Homeopathic Materia Medica

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, James Tyler Kent

Generals: The Sabadilla patient is a shivering patient, sensitive to the cold air, a cold room, cold food.

He wants to be well wrapped up; wants hot drinks to warm up his stomach. He is subject to catarrhal conditions, and in these he wants hot air. The catarrhal conditions of the throat require hot drinks and food. Warm things are grateful to him. It is difficult to swallow cold things; they increase the pain and difficulty in swallowing.

We often study remedies by contrast. This remedy travels from left to right, and at once a good prescriber connects it with Lachesis. The soreness, pain and inflarnmatory conditions of the throat commence on the left side and spread to the right in both Sabadilla and Lachesis. But warm things aggravate the pain in Lachesis; they cause a spasmodic condition, with a sensation of choking, and therefore he wants cold things, which relieve; they are swallowed more easily and ameliorate the pain in the throat. Sabadilla on the other hand is relieved by heat, either outside or inside.

Nose: Catarrhal condition of the nose, with constant sneezing; sensation of great rawness in the nose; burning; stuffing up of the nose.

Discharge at first of thin mums and later thick mucus. It has all the appearance of a coryza. The coryza is ameliorated from inhaling hot air. He sits before an open grate or register, with the head close to it, inhaling the hot air. Especially useful when the catarrhal state of the nose is prolonged; a prolonged coryza, which does not yield to ordinary remedies; a lingering coryza, and the discharge is exaggerated by the odor of flowers. Even thinking of the odor of flowers makes him sneeze and increases the flow from the nose. So thinking of various things aggravates his complaints.

Many hay fever patients are sensitive to the odor of flowers, to the, odor of the hay field, to dying vegetable matter; so oversensitive to the odor of fruit are some that apples have to be removed from the house. Inhalation of odors that are beautiful, as that of the lavender, some hay fever patients cannot tolerate; such things may bring on an attack out of the season. Now Sabadilla is of this sort oversensitive to surroundings, to odors; these increase the catarrhal state of the throat and posterior nares.

Sneezing and a flow of mucus from the nose; goes on even to ulceration. Periodical attacks; a rose cold in June; in autumn about August 20 as a hay fever. Hay fever is often an easy thing to palliate with short acting remedies; they will cut short an attack in a few days. But the cure requires years, and the patient must be treated in the interim and according to his symptoms. When the hay fever symptoms are present he has no others; one group is manifested at one time, and another group at another time. But the patient is sick and all the symptoms must be gathered together and the case treated accordingly.

Mind: Many of the annoyances of this individual seem to be imaginary.

His mind is filled with strange things. Imaginations concerning persons or himself are strange. Imagines the body is withering, that the limbs are crooked, that the chin is elongated, and larger on one side than the other. She feels that this is so and believes it even in spite of her vision. It is a sensation which she believes, a delusion, an insanity.

"Erroneous impressions as to the state of his body."

"Imagines himself sick; imagines parts shrunken; that she is pregnant when she is merely swollen from flatus; that she has some horrible throat disease that will end fatally."

The imaginations are groundless; nothing is visible, and the suffering is greater than if there was something to be seen. These patients often get no sympathy; they should really have a remedy. Thuja has erroneous impressions as to the state of the body; thinks she is made of glass; the idea is not that of transparency, but rather of brittleness fears that she would break in pieces.

There are but a few remedies which have fixed ideas; these ideas may be concerning religion, politics, clothing, things of the family and life. I once had an insane patient who would get out of the street, ear if anyone entered who wore a certain color, because she had a fixed idea that this was of evil import to her.

The Pulsatilla mental state in a man is that a woman would be a detriment to his soul; it is a delusion, a fixed idea. Iodine is full of fixed ideas. Anacardium has a fixed idea that a devil is sitting on one shoulder talking into his ear, while an angel sits on the other shoulder talking into the other ear, and he halts between the two and says nothing.

"Delirium during intermittents."

"Mental exertion aggravates the headache and produces sleep."

A sleepiness comes on from thinking, meditating, reading. While meditating in a chair he falls asleep like Nux moschata and Phosphoric acid.

Head: Dizziness; vertigo.

He wakens up at night with vertigo. Vertigo, in the open air; under all sorts of circumstances. Full of headaches. Headaches on one side of the head. The meditation which drives him to sleep brings on headache.

Headache in school girls. Feeble children, who have to be taken from school because of headache, come home with strange imaginations concerning school and themselves. Headache stupefying and associated with coryza; in the frontal sinuses, above the eyes.

Fullness, bursting, stupefying, aggravated by jarring, sneezing, walking. Stupefying headaches with coryza. Often gets up with it in the morning, increases during the forenoon. Head covered with a cold sweat. Many of the symptoms are closely related to Veratrum, especially in the cold sweat on the forehead with complaints.

Hay fever when there is spasmodic sneezing, fluent coryza; nostrils stuffed up; inspirations through nose labored; snoring; itching in the nose; profuse bleeding from the nose; bright red blood comes from the posterior nares and is expectorated; very sensitive to the smell of garlic; coryza with severe frontal pains and redness of eyelids; violent sneezing; copious watery discharge from the nose.

A peculiar kind of itching coming on in some hay fevers is an itching in the roof of the mouth, on the soft palate, and for relief the patient must draw the tongue back and forth over the soft palate, with this coryza, sneezing, etc. Wyethia will cut the attack short.

When the itching extends to the larynx and trachea, with great irritability and sensitive to cold: Nux vomica.

When the discharge burns a red streak over the upper lip and about the wings of the nose, with sneezing and profuse, watery nasal discharge: Arsenicum.

Copious acrid lachrymation, and copious bland flow from the nose with sneezing: Euphrasia.

Copious, bland, watery discharge from the eyes and copious, acrid, watery discharge from the nose: Allium cepa.

But these are not the constitutional remedies; they do not cure, but only palliate during the severe attacks. These symptoms are the outcome of the psoric constitution, and this constitution must be treated by antipsorics. Sometimes the hay fever is so severe that it seems to be the only manifestation of psora in the patient, but if it is restrained or stopped up by bad treatment he is not well during the whole year.

If let alone he has good health during the rest of the year. Many a time the hay fever goes through the whole winter and only by constitutional up building can it be mitigated. But with constitutional treatment each yearly attack is lighter, and at the end of treatment he is able to live in his own climate unaffected.

He must not go to the mountains to mitigate it. If to any place, he should go where the affection would be worse, so that all its manifestations would be apparent. The hay fever will only be cured if the patient is curable, but if not, if his constitution is so broken down that he is incurable, his hay fever will not be cured.

The most striking place of attack is the mucous membrane of the nose, throat, trachea and larynx. Violent acute inflammation of the mucous membrane of these parts.

Stomach: Great thirst for hot drinks.

The appetite is singular; it is commonly seen in pregnant women. She says she is never hungry; never wants anything to eat, and often there is an aversion to food; but when, from a matter of reason, she concludes to eat, and she takes a mouthful, it tastes good, it recalls the appetite, and she makes a good meal. At other times not only a loss of appetite, but a disgust and loathing of food.

"Disgust for all food, for meat, for sour things, for coffee, for garlic."

"Morbid hunger or loathing for food."

A routine remedy in pin worms, seat worms, all sorts of worms stomach and tape worms. A careful prescriber never thinks of prescribing for worms. He takes all the symptoms of the patient and these guide him to the remedy. I remember one time in a lady's house seeing a dog drag his hinder parts over the carpet as if to scratch the anus. She said:

"Doctor, can't you give the dog a remedy?"

I put a dose of Sabadilla in its mouth. Some time afterwards she asked me:

"Doctor, what did you give the dog that medicine for?"

I inquired why she asked.

"Why," she said, "in a few days it passed an awful lot of worms."

Sabadilla and Sinapis nigra are well adapted to cases in which pin worms are present. Often a remedy restores the patient to order in general and then all his particular parts are set in order.

Female sexual organs.

"Nymphomania from ascarides."

"Cutting pains, as from knives, in ovary."

"Menses too late, with painful bearing down a few days previous; decreased, How by fits and. starts, sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker; blood bright red."

Hysterical patients; a patient with a strangely unbalanced mind, accompanied by various nervous manifestations.

"Twitchings, convulsive tremblings, or catalepsy from worms."

It is true that worms will not prosper in a perfectly healthy stomach, intestine or rectum. They can only thrive in the unhealthy. Many a time I have had a patient bring me a tape-worm in a bottle after I had put them on an antipsoric, even when I did not suspect its existence.

Turn the economy into order and the parasites go. The same applies to germs. They only exist as a result of disease. They have never been known to exist without the disease having first existed. If you ignore the worm, but select the remedy on the totality of the symptoms, the patient will be restored to health, and, so far as the worm is concerned, go without a symptom.

The worm becomes smaller, shrivels and finally departs. It is rarely the case for the worm to disappear inside of six weeks after the remedy. If, on the other hand, you eject the worm by violent means, the patient may go for years with troublesome symptoms, and you do not know why you fail to cure him.

Prescribe for the patient first. No results of disease should be removed until proper constitutional treatment has been resorted to, and be sure that it is proper.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Asagraea officinalis. Veratrum officinale. Sabadilla officinarum. Cebadilla. Cevadilla. N. O. Melanthaceae (of the Liliaceae). Tincture of seeds.

Clinical.─Coryza. Debility. Diphtheria. Dyspepsia; of pregnancy. Earache. Epistaxis. Hay asthma. Headache. Head-lice. Imaginary diseases. Influenza. Intermittents. Mania. Melancholia. Neuralgia. Oesophagus, stricture of. Rheumatism. Tapeworm. Throat, sore. Toothache. Uvula elongated. Vertigo. Worms.

Characteristics.─Asagraea is a Mexican genus belonging to the Colchicum family, Melanthaceae. It has only one species, A. officinalis, which furnishes the Cebadilla seeds from which Veratrine is prepared. The seeds were formerly used to destroy vermin (Treas. of Bot.). Saba. first appears in homoeopathic literature as one of Stapf's additions, Hahnemann being one of the provers. Stapf's Additions forms a kind of appendix to the Materia Medica Pura. The plant, says Stapf, was first described by Monaides about the year 1572. At first it was almost exclusively used for destroying lice, and also worms in putrid ulcers and in the intestines. Stapf points out that the provings reveal remarkable febrile symptoms. Saba., he says, is "not only specific to a certain kind of very bad angina, and to a rare kind of pleurisy where no inflammatory fever nor thirst is present, where the patient complains of coldness mingled with isolated flushes of heat; but also to some forms of fever and ague, where the chilliness sets in with nausea and inclination to vomit, recurs frequently, and sometimes alternates with flushes of heat; where the heat is more perceptible in the face and on the hands than on the rest of the body, with absence of thirst both in the chilly and hot stage." The same authority says that Saba. has a long period of action; the primary symptoms develop in the first five days, then recur after the lapse of some time. Symptoms are periodical and paroxysmal. The periodicity of Saba. may be as clock-like as that of Cedr., and renders it a leading remedy in intermittent fevers and neuralgias. Saba. is a chilly remedy, the symptoms, especially the coryza, being generally < in the open air. The catarrhal symptoms are very severe, and correspond to many cases of bay asthma. I have often relieved cases with Saba., though it does not cure the diathesis. Sore throats characterised by a sensation of a lump or foreign body in the throat, and a constant necessity to swallow, I have frequently cured with Saba. Kent (Med. Adv., August, 1894) says it is suited to "old, chronic sore throats that are < from cold air. The patient is sensitive to cold air. Every time he takes cold it settles in his nose and throat. Tonsillitis going from left to right." The desire for hot drink distinguishes Saba. from Lach. The traditional use of Saba. as a destroyer of parasites is depicted in the provings: "Violent itching of hairy scalp, compelling her to scratch till blood comes." "Itching of the vertex as if a quantity of vermin had collected there, obliging him to scratch incessantly." "Itching of anus and rectum as from ascarides." "Itching of anus alternating with itching of alae nasi and meatus auditorius." Kent gave Saba. to a pet dog which had great irritation of anus, and soon afterwards he passed a very large number of worms. Saba. has an extreme amount of giddiness in its pathogenesis; it may cause staggering and even fainting. Objects seem to whirl round, or to whirl round each other. Stapf had "Vertigo early in the morning after rising." After a dose of Saba. in high potency I astonished myself by falling back on the bed with giddiness on rising the following morning. Among the characteristic mental symptoms are: Tendency to be startled. Erroneous impressions as to the state of his body. Imaginary diseases: imagines parts shrunken, etc.; if there is distension from flatus imagines she is pregnant, etc. Saba. is intolerant of mental exertion; thinking = headache. Digestion is disordered and the tongue loaded, sinking at stomach and gnawing hunger. Saba. corresponds to many forms of indigestion, including that incident to pregnancy. Peculiar Sensations are: As if things were turning around each other. As if she would fall if she did not hold on to something. As if eyes went round with the whirling sensation. Lips as if scalded. Tongue as if full of blisters. As if uvula were down. As if oesophagus would be closed. As of a body in throat which he must swallow down. As of a lump in throat. As if a morsel of food had lodged in throat. As of a worm in oesophagus. As if a sore spot was pressed upon. As of a lump in abdomen. As if a ball of thread were moving and turning rapidly through abdomen. As if knives were cutting abdomen. As if abdomen were shrunken; were empty. Croaking as of frogs in abdomen. As of something alive in abdomen. As if stomach were gnawed. As of a thread or string in throat. As if throat were tied with a string. As if articulation were suspended. As if tape prevented circulation in chest. As if interior of bones were scraped out with a sharp knife. As if hot breath came out of his mouth and nose. As if everything were in motion. As if the air itself were in tremulous motion. As if he had taken wine. Shaking as if in a severe chill. As if something sharp in throat. As if a soft body in throat must be constantly swallowed. Pressure on larynx = throat sore. Scratching > itching of scalp; = burning of anus. Lying perfectly still > vertigo. Lying down = cough immediately, < expectoration. Sitting < vertigo. Rising from seat vertigo. Opening mouth wide = cracking of jaw-joint. Walking vertigo and afterwards headache; pain in stomach. Getting into sweat when walking < itching of scalp. > Afternoon. Chill 3 p.m. < Morning; and evening. Gastric symptoms < morning. < At new or full moon; at regular periods. Alternating: canine appetite and disgust for meat and sour things; thirstlessness and bulimia with aversion to food. Hot drinks: < toothache; mouth intolerant of; craved in sore throat, more easily swallowed. Cold < all symptoms; < cough. Cold drinks < toothache. Walking in cold air < toothache. Open air: > vertigo; feels > in; = lachrymation and spasmodic sneezing. Warm stove > chilliness. When over-heated itching of scalp <. Mental exertion <. Fright = hysterical paroxysms. < From wine. Saba. is suited to: Persons of light hair, fair complexion, with a weakened, relaxed muscular system. Children. Old people.

Relations.─Antidoted by: Camph., Puls., Con. Follows well: Bry. (pleurisy). Followed well by: Ars., Bell., Merc., Nux. Compare: Botan., Verat. alb., Verat. v., Helon. Congestion, Verat. v. Feels > in open air, Puls. Ovaritis, Coloc. Chill in afternoon, Lyc. < From 4 to 8 p.m., Lyc. Imaginary diseases, Thuj. Sensation of something alive in abdomen, Croc., Thuj.; of machinery, Nit. ac. Effect of mental exertion, Nux, Pic. ac. Fever without thirst, Puls. (with unquenchable thirst, Nat. m.). Attacks at same time every day, Ars., Ced. Hunger in early morning, Aga., Ant. c., Asar., Calc., Carb. a., Chi., Lyc., Mur. ac., Ran. b., Rhus, Zn. Nausea at sight of food, Colch., Lyc. String sensations; coryza, Cep. (Cep. coryza > out of doors; Saba. <). Easily startled by noises, Borax. < From wine, Zn. Nervous diseases from worms, Cin., Pso. Worm affections of children, Con., Sil., Spi. Delirium during intermittents. Complaints go left to right, Lach., Lac c. Illusions about his body, Bap. Alcaloid, Veratrin.

Causation.─Fright. Mental exertion. Thinking. Worms.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Uneasiness and anguish, with great agitation.─Disposition to be frightened.─Startled by noises.─Hysteric paroxysms after fright.─Ill-humour and passion.─Dislike to labour.─Rage.─Difficulty in thinking.─Thinking = headache.─Delusions of the imagination with respect to oneself; the body seems to be collapsed, like that of a corpse, the stomach to be eaten away, etc.─Imaginary diseases.

2. Head.─Vertigo, with nausea, > by supporting head.─Vertigo: as if things were turning around him; as if all things were turning round each other; in morning after rising; had to rest his head on the table the whole afternoon to keep off the fainting; more sitting than standing; when going to bed.─Vertigo with fainting and cloudiness of eyes (everything becomes black) on rising from a seat.─Headache with vertigo, > while eyes are fixed steadfastly on an object, and while patient is thinking of one subject.─Headache as if a thread had been drawn from middle of forehead to occiput above temples, leaving a burning sensation behind.─Stupefying headache with coryza, itching, and burning of scalp and general heat of whole body; < in forenoon.─The headache begins in r. side, whence it extends more and more to l.─Corrosive burning point on top of head.─Headache with tensive pain, esp. during intellectual labour.─Headache, esp. after every walk; after eating.─Hemicrania with taenia.─Pressive and stupefying headache in forehead and temples.─Painful heaviness of head.─Boring pains in head after taking exercise.─Pulsative and painful throbbing in head.─Burning, tingling, and pricking in forehead and scalp (as from lice).─Burning, crawling itching on hairy scalp and forehead, > from scratching, < from getting into a sweat when walking.─Forehead covered with cold sweat.

3. Eyes.─Burning smarting in eyes.─Pressure on eyeballs, esp. when looking up.─Redness of margins of eyelids.─Lachrymation, esp. during exercise in open air, when looking at anything bright, when coughing, yawning, and on feeling the slightest pain in other parts.─Weakness of sight.

4. Ears.─Otalgia with troublesome pressure; with snapping as of electric sparks before ears.─Tickling in ears.─Itching at anus alternately with itching at meatus auditorius externus.─Burning itching and shootings in tips of ears.─Deafness as if there were a band over ears.─Humming, gurgling, and detonation in ears.─Boring in parotids.

5. Nose.─Itching tingling in nose and contractive smarting.─Epistaxis.─Great sensibility to smell of garlic.─Sensitive dryness of upper part of nose.─Violent spasmodic sneezing (shaking the abdomen, then lachrymation).─Obstruction of nostrils, alternately.─Fluent coryza with altered features and bewildered head (influenza; hay-fever).─Great masses of white and transparent mucus are blown from nose, without coryza.─Bright red blood comes from posterior nares and is expectorated.

6. Face.─Heat of face with fiery redness, esp. after drinking wine.─Blue circles round the eyes.─Marbled and herpetic skin on the face, burning sensation, pain as from excoriation, pricking and itching tingling in lips.─Beating and jerking in muscles of l. upper jaw, with itching.─Boring in lower jaw and submaxillary glands.─Cracking of the articulation of the jaw on opening mouth wide.

7. Teeth.─Toothache with drawing and pulsative pain.─Shooting pains in molars.─Caries of teeth.─Gums bluish.─Pricking in gums.

8. Mouth.─Sensation in mouth and on tongue as if they were burnt and excoriated.─Cannot bear anything hot in mouth.─Tongue feels sore as if full of blisters.─Pricking (soreness) in tip of tongue.─Tip of the tongue bluish.─Tongue loaded with a thick yellowish coating (more in middle and at back).─Dryness of the mouth without thirst.─Copious accumulation of (sweetish) saliva in the mouth.─Jelly-like saliva.

9. Throat.─Pain in the throat as if caused by a plug or an internal swelling during deglutition and at other times.─Constantly obliged to swallow, with pain in mouth and behind larynx as if something lodged there, with scratching roughness; hawks constantly, < morning and during and after eating.─Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat, must swallow over it; as if uvula were down.─Much tough phlegm in throat, must hawk.─Feeling of constriction in the throat (in fauces as from an astringent drink).─Can swallow warm food more easily, in sore throat.─Pressure and burning sensation in throat during deglutition and at other times.─Dryness in throat.─Roughness and scraping in throat, with continued want to swallow or to hawk.─Inflammation of uvula.

10. Appetite.─Taste bitter (or of a sickly sweetness).─Violent thirst for cold water, milk, or beer, also in morning.─Hunger, with dislike to all food, esp. meat (coffee, wine, and acids).─Bulimy esp. in morning and evening (principally for honey, pastry, and farinaceous food).─Thirstlessness or thirst only in evening for cold water.─Craves hot things, hot tea (in sore throat).

11. Stomach.─Risings, generally empty, and sometimes with shuddering.─Painful and imperfect risings.─Pyrosis.─Corrosive burning pain in stomach and oesophagus; when walking.─Coldness in stomach.─Empty feeling in stomach.─Nausea with inclination to vomit, often with shuddering, > by eating.─Nausea; with constant spitting of insipid water.─Nausea, retching, and feeling of worm in oesophagus.─Vomiting of lumbrici.─Softness, uneasiness, and coldness in stomach.─Digging in epigastric region, with pains as from excoriation (as if a sore spot were pressed below pit of stomach), when pressing upon it (and on inspiration).─A frequent sudden sensation of obstructed respiration in scrobiculus, with anxiety.─Sensation of heat in scrobiculus and burning in stomach.

12. Abdomen.─Pressive scraping in hepatic region.─Digging drawing in liver, with pain as from excoriation when pressing upon it.─Sensation of heat in hepatic region.─Colicky pain in abdomen as if caused by worms (or from actual worms).─Constriction in abdomen.─Turning and twisting through whole abdomen as from a lump.─Cuttings as by knives.─Colic: with sensation as if a ball were moving and turning through abdomen, cries out, "Oh! my bowels, they go like a wheel"; with violent urging to stool and borborygmus; from worms.─Violent shootings in sides of abdomen, which force the patient to bend double.─Boring, digging, and rolling in abdomen.─Rumbling in abdomen, as if empty.─Croaking as of frogs in abdomen.─Sensation of coldness or burning in abdomen.─Spasmodic contraction of muscles of abdomen; of l. side, with burning pain; he bent double on l. side.─Red spots and specks on abdomen.

13. Stool and Anus.─Constipation.─Broken, hard, scanty stools.─Very difficult stools with much burning in abdomen and sensation as if something alive in abdomen.─Urgent want to evacuate, with scanty evacuation.─Loose brown or fermented faeces, mixed with mucus and blood (floating on the water).─Pinchings, tearing, and tingling in rectum.─Crawling in rectum and anus as from ascarides.─Itching of anus, violent burning after scratching.─Itching of anus, alternating with itching of nose or ear.─Discharges of worms (lumbrici, tapeworm).

14. Urinary Organs.─Urgent want to urinate, esp. in evening, with tenesmus and scanty emission.─Increased secretion of urine.─Turbid, thick urine, like clay-water.─Burning in urethra when urinating.

15. Male Sexual Organs.─Digging and pressive pain in testes.─Diminished sexual desire.─Tensive and painful erections, without desire for coition.─Pollutions, with flaccidity of penis.

16. Female Sexual Organs.─Catamenia: retarded but profuse, and of longer duration; flow by fits and starts; painful hearing down a few days previous.─Cutting pain as from knives in ovary (ovaritis).─Nymphomania from ascarides.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Hot breath.─Hoarse, rough voice.─Hawking up of bright red blood, which comes from the nasal fossae.─Short, dry cough, also at night, provoked by a scraping in throat.─Cough dry, with perspiration and water in the eyes.─Cough with vomiting, shootings in vertex, and pain in stomach.─Dull cough, sometimes with haemoptysis.─Cough immediately on lying down.─Cough with expectoration and lancinations in chest.

18. Chest.─Respiration obstructed, as if there were a stone in the chest.─Short, difficult respiration.─Wheezing respiration.─Pressure on the chest.─Burning sensation in the chest.─Pain from r. (sometimes l.) shoulder into chest as if circulation of blood arrested by a tight bandage; not > by unfastening dress; < in open air.─Shootings in sides of chest, esp. when drawing breath and coughing, which disturbs the sleep at night and does not permit lying on the side.─(Inflammation of pleura.).─Red spots and points on chest.

19. Heart.─Palpitation of heart with pulsation throughout body.

20. Back.─Contusive pain in back and loins, esp. when seated.─Burning-tingling stinging sensation between scapulae.─Stitches in rapid succession in r. side of back.

21. Limbs.─Weariness and heaviness in all the limbs, < towards evening, obliging her to lie down.─Coldness of the limbs.─Painful drawings in limbs as if in marrow of bones, with inclination to stretch limbs, > by repose.─Painful sensation of paralysis of the limbs, esp. in knees.

22. Upper Limbs.─Convulsive movements of arms.─Trembling of arms and hands.─Red spots, bands, and points on arms and hands.─Pricking lancinations in forearms.─Dryness of skin of hands.─Distortion of fingers.─Yellow spots on fingers.─Desquamation of skin round nails.

23. Lower Limbs.─Shootings in thighs and knees.─Weakness and flexion of knees.─Tearing and tension in calves of legs, also at night.─Heaviness of feet.─Swelling of feet, with painful sensibility of soles.─Profuse perspiration on soles.

24. Generalities.─[Intermittent complaints which come every week, or two weeks, or four weeks apart.─Esp. suited for children who are disposed to worms; worms discharged with stool, whether lumbrici or tapeworms.─Sweetish taste.─No thirst during chill; heat often internal.─Troubles appearing on the r. side; on toenails.─Sensation of knocking, throbbing, or pulsation in the outer parts; great sleepiness in the forenoon.─< in forenoon; before midnight; from cold in general; while resting.─> From moving; while swallowing something; while getting warm; from warmth in general.─Many complaints appear, esp. during the new and full moon.─H. N. G.].─Pricking, pressive, and dull lancinations in different parts.─Tingling in the limbs.─Twitchings, convulsive tremblings, or catalepsy from worms.─Nervous diseases from worms or deeply seated abdominal irritation.─Great debility; in intermittents; paralytic debility in pleuritis.─Convulsions.─Heaviness of tread and of movements generally.─Lassitude and heaviness in all limbs, < evening, or towards noon, at which times the pains in the limbs are also <.─In general, < at same hour every day.─Pains in the bones, as if caused by some one cutting and scraping inside with a knife, esp. in the joint; < by touch, > by a quick movement of the part affected.─The patient feels better when lying down than when walking or standing; in the open air.─Several symptoms appear first on the r. and then on the l. side.─Great sensibility to cold air, which < the uneasiness and pains.

25. Skin.─Parchment-like dryness of skin.─Tingling and burning shootings under skin.─Red bands, spots, and points in different parts of skin, appearing with greatest intensity in cold air.

26. Sleep.─Great inclination to sleep during day, with continued yawning and stretching.─Sleep retarded by a multitude of thoughts.─Imperfect sleep in evening, with mental fatigue from wandering thoughts.─Agitated and unrefreshing sleep at night, with anxious dreams.─In the morning he starts up from his sleep as from a fright.

27. Fever.─Pulse small but spasmodic.─Sensation as if the circulation were suspended.─Chilliness in evening always at same hour; frequently not followed by heat; the chills run up the body.─Heat principally in head and face, often interrupted by chilliness, always returning at same hour.─Fever without thirst, manifested only by chilliness, with intermittent heat, which is more perceptible in the face and hands than in other parts of body.─Hot perspiration in face with coldness of rest of body.─Intermittent fever which returns at same hour; chill, then thirst, then thirst with headache.─Shivering or external coldness and trembling of limbs without shivering, and with more violent thirst or complete adipsia; afterwards heat with moderate thirst, accompanied or followed by perspiration.─In the morning hours perspiration.─During the shivering pain in upper ribs, dry, spasmodic cough, and tearing in all the limbs and bones.─Delirium, yawning, and stretching during the heat.─Sleep during the perspiration.─Quotidian, tertian, quartan fever at regular intervals, with anorexia, pressive inflation of stomach, pains in chest, cough, shivering, weakness and thirst between the shiverings and the heat.─Thirst only between hot and cold stage.─Fever where the gastric symptoms prevail, with dry, convulsive cough in cold stage (quartan ague).─During the apyrexia painful weariness of the limbs without any other symptom.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica (Allen's Keynotes), Henry Clay Allen

Cevadilla (Liliaceae)

Suited to persons of light hair, fair complexion with a weak, relaxed muscular system. Worm affections of children (Cina, Sil., Spig.). Nervous diseases; twitching, convulsive tremblings, catalepsy; from worms (Cina, Psor.). Illusions: that he is sick; parts shrunken; that she is pregnant when merely distended from flatus; that she has some horrible throat disease that will be fatal. Delirium during intermittents (Pod.). Sneezing: in spasmodic paroxysyms; followed by lachrymation; copious watery coryza; face hot and eyelids red and burning. Diphtheria, tonsillitis; can swallow warm food more easily; stitches and most symptoms, especially of throat, go from left to right (Lach., Lac. c.). Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat; must swallow over it. Headache: from too much thinking, too close application of attention (Arg. n.); from worms. Dryness of fauces and throat. Parchment-like dryness of skin.

Relations. - Compare: Col, Colch., Lyc., where < is from 4 to 8 p. m.; Puls., Sab. > in open air. Follows: Bry. and Ran. b. well in pleurisy, and has cured after Acon. and Bry. failed.