Spongilla fluviatilis (Spongia palustris, Linn.). Section Protozoa of the animal Kingdom.

Common name , Fresh-water sponge.

Russian name , Badiaga.

Preparation , Trituration of the dried sponge gathered in autumn.

Authorities. (Hering's Résumé, Hahn. Monthly, 2, 123).

1 , G. Lingen, effects observed from triturating the drug; 2 , L. Bedford, provings with the 30th dil.

MIND

A moan or shriek, caused by the pain in the side, 2.
In spite of the headache, he is still clear in his mind, and more inclined to mental activity than before, 1.

HEAD

Dull, dizzy feeling of head, 2.
Headache, does not affect the mind, 1.
Headache commencing between 1 and 2 P.M., lasting till between 6 and 7 in the evening (seventh and ninth days), 2.
Headache with inflamed eyes, 2.
During the day, more or less headache, with pain in eyeballs , worse in the left; more from 1 o'clock in the afternoon till 7 in the evening (sixth day), 2.
Headache from 2 P.M. till 7 P.M., with slight aching pains in the posterior portion of both eyeballs , and in the temples (fifth day), 2.
Headache, coryza, and some other symptoms, better on the fifteenth day, less during the afternoon (twelfth day).
Dull during the afternoon, beginning at 1 o'clock (thirteenth day), 2. [10.]
Headache and soreness of the body, aggravated from 7 to 10 in the evening, on a rainy day (fourteenth day); slight on the fifteenth day, from 1 to 3 in the afternoon (sixteenth day), 2.
Frontal headache, during the forenoon, worse in the temples, and extending into the posterior portion of the left eyeball, aggravated by moving the eyes (tenth day); the same on the eleventh day, but worse in the afternoon until late in the evening; the same the thirteenth day, extending to both eyeballs, aggravated by moving them in either direction ; worse in the afternoon, with heat in the forehead and dull aching in the temples, 2.
During the afternoon, heat, pain, and congestion in the forehead, worse at 7 in the evening (tenth day), 2.
Congestion in forehead, 2.
In forehead, drawing, 1.
In temples and eyeballs, pain; to the temples from eyeballs, 2.
A very severe headache on the top of the head, remains the same in all positions, better at night after sleeping , and better in the morning, returning violently after breakfast, lasting several days. C. Hg.
Scalp sore to the touch, with tetter-like eruption on the forehead, and dull, dizzy feeling of the head during the forenoon (twelfth day); soreness less on the fifteenth day, 2.
Itching of the scalp, with much dandruff, like tetter, and dryness of the hair, thirteenth day; tetter less on the fifteenth day; all disappeared on the seventeenth day; hair again soft and oily; this whole change taking place last night mostly, .

EYES. [20.]

Under the eyes, blue, 2.
Scrofulous inflammation of the eyes, with hardening of the Meibomian glands. N. N.
The right eye is irritated and somewhat inflamed, with headache during the afternoon, same as the seventh and eighth days, 2.
Bluish-purple margin of the eyelids, and blueness under the eye (twelfth day), 2.
Twitching of the left eyelid, 1.
Headache extending to the eyeballs, 2.
Pain in left eyeball from trembles; from forehead, 2.
Pain in the left eyeball and temple, quite severe, extending to the left side of the head and forehead (eleventh day), 2.
Pains in the eyeballs extending into the temples, aggravated by turning them in either direction (ninth day), 2.
At 3 P.M., in the posterior portion of the right eyeball, a severe intermitting pain, more or less severe during the afternoon (third day); same, and in temple (fourth day); in left eye (sixth day), 2.
Slight aching pains in the posterior portion of both eyeballs and in the temples (with headache from 2 P.M. till 7 in the morning), (fifth day), 2. [30.]
The left eyeball quite sore, even upon closing it tightly (twelfth day), 2.

EARS

During the afternoon, very slight shocks heard in the ear as of very distant artillery (nineteenth day); the same three or four times during afternoon and evening (twentieth day); occasional and momentarily up to the twenty-seventh day, 2.

NOSE

Occasional sneezing, with more profuse coryza, most on the left side, with occasional stoppage of the nose; worse in the afternoon and evening (eighth day), 2.
Sneezing with coryza at times during the day, with a cough as from cold, more during the afternoon (fifth day); cough causing sneezing and profuse coryza (seventh day), 2.
Sneezing, fluent coryza, with stoppage at the nose at times (tenth day), 2.
Profuse discharge from the left nostril (twelfth day); thick yellowish mucus, more during the afternoon; it is also hawked up (thirteenth day), 2.
His catarrh lessened perceptibly, 1.
Coryza and cough (ninth day), 2.
Itching of the left wing of the nose, 1.

FACE

Pale, ashy or lead color of the face (twelfth day), 2. [40.]
Left cheek and malar bone quite sore to the touch (thirteenth day), 2.
Stiffness in the maxillary joints. C. Hg.

MOUTH

In a decayed back-tooth, drawing, 1.
During the afternoon, the mouth and breath hot and feverish, with thirst for large quantities of water at a time (tenth day), 2.
Mouth and tongue as if scalded, 2.
Bad taste in mouth, evening, 2.

THROAT

Hawked up a viscid solid lump of bloody mucus in the morning (twelfth day). Next day, when first getting out of bed, a mass of hard, gluey, bloody mucus, tough and dry (thirteenth day), 2.
Throat inflamed and sore , especially on swallowing, 2 P.M. (eleventh day); increasing same day; quite inflamed and sore, especially on swallowing, while most other symptoms are better or disappearing (twelfth day), 2.
Throat quite sore; tonsils red and inflamed, aggravated much on swallowing; 2 P.M. (thirteenth day); especially upon swallowing solids (fourteenth day); disappeared (fifteenth day), 2.

STOMACH

Good appetite, with less thirst, and with a feeling as if the mouth and tongue had been slightly scalded with hot tea (twelfth day), 2.
But little appetite; took toast for dinner; at 7 in the evening, for tea, a small piece of toast and cup of tea, with a bad appetite and bad taste in the mouth (eleventh day); better on twelfth day, 2.
Diminished appetite; bowels costive; urine high-colored (tenth day), 2.
Thirst for large quantities of water, 2. [50.]
Less thirst, with a good appetite, 2.
At 8 A.M., a severe lancinating pain in the pit of the stomach, extending to the vertebra opposite, and to the right scapula, and at times to the right side, resulting there in a pleuritic pain; also, a pleuritic pain on the left side, which, as well as on the right side, is aggravated by contortions of the body, and on full inspiration (tenth day), 2.

ABDOMEN

A lancinating pain, with a bounding movement in the region of the liver, lasting but a few minutes (eighth day), 2.
(Indurated inguinal glands. Popular remedy, [°] .)
(Syphilitic bubo in the left groin; a longish swelling as hard as a stone, uneven, ragged, like a scirrhus; at night, violent lancinations, as if with red-hot needles, [°] .) Rosenstein.
(Buboes originating by consensus or cellular irritation, with shooting pains, if suppuration has not commenced, will disappear in three days completely, if, with rest, low diet, and cold local applications, the tincture of Badiaga is given, one drop in a tablespoonful of water, every three or four hours, [°] .) Rosenstein.
(Buboes, with decided fluctuation, are scattered and absorbed from six drops of the tincture every day in water, [°] .) Rosenstein.
(Hæmorrhoids. Popular remedy, [°] .)

URINARY ORGANS

Severe, sharp lancinating pain in and near the orifice of the urethra, lasting but a few minutes, at noon (third day), 2.
Urine high-colored (tenth day), 2 ; and reddish (twelfth day), 2.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS. [60.]

Breath hot and feverish, 1.
Occasional severe paroxysms of spasmodic cough, ejecting viscid mucus from the bronchial tubes, which at times comes flying forcibly out of the mouth , more during the afternoon, caused by a tickling in the larynx as if a particle of sugar was being dissolved in the throat (sixth day). Similar paroxysms during the seventh day, at times causing sneezing, with profuse coryza, most from left nostril; worse after 1 P.M. (seventh day). During the eighth day quite severe, more in the afternoon (eighth and ninth days), 2.*
Cough with yellowish mucous expectoration (tenth day); not as severe the eleventh day, while other symptoms are about the same, and better in the warm room (eleventh day); less severe and less frequent (twelfth day); much better (fourteenth day), 2.
Cough causes a sneezing, 2.
While lying on the right side in bed, and at the moment of becoming unconscious by sleep, severe oppressive suffocative attacks from suspended respiration, causing a quick effort to prevent suffocation, by changing position. This is an old symptom, aggravated during the past week; he often avoided going to sleep in such a position on this account (eighteenth day), 2.

CHEST

Pleuritic pain on full inspiration, 2.
Pain in the upper part of the right chest. C. Hg.
Pleuritic pain, also on the left (tenth day); increased, with stitches in both sides, aggravated on motion or full inspiration, afternoon (tenth day); increased, with soreness of the whole body, especially the chest; aggravated during the afternoon and evening (tenth day), 2.
A severe, sharp, lancinating pain in the right supraclavicular region, in or near the subclavian artery, lasting several minutes during the evening (thirteenth day); lasting but a few minutes and less severe (fourteenth day); severe lancinating drawing from three to five minutes, 9 o'clock, evening (fifteenth day); slight, for a minute at a time, till the twenty-seventh day, 2.
Severe stitches in the sides, especially the right side, from the seventh to the eighth rib, aggravated by the least motion (tenth day); severe, especially in the posterior portion of right side; neither soreness nor stitches remaining in the left side (thirteenth day); the right side also better, and many other symptoms (fourteenth day), 2. [70.]
During the afternoon, severe stitches in the sides, especially the posterior portion of the right side, aggravated by the slightest motion, with severe aches and pains in various parts of the body (eleventh day); all gone (sixteenth day), 2.
Pain in the right side only on contortions of the body (fourteenth day), 2.

HEART AND PULSE

Severe, vibrating, tremulous palpitation of the heart, even while sitting or lying quiet, upon the least elating or other emotion of the mind (twelfth day), 2.
While lying in bed, forcible pulsations of the heart felt and heard, extending from the chest up into the neck upon the slightest emotion or thought (twelfth day), 2.
Palpitation of the heart, with a fluttering and vibrating upon the slightest emotion of the mind (thirteenth day), 2.
Occasional spells of severe jerking, fluttering palpitation of the heart, upon a sudden elating thought or emotion of the mind, even while sitting or lying (fifteenth day), 2.
To-night, while lying on the right side, the heart is both heard and felt to pulsate from the chest up to the neck (fifteenth day), 2.
Midnight, while in bed, vibrating palpitation of the heart, lasting but a few minutes, after which, while lying on the right side, a sensation as if the lower lobe of the left lung was settling down or being collapsed; it appeared to have settled from three to four inches, lasting five minutes, and was relieved by changing position (twenty-seventh day), 2.

NECK AND BACK

Up into the neck, palpitation, 2.
A very stiff neck, C. Hg. [80.]
Occasional severe drawing pains in the nape of the neck, lasting but a few minutes at a time (eighteenth day), 2.
Stitches and stiffness in the nape of the neck, aggravated by flexing the head back and forth, or felt a few minutes at a time, while sitting still (seventeenth day), 2.
Soreness and lameness, with stitches in the nape of the neck, aggravated by bending the head back and forth (thirteenth day), 2.
(Glandular swellings on the left side of the face, throat, and neck, nearly all of the size of a hen's egg, some hard, some suppurating; they disfigured and enlarged the whole region considerably since his early youth, now twenty years; 30th, in often-repeated doses, lessened it very much, more than half the former size, [°].
In the scapula, pain from pit of stomach, 2.
Severe pain in or near the head of the right scapula, lasting but a few minutes (tenth day), 2.
Painful drawing near the spine to the left, downwards from the shoulder-blade; a similar sensation in the forehead, and slightly in a decayed back tooth, 1.
Severe lancinating pains and stitches in the posterior right side below the scapula, aggravated very much by throwing the shoulders back and the chest forward, or contortions of the body ; at times eliciting a moan or shriek, caused by the pain (twelfth day), 2.
In vertebra, opposite pit of stomach, pain from front to back, 2.
Pain in the small of the back, hips, and lower limbs (eleventh day), 2. [90.]
In the afternoon, sharp pain felt in the right kidney, lasting but a few moments (twenty-seventh day), 2.

EXTREMITIES

Pain in the front of the upper part of the right shoulder, afterwards in the left shoulder and arm, C. Hg.
Palms of the hands hot and dry (tenth day); dry and husky (eleventh day), 2.
Lower limbs pain, 2.
Hips pain, 2.
A pain in the right knee-joint, lasting about twenty minutes, 2 P.M. (ninth day), 2.
Pain in the left knee-joint on going up or down stairs (twelfth day), 2.
Several hard, small lumps along the shin bone, C. Hg.
An intermitting pain in the muscles of the lower posterior third of the right leg, with a sore, contracted, clumsy, bruised feeling of the anterior muscles of the lower third of the right leg, which is aggravated by flexing the foot and going up stairs, when the toes have a tendency to drop down, as if the foot was asleep, though without the sensation as if asleep (sixth day), 2.
The intermitting pain in the posterior muscles of the right leg has not been felt since yesterday, but there is an aggravation of all the symptoms in the anterior portion of the same leg to-day, especially when going upstairs, walking or flexing the foot, so as to render it quite painful and awkward (seventh day). The sore, numb, clumsy, bruised feeling in the right leg is ameliorated by remaining quiet in the house, aggravated by going up and down stairs several times during the afternoon, rendering it necessary to go up slowly, on account of the uncertainty of step, and tendency of the toes to drop down, which makes it necessary to step higher with the right foot (eighth day), 2. [100.]
A pain running from the anterior of the right leg to the posterior of the right thigh, between 12 o'clock and 1 in the afternoon (ninth day), 2.
The anterior muscles of the right leg sore as if beaten, and a contracted feeling, sore upon going upstairs or walking, with a numb feeling while sitting or lying (tenth day). The constant sore numb feeling of the muscles of the leg continues to be more or less aggravated at times, especially on going upstairs, or flexing the foot (fifteenth day). Soreness and numbness better, and only slightly troublesome, on going upstairs (sixteenth day), 2.
Lessened hard cellular swelling of both legs, C. Hg., [°].
Severe crampy pains in metatarsal bones of both feet, 2.
Sharp, stinging pain in the posterior portion of the right heel, aggravated by the slightest pressure, lasting but a few minutes (eleventh day), 2.
Bad ulcers on the feet of horses. (Popular remedy, [°] .)
Hurts of the hoofs of horses. (Popular remedy, [°] .)

GENERALITIES

During the afternoon, severe aches and pains in various parts of the body, with severe stitches in the sides, especially the posterior portion of the right side, aggravated by the slightest motion (eleventh day); all gone (sixteenth day), 2.
A general soreness of the muscles and integuments of the whole body , especially the integuments, aggravated on motion, and especially by the friction of the clothes (eighth day).

Flesh and integuments feel sore to touch, even of the clothes , with sensitiveness to cold and cold air (ninth day).

Sore as if it had been beaten, and very sensitive to touch or the friction of the clothes (tenth day); less during the afternoon (twelfth day); also less sensitive to cold and to cold air, and to touch (thirteenth day); all gone (sixteenth day), 2.

SKIN

On forehead, tetter-like eruption, 2.
Itching on scalp, 2. [110.]
Scrofulous diseases, particularly swollen glands. (Popular remedy, [°] .)
Bruised spots from falls or being beaten. (Popular remedy, [°] .)
Sensitive to cold and cold air, 2.
Friction of clothes aggravates soreness of skin, 2.
Flesh and skin sore to the touch; cheek and malar bone, 2.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Restless night, could lie a short time only in one position, on account of soreness of the muscles and whole body (eleventh and twelfth days), 2.
Awoke with frightful dreams, and severe crampy pains in the metatarsal bones of both feet, lasting from fifteen to twenty minutes, at 3 to 4 o'clock (third day), 2.

FEVER

Heat in forehead, 2.
Feverish hot breath and mouth in afternoon, 2.
Hot and dry palms of hands, 2.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Hawking bloody mucus; when first getting up, hawking mass of bloody mucus; 8 o'clock, pain in pit of stomach.
( Forenoon ), Frontal headache; dull, etc., feeling of head.
( Noon ), Pain in urethra.
( Afternoon ), Between 1 and 2 o'clock, dull headache; 1 to 7 o'clock, headache; beginning at 1 o'clock, dull headache; until late in evening, frontal headache ; heat, etc., in forehead; at 3 o'clock, pain in eyeball; shocks in the ear; sneezing, etc.; discharge of mucus from nostril; mouth, etc., hot and feverish, etc.; 2 o'clock, sore throat; paroxysms of cough ; same, after 1 o'clock; pain in kidney; 2 o'clock, pain in knee; pains in various parts.
( Afternoon and evening ), Shocks heard in ears ; sneezing, etc.; pleuritic stitches.
( Evening ), 7 to 10 o'clock, on a rainy day, headache, etc.; 7 o'clock, heat, etc., in forehead; bad taste in mouth; pain in supraclavicular region; 9 o'clock, severe drawing in same.
( Midnight ), In bed,. palpitation of the heart.
(2 P.M. till 7 A.M.), Headache, etc.
( Ascending stairs ), Pain in right leg; sore feeling in leg; numbness in leg.
( Bending head back and forth ), Stitches, etc., in nape of neck; soreness, etc., in the same.
( Bending foot ), Pain in right leg; numbness in same.
( After breakfast ), Headache on top of head returns.
( Contortions of body ), Pleuritic pain; pain in right side.
( Friction of clothes ), Soreness of skin.
( Full inspiration ), Pleuritic pain ; in afternoon, pleuritic stitches.
( While lying on right side ), In bed, at moment of becoming unconscious in sleep, suffocative attacks; pulsations of heart heard, etc.; sensation in lung.
( ), Spells of palpitation.

Badiaga