Raphanus raph.

Numbness, changing place. Retained flatulence. Hysterical meteorism. Coldness of a foot.

Black Garden Radish (RAPHANUS)

Produces pain and stitches in liver and spleen. Increases of bile and salivary secretion. Symptoms will not appear if salt is used with the Radish. Great accumulation and incarceration of flatulence. "Globus" symptoms. Seborrhœa, with greasy skin. Pemphigus. Hysteria; chilliness in back and arms. Sexual insomnia (Kali brom). Nymphomania. Post-operative gas pains.

Sadness, aversion to children, especially girls. Headache, brain feels tender and sore. Œdema of lower eyelids. Mucus in posterior nares.

Hot-ball feeling from uterus to throat, stopping there. Heat and burning in throat.

Putrid eructations. Burning in epigastrium, followed by hot eructation.

Retching and vomiting, loss of appetite. Distended, tympanitic, hard. No flatus emitted upward or downward. Griping about navel. Stool liquid, frothy, profuse, brown, with colic, and pad-like swelling of intestines. Vomiting of fecal matter.

Nervous irritation of genitals. Menses very profuse and long-lasting. Nymphomania, with aversion to her own sex and to children, and sexual insomnia.

Turbid, with yeast-like sediment. Urine more copious, thick like milk.

Pain in chest extends to back and to throat. Heavy lump and coldness in center of chest.

Compare: Momordica (worse, near splenic flexure); Carbo; Anarc; Arg nit; Brassica.

Third to thirtieth potency.

Abdomen tympanitic; hard; no flatus up or down. (Dunham.)

Vertigo, with dimness of sight. Pressure above the eyes, with difficulty of sight, going off after vomiting. Pressure above the root of the nose. Stitches on the vertex.

Œdema of the lower lids.

Tongue coated thick white. Tongue pale and purplish, with a deep furrow and pale red points in the middle. White, tenacious mucus in the throat after heavy sleep.

Vomiting of food and white mucus, with oppression of the chest, heaving of the stomach and coldness. Vomiting of bile and mucus, of a green, bitter liquid. Pain in the stomach, obliging one to eat all the time. Distention of the abdomen. Gurgling in the abdomen (at night). No emission of flatulence either by the mouth or rectum.

Frequent, liquid, copious stools, passing out with great force. Diarrhœa, stools green, liquid, with mucus and blood.

Copious micturition, turbid urine, sediment like yeast. During micturition, burning in the urethra.

Raphanus sativus. Radish. (And R. raphanistrum. Wild Radish.) N. O. Cruciferæ. Tincture from fresh root immediately before flowering in spring. Tincture of whole fresh plant.

Alcoholism. Amblyopia. Axilla, inflamed gland in. Breasts, pains beneath; between. Catalepsy. Cough. Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Emaciation. Epistaxis. Faintness. Fever. Flatulence. Flushings. Headache. Heart, palpitation of. Heel, pain in. Hernia. Hysteria. Insomnia. Lienteria. Liver, affections of; abscess of. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Myopia. Numbness . Nymphomania. Œsophagus, affections of. Olecranon, pain in. Pemphigus. (Priapism.) Pregnancy, toothache of. Seborrhœa. Tonsillitis. Toothache. Yawning.

Nusser proved both the Garden Radish and the Wild Radish (the former probably only a cultivated variety of the latter), and of the Garden Radish he took tinctures of the long, round, and black (the favourite in Germany) varieties, and ate the different radishes themselves. The Schema contains his symptoms, with others from effects of eating radishes; and provings by Curie made on a woman with 15th and 30th dilutions. These provings developed many symptoms which have proved to be characteristics. Rap . affords a marked example of a common article of diet being at the same time a poison and a medicine. A patient of mine, a man, has these symptoms whenever he eats even a single radish: "Burning sensation in epigastrium, followed by hot eructations, lasting a whole day and ending in a headache." Turnips ( Brassica rapa ) produce in him a similar effect, but in less degree. The leaves of Rap . are said to antidote its roots, and the arum root is said to antidote the effects of Radish leaves (Cooper). The hysterical, mental, and uterine symptoms of Curie's prover were very well marked; a state approaching catalepsy was induced "On returning a little to herself she was unable to speak or stir." The "globus" symptoms are as marked as with any other remedy: A number of balls ascend from abdomen to throat." "A hot, foreign body goes up like a ball from uterus and stops at the beginning of the throat , where it feels like a morsel too large to be swallowed, thence descends to the stomach, causing a sensation of something hard to digest, leaving an empty sensation with hunger." Many of the symptoms of Rap . seem to make for the throat, and a case of mine bears on this. A man, 43, after taking Lyc . reported this condition: "Good deal of pain in back, sides, and body, < after eating. Cannot lie on either side. Very sinking at 4 a.m . Bowels confined. Passing wind after severe pain." Rap . 30 every three hours was prescribed. His next report, a week later, was this: "He felt the first dose of Rap. lie at his throat all night ; it gradually passed down and the pains got better. After two or three days his water became thick like soap suds. [Turbid urine with yeast-like sediment is characteristic of Rap .] Can lie on sides better. Bowels less confined. Wind less." Rap . is one of the most flatulent of remedies. Wind accumulates so that it almost stops the breathing. The most characteristic feature is when the flatus cannot be passed either up or down. Such a condition occur ring after abdominal operations has been relieved by Rap . Many symptoms, physical and mental, seemed to rise from the uterus, culminating in a very pronounced attack of nymphomania. With these was aversion to her own sex and to children, especially girls. Other mental symptoms were: Capricious manner, stupefaction, sadness, tears; and this at times alternated with hopefulness. Brain excitement. One prover had sense of intoxication on waking in the morning. Another felt intoxicated after dinner, though only water was drunk. This should give Rap . a place in some forms of alcoholism. Extreme anxiety, with feeling of impending death. The following case from Allen's Appendix is fairly typical of Rap . poisoning. A man ate freely of radishes. There after he began to feel nausea and drawing pains, extending from sternum to middle of abdomen. This went on for about a fortnight, when it 7 p.m. on May 26th he began to feel very ill. The pains became < , and spread to back, but did not go lower than umbilicus. He took half an ounce of Castor oil; during the night he became < ; pain still very severe. A 8 a.m. bowels relieved, when pain and nausea became < than ever and he was admitted to hospital, and soon after put in a warm bath. While ill the bath he vomited dark, slimy matter. Vomiting went on till the 29th. Tympanitic swelling and great (writhing and twisting) pain in region of ascending and transverse colon, and in left groin. Pain < by pressure. Small enema brought away lumps of fæces with > of pain and sickness. Convalescent, June 2nd. Among the Peculiar Symptoms of Rap . are: Œdema of lower eyelids. When she turns her eyes in the direction of the ear she feels a pain in the ear, temple, and parietal bone. Vertigo with loss of vision. Eyes filled with blood, sight lost. Loss of vision and hearing just before vomiting. Stopped sensation in ears. Teeth feel as if made of papier mâché. Appetite without hunger 4 a.m. in bed. Constant, violent thirst. ("Woke between 3 and 4 a.m. with headache and drank much water.") "Drinks more than he micturates." Also "Pains more severe when he drinks liquid." Sensation as if she had put her cold feet into very hot water. Cough-jarring of head and chest; seems to come from epigastrium; cannot get low cough to loosen phlegm; from laughing. Expectoration of "very large amount of tenacious white mucus from pharynx and œsophagus with sensation of stricture in throat. On breathing, pain under breasts and in back. Heavy lump and coldness in centre of Chest between mammæ preventing sleep. Sensation of an iron band round waist. Sensation of stiffness. Numbness in hands; in soles of feet and buttocks of the parts near the painful bones. Sensation of swelling of bones of hands, arms, eyes; yet feet feel small. Swelling of abdomen. Sensation of a hot foreign body like a ball going up from uterus to throat. Hot breath; hot eructations. Sensation of a number of balls rising from abdomen to throat. Many symptoms ascend: Pain in vertebral column as if a foreign body passed through it from top to bottom and was stopped at certain points by obstacles causing pain. Acute pains in coccyx; sensation as if an abscess forming. Sensation as of an abscess in liver. Pressure in hypogastrium as if a hernia would protrude. Throbbings in the body that became lancinations. Chilliness along the back and posterior surfaces of arms. Icy cold knees. Feverish sensation as if a cold coming on. Many symptoms besides those of globus appear to have their seat in the œsophagus, including the pains in the back on swallowing. There are few remedies with a greater proportion of distinctive symptoms than Rap . — E. T. Blake reports ( M. H. R ., xxxi. 7) two cases of sexual insomnia cured with Rap ., one of which shows that Rap . has an influence on the male sexual sphere analogous to that it has on the female. A young man suffering from reflex epilepsy had had a generally adherent prepuce removed. Healing was delayed by furious priapism, which caused dragging, at the sutures. Rap . 1x given each night cured. Blake's second case was in a woman of 40, with old pelvic troubles. Orig . had failed, and Plat . had helped only slightly. Rap . cured. The symptoms are < in night and morning on waking, < 3 to 4 a.m. < By touch (gland in axilla, abdomen, uterus — cannot bear touch of clothes; pain in bones). < By jarring: jar of walking = soreness and tenderness of bowels and brain. Cough = painful pain in chest. Walking = efforts to shock in brain; efforts to vomit; vomit; pain in heel. Walking in open air > the symptoms. Lying down = nausea and faintness; > the symptoms. Can only lie on back. Motion < pain in belly. Throwing back head > pain in occiput. Laughing = cough. < By eating and drinking: but drinking > pain in chest. After breakfast, pain in heart. (Riding in carriage = pain in heart.) Strangulation when she begins to eat or drink. Cold water held in mouth > dryness of throat. Everything swallowed = pain in back. Must keel) mouth open in order to breathe; the air entering pains and burns. Epistaxis > (headache). Vomiting > (blindness and deafness).

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Radish. Cruciferæ.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh root.
Symptoms obtained from the effects of eating the root, also by proving the tincture 2d, 15th and 30th dilutions, by Nusser, Rev. de la Mat. Méd. Hom., vol. 1, p. 545, 1840 ; Curie's Journ. de la Soc. Gall., vol. 5, p. 281 ; Martin, Am. J. of Hom. Mat. Med., 1870, p. 154 ; Berridge, Am. Observer, 1875, p. 307.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Flatulence and diarrhœa after ovariotomy , Bell, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 264, from Trans. Am. Inst., 1871, p. 269 ; Flatulence , Hom. Rec., vol. 3, p. 151.

Anguish with dread of death, which is supposed to be near.

Vertigo with dimness of sight.

Pressure above root of nose.
Stitches on vertex.
Brain feels tender and sore from least jar when walking.

Pressure above eyes, with difficulty of sight, going off after vomiting.
Œdema of lower lids.

Heat in left ear and over whole left side of face.

Nose somewhat stopped.

Face pale.
Expression of pain and exhaustion.
Cheeks burn, are red ; whole head and face red.

Taste : bitter ; pasty.
Tongue coated thick white.
Tongue pale and purplish, with a deep furrow and palered points in middle.

Back of throat dry, > holding cold water in mouth.
White tenacious mucus in throat after heavy sleep.

Loss of appetite.
Thirst : excessive ; violent ; constant.

Worse after eating.

Nausea : with efforts to vomit ; when lying down ; constant ; in paroxysms with faintness and inability to lie down.
Vomiting : of food and white mucus, with oppression of chest, heaving of stomach and coldness ; of bile and water.
Shuddering over back and arms before vomiting.

Violent pressure in epigastric region.
Pain in stomach, obliging one to eat all the time.

Pain in abdomen.
Griping about umbilicus.
Colic : after drinking milk or water ; after eating.
Pains in belly constant, but < after motion.
Bowels sore from least jar ; can hardly tolerate clothing.
Gurgling in abdomen (at night).
Accumulation and retention of flatus, no relief upward or downward.
Distension of abdomen, followed by griping, as if stool would occur.
Abdomen much swollen, hard and painful to pressure, especially hypogastrium.
Great swelling of abdomen, commencing at stomach ; abdomen hard as if filled with air, without pain ; cannot bear any pressure on stomach.
Pains from incarcerated flatus, coming in paroxysms ; colon and other intestines project in little tympanitic tumors all over abdomen, which is flaccid in the interval ; diarrhœa of yellow brown fluid, with no passage of flatus by mouth or anus for a long time ; twenty-two days after performance of ovariotomy.

Stool : brown or yellow-brown fluid, coming with much force ; green, liquid, mixed with mucus and blood ; frothy, copious, undigested.
Constipation, bloating of abdomen, absence of gases, no emission of gas upward or downward, prompt satiety when eating, sedentary life.

Urine : more copious than the liquid drunk ; copious, yellow ; yellow, turbid, with a sediment resembling yeast.
Phos. -ammon. -magnes. in excess in urine ; gravel.
During micturition, burning in urethra.

Sexual excitement ; nymphomania.
Great aversion to opposite sex.
Constant titillations in genitals.
Sensation of a foreign body rising from uterus to chest.
Mucous leucorrhœa, at times slightly tinged with blood.

Feeling as of something sticking in larynx ; after quietly walking or much talking it becomes a dryness and excites a cough.

Pulse : quick, full but soft, with heat at night ; small.

Lying down : nausea.
Inability to lie down : nausea and faintness.
Motion : pain in belly <.
Walking : jar from, brain feels tender and sore.

Great weakness and languor ; weakness with tenderness of abdomen.
Hysterical attack.

Sleep restless with distressing dreams.
Awoke in morning with cramping sore pain.

Morning : awoke with cramping pain ; toward, perspiration after heat.
Night : gurgling in abdomen ; pulse quick, full, soft, with heat.
After midnight : dry heat, thirst, ebullitions.

Cold water : held in mouth > dryness of throat.

Chilliness : in back ; along back and posterior surface of arms ; during meals.
Heat in evening, in room, after walking in open air.
Dry heat at night, with violent thirst and ebullition, mostly after midnight.
Disposition to perspire.
Perspiration after heat, toward morning, mostly on forehead.
Intermittent fever after midnight ; heat and violent thirst, with full soft, quick pulse, followed by general perspiration, mostly on forehead.

Paroxysms : pain from incarcerated flatus ; nausea.
During meals : chilliness.

Left : heat in ear and side of face.

As if stool would occur ; abdomen as if filled with air ; as of a foreign body rising from uterus to chest ; as of something sticking in larynx.
Pain : in stomach ; in abdomen.
Stitches : on vertex.
Griping : about umbilicus.
Burning : of cheeks ; in urethra.
Heat : in left ear and over left side.
Pressure : above root of nose ; above eye ; in epigastric region.
Tenderness : of abdomen.
Dryness : in larynx ; in throat.
Titillation : in genitals.
Shuddering : over back and arms.
Chilliness : in back ; along arms.

Cannot bear clothing : bowels sore.

Vesicular eruption, with acrid, thin, yellowish discharge.
Pressure : abdomen painful ; cannot bear it on stomach.
Least jar : bowels sore.

Compare : Anacard . in stomach symptoms ; Carbo veg . in flatulence.

A tincture is made of the fresh solid roots of the black garden radish.

Emaciation. ▶ Hysterical attack, pain as if a foreign body passed through spine from top to bottom and were stopped at certain points by an obstacle, the pain extends to adjacent parts and causes weakness, it seems to her that she is about to die, inability to speak or stir, pain like a hot ball starting from uterus and stopping at beginning of throat, then drawing pain in occiput, lancinations in ears, pain in jaws, gums, nose, eyes, which burn, drawing pain in temples, swollen feeling in every part, even in bones, abdomen swollen and painful to touch, feeling as if several balls ascended from abdomen to throat, eyes filled with blood, sight lost, ability to lie only on back, loss of power of moving, this hysterical attack repeated at midnight, with sharp, nervous pain in shoulder, next day (first day of menses) less severe attacks, preceded by cramps extending from uterus to chest.

Lancinations in different parts; in whole body, with drawing pain; in fleshy parts, with drawing in all muscles, itching around waist, preceded and followed by sensation as from too tight a girdle. ▶ Pain in all joints, painful weariness, all bones crack, agg. nape; P. in nasal bones, from tobacco, at root, and in ear, with weeping; in left orbital, nasal and maxillary bones on touch, with numbness in parts near them; in sides when she presses on stomach, pain in dorsal vertebræ, which, when she touches, is felt in middle of chest. ▶ Drawing pain all day, agg. evening. ▶ Rheumatic pain in loins, knees, groins, abdomen and thighs, can scarcely stand upright, cannot bend knees. ▶ Paralytic pains increase till evening; P. pain, agg. sometimes on one side, sometimes on other, with difficulty in writing. ▶ Pain under skin, like painful weariness of whole body.

Sensation in head, throat and chest as in beginning of a bad cold. ▶ Swollen sensation in arms, hands and eyes, but feet appear smaller, and wrist feels as if lashed with a whip. ▶ Throbbing in left lowest rib, neck, temples, back, stomach, agg. when she wishes to express an idea, later the throbbings became lancinations, two or three near together. ▶ Veins feel as if full of quick silver. ▶ Sensitive to the electricity of the atmosphere, it causes pain and low spirits.

▶ Weakness; with bruised feeling; with want of spirit, it seems to her as if she were dead. ▶ Difficulty in rising from bed, she lay without thinking or moving, but a multitude of pictures passed before her eyes, inactivity, it seemed as if she were carried somewhere else and conversed with another person, calm and indifferent, it was also like a picture. ▶ Numbness and heaviness. ▶ Stiffness of muscles. ▶ Aggravation from wine and vinegar; symptoms severe in morning, amel. course of the day, agg. evening. ▶ Amelioration from walking and open air. ▶ Feels better when lying than when sitting.

She is averse to all women, but she is attracted towards all men, these symptoms increase to furious delirium. ▶ Nervous in morning, averse to children, agg. little girls. ▶ Nervous distention and sometimes nervous attacks, great activity of head, sleeplessness every night, strange ideas, forgets what she has to do, dangerous fancies assail her, but she restrains herself from executing them. ▶ Agitation till 1.30, then heavy sleep. ▶ Return of memory, liveliness, quick intelligence, everything disturbs her. ▶ Rage, then depression. ▶ Excitement, with sleeplessness all night.

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