Homeopathy LibraryRumex Crispus
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General
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.
Mind
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] .
Head
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] .
Feeling of languor and universal heaviness, with fulness in the head and chest (half an hour after second dose, second day), [8] .
Dull heavy feeling in head, during the evening (seventh day), [2] .
Dull heavy headache, accompanied with deepseated soreness of eyes, during the day, worse in the forenoon (fourteenth and fifteenth days), [1b] .
Dull heavy headache, from 10 A.M. until night; not so severe after 2 P.M.; disappeared at night (second day), [1] .
A dull heavy headache during the day, less severe in the afternoon (second day); dull heavy headache during the day (third day), [1a] .
A dull heavy headache, with deepseated soreness of the eyes most of the day (second day), [1c] .
Dull headache during the forenoon (seventh, eighteenth, and twenty-fifth days), [1c] . [20.] A great deal of dull heavy headache during the day (tenth day), [1c] .
Dull heavy headache through the day (fourteenth day); during the forenoon (fifteenth day), [1c] .
Dull headache followed the sharp pain and rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening (twenty-fourth), [1c] .
Some headache accompanied the pain in the lungs, [1c] .
The headache mentioned in Rumex crispus is increased by motion, [1c] .
Headache all the forenoon (tenth day), [9] .
Slight headache after retiring late at night (seventh day), [2] .
Slight headache, [1] ;
(third, thirteenth, and twenty-third days), [1c] ;
(fourth day), [1a] .
Pain in the head on movement (tenth day), [5] .
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] .
Awoke with a bruised sensation in the brain, increased by moving, stooping, and by any sudden movement of the head.
This bruised sensation continued until noon, and suddenly disappeared after dinner (seventh day), [4a] .
Forehead.
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] .
Dull aching pain through the whole forepart of the head, at 11 A.M.
(fourth day), [3a] .
Dull aching in the forehead attended the toothache (after three hours, second day), [8] .
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] .
Pain over right eyebrow (after one hour), [7c] ;
(sixth day), [1c] .
Pain on the right side of the forehead in the region of causality (after one hour and fifty minutes, seventeenth day), [5] .
Slight frontal headache, with shooting pains, at 7.30 P.M. (tenth day); slight frontal headache (twelfth day), [2a] .
Slight frontal headache, increased by motion (fourteenth day), [2] .
Slight aching pain in the forehead, at 9 P.M.
(second day), [30] .
A sharp pain in the forepart of the head, in the open air (sixth day), [5] .
Temples. [50.]
Pain in right temple, then in the left (fifth day), [9] .
Pain in the right temple (seventh day); in the morning (eighth day), [9] .
Severe pain for an hour in right temple (twelfth day), [9] .
Dull aching pain in the left temple (one hour after second dose, second day), [9] .
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] .
A darting pain in left side of head, for about half an hour, at 11 A.M. and 8 P.M.
(third day), [3a] .
Occiput.
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 both eyes, heavy and dull (second day), [9] .
Pains over the left and in both eyes with soreness to the touch over left (fourth day), [9] .
Pains in or over either or both eyes (fifth and sixth days), [9] .
Pains in either eye (seventh day), [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.]
Pains dull and steady in the right eye (after three hours), [9] .
Pains sharp, shooting, in the left eye, running to the right jaw and arm (after three hours), [9] .
Pain over the left eye, with soreness to touch (fifth day), [9] .
For several nights eyes have felt somewhat sore, as if the eyelids were inflamed and dry, particularly in evening, though no external signs of inflammation present themselves (fifteenth day), [2b] .
Lachrymation (sixth day), [9] .
Ear.
Pain in both ears (seventh day), [9] .
Pain in right ear (third and sixth days); repeatedly (seventh day), [9] .
Pain in the right ear, in the morning (eighth, ninth, and eleventh days), [9] .
Pain in the left ear and running to the shoulder (fourth day), [9] .
Pain in left ear (fifth day), [9] . [80.]
Pain in the left ear, in the afternoon (eighth day), [9] .
Boring pain just behind the base of the left ear (two hours after second dose, second day), [8] .
Heavy throbbing in the ears, synchronous with the pulsations of the heart, attended the stinging almost itching, pain in the left side of the chest (after one hour, fourth day), [8] .
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] .
Nose
*Sneezing , [7b] .
Epistaxis from the slightest picking of the nose (tenth day), [1c] .
Epistaxis from picking the nose was quite frequent during the proving, [1c] . [90.]
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] .
Face
[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] .
Teeth
Pain in the teeth of both sides, in the morning; in the front teeth in the afternoon (ninth day), [9] .
Dull aching pain in the right molars, both upper and lower, which is entirely relieved after eating dinner (third day), [8a] .
Severe dull aching in the right molars; relieved by rinsing the mouth with cold water (tenth day), [8] .
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.]
Dull transient pain in teeth (fourth day), [2] .
Pain in the under jaw and teeth, in the front teeth, also on the left side, half an hour (eleventh day), [9] .
Pain in the teeth, in the morning (eighth day), [9] .
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] .
Tongue.
Tongue coated white, with the feverish symptoms (tenth morning), [2] . *Tongue coated yellow (tenth and seventeenth days), [5] .
Tongue heavily coated (second and fifth days), [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] .
Dryness of the mouth and tongue, at night (fourth day), [8] .
Saliva and Taste.
Flow of saliva (within half an hour), [7c] .
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] .
Throat
[130.]
Thick yellow secretion from posterior nares (tenth day), [2] .
Feeling of dryness in the posterior nares (fifth day), [8] .
The throat is dry, and deglutition difficult (eighth day); same dryness of throat (ninth day), [9] .
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.]
Tickling in the throat, soon after taking the drug, then throat a little sore (fifth day), [9] .
Fauces and Pharynx.
Much tough mucus in the fauces, which is very difficult to eject (seventh day), [8a] .
Aching in the pharynx, and collection of tough mucus in the fauces, with a slight inclination to cough, in the evening (fifth day), [8a] .