Author: Urenus

Horse-foot-King-crab
(LIMULUS – XIPHOSURA)

Limulus was introduced by C. Hering and partially proved by him and Lippe. Hering was surprised to see the blood of the King-crab that he dissected, blue, which on investigation, was found to contain copper as he had surmised and which he thought would prove to be another medicine for Cholera. Further provings are necessary to establish this, though symptoms so far observed make this probable. Hering’s fertile mind always lead him to pioneer paths into practical therapeutics.

Bodily and mental exhaustion; drowsiness after sea bathing. Gastro-enteric symptoms. Painful fullness of whole right side of body.

Head.–Mental depression. Difficult to remember names, confused with heat of face, rush of blood to face, worse when meditating. Pain behind left eye-ball.

Nose.–Fluent coryza. Sneezing worse drinking water. Constant nasal dropping. Pressure above nose and behind eyes.

Abdomen.–Colic with heat. Cramp-like pain with watery stools. Abdomen hot and constricted. Piles, constriction of anus.

Respiratory.–Husky voice. Dyspnœa after drinking water. Oppression of chest.

Extremities.–Crural neuralgia. Soles of feet ache, feel numb. Pain in right hip-joint. Heels sore.

Skin.–Itching spots and vesicles on face and hands. Burning in palms.

Relationship.–Compare: Asterias; Homarus; Cuprum.

Dose.–Sixth potency.

Tiger-lily

Manifests powerful influence over the pelvic organs, and is adapted to many reflex states dependent on some pathological condition of uterus and ovaries. More often indicated in unmarried women. The action of the heart is very marked. Pain in small spots (Oxal ac). Rheumatic arthritis.

Mind.–Tormented about her salvation. Consolation aggravates. Profound depression of spirits. Constant inclination to weep. Anxious; fears some organic and incurable disease. Disposed to curse, strike, think obscene things. Aimless, hurried manner; must keep busy.

Head.–Hot, dull, heavy. Faint in warm room. Wild feeling in head.

Eyes.–Hyperæsthesia of retina. Pain, extending back into head; lachrymation; and impaired vision. Myopic astigmia. Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscle (Arg nit).

Stomach.–Flatulent; nausea, with sensation of lump in stomach. Hungry; longs for meat. Thirsty, drinks often and much, and before severe symptoms.

Abdomen.–Abdomen sore, distended; trembling sensation in abdomen. Pressure downwards and backwards against rectum and anus; worse, standing; better, walking in open air. Bearing down in lower part of abdomen.

Urinary.–Frequent urging. Urine milky, scanty, hot.

Stool.–Constant desire to defecate, from pressure in rectum, worse standing. Pressure down the anus. Early-morning urgent stool. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with tenesmus, especially in plethoric and nervous women at change of life.

Heart.–Sensation as if heart were grasped in a vise (Cact). Feels full to bursting. Pulsations over whole body. Palpitation; irregular pulse; very rapid. Pain in cardiac region, with feeling of a load on chest. Cold feeling about heart. Suffocating feeling in a crowded and warm room. Angina pectoris with pain in right arm.

Female.–Menses early, scanty, dark, clotted, offensive; flow only when moving about. Bearing down sensation with urgent desire for stool, as though all organs would escape. Ceases when resting (Sep; Lac c; Bell). Congestion of uterus, prolapse, and anteversion. Constant desire to support parts externally. Pain in ovaries and down thighs. Acrid, brown leucorrhœa; smarting in labia. Sexual instinct awakened. Bloated feeling in uterine region. Sub-involution. Pruritus pudendi.

Extremities.–Cannot walk on uneven ground. Pain in back and spine, with trembling, but oftener in front of a pressing-down character. Pricking in fingers. Pain in right arm and hip. Legs ache; cannot keep them still. Pain in ankle joint. Burning palms and soles.

Sleep.–Unrefreshing, with disagreeable dreams. Unable to sleep, with wild feeling in head.

Fever.–Great heat and lassitude in afternoon, with throbbing throughout body.

Modalities.–Worse consolation, warm room. Better, fresh air.

Relationship.–Compare: Cact; Helon; Murex; Sep; Plat; Pallad.

Antidote: Helon.

Dose.–The middle and higher potencies seem to have done best. Its curative action sometimes is slow in developing itself.

Colic Root
(LIATRIS SPICATA – SERRATULA)

A vascular stimulant. Increases functional activity of the skin, mucous membranes.

Of use in dropsy due to liver and spleen diseases, also renal dropsy. Here the suppressed urination is most favorably influenced. General anasarca due to heart and kidney disease. Diarrhœa with violent urging and pain in lower part of back. Colic. Locally, applied to ulcers and unhealthy wounds.

A prompt diuretic.

Dose.–1 to 4 drams of tincture of infusion.

Culver’s Root
(LEPTANDRA)

A liver remedy, with jaundice and black, tarry stools. Bilious states. Enfeebled portal circulation. Malarial conditions.

Head.–Dull frontal pain; vertigo, drowsiness, and depression. Smarting and aching in eyes.

Stomach.–Tongue coated yellow. Great distress in stomach and intestines, with desire for stool. Aching in region of liver extending to spine, which feels chilly.

Stool.–Profuse black, fetid stools, with pain at umbilicus. Bleeding piles. Typhoid stools turn black and look like tar. Clay colored stools with jaundice. Prolapse of rectum with hæmorrhoids. Rectal hæmorrhage.

Relationship.–Compare: Podop; Iris; Bry; Merc; Ptel; Myrica.

Dose.–Tincture, to third potency.

Cress-Brazilian Cress

Affections of breast, heart, lancinating pains.

With heart symptoms, numbness and pain in left arm, sensation of sinking in pit of stomach.

Left side of head, face, chest, hip to knee, all have lancinating pain.

A streak of pain from the temple to the chin, as if the face were cut with a razor. Burning in throat, roaring in ears. Sensation of a tight girdle around chest, as of a knife piercing the heart. Pain in neck, back, and extremities. Compare: Arnica; Lachesis.

Duckweed

A catarrhal remedy. Acts especially upon the nostrils. Nasal polypi; swollen turbinates. Atrophic rhinitis. Asthma from nasal obstruction; worse in wet weather.

Nose.–Putrid smell; loss of smell. Crusts and muco-purulent discharge very abundant. Post-nasal dropping. Pain like a string from nostrils to ear. Reduces nasal obstruction when it is an œdematous condition. Dryness of naso-pharynx.

Mouth.–Putrid taste on rising in the morning. Dry pharynx and larynx.

Abdomen.–Disposition to noisy diarrhœa.

Modalities.–Worse, in damp, rainy weather, especially heavy rains.

Relationship.–Compare: Dulc (damp surroundings and foggy weather). Calc; Teucr; Calend; Nat sulph.

Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.

Marsh-Tea
(LEDUM)

Affects especially the rheumatic diathesis, going through all the changes, from functional pain to altered secretions and deposits of solid, earthy matter in the tissues. The Ledum rheumatism begins in feet, and travels upward. It affects also the skin, producing an eruption like Poison-oak, and is antidotal thereto, as well as to stings of insects. There is a general lack of animal heat, and yet heat of bed is intolerable. For punctured wounds, produced by sharp-pointed instruments or bites particularly if the wounded parts are cold, this is the remedy. Tetanus with twitching of muscles near wound.

Head.–Vertigo when walking, with tendency to fall to one side. Distress when head is covered. Nosebleed (Mellilot; Bry).

Eyes.–Aching in eyes. Extravasation of blood in lids, conjunctiva, aqueous or vitreous. Contused wounds. Cataract with gout.

Face.–Red pimples on forehead and cheeks; stinging when touched. Crusty eruption around nose and mouth.

Mouth.–Dry, retching with eructation. Musty taste with catarrhal affection.

Respiratory.–Burning in nose. Cough, with bloody expectoration. Dyspnœa; chest feels constricted. Suffocative arrest of breathing. Pain along trachea. Bronchitis with emphysema of aged. Oppressive constriction of chest. Tickling in larynx; spasmodic cough. Hæmoptysis, alternating with rheumatism. Chest hurts when touched. Whooping-cough; spasmodic, double inspiration with sobbing.

Rectum.–Anal fissures. Hæmorrhoidal pain.

Extremities.–Gouty pains shoot all through the foot and limb, and in joints, but especially small joints. Swollen, hot, pale. Throbbing in right shoulder. Pressure in shoulder, worse motion. Cracking in joints; worse, warmth of bed. Gouty nodosities. Ball of great to swollen (Bothrops). Rheumatism begins in lower limbs and ascends (Kalmia opposite). Ankles swollen. Soles painful, can hardly step on them (Ant c; Lyc). Easy spraining of ankle.

Fever.–Coldness, want of animal heat. Sensation as of cold water over parts; general coldness with heat of face.

Skin.–Acne on forehead, sticking pain therein. Eczema (facial). Itching of feet and ankles; worse, scratching and warmth of bed. Ecchymosis. Long discoloration after injuries. Carbuncles (Anthracin. Tarant cuben). Antidote to Rhus poisoning (Grindel; Cyprip; Anac).

Modalities.–Better, from cold, putting feet in cold water. Worse, at night, and from heat of bed.

Relationship.–Compare: Ledum antidotes spider poisons. Ruta; Ham; Bellis; Arnica.

Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.

A Phosphorus-containing Complex Organic Body prepared from the yolk of egg and animal brains
(LECITHIN)

Lecithin is important in the vital processes of plant and animal organisms. Lecithin has a favorable influence upon the nutritive condition and especially upon the blood hence its use in anæmia and convalescence, neurasthenia and insomnia. Increasing the number of red corpuscles and amount of hemoglobin. Excellent galactagog, renders milk more nourishing and increases quantity.

Causes an immediate decrease in the excretion of the phosphates. Mental exhaustion and impotency. Tuberculosis, causing marked improvement in nutrition and general improvement. Tired, weak, short breath, loss of flesh; symptoms of general break-down. Sexually weak.

Mind.–Forgetful, dull, confused.

Head.–Aching, especially in occiput-pulsating and ringing in ears. Pain in zygoma; face pale.

Stomach.–Loss of appetite, thirsty, craves wine and coffee; bloated, sore pain in stomach rising toward throat.

Urine.–Scanty, with phosphates, sugar or albumen.

Sexual.–Male power lost or enfeebled. Anaphrodisia and ovarian insufficiency.

Extremities.–Soreness, aching, lack of energy. Tired and weak.

Relationship.–Compare: Phosphor.

Dose.–One-half to 2 grains of crude and potencies. Twelfth potency.

Cherry-laurel

Spasmodic tickling cough, especially in cardiac patients, is often magically influenced by this drug. Lack of reaction, especially in chest and heart affections. Drink rolls audibly through œsophagus and intestines. General coldness, not ameliorated by warmth. Violent pain in stomach with loss of speech. Spasm of facial muscles and œsophagus. Asphyxia neonatorum.

Fever.–Coldness; chills and heat alternate. Thirst, with dry mouth in afternoon.

Respiratory.–Cyanosis and dyspnœa; worse, sitting up. Patient puts hands on heart. Cough, with valvular disease. Exercise causes pain around heart. Tickling, dry cough. Dyspnœa. Constriction of chest. Cough, with copious, jelly-like, or bloody expectoration. Small and feeble pulse. Threatening paralysis of lungs. Gasping for breath; clutches at heart.

Heart.–Mitral regurgitation. Clutching at heart and palpitation. Cyanosis neonatorum.

Sleep.–Spells of deep sleep, with snoring and stertorous breathing.

Extremities.–Toe and finger nails become knotty. Skin blue. Sprained pains in hips, thighs and heels. Cold, clammy feet and legs. Clubbing of fingers. Veins of hands distended.

Relationship.–Compare: Hydrocy ac; Camphor; Secale; Ammon carb; Ambra.

Dose.–Tincture to third potency. Cherry-laurel water, two to five drop doses.

Spider

The bite produces tetanic effects that last several days. A picture of Angina pectoris is presented by the action of the drug. The præcordial region seems to be the center of attack. Constriction of chest muscles, with radiation to shoulders and back. Lowered coagulability.

Head.–Anxiety. Screams with pain. Pain in neck to back of head. Occipital pain.

Respiratory.–Extreme apnœa. Gasping respiration. Fears losing breath.

Chest.–Violent, præcordial pain extending to the axilla and down the arm and forearm to fingers, with numbness of the extremity. Pulse feeble and rapid. Sinking sensation at the Cramping pain from chest to abdomen.

Extremities.–Pain in left arm, feels paralyzed. Weakness of legs followed by cramps in the abdominal muscles. Paræsthesia of lower limbs.

Skin.–Coldness of whole surface. Skin cold as marble.

Relationship.–Compare: Latrodectus Hasselti-New South Wales Black Spider–(Long lasting effects seem to indicate it as a “chronic” blood poisoning. Arrests intense pain in pyæmia. Great œdema in neighborhood of wound; paralysis of limbs, with great wasting of muscles. Violent, darting, burning pains preceding paralysis; vertigo, tendency to fall forward; septicæmic conditions; constant delusion of flying. Loss of memory. Roaring noises). Araena; Mygale; Theridion; Latrodectus Kalipo -New Zealand spider–(lymphangitis and nervous twitchings, scarlet burning eruption). Triatema-Kissing bug –(Swelling with violent itching of fingers and toes. Smothering sensation and difficult breathing succeeded by fainting and rapid pulse).

Dose.–Sixth potency.