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General
Button Snakeroot. Umbelliferse..
An indigenous plant, growing in low, wet places; flowers in August.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh root.
Provings by C. H, McClelland, Coggswell and Jones. See Allen's Encylo- pedia, vol. 4, p. 213.
Clinical Authoeities. — Inconiinence of urine, Barenburg, Organon, vol. 3, p. 367; Spermatorrhcua (2 cases), Parks, Thomas' Add. to Mat. Med., p. 49.
^ Mind. Very sober and depressed in spirits; very dull at night.
Not able to think steadily on any subject.
Thoughts confused ; cannot concentrate them upon any subject without much exertion; causes heavy full pain if persisted in. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo.
^ Inner Head. Expanding sensation in frontal region above eyes, < stooping.
Continual dull heavy pain in frontal portion of brain.
Severe pain in frontal region, causing dimness of sight.
Frontal headache on rising.
Reading or writing causes hard, heavy pain in forehead; < stooping.
Pain in head, < by lowering it or thinking intently upon any subject; pain especially in frontal region and more particularly over 1. eye, of a sharp and shooting charac- ter; when sitting in stooping posture it leaves eye, passes into neck and along muscles of shoulder, and be- neath scapula, where it remains for some time.
Shooting pains in coronary region, and in r. side of face, from eyes to teeth, in morning.
Dull dragging pain in occiput, neck and shoulders. * Outer Head. Scalp sore to touch, combing hair causes pain. ^ Sight and Eyes. Dull expression of eyes, great inclination to sleep.
Eyes sensitive to light.
Burning pain in eyes, they feel heavy and slightly con- gested.
Sclerotitis; smarting burning sensation, with heavy aching pains, produced by strong light; squinting. on exposure to strong light; tearing burning pains in eyes; watery or purulent discharge.
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Purulent inflammation of 1. eye; congested, red, swollen,, tender to pressure; constant dull aching, > by heat; profuse discharge of purulent, sticky fluid, glueing lids together, and flowing on cheek from all parts of eyelid;, conjunctiva granulated and rough. Muscles of eye feel stiff, pain on turning them quickly. Severe tearing, boring pain over 1. eye. ^ Hearing and Ears. Continued ringing, singing with cracking sound in 1. ear. Bruised tearing pain about ears, as if they were being torn
from their location. Inflammation of Eustachian tube; 1. ear swollen in and out, tender to pressure, constant aching pain, bleeding readily, thick, white, bloody, foul-smelling pus. ^ Smell and Nose. Profuse thick, yellow, mucous discharge
from nose. ^ Upper Face. Shooting pains in r. side of face from eye to
Teeth
^^ Inner Mouth. Thick, tenacious, disagreeable mucus in
Mouth
^^ Throat.
Smarting raw pain along 1. side of throat; dry tongue.
Intense redness and congestion of mucous membrane of throat, slight swelling without pain, profuse secretion of thick, wdiitish mucus. ^* Appetite, Thirst.
Desires, Aversions.
Partial anorexia. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea fol- lowed by acrid eructations. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach.
Hollowness or emptiness in stomach, with heavy, dragging pain, i I Spitting up of bright arterial blood, mixed wdtli black clots, with burning in epigastrium, after a blow on stomach. ^^ Abdomen.
Severe colicky or cramping pain in small intes- tines.
Severe pain in 1. groin and testicle. ^*' Stool and Rectum.
Bowels constipated.
I I Mucous diarrhoea of children.
Tenesmus at stool; faeces seem to be cut as they pass
through anus.
I I Hemorrhoids and prolapsus ani. ^^ Urinary Organs.
Frequent desire to urinate; stinging burning pain in urethra, behind glans during urination.
I Must urinate every five minutes; urine dripping away all the time, and burning like fire. ^^ Male Sexual Organs, i ■ Sexual desire suppressed, then ex- cited, with lewd dreams and pollutions. ■ Discharge of prostatic fluid from slightest causes.
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I Involuntary emissions occasioned by onanism or excessive sexual indulgence.
■ Emissions at night with erections; semen also passed by
day with urine; loss of semen followed by great lassi- tude and depression, lasting from twelve to forty-eight hours ; partial impotence.
■ Emissions of semen without erections, day and night, and
followed by great lassitude; after injury to testicles.
I I Gonorrhoea with painful erections.
I I Gleet. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. 1 1 Leucorrhoea. ^^ Voice and Larynx.
Trachea and Bronchia, i i Laryngeal irritations; short, hacking cough.
I I Chronic laryngitis. ^ Cough.
I I Cough, with sensation of constriction in throat. ^® Inner Chest and Lungs.
Oppression of chest, feeling of
fulness, inability to take a full breath. ^^ Neck and Back.
When pain in head is less severe, it is worse in neck and shoulders.
Weakness and heavy dragging pain in lumbar region. ^^ Lower Limbs.
Lower extremities languid and heavy, with
profuse perspiration on walking. ^* Limbs in General.
Transient rheumatic pains in 1. shoul- der and arm, also r. wrist and hand. ^^ Rest.
Position.
Motion.
Sitting in stooping posture : pain leaves eye and passes to neck and shoulders.
Stooping: expanding sensation above eyes <; heavy pain
in forehead <.
Lowering head : < pain in head.
Rising: frontal headache.
Turning eyes: causes pain in them.
Walking: causes profuse perspiration. ^^ Nerves.
Slight erethism of nervous system
Loss of energy. ^ Time.
Morning: shooting pains in r. side of face.
By day: semen passes; emissions without erections.
Night: very dull in spirits; emissions without erections. ^^ Temperature and Weather.
Heat: < dull aching in 1. eye. *" Fever.
Flashes of heat.
^^ Attacks, Periodicity.
Every five minutes: must urinate.
From twelve to forty-eight hours: great lassitude after loss of semen. ^Locality and Direction.
Left: pain over eye; inflamma- tion of eye; severe tearing boring pain over eye; con- stant ringing, singing and cracking sound in ear; ear swollen; ear tender to pressure; pain along side of throat; pain in groin and testicle; rheumatic pains in shoulder.
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Right: pain in face; pain in side of face; rheumatic pain in wrist and hand. ^^ Sensations. As if ears were being torn from their location.
Pain : in head ; in forehead ; over 1. eye.
Erratic pains : all over body.
Tearing pain : in eyes ; about ears.
Severe pain : in frontal region ; in 1. groin ; in testicle.
Severe boring pain : over 1. eye.
Hard pain : in forehead.
Sharp shooting pain: over 1. eye; extending to neck and shoulders; in coronary region; r. side of face from eye to teeth.
Stinging pain : in urethra.
Colicky pain: in small intestines.
Cramping pain : in small intestines.
Constriction : of throat.
Burning pain: in eyes; in epigastrium; in urethra.
Bruised pain: about ears.
Dull dragging pain in occiput; in neck; in shoulders; in stomach; in lumbar region.
Rheumatic pains : in 1. shoulder ; in 1. arm ; in wrist ; in r. hand.
Aching pain : in 1. ear.
Dull, heavy pain: in frontal part of brain.
Heavy aching: in eye.
Smarting: in eyes; along 1. side of throat.
Soreness: of scalp.
Oppression : of chest.
Ringing: in ears.
Singing: in ears.
Cracking sound in 1. ear.
Expanding sensation in frontal region. ^ Tissues.
I ' Dropsy of an asthenic character. *^ Touch.
Passive Motion.
Injuries.
Touch : scalp sore.
Pressure: 1. eye tender; 1. ear tender to pressure.
After a blow; burning in epigastrium.
After injury to testicles: emissions without erections, fol- lowed by lassitude. *' Stages of Life, Constitution.
Married man, after injury to testicles by jumping upon a horse, for fifteen years; spermatorrhoea.
Married man, not conscious of having sustained any in- jury, seminal emissions for eight or ten years.
Man, £et. 82; incontinence of urine. *^ Relations.
Compare in pollutions Cinchona, Gelsem., Phos- p?ior.
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