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Adrenalinum * Aranearum Tela * Calcarea Carbonica Ostrearum * Calcarea Ovi Test * Carbo Animalis * Castor
Equi * Cervus * Colostrum * Conchiolinum * Fel Tauri * Gadus Morrhua * Helix Tosta * Hippomanes * Lac
Caninum * Lac Felinum * Lac Vaccinum * Oleum Jecoris Aselli * Oophorinum * Orchitinum * Ovi Gallin
Pellicula * Pulmo Vulpis * Sphingurus * Thyroidinum * Urinum
Adrenalinum
Extract of supra-renal bodies.
A Sarcode.
Tincture or trituration.
Clinical (Adrenalinum)
Addison's disease.
Adrenal neuralgia.
Bronzed skin.
Debility. Hmaturia.
Hypermia.
Palpitation.
Tachycardia.
Characteristics (Adrenalinum)
Adrenalin has cured a number of cases of Addison's disease and has arrested others.
The leading features of this affection may be taken as guides for its use :
Bronzing of skin ;
Loss of strength ;
Wasting ;
Exceedingly rapid pulse.
It has cured a case of hmaturia accompanied by pain in the adrenal region.
It has been used locally in cases of hypermia of the conjunctiva, dissipating it almost immediately, and thus
rendering operations possible.
The general muscular system is affected, a slight stimulus producing prolonged contraction.
Abdomen, large.
Acidity.
Alcohol, effects of.
Anmia.
Ankles, weak.
Appetite, depraved.
Beard, sycosis of.
Bone, disease of.
Brachial neuralgia.
Breasts, painful.
Bronchial glands, affections of.
Calculus.
Caries.
Cataract.
Chilblains.
Chorea.
Cold.
Consumption.
Corpulency.
Coryza.
Cough.
Coxalgia.
Croup.
Crusta lactea.
Debility.
Delirium tremens.
Dentition.
Diabetes.
Diarrha.
Dropsy.
Dyspepsia.
Ear, affections of.
Epilepsy.
Epulis.
Eyes, affections of.
Fever, intermittent.
Fistula.
Gall-stones.
Glandular swellings.
Gleet.
Goitre.
Gonorrha.
Gouty swellings.
Headache.
Hernia.
Herpes.
Hydrocephalus.
Hypochondriasis.
Hysteria.
Impotence.
Joints, affections of.
Lactation, defective.
Leucocythmia.
Leucorrha.
Lupus.
Masturbation.
Melancholia.
Menstruation, disorders of.
Milk-fever.
Miller's phthisis.
Miscarriage.
Molluscum contagiosum.
Nvus.
Nervous fever.
Neuralgia.
Night terrors.
Paralysis.
Parotitis.
Peritonitis.
Perspiration.
Plethora.
Polypus.
Pregnancy.
Prosopalgia.
Psoriasis palmaris.
Ranula.
Renal colic.
Rhagades.
Rheumatism.
Rickets.
Ringworm.
Sciatica.
Scrofula.
Skin, affections of.
these three medicines should be thoroughly known, as these are in a sense the standards around which the
rest are grouped. All three have a very wide range and deep action.
They have many symptoms in common, but Calc. is somewhat sharply distinguished from Sulphur in that it is a
chilly remedy, the patient seeking warmth, whilst the Sulphur patient is < by heat, and > by cold. Calc. has cold,
clammy feet, "as if there were damp stockings on" ; Sulphur has characteristically hot, sweaty feet. The
"sinking sensation" common to all three is most marked with Sulphur at 11 a. m. , with Lycopod. at 4 p. m. ,
with Calcarea at any time.
Calcarea is closely allied to Belladonna, Nux, Puls. , and Rhus in its action. It follows well Sulph. and Nit. ac. , to
both of which it is complementary. It is inimical to Bryonia, and should not be given immediately before or after
that medicine. Like many of the other carbonates, Calc. carb. corresponds to persons of soft fibre with
tendency to be fat.
"This remedy is particularly adapted to the real Leucophlegmatic Constitution. Where we find a large head,
large features, pale skin, with a chalky look, and (in infants) open fontanelles, we may think strongly of Calc. c.
" (Guernsey).
The scrofulous constitution embraces a large number of Calcarea's characteristic effects : fat children rather
bloated than solid, pale but flushing easily. Fair ; slow in movement ; of irregular growth, large heads, with
wide-open fontanelles ; large abdomens ; irregular and partial sweats : the head sweats profusely, wetting the
pillow for a space around the head ; enlarged and hard lymphatic glands. Icy coldness in abdomen. In addition
there are night terrors ; child wakes at 2 or 3 a. m. screaming, cannot be made to understand, remembers
nothing of it in the morning.
Children are slow in teething and walk late. Sourness is one of the characteristic notes of Calc. c. ; the body is
sour ; taste sour ; sour stool and urine. All the symptoms are made worse by taking cold. In all cases where
there is improper nutrition and imperfect digestion, such as described above, and where there is chilliness,
aggravation from contact with water and from cold, cold, clammy feet and sinking sensations, Calcarea will
most likely prove the remedy.
Calc. also corresponds to ailments following losses of fluids, such as from self abuse ; and it corresponds to a
form of menorrhagia, the flow being excessive and the intervals shortened. Periods return too soon after
excitement. There is often pain in the breasts before the flow commences, as with Conium. But if the menses
are scanty or absent, and the Calc. characteristics of chilliness and cold, clammy feet are present, Calc. will
still be the remedy.
Suppression of menses in women of full habit after working in water. Bearing-down pains. Ovarian or uterine
pains, right side, extending down thighs ; < on reading or writing (left, Lil. t. ). In addition to the cold symptoms
there are sensations of heat and burning : heat in and on the vertex. In connection with this the sweat of the
head must be remembered. It occurs chiefly on occiput and forehead (that of Sil. is all over). There is >
uncovering during the heats (as with Lyc. and unlike Sil. ).
Burning in soles of feet at night ; burning in back of hands. The characteristic Calc. hand is soft, warm, and
moist ; a boneless hand. Also hands inclined to chap. There are copious night sweats, which may be sour or
odourless. Foot-sweat, sour or odourless. The sweats of Calc. give no relief. Bloody sweats. Among other heat
symptoms is hot breath, with heat in mouth. Rumination is among the Calc. effects. Nausea after drinking
water, even ever so little ; but not if iced.
The "sinking" sensation of Calc. has some modifications. There is ravenous hunger ; hunger and feeling of
emptiness immediately after a meal, and in the early morning. If he doesn't have his breakfast at the proper
time, a headache comes on. Craving for eggs ; for indigestible things, chalk, coal, &c. Nausea when fasting.
Sour eructations. Sour diarrha.
Sour body smell. Milk disagrees ; sour vomiting of large curds. Inability to swallow solids. Chronic disease of
left tonsil ; feeling of lump in left side of throat which he wants to swallow down. Pain from left tonsil to ear.
Semi-lateral swelling of tongue. The prosopalgia of Calc. is > warm fomentations, like Pul. Biliary colic : cutting
pain under right scapula running to right hypochondrium and epigastrium. Crawling in rectum as from worms.
Burning in rectum. Weight in lower rectum. Stools hard and pasty ; like chalk or clay offensive ; undigested.
Ardor urin ; offensive urine. Impotence penis cold and relaxed.
Calcarea is related to the pretubercular stage of phthisis ; it is more especially suited to affections of the right
apex. Stitching in chest and sides of chest when moving and when lying on affected side. The cough is
provoked by going into a cold room ; by chilliness. Tickling cough, sensation of feather in throat. I have cured
with Calc. a "fat cough" i. e. , a cough with easy expectoration of a little mucus and an arsenical cough
(brought on by sleeping in a room having an arsenical wallpaper) which waked the patient in the middle of the
night, causing him to sit up and cough till phlegm was raised.
Rattling in the chest ; miller's and stone-cutter's phthisis ; old suppurating cavities. Swelling of cervical and
bronchial glands. Scrofulous glands and scrofulous diseases of bones ; spinal curvature ; rickets. Swellings ;
false appearance of fat ; milk leg > by elevating the limb, < hanging it down. The same conditions mark the
sciatica of Calc. , which follows on working in water. Rheumatic and gouty conditions from wetting. Joints
crack and crepitate as if dry.
The skin is rough and scaly and inclined to chap. Rhagades. Chapped hands. Chilblains from wetting.
Eruptions. Cooper has cured with it psoriasis palmaris. Eruption behind right ear. Warts and polypi. Calc. is an
eminently sycotic medicine, as the early morning aggravation would indicate.
The mental and nervous systems of Calc. are no less remarkable than the bodily. The Calc. patient is slow in
movements (Sul. quick and active). The state of mind is one of apprehension. The patient fears she will lose her
reason, or that people will notice her mental confusion.
Fears she has some fatal disease, especially heart disease. Shuddering and dread as evening, draws near.
Sees visions on closing eyes (hence useful in delirium tremens). Cries out, twitches, grasps at flocks ; restless
and anxious though unconscious (nervous and typhoid fever) ; beside herself with anguish ; on the borders of
acute mania. Evil forebodings ; talks of Mice, rats, murders. Forgetful.
The epilepsy of Calc. has an aura spreading up from the solar plexus, in which case the convulsion comes on
immediately ; or it may be like a mouse running on the arm ; or it may run down from epigastrium into uterus or
limbs. The causes are fright, suppressed eruptions and discharges, sexual excesses. Rush of blood to head ; a
sensation of something rising up from epigastrium to head is very characteristic. Trembling, twitching ; internal
trembling sensation on awaking.
Fainting, coming on in the street with sensation of something rising from stomach to head. Talking = a feeling
of weakness which compels him to desist. Exertion or excitement = exhaustion, though he may feel well before.
Ascending = great weakness. Exhaustion in the morning.
Vertigo : tendency to fall to left ; to either side ; backward. Caused by turning head ; < looking upward ; going
(especially running) upstairs. Sensation as if in a dream. Calc. is one of the remedies that has been used for the
sensation of levitation. Aversion to darkness. Cloud coming over head. In sleep the mental symptoms come out
again : the patient is either abnormally sleepy or sleepless. Wakes 3 a. m. , and cannot get to sleep again ;
tosses about. Horrible phantasms.
The child wakes in the night screaming and cannot be pacified ; in the morning remembers nothing of it. Chews
and swallows in sleep. Frightful dreams of sickness, death, and smell of corpses.
Neuralgias and paralyses are among the Calc. effects. A remarkable case (of Dr. Mayntzer's) improved by Silic.
and cured by Calc. is quoted in Hom. League Tract, vol. ii. p. 108. A girl of nineteen had had for some months
neuralgic pains in both arms, coming on every evening, lasting all night, and being replaced during the day
with sensation of lameness and weakness. Pressure and movements aggravated. Hands trembling, numb,
fingers often remained opened out stiff and could not be bent.
The Silica symptoms are : "Tearing pains in upper arm. Pain as of dislocation at wrist. Cramp pain and
lameness of hand on slight exertion. Gone-to-sleep feeling of hands at night. Numbness and formication of
hands. Restlessness and trembling in right arm. "
The symptoms of Calc. are : "Bruised pain of arms on moving or grasping. Pain as if sprained in wrist, with
shooting and tearing in it when moved. Tearing in whole arm, shooting, tearing pain in upper arm and elbow.
Nocturnal tearing and drawing in arms. Spasmodic tearing pain on outer side of forearm from elbow to wrist.
Cramp in whole of one or other arm. Cramp in hands at night until she rises in morning. Cramp-like contraction
of fingers. Pain and weakness of hands ; trembling of hands in morning. Weakness and a kind of lameness of
arm. Fingers feel furry. " Both remedies were given, and great improvement occurred under Silic. , but as the
pain was not gone the patient took Calc. (which was only to be taken in case of need) on the fifth day. On the
sixth day the pain was gone "as if blown away," as the patient expressed it and no wonder ! It would be
difficult to find a closer simillimum. The general condition of the patient underwent a complete change for the
better at the same time. Both remedies were given in globules of 6th. Dr. Van den Neucker (H. Recorder, 1886,
p. 139) once cured a baker of paralysis of both arms with Calc. ; and also a case of paralysis with many
symptoms of locomotor ataxy in a lymphatic blonde girl of nineteen.
According to Guernsey Calc. is in general a right-side remedy. It affects specially right external head ; right eye
; right face ; right abdominal ring ; sexual organs right side ; right back ; right upper extremities. Left side neck
and nape of neck ; left chest ; left lower extremities. Complaints prevailing in inner parts. Among the
sensations of Calc. are : Pain as if the parts would burst, were pressed asunder, were pushed asunder ; as if
cold, damp stockings were on the feet. Creeping on the limbs like a mouse. Pain as if sprained in outer parts.
Sensation of dust in inner parts as the eye, bronchial tubes. Pricking, darting, jerking, trembling ; itching > by
scratching. It is often indicated in epilepsy, disposition to strain a part by lifting heavy things, pricking corns,
polypus, cysts, occurring in leucophlegmatic constitutions. Where a cold wind strikes the body and it
immediately runs to the teeth, causing them to ache. Ranula. Flatulence or gurgling in right hypochondrium.
Cramp in legs at 3 a. m. Hands chap from hard water.
Alexander Villers cured with Calc. c. 200 in rare doses a case combining many of the features of the remedy.
The patient, a lady, t. 20, very despondent through long-continued depressing circumstances, became very
nervous. She was companion to an exceedingly deaf lady, whose voice was high-pitched.
This, with the strain on her voice to make herself heard, caused headache through temples > by rapid motion of
head. Outdoor exercise was accompanied by hard pressure on chest, which only eructations seemed to relieve.
Bowels constipated. Menses every fortnight, with backache and great prostration. Under the remedy, repeated
at rare intervals, the menses came on monthly, headache and pressure on chest disappeared.
Among the Conditions of Calc. , dread of the open air ranks most prominently ; the least cold air goes right
through. Great sensitiveness to cold, damp air. Also cannot bear sun. The slightest change <. Dread of bathing
and water. There is inclination to stretch and put the shoulders back ; but straightening < rheumatism. Calc. is
hydrogenoid and sycotic sensitive to cold and damp and early morning aggravation. Warts and polypi also
point to the same constitutional state.
The Calc. patient generally feels better when constipated. The diarrha of Calc. is generally < in afternoon.
There is painless hoarseness < in morning. "The Calc. pains are most generally felt while lying in bed, or while
sitting ; they are felt in the parts upon which the body has been lying for a time" (Teste). There is < after
midnight and in early morning ; on awaking. Chill at 2 p. m. In the evening, 6 to 7, there is fever without chill, <
from working in water or bathing, < at full moon ; at new moon and at solstice. < After eating (smoked meats,
milk) ; when fasting. < By mental exertion (writing). < From pressure of clothes. < From lifting ; from stooping. <
Walking in open air, cold air, wet weather, to which he is very sensitive. < From letting limbs hang down. In
spite of the sensitiveness to cold, cannot bear sun. < From light in general ; from looking fixedly at any object ;
from looking upward ; from turning the head. Some symptoms are > inspiring fresh air ; and during heat,
uncovers. > After breakfast ; on rising from drawing up limbs ; from loosening garments. > In the dark when
lying on the back ; after lying down ; from rubbing, from scratching ; in dry weather ; wiping or soothing with
the hands ; from being touched. Great weakness on ascending, on walking, talking (chests feels weak), or
excitement.
Relations (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Antidoted by :
Camph. , Ip. , Nit. ac. , Nit. sp. dulc. , Nux, Sul.
Antidote to :
Bism. , Chi. , Chi. sul. , Dig. , Mez. (headache), Nit. ac. , Phos.
Follows well :
Cham. , Chi. , Con. , Cup. , Nit. ac. , Nux, Pul. , Sul. (especially if the pupils dilate).
Followed well by :
Lyc. , Nux, Pho. , Plat. , Sil. Hahnemann says that Calc. must not be given before Nit. ac. , or Sul.
Complementary :
Bell.
Incompatible :
Bry.
Compare :
Alum. and Am. mur, (tightness of chest) ; Arn. (strains, &c. ) ; Arsen. (swollen mesenteric glands). Calcarea ovi
test, Calc. ars. , Calc. ph. , and other Calcareas. In ardor. urin (Sep. , burning and cutting ; Canth. , cutting) ;
losses of fluids (Chi. , Sul. ) ; left tonsil (Bar. c. , Sul. , Lach. ) ; nausea when fasting (Pul. , Lyc. , Sil. ) ;
leucorrha, acrid or bland (Graph. , Sul. , Alum. ) ; glandular enlargement ; alcohol, effects of (Ars. , Chi. , Nux,
Lach. ) ; acid stomach (Chi. , Lyc. , Sul. , Pul. , Rob. ) ; menses too copious and too early (Bell. ) ; one side of
tongue (Lauro. , Sil. , Thu. ) ; waking at 3 a. m. (Bellis, Nux, Kali c. , Ars. , Sep. ) ; swelling and painfulness of
breasts before menses (Con. Con. is an anti-fat, like Calc. , precedes and follows it well ; suits well Calc.
subjects who have scanty menses, Bell. corresponds otherwise) ; dread of losing senses (Lyc. , Nux, Sul. ) ;
levitation, as if raised from the ground (Sil. , Can. i. , Sticta, Gelsem. , Asar. , Thu. ; Phos. ac. has feeling as if
legs were raised above the level of head) ; prosopalgia > by warm fomentations (Pul. ) ; sinking immediately
after meals (Ars. , Cin. , Lyc. , Staph. , Ur. n. ) ; cough when eating or in open air Rx. c. (after eating, Nux, Ip. ; <
change of temperature, Lach. ; < current of cold air, Sil. , Nat. c. ) ; ravenous hunger (Ars. , Calc. , Cin. , Iod. ,
Sil. , Stp. ) ; hot breath (Sul. , Rhus) ; aversion to darkness (Am. m. , Carb. a. , Stro. , Val. , Stram. ) ; >
uncovering (Aco. , Camph. , Fer. , Iod. , Lyc. , Pul. , Sec. , Sul. , Ver. ) ; vertigo on turning head or looking up
(Pul. , looking up ; Sul. , looking down) ; vomits milk (th. , Ant. c. ) ; tightness of chest (Alum. , Am. m. ) ; child
chews and swallows in sleep (Amyl. , Bry. , Ign. ) ; convulsions, scarlatina, headache (Bell. ) ; weak from talking
(Cocc. , Stan. , Sul. , Ver. ) ; epilepsy (Cupr. ) ; nvus (Fluor. ac. ) ; diarrha, cholera infantum (Ip. ) ;
constipation, intertrigo, gout, ophthalmia, gonitis, epilepsy, typhus (Lyc. ) ; intertrigo, &c. (Cham. ) ; canker
sores, quinsey, heart, stool, sweat, especially on chest with old people (Merc. compare the Hydrarg. cum creta
of the old school) ; burning on vertex (Phos. , Sul. ) ; rheumatism from damp, ophthalmia, inflamed glands from
strains (RhusRhus is a very close analogue of Calc. ; Bell. , Dulc. , Nux, Puls. , and Rhus may be regarded as
the acute satellites of Calc. ) ; desire to be mesmerised (Phos. , Sil. ), nvus, mesenteric glands (Sil. ) ;
epilepsy, aura of mouse running up arm (Sul. Sul. should be given first, and if it does not cure, then Calc. ) ;
polypus (Teuc. ) ; scarlatina (Zn). ; sunstroke and sun headaches (Aco. , Glo. , Lach. , Lyc. , Sul. , Nat. c. , Nat.
m. headache > by heat of sun, Stro. ).
Teste puts Calc. in the Pulsatilla group of remedies. He says there is a "sort of negative relation between the
symptoms of Merc. sol. , or rather between those of Nit. ac. and the symptoms of Calc. This contrast has struck
me several times, and it is the most remarkable for this reason, that Nit. ac. is one of the best antidotes to Calc.
"
Causation (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Alcohol.
Cold, moist winds.
Excessive venery.
Fright.
Inflammation of the eyes from foreign bodies coming into them ; in infants or scrofulous subjects.
Itching and shooting in the eyes.
Lachrymal suppurating fistula.
Lachrymation, esp. in the open air, or early in the morning.
Obscuration of the sight on reading, or after a meal.
Presbyopia.
Pressure, itching, burning and stinging in the eyes.
Pupils greatly dilated.
Quivering in the eyelids.
Red and thick swelling of the eyelids, with abundant secretion of humour and nocturnal agglutination.
Sensation of cold in the eyes.
Smarting, burning, and incisive pains in the eyes and the eyelids, esp. on reading during the day, or by candlelight.
Ulcers, spots, and opacity of cornea.
Ears (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Crackling and detonation in the ears, when swallowing and when chewing.
Hardness of hearing, esp. after the suppression of intermittent fever by Quinine.
Humid eruption upon and behind the ears.
Humming, buzzing, tingling, or rumbling, sometimes alternately with music, in the ears.
Inflammatory swelling of the parotids.
Internal and external inflammation and swelling of the ear.
Polypus in the ears.
Pulsation, beating, and heat in the ears.
Purulent discharge from the ears.
Sensation, at intervals, of stoppage in the ears, and hardness of hearing.
Shootings in the ears.
Nose (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Coryza, alternately with cutting pains in the abdomen.
Dry coryza, in the morning, with frequent sneezing.
Urine red like blood, or a brownish red, of an acrid, pungent, and fetid smell, with white and mealy sediment.
Wetting the bed.
Male Sexual Organs (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Absence of pollutions, or great frequency of them.
After coition, confusion of the head and weakness.
Erections of too short continuance, and emission of semen too slow and too feeble during coition.
Flow of prostatic fluid, after evacuation and emission of urine.
Increase of sexual desire, with voluptuous and lascivious ideas.
Inflammation of the prepuce, with redness and burning pain.
Lancinations and burning in the genital parts, during the emission of semen in coition.
Pressure, and pain as from a bruise, in the testes.
Weakness of the genital functions, and absence of sexual desire.
Female Sexual Organs (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Before the catamenia, mamm swollen and painful, fatigue, headache, disposition to be frightened, colic, and
shivering.
Breasts painful and tender before menses.
Catamenia premature and too copious.
During the catamenia, congestion in the head, with internal heat, or cuttings in the abdomen, and cramp-like
pain in the lumbar region, or else vertigo, headache, toothache, nausea, colic, and other sufferings.
Flow of blood at a time different from the catamenia.
Inflammation and swelling of the womb, with redness, purulent discharge, and burning pain.
Inflammatory swelling of the mamm and of the nipples.
Itching in the womb.
Itching or pressing in the vagina.
Leucorrha before the catamenia.
Leucorrha, with burning itching, or else like milk, flowing by fits, and during the emission of urine.
Metrorrhagia.
Milk too abundant, or suppressed.
Miscarriage.
Pain, as of excoriation and ulceration, in the nipples.
Attacks of torpor and paleness of some parts of the body, which appear as if dead.
Bleeding from inner parts.
Bloatedness of the body and of the face, with enlargement of the abdomen, in children.
Cramps and contractions of the limbs (which draw the limbs crooked), esp. of the fingers and toes.
Ebullition of the blood, mostly in plethoric individuals, and often with congestion in the head and chest.
Emaciation (with swelled abdomen), without failure of appetite.
Epileptic convulsions, also at night with cries ; during the full moon ; with hallooing and shouting.
Excessive dejection, sometimes with violent fits of spasmodic laughter.
Fainting, esp. in the evening, with obscuration of the eyes, sweat on the face, and cold in the body.
Fatigue and nervous weakness, often with paleness of the face, palpitation of the heart, vertigo, shivering, pain
in the loins.
Frequent trembling of the whole body, increased in the open air.
General uneasiness in the evening, as preceding an attack of intermittent fever.
Great fatigue after speaking, or after a moderate walk in the open air, as well as after the least exertion, with
ready and abundant perspiration.
Great plumpness and excessive obesity.
Great tendency to strain the back in lifting, often followed by pains in the throat, or stiffness and swelling of the
nape of the neck, with headache.
Great tendency to take cold, and great sensibility to cold and damp air.
Great uneasiness, which forces the patient to move constantly and to walk much.
On walking in the open air, sadness with tears, headache, inflation of the abdomen, palpitation of the heart,
sweat, great fatigue, and many other sufferings.
Pain, as from a bruise, in the arms and in the legs, and also in the loins, esp. on moving, and on going upstairs.
Pulsative pains.
Sensation of coldness in inner parts.
Sensation of dryness of inner parts.
Shootings and drawing pains in the limbs, chiefly at night, or in summer, and on change of weather.
St. Vitus' dance.
Startings in different limbs.
Stinging and cutting in outer and inner parts.
Strong desire to be magnetised.
Skin of the body rough, dry, and as if covered with a kind of miliary eruption.
Skin unhealthy ; every injury tends to ulceration ; even small wounds suppurate and do not heal.
Swelling ; softening ; curvature of ; stinging in ; caries and distortion of the bones.
Swelling and induration of the glands, with or without pain. Varices.
Ulceration of the bones.
Ulcers deep ; fistulous ; carious.
Ulcers with too little pus.
Visible quivering of the skin from head to foot, followed by giddiness.
Warts.
Sleep (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
At night, agitation, asthmatic suffering, anxiety, heat, pains in the stomach and in the precordial region, thirst,
beatings of the head, toothache, vertigo, headache, ebullition of the blood, fear of losing the reason, pains in
the limbs, and many other sufferings.
Dreams frequent, vivid, anxious, fantastic, confused, frightful, and horrible ; or dreams of sick and dead
persons.
Drowsiness in the day and early in the evening.
During sleep, talking, groans, cries, and starts, anxiety which continues after waking, or movements of the
mouth, as if one were chewing or swallowing.
Fearful of fantastic dreams during sleep.
On waking, lassitude, exhaustion, and desire to sleep, as if the patient had not slept at all.
Retarded sleep and sleeplessness from activity of mind, or in consequence of voluptuous or frightful images,
which appear as soon as the eyes are shut.
Sleep disturbed, with tossing about and frequent waking.
Sleep of too short duration, from eleven in the evening till two or three in the morning only.
Snoring during sleep.
Waking too early, sometimes even at midnight.
Fever (Calcarea carbonica ostrearum)
Excessive cold, internally.
Frequent attacks of transient heat, with anguish and beating of the heart.
Heat in the evening, or in bed at night.
Heat with thirst, followed by chilliness.
Carbo Animalis.
Animal Charcoal.
Contains Calc. phos. C (impure).
Made from charred ox-hide.
Trituration.
Pleurisy.
Polypus.
Scrofula.
Strabismus.
Syphilis.
Tongue, affections of.
Trachea, affections of.
Ulceration.
Uterus, cancer of.
Vision, disorders of.
A. W. K. Choudhury reports a case of cough of two years' duration, in an unhealthy boy of twelve, cured by
Carb. a. The symptoms were : "Cough evening and morning, or after lying down, especially at night, thick or
frothy whitish or yellowish sputa, sweetish when thick ; < lying on right side ; < from exposure to air, to which
he is very sensitive. Great tendency to catch cold. "
< After shaving.
< From sprains from touch.
< Lying on right side (cough).
After menses, throbbing headache, < in open air.
Pressure with hand > coldness of stomach.
Rest < head symptoms.
Symptoms are < in cold air ; > in warm room.
Weakness < during menses.
Relations (Carbo animalis)
Compare : Calc. phos. (nearest analogue ; Carb. an. contains Calc. ph. ) ; in indurations, suppurations, &c. ,
Bad. , Bro. ; loss of fluids, Chi. ; Graph. ; nostrils adhere to septum, Pho. ; gone feeling, loss of fluids,
induration of cervix, pressure an back, groins, and thighs during menses, Sep. (Sep. has not the venosity, the
copper-coloured face, flatulent gastric disturbances, or offensive ichorous discharges, or throbbing headache
after menses of Carb. an. ; Carb. v. has not the indurations of Carb. an. or Sep. ) ; Coccul. has the same
weakness and prostration as Carbo an. , but in the case of the latter the weakness is in consequence of the
loss of fluid, whilst with Coccul. it is part of the general effect of the remedy. Puls. ; Sil. ; in vertigo with
epistaxis, Sul. ; aversion to darkness, Am. m. , Bar. c. , Calc. , Stro. , Stram. ; hunger in early morning, Ant. c. ,
Asar. , Calc. , Sabad. ; swelling behind ear, Caps. , Aur. ; burning pains, Caps. ; weakness of nursing women,
Oleand.
Antidoted by : Ars. , Camph. , Nux, Vinegar.
Antidote to : Effects of Quinine.
Complementary : Calc. phos.
Causation (Carbo animalis)
Eating decayed vegetables.
Eating spoiled fish.
Eating.
Lifting.
Loss of fluids.
Quinine.
Strain.
Symptoms.
Water-brash.
Abdomen (Carbo animalis)
Abdomen inflated and extended.
Constriction and squeezing, as if by claws, in the abdomen.
Cuttings and shootings in the groins.
Fetid flatulency.
Incarceration of flatus.
Inguinal hernia.
Loud rumbling in the abdomen.
Pain in the liver, as if from excoriation, when the region is touched.
Pressure and cuttings in the hepatic region.
Stool and Anus (Carbo animalis)
Before the evacuation, traction from the anus to the vulva.
Burning hmorrhoidal tumours in the anus.
Burning pains and shooting in the anus, and in the rectum.
Discharge of taenia.
During stool, pain in the small of the back, with inflation of the abdomen.
Excoriation and oozing (inodorous) at the anus.
Fces hard and knotty.
Frequent evacuations during the day.
Ineffectual efforts to evacuate ; discharge of wind only.
Sacral pains during the evacuation.
Tendency to galling at the anus from riding on horseback.
Viscid oozing at the perinum.
Urinary Organs (Carbo animalis)
Burning soreness in the urethra when urinating.
Burning urine.
Emission of urine at night.
Fetid urine.
Involuntary emission of urine.
Urgent desire to make water, with abundant emission.
Male Sexual Organs (Carbo animalis)
Absence of sexual desire.
Frequent pollutions, followed by weakness and anxious inquietude.
Female Sexual Organs (Carbo animalis)
Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts.
Leucorrha burning, smarting, or which imparts a yellow tinge to the linen.
Menses are followed by great exhaustion.
Nausea of pregnant females, coming on principally at night ; faint and empty sensation in the pit of the
stomach is produced by nursing.
Painful nodosities and indurations in the mamm.
Premature catamenia.
Serous and fetid lochia.
Uterine hmorrhages where there is much affection of the glands.
Respiratory Organs
Aphonia at night.
Cough < lying on right side.
Cough, with discharge of greenish pus (suppuration of the lungs).
Cough, with purulent expectoration, and shootings in the right side of the chest.
Dry cough at night.
Hoarse cough, with pain as of excoriation in the throat ; in the morning, after rising.
Matutinal cough with expectoration, excited by a sensation of dryness in the throat.
Matutinal hoarseness.
Oppression of the chest, esp. in the evening and at night.
Suffocating cough, esp. in the evening, after having slept.
Chest (Carbo animalis)
Far gone pleurisy.
Castor Equi.
The Rudimentary Thumbnail of the Horse.
A small, flat, oblongoval horn, wrinkled on surface, breaking off in scales, darker than the hoof, growing on
inner side of leg above fetlock.
Scales triturated.
Cervus.
Cervus campestris.
Cervus brasilicus.
Brazilian deer.
Triturations of the fresh hide covered with hair.
Clinical (Cervus)
Sciatica.
Taste, altered.
Tongue, painful.
Characteristics (Cervus)
Mure proved this substance, and one symptom appears to be peculiar : "Taste of doughy bread in the mouth. "
Relations (Cervus)
Compare : Carb. an. (charred ox-hide).
Symptoms.
Eyes (Cervus)
Sensitive to light, esp. sunlight.
Face (Cervus)
Face mottled.
Mouth (Cervus)
Coppery taste with heat in throat when taking the drug.
Taste of doughy bread.
Abdomen (Cervus)
Needle-like pain, intermitting in right groin, in direction of joint, after walking.
Pricking in navel when lying.
Upper Limbs (Cervus)
Numbness of arm on which he lies ; of hand and legs.
Lower Limbs (Cervus)
Frequent pain, now in left buttock now in thigh.
Sleep (Cervus)
Drowsiness and yawning.
Colostrum.
The milk first secreted after childbirth.
Solution
Clinical (Colostrum)
Diarrha.
Characteristics (Colostrum)
The symptoms of Colost. are purely clinical.
Its use in diarrha was probably suggested by the purgative effect of Colostrum on the infant.
Bell gives the indications as follows :
Stools (Colostrum)
Bilious.
Excoriating.
Green.
Mucous.
Profuse.
Sour-smelling.
Watery.
Yellow.
Aggravation (Colostrum)
During dentition.
In nursing infants.
During Stool (Colostrum)
Colicky pains in hypogastrium.
Accompaniments (Colostrum)
Emaciation.
Fever.
Great nervous irritability, or listlessness.
Loss of appetite.
Pale face.
The whole body smells sour.
Tongue coated white or yellow.
Vomiting of sour or bitter substances.
Conchiolinum.
Mother-of-Pearl.
Trituration.
Clinical (Conchiolinum)
Osteitis
Pymia.
Characteristics (Conchiolinum)
Observations made on workers in mother-of-pearl factories show that inhalation of the dust produces catarrh
of the respiratory organs, and, later on, inflammation of the ends of bones.
This always begins in the diaphyses, but may spread to the epiphyses. It always attacks young subjects.
First there is a more or less intense pain in the bone ; comes suddenly ; at first continuous ; later intermittent.
Soon after the appearance of the pain there is fever ; thirst ; loss of appetite ; sleeplessness ; dark-coloured
urine with sediment. Then swelling occurs.
The swelling always develops on one or the other end of a diaphysis, never in the middle of it nor in the
epiphysis.
The swelling has a clear, sharp margin ; it is extremely painful to the slightest touch ; at first soft, elastic and
slightly fluctuating, it may become as hard as a bone.
Suppuration may occur.
The bones that have been affected are lower jaw, scapula, humerus, radius, ulna, tibia, fibula, tarsal, and
metatarsal bones.
I cured with Conch. 3 a delicate boy who at three different times had had pain in left knee.
The left inner condyle was swollen and tender. The cure was rapid and the general health much improved at the
same time.
Conch. has, no doubt, a wide range of action in affections of bones, especially when the growing ends are
affected. Calc. phos. and Calc. c. are its nearest analogues.
Fel Tauri
Ox Gaul.
Bilis Bovina.
N. O. Ruminantia.
Impissated gall triturated with sugar of milk ; or lower dilutions may be made with water.
Clinical (Fel tauri)
Asthma.
Constipation.
Diarrha.
Gall-stones.
Headache.
Indigestion.
Rheumatism.
Characteristics (Fel tauri)
Ox gall is a remedy of very ancient use.
It is used in the old-school mostly as a purgative ; for preventing putrefactive changes in the intestines, and for
increasing peristalsis.
It is sometimes given along with Opium to prevent the constipating effect of that drug.
In the stomach bile is a foreign body, precipitating pepsin and causing irritation of the stomach.
It does not aid the digestion either of albumen or of farinaceous substances. Fel. t. has been proved
homopathically by Buchner, and has produced a few characteristic symptoms :
Diarrha,
Disordered digestion,
Headache,
It removed a tendency to sleep after eating.
Pains in joints, and cramps.
Several symptoms were noticed in nape of neck.
Relations (Fel tauri)
Compare : Cholesterinum, Mercurius dulcis.
Symptoms
Mind (Fel tauri)
Greatly inclined to all kinds of business ; unpleasant impressions did not affect him.
Peevish, irritable mood.
Head (Fel tauri)
Confusion.
Violent headache in morning, on pressure upon r. temple, extending on to occiput and nape of neck.
Mouth (Fel tauri)
Tongue white.
Stomach and Abdomen (Fel tauri)
Gurgling in stomach and epigastric region.
Increased thirst.
Gadus Morrhua.
Cod. N. O. Gadid.
Trituration of first cervical vertebra of the fish.
Clinical (Gadus morrhua)
Asthma.
Helix Tosta.
Toasted snail.
N. O. Helicid.
Trituration.
Clinical (Helix tosta)
Hmoptysis.
Phthisis.
Characteristics (Helix tosta)
Snails have a traditional virtue in curing consumption, and homopaths have put the remedy to the test by
potentising it.
W. H. Leonard (Med. Adv. , XXII. 310) reports two cases cured with Helix t. c. m.
(1) (Helix tosta)
Hippomanes.
"A normally white, usually dark olive green, soft, glutinous mucous substance, of a urinous odour, which floats
in the allantois fluid, or is attached to the allantois membrane, of the mare or cow, chiefly during the last
months of pregnancy" (Hering).
Trituration of the dried substance taken from the tongue of a newly-born filly.
Clinical (Hippomanes)
Chorea.
Melancholia.
Prostatitis.
Wrist, paralysis of ; rheumatism of.
Characteristics (Hippomanes)
The clinical experience with this remedy has been so limited, that but few characteristic indications have been
made out.
These, however, are peculiar :
Icy coldness in stomach.
Paralysis of wrist in morning in bed.
Skin (Hippomanes)
Itching as from flannel on skin, esp. on chest and between shoulders.
Fever (Hippomanes)
Chill, > being warmly covered in bed.
Chill, beginning in back.
Heat in evening, with dull headache.
Lac Caninum.
Bitch's Milk.
Clinical (Lac caninum)
Arms, varicosis of.
Breasts, painful.
Chancre.
Croup.
Diphtheria.
Dysmenorrha.
Epulis.
Eyes, affections of.
Gonorrha.
Headache.
Ichthyosis.
Leucorrha.
Neuralgia.
Ovaries, affections of.
Ranula.
Rheumatism.
Sciatica.
Spinal irritation.
the day piteously begs her mother to take her, she is so afraid. She feels as though snakes were on her back. In
response to advice tendered one dose of Lac. can. 50m. was given, dry, and in twenty-four hours the child
became more lively and cheerful and very soon all abnormal sensations disappeared. Another mental curiosity
which has proved a useful pointer is this : "Imagines he wears some one else's nose. " Restlessness,
nervousness, and prostration appear in the provings and show the relation of the remedy to diphtheritic
paralysis as well as to diphtheria itself. In one prover the symptoms occurred periodically : < in morning of one
day and < in afternoon of next. Wandering rheumatic pains.
The sensation of lightness or levitation was noticed seemed to walk on air ; not to touch the bed when lying.
Cannot bear one part of her body to touch another ; must even keep her fingers apart.
The symptoms in general were < at night.
< After sleep.
Cold application > pain in upper jaw and teeth ; and cold water gave momentary > to sore throat.
Cold washing = pain in herpetic eruption.
Cold winds and cold, sharp air <.
Flexion >, extension <.
Going up and down stairs = pain in heart.
Pains in ankles, forehead, and upper jaw were > by warmth.
Rest and lying down > most symptoms ; motion <.
Touch < (external throat ; breasts, causing sexual excitement).
Walking = leucorrha, < sores between labia and thighs.
The Schema comprises both caused and cured symptoms ; the latter are bracketed or have the name of the
disease in which they occurred appended in brackets.
Relations (Lac caninum)
[According to Nichols, Lac. can. "acts best in single dose ; if repeated should be given at exact intervals. "]
Compare : Lachesis is the nearest analogue (throat, ovaries, symptoms changing from side to side Lach. left
to right ; < after sleep ; fainting on raising arms) ; Lac. vac. deflor. (dreams of going on a journey). Lac. vac.
coag. , Lact. ac. [The following were mostly supplied by Lippe to Swan's arrangement. ] Weak memory for what
she has read, not for other things (Lach. , Nat. m. , Staph. ). Absent-minded (Anac. , Caust. , Con. , Dulc. , Lach.
, Nat. m. , Sep. ). Crying, fearing she was contracting consumption (Calc. , Guar. , Sep. ). Exalted feeling in
sensorium (Plat. ). Headache < in cold wind, > in warm room (Aur. , Nux v. , Rhus). Headache < by noise > by
keeping quiet ; confused feeling in head (Calc. ). Must have light, but intolerant of sunlight (Aco. , Bell. , Calc. ,
Gels. , Ruta, Stram). Soreness and scabbing of nostrils (K. bi. , Thu. ). Lips dry and peeling (Nat. m. ). Throat
sensitive to touch externally (Lach. ) ; < by empty swallowing (Ign. ). Breasts sensitive to pressure (Calc. ,
Murex) ; to deep pressure (Merc. ) ; as if full of very hard lumps, very painful when going up and down stairs
(Bell. , Calc. , Carb. an. , Lyc. , Nit. ac. , Phos. ) ; soreness and enlargement (Bell. , Bry. , Calc. ). Small, round, or
irregular grey white ulcers on tonsils and fauces (Merc. i. ). Discharges of diphtheritic matter from vulva and
rectum (Apis). Empty, weak feeling in stomach-pit (Dig. , Ign. , Pet. , Sep. ) ; pain as from a stone or undigested
food in stomach-pit (K. bi. ). Pain in right ovarian region (Ap. , Lyc. , Pallad. ). Sensation as if breath would leave
her when lying down, must get up and move about (Grind. ). Sciatica (Cur. , Graph. , Gnap. , K. bi. , Ir. v. , Lach. ,
Phyt. , Tell. ). When walking seems to be walking on air ; when lying does not seem to touch the bed (Asar. ,
Chi. , Coff. , Nat m. , Nux, Op. , Rhs. , Spi. , Stram. , Thuj. , Stict. pul. , Phos. ac. ). Dreams of going on a journey
(Lac. v. deflor. , Laches. , Sang. , Sil. ). Spreads fingers apart (Secale in spasms). Retina retains impressions
of objects (Tuberc. Nicotin. Lyc. , ear retains impression of sounds). Red spot before vision (Dubois. Hyo. ).
Flatus from vagina (Bro. , Lyc. , Nux m. , Nux v. , Sang. ). < Going down stairs (Borax). Diphtheria
(Diphtherinum, Merc. cy. , Gels. ). [Hydrophobinum is a dog-engendered nosode and must be compared with
Lac. can ; Lach. is one of its antidotes. ] Cannot bear one finger to touch the other (Lac. f. cannot bear one foot
to touch the other).
Causation (Lac caninum)
Result of fall.
Symptoms.
Mind (Lac caninum)
(Attacks of rage, cursing and swearing at the slightest provocation. )
(Thinks she is looked down upon by every one, and feels insulted thereat. ).
Absent-minded.
After menses, imagines all sorts of things about snakes.
Anxious.
Cannot bear to be left alone for an instant (diphtheria).
Cannot remember what she reads, but can remember other things.
Could not bear to have any one part of her body touch another ; felt if she could not get out of her body in
some way, she would soon become crazy ; could not think of anything but her own condition.
Cross and irritable ; while headache lasted.
Depression.
Easily excited ; easily startled.
Fear : of disease ; of consumption ; of heart disease ; of falling downstairs.
Feels weak, and nerves so thoroughly out of order, that she cannot bear one finger to touch the other (nervous
throat affection).
Felt very short in morning while walking ; ditto in evening.
Finds it very difficult to read understandingly anything requiring a mental effort to follow it.
Fits of weeping two or three times a day (metritis).
Horrible visions, fears they will take objective form ; when sitting still and thinking.
Illusions or hallucinations about snakes ; imagines they are all around her ; that they are creeping into her bed
; fears to close her eyes.
Imagines that he wears some one else's nose (diphtheria).
In writing, uses too many words or not the right ones ; very nervous.
Is impressed with the idea that all she says is a lie ; that all her symptoms are unreal, and the result of a
diseased imagination ; it seems to be very difficult to speak the truth, but continually distrusts things ; when
reading anything she rapidly changes the meaning, omitting or adding things.
Very restless ; cannot concentrate her thoughts or mind to read ; wants to leave everything as soon as it is
commenced.
Wakes at night with a sensation that she was lying on a large snake.
When speaking, substitutes the name of the object seen for that which is thought.
Woke at daylight, feeling that she was a loathsome, horrible, mass of disease.
Head (Lac caninum)
(Headache over eyes, < when sewing ; frontal and occipital, < turning eyes up. ).
(Occipital headache, with shooting pains extending to forehead. ).
(Sick headaches beginning in nape ; the pain settling gradually in right or left forehead. ).
Constant noise in head very confusing ; < at night, and much < at menses (metritis).
Darting pain across forehead and over eyes.
Dizzy sensation with slight nausea.
Dull pain in right temple and right eye, with pressure on vertex during menses.
Excessive dandruff on head for past week.
Head very sore, and itches almost all the time, < at night.
Headache < by noise or talking, > by keeping quiet ; confused feeling in head.
Headache first on one side of forehead, then on the other.
Headache in upper part of forehead, with sensation of a broad band pressed firmly across forehead from one
temple to the other.
Headache over both eyes, extending back over left ear.
Headache over left eye on first waking, and great pain in pelvis, most marked at right ovary.
Intense headache, entirely > by cold-water application, but soon returned, not, however, as severe.
Neuralgic pain in left side of head, followed by a film over left eye, wants to rub it off ; not > by rubbing.
On going into the cold wind, felt a terrible pain in forehead as if it would split open, > on going into warm room.
Pain in forehead, afternoon, first on left side, then on right, over left eye principally.
Pain in left occipital region running up when moving head.
Pains in head during day, first on one side then on the other ; it seems perfectly unbearable ; > on first going
into the air, but soon grows <.
Sensation as if brain were alternately contracted and relaxed, several times rapidly ; generally only when lying
down ; at various times all through proving.
Sharp lancinating pain, in a zigzag line from right side of forehead to an indefinite point in occiput ;
instantaneous, and sometimes repeated ; as soon as it is felt, she lays aside whatever she is doing and lies
down, from an indefinite dread that it will return ; if at night, she goes to bed at once ; has great dread of the
pain, though not very severe ; recurred for several days.
Sharp pain like a stab in right temple, at 7 p. m.
Sharp, throbbing pain in right side of forehead ; then in left side of forehead slightly.
Slight pressure on vertex and over eyes, the day before menses ceased.
Slight roughness of skin of forehead, as of numerous pimples.
Sore pimples on scalp, which discharge and form a scab ; extremely painful when touched, or on combing hair.
Stiffness in occiput on turning head, with soreness on pressure.
Throbbing pain just over right temple, then sharp pain in socket of right eye and in right temple, disappearing
quickly.
Eyes (Lac caninum)
(Sees faces before her eyes, < in the dark ; the face that haunts her most is one that she has really seen. ).
Darting intense pain round left eye.
Eyes slightly swollen ; profuse lachrymation ; with catarrh.
Heaviness of upper eyelid, with pain above left eye ; burning in left eye ; agglutination of left lids (rheumatism).
Looking at different objects causes eyes to ache.
Occasionally when looking at an object sees red spots on it.
Pain in eyes when reading ; followed by a film over them, apparently requiring to be wiped off before she can
see.
Pricking sensation in eyeballs ; eyes sensitive to cold air.
Sharp pain in socket back of right eye, followed by tenderness in right temple ; both transient.
Small floating discs before eyes occasionally, and showing primary colours at edge of discs.
Tendency in retina to retain the impression of objects, esp. of colours ; or somewhat of the object last looked at
is projected into the next.
Upper eyelids very heavy, can scarcely keep eyes open ; very sleepy.
When reading the page does not look clear, but seems covered with various pale spots of red, yellow, green,
and other colours.
While looking at an object appears to see just beyond or out of the axis of vision, an object passing across the
field of sight ; but on adjusting the eye to see it, it is gone ; it always appears as a small object, like a rat or
bird, sometimes on the floor, at others in the air.
accompanied by chilliness, high fever, pains in head, back, and limbs, great restlessness, and extreme
prostration. This was pronounced to be "severe diphtheria," but it soon got well.
Quinsy ; alternating sides ; thick, tough pieces of diphtheritic membrane coming away, and new membrane
constantly re-forming ; swelling in throat so large and tense that mouth could not be closed.
Sore throat, alternating sides, beginning and ending with menses.
The diphtheritic deposits look as if varnished ; exudations migratory, now here, now there (diphtheritic croup).
Throat feels stiff (diphtheria).
Throat sore : with severe headache ; pain extending to chest ; dry and sore ; deep red colour on either side of
throat opposite tonsils ; on left side ; painful to external pressure on both sides.
Tickling and sense of constriction in upper part of throat, causing constant dry, backing cough.
Appetite (Lac caninum)
Appetite improved ; increased.
Aversion to anything sweet.
Cannot satisfy her hunger.
Considerable thirst.
Craves milk and drinks much of it (diphtheria).
Desire for highly-seasoned dishes, which is very unusual ; has used pepper, mustard, and salt freely.
Great hunger for large quantities, often.
No appetite (diphtheria ; acute rheumatism).
Stomach (Lac caninum)
At 10. 15 a. m. , empty, weak feeling in stomach-pit ; next day, same at 6 p. m.
At 5 p. m. while smoking a cigar, great nausea with severe pain in stomach-pit ; vomiting seemed imminent, but
the sensation ceased in four or five minutes.
Burning in epigastric region, feeling of a weight and pressure of a stone in stomach.
Nausea > by eructations of wind.
Nausea, with headache, on waking ; continuing all morning.
Weak, sinking feeling at stomach-pit, on waking in morning.
Abdomen (Lac caninum)
Abdomen swollen, and sensitive to deep pressure, which also = nausea, the nausea passes off when pressure
is removed.
Abdomen very sensitive to pressure and weight of clothes, entirely > by removing them, during very profuse
menses.
Feeling of tension in left groin ; does not want to walk or stand, as it < the sensation ; > by flexing leg on
abdomen.
Felt as though abdomen and chest were firmly compressed all over, as if the skin were contracted.
Headache (left) on first waking, and great pain in pelvis, most marked at right ovary.
Pain and burning in left side of abdomen and pelvis, with weight and dragging on that side ; clothes feel very
heavy.
Pain in pelvis, principally over right ovarian region.
Pain in right side of pelvis ; while it lasted there was no pain in left side.
Pains in abdomen intermittent.
Pressure from within outwards, as if contents of abdomen would be forced out literally, just above pelvis.
Sensation while walking as if abdomen would burst.
Very acute pain in left groin, extending up left side to crest of ilium ; > by stool ; sometimes the pain is in track
of colon.
Stool and Rectum (Lac caninum)
Constipation ; occasionally natural passages ; urgent desire for stool, but passes nothing but wind, or possibly
one or two small pieces like sheep-dung ; considerable wind in abdomen, with rumbling, but never any pain.
Frequent desire for stool all through provings.
Great constipation before and after menses ; bowels very loose (not diarrha) during menses.
Profuse diarrha, with colic pain ; diarrha watery, profuse, coming out with great force.
When having a soft passage great tenesmus ; rectum does not act as if it had lost power, but as if it could not
expel fces because they are soft, and adhere to the parts like clay.
Urinary Organs (Lac caninum)
(Nocturnal enuresis, a specific. )
Constant desire to urinate, passing large quantities frequently ; at night she dreams of urinating, and wakes to
find an immediate necessity ; a less strong and healthy person would probably have wet the bed.
Frequent desire to urinate, which if not immediately attended to causes pain in bladder ; a numb, dull sensation
; if not > by urination it spreads over abdomen and left side to ends of fingers ; never in head ; would frequently
wake at night dreaming of the pain, and would have to urinate to > it.
Sensation after urinating, as if bladder still full ; continued desire to urinate.
Urination causes intense pain in urethra, soon passing off.
Male Sexual Organs (Lac caninum)
(Small sore at entrance of urethra ; parts of glans around urethra an open ulcer, exhaling most fetid smell, and
with most excruciating pain ; red, glistening appearance. ).
Chancre on prepuce, left side of frenum ; penis greatly swollen ; chancre like a cauliflower excrescence, red,
smooth, and glistening.
Gonorrhal pains, intermittent, in front, middle, or posterior part of urethra ; when the gonorrha is >, catarrh
sets in.
Right spermatic cord, low down, sore to touch.
Sexual desire quite marked.
Female Sexual Organs (Lac caninum)
(After-pains very distressing, extending to thighs, rather < on right side. ).
(Several cases of membranous dysmenorrha. ).
After two doses of c. m. rapid decrease in size of breasts and quantity of milk in a lady who wanted to wean her
child.
Breasts painful ; feel as if full of very hard lumps, < going up or down stairs.
Breasts seem very full.
Breasts sensitive to deep pressure.
Breasts very sore and painful, with sharp, darting pain in right ovarian region extending to knee, very painful
and must keep leg flexed (1st d. after miscarriage at 6th month).
Breasts very sore and sensitive to pressure for a day or two during menses.
Constant pain in breasts, they feel very sore when going up or down stairs.
Constant pain in nipples.
Constant pain in right ovary.
Dries up the milk when nursing.
Dysmenorrha, pain in left groin, with bearing down and nervousness.
Escape of flatus from vagina.
Galactorrha (many cases).
Given for an ulcerated throat to a nursing woman, it cured the throat and nearly dried up the milk.
Great swelling of left labia, and terrible, pain while urinating ; (from gonorrha).
In afternoon, intermittent, sharp pains in right ovarian region.
Intense painful soreness of vulva, extending to anus, coming on very suddenly about noon, and lasting for
about two hours ; came on again during evening ; could not walk, stand, or sit ; > by lying on. , back and
separating the knees as far as possible.
Itching in left side of labia, with rough eruptive condition on left side of vagina, with acrid leucorrha ;
excoriating severely.
Itching of vulva.
Leucorrha all day, but none at night, even after taking a long walk.
Loss of milk while nursing, without known cause.
Menses scanty ; terribly cross and impatient first day ; on second day, severe paroxysmal pains in uterine
region, causing nausea ; occasional pain in left ovarian region, passing about half-way down thigh, on upper
part of it ; all these pains > by bending backwards ; pain and aching in right lumbar region when leaning
forwards (as in sewing) even for a short time ; entire > when bending back.
Menses scanty at first ; with pain in left ovary.
Menses very profuse ; abdomen very sensitive to pressure and weight of clothes, entire > by removing them.
Menses very stringy and sticky, cannot get rid of them.
Pain in left ovarian region, and all across lower part of abdomen.
Pressure on anterior part of vulva, entire > by sitting ; sensation as if everything were coming out at vulva ;
with frequent desire to urinate and smarting in urethra.
Raw and bad-smelling sores between labia and thighs, in folds of skin ; < when walking, would rather keep still
all the time ; these sores are covered with a disgusting white exudation.
Severe pain in right ovarian region, completely > by a flow of bright-red blood, which lasted an hour, and did
not return.
Sexual organs extremely excited ; very much < from the slightest touch, as putting the hand on the breast, or
from the pressure on vulva when sitting, or the slight friction caused by walking.
Sharp pains beginning in left ovary, and darting like lightning either towards right ovarian region, or else up left
side and down arm, or sometimes down both thighs ; but generally down left leg to foot, which is numb, pains
like labour-pains ; accompanied by great restlessness of legs and arms, and great aching in lumbar region ;
(5th d. after premature labour).
Sharp, lancinating pains like knives cutting upward from os uteri, and as these were being relieved, sensation
as of needles darting upwards in uterus.
Slight leucorrha during the day, < when standing or walking.
Urination caused intense pain in vulva, when even the least drop of urine came in contact with it.
Respiratory Organs (Lac caninum)
Cough from tickling in upper anterior part of larynx, < when talking and also when lying.
Cough from tickling under middle of sternum.
Cough with pain and oppression of chest ; it jars her all over.
Loss of voice, cannot speak in a whisper (pharyngitis).
Marked soreness on touching larynx (diphtheria).
Sensation as if the breath would leave her when lying down and trying to sleep ; has to jump up and stir around
for an hour or so every night.
Slight hoarseness, with now and then a change of voice, after waking, but soon passing away.
Chest (Lac caninum)
Clavicles sore to touch.
Feeling of oppression and tightness behind sternum, with desire to draw a deep breath.
Lungs feel as though fast to chest, < while writing.
Sharp pain in right breast at 4 p. m.
Stabbing pain in right lung, just below nipple, preceded by pain in stomach-pit as of a stone or undigested
food.
Terrible dyspna immediately after sleep, first on left side of chest ; the dyspna compelled her to be lifted
upright with violent exertion to get breath ; there was sharp pain in region of heart with each of these attacks ;
after the medicine had but one attack of dyspna, and all the pain was referred to right side of chest (acute
rheumatism).
Heart (Lac caninum)
Palpitation of heart, irregular, causing shortness of breath.
Neck and Back (Lac caninum)
Aching pain, < by stooping, > by leaning back, with weakness ; this pain extended around left side of pelvis
(leaving the back) to inside of thigh followed by a bloody leucorrhal discharge after six hours, which came all
at once, leaving labia extremely sensitive.
Backache nearly all day between scapul, < after becoming warm, somewhat > by leaning back.
Lameness and cutting pain under left scapula, < turning in bed.
Neck stiff (rheumatism, neuralgic headache ; diphtheria).
Pain in sacrum < by riding (not by walking. ).
Sharp neuralgic pain under right scapula.
Sharp, cutting pain under left scapula, shooting forwards through lung.
Spine aches from base of brain to coccyx (pharyngitis).
Limbs (Lac caninum)
Aching pains in limbs and back.
Burning of hands and feet at night (ovaralgia. )
Rheumatism beginning in soles flying from joint to joint and side to side, < every evening and by movement
and touch ; numb pains in ankle.
Upper Limbs (Lac caninum)
From draught in evening, sudden, violent pains in right shoulder, so much so that when retiring she could not
raise arm to finish toilet, as if disabled by dislocation.
Painful eruption on axill, like moist herpes, exceedingly painful on washing them. Veins in hands look bluer
than usual, they are swollen.
Painful swelling and hardness, with suppuration of left axillary gland ; menses came on at same time.
Pains down right arm and in fingers, which feel cramped ; does not seem to have the same power in right hand.
Palms and soles burning hot.
Perspiration in axill, stains linen bright orange colour, no smell.
Right wrist lame and painful.
Sensation as if an insect were crawling on shoulders and neck, occasionally on hands.
Sharp pain round left arm, as of a cutting instrument ; felt principally at the vaccination-cicatrix ; passed from
thence to left elbow and disappeared ; (forty-five minutes after first dose. ).
Sharp, shooting pains in ball of right thumb.
Trembling of left hand, as in paralysis agitans.
Two warts on little finger noticed to be leaving.
Very fetid perspiration in axill, staining linen brown.
Woke at night feeling very chilly, with sharp pain in left hand, and sensation in left arm as if asleep ; lasting
fifteen minutes.
Wrists very lame, esp. right, which has sharp pains passing from thumb to little finger.
Lower Limbs (Lac caninum)
(Articular rheumatism in right hip and knee-joints, esp. former ; she was seated in an armchair, unable to move,
complaining of bruised, smarting, lancinating pains in both joints and in lumbar region with swelling of affected
joints ; pains < by slightest motion at night ; by touch and by pressure of bed clothes ; next day pains and
swelling had gone to left hip and knee joints, leaving right almost free ; the ensuing day they had almost
entirely disappeared from left hip and knee-joints and had again attacked right hip and knee ; complaining,
moaning, and sighing on account of her sufferings and probable termination of her illness).
(Partial paralysis of right leg from miscarriage ; leg numb and stiff, but cannot keep it still ; feels > flexing it on
abdomen. ).
A few days before menses, inside of both thighs became raw and painful when walking, they then broke out
with large, flat, red pimples ; the soreness soon left ; but the pimples remained.
Cramps in feet.
Ecthyma : on right leg.
Feet swollen and very sore, causing considerable pain while walking.
Intense, unbearable pain across super sacral region, extending to right natis and down right sciatic nerve ; pain
so severe as to prevent sleep or rest (sciatica).
Numb pains chiefly in ankles, < while quiet, with swelling ; veins of ankles distended ; > while extreme heat is
applied (rheumatism).
Numbness and paralytic feeling in inner side of both knees, extending to both big toes.
Pain in right hip and leg while walking, with a trembling of leg, and slight feeling of uncertainty, esp. on going
down stairs (metritis).
Rheumatic pains in left hip and along sciatic nerve ; wandering pains in nape of neck, with stiffness ; pains in
one or other shoulder ; pain above left eye and heaviness of eyelid ; burning in eye, agglutination of eyelids ;
sensitiveness to light (sciatica and rheumatism).
Sensation of numbness in left leg with great heat as if burning, but cool to touch ; brought on by pressure.
Stiffness through thighs, < on attempting to move after sitting.
Varicose veins on outer right thigh, from hip to knee.
Veins of feet and ankles very much swollen.
Skin (Lac caninum)
Crusts on skin, under which greyish yellow matter formed and was squeezed out.
Every scratch gets sore.
Herpetic eruption in both axill, with light brownish scab, extremely painful when washing ; eruption most in
right axilla, and in both instances appeared previous to pain in labi, which was followed by a discharge of
blood from vagina.
Icthyosis, with branlike desquamation of skin.
Sensation as if an insect was crawling on shoulders and neck, occasionally on both hands.
Shining, glazed, and red appearance of ulcers on shin and wrist (syphilis).
Sleep (Lac caninum)
At night lies with left leg flexed on thigh, and thigh on pelvis ; restless ; < after sleep (ovaralgia).
Cannot find any comfortable position in bed ; there is no way that she can put her hands that they do not
bother her ; falls asleep at last on her face.
Cried out and talked in sleep (diphtheria).
Dreamed a large snake was in bed (tonsillitis).
Dreams frequently that she is urinating, and wakes to find herself on point of doing so, requiring immediate
relief.
Got to sleep late ; profuse sweat during sleep ; felt feverish all night ; in morning > in every way.
Great desire to sleep (diphtheria).
Symptoms < after sleep (diphtheria).
Fever (Lac caninum)
Chilly feeling lasting all day.
Cold chills run down back, hands as cold as ice (on entering house 4 p. m. ; 6. 30 entire > after a good dinner).
Dry, hot skin (diphtheria).
Exhausting sweats ; after sleep.
Fever and chills for a few days, and up and down every few hours.
Intense fever on waking in morning, with perspiration.
Internal chilliness with external warmth.
Perspired considerably through night, sweat having a rank smell (acute rheumatism).
Wakes at night in cold perspiration, with fearful foreboding (metritis).
Lac Felinum.
Cat's Milk. Dilution.
Clinical (Lac felinum)
Ciliary neuralgia.
Dysmenorrha.
Headache, Keratitis.
Mouth, inflammation of.
Stye.
Throat, catarrh of.
Characteristics (Lac felinum)
This is another of the remedies introduced by Swan. The full pathogenesis appears in Med. Visitor, Aug. , 1893,
part having already appeared in H. W. , XVIII. 15l.
The greatest number of the symptoms were experienced in the head and eyes, and many of these have been
confirmed.
Here is one from Swan ;
"Terrible headache penetrating the left eyeball to centre of brain, with pain in left supra-orbital region extending
through brain to right vertex" (H. W. , XVIII. 429).
Many eye cases are on record. Swan benefited this case ; "Pain in eyes back into head, extremely sharp, with a
sensation as if the eyes extended back. Great photophobia ; any continued glare causes the pain" (H. W. , XVII.
54). Berridge reports this case ; "Mr. H. , 37. Left eye inflamed three weeks ; deep red ; photophobia ; on left
segment of cornea an ulcer.
For three nights pain like a knife running from left eye to left occiput, on lying down, especially on left side.
Burning in left temple, near eye, < at night. Lac. fel. 40m. (Fincke) every four hours. Eye was better next day,
and steadily got well. The pain ceased first. "
Berridge remarks that "< lying on left side" has been verified by him in another case (Lach. has < lying on
painful side ; Zinc. < lying on unpainful side H. P. , vi. 376). One of the provers took 17th, and afterwards 1m.
(Fincke) potency. Another prover took the 200th.
Among the verified symptoms are ; Morbid conscientiousness ; heaviness in forehead ; scalded sensation on
tongue ; absence of appetite.
The eye affections are mostly accompanied by shooting pains from eye backwards. Styes were present in
some cases. (In the Schema cured symptoms are bracketed or have the name of the disease in which they
occurred appended in brackets. )
Relations (Lac felinum)
Compare ; Lac. can. , Lac. def. , & c.
In eye affections, Spigel. Stye, Staph. , Puls. , Hep.
Symptoms
Mind (Lac felinum)
Fear of falling downstairs, but without vertigo.
Great depression of spirits.
Mental illusion that the corners of furniture, or any pointed object near her, were about to run into eyes ; the
symptom is purely mental ; the objects do not appear to her sight to be too close (asthenopia).
Morbid conscientiousness ; every little fault appeared a crime.
Very cross to every one.
Head (Lac felinum)
Acute pain in frontal region.
Acute pain on vertex.
Acute pain over left eye and temple.
Burning in left temple near eye, < at night (keratitis).
Crawling on top of brain (asthenopia).
Dull pain in forehead in region of eyebrows.
Headache over eyes (left).
Heaviness in forehead.
Heavy pressure in sides of head and vertex.
Intense pain early in morning on vertex, and left side of head ; it commences just in front of vertex, with a flush
of heat which extends front about an inch, and is followed by the intense pain ; the heat and pain then spread,
never crossing median line, down left side as a veil, taking half the nose and jaws, and entering ear, causing
her to close the eyes from its intensity ; during the pain, head drawn down so that chin pressed heavily on
chest, and her agony was so great that she had to hold the head firmly in her hands, and rush through the
house from room to room screaming (from the 17th potency).
Intense pain from head along lower jaw, causing mouth to fill with saliva.
Pain commencing with a chilly sensation at root of nose ; also a cold pain passing up median line to vertex,
and passing down to ear (like the previous symptom).
Pain in forehead, occiput, and left side of head, with rigidity of cords of neck (splenius and trapezius), and heat
in Vertex ; the pain in forehead is heavy, pressing down over eyes (headache).
Pain in head < from reading.
Pulsations in head with sensation of heat in forehead, and constriction across bridge of nose.
Sharp lancinating pains passing zig-zag down left side of head about every ten minutes from vertex towards
left ear.
Terrible headache penetrating left eyeball to centre of brain, with pain in left supra-orbital region extending
through brain to vertex (headache).
Weight on vertex (asthenopia).
Eyes (Lac felinum)
(Ciliary neuralgia. ).
(Have had great success with it in eye cases, esp. where there is severe pain in back of orbit, indicating
choroiditis.
(Twitching of eyelids right and left).
(Ulceration of cornea. ).
[Left eye feels hot and adheres in morning.
Darting pain going backwards in centre of right eye, < at night (keratitis).
Eyes ache by gaslight. (Cured in various cases of ulceration of cornea)].
Eyes feel as if sunken in head, and left eye occasionally waters.
Eyes get bad every September.
Heavy pressure downwards of eyebrows and eyelids, as if the parts were lead.
If she lies on left side. right eye feels as if it were moving about and too heavy, with great pain.
Inclination to keep eyes shut.
On looking fixedly, reading, or writing, darting pain from eyes nearly to occiput ; much < in right eye
(asthenopia).
Pain in eyes, back into head, extremely sharp, with a sensation as if eyes extended back ; great photophobia to
natural or artificial light ; any continued glare results in this pain (improved).
Pain in right lower orbital border as if sore, with tenderness there on touch, and shooting in right eye.
Photophobia.
Right eye inflamed, with shooting backward where the white spot is ; left eye also inflamed, but without
shooting.
Sharp lancinating pain in centre of right eyeball extending externally to temple and frontal region over eye, with
intense photophobia, redness of conjunctiva and lachrymation ; < by reading or writing ; the pain appears to be
in interior of eyeball, and extends thence to posterior wall of orbit, and then to the temples, with throbbing ; dim
sight when reading ; also constipation, loss of appetite, lassitude in legs (choroiditis).
Sharp lancinating pain through centre of left eyeball, leaving in very sore internally, and causing profuse
lachrymation (from the 1m. ).
Stye on left upper lid.
Twitching of outer end of left upper lid, inside.
Two styes on right lower lid.
When reading letters run together, with dull aching pain behind eyes, or shooting in eyes, the confused sight
and shooting being < in right eye ; symptoms excited by catching cold or by over-fatigue (asthenopia).
White spot on outer edge of left cornea, with red vessels running up to it from conjunctiva, and shooting pains
from the spot to occiput.
Nose (Lac felinum)
Cannot bear the smell of clams, of which she is naturally very fond, and cannot eat them.
Teeth (Lac felinum)
Pains in all the teeth as the hot pain from head touched them.
Mouth (Lac felinum)
(Dryness of mouth. )
Brassy taste in mouth.
Elongation of palate.
Loss of taste.
Redness under tongue, on gums, and whole buccal cavity.
Salivation, tongue enlarged and serrated at edges by teeth.
Sensation as if tongue were scalded by a hot drink.
Small white ulcers covering tongue and whole buccal cavity.
Soreness and sensation of ulcers on tongue and roof of mouth.
The parts of mouth seem to stick together, requiring an injection of air or saliva to separate them.
Very sore mouth.
Throat (Lac felinum)
Mucus in pharynx between head and throat is thick, yellow, tough, stringy, expectorated with difficulty, and has
a sickish sweet taste.
Posterior wall of pharynx slightly inflamed, with sensation of soreness.
Stringy, tough mucus in pharynx, cannot hawk it up and has to swallow it ; when it can be expectorated it is
yellow.
Tough mucus in pharynx.
Stomach (Lac felinum)
After eating feels swollen ; has to take off her dress and loosen clothes.
Great desire to eat paper.
Great soreness and sensitiveness of epigastric region.
Heat in epigastrium.
No appetite.
Occasionally very slight nausea.
Stomach sore all around just below the belt, < left side.
Abdomen (Lac felinum)
At midnight, sensation of a cold bandage over lower part of abdomen.
Great weight and bearing down in pelvis, like falling of the womb, as if she could not walk ; < when standing.
Pain in abdomen and back, as if menses about commencing.
Pain in bowels.
Pain in pelvis through hips on pressure, as when placing arms akimbo.
Stool and Rectum (Lac felinum)
Natural stool, but very slow in passing, at 2 a. m.
Stool long, tenacious, slipping back when ceasing to strain ; seeming inability of rectum to expel its contents.
Urinary Organs (Lac felinum)
(Obstruction in urinating, has to wait. )
Frequent desire to urinate, urine very pale.
Female Sexual Organs (Lac felinum)
(Dragging pain in left ovary. )
Furious itching of vulva, inside and out ; yellow leucorrha.
Leucorrha ceased on third and reappeared on fourth day.
Lac Vaccinum.
Cow's milk.
Dilution.
Clinical (Lac vaccinum)
Albuminuria.
Blindness.
Diabetes.
Headache.
Woke in morning with an aching pain all over head, most severe in occiput.
All these symptoms passed away except pain on top of head, which feels as though something heavy were laid
there, and occasionally a sharp pain simultaneously (3 1/2 h. ).
Eyes (Lac vaccinum)
Blindness of both eyes, which came on three or four times in succession, lasting only a second at a time, then
passing entirely away, leaving a pain in each temple, on top of head, left ear, and below left ear in the neck (2
1/2 h. ).
Dull pain over right eye, and very, slight dull feeling over left eye.
Eyes have a blur, or dimness, or obscurity of sight, off and on for a few moments at a time.
Ears (Lac vaccinum)
Ears felt stopped up ; felt deaf in both ears, although she could hear as before.
Mouth (Lac vaccinum)
Acid saliva staining handkerchief yellow.
Had a dirty, yellow-coated tongue, which felt parched.
Sour taste.
Throat (Lac vaccinum)
Sensation of plug in throat or larynx.
Appetite
Thirst for cold water in quantities ; drank three tumblerfuls during evening.
Stomach (Lac vaccinum)
At 10. 30 a. m. sour taste ; nausea, but no rising or vomiting (1 h. ).
Contractive, pressing pain in stomach-pit, > by external pressure.
Had a swelling or bloating of stomach (3rd d. ).
Abdomen (Lac vaccinum)
Pain proceeding from sternum, extending across abdomen about an inch below umbilicus.
Stool (Lac vaccinum)
Obstinate constipation.
Urinary Organs (Lac vaccinum)
Filled a large iron spoon with the urine and boiled it for twenty minutes ; it left quite a mass of albumen, about a
quarter of the whole ; specific gravity 1030.
Frequent discharge of clear urine, nearly colourless, no sediment.
In afternoon was obliged to urinate every fifteen minutes, in large quantity each time ; was afraid to go across
the street to a store for fear it would overtake me before I could return ; it all passed off the same night.
The density of urine varied during a few days from 1,013 to 1,028, colour clear, odourless, acid reaction.
Urine was not increased in morning, but was dark red, without sediment.
Yesterday the urine turned blue paper red ; to-day it turns the red paper blue (13th d. ).
Female Sexual Organs (Lac vaccinum)
White watery leucorrha ; pain in sacrum.
Respiratory Organs (Lac vaccinum)
Sensation of plug in throat or larynx.
Chest (Lac vaccinum)
A sharp pain appeared in a spot the size of a shilling on each side of sternum and about middle of chest, with a
sense of suffocation.
Later a burning sensation in same region.
Same pain, extends across abdomen about five inches lower down (about an inch below umbilicus) ; it did not
seem to involve the bladder ; no rumbling or passing of flatus.
Sharp pains in left lower chest, or in region of lower lobe of left lung ; the pain was momentary, and did not
return (5th d. ).
Sharp pain began in right chest, about three inches below clavicle ; it passed upwards to top of right shoulder,
then down arm and forearm to thumb, and then passed off.
Back (Lac vaccinum)
Pains in sacrum.
Limbs (Lac vaccinum)
All the joints of body, esp. knees, feel weak and powerless, as when half drunk.
Upper Limbs (Lac vaccinum)
A clammy sticky coldness in both hands and both feet simultaneously.
Fingers of both hands, esp. when stretched out, tremble and quiver as from extreme weakness.
Sharp pain under left scapula, about three inches down from top ; it then passed upwards to top of left
shoulder, then down arm and forearm and hand to the four fingers of the left hand and then passed off.
Soon afterwards an aching pain was felt in left hip-joint, which soon passed off.
Lower Limbs (Lac vaccinum)
Aching pain along both thighs on outer side and terminating in both knees.
Aching pains in bones from both hip-joints to both feet ; simultaneously also burning sensation in both feet.
Aching pains in both knees like a rheumatic pain ; they began simultaneously in both knees, but the right was
most severe (5th d. ).
On going upstairs the knees trembled or quivered or were extremely weak, so as to be unable to take a step
forwards.
Piercing or lancinating pain in each hip-joint, not severe.
Generalities (Lac vaccinum)
She was so suddenly prostrated mentally and bodily that she was unable to collect her thoughts or use a pencil
to write her symptoms I was therefore compelled to witness and ask questions and record them after the
proving was nearly over she said she had so much mental confusion that she could not get mentally clear
enough to feel her thoughts or express them ; she could only give direct short answers to questions ; as for
writing her symptoms, she had no physical power to do it. In 2 h. all symptoms subsided gradually, but still
there was a general trembling or quivering of whole body as well as the fingers. In 6 1/2 h. nearly relieved,
except great physical prostration ; mind is again normal.
The pains in chest, abdomen, hips, thighs, and knees were all felt on right and left sides simultaneously.
Sleep (Lac vaccinum)
Dreams of trying to lay out a corpse, &c.
Gait is unsteady.
General restlessness and bad dreams.
Head feels all over heavy, dull, aching, drowsy, wants to go to sleep.
Must force herself to keep awake.
Must force herself to keep her eyes open, for if she shuts them she cannot avoid falling backwards and down to
the floor. In 7 h. said she still felt sleepy, and could have fallen asleep in a minute at any time during the whole
day.
Slept well all night, and woke in morning free from pain (8. 30 a. m. ).
Fever (Lac vaccinum)
A slight fever over the entire body with a moisture in both hands, and aching in legs from thighs to knees, both
sides simultaneously.
Also pain on left side of head, extending from neck to top of head, and a chilling sensation with it.
Hands became hot and dry, a decided fever heat of hands.
N. O. Gadid.
Tincture.
Trituration.
Clinical (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Addison's disease.
Alopecia.
Amenorrha.
Anmia.
Asthma.
Bones, affections of.
Bright's disease.
Cold abscess.
Constipation.
Coryza.
Cough.
Diarrha.
Dwarfishness.
Emaciation.
Fever.
Fistula.
Goitre.
Dr. Charles S. Neidhard (1809-1895)
Hair, abnormal growth of.
Headache.
Heart, palpitation of.
Intermittent fever.
Joints, stiffness of ; fistul and abscess around.
Liver, diseases of.
Lumbago.
Phthisis.
Pneumonia.
Rheumatism.
Ringworm.
Sacralgia.
Sciatica.
Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Sleeplessness.
Spinal irritation.
Vision, affections of.
Characteristics (Oleum jecoris aselli)
The number of people who "cannot take cod-liver oil" is very great ; which means that Ol. j. a. is a pathogenetic
as well as a curative agent.
Neidhard proved it and elicited some very definite symptoms, and to these have been added effects, curative
and pathogenetic, observed on patients.
The oil contains a large number of proximate principles of great complexity, to which its specific medicinal
properties are due.
Recent developments of sarcopathy mark out Ol. j. a. as a liver remedy, an ally of Cholesterine, and this the
provings confirm.
Very decided pains in the liver and liver region with great soreness were noted in Neidhard's provings, and
these symptoms give one of the keynotes of the remedy Soreness.
Not only the liver, but the throat, chest, abdomen, kidneys, ovaries, joints, and back are all sore ; the spine is
sore as in spinal irritation.
Another keynote is the occurrence of palpitation of the heart as a concomitant of other symptoms ; with cough
; with short breath.
Allied to this is a "sense of fluttering, like the movements of a watch, commencing in region of sacrum,
gradually rising to occiput, and in its ascent affecting abdomen and chest, so that the patient is transfixed,
unable to move hand or foot ;" also "creeping sensation all over with a rush of blood to heart. "
The reputation of Ol. j. a. as a remedy for phthisis and scrofulous affections is shown by the provings to be
specific, whatever food-value the oil may possess in addition.
"Dry, hacking cough night-cough ; cough with tough expectoration, yellow or white soreness of chest,
especially on coughing ; sharp stitches here and there, through chest ; burning through to back ; burning in
spots," are among the symptoms experienced. The fever symptoms are strongly marked, both hectic and
intermittent.
One very characteristic feature is :
Pains in head with cough, Caps. , Bry. , Nat. m. Chilly ; effects of damp localities, Nat. sul. , Aran.
Symptoms.
Mind (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Feels miserable all over, with great nervous irritation.
Sensation as if out of her mind.
Head (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Aching about inner part of right eyebrow as if in periosteum.
Bursting headache after coughing as if head would split.
Dull aching pain in forehead.
Giddiness in head.
Pain from occiput to forehead with nausea.
Steady aching sensation from left to right temple.
Eyes (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Aching pain in right eye when using it.
During chill, blindness.
Everything turns black.
Eyes swelled.
Heaviness over eyes with dry and parched hands.
Lachrymation when walking in open air (< left).
Lids so heavy, can hardly raise them.
Ears (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Deafness in left ear, abscess in right
Fetid discharge from ears.
Nose (Oleum jecoris aselli)
Chronic catarrh and ozna.
Dry coryza, cough and sneezing.
Fluent coryza, hoarseness and rawness of chest.
Nose-bleed when sleeping, with amenorrha.
Oophorinum
A Sarcode.
Ovarian Extract.
Trituration of expressed juice of ovary of sheep or cow.
Clinical (Oophorinum)
Acne rosacea.
Climacteric, sufferings of.
Flushings.
Nervousness, climacteric.
Ovaries, tumours of ; disease of.
Prurigo.
Characteristics (Oophorinum)
On the analogy of the action of Thyroidin in myxdema, Ooph. has been used with much success in cases of
suffering following excision of the ovaries, and for the climacteric sufferings of women.
I have had good results with it in such cases in the lower triturations.
Orchitinum.
A Sarcode.
Spermin.
Testicular Extract.
Trituration.
Clinical (Orchitinum)
Climacteric, sufferings of.
Debility.
Senility.
Sexual weakness.
Characteristics (Orchitinum)
The use of a testicular extract in cases of senile decay and nervous breakdown was first proposed by BrownSequard, and formed one of the examples by which he illustrated his doctrine of "inner secretions. "
He maintained that the various glands of the organism had, in addition to their obvious secretion or excretion,
an additional secretion which was not obvious, but which materially contributed to the welfare of the organism.
The doctrine is now generally accepted, and the use of the Sarcodes in general medicine is based upon it.
Homopathy can use these remedies in both ways.
Orch. has been used with success, in the triturations, in climacteric sufferings ; and in old-school practice in
the sequel of ovariotomy, in cases of debility, sexual weakness, and premature senile decay.
Relations (Orchitinum)
Compare : Oophorin.
Swan prepared the membrane. As an ovarian product it might be expected that all parts of the egg should have
an action on ovaries. It is recognised that as an article of diet in some forms eggs have a stimulating effect on
the sexual functions.
The provings of Ovi g. p. bear out this relation. The first prover was a young lady who was known to be unable
to bear any extra exertion, but the details of this were not known until after she had taken the first dose of the c.
m. sent by Swan.
This had the effect of removing suddenly the whole of the trouble which prevented her from exerting herself
a left ovarian pain extending down the left limb, brought on some years before, when she felt something "give
way" in the groin whilst shovelling snow.
The sensitiveness to exertion never returned, though the dose created much disturbance of the generative
functions before it had finished its action.
The symptoms of the second prover, a married woman who took the 30th, confirmed the symptoms, both cured
and pathogenetic, experienced by the first.
This prover had also hmorrhage from the rectum ; incontinence of urine whilst sneezing or coughing ; postnasal catarrh.
Yingling contributed this case to Hahn. Adv. (quoted Amer. Hom. , XXII. 412) :
H. E. , 42, blonde, had these symptoms : A dull, hard, heavy aching in region of heart ; generally about apex ;
extending at times to left ovarian region. Occasionally a cutting which extends to base of heart and prevents
breathing ; after the cutting a sensation as if something went "thud," after which pain seems to recommence at
apex. At times heavy aching in base of heart, which makes breathing very difficult.
Only bending backward > respiration. Ovi g. p. (a preparation of Fincke's) one dose, dry on the tongue. In a
very few minutes the pain was all gone. "Feels splendidly since taking the remedy. " Without knowing what it
was, said she had "a taste of fresh eggs in the mouth since taking the powder. "
Among the noteworthy features of the provings are :
Suddenness of onset and ceasing ; both provers manifested these. Jerkings on going to sleep and in sleep ;
heat in sacrum, the rest of the body being cool.
The bearing-down sensations in the uterus were very marked. Pushing and rushing feeling in womb, as if blood
might rush out in torrents (which sometimes happened and sometimes did not).
Sensation as if something turned over inside.
The symptoms were :
< by movement ; reaching lifting arms ; over-exerting.
< At menses : before, during, and after though some symptoms were > when flow appeared.
> Bending backward (dyspna in cured case).
> jarring or beating breast (dyspna).
< Pressure and touch (abdomen, breasts, ovaries) ; intolerance of pressure of clothing.
< Descending stairs.
< At full moon.
From a slight change of underclothing, severe cold and coryza, with much mucous discharge from nose, came
suddenly, lasted three days, ceased as suddenly, much mucus discharged from nose (quite different from
usual colds).
Sensation of severe cold, sneezing catarrh, cracked lips.
Face (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Eruption of small pustules on forehead and chin.
Looks haggard ; eyes sunken ; skin discoloured, dark.
Slight soreness and stiffness of jaw (passed off in a few hours).
Mouth (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Exceedingly acid saliva. (cm)
Exceedingly and peculiarly offensive breath during menses (a lady near said it was indescribable, seemed to
enter her mouth and pass directly to her womb).
Taste of fresh eggs in the mouth.
Throat (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Sensation of dryness causing cough, tonsils inflamed on one side (Kalm. >).
Sore throat left side as if it had been scalded ; lasted several days, only at night ; catarrh with hard clinkers
hawked back, which would invariably shoot down the throat.
Sore throat with sensation of a lump on left side low down causing cough ; throat looked inflamed ; tonsils
swollen.
Stomach (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Burning and heaviness in pit of stomach (cured).
Nervous dyspepsia ; low spirits ; very weak ; sleeplessness occurring every week.
Sensation of lump between lower end of sternum and back as if a hard potato had been swallowed ; with this
severe sacral pain (relieved with cm).
Vomited three gall-stones.
Abdomen (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Between periods, left side of abdomen very sore, with sharp pains occasionally darting through it, and bearing
down in womb as if weight hanging to it.
Distended almost to bursting, before menses, with bearing-down pain.
Heavy pressing down in lower abdomen.
Pain in hypogastrium, < on side lain on, and in sacrum when lying on back.
Suddenly a pain in epigastrium passing down in middle line, then pain in left ovary to left limbs.
followed immediately by a profuse flow of blood, rushing out, lasting an hour and then ceasing, during flow
other symptoms completely >.
Heavy pressing down in lower abdomen.
Itching of right labia extending outward to edge.
Menses flowed all night, colourless, profuse, penetrating clothing ; in morning began to be red, profuse,
painless.
Night before menses, awaked 1 a. m. with pushing sensation downward in lower abdomen as though the blood
might rush out in torrents, suffering intense, but no blood appeared or any fluid, till following night, when
menses came on ; during the sensation abdomen was distended as if it would burst.
Pains and aches in uterine region and left ovary as if menses coming on (eighteen days before due).
Sensation as if menses coming on (but they did not).
While stooping had a pain in left lower abdomen, and a sensation as if something within her turned or rolled
over ; ever since has felt exceedingly well, more joyous and happy and more free from attacks of depression ;
no pain ; no blood ; no leucorrha.
Respiratory Organs (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Violent cough, with coryza, oppression, and tightness of chest.
Chest (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Breasts sore, sensitive to pressure (after menses).
Congested, suffocative feeling in chest as from wind, in centre under sternum, > beating it with the hand ; by
jarring ; (query : in heart ?).
Tightness across chest, oppression.
Heart (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Dull, heavy aching in region of heart, generally apex, with cold, numb feeling internally, extending at times to
left ovary (cured).
Back (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Awakened at night with much heat in sacrum, rest of body cool ; good deal of aching pain across sacrum and
nates.
Backache, with feeling as if a vertebra had dropped out of lumbar region, and as if spine were tied together with
strings.
Pain in every vertebra of spine.
Severe pain across sacrum (with hmorrhage from rectum).
Sharp pain through spine crosswise.
Lower Limbs (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Ache over left hip, seemed to extend in deep, > during menses, < after.
Pain in left hip (from ovarian region), down back of thigh and knee ; whole limb weak.
Generalities (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Debility with dread of motion ; wants to keep quiet.
Intolerance of bands on wrists, arms, waist, or garters.
Weakness and giving way feeling, < in lower limbs, esp. knees, followed by pushing down, rushing in womb.
Sleep (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
During sleep, and immediately on going to sleep, whole body jerked (during menses).
Very sleepy during menses ; between the hours of 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. suddenly taken with intense drowsiness,
sometimes overcoming the will to keep awake.
Fever (Ovi gallinae Pellicula)
Griping chills.
Pulmo Vulpis.
A Sarcode.
Fox's Lung.
Trituration.
Clinical (Pulmo vulpis)
Asthma.
Bronchitis.
Catarrh.
Lungs, dema of ; catarrh of.
Characteristics (Pulmo vulpis)
Recent discoveries in the uses of tissues and organs as remedies have thrown light on many curiosities of
ancient medicine.
As the fox is probably the longest-winded of all animals, the doctrine of signatures pointed to his lungs as a
likely remedy for short breath.
Grauvogl has put on record this case (quoted Hom. News, XXV. 490) :
Woman, 65, much reduced in flesh by a persistent condition of humid asthma. It commenced with, chronic
catarrh and symptoms of dema of the lungs.
Strong, sonorous bubbling, now rattling, now whistling sounds over whole chest, and at some distance away ;
perceptible also to hand laid on chest.
Accelerated short breath amounting to suffocation, even without corresponding heaving of the chest,
frequently with cough and inability to expectorate.
[Sometimes, in light cases, there is no catarrh present, and only persistent shortness of breath, becoming a
paroxysm of asthma on the least bodily exertion. ]
The patient could only live sitting up, bent forward ; constant lividity of face, lips, and extremities, and dropsy
of legs.
Heart's pulsations irregular, and death seemed imminent. Pulmo vulpis 1x gr. i. was given, and repeated in an
hour.
Visible improvement set in but without increased expectoration.
After a third powder the patient was able to lie down, and fell into a refreshing sleep lasting several hours. In
eight days she engaged in her domestic duties.
Sphingurus.
Spiggurus Martini (Mure).
Histrix subspinosum.
Histrix prehensilis.
Tree Porcupine.
N. O. Sphingurin.
Trituration of prickles taken from one of the sides.
Clinical (Sphingurus)
Hair falling out (head ; beard).
Jaw-joint, pains in.
Stammering.
Zygoma, pain in.
Characteristics (Sphingurus)
The Old World porcupines have the name Histricin, those of the New World Sphingurin.
Mure proved the 3x trituration of the prickles.
The most noteworthy symptoms were :
Embarrassed speech.
Falling out of the hair, of whiskers especially ;
Mouth (Sphingurus)
Bitter mouth, with salt taste.
Bleeding of gums.
Embarrassed speech.
Stomach (Sphingurus)
Constrictive pain in stomach.
Desire to vomit at sight of food.
Drowsy after dinner.
Dry and full feeling in stomach at night.
Nausea, with piercing pain in back.
Shootings in epigastrium.
Abdomen (Sphingurus)
Pain around navel.
Painful swelling of abdomen before dinner.
Sense of fullness in abdomen.
Urinary Organs (Sphingurus)
Itching of pubes after taking tea.
Pain in urethra after urinating, < stooping.
Violent pains in left kidney.
Respiratory Organs (Sphingurus)
Cough with pain in chest.
Chest (Sphingurus)
Pain in intercostal muscles.
Pain in right side as from a plug.
Heart (Sphingurus)
Stitch in heart.
Neck (Sphingurus)
Constriction from neck to diaphragm.
Thyroidinum.
Thyroidin.
Thyroid Extract.
A Sarcode.
Ichthyosis.
Idiocy.
Leprosy.
Mania.
Milk, deficiency of.
Myxdema.
Neurasthenia.
Obesity.
dema.
Optic neuritis.
Paralysis ; of hands and arms.
Paraplegia.
Phthisis.
Pityriasis rubra.
Psoriasis.
Puerperal fever.
Rupia.
Scleroderma.
Syphilis.
Tetanus.
Characteristics (Thyrodinum)
When the treatment of myxdema and allied diseases by "Thyroid feeding" was introduced by Murray in 1892,
many accidents occurred from overdosing. A large number of the pathogenetic effects I collected (H. W. , XXIX.
and subsequent volumes) and arranged in Schema form (H. W. , XXIX. 251) along with cured symptoms, giving
the authority and reference for each. In my subjoined Schema I have omitted the references.
Cured symptoms I have bracketed, unless otherwise indicated. Marc Jousset collected other symptoms in L'Art
Mdical, and I have added some of these, together with others from later observers. The first published case
treated with an attenuation was one of my own (H. W. , XXIX. 111) : Eleanor N. , 17, suffered from fits of
"hystero-epilepsy" for ten months, following a chill. At first the fits had been frequent, latterly only before the
menstrual period.
The fits sometimes lasted half an hour, were preceded by swelling of limbs and face, which sometimes
occurred without the subsequent fit. She bit her tongue in the fits. Other symptoms were : pains in legs, back,
and head (occiput and vertex) ; swelling of throat compelling her to loosen her clothes. Menses after an
absence of four months returned excessively. Much left ovarian pain and tenderness. Despondent, feeble heart
sounds ; pulse 120 ; could not lie down for palpitation and headache. Legs so weak she could not stand.
Thyroid very slightly enlarged. Constipation. Sleepless, has had to take hypnotics regularly of late. A brother of
the patient was epileptic. Lach. did some good, especially improving the sleep ; but no solid progress was
made till Thyr. 3x, gr. ii. thrice daily, was given on November 1st. On November 4th she could lie down flat ; on
the 15th she could walk with assistance ; on the 29th the headache had ceased ; on December 6th she could
walk alone quite well and the bowels acted without enema for the first time. The mental condition improved, the
prominence of the eyeballs disappeared, and she left the hospital perfectly well before Christmas. With Thyr.
1m F. C. Skinner cured a case of dysmenorrha in a goitrous subject. In a case of valvular heart disease
following rheumatism in a man, 24, Thyr. 3x, gr. ii. thrice daily, quickly relieved a squeezing pain at the heart
with inability to lie down and materially hastened the patient's recovery. The action of Thyr. on the heart is most
profound. Fatal syncope has occurred in a number of cases under "Thyroid feeding. "
Cyanosis was produced in many cases. Severe angina pectoris was produced by it in a patient to whom
Burnett gave the 3x. The connection between the heart and the thyroid gland is very close, as seen in cases of
exophthalmic goitre. Many cases of the latter affection have been cured with Thyr. In myxdema, cachexia
strumipriva, cretinism and similar conditions the thyroid gland is absent or defective, and the idea of the
Thyroid feeding is to supply a physiological want. A state of puffiness and obesity may therefore be regarded
as a keynote indication for Thyr.
As drugs act sometimes in opposite ways, I gave Thyr. 3x gr. ii. to a living skeleton of a child aged five, and
looking not more than two, who had been kept in a box in a cellar all his life till brought into hospital, when he
weighted 14 1/4 pounds. Under Bac. 200 and careful feeding he gained 1/4 pound a week.
When I commenced Thyr. he put on weekly 3/4 pound, and gained the use of his legs, being able to stand by
holding on to a chair. In a case of universal and very aggravated psoriasis in a schoolboy, fair, very chilly, cold,
clammy hands and feet, Thyr. 3x and later 30 (which seemed to act better than the lower attenuation)
completely cured after a prolonged course. An obese lady, t. 60, developed diabetes.
I cured her completely of the diabetes with Thyr. 3x and 30. She has now for many years been able to take any
kind of food. (On her husband, a spare man, who also was diabetic Thyr. had no effect. ) Skin cases in great
variety have been cured with Thyr. in substantial doses : Pityriasis rubra, intense redness, and scaliness of
legs, and also with intense itching ; Ichthyosis ; syphilitic eruptions ; scleroderma. The nutrition of the bones is
affected, and acromegaly has been relieved and united fractures made to unite. Thyr. has increased the flow of
milk in nursing women when the flow has been deficient. It has cured cases of tetany both operative and
idiopathic.
The keynote in these cases appears to have been "< of spasms by cold. " Many cases of insanity have been
cured with it, including a case of puerperal insanity with fever. H. O. Nicholson (B. M. J. , June 21, 1901) relates
a case of eclampsia of pregnancy : A woman, 32, in her third pregnancy, had a fit on October 3rd. Thyroid
feeding was begun next day. Marked improvement followed. dema of face and body diminished. On October
23rd patient was about her usual duties.
On November 6th she was delivered of a healthy boy without any untoward symptoms. Thyr. , according to
Nicholson, is diuretic, like Urea ; and Nicholson explains its action in eclampsia as being effected through its
enabling the kidneys to carry off the toxins resulting from ftal metabolism. Thyr. is antagonistic to Adrenalin
in that the latter contracts, whilst the former dilates the arterioles. Among the pathogenetic effects of Thyr. ,
optic neuritis and accommodative asthenopia have been observed. Some curiosities have been noted in the
action of Thyr. on the growth of hair. Myxdema patients lose their hair as a rule, and Thyr. when successful
restores the growth. But in some cases the opposite effect has been noted. In one case of myxdema the hair
had fallen off the head and face and a thick growth appeared on arms and chest. Under Thyr. the latter
disappeared, and the hair on the head and face grew again (L'Art Md. , LXXXII. 44).
The pains of Thyr. are stitching, aching, or heavy pains, and tingling sensations. At the point of injection when
administered subcutaneously brawny swelling occurred in one case (which may suggest scleroderma)
followed by abscess of slow development. Persons suffering from skin diseases were found tolerant of much
larger doses than myxdemics. In a number of cases latent phthisis has been lighted up into activity. Syphilis,
both secondary and tertiary, has been vastly relieved by Thyr. Hansen mentions fibroma uteri as having been
cured by Thyr. , and Burford supports this. "Brawny swelling" is a keynote of Thyr. pointed out by Burnett. With
Thyr. 3x gr. vi. thrice daily he cured a case of dropsy and albuminuria which had been given up by several
doctors. Burnett noticed that the swelling was brawny.
Soon after commencing Thyr. the patient passed a quantity of fluid from the feet and got quite well. The
symptoms are : > By rest. < By least exertion ; by stooping. (Heart was < lying down. ) < By cold. (Thyr.
treatment nearly always raises the bodily heat. )
Relations (Thyrodinum)
Compare
Myxdema ; psoriasis, &c. , Ars. [I permanently cured a case of myxdema with Ars. high, before the Thyroid
method was introduced (H. W. , XXVII. 443) ; arsenic has been found to be a normal constituent of the healthy
thyroid gland]. Phthisis, Bac. [I have found Thyr. follow Bac. well. Greenfield (see H. W. , XXIX. 7) found
tuberculosis very common in myxdemics, in five out of seven fatal cases it was widespread and advanced ;
he also found it in one case of sporadic cretinism. Young, of Switzerland, has cured cretinism with Bac. ]
Syphilis, Merc. , K. iod. , Syph. Goitre, exophthalmic, Spo. , Iod. , Spi. Diuresis, Urea. Optic neuritis, Tab. , Carb.
s. Dilated arterioles (Adren. , opp. ). Ununited fractures, Symph. Wakes with headache, Lach,
Follows well
Lach. , Bac.
Symptoms.
Mind (Thyrodinum)
"All progressed cases of myxdema show some mental aberration which tends towards dementia, usually with
delusions, the latter taking the form of suspicion and persecution. Occasionally actual insanity is present in the
form of mania and insanity. ".
Acute stupor alternating with restless melancholia at times could not be got to speak, but would lie on floor
with limbs rigid at other times would weep and undress herself ; at times dangerous and homicidal, would put
her arms round the necks of other patients so tightly as almost to strangle them ; (in this case the insanity was
primary and the myxdema secondary ; both conditions were removed).
Angry.
Became a grumbler.
Delirium of persecution (three cases observed, one fatal, the result of taking Thyr. in tablets to reduce obesity).
Depression.
Evinced increased vivacity by quarrelling with another patient about a trifling difference of opinion.
Excited condition, lasting all the rest of the day, grunting continuously and laughing in a way that was peculiar
to herself.
For several hours in what can only be termed a hysterical condition.
Fretfulness and moroseness gave way to cheerfulness and animation.
Had frights.
Irritable and ill-tempered.
Mental aberration dating three years before onset of myxdema, subject to attacks of great violence, with
intervals of depression and moroseness.
Profound depression.
Limbs (Thyrodinum)
(Acromegaly, subjective symptoms. )
Intense aching in back and limbs, lasting three days.
Pains in arms and legs, with malaise.
Quivering of limbs ; tremors.
Skin of hands and feet desquamated.
Upper Limbs (Thyrodinum)
After injection, to a great extent lost the use of her hands for two days ; recurred later, lasting a few hours.
Arms less stiff and painful (psoriasis).
Felt queer and unable to raise her arms (after injection, another case).
Lower Limbs (Thyrodinum)
Feet repeatedly peel in large flakes, leaving a tender surface.
Incomplete paraplegia.
dema of legs appeared, and subsequently subsided and continued to reappear and subside for a month.
Pain in legs.
Profuse flow of fluid from feet (in case of dropsy cured by Thyr. ).
Swelling of face and legs.
Tingling sensation in legs.
Generalities (Thyrodinum)
"A series of abscesses resulting from the injections, but probably originating from an accidental abscess quite
independent of them. ".
(Acromegaly, headaches, and subjective symptoms. ).
(Fractures refuse to unite. ).
(Hystero-epilepsy with amenorrha. ).
(Tetany. ).
A peculiar cachexia more dangerous than myxdema itself.
A small abscess formed.
Aching pains (many cases).
Aching pains all over.
Skin (Thyrodinum)
(Psoriasis ; redness and itching reduced ; eruption separating and being shed in great scales, angry, inflamed
appearance completely gone. ).
(Rupia. ).
(Symmetrical serpigenous eruption ; dark red ; edges raised and thickened. ).
(Syphilitic psoriasis. ).
(Teething eczema. ).
Arms less stiff and painful ; swelling diminished.
Crusts separated, leaving faint red skin ; eruption not nearly so painful.
Eczema : irritation of skin markedly allayed.
Flushing of skin.
Lupus : tight feeling, heat, angry redness removed ; suppuration increased.
Moist patches behind ears heal up.
Peeling of skin beginning on legs and extending over whole surface ; skin has since become comparatively
soft and smooth.
Peeling of skin of lower limbs, with gradual clearing (eczema).
Psoriasis ; eruption extended and increased.
Scattered pustules of eczema mature quickly or abort.
Scleroderma.
Skin became so livid as to be almost blue-black.
Skin has desquamated freely, but there has been no perspiration or diuresis.
Skin of hands and feet desquamated.
Sleep (Thyrodinum)
Awoke about 4 a. m. with sharp headache.
Continual tendency to sleep.
Exited condition ; could not sleep.
Fearful nightmares disappeared.
Insomnia.
Fever (Thyrodinum)
Always felt hot, and had a sensation of Sickness after the injections.
Urinum.
Dilutions.
Urine.
Clinical
Acne.
Boils.
Dropsy.
Ophthalmia.
Scurvy.
Characteristics (Urinum)
Under Urea Allen gives some symptoms observed on a man who, for a skin affection, drank in the morning the
urine he had passed the night before.
The symptoms were severe, consisting of general-dropsy, scanty urine, and excessive weakness.
These symptoms I have arranged under Urinum. Urinotherapy is practically as old as man himself.
The Chinese (Therapist, X. 329) treat wounds by sprinkling urine on them, and the custom is widespread in the
Far East. Taken internally it is believed to stimulate the circulation ; and is valued as an active oxytocic.
The parturient woman drinks the urine of a male child four to five years old, and the part voided in the middle of
micturition. The child urinates into three vessels, the woman drinking the contents of the second. In the Brit.
Med. Jour. of 1900 a number of instances of Western urinotherapy were given (collected H. W. , XXXV. 507).
To these Cooper has made some additions (ibid. , p. 584).
The cases are these : (1) A youth for crops of boils which nothing could remedy was recommended to drink
every morning for three mornings a cupful of his own urine. Then after an intermission of three days to resume,
and so on till cured. He was cured on the ninth day.
(2) "Blackheads" cured inexactly the same way.
Cholesterinum.
Cholesterine.
C 26 H 44 O.
Trituration.
Clinical (Cholesterinum)
Gall-stones.
Jaundice.
Liver, cancer of ; diseases of.
Vitreous, opacities of.
Characteristics (Cholesterinum)
Cholesterine is a substance crystallising in leaflets with a mother-of-pearl lustre and a fatty feel. It is soluble in
alcohol and ether.
It occurs in the blood and brain, yolk of eggs, seeds and buds of plants, but most abundantly in the bile and
biliary calculi.
Ameke, who did much to introduce the proximate principles of the tissues as remedies, anticipating the
practice now so much in vogue in the old school, recommended Cholesterine as a remedy in cancer of the
liver.
Burnett has recently adduced conclusive evidence in support of the correctness of this assertion ; and I have
myself cured, mainly with this, a case described to me (I did not see the patient, a man over 50) as in the last
stage of liver disease. He had been given up by his medical attendant, who ordered him to make his will without
delay.
Burnett uses the 3x or the 3 trit. and substantial doses.
He commends it in "obstinate hepatic engorgements, which by reason of their obstinacy make one think
interrogatively of cancer," also in "cases in which there appears to be a semi-malignant affection, involving the
left lobe of the liver and what lies between it and the pylorus and the pancreas. "
In such cases Burnett gives alternately Cholest. 3x and Iodoform 3x.
It has been used with success in the removal of opacities of the vitreous.
Clinical
Nausea of pregnancy.
Characteristics
The only use that I know as having been made of Lac. coag. is in the nausea of pregnancy, the indication being
"Nausea of pregnancy with desire for food and > by drinking milk (Chel. ). "
constipation, are a matter of common knowledge, and it is in these affections that the remedy has especially
distinguished itself.
As milk contains within it an epitome of all the tissues and salts of the animal which secretes it, it is natural to
expect of it a wide range of action in the attenuations. As Natrum. mur. is a prominent ingredient, it is not
surprising that symptoms of this are found in the pathogenesis, e. g. , "thirst for large quantities, often,"
"nausea and vomiting," "depression with crying and palpitation. "
The characteristic headaches of Lac def. are : Periodic sick-headaches in women ; menstrual sick-headaches.
Intense headache, fore part, with nausea and constipation. Throbbing frontal headaches in anmic women,
nausea, vomiting, and obstinate constipation. The symptoms which specially indicate it in diabetes are :
Intense thirst ; wasting. The menses are irregular ; sometimes very dark, scanty ; sometimes colourless water.
(Lac def. cured this case : Menses suppressed suddenly from putting hands into cold water. Great pain in
uterine region. Intense headache. Pains fly all over. Flushed face. Patient slept after first dose, next morning
slight flow appeared. Second dose brought back flow profusely, and patient felt well and the flow continued. )
Nutrition is perverted.
There is loss of weight, or else obesity. Dropsy. Fatty degeneration. Some peculiar sensations are : As though
a knife was cutting up and down through the heart. As if head would burst. As if eyes full of little stones. As if
top of head was lifted off. As if a ball of pain in centre of forehead. As if flesh was off bones and edges were
separated and sticking out. As if objects were tossed up from below in all directions. As if a large ball rose from
lower end of sternum to upper end of sophagus. As if a stone in abdomen. As if sheets were damp. As if a
cold air blowing on her. It may be well to recall in this last connection that milk is one of the articles forbidden
to hydrogenoid or chilly patients. Burnett maintains that excess of milk in the dietary of children after they have
cut their first teeth renders them susceptible to colds.
There is periodicity in the symptoms : every eight days. Headache ceases at sunset. Most symptoms occur in
the morning. Fever and prostration come on in afternoon. Putting hands into cold water = suppression of
menses. External heat does not > chilliness, < pain in eyeball. Sensation as if cold water were blowing on her,
even while covered up warm. No position >. Lying down < vertigo ; headache ; urinary pain. Vertigo compels to
sit up. Extending arms above head = fainting spells. Motion < all symptoms. < Walking ; < sitting down, though
ever so gently. Abdomen is sensitive to touch. Pressure round waist = fainting spells. Pressure > pain in
eyeball (presses eyes into pillows) ; bandaging head lightly > pain. After injury subject to distress in head.
Relations (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Compare : Lac can. , Lac coag. , Lact. ac. , Sacch. lac. , Vaccin. (a cow nosode) ; Nat. m. (diabetes, headache,
constipation, heart) ; Coccul. (menstrual sick-headaches) ; Cact. (heart ; but Lac d. has not the "grasp" of Cact.
) ; Nux m. (head heavy, tends to fall to left Lac. d. to right).
Causation (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Injuries.
Symptoms.
Mind (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Can remember what has been read only by a strong effort of will.
Depression ; does not care to live ; questions as to quietest and most certain way of hastening one's death.
Depression with crying and palpitation (fainting spells).
Does not want to talk to any one.
During conversation, headache and depression of spirits >.
Great despondency on account of the disease, is sure he is going to die in twenty-four hours ; without fear of
death.
Imagines that all her friends will die and that she must go to a convent (fainting spells).
Loss of memory ; listlessness, disinclination for bodily or, mental exertion.
Vacillation of mind.
Head (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
After injury subject to distress in head ; severe pain in forehead just above eyes ; breath offensive ; appetite
poor, nausea ; at times sleeps for hours during attack ; great distress across back ; urine dark and thick.
Dim vision, as of cloud before eyes ; profuse urination ; full feeling in head ; slight nausea at pit of stomach ;
face pale ; feet cold ; coldness in back.
Faintness and nausea when stepping upon floor in morning.
General sore pain of head produced by coughing.
Head feels heavy with marked tendency to fall to right
Head feels large as if growing externally.
Head heavy, falling to right side.
Headache : < during menses ; < by speaking, alternating with tonsillitis.
Headache : with pains in eyes ; as if full of little stones ; < closing eyes ; profuse urination.
In morning nausea and sensation of a round ball full of pain in centre of forehead.
Intense pain at point of exit of supraorbital nerve, diffused thence over forehead ; attack commences with chill,
quickened pulse, flushed face and discharges of wind from stomach.
Intense vertigo when opening eyes while lying, < when rising up ; objects appeared to move swiftly from left to
right, at other times moving as if tossed up from below in every direction.
Nausea and sometimes vomiting, which > ; pain in forehead as if head would burst, with blindness ; pain is >
by bandaging head tightly ; < by light and noise ; constipation, stools large ; hands and, feet cold (hemicrania).
Pain first in forehead, extending through occiput, making her nearly frantic.
Pain first in forehead, then extending to occiput, very intense, distracting and unbearable ; great photophobia,
even to light of candle ; deathly sickness all over, with nausea and vomiting, < by movement or sitting up ; very
chilly, and external heat does not > ; frequent and profuse urination of very pale urine.
Severe headache, with a sensation as if top of head was lifted off, raised about five inches and brains were
coming out ; head feels hot, motion < pain ; face felt as if flesh was off bones and their edges were separated
and sticking out.
Throbbing frontal headache (over eyes), nausea, vomiting and obstinate constipation ; esp. in anmic women.
Vertigo : on moving head from pillow ; < lying down and esp. turning while lying, obliging to sit up.
Eyes (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Dim vision ; can only see lights, not objects ; preceding headache.
Great pain in eyes on first going into light, soon passed off ; on closing eyes on account of light, pain was felt
in eyeballs as if from pressure of lids.
Great photophobia, even candle light unbearable.
On closing eyelids painful pressure as if lids were short laterally, causing sensation of band pressing upon
balls.
Pain in head, most marked over left eye and in temple, extending into eyes, and causing profuse lachrymation.
Upper eyelids feel very heavy ; sleepy all day.
Nose (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Painful pressure or tightness at root of nose (catarrh).
Face (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Deathly paleness of face.
Face, neck, arms and body generally flush colour of a red rose, with swelling, but no itching or burning.
Flushes of heat in left side of face.
Pimples on face and forehead (irregular menses).
Sallow complexion with eczematous eruption.
Sensation as if all flesh was off bones of face and edges were separated and sticking gut.
Teeth (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Grinding of teeth when asleep, with pain in stomach and head with vomiting.
Mouth (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Breath very offensive.
Mouth clammy and frothy, esp. during conversation.
Mouth very dry.
Throat (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Globus hystericus ; sensation of a large ball rising from a point about lower end of sternum to upper end of
sophagus, causing distressing sense of suffocation.
Sore throat < when swallowing ; slight, hacking cough.
Appetite (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Could not drink milk without its causing sick-headache.
Entire loss of appetite.
Constant pain in region of kidneys, passing around each side above hips to region of bladder, also downward
from sacral region to gluteal, and from thence down back of thighs ; pain burning, not > in any position, < lying
down.
Frequent and profuse urination of very pale urine.
Frequent but scanty urination.
Profuse, pale urine.
Urine comes away drop by drop, or else gushes out with a sensation of very hot water passing over the parts ;
wetting bed at night.
Urine dark and thick.
Urine very pale ; cannot retain it.
Female Sexual Organs (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
(Has never failed to bring back the milk in from twelve to twenty-four hours. ).
After putting hands in cold water sudden suppression of menses ; pains all over, esp. in head.
Decrease in size of breasts.
Diminished secretion of milk.
Drawing pain across uterine region, with heat and pressive bearing down in both ovarian regions ; cannot bear
pressure of hand or arm on abdomen, intense distress in lower part of abdomen during menstruation, not > by
any position ; violent inflammation in ilio-ccal region, with intense pain, swelling, tenderness, fcal
accumulation and violent vomiting.
Irregular menstruation, sometimes very dark and scanty, sometimes colourless water.
Menses delayed a week with congestion of blood to head ; coldness of hands, nausea, and vertigo ; flow
commenced next morning after taking Lac defl. , scanty with pain in back ; sensation of weight and dragging in
left ovarian region.
Morning sickness during pregnancy ; deathly sickness at stomach on waking ; vertigo and waterbrash on
rising ; constipation.
Pressing bearing down in ovarian region.
Slight yellowish leucorrha.
Respiratory Organs (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Asthma so that he could scarcely breathe, accompanied by bloating in epigastric region.
Short, dry cough, with difficult expectoration of a small lump of mucus, which > cough.
Chest (Lac vaccinum defloratum)
Soreness of chest with great pressure.
Tuberculous deposit in apices of both lungs.
Lacticum Acidum.
Lactic Acid.
Milk Acid.
HC 3 H 5 O 3.
Dilution.
Clinical
Bones, swelling of.
Diabetes.
Foot-sweat.
Indigestion.
Pregnancy, sickness of.
Rheumatism.
Sciatica.
Throat, constricted, sore.
Vomiting.
Characteristics
Lactic acid "was discovered by Scheele in sour milk, the result of the spontaneous fermentation of sugar of
milk, under the influence of casein.
It is also met with in many vegetable products which have turned sour" (Hering).
Reisig introduced it into homopathy. It has been proved in both the lower and higher attenuations, but many
valuable observations have been made on patients taking substantial doses for diabetes (C. D. P. ).
In these cases the symptoms of rheumatic fever were directly traced to the acid. Pain, swelling, and stiffness
and tenderness of joints < by motion (as with Bry. , which antidotes Lact. ac. ), and flying pains about limbs.
One prover had pain along the right sciatic nerve.
The well-known effects of milk that has soured on the stomach and remained undigested were produced
nausea, vomiting, burning and sense of weight ; and these have all proved useful indications in the
homopathic use of the drug.
Diabetes is the affection for which it has been most given in old-school practice ; but it has also proved of great
power in this affection in the homopathic attenuations.
Nash regards the concomitance of rheumatic pains as the chief guiding symptom here. (In Med. Adv. , XXI. 508
he records a case of diabetes, with rheumatic fever supervening, cured with Lact. ac. 200. )
But nausea is no less a guide : Constant nausea ; nausea on awaking before rising ; > by eating. This may
occur in diabetes ; or it may occur in pregnancy. It is also an indication when occurring in rheumatism.
There is > by eructations ; and < by smoking. Smoking < eructations. Copious foot-sweat is a feature of Lact.
ac. , but it is not offensive. It is suited to anmic, pale women. Large doses disagreed with melancholic,
choleric constitution, dark hair and eyes.
Relations (Lacticum Acidum.)
Antidoted by : Bry. (relieved sharp pains upper third right side, but soreness remained).
Compatible : Meat diet in diabetes.
Incompatible : Coffee < symptoms.
Compare : Lac can. , Lac coag. , Lac defl. , Sac. lac.
In nausea of pregnancy, Nux, Puls. , Ph. ac. , Colch. , Lyc. , Lac d. , Ip.
Excessive hawking with (or without) nausea, Caust. (phlegm in throat, cannot be hawked up, causing nausea).
Diabetes, Pho. ac. , Acet. ac. , Lac d. , Ur. Nit.
Flying rheumatism, Puls. , Rhus.
Great discouragement, Pso.
Compare also : Vegetable acids, which all cause weakness and thinness of the blood.
Symptoms (Lacticum Acidum.)
Mind (Lacticum Acidum.)
Great discouragement.
Lazy.
Memory lost.
Sarcastic.
Head (Lacticum Acidum.)
Flashes of heat.
Unusual perspiration of feet.
Pancreatinum.
Extract of Pancreatic and Salivary Glands of Ox or Sheep.
Trituration.
Clinical
Diabetes, pancreatic.
Diarrha.
Gout.
Mumps.
Pancreas, disease of.
Characteristics (Pancreatinum. )
Pancreatinum has been used with success in conditions due to disease or faulty action of the pancreas on the
analogy of Thyroidin and the other Sarcodes.
Burnett says pancreatics are often of great service in gout.
Relations
Compare : In action on pancreas and salivary glands, Ir. v. , Nux, Puls. , Merc. , Iod. , Jabor. , Pilocarpine.
Pepsinum
A proteolytic ferment found in the gastric juice.
The Pepsin in general use is extracted from the stomach of the pig.
Alcohol, tannin, and the alkaline carbonates destroy its power. It is prepared in granular form or in glycerinated
extract for general use.
Homopathic attenuations maybe made by triturating the secretory layer of a fresh pig's-stomach ; by
triturating the granular Pepsinum with sugar of milk ; or by making the lower attenuations of the liquid extracts
with distilled water.
Clinical
Dyspepsia.
Characteristics
Pepsinum has been supposed to act purely as a digestive, but recent discoveries in regard to the action of the
sarcodes makes this now scarcely tenable.
Pepsinum may digest the contents of the stomach ; but, like the secretions of other glands, it will in all
probability act also, by its specific affinity, on the secretory tissues of the stomach itself.
Pyrogenium.
Pyrogen. Pyrexin. Sepsin.
A product of the decomposition of chopped lean beef in water, allowed to stand in the sun for two or three
weeks.
Dilutions ; (which should be made, according to Burnett, direct and without glycerine).
Clinical (Pyrogenium)
Abscess.
Anus, sweating near.
Bed-sores.
Bright's disease.
Constipation.
Diarrha.
Dysentery.
Eczema.
Enteric fever.
Fistula.
Headache.
Heart, rapid action of ; consciousness of ; failure of.
Hectic fever.
Indian continued fevers.
Influenza.
Intestines, ulceration of ; obstruction of.
Labour : puerperal fever.
Ovary, abscess of.
Peritonitis.
Phthisis pulmonalis.
Ptomaine poisoning.
Puerperal fever.
Pymia.
Sepsis.
Spine, Pott's curvature of.
Tabes mesenterica.
Tuberculosis.
Typhilitis.
Ulcers, varicose ; obstinate.
Varicosis.
Characteristics (Pyrogenium)
John Drysdale was the first, in 1880, to suggest the use of this substance as a medicament (On Pyrexin or
Pyrogen as a Therapeutic Agent, Baillire, Tyndale & Cox). Burdon Sanderson has stated (B. M. J. , February
13, 1875) that "only liquids which contain bacteria or have a marked proneness to their production" are capable
of setting up pyrexia.
This remark struck Drysdale, and though, of course, he could not endorse the "only" of the statement many
drugs known to homopaths set up fever he saw that the fact might be turned to account. Sanderson further
defines Pyrogen as "a chemical non-living substance formed by living bacteria, but also by living puscorpuscles, or the living blood- or tissue-protoplasms from which these corpuscles spring. " In Sanderson's
experiments with Pyro. the following effects were observed. (1) From a non-fatal dose : The animal shivers and
begins to move about restlessly.
The temperature rises from 2 to 3 C. , the maximum being reached in three hours. Th irst and vomiting come
on, followed by feculent and thin mucous, and finally bloody diarrha and tenesmus. In five hours these
symptoms begin to subside, and the animal recovers with wonderful rapidity. When death occurs it is from
heart failure. In non-fatal cases with gastro-enteric symptoms the temperature gradually rises for four hours,
and as gradually subsides : in fatal cases it rises rapidly to 104 F. , then rapidly declines to below normal.
(2) From a fatal dose : There is intestinal hmorrhage, purging, collapse, and death. After death extravasations
of blood are found in heart, pleura, and pericardium ; the spleen is enlarged and full of blood. Mucous
membrane of stomach and small intestines is intensely injected with detachment of epithelium and exudation
of bloody fluid, which distends the gut.
The blood is dark, the corpuscles being in clumps instead of rolls, and many being dissolved in the liquor
sanguinis. White corpuscles partially disintegrated. Drysdale prepared a tincture of Pyro. which he preferred
to call Pyrexin, since it is not a mere fever-producer : others have called it Sepsin ; but this is too close to
Septicmin, a name given to a related and perhaps identical nosode : I have chosen to retain the name
Pyrogen, by which the remedy is best known in homopathy and put his own suggestion into practice. His
success was very encouraging, but as he continued to use the tincture and lowest attenuations the difficulty
of keeping the preparation was not small ; and the remedy did not come into extensive use till Burnett
published his pamphlet on Pyrogenium in Fevers and Blood-poisoning in 1888.
Burnett used chiefly the 6th centesimal dilution, which is perfectly harmless, and which will keep indefinitely.
Heath, who made one of the preparations used by Burnett, gave some of it to Swan, of New York, who ran it up
into the high infinitesimals. Much of the American experience is with Swan's attenuations, including a proving
by Sherbino (Med. Adv. , XXV. 369), whose symptoms I have marked (Sherbino) in the Schema. The remainder
of the symptoms of the Schema are for the most part clinical Yingling (H. P. , XIII. 402) collected symptoms
from many reported cases, and arranged them with the symptoms of the proving. (Yingling erroneously
describes Pyro. as prepared from "pus from septic abscess. "
This is Septicmin. He refers, however, to Burnett's pamphlet and to cases cured with Pyro. , leaving the actual
substance referred to not in doubt. H. C. Allen, who published the proving and most of the cases in Med. Adv. ,
rightly describes Pyro. as a "Product of Sepsis"). Drysdale's original cases include a number in which
threatened typhoid was averted, a case of tabes mesenterica cured, and one of ulceration of the colon greatly
benefited.
Burnett's were cases of fully developed typhoid all cut short at the height by Pyro. 6 given every two hours. In
his pamphlet is included a successful experience of Dr. Shouldham's with Pyro. 6 in two cases of diphtheritic
sore threat. I have had ample opportunity of observing the power of Pyro. over typhoid fever, and typhoid and
hectic states, including one of discharging abscess connected with Pott's disease of the spine.
T. M. Dillingham reports (Med. Adv. , XXVII. 367) the case of a young German Jewess who had been under
treatment at various hospitals for Bright's disease, and at the Hahnemann Hospital of New York among Others.
To this she was readmitted on March 14, 1890, when she first came under Dr. Dillingham's care.
The urine showed an enormous amount of albumen and a variety of casts. Feet and legs greatly swollen, face
puffy. Throbbing headache, often accompanied by profuse nose-bleed, nausea, and vomiting ; < motion and
light ; abnormally bright eyes, widely dilated pupils. Bell gave temporary relief ; but on May 31st the condition
was desperate. Dillingham then learned that the trouble dated from a large abscess resulting from a lanced,
badly cared-for felon of the left thumb. She was ill six weeks with this abscess, having, as her doctors said,
"blood poisoning. " Soon after this her face and feet began to swell.
On May 31st the condition was this : Feet, legs, and genitals greatly swollen. Frightful throbbing headache, > by
tight band constantly worn. > By heat ; very fond of the hot bath. Headaches had terrible aggravations lasting
two to four days, during which time she could neither lie in bed nor sit up, but was in constant motion,
groaning and crying piteously for help. Pyro. cmm, Swan, one dose was given, and no other medicine, although
the patient on one occasion begged for something to stop the pain. In the course of June she began to mend,
and on October 20th was discharged cured.
In Sherbino's proving he was cured incidentally of a consciousness of the heart and its working, and
palpitation from least excitement or anxiety, < beginning to move ; congestion to head as if apoplexy would
ensue. Cactus had done no good. Sherbino cured : (1) a case of puerperal fever with Pyro. , being led to its
selection by the very high pulse rate. (2) Relapse of typhoid, pulse 140, temperature 102 F. ; both were normal
in twenty-four hours. (3) Young lady, 17, fever, aching bones, bed felt very hard. Numb, paralytic feeling. As the
fever left the pulse kept mounting up. Pyro. cmm, Swan, repeated as often as effect ceased, cured. Pyro. is
one of the germinal remedies of the materia medica. When once the idea of its essential action is grasped an
infinity of applications become apparent. As Drysdale put it, "The most summary indication for Pyro. would be
to term it the Aconite of the typhous or typhoid quality of pyrexia," and wherever poisoning by bacterial
products (e. g. , in the hectic of phthisis) is going on Pyro. will be likely to do good. Sepsis is the essence of the
action of Pyro.
H. C. Allen gives this indication for its use in septic states : "When the best selected remedies fail to relieve or
permanently improve " analogous to the action of Pso. and Sul. in other conditions. Also : "Latent pyogenic
process, patient continually relapsing after apparent simillimum. " As Pyro. is a product of carrion, the carrionlike odour of bodily emaciations, secretions, and excretions is a keynote for its use. Other leading indications
are : Restlessness ; must move constantly to > the soreness of parts. "Constipation, from impactum of fces
in fevers ; stool large, black, carrion-like. " "Chill begins in back, between scapul. " "Severe general chill of
bones and extremities. " In all cases of fever commencing with pains in the limbs," Swan. Pulse abnormally
rapid, out of all proportion to temperature. " Pyro. 5, five drops in water night and morning, assisted in the cure
of a case of anal fistula in a case of Burnett's (On Fistula, p. 66). Under its action a sweating at the seat which
the man had had for many years disappeared ; and the skin of his hands, which were subject to dry eczema,
assumed a much cleaner aspect.
J. S. Hunt (H. W. , XXXI. 54) reports five cases of varicose ulcers, all of which healed quickly under Pyro.
Bellairs (H. W. , XXXIV. 298) gave Pyro. 200 to an elderly woman who suffered for years with an ulcerated leg,
which was riddled with deep, burrowing wounds, extremely painful and discharging freely. Hep. , Sil. , Ars. ,
Ham. , did no good. Under Pyro. once or twice a day "a large boil" formed on the calf of the leg and discharged
its contents, after which the various ulcers healed up directly.
The symptoms are > by heat (drinking hot water ; hot bath). > Tightly binding head. > Stretching out limbs ;
walking about ; turning over or changing position. Heart's action and cough < by motion. Eyeball < moving eye.
Cough < motion and in a warm room. < Sitting up in bed ; rising. (Cough > sitting up ; < lying down. )
Relations
Compare : Septicmin (B. Sanderson says bacteria and pus cells produce the same chemical result ; Pyro. and
Sept. may therefore he identical, but I think it best to keep them distinct) ; Malar. (the vegetable Pyrogen) ;
Lach. In typhoid with soreness, bed feels hard, Bap. , Arn. , Rhus. > Motion and stretching limbs, Rhus. Cough
< by motion and in warm room, Bry. Uterine hmorrhage, Ipec. ("if Ipec. fails when indicated give Pyro. ,"
Yingling). Offensive diarrha Pso. Black stools, Lept. Constipation, Op. , Sanic. , Pb. Lochia thin, fetid, Nit. ac.
Vomits water as soon as warm in stomach, Pho. Throbbing headache, Bell. Varicose, offensive ulcers of old
persons, Pso. Skin ashy, Sec. Suppuration, Hep.
Causation
Blood poisoning.
Dissecting wounds.
Ptomaine poisoning.
Sewer-gas poisoning.
Typhoid fever (remote effects of).
Symptoms.
Mind (Pyrogenium)
Delirious on closing eyes ; sees a man at foot of bed.
Feels when lying on one side that she is one person, and another person when turning on the other side.
Hallucination that he is very wealthy ; remaining after the fever.
Irritable (Sherbino).
Loquacious ; can think and talk faster than ever before (Sherbino).
Sensation as if she covered the whole bed ; knew her head was on pillow, but did not know where the rest of
her body was.
Sensation as though crowded with arms and legs.
Whispers ; in sleep.
Head (Pyrogenium)
Dizziness on rising up in bed.
Excruciating, bursting, throbbing headache with intense restlessness (often accompanied with profuse
nosebleed, nausea, and vomiting).
Forehead bathed in cold sweat.
Frightful throbbing headache > from tight band.
Great throbbing of arteries of temples and head ; every pulsation felt in brain and in ears ; the throbbings meet
on top of brain (Sherbino).
Painless throbbing all through front of head ; sounds like escaping steam (Sherbino).
Pains in both mastoids, < right ; dull throbbing in mastoid region (Sherbino).
Rolling of head from side to side.
Sensation as if a cap were on.
Staggers as if drunk on rising in morning (Sherbino).
Eyes (Pyrogenium)
Left eyeball sore, < looking up and turning eye outward (Sherbino).
Projecting eyes.
Ears (Pyrogenium)
Ears cold.
Ears red, as if blood would burst out of them.
Loud ringing, like a bell, left ear (also right) (Sherbino).
Nose (Pyrogenium)
Cold nose.
Fan-like motion of al nasi.
Nose-bleed ; awakened by dreaming it and found it was so.
Nostrils closing alternately (Sherbino).
Sneezing : every time he puts hand from under covers ; at night.
Face (Pyrogenium)
Circumscribed redness of cheeks.
Face : burning ; yellow ; very red ; pale, sunken, and bathed in cold sweat ; pale, greenish, or chlorotic.
Mouth (Pyrogenium)
Breath horrible ; like carrion.
Taste : terribly fetid, as if mouth and throat full of pus (produced by dose of Pyro. cm, Swan) ; sweetish.
Tongue : coated white in front, brown at back ; yellowish brown, bad taste in morning (Sherbino).
Tongue : coated yellowish grey, edges and tip very red ; large, flabby ; yellow brown streak down centre.
Tongue clean, smooth, and dry ; first fiery red, then dark red and intensely dry ; smooth and dry ; glossy, shiny
; dry, cracked, articulation difficult.
Throat (Pyrogenium)
Diphtheria with extreme fetor.
Appetite (Pyrogenium)
> Drinking very hot water.
Great thirst for small quantities, but the least liquid was instantly rejected.
No appetite (Sherbino) ; or thirst.
Chest (Pyrogenium)
Chest sore, purple spots on it.
Ecchymoses on pleura (dog).
Neglected pneumonia : Cough, night-sweats, frequent pulse, abscess had burst discharging much pus of
mattery taste (rapid recovery under Pyro. cm. three doses).
Pain in right lung and shoulder, < talking or coughing.
Severe contracting pain within lower sternum, sometimes extending to rib-joints and up to throat, as if
sophagus being cramped.
Heart (Pyrogenium)
Cardiac asthenia from septic conditions.
Could not sleep for whizzing and purring of heart ; when she did sleep was delirious.
Ecchymoses on heart and pericardium (dog).
Every pulsation felt (painlessly) in head and ears (Sherbino).
Feels as if the heart were pumping cold water (Yingling).
Heart tired as after a long run ; increased action < least motion (Sherbino).
Loud heart-beats ; audible to herself and others.
Pain in region of left nipple, as if in heart ; increased action ; pulse 120 (Sherbino).
Palpitation < by motion.
Palpitation or increased action without corresponding increase of temperature.
Sensation as if heart enlarged ; distinct consciousness of heart (Sherbino).
Sensation as if heart too full of blood.
Violent, tiresome heart action.
Neck and Back (Pyrogenium)
Throbbing of vessels of neck running up in waves from clavicles.
Weak feeling in back ; stitching pain on coughing (Sherbino).
Limbs (Pyrogenium)
Aching : in bones ; all over body as from a severe cold ; with soreness of flesh, head feels hard ; > motion
(Sherbino).
Automatic movement of right arm and right leg, turned the child round from right to left till feet reached the
pillow : repeated as often as she was put right (cerebro-spinal meningitis).
Cold extremities.
Slept awhile ; woke to roll and tumble in every conceivable position (Sherbino).
Unable to sleep for brain activity and crowding of ideas (Sherbino).
Whispers in sleep.
Fever (Pyrogenium)
"In all cases of fever commencing with pains in the limbs" (Swan).
After dinner, ache all over, chilly all night, bed feels hard (Sherbino).
After getting into bed, chilly, teeth chatter ; woke 10 p. m. in perspiration on upper part of body ; > motion
(Sherbino).
Chilly at times and a little aching ; a little feverish (Sherbino).
Cold and chilly all day.
Cold sweat over body.
Every other day dumb ague.
Feels hot as if he had a fever, but was only 99 F. , feels like 105.
Frequent calls to urinate as soon as fever came on ; urine clear as water.
No fire would warm ; sits by fire and breathes the heat from it ; chilly whenever he leaves it ; at night when the
fever came on he had a sensation as if lungs on fire, must have fresh air, which gave >.
Perspiration horribly offensive, carrion-like ; disgust up to nausea about any effluvia arising from her own
body.
Shivers and begins to move about restlessly ; temperature rises gradually and as gradually subsides (dog).
Temperature rises rapidly to 104 F. , and sinks rapidly from heart failure (dog, f atal dose).
Saccharum Lactis.
Lactose.
Milk-sugar.
C 12 H 22 O 11.
Clinical (Saccharum lactis)Amblyopia.
Angina pectoris.
Body-odour, offensive.
Diabetes.
Dyspepsia.
Earache.
Gout.
Headache.
Hysteria.
Labia, soreness of.
Nervousness.
Neuralgia.
Ovaries, affections of.
Over-exertion.
Ptosis.
Sciatica.
Sighing.
Stye.
Umbilicus, inflammation of.
"cold expectoration. ") The symptoms are < before a storm ; in damp room or basement ; morning and evening
; by blue and yellow colours ; exertion ; mental excitement. > By warmth of fire ; by red colour ; after 4 p. m.
Relations (Saccharum lactis)
Camph. < effects of Sac. l.
Compare :
< From damp, Dulc.
< From sound of running water, Hdfb.
> Lying left side, Lil. t.
Ball sensation in rectum, Sep.
Fatigue, Pic. ac. , Mg. c.
Heat in heart, Lachn.
Kidney ache, Santal, Sac. off.
Radiating pains, K. bi.
Right cheek bone, Mg. c.
Roof of mouth, Mang.
Sac. off. , the Lacs.
Sensitiveness, K. iod. , Mg. c.
Causation (Saccharum lactis)
Mental excitement.
Over-fatigue.
Symptoms.
Mind (Saccharum lactis)
Cross and fault-finding, could not speak a pleasant word to any one.
Extremely nervous, jumps from her seat at least unusual noise.
Great fear of death during paroxysm of pain in heart at night.
Her heart aches as if it would burst, yet she cannot weep.
Hysteria in evening, laughing and crying, jumping up and lying down, but could not stand, fell to right side.
Imagines : that there is a large hole in her back just above sacrum ; that her mother wants to kill her ; that some
one is behind her.
Inclined to be sarcastic and fault-finding.
Laziness.
Longing and melancholy as if homesick, with oppressed breathing.
Loses her way in well-known streets.
Sensation as if it were only by a great effort that she kept together.
Was taken suddenly with fear and trembling of whole body, as from fright.
Head (Saccharum lactis)
Burning like fire, and a thick feeling in a lengthwise strip of two fingers' breadth extending from right frontal
eminence to right side of vertex for fifteen minutes.
Forehead feels very heavy, with a tendency to fall forward.
Head aches all over top and feels drawn up.
Head feels confused, and as if it were tossing on a rough sea.
Head feels large, and as though all the blood in the body had gone into the head.
Left side of head felt all drawn up.
Left temple sore to touch.
Pain about middle of right lambdoidal suture, through to same point on left side.
Pain in left eyebrow.
Pain passing from front of left ear deep into brain.
Sensation as of pressure on frontal bone at inner canthi of left eye ; felt very sore.
Sharp darting pain on left side of head from temple to occiput.
Sharp jumping pains behind right ear.
Sharp pain in forehead passing back and forth from one temple to the other.
Eyes (Saccharum lactis)
Can only elevate upper lids half way.
Dryness of eyeball so that the lid would stick to it as if it wanted lubricating, preventing opening and shutting of
eye or winking.
Eyelids feel swollen, which is not the case.
Looking at bright light dazzles and makes her close eyes ; no pain.
Pain through right eye inwards.
Severe pains in both canthi of right eye.
Sight fails ; eyes tire very easily.
Swelling of right upper lid, which increased to a large stye, the lid and all round eye being swollen and red ; on
third day it broke in two places and discharged copiously.
Washing eyes in cold water causes a sensation as if needles were sticking into them.
Ears (Saccharum lactis)
Buzzing sound in right ear.
Pain from right ear to lower part of inferior maxillary bone.
Pain in left ear and sensation as if there were a gathering.
Pain in right ear and underneath it.
Pain passing from right ear to shoulder.
Painfulness of right external ear (concha), with burning like an ulcer, also when touched.
Pains in external ears and behind them.
Reverberation of voice when speaking.
Sensation as if she could not hear, but she could.
Sharp pain inside both ears.
Shooting pains in and behind ears and all over face.
Nose (Saccharum lactis)
Pain in end of nose.
Pain in right (and left) side of nose.
Ridge of nose extremely sore ; it feels sore to touch or from the least movement of facial muscles ; the left side
is the worst and somewhat swollen.
Face (Saccharum lactis)
(Darting, shooting pain, centred in about middle of right cheek, extending thence up to eye, esp. right inner
canthus, to ear, and up into right temple, most severe at centre of cheek, considerably decreasing the further it
extends from the centre. ).
(Swelling of face with pain in head extending down neck and back to feet. ).
Burning in cheek-bones towards temples and lower jaw.
Corners of mouth smart and burn.
Face feels as if there were one large pain that covered the whole of it.
Great pallor of face with dark places under eyes.
Pain all over face, then centring in right ear.
Pain passing from corner of mouth to forepart of right axilla.
Frequent and violent urging to urinate, with passage of a large quantity each time.
Soreness of urethra during urination.
Sound of running water produced urination ; no power to restrain it.
Urinates very frequently large quantities.
Urination followed by a thick yellow discharge.
Urine causes intense pain when coming in contact with the labia, which are very sensitive.
Urine stains a dark yellow.
Very severe pain in right side of abdomen before urination, and sometimes, but not often, lasting during
urination, ceasing with it.
Female Sexual Organs (Saccharum lactis)
At times bloody leucorrha.
Dragging-down sensation in pelvic region.
Extreme soreness and rawness of labia and entrance to vagina, with profuse greenish-yellow leucorrha.
Itching of labia.
Left (and right) ovarian region very weak and painful when walking.
Lobulated growths on each side of vagina, nearly filling it ; extremely sore and sensitive to touch, or from the
pressure caused by sitting ; coming on gradually and lasting more than three months.
Menses commenced too early ; no pain.
Menses very dark.
Pain in region of right ovary.
Profuse greenish-yellow leucorrha.
Respiratory Organs (Saccharum lactis)
Constant pain under left breast, < when bending forward.
Lancinating pains under left breast, which took away the breath.
Pain in right breast.
Severe pains under left breast at every inspiration.
Sharp pain passing into upper right breast, about an inch deep ; very sore to touch after the pain.
Heart and Pulse (Saccharum lactis)
Awoke at midnight with severe pains about heart, which seemed as if it had almost stopped beating, with a
numb pain about heart, lips, and tongue ; great fear of death ; when the pains passed off they left great
soreness round heart ; tingling in lips and tongue ; could not lie on left side ; felt numb and strange all over ;
pulse intermittent.
Sensation in heart as if a fire were there, with a feeling as if heart would burst, or at times as if a heavy weight
were lying on it, all of which spreads from this region over whole inner and outer chest.
Neck and Back (Saccharum lactis)
Back aches the whole length of spine.
Constant pain all day in region of left kidney.
Dull ache all over back and in right arm ; cannot bend body far forward as it causes intense pain in coccyx ;
when stooping, as in picking anything from floor, has to incline body to one side or other.
Hot flashes all over back of neck and shoulders.
Pain below left scapula.
Pain each side of sacrum.
Pain in back from sacrum to scapul.
Pain in back part of waist, passing from right to left
Pain in left side of back from scapula to sacrum.
Pain in lumbar region.
Pain in right side of back between scapula and sacrum.
Pain in sacral region, < when taking a long breath.
Pain in sacrum.
Pain or aching in small of back < by leaning backward, for three or four days.
Pain passing from lumbar vertebr to half way up dorsal, and then shooting off into both scapul.
Pain passing up and down along right side of neck.
Pain passing up and down from tip of coccyx to right shoulder.
Pain passing up back from sacrum.
Pain running up back from waist, left side.
Pain with soreness at upper vertebral border of right scapula.
Severe pain under left scapula.
Sharp pain passing from middle of scapula down outside of arm to end of middle finger, and sometimes to end
of little finger.
Upper Limbs (Saccharum lactis)
Grasping anything with right hand causes pains to pass from all the fingers into palm.
Thyroiodinum
Iodothyrinum.
Trituration.
Clinical
Goitre.
Obesity.
Urine, increase of.
Characteristics
Thyroiodine is now more generally named Iodothyrine, but I retain the former as more convenient.
Hoenigschmied (Aerz. Cent. Zeit. , No. 6, 1900, quoted A. H. , XXVII. 211) says of it that it is present in only small
quantities in the thyroid of the sheep.
It is completely free from albuminous substances, stable, and directly assimilated. The iodine exists in organic
combination, and Thyri. contains 0. 003 parts of Iodine to every gramme. The general effects of the drug are
increased secretion of urine and corresponding loss of flesh.
Hnigschmied gives two cases :
(1) Labourer, 42, for several years had enlargement and induration of all lobes of thyroid, the enlargement
causing compression of the structures of the neck, dyspna, whistling respiration, hoarseness, short, dry
cough, vertigo. Thyri. , 5-grain tablets, one every evening ; at the end of a week twice daily.
After using twenty-five tablets the gland was smaller and softer ; the previously hard and resistant nodules
were elastic ; after two more weeks only remnants of the goitre remained.
(2) Man, 60, thyroid enlarged in all its lobes with a glandular cystic swelling in the right one ; dyspna, loud
whistling breathing.
Two, three, and at last four tablets were given daily for two months, by which time the goitre had vanished, but
the cyst was not changed.
(3) Man, 45, medium height, sedentary, suffered from obesity, vertigo, dyspna, weariness. Pulse feeble, 76 ;
functions normal ; appetite and sleep good ; weight 230 pounds.
With increasing doses of Thyri. , up to ten tablets daily, the weight steadily went down to 160 pounds, activity
increasing in proportion. When the dose had reached four tablets daily the urine became very abundant, but
was free from albumen. The daily dose was increased one tablet every four days.
At one stage Fowler's solution of arsenic, four drops in wine, was given as well to prevent Thyroidism.
Relation
Antidoted by : Ars.
Compare : Thyr. Urine, Urea.
Urea
Carbamide.
The chief solid constituent of the urine of mammals.
(White crystals. ) CO(NH 2) 2.
Trituration.
Solution. (also tincture or solution of the nitrate Urea nitrica).
Clinical (Urea)
Albuminuria.
Diabetes.
Dropsy.
Eczema, gouty.
Gout.
Liver, cirrhosis of.
Tuberculosis.
Urmia.
Characteristics (Urea)
The failure of the kidneys to eliminate Urea from the blood leads to urmic intoxication, delirium, convulsions,
and coma. On general indications Urea has been used in medicine by both schools. Merck mentions that it is
diuretic, and is used in cirrhosis of liver, pleurisy, renal calculus.
Allen cites from Mauthner two cases of renal dropsy with symptoms of general intoxication in which Urea nit. ,
gr. II. , divided into three doses and given two hours apart, cured brilliantly. Burnett has used both Urea 6 and
Uric acid 6 in gouty eczema, "where the gouty eczema has been the cutaneous outlet for the constitution. "
Burnett gave Urea in gouty cases where the urine was thin and of low specific gravity ; "it thickens the urine
and gives great relief to the patient. "
Arthur H. Buch (Med. Press, Aug 14, 1901) relates cases of tuberculosis cured, on the plan originated by
Harper, of Nottingham, with Urea in 20- to 30-grain doses three times a day. Urea, Buch says, "is formed in the
spleen, lymph and secreting glands, but principally by the liver. " Under the treatment, lupoid nodules
disappeared ; tuberculous glands disappeared ; tuberculous joints improved. No ill-effects of the treatment
were noticed ; "on the contrary, the action has evidently been in many cases that of a nervous tonic. "
Villers (J. of Hcs. , IV. 403) examined the urine of an intensely neurasthenic woman, suffering from severe
asthma and found 4. 5 per cent. of Urea instead of the usual 2. 5. In order to find out the effect of Urea on the
healthy he took for five days Urea 15x. , five drops thrice daily.
He was then compelled to stop by the severity of the symptoms. He gave the same dose to a patient, a woman.
She begged after a short time to be allowed to discontinue the medicine, as it affected her so painfully, causing
constant urging to urinate ; much sediment in the urine ; intolerable sensation in abdomen and burning of the
skin.
Relations (Urea)
Compare : Urinum, Uric acid, Thios. , Urt. urens. Diuresis, Thyr. Tuberculosis, Tub. , Bac.
Symptoms
Head (Urea)
Head very dull, as if filled with a very heavy lump (Villers).
Eyes (Urea)
Itching and profuse watering of eyes (agg. Villers).
Abdomen (Urea)
In right hypochondrium, a steady, dull sensation (Villers).
Intolerable sensation in abdomen and burning of the skin (Villers).
Urinary Organs (Urea)
Albuminuria ; bloody urine ; general dropsy ; intermittent heart (boy, 7, Urea nit. gr. II. , taken in three doses at
two hours' interval, cured).
Constant urging to urinate, beginning at root of penis (Villers).
Constant urging, with much sediment in urine (Villers).
Delirium, nose-bleed, urine brown, very albuminous ; dema of pudenda ; ascites ; pulse small, slow ; attacks
of suffocation (girl, 6, Ur. nit. as above ; urine increased ; swelling decreased ; albumen disappeared).
From bladder to her groins a fatiguing, tearing pain < standing (Villers).
Uricum Acidum
C5 N4 H4 O3.
Lithic Acid.
Trituration.
Uric Acid.
Clinical (Uricum acidum)
Eczema, gouty.
Gout.
Lipoma.
Rheumatism.
Characteristics (Uricum acidum)
Uric ac. has been used on inferential grounds in gouty conditions.
Burnett gave it in 5th and 6th attenuations. It is most useful in cases where deposits persist ; it stirs them up
and helps to eliminate them.
It is useful in gouty eczema where the eczema has been "the cutaneous outlet for the constitution. " With Uric
ac. 3x.
Mersch (H. W. , XXX. 395) cured a case of lipoma situated on the left side between abdomen and breast, "as
large as a man's head, only lengthened. " Relief was immediate ; the tumour disappeared in a month.
Relations (Uricum acidum)
Compare : Urea, Urtica urens.