Anantherum Muricatum

Vetiveria odorata. Q-raminece.

A well-known grass in the East Indies, cultivated on the Markarentas Islands for its medical use ; the root is aromatic and stimulating or dia- phoretic.

Proved and introduced by Dr. L. J. Houat in Nouvelles Donnees, second series, translated in Criterio iledico, 1869, wol. 10, p. 183, and by S. Lilien- thal, in North American Journal of Homoeopathy, 1870, vol. xviii, p. 176; again in Allen's Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 330.

S. Lilienthal's indications in his masterly treatise on Ski7i Diseases have been inserted as cured symptoms.

^ Mind. Gray humor, with disposition to laugh and sing. Sadness, sheds tears easily. Hypochondriasis and dread of society.

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Restlessness, irritability and suspicion.

Ungovernable jealousy.

Self esteem.

Blunted intellect and loss of memory.

Monomania for doing the same thing and frequenting the

same places. Delirium, idiocy, mania. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo with cerebral congestion, red face and

tendency to fall backwards. Drunkenness and staggering. Vertigo with weakness in back and legs, unable to remain

upright. Vertigo with contraction and digging in inner canthi of eyes,

extending into brain. ^ Inner Head. I l Burning, lancinating, pulsating headache, most

r. side, forehead and temples, with nausea, vomiting and

great heaviness of the eyes. I I Neuralgic pain in temples, with sensation as if pointed irons

were thrust in, producing fits of craziness ; << afternoon

and night, from noise, light and motion. As if head was crushed. Heaviness and weakness of the head, with pressure in occiput,

lets head drop to one side. As if something turned round in the head, with pains in the

stomach, great appetite, colic, venereal desire, chills and

choking. As if he had water in the head, < when walking. As if the brain were laid bare and cold air passed over it. As if heavy objects and balls moved about in head; < at

night and lying on r. side. Cramps and cold chill in head. Pains piercing the brain like steel arrows from forehead to

nape of back. Headache -< in afternoon : from noise, motion and light. * Outer Head. Itching and heat in head extending to face. Nervous trembling of head. ■ Herpes and ulcers on scalp with compact, thick, humid scabs

and prurigo. Large tumors like lupia suppurate and form ulcers. Protuberances like exostoses, on sinciput and temples. ® Sight and Eyes. Photophobia, light produces itching in eyes. Pupils contracted or dilated, has to wink in order to dis- tinguish objects. Amaurosis.

The images of objects are retained in an annoying manner. Black points, muscse volitantes and fiery circles before eyes. Everything seems excessively bright and shining.

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Sensation of a great weight on eyelids which keeps them

closed. Dull, dim, wild, wandering eyes, without expression. Heat, burning, pressure, tickling, pricking and painful stitches

in eyes. Swelling and pain as if an abscess would form in r. eye. Spasmodic contraction of eyes, which remain turned upward. Yellowness of sclerotica. Inflammatory swelling and ulceration of margin of lids, with

inability to separate them. Inverted lids.

Swelling and ulceration of lachrymal glands. ■ Growths like warts and lupia on eyebrows. ^ Hearing and Ears. Heat in ears, pulsation, as of abscesses. Digging stitches ; discharge of purulent matter. Copious ear-wax ; sensation of dirt or spongy substance which

swells up. Tissues in lobes ; burning crusty eruption, inability to lie on

at the root. The air which passes through the nostrils seems icy cold and

Face yellowish, congested, pale or cyanotic.

Itching and burning in cheeks.

I Yellow or red spots ; stinging pimples.

I Ulcers, scabs or scaly herpes; falling off" of eyebrows and

beard. Erysipelatous swelling ; closed eyes, fever, delirium, desire

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douleureux, or trismus, with pains in lips and chin ; jaws spasmodically clenched.

Lips fatty, oily, enlarged, inflamed, covered with phlyctenge constantly renewed ; dry, pinched and contracted.

Lancinating, digging and drawing in teeth, or as if forcibly separated or pulled and torn out with pincers.

Constant inclination to clench the teeth.

Sensation of cold in teeth with heat in gums and mouth.

Toothache in afternoon and from taking anything cold ; < at night, in cool air, when eating, in changes of weather, from wine and coffee.

Decayed crumbling teeth ; bad smell from mouth. ^^ Taste, Speech, Tongue. Taste bitter, bloody, sweet or flat.

Difiicuit speech, stammering.

Tongue inflamed and enormously swollen, great diflSculty in speaking.

Severe pains at root of tongue as if it were cut ofl".

Tongue fissured, lacerated, and as if cut on its edges, with co- pious salivation and debility, as from the efi"ects of mercury.

Grayish, yellowish, bloody or brick-dust coating on the tongue. ^^ Inner Mouth. Gum-boils, ulcers, aphthae, swollen salivary and submaxillary glands.

Flow of thick viscid saliva. '^ Throat. Inflammation of throat with sensation of fullness and obstruction, as if it were plugged.

Burning, as of mustard, with violent convulsive cough.

Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of tonsils.

Angina with almost impossible deglutition.

Constriction with danger of suff"ocation ; debility.

Burning and stitches in throat.

Sensation as if he had a burning stick in throat, reaching down into stomach.

Granulations and grayish ulcers like false membranes ; much mucus.

Inability to drink, in spite of great thirst, on account of spasms in throat, which contracts and feels tight, as soon as he hears anything said about water, or sees shining objects.

Sensation, sometimes of burning heat, sometimes of icy cold- ness in oesophagus.

Tickling as of some live thing in oesophagus, with fits of suffb- cating cough.

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Burning unquenchable thirst.

Longing for aromatic drinks. ^' Eating and Drinking. I l Worse from coffee, which subse- quently relieves.

Toothache << from wine and coffee. '* Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Frequent empty belch- ing ; painful ; tasting of food ; foul.

Nausea; vomiting of food, bile or blood; horrible pains in stomach. ^^ Stomach. Very painful pressure, like a bar, on the epigas- trium, with short anxious respiration.

Fullness and ulcerated feeling.

Stitches and cramps in stomach and extremities ; watery vomiting; urging to stool, very liquid diarrhoea; painful icy coldness over whole body ; excessive thirst ; pressure and constriction in epigastrium ; spasms ; agitation ; cold perspiration especially in head.

Contractive, gnawing and tearing pain as if caused by some living thing.

Spasm§ and cramps in stomach hindering respiration.

Sensation as of tumors, holes or sharp pebbles in his stomach.

Extreme debility coming from stomach.

Sensation as of a hard tumor starting from the pylorus, ex- tending to the liver.

Stitches in stomach extending into chest. ^^ Hypochondria. Cramps in hepatic region; with sensation as if it were full of painful tuberosities.

Pulsative burning and digging pains in region of liver.

Inflammation and swelling of the liver as if caused by ab- scesses.

Burning pulsating and lancinating pain in region of spleen. ^^ Abdomen. Tympanitis and colic.

1 I Twisting and tearing pains in the bowels, as in iliac passion, with nausea and vomiting.

Tumor, like hernia, or like buboes in groin. ^^ Stool and Hectum. Stools mucous, bloody, brownish-yellow, whitish choleraic ; offensive, with colic, and burning in ab- domen and rectum.

Obstinate constipation, stool hard, knotty, like sheep-dung.

Large hemorrhoidal tumors and abscesses.

Itching at anus. ^^ Urinary Organs. Stitches and crushing pains in kidneys.

I I Ardor urin?e.

Urine discharged by drops.

Chalky sediment.

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Incontinence ; involuntary urination when walking, and during sleep. ^■^ Male Sexual Organs. Sores on penis and in urethra re- sembling chancres.

The venereal appetite is increased by every attempt to satisfy it, until it drives him to onanism and madness.

■ Syphilis; sycosis.

"^ Female Sexual Organs. Burning pain in ovaries.

Burning, crampy, pinching and gnawing pain in womb, with

■ Eruptions, whitish and reddish, like sycosis, in vulva.

■ Pustules like confluent small-pox, like measles and scarlet

^* Pregnancy. Erysipelatous swelling of mammae.

■ Ulcerated, indurated tumor in breast.

■ Excoriation of nipples.

^^ Larynx. Hoarseness and frequent aphonia, with symptoms of tuberculous or granular laryngitis.

■ Difficulty of speaking with drowsiness, with glandular in-

flammation. Liquids pass frequently into larynx and through nasal fossae,

with violent jerking cough. Raw corrosive sensations in larynx, or as if it were ulcerated

through the bronchi. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Heaviness and stitches in various

of arms and hands.

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Burning, pulsative pains, and pain as from whitlow on the

■ Abscesses, ulcers and fissures on arms and hands; also erup-

tions like itch or lichen. ^^ Lower Limbs. Stiffness, lancinating and crampy pains in sacrum and iliac bone.

Sciatic, gouty and rheumatic pains in legs and feet, especially in heels.

Paralytic weakness and palsy of legs, with complete insensi- bility.

The nails grow awry and hurt the toes.

Offensive foot-sweat.

■ Ulcers and boils on legs and feet. See 46.

^* Limbs in General. BErysipelatous swellings of arms and legs.

I Boils, abscesses and ulcers on legs.

Walking : sensation of water in head <^ ; incontinence of urine.

Evening: deafness << ; cough ■<.

Night : neuralgia in temples worse : sensation of heavy objects in head <; ; toothache < ; cough <^. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Heat : cough < .

Damp weather: deafness <C.

Air passing through nostrils seems icy cold.

In cool air : toothache ■<•

Desire for open air : facial erysipelas.

Changes of weather : toothache <C- ^•^ Fever. iSkin cold and frigid and pale or violet.

(Stinging and burning heat. ^ Locality and Direction. Right : headache most on side of forehead and temple ; as if abscess would form in eye.

Left : spasm of facial muscles ■< on 1. side. ^^ Sensations. Lancinating, burning, deep-seated pains (in tumors).

As if pointed irons were thrust into temples.

As if something turned round in head.

As if he had Avater in the head.

As if brain was laid bare and cold air passed over it.

As if head was crushed.

As if objects and balls moved about in head.

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Pains piercing brain like steel arrows.

■ Formication and itching as of ants, with loss of sensibility.

As if a rough cord were drawn through bronchi, when coughing.

Painful shocks in face.

Sensation of tumors, holes or sharp pebbles in stomach.

Pains : in stomach ; as of an abscess in r. eye ; at root of tongue, as if cut oflE"; horrible — in stomach ; in scapulae, as if broken ; in fingers, like whitlow.

Lancinating : headache ; in teeth ; in sacrum and iliac bone.

Stitches : in eyes ; digging — in ears ; in nose ; in throat ; in stomach ; in kidneys ; through womb ; in chest ; in cardiac region.

Stinging : pimples.

Pricking : in eyes.

Burning : headache ; in eyes ; eruption on ears ; in nostrils ; in cheeks ; in throat ; in region of liver and spleen ; in ab- domen and rectum ; in ovaries ; in chest ; in cardiac region ; in fingers.

Drawing : in teeth.

Twisting : and tearing in bowels ; and stabbing in kidneys.

Crushed sensation : in head ; at root of nose ; in facial bones ; in kidneys.

Gnawing : in stomach ; in womb.

Digging : in teeth.

Rawness : in larynx ; in chest.

Ulcerated feeling : in stomach.

Hammering : in nasal bones ; in chest.

Pulsating : headache ; in ears ; in region of liver and spleen ; in fingers.

Contraction : and digging in inner canthi, extending into brain ; spasmodic — of eyes ; of lips ; of throat ; in epigastrium ; in stomach.

Cramps : in head ; in stomach ; in limbs ; in hepatic region ; in cardiac region ; crampy pains in sacrum.

Neuralgic pain : in temples ; and weakness of head.

Rheumatic pain : in joints ; in legs and feet.

Dislocated feeling : in facial bones.

Pressing : in occiput ; in head and root of nose ; in eyes ; on epigastrium.

Weight : on eyelids.

Heaviness : of eyes.

Heat : in eyes ; in ears ; in gums and mouth ; in oesophagus.

Coldness : of inhaled air, in nose ; of nose ; in teeth ; in oeso- phagus ; icy — over whole body.

Fullness : in throat ; in stomach.

Tickling : in eyes.

Itching : in head, to face ; in eyes, from light ; in checks ; at anus.

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** Tissues. I Glandular inflammation.

iPainful swelling of various parts extending to suppuration; especially of submaxillary and cervical glands. *® Skin. I Abscesses, boils and ulcers.

■ Erysipelas.

■ Herpes.

■ Miliaria; measles, small-pox, scarlet fever.

■ Pruritus.

■ Red pimples, like miliaria or urticaria.

■ Bluish scorbutic spots on body.

■ Scarlet redness of skin.

■ Ulcers yellowish, violet, swollen, everted, syphilitic, on diifer-

ent places. *^ Relationship. Coffee aggravates at first, relieves afterwards.

Aromatic liquors relieve the pains.

Inimical : wine and strong liquors, /

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