Senna senn.

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

This is of much use in infantile colics, where the little patient seems to be full of wind.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Cassia Acutifolia

General

Is of much use in infantile colics when the child seems to be full of wind. Oxaluria, with excess of urea; increased specific gravity. Where the system is broken down, bowels constipated, muscular weakness, and waste of nitrogenous materials, Senna will act as a tonic. Ebullitions of blood at night. Acetonæmia, prostration, fainting, constipation with colic a flatulence. Liver enlarged and tender.

Stool

Fluid yellowish, with pinching pains before. Greenish mucus; never-get-done sensation (Merc). Burning in rectum, with strangury of bladder. Constipation, with colic and flatulence. Liver enlarged and tender, stools hard and dark, with loss appetite, coated tongue, bad taste, and weakness.

Urine

Specific gravity and density increased; hyperazoturia, oxaluria, phosphaturia, and acetonuria.

Relationship

Compare: Kali carb; Jalapa.

Antidotes: Nux; Cham.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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

Abdomen and Stool

Painful colic from incarcerated flatulence (particularly in young children). Diarrhœic stools, followed by tenesmus and burning at the anus.

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

The leaflets of several species of Cassia: C. obovata, Alexandrian Senna, is the principal. N. O. Leguminosæ. Trituration or tincture of the dried leaves.

Clinical

Colic; flatulent, of infants. Exhaustion. Nitrogenous waste. Sleeplessness. Sneezing, with heat.

Characteristics

Used as a laxative in ordinary practice, Senna has proved an excellent remedy in the colic of infants, with incarcerated flatulence and sleeplessness. Infantile colic when the patient seems full of wind. ─ The symptoms of the Schema are mostly derived from overdosings. A peculiar symptom is: "Repeated sneezing, which caused heat (especially of hands), exhaustion, and panting breathing," Exhaustion is typical of Senna . Farrington says it is one of the best remedies in the materia medica for "simple exhaustion with excess of nitrogenous waste." The exhaustion is exemplified in the sinking immediately after meals. The pods caused a nasty unclean smell from the body of a woman taking them for constipation (R. T. C.).

Relations

Compare: Infantile colic and sleeplessness, jal. Exhaustion, K. ca. Sinking after meals, Ars., Cin., Lyc., Sil., Stp., Ur. nit., Calc., Iod., Sep., Tab.

Head

Heaviness of the head when stooping, as if it were pressed down.

Nose

Repeated sneezing, which caused heat (esp. of hands), exhaustion, and panting breathing.

Face

Livid lips. ─ Commissuræ of lips covered with small burning vesicles.

Stomach

Anorexia. ─ Thirst. ─ Empty, or watery and fetid, risings. ─ Loathing and nausea, with inclination to vomit. ─ Sinking immediately after meals.

Abdomen

Colic, esp. in little children. ─ Painful colic from incarcerated flatulence (particularly in young children). ─ Sensation of coldness in the abdomen, with emptiness and uneasiness in the stomach. ─ Accumulation of flatus, with grumbling and fermentation in the abdomen, and discharge of fetid flatus.

Stool and Anus

Two liquid stools with griping pains. ─ Loose evacuation, with tenesmus, and followed by a burning sensation in the anus. ─ Diarrhœa with straining and prolapsed rectum and sore anus (cured in children. ─ R. T. C.).

Generalities

Universal swelling. ─ Exhaustion. ─ Unclean body swell.

Sleep

Ebullition of blood, esp. at night, disturbing the sleep. ─ Sleeplessness, with cries and tossing, esp. in the case of infants.

Fever

Heat (esp. of hands).