Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Hydrocotyle Asiatica hydrc.
General
A tincture is made of the dry plant, Hydrocotyle Asiatica, L.
Generalities
▶ Bruised feeling in all muscles; B. feeling on waking. ▶ Wandering pains in muscles of chest and legs. ▶ Drawings in several muscles. ▶ Malaise. ▶ Weariness; with heaviness and dullness; and unfitness for everything.
Mind
▶ Gloominess. ▶ Misanthropy. ▶ Inclination for solitude. ▶ Ennui. ▶ Indifference.
Head
Aching. ▶ Painful drawing in almost all cranial nerves. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Congestion of blood. ▶ Vertigo; with torpor. ▶ Neuralgic pain in external frontal nerve. ▶ Pain in posterior part of skull, with swelling. ▶ Occiput sensitive, agg. touch. ▶ Constriction of back part of skull; C. of posterior and superior integuments of skull.
Eyes and Ears
Look unsteady. ▶ Injection of palpebral conjunctiva. ▶ Pricking in eyes. ▶ Vision dim. ▶ Dazzling. ▶ Pain in left internal meatus auditorius. ▶ Ear, throbbing in right; ringing; ringing in left, with stoppage; confused noise in left ; blowing sound.
Nose
Swelling. ▶ Tickling; agg. left nostril. ▶ Feeling as before bleeding. ▶ Stoppage. ▶ Coryza; dry. ▶ Bleeding.
Face
Intoxicated expression. ▶ Intermittent pain in left. ▶ Cheek-bone.
Mouth and Throat
Whitish spots on left upper and under sides of tongue. ▶ Impediment in speech. ▶ Redness of velum palati, with pain on swallowing, agg. food. ▶ Hyperæmia of buccal mucous membrane. ▶ Saliva increased. ▶ Taste insipid or bitter. ▶ Tonsils red. ▶ Pricking in pharynx. ▶ Disorder of constrictor muscles of pharynx. ▶ Œsophagus dry and rough; burning and pricking in O.
Stomach
▶ Loathing of food. ▶ Anorexia; then strong appetite. ▶ Aversion to tobacco-smoking. ▶ Eructations frequent; acid E. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Swelling of S. ▶ Contraction. ▶ Cramplike pain. ▶ Sensation as if gases collected into a ball. ▶ Anxiety in region, with weight. ▶ Heat in region, spreading out like a bar.
Abdomen
▶ Borborygmi in different parts. ▶ Flatus. ▶ Violent contractions of intestines. ▶ Pain; every five minutes; agg. transverse colon. ▶ Constriction. ▶ Sensation as if all organs were in motion. ▶ Pain in upper part of liver. ▶ Obstruction in hepatic region. ▶ Heat in hypogastrium.
Clinical
Cirrhosis of the liver.
Inflammation of the neck of the bladder in women, with inflammation, heat, etc., within the vagina and neck of the womb. ▶ Pruritus of the vagina.
It has cured lupus of suppurating variety. ▶ Lymphatic tumors. ▶ It has ameliorated cases of leprosy, seems to have arrested the destructive process; it also has ameliorated cases of elephantiasis. ▶ Numerous cases of eruptions, for the most part dry, with great thickening of the epidermoid layer and enormous exfoliation of scales. ▶ It has cured psoriasis with the above indications, and has greatly relieved forms of dry eczema; excessive thickening and exfoliation of the epidermis is a strongly marked indication for its use (Kreos.).
Rectum and Stool
Weight in rectum. ▶ Burning in anus. ▶ Itching in anus. ▶ Ineffectual desire. ▶ Stools dry, dark. ▶ Stools increased. ▶ Stools easier.
Urinary Organs
Feeling of weight in prostate gland. ▶ Irritation of neck of bladder. ▶ Constriction of bladder. ▶ Frequent desire to urinate. ▶ Irritation of urethra. ▶ Urine increased. ▶ Urine becomes brown on cooling. ▶ U. turbid, without sediment.
Sexual Organs
Drawing in spermatic cords, agg. left. ▶ Scrotum relaxed. ▶ Impotence. ▶ Indifference to intercourse. ▶ Vulva and vagina red. ▶ Heat in bottom of vagina, at its orifice pricking and itching. ▶ Leucorrhœa increased. ▶ Pain in ovarian region. ▶ Uterus, redness of cervix; pain, agg. left side; laborlike pain in U. and appendages; heaviness.
Respiratory Organs and Chest
Pricking in vicinity of glottis. ▶ Dryness of windpipe; of ventricles of larynx. ▶ Voice weak. ▶ Speaking soon fatigues. ▶ Irritation of air-passages. ▶ Difficult expectoration of bronchial mucus. ▶ Breath short. ▶ Oppression of chest relieved suddenly, then intermittent.
Heart and Pulse
Cardiac spasm. ▶ Constriction of heart; with quiet and regular pulse, or with a few separate beats in certain arteries, or with hot flushes in different parts of face. ▶ Irregular beating of heart. ▶ Pulse stronger and fuller.
Neck and Back
Renewal of old rheumatic pains in left rhomboid, agg. pressure. ▶ Bruised pain in loins. ▶ Obstruction in region of kidneys, with heaviness. ▶ Formication in kidneys.
Extremities
Contractions of forearms and legs. ▶ Irresistible inclination to stretch. ▶ Pain in all joints; agg. left ; P. in all muscles. ▶ Sensation as if hot water ran through marrow of bones. ▶ Weariness in all muscles of shoulders. ▶ Crampy numbness of right forearm, hand and fingers. ▶ Pain in finger-joints. ▶ Gait unsteady. ▶ Inability to stand. ▶ Sharp pains in hips. ▶ Weariness in muscles of thighs, with crampy movements in calves.
Skin
▶ Spots almost circular, with raised scaly edges. ▶ Yellowish spots on legs. ▶ Erysipelatous redness. ▶ Red points on eyelids, left side of neck and both hands. ▶ Red spots covered with whitish scales, on left side of neck. ▶ Lilac-colored spot, shaped like an ear, on sole, the skin over it is depressed and walking is painful. ▶ Erythema on face, neck, back, chest, arms and thighs; E., with much itching; E., with copious sweat. ▶ Miliary eruptions on neck, back and chest. ▶ Sudamina on abdomen. ▶ Papules on face. ▶ Pustules on chest. ▶ Pricking on different parts. ▶ Itching in several places; I. at tip of nose (in one had chilblain there every year).
Sleep
Yawning and stretching. ▶ Sleepiness; in the daytime. ▶ Heavy, dreamless sleep.
Fever
Shivering in afternoon. ▶ Cold hands and feet, with general condition resembling precursory stage of fever, with alteration of pulse; C. forearm, hand, left foot and leg, amel. rubbing, but returning. ▶ Febrile movements. ▶ Heat of skin; H. in bones of leg; in left tibia; in face in flushes; in different parts of face in flushes, agg. temporal regions. ▶ Profuse sweat.