Sarracenia Purpurea sarr.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Pitcher-plant

General

A remedy for variola. Visual disorders. Congestion to head, with irregular heart action. Chlorosis. Contains a very active proteolytic enzyme. Sick headache; throbbing in various parts, especially in neck, shoulders and head, which feels full to bursting.

Eyes

Photophobia. Eyes feel swollen and sore. Pain in orbits. Black objects move with the eye.

Stomach

Hungry all the time, even after a meal. Sleepy during meals. Copious, painful vomiting.

Back

Pains shooting in zig-zag course from lumbar region to middle of scapula.

Extremities

Limbs weak; bruised pain in knees and hip-joints. Bones in arm pain. Weak between shoulders.

Skin

Variola, aborts the disease, arrests pustulation.

Relationship

Compare: Tartar em; Variol; Maland.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

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

Sarracenia purpurea. Pitcher Plant. (Grows in boggy places from Canada southwards.) N. O. Sarraceniaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant. Tincture of root.

Clinical

Back, pains in. Bones, pains in. Borborygmus. Constipation. Coxalgia. Diarrhœa. Eruptions, scrofulous. Femur, pains in. Herpes. Influenza. Lumbago. Psoriasis. Small-pox Vision, disordered.

Characteristics

The use of the Pitcher Plant in small-pox is a discovery of the Indians of North America, the spotted appearance of the plant probably suggesting a resemblance to the disease. Hale has collected much confirmatory evidence of its power to antidote the small-pox poison. A proving by T. C. Duncan, Thomas, and others brought out symptoms of fever, backache, headache, and gastric disturbance. Hering quotes these instances of its action: ( 1 ) A woman far advanced in pregnancy was cured of small-pox with Sarr . 3, 6, and 9, delivery being happily accomplished during her convalescence, the infant bearing on its body numerous red blotches, indicating that it had been affected with the disease. ( 2 ) An infant a few months old was attacked with a grave form of small-pox, with variolous angina so severe that it was with difficulty it could take the breast; the mother took Sarr . 3, 6, and 9, and continued to nurse the infant, which promptly recovered, the mother not taking the disease. ( 3 ) In an epidemic occurring in the environs of Wavre, Sarr . was given to two thousand persons living in the very middle of the disease and coming in constant intercourse with it, but all who took Sarr . escaped; during the same epidemic two hundred cases were treated with Sarr . without a death. Bilden, who used the 1x tincture in an epidemic with success, concludes that Sarr . is to small-pox what Gels . is to bilious fever. Hale quotes Surgeon-Major C. G. Logie's (allopath) account of his experience with Sarr . (decoction probably) in small-pox: "Four of the cases in my hospital have been severe confluent cases. They have throughout the disease all been perfectly sensible, have had excellent appetites, been free from pain, and have never felt weak. The effects of this medicine, which I have carefully watched, seemed to arrest the development of the pustules, killing, as it were, the virus from within, thereby changing the character of the disease and doing away with pitting." A number of eye symptoms appeared in the provings, and Sarr . has cured disordered vision. A case of "phlyctenoid herpes" has also been reported cured by it. Extreme lassitude and pains in the bones were prominent in the provings. The right side was more affected than the left. Sensations were: Light feeling in head. As if he received a knock on the head. As if head were split. Left eye as if congested. Heat in face as if on fire. Swelling in womb as if from a tumour or dropsy. Uterus swollen as if full of cysts. As if bones of leg were too thick. Sarr . has the empty, hungry, sinking sensation of the antipsorics. Dryness of mouth and throat. Weak feeling in the arms. Very sensitive to cold air. Faint after stool. There is vesical and rectal tenesmus. Stool smells of musk. The symptoms were < about midnight and at 3 p.m. < Morning. < Rising from lying. < Trying to walk. < In stormy weather. Open air = chilliness, hands and feet cold; = head to be hot and sore, and feet full. Cold air = to feel chilly and < bone pains. Symptoms generally > in fresh air; and > out of bed.

Relations

Antidoted by: Podoph. Compare: In small-pox, Ant. t., Merc., Vaccin., Variol., Maland. In bone pains, Eup. perf.

Mind

Melancholia, anxious about everything. ─ Great depression of spirits with frontal headache. ─ Brain clearer, buoyant spirits. ─ Dulness of head, loss of memory, insensibility of r. side; paralysis of hearing and smell. ─ Want of memory with the headache. ─ Difficult to concentrate attention, forgetful; feels dull and heavy; sweats freely. ─ Alternate apathy and intellectual activity.

Head

Head feels dull and heavy. ─ Feels light-headed. ─ Vertigo: with cramps in neck, spreading to forehead; < night; sensation as if he had received a knock on the head, stupor and staggering gait; obliged to support himself or lie down; with drowsiness in head and contractions in spinal column. ─ Frontal headache, low-spirited. ─ Headache: dull at cranial region; severe in afternoon; with chills, nausea, vomiting, dim sight, surring in ears. ─ Pulsations and burning heat of head, with sensation as if it would split. ─ Head hot and aches. ─ Head and body warm. ─ Frontal bone sore. ─ Pruritus and heat of scalp.

Eyes

Eyes weak. ─ Dim sight, headache. ─ Gas flame seems a brilliant yellow ring; sees black objects moving with the eye. ─ Great photophobia. ─ Soreness of r. optic nerve, just behind eyeball. ─ Pain in l. eye as if congested, on waking. ─ Eyes feel swollen and sore. ─ Eyes and lids inflamed. ─ Increased mucous secretion. ─ Cutting, penetrating pains in orbits.

Ears

Surring in ears. ─ Sticking pains deep in r. ear; transient but recurring often; same in l. ear. ─ Intense earache; fears he will lose his senses. ─ Swelling of parotids.

Nose

Fetid smell. ─ Epistaxis nearly producing fainting. ─ Fluent coryza with cold chills and loss of smell. ─ Foul-smelling, green, yellowish, or bloody discharges. ─ Nose swollen, red, with pressure and pulsation at root.

Face

Face flushed. ─ Heat and redness of face. ─ Face pale, with heat and chill alternating. ─ Erysipelatous swelling of face. ─ Miliary eruption on face, with heat as if it were on fire. ─ Scaly herpes on face and forehead. ─ Intense neuralgic pains from temples to jaws.

Mouth

Tongue: dry; coated brownish white. ─ Mouth dry; lips and mouth parched. ─ Toothache at night in bed; from least contact, and cold air.

Throat

Throat dry, not > by tea or water; borborygmi.

Appetite

Hungry all the time, even after a meal. ─ Appetite unusually active, but there was a sense of pain about the stomach like that after inflammation or of overtaxed muscle. ─ Little appetite, but what is eaten agrees. ─ Great desire to sleep during eating.

Stomach

Empty, hungry feeling; for he can keep nothing in his stomach. ─ Burning pains in stomach with palpitations and contraction. ─ Pinching pain in stomach, it feels distended and torn.

Abdomen

After going to bed whole abdominal region was in commotion, extending along ascending, and descending colon, all in a kind of rolling motion; epigastrium sensitive to pressure. ─ Transient pains in bowels. ─ Bloated about navel. ─ Borborygmi and some pain in bowels with constipation; dry throat.

Stool and Anus

Much flatus. ─ First part of stool natural, last diarrhœic. ─ Much tenesmus; dysenteric diarrhœa. ─ Stool at first costive, thin, dark, offensive, soluble. ─ Costive; stools very hard, covered with mucus, and dark. ─ Stool copious, dark, fetid, evacuated with great straining, morning. ─ Rectum and anus swollen and inflamed. ─ Morning diarrhœa; faint after stool, which is dark, often mixed with blood, foul smelling, or smelling of musk; bloatedness with colic.

Urinary Organs

Awoke 3 a.m. with urging to urinate; bladder so full it overcame resistance of sphincter and dribbled away. ─ Voided 27 ounces of urine of sp. gr. 1024; vesical tenesmus. ─ Urine phosphatic. ─ Urine scanty, limpid.

Female Sexual Organs

Watery or milky leucorrhœa, foul-smelling, with spasmodic pains in uterus; pulsative pains in womb with swelling as if from a tumour or dropsy; uterus swollen as if full of cysts, esp. r. side; cervix swollen, hot; miliary eruption and heat in vulva; bloody discharge at other times than menstrual period, as during climaxis.

Respiratory Organs

Phthisis pulmonalis and bronchial affections, joined to or depending on a psoric state; hæmoptysis, thick cough; continual tickling in larynx and bronchi; cough with desire to vomit, and vomiting, paroxysms of suffocation and epistaxis; hard cough, shaking chest and bowels, and stopping only after expectorating a quantity of compact mucus, tenacious, filamentary, with a bitter, putrid, oily taste.

Chest

Pains in third and fourth ribs, with great apprehension of heart disease. ─ Pain in angle of ribs. ─ Soreness of pectoralis major.

Heart

Feeling of congestion about head, with irregularity of heart's action. ─ Congestion to chest, heavy feeling about heart. ─ Slight palpitation in morning. ─ Pulse: full and strong; 68, general malaise; small; quick.

Neck and Back

A pain up r. trapezius muscle with wave-like motion. ─ Warm sensation passed up back into head. ─ Weak between and below shoulders. ─ Back weak, wants to lean on something. ─ Arms and back tired and sore all over. ─ Deep-seated pain in back. ─ Fixed pains in small of back. ─ Heat in whole r. lumbar region. ─ Pain in cervical and lumbar vertebræ. ─ Pain and soreness in sacrum.

Limbs

Limbs cold when still, as from deficient circulation. ─ Limbs easily benumbed. ─ Weakness of limbs with paralytic debility. ─ Pains and soreness in diaphyses of all long bones; < humerus, esp. l. ─ Pain in l. carpus and tarsus.

Upper Limbs

Paroxysms of pain in r. shoulder. ─ Joint, pain in l. carpus and tarsus; face flushed. ─ Arms feel weak. ─ Bruised feeling from shoulders to hands. ─ Aching, sore pain in l. humerus. ─ Bones in both arms pain.

Lower Limbs

Pain in hip-joints < rising to feet from a lying posture. ─ Paroxysms of weakness in coxo-femoral joint, with pains of luxation and fear of failing when beginning to walk. ─ Strange lameness in femur, lower third, < in inner condyle. ─ Pain in condyles of femur. ─ Wave-like motion in muscles of femur. ─ Sensation of fatigue in bones of leg as if they were too thick. ─ Bruised and luxated feeling in joints. ─ Pain in r. patella and metatarsal bones. ─ Knees feel weak. ─ Bruised pain in knees as after a fall; he falls easily on his knees. ─ Bone pains in tibia and fibula; intermittent, but bones continually sore. ─ Bones of feet inflamed, nodes as in gout.

Generalities

Debility; heavy, languid. ─ Dull, heavy, sore feeling in all bones. ─ Phlegmonous swelling, with a rosy tint on various parts. ─ Unrefreshed though slept soundly.

Skin

Phlyctenoid herpes. ─ Psoriasis. ─ Scrofulous eruptions. ─ Variola; (the decoction taken when eruption is out and beginning to pustulate aborts secondary fever and prevents pitting). ─ Eruption out, pustules dissipate, first on face, fever lessens, urine though scanty and dark becomes abundant and pale, strength returns. ─ Eruptions similar to crusta lactea; on forehead and hands papular eruptions, changing to vesicular, with the depression as in small-pox lasting from seven to eight days.

Sleep

Sleepy in daytime; sleep disturbed by strange and frightful dreams. ─ Awakes early: 3, 4, or 5; in a fright; with urging to urinate.

Fever

Feverish and shaking chills, < morning. ─ General chills between shoulder-blades. ─ Chills, heat, and sweat, 5 p.m. ─ At 2 p.m. very chilly in open air. ─ Skin hot and dry. ─ Hands hot, warm all over. ─ Head and body warm. ─ Perspires freely (5th, 8th, 9th d.); although weather still warm, and actively employed, sweat not as free as while taking the drug (11th d.).

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Pitcher plant. Sarraceniaceæ.
Grows in boggy places from Canada southward.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant.
Proved by Porcher, Duncan, Thomas, Hale's New Remedies, 1867 ; Cigliano, Am. Obs., 1871.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Visual disorder , Berridge, N. A. J. H., vol. 22, p 194 ; Phlyctenoid herpes , Crica, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 3, p. 78 ; Variola , Martiny, Mowremans, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 287 ; Smallpox , Renshaw, A. H. O, vol. 2, p. 234 ; Use in smallpox , Cigliano, A. H. O, vol. 8, p. 467 ; Easton, vol. 1, p. 135.

Mind

Melancholia, anxious about everything.
Great depression of spirits from frontal headache.
Brain clearer, buoyant spirits.
Dulness of head, loss of memory, insensibility of right side ; paralysis of hearing and smell.
Want of memory with the headache.
Difficult to concentrate the attention, forgetful ; feels dull and heavy ; urine sp. gr. 1020 ; perspires freely.

Sensorium

Head feels dull and heavy.
Feels light-headed.
Vertigo : with cramps in neck, spreading to forehead ; especially at night ; sensation as if he received a knock on head, with vertigo, stupor and vacillating gait ; he is obliged to support himself or else to lie down ; with drowsiness in head and contractions in spinal column.

Inner head

Frontal headache, low-spirited.
Head dull and aches at coronal region.
Severe headache in afternoon for two hours.
Full feeling through head just above ears.
Headache with chills, nausea, vomiting ; dim sight, surring in ears.
Pulsations and burning heat of head with sensation as if it would split.

Outer head

Head is hot and aches.
Head and body warm.
Soreness of frontal bone.
Pruritus and heat of scalp.

Sight and eyes

Eyes weak.
Dim sight, headache.
Gas flame seems a brilliant yellow ring, the two not being distinct ; he sees black objects moving with the eye.
Great photophobia.
Soreness of right optic nerve, just behind eyeball.
Pain in left eye as if congested, on waking.
Eyes feel swollen and sore.
Eyes and lids inflamed.
Increased mucous secretion.
Cutting, penetrating pains in orbits.

Hearing and ears

Surring in ears.
Sticking pains deep in right ear ; transient but recurring often ; same in left ear.
Intense otalgia, fears he will lose his senses.
Swelling of parotids.

Smell and nose

Fetid smell.
Epistaxis nearly producing fainting.
Fluent coryza, with cold chills and loss of smell.
Foul-smelling, green-yellowish or bloody discharges.
Nose swollen, red, with pressure and pulsation at root.

Upper face

Face flushed.
Heat and redness of face.
Face pale, with heat and chill alternating.
Erysipelatous swelling of face.
Miliary eruption on face with heat as if it were on fire.
Scaly herpes on face and forehead.

Lower face

Intense neuralgic pains from temples to jaws.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue dry.
Tongue coated brownish white.

Inner mouth

Mouth dry.
Lips and mouth parched.

Palate and throat

Dryness of throat not relieved by tea or water, borborygmi.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Hungry all the time, even after a meal.
Appetite unusually active, but there was a sense of pain about stomach like that after inflammation or that in an overtaxed muscle.
But little appetite, yet what is eaten agrees with him ; urine 1018 ; pulse 71 ; sweats freely.

Eating and drinking

Great desire to sleep during eating.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Copious painful vomiting frequently after meals, with lightness from stomach to back and colicky pains.
Vomiting of bile mixed with blood.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Empty, hungry feeling ; for he can keep nothing on his stomach.
Burning pains in his stomach, with palpitations and contractions.
Pinching pains in stomach ; it feels distended and torn.

Abdomen and loins

After going to bed, whole abdominal region was in commotion, extending along tract of ascending and descending colon, all in a kind of rolling motion ; epigastrium tender on pressure.
Some transient pains in bowels.
Bloated about navel.
Borborygmi and some pain in bowels with constipation ; dry throat.

Stools and rectum

Much flatus.
First part of stool natural, last diarrheic.
Much tenesmus ; dysenteric diarrhœa.
Stool at first costive, then dark, offensive, soluble.
Costive ; stools very hard, covered with mucus and dark.
Stool copious, dark, fetid, evacuated with great straining ; morning.
Diarrheic stools mixed with glairy mucus, bile and blood ; anorexia, prostration and painfully strong palpitation.
Rectum and anus swollen and inflamed.
Morning diarrhœa ; faint after stool, which is dark, often mixed with blood, foul-smelling or smelling of musk ; bloatedness with colic.
Morning diarrhœa ; bloatedness with colic ; faintness after stool which is dark, often mixed with blood ; foulsmelling or of the odor of musk.

Urinary organs

Awoke 3 A. M. with urging to urinate ; bladder so full it overcame resistance of sphincter and dribbled away.
Voided 27 oz. of urine ; sp. gr. 1024 ; vesical tenesmus.
Urine increased, limpid, colorless, scarcely any sediment even after several hours.
Urine responds to tests for phosphates, earthy phosphates and chloride of sodium.
Urine copious, a little cloudy ; sp. gr. 1030 (cloudy from mucus) ; pale yellow.
Urine scanty, limpid, 1025.

Female sexual organs

Watery or milky leucorrhœa, thick, whitish, foul-smelling with spasmodic pains in uterus ; pulsative pains in womb with swelling as if from a tumor or dropsy ; uterus swollen as if full of cysts, especially on r. side ; neck of womb swollen and hot ; miliary eruption and heat in vulva ; bloody discharge at other times than menstrual period as during climaxis.

Inner chest and lungs

Phthisis pulmonalis and bronchial affections, joined to or depending on a psoric state ; hæmoptysis, thick cough ; continual tickling in larynx and bronchi ; cough, with desire to vomit and vomiting, paroxysms of suffocation and epistaxis ; hard cough, shaking chest and bowels and stopping only after expectorating a quantity of compact mucus, tenacious, filamentous with a bitter, putrid, oily taste.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Feeling of congestion about head, with irregularity of heart's action.
Congestion to chest, heavy feeling about heart.
Slight palpitation in morning.
Pulse : full and strong ; 68, general malaise ; rose to 100 before morning ; 61, very small ; quick, 80.

Outer chest

Slight soreness of whole pectoralis major ; pain ran up right trapezius muscle with a wavelike motion ; lumbar heat ; pulse 70, full ; bloated feeling at navel (probably from flatus).
Pain in angle of ribs for half an hour.

Neck and back

Warm sensation passed up back into head.
Weak between and below shoulders.
Back weak, wants to lean on something.
Arms and back tired and sore all over.
Deep-seated pain in back.
Heat in whole right lumbar region.
Pain and soreness in sacrum.

Upper limbs

Paroxysms of pain in right shoulder joint, pain in left carpus and tarsus ; face flushed.
Arms feel weak.
Bruised feeling from shoulders to hands.
Aching, sore pain in left humerus.
Bones in both arms pain.

Lower limbs

Pain in hip joints < rising to feet from a lying posture.
Paroxysms of weakness in coxo-femoral joint with pains of luxation and fear of falling when trying to walk.
Strange lameness in femur, lower third, < in inner condyle.
Pain in condyles of femur.
Wavelike motion in muscles of femur.
Sensation of fatigue in bones of legs as if they were too thick.
Bruised and luxated feeling in joints.
Pain in right patella and metatarsal bones.
Knees feel weak.
Bruised pain in knees as after a fall ; he falls easily on his knees.
Bone pains in tibia and fibula ; intermittent, but bones continually sore.
Bones of feet inflamed ; nodes as in gout.

Limbs in general

Limbs cold when still as from deficient circulation.
Limbs easily benumbed.
Weakness of limbs with paralytic debility.

Rest. position. motion

Wants to lean on something ; weakness of back.
Rising to feet from a lying posture : pain in hip joint <.
Trying to walk : fear of falling.

Nerves

Debility, wants to lie down all the time.
Languid, heavy.

Time

Morning : stool with great straining ; diarrhœa ; slight palpitation ; feverish, with shaking chills.
Afternoon : severe headache.
Night : cramps in neck <.

Temperature and weather

In open air : chilly, hands and feet cold ; head hot and sore, feels full.
Cold air : makes him feel chilly and increases bone pains.

Fever

Feverish, with shaking chills < in morning.
Skin hot and dry.
Hands hot, warm all over ; cold air makes him feel chilly and increases bone pains, especially in knees.
Hot, feverish ; pulse 80, small and quick.

Attacks, periodicity

Alternating : heat and chill.
For half an hour : pain in angle of ribs.
For two hours : headache in forenoon.

Locality and direction

Right : insensibility of side ; soreness of optic nerve ; pain deep in ear ; uterus swollen ; pain up trapezius muscle ; heat in lumbar region ; pain in shoulder joint ; pain in patella and metatarsal bones.
Left : pain in eye ; pain in ear ; pain in carpus and tarsus ; pain in humerus.

Sensations

As if he received a knock on head ; as if head would split ; left eye as if congested ; heat in face as if on fire ; swelling in womb as if from a tumor or dropsy ; uterus swollen as if full of cysts ; as if bones of legs were too thick.
Pain : in left eye ; in bowels ; up right trapezius muscle ; in angle of ribs ; in sacrum ; in right shoulder joint ; in left carpus and tarsus ; in bones of arms ; in hip joints ; in condyles of femur ; in right patella and metatarsal bones ; in tibia and fibula.
Intense neuralgic pains : from temples to jaws.
Severe pain : in head.
Cutting, penetrating pains : in orbits.
Pinching pains : in stomach.
Spasmodic pains : in uterus.
Pulsative pains : in womb.
Deep-seated pain : in back.
Sticking pains : deep in right ear.
Aching, sore pain : in left humerus.
Burning pains : in his stomach.
Cramps : in neck to forehead.
Aching : at coronal region.
Soreness : of frontal bone ; of right optic nerve ; of pectoralis major ; of back and arms ; in sacrum.
Bruised feeling : from shoulders to hands ; in joints ; in knees.
Burning heat : of head.
Pulsations : in head ; at root of nose.
Wavelike motion : in muscles of femur.
Pressure : at root of nose.
Heaviness : of head ; about heart.
Full feeling : through head.
Dryness : of tongue ; of mouth ; of throat.
Tickling : in larynx and bronchi.
Dulness : of head.
Luxated feeling : in joints.
Strange lameness : in femur.
Heat : in vulva ; in whole right lumbar region.
Warm sensation : up back into head.
Light feeling : in head.
Weakness : between and below shoulders ; of back ; in coxo-femoral joint ; of knees ; of limbs.

Tissues

Bones feel heavy, sore.
Bones pain, especially cervical and lumbar vertebræ, sacrum and femur, < in inner condyle and great trochanter.
Phlegmonous swelling with a rosy tint on various parts.

Skin

Phlyctenoid herpes.
Psoriasis.
Scrofulous eruptions.
Variola (decoction taken when eruption is out and beginning to pustulate aborts secondary fever, pitting).
Fever becomes less, delirium vanishes, pains lessen, eruption develops sooner and matures rapidly, desiccating without leaving pits.
Eruption out, pustules dissipate, first on face, fever lessens, urine though scanty and dark becomes abundant and pale ; strength returns.
Arrests pustules, killing as it were the virus from within, preventing pitting.
Constitutional symptoms in three or four days subside.
Even confluent forms are helped, little or no pitting following.
Relieves restlessness, sleeplessness during variola.
A woman far advanced in pregnancy was cured of smallpox with Sarrac. 3, 6th and 9th, her accouchement being happily accomplished during her convalescence, the babe bearing upon its body numerous red blotches, indicating that it had been similarly affected at the same time with the mother.
An infant a few months old was attacked with a grave form of smallpox, with variolous angina, so severe that it was with difficulty it could take the breast ; the mother took Sarrac. 3, 6th and 9th, continued to nurse the infant, which promptly recovered from the disease, and the mother did not take the disorder, notwithstanding the immediate and constant contact of the child.
In an epidemic occurring in the environs of Wavre it was given to more than two thousand persons living in the very middle of the disease and coming in constant intercourse with it, but all who took it escaped the disease ; during the same time more than two hundred cases were treated by the same remedy without the loss of a single patient.

Stage of life, constitution

Man, æt. 35, sanguinobilious temperament, suffering a long time ; phlyctenoid herpes.

Relations

Antidoted by : Podophyl . (diarrhœa).

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

Type

Quotidian; tertian.

Time

5 P. M.; afternoon and evening.

Chill

General chills between the shoulder-blades (Caps., Led., Polyp., Eup. purp.). Horripilations between shoulder-blades in afternoon or evening. Coldness of extremities, as from deficient circulation. Chills, heat and sweat at 5 P. M., of a tertian or quotidian type. Chills, with cold perspiration and a desire to lie down after meals.

Heat

Beginning in the afternoon and lasting all night (Lyc., Puls., Rhus). Fever, with heat and redness of the face, burning in the stomach, great prostration, delirium and loss of consciousness. Burning heat of the skin, with excoriation and fissures, as if it had been excessively stretched. Heat and continual burning in the legs; heat in the whole right lumbar region. General heat, with dryness of the skin, excessive thirst, and as if hot vapors rise up to the brain. Heat in the feet, as if he had been cut.

Sweat

Copious night-sweat. Great sweat on the limbs, especially in the evening and during rest.

Tongue

Coated brownish-white. Bad taste in the mouth, with loss of appetite.