Plantago Major plan.

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

Nerves: Ears. Teeth. Kidneys and bladder.

Worse

Night. Warm room.

Better

Sleep. Eating.

General

Sharp, shifting pains. Soreness. Neuralgia. As of a body between ears; in groins, etc.

Particulars

As if brain turned over. As of a hair before (l), eye. Pains center in ears and teeth or alternate between them. Earache. Saliva flows with the pains. Toothache. Dirty taste. Bowels seem cold. Brown, frothy stools. Polyuria. Enuresis. Throbbing between scapulæ. Cold sweat on sacrum. Numb, tremulous legs. Sensitive skin. Gloomy dreams, exciting tears.

Related

Related: Arn. Fer-p. Pul.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Plantain

General

Has considerable clinical reputation in the treatment of earache, toothache, and enuresis. Sharp pain in eyes, reflex from decayed teeth or inflammation of middle ear. Eyeball very tender to touch. Pain plays between teeth and ears. Pyorrhea alveolaris. Depression and insomnia of chronic Nicotinism. Causes an aversion to tobacco.

Head

Periodical prosopalgia, worse 7 am to 2 pm, accompanied with flow of tears, photophobia; pains radiate to temples and lower face.

Ears

Hearing acute; noise painful. Sticking pain in ears. Neuralgic earache; pain goes from one ear to the other through the head. Otalgia, with toothache. Loud noises go through one.

Nose

Sudden, yellowish, watery discharge.

Mouth

Teeth ache and are sensitive and sore to touch. Swelling of cheeks. Salivation; teeth feel too long; worse, cold air and contact. Toothache, better while eating. Profuse of saliva. Toothache, with reflex neuralgia of eyelids.

Stool

Wants to defecate; goes often, but cannot bad, can hardly stand. Diarrhœa, with brown watery

Urine

Profuse flow; nocturnal enuresis (Rhus arom; Caust; Bellad).

Skin

Itching and burning; papulæ. Urticaria, chilblains (Agar; Tamus).

Relationship

Compare: Kalm; Cham; Puls.

Dose

Tincture, and lower potencies. Local use in toothache in hollow teeth, otorrhœa, pruritus, and Poison-oak. Incised wounds.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Plantago major. Plantain. Ribwort. N. O. Plantaginaceæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant. Tincture of the root.

Clinical

Ague. Breast, inflammation of. Burns. Ciliary neuralgia. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Earache. Ear, inflammation of . Emissions. Enuresis. Erysipelas. Erythema. Hæmorrhoids. Impotence. Neuralgias ; of herpes. Polyuria. Rhus poisoning. Snake-bites. Spleen, pains in. Tobacco habit. Toothache . Urination, delayed. Worms. Wounds.

Characteristics

Hale sums up the ancient and modern history of Plantago maj . the weed which furnishes food for our cage-birds . ( Plant. m . must not to be confounded with Musa , sometimes called "Plantain," which belongs to a different class, viz., the Endogens.) Plantago has had a reputation in medicine from remote antiquity, a reputation which homœopathy has revived. It was used in intermittent fever in remotest times. In A. D . 1558 the Herbal of Dodoens commends the juice of leaves or roots for "toothache and bleeding of gums." John Parkinson in his Theatre of Plants (A. D. 1640) says "the root taken fresh out of the ground, washed and gently scraped with a knife, then put into the ear , cures the toothache like a charm." In Switzerland the leaf fibres are frayed out and put into the ear for the same purpose, and if they relieve the pain they "turn black" (says Reutlinger) and have to be removed, if there is no relief they remain green. In domestic practice, says Hale, it is constantly resorted to as an application in all affections of the skin with irritation, pain, and heat, the bruised leaves being applied to the part. Hale enumerates the following as having been relieved by it: Erysipelas, Rhus -poisoning, erythema, burns, scalds, inflammation of the glands (notably the breasts), bruises, incised wounds, bites of animals, chilblains, frostbite. A case is related ( H. R., xi. 241) of a man who allowed himself to be bitten by rattlesnakes and cured himself by drinking the juice of the plant and applying bruised leaves to the bites, changing them frequently. The tincture has been extensively proved by F. Humphreys (who wrote a monograph upon it), Heath, and others, and the homœopathicity of its cures was clearly brought out. The neuralgic pains of teeth, ears, and face were especially pronounced. Some new symptoms were brought to light. The very copious discharge of urine along with the thirst suggest diabetes; and the laxity of sphincters has led to the cure of a number of cases of enuresis. Foul breath, sinking and weight in stomach, flatulence, diarrhœa, dysentery, and hæmorrhoids, all appeared in the proving. Plant . is one of the most useful of local remedies in homœopathy, and one of its local uses is as an application to inflamed and painful piles. In all neuralgic conditions where the suffering part can be reached Plant . Ø may be painted on without any fear of injury, and often with the most signal relief of suffering. In common with others, I have used it with success in numberless cases of toothache and earache; but I have also given relief in the painful neuralgia of shingles and in pleurodynia. F. P. Stiles ( Minn. H. Mag ., v. 225) relates three brilliant cases: ( 1 ) Mrs. S., 39, for ten days had terrible neuralgic pain in right side of face, shooting into temporal, superior, maxillary, and orbital regions. Plant. Ø applied locally to gums, temple, and cheek, removed the pain in a few minutes. Some days later a slight return was promptly relieved in the same way. ( 2 ) Mr. R. had neuralgia in left superior maxillary and lower orbital region of long standing. Promptly relieved in the same way. ( 3 ) Mrs. N., neuralgia of right upper jaw, pain unbearable, radiating to ear, temple, and cheek. A tooth had been extracted without relief. Plant . Ø removed all the pain. "Toothache with earache," "toothache with salivation," are leading indications. Plant . has a relation to tobacco. It produces disgust for it in chewers; and it cures neuralgia resulting from tobacco. The pains are tearing, boring, bruised. There is great surface sensitiveness. Pains come suddenly and are apt to be erratic. Unendurable pains. There is darting up and down the urethra. Breath and flatulence are offensive. Some characteristics are : Loud noises going through one. Sudden discharge of yellowish (or saffron-coloured) water from nose. The left side was most affected. The symptoms are < at night. > By eating (colic). < By contact; mental exertion; by motion; heat and cold; cold air; sharp wind: heat of room.

Relations

Antidote to: Apis, Rhus, Tabac. Antidoted by: Merc. (toothache). Compare: In neuralgias, Cham., Merc., Spig., Kalm., Coloc. Unendurable pains, Aco., Cham., Hep. Wounds and bruises, fetid breath and flatus, Arn. Wounds, Calend. Punctured wounds, Led., Hyper. Hæmorrhoids, external and internal use, Ham. Enuresis, Bell., Caust. (Bell. has irregular action of sphincter; Plant. and Caust. relaxation). Earache with toothache; intolerance of warm room, Puls.

Causation

Bruises. Burns. Cuts. Punctured wounds. Snake-bites.

Mind

Mind inactive, with dull, muddled feeling in head. ─ Despondency, confusion of thought. ─ Irritable, morose; impatient, restless mood, with dull, stupid feeling in brain. ─ Great mental prostration, < by mental exertion, which = rapid breathing and anxiety.

Head

Twinges of pain indifferent parts of head, now through r. temple, extending backward; then through occiput from ear to ear; then in other parts of head more or less severe. ─ Severe, lightning-like stitches over l. eye, extending to r. 12.30 to 5.45 p.m., disappearing suddenly, involving whole forehead, and accompanied at the height with nausea at pit of stomach; > hard pressure with cold hand, < warmth. ─ Severe pain in l. side of head, from forehead extending deep into brain, coming on in paroxysms. ─ Intermittent pulsative pain in vertex and in small spot beneath scalp. ─ Headache with toothache. ─ Dull headache. ─ Oppression deep in head, and sense of something lying in the head, through from one ear to the other. ─ Itching of scalp.

Eyes

Ciliary neuralgia from decayed teeth; dull, heavy ache in l. eye, with exquisite tenderness of ball; l. upper incisor decayed. ─ Eyes red; dim; inflamed; sore. ─ Aching deep in orbit. ─ Lids sore, swollen.

Ears

Pain in r. ear with pains in teeth and face; pains sharp, twinging, running. ─ Earache: neuralgic; with toothache; darting, twinging, stabbing pains in lower maxillary branch of trifacial. ─ Pains often centre in ear (l.). ─ Hearing: more acute; least noise goes through one; ringing in ears.

Nose

Frequent sneezing, with sudden attacks of profuse, watery, bland coryza. ─ Sudden discharge of yellowish (or saffron-coloured) water from (r.) nostril. ─ Red papules round nose. ─ Sensation at bridge as if nasal bones being pressed together.

Face

Neuralgia l. side of face, pains shooting and tearing, extending from jaw to ear. ─ Violent bruised, aching pain, r. face. ─ Drawing in r. malar bone. ─ Eruption on forehead. ─ Small, red, rough, scaly erythematous patches size of pea on (esp. l.) face. ─ L. cheek swollen. ─ Lips livid, dark, sickly, rough. ─ Water bladder on upper lip. ─ Dry, scaly eruption on lower lip.

Teeth

Teeth (l.) feel elongated, sore; pain unbearably severe, boring digging in sound teeth; < from contact and extremes of heat and cold. ─ Aching in decayed teeth, or shooting up l. side of face; face red. ─ Rapid decay. ─ Sharp stabbing along upper maxillary nerve, < by contact. ─ Violent pain in l. upper molars; sound teeth; excessive boring, digging pain, profuse flow of saliva; < by walking in cold air and by contact, by much heat; partial > lying down in a moderately cool room; pain unendurable ( > by Merc . 30). ─ Teeth sensitive, sore. ─ Grinds teeth at night. ─ Gums bleed easily. ─ Gumboil.

Mouth

Tongue coated white, with dirty, putrid, clammy taste. ─ Food tasteless. ─ Breath putrid. ─ Aphthæ in children.

Throat

Dry, parched throat. ─ Scraping in throat. ─ Profuse secretion of (very tenacious) mucus; with much hawking. ─ Soreness and swelling of submaxillary glands on both sides.

Appetite

Appetite poor. ─ Thirst. ─ Causes disgust for tobacco in chewers.

Stomach

Eructations; frequent, empty; tasting like sulphur or carbonic acid gas. ─ Nausea with drowsiness or faint, tremulous feeling. ─ Sinking sensation. ─ Heaviness of stomach as from a stone; even after a light meal. ─ Heat in præcordia with fulness in abdomen while walking in fresh air. ─ Coolish, painful sensation, as from over-distension after hearty meal.

Abdomen

Gone sensation. ─ Severe pains in l. (and r.) hypochondrium. ─ Distension with passage of fetid flatus. ─ Violent griping, esp. upper abdomen. ─ Colic: > by eating; flatulent. ─ Pain in abdominal muscles; in l. and r. ilia.

Stool and Anus

Stool: brown, fermented, frothy; watery, brown; watery papescent; excoriating. ─ Diarrhœa: loose, frequent stools with flatulence < 8 to 10 a.m. ─ Before stool: colic, frequent discharge of offensive flatus. ─ During stool: griping, tenesmus, partial prolapse, weakness, faintness. ─ (Chronic diarrhœa. ─ Cholera infantum. ─ Dysentery.). ─ Painful blood piles (locally). ─ Angry, inflamed piles. ─ Worms.

Urinary Organs

Tenderness over region of kidneys on pressure. ─ Frequent passage of large quantities of pale urine; < night; stools grey; irritable; puffy under eyes; eats heartily; sleeps soundly. ─ Copious nocturnal enuresis from laxity of sphincter. ─ Irritable bladder with frequent micturition. ─ Delayed, dribbling urine. ─ Urethra: tingling with unpleasant itching in meatus; sudden darting stinging running up sharp cutting in from within out. ─ Urine: large quantities, clear, frequent very dark red, of strong odour; deep orange colour; white sediment.

Male Sexual Organs

Sexual debility. ─ Unconscious emission in sleep.

Female Sexual Organs

Erysipelas of breasts. ─ Mastitis.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness. ─ Cough in cold air. ─ Panting breathing; inclined to sigh.

Chest

Orgasm. ─ Oppression; < reading or talking. ─ Sharp stitches. ─ Muscular drawing.

Heart

Heat in præcordia when walking in open air. ─ Violent palpitation; on ascending stairs. ─ Pulse strong, full, intermittent.

Neck and Back

Neck stiff and sore. ─ Stiffness of sterno-cleido mastoid ( < r.), < moving head to side affected, > moving it to opposite side. ─ Pulsative pain between scapulæ. ─ Pain in sacrum.

Upper Limbs

Stinging, dull pains here and there.

Lower Limbs

Hard, white, flattened, isolated papules on inside of thighs, some having red points in centre. ─ Great pain and stiffness in l. leg and knee, < stooping.

Skin

Violent itching, < night. ─ Pricking, stinging pains. ─ Tensive sensation. ─ Burning after rubbing where scratched. ─ Redness, swelling, and vesicles on hands and face. ─ Papules which exude yellowish humour and form a crust. ─ Erythema. ─ Burns. ─ Rhus poisoning (local use). ─ Inflammatory affections of skin and involvement of cellular tissue.

Sleep

Excessive and continued yawning. ─ Insomnia from abdominal trouble. ─ Grinding teeth during sleep. ─ Sleep restless; disturbed by dreams.

Fever

Chilliness with sensation of heat in chest, with erratic pains in limbs, chest, head; from 1 to 3 p.m. with disposition to stretch and chilliness on moving about; cold hands in a warm room. ─ Chill: without thirst; with gooseflesh, 2 p.m., running over body, < moving about; fingers cold, coldness of body with shivering; head feels irritable; feet and hands cold even in warm room. ─ Heat, with thirst; great excitability, mental agony, restlessness; room seems hot and close; oppression of chest, rapid respiration; breathing difficult as if there was no air in room; burning heat of head, face, hands, feet; head hot, painful, dull, stupid; hands hot, clammy. ─ Sweat: cold over lumbar and sacral region; heat of room unbearable, producing perspiration.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Plantain. Plantaginaceæ.
The greater plantain is common in Europe and North America. The fresh plant is gathered when coming into flower, and from it is prepared the alcoholic tincture.
Provings by Heath, Hah. Mo., 1868, vol. 3, p. 332 ; F. Humphreys, Earhart, Fox, Warren, Wood, Bishop, Freeman, Slocum, Bunting, Leavanway, Humphreys Monograph, 1871 ; an additional proving by Heath, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1873, p. 502.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Otalgia , Houghton, N. E. M. G., vol. 11, p. 188 ; Woodyatt, Times Ret., 1876, p. 48 ; Toothache , Plympton, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 411 ; Reutlinger, A. H. O., vol. 6, p. 140 ; Neuralgia of teeth , Boynton, Hom. Times, vol. 3, p. 204 ; Times Ret., 1875, p. 119 ; Tobacco habit , Price, Organon, vol. 2, p. 118 ; Chronic diarrhœa ; Times Ret., 1877, p. 95 ; Polyuria , Allen, Hom. Cl., vol. 4, p. 61 ; Enuresis , Chamberlain, B. J. H., vol. 25, p. 319 ; Nocturnal emissions , Jones, N. E. M. G., vol. 2, p. 175 ; Delayed urination , Chamberlain, B. J. H., vol. 25, p. 319 ; Ague, Higgins. N. A. J. H., vol. 22, p. 181.

Mind

Mind inactive, with dull, muddled feeling in head.
Despondency ; confusion of thought.
Irritable, morose disposition ; impatient, restless mood, with dull, stupid feeling in brain.
Great mental prostration, < by mental exertion, which also causes rapid respiration and a feeling of great anxiety.

Inner head

Twinges of pain in different parts of head ; now through right temple, extending backward ; then through occiput from ear to ear ; then in other parts of head, more or less severe.
Severe pain in left side of head, from forehead extending deep into brain, coming on in paroxysms.
Intermittent pulsative pain in vertex and in small spot beneath scalp.
Headache accompanied by toothache.
Dull headache.

Sight and eyes

Ciliary neuralgia from decayed teeth ; dull, heavy ache in left eye, with exquisite tenderness of ball ; left upper incisor decayed.

Hearing and ears

Pain in ear with pain in teeth and face ; pains are sharp, twinging, running.
Otalgia, independent of organic lesions.
Neuralgic earache, associated with toothache ; darting, twinging, sharp, stabbing pains in inferior maxillary branch of trifacial nerve.
Earache, twinging, sharp pains, with pains in teeth.
Neuralgic earache, associated with odontalgia.

Smell and nose

Frequent sneezing, with sudden attacks of profuse, watery, bland coryza.
Sudden discharge of yellowish water from right nostril.
Yellow water from nose like saffron.
Red papula around nose.

Upper face

Neuralgia in left side of face, pains shooting and tearing, extending from jaw to ear.
Violent bruised aching pain in right side of face.
Eruption on forehead.
Small, red, rough, scaly erythematous patches, size of pea, on face, especially left side.

Lower face

Dry, scaly eruption on lower lip.

Teeth and gums

Teeth (l. side) feel elongated, sore ; pain unbearably severe, boring, digging in sound teeth ; < from contact and extremes of heat and cold.
Aching in decayed teeth, or shooting up left side of face ; face red.
Excessive boring and digging pain, profuse flow of saliva, < by walking in cold air and by contact ; teeth feel elongated and sore ; soreness even of sound teeth while eating ; very rapid decay of teeth ; bleeding of gums.
Continuous aching in badly decayed wisdom tooth in left lower jaw, after ride across ferry in a sharp wind, five weeks previously ; sharp pain shooting up left side of face towards temples and ears, with considerable redness of face.
Neuralgia of inferior dental nerve.
Grinding of teeth at night.
Gums bleed easily.

Taste, speech, tongue

Food tasteless.
Tongue coated white, with dirty, putrid or clammy taste.

Inner mouth

Breath putrid, offensive.
Aphtha in children.

Palate and throat

Dry, parched throat.
Sensation of scraping in throat.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Appetite poor.
Thirst.
Bad effects of excessive use of tobacco (causes disgust for tobacco in chewers).

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations, tasting like sulphur or carbonic acid gas.
Nausea with drowsiness or faint, tremulous feeling.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sinking feeling at stomach.
Heaviness of stomach even after a light meal ; sensation of heat in precordia, with fulness in abdomen while walking in fresh air ; > sitting down ; faint and tremulous feeling, with nausea ; slight appetite and speedy satiety ; food tasteless ; rumbling in abdomen after eating ; loud and copious flatulency ; diarrhœa, with loose frequent stools and flatulency ; hemorrhoids.

Abdomen and loins

Sensation of goneness in abdomen.
Distension of abdomen, with frequent loud and copious discharge of fetid flatus.
Rumbling and uneasiness in bowels.
Violent griping pains, mostly in upper part of abdomen.
Colic : > by eating ; flatulent.

Stools and rectum

Stool : brown, fermented, frothy ; watery, brown ; watery ; papescent ; excoriating (watery, brown).
Diarrhœa : with loose frequent stools with flatulency ; < 8 to 10 A. M.
Before stool : colic ; frequent discharge of offensive flatus.
During stool : violent griping pains, with tenesmus (or absence of pain), partial prolapse of rectum, weakness ; faintness.
Chronic diarrhœa of two years' duration ; at least five stools during day and one or two during night ; stools loose, watery, but not bloody ; gurgling in bowels, without colic ; tongue clean ; no appetite, could eat no meat, lived chiefly on fish and vegetables ; great thirst ; sallow complexion ; great emaciation, but strength not much reduced, though complained frequently of feeling of emptiness and faintness in head ; pulse weak but regular.
Chronic diarrhœa, with flatulency and prolapsus of rectum.
Cholera infantum.
Dysentery.
Blind piles ; hemorrhoidal tumors inflamed and exceedingly painful, interfering entirely with the work (locally).
Angry inflamed hemorrhoidal tumors.
Worms.

Urinary organs

Frequent passages of large quantities of pale urine ; every night, besides being taken up two or three times to urinate, he soaked two mattresses ; stools grey or mixed grey in color ; irritable ; puffy under eyes ; eats heartily and sleeps soundly.
Nocturnal copious enuresis from laxity of sphincter vesicæ.
Irritable bladder and frequent micturition.
Nocturnal enuresis ; profuse colorless urine, depositing a white sediment ; occurs from midnight to morning.
Enuresis in children where urine is scanty, acrid and loaded with uric acid and its deposits ; bladder and sphincter in an irritable condition, causing frequent micturition day and night.
Delayed dribbling urination in a woman.

Male sexual organs

Sexual debility.

Female sexual organs

Erysipelas of mamma.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Erysipelas of the mamma.
Mastitis ; heat, swelling, pain.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation of heart.

Lower limbs

Hard, white, flattened, isolated papula on inside of thighs ; some having red point in centre.

Rest. position. motion

Sitting down : fulness in abdomen >.
Moving about : gooseflesh <.
Walking : fulness in abdomen.

Nerves

Weariness and prostration, with desire to yawn and stretch.
Neuralgia from use of tobacco.

Sleep

Insomnia from abdominal troubles ; cannot sleep after 4 A. M. ; tosses about or falls into a dreamy sleep, full of gloom and fright, which rouses him.
Grinding of teeth during sleep.
Sleep restless ; disturbed by dreams.

Time

After 4 A. M. : cannot sleep.
From 8 to 10 A. M. : diarrhœa <.
Day : frequent micturition.
At 2 P. M. : gooseflesh.
Night : grinding of teeth ; passages of large quantities of pale urine ; frequent micturition ; itching of skin <.

Temperature and weather

Heat of room unbearable.
Warm room : hands cold.
Fresh air : walking, fulness in abdomen.
Heat and cold : toothache <.
Cold air : toothache <.
Sharp wind : ride in, aching in teeth.

Fever

Erratic pains in chest ; dulness in head and stretching of limbs.
Chill : without thirst ; with gooseflesh, 2 P. M., running over body, < when moving about ; fingers cold ; coldness of body with shivering ; head feels irritable ; feet and legs cold ; hands cold, even in warm room.
Heat, with thirst ; great excitability, anxiety, mental agony, restlessness ; room seems hot and close ; oppression of chest, rapid respiration ; breathing difficult, as if there was no air in room ; burning heat of head, face, hands and feet ; head feels hot, painful, dull and stupid ; hands hot and clammy.
Sweat : cold over lumbar and sacral region ; heat of room unbearable, producing perspiration.
Fever, which runs its course for many weeks or months, either in daily paroxysms or repeated every two, three, four, seven or fourteen days ; relaxation of sphincter vesicæ.
Chronic intermittent fever, especially after abuse of quinine.

Attacks, periodicity

Daily paroxysms of fever, or repeated every two, three, four, seven or fourteen days.
During day : five stools.
During night : one or two stools.
From midnight to morning : nocturnal enuresis.
Two years' duration : chronic diarrhœa.

Locality and direction

Right : twinges of pain through temple ; sudden discharge of yellowish water from nostril ; bruised aching in side of face.
Left : severe pain in side of head ; dull, heavy ache in eye ; upper incisor decayed ; neuralgia in side of face ; erythematous patches on face ; teeth feel elongated.

Sensations

Pains are tearing in nature.
Teeth : as if elongated ; as if there was no air in room.
Pain : in ear, in teeth, in face.
Severe pain : in left side of head.
Boring, digging : in teeth.
Shooting : in left side of face.
Twinges of pain : in different parts of head ; in ear.
Griping pains : in upper part of abdomen.
Pulsative pain : in vertex and in small spot beneath scalp.
Erratic pains : in chest.
Violent bruised, aching pain : in right side of face.
Neuralgia : in ear ; in left side of face ; in inferior dental nerve.
Dull, heavy ache : in left eye.
Aching : in decayed teeth.
Dull pain : in head.
Soreness : of teeth ; even of sound teeth.
Exquisite tenderness : of eyeball.
Scraping : in throat.
Heat : in precordia ; burning of head, face, hands and feet.
Heaviness : of stomach.
Fulness : in abdomen.
Sinking feeling : at stomach.
Goneness : of abdomen.
Coldness : of body.
Itching : of skin.

Tissues

Ill effects of tobacco.
Inflammation of glands, particularly of mamma.
Incised wounds become highly inflamed, erysipelatous and even gangrenous.
Lacerated of incised wounds or injuries, especially when attended with painful swelling and tendency to erysipelatous inflammation or sphacelus.
Bruises.
Bites of animals.
Frost-bites ; chilblains.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

A lady, while dressing a codfish, thrust one of the fins into palmar surface of middle finger, just over second or third large joint ; the wound was deep and bled profusely ; the night following the part became excessively painful, pain extending from wound up to shoulder, causing great distress ; next morning the whole hand swelled, back and front, especially the injured finger ; arm swelled up to shoulder, two distinct light pinkish streaks running up front of arm, from hand to shoulder ; third day, after some fruitless applications, being almost agonized with pain and suffering, she applied bruised plantain leaves to part, removing them as often as they became dry ; in about half an hour after application she felt so relieved that she fell asleep and slept probably an hour, the first sleep she had after the accident ; in two or three days the finger was well.
A young man cut his thumb through root of nail ; it was dressed and treated by an allopathic physician for two or three weeks ; it became inflamed, fearfully, swelled and was very painful. (Plantago externally and internally.)
A young man had his finger bitten through first joint, so as to almost sever end of finger ; it was swollen to about the size of a hen's egg, and very much inflamed. (Two or three external applications cured finger.)

Skin

Violent itching.
Intolerable itching of skin, < at night.
Pricking, stinging pains.
Tensive sensation.
Burning after rubbing and when scratched.
Redness, swelling and vesicles on hands and face.
Papula which exude a yellowish humor and form a crust.
Erythema.
Burns.
Poisoning with ivy ; the hand and a portion of the face red, swollen, itching violently, and in places covered with vesicles (pellets medicated with Plantago and a lotion made by a teaspoonful of the tincture to a cup of water).
Inflammatory affections of skin, with involvement of cellular tissue.
Aggravation from rubbing and scratching.

Stage of life, constitution

Boy, æt. 5 ; polyuria.
Boy, æt. 14, bilious, sanguine temperament, healthy ; enuresis.
A young lady ; poisoning with ivy.
Man, æt. 45, suffering two years ; diarrhœa.

Relations

Plantago antidotes Apis , and produces a taste for tobacco.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Suitable to chronic cases with regular type, which Quinine will neither change nor suppress.

Persons of irritable, morose disposition ; impatient, restless mood, with dull stupid feeling in the brain.

Great mental prostration, increased by mental exertion, which also causes rapid respiration and a feeling of great anxiety.

Teeth (left side) elongated, sore ; pain unbearably severe, boring, digging in sound teeth ; worse from contact and extremes of heat and cold.

Bad effects of excessive use of tobacco, especially the mental anxiety ; digging toothache and frequent attacks of sudden sneezing with profuse, watery, bland coryza.

Nocturnal enuresis ; profuse colorless urine, depositing a white sediment ; occurs from midnight to morning.

Type

Every type. Quotidian, tertian, quartan. Every two, three, four, seven, or fourteen days. Remittent; continued.

Time

2 P. M. Any time during the day.

Cause

Abuse of Quinine.

Prodrome

Erratic pains in chest, dulness in head and stretching of limbs.

Chill

Without thirst. Cold chills with goose-flesh at 2 P. M., running over the body, worse when moving about; fingers cold. Coldness of body with shivering; head feels irritable; feet and legs cold; hands cold even in a warm room.

Heat

With thirst; great excitability, anxiety, mental agony, restlessness; room seems hot and close; oppression of chest, rapid respiration; breathing difficult, as if there was no air in the the room (anxious, oppressed breathing, Ipec.—air of room in- tolerable, Apis). Burning heat of head, face, hands and feet; head feels hot, painful, dull and stupid. Hands hot and clammy.

Sweat

Cold over lumbar and sacral region. Heat of room was unbearable, producing perspiration.

Tongue

White coated; breath putrid, offensive. Taste dirty, putrid. Food tasteless. Eructations tasting of sulphur, last all day.