Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

N. O. Fungi. Trituration.

Clinical.─Diarrhoea membranosa. Dysentery.

Characteristics.─There are two fragmentary provings of this fungus, and observations on six persons poisoned. It produces gastro-enteric disturbances very similar to that of its two relatives.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Fear and restlessness.

3. Eyes.─Sparks before eyes alternating with obscuration of vision.

8, 9. Mouth and Throat.─Troublesome dryness in mouth and throat.─Violent burning and scraping in throat.

11. Stomach.─Unquenchable thirst.─Sudden desire to vomit; no nausea between attacks.─Vomited twenty times in three hours.─Frightful pain in stomach.

12. Abdomen.─Abdomen sunken and frightfully painful.─Obstinate tension of abdomen.

13. Stool.─A profuse diarrhoea of blood, and of the mucous lining of the intestines.─Watery evacuations.

24. Generalities.─Sudden sensation through all his limbs as if he would be attacked with apoplexy.─Violent and extremely painful cramps in the muscles of the limbs and face.─Faintness while vomiting.─Limbs cold; cold sweat over whole body.