Plantago Major

Plantago major, Linn.

Natural order , Plantaginaceae.

Common names , Plantain, Wegerich.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant, or of the root .

Authorities. 1 , Dr. Alfred Heath, Hahn. Month., 1868, 3, p. 332, proving with 12th dil., one dose first and third days, 6th dil. eighth and thirteenth days; 1 a , same, 2d dil., a dose first and second days; 1 b , same, tincture, 6 drops first and second days, 5 drops third day; 1 c , same, 12th dil., first, second, seventh, and tenth days (Nos. 2 to 11 , provings by Dr. F.

Humphreys, from Monograph, 1871); 2 , Dr. Humphreys, effects of 1st dec. dil., first, second, and fifth days; 2 a , same, effect of tasting tincture; 3 , J. R. Earhart, subject to rheumatic pains during damp weather, took 1st dec. dil., 5-drop doses, first, second, third, fourth, sixth, eighth and fourteenth days; 4 , John Fox, aged thirty, 1st dil., night and morning, for four days; 5 , S.

C. Warren, 5 drops of 2d dil., one dose; 6 , J. B. Wood, 1st dec. dil., repeated doses for seven days; 6 a , same, 1st dil., every forty-eight hours; 7 , Dr.

F. Bishop, 2d dil., repeated doses for two days; 8 , Warren Freeman, took 2d dil., twice daily, for two weeks; 8 a , same, took 1/2 dil., repeated doses of 8 drops for three days; 8 b , same, took 4 drops of 1/2 dil., twice daily; 9 , Mortimer Slocum, 1st dil., repeated doses for five days, and on ninth, tenth, and eleventh days; 10 , T. C. Bunting, 1st dec. dil., repeated doses for four days; 10 a , same, second proving 1st dec. dil., doses, first, third, and sixth days; 10 b , same, 2d dil., two doses; 11 , W.

A Leavanway, 1st dec. dil., repeated doses for four days; 12 , additional proving by Dr. Heath, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1873, p. 502, a woman suffering from watery discharge from the nose, and an enlargement in upper abdomen, took the 12th dil.

(from root and seeds), three times a day for a week; it removed her troubles and caused new symptoms; she continued the drug another week and suffered from its effects.

Feel very much out of sorts; low-spirited, with inclination to do a lot of work, but get tired and irritated as soon as I begin (eighty-fourth day), [1] .

Feeling of suppressed irritability (after one hour and twenty minutes, second day), [1b] . Very irritable and easily vexed, with an excitement of the nervous system (tenth day), [4] .

Irritable and vexed mood, with utter inability for any mental exercise (twelfth day), [4] . Great feeling of irritation; cannot bear to be spoken to (fifth day), [1c] .

Irritable feeling, with slight headache in the right temple (sixth day), [1c] . [10.]

Low spirits; irritable; disinclination to work (seventeenth day), [1c] .

Great irritation with the severe headache; cannot bear to be spoken to (fourth day), [1] . *Rather irritable (twentieth day), [1] .

Irritable, with nausea and giddiness, with trembling sensation in the right arm (twenty-ninth day), [1] .

Restless disposition, and dull feeling over the sinciput (eleventh day), [4] .

Desire to do several things at once, but no inclination to move and do one, with the loss of appetite (sixteenth day), [1] . Feeling great desire to be at home when abroad (twenty-ninth day), [1] . [20.]

Meditative mood or internal revery, and unable to associate my mind with any external object, with the feeling of great prostration (eleventh day), [4] .

Inability to think, with restlessness at night (seventh night), [9] . From the fifteenth to the twenty-first day I have ceased to take notes, for the reason that my mind has been in such a confused state, and a disrelish as well as a great difficulty for any abstract reflection or mental exercise of any kind, that I have found it too difficult. I might say, however, that the symptoms, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first day, were, in their general features, the same as on the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth; if any difference, the nervous and cerebral continued to increase in their severity until the twenty-first day, which, as well as during the whole proving, were worse in the evening, and gradually increased in severity until next morning, with some exceptions; but whether these exceptions assumed the same regularity as I find on examining my notes of the first six or eight days, namely, worse two successive nights and better the third, I am not able to say. On the thirtieth day, my mind is still confused, making study, for any length of time, impossible, [4] .

Mind confused, and entirely unable to listen to the lectures; feeling of great prostration, with utter inability to think; attempting to exercise the mental faculties, would increase the depression, and rapid respiration would ensue, with a feeling of great anxiety; at 12 M., was obliged to leave the college and lie down (fourteenth day), [4] .

Mind somewhat confused (first day), [4] .

Mind inactive, with a dull, muddled feeling in the head (fifth day); very inactive all day, worse in afternoon and evening, with shifting pains in various parts (fifth day), [4] .

Aversion to study or thinking (third day), [7] . Bad memory (seventeenth day), [1c] .

Giddiness with the irritable mood (twenty-ninth day), [1] . Violent irritation of the brain; bruised, maddening feeling; cannot bear the slightest contradiction (sixteenth day), [1] . [30.]

Dull feeling of the head or slight headache, during the day (fourth day), [6] .

Dull feeling in the head (first day), [4] .

Head is clouded, heavy, and dull (fourteenth day), [2] . Heaviness and weariness in the head, in the evening, relieved by holding the head backwards, with slight stiffness of the neck (nineteenth day), [1] . [40.]

Pain now in the head, then in dorsum of big toe (sixth day), [4] .

Dull stupefying pain in the whole head, relieved by motion and aggravated by study (eighth day), [4] .

Pain in the head, relieved by pressure, for a few seconds, or from contact with anything cold (fifth day), [1c] .

Pain over the left eyebrow, and deep in the scalp; bruised, dull aching, relieved by shutting the eyes, at 9 A.M. (second day), [1a] .

Occasional pains in the head, during the evening (sixth day), [2] .

Twinges of pain in different parts of the head; now in the right temple, extending backward; then through the occiput from ear to ear; then in other parts of the head more or less severe (seventh day), [2] .

Pains in the head, most in the left temporal region, all the time, or with but little intermission (fourteenth day), [2] . Pain in the head, on turning round, as if the brain were stretched (eighteenth day), [1] .

All the pains at times in the head, but very slight (nineteenth day), [1] .

Occasional darting pains in the head (fourth day), [3] . [50.] Shooting pains in the head, occurring frequently during the day, mostly in the right parietal region, sometimes in the left (seventh day), [3] .

Pains in the head, continuing all day, not so bad in the afternoon (ninth day), [3] . Pains in the head and various parts of the body, at different times throughout the day (tenth day); still felt, but at longer intervals, and with diminished intensity (eleventh day), [3] .

Pains in the head continue at irregular intervals (after five hours, fourteenth day), [3] . Pains in the head (seventeenth day), [3] .

Severe headache over the left eye and side of the head, with great irritation (fourth day), [1] .

Violent, bruised sort of headache (on waking in the morning) over the scalp and back of the head; unable to rest long in one place on the pillow; relief for a time by resting on the part in pain (tenth day), [1] .

Headache as usual (thirty-ninth day), [1] .

Slight headache, with irritable feeling (fifty-third day), [1] . Awoke in the morning with headache in the left half of head, principally in the temple; bruised sensation; midday, bruised sensation all over the head, as if beaten, with pain extending to the top of nose (fifth day), [1c] . [60.]

Stupid headache, etc. (thirtieth day), [4] .

Slight headache , a heavy sensation in the head and inclination to drowse (five hours after first dose, third day); same kind of headache in the forehead (eighth day), [9] .

Feeling of swelling about the head (fifth day), [1] . Fulness of the head, and sore feeling in the temples (twenty-fourth day), [1c] .

The whole front half of the head, face, jaws, and gums feel sore and bruised (twenty-sixth day), [1c] . Fine stitches, before and above the ear, feeling as if the bone were swollen, with stiffness (twenty-sixth day), [1c] .

Forehead. Feeling of irritation in the forehead (second day), [1c] . [70.]

Dull oppressive feeling through the forehead, with sometimes a dull pain extending across from the temporal bones, apparently at the base of the brain. I thought probably this might be the effect of a cold, [8] .

Dull pains over the frontal region and extending of the eyes (sixth day), [4] .

Pain in the forehead over the eyes, with tenderness on pressure (eighth day), [4] .

Aching pain in the left frontal protuberance, lasting a few minutes and occurring frequently, and tenderness on pressure (ninth day), [4] .

Boring pain in the left frontal eminence (tenth day), [4] .

Transient boring pains in the right frontal eminence (eleventh day), [4] .

Dull pain over the eyes, relieved by exercise and motion (twelfth day), [4] .

Headache in forehead and over the right eye and temple; worse on movement, with pressure over the eye (twenty-ninth day), [1] .

Headache over the right eye, in the evening (forty-third day), [1] .

Headache over left eye, same as before, passing off after eating (seventy-sixth day), [1] . [80.]

Pain or fulness over the eyes, with the stuffed-up nose (thirty-fifth day), [1] .

Bruised feeling of forehead, with dimness of the eyes (thirty-eighth day), [1] .

Bruised sensation in the forehead and temples (twenty-sixth day), [1c] .

Temples. (A stupid sort of feeling in left temple towards the eye, relieved by the free use of the finger; liable to such pains in east winds; generally confined to left side; occasionally in the right; dull, stupefying pain with sleepy feeling and mistiness, causing me to wipe a supposed film from the eye, feeling as if a hair were hanging over the eye; sleep often removes the headache; the other parts of the brain seem to think clear enough, but the affected part unfit for use; when this headache comes on, spit a quantity of brown, dirty-tasting saliva; pain relieved by pressing my hand on anything hard behind the left neck at base of occiput, on any part of the left side of the head between cheek-bone and occiput), (twenty-second day), [1] . Severe pain in left temple; a sort of cloudy sensation (twenty-seventh day), [1] .

Sharp pains in the left temple, transient (while sitting by the furnace and after having been out), (seventh day), [2] . Sometimes fleeting pains in both temples, passing in and upwards (thirteenth day), [2] .

Pains of a shooting character in the mastoid process (ninth day), [3] .

Dull boring pain in the left temple, in a small spot (eighth day), [4] .

Transient boring pain in the left temple, in a small spot (eleventh day), [4] . [90.]

In the evening, in both temples, boring-aching pain, worse in a warm room (twenty-sixth day), [1c] . Slight headache in the right temple, with irritable feeling (sixth day), [1c] .

Dull feeling over the sinciput, and restless disposition (eleventh day), [4] .

Dull stupefying pain in the sinciput, and finally extending to each side of the occiput (twelfth day), [4] .

Dull pain in the right side of the head, rather on the right parietal protuberance and frontal eminence, [5] . [100.]

Shooting pains in right parietal region (after one hour, fourteenth day), [3] .

Pain in the right parietal protuberance (after three hours, fourteenth day), [3] .

Occasionally shooting pains in the right parietal region (eighteenth day), [3] .

At 6 P.M., while walking and driving in cool air, pain in left side of head, from over the left eye back toward the occiput; somewhat sharp, soon passing off (fifth day), [2] .

Fleeting pains in the left side of the head (thirteenth day), [2] .

Headache, in the morning on waking; left side, more or less during the day (thirty-first day), [1] . At 10 P.M., occasional headache in the left side of the head, somewhat deep in the brain (eighth day), [2] .

Some headache in left side of head, at intervals (tenth day), [2] .

Occasional headache in the left side of the head (twelfth day), [2] .

Bruised, irritable feeling in the left side of head, relieved by lying on it and by pressure (seventeenth day), [1c] .

Great irritation and irritable feeling in left half of head as before, with coldness of body and shivering (eighty-fourth day), [1] .

Occiput and External Head. Dull boring pain in the occiput (twelfth day), [4] .

Dull pain in the occiput; these pains pass off quickly (after three hours, fourteenth day), [3] . Headache, in the morning, principally in the back of the head, lasting till after tea, in the afternoon (forty-fourth day), [1] . [120.]

Cannot rest the head five minutes in one place, with pain all round the back of the head; temporary relief on changing its position, with thirst (sixteenth night), [1] . Temporal arteries much distended, also the superficial vessels of the frontal region; this symptom has been somewhat present during the whole proving, and even quite prominent now (thirtieth day), [4] . Slight eruption on the forehead, which soon disappeared, with the itching of the scalp (third day), [6] .

Pain in the left side of scalp, on turning the head suddenly, as if the brain turned over (eighteenth day), [1] .

Itching of the scalp, with slight eruption on the forehead, which soon disappeared (third day), [6] .

Excessive itching of left scalp, for one hour, at 10 P.M. (second day), [7] .

Eye.

Eyes looked very red and inflamed (third day), [7] . [130.] Feeling as if a hair were hanging over the eye, with the headache (twenty-second day), [1] . After going to bed, sharp pain for some moments over the right eye, extending to the temple (first night), [10a] .

Bruised pain in left eye, especially on light pressure, one hour (fourth day), [10a] .

Soreness of the eyes, with the irritable feeling in the head (second day), [1a] .

Dimness of the eyes, with the bruised feeling in the forehead (thirty-eighth day), [1] . Brow and Orbit.

Slight pricking; bruised feeling in the left brow, for a few minutes, in the evening (nineteenth day), [1] .

12 M., a sharp, darting pain in the superior and outer side of the socket of the right eye (eighteenth day), [11] .

Pain in the orbits of both eyes; worse on pressure (seventh day), [4] .

Dull pain in the orbit of right eye, as if bruised, and worse upon pressure (twelfth day), [4] . Dull, aching pain deep in right orbit, lasting only a few moments (after fifteen minutes, sixth day), [3] . [140.]

Occasionally dull, stupefying pains deep in the orbits (nineteenth day), [3] .

Lids and Ball. Soreness of the eyelids (twenty-fourth day), [1c] .

Soreness of the lids, with the stuffed-up nose (thirty-fifth day), [1] .

Oedema of eyelids, on rising (second day); oedema and redness of eyelids, after rising (fourth day), [7] .

Unnatural sense of dryness of the eyelids, continuing for several hours (sixth day), [2] . Itching of the right eyelid (seventh day), [2] .

Ear.

Pulsating pain in the left ear (eighth day), [4] .

Shooting pain in the left ear, lasting several minutes (tenth day), [4] . [150.]

Pains often centre in the ear, most in the left, beginning in the head, at 10 A.M. (fifteenth day), [2] .

Sensation of hearing more acute; noise is painful; trembling sound, [5] .

The least noise appears to go through one (fifth day), [1c] .

Ringing in the ears (sixth day), [2] .

(At 6 P.M., frequent sneezing, with discharge of sanious mucus from left nostril), (second day), [3] . Excoriation and ulceration of the right nostril (sixteenth and nineteenth days), [1] .

Sudden discharge of clear water from the left nostril, without pain, about ten or twelve drops, [1a] .

Sudden discharge of yellowish water from the right nostril, about a dozen drops, repeated twice within the hour, but not so much in quantity, at 11.30 A.M. (second day), [1c] .

Profuse discharge of sanious mucus from left nostril, continuing all day (third day); discharge not so copious; the right nostril is now affected (fourth day); not so copious or watery (seventh day; not so profuse, but of a greater consistence), (tenth day), [3] .

Thick discharge from the nose (thirty-fourth day), [1] . [160.]

Considerable discharge from nose, and partial stoppage (forty-ninth day); for several days past considerable discharge from the nose, with obstinate stoppage (fifty-third day), [1] .

Catarrh returned, her handkerchief being saturated with yellow water from the nose, like saffron (after two weeks), [12] .

Fulness and stoppage of the nose (thirty-third day), [1] . Nose stuffed up, with pain or fulness over the eyes, with soreness of the lids (thirty-fifth day); nose still stopped up (thirty-sixth day), [1] .

Fine, drawing sensation over the bridge of nose (fifth day), [1c] .

Fulness about the root of nose (seventeenth day), [1c] . Sore feeling of the left nostril, sore to the touch (eleventh day), [1c] .

Dryness of nose (seventeenth day), [1c] .

Tingling sensation about the root of the nose (twenty-fourth day), [1c] .

Sensation across the bridge of the nose, as if the nasal bones were being pressed together or pressed inward, at four P.M. (sixteenth day), [3] .