Homeopathy LibrarySempervivum Tectorum
Hale - Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies · Edwin Moses Hale · 7,588 chars
General
{Gommon House-Leek.)
Botanical DBacwrpTtOTT. — House-leek has a, fibrous root, crowned with
Beveral rosaceous tufls of aumerous, oblong, acute, keeled, fringed,
extremely succulent leaves. The stem, from the centre of one of these
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tnfts, is about a foot high, erect, round, downy, clothed with several more narrow, aesnile. alternate leaves, and terminating in a aort of many-flowered cyme, with spiked tranches, Wlowera large, pale rose-colored, without scent. Segments of the calyx, twelve or more, b itli a similar number «f petals, stamens and pistils. Offsets spreading.~£, Oppicinat. Pbeparatiokb. — Tinctures, triturations, iind cerate. Abalogues.— Cd^entfulff, Symphytwrn, Pceoniait).
Mouth
"A sickly woman had, about the "change of life," a swelling on right margin of tongue, scirrhue, size of a small bean, with bnrning pain after shutting her mouth, occasionally bleeding, invariably at night; the swelling was not hard, but like a cyst; had two small knots, each size of a lentil.
Over the swelling were three varicose veins.
Two drops of the 2d, daily, rednced the tumor to one-third the size, in ten days: menstruation reappeared, continuing Jive days.
Tumor diminished to the size of a small pea, and became gradually less sensitive.
" Ulcer on tiie tongue, three-quarters to one-half inch deep, oval, sharp edges, hard foundation, of a bluish color, with four knots, size of lentils, two large veins, sensitive to touch and while eating.
Local application reduced the size in a few days.
" A married woman, aged twenty-seven years, with a child of six months, had' for ten days a pain under the tongne, impeding eating and talking.
On the lower surface, near the root, was a bluish-white swelling, size of half a bean,, smooth, but hard, on either side a large vein.
At one- point a membranous exudation.
Two doses of the 6x, one every other day, for four days; no pain.
At the expiration of eight days, much smaller; producing men- stniation in three weeks; remains only a somewhat enlarged vein.
Shoulder.
" After removal of a fatty tumor from the shoulder, the wound! did not heal.
The ulcer was a perfect circle, shallow, as- large as a silver half dollar; no pain, edges a little raised; and rounded; pus greenish, scanty and tliick.
The whole sore was filled up with immense granulations, that humg.
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578 SENKCIO ADREUS.
away over the edges. "Was cured in three weeks Dj a cerate of the Sempervivum.
Gteuerative Organs. Women: — Appearance of the menses, lasting five days, having
passed the chniacteric. Appearance of the menses in a nursing woman.
xtous affections, hv,rns, stings, and other inflamma- tory conditions. (?)
" Said to be a perfect cure for warts and eoi'ns, (the leaf was used.)
" Ringworm and shingles have been cured by it, (the juice applied locally.)
SENECIO AUREUS— (^/ Gracilis:) {Life-Root)
BOTANiCM^ Description
This plant is kDown by several other names, as Eagwort, False Valeriaji, Golden Senecio, Squaw-weed, and Female Begulalor.
It was known to the Indians as "Uncum," the meaning of Which I have been unable to ascertain.
It has an erect, smoothish, striate stem, one or two feet higli, flocose- woolly when young; simple or branched above, terminating In a kind of ombellale, simple or compound corymb. The radieai kavei are simple and rounded, the larger mostly cordate, crenate-serraCe, and tong-petloled; the loteer caidine leaW), lyre-shaped; the upper ones, few, slender, cut- pinuatifid, dentate, sessile or partly clasping; the terminal aegments, lanceolate; pediincie* sub-umbellate, and thick upwards ; corymbs, umbel, like, Saffs from eight to twelve, four or five linos long, spreading. Flowers golden yellow. Scales linear, acute, and purplish at the apex.
The 8. graoilis is merely a taller, slenderer variety.
OpFicmAi.
Preparations
Tincture of the whole plant; dilutions.
Senecin; triturations.
Ahalosubs
Alarum.
Cntinabis safha, GaulophyUum^ Copaiva, Galearea earbrmiea, Oypr^edivm, Erigeron, Eupatoriwa purpurev-m, Hdonim, PvUatilla, SaTiffainaTia, Sepia, Trillum.
Mental Sphere. Inab(Mty to fix the mmd on any one object for any length of
Time
Depression of spirits alternating with very_ cheerful moods.
Sad, desponding, meditative mood, in the evening.
A feeling like homesickness.
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Giddiness and pressing forward in the head.
Dizziness, feeling like a wave from occiput to the sinciput.
Shooting and cutting pains in frontal region, yrom. within out'
ward.
Sharp, lancinating pain in the left temple and over the eje.
Dull, stupefying headache, with fullness of the head. ° Catarrhal headache, or from suppressed secretions.
Eyes
Sharp, lancinating pain in the left eye, shooting from within
outward. Sharp, sticking pains in hoth eyes and forehead, from within
outwards. Sharp, lancinating pains in the left temple, upper part of left
eye and inside of the left half of the lower jaw. " Catarrhal ophthalmia from suppressed secretions.
14'ose. Sneezing, and sense of burning and fullness in the nostrils,
relieved hy a copious flow of mucus.
Dryness of the nostrils, with inclination to sneeze.
" Coryza, with bleeding from the nose,
race. Darting pain in the left, side of the face.
Sharp, cutting pain inside of the left angle of the lower jaw. Sharp, sticking pain in the face in common with otiier parts
of the body. Pale face, with depressed appearance.
Mouth
Lips and gums pale.
Dryness of the moutli, fauces and throat.
Teeth very tender and sensitive.
Digging or heating pain in a carious molar tootlL
QaBtrie Symptoms.
Nausea on rising in the morning.
Eructations of sour gas and sour ingesta. ° Nausea from i-enal derangements.
" Morning nausea of pregnant women.
Abdomen
Stitches in both hypochondriac regions.
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Sharp pain in tlie epigastrium.
Colic and diarrbtea, with fever, in the afternoon.
Pain seems to have a centre about the nmbiiiens, and spreads ont in all directions; relieved by a &tooL
Gi-iping, coHc-like pains, relieved by bending forward.
Gri'iping, pinching pain in the abdomen.
Rumbling of wind in the abdomen.
Stool
Thin, watery stool, containing hard lumps.
Dark-colored stool, with much straining.
Ffeces in hard lumps, mixed with mucnB of a yellow color.
Copious diarrhcea in the morning, attended with great debil- ity and prostration.
" Catarrhal diarrhcea and dysentery.
Thin, dark-colored, or bloody stools, with tenesmus. Urmary Organs.
Clear, limpid urine, frequent and profuse.
Urine scanty and high-colored, and tinged with blood.
Mucous sediment in the nrine.
" Tenesmne of the bladder, with heat and urging.
" " . and cedema of the lower extremities in a yoniig {Dr. Small)
" Intense pain over the right kidney, severe pain during urin- ation, the nrine is red, hot and acrid ; bowels costive, {lb!)
" Irritation of the bladder in children, preceded by heat in head and headache. {Hale.)
° lienal colic, with or without nausea. {/5.)
° Chronic inflammation of the neck of the bladder, with bloody urine, and tenesmus of the bladder (three cases). (7J.)
° Chronic inflammation of the kidneys. {Hale.)
" "WiW. palUate, if not cure, Bright's disease. {Th.) Generative Organs.
Female
[No proving on women, but a large amountof clin- ical experience.]
" Amenorrhea in yonng girls, with dropsical conditions.
" Suppression of the menses, from a cold.
' Dysmenorrhcea, with urinary sufferings, and scanty or pro- fuse flow. {Hale)
" Premature and profuse menses, (it rivals Calcarea carb.)
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