Remedy

Euphorbium eupho.

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Duration of action

Not a dosing interval.

Relationships

Knerr's Drug Relationships, from Hering's Guiding Symptoms

Compatible

arum-t.

Antidotes

ars. nux-v. op.

Named under 4 other remedies in this book

These rows are the other remedies’, naming Euphorbium.

Antidotes

acet-ac. grat.

Similar

manc. ran-b.

Relationship of Remedies

Remedies that follow well

ferr. lach. puls. sep. sulph.

Antidotes

acet-ac. camph.

Named under 1 other remedy in this book

These rows are the other remedies’, naming Euphorbium.

Antidotes

ars.

Polar generals

Side

Time

Motion

Rest

Position

Warmth

Cold

  • better from cold (application)Clarke

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915

Region

Mucous membranes. Bones. Skin. Teeth.

Worse

Sitting. Rest. Beginning motion. Mercury.

General

Internal burning; in bones at night. Caries. Much secretion, with a sense of dryness. Paralytic weakness; in joints. Slow inflammation.

Particulars

Much abortive sneezing. Coryza, with swelling. Ozœna; acrid. Mouth feels coated with rancid grease (Iris.). Brittle, crumbling teeth. Stitches from epigastium into sides of chest on coughing. Erysipelas; bullosum; right side, of mucous membranes. High fever.

Related

Related: Nit-ac. Sul.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · 1887

General

Affections of the teeth, left side; left abdominal ring; sensation in the lumbar region or joints, as if paralyzed; biting and stinging on the skin; biting exanthema; red inflammatory swelling; sensation of burning heat on either cheek, generally left side. Cough almost constant, day and night, accompanied by stitches which seem to proceed from the pit of the stomach to both sides of the chest.

Worse

From changing the position; on beginning to move; while lying down; while resting; sitting; beginning to walk.

Better

From moving; from continued moving; when walking.

Remedies following

Ferrum, Laches., Pulsat., Sepia., Sulphur.

Antidote

Camphor.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · 1905

Red line symptom

Abundant flow of corrosive tears, almost blinding him. Profuse, bland, fluent coryza, with scalding tears and aversion to light.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Spurge-The resinous Juice of Euphorbia Resinifera (EUPHORBIUM)

General

An irritant to the skin and mucous membranes. Burning pain in bones. Pains in limbs and paralytic weakness in the joints. Important respiratory and skin symptoms. Terrible burning pains. Pains of cancer. Everything appears larger than it really is.

Head

Acute mania. Violent, pressive headache.

Face

Erysipelas; yellow blisters. Burning in cheek; worse, left. Eyes inflamed and agglutinated in morning; Red swelling of cheeks. Nasal pruritus with mucous secretions from naso-pharynx.

Stomach

Great hunger. Sialorrhea (profuse salty saliva). Waterbrash. Thirst for cold drinks.

Abdomen

Sunken; spasmodic, flatulent colic. Stools fermented, profuse, clayey. Feels hollow.

Respiratory

Breathing oppressed, as if chest were not wide enough. Spasmodic, dry cough, day and night, with asthma. Violent, fluent coryza, with burning and cough. Constant cough, with stitches from pit of stomach to sides of chest. Croup, dry, hollow, cough. Warm feeling in chest, as if hot food had been swallowed.

Extremities

Paralytic pains. Pain in hip-joint and coccyx.

Skin

Erysipelatous inflammation, especially of the cheek. Biting and stinging, red, swollen. Vesicular erysipelas. Carbuncle; old, torpid, indolent ulcers with biting, lancinating pain. Old torpid ulcer, pustules; gangrene (Echinac; Secale). Ulcerating carcinoma and epithelioma of the skin.

Relationship

Compare: Euphorbia amygdaloides-Wood Spurge (in pain in antrum, illusion of smell, odor of mice. Sense of taste blunted. Diarrhœa; stools difficult, with painful anal spasm).

Euphorbia corollata-Large Flowering Spurge--(a diaphoretic expectorant and cathartic of the old school in gastro-enteric disturbance, with deathly nausea. Vomiting of food, water, and mucus and copious evacuations. Attacks recur after short intermissions. Feeling of clawing in stomach; cold sweat) (Verat alb).

Euphorbia marginata-Snow on the mountain--(Honey from the flowers is poisonous, detected by the hot, acrid taste. The milky juice produces skin symptoms like Rhus).

Euphorbia pilulifera-Pillbearing Spurge--(Humid asthma, cardiac dyspnœa, hay-fever, and bronchitis. Urethritis, with intense pain on urinating, and much urging. Acrid leucorrhœa; worse least movement. Hæmorrhages from sunstroke and traumatism).

Compare, also: Psoralea-A Columbian plant--(Pain of cancer, ulcers. Leucorrhœa fetid. Pruritus. Uterine tumors). Croton; Jatropha; Colchic.

Antidotes: Camph; Opium.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · 1866

Mind and Disposition

Earnest quietness, driving one to occupy himself. Serious and taciturn.

Head

Vertigo when standing or walking in the open air. Sensation of soreness (as if beaten) in the back part of the head ; worse in the morning ; when lying ; from heat ; relieved by motion and cooling the head.

Eyes

Smarting of the eyes, with lachrymation. Pale-red inflammation of the eyelids, with nightly agglutination. Inflammation of the eyes, with itching of the eyelids and canthi of the eye. Diplopia ; seeing a person walk before him he imagines he sees the same man walking after him.

Nose

Discharge of a quantity of mucus from the posterior nares.

Face

Red, inflamed, painful swelling of the face, with yellowish blisters secreting a thick yellow fluid. Erysipelatous, inflammatory swelling of the cheeks, with vesicles full of yellowish humour. White, œdema-like swelling of the cheeks.

Mouth and Throat

Toothache increasing when touched or when masticating. The teeth crumble off. Ptyalism preceded by shivering or with inclination to vomit, shuddering and griping in the stomach, the saliva tastes salt. Burning in the throat as from hot coal, extending to the stomach with anguish (as if a flame were rushing out). Dryness of the mouth without thirst.

Stomach and Abdomen

Great thirst for cool drinks. Vomiting (with diarrhœa). Nausea with shaking. Burning (like fire) in the stomach and abdomen. Spasmodic constriction in the stomach. Spasmodic flatulent colic (in the morning in bed) with pain as if the abdomen were pressed asunder, relieve by leaning his head upon the elbows and knees. Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen as after an emetic (morning).

Stool and Anus

Hard stool difficult to pass. Stool like glue after previous itching of the rectum. Violent itching of the rectum during urgent desire for stool, and after the evacuation. Burning sore pain around the anus. Diarrhœa, with tenesmus, burning at the anus, and soreness in the abdomen. Stool first thin, then knotty.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urinate with slight discharge of urine. White sediment in the urine. Itching stitch in the external portion of the urethra between the acts of urinating.

Genital Organs

Men. Erection without sexual desire. Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis. Voluptuous itching of the prepuce.

Respiratory Organs

Oppression of breathing, as if the chest were not wide enough, with tension in the pectoral muscles, especially when turning the body to the right side. Stitches in the left side of the chest, during rest ; better during motion. Sensation as if the left lobe of the lung were adhering. Warm feeling in the middle of the chest, as if hot food had been swallowed. Dry hollow cough from tickling in the chest or throat. Dry cough day and night, expectoration copious only in the morning.

Extremities

Upper. Scarlet-red streaks on the (left) forearm, itching when touched. Paralytic tightness in the shoulder-joint (in the morning) worse on moving the arm. Pain as from a sprain in the (right) upper arm when moving the arm. Cramp pain in the muscles of the right hand, when writing. Lower. Pain as if sprained in the hip-joint (on moving). Burning pain at night in the femur, and hip-joint. Pain as ; loin a sprain in the left thigh ; worse when walking, disappears ; when standing. Cold perspiration of the legs in the morning. Great weakness of the legs. Sore pain in the (right) heel, when walking in the open air. The feet go to sleep frequently when sitting.

Sleep

Sleepiness during the day-drowsiness after dinner. Sleeps with his arms extended over his head.

Generalities

Paralytic weakness in the joints, especially felt when beginning to move. Burning pain in the internal organs. Rheumatic pains worse when at rest.

Fever

Chilliness and coldness predominate. Chilliness when beginning to cat and when walking in the open (not cold) air. Chilliness with perspiration. Chill over the upper part of the body with heat of the cheeks. The body is cold, with internal burning heat. Heat with aversion to be dressed, the clothing feels heavy -Heat only on the head. Perspiration in the morning in bed. Cold perspiration on the legs (in the morning).

Skin

Burning in the bones. Caries. Cold gangrene. Old, torpid ulcers. Blood-boils. Warts. Burning itching which induces scratching.

Conditions

Aggravation when at rest, while sitting, from contact, or when walking in the open (not cold) air.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902

General

Euphorbium officinarum. Gum Euphorbium. The resinous exudation or juice of Euphorbia resinifera. exported from Morocco. Euphorbia resinifera is a cactus-like plant of the Euphorbiaceæ.

Clinical

Bone, diseases of. Cancer. Cataract. Coccygodynia. Cough. Crusta lactea. Erysipelas. Eyes, inflammation of. Gangrene. Hay-fever. Headache. Heartburn. Influenza. Peritonitis. Sciatica. Syphilis. Teeth, affections of. Toothache. Ulcers. Vision, disorders of. Warts. Writer's cramp.

Characteristics

Gum euphorbium is one of the remedies of Hahnemann's chronic diseases. It is the principal member of the group of Euphorbian drugs, and should be studied with Croton tiglium and Ricinus . Like these it produces gastro-intestinal irritation and all degrees of irritation of the skin. It also affects the eyes, teeth, and bones. Burning pains in the bones is an indication, and along with Euphorb. heterodoxa it is a remedy for the pains of cancer. (In a desperate case of sarcoma of the pelvic bones under my care nothing gave greater relief to the pains than repeated doses of Euphorb . 6.) Painfulness of the coccyx. Caries. Old torpid ulcers. Hartmann says Euphorb . often affords excellent service in gangrene of internal parts, "especially when consequent on inflammation of the stomach or bowels, &c., and the temperature of the body is continually diminishing, a great degree of torpor being present and the affected parts without sensation." Gangrene of old persons. Erysipelas bullosa. Burning, which characterises the Euphorbias generally, is well marked in this. Among the peculiar sensations are: Sensation, as if teeth were being screwed together. Jerking in tooth as if it would be torn out. Taste as if mouth were lined with rancid grease. Burning in throat as from a hot coal. As if flames were rushing out of mouth and throat. Feeling in middle of chest as if hot food had been swallowed. As if left lobe of lung were adhering. (Münninghoff records a case in which the patient had two violent attacks of night cough. They occurred as soon as she touched the bed in lying down, and continued as long as she remained in it. Accompanying symptoms were: Pain in right temple, cold feet, and pain in heel. After failure of many remedies Euphorb. off . Ø, one drop in a glass of water, to be sipped occasionally, gave instant relief; but she had to continue the remedy or the cough returned.) Sudden starting up in bed as from an electric shock. As if a thin cord lay under the skin. Prostration is present as with the other Euphorbias; but Euphorbium has, in addition, periodic cramp, writer's cramp, and convulsions with loss of consciousness. Most symptoms are < at night and in the morning. Rest < , motion > . Paralytic weakness in joints < on beginning to move. Painfulness of coccyx, < on rising from sitting. Heat < ; cool applications > . Touch < .

Relations

Antidoted by: Camph., Op., large quantities of lemon-juice. It antidotes: Ars., Nux v. It follows: Graphit., Lach., Puls., Sep., Sul. Compare: Colch., Elat., Ant. t., Verat.; also the Euphorbiacious plants — Acalyph., Crot. tig., Jatroph. c., Mancin., Mercurialis, Ricinus, Yucca fil., and the various Euphorbias.

Mind

Anxious apprehensions. — Seriousness and taciturnity. — Earnest quietness, reflective; seeks quiet, though with inclination to work.

Head

Turning vertigo, which causes falling sidelong. — Vertigo when standing or walking in the open air. — Pressive, shooting headache. — Pain, as from a bruise in occiput; < in morning; when lying; from heat; > by motion and cooling the head. — Screwed-in sensation in whole brain.

Eyes

Inflammation of the eyes, with itching and dryness of the eyelids, and of the canthi. — Chronic inflammation of the eyes. — Smarting lachrymation, and nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids. — Copious secretion of mucus in the canthi. — Opacity of the cornea. — Clouded vision. — Myopia. — Diplopia; seeing a person walk before him he imagines he sees the same man walking after him.

Ears

Otalgia in the open air.

Nose

A suffocating itching in the nose, extending to the brain, with abundant flow of mucus from the posterior nares. — Frequent sneezing.

Face

Erysipelatous swelling of the cheek, with eruption of yellowish vesicles (full of yellowish humour), and piercing and digging pain. — Red, inflamed, painful swelling of the face, with yellowish blisters secreting a thick yellow fluid. — Pale (white œdema-like) swelling of the cheek. — Burning pain in the face.

Teeth

Pressive, shooting toothache, or with piercing pain, aggravated by contact or mastication, or else at the beginning of a meal, with shivering and pain in the head, and in the cheek-bones. — Brittleness of the teeth.

Mouth

Dryness of the mouth, without thirst. — Salivation with shuddering, inclination to vomit, and pinchings in the stomach. — Saltness of the saliva.

Throat

Burning pain from the throat (as from a hot coal) to the stomach, accompanied by heat (as if a flame were rushing out), anxiety, trembling, and water-brash.

Stomach

Sickly, rancid, bitter taste. — Strong thirst for cold drinks. — Empty risings. — Hiccough. — Water-brash, with heat, anxiety, and trembling. — Vomiting (with diarrhœa). — Pain, as from a bruise, in the stomach. — Relaxation and flaccidity of the stomach, with retraction of the abdomen. — Contractive cramps in the stomach. — Pinchings, and sensation of clawing in the stomach. — Burning pain in the stomach and in the epigastrium. — Inflammation of the stomach.

Abdomen

Constrictive pains in the abdomen. — Spasmodic colic, flatulent, with pains as if the tissue were being separated, or of pressure upwards, generally > by supporting the head on the knee and the elbow. — Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen as after an emetic (morning). — Burning pain in the abdomen. — Tearing in the groins, such as follows dislocation.

Stool and Anus

Hard stool to pass. — Urgency to evacuate, with itching in the rectum (stool like glue). — Liquid diarrhœa, with tenesmus. — Stool first thin, then knotty. — Sensation of burning in the anus, and pain as from excoriation in the abdomen.

Urinary Organs

Urgency to make water, with difficult discharge, scanty and drop by drop. — White sediment in the urine. — Itching stitch in the external portion of the urethra between the acts of urinating. — Flow of blood from the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Tearing lancinations in the glans penis. — Voluptuous itching in the prepuce. — Tearing in the testes. — Burning pain in the scrotum. — Constant erections, without sexual desire. — Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis.

Respiratory Organs

Dry, hollow cough, excited by a burning tickling in the trachea and the chest. — Dry cough, day and night, as from oppression, with frequent expectoration in the morning. — Attacks of violent cough commencing as soon as patient touches the pillow and continuing as long as she remains in bed.

Chest

Difficult respiration and short breath, with tensive pain in the muscles of the chest. — Oppression of breathing, as if the chest were not wide enough, with tension in the pectoral muscles, esp. when turning the body to the r. side. — Sensation of spasmodic distension in the chest. — Sensation as if one of the lobes of the liver were adherent. — Sensation as if the l. lobe of the lung were adhering. — Aching in the muscles of the chest. — Pressive lancination on the sternum. — Lancination in the l. side of the chest, during repose, mitigated by movement. — Warm feeling in the middle of the chest, as if hot food had been swallowed. — Burning pain in the chest.

Neck and Back

Sweat in the neck. — Cramp-like pain in the dorsal spine, in the morning, in bed, when lying; on the back.

Upper Limbs

Paralytic tension in the joint of the shoulder, during repose, > by walking. — Scarlet streaks on the front-arm, itching when touched. — Cramp-like tractions in the hand, after writing.

Lower Limbs

Pains of dislocation in the hips. — Burning pain at night in the thigh bones. — Great weakness of the legs. — Cramp-like contraction of the toes. — Cold perspiration of the legs in the morning. — Sore pain in (r.) heel when walking in the open air. — The feet go to sleep frequently when sitting.

Generalities

Tearing or pressive, or shooting pains in the limbs, esp. during repose, mitigated by movement. — Rheumatic pains < when at rest. — Shooting and tensive pains in the muscles. — Burning pains in different parts of the body, esp. in the internal organs. — Cancer pains. — Paralytic weakness in the joints, with difficulty in rising from a seat, or when beginning to move. — Great relaxation and lassitude. — The majority of the symptoms are < during repose, by a sitting posture, and by the touch. — Burning in the bones. — Caries.

Skin

Gnawing and burning itching, which provokes almost constant scratching. — Streaks of a purple-red on the skin. — Furunculi. — Indolent ulcers. — (Sphacelus?). — Cold gangrene. — Blood-boils. — Warts.

Sleep

Drowsiness during the day, accompanied by frequent yawnings. — Drowsiness after dinner. — Comatose somnolency during the day. — Difficulty in sleeping in the evening, with trembling and starts. — Frequent waking. — Sleeps with his arms extended over his head.

Fever

Shuddering and want of vital heat, esp. in affections of the internal organs. — Shivering at the commencement of a meal and when walking in the open (not cold) air. — Shuddering and shivering, with coldness in the hands and heat of the cheeks, without thirst. — Perspiration in the morning, with heat, without thirst.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Earnest, quiet, reflective mood ; seeks quiet, though with inclination to work.
Anxious, apprehensive, solicitous mood.
Temporary attacks of craziness, insists upon saying his prayers at the tail of his horse ; knows his freaks and wants to be by himself and in silence.
Imagines he sees the same man walking after him that he sees walking before him.

Sensorium

Vertigo when standing or walking in open air.

Inner head

Dull, stupefying, pressive pain in forehead.
Sticking headache, especially in forehead.
Tensive pressure in head, especially in forehead and cervical muscles.
Screwed-in sensation in whole of brain and in zygomata, with toothache.
Headache as though head would be pressed asunder.
Bruised pain in head, especially in occiput and forehead, < in morning, > by cold applications.
Sensation of soreness, as if beaten, in back part of head ; < in morning ; when lying ; from heat ; sitting ; in rest ; > by motion and cooling head.

Outer head

Erysipelas of head and face, with digging, boring, and gnawing pains, followed, when ameliorated, by creeping and itching of parts ; considerable swelling of affected parts, with small vesicles discharging a yellowish fluid.
Erysipelatous inflammation of face and external head.

Sight and eyes

Everything appears larger than it really is ; even in walking he raises his legs more than is necessary, because he imagines he has to step over elevations.
Diplopia ; seeing a person walk before him he imagines he sees the same man walking after him.
Lens milk white ; cannot see to go alone, though sees better on a dark day. θ Cataract.
Biting and smarting of eyes, with lachrymation.
Inflammation of eyes, with itching of eyelids and canthi, which are excoriated.
Feeling of great dryness in eyes with profuse discharge.
Purulent discharge from eyes.
Chronic ophthalmia ; lids pain and itch severely, are wet and agglutinated.
Pale-red inflammation of eyelids ; with nightly secretion of matter which agglutinates them.
Swelling of lids, with tearing above eyebrows, on opening eyes.
Upper lids sink down ; they close irresistibly, with reeling in head.

Hearing and ears

Roaring in ears at night.
Ringing in the ear.
Buzzing in right ear, cannot sleep at night.

Smell and nose

Sneezing.
Fluent coryza, without sneezing.
Discharge of a quantity of mucus from posterior nares.

Upper face

Paleness of face ; sickly look.
White, œdema-like swelling of the cheeks.
Red, inflamed swelling of cheek, with boring, gnawing, and digging from gum into ear ; itching and crawling in cheek when the pain is relieved.
Red inflammatory swelling of cheek, with sensation of burning heat.
Excessive red swelling of cheek, with many yellow vesicles upon it, which open and discharge a yellowish moisture.
Erysipelas of cheeks, preceded by alternating chills and heat ; constrictive headache, especially in occiput ; and burning, stinging and itching of parts ; yellow blisters.
Erysipelatous inflamed swelling of cheek, with vesicles as large as peas filled with yellow liquid.

Teeth and gums

Throbbing, beating pains, and sensation as if teeth were being screwed together ; under eyetooth a swelling extremely sensitive to touch, which ultimately developed into an abscess ; cheek greatly swollen and inflamed. θ Toothache.
Aching, stitching, or boring pains, with erysipelatous swelling of cheek ; crumbling of teeth. θ Toothache.
Toothache, as if screwed in, in a hollow tooth, with jerking, as if it would be torn out.
Toothache < when touched or when masticating.
The teeth crumble off.

Taste, speech, tongue

Flat taste in mouth, after breakfast ; white-coated tongue.

Inner mouth

Dryness of the mouth without thirst.
Taste in mouth as if it was lined with rancid grease.
Much tenacious mucus in mouth, after midday sleep.
Ptyalism preceded by shivering or with inclination to vomit ; shuddering and griping in stomach ; saliva tastes salt.

Palate and throat

Scraping and rawness in throat.
Burning in throat as from hot coal, extending to stomach, with pain and anxiousness.
Burning in the throat and stomach as if a flame were rushing out.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Great hunger, the stomach hanging down relaxed and abdomen feeling hollow.
Great thirst for cold drinks.

Eating and drinking

Chilly when beginning to eat.
Drowsiness after dinner.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Profuse empty eructations.
Nausea with shuddering.
Vomiting with diarrhœa.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Relaxation of stomach, it hangs down loose.
Spasmodic constriction in stomach.
Burning like fire in stomach and abdomen.
Inflammation of stomach ; erysipelatous gastritis.

Abdomen and loins

Sensation of emptiness in abdomen as after an emetic ; in morning.
Spasmodic flatulent colic, in morning in bed, with pain as if abdomen was pressed asunder, > by leaning his head upon elbows and knees.
Excessive colic and tympanitis.
Griping through whole intestinal canal, followed by thin stool, with burning itching about rectum.
Anxious sore aching in lower abdomen.
Pinching pain on posterior portion of ilium.
Pressive pain in inguinal region.
Affections of left abdominal ring.
Violent sprained and lame pain in left side of pubis, extending to thigh, on stretching the limb after sitting.
Tearing pain in left groin, as from a sprain, while standing.

Stools and rectum

Diarrhœa, with tenesmus, burning at anus, and soreness in abdomen.
Stools like glue, painful and flatulent, after previous itching of rectum.
Stool first thin, then knotty.
Constipation from torpidity of bowels ; hard stool, difficult to pass.
Violent itching of rectum during urgent desire for stool, and after evacuation.
Burning sore pain around anus.

Urinary organs

Hemorrhoids of the bladder.
Frequent desire to urinate with slight discharge of urine.
Strangury.
Itching stitch in external portion of urethra between acts of urinating.
White sediment in the urine.

Male sexual organs

Erections without sexual desire.
Voluptuous itching of prepuce.
Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis.
Chronic gonorrhœa when the discharge is mixed with blood.

Female sexual organs

Ovaritis.
Itching of the mons veneris.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Chills, headache, frontal and occipital, with stiffness of cervical muscles ; pains in back and limbs ; general malaise ; prostration ; watery discharge from eyes and nose, with burning and smarting ; also burning and smarting in
trachea, with profuse secretion of mucus ; tickling in larynx with cough. θ Influenza.
Cough, caused by burning tickling in upper part of trachea.

Respiration

Oppression of breathing, as if chest were not wide enough.

Cough

Dry, hollow cough, from tickling in chest and throat Constant, dry, titillating, hacking cough, day and night with lachrymation.
Severe spasmodic cough, day and night, interrupting sleep, and greatly wearing him out ; cough dry, with stitches which seem to proceed from pit of stomach to both sides of chest.
Dry cough day and night ; sputa copious only in morning.
Cough with asthma.

Inner chest and lungs

Warm feeling in middle of chest, as if hot food had been swallowed.
Sensation as if left lobe of lung was adhering.
Burning and stitching in left side of chest, during rest, > by motion.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Sinking pulse.

Outer chest

Stitch-like pressure upon sternum while sitting and standing.
Heaviness in pectoral muscles especially when turning body to the right side.

Neck and back

Pain in back ; a pressure in the muscles.
Sensation in lumbar region or joints, as if paralyzed.
Painfulness of coccyx as if in the bone, < on rising from sitting and beginning to move ; sensitive to touch ; three times daily diarrheic stools, which < pain in coccyx.

Upper limbs

Scarlet red streaks on left forearm, itching when touched.
Paralytic tightness in shoulder-joint, mornings, from moving arm.
Pressive pain in upper arm, on outer side above elbow ; in ball of right thumb.
Scarlet streaks on left forearm, disappearing when passing finger over them.
Cramp pain in muscles of right hand when writing.
Paralytic pain in wrist on moving it.

Lower limbs

Burning pain at night in bones of hip and thigh ; frequently awakened thereby several nights in succession.
Pains in hip joint on moving, as if sprained ; burning pain at night in femur and hip joint.
Tearing, stinging, pressing pains, > by motion, < during rest ; paralytic sensation, with difficulty of rising from seat. θ Ischias.
Pain as of a sprain in left thigh, < walking, > standing.
Great weakness of legs.
Cold perspiration on legs in morning.
Feet go to sleep when sitting.
Sore pains in right heel when walking out doors.

Limbs in general

Rheumatic pains in limbs.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : soreness in head < ; burning and stitching in left side of chest ; tearing pain < ; rheumatic pains <.
Sleeps with arms over head.
Lying : soreness in head < ; ulcers <.
Sitting : soreness in head < ; stitch-like pressure upon sternum ; feet go to sleep ; ulcers <.
Leaning head on elbows and knees > pain in abdomen.
Standing : vertigo ; tearing pain in groin ; stitch-like pressure ; pain in thigh >.
Motion : soreness in head > ; burning in chest > ; heaviness in muscles when turning body ; of wrist, paralytic pain ; pain in hip joints ; tearing pains > ; ulcers >.
Beginning to move : paralytic weakness in joints < ; ulcers <.
Opening eyes : tearing above eyebrows.
Changing position : ulcers <.
Rising from sitting : painfulness of coccyx <.
Writing : cramp pain in right hand.
Stretching limb after sitting : violent pain.
Walking : vertigo ; pain in thigh < ; ulcers.

Nerves

Weariness, faintness ; whole body seems relaxed and tired.
Prostration ; fainting spells.
Periodic attacks of cramps.
Writers' cramp.
Convulsions, with loss of consciousness and congestion of blood to head ; hot skin ; slow, full pulse.

Sleep

Sleepiness during the day.
Sleeplessness, with tremulous tossing about before midnight, roaring in ears, unable to close eyes.
Sudden starting up as from an electric shock at night, while lying awake in bed.
Anxious, vivid dreams at night, causing him to cry out, whereupon he awakes.

Time

Morning : headache < ; sensation of soreness < ; sensation of emptiness in abdomen ; flatulent colic in bed ; sputa copious ; cold perspiration on legs ; chill of whole body ; sweat over whole body ; sweat over neck, thighs and
legs ; sweat in bed ; ulcers <.
Day : spasmodic cough ; sleepiness ; great heat.
Before midnight : sleeplessness.
Night : roaring at night ; cannot sleep ; spasmodic cough ; burning pain in bones of hip and thigh ; awakened by pain ; burning pain in femur and hip joint ; sudden starting up in bed ; vivid dreams.

Temperature and weather

Heat : soreness in head < ; near fire < ulcers.
Open air : vertigo when walking ; walking, sore pains in heel ; chill when walking.
Cooling head > soreness.
Cold application : headache >.

Fever

Chill : of whole body in morning ; while walking in open air ; when beginning to eat.
Constant chilliness, with constant sweat.
Chill with sweat at the same time.
Shivering over whole body ; over back, with glowing cheeks and cold hands.
The body is cold, with internal burning heat.
Great heat the whole day ; all the clothes seem burdensome, even his whole body is too heavy for him, as if he had carried a great load.
Heat with aversion to be dressed, the clothing feels too heavy.
Heat only on the head.
Sweat : in morning, extending from feet over whole body ; some thirst.
Morning-sweat, on neck, thighs and legs.
Sweat only on thighs.
Cold sweat on legs.
Sweat in morning in bed.
Usually a morning paroxysm.

Attacks, periodicity

Three times daily : diarrheic stools.

Locality and direction

Left : affections of abdominal ring ; sprained and lame pain in side of pubis ; tearing pain in groin ; as if lobe of lung was adhering ; burning, stitching in side of chest ; scarlet streaks on forearm ; pain as from a sprain in thigh ;
burning heat on either cheek, generally left.
Right : buzzing in ear ; turning body to side ; heaviness of muscles ; cramp pain in muscles of hand ; sore pains in heel.

Sensations

As though head would be pressed asunder ; soreness as if beaten in back part of head ; as if teeth were being screwed together ; jerking in tooth as if it would be torn out ; taste as if mouth was lined with rancid grease ; burning in throat as from a
hot coal ; as if flames were rushing out of stomach and throat ; emptiness as if after an emetic ; as if abdomen was pressed asunder ; as if chest were not wide enough ; feeling in middle of chest as if hot food had been swallowed ; as if left lobe of lung was
adhering ; in lumbar region or joints as if paralyzed ; pain in hip joint as if sprained ; pain as of a sprain in left thigh ; sudden starting up in bed as from an electric shock ; as if a thin cord lay under skin.
Pain : in eyelids ; in stomach ; in back and limbs ; painfulness of coccyx ; in hip joint.
Lancinating pains : on skin.
Tearing : above eyebrows ; in left groin ; in limbs.
Beating pain : in teeth.
Gnawing pain : in head ; from gum to ear.
Stitching pains : in cheek ; from pit of stomach to sides of chest ; in left side of chest.
Sticking pain : in forehead.
Throbbing pains : in teeth.
Digging pain : in head ; from gum to ear.
Boring : in head ; from gum to ear ; in cheek.
Pinching pain : on posterior portion of ilium.
Griping : in stomach ; through intestinal canal.
Cramp pain : in muscles of right hand ; writers' cramp.
Screwed-in sensation : in brain ; in zygomata.
Spasmodic : flatulent colic.
Stitch-like pressure : upon sternum.
Stinging pain : in limbs.
Itching stitch : in external portion of urethra between acts of urinating.
Constriction : in head ; of stomach.
Burning heat : in cheek.
Burning : in head ; in throat ; in stomach and abdomen ; about rectum at anus ; in side of chest ; in bones of hip and thigh ; in femur and hip joint ; in bones.
Stinging : in head ; in inner organs ; in bones.
Heat : on head.
Biting and stinging : on skin.
Biting : of eyes.
Smarting of eyes.
Soreness : in abdomen ; in right heel.
Pressive pain : in forehead ; in inguinal region ; in limbs.
Tensive pressure : in head ; in forehead ; in cervical muscles.
Anxious sore aching : in lower abdomen.
Dull, stupefying pain : in forehead.
Bruised pain : in head.
Rheumatic pains : in limbs.
Sprained lame pain : in left side of pubis.
Scraping : in throat.
Feeling of dryness : of eyes.
Rawness : in throat.
Pressure : in muscles.
Paralytic tightness : in shoulder joint ; pain in wrist ; in joints.
Heaviness : in pectoral muscles.
Shuddering : in stomach.
Reeling : in head.
Buzzing : in right ear.
Roaring and ringing in ears.
Crawling : in cheek.
Tickling : in larynx ; in upper part of trachea ; in chest ; in throat.
Feet go to sleep when sitting.
Itching : of head ; of eyelids ; in cheek ; about rectum ; of prepuce ; of mons veneris ; of left forearm.

Tissues

Chronic inflammatory conditions of mucous membrane.
Burning in the bones.
Paralytic weakness in joints, < when beginning to move.
Caries and other diseases of bones.
Inflammation and swelling, followed by cold gangrene ; chilliness and shuddering ; gangrene of old persons.
Old, torpid ulcers ; warts ; blood-boils ; facial erysipelas.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : < toothache ; coccyx sensitive to touch ; < ulcers.
Clothes too heavy.

Skin

Sensation as if a thin cord lay under skin.
Biting, stinging, gnawing and burning itching.
Burning itching which induces scratching.
Biting and stinging on skin ; biting exanthema ; red inflammatory swelling ; sensation of burning heat on either cheek, generally left side.
Eruptions on hairy and covered parts.
Erysipelas bullosa.
Blood-boils ; chronic and erysipelatous eruptions ; warts.
Swelling of face with pea-sized yellow vesicles ; old, indolent ulcers ; blood-boils.
Old, torpid ulcers ; lancinating and lacerating pains ; ulcers turning black ; insensible ulcers ; biting in ulcers ; gangrenous ulcers ; < in morning ; on getting heated near fire ; lying down ; changing position ; beginning to
move ; while sitting ; when touching them ; > from motion and walking.

Stage of life, constitution

Secondary syphilis.
Girl ; toothache.
Girl, æt. 18 ; affection of coccyx and diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 55 ; cataract.

Relations

Antidoted by Camphor, Opium , large quantities of lemon juice.
It antidotes : Arsen., Nux vom .
Compatible : after Arum triph . (in hay fever) ; after Graphit . (in erysipelas) ; Laches., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur .
Compare : Colchic., Elat., Tart. em., Veratr .

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1879

Characteristic

In the terrible burning pain as if a live coal were on or in the parts, of cancer, carbuncle or erysipelas, when Arsenicum or Anthracinum fails to relieve.

Burning in caries and necrosis of bones.

Erysipelas bulbosa, vesicles as large as peas filled with yellow liquid.

In gangrene or blood boils of old persons.

Old, torpid, indolent ulcers, with biting, lancinating, lacerating pains; < in morning, on becoming heated near the fire, lying down, changing position, beginning to move, from touch; > from motion and walking.

Aggravation

On becoming heated; lying; beginning to move; changing position.

Time

Usually a morning paroxysm.

Chill

Of the whole body in the morning; while walking in the open air; when beginning to eat (Bell.—after eating, Kali c., Nux). The body is cold with internal burning heat. Constant chilliness, with constant sweat; chill with sweat. Shivering; over the whole body; over the back, with glowing cheeks and cold hands.

Heat

Great, the whole day; all the clothes seemed burdensome, even his whole body was too heavy for him, as if he had carried a great load. Heat with aversion to dressing; clothing feels too heavy. Heat only on the head.

Sweat

In the morning in bed; extending from the feet over the whole body; some thirst. Morning-sweat; on the neck, thighs and legs; sometimes cold on the legs; only on the thighs.

Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889

General

A tincture of the gum-resin of some African species is used.

General Action

All the species of Euphorbia have an acrid, milk, juice which seems to exert a pretty constant effect; namely, most violent vomiting and purging, or if the dust of the gum be inhaled most violent irritation and inflammation of the mucous membrane of the air-passages. ▶ The juice of some species even produces vesication, like croton oil. ▶ Numerous subjective symptoms have been developed by Hahnemann's provings. ▶ See the skin symptoms and compare Anacard. and Rhus tox.

Generalities and Mind

Starting as from an electric shock at night when awake. ▶ Relaxed and tired in the whole body. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Anxiety; as if he had taken poison. ▶ Apprehension. ▶ Quiet and earnest; Q., reflective, seeking quiet, inclined to work. ▶ Dull, listless and feeling not at all like work.

Head

Sticking, agg. forehead. ▶ Pain; as if it would be pressed asunder; as from a disordered stomach. ▶ Screwed-in sensation in brain and zygomata, with toothache. ▶ Tension, agg. forehead and cervical muscles. ▶ Vertigo, even to falling to the left, when walking in open air; V. when standing, everything turned about and he threatened to fall to the right. ▶ Sticking in left side of forehead. ▶ Vertiginous tearing in left side of F. on moving head. ▶ Frontal pain; right side; above left orbit; externally above left eye, with lachrymation and inability to open eye on account of pain; stupefying. ▶ Stupefying pain in forepart of right side of head, extending into forehead. ▶ Sticking externally in temples; S. beneath right parietal bone. ▶ Pressure in left half of brain; P. in occiput. ▶ Bruised pain in left occiput, preventing lying upon it.

Eyes

Sticking extending into inner part. ▶ Biting, with lachrymation. ▶ Aching; as from sand heat and smarting. ▶ Glutinous sensation in right. ▶ Gush of tears on rising lid, which was difficult. ▶ Pupils dilated. ▶ White of eye pale red and puffy, cornea dim, pupils small drawn upward, insensible, the inner vascular zone dark brownish-red, vision prevented by photophobia and lachrymation. ▶ Swelling of lids, with tearing above brows on opening eyes. ▶ Inflammation of lids and nightly agglutination. ▶ Agglutination of right lids in morning on waking. ▶ Hardened mucus in right external canthus. ▶ Pinching in left external canthus. ▶ Lids dry and pressing on eyes. ▶ Heaviness of lids, irresistible closing and vertigo. ▶ Itching of left lower lid; of left external canthus, amel. rubbing. ▶ Tearing sticking in orbit, extending across brow and lid, both lids hot and swollen, the upper hanging down immovable. ▶ Left brow and temple swollen, red and hot, upper lid hanging down over lower, œdematous, immovable, eyes watery, with sticking; in them and vision of sparks. ▶ Photophobia; and intolerance of noise. ▶ Vision dim and short. ▶ Double V. ▶ Everything seems too large so that he lifts his legs too high. ▶ All objects appear in variegated colors.

Ears

Aching in open air. ▶ Ringing, also when sneezing. ▶ Roaring at night. ▶ Chirping in right, as of crickets.

Nose

Fluent coryza, without sneezing. ▶ Stuffed, agg. right nostril. ▶ Discharge of purulent mucus; profuse discharge of mucus, with suffocative biting extending to frontal sinuses so that she could draw no air through nose. ▶ Increased discharge of mucus without coryza. ▶ In left nostril ineffectual irritation to sneeze. ▶ Sneezing; with fluent coryza and full feeling in head; frequent S., without coryza.

Clinical

It has been prescribed for influenzas with chill, headache, watery discharge from eyes and nose, with burning and cough. ▶ The juice of some species is said to be valuable for warts; it must be applied two or three times a day.

It has cured toothache, with throbbing pain, sensitiveness, etc.

It seems to have cured erysipelas of the cheek, of the vesicular variety, with violent fever. ▶ Abscesses and erysipelatous inflammation. ▶ It has been found useful for old torpid ulcers and for gangrene. ▶ It is said to be a valuable topical remedy for cancers, and is said to have cured entirely epithelioma.

(Euphorbia corollata has proved valuable in terrible attacks of deathly retching and vomiting, with a feeling of clawing in the stomach and with cold sweat, after Cocculus, etc., had failed.).

Face

Swelling. ▶ Pale, sickly looking. ▶ Jerklike tearings in muscles of left cheek, almost as in toothache. ▶ Tensive pain in cheek as if swollen. ▶ Sore pain in vermilion border of lower lip as if he had bitten it.

Mouth

Sticking in last left upper molar; in first left lower molar. ▶ Gnawing tearing in teeth on beginning to eat, with chilliness, headache as if shattered by the toothache and a screwed in sensation in brain and zygomata. ▶ Pain in second left upper molar; in last left lower molar, amel. biting teeth together; in next to last left upper molar, agg. touch and chewing; P. in hollow tooth as if screwed in, with jerking as if it would be torn out; pain in tooth like a boil on touching it. ▶ Tongue covered with a thick mucus. ▶ Coated tongue and almost all the concomitants of nervous erethism. ▶ Inability to speak intelligibly. ▶ Much tenacious mucus after midday sleep. ▶ A membranous pellicle peels off upper part of palate. ▶ Burning on palate. ▶ Dry sensation without thirst. ▶ Salivation; with salt taste on left side of tongue; with nausea and shivering. ▶ Taste bitter; and foul, agg. back part of tongue, after beer that he had relished; T. as if mouth were covered with rancid fat; T. flat after breakfast, with white-coated tongue.

Throat

Profuse discharge of mucus from posterior nares. ▶ Scraping and rawness. ▶ Burning; extending to stomach, with mucus in mouth; extending to stomach, with trembling, anxiety and heat in upper part of body, nausea flow of water from mouth and dryness of cheeks; and in stomach, as if a flame streamed out of it, with necessity to open the mouth. ▶ Inflammation of œsophagus.

Stomach

Great hunger, with a lax stomach, hanging down and sunken abdomen. ▶ Thirst; for cold drinks. ▶ Incessant eructations; empty E. ▶ Hiccough; frequent. ▶ Nausea during the day; in morning; N., with shuddering. ▶ Vomiting; incessant, of watery fluid; with diarrhœa. ▶ Spasmodic contractions, with empty eructations. ▶ Inflammation. ▶ Griping as if it would be compressed, then salivation and nausea; G. in left side, with clawing then construction of cardiac orifice, with salt salivation and shuddering in skin. ▶ Pain in pit; spasmodic pain in S. ▶ Bruised pain in S. on touch. ▶ Pressure on left side. ▶ Constriction from all sides towards the middle, with salivation and nausea. ▶ Burning; in pit after eating, with pressure. ▶ Agreeable warmth as after spirituous drinks.

Abdomen

Rumbling; in left then emission of flatus. ▶ Emission of much flatus. ▶ Griping, then a thin stool. ▶ With burning itching about rectum. ▶ Pain; with tympanites; in one spot; flatulent, amel. resting head upon elbows and knees, after which flatus was emitted; spasmodic flatulent in morning in bed, accumulation of flatus in hypochondria and chest, causing spasmodic pressing asunder and constriction, amel. turning about but returning on lying quietly. ▶ Uneasiness, with heat. ▶ Emptiness in morning as from an emetic. ▶ Agreeable warmth, as after spirituous drinks. ▶ Sore pressure outward in left flank and after micturition, also in right. ▶ Pinching on posterior part of ilium. ▶ Tearing in left groin as from a sprain, when standing. ▶ Sprained and lame pain in left side of pubis on stretching limb after sitting extending to thigh. ▶ Pain in inguinal region. ▶ Anxious sore aching in lower A.

Rectum and Stool

Burning sore pain about rectum. ▶ Fatal dysentery. ▶ Diarrhœa several times a day with burning in anus, distention of abdomen and pain as from internal soreness; profuse D.; preceded by itching in anus, with urging; profuse, with vomiting. ▶ Loose, large S., with tenesmus and sore feeling as if dysentery were coming on. ▶ Thin S. after pressure, at last three hard lumps without difficulty. ▶ Soft S., scanty, mixed with small lumps, delayed. ▶ Pasty S.; and yellowish. ▶ S. at first natural, then fermented and watery. ▶ Clayey S., preceded by itching in rectum, with urging. ▶ Hard, difficult. ▶ Constipation.

Urinary and Sexual Organs

Discharge of prostatic fluid from the relaxed penis. ▶ Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge; urging, micturition by drops, with sticking in penis, then a natural discharge. ▶ Strangury. ▶ Itching sticking in forepart of urethra when not urinating. ▶ Much white sediment in urine. ▶ Intermittent cutting sticking in glans when standing. ▶ Erections at night without emissions or lascivious dreams; E. without cause when sitting voluptuous itching of prepuce, with discharge of prostatic fluid. ▶ Pinching burning pain in left side of scrotum.

Respiratory Organs

Irritation to short cough in upper part of trachea. ▶ Cough day and night as from dyspnœa and shortness of breath, then in morning much expectoration; C. from burning tickling in upper part of trachea; almost uninterrupted dry C.; dry hollow C. from tickling in chest during rest; hacking C. from crawling in throat. ▶ Dyspnœa as if chest were not wide enough, with tensive pain in right pectoral muscles, agg. turning upper part of body to right. ▶ Deep inspiration hindered by sensation as if left lung were adherent.

Chest

Sticking in left on walking in open air, so that he must stop; in sternum when sitting and standing; in left when sitting and standing; in left when sitting, amel. when walking; intermittent S. in left when reading. ▶ Tensive pain in left, agg. turning upper part of body to right. ▶ Spasmodic pressing asunder in lower part. ▶ Warmth in middle as from hot food.

Pulse

Irregular, 150; 78 in morning.

Back

Jerking sticking. ▶ Intermittent sticking in one place in the middle when sitting. ▶ Pinching in left scapula. ▶ Spasmodic pain in dorsal vertebræ in morning when lying on back. ▶ Pain in muscles; nightly P. in ischia; P. in small of when at rest; in left kidney, with burning in all urinary organs.

Extremities

Rheumatic pains. ▶ Shoulder, stiff pain in right, agg. stretching towards the left ; tensive pain in right; preventing raising arm high; tensive pain in right, amel. walking, but returning with greater violence during rest; tension in joint like paralysis, in morning after rising, agg. motion; painful drawings in right. ▶ Internal painful drawing in arm, with weakness, agg. radius, humerus and wrist. ▶ Pain on outer side of arm above elbow in morning in bed. ▶ Sprained pain in right upper arm, near elbow, on moving arm. ▶ Drawing pain in ulna. ▶ Paralytic pain in wrist on moving it. ▶ Intermittent tearing in muscles of left hand. ▶ Pinching in muscles of right hand near wrist, agg. moving it. ▶ Spasmodic drawing in right hand on writing. ▶ Pain in ball of right thumb, amel. touch and motion.

Lower Extremities

Feeling of deadness and coldness in left when sitting as if it would fall asleep, not amel. motion, and on walking internal coldness remains, agg. leg and foot. ▶ Weakness on walking in open air.

Thigh

Tearing in muscles of left hip; in muscles about right hip when sitting; in anterior muscles of left thigh when sitting; in muscles of right thigh when standing and sitting, intermittent in muscles on outer side of right when sitting; intermittent stitchlike, in muscles of left hip when sitting. ▶ Pain in muscles about left hip. ▶ Sprained pain in hip-joints; S. pain near bend of left thigh when walking in open air, amel. standing. ▶ Pain as from a blow in left gluteals on motion. ▶ Pain in forepart of hip as if crushed, only on moving body while sitting. ▶ Burning pain at night in bones of hip and thigh, waking frequently. ▶ Tensive pain on stepping forward, extending from left gluteals to hollow of knee, as if tendons were too short. ▶ Painful lameness in right hip-joint on stepping.

Sticking in inner knee when sitting. ▶ Tearing outward in knee. ▶ Legs sticking in right; hot S. in left calf, as with a knife; tearing in left tibia below knee when sitting; T. in forepart of left leg when sitting; T. in muscles of right when walking in open air; sticking T. in muscles near ankle when sitting; gnawing T. in right calf when sitting and standing; pain as from a blow on outer side of left calf; frequent falling asleep to above knees, with painful crawling in them and inability to move them; weakness as if they could not support the body.

Tearing burning pain in ankles, with heat of the parts. ▶ Cramp of metatarsus, drawing the toes together. ▶ Cramplike pain in foot, agg. towards external malleolus, when sitting and standing, amel. walking. ▶ Pain in right heel as if suppurated when walking in open air. ▶ Sprained pain in left heel, agg. walking. ▶ Frequent falling asleep of feet when sitting, with inability to move them, and painful crawling in them.

Skin

▶ Erysipelatous swelling of cheek, and vesicles filled with yellow liquid. ▶ Red swelling on cheek, with boring, gnawing and digging from gum into ear, and with itching and crawling in cheek when the pain is relieved. ▶ Erysipelatous inflammation of face and external head; agg. face and head, with great tumefaction and throbbing headache, agg. forehead and vertex. ▶ Erysipelas bullosum, with fever. ▶ Swelling of left cheek with tensive pain and on touch bruised pain. ▶ White swelling of cheeks, feeling œdematous to touch. ▶ General swelling, inflammation, cold gangrene, death. ▶ Scarlet stripes on left forearm, which itch when touched but disappear when rubbed, with sensation as of a thin cord under skin. ▶ Reddish pimple on chin, painful on touch. ▶ Pustules above right brow, itching, and after scratching exuding bloody water. ▶ Vesicles filled with boil-shaped elevations. ▶ Gangrene.

Itching, with urging to stool, and stool too soon; I. on back of left hand. ▶ Corrosive I. on left thigh; on right close to hip; on left leg near knee in morning. ▶ Sticking I. on upper arm near elbow. ▶ Burning I. on middle knuckle of index; on outer side of left forearm. ▶ Tickling I. on right sole.

Sleep

Frequent yawning. ▶ Sleepiness after midday meal. ▶ Irresistible sleepiness during the day. ▶ Stupid slumber in afternoon, from which he cannot arouse himself. ▶ Slept with arms stretched far above his head. ▶ Sleeplessness, with tremulous tossing about before midnight, roaring in ears and inability to close eyes. ▶ Sleep poor and tossing about two nights, afterwards heavy sleep. ▶ Frequent and easy waking; F., but immediate falling asleep again. ▶ Dreams after 3 A.M., of the transactions of two days previous. ▶ Anxious, confused D., without end. ▶ Vivid, lascivious, with emission. ▶ Vivid, anxious, causing him to cry out, whereupon he wakes.

Fever

▶ Chilliness of whole body in morning; C. when walking in warm open air; C., with sweat; with sensation as if he had not slept all night and were completely washed out, and with disappearance of veins of hands. ▶ Cold hands, with heat in face and warm forehead, without thirst. ▶ Shivering; over upper part of body; over back, with glowing cheeks and cold hands; frequently in skin, then salivation. ▶ Heat; with pulse at 86; all day, the clothes are burdensome, with heaviness of whole body as if he had carried a great load; of face. ▶ Sweat in morning on thighs and legs, but not on feet; on neck every morning in bed and on rising; in morning, extending from feet over the whole body, with heat, without much thirst. ▶ Cold sweat; on legs in morning.

A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892

Generalities

Pains in the limbs like rheumatism; tearing or sticking only during rest.
Paralytic weakness of the joints, especially on beginning to move.
Burning pains in internal parts.
Symptoms are < during rest, especially during sitting and by touch.

Eyes

Inflamed, with itching of the margins of the lids; biting and lachrymation.
Eyes agglutinated in the morning.
Vision dim or feeble.

Nose

Violent fluent coryza or influenza, with watery discharge from the eyes and nose, with burning and cough.

Skin

Erysipelatous inflammation, especially of the cheek, with a formation of vesicles filled with yellow liquid.

The Chronic Diseases — the Antipsoric Medicines

Samuel Hahnemann (tr. Louis H. Tafel; annotations by Richard Hughes; ed. Pemberton Dudley) · The Chronic Diseases — the Antipsoric Medicines · 1896

Title

EUPHORBIUM.

Preface

This gum resin contains about two-fifth of genuine resin. It is the juice of a thick-stemmed perennial plant which exude, when the plant is ripped open. Formerly it was chiefly obtained from the Euphorbia officinarum growing in the hottest part of Africa, now it is brought to us more frequently from the Canary Isles, being gathered from the Euphorbia canariensis. When chewed, it first appears to be tasteless, but afterwards causes an extremely caustic burning, which is long continued, and can only be removed by rinsing the mouth with oil. The many species of Euphorbium seem to resemble each other closely as to their medicinal virtues. Euphorbium has been much abused by surgeons of old, being sprinkled on in cases of caries of the bones and in other inactive cutaneous ulcers ; it is also still misused to torment men as an ingredient of the continually used vesicatories. It promises, however to become extremely useful, when internally applied, after having been prepared like other dry drugs in the manner peculiar to Homœopathy. When used in high potencies and in minimal doses, it will accomplish much ; as may be seen from the pure symptoms a observed in healthy persons. It seems to deserve additional proving as to its pure symptoms. Its action continues for several weeks, and its antidote is camphor. Whether lemon juice may be of use in counteracting some of it troublesome symptoms, is yet uncertain. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow-provers are a follows : Lgh., Dr. Langhammer ; Wl., Dr. Wislicenus ; Htb., u. Tr., the Doctors Hartlaub and Trinks in their Reine Arzneimittellehre. [*].

[] The contributors to this pathogenesis-besides the authors cited-are really four in number, Hahnemann himself, Langhammer, Wislicenus and Nenning. The symptom referred to Hartlaub and Trinks, belong to the last named ; those of the three former com from a pathogenesis published in Vol. VI. of the Archiv (1826). -Hughes*.

Symptoms

Melancholy. [RAGUS, hist. des Plantes.].

Anguish, as if he had swallowed poison. [Whl.].

Attacks of anxiety. [EHRHARDT Pflanzen-Hist. VII.] [*].

[] General summary from authors. -Hughes*.

Anxious, apprehensive mood, but not indisposed to work. [Lgh.].

[5] Serious and quiet, even in company. [Lgh.].

Taciturn, introverted, he seeks tranquility, but is disposed to work. [Lgh.].

Vertigo, while standing, everything turned around ; he felt as if he should fall to the right side. [Wl.].

Violent attack of vertigo, when taking a walk ; the came near falling to the left side. [Lgh.].

Headaches, as if from a spoiled stomach.

[10] Stupefying aching in the right half of the head, which then spreads into the forehead. [Htb. u. Tr.].

Dull, stupefying, pressive pain in the forehead. [Htb. u. Tr.].

Pressive pain in the forehead (aft. 24 h.). [Wl.].

Pressure in the right side of the forehead. [Lgh.].

Pressure in the left half of the brain.

[15] Pressive pain in the occiput. [Wl.].

Dull pressure in the forehead, above the left orbit. [Htb. u. Tr.].

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Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica · 1905

Mind

Anxious solicitous disposition. Quiet earnestness with inclination to work.

Head

Bruised sensation in occiput.

Eyes

Inflamed, with itching in lids and angles. Flow of biting tears. Agglutinated early in morning. Dim vision. Diplopia.

Face

Red, inflamed, painful swelling of cheeks, with yellowish vesicles which discharge a thick yellow moisture.

Teeth

Pressive, sticking ache. Toothache, worse by touch. Crumbling teeth.

Mouth

Dry internally without especial thirst. Burning in throat, extending into stomach, with heat and anxiety. Salivation, preceded by shaking and griping in stomach.

Thirst: Intense, for cold drinks.

Stomach

Burning like fire in. Spasmodic constriction in.

Abdomen

Empty feeling in, as after an emetic. Burning in. Spasmodic, flatulent colic with distensive pressure pains better resting upon elbows and knees.

Stool

Diarrhoeic, with tenesmus, burning in anus and painfulness in abdomen. First thin, then nodular.

Urine

Urging to urinate, with diminished discharge passed drop by drop.

Sexual organs

Erections without sexual desire.

Respiration

Short, as though' chest were too narrow, with tension in chest muscles.

Cough

Dry, hollow, from tickling in throat or chest. Dry by day and night, only early in morning is there copious expectoration.

Chest

Burning in. Stitches in left side of during rest, disappearing during motion. Sensation as though' the lobe (left) of lung were adherent.

Upper Extremities

Scarlet red stripes on forearms, itching when touched

Lower Extremities

Dislocative pain in hip - joint. Nightly burning in upper femur. Great weakness of lower legs.

Generalities

Rheumatic pains in limbs, of a tearing or pressive sticking sort, almost exclusively during rest. Paralytic weakness in joints, felt particularly when beginning to move. Burning pains in internal parts. Complaints are worse during rest, especially when sitting, and from touching affected parts.

Bones

Burning in. Caries.

Skin

Burning itching necessitating scratching. Old, indolent ulcers. Cold gangrene. Boils. Warts. Erysipelas bullossum.

Sleep

Day sleepiness. Feeling to sleep late in evening.

Fever

Chill: And chilliness predominate. When beginning to eat and while walking in the open, not cold, air. With coexistent sweat. Cold shuddering over whole upper part of body with heat of cheeks. Went proper bodily warmth, with internal burning heat. Heat: With intolerance of clothing, it seems too heavy. On head only. Sweat: Early in morning in bed. Cold sweat on lower legs.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Ars., Flu-ac., Kre., Lyc., Merc., Merc-c., Mez., Puls., Rhus-t., Sep., Zinc.

Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Adolph von Lippe · Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1915

Symptoms

Rheumatic pains of a tearing, pressing, and stinging character, but only during rest.

Paralytic weakness in the joints and mostly when beginning to move.

Burning pain in internal parts.

Vesicualr erysipelatous eruption upon the face.

Diseases of the mucous membranes.

Aggravation during rest, especially while sitting, and from contact with the affected part.

Stinging exanthemata.

Yellowish exanthemata.

Stinging in the skin.

Amelioration during motion and continued moving when walking.