Remedy
Taraxacum tarax.
Duration of action
- 14-21 d.Robert Gibson Miller
Not a dosing interval.
Relationships
Relationship of Remedies
Antidotes
Polar generals
Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915
Region
Liver. Stomach.
Worse
Rest; sitting; standing.
Better
Walking. Touch.
General
Bilious, sick feeling. Stitches.
Particulars
Depression. Coated tongue, with raw patches; mapped. Sour taste or hawks sour mucus. White stools. Bilious diarrhœa. Jaundice. Restless limbs, with tearing pains. Chilly after eating. Cold fingertips. Burning toes. Night sweats.
Related
Related: Nux-v.
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 · 1898
Keynote
For gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric headaches. Mapped tongue (Lach., Mer., Nat. m.); covered with a white film with sensation of rawness. This film comes off in patches, leaving dark red, tender, very sensitive spots (Ran. s.). Jaundice with enlargment and induration of liver (mapped tongue). Debility, loss of appetite, profuse night sweats, especially when convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever. Restlessness of limbs in typhoid (Rhus, Zinc.).
Relations
Compare: Bry., Hydr., Nux, in gastric and bilious affections.
Aggravation
Almost all symptoms appear when sitting; lying down; resting.
Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · 1887
General
This remedy acts well in all affections of the liver; sour taste; darting pains in the outer parts.
Affections in the left upper side; right lower side; back of the foot; sole of the foot.
Worse
While lying down; from fat food; while resting.
Better
From moving; when walking.
Remedies following
Rhus tox., Asaf., Bellad., China, Lycop., Staphis., Sulphur.
Antidote
Camphor.
Homœopathic Materia Medica
William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition
Common name
Dandelion
General
For gastric headaches, bilious attacks, with characteristically mapped tongue and jaundiced skin. Cancer of bladder. Flatulence. Hysterical tympanites.
Head
Sensation of great heat on top of head. Sterno-mastoid muscle very painful to touch.
Mouth
Mapped tongue. Tongue covered with a white film; feels raw; comes off in patches, leaving red, sensitive spots. Loss of appetite. Bitter taste and eructations. Salivation.
Abdomen
Liver enlarged and indurated. Sharp stitches in left side. Sensation of bubbles bursting in bowels. Tympanites. Evacuation difficult.
Extremities
Very restless limbs. Neuralgia of knee; better, pressure. Limbs painful to touch.
Fever
Chilliness after eating, worse drinking; finger tips cold. Bitter taste. Heat without thirst, in face, in toes. Sweat on falling asleep.
Skin
Profuse night-sweats.
Modalities
Worse, resting, lying down, sitting. Better, touch.
Relationship
Compare: Choline, a constituent of Taraxacum root, has given encouraging results in the treatment of cancer. Choline is closely related to Neurin, it is the "Cancronie" of Prof. Adamkiewicz (E. Schlegel). Bry; Hydrast; Nux. Tela aranea (nervous asthma and sleeplessness).
Dose
Tincture, to third potency. In cancer 1-2 drams fluid extract.
Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics
E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · 1899
Leaders
Tongue coated white, which peels off in patches, leaving dark, red, tender, sensitive spots; mapped tongue.
Text Book of Materia Medica
Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · 1866
Mind and Disposition
Irresoluteness. Inclined to talk, to laugh, and to be merry.
Head
Sensation as if the brain were expanded or constricted. The headache is felt only when standing (or walking).
Eyes
Aversion to light ; stinging-burning in the eyes.
Face
Red, hot face. Pimples on the cheeks, wings of the now, and corners of the mouth. The upper lip is cracked.
Mouth and Throat
Sour blood is drawn from the decayed teeth. The teeth feel dull. Dryness in the throat. Hawking up of sour mucus, causing the teeth to feel dull. Accumulation of sour water in the mouth. The tongue is thickly coated, while it cleans of in patches, and they are very sensitive.
Stomach and Abdomen
Bitter taste in the mouth before eating. Saltish-sour taste of the food, especially butter and meat. Nausea with headache and anxiety. Nausea and vomiting after eating fat food. Bitter eructations and hiccough. Sudden sensation in the abdomen as if bubbles were bursting in it. Stinging pain in the abdomen, especially in the sides.
Stool and Anus
Inefficient urging to go to stool. The stool is passed with difficulty, even if it is not hard. Voluptuous itching on the perinæum, compelling one to scratch.
Urinary Organs
Frequent urging to urinate, with copious secretion. Diabetes.
Respiratory Organs
Sensation as if the larynx were pressed together. Stitches in the chest. Twitching in the intercostal muscles.
Back and Neck
Twitching and stinging in the muscles of the throat and neck. Tearing from the ear downward to the neck. Pressing-stinging in the spine and sacrum, with dyspnœa. Rumbling and bubbling in the shoulder-blades, with chilliness over the whole body.
Extremities
Upper. Twitching in the muscles of the arm. Icy-cold tips of the fingers. Lower. Stitches in the thighs, calves and soles of the feet. Burning in the knees, lower legs, and toes.
Generalities
The limbs are movable, but it feels as if the power to move them were impeded. All the limbs are painful to the touch, and if a wrong position.
Sleep
Sleepiness, and going to sleep while listening to a scientific. Sleepiness in day-time, and yawning while sitting.
Fever
Chilliness, especially after eating and drinking. Chilliness all over, with headache. Chill in the open air. Heat at night on waking, especially on the face and hands. Violent night-sweats, mostly before midnight during the first sleep. Very debilitating perspiration, causing biting on the skin.
Conditions
Most complaints arise while sitting or standing, and disappear on walking.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902
General
Leontodum taraxacum. Taraxacum Dens-leonis. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole plant just before the perfection of the flower.
Clinical
Ague. Bilious attacks. Debility. Diabetes. Gall-stones. Headache, gastric. Jaundice. Liver, affections of. Neuralgia. Night-sweats. Rheumatism. Tongue, mapped. Typhoid fever.
Characteristics
The young leaves of the Dandelion are sometimes eaten in salads. They have a bitter chicory-like taste, as also has the root. Children eat the flowers, although they are supposed by them to cause bed-wetting. This has given rise to one of the popular names of the plant. Its chief traditional uses are as a remedy for jaundice, liver obstruction, in dysentery, involuntary emissions, and in difficulties in passing water. Hahnemann's provings brought out these leading symptoms: "Painless urging to urinate;" and "frequent urging to urinate with copious discharge of urine." Hahnemann points out that this, with the thirst, may indicate Trx . in some cases of diabetes. Trx . has caused pains in both splenic and, liver regions, and has cured jaundice with enlarged indurated liver. Cooper gives me the following case: An old Indian officer, when in India, suffered much from gall-stones, and was advised to take dandelion infusion every day. This he did, and soon the symptoms left him, and he remained free from them for over twenty years. A symptom in connection with disordered digestion, which has proved a good guide for Trx . in some cases, is the "mapped tongue." The tongue is coated white, and clears off in patches, leaving dark red very sensitive spots. Treas. of Bot . points out that "the bright-yellow flowers of Trx . open in the morning between 5 and 6 o'clock and close in the evening between 8 and 9. Hence this was one of the plants selected by Linnæus to form his floral clock." The symptoms of Trx . are < at night. Hands and nose cold at 8 p.m. "Cold finger-tips" is a guiding symptom. Peculiar Sensations are: As if brain was constricted. As if teeth were set on edge. As if larynx were compressed. As if bubbles were forming and bursting in abdomen. As of rolling and gurgling in right scapula. As if limbs were bound or powerless. Some leading indications are: Gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric headaches; the headaches are generally pressive. Pressure in lower occiput after lying down is characteristic. Debility, loss of appetite, profuse night-sweats, especially when convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever. Restlessness of limbs in typhoid. Sweat between toes. The symptoms are: > By touch (jerking in right calf). Rest < . (Almost all symptoms appear when sitting; lying down; resting.) Motion > . > In open air. Burning in throat is > by drinking. Hahnemann's dosage was a single drop of the Ø tincture ( M. M. P .).
Relations
Compatible: Ars. (night-sweats). Compare: In gastric and bilious affections, Bry., Chel., Hydr., Nux. Mapped tongue, Ars., Nat. m., Ran. s. Restlessness of limbs with tearing pains, Rhus.
Mind
Irresolution and dislike to labour. — Loquacity and inclination to laugh.
Head
Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering when walking in the open air. — Drawing rain in l. temple while sitting, ceasing when walking or standing. — Tearing pain in occiput. — Pressure and heaviness in lower part of occiput, after lying down. — Headache, as from contraction or expansion of brain. — Heaviness and pressure in head. — Lancinations in forehead and temples. — Violent headache, felt only when standing or walking. — Tension of scalp.
Eyes
Pain in eyes, as if a grain of sand were in internal canthus. — (Aversion to light) burning sensation, and burning shootings in eyes. — Burn in l. eyeball. — Inflammation of eyes with lachrymation and photophobia. — Nocturnal agglutination of lids.
Ears
Shootings in ears. — Drawing pain in external ear. — Dysecoia in evening.
Face
Purulent pimples on face, cheeks, alæ nasi, and (r.) commissures of lips. — Sensation of heat and redness in face. — Shootings and pressure in cheeks. — Upper lip cracked.
Teeth
Toothache, with drawing pain in carious teeth, extending to eyebrows. — Pressive pains in teeth. — Teeth set on edge as from acids. — Flow of acid blood from carious teeth. — Bluntness of teeth. — Hawking up of sour mucus, causing teeth to feel dull.
Mouth
Accumulation of acid saliva in mouth (with sensation as if the larynx were compressed). — Tongue loaded with a white coating, with exfoliation (it cleans off in patches, dark red, and they are very sensitive). — Tongue dry, loaded with a brown coating on waking in morning.
Throat
Sore throat, with pressive pain, as from internal swelling. — Dryness, shootings, and bitter mucus in the throat. — Hawking up of acid mucus.
Appetite
Bitter taste in mouth, with natural taste of food. — Salt or acid taste of food, principally of butter and of meat. — Tobacco-smoke is disagreeable, causes pyrosis, and interrupts respiration. — Great chilliness after drinking, or eating.
Stomach
Bitter risings (eructations and hiccough). — Empty risings, esp. after drinking. — Nausea (with inclination to vomit or vomiting) from very fat food, with anxiety and pressive headache, > in open air.
Abdomen
Pinching in abdomen. — Pressive shootings in abdomen, and sides of abdomen, chiefly in l. side; in hypogastrium. — Grumbling and movements (sudden sensation) in abdomen, as if bubbles were bursting in it.
Stool and Anus
Inefficient urging to go to stool. — Evacuations several times a day, but accomplished with difficulty (even if stool is not hard). — Fæces of the consistence of pap, followed by tenesmus. — Voluptuous itching in perinæum (compelling one to scratch).
Urinary Organs
Frequent want to urinate (pressure without pain), with profuse emission. — Enuresis somni (?).
Male Sexual Organs
Pain in testes. — Permanent erections. — Frequent pollutions; on alternate nights.
Female Sexual Organs
Suppressed menses.
Respiratory Organs
Sensation as if the larynx were pressed together.
Chest
Pressure at chest. — Shootings in chest and sides of chest. — Jerkings in muscles of sides.
Neck and Back
Pressive jerkings and shootings in muscles of neck, (throat), and nape. — Tearing from ear downward to the neck. — Pressive pains in loins. — Pressive and tensive shootings in back and loins, when lying down, with obstructed respiration. — Pressing-stinging in spine and sacrum with dyspnœa. — Gurgling and swelling in shoulder-blades and shoulders, with shivering over whole body. — Vibration and quivering in r, scapula.
Upper Limbs
Pulsative throbbing and jerking in shoulders and arms. — Jerkings of muscles of arms. — Twitching in muscles of l. forearm. — Shootings in arms and elbows. — Drawings and tearings in forearm and wrist. — Eruptions of pimples on hands and fingers. — Icy coldness of ends of fingers. — Pressive pain in three last fingers of r. hand.
Lower Limbs
Shootings in thighs, knees, calves, soles, and toes. — Stitching pain in l. thigh. — Pressive pain in l. calf. — Jerking pain in r. calf, ceasing quickly when touched. — Drawing pain in dorsum of r. foot; when standing; stitches when sitting. — Severe or fine stitching pains in r. sole. — Burning sensation in knees, legs and toes. — Profuse perspiration between toes.
Generalities
This remedy acts well in all affections of the liver; sour taste; darting pains in outer parts. — Affections in l. upper side; r. lower side; back of foot; sole of foot. — < While lying down; from fat food; while resting. — > From moving; when walking. — Painful tenderness of all limbs, esp. when touched, and when they are in a false position. — The limbs are Movable, but it feels as if the power to move them were impeded. — Sensation of weakness and uneasiness throughout body, with constant necessity to lie down or to sit. — Almost all symptoms appear while the patient is seated, and are dissipated by walking.
Skin
Unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skins. — Stinging on skin. — Eruption over body and limbs itching severely, and appears to be a mixture of lichen and urticaria. — Biting in skin with sweat.
Sleep
Sleepiness, and going to sleep while listening to a scientific discourse. — Sleepiness in daytime, and yawning while sitting. — Vivid unremembered dreams; frequent waking and tossing.
Fever
Chilliness, esp. after eating and drinking. — Chilliness, shiverings, all over, with pressive headache. — Chill in open air. Heat at night on waking, esp. on face and hands. — Violent night-sweats, mostly before midnight, when just going to sleep. — Very debilitating perspiration, causing biting on the skin.
The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91
General
Dandelion. Compositæ.
Introduced and proved by Hahnemann, assisted by Franz, Gutmann, Kummer, Langhammer and Rasazemsky.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Ague , Bartl., Newmann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 990 ; Typhoid fever , Bœnninghausen, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 54 ; Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 790.
Mind
Constant muttering to himself. θ Typhus.
Inclined to talk, laugh and be merry.
Undecided, shunning labor, but after beginning, works well.
Sensorium
Vertigo when walking about ; apyrexia of ague.
Dulness of head during a walk in open air, with reeling and dizziness ; unsteady gait, head inclines at times to l., at others to right side.
Inner head
Drawing pain or needlelike stitches in left temple while sitting, ceasing when walking and standing.
Violent tearing in occiput. θ Typhus.
Pressure with heaviness in lower part of occiput, after lying down.
Sharp stitches externally in left side of forehead.
Pressive pain in right temple.
Sensation in head as if brain were constricted on all sides by pressure.
Nausea with headache ; anxiety.
Outer head
Head falls now to left, now to right side, with vertigo.
Sweat on falling asleep, most on head. θ Quotidian ague.
Sight and eyes
Aversion to light.
Burning in left eyeball.
Burning sticking in left eyeball, toward external canthus.
Hearing and ears
Drawing pain in external ear.
Smell and nose
Nosebleed, left side.
Nose cold. θ Quotidian ague.
Upper face
Face hot and red.
Pimples on cheeks, alæ nasi and corners of mouth.
Lower face
Upper lip cracked.
Teeth and gums
Teeth : feel dull ; set on edge, as from acids, when chewing food.
Bleeding from carious teeth, blood having a sour taste.
Taste, speech, tongue
Taste : bitter, before eating ; bitter, rising from pharynx into mouth ; sour ; saltish, especially of butter and meat.
White spots on tongue among the red.
Tongue : coated white ; cleans off in patches, leaving dark-red, tender, very sensitive spots ; mapped tongue.
Inner mouth
Tough, ropy, sour-tasting saliva.
Sour water accumulates in mouth.
Accumulation of saliva in mouth, with sensation as if larynx were compressed.
Suppurating pimple in right corner of mouth.
Smarting, burning and rawness in mouth and fauces.
Palate and throat
Throat and larynx feel as if closed.
During and after swallowing of food, aching across clavicles, up left side of her neck into ear ; gullet feels too small for food.
Dryness in throat.
Hawking up of sour mucus setting teeth on edge.
Sharp pressure in anterior wall of pharynx and larynx, disappears on swallowing.
Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions
Great thirst, day and night.
Loss of appetite. θ Jaundice.
Eating and drinking
After taking anything to eat or drink, great chilliness. θ Typhus.
Coughs after eating.
Bitterish taste in mouth before eating.
Empty belching, after drinking.
Burning in throat from smoking, > from drinking.
Irresistible drowsiness after a meal.
Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting
Eructations bitter ; hiccough.
Belching, gagging, nausea at night. θ Ague.
Nausea, with headache, anxiety ; after fat food.
Scrobiculum and stomach
Rawness extending from mouth to stomach, with burning in stomach, rising up toward throat.
Digestion disturbed. θ Jaundice.
Bilious dyspepsia ; bitter taste ; nausea as after fat food ; mapped tongue ; pain in legs > when moving.
Hypochondria
Liver enlarged, indurated. θ Jaundice.
Pain in region of spleen. θ Ague.
Tongue mapped, bitter taste in mouth, chilliness after eating or drinking, pain and soreness in region of liver, bilious diarrhœa.
Abdomen and loins
Motions in lower abdomen as if bubbles were forming and bursting.
Abdomen puffed. θ Jaundice.
Stitching pains in abdomen, especially in sides.
Stools and rectum
Ineffectual urging, with much pressing ; scanty hard stool. θ Ague.
Stool difficult, even if not hard. θ Ague.
Voluptuous itching in perineum, compelling scratching.
Constipation. θ Jaundice.
Urinary organs
Frequent, profuse pale urine. θ Diabetes.
Male sexual organs
In a hard swelling in left epididymis, following an inflammation after contusion, violent shooting pains, running upward and spreading over whole pubic region, after urinating.
Female sexual organs
Suppressed menses.
Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia
As if larynx were compressed, with saliva in mouth, hoarse in speaking, with bitter phlegm in throat.
Respiration
With deeper inhalations tensive pain in region of diaphragm.
With exhalation, more than with inhalation, burning pressure in sternum.
With exhalation, pressure from inside to short ribs in region of liver, extending up chest.
Deeper respirations > pressive stitch in right chest.
Cough
Sour-tasting sputa.
Inner chest and lungs
Stitches in chest, during inspiration.
Boring, digging in chest.
Pressing pain in chest.
Outer chest
Twitching in right intercostal muscles.
Pressure on xiphoid process.
Neck and back
Tearing from ear down to neck.
Rolling and gurgling sensation in right scapula, feeling chilly.
Pressing stitches along spine, mostly in sacrum, with dyspnœa.
Twitching in lower portion of side of neck.
Sticking, as with a somewhat blunt needle, in left side of nape of neck, disappearing on sitting down.
Upper limbs
Twitching in muscles of arms.
Numbness in left arm, side of head and ear.
Pressive pain in right middle, ring and little fingers.
Hands hot or cold.
Finger tips icy-cold.
Twitching of muscles of left forearm.
Lower limbs
Stitches in thighs, calves and soles.
Tension in left thigh when stooping.
Pressive pain in left calf.
Jerking pain in right calf, ceases quickly when touched.
Tearing pains only in lower limbs, < during rest. θ Typhus.
Pressure in dorsum of right foot, while sitting.
Burning in knees, legs and toes.
Drawing pain in dorsum of right foot, when standing ; ceasing when sitting.
Severe, or fine stitching pains in right sole from within outward, while sitting.
Limbs in general
Can move limbs, but they feel as if bound or powerless.
Limbs painful to touch and when in a wrong position.
Rest. position. motion
Rest : tearing pains in limbs <.
Lying : pressure in occiput.
Sitting : pain in left temple ; pressure in dorsum of right foot ; drawing in dorsum of right foot > ; stitching pains in right sole ; yawning.
Standing : drawing in dorsum of right foot.
Stooping : tension in left thigh.
A wrong position : causes pain in limbs.
Walking : vertigo ; in open air, dulness of head.
Motion : > pain in legs ; vertigo.
Nerves
Exhausted, inclined to sit or lie down ; semi-conscious.
Debility, loss of appetite, profuse, exhausting night sweat ; thirst ; restless sleep.
Sleep
Yawning, sleepy when sitting.
At night on waking, heat, mostly in face and hands.
Sleep disturbed by : dreams ; sweat.
Vivid, unremembered dreams.
Unconquerable desire to sleep on leaving table ; frightful dreams, of which he preserves no recollection other than a painful impression.
Time
At 8 P. M. : hands and nose cold.
Night : nausea ; heat in face and hands ; chilliness, with sweat.
Temperature and weather
Temperature and Weather
Inclined to open air.
In open air : chill.
Fever
Tips of fingers icy-cold.
Chilliness : all over ; at night, with sweat and gastric ailments ; after food or drink.
Chill in open air.
Long lasting chill, copious sweat ; pain in spleen. θ Ague.
Heat : at night, on waking ; most in face and hands ; without thirst.
Sweat : mostly with thirst ; copious, debilitating, at night, causing biting on skin.
Chilliness of long duration, often whole day, followed in night by general and profuse sweat ; gastric disturbances ; nausea ; belching ; stools delayed, scanty, hard, with much pressing ; pain in region of spleen. θ Ague.
About 8 P. M. hands and nose get cold, desires to go to bed and is soon asleep ; is hardly asleep before a profuse sweat appears, particularly on head, lasting an hour ; lassitude ; tendency to vertigo when moving about. θ Quotidian ague.
Great prostration, loss of appetite ; profuse sweats at night, was compelled to change his shirt three times every night ; great thirst, day and night ; restless sleep. θ Ague.
A hard chill, after eating or drinking. θ Typhus.
Ague : where Cinchona has only slightly delayed paroxysms, and where disease degenerated into a slow fever, especially in dry and bilious subjects.
Typhoid fever ; during rest intolerable tearing pains, in lower extremities ; constant muttering delirium ; violent tearing pain in occiput ; great chilliness after eating or drinking ; mapped tongue.
Violent pains of typhoid or typho-malarial fevers, particularly in thighs.
Locality and direction
Left : drawing or stitches in temples ; stitches in forehead ; burning sticking in eyeball ; nosebleed ; aching from neck into ear ; epididymitis ; sticking in side of neck ; numbness of arm ; twitching in forearm ; tension in thigh ; pressive pain in calf.
Right : pressive pain in temple ; pimple in corner of mouth ; twitching in intercostal muscles ; rolling and gurgling in scapula ; pressive pain in fingers ; jerking pain in calf ; pressure in dorsum of foot ; stitching pains in sole.
Sensations
As if brain were constricted ; as if teeth were set on edge ; as if larynx were compressed ; as if closed, throat and larynx ; as if bubbles were forming and bursting in abdomen ; as if rolling and gurgling in right scapula ; as if limbs were bound or powerless.
Pain : in region of spleen ; in region of liver.
Jerking pain : in right calf.
Needlelike stitches : in left temple.
Stitches : in left forehead ; in abdomen, especially sides ; in chest ; in thighs, calves and soles ; in right sole.
Pressing stitches : along spine ; in sacrum.
Shooting : from epididymis over pubic region.
Sticking : in left eyeball ; as with blunt needle on left side of nape.
Stinging : in skin.
Tearing : in occiput ; from ear to neck ; in lower limbs.
Boring digging : in chest.
Drawing pain : in left temple ; in external ear ; on dorsum of right foot.
Burning : in left eyeball ; in mouth and fauces ; in throat ; in stomach ; in knees, legs and toes.
Burning pressure : in sternum, < with exhalation.
Biting : in skin with sweat.
Smarting : in mouth and fauces.
Soreness : in region of liver.
Rawness : in mouth and fauces ; from mouth to stomach.
Pressure : in occiput ; from region of liver into chest ; in chest ; on xiphoid process ; in fingers ; upon back of foot.
Aching : across clavicles ; up left neck into ear.
Tensive pain : in region of diaphragm with deep inhalation.
Pressive pain : in right temple ; in left calf.
Tension : in left thigh when stooping.
Dulness : of head.
Heaviness : in occiput.
Numbness : in left arm.
Itching : in perineum.
Tissues
Gastric bilious attacks, with mapped tongue.
Neuralgia and rheumatism during and after typhus.
Touch. passive motion. injuries
Touch : > in right calf ; limbs painful.
Skin
Unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skin.
Stinging in skin.
Eruption over body and limbs, itching severely and appearing to be a mixture of lichen and urticaria.
Biting in skin, with sweat.
Stage of life, constitution
Boy, æt. 8 ; ague.
Girl, æt. 19, servant ; typhoid fever.
Man, æt. 46 ; ague.
A man : unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skin.
Relations
Compatible : Arsen. in night-sweats.
Compare : Chelid., Hydrast., Pulsat.
The Therapeutics of Fevers
H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1879
Characteristic
For gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric headaches.
Mapped tongue (Lach., Mer., Nat.); covered with a white film with sensation of rawness. This film comes off in patches, leaving dark red, tender, very sensitive spots (Ran. s.).
Jaundice with enlargement and induration of liver (mapped tongue).
Debility, loss of appetite, profuse night sweats, especially when convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever.
Restlessness of and pain in thighs and limbs in typhoid and typho-malarial fevers (Rhus, Zinc.).
Relations
Compare: Bry., Chel., Hydr., Nux, in gastric and bilious affections.
Aggravation
Almost all symptoms appear when sitting; lying down; resting.
Type
Malarial, typho-malarial and typhoid; when attack de- velops into a slow fever, in dry, nervous, bilious subjects.
Periodicity not marked.
Time
8 P. M.; at night, with gastric ailments.
Chill
Great chilliness after eating, and especially after drink- ing (Bell., Caps., Kali c., Lob., Marum). Long-lasting chill; when he falls asleep, sweat breaks out, mostly on the head. Nose, hands and tips of fingers are icy cold (Sabad., Stan.).
Heat
Sensation of heat, and heat in face, with redness
(Lach.).
Sweat
With thirst; copious; at night; with pain in spleen; all over body on falling asleep in the evening (Cinch.); debilitat- ing night-sweats, causing biting of the skin.
Analysis
The abundant, debilitating, night-sweat is the guiding symptom of Taraxacum. It occurs invariably at night, and differs from Cinchona, that while the latter, though profuse and debilitating, occurs during sleep or when covered. The tongue and gastric symptoms also serve to differentiate.
Condensed Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · Condensed Materia Medica · 1877
Mind
Constant muttering to himself. θ Typhus.
Inclined to talk, laugh and be merry.
Undecided, shunning labor, but after beginning, works well.
Sensorium
Vertigo when walking about; apyrexia of ague.
Inner Head
Drawing pain in left temple while sitting, ceasing when walking and standing.
Needle-like stitches in left temple while sitting, ceasing when standing.
Violent tearing in occiput. θ Typhus.
Pressure, with heaviness, in lower part of occiput.
Outer Head
Head falls now to left, now to right side.
Eyes
Aversion to light; stinging-burning in eyes.
Ears
Drawing pain in external ear.
Nose
Nosebleed; left side.
Face
Hot and red.
Pimples on cheeks, alæ nasi and corners of mouth.
Lower Face
Upper lip cracked.
Teeth
Feel dull; set on edge, as from acids, when chewing food.
Tongue, etc
Taste: bitter, before eating; sour, saltish, especially of butter and meat.
White spots on the tongue amongst the red.
Tongue: coated white, cleans off in patches, leaving dark-red, tender, very sensitive spots; mapped tongue.
Mouth
Sour water accumulates in the mouth.
Accumulation of saliva in mouth, with sensation as if larynx was pressed shut.
Throat
During and after swallowing food, aching across clavicles, of left side of neck into her ear; gullet feels too small for the food.
Eating and Drinking
After eating: 11, 13, 40. While eating: 13. After drinking: 40.
Nausea and Vomiting
Eructations bitter; hiccough.
Eructations for several days, returning after drinking.
Belching, gagging, nausea at night. θ Ague.
Nausea: with headache, anxiety; and vomiting, after fat food.
Hypochondria
Liver enlarged, indurated.
Pain in region of spleen. θ Ague.
Abdomen
Motions in abdomen, as if bubbles were forming and bursting.
Hysterical tympany; eructations after drinking; bubbles of wind burst in abdomen, etc.
Abdomen puffed. θ Jaundice.
Stitching pains, especially in the sides.
Stool, etc
Ineffectual urging, with much pressing; scanty, hard stool. θ Ague.
Stool difficult, even if not hard. θ Ague.
Voluptuous itching in perineum, compelling scratching.
Urine
Frequent, profuse and pale urine.
Male Sexual Organs
Shooting upward and spreading over pubic region each time after urinating; epididymitis.
Female Sexual Organs
Suppressed menses.
Lungs
Stitches in chest.
Boring, digging in chest.
Twitching in right intercostal muscles.
Neck and Back
Tearing from ear down to neck.
Rolling and gurgling in right scapula.
Pressing stitches along spine, mostly in sacrum, with dyspnœa.
Upper Limbs
Twitching in muscles of arms.
Numbness in left arm, side of head and ear.
Pressive pain in right middle, ring and little finger.
Hands hot.
Finger-tips icy-cold.
Lower limbs
Stitching pain in left thigh.
Pressive pain in left calf.
Jerking pain in right calf, ceases quickly when touched.
Tearing pains only in lower limbs, worse during rest. θ Typhus.
Burning in knees, legs, toes.
Drawing pain in dorsum of right foot, when standing; ceases when sitting.
Severe, or fine stitching pains in right sole.
Limbs in General
Can move limbs, but they feel as if bound or powerless.
Limbs painful to touch and to improper position.
Position, etc
Rest: 33. Wants to lie down: 36. Standing: 3, 33. Sitting: 3, 33, 37. Improper position: 34. Walking: 2, 3.
Nerves
Exhausted, inclined to sit or lie down; semi-conscious.
Debility, loss of appetite, profuse sweat every night; thirst; restless sleep.
Sleep
Yawning, sleepy when sitting.
At night on waking, heat, mostly of face and hands.
Sleep disturbed by: dreams; sweat.
Time
8 P.M.: 40. Night: 16, 36, 37, 40.
Chill, Fever and Sweat
Chilliness all over; at night, with sweat and gastric ailments.
Chill, after food or drink.
Chill in open air.
Nose and hands cold at 8 P.M.; when he falls asleep, sweat breaks out, mostly on head.
Long-lasting chill; copious sweat; pain in spleen.
Copious, debilitating night-sweats, causing biting on skin.
Sweat, mostly with thirst.
Sides
Right: 4, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33. Left: 3, 4, 7, 13, 18, 32, 33, 40.
Tissues
Neuralgia and rheumatism after typhus.
Contact, Injuries, etc
Touch: 33, 34. Scratching: 20.
Skin
Pimply, sycotic skin.
Stinging in skin.
Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889
General
A tincture is made of the entire fresh plant of the Dandelion.
Allies
Chel., Puls. (Hydrast.).
Generalities
Inner feeling as if very sick, all limbs painful on touch or when in an uncomfortable position. ▶ Restlessness and discomfort. ▶ Weakness, so that he wished to lie or sit, when he was semi-conscious as on falling asleep. ▶ Most symptoms appear when sitting and disappear when walking.
Mind
Talkative. ▶ Inclined to laugh. ▶ Religious, happy, contented. ▶ Ill humor in morning and disinclined to any occupation or to talking. ▶ Gloomy when unoccupied, does not know what to do, cannot make up his mind to do anything. ▶ Irresolute and dreading work, though it progresses well as soon as he undertakes it.
Head
Pain extending outward; burning P., extending upward. ▶ Sensation composed of pressure and itching. ▶ Constrict in of brain from all sides. ▶ Heaviness, with redness of face. ▶ Vertigo on walking in open air, with dullness of head; V. on walking in open air, head fell now to right, now to left ; on walking in open air, with insecure step, as if he would fall forward.
Forehead
Sticking; externally in left side; tearing, in left. ▶ Pain; in forepart of head, extending outward towards forehead; crawling as from something alive, extending from the middle of it on walking in open air; drawing, on bone when standing. ▶ Stupefying pain, as after intoxicating; S. pain when sitting, so that he lost his senses when reading and did not know where he was, amel. open air, with nausea. ▶ Contraction above nose, with whirling, at another time painless sensation as if brain were distended here and there.
Temples
▶ Stitches in left when sitting, amel. standing; in left when walking in open air, amel. standing. ▶ Pain in right. ▶ Drawing pain; in left when sitting, amel. walking and standing.
Sticking in left side. ▶ Tearing in occiput when walking, amel. standing still; externally when walking; sticking, behind right ear. ▶ Heaviness in occiput, amel. stooping, agg. rising and holding head erect; H. deep down, with pressure. ▶ Pimple above right temple, painful on touch. ▶ Anterior part of scalp tense, as if tight over vertex.
Eyes
Hard mucus, more in morning than during the day. ▶ Sticking in right. ▶ A kind of ophthalmia, eyes cannot endure light and constantly water with pressure on right upper lid. ▶ Ball, burning sticking in left towards external canthus; burning in left; burning in right towards inner canthus; sticking burning pain in left. ▶ Pupils dilated; contracted. ▶ Lids agglutinated in morning. ▶ Sticking burning in lids. ▶ Pressure as from sand in right inner canthus, with feeling as if lid were swollen there.
Ears
Sticking extending outward in right and always again inward; S. behind ear, with tearing down side of neck itching burning, in right tearing in outer meatus and sharp pressure behind ramus of lower jaw. ▶ Drawing pain in outer. ▶ Pressure inward in left. ▶ Chirping in left like grasshoppers. ▶ (Hearing difficult as from stoppage of ear, in evening.).
Nose and Face
Sneezing when walking in open air. ▶ Bleeding from left nostril at noon, before dinner. ▶ Stitching in cheek. ▶ Sharp pressure in right cheek. ▶ Crack in middle of upper lip. ▶ Pustule in right corner of lips.
Mouth
Sour-tasting blood flowed from right hollow teeth. ▶ Pain like blows in incisors, agg. crowns. ▶ Drawing pain in right hollow teeth, extending into cheek and to brow. ▶ Teeth on edge when chewing food. ▶ Tongue covered with a white film, with raw sensation in it, afterwards the film comes off in pieces, leaving dark red and sensitive spots; coated white, gradually peeling off in spots; coated white; coated yellowish-brown at back; brown in morning on waking, and dry; burning stitches in left side. ▶ Salivation, with feeling as if larynx were compressed; sour-tasting S. ▶ Taste bitter before eating; bitter, rising from œsophagus into mouth (Chel., Puls.); sour to mat, especially to gravy from roast meat, when it touches tip of tongue; salty-sour to butter when it touches tip of tongue; none to tobacco-smoke it causes burning in throat, almost like heartburn, and takes away the breath, amel. drinking.
Throat
Hawking up of sour mucus that sets the teeth on edge. ▶ Acute pain in lower part of parotid and in cervical muscles and extending from sternum to mastoid process, on moving jaws and neck. ▶ Tickling irritation to hacking cough in region of pit of throat he always had a few minutes warning of the paroxysm, but was never able to suppress it. ▶ Dryness, with a ring of inflammation around isthmus faucium; D. in fauces, with bitter mucus, making the voice husky; D., with stitches. ▶ Swallowing difficult, as from a swelling. ▶ Sharp pressure on anterior wall of œsophagus and larynx, provoking cough, amel. swallowing.
Stomach
▶ Bitter eructations and hiccough; empty E., agg. drinking. ▶ Nausea; in œsophagus; when sitting amel. standing, with anxiety; as from fat, amel. open air, with stupefying pain forehead. ▶ Tension in pit when stooping, with pressure in ensiform cartilage. ▶ Stitches in right side of diaphragm when lying on that side. ▶ Tensive pain in region of diaphragm during violent inspiration.
Abdomen
Rumbling and movements. ▶ Griping; then emission of flatus. ▶ Stitches partly in left hypochondrium, sometimes in left or right side of abdomen, sometimes in hypogastrium; in side; left side; tense, in right side; itching, in right muscles. ▶ Pain in left side. ▶ Rumbling in umbilical region towards left side. ▶ Boring outward in umbilical region, extending towards right side. ▶ Sudden persistent motion as if bubbles formed and burst in hypogastrium. ▶ Burning stitches in left hypogastrium, extending towards genitals. ▶ Sprained sensation in left groin on walking, amel. standing and touch. ▶ Painless bubbling in muscles of left hypogastrium.
Clinical
This is remedy for bilious diarrhœa, chilliness after eating or drinking, pain and soreness over the liver bitter taste, mapped tongue.
During a fever great restlessness, with tearing pains in the legs, intolerable while at rest constant muttering delirium, violent tearing in the occiput, chilliness after eating or drinking, mapped tongue.
Stool and Urine
▶ Stool difficult, not hard. ▶ Stool pasty and early, then ineffectual urging. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Pressure to urinate, without pain; frequent desire to urinate and copious urine, afterwards frequent desire and scanty discharge. ▶ Urine high-colored and diminished.
Sexual Organs
Boring in glans. ▶ Long-continued erections. ▶ Tickling on prepuce. ▶ Stitch in left testicle; burning in right. ▶ Emission every other night.
Chest
▶▶ Twitching in right costal muscles; left costal muscles. ▶ Stitches in sternum; side; on last left rib; beneath right axilla; in region of sixth rib; in right side when walking; beneath last left rib, towards back, on every breath; in right side, amel. violent inspiration and expiration, on pressure it returned more violently and extended over a larger space; in left, extending towards back; extending inward during inspiration when standing. ▶ Boring in right breast, agg. walking, with digging. ▶ Boring-sticking drawing in scapular end of right clavicle. ▶ Pressure beneath left axilla; beneath left ribs; outward against right ribs, from hepatic region into chest, during expiration while standing; burning, in sternum, worse during expiration than inspiration.
Heart and Pulse
Uneasy sinking in præcordia. ▶ Pulse rapid, full soft.
Neck
▶ Twitching in left lower part; behind left ear. ▶ Sticking in nape; in left side when standing, amel. sitting down; boring outward in left.
Back
Sticking in spine towards right side when lying, especially in small of back, with difficult breathing; tensive, towards right side; outward in right scapula. ▶ Vibration in right scapula, with quivering (See Chel.). ▶ Pressure in sacrum; when standing; outward in left loin. ▶ Painless creeping in sacrum.
Extremities
Easy motion, but it seems to him as if motor power were restrained. ▶ Twitching on top of left shoulder. ▶ Throbbing on left shoulder; with general chilliness. ▶ Stitch on outer side of left arm. ▶ Pain on inner side of left arm.
Upper Arm
Twitching; in outer part of left. ▶ Sticking on inner side of left ; S. posteriorly, amel. rubbing; intermittent, on outer side of middle of right during rest. ▶ Pain like electric shocks on outer side of left. ▶ Pain in muscles of left. ▶ Intermittent throbbing.
Stitches in right elbow; in left forearm; right forearm, amel. touch. ▶ Twitching in muscles of left forearm. ▶ Pain on inner side of right forearm. ▶ Frequent drawing pains in forearms. ▶ Tearing drawing in left wrist, extending to three last fingers. ▶ Sticking in left fourth fingers. ▶ Pain in three last right fingers; burning in left third and fourth.
Lower Extremities
Twitching in upper part; in left gluteals extending downward. ▶ Sticking in left; boring, on inner side when sitting; pinching, high up on forepart, as if beaten, more on touch than when walking. ▶ Pressure on inner side of right when sitting and standing.
Knee
Sticking; drawing on outer side of right. ▶ Tearing on outer tendon in hollow when sitting. ▶ Sharp pressure on outer side on bending leg. ▶ Burning pain in forepart of right; in left patella.
Leg
Stitches in right calf; upward on outer side of left leg when standing; drawing, upward in right when standing amel. sitting; throbbing, in right calf just beneath hollow of knee; burning, in calf when standing. ▶ Tearing on outer margin of left when standing. ▶ Gnawing in right when standing. ▶ Pain in left calf; jerking, in right calf, suddenly amel. touch; drawing, when sitting and walking; burning in lower part of right; burning on outer side of right. ▶ Burning on forepart of tibia. ▶ Weakness, agg. ascending steps; W. of right when walking yet the muscles seem tenser then in left.
Ankle
Stitch in right inner malleolus when sitting; itching in inner M. ▶ Tearing drawing in left.
Foot
Stitches extending from dorsum into sole; on dorsum of left extending towards great toe; in right sole, extending outward when sitting; itching, in right sole. ▶ Boring in right sole; burning in left sole, extending towards little toe. ▶ Pressure on back of right when sitting. ▶ Drawing pain on back of right when standing; on back of left when standing. ▶ Burning pain on right sole towards outer side; in right sole towards toes when sitting. ▶ Burning drawing on back of left.
Toes
Stitches in right great, towards second toe; tearing S.; burning in right great when walking. ▶ Pulling from little toe up tibia, when sitting.
Skin
Rash on upper part of body, with tingling and itching, scratching temporarily relieved the itching, but caused more eruption and redness, face red in patches and swollen, on forearms and hands, lichen and urticaria, the lichen was purple, thicker about wrists and bindings of elbows, where it was in patches on an inflamed base, the papillæ were covered with a brownish crust as if blood had hardened, the urticaria was principally on the front of the arms, agg. scratching, coming and going two or three times a day, worse in morning, chest and waist were thickly covered and very red. ▶ Pimple in middle of left brow, painful on touch; itching, on hands, agg. sides of fingers and backs of hands. ▶ Pustules on right wing of nose; on upper part of left cheek, with red areola and gnawing on touch. ▶ Itching vesicles on back of foot.
Itching on left gluteals; on fourth toes; suddenly below chin; on left calf in evening on lying; down, not amel. scratching, then redness and moisture; on back of right foot, amel. scratching; corrosive, on left thigh; voluptuous, in perineum, then biting pain; tickling, in perineum, between anus and pudendum.
Sleep
Yawning when sitting. ▶ Sleepiness during the day when reading, amel. moving about; overpowering, after eating, on waking necessity to urinate, with burning before and after micturition. ▶ He fell asleep when listening to scientific conversation and immediately had vivid dreams. ▶ Restless nights. ▶ Frequent waking as if he had slept enough; F. waking and tossing about. ▶ Dreams vivid, unremembered; and anxious; D. of quarrels; voluptuous.
Fever
Chilliness; after eating, agg. drinking; with headache; shacking, on walking on open air. ▶ Fingertips cold. ▶ Heat; without thirst; suddenly when walking in open air, without thirst; in face, with redness; in attacks in toes, agg. back of right great toe; on right forearm. ▶ Sweat; in evening on falling asleep, lasting all night; as soon as he fell asleep, waking him, with heat, agg. cheeks; on waking, causing itching biting; between toes, agg. right.
A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy
Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892
Generalities
General amelioration when walking.
Head
Dull headache, with a feeling of constriction of the brain.
Shooting pains in the temples, > walking about.
Tearing pains in the occiput.
Mouth
Tongue covered with a white fur, but with red spots which are sensitive.
Taste bitter.
Salivation.
Throat
Throat.
Hawking of sour mucus.
Stomach
Bitter eructations, hiccough.
Abdomen
Pain, especially over the region of the liver, with jaundice.
Sensations of bubbles bursting in the bowels.
Stool
Ineffectual urging.
Evacuation difficult, though not hard.
Fever
Chilliness after eating and drinking.
Coldness of the tips of the fingers.
Chill, with headache.
Heat of the face.
Sweat wakes him out of sleep.
Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica
C. M. Boger · Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica · 1905
Mind
Irresolution. Despondency and discontent. Averse to work. Loquacity, with inclination to joke and laugh.
Vertigo
Reeling on walking in open air.
Head
Pressive pains. Sensation of constriction or distension of brain. Tearing in occiput. Only when walking or standing is he sensible of headache.
Eyes
Sticking burning in. Photophobia.
Ears
Sticking and tearing in, and behind.
Face
Reed, with sensation of heat. Pustules on cheeks, wings of nose and angle of mouth. Upper lip cracked.
Teeth
Sour blood exudes from hollow teeth. Dullness of. Drawing in hollow teeth, it extends into eyebrows.
Mouth
Accumulation of sour water in. Dry feeling in throat. Larynx feels pressed shut. Hawking of sour mucus which dulls the teeth. Thick white coat on tongue, peeling off in patches which afterward become very sensitive.
Stomach
Appetite: Aversion to tobacco smoke.
Taste: Bitter, in mouth, before eating. Saltish sour, of food, especially of butter and meat
Nausea: With anxiety and headache. And inclination to vomit after fat foods.
Abdomen
Sticking bellyache, especially in sides of. Sensation of bubbles bursting within.
Stool
Ineffectual urging. Is passed with difficulty even when not hard.
Rectum
Perineum: Voluptuous itching on, compelling him to scratch.
Urine
Frequent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge. Polyuria.
Chest
Pressive pain in. Sticking in. Twitching in intercostal muscles.
Back
Bubbling and rumbling in scapulae, with chill over entire body. Pressive sticking in spine and small of back, with oppression of breathing.
Neck: Twitching and sticking in muscles of, and of nape. Tearing from ear downward along sides of.
Upper Extremities
Twitching in muscles of arm. Icy cold finger tips.
Lower Extremities
Sticking in thighs, calves and soles of feet. Burning in knees, lower legs and toes. Pains in, worse at rest.
Generalities
The limbs are movable enough, but it seems as though' power of motion were impeded. Painfulness of all limbs to touch, and when in a false position. Sense of weariness through' power of motion were impeded. Painfulness of all limbs to touch, and when in a false position. Sense of weariness through' entire body, with inclination to sit or lie, with impaired consciousness. Most symptoms appear when sitting or standing and cease when walking.
Sleep
Sleepiness and falling to sleep when listening to scientific discourses. Day sleepiness and yawning when sitting.
Fever
Chill: and chilliness, especially after eating and drinking. General c. with headache. Shivering c., in open air. Heat: At night when awaking. especially on face and hands. Sweat: Very profuse throughout whole night, but most in first sleep before midnight. Very exhausting biting s., on skin.
Relationship
Allied Remedies: Con., Kali-c., Puls., Valer.
Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica
Adolph von Lippe · Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1915
Symptoms
The limbs are movable, but it seems to him as if the moving power is obstructed.
Painfulness of all the limbs by touch and a like condition when in an improper position.
Sensation of great heat on top of head.
Sterno-mastoid muscle very painful to the touch.
Crampy pains in different parts of the body.
Cramp in the left sterno-mastoid muscle.
The food tastes sour.
Sensation of weakness through the whole body with a desire to lie around.
More symptoms appear while sitting or standing and disappear when walking.
In the evening when going to sleep perspiration.
Sour blood from decayed teeth during toothache.
Secretion of urine increased.
Hawking up of sour mucus.
Collection of water in the mouth.
Bubbly sensation in the abdomen.