight sensation is manifested in another symptom: sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if too much effort was made to void a constipated stool. Aversion to tight things like Lach. Prostration even to faintness. Paralytic weakness. Paralysis (after diphtheria and other severe diseases). Nervous, restless, over-sensitive; or hot and drowsy, with or without thirst. < From touch or pressure (though the head is > by pressure). In this Apis resembles the Antimonies, and it is like them in sensitiveness to heat, especially to heated rooms (Puls., Iod., Kali iod., Camph., Secale, Sulph.); < by warmth of bed. Cold water >. Many symptoms (eyes and chest) are < in the night, and sleep is disturbed by piercing cries, or else by moaning and whining. < In morning: mucus in mouth, restlessness, diarrhoea. < In evening: erysipelas, giddiness, headache, chills, fever. Many symptoms are < lying down, and > sitting.
Relations.-Compare: Vespa and serpent poisons. Acet. ac. (dropsy); Aco.; Anac. (urticaria); Apoc. can. (dropsy); Arn. (bruised, sore conditions); Ars. (typhoid, gangrene, dropsies, scarlatina, urticaria, chills); Bell. (meningitis, sore throat, erysipelas, scarlatina); Brom. (swelling of ovary during menses); Bry. (meningitis, rheumatism); Canth. (burns, erysipelas, urinary symptoms); Chi.; Colch.; Crot. t. (urticaria); Euphras. (conjunctiva); Fer.; Graph.; Hep.; Hyo.; Iod. (synovitis); Lach.; Lyc.; Merc. Nat. ars.; Nat. mur. (chills, urticaria, tension in ovarian region) Puls.; Rhus (eyes; but Apis has less tendency to suppuration; vesicular erysipelas but darker than Apis and spreading left to right-Apis right to left; typhoid, restlessness, but Apis is more fidgetiness); Rumex (painless, greenish-yellow morning diarrhoea); Sabi.; Sep.; Silic. (ovarian affections with inverted nipples; ulcer on tongue; vaccination effects); Urt. ur.; Zn. Antidotes: to medium doses and poisonings; Nat. mur. in all forms; sweet oil; onions; Ammonia; Ipec., low. (also powdered Ipec. applied locally) Lach.; Ledum. It antidotes: Canth., Iod., Chi., Dig. It follows well: Bry. (when cephalic cry appears); Helleb. (when torpor sets in); Iod., Hep., Merc., Lyc., Sul. Is followed well by: Graph. (tetter on ear lobe); Kali bi. (scrofulous ophthalmia); Arsen. (hydro-thorax); Phos. (diphtheria); Stram. (mania); Lyc. (staphyloma); Sul. (hydrothorax, pleurisy, hydrocephalus); Iod. (swollen knee). Complementary: Nat. mur. (the "chronic" of Apis). Inimical: Rhus in eruptive diseases.
Causation.-Grief. Fright. Rage. Vexation. Jealousy. (The queen bee is the most jealous thing in nature.) Hearing bad news, mental shock. Suppressed eruptions.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.-The brain feels paralysed.-Tubercular meningitis.-Impaired memory.-Absent-minded.-Cannot concentrate thought.-Indifference.-Torpor and apathy.-Awkward, lets things fall and laughs sillily at the mishap.-(The mental symptoms are rich in unconsciousness, absent-mindedness, impaired memory, and slow march of ideas.).-Loss of consciousness.-Great tearfulness; cannot help crying.-Children constantly whining.-Screaming, sudden outcry during sleep.-Busy, restless, continually changing his occupation.-Cannot bear to be left alone.-Hysteria.-In women: jealousy; mania from sexual irritation.-Depression, feels as if about to die (without fear of death).-Delirium, low muttering.-Delirium, after suppressed scarlet eruption.-Irritation.-Premonition of death, thinks it is about to transpire.-Dread of death; sensation as if he could not breathe again.-Fear of being poisoned.
2. Head.-Giddiness: when sitting, standing, lying, when closing the eyes; with nausea and headache.-Congestion to the head, with suppressed menstruation.-Pressing pain in forehead and temples; < rising; in warm bed; > pressing, the forehead together.-The brain feels tired.-Sudden stabbing and stinging pains.-Aching in l. temple.-Hydrocephalus in children, and apoplexy in old persons.-Hydrocephalus; scalp very sensitive; copious sweat of head; child lies in torpor, delirium interrupted by shrill cries, boring head deep in pillow, rolls it from side to side.-Convulsed on one side of the body, paralysed the other; squinting, grinding of teeth, urine scanty (milky).
3. Eyes.-Burning, stinging, shooting, piercing pains in and about the eyes.-Aching over r. eye extending to r. eyeball.-Twitching of eyeballs.-Staphyloma.-Cornea thick, having dark, smoky, spots; greyish, smoky, opaque.-Keratitis.-Conjunctiva reddened, chemosed, lids everted.-Sensation of mucus in the eyes.-Itching in eyes and lachrymation.-Weakness of the eyes, with pain, photophobia, and increased secretions.-Agglutination of the lids.-Å’dematous swelling of eyelids; bags under eyes; upper lids hang over like sacs.-Styes with stinging pains; smoky darkness before the eyes.
4. Ears.-Redness and swelling of both ears.-Erysipelas; otitis after scarlatina; hardness of hearing.
5. Nose.-Swollen, red, oedematous.-Coryza, worse from warmth; chronic catarrh with crusty nostrils; polypus.
6. Face.-Å’dematous swelling of the face; red and hot, swollen so as to be unrecognisable, with piercing and burning pain; waxy, pale.-Happy expression of face; or terror; or apathy.-Burning, stinging heat in the face with purple colour.-Erysipelas of the face.-Erysipelas of the face, with fever, coated tongue.-Erysipelas going r. to l. (Rhus l. to r.).-Jaws stiff, with stiff tongue and impossibility of intelligible speech.
7. Teeth.-Grinding of the teeth; sudden and involuntary biting them together; covered with yellow mucus or brown sordes.
8. Mouth.-Lips oedematous; upper lip swollen, hot and red.-Mouth red, burning, stinging, scalding.-Dryness of tongue, mouth, and throat; fiery redness of buccal cavity, with painful tenderness.-Dry, swollen, inflamed tongue, with inability to swallow.-White, dry tongue (with diarrhoea).-Tongue: can hardly be protruded; hangs from the mouth; cancer of.-Swollen tongue; shining.-Borders blistered; feel as if scalded and quite raw.-Ulcer in l. border (r. Silic., Thuj.).-Tongue swollen, dry, cracked, sore, ulcerated, or covered with vesicles.-Viscid, tough, frothy, saliva.-Gums sacculated and look watery.-Fetor of breath, with headache.
9. Throat.-Throat has appearance as if stung.-Dryness in the throat with heat, without thirst.-Burning, stinging in throat.-Erysipelatous.-Glossy red varnish.-Inflammation of the throat, with swelling, redness, and stinging pains.-Ulcerated sore throat (in scarlet fever, when the eruption does not come out).-Diphtheritic sore throat gets well as a scarlatina rash develops.-Throat swollen inside and outside; hoarse, sense of constriction; breathing and swallowing difficult.-Ulcers on the tonsils, palate, &c.-Uvula long and dropsical.-Sensation of foreign body or fishbone in the throat; of constriction.-Paralysis.-Small, clear, watery blisters on the back part of the throat.
11. Stomach.-No thirst with the heat.-Thirstlessness (with dropsy).-Vomiting of bile.-Vomiting, with inflammation of the stomach.-Vomiting, with diarrhoea.-Burning heat in the stomach.-Great soreness in pit of stomach when touched.-Violent pain and sensitiveness in region of stomach.
12. Abdomen.-Great sensitiveness of the abdomen to touch.-Soreness of the bowels and abdominal walls; mornings when sneezing or pressing upon them.-Sensitiveness of epigastrium and whole abdomen to touch; of r. inguinal region; across hypogastrium from ilium to ilium.-Pain in abdomen on pressure, touch and horizontal position, with sensitiveness.-Peritonitis.-Erysipelas from contusion.-Rumbling and meteoric distension.-Ascites and anasarca.-Hard swelling in the r. groin, oblong, as large as a cucumber.-Long-standing inguinal hernia.-Collapse of abdominal walls in meningitis infantum.
13. Stool and Anus.-Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhoea.-Discharge of flatus before stool.-Diarrhoea: during fevers; from heat; in debilitated children; from irritability of brain (hydrocephaloid).-Diarrhoea, yellowish-green, with mucus, esp. in the morning.-Stool thin, watery, yellow, < in morning; may or may not be offensive.-Stools smelling very offensively.-Diarrhoea and vomiting.-Diarrhoea is copious, blackish-brown, green, or whitish; orange-coloured; greenish, yellow mucus; yellow watery; soft and pappy, mixed with serum; thin yellow.-At every motion of body bowels act as though he had no power.-Uncertain anus; constantly open (during urination), oozing of liquid (Phos., Phos. ac.).-Swelling of anus.-Haemorrhoids, with stinging pains.-Constipation, with feeling as if something would break if he continued to strain.-Stools involuntary and painless, or painful and urging, olive-green, profuse, and full of red lumps, like chopped beets; bloody, painless; smell brassy or like carrion; very offensive.-Protruding varices, which sting, burn, and smart intolerably.
14. Urinary Organs.-Burning soreness when urinating.-Strangury.-Pain in region of kidneys; soreness on pressure or when stooping.-Frequent desire, with passage of only a few drops.-Urine scanty and high-coloured; with thirstlessness.-Incontinence of urine from coughing and other circumstances.-Urine suppressed.-Too profuse discharge of urine.-Frequent and profuse urination.-Albuminuria of scarlatina.-(Increase of urine under Apis shows that the medicine is acting well.).-Burning and stinging in the urethra.-Burning and smarting in the urethra, as if it were scalded.-Bladder very painful, often tenesmus after urinating.-Urine often bloody, milky appearance; very dark and frothy; very fetid; sediment reddish-brown, like coffee grounds.
15. Male Sexual Organs.-Sexual desire increased.-Chancre with stinging pains like bee-stings, and with a highly inflamed circumference.-Pains and swellings of testes and prostate.-Dropsy of the scrotum and prepuce; hydrocele.
16. Female Sexual Organs.-Amenorrhoea or menorrhagia.-Inflammation, induration, swelling, and dropsy of the ovaries (r.).-Weight and pain in either ovarian region, predominantly r. side.-The ovaries feel better by lying on r. side.-Enlargement of the r. ovary with pain in the l. pectoral region and cough.-Sharp, cutting, stinging pain in the swollen (r.) ovary; worse during menstruation.-Ovarian tumours, with stinging pains like bee-stings.-Metritis, peritonitis, with stinging, thrusting pains.-Pressing-down pain in the uterus.-Bearing-down, with sensation as before menses.-Dropsy of the ovaries (r.); dropsy of the uterus.-Strained pain l. ovary.-Menstruation suppressed or diminished, with congestion to the head.-Labour-like, bearing-down pains, followed by dark, bloody mucus.-Threatened miscarriage in the early months, with heaviness of the abdomen, restlessness, and yawning.-Abortion.-Abortion during the early months.-Dropsy in the latter part of pregnancy attended with puerperal convulsions.-Ulceration and engorgement of os uteri.-Large and painful swelling of the labia, with heat and stinging pains.-Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts.-Swelling and hardness of the mammae threatening to ulcerate.-Scirrhus or open cancer of the mammae, with stinging, burning pains.
17. Respiratory Organs.-Irritation to cough in the supra-sternal fossa.-Hoarseness.-Hoarseness in the morning.-Respiration hurried and difficult (with fever and headache).-Å’dema glottidis.-Asthma; worse in cold weather.-Croupy cough.-Obstinate night cough from 9 p.m., to 4 a.m.-Cough which loosens with difficulty, rouses from sleep before midnight and ceases as soon as least particle is loosened, which is swallowed.-Feeling of constriction causing a single, spasmodic, hacking cough at short intervals.-Violent cough, deep, hard ringing; incessant for three hours; excited by constricted feeling in throat, but reaching down to lungs, the upper part of which are very sore and sensitive.-Dyspnoea; esp. difficult inspiration.
18. Chest.-Hydrothorax.-Sensation of soreness in the chest, as from a bruise.-Oppression of the chest, shortness of breath, esp. when ascending; inability to remain in a warm room.-Dull, aching pain in the l. side of the chest, near the middle of the sternum, with sensation of fulness in the chest and short breath.-Expectoration of copious, transparent, frothy, bloody mucus.-Stitches in l. side of chest and through back.-Burning, stinging pain through entire front of chest.-Melting in region of diaphragm, as from running violently.-Every shock from coughing gives pain in the head and some pain through the chest, as from the clavicle; > after loosening a small portion of mucus, or a large quantity of transparent: frothy, and bloody mucus is expectorated.
19. Heart.-Sudden pain just below the heart, soon extending toward r. chest, with suffocation.-Very feeble action of the heart; violent beats, shaking the whole body; intermittent beats.-Region of heart sensitive to least pressure; rasping sounds of systole and diastole unmistakably audible.-Palpitation of heart from scanty secretion of urine, perfectly cured by establishing the natural quantity.-Pulse: almost imperceptible at wrist; accelerated and full; very frequent and hard; wiry; irregular and slow pulse; intermittent.
 
20. Back.-Rheumatic pain in back and limbs.-Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
22. Upper Limbs.-Hands bluish, and inclined to be cold.-Å’dema of the hands.-Sensation of numbness in fingers, esp. the tips about the roots of nails.-Panaritium with burning, stinging, and throbbing, very sensitive to touch.
23. Lower Limbs.-Cold legs.-Sensation in the toes and whole foot, as if too large; swollen and stiff.-Legs (ankles) and feet waxy, pale, and oedematous.-Burning in the toes with redness; feet cold.-Suppressed perspiration of the feet.-Numbness and coldness of feet, even paralysis.-Dropsy of limbs in diphtheritic albuminuria.-Puffy swelling of the knees.
24. Generalities.-Great debility, as if he had worked hard; he is obliged to lie down.-Sudden "puffing up" of the whole body.-Tired, as if bruised in every limb, and esp. in the back, as after exertion; worse on rising after sitting.-Complete anasarca, no thirst, pale, waxy, almost transparent.-Burning, stinging pains, like bee-stings, occurring occasionally.-Great sensitiveness to touch and pressure (abdomen).-Clonic and tonic spasms.-Sudden weakness with coldness.-Tension (over the eyes in the l. side of head) behind the ears, in the neck.-Dark haemorrhages.
25. Skin.-Å’dematous swellings.-Skin usually white, almost transparent (ovarian dropsy).-Hives.-Urticaria like bee-stings, or stings from other insects, with intolerable itching at night.-Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pains.-Eruption like nettle-rash over the whole body.-Erysipelas; with gangrenous spots.-Swelling and dry erysipelatous redness.-Scarlet eruptions.-Body covered with large, elevated, white wheals.-Panaritium (burning, stinging).-Boils and swellings of all descriptions with stinging pains.
26. Sleep.-Much yawning.-Great desire to sleep; extreme sleepiness.-Sleep disturbed by many dreams.-Dreams full of care and toil; of making long journeys; of flying through the air; of hot stones; of walking over hot floors; of walking a long way over wet roads.-Sleep, late in the morning.-Awakens from sleep with a shrill shriek (child suffering from hydrocephalus).
27. Fever.-Pulse full and rapid; small and trembling; intermitting.-Chill, mostly towards the evening (3-4 p.m.).-Chilliness from the least movement, with heat of the face and hands; runs down the back with great prostration.-During hot stage more or less violent headache; generally a continuous deep sleep.-Heat with thirst, wishes to uncover.-Dry heat towards evening with sleepiness.-Sweating stage either absent or of a very light grade.-The sensation of heat is more felt about the pit of the stomach and in the chest.-Perspiration, alternating with dryness of the skin.-Much burning of the skin on various parts of the body.-Thirst wanting during sweat; may or may not be present during heat; always thirst during chill.-Sweat after trembling and fainting, then nettlerash.-After the fever paroxysm, sleep.-Apyrexia: urine scanty; feet swollen; limbs sore; restless; urticaria.

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Antimonium Crudum-a homoeopathic medicine

by John Henry Clarke

Native Sulphide of Antimony. Sb2 S3.
Clinical.-Anus, irritation of. Callosities. Catarrh. Chorea. Constipation. Corns. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Feet, sore and horny. Fever. Gum-rash. Nails, degeneration of. Nettle-rash. Piles. Prolapsus recti. Red gum. Remittent fever. Stomach, disordered. Sunstroke. Tendons inflamed. Tongue coated. Voice, low. Warts. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics.-Antim. crud. corresponds in a sense to the race of swine, as Arsenic does to horses and Pulsatilla to sheep. It is preeminently a scrofulous medicine, corresponding to gross constitutions with tendency to rough scaling skin with horny patches. With these horny patches is great tenderness, the patient can hardly bear to walk on them. Analagous to these horny excrescences are warts, and Ant c. has cured many cases of these. A student, 17, had twenty-three on right hand and thirty four on left, mainly on backs and fingers, but a few on interior surface of fingers. In addition redness and inflammation of eyelids. Cured in seven weeks with Ant. c. 200x. In the same category may be mentioned the tendency of the nails to grow in splits. Ant. crud. is specially suited to infants and children (with coated moist white tongues) and also to elderly persons. Tendency to grow fat. When symptoms recur they change their locality or go from one side of the body to the other. Left side predominates, especially lower left and upper right. Among special symptoms are: Itching of scalp and falling out of hair. Tendency to take cold about head. Scrofulous ophthalmia, canthi especially affected (Graph. the whole margin). Otorrhoea. Moist eruption behind ears (Graph.). Slight noises startle. Nose-bleed with vertigo; after headache; after rush of blood to head. Children are peevish, won't bear to be touched or looked at. Adults are sulky or sad. Weeping and impressionable. Sentimental mood by moonlight. Amativeness. Suicidal. Gastric and remittent fevers, and fevers of children, with great thirst and the characteristic white tongue. The fever runs higher at night. The child is cross, but unlike the Cham. patient, who wants to be carried, this will scream and show temper at every little attention. There is a form of diarrhoea which alternates with constipation, often found in old people, to which Ant. crud. corresponds. "Stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed, in old people." It cures many cases of mucous piles: continuous oozing, staining linen. In connection with the intolerance of wine of the remedy, it may be mentioned that in one case it produced a feeling of intoxication like that of alcohol, so that the patient refused to take any more of it. A number of nervous symptoms appear in the provings-restlessness, jerking of muscles, &c. Dr. M. Jousset has recorded a severe case of chorea which resisted all the usual remedies and was cured with Ant. crud. prescribed on the digestive symptoms, particularly the characteristic white tongue. A notable characteristic of Ant. crud. is the thickly coated tongue. Generally it is thick and white; milky-white; or like whitewash evenly laid. The edges may be red and sore. Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils and corners of mouth. Abnormal hunger; not relieved by eating; emptiness at epigastrium and want of animal heat. Disgust for all foods. Nursing children throw up a little sour milk as soon as they take the breast or bottle (Æthus c., after vomiting the child sleeps and wakes hungry; Ant. c. the child refuses to nurse again). The sulphur element in Ant. crud. is strongly pronounced in the provings as in the constipation and other intestinal disorders of the drug. < By heat is a marked characteristic (Apis, Puls., Cham., Secale, Camph.); also < from cold washing (less severe after warm washing), from cold water and cold food. In spite of the < from heat there is great sensitiveness to cold, hence it is suitable to the hydrogenoid constitutions. Moonlight < mental symptoms. Many symptoms are < at night. < By touch. < From wine, especially sour wine; from vinegar and acids (though tamarind water does not disagree); from fruits. < From pork, bread, and pastry. > By rest, by lying down; < rising up; < ascending stairs.


Relations.-Compare: Æthiops ant., Ant. tar., Am. mur., Apis, Bry., Graph., Puls., Ran. b., Rhus t., Sul., Variol.; Cham., Chi, and Stram. (averse to be looked at); Hep., Rhus, Sep., Spi. and Sul. (averse to be washed). Complementary: Scilla. Follows well: Puls., Ipec. Followed by: Puls., Merc., Sul. Antidote to: Stings of insects. Antidoted by: Calc., Hep., Merc. Bry. compares very closely in digestive condition, loaded tongue and < from warmth; in summer complaint.
Causation.-Gluttony. Hot weather. Heat of sun. Getting over-heated. Disappointed love. Suppressed eruptions.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.-Ecstasy and exalted love, with great anxiety about his fate and inclination to shoot himself; worse when walking in the moonlight, and then his conduct is like than of an insane person.-Desponding reflections upon one's condition.-Disgust of life, with an inclination to blow one's brains out, or to drown oneself.-Tendency to be frightened.-Peevish humour, ill-humour.-To be looked at and to be touched are unbearable (in the case of a child).-Dull intellect, imbecility.-Madness.
2. Head.-Confusion of head, as after long labour in the cold.-A feeling of intoxication.-Dizziness with nausea, or bleeding of the nose.-Attack of apoplexy, with frothy salivation.-Cephalalgia, after bathing in running water.-Cephalalgia with dizziness from the smoke of tobacco; better in the open air.-Sensation, as if the forehead were going to burst.-Dull pain in the sinciput and vertex, increased by going upstairs.-Cramp-like pain in the head, ameliorated by walking in the open air.-Piercing pain in the forehead and in the temples.-Sharp pains as from knives in head and under l. breast.-Congestion in the head, painful and followed by epistaxis.-Pain in the bones at the vertex, as if from a swelling in the periosteum.-Teasing itching in the head, with failing off of the hair.
3. Eyes.-Shooting in the eyes.-Red, inflamed eyelids.-Inflammation of the eyes, with itching and nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids.-Slight oozing of the skin near the external angle of the eye.-Humour in the corners of the eyes.-Enlargement of the eyes.-Sensibility of the eyes to the light of day.-Blindness.-Chronic sore eyes of children.
4. Ears.-Shooting in the ears.-Redness, swelling, and heat in the ear.-Otorrhoea.-Digging and murmuring in the ears.-Deafness, as if one had a bandage over the ears; as if a leaf were lying before the ears.-Buzzing in the ears.-Continual roaring in the ears.
5. Nose.-Eruption in the nose.-Excoriation of the nostrils, and of the corners of the nose.-Nostrils chapped and scurfy.-Stoppage of the nose.-Bleeding at the nose, esp. in the evening.-Sensation of coldness in the nose, when inspiring air.-Dryness of the nose, chiefly on walking in the open air.-Accumulation of thick yellowish mucus in the nostrils.
6. Face.-Sad countenance.-Heat in face, and chiefly in the cheeks, with itching.-Red, burning, suppurating eruptions on the face, with yellowish scurf.-Lumps and blisters on the face, as if from the stings of insects.-Granular eruptions, yellow as honey, on the skin of the face.-Eruption, like conoid chicken-pox, on the face and on the nose.-Sensation of excoriation of the chin.-Painful fissures at the commissures of the lips.-Pimples on the upper lip.-Dryness of the lips.
7. Teeth.-Pains in carious teeth, with dull pricking, successive pullings and gnawing, even in the head, renewed after every meal, increased by cold water, and mitigated in the open air.-Jerking toothache in the evening, in bed, and after a meal.-Grinding of the teeth while sleeping in a sitting posture.-Stitches in and about the teeth when inspiring cold air.-Bleeding of the teeth and of the gums, which become detached.
8. Mouth.-Bitter taste in the mouth.-Ptyalism (tasting salty).-Dryness of the mouth.-Accumulation of water on the tongue and in the mouth.-Salivation.-Tongue loaded; with a white coating.-Pain, as of excoriation at the edges of the tongue.-Blisters on the tongue.
9. Throat.-Soreness of the throat, as if there were a plug in it.-Inability to swallow.-Dryness and scraping, or an accumulation of viscid mucus in the throat.
10. Appetite.-Aversion to all food.-Longing for acids.-Thirst chiefly in the night.-Loss of appetite.-Sensation of hunger and of emptiness in the epigastrium, in the morning especially, and which is unappeased by eating.-After a meal, dejection, lassitude, fulness and tension in the abdomen.-Great desire to take food, which is not appropriated to strength.
11. Stomach.-Eructations with taste of food, or very acid.-Regurgitation of a watery fluid.-Hiccough on smoking tobacco.-Loathing of food, nausea, and inclination to vomit, as if caused by indigestion.-Heartburn with good appetite.-Nausea after taking wine.-Nausea and vomiturition, from overloading the stomach, or after drinking (sour) wine.-Vomiting of mucus and of bile, sometimes accompanied by diarrhoea, great anxiety, and convulsions.-Pain, burning, and cramp-like in the pit of the stomach, sometimes with despair and inclination to drown oneself.-Tension and pressure in the pit of the stomach.-Painful sensation, as if the stomach were overloaded with food.-Pain in the region of the stomach on being touched.-Gastric catarrh with characteristic white tongue; even if caused by metastasis of rheumatism or gout.
12. Abdomen.-Inflation of the abdomen, with a sensation of fulness, chiefly after a meal.-Violent cutting pains, sometimes with want of appetite; urine red and stools hard.-Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, as after violent diarrhoea.-Sensation of swelling and of hardness in the inguinal region, on its being pressed.-Accumulation of flatus in the abdomen, with rumbling and borborygmi.
13. Stool and Anus.-Difficult evacuation of hard stools.-Difficult evacuations; the faeces are too large in size.-Urgent inclination to go to stool.-Stool of the consistence of pap.-Diarrhoea, generally watery, with cutting pains.-After vinegar or acid wine, loose stool.-Alternate diarrhoea and constipation, esp. in aged persons.-Constant secretion of yellowish-white mucus by the anus.-Flow of black blood from the anus.-Haemorrhoidal excrescences, blind and running, with burning and tingling.-Burning itching and fissures in the anus.-Expansive pressure in the rectum (during stool as if an ulcer had been torn open) and the anus.-Burning furunculus in the perineum.
14. Urinary Organs.-Frequent inclination to make water, with scanty emission.-Frequent and abundant emission of urine, with abundant flow of mucus, and burning in the urethra, accompanied by pains in the loins.-On coughing, involuntary emission of urine.-Urine aqueous, or of a gold colour, or reddish brown, and sometimes mixed with small red corpuscles.-Incisive pain in the urethra, on making water.
15. Male Sexual Organs.-Excitement of sexual desire, and great lasciviousness.-Pollutions.
16. Female Sexual Organs.-Metrorrhagia.-Sharp and corrosive discharge from the vagina.-Nymphomania from checked catamenia.-Tenderness over ovaries after menses checked by a bath.-Gastro-intestinal disorders of pregnancy.-Pressure in the uterus as if something would come out of it, esp. during uterine haemorrhage.-Toothache before the menses, with boring in the temples.-Quite solid lumps in a watery leucorrhoea, which sometimes causes a smarting down the thighs.-Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea during pregnancy.
17. Respiratory Organs.-Great heat in the throat while moving in the open air.-Great weakness, or entire loss of voice, chiefly on becoming warm.-Looking into the fire increases cough.-Sensation of a foreign substance in the larynx, with inability to expectorate.-Violent spasm in the larynx, with sensation of excoriation.-Cough, with burning in the chest.-Morning cough, dry and shaking.-Whooping-cough.-Cough as if arising from abdomen.
18. Chest.-Stifling oppression and paralytic orthopnoea.-Respiration deep, with sighing.-Shootings in the chest, when drawing breath and at other times.-Pain, as of contusion, in the pectoralis major, on raising the arm, and on pressure.-Sharp pain under l. breast.
20. Neck and Back.-Cramp-like drawing in the muscles of the neck and of the nape of the neck.-Rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck.-Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck, in the shoulder-blades, and behind the ears.
22. Upper Limbs.-Rheumatic pains in the arms.-Red vesicles on the arms, with itching.-Painful inflammation of the tendons of the elbow, with great redness and curvature of the arm.-Hot and red swelling of the forearm, with shooting tension.-Sensation of drawing in the forearm, the fingers, and the joints of the fingers.-Arthritic pains in the joints of the fingers.-Painful sensibility of the skin under the nails, and slow growth of the nails themselves.-A horny growth under the nail.-Crushed finger-nails grow in splits, with horny spots.


23. Lower Limbs.-Sensation of drawing in the lower limbs, esp. in the coxo-femoral joint.-Lumps, with red rings, on the buttocks and legs.-Violent pain in the lower extremities.-Numbness of the legs after sitting for some time.-Shooting pain in the knee and in the tibia.-Drawing pain in knees, lower part l. tibia, in l. heel, and tearing through the r. great toe.-Tumour or white swelling of the knee.-Painful stiffness in the knee, preventing the extension of the leg.-Vesicles on the knee after scratching it.-Sensibility of the soles of the feet, when walking on the pavement.-Red swelling of the heel, with burning shootings, which are aggravated by walking.-Corns on the soles of the feet, and callous excrescence at the tips of the toes.-Pressive pain in the corns.-Burning in the fleshy part of the great toe.-Callous excrescence under the nail of the great toe.
24. Generalities.-Rheumatic pains and inflammation of the tendons, with redness and contraction of the part affected.-Inflammation of the muscles.-Drawings or shootings and tension, principally in the limbs.-Restlessness, uneasiness.-Disposition to start even at slight noises.-Twitching of muscles of many parts of the body.-Convulsions with vomiting.-The symptoms are aggravated in the heat of the sun, after having drunk wine, after a meal, night and morning; amelioration during repose and in the fresh air.-Great sensibility to cold.-Heaviness of all the limbs.-General weakness, esp. at night, on waking.-Emaciation, or great obesity.-Dropsical swelling of the whole body.-Mucous membranes generally affected.-Anasarca.-Marasmus.-Children cannot bear to be touched or looked at.-Chronic affections traceable to suppressed eruptions or ulcers.
25. Skin.-Itching, esp. in the neck, chest, back and limbs.-Eruptions which appear chiefly in the evening, or which itch in the heat of the bed, and prevent sleep.-Miliary eruptions and nettle-rash.-Tumours and blisters, as if from the stings of insects.-Measles-like eruption.-Eruptions, similar to chicken-pox, with shooting pain on pressure.-Thick, hard scabs, often honey-yellow, here and there a crack oozing a green sanious fluid, burning as if immersed in hot embers.-Urticaria white, with red areolae, which itch fearfully.-Pustules with yellowish or brown scurf.-Freckles.-Hepatic spots.-Deep spongy ulcers with gastric ulcers.-Fistulous ulcers.-Horn-like excrescences and disposition to abnormal organisations of the skin.-Corns and callous excrescences on the feet.-Nails discoloured and deformed.-Red and hot swellings.-Degeneration of the skin.-Fungus of the joints.
26. Sleep.-Strong inclination to sleep during the day, and somnolency, chiefly in the evening or morning.-Coma with delirium.-Waking with fright during the night.-Dreams, anxious, horrible, voluptuous, or painful, and full of quarrelling.
27. Fever.-Chilliness predominating even in the warm room.-Sensation of coldness in the nose when inhaling air.-Heat, esp. during the night, before midnight, with cold feet.-Great heat from little exercise, esp. in the sun.-Intermittent fever, with gastric or bilious affections, principally with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, loaded tongue, bitterness of the mouth, with moderate thirst, diarrhoea, tension and pressure at the pit of the stomach, with cutting pains.-Tertian fever.-Hot sweat, early in the morning every second day.-Pulse irregular, sometimes quick, sometimes slow.

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Antipyrinum-Homoeopathic Remedy

 

* by John Henry Clarke

Phenazon (Phenyl-dimethyl-pyrazolon). C11 H12 N2O. A product of coal tar through toluin. Solution and trituration.
Clinical.-Dysmenia. Enuresis. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Erythema. German measles. Headache. Heart, paralysis of. Mind, deranged. Respiration, Cheyne-Stokes. Scarlatina. Throat, sore. Toothache. Urticaria.
Characteristics.-Antipyrine is known from the poisonous effects it has produced in old-school practice. Many fatal cases have been recorded, and there can be little doubt that its injudicious use has determined a fatal issue in many cases that have remained unrecorded. Its action is very like that of Antifebrin in producing collapse, but it has more effect on the skin, causing scarlet rash and oedema. A young lady patient of mine who took Antipyrin on her own account, whenever she thought she might be going to have a headache, developed intense dysmenorrhoea (to which she was not subject), with depression. This was only removed after she had discontinued the drug. Later on she took Phenacetin, with the result that an eruption of erythema appeared on both cheeks, which peeled after a few days, and recurred persistently. It would seem from the above that the drug is homoeopathic to some forms, at least, of neuralgia. One patient had Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Erythema appears first on face and arms, last on legs. Hansen mentions its use in enuresis and epistaxis. > Hot drinks.
Relations.-Compare: Anilinum (skin). Antefeb.; Ars.; Chloral; Acon. (numbness; rapidity of attack). Antidoted by: Bell. The symptoms are much intensified in persons addicted to coffee in excess.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.-Loss of consciousness.-Fear of impending insanity (mental balance did not return for some months).-Excitement.-Continual crying.-Nervous anxiety.
2. Head.-Headache, with toothache; pain behind both ears of tearing character.-Snapping sensation in head.
3. Eyes.-Complete loss of vision.-Eyelids swollen so that eyes were almost closed.-Coryza.
4. Ears.-Buzzing in ears.
5. Nose.-Tingling burning in nose, with sneezing and running from eyes and nose; nose and face swollen.-Coppery smell which comes and goes.
6. Face.-Å’dema; dusky red face.
7. Teeth.-General toothache, together with headache; pain behind both ears of a tearing character.
8. Mouth.-Tingling burning in gums, mouth, and throat.-Lump in mouth about an inch thick just below level of upper teeth (passed away in half-hour).
9. Throat.-Dryness, burning, swelling, l. side of throat with aphonia; l. tonsil white and swollen.-Tight, constricted feeling.
11. Stomach.-Attacks of excitement accompanied by vomiting (in a child).-Epigastric pain, causing to bend double and cry out.-Expanding sensation rising from stomach.
14. Urinary Organs.-Incontinence of urine.-Amount diminished.
17. Respiratory Organs.-Cheyne-Stokes breathing.-Hoarseness following aphonia.
18. Chest.-Sensation as though contents of thorax and abdomen were being forcibly drawn up towards throat, and r. testicle to abdomen.-Dyspnoea; tightness of chest.-Sensation of tumour over notch of sternum.-Inability to lie down.
19. Heart.-Pulse feeble and rapid.-Fainting spells.
20. Neck and Back.-Feeling of numberless pins pricking him down each side of neck.
 
21. Limbs.-Pains in limbs.-Limbs swollen.
22. Upper Limbs.-Cramp in r. arm.-Fingers of r. hand clenched in the form of a claw.

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 24. Generalities.-Feeling of numberless pins pricking him down each side of the neck, extending down r. chest and abdomen, particularly severe r. side of scrotum and r. testicle, also in legs and feet, severely r., slightly l.-Sensation as if contents of chest and abdomen drawn upwards, felt he was "drawn in a ruck," and, being unable to stand, fell on the floor.-Trembled violently all over, had cramp in r. arm.-Epileptic attacks, with partial unilateral twitching; contraction of muscles; chattering of teeth; jactitation.-Cyanosis.-Collapse.-Throbbing all over body.-Sensation as if inside of body were filled with ice.
25. Skin.-Rash, erythema or urticaria, with troublesome itching; chiefly between fingers.-Irregular rounded pimples lying close together, in some places confluent, forming patches, between which skin was normal, giving a marbled appearance, lasted five days, turned brownish and desquamated slightly.-Eruption thickest on body and extremities, extensor more covered than flexor surfaces.-Eruption begins on face and arms, last on legs.-Scarlet macular eruption.
27. Fever.-Excessive perspiration.-Throbbing all over body, coldness of hands and feet, nervous shuddering without chill.-Pulse goes up and down with the temperature.*

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Aloe socotrina-a homoeopathic remedy



by John Henry Clarke

Aloe socotrina. Common Aloes. N. O. Liliaceae. Trituration or solution in spirit of the gum.
Clinical.-Abdomen, plethora of. Anus, affections of. Bronchitis. Colic. Constipation. Cough. Diarrhoea. Dysentery. Gleet. Gonorrhoea. Haemorrhoids. Hysteria. Lumbago. Onanism, effects of. Phthisis. Proctitis. Prolapsus uteri. Prostate, affections of. Sacrum, pain in. Tenesmus.
Characteristics.-Aloe is one of the oldest and most famous drugs. It is in worldwide use as a purgative at the present day, and forms a leading ingredient in a large number of patent medicines for regulating the bowels and menstrual functions. The habitual use of these medicines leads to all kinds of pelvic ailments, and the fact that Sulphur antidotes Aloe accounts for the success of Sul. as a medicine to commence with in many chronic cases where purgatives have been used. Aloe resembles All. s. somewhat closely. It causes congestion of various parts, especially abdomen, pelvic organs, and head. A periodicity enters into many of its complaints. There is a periodic headache which alternates with lumbago. As winter approaches each year itch manifests itself. Aloe has the antipsoric property of throwing out internal complaints to the skin. Among the leading mental symptoms are: Bad humour, especially in cloudy weather. Dissatisfied and angry with himself < when constipated. Aversion to labour. Lassitude alternating with great mental activity. Among the other head symptoms are: Darting pains in left temple < every step. Carroll Dunham cured a heavy frontal incapacitating headache in an old man occurring in winter and alternating with a diarrhoea which occurred in summer when he was free from headache. A peculiar dull, heavy, pressing pain in forehead, but which indisposes to, or incapacitates for, all exertion, especially intellectual. Heaviness in the eyes as with All. s. Pressure in vertex and forehead as from a weight. Compelled to make the eyes small during pain in forehead. There are yellow rings moving before eyes. As there are illusions of sight, so there are cracklings in the ears. One symptom is very peculiar: just after getting into bed, sudden explosion and clashing in left ear, as from breaking of glass; the clink of the glass was heard at the bottom of the head and extended thence toward the right ear. Aloe exerts its most marked influence on the abdominal and pelvic organs. It causes uneasiness and pains in liver region. Fulness, heaviness, heat and inflammation. The whole abdomen is painfully sensitive to touch. Rumbling. Feeling as of a plug wedged in between pelvis and coccyx. Sudden and continued desire to go to stool. Desire for stool after each meal (Ars., Chin., Lyc., Pod., Trombid.; while eating, Fer.). Rumbling and cramp in abdomen before and during stool. The hard stool falls out without being noticed, urging to stool whilst passing water; every time on passing water feeling as if stool would pass. A hard stool may be passed involuntarily. A child, constipated from birth, screams all the time he is being held to stool, cannot pass it, even after enema; yet when not trying passes solid pieces in bed without knowing. Cured with Alo. 200 (Nash). Involuntary soft stool while passing wind. With the diarrhoea, flatulency, pinching in abdomen, pain in back and rectum and chilliness. Flatus offensive, burning, copious; much flatus with small stool. Burning in anus with passing of flatus. Stools like mush, bright yellow, grey, hot, undigested. Mucus and blood in faeces. Profuse with jelly-like lumps. Watery stools < standing or walking. Watery stool containing lumps "like frog-spawn." Bilious yellow faecal, bright yellow diarrhoea, great rumbling in bowels and escape of much wind, < morning; evening; in damp weather; from overheating; after cold taken in damp room; after chagrin. Diarrhoea driving one out of bed very early in morning (Sul). Diarrhoea with sense of insecurity (Phos.) Faintness after stool; with cold sweat. Griping may (Nux v.) or may not (Merc.) cease after stool. Heaviness, heat, pressing, burning in rectum. Itching, burning in rectum. Itching, burning, pulsating as from fissures at anus. After stool: cutting feeling as if more would come protruding piles. Haemorrhoids: protrude like a bunch of grapes constant bearing-down in rectum bleeding; sore; tender, hot; > by cold water. Carroll Dunham has cured incontinence of urine in an old man with enlarged prostate with the Aloe diarrhoea. Increased sexual desire in males, with erections. Penis shrunk and testicles cold. In females pain in hypogastrium as if menses coming on. Labour-like pains drawing into legs. Menses too early and too profuse. During menstruation: headache > by application of cold water; earache; pain in small of back; pressing down in rectum. Fulness in pelvis. Leucorrhoea of bloody mucus preceded by colic. Pain in small of back, < sitting or awaking at night, > moving about. Lumbago alternating with headache. There is < in afternoon, especially of symptoms of mucous membranes. Many symptoms, again, appear in the evening < yawning, or masticating. There is a diarrhoea < in the early morning (like Sulph). Diarrhoea < immediately after eating; < walking (Æsc., Thuj.), or standing (Sul.). Like Phos., it has feeling of insecurity on passing wind or before stool. Symptoms are < from heat; in hot, damp weather; > from cold applications; in cold weather. > From passing flatus. It is suited to: old people; to women of relaxed phlegmatic habit; to persons of lymphatic or hypochondriac temperament.
Relations.-Aloe is related to: All. cep., All. s., Agave, Scilla, Colch. It is antidoted by: Sul., Mustard, Camph. relieves for a while, Lyc., and Nux v. relieve the earache. It resembles: Sul. in many symptoms, and is of equal importance with Sul. in chronic diseases with abdominal plethora; Ailanth. (dull, frontal headache); Gambog. (diarrhoea); Ammon. mur. (abdominal and diarrhoeic symptoms); Nux v. (gastric, abdominal and uterine troubles: bad effects of sedentary habits); Æsc. (haemorrhoids); Merc. (dysentery); Pod. (alternations between head symptoms and abdominal symptoms).
Causation.-Sedentary habits.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.-Anxiety and ebullition of the blood.-Restlessness, fear, fear of man.-Bad humour, esp. in cloudy weather.-He is dissatisfied and angry about himself; more so when he is constipated or when he suffers from pain; better in the open air.-Suffering makes her frantic, often loses consciousness.-Seems to have a presentiment of approaching death.-Angry, revengeful, wishes to destroy the object of her wrath.-Aversion to labour.-Great disinclination to mental labour; it fatigues him.-Disinclined to move.-Exhaustion, alternating with activity.-Children much enlivened, chat and laugh.-Annoying amorous thoughts present themselves.
2. Head.-Giddiness and starting.-Giddiness, with anxiety when moving; he feels as if he were sitting too high (after dinner).-Dulness in the forehead with chilliness.-Dull headache across the forehead, with heaviness in the eyes, and nausea.-Pressure in the forehead and vertex, as from a weight (and in occiput).-Pressing pain above the eyes.-Congestions to the head, compelling one to sit up.-Headaches are worse from heat and better from cold applications.-Stitches above the eyebrows.-Pressing out of the temples, with flickering before the eyes and heat in the face.-Stitches in the temples at every step.-Headache after pain in the abdomen; after (an insufficient) stool; worse from heat, better from cold.-Sensitiveness of the scalp (in small spots).-With the pain in the forehead the eyes become small; patient compelled to close them.
3. Eyes.-Congestion to the eyes; pressure in the orbits.-Lachrymation.-Pain deep in the orbits, as if in the muscles; worse r. side.-Occasional attacks of twitching of l. eyelids during the day, spasmodic jerk of whole body on failing asleep at night.-Flickering before eyes, with heat of the face.-Yellow rings moving before the eyes.-Compelled to make the eyes small, with pain in forehead; heaviness of eyes, and nausea.
4. Ears.-Hates musical sounds and noises, they set her all in a tremor.-Earache.-Stitches in the ears; first in the l. ear, afterwards in the r.-Internal and external heat of the ears.-Cracking in the ears when reading aloud or moving jaws.-Just after getting into bed, sudden explosion and clashing in l. ear, as from breaking of glass; the clink of the glass was heard at the bottom of the head and extended thence towards r. ear.

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 5. Nose.-Redness of the nose in the open, cold air.-Coldness of the point of the nose.-Bleeding of the nose in bed after awaking.-Dryness of the nose in the morning in bed.
6. Face.-Heat of the face when excited, or during headache.-Face pale during cloudy weather.-Lips dry; cracked; swollen; pustular; sore at corners.
7. Teeth.-Great sensitiveness of a decayed molar tooth (lower) r. side.-Teeth yellow.
8. Mouth.-Concave edges of teeth seem sharp, and hurt the tongue.-Metallic taste, with dry, irritative hacking.-Lips dry, peeling off, cracked, bleeding.-Yellow spots in mouth; yellow ulcers on the tongue.-Tongue painful.-When moving the tongue, stitches from below to the tip.-Dry tongue and mouth; with increased thirst and greater redness of the lips.-Tongue red and dry.-Accumulation of saliva in mouth.
9. Throat.-Throat rough, scraped, hot, as if burnt.-Pain, when yawning, masticating solid food; worse in the evening and in the morning, when awaking.-Thick lumps of tough jelly-like mucus in the throat and posterior nares.
10. Appetite and Taste.-Taste bitter, sour, like ink.-Aversion to meat; desire for juicy things (fruits); for salt food.-Hunger unusually keen in the evening.-Thirst while eating, after eating, and during the night.-After eating, flatulency, pulsations in the rectum, and sexual irritation.-As soon as he eats anything, must hurry to stool.-Sweats after drinking.
11. Stomach.-Pain in the stomach after drinking water.-Sour things disagree with him.-Vomiting of blood.-Eructations; tasteless, bitter, sour.-Pain in the pit of the stomach from a mis-step.-Painful pressure under the sternum.
12. Abdomen.-Tension in the region of the liver.-Uneasiness, heat, pressure, and tension in the region of the liver.-Pain in the liver, < on standing, so that he bends forward.-Stitches in the liver, when drawing a long breath.-Congestion to the abdomen.-Sensation of fulness, heaviness, heat and inflammation.-The whole abdomen is painfully sensitive to the touch.-Abdominal muscles pain when touched, when pressing at stool, or on rising from a recumbent position.-Bloated abdomen, more on the left side, or along the colon, worse after eating.-Distension of the abdomen, esp. the epigastrium; with flatus moving about.-Pulsation in the region of the navel.-Pain around the navel, worse from pressure.-Rumbling in the abdomen.-Discharge of much flatulency, burning, smelling offensive, relieving the pain in the abdomen; after each meal, in the evening and morning, before stools.-Much soreness in the whole abdominal cavity, so that a false step hurts clear to the pit of the stomach.-Cutting in the abdomen with disinclination to go into the open air, which relieves the pain.-Heaviness, fulness, and pressing down in the pelvis.-Sensation of a plug wedged in between symphysis pubis and coccyx; with urging.
13. Stool and Anus.-Sudden or continued urging to stool; < immediately after eating; feeling of fulness and weight in pelvis; only flatus passes.-Desire for a stool after each meal.-Rumbling and cramp in the abdomen, before and during stool.-The hard stool falls without being noticed.-Involuntary soft stool, while passing wind.-With the diarrhoea, flatulency, pinching in the abdomen, pain in the back and rectum, and chilliness.-Diarrhoea very early in morning, driving him out of bed.-Stools like mush; thin, bright, yellow, grey, hot, undigested.-Frequent stools of bloody water: violent tenesmus; fainting; passing of mucus in jelly-like lumps, much flatus.-During the stool, congestion to the head and red face, or hunger.-Heaviness, heat, pressing, burning in the rectum.-Want of confidence in sphincter ani; rectum seems full of fluid which feels heavy, as if it would fall out.-When passing wind, feeling as if stool would escape with it.-Itching, burning, pulsations, pain as from fissures, at the anus; preventing sleep.-Haemorrhoidal tumours, protrude like bunches of grapes, very painful, sore, tender, hot, relieved by cold water.-Fulness and pressing out in anus.
14. Urinary Organs.-Increased secretion of urine, esp. at night.-Frequent urging; burning when urinating.-Every time on passing urine feeling as if some thin stool would escape with it.
15. Male Sexual Organs.-Sexual desire increased; < after awaking; after eating; in the evening.-Erections in the morning, and after passing water.-Involuntary emissions during the siesta; towards morning; followed by sexual excitement, micturition, and stool, and restless sleep.-Penis shrunk, and testicles cold.
16. Female Sexual Organs.-Pain in the hypogastrium, as if menses were coming on.-Fulness and heaviness in the uterine region, with labour-like pains in the loins and groins; worse standing.-Labour-like pains drawing into the legs.-Catamenia too early, and too profuse.-During menstruation, headache, which is relieved by the application of cold water; earache; pain in the small of the back; dragging down in the rectum; fulness in the pelvis.-Fluor albus.-Leucorrhoea of bloody mucus, preceded by colic.-Prolapsus uteri with the above symptoms.-Uterine haemorrhage about the change of life.
18. Chest.-Congestion to the chest.-Breathing impeded by stitches in the 1. side of the chest.-Expectoration of blood.
20. Neck and Back.-Lumbago, alternating with headache.-Pain in the small of the back, < sitting, or when awaking at night; > moving about.
21. Limbs.-Cold hands with warm feet.-Lameness in all the limbs.-Pricking, dull twitching, drawing pain in the joints (fingers, knees, elbows).-Sensation of weakness in the joints of the hands and feet.-Pains of short duration, as if bruised or dislocated (l. forearm, r. shoulder-blade, l. ribs).
24. Generalities.-Great weakness, and weak pulse after vomiting.-Bad effects from sedentary habits.-Esp. suitable for persons of a lymphatic or hypochondriac temperament.
25. Skin.-Itching, esp. of legs.-Spots which, when scratched, pain and become sensitive.
26. Sleep.-Cannot get to sleep for a long time, thoughts crowd upon him and keep him awake.
27. Fever.-Chills, with coryza, in the cold open air; at stool, shivering. Heat in spots, on scalp or face. Sweat: smells strong; offensive on genitals; at night, after drinking.

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Allium Sativum-a homoeopathic medicine


by John Henry Clarke

Garlic. N. O. Liliaceae. Tincture of fresh bulb.
Clinical.-Alopecia. Asthma, periodical. Bronchitis. Catarrhs. Colic. Constipation. Cough. Coxalgia. Dandriff. Diabetes. Diarrhoea. Dypepsia. Fevers. Headache. Hip, rheumatism of. Hoarseness. Menorrhagia. Menses, disorders of. Ophthalmia. Rheumatism. Salivation. Scurvy. Skin, affections of. Sprains. Whitlow. Worms.
Characteristics.-Teste places All. sat. in the Bryonia group along with Lyc., Digit., Nux v., Coloc., Ign., all of which act with much power on carnivorous animals and hardly at all on herbivora. All are suited to persons who are disposed to excesses at table, have strong constitutions, dark complexions, firm flesh, though occasionally disposed to obesity. The All. sat. patient is rather a gourmand than a glutton. It suits persons who eat a great deal more than they drink. In the mental sphere there is anxiety and impatience. Fears he won't recover; that he won't be able to bear any medicine; fear of being poisoned. Teste has cured with it, chronic dyspepsia in old, fleshy persons, whose bowels were deranged by the least irregularity of diet; chronic bronchial catarrh with profuse mucous expectoration; periodical asthma; a case of permanent dyspnoea; rheumatism of hip; swelling of breasts after weaning. He also greatly relieved with it cases of diabetes mellitus. The pains of All. s. are mostly pressive from within outward (i.e., distensive, like those of Bry.); stinging, or stinging and burning; or stinging with paralytic weakness; or tearing and crampy. Sometimes they increase gradually to a high point and then decrease gradually (like Sul. and Stan.). Garlic has been used as a condiment from ancient times, and also as a remedy against worms and fevers. Though closely related to All. cep. it is incompatible with it, and not very like it in action. It produces headache in connection with digestive troubles and also with menstruation. Heavy headache, can hardly open eyes, > onset of menses, < after. Catarrhal ophthalmia returning every night on trying to read. Coryza, moist, dry, thin, fluent, with pressive pains above root of nose. Scurvy gums; sore mouth. All. sat. is one of the remedies for "hair" sensation: Sensation of hair on tongue < reading. (Many of the pains of Cepa are thread-like.) Copious sweetish saliva. The digestion is disordered by slightest irregularities in diet. Pressure in epigastrium and transverse colon > by pressure and sitting bent. The menses are profuse. During menses there is soreness of vulva and thighs, mammae swollen and painful to touch. There are some characteristic respiratory symptoms. Bronchial catarrh with gelatinous, difficult expectoration. Cough, giving rise to most fetid breath like Capsicum. Cough when smoking. The hip is the seat of many rheumatic pains. Tearing in hip. Pain in psoas and iliac muscles < least movement, though he can lift the limb with the hands. The skin is sensitive, dry, shrivelled. Herpetic itching, burning, red or whitish spots on swollen surface. Baldness; scurf, skin peels off hand. The skin over joints is tight.
It is suited to fleshy people and those used to high living. Change of temperature ; pressure < pains in abdomen. Every step = excruciating pain in intestines. Walking < pains in limbs.
Relations.-Compare: All. cep. (which see). Ornithogalum umbellatum (stomach affections); Bry., Caps. (fetid breath with cough), Coloc. (colic; hip-pain); Ign.; Kali bi. (ropy expectoration; hair on tongue); Rhus and Hyo. (fear of being poisoned); Lyc., Nux v., Seneg. Antidoted by: Lyc. Complementary: Ars. Incompatible: Alo., All. cep., Scilla.
Causation.-Drinking bad water. Gluttony.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.-Sadness.-Weeping during sleep.-Fears he will never get well; fears he cannot bear any medicine; fear of being poisoned.-Sensitive.-Impatient.-Impulse to run away.
2. Head.-Vertigo on looking steadily at anything for a long time.-Short-lasting vertigo, and only on rising from a chair.-Heaviness in forehead, almost preventing him from opening his eyes.-Dull pain in occiput in morning, while lying on the back.-Headache: with mucus in the throat; before menses, ceasing when they occur and returning after; in dyspeptic subjects.
3. Eyes.-Catarrhal ophthalmia at night; smarting, burning lachrymation; agglutination; returns every night when he tries to read.-Tarsi sore with irritation.
4. Ears.-Catarrhal deafness.-Hardened ear-wax and crusts.
5. Nose.-Coryza rather dry than fluent, with pressive pain from above the root of the nose.-Smarting at junction of alae nasi and face.-Blowing blood from the nose in the night.
6. Face.-Lancinations on one side of the face.-Dry lips.
8. Mouth.-Tickling sensation in the lower teeth.-Swelling of lower gums.-During night, and in the morning, troublesome feeling as of a hair on her tongue; renewed on waking.-Tongue pale-red with effaced papillae.-Dryness of palate.-Very copious flow of sweetish saliva into the mouth in the forenoon, after meals; more esp. after supper and during the night.-Hot taste in mouth, proceeding from throat, strongly reminding him of garlic, immediately after taking the medicine, and returning after breakfast to such a degree as to cause a flow of saliva.-The symptoms of the mouth are < by reading.
9. Throat.-Sensation as of something cold rising in throat.-Sensation as of a hot and smarting vapour rising in the throat.-Mucous accumulations in the throat, in the morning, with heavy head.-Sticky feeling in throat with dryness, tickling, heat, and raw feeling in larynx.
10, 11. Appetite and Stomach.-Voracious appetite.-Great hunger from weakness of stomach without appetite.-Desire for butter.-Thirst; preventing sleep.-Burning eructations, after a meal.-Eructations exciting copious salivation.-The slightest deviation in diet disturbs the bowels and digestion.-Complaints from bad water; from gluttony.-Chest complaints < after eating.-Burning in stomach, which is not painful when not touched, but is very sensitive to the least pressure.-Lancinations.-Weight in stomach which prevents sleep.-Pressure inward as from a stone in epigastrium.-Pressure in upper abdomen; > by sitting bent and pressing with both hands; pain became unendurable on walking out.

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 12. Abdomen.-Wind colic; twistings and pinchings round navel.-Incomplete (as if interrupted) emission of fetid flatus.-Every step on the pavement caused excruciating pain as if the intestines would be torn apart, > by lying down.-Everything seemed to drag downward.-Weight in hypogastrium, immediately after a meal, without urging to stool or urinate.
13. Stool and Anus.-Expels flatus.-Stool first fecal, then watery and hot.-Involuntary stools.-Diarrhoeic stool, 3 a.m., preceded, accompanied, and followed by cuttings in abdomen and loins.-Normal stool immediately after a meal.-Stool delayed from morning until after dinner, great urging; with stool heat in rectum.-Constipation with almost constant dull pain in bowels.-Haemorrhoids.-Prolapsus ani.-Worms.
14. Urinary Organs.-Urine increased.-Whitish very abundant urine, becoming cloudy from nitric acid.-A kind of diabetes.-Dark brown with copious sediment.-Lessened urine.
16. Female Sexual Organs.-Menses too early; headache and dizziness lessen as the flow becomes established.-Suppurating pimples on vulva.-Suppurating pimples on vulva during menses.-During menses extensive excoriations of skin of internal portions of thighs.-Bright red spots, with itching and smarting on the inside of the labia majora and at entrance of vagina.-(Said to be injurious during pregnancy and nursing.).-Retained placenta.-Dull stitches in r. mamma.-Breasts swell after weaning.-Swelling of breasts, sensitive to touch.-Eruption of red blotches between the breasts and around the nipples.
17. Respiratory Organs.-Difficult respiration as if sternum compressed.-Periodic asthma.-Painful irritation of windpipe when coughing.-Scraping in larynx exciting dry cough.-Almost continuous mucous râles in bronchi.-Cough seeming to come from stomach.-Cough giving rise to perceptible fetid smell.-Dry cough after eating.-Morning cough, after leaving his bedroom, with extremely copious mucous expectoration.-Sudden paroxysms of hard, dry cough while smoking, compelling him to desist.-Great difficulty in expectorating a glutinous mucus.-Expectoration of thin, yellowish, purulent-looking blood-streaked mucus of putrid odour.-Cough < bending head; after eating; by open air.
18. Chest.-Pain in l. chest with dark urine.-Darting pain in the chest which prevents sleep.
19. Heart.-Leaping beats of the heart.
 
20. Back.-Red spots like ringworm on the back.-Itching between shoulders.-Tearing pain in sacrum.-Cutting pain in sacrum in morning.-Simple pain in coccyx.
22. Upper Limbs.-Painful feeling of contraction in arm.-Pain in forearm; seems as if paralysed.-Burning, then moisture in palms.-Some red spots appear on hands.-Skin peels off the hands.-Tearing pains in fingers extending below the nails.
23. Lower Limbs.-Rheumatism of hip.-Tearing pain in hip.-Intolerable pain in common tendon of psoas and iliacus muscles; < from least movement; trying to cross legs causes him to cry out; but this causes no pain if he lifts the limb gently with his hand; < 8 p.m. in bed, cannot then change his position or sleep.-Weakness in lower limbs; painful weariness in the thighs.-Legs do not grow as rapidly as the rest of the body.-Pain as from a sprain in ankle-joint; in toe-joints.-Tingling in feet; burning in soles; stiffness in feet.-Pains < by changes of temperature.
25. Skin.-Skin sensitive.-Loose; dry; wilted skin.-Swelling with itching and burning.-Red spots; on hands, on chest, on back.-Herpetic itching burning, red or whitish spots on a swollen surface.
26. Sleep.-Drowsiness after a meal.-Muscles twitch on falling asleep.-Sleep prevented by: stitches on chest; weight on stomach; thirst.-Coldness felt in sleep and awakening him frequently.-Dreams: of water and storms; of rapid transit from place to place; anxious; continuing after waking.
27. Fever.-Chilliness on one side only.-Shivering before midday and in evening.-During coldness, redness of face.-Vomiting during the fever.-Sweat in afternoon.-Sweat: acrid; causing itching; fetid.*

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