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General
Stinkender Gansefuss. Chmopodiacese.
"This plant has an odor of decaying fish, and contains a large amount of Trimethylaraine (Propylamine)." Allen's Encydopaedm.
Recommended : by Culien ; by Jahn (decoction) in uterine complaints ; by Houlton (extract), in 1829, for disturbances of uterine life, insuflScient menstrua- tion, hysteria, etc. ; by Helbig (the tincture), in nocturnal enuresis.
Provings, in 1846, with 10 drops of the tincture, by C. Hering on himself and son Max, ten years old, also clinical verifications.
Proving by E. W. Berridge, on Mr. J. E. Croker, Malvern, Worcestershire, ■with 30 to 40 grains a da}-, of the extract from the entire plant, excepting the root, for three weeks. Mon. Horn. Review, v. 15, p. 297.
" Sensorium. Feeling of dulness, commencing in both sides of head behind ears, going upward. Dulness more in back part of head, upper part of occiput,
particularly behind both ears. The dulness or fulness in head returns in waves, and is worse in back part of head. ^ Inner Head. Tenderness in 1. parietal region.
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Pressure, first on 1. parietal region, posterior portion, then
on vertex. Pain in 1. parietal region. In occiput sense of dulness coming in waves. ^ Hearing and Ears. Dull feeling in ears and region of ears ; sensation in r. ear as if muffled by an obstruction within. " Taste and Tongue. Peculiar sensation^in tongue as if en- veloped by saliva. '^ Inner Mouth. Saliva feels cold, particularly in 1. side of mouth. Constant cold saliva. ^^ Thirst. Unusual thirst.
^^ Eating and Drinking. Dulness and yawning, > after eating. Better after drinking wine. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Sensation of fulness in stomach and scrobiculum. Acidity with pain in stomach and epigastrium, extending to 1. side into chest, while in school. ^^ Hypochondria. Stitches in upper part of region of spleen
while walking. ^^ Abdomen. Cooling sensation, which is felt first in mouth, later in hypochondriac region, and finally in abdomen. Twitching in 1. abdomen, extending toward groins, fol- lowed by pain in 1. forearm. ^ Stool and Rectum. Increased action of bowels, not amount- ing to actual diarrhoea, sometimes attended with griping. Urging to stool; stool softer than usual. I I Constipation improved.
Often constipation, bowels not acting for three or four days, and then with difficulty ; constipation was accom- panied by external piles. ^^ Urinary Organs. Increased secretion of urine of offensive odor. Urging to urinate.
I I Nocturnal enuresis improved the first night. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Increased sexual desire, followed by diminished desire and erectile power, though secreting power of testicles was not diminished. ^ Female Sexual Organs. • Amenorrhoea. ^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Fulness in chest in region of last ribs. Feeling in lower lobe of r. lung, as if some fluid wanted to discharge itself into region of duodenum. ^^ Neck and Back.
Very severe stitching-pressing in r. side of back, > on bending backward. Sensitive spot in back, in region of 1. hypochondrium, soon after having eructated.
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Pain directly over spinous process of 1. scapula, as if pressed by two or three fingers, well marked but tran- sient. Pain in middle of back, on r. side of spinal column, in- creasing gradually to a pressing, wedge-like pain, be- neath r. scapula, < when sitting. Painful feeling, of weariness and weakness in lumbar and lower dorsal region. ^^ Upper Limbs. Weakness in hands and arms.
Twitching of 1. forearm while sitting still. Jerking pain through 1. forearm like electric shocks, but without muscular contraction, shoots from the forearm to the fingers. Pain on inner side of 1. forearm, deep in. Pain in middle of 1. radius, particularly severe in small
spot. Stitch in second joint of r. index finger. ^ Lower Limbs. Pricking here and there in legs, and also in other places, compelling him to move. Pricking and restless feeling in legs in evening; also pricking in other parts of body, causing him to jump ; this is accompanied by the feeling of fulness which makes him feel uneasy and restless.
Pain in anterior inner side of 1. thigh. Stitching pain through r. knee while walking. Pain in r. ankle ; severe stitch from within outwards. ^ Limbs in General. Feebleness of hands and arms. ^Rest.
Position. Motion. When sitting : pain in back < ; twitching of 1. forearm. Bending back: > stitching-pressing in r. side of back.
While walking: stitches in spleen; stitches through r.
knee. Compelled to move: by pricking in legs and other places. ^^ Nerves. Lassitude and heaviness through body.
Sensation of heaviness in whole body, which goes through all the limbs, causing a feeling of dulness and languor. ^'^ Sleep. Yawning.
Frequent yawning preceding the lassitude and heaviness. Somnolence with weakness and lassitude in entire body. Somnolence with deep inspirations and yawning.
Time
In evening: pricking and restless feeling in legs.
Attacks, Periodicity.
In waves: dulness or fulness in
head; dulness in occiput.
Locality and Direction.
Left: tenderness in parietal re- gion ; pain and pressure in parietal region ; saliva feels cold in mouth; pain in stomach and epigastrium ex- tend into chest; twitching in abdomen; pain in fore- arm; sensitive spot in back, region of hypochondrium ;
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pain over spinous process of scapula ; twitching of fore- arm; jerking pain through forearm like electric shocks; pain on inner side of forearm ; pain in middle of radius ; pain in anterior side of thigh.
Right: muffled sensation in ear; as if fluid wanted to dis- charge from lower lobe of lung into duodenum ; stitch- ing-pressing in back, on side of spinal column, in mid- dle of back; stitch in second joint of index finger; stitch- ing through knee ; stitch in ankle.
Both sides : dulness behind ears.
Going upward : dulness behind ears.
Within outward : stitch in r. ankle. ^ Sensations. Sensation in tongue as if enveloped by saliva.
As if fluid wanted to discharge into duodenum from lower lobe of r. lung.
Pain: ink parietal region; in stomach and epigastrium, extending to 1. side of chest; in 1. forearm; over spinous process of 1. scapula as if pressed ; in middle of back to r. of spine; inner side of 1. forearm; in middle of 1. radius ; in anterior side of 1. thigh ; in r. ankle.
Stitch : in spleen ; in second joint of r. index finger; through r. knee; from within outwards in r. ankle.
Stitching-pressing : in r. side of back.
Shooting : from forearm to fingers.
Pricking: here and there in legs; in various parts.
Jerking pain : through 1. forearm like electric shocks.
Twitching: in 1. abdomen to groins; of 1. forearm.
Griping: in bowels.
Wedge-like pain : beneath r. scapula.
Pressure: 1. parietal region; on vertex; as from two or three fingers over spinous process of 1. scapula.
Tenderness: in 1. parietal region.
Sensitive spot: in back, region of 1. hypochondrium.
Fulness : in stomach and scrobiculum ; in chest, region of last ribs; in legs.
Muffled sensation: in r. ear.
Painful weariness : in lumbar and lower dorsal region.
Heaviness: through body.
Cooling sensation: in mouth; in hypochondriac region; in abdomen.
Coldness: of saliva.
Dulness: in both sides of head, behind ears; in upper part of occiput ; in region of ears. ^^ Relations. " Exhales pure ammonia during its whole ex- istence."
Compare
Amm. carb.
45 CHIMOPHILA MACULATA.
CHIMOPHILA MACULATA.*
Spotted Wintergreen. Pyroleacese.
Grows in the woods of North America.
Proved by George H.
Bute on him- self and members of his family, also clinically verified by him.
Provings by Dr.
H.
P.
Gatchell in A. 0., v. 13, p. 75, 1876.
Prof.
H.
C.
Wood in his Materia Medica, p. 476, pronounces it "the inert congener of Chimophila umbel- lata." The United States Dispensatory, Wood and Bache, says, " it probably pos- sesses similar virtues." The umbellata and the maculata, although easily dis- tinguished, have been strangely mixed up, or still more strangely separated.
By some the maculata has been pronounced inert The Indians declared it to be poi- sonous.
If the latter opinion rests on correct observation and experience, it could only be explained by the supposition that the maculata has volatile properties which the other has not.
Both the Chimophila maculata and umbellata are old Indian and popular medicines.
They were proved by Jeanes and G.
Bute as long ago as 1840 and 1856.
It was particularly the latter prover who began to separate the symptoms of the two.
The Indian doctors used only the umbellata and avoided the maculata, which they thought poisonous, a difference which to us would be a recommendation.
Darlington, Flora Cestrica, says, "maculata possesses properties similar to the umbellata, but in a lesser degree." Rafinesque, a good authority, regards the effect in sickness, preferring maculata (mentioned in his Look as a Pyrola), and gives each to a different sub-genus, calling the maculata Chimophila and the umbellata Pipsissewa.
^ Sensorium. Momentary unconsciousness.
■Sudden headache with dimness of vision; she had to be led to bed; felt light headed. ^ Inner Head, i Sensation of lightness in head.
Pressing frontal headache ; < after lying down.
■Sudden headache above eyes; < on lying down.
■ Frontal headache with fulness in stomach and belching.
Pain in and above forehead.
Rheumatic tearing pain in temples.
Dull, heavy pain in whole front and top of the head.
Sharp pains and heat in interior of head, unfitting for exertion.
Wants the head pressed.
Headache with pain in bowels.
* It is against the genius of the Greek language to spell Kreosote with an a (see Gross' Comparative Materia Medica), and a scholar will never adopt such Bailliornian improvements (see N.
J.
Lucas' Dictionary of English and German Language, v. 2, p. 239), and yet we find the same blunder, in a reversed form, committed in spelling the Greek name of this dear little wintergreen.
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^ Sight and Eyes.
Inflammation of eyes, with secretion of mucus.
Whites of eyes yellow. ^ Hearing and Ears.
Pressive pain, as from a swelling, ex- tending from r. ear downwards, with toothache. ^^ Teeth and Gums. iToothache;
< during eating. 13 Throat.
Tensive pain in throat on swallowing.
I I Sore throat and swollen tonsils. ^* Appetite, Thirst.
Desires.
No desire for food.
Extreme gnawing hunger.
No thirst, even during fever. ^^ Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea accompanies colic.
Nausea, with inclination to vomit without being able to do so. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach.
Stitches in scrobiculum.
The acid of fruit produces pain in stomach.
Cutting pain in stomach.
Heaviness in stomach. ^^ Abdomen.
Griping in abdomen, with nausea and lassitude in all the limbs.
Colic and flatulent distension, with drowsiness and sensa- tion as if abdomen would burst, after supper.
Colic, with nausea.
Sensation of a heavy stone in abdomen; severe griping, with repeated stabbing pains upward, followed by diar- rhoea.
Colic-like pains between pubes and navel.
Pain in bowels.
Bowels hard and swollen; thinks the glands are swollen.
Bowels very painful, sore and hard.
Feels as if there was dropsy of abdomen. ^** Stool and Rectum.
Colicky pain after stool.
Diarrboeic stool containing air-bubbles.
Grey stool.
■ Diarrhoea accompanying worm fever.
After the colic pains, a diarrhoea, not very weakening. ^^ Urinary Organs.
Had to rise twice a night to urinate.
Urine cloudy and red after standing. ^^ Male Sexual Organs.
Excitement of sexual system. ^ Female Sexual Organs.
Stinging in labia, as if boils were
there. ^ Voice and Larynx.
Trachea and Bronchia.
Feeling of roughness in throat when talking.
Feeling of soreness and dryness in larynx.
Hawking of tough mucus from larynx in morning. ^ Inner Chest and Lungs, i Angina with stupor. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation.
Blood as if heated, with prickling.
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■'^^ Neck and Back. Feels as if neck was tired and too small.
Sweat on back, with sensitiveness to cold air in morning.
Needle-like pains in sacrum and similar pains in hip bone.
^^ Upper Limbs. Sensation in armpits, as if boils were there.
Sensation of swelling in armpits; pain from armpits to
scapulae.
Pain in bones of forefinger.
Right arm as if paralyzed. ^^ Lower Limbs.
Chilliness of knees.
Cold, damp feet in evening.
Painful stiffness in r. hip and leg as if bruised, at 5 p.m. Pain as if beaten in calf and thigh, going downward in
r. leg and coming up in left.
Pain in r. foot,- extending to knee and afterwards into thigh. ^* Limbs in General.
Weakness in all the limbs.
Limbs feel full as if distended; a feeling like that from
erysipelas.
Pains as if in all the bones. ■''^ Rest.
Position.
Motion.
Lying down: headache <.
Exertion: < headache. ^^ Nerves. Very nervous; cannot bear anything at all.
Hot, irritable, restless. ^* Time.
At night: rose twice to urinate; dry heat.
Morning: hawking of tough mucus. 5 P.M. : painful stiffness in r. hip and leg.
Evening: cold, damp feet. ^^ Temperature and We ather.
Feels better in a warm room
without being chilly. *^ Fever. Dry heat during night.
Fever, with burning hot skin and thirst.
Exceedingly hot, as if blood boiling, but cannot sweat. *"^ .Locality and Direction: Sensation as of something pass- ing downward on r. side of body and coming up again on 1., within the space of an hour.
Beaten feeling goes down r. leg and comes up left.
Going upward : pain from r. foot to knee and thigh.
Right : pressive pain from ear downwards ; arm feels par- alyzed; painful stiffness in hip and leg. ^^ Sensations.
As if boils were in labia and in armpits; as if neck was tired and too small; as if beaten, in calf and thigh; as if distended, limbs, like erysipelas; as if blood were boiling or on fire ; as of something passing down r. side of body and up left.
Pain : in and above forehead ; in bowels, with headache ; in throat; in stomach; in bowels; from armpits to scapulse; in bones of forefinger; in r. foot, knee and thigh; in bones.
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Sharp pain : in head.
Stitches: in scrobiculum.
Stabbing: upward in abdomen.
Cutting: in stomach.
Stinging: in labia.
Needle-like pains : in sacrum and hip bone.
Prickling: in blood.
Griping: in abdomen.
Colic pains : between pubes and navel ; after stool.
Rheumatic tearing: in temples.
Pressure : frontal headache, as from a swelling from r. ear
downward.
Soreness : in throat ; in larynx.
Tensive pain: in throat.
Swelling sensation : in armpits.
Fulness: in stomach.
Lightness: in head.
Painful stiffness: in r. hip and leg as if bruised.
Heaviness: in stomach; as of a stone in abdomen.
Roughness: in throat.
Heat: in head.
Chilliness: of knees.
Paralj^zed feeling: in r. arm.
Dryness: in larynx. ^^ Touch, Passive Motion.
Wants head pressed. ^*^ Skin.
Exceedingly hot as of blood boiling, but cannot
sweat. Thinks diseased state of the blood irritates the skin, as
before the eruption of erysipelas, scarlet fever, or measles ;
itches terribly. ''" Stages of Life, Constitution. Adapted to mild, amiable,
refined, sensitive, intellectual persons.
49 CHIMOPHILA UMBELLATA.