Zizia Aurea

Meadow Parsnips. Umbelliferse.

The tincture is prepared from the root.

Proving by Marcy, assisted by Fulgraff, in 1855, N. Am. Jour, of Horn., vol. 4, p. 52.

^ Mind. Exhilaration : like intoxication ; of all faculties, followed by a strong desire to sleep ; lasting twelve hours, then great depression for several days.

Laughing and weeping moods in alternation.

Depression of spirits : with disgust of life, followed by great exhilaration and desire for conversation.

Irritability, with lowness of spirits and indifference to everything.

Nervous irritability and depression' of spirits ; self-dis- satisfaction, with weeping.

Indolence, with contentment.

Dreamy, imaginative mood.

Behavior quiet, with much apparent suffering and sadness. ^ Sensorium. Giddiness ; swimming in head. ^ Inner Head. Rush of blood to head and face, with feel- ing of fulness.

Sensation of tightness around head.

Headache sharp over r. eye, begins slightly on second

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day and increases until eighth {Pulsatilla 6, which promptly relieved it until third day, acts but feebly on seventh) ; in its full development on seventh day, head- ache is grievous, with nausea, inclination to bilious vomiting, need to lie still in a darkened and quietroom ; < from light, noise and jar; permanent on r. side, not shifting; at its worst pain descends behind r. ear into neck ; lips parched as from fever ; severe backache between or at borders of shoulder blades ; forehead is affected by a sharp cutting pain by jar of coughing.

Severe pain in r. temple, with nausea.

Pressure upon top of brain.

Acute aching pain in whole 1. side of head, increased by light or noise.

Dull pains in occipital region, extending down muscles of neck.

I I Affections of brain and nervous system. ^ Sight and Eyes. Eyes sensitive to light, watery.

Redness of both eyes.

While both eyes exhibit a diffused injection, r. eye is more particularly the seat of painful and quite unaccustomed symptoms.

Smarting of lids.

Shooting pains through orbits.

Sharp pains in r. orbit, < by moving eyeball, by stooping or stepping. ^ Smell and Nose. Nasal catarrh with sneezing and coughing.

Nasal discharge of thick mucus.

Obstruction and soreness of r. nostril, which is painful to touch.

Right nostril only is affected, it became sore and tender to external touch ; a diffused injection of mucous mem- brane covering arches of pharynx, with ordinary sensa- tions of catarrhal sore throat; conjunctival membrane exhibited a similar diffused injection.

I I Catarrhal, asthmatic and pleuritic maladies. ^ Upper Pace. Face pale and puffy.

Redness of one cheek and paleness of other.

Boring pains in cheek bones. ^ Lower Face. Dull pains in jaws.

Painful tenderness over lower jawbone, an " inch below root of ear. '^ Taste and Tongue. Taste : bitter ; bitter, bilious, after sick- headache.

Redness of tongue, with unusual sensitiveness to cold and warm drinks.

Tongue covered with a whitish fur.

Yellow fur upon tongue, and oppressed respiration.

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Tongue broad, furred in middle and reddened at tip and sides. ^^ Inner Mouth. Dryness of mouth. ^^ Throat. Increased secretion of mucus in throat.

Slight redness of tonsils and palate, with soreness of

Acid and bilious vomiting. ^'' Scrobiculum and Stomach. Stomach sensitive to touch.

hours. Sudden suppression of menses.

She cannot draw .a full breath, without severe pain, it catches her about sixth rib in front, and pierces through to back, r. side. ^^ Cough. Dry cough, with shooting pains in chest.

Tight cough caused by taking a deep inspiration, or by

dryness of larynx. Short, dry cough, attended by severe stitching pains in r.

side, and a sense of suffocation. Cough hard, dry and short, with stitching pain in r. side,

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from region beneath sixth rib down as far as two inches below xiphoid cartilage. * Inner Chest and Lungs. Dull, aching pains under r. scapula.

Severe shooting pain extending from front part of thorax to scapula.

Sharp pains, extending from sides of chest to both shoul- der blades.

Severe stitching pains in chest, accompanied by feverish symptoms.

Pleuritic stitches in r. side, much increased by coughing, or taking or attempting to take a long breath.

Pleural symptoms severe, painful. ^" Outer Chest. Bruised feeling in muscles of chest.

Pressure excites pain in intercostal muscles.

Over xiphoid cartilage and at circumscribed spots on each side, about size of a fifty-cent piece, two inches below, there is a painful tenderness to external touch. ^' Neck and Back. Dorsal symptoms painful, perhaps sym- pathetic with uterine sphere ; their seat is at posterior lateral margins of scapulae, generally < on 1. side; pains aching, smarting and stinging.

Dull pains in loins increased by movement.

Smarting-burning pain in small of back. *'^ Upper Limbs. Lameness in muscles of both arms, from shoulders to elbows.

Pricking sensation in r. arm, with slightly diminished sensibility of part. ^* Lower Limbs. Dragging sensation in both hips.

Stooping: pain in r. orbit <•

Motion : of eyeball, pain in r. orbit < ; pains in loins < ; desire for, but causes fatigue; spasmodic movements <.

Coughing : cutting pain in forehead ; pleuritic stitches in r. side <.

Stepping : pain in r. orbit <, ^^ Nerves. Increased physical strength, with inclination for muscular exertion.

General aspect and sensation of prover were those of grave and chronic deterioration of health.

Sensitiveness of entire surface of body to touch.

Great desire to move about, with apparent increase of strength, but slight exercise causes fatigue.

Spasmodic movements of muscles of face and extremities.

Before spasms labor pains cease, and feels pains in epigas- trium.

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Convulsions, epilepsy.

Chorea, with twitchings during sleep ; spasmodic move- ments of muscles of face and extremities ; < by move- ment, noise, light or contact.

Intermittent neuralgia of 1. ovary. ^^ Sleep. Drowsiness, with a sense of lassitude and fatigue.

Sleep is sound until sixth night, when it is prevented by pain.

•Spasmodic twitching during sleep. ^Chorea.

Talking during sleep.

Sleep disturbed by unpleasant dreams. ^^Time. Morning: eyelids adhere.

*" Fever. Chilliness and heat, alternating with faintness, nausea, pain in r. temple, redness of eyeballs, dry and red tongue, and thirst for cold water.

Chilliness, accompanied with spasmodic twitching of muscles of face and lower extremities, followed by fever.

Fever, with headache, pain in back, thirst.

Feverish symptoms, accompanying severe stitching pains in chest.

Severe sense of heat and fulness in both cheeks.

Flushed cheeks, hot head, visible pulsations of carotid and temporal arteries, coldness of hands and feet, drow- siness and irritability.

Redness and heat of cheeks.

Hot flushes in face and head followed by perspiration. *' Attacks, Periodicity. In alternation : laughing and weep- ing moods.

For twelve hours: great exhilaration ; duration of cata- menia.

Two nights in succession : involuntary emissions.

Right: sharp pain over eye; headache; pain in temple; pain descends behind ear into neck; severe pain in temple ; eye < ; stye upon lid ; sharp pain in orbit ; ob- struction and soreness of nostril ; piercing pain from sixth rib in front through to back ; stitches in side ; dull aching under scapula; pricking in arm. *^ Sensations. Pain : in r. temple ; in back.

Severe pain: in r. temple.

Sharp pain: over r. eye; in r. orbit; from sides of chest to shoulder blades.

Cutting: in forehead.

Boring: in cheek bones.

Piercing pain : from sixth rib in front through to back, r. side.

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Stitches: iii r. side; in chest; pleuritic in r. side.

Shooting: through orbits; in chest; from front part of thorax to scapula.

Pricking : in r. arm.

Stinging : in lateral margins of scapulae.

Severe aching : between shoulder blades ; in whole 1. side of head.

Aching : in back.

Smarting : of lids ; in larynx ; in small of back ; in lateral margins of scapulse.

Burning: in small of back.

Dull pain : in occipital region down muscles of neck ; in jaws ; in loins.

Soreness : of r. nostril ; of throat.

Rawness : in larynx.

Dull aching : under r. scapula.

Pressure : on top of brain.

Dragging : in both hips.

Bruised feeling : in muscles of chest.

Tenderness : over lower jawbone, an inch below root of ear.

Tightness : around head.

Lameness : in muscles of arms.

Tired feeling : in legs.

Roughness : in larynx.

Fulness : in head and face ; in cheeks.

Heat: in cheeks.

Coldness: of hands and feet.

Itching: pimples on forehead, wrist and legs.

Dryness : of mouth ; of larynx ; of tongue.

Pains increased by movement, noise, light or contact. ** Tissues. White and puffy appearance of whole body.

Surface of whole body paler than natural.

Contact: spasmodic movements <.

Pressure : on stomach causes nausea and faintness ; ex- cites pain in intercostal muscles.