Hypericum Perforatum hyper.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

SPINAL NERVES: COCCYX. Inter - scapular. Meninges. Vertex.

Worse

INJURY: Jar. Concussion. Penetrating. Shock. Bruises. Exertion. Touch. Change of weather. Fogs. Cold. Damp. Motion.

Better

Lying on face. Bending back.

General

LACERATED, injured or inflamed nerves; mashed fingers, etc. Injury to or reflected from brain or cord. Very painful, sore parts; occiput, coccyx, etc. Coccygodynia. Intolerably violent, shooting, lancinating along nerves; toward trunk; down sides of head or chest; in epigastrium; interscapular spine; finger-tips, etc., with crawling and numbness. Neuritis, as an outcome of injury. Neuralgia of stump. Shuddering. Spasms. Tetanus.

Particulars

Heaviness or formication in brain. Head feels drawn to a point. Bubbling at navel. Dry rectum. Heart seems to drop. Painfully sensitive spine. Commotio spinalis. Pains in hips and small of back after labor. Limbs feel detached. Aching in l. sciatic, after long sitting. Feet seem furry or bones ache. Gaping wounds. Laborious dreams.

Related

Related: Arn. Led. Rhus-t.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Mechanical injuries of spinal cord; bad effects of spinal concussion; pains, after a fall on coccyx. Punctured, incised or lacerated wounds; sore, painful (Led. - contused wounds, Arn., Ham.), especially if of long duration. Injuries: from treading on nails, needles, pins, splinters (Led.); from rat-bites; prevents lock-jaw. Preserves integrity of torn and lacerated members when almost entirely separated from body (Calend.). Injury to parts rich in sentient nerves - fingers, toes, matrices of nails, palms or soles - where the intolerable pains shows nerves are severely involved; of tissues of animal life, as hands and feet. Nervous depression following wounds or surgical operations; removes bad effects of shock, of fright, of mesmerism. Always modifies and sometimes arrests ulceration and sloughing (Calend.). Crushed, mashed finger-tips. Tetanus after traumatic injuries (compare, Phys.). Vertigo: sensation as if head became suddenly elongated; at night, with urging to urinate. Headache: after a fall upon occiput, with sensation as if being lifted up high into the air; great anxiety lest she fall from this height. Spine: after a fall; slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries; spine very sensitive to touch. Bunions and corns when pain is excruciating, showing nerve involvement. Convulsions; after blows on head or concussion.

Relations

Compare: Arn., Calen., Ruta, Staph. In wounds where formerly Acon., and Arn., were given alternately, Hypericum cures.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

Bad results from treading on nails, from rat bites, or any punctured wounds; very sore and sensitive to the touch.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

St. John's-wort (HYPERICUM)

General

The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails. Crushed fingers, especially tips. Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use. Prevents lockjaw. Punctured wounds. Relieves pain after operations. Quite supersedes the use of Morphia after operations (Helmuth). Spasms after every injury. Has an important action on the rectum; hæmorrhoids. Coccydynia. Spasmodic asthmatic attacks with changes of weather or before storms, better by copious expectoration. Injured nerves from bites of animals. Tetanus. Neuritis, tingling, burning and numbness. Constant drowsiness.

Mind

Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety lest he fall from heights. Mistakes in writing. Effects of shock. Melancholy.

Head

Heavy; feels as if touched by an icy cold hand. Throbbing in vertex; worse in close room. Brain seems compressed. Right side of face aches. Brain-fag and neurasthenia. Facial neuralgia and toothache of a pulling, tearing character, with sadness. Head feels longer-elongated to a point. In fractured skull, bone splinters. Brain feels alive. Pains in eyes and ears. Falling out of hair.

Stomach

Craving for wine. Thirst; Nausea. Tongue coated white at base, tip clean. Feeling of lump in stomach (Abies nig; Bry).

Rectum

Urging, dry, dull, pressing pain. Hæmorrhoids, with pain, bleeding, and tenderness.

Back

Pain in nape of neck. Pressure over sacrum. Spinal concussion. Coccyx injury from fall, with pain radiating up spine and down limbs. Jerking and twitching of muscles.

Extremities

Darting pain in shoulders. Pressure along ulnar side of arm. Cramp in calves. Pain in toes and fingers, especially in tips. Crawling in hand and feet. Lancinating pain in upper and lower limbs. Neuritis, with tingling, burning pain, numbness and flossy skin. Joints feel bruised. Hysterical joints. Tetanus (Physost; Kali brom). Traumatic neuralgia and neuritis.

Respiratory

Asthma worse foggy weather and relieved by profuse perspiration.

Skin

Hyperidrosis, sweating of scalp, worse in morning after sleep; falling of hair from injury; eczema of hands and face, intense itching, eruption seems to be under the skin. Herpes zoster. Old ulcers or sores in mouth when very sensitive. Lacerated wounds with much prostration from loss of blood.

Modalities

Worse, in cold; dampness; in a fog; in close room; least exposure; touch. Better, bending head backward.

Relationship

Compare: Ledum (punched wounds and bites of animals); Arnica; Staphis; Calend; Ruta; Coff.

Antidotes: Ars; Cham.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Is the remedy "par excellence " for wounded or injured nerves; from simple punctures from nails, splinters, pins, rat bites, etc., to severe concussions of the spine and brain, and especially to parts rich in centient nerves. It is to this kind of injuries what Arnica, Hamamelis, Ruta, etc., are to bruises, and Calendula to lacerated muscular tissue, and Staphisagria to cuts with sharp instruments.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Head

Great heaviness in the head. Pulsation, heat and burning in the vertex (afternoon). Sensation in the forehead as ; if touched by an icy cold hand. Sensation as if the head became elongate.

Eyes

Stitches in the right eye.

Ears

Shooting through the ear.

Face

The face feels hot, bloated. Tension in the cheek.

Mouth and Throat

Dryness of the lips and mouth. Dry, burning heat in the mouth. Tongue, white or coated foul ; yellow. Thirst with feeling of heat in the mouth ; violent thirst.

Stomach and Abdomen

Eructation on drinking water. Pressure at the stomach on eating but little. Sticking in the stomach ; right hypochondrium. Tympanitic distention of the abdomen ; relieved by a stool.

Stool and Anus

Constipation ; violent tenesmus, with discharge of a hard little ball ; with nausea.

Urinary Organs

Nightly urging to urinate, with vertigo. Desire to urinate, with violent tearing in the genital organs.

Sexual Organs

Women. Menses, too late. Tension in the region of the uterus, as from a tight bandage. Leucorrhœa.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness. Stitches in the chest, below the breasts. Pressure and burning in the chest.

Back

Aching pain and sensation of lameness in the small of the back. Stitches in the small of the back.

Extremities

Upper. Stitches ; on the top of the shoulder at every inspiration. Tension in both arms and in the hands. Lower. Sensation as ; if the left foot was strained or dislocated. The feet feel pithy, as if pricked with needles.

Sleep

Constant drowsiness.

Generalities

Sensation of lameness of the left arm and right foot. Feeling of weakness ; and trembling of all the limbs.

Fever

Pulse hard, accelerated. Shuddering over the whole body, with desire to urinate. Heat, with delirium ; wild, staring look ; hot head ; throbbing of the carotids ; bright-red, bloated face ; moist hair on the head ; burning heat of the skin ; great oppression and anguish.

Skin

Smarting eruption, like nettle-rash, on the hands. Mechanical injuries ; wounds by nails or splinters in the feet, needles under the nails, squeezing, hammering ; of the toes and fingers, especially the tips a of the fingers ; when the nerves have been lacerated, wounded, torn, with excruciating pains ; it prevents lock-jaw from wounds in the soles of the feet, or of the fingers and palms of the hands.

Conditions

Sensitiveness to cold. Violent excruciating from laceration of the nerves are readily subdued by the internal administration alone.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Hypericum perforatum, H. perfoliatum. St. John's Wort. N. O. Hypericaceæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.

Clinical

After-pains. Asthma. Bites. Brachial neuralgia. Breast, affections of. Brain, concussion of. Bruises . Bunions. Compound fractures. Corns. Coxalgia. Diarrhœa. Gunshot wounds. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Hydrophobia. Hypersensitiveness. Impotence . Labour, effects of. Meningitis. Mind, affections of. Neuralgia. Operations, effects of. Panaritium. Paralysis . Rheumatism. Scars. Sciatica. Spastic paralysis. Spinal concussion. Spinal irritation. Stiff-neck. Tetanus. Ulceration. Whooping-cough. Wounds .

Characteristics

The leaves of various species of Hypericum are sprinkled with pellucid dots and black glands which contain an essential oil. These, which are most conspicuous in H. perforatum , have evidently given the signature which has led to the chief use of the plant in medicine, namely, as a remedy for wounds or perforations of the integuments. The leaves, moreover, are lance-shaped. The leaves of H. androsænum , commonly called Tutsan (toute saine), were applied to fresh wounds from olden time. The word Hypericum mea ns "sub-heather" (ύπό and έρείκη), indicating its manifest relation to the heaths, which at once leads us to think of Ledum . The proving of Hyp . by Müller and others is very complete and brings out the relation of the drug to wounds and their consequences and also its applicability in maladies of other kinds. Crawling sensations in hands and feet; they felt fuzzy; sticking in them as from needles. Tearing, rheumatic, shaking pains; paralytic weakness. One of the provers had on waking at 4 a.m. a feeling as though she were suspended and not lying in bed, at another time as though she were lying very heavy in bed. The former condition has led to cures in effects of accidents attended with the sensation "as if being lifted high into the air; and great anxiety lest she should fall from this height." The particular kinds of wounds for which Hyp . has been found of signal service are wounds of parts rich in nerves, brain, spine (spinal irritation from falls), coccyx, finger-ends; wounds from stepping on nails, or any punctured wounds. The characteristic of the Hyp . wounds is that they are very sensitive to touch ( Led . punctures are not particularly sensitive). W. J. Guernsey ( H. R ., x. 475) relates the following case: A boy, nine, was bitten by a pet rat on the first finger of left hand. Nothing particular was observed at the time, but some time after, he became ill, and when Dr. Guernsey was called his state was alarming. The boy could talk with great difficulty; teeth firmly locked; conscious; neck so stiff the head could scarcely be moved. There was more tenderness about the wound than the appearance would indicate . Hence Hyp . was preferred to Led . It was given (8 p.m.) in the 500th, dissolved in water, at first every fifteen minutes; later every two hours. At 3 a.m. there was improvement, he fell asleep, and the next morning was practically convalescent. Hyp . is called for in nervous depression following wounds; effects of shock, fright and mesmerism. Ulceration and sloughing of wounds. Hard, dry, yellow crusts form on healing wound. Bunions and corns when the pain is excruciating. Not only is the pain sense exalted, there is exaltation of the senses of hearing and smell. Violent labour-pains and after-pains. Tympanitic distension of abdomen, cutting pains. Gilchrist says Hyp . 3x, given at intervals of twenty minutes for twelve hours or longer, seems to control perfectly the pain following laparotomy. But it must not be thought that Hyp . has no sphere outside wounds and their effects. Like Arnica it has many uses in the respiratory sphere. It has cured asthma < in foggy weather; the attacks were > by copious expectoration. Whooping-cough < 6 to 10 p.m. Tightness of chest; stinging < on moving. Summer diarrhœa with eruption. Palpitation and local congestions, with or without hæmorrhage and nervous depression, following wounds. Roehrig ( H. R ., xii. 40) considers Hyperic . externally and internally the nearest thing to a specific in bleeding piles. He gives it to pneumonia patients who have piles; it cures the pneumonia and prevents the arrest of the flux, always a dangerous symptom in these cases. Ussher ( H. W ., xxvii. 500) confirms this; "pain, bleeding and tenderness" are his indications. "It seems to suit the plethoric, with great soreness." He uses the 1x. Toothache > lying on affected side and keeping quiet. Hyp . is sensitive to cold: < in cold air; in damp; in fog. The hacking cough is < from heat as well as by cold air. All symptoms < by least exposure. < From touch.

Relations

Antidoted by: Ars. (weakness or sickness on moving); Cham. (pains in face). It antidotes: Effects of mesmerism (Sulph.). Compare: Aco., Cham., Coff. (exalted sensitiveness); Arn., Calend., Led., Ruta, Con., Bellis, Staph., Al. cep. (wounds); Hydrob., Lach. (bites); Nux (tetanus); Gels., Lathyrus; spastic paralysis.

Causation

Fright. Bites. Wounds. Shock.

Mind

Makes mistakes in writing; omits letters; forgets what she wanted to say. ─ Talks wildly in night after 4 a.m. while asleep; apprehensive; gasped for breath. ─ Mental excitement as after drinking tea. ─ Weakness of memory. ─ Great nervous depression following wounds. ─ Irritable. ─ Removes consequences of fright and effects of shock.

Head

Great heaviness in the head. ─ Confusion, vertigo, and heaviness. ─ Tearing stitches in the brain. ─ Buzzing sensation in vertex at night as if something living were in brain. ─ Pulsation, heat and burning in the vertex (afternoon). ─ Sensation in the forehead as if touched by an icy cold hand. ─ Sensation as if the head became elongated. ─ Headache, extending into zygoma or cheek. ─ Headache, with sore eyes, after a fall. ─ Hair moist, rest of body burning hot.

Eyes

Sticking through (r,) eye. ─ Burning stinging in tarsi. ─ Stye on l. lower lid.

Ears

Sticking through (r.) ear in evening. ─ Itching in r. meatus. ─ Sensitiveness of hearing during menses.

Nose

Pain in bridge of nose on rising. ─ Sore within nose; itching; continually picking it. ─ Dryness of nose; with sneezing; of l. nostril with crusts in it. ─ Smell very acute.

Face

Hot and bloated. ─ Tension in the cheek. ─ Tearing in cheek; in l. zygoma. ─ Eruption around mouth and on r. ear. ─ Yellowish green scabs with cracking and moisture.

Mouth

Dryness of the lips and mouth. ─ Dry, burning heat in mouth. ─ Tongue: coated white; or dirty yellow. ─ Taste: insipid; of blood. ─ Thirst, with feeling of heat in mouth.

Throat

Sensation as of a worm moving in throat. ─ Hot risings in œsophagus after a fright, or with anxious feelings.

Stomach

Great thirst. ─ Desire for warm drinks. ─ Eructation on drinking water. ─ Desire for wine; pickles. ─ Appetite increased morning and evening. ─ Pressure at the stomach on eating but little. ─ Nausea and inclination to vomit.

Abdomen

Sticking in the stomach; in r. hypochondrium. ─ Tympanitic distension of abdomen; relieved by a stool. ─ (Effects of laparotomy).

Stool and Anus

Loose, bilious, yellow stools evening or morning. ─ Summer diarrhœa with eruption. ─ Diarrhœa driving out of bed in morning. ─ Very unusual severe urging. ─ Constipation; violent tenesmus, with discharge of a hard little ball; with nausea. ─ Rectum feels dry, morning. ─ Hæmorrhoids. ─ Burning, biting, and feeling of dryness in rectum. ─ (Piles, with much pain, bleeding, and great soreness.)

Urinary Organs

Nightly urging to urinate, with vertigo. ─ Desire to urinate, with violent tearing in the genital organs. ─ Swelling and hardness of female urethra, with burning soreness and sensitiveness.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses too late; headache; sickening pain in abdomen; sensitive to noises. ─ Tension in region of uterus, as from a tight bandage. ─ Leucorrhœa. ─ After-pains after instrumental delivery. ─ Scirrhus of breast from injury.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness; Scraping and roughness in larynx, upper part of pharynx and nares in foggy weather. ─ Asthma < in foggy weather. ─ Frequent dry hacking cough; short, barking cough. ─ Whooping-cough, < 6 to 10 p.m.

Chest

Anxiety in chest in forenoon, with short breath. ─ Stitches in the chest, below the breasts. ─ Stitches from within outward, through l. breast and sternum, < from motion. ─ Pressure and burning in the chest. ─ Tightness in the chest. ─ < In foggy weather. ─ (Pneumonia in persons who have piles.). ─ Stinging in l. chest, < when moving.

Heart

The heart feels as though, it would fall down, in the evening. ─ Palpitation. ─ Pulse rapid and hard. ─ Local congestions and capillary erethism, with or without hæmorrhages and great nervous depression, following wounds.

Neck and Back

After a fall, slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries. ─ Cervical vertebræ very sensitive to the touch. ─ Consequence of spinal concussion. ─ Violent pains and inability to wall, or stoop, after a fall on the coccyx. ─ Aching pain and sensation of lameness in the small of the back. ─ Stitches in the small of the back. ─ Lies on back jerking head backward.

Limbs

Cannot walk, from affection of the spine. ─ Feeling of weakness and trembling of all the limbs. ─ Sensation of lameness of the l. arm and r. foot. ─ Articular rheumatism (knees mostly), much effusion, muddy urine. ─ Rheumatism of small joints. ─ Numbness and crawling in the limbs, hands, and feet. ─ Hands and feet feel fuzzy. ─ Compound fractures. ─ Affections of joints.

Upper Limbs

Stitches on the top of the shoulder at every inspiration. ─ Flying pains in r. shoulder. ─ Neuralgia and paralytic pain in l. upper arm. ─ Tension in both arms and in the hands. ─ Numbness in l. arm, > by rubbing.

Lower Limbs

Sensation as if the l. foot was strained or dislocated. ─ The feet feel pithy, as if pricked with needles. ─ Fearful sharp pain in knees, could hardly touch the m. ─ Coxalgia after confinement. ─ Sciatica, rheumatism; from injury. ─ L. leg numb, cold while sitting. ─ Effects of running nail or pin into foot. ─ Feet much swollen.

Generalities

Consequences of shock or fright. ─ Prevents lockjaw from wounds in soles, in fingers, and in palms of the hands. ─ Convulsions from blows or concussions. ─ After a fall, slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries. ─ Flesh sore, feels bruised all over. ─ Injuries to parts rich in sentient nerves, esp. fingers, toes, and matrices of nails. ─ Mechanical injuries, wounds by nails or splinters in the feet, needles under the nails, squeezing, hammering; of the toes and fingers, esp. the tips of the fingers; when the nerves have been lacerated, wounded, torn, with excruciating pains. ─ Lacerations, when intolerable, excruciating pain shows nerves are severely involved. ─ Next to the nervous tissues, the joints are affected. ─ Sensation as of being lifted up high into air.

Skin

Smarting eruption, like nettle-rash, on the hands. ─ Painful scars in tissues rich in nerves.

Sleep

Constant drowsiness. ─ Spasmodic jerks in arms or legs on going to sleep; twitchings. ─ Dreams: with activity, travelling; vivid; distressing. ─ At 4 a.m. talks nonsense in sleep, distorted staring eyes, throbbing arteries. ─ Wakes 4 a.m. with sense of levitation. ─ On awaking: weary, > by noon; feels refreshed; bowels distended.

Fever

Pulse hard, accelerated. ─ Shuddering over the whole body, with desire to urinate. ─ Heat, with delirium; wild, staring look; hot head throbbing of the carotids; bright-red, bloated face; moist hair on the head burning heat of the skin; great oppression and anguish.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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Mind

Makes mistakes in writing ; omits letters ; forgets what she wanted to say ; confused.
Increase of intellectual power.
Erotic ideas ; brain excited, as after tea.
Sees spirits ; spectres ; delirium.
Talking nonsense in her sleep at 4 o'clock in morning ; disturbed look, stares at people ; head hot, carotids throbbing ; flushed and bloated face ; eyes fixed, pupils dilated ; frequent pulse ; hair moist, rest of body burning
hot ; great anxiety ; singing, followed by weeping and loud screaming, with gasping for breath ; beating headache, especially in vertex ; tearing stitches in brain ; crawling in hands and feet, as if they were numb ; great thirst ; while coated tongue.
Great anxiety. θ Meningitis.
Melancholy.
Irritable, inclined to speak sharply ; slept badly, languid on waking.
Consequences of fright ; effects of shock.

Sensorium

Heaviness and dizziness in head.
Vertigo : at night, with urging to urinate ; with loathing on waking ; with pain in temples ; in afternoon, with feeling of weakness and trembling of limbs ; sensation as if head became suddenly elongated.
Sensation as if being lifted up high into air ; tormented by anxiety that the slightest touch or motion would make her fall down from this height ; with headache after a fall on occiput.
Confused sensation in vertex with buzzing sensation at night, as if something living were in brain.
Asphyxia after a fall ; when jerkings or shooting pains appear.

Inner head

Tearing stitches in brain ; beating, mostly on vertex. θ Meningitis.
Burning in vertex, pulsation and heat.
Dull headache, only on vertex, gradually increasing as if whole brain would be pressed asunder, with inability to perform any kind of labor ; loathing ; tingling, drawing pains in cheeks and chin.
Violent headache after puerperal rash ; throbbing in vertex, moves to cheeks and chin, where it changes to tingling, drawing pains ; brain feels compressed, becomes stupefied.
Throbbing in vertex, and heat in head in afternoon.
Headache as if brain would be torn to pieces.
Sensation as if head became elongated.
Dull headache, head heavy ; morning.
Headache after breakfast.
Headache, with sore eyes, after a fall.
Headache, extending into zygoma or cheeks.
Pressive pain in occiput on motion ; also with drawing stitches ; tearing ; back of head feels "bothered ;" severe scalp headache left side of occiput, after breakfast, at other times dull ; shoot of dull pain up left occipital nerve.
Headache after a fall upon occiput, combined with a sensation as if being lifted up high into air ; she was tormented by the greatest anxiety that the slightest touch or motion would make her fall down from this height.

Outer head

Sensation in forehead as if touched by an icy cold hand, in afternoon, after which a spasmodic contraction is felt in right eye.
Pressure in left temple, after breakfast.
Curling sensation on vertex.
Head hot, carotids throbbing.
Hair moist, rest of body burning hot.
Heat and pressure on vertex.
Severe bone pains in cranium.
Fracture skull ; bone splintered.
Humid eruption on scalp with children.

Sight and eyes

Disturbed look, stares at people, eyes fixed ; pupils dilated.
Pain and irritation of eye, from an anterior synechia resulting from an injury several years previously ; healthy eye also irritable.
Stitches in right eye.
Stye on lower left lid.

Hearing and ears

Sensitiveness of hearing ; during catamenia.
Shooting through the ear.
Ears hot ; scurf on ear.

Smell and nose

Exceedingly fine sense of smell.
Nose dry, very annoying.
Sneezing, leaving a raw sore feeling in throat.
Sores inside nose, itching ; all the time picking nose.
Dryness of nostrils ; crusts in it.

Upper face

Suffering expression.
Face hot, bloated. θ Meningitis.
Cheeks red ; erysipelatous redness.
Dull faceache, aching in brows ; afternoon, evening ; < at night, disturbing sleep.
Headache extending into zygoma or cheek.
Red eruption on both cheeks, chin and nose ; sometimes dry, with thin crusts ; sometimes fiery red, oozing yellow drops.

Lower face

Tension in the cheek.
Lips dry, feel hot.
Eruption around mouth and on right ear.
Yellow-greenish scabs, with cracking and moisture.

Teeth and gums

Severe aching in decayed tooth at night ; restless, wakeful ; > lying on affected side, and keeping quiet.
Injuries to dental nerves.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : insipid ; of blood.
Tongue coated white or yellow ; great thirst. θ Meningitis.
Great soreness of tongue, from lacerated wounds, with inability to speak, not from stiffness or swelling, but extreme soreness.

Inner mouth

Dry, burning heat in mouth and on lips.

Palate and throat

Expansion of throat and abdomen.
Sensation as if a worm was moving in throat.
Hot rising in œsophagus after a fright, or with anxious feelings.
With hemming, some bright, red blood comes up.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Desire for warm drinks. θ Meningitis.
Great thirst, white tongue ; in morning after heat and delirium.
Thirst with feeling of heat in mouth ; violent thirst.
Desire for wine ; for pickles.
Appetite increased morning and evening.

Eating and drinking

Tastelessness.
Belching, when drinking water.
Smoking tobacco does not taste well.
After breakfast : headache, eructations, gastric symptoms, pressure in stomach toward back ; pains in limbs.
After supper ; flatulence and diarrhœa.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations : tasteless ; bitter ; preventing sleep at night ; < after drinking water.
Nausea : weakness every morning ; abdomen distended, pains in bowels, awaking in night ; with headache on vertex.
Vomiting.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pressure at stomach on eating but little.
Sticking in stomach.
Pain in stomach, nausea, diarrhœa and chill after eating.

Hypochondria

Sticking or dragging pain in right hypochondrium.

Abdomen and loins

Tympanitic distension of abdomen ; relieved by a stool.
Cutting in belly, in region of navel.
Pinching pains ; diarrhœa ; catamenia.
Colic.
Pain after operation for incarcerated hernia.

Stools and rectum

Awakes with distended abdomen, relieved by stool.
Diarrhœa driving out of bed in morning.
Loose, bilious, yellow stools evening or morning.
Summer diarrhœa, with eruptions on skin.
Cholera morbus, slimy stools ; afterward constipation ; flesh sore all over ; feet swollen, urine lessened.
Constipation ; violent tenesmus, with discharge of a hard little ball ; with nausea.
Rectum feels dry, morning.
(OBS :) Hemorrhoids.

Urinary organs

Vesical tenesmus.
Swelling and hardness of female urethra, with burning, soreness and sensitiveness ; especially if caused by instruments for uterine prolapsus.
Nightly urging to urinate, with vertigo.
Retention of urine.
Urine : much diminished ; bloody ; turbid ; of peculiar odor.

Male sexual organs

Sexual functions excited.
Tearing in genital organs, with desire to urinate.

Female sexual organs

Inflammatory conditions of mucous membranes of uterus and vagina.
Menses : delay a fortnight ; too late, with tension in uterine region, as from a tight bandage ; increased in quantity ; three days before their appearance, pinching in abdomen, diarrhœa, cold feet ; headache, wrenching pain over eyes, > in motion ;
severe headache ; attended by sickening pain in belly and sensitiveness of hearing.
Leucorrhœa : with delayed menses, palpitation, pressure in small of back ; with heaviness in lower bowels ; in a child, milky, but corroding.
(OBS :) Chlorosis of marriageable girls.
(OBS :) Scirrhus of breast caused by injury.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Labor pains tardy.
After-pains violent, in sacrum and hips, with severe headache ; after instrumental delivery.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness, with scraping and roughness in larynx, upper part of pharynx and nares, in a foggy atmosphere.

Respiration

Spasmodic asthmatic attacks ; with changes of weather from clear to damp, or before storms ; cannot lie for any length of time upon back ; attacks > by copious expectoration from bronchial tubes ; after lesion of spinal cord, by a fall,
years before.

Cough

Spells of short, barking cough. θ Meningitis.
Frequent dry, hacking cough.
Hacking cough, from irritation in throat, < by heat and cold air.
Dry cough and prostration in morning.
Whooping cough, worse from 6 to 10 P. M. ; great nervous prostration.

Inner chest and lungs

Anxiety in chest, in forenoon, with short breath, dizziness and bitter belching.
Tightness in chest.
Pressure and burning in chest.
Stitches in chest between breasts.
Stinging in left chest, < when moving.
Cutting in upper right chest, then in lower left.
(OBS :) Consumption with hæmoptysis.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Violent beating of heart.
Pulse : quick and hard ; frequent.
Local congestions, and capillary erethism, with or without hemorrhages and great nervous depression, following wounds.

Outer chest

Stitches under mamma.
Continual stitches from within outward, through left breast and sternum, < from motion.
Stinging burning pain on one edge of left pectoral muscles.
Dull pressure, right chest, from seventh rib downwards, after breakfast.

Neck and back

Cervical vertebræ very sensitive to touch.
Stinging near edge of right scapula near spine ; morning.
Cutting between scapulæ.
Back lame and painful.
Stitches in small of back.
Aching pain and sensation of lameness in small of back.
Backache after confinement.
After falling out of hammock, great pain in spine, growing daily more severe ; she could not sit except upon an air cushion.
Every four weeks attack of illness lasting 4 to 8 days, beginning with chill, followed by long continued fever, with dry, parched skin, headache, especially towards evening, restlessness, jactitation, supersensibility of surface of neck and of superior extremities, great dread of motion,
would not walk and screamed outright if any one proposed to lift her from one place to another, insisting all the while that she should be held in lap ; face pale and anxious, white around mouth, and expression of suffering and uneasiness ; anorexia ; slight thirst for warm
drinks ; dry, hacking cough from irritation in throat, < from least exposure to cold air ; tongue white, taste insipid ; cervical vertebræ very sensitive to touch. θ After a
fall.
After a fall : slightest motion of arms or of neck extorts cries ; cervical vertebræ very sensitive to touch ; headache ; desire for warm drinks ; asthmatic spells, or spells of short, hacking cough.
An ice-man struck back violently against curbstone by being thrown from wagon ; he felt a momentary intense pain shoot down both legs, but was afterwards able to get up, and serve out the rest of his route ; in afternoon was unable to hold urine, which dribbled away without his
being aware of it ; next morning on attempting to rise legs seemed "as if drunk ;" pulse feeble ; temperature normal ; breathing slightly labored, no pain along spine, nor any spasmodic movement ; sphincter muscles partially paralyzed ; walks with a
rolling motion ; legs felt "as if dead". θ Concussion of spine.
Boy fell from shed, but did not seem much hurt ; next night, however, began vomiting ; in morning was slightly delirious, but could easily be aroused to answer questions ; severe pain in head and down spine, greatly intensified by attempting to move arms or legs ;
pupils dilated ; face puffed and hot ; tongue coated yellowish ; mouth dry, but did not wish to drink water, desired warm milk ; pulse 140, full and hard, temperature 104 1/2°F. ; constipated, stools consisting of small, hard lumps ; urine thick and muddy, and
had the appearance of beer. θ Traumatic meningitis.
Boy, æt. 14, fair, of lively temperament, was attacked while husking corn with numbness of limbs, and pain in upper part of spinal cord ; spinal column from cervical vertebræ to region of kidneys, tender to touch ; paroxysms of pain with symptoms of mania, pains principally
in joints and changing about ; almost constant dull headache ; least touch on spine between cervical and lumbar regions made him shrink.
Violent pains and inability to walk, or to stoop after a fall on coccyx ; feet feel pithy, as if pricked with needles.
Lies on back jerking head backward.
Consequences of spinal concussion.

Upper limbs

Flying pains in right shoulder.
Cutting under left scapula.
Pressure at insertion of right deltoid.
Stitches on top of shoulder at every inspiration.
Hard pain running down left median nerve.
Numbness in left arm ; > from rubbing.
Dry herpetic eruption on outer side of arms, < on right.
Excruciating pain after amputation of arm ; fainting.
Tension in both arms and in hands.
Cutting in fleshy ends of fingers.
Compound dislocation of two fingers, with severe laceration and tearing of external structure, the members being severed except by a narrow bridge of skin uniting them to the body (applied locally).
Pain in last phalanges of fingers, < in thumb, fore and little fingers.
Panaritium.

Lower limbs

After severe injury to sciatic nerve, sharp, cutting pains, darting along course of nerve and terminating in a twisting or wrenching sensation in foot.
Sciatica, rheumatism.
Coxalgia after confinement.
Left leg numb, cold while sitting.
Weakening drawing, over front of legs ; shoots of pain, as if in periosteum.
Fearful pains in knees, sharp, could hardly touch them.
Articular rheumatism in knee ; effusion around joint ; muddy urine, looking like settlings of beer ; pains sharp, < least touch ; tearing pains.
The feet feel pithy, as if pricked with needles.
Lying in bed the feet tingle.
Sensation as if left foot was strained or dislocated.
Same evening, after running pin into foot, intense pain at seat of injury ; toes became rigid, ankle, stiffened, chills chased each other down back, followed by nausea and vomiting ; she fainted, and on coming to, still complained of the agonizing
pain ; strange expression of face, eyes set, lips drawn tightly across teeth.
After running pins in right foot pain runs up limb through spine to neck and face ; muscles of neck and jaw become rigid, < right side, and also muscles of abdomen and thorax. θ Tetanic
symptoms.
Toes of right foot crushed by heavy iron shutter, and almost severed from foot, the bones protruding in several places ; considerable hemorrhage ; excruciating pain ; depressed and cold.
(OBS :) Gout.
Bunions excruciatingly painful (locally).
Cannot walk, spine affected.

Limbs in general

Feeling of weakness and trembling of all the limbs.
Bruised sensation in all the joints.
Rheumatoid inflammation of joints.
Crawling in hands and feet, as if they were numb.
Sensation of lameness of left arm and right foot.
Crawling in hands and feet, they felt fuzzy.
Compound fractures of hands and feet, with great laceration of soft parts.
Affections of joints.

Rest. position. motion

Keeping quiet : toothache >.
Lying in bed : feet tingle.
Lying on affected side : toothache >.
Lies on back : jerking head backwards.
Sitting : left leg cold.
On rising : languor.
Cannot lie for any length of time upon back.
Could not sit except on air cushion ; screamed when it was proposed to lift her to another place.
Motion : pressive pain in occiput ; wrenching pain over eyes > ; continual stitches through left breast and sternum.
Slightest motions of arms or neck extorts cries, after a fall.
Great dread of motion.
Physical effort causes fainting.
Would not walk.
Cannot walk or stoop : after a fall on coccyx.

Nerves

Effects of nervous shock.
Great weakness.
Weariness on awaking ; goes off by noon.
Great nervous depression following wounds.
After being frightened by a practical joke, became very pale and hysterical ; pulse 54, very weak and compressible ; respiration 15 and sighing ; temperature 96°F ; skin cold and clammy ; slight vomiting. θ Shock.
Jerks in limbs.
Convulsions from blows upon head or concussion ; dull headache, on vertex, or severe headache, with throbbing on top of head.
Spasms after slight injuries, in children.
Epileptiform spasms after hard knocks.
Tetanus after traumatic injuries.
Opisthotonos.
Prevents lockjaw from wounds in soles of feet, fingers, or palms of hands.
Removes ill effects of local shock, prevents in a great measure sympathetic irritation of system from local derangement and modifies subsequent inflammation and sloughing. θ Gunshot wounds.
Injuries to nerves, attended by great pain.
Especially adapted to mechanical injuries of spinal cord, and nerves at their peripheral extremities.
Nervous disorders arising from falls and hurts.
Lacerated nerves, causing excruciating pain.

Sleep

Constant drowsiness.
Spasmodic jerks of arms or legs on going to sleep ; twitchings.
On awaking : weary, > by noon ; feels refreshed ; bowels distended.
Dreams : with activity, traveling ; vivid ; distressing.

Time

At 4 A. M. : talking nonsense in sleep.
Morning : dull headache, head heavy ; great thirst, white tongue ; appetite increased ; diarrhœa drives out of bed ; loose, bilious, yellow stools ; rectum feels dry ; dry cough and prostration ; stinging near scapula ; after a fall
slightly-delirious.
After breakfast : headache ; severe scalp headache ; pressure in left temple ; eructations ; gastric symptoms ; pressure in stomach ; pains in limbs ; dull pressure in right chest.
Noon : weariness >.
Afternoon : feeling of weakness and trembling of limbs ; throbbing in vertex ; sensation as if forehead was touched by an icy cold hand, after which contraction of right eye ; dull faceache ; brows ache ; unable to hold urine.
At 4 P. M. : eruption like nettlerash on both hands.
Evening : dull faceache, brows ache ; appetite increased ; loose, bilious, yellow stools ; dry, parched skin, headache ; intense pain at seat of injury ; eruption on both hands.
After supper : flatulence and diarrhœa.
Night : vertigo ; urging to urinate ; dull faceache < ; severe aching in decayed tooth ; eructations preventing sleep ; awakening at night from pain in bowels ; vomiting, after a fall.

Temperature and weather

Sensitiveness to cold.
Attacks return with changes of weather from clear to damp, or before storms ; after lesion of spine by a fall, spasmodic asthma.
Foggy atmosphere : hoarseness, with scraping and roughness of larynx, upper part of pharynx and nares.
Heat : hacking cough <.
Cold air : hacking cough < ; least exposure < symptoms.

Fever

Shuddering over whole body, with desire to urinate.
Heat, with delirium, wild staring look, hot head, throbbing of carotids, bright red bloated face, moist hair on head, burning heat of skin, great oppression and anguish.
Chill followed by heat, with sweat on hands and feet.

Attacks, periodicity

Every morning : nausea, weakness.
From 6 to 10 P. M. : whooping cough <.
Three days before menses : pinching in abdomen.
Every four weeks : attacks of illness, lasting 4 to 8 days.
Summer : diarrhœa.

Locality and direction

Right : spasmodic contraction of eye ; stitches in eye ; dull depression in chest ; stinging near edge of scapula near spine ; flying pains in shoulder ; pressure at insertion of deltoid ; dry, herpetic eruption on outer side of arm ;
pains through limb, spine, neck and face ; excruciating pain in crushed toes ; lameness of foot.
Left : severe scalp headache in side of occiput ; shoot of dull pain up cervical nerve ; pressure in temple ; stye on lower lid ; continual stitches through breast and sternum ; stinging burning pain on one edge of pectoral muscles ; cutting under
scapula ; hard pain running down median nerve ; numbness in arm ; leg numb ; leg cold while sitting ; sensation as if foot was strained or dislocated.
Before backward : pressure in stomach.
Upper right to lower left : cutting in chest.
Left upper and right lower : sensation of lameness of arm and foot.
Above downward : pain down left median nerve ; pain down from vertex to face.

Sensations

Brain excited as after tea ; as if hands and feet were numb ; as if head became suddenly elongated ; as if being lifted up high into air ; as if something alive was in brain ; as if whole brain would be pressed asunder ; brain feels
compressed ; as if brain would be torn to pieces ; as if forehead was touched by icy cold hand ; as if a worm was moving in throat ; as from a tight bandage in uterine region ; legs as if dead ; feet feel pithy as if pricked with needles, as if left foot was
strained and dislocated ; hands and feet as if numb ; skin as if full of knots.
Pain : in temples ; in head ; in head extending to zygoma or cheeks ; in eye ; in limbs ; in bowels ; in stomach ; after operation for incarcerated hernia ; in back ; in upper part of spinal cord ; in joints ; in last phalanges
of fingers ; in old cicatrices.
Intense pain : in momentary shoots down both legs.
Excruciating pain : after amputating arm ; in right foot, after crushing toes with heavy iron shutter ; in bunions.
Fearful pains : in knees.
Agonizing pain : in foot after running in a pin.
Sickening pain : in belly.
Violent pain : in head.
Great pain : in spine.
Severe pain : in head ; in spine ; in cranial bones.
Severe headache ; in scalp ; left side of occiput.
Sharp pain : in knees.
Sharp, cutting pain, darting along course of sciatic nerve terminating in a wrenching, twisting sensation in foot.
Cutting : in belly and in region of navel ; between scapula ; under left scapula ; in fleshy ends of fingers.
Beating : headache ; in vertex.
Tearing : in male genitals.
Tearing stitches : in brain.
Wrenching pain : over eyes ; in foot.
Pinching pain : in abdomen.
Stitches : in right eye ; under mamma ; through left breast and sternum ; in small of back ; on top of shoulder at every inspiration.
Drawing stitches : in occiput.
Shooting : through ear.
Flying pains : in right shoulder.
Tingling, drawing pain : in cheeks and chin.
Sticking : in stomach ; in hypochondrium.
Dragging pain : in hypochondrium.
Stinging : near edge of right scapula.
Throbbing : in vertex, moves to cheeks and chin.
Severe aching : in decayed tooth.
Aching pain : in small of back.
Pressive pain : in occiput.
Hard pain : running down left median nerve.
Stinging, burning pain : on one edge of left pectoral muscle.
Burning soreness : of female urethra.
Burning heat : in whole body ; in mouth ; in lips.
Burning in vertex.
Dull pressure : in right chest.
Shoot of dull pain : up left occipital nerve ; in legs.
Dull pain : in head ; in face ; in brows.
Soreness : of eyes ; of inside of nose ; of tongue ; all over.
Bruised sensation : in all joints.
Sensitiveness : of female urethra.
Raw, sore feeling : in throat after sneezing.
Heat : in vertex ; in ears ; in lips.
Weakening drawing : over front of legs.
"Bothered" sensation back of head.
Confused sensation : in vertex.
Spasmodic contraction in right eye.
Pressure : in left temple ; on vertex ; in stomach toward back ; in small of back ; at insertion of right deltoid.
Tension : in cheek ; in both arms and both hands.
Lame feeling : in back.
Weakness : of limbs.
Heaviness : in head ; in lower bowels.
Pulsation : in vertex.
Shuddering : over whole body.
Hot rising : in œsophagus.
Scraping and roughness : in larynx ; upper part of pharynx ; of nares.
Dryness : of nostrils ; of rectum.
Fuzzy feeling : in hands and feet.
Buzzing sensation : in head.
Curling sensation : on vertex.
Tingling : in carotids ; in feet.
Trembling : of limb.
Crawling : in hands and feet.
Numbness : of limbs ; in left arm.
Violent itching : of skin ; of tetter.
Itching : of nose ; in sacral region.

Tissues

Local congestions ; nervous erethism, with or without hemorrhage ; great nervous depression following wounds.
Congestion to head, lungs or heart.
Next to nervous tissues, the joints are affected ; all articulations feel bruised.
Injuries of parts rich in sentient nerves, particularly fingers and toes, and matrices of nails ; open, painful wounds, with general prostration from loss of blood, and great nervous depression ; lacerated wounds.
Mashed, punctured and torn wounds, when nervous tissues are mainly concerned ; lacerations of skin ; injuries of vertebral region, of tissues of animal life, as hands and feet.
Lacerated wounds, or other injuries to nerves, in which there is much soreness, with jerking in the muscles.
Violent, excruciating pains from laceration of nerves.
Excessive painfulness of affected parts, showing nerves to be attacked.
Preserves vitality of torn and lacerated members when almost entirely separated from the body.
Lacerations when intolerable pain shows nerves are severely involved.
In slighter forms of lacerated wounds, if applied early, will sometimes arrest, and always modify the occurrence of ulceration and sloughing.
Gunshot wounds when the parts have been extensively lacerated and torn, with engorgement of the capillaries, attended with more or less discharge of bloody serum.
Piercing wounds from pointed instruments.
Punctured, incised, contused or lacerated wounds, when pains are extremely severe, and particularly if they are of long duration ; pains like those of a severe toothache ; pains spread to neighboring parts and extend up limb.
Open, painful wounds, with general prostration from loss of blood, feeling of weakness and trembling in all the limbs ; languor on rising, fainting from physical effort, thirst and heaviness of head.
Mechanical injuries, wounds by nails or splinters in feet ; needles under nails ; squeezing or hammering of toes and fingers ; when the nerves have been lacerated, wounded, or torn, with excruciating pains. It prevents lockjaw from wounds in soles of feet, or of fingers
and palms of hands.
Always modifies and sometimes arrests ulceration and sloughing.
Hard, yellow crusts form on the healing wound.
Pain in old cicatrices.
Stings of insects and bug bites ; burns.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Punctured wounds feel very sore ; from treading on nails, needles, pins, splinters, rat bites, etc. ; prevents lockjaw.
Wounds from crushing, as mashed fingers, especially tips.
Nerves lacerated, pains excruciating.
Painful wounds before suppuration.
Rheumatism, bunions, corns, etc., when pains are so disproportionately severe as to show nerves are attacked.
After a knock or blow on head : spasms.
Consequences of spinal concussion. See chaps. 31 and 44 .
Touch : cervical vertebræ sensitive ; on spine between cervical and lumbar region made him shrink ; < sharp pains in knees.
Rubbing : > numbness of arm.
After using instruments for uterine prolapsus : burning soreness of female urethra.
After a fall : asphyxia ; headache with sore eyes ; lesion of spinal cord ; asthmatic attacks ; great pain in spine ; unable to hold urine ; sphincter muscles partially paralyzed ; vomiting at night ; slightly delirious in morning ;
severe pain in head and down spine.
After a fall upon occiput : headache with sensation as if she was being lifted high up into air.
After a fall on coccyx : violent pains and inability to walk or stoop.
After hard knock : epileptiform spasms.
Blows upon head : convulsions.
Following wounds : great nervous depression.
Gunshot wounds.
Piercing wounds : from sharp instruments.
Compound fracture of hands and feet.
After severe injury to sciatic nerve : sharp cutting pains darting along course of nerve.
Slight injuries in children : cause spasms.
Injuries to dental nerves.
Injury several years ago : pain and irritation of eye from anterior synechia.
After running pins into foot : intense pain ; toes rigid, ankle stiffened, chills in back ; pains run up limb, through spine to neck and face ; muscles of neck and jaw become rigid.

Skin

Great itching when undressing, most in sacral region.
Violent itching : smarting.
Skin rough, as if full of small knots.
Pimples on forehead, throat, back, hips.
Eruption like nettlerash on both hands, at 4 P. M. and in evening.
Smarting eruption, like nettlerash, on hands.
Tetters, beginning with sore places, and forming hard, yellow crusts, with violent itching.
Eruptions accompanying diarrhœa in Summer time.
Hard, dry, yellow crusts form on wounds or open sores.
Foul, torpid and phagedenic ulcers.

Stage of life, constitution

Girl, æt. 6, three years ago fell down steps, since which time she has been in poor health ; affection of spine.
Boy, æt. 7, after falling from roof of shed ; traumatic meningitis.
Girl, æt. 14, timid and impressionable, after being greatly frightened by a practical joke ; shock.
Robust young lady, after fall upon occiput ; headache.
Mason, æt. 29 ; crushing of right foot.
Mrs. E. M. C., æt. 32, after falling from hammock ; pain in spine.
Ice-man, æt. 32, after being thrown from wagon ; concussion of spine.
Woman, æt. 40, stepped upon a paper of pins, a number of which penetrated sole of right foot quite deeply ; tetanic symptoms.
Strong woman, æt. 45, mother of five children, in fifteenth year fell down steps and injured spine, has suffered with chest affection for ten years ; spasmodic asthma.

Relations

Antidoted by : Arsen . (weakness or sickness in the morning) ; Chamom . (pains in face).
Antidotes : Sulphur . (Effects of mesmerism).
Compare : Acon., Agar., Arnic ., Arsen ., Calend ., Chamom., Coccul., Ruta, Staphis., Sulphur .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

One who makes a study of the proving of Hypericum will be reminded of a class of injuries involving sentient nerves and it is not surprising that this remedy has come into use for the results of such injuries.

Injuries

The surgery of Homeopathy largely involves the use of Arnica, Rhus tox., Ledum, Staphysagria, Calcarea and Hypericum. These remedies are used in a routine way when a physician runs into semi-surgical conditions, or the results of injuries.

For the bruised, "black-and-blue," sore appearance and sensation Arnica comes into use it corresponds especially to the acute stage until the soreness and bruised condition have disappeared from the parts injured or from the whole body; but for the strains of muscles and tendons Arnica proves insufficient and a thorough study of Rhus will show that that remedy is suitable for the resultant weakness of tendons and muscles, and the bruised, rheumatic feelings that come on in every storm and often wear off on continued motion.

For the final weakness that persists even after Rhus we have Calcarea carb. In these three remedies we have a series, but to distinguish these from Hypericum is the important thing. Hypericum is only a minor remedy for bruised and strained tendons and muscles; it goes into a different class of complaints.

Hypericum and Ledum run close together, and they have to be compared. Ledum, as much of the sore bruised feeling of Arnica and will often take its place; but Hypericum and Ledum come together for consideration when an injury to a nerve has taken on inflammatory action. Instead of the muscles and bones and blood vessels, as in Arnica, Rhus and Calcarea , the nerves are the sphere for these two remedies.

Nerves injuries

When the finger ends or toes have beer, bruised or lacerated, or a nail has been torn off, or when a nerve has become pinched between a hammer and the bone in a blow, and that nerve becomes inflamed and the pain can be traced up along the nerve, and it is gradually extending toward the body from the injured part with stitching, darting pains, coming and going, or shooting up from the region of the injury toward the body, a dangerous condition is coming on.

In this condition Hypericum is above all the remedies to be thought of and hardly any other medicine is likely to come in. It hardly need be said that lock-jaw is threatening.

Sometimes a vicious dog will take bold of an individual through the thumb, or through the hand or the. wrist and run one of his great teeth through the radial nerve or some of its branches in the hand, causing a lacerated wound. You may not find in the earlier stages the symptoms of Hypericum, but they will develop gradually and you will have them to treat. Do not cut the off, but cure it. We cure all these injuries with medicines-punctured, incised, contused and lacerated wounds, painful wounds.

A wound will sometimes yawn, swell up, no tendency to heal, look dry and shiny on its edges, red; inflamed; burning, stinging, tearing pains; no healing process. That wound needs Hypericum. It prevents tetanus. Every practitioner knows that lock-jaw way develop after an injury to sentient nerves. The old school doctor is frightened by these shooting pains up the arms after an injury. A shoemaker may stick his awl into the end of his thumb or a carpenter may stick his finger with a brass tack and he does not think much of it, but the next night shooting pains extend up the arm with much violence.

The allopathic physician looks upon that as a series matter, for he sees lockjaw or tetanus ahead. When these pains come on Hypericum will stop them, and from this stage to advanced states of tetanus with opisthotonos and lock-jaw Hypericum is the remedy. It is full of just such symptoms as are found in tetanus and such symptoms as lead to tetanus and it is full of all the manifestations of an ascending neuritis.

Again, you may have an old scar, and it comes in contact with a hard body and is injured, bruised, torn internal) smashed, and stinging, tearing pains come in that cicatrix, and it burns and stings, and there is no relief, and the pain runs toward the body along the course of nerves. A painful cicatrix with pain shooting up toward the centre of the body following up the nerves.

Hypericum is the medicine for that.

Now there are other remedies - all know about Arnica, but be sure you keep it in its place. The first stage of the injury, where much bruising has been done, and there are none of these pains that I have described, for the first hours for bruised conditions and concussions and shocks Arnica is routine, because it produces states upon the human body like it had been bruised. But you will find Arnica only fits into that one place.

Arnica should never be used for wounds the way the lay people use it, because if it is used in full strength it may bring on erysipelas.

Again, for bruised of bone, cartilages, tendons, insertion of tendons, bruises about cartilages and about joints, Ruta is better than any other remedy; and if we study the proving of Ruta we will not be surprised, because it produces symptoms like those found in such conditions.

Lingering, sore, bruised places on bones, in joints and upon cartilages. But Ledum comes in very often as a preventive Medicine. It is a preventive medicine when an accident happen to the ends of the fingers, if a patient steps on a nail or tack or sticks a splinter under a finger-nail or into the foot. If a horse pick up a nail, pull it out and give him a dose of Ledum; there will never be trouble, he will, not have lock-jaw.

These punctured wounds, rat bites, cat bites, etc-, are all made safe by Ledum; i.e., Ledum prevents the shooting pains that naturally come and the nerves will never be involved. We will have no trouble if we can give it at once. Again, if the pain is a dull aching in the part that was injured, in the wound Ledum is still the remedy; if it shoots from the wound up the nerve of the arm it is more like Hypericum.

A sensitive nervous women steps on a tack during the day, and she feels all the day where the tack went in, lies down in bed and it aches so violently she cannot keep it still. Ledum will prevent any further trouble, but if that goes on until the morning the pains will be shooting up the leg, calling for Hypericum.

I mentioned the use of Ledum when a horse picks up a nail. Now, if a nail goes through the thin part of the hoof and strikes the coffin bone that horse is almost sure to die with tetanus; the veterinarians know nothing for it; though they paultice it and put on liniments, etc., that horse will die with tetanus; but if a dose of Ledum is given before the tetanus comes on it will save the animal from tetanus; after the jerking comes on it will save the animal from tetanus; after the jerking comes on Ledum will not do, but Hypericum must be given.

Hypericum belongs to lacerated wounds and when there is laceration of parts that are full of small nerves, sentient nerves, give it at once. Do not waste time with Arnica because there is soreness, for the soreness is of much less importance than the danger from nerves in lacerated wounds. In punctured wounds give Ledum at once. Whatever sequences come on, of course, have to be met in accordance with the, state and symptoms of the case.

Spine injuries

Injuries of the spine give us another class of troubles requiring Hypericum.

I remember a case such as has been met with quite often and such as we read of and hear about, one, however, that was not saved. A sudden lurch of the car caused a man who was standing on the rear end of the car to be hurled back on his coccyx. He did not think much of it, went home, bad pains in the head and various pass of the body.

Several physicians were called; nobody could find out what was the matter with him, and at the end of ten days he died. They turned him over and found that his coccyx was black and an abscess was threatening in the muscular region. If it had been known Hypericum would have saved his life.

Many times I have seen Hypericum cure similar conditions. Injuries of the coccyx are among the most serious and troublesome injuries that the physician comes in contact with; injuries just like that, falling back and striking a stone, or something that bruises the coccyx.

Very little is found immediately in the coccyx; close examination reveals nothing more than soreness upon pressure, but many times we do have the description of pains shooting up the spine and down the extremities, shooting pains over the body and often convulsive movements.

When such symptoms are present any physician ought to be wise enough to find out an injury, but even very astute physicians are blinded over injuries of the coccyx. Many a woman sustains an injury of the coccyx during labor, and however, slight, soreness remains for years afterwards, and she is always in trouble, always hysterical and nervous, from this injury of the coccyx.

Such injuries, if taken early, can be cured by Hypericum. It is in the remedy. Slight inflammation or irritation of the lower part of the cord; it feels lacerated, and sore, and aches and never passes over until the results of the injury right in the spot have been removed. These injuries have been cured in after years by Carbo animalis, Silica and Thuja and other remedies as indicated.

It is related also to injuries of the spine higher up. It is not an uncommon thing for a man. while going down stairs, to fall backward, his feet to slip from under him and he strikes his back upon one of the steps and undergoes a sharp injury.

Some will at once give Rhus tox; I have known others to give Arnica. Hypericum is to be given at once to prevent the kind of inflammation that may come from such an injury. Then there will be other tendencies, such as drawings and rheumatic symptoms, that will come on, calling for Rhus and finally Calcarea.

Old weakness of the back, with painfulness on rising from a seat, are often cured by Rhus, followed by Calcarea, but Hypericum must first of all take care of the condition of the fibres of the cord and meninges. Meningeal troubles are common from injuries of that class, with drawing of the muscles of the back, a feeling of contraction or tightening. Stitching, shooting pains in the back in various directions; they shoot down the limbs. Injuries of the back are not so likely to end in tetanus as the injuries of the sensory nerves; but they are sometimes even more troublesome because they linger so long.

Persons who have been injured in the spine or about the coccyx linger along for years with symptoms that would lead to many remedies. We find in the provings such symptoms as occur after these injuries, and, of course, this remedy will cure anything that its proving justifies. Its action is upon the nerve sheaths and meninges, with stitching, tearing, rending pains along the nerves, wherever there are injuries.

Now, there is another remedy that we want to know. If you have a clear-cut or incised wound made with a sharp instrument, or if you have made such an opening with your knife while practicing surgery, if you have opened the abdominal cavity and the walls of the abdomen take on an unhealthy look, and there are stinging, burning pains, Staphysagria is the remedy that will make granulation come immediately.

Sphincters

Staphysagria is also a wonderfully useful remedy where the sphincter stretchers have been.

Staphysagria is the natural antidote to stretching. When the urethra of a woman has been stretched for stone in the bladder, Staphysagria is useful. I remember a case of stretching of the urethra; after the operation the patient was in great distress, screaming and crying, bathed in a cold, sweat. head hot and body in cold sweat.

Staphysagria was given to him and in a few minutes she went to sleep. She had been six hours in that suffering without any relief whatever. Where coldness, congestion of the head, and rending, tearing pains occur from stretching sphincters, or from tearing parts, for the purpose of operation, death is likely to occur, and Staphysagria is closely related to that tearing, lacerating and stretching of fibres which causes such suffering.

After a surgical operation, where there has been much cutting, a great state of prostration, coldness, oozing of blood, almost cold breath, of course the Materia Medica man, if there is one around, will say,

"Why give him Carbo veg., of course."

Yes, you will, but it will not help him. It may disappoint you. But if you are a surgeon, know your surgical therapeutics better than a Materia Medica man, you will say,

"No, Strontium carb. is what I want."

It relieves that congestion all over the body; he gets warm and has a comfortable night. Strontium carb. is the Carbo veg. of the surgeon.

Lastly, we sometimes have to antidote chloroform, and because there are pains and aches you will get no action from these medicines; you can antidote your chloroform almost instantly by a dose of Phosphorus, because it is the natural antidote of chloroform. Phosphorus will stop the vomiting, Phosphorus has vomiting like that of chloroform. Phosphorus likes cold things, cold water in the stomach, and vomits as soon as water has become warm in the stomach. So does chloroform. Why should they not antidote each other?