Rumex Crispus

Rumex crispus, Linn.

Natural order , Polygonaceae.

Common names , Yellow Dock; (G.), Krauser Ampfer.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities. 1 , Dr. Henry A. Houghton, Inaug. Thesis, Hom.

Med. Coll. of Penna., 1852, took 6 drops of 1st dil.; 1 a , same, repeated after three days; 1 b , same, after five days, took 10 drops of 1st dil., first, fifth, sixth, eleventh, and thirteenth days; 1 c , same, sixteenth days later, took 15 drops of tincture, first and twelfth days, and 20 drops, twenty-first day; (Nos. 2 to 8 , provings by Dr. B.

F. Joslin, published in Am. Hom. Rev., Trans.

Am. Inst. of Hom., 1858, and in Monograph); 2 , E. M. K. took a solution of 1 drop of tincture in half a glass of water, a teaspoonful twice daily for four days; 2 a , same, repeated doses of 3d dil., in water, for thirteen days; 2 b , same, took globules of 6th dil., repeated doses, for eight days; 3 , H.

M. Paine, took 10 drops of tincture, first day; 6 drops, third day; 3 a , same, twelve days later, took 10 drops first day, and 15 drops second day; 3 b , same, seven days later, took 10 drops, first and fourth days; 15 drops, twice, fifth day; 20 drops, evening, eighth day; 3 c , same, two months later, took tincture, repeated doses of 10 and 15 drops, for thirty-four days; 3 d , same, took 10 drops on first, twice on third, and once on fourth days; 3 e , same, took 10 drops first, second, and third days; 4 , Wm.

E. Payne, took 15 drops of tincture, evening, first day; 5 drops, morning, second day; 6 drops, fifth day; 4 a , same, took 10 drops, 1st dil., repeated doses first, second, third, fifth, and sixth days; 4 b , same, took 3d dil. first and third days; 5 , Dr. Edw. Bayard, took one dose of 30th dil., at 8.40 P.M.; 6 , Dr.

Wallace, symptoms; 7 , Dr. B. F. Bowers, took a dose of 12th dil.; 7 a , same, repeated; 7 b , same, a dose of 30th dil.; 7 c , same, a dose of 12th dil.; 8 , Dr.

M. J. Rhees, took tincture, 1 drop, first day; twice, second day; once, third day; 10 drops, fourth, fifth, and sixth days; 20 drops, seventh day; 8 a , same, took 6th dil., repeated doses, for five days; 9 , Dr. H.

C. Preston, U. S. J. of Hom., 1, 1860, appendix, p. 27, a man took 5 drops, first day; 10 drops, second, third, and fourth days; 5 drops, fifth day; 1 drop, sixth and seventh days; always at 4 P.M.; 10 , Dr.

Clark Wright, Am. Inst. of Hom., 1860, p. 60, took two doses of the 6th dil.

Irritability of temper (ninth day), [2a] .

Temper more irritable than usual (second day); great irritability of temper (after three hours, fourth day), [2] .

Irritability and restlessness (fifteenth day), [2] .

Depression, as if some evil was impending (eighth day), [5] .

Indifference to surrounding persons and things (third day), [2] .

Stagnation of ideas, with great lassitude and uneasiness, in the evening (third day), [2] .

Vertigo (within half an hour), [7c] .

Vertigo with the nausea (tenth day), [2] .

Dizziness several times (first day), [9] . [10.]

Rose in the morning with slight feeling of oppression in head (third day), [2b] .

A heavy feeling in head, during the evening (first day), [2a] .

Fulness in the head, with the feeling of languor (second day), [8] .

Dull heavy headache, from 10 A.M. until night; not so severe after 2 P.M.; disappeared at night (second day), [1] .

Headache all the forenoon (tenth day), [9] .

Headache, with coryza, [7] . [30.]

Slight pain in head before breakfast (second day), [3c] . The head began to ache, and ached severely until going to sleep, towards midnight (after three hours); the headache returned on waking, and continued until noon, next day; it was dull (third day); very severe (fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth days); continued the whole forenoon (tenth day); affects most frequently the temples; is felt in the occiput (sixth and eighth days); over the right eye (sixth and seventh day); in the forehead (twelfth day), [9] .

Dull bruised feeling in the forehead, most severe in the right side of the forehead, worse when moving the head, when it feels as if the brain were loose for a few minutes (first day); continued until morning, when it was worse than last evening (second morning), [8a] . *Dull headache and slight bruised feeling in the forehead , nearly all day (fourth day), [8a] . Dull headache in the forehead, with heat and redness of the face, after singing, in the evening (fifth day); entirely relieved, after sixth dose, [8a] .

Slight dull pain in the frontal region, with indisposition to thought (after one hour, fourth day), [2] .

Frontal headache, with the feverish symptoms (tenth morning), [2] . [40.]

Fulness and aching through the front part of the head and temples (three hours after second dose, second day), [8] .

Headache in forehead, increased soon after fourth dose, connected with a pungent tingling sensation in the occiput, where phrenologists locate philoprogenitiveness, [8a] .

Pain over right eyebrow, with sensation of stoppage in left ear (after one hour and a quarter), [7c] . Sensation across the forehead, as if the brain were loose, when moving the head, and as if it were bruised; this continued until after breakfast, next morning (after two minutes), [8] .

Slight frontal headache, with shooting pains, at 7.30 P.M. (tenth day); slight frontal headache (twelfth day), [2a] .

Pain in left temple (after one hour), [7c] ; in the afternoon, [9] .

Vertex and Parietals.

Aching and pressure in the top of the head (one hour after second dose, second day), [8] . Sharp pain, piercing, in the left side of the head, for a short time (after three hours, second day), [8] .

Dull aching pain low in the occiput (one hour after second dose, second day), [8] .

A dull aching pain in the occiput, which comes and goes, in the afternoon (eleventh day), [5] . [60.]

Pungent drawing pain in the left side of the occiput, with a similar pain in the left nostril, and a feeling as if coryza would ensue (eighteen hours after second dose), [8a] .

Eye.

Pains in both eyes, more severe in the right (after three hours), [9] .

Pains in the right eye, and in both (ninth and tenth days), [9] .

Pain in the right eye, both eyes all the forenoon (tenth day), [9] .

Pains in right eye, deepseated (third day), [9] . Pains in the right eye (eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh days), [9] . [70.]

Lachrymation (sixth day), [9] .

Ear.

Pain in both ears (seventh day), [9] .

Pain in right ear (third and sixth days); repeatedly (seventh day), [9] .

Sensation of stoppage in left ear, with pain over right eyebrow (after one hour and a quarter), [7c] . Sensation as if the ears were obstructed, especially the left one; the prover's own voice (as well as the voices of others) sounds strangely to him, producing a kind of titillation in the ear, and having a peculiar ringing confusing sound, and yet the sense of hearing is as acute as ever; continued eighteen hours (after six hours, sixth day); still continues, but not to so great a degree; attended by slight ringing in the ears, at 10 P.M. (eighth day), [8] .

Constant roaring in the left ear, as if a conch-shell were held before it, the whole day, attended by a feeling as if a fine thread were tied tightly around the neck just below the ears; the roaring is not relieved by pressing the finger into the ear; this continued for a week, and then gradually disappeared (after nine days), [3] .

Ringing in the ears, [7a] , [7b] .

Epistaxis (thirteenth day), [2a] . Coryza, with yellow expectoration from posterior nares (seventh day), [2a] .

*Coryza with headache , [7] .

Some coryza, and obstruction of voice (fifth day); a slight coryza (sixth day), [2] . Slight coryza (seventh day), [2b] .

*Great desire to pick the nose , was quite frequent during the proving, [1c] . Sensation of great dryness in the nose, the whole day and night (fifth day), [8] .

Dull pain in the nose (fifth day), [9] .

Pungent drawing pain in the left nostril, with a similar pain in the left side of the occiput, and a feeling as if coryza would ensue (eighteen hours after second dose), [8a] .

*Suddenly seized with a sharp tingling sensation in the Schneiderian membrane, followed by violent and rapid sneezing, five or six times in succession, with a watery discharge from the nostrils (after half an hour, third day), [4b] .

[100.]

Great paleness of face while standing (tenth day), [2] . Pain in the side of the face, including the right temple and ear; also left side of the upper lip (first day), [9] .

Pain in left side of the face (third day), [9] . Pain in right jaw, in the morning (eighth day), [9] .

Pain in the right jaw and molar teeth (first day), [9] . After retiring late at night had lancinating pains in lower jaw, at root of left canine tooth (seventh day), [2] .

Grumbling stinging toothache in the right superior molars, while riding in a cold wind, attended with a dull aching in the forehead (after three hours, second day), [8] . [110.]

Pain in the teeth of lower jaw of the left side (seventh day), [9] .

Running pains in teeth; in all the upper teeth (twelfth day), [9] .

Sharp pain in the teeth (second day), [9] .

Feeling of dryness of the anterior part of the tongue, with a feeling in the stomach of repletion, and as if one had eaten spice (seventh day), [5] . [120.]

The anterior part of the tongue felt dry and hot (after forty minutes), [5] .

Soreness of the right edge of the tongue (after one hour and fifty minutes), [5] .

Sensation of excoriation at edges of the tongue, which is sore when touched by the teeth, with a feeling as if the anterior part of the tongue had been scalded (twelfth day), [5] .

Sensation as if the tongue and mouth were burnt, with the flatulency, [7a] .

Rose in the morning with bad taste in the mouth (third day), [2b] .

Woke with a bitter taste in the mouth (second day), [2a] . Nasty taste in the mouth (second day), [9] .

Flat taste in the mouth, on rising, in the morning, was quite frequent during the proving, [1c] .

[130.]

Sensation as if a lump or ball were sticking fast in the throat, which is not relieved by hawking or swallowing (after half an hour, fifth day), [8] .

Aching sensation in the throat, as if a lump were sticking in the gullet (twenty hours after fourth dose), [8a] .

Sore throat on the left side on swallowing (sixteenth day), [5] . Sore throat on the left side during empty deglutition (seventeenth day), [5] .

Throat sore, with feeling of lumps in it when swallowing (tenth day), [22] .

All the morning had feeling of rawness in upper part of throat, with secretion of phlegm (tenth day), [2a] .

*Scraping in the throat , with symptoms of slight cold, in the evening (eighth day), [1b] . [140.]

Aching in the pharynx, and collection of tough mucus in the fauces, with a slight inclination to cough, in the evening (fifth day), [8a] .