Gnaphalium Polycephalum

Commo7h Life Everlasting. Compositas.

A fragrant, bitterish, aromatic annual, growing in fields and woods ; flowers in summer and autumn.

Tincture from the fresh plant, chopped and pounded to a pulp.

Provings by Banks, Fuller and Woodbury. See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, p. 456.

Clinical Authorities. — Sciatica, Gate, Raue's Eec, 1874, p. 261 ; Dudley, McCourt, Trans. Horn. Med. Soc. Penna., 1882, p. 161.

^ Sensorium. Giddiness, especially after rising from recum- bent position. ^ Inner Head. Fulness about temples.

Dull, continuous pain in back of head, with shooting pain in eyeballs. ^ Upper Face. Dull, heavy expression; face appears bloated. Neuralgic pain, of an intermittent form, of superior max- illary of both sides. ^^ Taste and Tongue. Flat, sweetish, sickening taste in mouth. Tongue covered with long, white fur. ^^ Inner Mouth. Mouth feels parched and tastes badly. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Flatus of

stomach, windy eructations, nausea and hiccough. ^^ Abdomen, l Colic pains in various parts of abdomen, which is sensitive to pressure, in caecum. Borborygmus, with emission of much flatus. ^^ Stool and Rectum. Rumbling in bowels with stool before breakfast. Looseness of bowels, with passage of pale-colored feces. iDiarrhoeic discharges in morning and during day, with

irritable temper; pains in bowels in children. Copious, watery stool at night, with much prostration,

nausea, pain and rumbling in bowels. Dark-colored, liquid, offensive stool in morning, afterwards

pain in bowels all day. I Vomiting and purging, like cholera morbus, in the night

and all next day. Constipation for three days after the diarrhoea. ^^ Urinary Organs. Pain in kidneys, with frequent slight pain in prostate gland. Sensation of fulness and tension in bladder, even when

just emptied. VOL. V. — 28.

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^ Male Sexual Organs. Increase of sexual passion, waking with an erection and urgent desire for an embrace; the desire was rather mechanical than passional. I I Irritation of prostate gland. ^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Pains in chest, darting from side

to side. ^^ Neck and Back. Numbness of lower part of back, with lumbago. Sensation of weight in pelvis. ^^ Upper Limbs. Feeling of debility in anus, wdth rheumatic

pains. ^ Lower Limbs. Pains dull or darting, or cutting from r. hip-joint j)Osteriorly downward to foot; < lying down, from motion, stepping; > sitting in chair. ■ Intense pain along sciatic nerve, following its larger rami- fications. 1 Sciatica, i Feeling of numbness occasionally taking j^lace of sciatic

pains, making exercise very fatiguing. Rheumatic pains in knee and ankle-joints. Frequent cramps of calves of legs. Cramps of feet in bed.

I Gouty pains in big toes. ^ Rest. Position. Motion. Lying down : pain from hip- joint to foot <.

Sitting in chair: pain from hip-joint to foot >. After rising from recumbent position : giddiness. Motion: pain from hip-joint to foot <. Stepping: j^ain from hip-joint to foot <.

Exercise very fatiguing : from numbness in lower limbs. ^ Time. Morning : diarrhcEic discharges ; dark-colored, liquid, offensive stool. During day : diarrhoeic discharges ; pain in bowels. Night: copious, watery stool ; vomiting and purging. ^^ Attacks, Periodicity.

Intermittent : neuralgic pains in face. Three days: constipation. ^^ Locality and Direction. Right : dull, or darting, or cutting

pain from hip-joint to foot. ^•^ Sensations. Pain: in bowels; in kidneys; in prostate gland ; in chest. Intense pain : along sciatic nerve. Cutting pain: from r. hip-joint to foot. Darting pains : from side to side in chest ; from r. hip- joint to foot. Shooting pain : in eyeballs. Neuralgic pain: of superior maxillary. Gouty pains : in big toes.

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Rheumatic pains: in limbs; in knees and ankle-joints.

Colic pains : in various parts of abdomen.

Cramps : of calves of legs ; of feet.

Dull, continuous pain: in back of head, from r. hip-joint

to foot. Lurhbago.

Irritation : of prostate gland. Weight : in pelvis. Fulness : about temples ; in bladder. Tension : in bladder. Debility : in arms.

Numbness : of lower part of back ; in limbs. *^ Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries. Pressure: abdomen

sensitive. ■^^ Relations. Compare: A7ds. stel., Chamom., Ipec, 3Iercur.,

Pulsat., Xantlwx.