Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Bear's foot. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of the root.

Clinical.─Cholera. Hair, failing off. Nails, falling off. Scarlatina. Skin, peeling. Stiff-neck.

Characteristics.─The effects of Hel. f. have been observed on several persons. It is a violent narcotico-acrid poison, and in fatal poisoning cases death has taken place in convulsions. The vision is disordered; choleraic symptoms occur; skin, hair, and nails exfoliate. The anxiety is > after vomiting.

Relations.─Compare: Verat. alb. (copious liquid stools); Hell. n., Hell. v., Colch.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Dreadful anxiety; > after vomiting.

3. Eyes.─Great difficulty in reading, in evening, by candle-light; the sensation is as when the light flickers from a draught of air; cannot follow the lines.

4. Ear.─Thumping pain below and behind l. ear.

8. Mouth.─Smarting at tip of tongue.─Painful sensation like aphthae in mouth (inhaling fumes of triturated plant).─Taste of manure; tongue yellow in middle.─Excoriation of mouth and throat.

11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen.─Nausea and vomiting of food (taken an hour before with relish).─Constant inclination to vomit.─When pounding the plant it seems that the epigastrium with difficulty keeps time with the inflation of the chest on inspiration.─Frightful pain in pit of stomach.─Colic.

13. Stool and Anus.─Violent purging and vomiting with pain in stomach.─Abundant liquid stool during night; next day two liquid, whitish stools; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours later.

18. Chest.─Tightness of chest, can scarcely half draw his breath.

20. Neck.─Numbness in muscles of neck; sensibility to touch blunted it becomes stiff eighteen hours later.

24. Generalities.─Fatal convulsions.─Swooning.

25. Skin.─Skin of whole body peels, hair falls out, all the nails fall off.─Profuse discharge from ulcerated surface (from application).

26. Sleep.─Stirs a good deal in his sleep.