Mercurialis Perennis

Mercurialis perennis, L.

Natural order , Euphorbiaceae.

Common names , Dog's Mercury, Bingelkraut.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.

Authorities. Nos. 1 to 18 , Dr. Hesse, "provings on fifteen persons" (eighteen separate initials are found, possibly the result of typographical errors), including four women and seven girls, with doses of 5 to 40 grains of the extract, N. Archiv. f.

Hom., 1, 2, 141; 1 , symptoms without authority in original, to be referred to Hesse; 2 , "A.;" 3 , "F.;" 4 , "G.;" 5 , "H.;" 6 , "Hel.;" 7 , "Ho.;" 8 , "J.;" 9 , "K.;" 10 , "Kl.;" 11 , "M.;" 12 , "Min.;" 13 , "R.;" 14 , "S.;" 15 , "St.;" 16 , "T.;" 17 , "Z.;" 18 , "Fi.;" 19 , poisoning of three women by a quantity cooked and eaten as salad, Bost. M. and S. J., 3, 358.

Emotional. Excited mood, [14] , (first to third days), [3] .

Very excited mood; everything was accomplished hastily and rapidly, [14] .

Lively mood (after one hour), [13] .

Lively, excited mood, [13] .

She was very much excited and lively, so that she was constantly inclined to make foolish remarks, lasting all day (after half an hour), [3] .

A condition similar to slight intoxication (after two to six hours), [8] .

Excessive cerebral excitement; they became delirious (after half an hour), [19] .

Lively mood, inclined to sing and joke, [8] .

Lively mood; inclined to laugh, though she was very much affected by the drug, so that she even laughed about her condition, especially about the dizzy intoxication, [9] . [10.]

She complained of despondency and sadness, and wished to weep (after one hour), [14] .

Fretfulness, [11] . Very fretful mood (second day), [9] .

Lively mood; at times easily excited to anger, [1] .

Excited, violent mood, [8] . Morose, quarrelsome, and peevish, [7] .

Fretful, exhausted, indifferent, depressed, peevish; very quiet during the first five hours; afterwards, very lively; ill-humored (after half an hour to six hours), followed by feeling well, [4] .

Intellectual. It was frequently difficult to put his mind upon different things, [8] .

Difficulty in collecting his senses (first and second days), [1] .

Coma (after half an hour), [19] .

Confusion and Vertigo. [20.]

Confused and full feeling in the head, with painfulness, tension and pressure (after a quarter of an hour), [14] .

His head feels confused; he seems lost in thought (after three hours), [8] .

Vertigo in the sinciput (after two hours), [8] .

Vertigo, with heat of the head, [13] .

Vertigo, preceded by headache, so that she staggered like a drunken person, and on stopping was obliged to steady herself to prevent falling; while walking, she could not step correctly, and at times rolled to and fro; she was dizzy while sitting, though still more while standing (after three-quarters of an hour to two hours), [9] .

*She was attacked with vertigo on going down stairs ; and it seemed as though thought and consciousness would vanish (after one hour and a half), [14] .

Vertigo towards the left side, while sitting, standing, and even while lying down; it constantly seemed as though the body would fall towards that side (evening first day, and next morning), [8] .

Whirling vertigo, after a long walk (after one hour and a half), [14] .

Whirling in the head (second day), [10] .

Inclined to be dizzy, while sitting (after three to six hours), [8] . [30.]

The head seemed to turn around; some pressive headache in the forehead; a portion of the occiput very numb (after a quarter of an hour), [6] .

General Head. Slight pain in the head (after three hours), [8] .

Burning heat and pressure in the head (after four to five hours), [6] .

Fulness and tension in the head (after a quarter of an hour), [8] .

The head feels full and confused, as if something were lying before the ears (after three-quarters of an hour), [8] . [40.]

Pressure and tension in the head, as if it were too full, on stooping (after half an hour), [14] . Tension in the head (after one to tow hours), [8] .

Feeling of tension in the head and face, [8] .

Tension in the head, especially in the forehead and above the eyes; on stooping, changing to a pressing-out pain (after one hour), [8] . Tension and a numb sensation in the head; at times also in different places, especially in the superciliary ridge, at times also with some stitches (after five to eight hours), [1] .

Pressure in the head (after one hour), [14] .

Pressure, especially in the forepart of the head (third day), [14] . [50.]

Constant pressure and tension in the head, and in the sinciput (first day), [8] . *Sensation of heaviness in the head, as if it were pressed down by a weight; the scalp seems tense, numb, and difficult to move; with sometimes a slight painful sensation in it (after three-quarters of an hour), [8] .

Stitches shoot through the head at times, so that she would start up or cry out, [4] . Forehead.

Constant pain in the right side of the forehead (after two hours), [5] .

Slight pain in the forehead, with isolated painful points (after three-quarters of an hour), [3] .

Tensive pain in the forehead and forepart of the head (after half an hour to four hours), [14] . Tensive pain in the forehead and eyes; afterwards extending to the temples and vertex (after three hours), [14] .

Sensation as if the forehead were too large (after one hour), [14] .

Pressure in the forehead and sinciput, in the region of the glabella and root of the nose (after one hour and a half), [1] .

Pressure in the forehead, especially above and between the eyes, and also in the occiput, as if the head were pressed downward from behind, [3] . [60.]

Pressive pain in the forehead and temples, lasting half an hour (after half an hour), [9] .

Pressive pain in the forehead and eyes (after half an hour to five hours), [14] . Pressive headache in the forehead, [13] .

Violent pressive headache in the forehead, in the morning, lasting two days, [1] .

Slight tearing in the headache (second day), [8] . The frontal and temporal regions, and the upper part of the face, are painfully sore to touch (second day), [3] .

Temples. The temporal muscles are difficult to move (after three-quarters of an hour), [8] .

Sudden pain in the left temple (after half an hour), [4] . Pressure in both temples (after three hours), [8] .

Pressive pain in the temples (after five hours), [14] . [70.] Transient sticking pain deep in the left temple, extending down to the articulation of the jaw (after two hours and a half), [8] . Pressive sticking in the left temple, lasting a quarter of an hour, [9] .

Burning sensation in the region of the vertex (after four hours), [14] .

She experienced uneasiness in the head on the vertex; no pain, but a real twisting sensation (after three-quarters of an hour), [4] .

Parietals. [80.] The left side of the head seems hollow, [8] .

Tearing in the left side of the head, [8] .

Slight tearing in the occiput, as if in the bone (second day), [8] .

External Head. Burning and digging in the scalp (after one hour), [14] .

Eye.

The eyes look dim to another, after waking from sleep, [14] . [90.]

The eyes seem dim, misty, as if swimming in tears (after four hours), [14] .

Eyes seem prominent (after six hours), [14] .

Eyes weak; intoxicated look (after two hours), [9] . Subjective.

Dryness of the eyes and lids (after one to two hours), [8] , [14] .

Slight pain in both eyes, while reading and writing (after six hours), [8] .

Burning in the eyes, especially in the lids and canthi (first day), [3] .

Burning in the eyes, with lachrymation (after two to four hours); more dryness (after four to six hours), [8] .

Burning in the eyes, as if they had been exposed to horseradish, [4] .

Burning heat in the eyes, extending over the cheeks (after three hours), [14] .

Eyes seem too large and difficult to move (after four hours); afterwards a sensation as if they were smaller than usual (after seven hours), [14] .

Tension in the eyes and temples (after two and seven hours), [14] .

Tension in the eyes, as if they were swollen, in the morning (second day), [14] .

Painful tension in the eyes, with dryness and heaviness of the lids (second day), [8] . Aching in the eyes, in the evening by the light, [8] . [110.]

Pressure in the eyes (after half an hour), [14] ; worse on stooping, [8] .

Pressure with dryness in the eyes (second day), [8] .

Pressure in the eyes and in the forehead; it seems like a veil before the eyes (after one hour and a half), [3] .

Pressure deep within the eyes, [7] .

Pressure in the posterior portion of the eye (after four hours), [14] .

Some stitches in the eyes (after three to five hours), [4] . Tearing in the right eye (after five hours), [8] .

Tearing in the right eye, persistent in the upper part (after eight hours), [8] . Biting in the eyes as after being in a wind, [4] .

Itching of the right eye (after fourteen hours), [3] . Brow and Orbit.

Tearing above the left eyebrow (sixth day), [3] . [130.]

Tearing in the left lower orbital margin, extending down to the upper portion of the side of the nose, [8] .

Tearing or pressive pain in the margins of the orbits, especially in the upper (several provers), [1] .

Fine sticking-tearing in the region of the left lower orbital margin (second day), [8] . Lids.

The inner surfaces of the lids, especially towards the margins, are red (many provers), [1] . The margins of the lids maturate easily, especially in the morning (several provers), (after two hours), [14] .

*Blinking of the eyes, in the open air and sunlight (first day), [8] .

Frequent blinking of the eyes, even when not looking at the light, with burning in them (first day), [15] .

*Twitching of the upper lids, especially of the left eye (soon), [7] .

Twitching of the left upper lid, [7] .

Lids and eyes difficult to move (first day), [8] , [14] . [140.] The lids are difficult to move, as it they would draw together (after half an hour), [14] . *On waking at night, she was unable to open the lids immediately; they seemed paralyzed and could not be opened until she had rabbed them (second night), [8] . *Weakness of the upper lids, so that at times she could not completely raise them , [3] . Heaviness of the eyelids , [9] . Heaviness and agglutination of the lids, [14] .

Burning in the eyelids followed after an hour by watering of the eyes; next morning the lids were agglutinated (after a quarter of an hour), [8] .

The eyelids seem tense and dry (after one hour), [8] .

Constrictive sensation in the left eyelids; the eyes seemed closed; on closing the lids, a glutinous sensation in them (after two hours), [3] .

Watery, dim eyes (after half an hour), [4] .

Lachrymation, as if coryza would come on; therewith the nose is sometimes moist, [8] . Ball.

Slight tearing pain in the eyeballs (third day), [15] . Pupil.

Pupils dilated, with great sensitiveness to the light (after six to eight hours), [13] . [160.] Pupils somewhat dilated; they contract slowly, even when exposed to a strong light (after four hours), [14] .

Decided dilatation of the pupils after taking a walk, so that she is frightened on looking into a mirror; they only become normal after eighteen hours (after eight hours), [9] .

*Pupils perfectly dilated (after half an hour), [19] . Vision.

Vision foggy (after three hours), [14] .

Cloudy vision in the open air (second day), [8] . It seems as though a cobweb were before the eyes (after one hour and a half), [3] .

Vision as if a veil were before the eyes, with twitching of the lids, so that he could scarcely recognize objects (after six hours), [8] . Weakness and sensitiveness of the eyes to bright and artificial light (third day), [1] .

Blinding sensation in the eyes, on looking at the daylight, [2] . Blinking of the eyes, while sewing or reading by the light, [3] . [170.]

He was frequently obliged to blink the eyes in the open air on account of the snow, which blinded him (first day), [8] . She is unable to continue her work on canvas, in the evening by candlelight, because the threads run together; also the read, because the letters run together (after twelve to thirteen hours), [9] . While reading, everything ran together; while sewing, she was unable to distinguish the stitches; she thought there was a veil before the eyes (after four hours), [14] .

Ear.

Feeling as if something were lying before the left ear (after three hours), [8] .

Pressive pain in the left ear (after three hours), [8] .

Objective. Nose moist, catarrhy, [14] . [180.]

Violent coryza (second day), [14] .

Subjective. Dryness of the nose (first day), [9] .

Constant dryness of the nose (after eight hours), [8] .

Sensation of dryness in the forepart of the left nostril (after three hours and a half), [8] . Sensation of heat in the nose, as if rising from the stomach (after three to four hours), [14] . The breath seems hot in the nose (after one hour), [8] . *The breath from the nose is cold (after four hours), [14] . [190.] Burning in the nose, at times with fine stitches, especially in the evening (first to third day), [8] . Burning pain within the nose that is quite dry; if she inhales air forcibly it feels sore internally; a very violent burning, sore pain, as if from horseradish, if she presses upon the bony portion of the nose or upon the place where the bone and cartilage unite; worse in the left and then in the right nostril (after two to six hours), [14] .

A crawling sensation in the nose, as if clear water would run out of it; the nose becomes moist (after three-quarters of an hour), [4] . Crawling and burning in the nose, internally and externally, as from pepper; he is conscious of having a nose; the nostrils seems sore (after nine to eleven hours), [3] .