Sinapis Nigra

Black and White Mustard. Oruciferse.

Provings by Butler, N. Am. Jour, of Horn., 1872, p. 541 ; some symptoms by Cattel, Brit. J. of Horn., vol. 11, p. 524.

The symptoms belonging to Sinapis alba are designated a.

Clinical Authorities. — Coryza, Hay fever, Butler, Med. Adv., vol. 21, p. 353 ; Sore mouth, Ellis, Hah. Mo., vol. 24, p. 61, from Hom, Jour. Obstet., Nov., 1888; Cough, Walser, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 134 ; Variola, Kockwith, Med. Union, vol. 1, p. 59.

Note. — Found of use in Philadelphia with potassium cyanide as a means of prevention in the epidemic of smallpox, 1870-71, by Hering, Korndoerfer, Farrington, Knerr, and others.

^ Mind. Irritable disposition.

Cross, dissatisfied without cause ; must guard himself con- stantly or be uncivil and pettish.

I ' From fright during coition, impotence.

Cannot keep his attention fixed.

From least mental exertion : sweat. ^Sensorium. i Vertigo of old people.

I Violent attacks of vertigo, with hard hearing after eating heavy food ; mostly after fat.

Every evening while conversing sudden headache and loss of consciousness of surrounding objects, a. ^ Inner Head. Dull pain across forehead commencing at outer angle of each eye, more severe around edges of orbits and across bridge of nose.

Dull, dragging-down sensation in anterior part of head, not amounting to decided pain.

Heavy headache in top and sides of head.

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Dull headache, with qualmishness about pit of stomach. Dull headache, replaced (at 11 a.m.) by burning prickling

in face, moderately full pulse, dull feeling in top of head,

as if empty. Headache does not interfere with mental exertion, in fact,

is forgotten during it ; < when attention is drawn to it ;

in warm room ; better in open air, eating and lying

down. Pains are < on one side, r.; sometimes on the other, 1.;

mostly anterior part of head and less often vertex is in- volved (no prover had it in occiput). Headache as if she had taken cold, with tired feeling all

over. Dull, heavy, drawing or pressing pain in head.

■ Apoplexy.

* Outer Head. Sensation as if scalp were adherent to bones.

Forehead hot and dry. ® Sight and Eyes. When pressing on eyeballs, sensation as of pins sticking.

Eyeballs as if pressed on from above, with tired feeling of eyes and some dull pain in them, > closing eyes and by eating.

Sudden feeling of warmth, with stitching in 1. eye; it fills with tears, which relieve.

Sticking or smarting in 1. eye.

Eyes sore, weak.

Eyes feel tired.

Pain over eye, sometimes r., sometimes 1. ; sometimes pass- ing from outer angle to root of nose.

Eyes smart with profuse lachrymation.

Hard work to keep eyes open.

Headache and confusion, especially over eyes, < on mov- ing about, a. ® Hearing and Ears. Hard hearing, with vertigo. ^ Smell and Nose, i Dryness of anterior nares,

■ Nostrils dry; 1. < with discharge of some dried mucus;

tender to pressure. Dryness of posterior nares and pharynx, > swallowing

and clearing throat of small white lumps of tenacious

mucus with slight hacking. Scanty acrid discharge from anterior nares, makes skin

red.

■ Left nostril stopped up all day; scanty acrid discharge

from nose. I I Mucous membrane of nose dry and hot; no discharge; symptoms < in afternoon and evening; either nostril may be affected alone or alternately with the other. ^Hay fever.

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Dryness in posterior nares and pharynx > by swallowing and attempts to clear throat, which brings up small lumps of white tenacious mucus with slight hawking.

Much discharge of mucus from posterior nares, it ac- cumulates there and requires an effort to dislodge; tasteless, cold and in quite large, tenacious white masses.

Accumulation of mucus, usually w^hite, at times yellow, drops from posterior nares, causing nausea and even vomiting.

■ Scurvy, with copious and frequent nosebleed.

I I Profuse, thin, watery discharge from anterior nares, ex- coriating and acrid ; wings of nose red and sore ; draws considerable mucus into throat from posterior nares ; voice thick, nasal ; frequent short, hacking cough, pain- less, < during day ; > by lying down. ^Acute coryza.

I I A man of nervous temperament was caught in a thun- der-shower and wet through ; nasal passages feel stopped up while a thin acrid mucus is discharged profusely from anterior nares ; wings of nose red ; eyelids smart and itch.

I 1 For some years subject to severe colds ; severe acrid nasal discharge with much lachrymation and irritation of eyelids; sneezes frequently, with coryza; hacking cough harder and more paroxysmal, lasts for weeks ; nose feels stopped up, especially at bridge, although he has considerable nasal discharge which irritates and reddens skin ; voice very nasal ; partial loss of taste and smell.

I I Feeling as if nostrils were stopped up although they dis- charge profusely a thin mucus, which excoriates nose and lip ; itching and smarting of eyelids; post-nasal dis- charge ; continually clearing throat ; infrequent hack- ing cough; dull frontal headache; voice nasal. ^ Acute coryza.

I I Hay fever; eyes suffused, itched and smarted; nose swollen and discharging continually a thin acrid mucus; oppression of chest, as if movement were impeded all around her chest, not a contraction, but as if something heavy oppressed her in all sides from her neck to dia- phragm ; < at night lying down.

I I Subject to hay fever for eight years ; comes on July 28th of each year and stays until after first hard frost ; two weeks after commencement of attack, smarting and itch- ing of eyelids, < tow^ard inner canthi ; margins of lids reddened ; eyes filled wdth tears ; nasal discharge pro- fuse, watery and excoriating; much sneezing, < in morning for a while, and on lying down at night, but continuing more or less all day long; itching, burning,

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tickling in nostrils high up ; frequent hacking cough during day, but none at night ; dull frontal headache ; mentally irritable.

I 1 Has been for two weeks suffering from her annual attack of hay fever, which came on, as usual, about middle of August; nose swollen, alse nasi excoriated, while lips w^ere but little reddened ; eyes w^atery, must keep wiping them ; eyelids itch ; voice nasal ; nose feels stopped up at bridge and posterior nares; post-nasal discharge, which she draws down in considerable quantities and expectorates ; it is thick, of browaiish color and tastes cold ; breathing much oppressed all the time, but < at night; every night she iias attacks of asthmatic breath- ing, which last an hour or more; during attacks must sit upright and has a dull pain from upper part of chest through to shoulder blades, and dull, hard aching in temples ; can never lie with head low because it brings on attacks; attacks more frequent in damp weather, and < on lying down and moving, > by sitting up in bed with shoulders drawn forward (round-shouldered position) and by perfect quiet.

I I Mrs. D., set. 71, small, dark, dried-up old woman, bron- chial asthma; sat in one chair, leaning her head upon back of another; breathing labored and noisy, wdieez- ing and rattling of mucus in chest plainly audible all over room ; anxious for death that she might be relieved ; intensely despondent and sure that she would not re- cover ; acrid nasal discharge reddened skin about nose and slightly on upper lip. ® Upper Face. Sensation as if cheeks were bulged out by a

bubble of air just below malar bone. ^ Lower Face. Lips dry, skin as if stiff; smarting of lips ; red

around mouth. ^° Teeth and Gums. Teeth, especially such as have been filled, sensitive to warm drinks or cold air.

Gums sore, tender to touch, can hardly eat hard food.

• Swollen, bleeding gums.

Convulsions during dentition. " Taste and Tongue. Tingling, scalded feeling of tongue.

Tongue can hardly bear weight of teeth ; raw, sore. •

Tongue feels dry, sticky, sense of blisters on tip.

Tongue dirty white in middle, edges and tip hot.

Fissure down median line.

Tongue yellow at base, on waking, a.

I Black tongue. '^ Inner Mouth. Breath offensive, smelling like onions.

Mouth dry.

Burning in mouth to stomach ; with nausea, > by eating.

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Saliva increased ; alkaline.

■Sore mouth, accompanied by hot, burning, sour eructa- tions; burning started in stomach and would come up throat to mouth, with sour eructations ; mouth very sore all over, with little white points surrounded by red mucous membrane.

• Ulcers in mouth, especially on tongue, with violent burn- ing pain, where whole buccal cavity is so sensitive that even blandest food or drink is unbearable.

I A woman eight months pregnant, constantly suffering with burning in stomach extending up oesophagus to throat and mouth ; mouth full of canker sores ; < from food or drink. 13 TJij-oat. Left side sore, felt only on swallowing saliva and forcing mucus from choanse ; very slight when eating or drinking.

Throat behind uvula injected light red.

Sore throat r. to left.

■ Burning along oesophagus, a.

■ Angina oedematosa; pale swelling with much phlegm. ^*, Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. ' i Appetite good.

■ Averse to sweets. Toward evening, thirst.

^^ Eating and Drinking. While eating : headache > ; nausea > ; pain in eyes >. After eating : vertigo < ; desire for stool ; fulness after a

little, must loosen garments. After eating or drinking : fulness and heaviness ; disten- sion, clothing must be loosened. ^® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. ■ Obstinate hiccough.

■ Heartburn.

I I Frequent belching : tasteless, or tasting like horseradish or of ingesta ; of hot air which increases heartburn.

Nausea : > in repose, < from motion, a.

Copious vomiting, much straining ; it relieves nausea.

Vomit contains pieces of mucus mixed with dark lines like coagulated blood, a. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Sensation of a load in stomach.

Burning, later sharp and intermittent with faintness, > bending forward in sitting posture.

Burning in stomach and umbilical region.

Burning, nausea and waterbrash. a.

After a moderate meal, aching and pressure in stomach, as if a hard body lay there, < from touch and pressure, extending to both sides under false ribs. a.

Burning pressure under ensiform cartilage, frequent itch- ing, abundant salivation, a.

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Burning pressure in cardiac region, with frequent inodor- ous, tasteless belcliing. a. Ulceration of stomach and intestines. ■ Chronic catarrh of stomach. ^^ Hypochondria. Pressure in epigastric region.

Dull pain across epigastrium on bending forward, > sit- ting erect. Dull pain in 1. hypochondrium. ^^ Abdomen. Abdomen and epigastrium sensitive to press- ure, a. After a scanty breakfast, weight and distension of abdo- men, with tenderness on respiration and touch, a. All day fulness and tension in abdomen, with qualmish- ness and an occasional pain in stomach and epigas- trium, a. Pains < about navel; sometimes in lumbar region. Pains from navel down to 1. inguina. Rumbling of flatus.

Heavy, dull pain below navel as from a weight. Fulness and tension in abdomen, with qualmishness and

occasional pain in stomach and epigastrium, a. Continuous dull pain in r. groin, > by pressure. Sharp pain in r. groin.

Dull, heavy pain in 1. groin, at times sharp and sticking. Gland in 1. groin swollen, painful. ■ Chronic catarrh of intestines. Stool and Rectum. Stool once in three days.

Stool large in amount and rather hard, with no difficulty

in passing ; or loose, scanty, expelled with difficulty. Frequent desire without any passage, passage small, in

balls or lumps, at first large then tapering. After stool feeling as if all had not passed ; sharp smart- ing pain in lower rectum and anus. Dark blackish-green, not copious stool, of normal consist- ency, a. A small, friable, hard, dark-green stool in evening, a. A dark green stool, of which one-half is normal in consist-

tency, and the other pappy, after 8 a.m. a. Scanty, pappy, dirty brown stool, with much undigested

food. a. Copious pappy stools of dirty, grey yellow color, a. Copious, half hard, half soft, pappy stool, preceded by urg- ing desire ; first part dark brown, second part yellow, with many worms and covered with dark-red blood, a. A dark, blackish green, not copious stool, of normal con- sistency, a. Pappy, dark brown stool, with burning in anus; much undigested food with mucus and dead worms.

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Copious, half hard, half pappy stool, preceded by urging; first part dark brown, later dark yellow, with many worms and covered with dark red blood, a.

Stitching in anus while sitting, so severe he nearly screamed out. a.

In evening small, blackish stool covered with mucus, fol- lowed by pricking and burning in anus. a. ': Cholera, with cyanosis. ^^ Urinary Organs. Urine frequent but normal in quantity; of a pale straw-color ; sometimes increased ; sp. gr. 1025.

Large quantities of urine are passed during night, pas- sage preceded by a violent erection.

After urinating : sensation as if more would be voided and a little later dribbling of a few drops.

Urine: darker; golden, acid; clear yellow; a cloud sus- pended in it with little granules like frog spawn.

■ Catarrh of bladder.

^^ Male Sexual Organs. Sexual desire excited.

Violent erections during the day with lascivious thoughts. Obstinate and violent erections at night, usually with las- civious dreams and even emission of semen. I I Impotence, from a fright during coition. ^* Female Sexual Organs. Menses appeared in a few hours, long before period. lAmenorrhoea and chlorosis.

■ Cessation of catamenia.

'^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia, i Hoarse- ness ; toward night and in evening, with frequent at- tempts to clear throat. Rough scraping sensation in throat extending to trachea, with a continual desire to clear throat and a slight hack- ing cough, < in evening. Continual desire to clear throat, with difficult dislodg- ment of small lumps of tenacious white mucus, freer in forenoon, scanty at night. ^® Respiration, i Asphyxia.

I Pituitous asthma. ^^ Cough, Short, hacking cough in evening, leaves on retir- ing; usually dry, but sometimes sputa in small tena- cious lumps of white mucus ; excited by laughing ; < in cold air ; > on lying down and while eating ; sensa- tion of an obstruction low down in trachea. I I Neurosis of nerves of respiration since two years ; loud coughing spells, lasting about ten minutes at a time ; loud barking respirations could be heard at a distance. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs.

Pain in r. side as if heart were there and one could feel its beating. Sharp, severe pain in 1. side of chest in cardiac region, passing off soon.

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Wandering pains in chest.

I Catarrh of lungs. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Uneasiness and occasional dull pains in region of heart, unaltered by pressure, deep inspiration or motion.

Occasional sensation of oppression and pricking in region of heart, soon passing off.

Quite persistent dull, circumscribed pain in heart toward apex.

Pains about heart recur daily about 10 a.m., and from 4 to 6 P.M., lasting a short time only, sometimes quite per- sistent, with a feeling of dread and oppression.

Pulse grows less frequent and later rises until it is a little too frequent. ^^ Neck and Back. Dull but quite severe pulsating pain under lower angle of 1. scapula.

Cannot sleep on account of pain in small of back and hips; > by motion.

Pain in small of back, becoming intolerable near bedtime. ^^ Upper Limbs. Drawing pain at insertion of r. biceps bra- chialis on flexing and extending arm.

Occasional dull pains in 1. shoulder joint. ^^ Lower Limbs. Weakness of muscles of calves.

Cramps in calves.

Dull, heavy aching in legs, calves and ankles.

Qildema of feet.

■ Ulcers on legs. ^Rest. Position. Motion. Rest: oppressed breathing; nausea >.

Lying down: headache >; hay fever <; oppressed breath- ing > ; short, hacking cough <.

Sitting : burning in stomach > ; erect, pain across epigas- trium > ; stitches in anus.

Sitting up in bed with shoulders drawn forward : hay fever and oppressed breathing >.

Must sit upright : oppressed breathing.

Bending forward: pain across epigastrium.

Movement: hay fever <; oppressed breathing <; nau- sea < ; pain in back and hips > ; sweats easily.

Flexing and extending arm : pain at biceps. ^^ Nerves. Weak, languid, with desire to sleep during day.

I Chorea. ^^ Sleep. I I Sleepless at night, but no inconvenience from loss of sleep.

Sleepy during day, vivid or lascivious dreams.

Sleep after dinner with anxious dreams.

Dreams of the dead and of thieves. ^''Time. Forenoon: desire to clear throat >.

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11 A.M.: headache replaced by prickling and burning in face.

Day : acute coryza < ; frequent hacking cough ; desire to sleep.

Evening: toward, thirst; dark green stool; small blackish stool ; hoarseness < ; short, hacking cough.

Night: hacking cough <; oppressed breathing <; large quantities of urine passed; hoarseness; desire to clear throat. ^^ Temperature and Weather. In warm room : headache <.

Warm drinks : teeth sensitive to.

In open air: headache >.

Damp weather: attacks of oppressed breathing <.

After getting wet through : nose feels stopped while thin mucus is discharged.

Cold air: teeth sensitive; short, hacking cough <; ^^ Fever. Chilly all over, with cold hands and feet, after vom- iting.

Heat through whole body, < down spine.

Sweat, with feeling of hot water in bloodvessels, disappear- ing when nausea comes on.

Sweat general ; more on forehead and upper lip.

Sweats easily from least exertion, mental or physical.

iQuartan ague and inflammatory fever.

iTyphoid and putrid fevers; delirious; great prostration; petechia.

iFebris mucosa. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Daily : return of pains about heart about 10 A.M., and from 4 to 6 p.m.

Every evening : sudden headache while conversing.

Every night : attacks of asthma.

Middle of August : hay fever.

Since two years : neurosis of nerves of respiration lasting ten minutes.

For eight years : subject to hay fever ; comes on July 28th and lasts until after first hard frost. ^^ Locality and Direction. Right : dull pain in groin ; sharp pain in groin ; pain in side as if heart were there ; draw- ing pain at insertion of biceps brachialis.

Left : nostril stopped ; pain in hypochondrium ; dull, heavy pain in groin ; gland in groin swollen, painful ; severe pain in side of chest; pain under lower angle of scapula; dull pain in shoulder joint. ^^ Sensations. Head as if empty; as if she had taken cold; as if scalp were adherent to bones ; as of pins sticking in eyeballs ; eyeball as if pressed on from above ; as if nos- trils were stopped up ; as if movements were impeded all around her chest; as if something heavy oppressed

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her on all sides from neck to diaphragm ; as if cheeks

were bulged out by a bubble of air below malar bone ;

skin of lips as if stiff; as of blisters on tip of tongue;

as of a load in stomach ; as of a hard body lying there ; as

if more urine could be voided ; pain, as if heart were on .

r. side ; as of hot water in bloodvessels. Pain : over eyes ; in ej'es ; about navel ; from navel down

to 1. inguina ; in stomach and epigastrium ; in r. side ;

about heart ; in small of back and hips. Sharp pain : in r. groin ; in lower rectum and anus ; in 1.

side of chest. Dull but quite severe pulsating pain: under angle of 1.

scapula. Stitching: in 1. eye. Wandering pains : in chest. Aching : in stomach. Dull pain : across forehead ; in eyes ; upper part of chest

through to shoulder blades ; across epigastrium ; in 1.

hypochondrium ; in r. groin ; in region of heart; in heart

toward apex; in 1. shoulder joint. Heavy pain : in top and sides of head ; below navel ; in 1.

groin. Dull, hard aching : in temples. Dull, heavy aching : in legs ; in calves ; in ankles. Dull, heavy, drawing or pressing pain : in head. Drawing pain : at insertion of r. biceps brachialis. Dull feeling : in top of head.

Dull, dragging-down sensation : in anterior part of head. Burning pressure: under ensiform cartilage; in cardiac

region. Pressure : in stomach ; in epigastric region. Tension : in abdomen. Heaviness : in stomach. Fulness: in stomach; in abdomen. Tired feeling : all over. Violent burning pain : in ulcers in mouth. Sticking: in 1. eye.

Burning : in nostrils ; in mouth to stomach ; from stom- ach up to throat and into mouth ; along oesophagus ; in

stomach and umbilical region ; in anus. Burning prickling : in face. Smarting : in 1. eye ; of eyelids ; of lips. Soreness : in eyes ; of tongue ; of mouth ; of throat. Sudden feeling of warmth : in 1. eye. Tingling scalded feeling: of tongue. Pricking : in region of heart. Rough, scraping sensation : in throat. Tickling : in nostrils.

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Dryness: of anterior nares ; of nostrils ; of posterior n ares and pharynx ; of lips; of tongue; of mouth.

Itching: of eyelids; in nostrils. "Tissues. Great muscular weakness.

Mucous secretion increased, tenacious, lumpy.

Anasarca after intermittents.

Rheumatalgia.

Pituitous dyspepsia.

Constipation from want of action of bowels.

Flatulency.

Disposition to nervous apoplexy.

Epilepsy.

Hypochondriasis. ■

Chlorosis.

Asthma.

Intermittent fever in swampy districts.

Autumnal intermittent, quartan septimana.

Pleurisy.

Smallpox. *^ Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries. Touch: gums sore; pressure in stomach < ; abdomen tender.

Pressure : nostrils tender ; abdomen and epigastrium sen- sitive ; pain in r. groin > ; pain in region of heart unaltered. *^Skin. iiGeneral ecchymosis.

I Eczema chronica.

I I Smallpox; to be given until sulphocyanides reappear in saliva.

Ulcers on legs. " Stages of Life, Constitution. Vertigo of old people.

Convulsions of teething children.

Girl, set. 13, tall, slender, dark complexion; hay fever.

Mr. H. B., dark complexion, grey eyes ; acute coryza.

Mrs. K., set. 28, small, dark complexion, slender figure, nervous temperament ; hay fever.

Lawyer, set. 36, dark complexion, nervo-bilious tempera- ment; coryza.

Mrs. D., widow, short, stout, florid, light complexion; acute coryza.

Mr. A., light complexion, nervous temperament, after ex- posure; coryza. *^ Relations. Antidoted by : Sa2)o sodse for blisters from external application ; Nux vom. when abused as a condiment.

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