Senecio Aureus senec.

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

FEMALE: GENITO-URINARY ORGANS. Bladder. MUCOUS GLANDS. Nose. Lungs. Lumbar spine.

Worse

Puberty. Sexual excitement. Dampness. Cold. Open air.

Better

Menstruation.

General

Lack of reaction in genito-urinary sphere. Passive congestion, with irritation, profuse catarrhs, debilitating or vicarious discharges. Muscles draw into knots. Tightness, in nose, throat, etc. Globus.

Particulars

Nervous, pale, weak, and sleepless women. Whining and irritable. Self-centered. Elated and sad alternately. Sharp pain backward over l. eye. Burning in nostrils. Sneezing. Itching; caused by tears; in Eustachian tube. Twitching about mouth. Averse to sweets. Nausea or vomiting of renal origin. Uræmia. Griping at navel. Bloody stool or urine. Heat in neck of bladder; with renal pain. Dysuria; with dysmenorrhœa. Pains from ovaries into breasts. Functional amenorrhœa. Sexual irritations; excite discharges. Thick, yellow leucorrhœa; flows down thighs. Feels as if menses would come. Cough; tickling; with blood-streaked sputum; > menstruation. Burning in l. nipple. Lumbar backache, as if to break; < amenorrhœa, renal disease, etc. Periodical, wandering rheumatism. Many dreams; erotic. Feet cold in bed. Brittle nails. Hay fever, with anorexia. Sleepless with amenia.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Golden Ragwort

General

Its action on the female organism has been clinically verified. Urinary organs also affected in a marked degree. Backaches of congested kidneys. Early cirrhosis of liver.

Mind

Inability to fix mind upon any one subject. Despondent. Nervous and irritable.

Head

Dull, stupefying headache. Wavelike dizziness from occiput to sinciput. Sharp pains over left eye, and through left temple. Fullness of nasal passages; burning; sneezing; profuse flow.

Face

Teeth very sensitive. Sharp, cutting pain left side. Dryness of fauces, throat, and mouth.

Stomach

Sour eructations; nausea.

Throat

Dry mouth, throat, and fauces. Burning in pharynx, raw feeling in naso-pharynx, must swallow, though painful.

Abdomen

Pain around umbilicus; spreads all over abdomen; better, stool. Thin, watery stool, intermingled with hard lumps of feces (Ant crud). Straining at stool; thin, dark, bloody, with tenesmus.

Urinary

Scanty, high-colored, bloody, with much mucus and tenesmus. Great heat and constant urging. Nephritis. Irritable bladder of children, with headache. Renal colic (Pareira; Ocim; Berb).

Male

Lascivious dreams, with involuntary emissions. Prostate enlarged. Dull, heavy pain in spermatic cord, extending to testicles.

Female

Menses retarded, suppressed. Functional amenorrhœa of young girls with backache. Before menses, inflammatory conditions of throat, chest, and bladder. After menstruation commences, these improve. Anæmic dysmenorrhœa with urinary disturbances. Premature and too profuse menses (Calc; Erig).

Respiratory

Acute inflammatory conditions of upper respiratory tract. Hoarseness. Cough loose, with labored inspiration. Chest sore and raw. Dyspnœa on ascending (Calc). Dry teasing cough, stitching chest pains.

Sleep

Great drowsiness, with unpleasant dreams. Nervousness and sleeplessness.

Relationship

Compare: Senecio Jacobæa (cerebro-spinal irritation, rigid muscles, chiefly of neck and shoulders; also, in cancer); Aletris; Caulop; Sep.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency. Senecin, first trituration.

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

Senecio aureus (Variety, Gracilis). Golden Ragwort. Squaw-weed. (United States, North and West; found in swamps.) N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of fresh plant in flower.

Clinical

Amenorrhœa. Ascites. Coryza. Cough. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhœa. Dysuria. Epistaxis. Fainting. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhages. Home-sickness. Hysteria. Kidneys, inflammation of. Lumbago. Mania. Menorrhagia. Menstruation, delayed ; early, and profuse; obstructed; vicarious. Nails, brittle. Nervousness. Neurasthenia. Phthisis. Prostatitis. Puerperal mania. Renal colic. Sciatica. Spermatic cord, pain in. Wounds.

Characteristics

The Golden Ragwort had a reputation in domestic and eclectic practice as a regulator of menstrual functions when Hale introduced it into homœopathic practice. A. E. Small and others proved it, and clinical additions have filled out the picture. Like many other Compositæ, the Ragworts, or Groundsels, have power over hæmorrhagic conditions, whether arising from disease or from wounds. The hæmorrhagic function of menstruation comes particularly under the influence of Senec . A very definite relation has been traced between the nose and the female sexual organs, and Senec . is indicated when epistaxis or nasal catarrh takes the place of menses when suppressed from any cause. The menses may be profuse and early, or they may be retarded or absent. Senec. may be required in a great variety of conditions traceable to non-appearing menses. C. M. Foss ( A. H ., xxii. 12) reports the case of Miss L., 18, who had seen no period for fifteen months. She was chlorotic, had a dry, hacking cough, with frequent pulse, made still more frequent by any excitement; headache, poor sleep, constipation. The abdomen had been gradually enlarging for six months, and tapping had been decided upon when Senec . 1x was given. All symptoms rapidly cleared up, and the menses returned within a short time. Senec . 1x also cured a girl, 21, who had suppression of urine in addition to chlorosis, ascites, and suppressed menses ( M. A ., xxiii. 77). S. H. Talcott (quoted A. M ., xxiv. 188) reports an important case bearing on the same point. Mrs. X., 26, mother of two children. Before confinement the patient was haunted with the idea that her child would be stillborn. Nine days after its birth, strong and healthy, she was admitted to hospital in a state of violent acute mania, which continued, with high temperature, for three months. With great physical activity, the mental state was that of a wild, violent, and almost uncontrollable person. There was severe pain in the head, great nervous irritability and sleeplessness and hysterical erethism. These symptoms, coupled with the fact (now first ascertained) that the lochia had ceased suddenly after confinement, and the menses had not come on, led to the choice of Senec ., which was given in drop doses of the 3x every two hours. Steady improvement resulted, and after a few weeks the patient was allowed out on parole. A relapse followed, and Bell . did no good. Senec . was again given with good effect, and complete recovery took place. Talcott regards Senec . as midway between the pugilistic state of Bell . and the tearful state of Puls . He remarks that recovery from puerperal mania seldom occurs unless menstruation is re-established. Hale notes that the country people call Senec . "Wild Valerian," and use it for nervousness, hysteria, low spirits, sleeplessness, especially in women; and he refers to this "globus" symptom of the pathogenesis: "About the middle of the afternoon, sensation as if a ball was in the stomach, rising up into the throat, lasting for about an hour; sensation of tightness in the throat, with a disposition to attempt to relieve it by swallowing. Talcott's case becomes more significant in the light of Cooper's observation of the brain action of Sen. Jacobæa . Small, who proved Senec ., records this case: Woman, 30, had been ill six weeks, the symptoms steadily, increasing till the following picture was presented: Face bloated, abdomen enlarged, feet œdematous; urine alternately profuse and watery, or dark and scanty; frequent desire to urinate day and night. Senec . Ø, gtt. x, three times a day, cured quickly. Small remarks that he has found Senec . useful in the dysuria of women and children when evidently of catarrhal origin; and in dysuria with uterine displacement. Mucous sediment in the urine is an indication. But the benefits of Senec . are not confined to the female sex. Small relates this case: Man, 50, nervo-sanguine, subject of renal inflammation affecting right kidney generally, causing intense pain, febrile disturbance, prostration. On one occasion the pain was particularly intense, and the bladder seemed implicated. Every time he passed water he cried out in agony. Urine reddish; very hot and acrid. Bowels constipated. Dull headache; mouth and throat dry; chilly, fever, and perspiration. Senec . Ø, gtt. xx, in half a tumbler of water; a dessertspoonful every hour. There was relief from the first dose, and the pain soon subsided entirely, leaving the patient freed from recurrence of the attacks. Senec . has caused: "Dull, heavy pain in left spermatic cord, moving along cord to testicle. Prostatic gland enlarged, feels hard and swelled to touch. Lascivious dreams, with pollutions." Hale says he has found Senec . useful in advanced stages of gonorrhœa, and in prostatic disorders. Hale reports the following case of dysmenorrhœa: Mrs. X., mother of one child, had had an abortion three years before, and another (at the second month of pregnancy) four months before Hale saw her. Since the last abortion she had suffered from painful menstruation, which had not been the case previously. Menses every three weeks, profuse, lasting eight or nine days, accompanied by much cutting pain in sacrum, hypogastrium, and groins. Pale, weak, nervous; slight cough, generally at night. Senec . Ø, gtt. v, was given three times a day till the next period, which came on at the twenty-ninth day, and was perfectly normal in quantity and without pain. Senec . has a place in coughs and even in phthisis. "It is especially serviceable in mucous coughs," says Hale. "In chronic coughs, catarrhal affections, hæmoptysis, incipient phthisis attended with troublesome cough, the result of obstructed menstruation ," it has a well-established reputation. Peculiar Sensations of Senec . are: As of a wave from occiput to sinciput. As if he would pitch forward. As of a ball rising from stomach to throat. Respiration as if greatly fatigued. Pains are radiating, shifting, lancinating. Symptoms alternate. Senec . is specially Suited to: women and little girls of nervous temperament. Lyman Watkins (quoted H. W ., xxxiv. 300) says, "Females taking Senec . generally improve in health and strength, accumulate flesh, become light-hearted and cheerful. This may be due to some tonic influence." The symptoms are < at night (cough; sweat; sleeplessness; frequent micturition). < In afternoon (general). < In open air. Very sensitive to open air; tendency to catarrhs. Colic is > bending forward; and > by stool. > At onset of menses. < Sitting; must keep moving about (mind).

Relations

Compare: Botanical, Sen. jac., Arn., Calend., Bels. Uterine, chest, and bladder symptoms, Puls., Helon. Vicarious menstruation, Bry. (Senec. especially bloody expectoration). Homesickness, Caps., Ph. ac. < 4 p.m., Lyc. Prostatitis and gonorrhœa, Sabal ser., Solidag., Puls., Pip. n., Cop., Thuj. Nervousness, Coff., Cham., Val., Ambr. Fidgety feet, Caust., Zn.

Causation

Venesection. Suppressed menstruation. Wounds.

Mind

Very irritable, worried, undecided; dissatisfied; depressed, nervous; < sitting still; must move about. ─ Low spirits alternating with cheerful mood; sleepless; sensation of a ball rising from stomach to throat. ─ Inability to fix mind on one subject for any length of time. ─ A feeling like homesickness. ─ (Puerperal mania, wild, violent; with high temperature, nervousness, sleeplessness, suddenly suppressed lochia, non-appearance of menses.)

Head

Dizzy feeling while walking in open air, like a wave from occiput to sinciput; he feels as if he would pitch forward; nausea. ─ Dull, stupefying headache, with fulness of head, as from catarrh. ─ Sharp lancinating in l. temple, upper part of l. eye and inside of l. lower jaw. ─ Dull occipital pain in morning. ─ Dull frontal pain extending to occiput. ─ Sharp shooting pains from within outward in forehead; sharp shooting pains over and in eyes; catarrh; suppressed secretion. ─ Headache preceding leucorrhœa and irritation of bladder. ─ Forehead hot; sweaty in evening.

Eyes

Dark rings round eyes. ─ Sharp pains from within outward, l. eye; lachrymation in open air. ─ Catarrhal ophthalmia from suppressed secretions. ─ Eyes and lids burn. ─ Yellow streak from inner canthus to iris.

Nose

Coryza, at first dull headache, dryness of nose and sneezing, burning and fulness in nostrils, later secretion of copious mucus. ─ Coryza with nose-bleed.

Face

Face pale, depressed appearance; weary, wants to lie down. ─ Lancinating pain r. side of face, r. shoulder, l. breast. ─ Lips pale; dry, feverish.

Teeth

Teeth tender and sensitive; gums pale, dry, feverish.

Mouth

Tongue slightly coated; catarrhal fever. ─ Mouth and fauces dry, hot.

Throat

Throat and nose feel very dry; later, tightness in throat, wants to swallow. ─ Fauces dry; later, mucus fills throat.

Appetite

Aversion to all food, esp. sweets and coffee (she is usually very fond of both). ─ Faint before meals (not hunger). ─ Full after eating very little.

Stomach

Eructations of sour gas and ingesta. ─ Nausea on rising; morning sickness of pregnancy. ─ Nausea from renal derangements. ─ Stitches in epigastrium.

Abdomen

Stitches in hypochondria; sharp cutting in diaphragm. ─ Pains about navel, spreading thence in all directions; > by stool; griping pains > bending forward. ─ Rumbling of wind. ─ Catarrh of bowels, rumbling and watery stools. ─ Abdomen much enlarged and very tense; lower limbs œdematous; urine scanty, high-coloured, not more than eight ounces a day; pain in lumbar region and in ovaries; constipation; cervix uteri congested; albuminous leucorrhœa; sense of weight in uterine region (ascites). ─ About noon, before dinner, stitches running from one part to another in both inguinal regions, lower jaw, shoulders, &c. ─ Smarting pain in l. groin.

Stool and Rectum

Stool thin, watery, bloody; with tenesmus and colic; catarrhal dysentery; evening. ─ Stool copious with great debility and prostration; flatulence; morning. ─ Stool in hard lumps mixed with yellow mucus.

Urinary Organs

Slight pain in region of kidneys. ─ Attacks of renal inflammation, attacking particularly r. kidney, causing intense pain, fever, and great prostration. ─ Severe renal inflammation with fever, chilliness, and pain in lumbar region, particularly in l. kidney; quantity of urine below normal; urine red, depositing a brickdust sediment; considerable arterial excitement; skin hot and dry; motion caused him to cry out with pain; constipation. ─ Intense pain over r. kidney, severe pain during urination, urine red, hot, acrid; bowels constipated. ─ Renal dropsy. ─ Inflammation of kidneys and ureters after passage of gravel. ─ Tenesmus of bladder; smarting in urethra, dropsy. ─ Hæmaturia; renal pain with nausea. ─ Tenesmus of bladder, with heat and urging. ─ Irritation of bladder in children, preceded by heat and headache. ─ Renal colic with or without nausea. ─ Chronic inflammation of neck of bladder with bloody urine and tenesmus of bladder. ─ Chronic inflammation of kidneys. ─ Dysuria: of women and children, evidently of catarrhal origin; mucous sediment in urine; with uterine displacement. ─ Smarting in fossa navicularis before urination.

Male Sexual Organs

Lascivious dreams, emissions. ─ Prostate gland enlarged, feels hard and swollen to touch. ─ Dull, heavy pain in spermatic cord, moving along cord to testicle. ─ Gonorrhœa, gleet. ─ Chronic prostatitis.

Female Sexual Organs

Awakened early by great sexual irritation, vagina full of mucus, labia swollen; itching, and burning exasperates. ─ Orgasm in afternoon after feeling of irritation, and again after sleep. ─ Aching in both ovarian regions, knees, and ankles, and down front of thighs. ─ Profuse flow of mucus from vagina. ─ Menses two days early, very scant, less pain than usual, followed by excessive thirst and thin leucorrhœa streaked with blood, and with dull pelvic pains. ─ Menses every three weeks, very profuse, lasting eight or nine days, accompanied by severe cutting pains in region of sacrum, hypogastrium, and groins; she was pale, weak, and nervous, and had a slight cough, generally at night; after an abortion. ─ Menses premature and profuse or retarded and scanty. ─ Dysmenorrhœa with urinary symptoms; cutting in sacral and hypogastric regions; flow scanty or profuse or irregular; pale, weak, anæmic; strumous; hacking cough at night. ─ Amenorrhœa: from a cold; nervous irritability; lassitude, dropsy; wandering pains in back and shoulders; sensation of a ball rising from stomach into throat; costive; in young girls with dropsical conditions. ─ Symptoms as if menses would appear, but they fail; nervous, excitable, sleepless; loss of appetite. ─ Suppression of menses from a cold; after venesection. ─ Menstrual irregularities in consumptive patients. ─ Itching of vulva, feels sore and chafed; begins when sitting still, > when mind employed. ─ Leucorrhœa: preceded by headache, sleeplessness and irritable bladder; in little girls; preceded by headache and sleeplessness. ─ Chlorosis in scrofulous girls, with dropsy.

Respiratory Organs

Hawking of tough white mucus. ─ Respiration as if greatly fatigued. ─ Laboured breathing from mucous accumulation. ─ Hacking night cough. ─ Mucous rattling with suppressed cough. ─ Palliated cough and bloody sputa in a woman far gone with consumption, and brought back menses, which were absent four months. ─ Cough with bloody expectoration.

Chest

Catarrh of lungs; loose cough and copious mucous expectoration. ─ Hæmoptysis; great emaciation; dry, hacking cough; hectic flush; sleeplessness. ─ Hæmoptysis after venesection or suppressed menstruation. ─ Phthisis with obstructed menstruation; bloody or copious mucous sputa. ─ Sharp pain through either lung. ─ Hot flashes of pain through lungs in morning. ─ Compression about chest.

Back

Pain in back and loins; when sitting long or when lying down. ─ Sharp, lancinating pains in lumbar region. ─ Severe pain in small of back in morning. ─ Cutting pains in region of sacrum, hypogastrium, and groins, with too early or too profuse menses; she is pale, weak, and nervous, and has a slight cough at night. ─ Wandering pains in back and shoulders; pain in joints.

Limbs

Sharp stitches here and there; rheumatic pains in joints. ─ Skin dry and nails very brittle.

Upper Limbs

Occasionally during the day sharp, lancinating pain in r. shoulder, l. heel, and in r. side of face. ─ Sharp, sticking pain in l. shoulder. ─ Hot pains through arms. ─ Hands cold and clammy; trembling from nervousness.

Lower Limbs

Lower limbs weary. ─ About 4 p.m. sharp pain in neighbourhood of sciatic nerve, shooting down thigh. ─ Constant desire to keep feet in motion. ─ Feet cold.

Generalities

Nervousness, sleeplessness, and hysterical mood. ─ Lassitude and nervousness. ─ Tired all morning. ─ Hysteria. ─ Wants to lie down; pale. ─ Slight exertion = fainting. ─ Stitches in different parts of body.

Skin

Skin dry, nails brittle.

Sleep

Great sleeplessness, with vivid, unpleasant dreams. ─ Sleeplessness of women suffering from uterine irritation, prolapsus, and its attendant nervousness (it is the Coffea of women); during climacteric period. ─ At night sleepless, nervous, hysterical; by day drowsy, languid. ─ Dreams mostly of art intellectual character; memory very active. ─ Sleep unrefreshing.

Fever

Chilly forenoon as after taking cold; followed by heat and sweat in evening with moderate thirst. ─ Chilliness followed by urging to urinate. ─ Copious warm sweat towards morning; catarrh. ─ Hectic fever. ─ Heat of forehead. ─ Hot flushes day and night. ─ Sweat of forehead. ─ Disposition to perspire.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Golden Ragwort. Compositæ.
Proved by Small, U. S. Med. and Surg. Jour., 1866, p. 151 ; Jones, Hale's New Rem., 1876, p. 971.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Dysmenorrhœa , Blake, Hom. Rev., vol. 16, p. 403 ; Hale, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 46 ; Hæmoptysis , Irish, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 46.

Mind

Low spirits alternating with cheerful mood ; sleepless ; sensation of a ball rising from stomach to throat. θ Amenorrhœa. θ Hysteria.
Inability to fix mind on one subject for any length of time.
A feeling like homesickness.

Sensorium

Dizzy feeling while walking in open air like a wave from occiput to sinciput ; he feels as if he would pitch forward ; nausea.

Inner head

Dull stupefying headache with fulness of head, as from catarrh.

Outer head

Sharp lancinating in left temple, upper part of left eye and inside of left lower jaw.
Sharp stitching pains from within outward in forehead ; sharp shooting pains over and in eyes ; catarrh ; suppressed secretion.
Headache preceding leucorrhœa and irritation of bladder.
Forehead hot ; sweaty in evening.

Sight and eyes

Sharp pains from within outward, left eye ; lachrymation in open air.
Catarrhal ophthalmia from suppressed secretions.

Smell and nose

Coryza, at first dull headache, dryness of nose and sneezing, burning and fulness in nostrils, later secretion of copious mucus.
Coryza with nosebleed.

Upper face

Face pale, depressed appearance ; weary, wants to lie down.

Lower face

Lips : and gums pale ; dry, feverish.

Teeth and gums

Teeth tender and sensitive.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue slightly coated ; catarrhal fever.

Inner mouth

Mouth and fauces dry, hot. θ Catarrh.

Palate and throat

Tightness in throat, wants to swallow ; fauces dry.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations of sour gas and ingesta.
Nausea on rising ; morning sickness of pregnancy.
Nausea from renal derangements.

Hypochondria

Stitches in hypochondria ; sharp cutting in diaphragm ; epigastrium.

Abdomen and loins

Pains centre about navel, spreading thence in all directions ; > by stool ; griping pains > bending forward.
Rumbling of wind.
Catarrh of bowels, rumbling colic and watery stools.
Abdomen much enlarged and very tense ; lower limbs œdematous ; urine scanty, high-colored, not more than eight ounces a day ; pain in lumbar region and in ovaries ; constipation ; cervix uteri congested ; albuminous leucorrhœa ; sense of weight in uterine region. θ Ascites.

Stools and rectum

Stool, thin, watery, bloody ; with tenesmus and colic ; catarrhal dysentery ; evening.
Stool copious, with great debility and prostration ; flatulence ; morning.
Stool in hard lumps mixed with yellow mucus.

Urinary organs

Slight pains in region of kidneys.
Congestion and inflammation of kidneys.
Attacks of renal inflammation, attacking particularly right kidney, causing intense pain, fever and great prostration ; on one occasion suffering intense and bladder seemed implicated ; great pain on passing urine, causing him to cry out ; constipation ; urine reddish, very hot, and acrid ; dull headache ; dryness of mouth and throat ; chilliness, fever and perspiration.
Severe renal inflammation with fever, chilliness and pain in lumbar region, particularly in left kidney ; quantity of urine below normal ; urine red, depositing a brickdust sediment ; considerable arterial excitement ; skin hot and dry ; motion caused him to cry out with pain ; constipation.
Intense pain over right kidney, severe pain during urination, urine red, hot, acrid ; bowels constipated.
Renal dropsy.
Ascites and œdema of lower extremities in a young woman.
Inflammation of kidneys and ureters after passage of gravel.
Tenesmus of bladder ; smarting in urethra, dropsy.
Increased urinary secretion ; followed by acute inflammation.
Hæmaturia ; renal pain with nausea.
Tenesmus of bladder, with heat and urging.
Urging to urinate following chilliness.
Uncomfortable heat in neck of bladder.
Irritation of bladder in children, preceded by heat in head and headache.
Renal colic with or without nausea.
Chronic inflammation of neck of bladder with bloody urine and tenesmus of bladder.
Chronic inflammation of kidneys.
Dysuria : of women and children evidently of catarrhal origin ; mucous sediment in urine ; with uterine displacement.
Smarting in fossa navicularis before urination.

Male sexual organs

Lascivious dreams, emissions.
Prostate gland enlarged, feels hard and swollen to touch.
Dull heavy pain in spermatic cord, moving along cord to testicle.
Gonorrhœa, gleet.
Chronic prostatitis.

Female sexual organs

Menses, every three weeks, very profuse, lasting eight or nine days, accompanied by severe cutting pains in region of sacrum, hypogastrium and groins ; she was pale, weak and nervous and had a slight cough, generally at night ; after an abortion.
Menses premature and profuse or retarded and scanty.
Dysmenorrhœa with urinary symptoms ; cutting in sacral and hypogastric regions ; flow scanty or profuse or irregular ; pale, weak, anemic ; strumous ; hacking cough at night.
Amenorrhœa : from a cold ; nervous irritability, lassitude, dropsy ; wandering pains in back and shoulders ; sensation of a ball rising from stomach into throat ; costive ; in young girls with dropsical conditions.
Symptoms as if menses would appear, but they fail ; nervous, excitable, sleepless ; loss of appetite.
Suppression of menses from a cold ; after venesection.
Menstrual irregularities in consumptive patients.
Leucorrhœa : preceded by headache, sleeplessness and irritable bladder ; in little girls, preceded by headache and sleeplessness.
Chlorosis, in scrofulous girls, with dropsy.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hawking of tough, white mucus.

Respiration

Respiration as if greatly fatigued.
Labored breathing from mucous accumulation.

Cough

Hacking night cough.
Mucous rattling with suppressed cough.
Great debility ; loss of appetite ; flashes of heat during day ; redness of cheeks in afternoon ; occasional night sweats ; menses very irregular for a year, have now been absent two months ; six weeks ago had caught cold, cough, at first dry then loose with copious expectoration of yellowish, thick, sweet mucus, often streaked with blood, with sensation of rawness and soreness in chest ; paroxysms of coughing were quite severe and exhausting.
Palliated cough and bloody sputa in a woman far gone with consumption and brought back menses which were absent four months.
Cough with bloody expectoration.

Inner chest and lungs

Catarrh of lungs ; loose cough and copious mucous expectoration.
Hæmoptysis ; great emaciation ; dry, hacking cough ; hectic flush ; sleeplessness.
Hæmoptysis after venesection or suppressed menstruation.
Chronic hemorrhage from lungs with dry, hacking cough, hectic fever, emaciation, sleeplessness.
Incipient phthisis, attended with fatiguing cough, result of obstructed menstruation ; increased bronchial secretion ; loose mucous cough, rattling in chest, labored respiration.
Phthisis, with obstructed menstruation ; bloody or copious mucous sputa.

Neck and back

Pain in back and loins.
Sharp, lancinating pains in lumbar region.
Dull pain in left lumbar region.
Severe pain in small of back, in morning.
Cutting pains in region of sacrum, hypogastrium and groins, with too early or too profuse menses ; she is pale, weak and nervous and has a slight cough at night.
Wandering pains in back and shoulders ; pain in joints.

Lower limbs

Lower limbs weary.

Limbs in general

Sharp stitches here and there ; rheumatic pains in joints.
Œdema.

Nerves

Nervousness, sleeplessness and hysterical mood.
Much lassitude and great nervousness.
Hysteria.
Wants to lie down ; pale.
Slight exertion produces syncope.

Sleep

Great sleeplessness, with vivid, unpleasant dreams.
Sleeplessness : of women suffering from uterine irritation, prolapsus and its attendant nervousness (it is the Coffea of women) ; during climacteric period.
At night sleepless, nervous, hysterical ; by day drowsy, languid.
Dreams mostly of an intellectual character ; memory very active.

Time

Morning : flatulence ; severe pain in small of back ; sweat toward.
Forenoon : chilly.
During day : flashes of heat ; drowsy, languid ; frequent desire to urinate.
Afternoon : redness of cheeks.
Evening : forehead sweaty ; stools.
Night : cough ; occasional sweats ; sleepless ; frequent desire to urinate.

Temperature and weather

Sensitive to open air ; tendency to catarrhs.
Open air : walking in, dizziness ; lachrymation.

Fever

Chilly forenoon as after taking cold ; followed by heat and sweat in evening with moderate thirst.
Chilliness followed by urging to urinate.
Sweat toward morning ; catarrh.
Hectic fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Alternate : low spirits and cheerful mood ; urine profuse and watery or dark colored and scanty.
Every three weeks : menses.

Locality and direction

Left : lancinating in temple and eye ; pain in lumbar region.
Right : inflammation of kidney ; intense pain over kidney.
From within outward : pain in forehead ; pain in eye.

Sensations

As of a ball rising from stomach to throat ; as of a wave from occiput to sinciput ; as if he would pitch forward ; respiration as if greatly fatigued.
Pains : centre about navel ; in lumbar region and ovaries ; in region of kidneys ; in back and loins ; in joints.
Intense pain : in right kidney ; over right kidney.
Severe pain : in small of back.
Sharp pains : in left eye.
Sharp, lancinating pains : in left temple, upper part of left eye and inside of lower jaw ; in lumbar region.
Sharp cutting : in diaphragm ; in region of sacrum, hypogastrium and groins.
Sharp, shooting pains : over and in eyes.
Sharp, stitching pain : in forehead.
Stitches : in hypochondria ; in epigastrium ; here and there in limbs.
Griping pains : in abdomen.
Rheumatic pains : in joints.
Wandering pains : in back and shoulders.
Dull pain : in left lumbar region.
Dull, stupefying pain : in head.
Smarting : in urethra ; in fossa navicularis.
Soreness : of chest.
Rawness : of chest.
Burning : in nostrils.
Sensitiveness : of teeth.
Heat : in neck of bladder ; in head.
Tightness : in throat.
Fulness : in head ; in nostrils.
Dryness : of nose ; of mouth and fauces.
Weariness : of lower limbs.

Tissues

Catarrhal affections of mucous membranes.
Face bloated, abdomen enlarged, feet œdematous ; urine alternately profuse and watery or dark-colored and scanty ; frequent desire to urinate day and night. θ Dropsy.
Hemorrhages from uterus, kidneys, bowels, lungs, etc.
Dropsy from anemia ; ascites and œdema of lower limbs in a young woman.
Anemia.

Stage of life, constitution

Women and little girls of nervous temperament.
Lady, mother of one child, had an abortion three years ago, another (at second month) four months ago ; dysmenorrhœa.
Mrs. H., æt. 30, lymphatic temperament, suffering six years ; inflammation of neck of bladder.
Woman, æt. 30 ; dropsy.
Woman, æt. 40, passing through climacteric period ; cough.
Merchant, æt. 45, nervous temperament, inclined to be bilious ; renal inflammation.
Woman, æt. 48 ; amenorrhœa.
Man, æt. 50, nervo-sanguine temperament ; attacks of renal inflammation.

Relations

Compare : Aletris, Cinchon ., (hemorrhage) ; Coffea ; Caulophyl., Sepia (irregular menses) ; Actæa racem., Pulsat .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

In some parts of the country where it grows it is called Golden Ragwort, in others Huckleroot.

It is an old domestic remedy and one only proved in a fragmentary way. Many of these medicines that have become household remedies should be properly proved. Only in this way can their power and influence be known, i. e., they can be used properly only when indicated by the symptoms they can produce.

Women

Senecio, is to be studied in relation to young girls with menstrual irregularities.

Those who have suppression of the menstrual flow from getting wet, from getting the feet wet, those who have menorrhagia, a copious menstrual flow which continues until they are anemic; and those also who suffer from dysmenorrhœa, the pains being most violent. In this remedy, with these general features, the young girl gradually tends toward catarrhal phthisis.

The menstrual flow is suppressed sometimes many months, she begins to look pale, has a dry, hacking cough, with bleeding from the lungs instead of the menstrual flow, a vicarious spitting of blood.

There is a catarrhal state throughout the chest. They are pallid and weakly girls. They tell you they have lost their menstrual flow, and have a chronic cough, are sensitive to every draft of air, are always taking cold and finally expectorate profusely.

The phthisis may go on as catarrh of the chest for years, but at last a miliary tuberculosis sets in and takes the patient off with what is known as acute consumption. Especially is this condition associated with disorder of the menstrual flow and a general catarrhal state.

"Phthisis, with obstructed menstruation."

When the symptoms agree in this kind of a case Senecio is a most useful medicine for establishing the menstrual flow. You will know that it is acting well by the fact that the cough gradually diminishes. Of course a great many medicines will be suited to such general states, but this one has an unusually marked and special relation to these cases. In certain regions, Senecio has been used as a domestic medicine, an old woman's remedy for bringing on the menstrual flow.

You will be struck on reading over this remedy with the tendency to hemorrhage from all the mucous membranes of the body. There is coryza with nose-bleed; spitting of blood from the throat and chest; hemorrhage from the lungs; a catarrhal condition of all the mucous membranes with a tendency to haemorrhage: congestion and inflammation of the kidneys with haemorrhage.

You know how commonly these cases end in dropsy. These waxy, anaemic, chlorotic girls, who have lost their menstrual flow, become dropsical after slow hemorrhage from the uterus, kidneys and bladder.

"Dropsy from anaemia."

It is a medicine of the highest order for hemorrhages in catarrhal conditions.

Urinary

It has also in its proving many distressing symptoms of the urinary organs.

Painful urination. Uncomfortable heat in the neck of the bladder. Renal colic, the pains being so great that they produce nausea.

Renal dropsy. Intense pain over right kidney, etc. The whole urinary tract is painful and subject to bleeding. But bleeding especially in the absence of the menstrual flow is the feature of this remedy.

Wherever there is an inflammatory spot or catarrhal condition of the mucous membrane it will bleed in case the menstrual flow does not appear.

We have other medicines having the symptoms of vicarious haemorrhage, such as Hamamelis, Phosphorus and Bryonia, but Senecio has this condition strikingly and is one of the newer remedies for such condition.

"Dysmenorrhoea with urinary symptoms; cutting in sacral and hypogastric regions."

"Hacking cough at night."

"Amenorrhoea from a cold; nervous irritability; lassitude; dropsy."

"Menstrual irregularities in consumptive patients."

"Mucous rattling with suppressed cough."

Leucorrhoea especially in chlorotic girls. It is a marked remedy in chlorosis, in the anemic state with a green hue, called "green sickness" by the laity.