Sabadilla sabad.

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

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: NOSE. ANUS. Digestive tract. NERVES. Lachrymal glands. Throat.

Worse

COLD; air; drinks. PERIODICALLY: Same hour. Forenoon. New and full moon. Odors. Undeveloped exanthema.

Better

Open air. Heat. Eating. Swallowing.

General

Weak; nervous; easily startled. Alternate nerve and bodily symptoms. Formication. Twitches. Trembling. Worms.

Particulars

Miserable. Anger. Erroneous (fixed), personal ideas. Pain in alternate sides of forehead. Unilateral head pains. Itching scalp. Red, itching tarsi. Lachrymation; when in pain; < open air. Nose; ITCHES; rubs or picks it; very dry; tickling in, spreads over whole body, then dyspnœa follows. Persistent VIOLENT or ABORTIVE SNEEZING. Hay fever. Influenza. Sensitive smell. Itching soft palate. Tongue feels burnt. Sorethroat; l. to r.; < empty swallowing; > hot drinks. As of a lump, morsel, thread or skin hanging in throat. Canine hunger. Thirstless. Craves hot things, sweets or milk. Bowels feel knotted. Burning, frothy, floating stools. Crawling, itching at anus; alternating with tickling in nose or ears. Pinworms. Violent coughing attacks; muffled; < anger. Upward jerking of arms. Cracks under toes. Cutting in bones. Itching skin (in nose and anus) with asthmatic breathing. Shivers; as a concomitant. Thirst, after chill only.

Related

Related: Ars. Pul. Urt-u.

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

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Suited to persons of light hair, fair complexion with a weak, relaxed muscular system. Worm affections of children (Cina, Sil., Spig.). Nervous diseases; twitching, convulsive tremblings, catalepsy; from worms (Cina, Psor.). Illusions: that he is sick; parts shrunken; that she is pregnant when merely distended from flatus; that she has some horrible throat disease that will be fatal. Delirium during intermittents (Pod.). Sneezing: in spasmodic paroxysyms; followed by lachrymation; copious watery coryza; face hot and eyelids red and burning. Diphtheria, tonsillitis; can swallow warm food more easily; stitches and most symptoms, especially of throat, go from left to right (Lach., Lac. c.). Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat; must swallow over it. Headache: from too much thinking, too close application of attention (Arg. n.); from worms. Dryness of fauces and throat. Parchment-like dryness of skin.

Relations

Compare: Col, Colch., Lyc., where < is from 4 to 8 p. m.; Puls., Sab. > in open air. Follows: Bry. and Ran. b. well in pleurisy, and has cured after Acon. and Bry. failed.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

Intermittent complaints which come every week, or two weeks, or four weeks apart. Especially for children who are disposed to worms; worms discharged with stool, whether lumbrici or tape-worms. Sweetish taste. No thirst during chill; heat often internal. Troubles appearing on the right side; on the toe nails. Sensation of knocking, throbbing, or pulsation in the outer parts; great sleepiness in the forenoon.

Worse

In the forenoon; before midnight; from cold in general; while resting.

Better

From moving; while swallowing something; while getting warm; from warmth in general.

Remedies following

Arsen., Bellad., Mercur., Pulsat., Nux vom.

Antidotes

Conium, Pulsat.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Cevadilla Seed. Asagræa Officialis

General

Action on mucous membrane of the nose and the lachrymal glands, producing coryza and symptoms like hay-fever, which have been utilized homeopathically. Chilliness; sensitive to cold. Ascarides, with reflex symptoms (nymphomania; convulsive symptoms). Children's diarrhœa with constant cutting pains.

Mind

Nervous, timid, easily startled. Has erroneous notions about himself. Imagines that he is very sick; that parts are shrunken; that she is pregnant; that she has cancer; delirium during intermittents.

Head

Vertigo with sensation as though all things were turning around each other, accompanied by blackness before eyes and sensation of fainting. Dullness and oppression. Over-sensitiveness to odors. Thinking produces headache and sleeplessness. Eyelids red, burning. Lachrymation. Difficult hearing.

Nose

Spasmodic sneezing, with running nose. Coryza, with severe frontal pains and redness of eyes and lachrymation. Copious, watery, nasal discharge.

Throat

Sore; begins on left side (Lach). Much tough phlegm. Sensation of a skin hanging loosely; must swallow it. Warm food and drink relieve. Empty swallowing most painful. Dry fauces and throat. Sensation of a lump in throat with constant necessity to swallow. Chronic sore throat; worse, from cold air. Tongue as if burnt.

Stomach

Spasmodic pain in stomach with dry cough and difficult breathing. No thirst. Loathing for strong food. Canine appetite for sweets and farinaceous food. Pyrosis; copious salivation. Cold, empty feeling in stomach. Desire for hot things. Sweetish taste.

Female

Menses too late; come by fits and starts. Intermit (Kreos; Puls). (due to transient and localized congestion of womb alternating with chronic anæmic state).

Fever

Chill predominates; from below upwards. Heat in head and face; hands and feet icy cold, with chill. Lachrymation during paroxysm. Thirstless.

Extremities

Cracking of skin under and beneath toe; inflammation under toe-nails.

Skin

Dry, like parchment. Horny, deformed, thickened nails. Hot, burning, creeping, crawling sensation. Itching in anus.

Modalities

Worse, cold and cold drinks, full moon. Better, warm food and drink, wrapped up.

Relationship

Complementary: Sepia. Compare: Veratrina (is alkaloid of Sabadilla, not of Veratrum, locally in neuralgias, and for removal of dropsy. Five grains to two drams Lanolin, rubbed on inside of thighs, causes diuresis). Colch; Nux; Arundo and Pollatin. Phleum pratense-Timothy-Hay-fever-Potentized-12-specific to many cases and evidently acts in a desensitizing manner (Rabe). Cumarinum (hay-fever).

Antidotes: Puls; Lycop; Conium; Lach.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

Mind and Disposition

Anxious restlessness. Startled from the noise. Imagines himself sick or having imaginary diseases.

Head

Vertigo with fainting, everything becomes black before the eyes (when rising from a seat). Stupefying headache with coryza, itching and burning of the scalp and general heat of the whole body ; worse in the forenoon. The headache begins in the right side, and from there it extends. Burning and tingling-itching on the scalp, as from lice.

Eyes

The eyes are filled with water from pain and other causes ; when looking in the light, from cough, yawning, etc.

Ears

Tickling in the ears.

Nose

Itching-tingling in the nose. Bright-red blood comes from the posterior nares, and is expectorated. The smell is very sensitive to garlic.

Face

Burning heat and redness of the face (after drinking wine). Cracking of the articulation of the jaw on opening the mouth wide.

Mouth and Throat

Bluish gums. Burning dryness in the mouth, without thirst. Tongue thick, yellow-coated ; soreness of the tip of the tongue. Sensation of a lump in the throat with inclination to swallow.

Stomach and Abdomen

Violent desire for sweet things, honey or pastry. Aversion to coffee, wine, meat and acids. Thirstlessness or thirst only in the evening for cold water. Nausea before eating ; better afterwards. Vomiting of lumbrici. Burning or coldness in the stomach or abdomen. Cutting in the abdomen as from knives. Colicky pains from worms.

Stool and Anus

Fluid, thin stool mixed with mucus and blood floating on the water. Discharges of worms (lumbrici, tape-worm). Violent itching and tingling in the rectum.

Urine

Thick, turbid, hot urine.

Respiratory Organs

Hot breath ; wheezing breathing. Cough as soon as one lies down. Cough dry, with perspiration and water in the eyes ; with stitches in the vertex, vomiting and pain in the stomach. Burning and stitches in the chest. Pain in the right shoulder, extending to the chest, with the sensation as if a tape prevented the circulation of the blood. Red spots on the chest.

Extremities

Upper. Convulsive motion of the arms. Red spots, points and stripes on the arms and hands. Lower. Swelling of the feet, with tenderness or profuse perspiration of the soles of the feet.

Generalities

Great debility with relaxation or heaviness of the body. Inflammation of internal organs. Ailments dependent on worms.

Sleep

Unrefreshing, restless sleep. In the morning he starts up from his sleep as from a fright.

Fever

Pulse small, but spasmodic. Sensation as if the circulation were suspended. Chilliness in the evening always at the same hour, frequently not followed by heat ; the chills run up the body. Chilliness, especially in the extremities, with heat of the face. Heat, principally in the head and in the face, often interrupted by chilliness, always returning at the same hour. Perspiration, frequently already during the heat ; in the morning hours with perspiration. Hot, perspiration in the face with coldness of the rest of the body. Intermittent fever which returns at the same hour ; chill, then thirst, then heat with headache. Thirst only between the cold and hot stage. Fevers where the gastric symptoms prevail, with dry, convulsive cough in the cold stage (Quartan ague).

Skin

Pain in the bones and joints especially, as if somebody were scraping and cutting inside with a knife. Parchment-like dryness of the skin. Red blotches and stripes more permanent in the cold.

Conditions

Many complaints go from the right to the left (sore throat). Sensitiveness to the cold, which aggravates the pains. Reappearance, or aggravation of the pains in the forenoon and in the hours before midnight and during rest. The complaints (fever) always at the same hour. Many complaints appear, especially during the new and full moon. Sensitiveness to the cold which also aggravates the complaints.

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

Asagræa officinalis. Veratrum officinale. Sabadilla officinarum. Cebadilla. Cevadilla. N. O. Melanthaceæ (of the Liliaceæ). Tincture of seeds.

Clinical

Coryza. Debility. Diphtheria. Dyspepsia; of pregnancy. Earache. Epistaxis. Hay asthma . Headache. Head-lice . Imaginary diseases. Influenza. Intermittents. Mania. Melancholia. Neuralgia. Œsophagus, stricture of. Rheumatism. Tapeworm. Throat, sore. Toothache. Uvula elongated. Vertigo. Worms.

Characteristics

Asagræa is a Mexican genus belonging to the Colchicum family, Melanthaceæ. It has only one species, A. officinalis , which furnishes the Cebadilla seeds from which Veratrine is prepared. The seeds were formerly used to destroy vermin ( Treas. of Bot .). Saba . first appears in homœopathic literature as one of Stapf's additions, Hahnemann being one of the provers. Stapf's Additions forms a kind of appendix to the Materia Medica Pura . The plant, says Stapf, was first described by Monaides about the year 1572. At first it was almost exclusively used for destroying lice, and also worms in putrid ulcers and in the intestines. Stapf points out that the provings reveal remarkable febrile symptoms. Saba ., he says, is "not only specific to a certain kind of very bad angina, and to a rare kind of pleurisy where no inflammatory fever nor thirst is present, where the patient complains of coldness mingled with isolated flushes of heat; but also to some forms of fever and ague, where the chilliness sets in with nausea and inclination to vomit, recurs frequently, and sometimes alternates with flushes of heat; where the heat is more perceptible in the face and on the hands than on the rest of the body, with absence of thirst both in the chilly and hot stage." The same authority says that Saba . has a long period of action; the primary symptoms develop in the first five days, then recur after the lapse of some time. Symptoms are periodical and paroxysmal. The periodicity of Saba . may be as clock-like as that of Cedr ., and renders it a leading remedy in intermittent fevers and neuralgias. Saba . is a chilly remedy, the symptoms, especially the coryza, being generally < in the open air. The catarrhal symptoms are very severe, and correspond to many cases of bay asthma. I have often relieved cases with Saba ., though it does not cure the diathesis. Sore throats characterised by a sensation of a lump or foreign body in the throat, and a constant necessity to swallow , I have frequently cured with Saba . Kent ( Med. Adv ., August, 1894) says it is suited to "old, chronic sore throats that are < from cold air. The patient is sensitive to cold air. Every time he takes cold it settles in his nose and throat. Tonsillitis going from left to right." The desire for hot drink distinguishes Saba . from Lach . The traditional use of Saba . as a destroyer of parasites is depicted in the provings: "Violent itching of hairy scalp, compelling her to scratch till blood comes." "Itching of the vertex as if a quantity of vermin had collected there, obliging him to scratch incessantly." "Itching of anus and rectum as from ascarides." "Itching of anus alternating with itching of alæ nasi and meatus auditorius." Kent gave Saba . to a pet dog which had great irritation of anus, and soon afterwards he passed a very large number of worms. Saba . has an extreme amount of giddiness in its pathogenesis; it may cause staggering and even fainting. Objects seem to whirl round, or to whirl round each other. Stapf had "Vertigo early in the morning after rising." After a dose of Saba . in high potency I astonished myself by falling back on the bed with giddiness on rising the following morning. Among the characteristic mental symptoms are: Tendency to be startled. Erroneous impressions as to the state of his body. Imaginary diseases: imagines parts shrunken, &c.; if there is distension from flatus imagines she is pregnant, &c. Saba . is intolerant of mental exertion; thinking = headache. Digestion is disordered and the tongue loaded, sinking at stomach and gnawing hunger. Saba . corresponds to many forms of indigestion, including that incident to pregnancy. Peculiar Sensations are: As if things were turning around each other. As if she would fall if she did not hold on to something. As if eyes went round with the whirling sensation. Lips as if scalded. Tongue as if full of blisters. As if uvula were down. As if œsophagus would be closed. As of a body in throat which he must swallow down. As of a lump in throat. As if a morsel of food had lodged in throat. As of a worm in œsophagus. As if a sore spot was pressed upon. As of a lump in abdomen. As if a ball of thread were moving and turning rapidly through abdomen. As if knives were cutting abdomen. As if abdomen were shrunken; were empty. Croaking as of frogs in abdomen. As of something alive in abdomen. As if stomach were gnawed. As of a thread or string in throat. As if throat were tied with a string. As if articulation were suspended. As if tape prevented circulation in chest. As if interior of bones were scraped out with a sharp knife. As if hot breath came out of his mouth and nose. As if everything were in motion. As if the air itself were in tremulous motion. As if he had taken wine. Shaking as if in a severe chill. As if something sharp in throat. As if a soft body in throat must be constantly swallowed. Pressure on larynx = throat sore. Scratching > itching of scalp; = burning of anus. Lying perfectly still > vertigo. Lying down = cough immediately, < expectoration. Sitting < vertigo. Rising from seat vertigo. Opening mouth wide = cracking of jaw-joint. Walking vertigo and afterwards headache; pain in stomach. Getting into sweat when walking < itching of scalp. > Afternoon. Chill 3 p.m. < Morning; and evening. Gastric symptoms < morning. < At new or full moon; at regular periods. Alternating: canine appetite and disgust for meat and sour things; thirstlessness and bulimia with aversion to food. Hot drinks: < toothache; mouth intolerant of; craved in sore throat, more easily swallowed. Cold < all symptoms; < cough. Cold drinks < toothache. Walking in cold air < toothache. Open air: > vertigo; feels > in; = lachrymation and spasmodic sneezing. Warm stove > chilliness. When over-heated itching of scalp < . Mental exertion < . Fright = hysterical paroxysms. < From wine. Saba. is suited to: Persons of light hair, fair complexion, with a weakened, relaxed muscular system. Children. Old people.

Relations

Antidoted by: Camph., Puls., Con. Follows well: Bry. (pleurisy). Followed well by: Ars., Bell., Merc., Nux. Compare: Botan., Verat. alb., Verat. v., Helon. Congestion, Verat. v. Feels > in open air, Puls. Ovaritis, Coloc. Chill in afternoon, Lyc. < From 4 to 8 p.m., Lyc. Imaginary diseases, Thuj. Sensation of something alive in abdomen, Croc., Thuj.; of machinery, Nit. ac. Effect of mental exertion, Nux, Pic. ac. Fever without thirst, Puls. (with unquenchable thirst, Nat. m.). Attacks at same time every day, Ars., Ced. Hunger in early morning, Aga., Ant. c., Asar., Calc., Carb. a., Chi., Lyc., Mur. ac., Ran. b., Rhus, Zn. Nausea at sight of food, Colch., Lyc. String sensations; coryza, Cep. (Cep. coryza > out of doors; Saba. < ). Easily startled by noises, Borax. < From wine, Zn. Nervous diseases from worms, Cin., Pso. Worm affections of children, Con., Sil., Spi. Delirium during intermittents. Complaints go left to right, Lach., Lac c. Illusions about his body, Bap. Alcaloid, Veratrin.

Causation

Fright. Mental exertion. Thinking. Worms.

Mind

Uneasiness and anguish, with great agitation. ─ Disposition to be frightened. ─ Startled by noises. ─ Hysteric paroxysms after fright. ─ Ill-humour and passion. ─ Dislike to labour. ─ Rage. ─ Difficulty in thinking. ─ Thinking = headache. ─ Delusions of the imagination with respect to oneself; the body seems to be collapsed, like that of a corpse, the stomach to be eaten away, &c. ─ Imaginary diseases.

Head

Vertigo, with nausea, > by supporting head. ─ Vertigo: as if things were turning around him; as if all things were turning round each other; in morning after rising; had to rest his head on the table the whole afternoon to keep off the fainting; more sitting than standing; when going to bed. ─ Vertigo with fainting and cloudiness of eyes (everything becomes black) on rising from a seat. ─ Headache with vertigo, > while eyes are fixed steadfastly on an object, and while patient is thinking of one subject. ─ Headache as if a thread had been drawn from middle of forehead to occiput above temples, leaving a burning sensation behind. ─ Stupefying headache with coryza, itching, and burning of scalp and general heat of whole body; < in forenoon. ─ The headache begins in r. side, whence it extends more and more to l. ─ Corrosive burning point on top of head. ─ Headache with tensive pain, esp. during intellectual labour. ─ Headache, esp. after every walk; after eating. ─ Hemicrania with tænia. ─ Pressive and stupefying headache in forehead and temples. ─ Painful heaviness of head. ─ Boring pains in head after taking exercise. ─ Pulsative and painful throbbing in head. ─ Burning, tingling, and pricking in forehead and scalp (as from lice). ─ Burning, crawling itching on hairy scalp and forehead, > from scratching, < from getting into a sweat when walking. ─ Forehead covered with cold sweat.

Eyes

Burning smarting in eyes. ─ Pressure on eyeballs, esp. when looking up. ─ Redness of margins of eyelids. ─ Lachrymation, esp. during exercise in open air, when looking at anything bright, when coughing, yawning, and on feeling the slightest pain in other parts. ─ Weakness of sight.

Ears

Otalgia with troublesome pressure; with snapping as of electric sparks before ears. ─ Tickling in ears. ─ Itching at anus alternately with itching at meatus auditorius externus. ─ Burning itching and shootings in tips of ears. ─ Deafness as if there were a band over ears. ─ Humming, gurgling, and detonation in ears. ─ Boring in parotids.

Nose

Itching tingling in nose and contractive smarting. ─ Epistaxis. ─ Great sensibility to smell of garlic. ─ Sensitive dryness of upper part of nose. ─ Violent spasmodic sneezing (shaking the abdomen, then lachrymation). ─ Obstruction of nostrils, alternately. ─ Fluent coryza with altered features and bewildered head (influenza; hay-fever). ─ Great masses of white and transparent mucus are blown from nose, without coryza. ─ Bright red blood comes from posterior nares and is expectorated.

Face

Heat of face with fiery redness, esp. after drinking wine. ─ Blue circles round the eyes. ─ Marbled and herpetic skin on the face, burning sensation, pain as from excoriation, pricking and itching tingling in lips. ─ Beating and jerking in muscles of l. upper jaw, with itching. ─ Boring in lower jaw and submaxillary glands. ─ Cracking of the articulation of the jaw on opening mouth wide.

Teeth

Toothache with drawing and pulsative pain. ─ Shooting pains in molars. ─ Caries of teeth. ─ Gums bluish. ─ Pricking in gums.

Mouth

Sensation in mouth and on tongue as if they were burnt and excoriated. ─ Cannot bear anything hot in mouth. ─ Tongue feels sore as if full of blisters. ─ Pricking (soreness) in tip of tongue. ─ Tip of the tongue bluish. ─ Tongue loaded with a thick yellowish coating (more in middle and at back). ─ Dryness of the mouth without thirst. ─ Copious accumulation of (sweetish) saliva in the mouth. ─ Jelly-like saliva.

Throat

Pain in the throat as if caused by a plug or an internal swelling during deglutition and at other times. ─ Constantly obliged to swallow, with pain in mouth and behind larynx as if something lodged there, with scratching roughness; hawks constantly, < morning and during and after eating. ─ Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat, must swallow over it; as if uvula were down. ─ Much tough phlegm in throat, must hawk. ─ Feeling of constriction in the throat (in fauces as from an astringent drink). ─ Can swallow warm food more easily, in sore throat. ─ Pressure and burning sensation in throat during deglutition and at other times. ─ Dryness in throat. ─ Roughness and scraping in throat, with continued want to swallow or to hawk. ─ Inflammation of uvula.

Appetite

Taste bitter (or of a sickly sweetness). ─ Violent thirst for cold water, milk, or beer, also in morning. ─ Hunger, with dislike to all food, esp. meat (coffee, wine, and acids). ─ Bulimy esp. in morning and evening (principally for honey, pastry, and farinaceous food). ─ Thirstlessness or thirst only in evening for cold water. ─ Craves hot things, hot tea (in sore throat).

Stomach

Risings, generally empty, and sometimes with shuddering. ─ Painful and imperfect risings. ─ Pyrosis. ─ Corrosive burning pain in stomach and œsophagus; when walking. ─ Coldness in stomach. ─ Empty feeling in stomach. ─ Nausea with inclination to vomit, often with shuddering, > by eating. ─ Nausea; with constant spitting of insipid water. ─ Nausea, retching, and feeling of worm in œsophagus. ─ Vomiting of lumbrici. ─ Softness, uneasiness, and coldness in stomach. ─ Digging in epigastric region, with pains as from excoriation (as if a sore spot were pressed below pit of stomach), when pressing upon it (and on inspiration). ─ A frequent sudden sensation of obstructed respiration in scrobiculus, with anxiety. ─ Sensation of heat in scrobiculus and burning in stomach.

Abdomen

Pressive scraping in hepatic region. ─ Digging drawing in liver, with pain as from excoriation when pressing upon it. ─ Sensation of heat in hepatic region. ─ Colicky pain in abdomen as if caused by worms (or from actual worms). ─ Constriction in abdomen. ─ Turning and twisting through whole abdomen as from a lump. ─ Cuttings as by knives. ─ Colic: with sensation as if a ball were moving and turning through abdomen, cries out, "Oh! my bowels, they go like a wheel"; with violent urging to stool and borborygmus; from worms. ─ Violent shootings in sides of abdomen, which force the patient to bend double. ─ Boring, digging, and rolling in abdomen. ─ Rumbling in abdomen, as if empty. ─ Croaking as of frogs in abdomen. ─ Sensation of coldness or burning in abdomen. ─ Spasmodic contraction of muscles of abdomen; of l. side, with burning pain; he bent double on l. side. ─ Red spots and specks on abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Constipation. ─ Broken, hard, scanty stools. ─ Very difficult stools with much burning in abdomen and sensation as if something alive in abdomen. ─ Urgent want to evacuate, with scanty evacuation. ─ Loose brown or fermented fæces, mixed with mucus and blood (floating on the water). ─ Pinchings, tearing, and tingling in rectum. ─ Crawling in rectum and anus as from ascarides. ─ Itching of anus, violent burning after scratching. ─ Itching of anus, alternating with itching of nose or ear. ─ Discharges of worms (lumbrici, tapeworm).

Urinary Organs

Urgent want to urinate, esp. in evening, with tenesmus and scanty emission. ─ Increased secretion of urine. ─ Turbid, thick urine, like clay-water. ─ Burning in urethra when urinating.

Male Sexual Organs

Digging and pressive pain in testes. ─ Diminished sexual desire. ─ Tensive and painful erections, without desire for coition. ─ Pollutions, with flaccidity of penis.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia: retarded but profuse, and of longer duration; flow by fits and starts; painful hearing down a few days previous. ─ Cutting pain as from knives in ovary (ovaritis). ─ Nymphomania from ascarides.

Respiratory Organs

Hot breath. ─ Hoarse, rough voice. ─ Hawking up of bright red blood, which comes from the nasal fossæ. ─ Short, dry cough, also at night, provoked by a scraping in throat. ─ Cough dry, with perspiration and water in the eyes. ─ Cough with vomiting, shootings in vertex, and pain in stomach. ─ Dull cough, sometimes with hæmoptysis. ─ Cough immediately on lying down. ─ Cough with expectoration and lancinations in chest.

Chest

Respiration obstructed, as if there were a stone in the chest. ─ Short, difficult respiration. ─ Wheezing respiration. ─ Pressure on the chest. ─ Burning sensation in the chest. ─ Pain from r. (sometimes l.) shoulder into chest as if circulation of blood arrested by a tight bandage; not > by unfastening dress; < in open air. ─ Shootings in sides of chest, esp. when drawing breath and coughing, which disturbs the sleep at night and does not permit lying on the side. ─ (Inflammation of pleura.). ─ Red spots and points on chest.

Heart

Palpitation of heart with pulsation throughout body.

Back

Contusive pain in back and loins, esp. when seated. ─ Burning-tingling stinging sensation between scapulæ. ─ Stitches in rapid succession in r. side of back.

Limbs

Weariness and heaviness in all the limbs, < towards evening, obliging her to lie down. ─ Coldness of the limbs. ─ Painful drawings in limbs as if in marrow of bones, with inclination to stretch limbs, > by repose. ─ Painful sensation of paralysis of the limbs, esp. in knees.

Upper Limbs

Convulsive movements of arms. ─ Trembling of arms and hands. ─ Red spots, bands, and points on arms and hands. ─ Pricking lancinations in forearms. ─ Dryness of skin of hands. ─ Distortion of fingers. ─ Yellow spots on fingers. ─ Desquamation of skin round nails.

Lower Limbs

Shootings in thighs and knees. ─ Weakness and flexion of knees. ─ Tearing and tension in calves of legs, also at night. ─ Heaviness of feet. ─ Swelling of feet, with painful sensibility of soles. ─ Profuse perspiration on soles.

Generalities

[Intermittent complaints which come every week, or two weeks, or four weeks apart. ─ Esp. suited for children who are disposed to worms; worms discharged with stool, whether lumbrici or tapeworms. ─ Sweetish taste. ─ No thirst during chill; heat often internal. ─ Troubles appearing on the r. side; on toenails. ─ Sensation of knocking, throbbing, or pulsation in the outer parts; great sleepiness in the forenoon. ─ < in forenoon; before midnight; from cold in general; while resting. ─ > From moving; while swallowing something; while getting warm; from warmth in general. ─ Many complaints appear, esp. during the new and full moon. ─ H. N. G.]. ─ Pricking, pressive, and dull lancinations in different parts. ─ Tingling in the limbs. ─ Twitchings, convulsive tremblings, or catalepsy from worms. ─ Nervous diseases from worms or deeply seated abdominal irritation. ─ Great debility; in intermittents; paralytic debility in pleuritis. ─ Convulsions. ─ Heaviness of tread and of movements generally. ─ Lassitude and heaviness in all limbs, < evening, or towards noon, at which times the pains in the limbs are also < . ─ In general, < at same hour every day. ─ Pains in the bones, as if caused by some one cutting and scraping inside with a knife, esp. in the joint; < by touch, > by a quick movement of the part affected. ─ The patient feels better when lying down than when walking or standing; in the open air. ─ Several symptoms appear first on the r. and then on the l. side. ─ Great sensibility to cold air, which < the uneasiness and pains.

Skin

Parchment-like dryness of skin. ─ Tingling and burning shootings under skin. ─ Red bands, spots, and points in different parts of skin, appearing with greatest intensity in cold air.

Sleep

Great inclination to sleep during day, with continued yawning and stretching. ─ Sleep retarded by a multitude of thoughts. ─ Imperfect sleep in evening, with mental fatigue from wandering thoughts. ─ Agitated and unrefreshing sleep at night, with anxious dreams. ─ In the morning he starts up from his sleep as from a fright.

Fever

Pulse small but spasmodic. ─ Sensation as if the circulation were suspended. ─ Chilliness in evening always at same hour; frequently not followed by heat; the chills run up the body. ─ Heat principally in head and face, often interrupted by chilliness, always returning at same hour. ─ Fever without thirst, manifested only by chilliness, with intermittent heat, which is more perceptible in the face and hands than in other parts of body. ─ Hot perspiration in face with coldness of rest of body. ─ Intermittent fever which returns at same hour; chill, then thirst, then thirst with headache. ─ Shivering or external coldness and trembling of limbs without shivering, and with more violent thirst or complete adipsia; afterwards heat with moderate thirst, accompanied or followed by perspiration. ─ In the morning hours perspiration. ─ During the shivering pain in upper ribs, dry, spasmodic cough, and tearing in all the limbs and bones. ─ Delirium, yawning, and stretching during the heat. ─ Sleep during the perspiration. ─ Quotidian, tertian, quartan fever at regular intervals, with anorexia, pressive inflation of stomach, pains in chest, cough, shivering, weakness and thirst between the shiverings and the heat. ─ Thirst only between hot and cold stage. ─ Fever where the gastric symptoms prevail, with dry, convulsive cough in cold stage (quartan ague). ─ During the apyrexia painful weariness of the limbs without any other symptom.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

No response to questions, loss of consciousness ; afterward jumps up and runs recklessly through room.
Erroneous impressions as to the state of his body.
Imagines : himself sick ; parts shrunken ; that she is pregnant, when she is merely swollen from flatus ; that she has some horrible throat disease which will end fatally.
Delirium during intermittents.
Mania ; rage, quieted only by washing head in cold water.
Melancholy from deep-seated abdominal irritation.
Anxious sensation with restlessness and qualmishness.
Easily frightened ; startled by noises.
Thinking produces headache.
Mental exertion aggravates headache and produces sleep.
After fright hysteric paroxysms.

Sensorium

Vertigo : things turn black before eyes, sensation of fainting ; as if things were turning, especially when rising from a seat ; more sitting than walking ; felt stupid.
Dulness of head. θ Influenza.
Beclouded, as after intoxication, without vertigo or pains.
Vertigo with sensation as if all things were turning around each other.
Attacks of giddiness coming generally in evening ; in one attack fainted, then vomited food and bile ; during attacks felt suddenly as if she would fall if she did not hold on to something ; felt glad to get into open air ; gastric disturbance, felt sick after meals.
Attacks of giddiness ; of short duration, affected suddenly ; everything seems to be whirling round her ; she has to hold on to something, otherwise she would fall down ; if in the house the whole house seems to be coming down upon her ; if in the street the
houses seem to be falling upon her, and unless she can hold on to some support she falls down ; sometimes awakes at night with the whirling sensation ; attacks come on without warning, last but a few moments, and are followed by a weak, tired feeling ; at other times suffers
from attacks of longer duration, sometimes lasting greater part of forenoon, accompanied by nausea and visual disturbance ; brain seems to go round and round, and eyes move to and fro, as if they went round with the whirling sensation ; if she shuts her eyes the whirling seems to
go in the opposite direction and she becomes sick ; she likes to lie perfectly still and to look fixedly at one object ; if she turns her eyes to look at any other object, or if she shuts her eyes she becomes sick ; feels < in mornings, very weak in forenoon and > in
afternoon ; the sudden giddy attacks come on at any time, the attacks with nausea mostly in the mornings ; has a depressed, anxious look ; appetite very poor ; likes milk, feels soon satisfied ; some nausea after meals ; mouth when she wakes very dry and
burning, tongue dry and thickly coated ; bad taste ; palms of hands dry and horny and inclined to scale ; at night they are so burning that she has to keep them outside the bedclothes ; the top of her head is hot ; she feels best out of doors.

Inner head

Pressure in head < in forehead and temples. θ Hay fever.
Stitches in temples.
Headache after a walk ; on returning to room a twisting, screwing pain from right side of head to both temples, spreading over whole head, after going to bed, returning daily.
Hemicrania with tænia.
Headache from much thinking or too close attention.
Stupefying, oppressive sensation in forehead, producing a reeling sensation.
Corrosive, burning point on top of head.
Head feels dull and heavy.
Painful heaviness, first in forepart of right side of forehead, whence it extends more and more toward left side.
Headache and vertigo, > while eyes are steadily fixed upon an object and while patient is thinking of one subject.
Stupefying headache with coryza, itching and burning of scalp, general heat of whole body ; < in forenoon.

Outer head

Fine prickling stitches in skin of forehead and scalp, when becoming warm.
Burning, crawling itching on hairy scalp, > from scratching, < from getting into a sweat while walking.
Burning and tingling itching on scalp, as from lice.
Burning itching most on front of head and behind ears ; feeling of heat spreading thence over whole body ; after scratching violent tickling and stinging ; red spots, later with a scurf, < when overheated or sweating during day.
Forehead covered with cold sweat.

Sight and eyes

Lachrymation : when walking in open air, on looking at light, sneezing, coughing or yawning ; as soon as least pain is felt in some other part of body, for instance in hand.
Pressure on eyeballs when looking upward.
Margins of lids red.
Blue rings under eyes.

Hearing and ears

Difficulty of hearing.
Severe stitches in left ear.
Tickling in ears.
Jerking pains with itching in ear.
Itching of ears, with worms.

Smell and nose

Spasmodic sneezing. θ Hay fever. θ Influenza.
Fluent coryza. θ Influenza.
Either nostril stuffed up, inspiration through nose labored, snoring.
Itching in nose ; agreeable titillation in alæ.
Profuse bleeding from nose.
Bright red blood comes from posterior nares and is expectorated.
Very sensitive to smell of garlic.
Violent sneezing from time to time, shaking abdomen ; followed by lachrymation.
Coryza with severe frontal pains and redness of eyelids ; violent sneezing ; copious watery discharge from nose.

Upper face

Face feels hot, as after wine, face and eyes are red. θ Hay fever.
Face deadly pale and sunken, features distorted, great anxiety.
Beating and jerking in muscles of left upper jaw.
Intermittent neuralgia, beginning with a shaking chill of great severity ; twitching, convulsive trembling.
Swelling of face, with spotted eruption.

Lower face

Can hardly open mouth from pain in joints and muscles ; with sore throat.
Lips hot, dry, burn as if scalded.
Cracking of articulation of jaw on opening mouth wide.

Teeth and gums

Remittent or intermittent toothache, often extending over whole side of face ; < from hot or cold food or drink, from walking in cold air, even with closed mouth.
Dull, troublesome pain in carious teeth, with sore throat.
Gums : swollen ; bluish.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : bitter ; sweet ; lost.
Tongue : sore, coated thick yellow ; white in centre ; moist, during fever ; feels sore as if full of blisters ; burning on tip.
Cannot protrude tongue, with sore throat.
Pain in tongue and down throat, deglutition difficult.

Inner mouth

Cannot bear anything hot in mouth.
Anything cold in mouth causes pain during sore throat.
Mouth dry ; throat sore.
Saliva : seemingly hot during pyrosis ; copious with nausea, vomiting and vomiturition ; sweetish, collects in mouth ; jellylike ; ptyalism.
Frequent spitting of insipid water.

Palate and throat

Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat, must swallow over it ; as if uvula were down.
Much tough phlegm in throat ; must hawk.
Hawks bright red blood from posterior nares.
Stitches in throat, only when swallowing ; tonsils swollen and inflamed, nearly suppurating ; left to right.
Tonsillitis after coryza ; suppuration ; right tonsil remains somewhat swollen and indurated.
Dryness of fauces and throat.
Constricted feeling deep in throat, as if œsophagus would be closed, as after swallowing an astringent drink.
Continual desire to swallow, deeply cutting pains, whole body writhes.
Cannot swallow saliva on account of pain, must spit it out.
While swallowing, or not, feeling in throat of a body which he must swallow.
Can swallow warm food more easily, in sore throat.
Sensation of a lump in throat with inclination to swallow.
Sore throat, continual desire to swallow, pale redness and slight swelling of mucous membrane ; in children affected with worms.
Roughness in throat, as if a morsel of food had lodged there, causing cough.
In an epidemic of sore throat, all cases which commenced on left and extended to right side.
Angina ; hydrophobia.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Morbid hunger or loathing of food. θ Intermittent.
Disgust : for all food ; for meat ; for sour things ; for coffee ; for garlic.
No relish for food until she takes the first morsel, when she makes a good meal. θ Pregnancy.
Canine appetite, especially for sweets, farinaceous food, puddings, alternating with disgust for meat, wine or sour things.
No thirst, with moist tongue.
Desire for hot things. θ Angina.
Great thirst. θ Angina.
Thirstlessness, with exception of desire for milk.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations : in intermittents ; rancid ; sour.
Pyrosis, heat comes up into throat ; copious salivation, saliva seemingly as hot as the body, but it is not.
Constantly spits insipid water.
Nausea : before eating ; with chilliness ; regurgitation, vomiturition in intermittents ; regurgitation of bitter mucus, leaving fatty taste ; constantly spits insipid water.
Vomiting : of bile ; with whooping cough ; of lumbrici ; or frequent nausea and vomiturition, with feeling of foreign body in œsophagus.
Nausea and retching, with feeling of worm in œsophagus.
Much nausea and vomiting, with heat in abdomen.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Coldness in stomach.
Empty feeling in stomach.
Spasm of stomach, with short breath and dry cough.
Troublesome bloatedness of stomach, with loss of appetite.
Beating in left side of gastric region toward back.
Burning in œsophagus and stomach, vomiturition, cutting in abdomen ; loose stool ; nervous debility, twitchings.
Corroding, burning pain in stomach, when walking.
(In sick :) Heat in stomach and through whole body.
Burning pain in stomach and along chest, as high as pit of throat.
A peculiar pain as if a sore spot were pressed upon, below pit of stomach on pressure and during inspiration.
Gastric symptoms, < in morning.

Hypochondria

Stitching pains in hypochondria.

Abdomen and loins

Turning and twisting through whole abdomen, as from a lump.
Spasmodic contraction of abdominal muscles, left side, with burning pains ; he bends over to left side.
Sensation as if a ball of thread were moving and turning rapidly through abdomen.
Cutting in bowels as with knives.
Burning, boring, whirling in region of navel. θ Worms.
Bloated abdomen.
Sensation as if abdomen were sunken.
Rumbling in abdomen as if empty.
Colic : with sensation as if a ball were moving and turning through abdomen, cries out, "Oh my bowels, they go like a wheel ;" with violent urging to stool and borborygmus ; from worms.

Stools and rectum

Emission of much flatus.
Violent urging to stool with croaking as of frogs ; sits a long time, then passes immense quantities of flatus, which is followed by an enormous evacuation ; after that burning in abdomen ; stool mixed with blood.
Diarrhœa : stool fermented, brown, floating on water ; liquid, mixed with blood and slime.
Very difficult stools, with much burning in abdomen and a sensation as of something alive in abdomen.
Before stool : pinching around umbilicus ; loud rumbling ; urging ; emission of flatus ; drawing in spermatic cords ; burning in anus ; shuddering.
After stool : burning in abdomen and rectum.
Crawling, itching in anus ; ascarides.
Lumbrici ; tænia ; worm fever.
Vomiting of lumbrici, or nausea and retching, with sensation of a foreign body in œsophagus.
Tapeworm with severe burning boring pains in abdomen, accumulation of saliva in mouth, great chilliness and sensitiveness to cold ; sensation as if abdomen were sunken, or stomach gnawed ; vomiturition and sensation of foreign body in throat.
Tenia ; flushed face ; one-sided headache with drawing extending into shoulders, and one-sided convulsive throwing about and involuntary rotations of arm of same side ; Sabad. cured, and after a few weeks administration caused discharge of a large mass of tapeworm, with
complete relief.

Urinary organs

Urging to urinate, especially in evening.
Burning in urethra when urinating. θ Gonorrhœa.
Urine thick and turbid like muddy water.

Male sexual organs

Pollutions, followed by loss of power in extremities.
Lascivious dreams and emissions, with relaxed penis ; afterward painful erections with extraordinary lassitude.

Female sexual organs

Nymphomania from ascarides.
Before menses : painful pressure downward.
Cutting pains, as from knives, in ovary. θ Ovaritis.
Menses : too late, with painful bearing down a few days previous ; decrease, flow by fits and starts, sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker, blood bright red.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Gastric symptoms during pregnancy.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness when pressing on larynx, throat feels sore.
Influenza ; violent spasmodic sneezing and lachrymation on going into open air ; tonsillitis begins on left side and extends to right ; pain < when swallowing empty ; sensation as of a thread or string in throat, or a sense of constriction
as if it were tied by a string.
Epidemic influenza : great sleepiness during day ; chilliness, shivering and horripilations, particularly toward evening ; chilliness running upward, from feet to head ; lachrymation and redness of eyelids ; pressure in eyes, particularly when moving them and
when looking upward ; pressing headache, particularly in forehead ; sore pain in tongue, which is covered with a thick yellow coating ; pain in tongue extends into throat ; difficult deglutition ; frequent sensation as if a skin were hanging loosely in throat ;
bitter taste in mouth ; complete loss of appetite ; nausea ; dryness of mouth ; thirstlessness ; constipation with rumbling of flatus or diarrhœa of brown fermented stool, which floats upon the water ; urine yellow and turbid ; cough with vomiting,
headache, sharp stitches in vertex, pain in region of stomach ; hoarse cough, often with hæmoptysis ; painful paralytic weakness of limbs, particularly of knees ; all the symptoms < from cold ; aggravation toward afternoon, reaching its height in evening ; heat
of face with chilliness and coldness of limbs or chilliness running up back, returning every ten minutes ; skin dry as parchment ; sleep restless ; disturbed by anxious dreams ; cough immediately on lying down.

Respiration

Sensation of narrowness in throat.
Shortness of breath, cardialgia, dry cough.
Breathing : heavy ; anxious, during heat.
Wheezing in chest.
Sudden oppression of breathing, in pit of stomach, with anxiety.

Cough

Cough : dry, from scratching or roughness in throat ; in children, with lachrymation ; during chill, also during apyrexia ; hoarse sounding with hæmoptoë ; nightly, dry ; short, dry, produced by a scraping in throat ; as
soon as one lies down ; dry, with perspiration and lachrymation ; with stitch in vertex, vomiting and pain in stomach.
Cough < : from cold, or becoming cold ; as soon as he lies down ; violent spells recur at same hour or at new and full moon.
Expectoration : of tenacious, yellow mucus, of a repulsive sweet taste ; of bright red blood, especially when lying down.

Inner chest and lungs

Pain and oppression in chest during apyrexia. θ Intermittent.
Stitches in side of chest, especially when inspiring or coughing.
Pleuritis, great paralytic debility.
Complains of coldness, with hot flashes intervening. θ Pleuritis.
Burning and stitches in chest.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pulse small, spasmodic.
Sensation as if circulation were suspended.

Outer chest

Red spots on chest.

Neck and back

Spine affected ; after pollutions excessive weakness shows itself in legs.
Bruised feeling in back and spine ; also in sacral region.

Upper limbs

Sweat in axillæ.
Convulsions in arms.
Trembling of arms and hands.
Stitches in muscles of arms.
Red spots and stripes on arms and hands.
When writing trembling of hand ; old people.
Thick, crippled nails.
Pain in right shoulder extending to chest, with sensation as if a tape prevented circulation of blood.
Blisters on hands and fingers from little work.

Lower limbs

Rheumatic pains in hips ; severe stitching ; < during rest, > from motion.
Stinging sensation in both thighs at same time.
Smarting in right hypochondrium ; shooting down in front of thigh and up to right scapula ; pain makes her twist around ; numbness and tingling down right leg and foot. θ Rheumatism.
Loss of power in legs. θ Spermatorrhœa.
Boring, tearing in thighs.
Stitches in muscles of thighs.
Severe burning and inflammation of tibia.
Feet swell, are painful on walking ; feels every pebble.
Heaviness of feet.
Thick, inflamed, crippled toe nails.
Horizontal fissures between and under toes.
Swelling of feet with tenderness or profuse sweating of soles.

Limbs in general

Paralytic drawing through limbs.
Stitches in flesh of arms or thighs.
Weariness in limbs.
Continuous heaviness in limbs, obliging one to lie down all day, but especially in later hours of forenoon and toward evening.

Rest. position. motion

Lying perfectly still : vertigo >.
Lying down : cough immediately ; expectoration <.
Sitting : vertigo <.
Rising from a seat : vertigo.
He bends to left side : contraction of muscles of abdomen.
Opening mouth wide : cracking of articulation of jaw.
Writing : trembling of hands.
Walking : vertigo ; afterward headache, getting into sweat < itching of scalp ; pain in stomach.

Nerves

Lassitude.
Great debility of knees with relaxation or heaviness of body.
Great debility in intermittents.
Great paralytic weakness in pleuritis.
Intense but transient bruised pain in various parts of body.
Intense pain in all the bones, especially in joints, as if interior of bones were scraped and cut with sharp knife.
Hysteria after a fright.
Twitchings, convulsive tremblings, or catalepsy from worms.
Nervous diseases from worms or deeply seated abdominal irritation.

Sleep

Sleepiness : in forenoon ; all day ; can hardly overcome the inclination ; before chill ; during heat.
Sleep disturbed by confused unremembered dreams.
Drowsy during day, restless at night.
Many ideas occupy mind, prevent sleep or make it light ; evenings.
Sleep restless, tosses about ; interrupted by frightful dreams.
In morning starts up from sleep as from a fright.

Time

Morning : feels < ; vertigo and nausea ; gastric symptoms < ; heat on rising, mouth dry and sticky ; sweat.
Forenoon : attacks of giddiness last greater part ; very weak ; stupefying headache < ; later hours, weariness of limbs ; sleepiness.
Day : itching on front of head ; great sleepiness ; drowsy.
Afternoon : feels > ; influenza < ; chill.
Evening : attacks of giddiness, urging to urinate < ; toward, shivering and horripilations < ; influenza < ; toward, heaviness of limbs ; many ideas occupy mind, prevent sleep ; chill.
At 9 P. M. : paroxysms of tertian ague.
Night : awakes with a whirling sensation ; palms burn ; restless ; heat, only tertian ague paroxysms.

Temperature and weather

Hot drinks : toothache < ; cannot bear anything hot in mouth.
When overheated : itching on head <.
Warm stove : chilliness >.
Warmth : stitches in forehead and scalp.
Returning to room : twisting, screwing pain from right side of head to temple.
Open air : vertigo > ; feels > ; when walking, lachrymation ; spasmodic sneezing and lachrymation.
Anything cold in mouth causes pain.
Cold drinks : toothache <.
Cold air : toothache < from walking.
Cold : < all symptoms ; cough < ; sensitive to.

Fever

Chilliness and sensitiveness to cold.
Frequently recurring fits of shuddering, passing off quickly without being immediately followed by heat or thirst ; suddenly feels hot, especially in face ; feels as if a hot breath came out of mouth and nose and heated neighboring parts ; no thirst ; very comfortable
feeling in whole body, and clearness of head ; fits of shuddering recur eight or ten times at intervals ; paroxysms of heat less frequent but last longer.
Chill without thirst, often without subsequent heat.
Violent chilliness, as if dashed with cold water, > by a warm stove.
Dry spasmodic cough with pain in ribs and tearing in all bones, during chill.
Thirst begins as chill leaves.
Thirst for warm drinks before heat.
Chill : afternoon or evening, returning at same hour ; often without subsequent heat ; predominates particularly on extremities, with heat of face ; runs from below upward.
Evening fever with cold hands and feet and burning face.
Whole body feels hot during coryza. θ Influenza.
Heat mostly of head and face, often interrupted by shivering, always returning at same hour.
Feverish ; he feels sick, anxious, starts easily, trembles, breathes short and hot.
Febrile condition, an unwell, sick feeling, restless anxiety, easy startings, short hot breath, trembling, great orgasm of blood, eyes weak and unsteady, as if everything were in motion, as if air itself were in tremulous motion ; irresistible desire to sleep, with
yawning, icy-cold, shivering without shaking, constant nausea.
Heat : only at night and after rising in morning, more internally or only hands, forehead, lips and cheeks feel hot ; hands are constantly dry and rough ; mouth completely dried up and sticky, in morning ; moderate thirst, desire for juicy
food ; no perspiration, daily for two weeks ; head and face, as if he had taken wine, not perceptible to hand, for three hours.
Heat in head not felt externally ; internal chilliness.
Sweat of soles of feet.
Apyrexia : constantly chilly ; loss of appetite ; eructations sour, rancid ; vomiting of bile and bitter mucus ; oppressive bloatedness of stomach ; pain in chest ; debility ; sour eructations.
Sweat often during heat ; in morning hours with sleep ; on face, rest of body cold.
Tertian ague of several months' duration which had been treated with Cinchona ; chill predominates ; thirstlessness and bulimia alternating with aversion to food.
Violent shaking of limbs as in a severe chill, so that she could not stand and hardly speak, without any sensation of coldness, although surface was cold to touch ; then heat and thirst followed by sweat ; twelve to eighteen attacks during twenty-four hours, < every other
day. θ Ague.
Tertian ague, paroxysms at night, after use of household remedies paroxysms ceased for a short time ; finally returned and set in daily, always at same hour ; chill moderate, followed by thirst and severe long-continued fever with headache.
Stages not well marked, shivering often recurs after onset of heat, or there are heat and coldness at same time in different parts of body, thirst at one time present, at another absent, little alteration in pulse, sweat profuse but of short duration ; transient nausea ;
aversion to food during paroxysm ; accumulation of water in mouth ; belching ; scratching in throat as from something sharp, and sensation as if a soft body in throat must be constantly swallowed ; paroxysms appear at 9 P. M. θ Tertian
ague.
Intermittent fever during Spring ; severe chill without subsequent heat or sweat ; during apyrexia great weakness of limbs.
Ague with regurgitation of food and nausea ; thirst between chill and heat.
Paroxysms recur at same hour ; chill predominates ; thirst only between chill and heat ; during apyrexia constant chilliness, cough, oppressed breathing and pain in chest.
Ague paroxysms consisting only of a cold stage ; after abuse of Quinine.
Paroxysm invariably at 3 P. M., chill lasted two hours, with some thirst ; heat violent of three hours' duration, and sweating for four hours ; no thirst in heat or sweat. θ Quartan
ague.
Fever where gastric symptoms prevail, with dry, convulsive cough in cold stage. θ Quartan ague.

Attacks, periodicity

Alternating : canine appetite and disgust for meat and sour things ; thirstlessness and bulimia with aversion to food.
At intervals : eight or ten times fits of shuddering.
Every ten minutes : chilliness up back.
At same hour : cough ; chill.
Invariably at 3 P. M. : paroxysms of chills.
Daily : twisting pain in head ; for two weeks heat in head and face ; twelve to eighteen attacks ; shaking.
Nightly : cough.
Every other day : attacks of shaking <.
At new or full moon : cough <.
Ague : of several months' duration.
Spring : intermittent fever.

Locality and direction

Right : screwing pain, in side of head ; heaviness in side of forehead ; pain in shoulder ; smarting in hypochondrium ; numbness and tingling down leg and foot.
Left : severe stitches in ear ; jerking in muscles of upper jaw ; beating in side of gastric region ; spasmodic contraction of abdominal muscles ; he bends to side.
Left to right : stitches in throat, sore throat ; tonsillitis.
Upward : chilliness running from feet to head.
From below upward : chill.

Sensations

As if things were turning around each other ; as if she would fall if she did not hold on to something ; as if eyes went round with the whirling sensation ; lips as if scalded ; tongue as if full of blisters ; as of a skin hanging loosely in
throat ; as if uvula were down ; as if œsophagus would be closed ; as of a body in throat which he must swallow down ; as of a lump in throat ; as if a morsel of food had lodged in throat ; as of a worm in œsophagus ; as if a sore spot were pressed
upon ; as of a lump in abdomen ; as if a ball of thread were moving and turning rapidly through abdomen ; as if knives were cutting abdomen ; as if abdomen were sunken ; abdomen as if empty ; croaking as of frogs in abdomen ; as of something alive in
abdomen ; as if stomach were gnawed ; as of a thread or string in throat ; as if throat were tied with a string ; as if circulation were suspended ; as if tape prevented circulation in chest ; as if interior of bones were scraped and cut with a sharp
knife ; as if hot breath came out of his mouth and nose ; as if dashed with cold water ; as if everything were in motion ; as if air itself were in tremulous motion ; as if he had taken wine ; shaking as if in a severe chill ; as of something sharp in
throat ; as if a soft body in throat must be constantly swallowed.
Pain : in joints and muscles, in tongue and down throat ; in region of stomach ; in chest ; in right shoulder into chest ; in ribs.
Intense pain : in all bones and joints.
Severe pains : in frontal region.
Boring, tearing : in thighs.
Tearing : in all bones.
Cutting pains : in throat ; in abdomen ; in ovary.
Shooting : down in front of thigh and up to right scapula.
Stitches : in temples ; fine prickling, in skin of forehead and scalp ; in left ear ; in throat ; in vertex ; in side of chest ; in muscles of arms ; in hips ; in muscles of thighs.
Stitching pains : in hypochondria.
Boring, cutting, or scraped feeling : in bones.
Twisting, screwing pain : from right side of head to both temples.
Pinching : around umbilicus.
Dull pain : in carious teeth.
Rheumatic pains : in hips.
Burning-boring pains in abdomen.
Burning pain : in stomach ; along chest as high as pit of throat.
Burning : of mouth ; of hands ; in point on top of head ; of scalp ; of face ; on tip of tongue ; in œsophagus and stomach ; in region of navel ; in abdomen ; in anus ; in rectum ; in urethra ; in chest ; in tibia.
Burning itching : most on front of head and behind ears.
Smarting : in right hypochondrium.
Sore pain : in tongue.
Stinging : in both thighs.
Soreness : of throat ; of tongue.
Bruised feeling : in back and spine and sacral region.
Drawing : in spermatic cords into shoulders ; through limbs.
Stupefying oppressive sensations : in forehead.
Heat : spreading from head over whole body ; of lips ; in abdomen ; in stomach ; in head.
Tingling : down right leg and foot.
Tickling : in ears.
Scraping : in throat.
Roughness : in throat.
Jerking : in muscles of left upper jaw.
Beating : in muscles of left upper jaw ; in left side of gastric region.
Pressure : in head ; on eyeballs ; in eyes.
Heaviness : of head ; right side of forehead, then to left ; of feet ; of limbs.
Oppression : of chest.
Dulness : of head.
Sensation of narrowness : in throat.
Constricted feeling : deep in throat.
Turning and twisting : through whole abdomen.
Boring, whirling : in region of abdomen.
Weariness : of limbs.
Empty feeling : in stomach.
Dryness : of mouth ; of tongue ; of palms ; of lips ; of fauces and throat.
Crawling : of scalp ; like ants in skin.
Numbness : down right leg and foot.
Itching : of scalp ; in ears ; in nose ; in anus.
Coldness : in stomach ; of limbs.

Tissues

Boring, cutting or scraped feeling in bones.
Inflammation of internal organs.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : on larynx, throat sore.
Scratching : itching of scalp > ; violent tickling and stinging on head and behind ears.

Skin

Crawling sensation like ants in skin.
Red spots and stripes, more marked in cold.
Gray dingy color of skin.
Red spots on face or on chest.
Parchment-like dryness of skin.
Measles.

Stage of life, constitution

Suited to persons of light hair, fair complexion, with a weakened, relaxed muscular system.
Children ; old people.
Boy, æt. 6 ; ague.
Young man, æt. 16, plethoric ; tænia.
Mrs. R., æt. 28, suffering more or less for about three months ; she could only ascribe her condition to some extra strain, mental and physical, to which she had been exposed ; there is a tendency to neurotic disease in her family ; one brother has lately died in an
insane asylum, and another has shown symptoms of mental weakness.
Man, æt. 48, suffering 8 days ; ague.
Gardener, æt. 55, large, robust, jaundiced hue, suffering several weeks ; quartan ague.

Relations

Antidoted by : Conium, Pulsat .
Compatible : After Bryon . in pleurisy ; Arsen., Bellad., Mercur . and Nux vom . follow well.
Compare : Verat. alb., Colocyn . (ovaritis) ; Colchic., Lycopod ., < 4-8 P. M. ; Pulsat . > open air.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Generals

The Sabadilla patient is a shivering patient, sensitive to the cold air, a cold room, cold food.

He wants to be well wrapped up; wants hot drinks to warm up his stomach. He is subject to catarrhal conditions, and in these he wants hot air. The catarrhal conditions of the throat require hot drinks and food. Warm things are grateful to him. It is difficult to swallow cold things; they increase the pain and difficulty in swallowing.

We often study remedies by contrast. This remedy travels from left to right , and at once a good prescriber connects it with Lachesis. The soreness, pain and inflarnmatory conditions of the throat commence on the left side and spread to the right in both Sabadilla and Lachesis . But warm things aggravate the pain in Lachesis; they cause a spasmodic condition, with a sensation of choking, and therefore he wants cold things, which relieve; they are swallowed more easily and ameliorate the pain in the throat. Sabadilla on the other hand is relieved by heat, either outside or inside.

Nose

Catarrhal condition of the nose, with constant sneezing; sensation of great rawness in the nose; burning; stuffing up of the nose.

Discharge at first of thin mums and later thick mucus. It has all the appearance of a coryza. The coryza is ameliorated from inhaling hot air. He sits before an open grate or register, with the head close to it, inhaling the hot air. Especially useful when the catarrhal state of the nose is prolonged; a prolonged coryza, which does not yield to ordinary remedies; a lingering coryza, and the discharge is exaggerated by the odor of flowers. Even thinking of the odor of flowers makes him sneeze and increases the flow from the nose. So thinking of various things aggravates his complaints.

Many hay fever patients are sensitive to the odor of flowers, to the, odor of the hay field, to dying vegetable matter; so oversensitive to the odor of fruit are some that apples have to be removed from the house. Inhalation of odors that are beautiful, as that of the lavender, some hay fever patients cannot tolerate; such things may bring on an attack out of the season. Now Sabadilla is of this sort oversensitive to surroundings, to odors; these increase the catarrhal state of the throat and posterior nares.

Sneezing and a flow of mucus from the nose; goes on even to ulceration. Periodical attacks; a rose cold in June; in autumn about August 20 as a hay fever. Hay fever is often an easy thing to palliate with short acting remedies; they will cut short an attack in a few days. But the cure requires years, and the patient must be treated in the interim and according to his symptoms. When the hay fever symptoms are present he has no others; one group is manifested at one time, and another group at another time. But the patient is sick and all the symptoms must be gathered together and the case treated accordingly.

Mind

Many of the annoyances of this individual seem to be imaginary.

His mind is filled with strange things. Imaginations concerning persons or himself are strange. Imagines the body is withering, that the limbs are crooked, that the chin is elongated, and larger on one side than the other. She feels that this is so and believes it even in spite of her vision. It is a sensation which she believes, a delusion, an insanity.

"Erroneous impressions as to the state of his body."

"Imagines himself sick; imagines parts shrunken; that she is pregnant when she is merely swollen from flatus; that she has some horrible throat disease that will end fatally."

The imaginations are groundless; nothing is visible, and the suffering is greater than if there was something to be seen. These patients often get no sympathy; they should really have a remedy. Thuja has erroneous impressions as to the state of the body; thinks she is made of glass; the idea is not that of transparency, but rather of brittleness fears that she would break in pieces.

There are but a few remedies which have fixed ideas; these ideas may be concerning religion, politics, clothing, things of the family and life. I once had an insane patient who would get out of the street, ear if anyone entered who wore a certain color, because she had a fixed idea that this was of evil import to her.

The Pulsatilla mental state in a man is that a woman would be a detriment to his soul; it is a delusion, a fixed idea. Iodine is full of fixed ideas. Anacardium has a fixed idea that a devil is sitting on one shoulder talking into his ear, while an angel sits on the other shoulder talking into the other ear, and he halts between the two and says nothing.

"Delirium during intermittents."

"Mental exertion aggravates the headache and produces sleep."

A sleepiness comes on from thinking, meditating, reading. While meditating in a chair he falls asleep like Nux moschata and Phosphoric acid.

Head

Dizziness; vertigo.

He wakens up at night with vertigo. Vertigo, in the open air; under all sorts of circumstances. Full of headaches. Headaches on one side of the head. The meditation which drives him to sleep brings on headache.

Headache in school girls. Feeble children, who have to be taken from school because of headache, come home with strange imaginations concerning school and themselves. Headache stupefying and associated with coryza; in the frontal sinuses, above the eyes.

Fullness, bursting, stupefying, aggravated by jarring, sneezing, walking. Stupefying headaches with coryza. Often gets up with it in the morning, increases during the forenoon. Head covered with a cold sweat. Many of the symptoms are closely related to Veratrum, especially in the cold sweat on the forehead with complaints.

Hay fever when there is spasmodic sneezing, fluent coryza; nostrils stuffed up; inspirations through nose labored; snoring; itching in the nose; profuse bleeding from the nose; bright red blood comes from the posterior nares and is expectorated; very sensitive to the smell of garlic; coryza with severe frontal pains and redness of eyelids; violent sneezing; copious watery discharge from the nose.

A peculiar kind of itching coming on in some hay fevers is an itching in the roof of the mouth, on the soft palate, and for relief the patient must draw the tongue back and forth over the soft palate, with this coryza, sneezing, etc. Wyethia will cut the attack short.

When the itching extends to the larynx and trachea, with great irritability and sensitive to cold: Nux vomica.

When the discharge burns a red streak over the upper lip and about the wings of the nose, with sneezing and profuse, watery nasal discharge: Arsenicum.

Copious acrid lachrymation, and copious bland flow from the nose with sneezing: Euphrasia.

Copious, bland, watery discharge from the eyes and copious, acrid, watery discharge from the nose: Allium cepa.

But these are not the constitutional remedies; they do not cure, but only palliate during the severe attacks. These symptoms are the outcome of the psoric constitution, and this constitution must be treated by antipsorics. Sometimes the hay fever is so severe that it seems to be the only manifestation of psora in the patient, but if it is restrained or stopped up by bad treatment he is not well during the whole year.

If let alone he has good health during the rest of the year. Many a time the hay fever goes through the whole winter and only by constitutional up building can it be mitigated. But with constitutional treatment each yearly attack is lighter, and at the end of treatment he is able to live in his own climate unaffected.

He must not go to the mountains to mitigate it. If to any place, he should go where the affection would be worse, so that all its manifestations would be apparent. The hay fever will only be cured if the patient is curable, but if not, if his constitution is so broken down that he is incurable, his hay fever will not be cured.

The most striking place of attack is the mucous membrane of the nose, throat, trachea and larynx. Violent acute inflammation of the mucous membrane of these parts.

Stomach

Great thirst for hot drinks.

The appetite is singular; it is commonly seen in pregnant women. She says she is never hungry; never wants anything to eat, and often there is an aversion to food; but when, from a matter of reason, she concludes to eat, and she takes a mouthful, it tastes good, it recalls the appetite, and she makes a good meal. At other times not only a loss of appetite, but a disgust and loathing of food.

"Disgust for all food, for meat, for sour things, for coffee, for garlic."

"Morbid hunger or loathing for food."

A routine remedy in pin worms, seat worms, all sorts of worms stomach and tape worms. A careful prescriber never thinks of prescribing for worms. He takes all the symptoms of the patient and these guide him to the remedy. I remember one time in a lady's house seeing a dog drag his hinder parts over the carpet as if to scratch the anus. She said:

"Doctor, can't you give the dog a remedy?"

I put a dose of Sabadilla in its mouth. Some time afterwards she asked me:

"Doctor, what did you give the dog that medicine for?"

I inquired why she asked.

"Why," she said, "in a few days it passed an awful lot of worms."

Sabadilla and Sinapis nigra are well adapted to cases in which pin worms are present. Often a remedy restores the patient to order in general and then all his particular parts are set in order.

Female sexual organs.

"Nymphomania from ascarides."

"Cutting pains, as from knives, in ovary."

"Menses too late, with painful bearing down a few days previous; decreased, How by fits and. starts, sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker; blood bright red."

Hysterical patients; a patient with a strangely unbalanced mind, accompanied by various nervous manifestations.

"Twitchings, convulsive tremblings, or catalepsy from worms."

It is true that worms will not prosper in a perfectly healthy stomach, intestine or rectum. They can only thrive in the unhealthy. Many a time I have had a patient bring me a tape-worm in a bottle after I had put them on an antipsoric, even when I did not suspect its existence.

Turn the economy into order and the parasites go. The same applies to germs. They only exist as a result of disease. They have never been known to exist without the disease having first existed. If you ignore the worm, but select the remedy on the totality of the symptoms, the patient will be restored to health, and, so far as the worm is concerned, go without a symptom.

The worm becomes smaller, shrivels and finally departs. It is rarely the case for the worm to disappear inside of six weeks after the remedy. If, on the other hand, you eject the worm by violent means, the patient may go for years with troublesome symptoms, and you do not know why you fail to cure him.

Prescribe for the patient first. No results of disease should be removed until proper constitutional treatment has been resorted to, and be sure that it is proper.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

Characteristic

Suited to persons of light hair, fair complexion, with a weakened, relaxed muscular system.

Worm affections of children (Cina, Sil., Spig.).

Nervous diseases: twitching, convulsive tremblings, catalepsy; from worms (Cina, Psor.).

Nymphomania from ascarides.

Many symptoms go from right to left (Lyc., Pod.); chilliness from feet to head.

Illusions: that he is sick; parts shrunken; that she is pregnant, when only distended with flatus; that she has some horrible throat disease that will be fatal.

Delirium during intermittents (Pod.).

Headache: from too much thinking, too close application or attention (Arg. n.); from tænia.

Sneezing: in spasmodic paroxysms; followed by lachrymation; copious watery coryza; face hot and eyelids red and burning.

Diphtheria, tonsillitis; can swallow warm food more easily; stitches and most symptoms, especially of throat, go from left to right (Lach., Lac c.).

Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat, must swallow over it (of a lump, Lach.).

Dryness of fauces and throat.

Parchment-like dryness of skin.

Relations

Compare: Col., Colch., Lyc. where < is from 4 to 8 P. M.; Puls. > in open air.

Follows Bryonia and Ranunculus well in pleurisy, and has cured after Aconite and Bryonia failed.

Aggravation

Cold; sensitive to cold air; during rest; forenoon.

Type

Quotidian; tertian; quartan. Periodicity well marked; paroxysm returns at same hour with great regularity (Aran., Ced., Gels.). Stages irregular, incomplete.

Time

3, 4, 5 P. M.; 9 and 10 P. M. Afternoon and evening.

Chill

Without thirst, and often without subsequent heat. Violent chilliness, at 5 P. M., over the back as if dashed with cold water (Ant. t., Rhus); relieved by warm stove (Ign.—not relieved by heat of stove, Ver.). Chilliness at 9:30 P. M., has to go to bed, followed by shaking chill; after half an hour, alternately hot and cold for half an hour; afterwards profuse perspiration. Recurring fits of shuddering coming and going quickly (Nux m.). Chill always runs from below upward (reverse of Ver.). Dry spasmodic cough, with pain in the ribs and tearing in all the limbs and bones (dry teasing cough before and during chill, Rhus—during chill and heat, racking cough with pleuritic stitches, Bry.). Chill beginning in hands and feet. Thirst begins as chill leaves. Chill predominates.

Heat

With slight thirst for warm drinks (Casc., Ced.), before heat begins (between cold and hot stages), little after. Mostly on head and face; flushes of heat with redness of face, alternating with shivering; yawning; stretching; delirium. Sweat, often during or with the heat (Pod.). Redness and burning of face; hands and feet cold.

Sweat

Profuse sweat about head and face, which were hot to touch, rest of body cold. Sweat after midnight, towards morning; sweat of soles of feet. Sleep only during sweat (Pod., Rhus—after chill, Nux m.). Sweat in axillæ.

Tongue

Coated white in centre; tip bluish and sore, as if full of blisters; as if scalded.

Apyrexia

Constantly chilly; loss of appetite; eructations sour, rancid; vomiting of bile and bitter mucus; oppressive bloatedness of stomach; pain in chest; debility. Sour eructations (Lyc.).

The gastric symptoms predominate as in Nux and Pulsatilla.

Analysis

Chill; often without subsequent heat. Severe, from below upwards; with dry spasmodic cough and bone pains; predominates.

Heat; with thirst for warm drinks (Casc., Ced., Eup. p.).

Sweat; profuse, hot, of head and face, rest of body cold; of soles of feet.

Apyrexia; sour eructations (Lyc.).