Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Spiggurus Martini (Mure). Histrix subspinosum. Histrix prehensilis. Tree Porcupine. N. O. Sphingurinae. Trituration of prickles taken from one of the sides.

Clinical.─Hair falling out (head; beard). Jaw-joint, pains in. Stammering. Zygoma, pain in.

Characteristics.─The Old World porcupines have the name Histricinae, those of the New World Sphingurinae. Mure proved the 3x trituration of the prickles. The most noteworthy symptoms were─failing out of the hair, of whiskers especially; pain in the jaw-joint and right zygoma. Itching of the pubes after taking tea. Embarrassed speech. Nausea at sight of food. The symptoms are: < Lying down. < After tea. > Walking in open air. > After dinner.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Capricious mood.─Everything is disagreeable to him.

2. Head.─Dizziness behind the head.─Prickings on vertex.─Darting through l. skull-bones.─Hemicrania.─Boring pain in skull after breakfast.─The hair falls off.

3. Eyes.─Lachrymation.

4. Ears.─Deafness in l. ear.─Whizzing and buzzing in ears.

6. Face.─Pain in articulation of jaw.─Pain in right zygoma.─Desquamation of whiskers.

8. Mouth.─Bleeding of gums.─Bitter mouth, with salt taste.─Embarrassed speech.

11. Stomach.─Nausea, with piercing pain in back.─Desire to vomit at sight of food.─Drowsy after dinner.─Constrictive pain in stomach.─Dry and full feeling in stomach at night.─Shootings in epigastrium.

12. Abdomen.─Sense of fulness in abdomen.─Painful swelling of abdomen before dinner.─Pain around navel.

14. Urinary Organs.─Violent pains in l. kidney.─Pain in urethra after urinating, < stooping.─Itching of pubes after taking tea.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Cough with pain in chest.

18. Chest.─Pain in intercostal muscles.─Pain in r. side as from a plug.

19. Heart.─Stitch in heart.

20. Neck.─Constriction from neck to diaphragm.

22. Upper Limbs.─Pain in r. arm, as if broken.─Pain at lower end of r. forearm.─Pain in r. arm as if extension were prevented by a string.

23. Lower Limbs.─Knees give way.─Heat and numbness of feet.─Cracks between toes.─Lancing pain in r. big toe.

24. Generalities.─Passing pains in toes, r, temple, and one canine tooth.─Weakness.─Numbness.─Symptoms < lying down; > walking in open air; > after dinner.

25. Skin.─Itching all over with bleeding after scratching.

26. Sleep.─Yawning.─Morning dream about a serpent.─Merry dreams.

27. Fever.─Shuddering.─Shuddering with chattering of teeth.