Œnanthe Crocata oena.

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Region

CEREBRO-SPINAL AXIS. Heart.

Worse

Injury. Menstrual and sexual disturbances.

General

Mania. Swelled, twitching face. Rosy red blotches on face and chest. Burning heat, < head and throat. Epilepsy; with priapism. Status epilepticus (Abs. Aco.). As of a bug creeping under skin about waist; < touch of clothes.

Related

Related: Bell. Cic.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Water Dropwart

General

Epileptiform convulsions; worse, during menstruation and pregnancy. Puerperal eclampsia; uræmic convulsions. Burning in throat and stomach, nausea and vomiting. Red spots in face. Convulsive facial twitching. Skin affections, especially lepra and ichthyosis.

Head

Pains all over head, dizzy. Sudden and complete unconsciousness. Furious delirium, giddiness. Countenance livid, eyes fixed, pupils dilated, convulsive twitching of facial muscles, trismus, foaming at mouth, locked jaws. Much yawning. Tendency to cry over little things.

Respiratory

Tickling cough, with rattling in the lower part of the chest, and thick, frothy expectoration. Heavy, spasmodic, stertorous breathing.

Extremities

Convulsions; opisthotonos. Pain along crural and sciatic nerves, commencing in back. Cold hands and feet. Numbness of hand and foot.

Relationship

Compare: Cicuta; Kali brom.

Dose

First to sixth potency.

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General

Œnanthe Crocata.

Œnanthe crocata. Hemlock Drop-wort. (Marshy places.) N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of fresh root, at time of flowering.

Clinical

Albuminuria. Apoplexy. Breast, pain in. Convulsions. Cough. Diaphragm, spasm of. Epilepsy . Hystero-epilepsy. Œsophagus, inflammation of; stricture, of. Priapism. Puerperal convulsions. Sciatica. Speech, lost. Status epilepticus. Stomatitis. Tetanus . Tongue, swollen; ulcerated.

Characteristics

Œnanthe crocata is one of the most poisonous of the Umbelliferæ, and many accidents have happened from the use of the root in mistake for parsnips, and of the leaves in salads and soups. These have furnished the symptoms of the pathogenesis. Some of them are given in C. D. P . A man, 40, when fasting, ate the root. He soon complained of great heat in throat; half an hour after became speechless, fell down unconscious, and was seized with terrible convulsions, which lasted three-quarters of an hour and ended in death. It was impossible to give medicine on account of the jaws being closed by trismus the whole time. Post-mortem examination of those who have died of this poisoning reveal ─ ( 1 ) Extreme postmortem rigidity. ( 2 ) Hands strongly clenched with thumb applied forcibly to palm. ( 3 ) Purple surface; nails blue. ( 4 ) Black fluid blood effused under scalp; veins of pia mater distended; brain substance strongly injected; sinuses distended; escape of blood beneath pia mater covering both hemispheres. ( 5 ) Sheath of spinal cord strongly congested. ( 6 ) Respiratory mucous membranes deep red, covered with frothy mucus; lungs dull, blackish with extravasations. ( 7 ) Heart contained black fluid blood. ( 8 ) Alimentary mucous membrane injected, with points of extravasation. Two striking cases are reported in Brit. Med. Jour ., March 3, 1900 ( H. W ., xxxv. 277), which illustrate the epileptic suddenness of the drug's action: ( 1 ) J. M., without any previous warning, fell down in a fit in the dining-hall as he was finishing dinner. The fit was regarded as epileptic. He regained consciousness soon after. Whilst being removed from the dining-hall to the ward he had a second severe fit with vomiting; face livid, pupils dilated and fixed; conjunctivæ insensible; bloody foam about mouth and nostrils; breathing stertorous; complete insensibility. Six severe fits followed with an interval of a few seconds between. The convulsion was clonic and general, but attained its greatest intensity in lower limbs first; next upper limbs; lastly in face. Death took place from asphyxia, the heart continuing to beat a few seconds after respiration ceased. ( 2 ) T. F. was seized with a severe fit when going out to resume work on the farm after dinner. He vomited a quantity of food, and emesis was kept up by giving Ipecacuanha wine , followed by copious draughts of tepid water. There was no unconsciousness, but a marked mental change after the convulsions ; the patient was delirious and talked incessantly to himself; drowsy and averse to be questioned. Face pale, pupils dilated, pulse weak and slow. Two hours later he recovered, and told how J. M. had given him a piece of "carrot" of which J. M. had himself eaten. T. F. took two bites of it and threw the rest away. The sudden falling and the subsequent status epilepticus are well depicted in these two cases. In homœopathic practice it has been given with much success in cases of epilepsy. With the 3x I once gave great temporary relief in a case of idiopathic tetanus, which, however, terminated fatally. The cases of epilepsy in which it is particularly indicated are those in which there is during the fit: vomiting; tympanitis; or semi-priapism. Epilepsy arising from disorders of the sexual sphere. Dr. McLellan, of New jersey, tells me of a case of his in which a young woman, 19, of a very healthy family, who had never menstruated, had become almost idiotic in consequence, and at the periods when the menses should have come on there were epileptiform seizures of minor intensity. The state of mind was such that, after taking the best advice in Paris and the States without avail, the patient was about to be put away. Œn. c . was given, and the next period passed without any epileptic symptoms. But there was no sign of the flow. Bell . was now given, and at the next period the flow came on, and the patient's mind was entirely restored. J. S. Garrison ( S. J. of H ., xiv. 135) reports a case of hystero-epilepsy. Mrs. T., 32, commenced to menstruate at sixteen. At first there was no pain, but later there was. Married at twenty-three, she had two children, one eighteen months after marriage, and the other seventeen months after the first. About the fourth month of the first pregnancy she began to be troubled with weight and pressure in pelvis and groins so that she could hardly walk. This lasted till the confinement. At the sixth month she had the first convulsion, and she had two others between that and the confinement. During the afternoon of the last three days before confinement she had a sensation as if she had been struck on the side of the head, and she fell, but without loss of consciousness. Severe headache followed. She had no more convulsions till after the baby died at five months, when she had one. But three months later she became pregnant again and convulsions recommenced, continuing at irregular intervals till confinement, when they ceased till she began to move about. They then recurred at intervals, varying from six weeks to six months, and when they did come there were always three or four very close-together. The mental condition grew worse all the time. The fits came suddenly without premonition; except that at first she had a slight feeling of dread, and occasionally could see herself as dead. The attacks varied from momentary unconsciousness to epileptiform seizures with dulness and sleepiness for varying times. At first they came in the night; later in the day, sometimes two in one day. They usually began with the menses. The uterus was much enlarged and the parts greatly relaxed. The urine had a very low specific gravity. Œn. c . 2x was given, five drops four times a day, on November 16, 1894. On December 12th there was a severe attack, apparently induced by errors of diet, a week after appearance of menses. The medicine was continued for ten months with constant improvement in health, and with no further convulsions. J. S. Cooper ( H. R ., xi. 354) relates the case of a clergyman in attendance on one of the Federal generals at Gettysburg, who was wounded in the forehead by a fragment of shell, taken prisoner, and kept in prison twenty months. On his release he was quite a wreck, and soon began to have light epileptic seizures, which gradually got worse, and when seen by J. S. Cooper, twenty-five years later, he was having four or five fits a day, could not write his name, and at times would take to his heels and run four or five miles into the country before he could be caught. Œn. c . 4, five drops every four hours, was prescribed. After the first dose he had a very bad fit. The dose was diminished. He began to improve, and in less than a year was in perfect health. Œn. c . was not taken continuously, but when he "felt nervous" he would take a few doses. F. H. Fish ( H. R ., vii. 80) cured a girl, 16, sanguine, well grown, who at eight began to have fits of absent-mindedness at irregular intervals. At twelve menstruation commenced; at fourteen epileptic seizures, having no relation to the menstrual periods. The fits were so severe that sixty to one hundred grains of Potassium bromide was required to keep them under control. Œn. c . Ø, five drops in six ounces of water: a teaspoonful every three hours, and later less often. She had not another spasm, and lost her absent-mindedness and became cheerful and active. W. K. Fowler ( Amer. Hom ., quoted H. W., xxxv. 212) reports this case: A teamster, 60, nineteen years before got into a fight, had three ribs broken, and was struck in stomach with butt of gun. Two weeks later had pneumonia on the injured side, and after that epileptic seizures. Before the attacks: pain in stomach going through to spine; pain in second cervical vertebra. Attacks induced by worry and by becoming very tired. Severe attacks after day's work was finished. Œn. c . on discs, four discs every three hours for a month. After this there was only one slight attack after a hard day's work during the four months he was under observation. W. B. Carpenter relates ( Med. Cent ., quoted H. W ., xxxv. 369) the case of F. M., 29, of good family history, who had meningitis at age of three, and had some unusual trouble after vaccination. In 1894 (aged 23) had a severe accidental blow with a sledge hammer on frontal bone immediately over nose. In 1896 had his first convulsive attack, coming on during sleep, and only noticed by his wife; a shuddering and stiffening of the body, turning of the head, grinding teeth and groaning. In the morning patient noticed a dull, heavy feeling of the head, and sensation as if whole body weighted down. For two years the attacks occurred only at night, and were known to the patient by these feelings next day. The attacks increased in severity, and now began to come in the day, and were preceded by an aura like the sound of distant bells, then a buzzing as of bees, increasing in intensity till he fell unconscious, this condition lasting from ten to sixty minutes. For months the patient had this strange symptom: On looking upward a filmy shower of black rods and rings seemed to come from above and disappear on reaching the level of his eyes. Fits recurred at intervals of one to four weeks. Bromides were then given, and there were no fits for seven months, when they no longer controlled, and he consulted Carpenter, who noted these additional symptoms: Twitching of individual muscles during attack, with frothy mucus before mouth; dulness in head, haziness before eyes: burning dryness in throat; obstinate constipation; chilly feelings over body; languor and heaviness of mind and body. Œn. c . 4x and 6x made a complete change in a few months, brightening the mind, energising the body, and stopping the seizures for several months. Among peculiar symptoms are: Cold as if dead during convulsions; noise in throat as if being choked. Burning. Burning heat. Numbness. Legs stretched straight out. Swallowing = soreness of throat. Pressure < pain in throat; > deep pain in thorax. All symptoms < from water (in three women poisoned by it).

Relations

Compare: Phelland., Cicut. v., Con. In epilepsy, Bufo. In priapism, Pic. ac.

Causation

Injuries.

Mind

Furious delirium, as if drunk; insanity; hallucinations. ─ Sudden and complete loss of consciousness. ─ Delirium like delirium tremens; constantly moved from place to place, talked without cessation and without knowing what they said; grasped at imaginary objects. ─ Epileptic insanity; sudden furious attack. ─ (Epileptic condition at periods when menses are due in amenorrhœa.). ─ Averse to be questioned. ─ Coma after convulsions.

Head

Vertigo: with falling; with nausea, vomiting, syncope, and convulsions. ─ Suddenly falls down backward. ─ Headache and giddiness. ─ Apoplectic conditions; speechless; insensible; face puffed and livid; pupils dilated; respiration laborious; limbs contracted; trismus. ─ Pain all over, but esp. in head. ─ Momentary sensation of pungent heat determining to head. ─ Hyperæmia of brain; extravasation and serous exudation. ─ Violent pain in head. ─ Hair fell off.

Eyes

Eyes: much sunk; full and projecting; inflamed. ─ Pupils first contracted, then dilated. ─ Eyes turned upward and inward; and firmly fixed. ─ Eyes red. ─ Saw nothing on awaking. ─ Vision disturbed; obscured.

Nose

Bleeding from the nose.

Face

Rapid, convulsive twitching of muscles of the face. ─ Face: livid and turgid, pale and cold; ghastly; anxious. ─ Risus sardonicus. ─ Lips blue. ─ Bloody froth issuing from mouth and nostrils. ─ Trismus; jaws rigidly closed. ─ Rose-coloured spots on face.

Mouth

Convulsive movement of teeth. ─ Tongue half bitten through. ─ Tongue: sore and swollen; and protruded; slightly furred; raw at tip; ulcerated at edges; clean, moist, trembling. ─ Foaming at mouth; bloody mucus. ─ Excoriation; inflammation; blisters. ─ Mouth dry and parched. ─ Loss of speech.

Throat

Pressure on throat gives pain; it is sore when he swallows. ─ Violent constriction and burning in the throat. ─ Pharyngitis. ─ Œsophagitis. ─ Power of swallowing lost.

Appetite

Total loss of appetite, with debility. ─ Thirst; craves cold drinks, evening. ─ Cannot bear to drink anything hot.

Stomach

Constant and continued eructations, strongly flavoured by the plant. ─ Distressing hiccough. ─ Cardialgia. ─ Nausea and vomiting. ─ Nausea, > if vomiting occurs. ─ Vomited in their fits. ─ Vomiting and diarrhœa. ─ Vomit: clear watery liquid; blood. ─ Obstinate vomiting, continued for days, not > by anything. ─ Heat; biting heat; burning in stomach and epigastrium. ─ Tenderness at stomach. ─ Burning heat at throat and stomach with disturbed intellect.

Abdomen

Much distended, with colic pains. ─ Griping and tormina. ─ Gastro-enteritis with violent pain and vomiting. ─ Tympanites with the convulsions. ─ Great tenderness; slightest touch on any part of abdomen = great pain.

Stool

Stool: involuntary; diarrhœa.

Urinary Organs

Micturition painful. ─ Urine copious; dark; turbid; reddish. ─ Sediment: copious; white; thick yellow.

Male Sexual Organs

Semi-priapism.

Respiratory Organs

Convulsive respiration; breathing laboured, hurried, stertorous, short; interrupted by constant sighing and convulsive cough; hardly perceptible. ─ Spasm of diaphragm. ─ Burning and constriction in larynx. ─ Cough for four or five days, < at night, excited by tickling at top of throat; during cough rattling in lower chest; sputa thick, heavy, white and yellow, adheres to vessel, a little frothy, copious; aching pain in l. side of thorax, < from deep inspiration, > from deep pressure. ─ Expectoration: reddish; bloody; white; frothy.

Chest

Lungs hyperæmic; hepatised in spots. ─ Pleuritic exudation. ─ Chest firmly fixed. ─ Pain in r. side under the ribs. ─ Pain in breast.

Heart and Pulse

Pain in region of heart. ─ Pulse: small, feeble, irregular, scarcely perceptible; accelerated before the fit.

Neck and Back

Pain along spinal column. ─ Intense action of dorsal and lumbar muscles; opisthotonos.

Limbs

Numbness and feebleness of limbs. ─ Loss of nails and hair.

Upper Limbs

Arms flexed at elbow in a right angle. ─ Rapid convulsive twitchings of muscles of hands. ─ Hands clenched during tetanus. ─ Irritation of arms and hands with sharp lancinating pains. ─ Neck bluish.

Lower Limbs

Pain along tract of sciatic and crural nerves, commencing in spinal column. ─ Cramps in calves. ─ Legs stretched straight out.

Generalities

Epileptiform convulsions. ─ Terrible convulsions, followed by coma or deep sleep. ─ Convulsions, with vertigo, madness, nausea, vomiting, unconsciousness, risus sardonicus, eyeballs turned up, pupils dilated. ─ Sudden convulsions, trismus, biting of tongue; followed by total unconsciousness. ─ Convulsions with swollen, livid face; bloody froth from mouth and nostrils; convulsive respirations; insensibility; feeble pulse; prostration. ─ All symptoms < from water.

Skin

Rose-coloured rash on face, chest, arms, and abdomen.

Sleep

Drowsy. ─ Roused with difficulty. ─ In a deep sleep, snoring loudly and moaning.

Fever

Deadly cold and pale. ─ Face and extremities cold and blue. ─ Extreme coldness; loss of animal heat. ─ Burning heat that mounted to head. ─ Slight fever with pain at pit of stomach. ─ Profuse sweat; offensive; accompanied all symptoms.

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General

Œnanthe Crocata.
Drop-Water ; Water Hemlock. Umbelliferæ.
A plant indigenous to England, Sweden, France and Spain ; grows in moist places and swamps.
The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the fresh root.
It is mentioned by Hahnemann in a letter to Stapf in 1813. So far we have had no provings, only toxicological reports, which are numerous. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 7, p. 128 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Cough , Berridge, N. E. M. G., vol. 10, p. 389 ; Spasms caused by puerperal albuminuria , Œhme, Hah. Mo., vol. 12, p. 644 ; Convulsions , Œhme, N. E. M. G., vol. 12, p. 254 ; Epilepsy , Œhme, N. E. M. G., vol. 12, p. 311 ; Hansen, A. H. Z., vol. 113. , p. 69 ; Hendricks, A. H. Z., vol. 109, p. 7 ; 3 Cases greatly improved , Horner, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc., Pa., 1886, p. 102 Martin, MSS., Knerr, MSS.

Mind

Sudden and complete loss of consciousness.
Disturbances of intellect ; mad and furious, as if drunk.
Extreme restlessness approaching to mania.
Furious delirium ; hallucinations.
Delirium like delirium tremens ; constantly moved from place to place, talked without cessation and without knowing what they said ; grasped at imaginary objects.
Epileptic insanity ; sudden furious attack.

Sensorium

Apoplectic conditions ; speechless and insensible, face puffed and livid, pupils dilated, respiration laborious, limbs contracted, tenesmus.
Vertigo : with falling ; with nausea, vomiting, syncope and convulsions.
Suddenly falls down backward.

Inner head

Pain all over, but particularly in his head.
Momentary sensation of pungent heat determining to head.
Hyperemia of brain ; extravasation and serous exudation.

Sight and eyes

Disturbance of vision.
Eyes turned upward.
Pupils first contracted then dilated.
Eyes are fixed and look red.

Smell and nose

Bleeding from nose.

Upper face

Rapid, convulsive twitchings of muscles of face.
Risus sardonicus.
Face ghastly, livid and turgid.
Face swollen and livid, with bloody froth issuing from mouth and nostrils.
Rose-colored spots on face.

Lower face

Muscles of mastication in rigid spasm ; trismus.

Teeth and gums

Convulsive movements of teeth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Loss of speech.
Tongue : protruding ; swollen ; bitter ; clean, moist and trembling.

Inner mouth

Excoriation ; inflammation ; blisters.
Foaming at mouth ; bloody mucus. θ Epilepsy.

Palate and throat

Angina ; burning heat in pharynx ; throat very painful.
Pressure on throat gives pain ; it is sore when he swallows.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Total loss of appetite, with debility.
Desires cold drinks.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Great retching to vomit ; vomiting during fit ; vomiting of blood.
Obstinate vomiting, continuing for days, not relieved by anything.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Burning heat in throat and stomach, with disturbance of intellect ; vertigo, cardialgia, nausea, followed by alvine evacuations.

Abdomen and loins

Griping and severe tormina.
Gastro-enteritis, with violent pain and vomiting.
Abdomen tympanitic ; swells with the convulsions.

Male sexual organs

Semipriapism.

Respiration

Breathing : stertorous ; spasmodic ; convulsive ; heavy ; short ; slow ; laborious ; loud tracheal rales ; hardly perceptible ; sudden cessation, followed by a catching sigh ; spasm of diaphragm.

Cough

Cough for four or five days, < at night, excited by tickling at top of throat ; during cough rattling in lower chest ; sputa thick, heavy, white and yellow, adheres to vessel, a little frothy, copious ; aching pain in left side of thorax, < from deep inspiration, > from deep pressure.
Expectoration : reddish ; bloody ; white ; frothy.

Inner chest and lungs

Lungs hyperæmic ; hepatized in spots.
Pleuritic exudation.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pain in heart.
Pulse : very feeble, heart's action scarcely perceptible ; accelerated before the fit.

Neck and back

Pain along spinal column.
Intense action of dorsal and lumbar muscles ; opisthotonos.

Upper limbs

Arms flexed at elbow in a right angle.
Rapid convulsive twitchings of muscles of hands.
Hands are clenched during tetanus.
Irritation of arms and hands, with sharp lancinating pains.

Lower limbs

Pain along track of sciatic and crural nerves, commencing in spinal column, more especially lumbar region.
Cramps in calves.
Legs stretched straight out.

Limbs in general

Numbness and feebleness of limbs.

Rest. position. motion

Legs stretched straight out.
Body rigid during convulsions.
Whole body in shaking, convulsive motion.
Falling : from vertigo ; in convulsions.
Swallowing : causes soreness of throat.

Nerves

Violent convulsions, with trismus or tetanus ; risus sardonicus ; body rigid ; rigors ; jactation.
Terrible convulsions, followed by coma or deep sleep.
He fell back foaming at mouth and black in face.
Gave a leap and then fell.
Sudden convulsions, trismus, biting of tongue, followed by unconsciousness and oblivion of circumstances.
Convulsions, with deathly syncope, coldness as if dead.
Convulsions, with swollen, livid face ; bloody froth from nose and mouth ; convulsive respirations, insensibility, feeble pulse.
Child, æt. 22 months, suddenly seized with convulsions ; faint eruption like measles on body, which, however, soon disappeared ; continued working of muscles and motion of limbs ; frothing of mouth and rolling of half-closed eyes ; swallowing very difficult ; attack two and one-half hours (Bellad. and Zinc. ineffectual). After Œnanthe croc., rapid improvement and recovery ; three hours after commencement of disease, violent fever ; next day child quite well, except great weakness ; no eruption.
Spasms in quick succession, with entire unconsciousness, eyes half closed and set ; face and neck dark red and swollen ; foam about mouth ; jaws and hands tightly closed ; singular noise in throat, as if being choked ; upper and lower extremities slightly curved ; whole body in a shaking, convulsive motion ; during seventh month of pregnancy in a woman with albuminuria, dropsy, headache, etc.
Utters loud cries and falls to the floor, then loss of consciousness, clonic spasms of limbs, frothing at mouth, rolling of eyes, clenched thumbs, alternate redness and paleness of face and involuntary escape of stool and urine ; no aura ; attacks often three or four times a week, at times every two weeks, after attack, sleep of five or six hours duration, heaviness in head, lassitude and prostration ; memory somewhat impaired ; Bellad., Cuprum, Ignat. and Pulsat. gave no relief except that spasms occurred less frequently, but they were still as severe and were accompanied by convulsive motions of face, which became lead-colored and swollen during attack.
Epilepsy in a girl, æt. 16 ; first attacks appeared when 9 years old ; convulsions, salivation and complete loss of consciousness during attack ; several attacks in twenty-four hours ; after using bromide of potash for a year attacks ceased until her twelfth year, when menstruation was established ; attacks occur day or night ; menses very irregular, often absent several months ; great weakness ; face icteric ; expression stupid.
One to three epileptic fits shortly before and during menses, appear while asleep and awake, and commence with a peculiar outcry, afterwards would fall into a very deep sleep of several hours duration, or was for several hours out of her senses and talked much and incoherently ; there frequently followed cramplike pains in lower part of bowels (womb) and vicinity ; she had no aura epileptica, but redness and a heavy expression of face, and something inexpressible in her manner indicated an approaching attack ; menses a little too scant and not of sufficient duration.
Has two kinds of fits ; one her companions call a "funny spell" and comes on very suddenly ; she will jump up and turn over the washstand or chair ; once she started towards the stove, and a number of times has torn her clothes or cut the buttons off her dress ; if any one interferes she will fight or become very violent ; will continue in this condition fifteen minutes or more and then recover her senses and normal condition as quickly as she lost them ; knows nothing of what has occurred ; in the other kind she will suddenly shriek, throw up her hands and fall back unconscious, frothing at mouth, eyeballs turned up, and limbs and whole body violently jerking and twitching ; this will continue a few minutes and then she will gradually recover ; very weak after such a spell, but not so after one of the former kind ; attacks almost daily, and each one worse than its predecessor ; attacks < while menstruating ; uterus undoubtedly the origin of the trouble. (Has had but ten attacks during the three months she has been taking Œnanthe croc.)

Time

Night : cough <.

Temperature and weather

Cold drinks : desire for.

Attacks, periodicity

Two and one-half hours : convulsions.
Alternate : redness and paleness of face.
Three or four times a week, every two weeks : spasms.
Day or night : attacks of epilepsy.
Before and during menses : one to two epileptic fits.

Locality and direction

Left : pain in side of thorax.

Sensations

Cold as if dead during convulsion, noise in throat as if being choked.
Pain : all over, but particularly in head ; in throat ; in heart ; along spinal column ; along track of sciatic and crural nerves.
Violent pain : in stomach.
Sharp, lancinating : in arms and hands.
Aching pain : in left side of thorax.
Cramps : in calves.
Cramplike pains : in lower part of bowels.
Burning heat : in pharynx ; in throat and stomach.
Heat : determining to head.
Heaviness : in head.
Tickling : at top of throat.
Numbness : of limbs.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : on throat painful ; deep pain in thorax >.

Skin

Rose-colored on face, chest, arms and abdomen.

Stage of life, constitution

Child, æt. 20 months, apparently in good health ; convulsions.
A young girl, æt. 14, with hereditary epilepsy, was quickly benefited ; attacks came in sleep and while awake ; no aura.
Girl, æt. 14, well built, not yet menstruating ; epilepsy.
Girl, æt. 16, father drunkard, suffering since ninth year ; epilepsy.
Woman, æt., 26, primapara, suffering with albuminuria, dropsy, headache, etc., during seventh month of pregnancy ; spasms.
Miss, æt. 36, consumptive and subject to asthma.
Woman, æt. 36, childless, stout, healthy looking, of epileptic family, miscarried several times during first year of marriage, and suffered diseases of sexual organs ; at one time menstruation did not appear, and very irritating injections were used, but the consequences were metritis and an epileptic fit and soon after insanity ; under homœopathic treatment the disease of mind was cured and menses returned ; epilepsy.
Woman, æt. 37, married, says she suffered from chorea from seventh year until appearance of menses, then commenced the epileptiform attacks ; epilepsy.

Relations

Compare : Cicuta .