Centaurea Tagana

Centaurea tagana, Willd.

Nat. order , Compositæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authority.

Dr. Chagon, Duc de Sorentino; symptoms obtained from a tincture of the root, Journ. d. l. Soc. Gal., 1st series, 7, 283.

MIND

• Emotional.
• Aversion to everything.
• Hilarity; lively spirits.
• Easy temper, alternating with the contrary mood.
• Intellectual.
• Absence of mind; starts off to do something and forgets all about it on the way.
• Asks questions, and pays no attention when answered.
• A naturally smart servant girl seemed stupefied for several days.
• Idiocy.

HEAD

• Confusion and Vertigo.
• Stupefying confusion towards the forehead. [10.]
• Attacks of dizziness.
• General Head.
• Uneasiness in the brain.
• Forehead.
• The frontal portion of the skull and brain is chiefly affected.
• Pain in the forehead, temples, and orbital arches.
• Attack of pain in forehead preceded by sweat.
• Frontal pains aggravated by walking.
• Deepseated extensive pain in the forehead.
• Pain in the left half of the forehead.
• Pressive pain, with sensation of fulness in the forehead, vertex, and occiput.
• Weight and fulness in the forehead. [20.]
• Painful throbbing in the frontal arteries.
• Occiput.
• Pain in the occiput.
• Pain under the occiput.

EYE

• Wandering look.
• Eyes sunken and dim.
• Heaviness of the eyes.
• Pain in the left eye.
• Burning pain above the eyebrows.
• Heaviness of the lids.
• Pain in the lids. [30.]
• Lachrymation.
• Smarting and itching of the conjunctiva.
• The capillary vessels of the sclerotica are inflamed.
• Pain in the sclerotica.
• Transient disturbance of vision.
• Sight vanishes entirely for a moment.

EAR

• Pricking behind the ears.
• Itching in the ears.
• Tingling in the ears.

NOSE

• Sneezing. [40.]
• The nose runs water.
• Coryza, sometimes fluent.
• Dry coryza.
• Almost complete loss of smell.

FACE

• Expression of amazement or stupefaction.
• The face looks earthy, with a stupid expression.

MOUTH

• Tongue.
• A red streak along the middle of the tongue.
• A white streak on the left side of the tongue.
• Mouth.
• Dryness of the mouth.
• Dryness of the mouth, not relieved by drinking.
• Taste. [50.]
• Bitter mouth in the morning.
• This symptom was cured.
• The sense of taste is impaired.
• Saliva.
• Continual salivation.
• Increase of saliva alternating with dryness of the mouth.

THROAT

• Inflammation of the uvula and tonsils.
• Raw pain on swallowing.
• Swallowing is prevented by pain.

STOMACH

• Appetite and Thirst.
• Appetite, alternating with nausea.
• Thirst, not allayed by drinking.
• Thirst before and during the fever. [60.]
• Thirst, with dryness of the throat.
• Eructations.
• Abortive eructations.
• Difficult eructations, which stop in the chest, with burning.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea.
• Nausea, with cold sweat.
• Inclination to vomit.
• Vomiting.
• Stomach.
• Burning in the epigastrium.
• Griping, with pain at the epigastrium.
• After a meal, weight on the stomach with thirst. [70.]
• Violent pain in the epigastrium.
• Pricking and burning in the epigastrium.

ABDOMEN

• Pain in the right hypochondrium.
• Continual flatulency.
• Griping at night, with continual discharge of flatus.
• Colic.
• Dull burning pain in the hypogastrium.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa, on waking in the morning.
• Yellowish diarrhœa at night.
• Copious stools.

URINARY ORGANS

• Pain in the bladder, increased by movement. [80.]
• Pain in bladder when urinating.
• Weight in the bladder when urinating.
• Ardor urinæ.
• Burning in urethra after urinating.
• Urine scanty, or abundant.
• The urine is at first scanty, afterwards abundant.
• Urine deposits a mucous sediment full of flakes.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Firm nocturnal erections.
• Sexual desire without erections.
• Female.
• Dryness of the vagina. [90.]
• Itching and heat in the labia majora and minora.
• Whitish leucorrhœa.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Titillation in the larynx.
• Cough, on waking in the morning.
• Cough, excited by tickling in the throat.
• Dry cough.
• Dry cough, in the evening, or at night.

CHEST

• The eructations which are completed, leave a severe burning in the chest.
• Pain in the right clavicle.

HEART AND PULSE

• Pain in the heart. [100.]
• Sensation of dilatation of the heart, with anxiety.
• Lancination, as from a thorn driven into the heart.
• Decrease of the pulse throughout the proving.
• After taking, the pulse is slower, but full and hard.

NECK AND BACK

• Burning pain in the left scapula.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Inclination to stretch out the arms.
• The arms are so weak that he can hardly lift them.
• In bed, the arm on which he lies becomes numb.
• Pain all through the arms.
• The right arm is most painful. [110.]
• The extensor muscles seem too short.
• Pain in all the extensor muscles of the right arm.
• Shoulder.
• Pain all through the shoulders.
• Feeling of erosion in the shoulders, with great itching.
• Forearm.
• Bruised pain in both forearms, towards the middle of the extensor muscle.
• Bruised pain in the forearm, increased by touch.
• Hand.
• Swelling of the veins of the hands.
• Fingers.
• The thumb cannot be clenched.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Inclination to stretch the legs.
• Paralytic weakness of the legs, with difficulty in walking. [120.]
• Pain in hips and thighs when walking.
• Pain in right knee.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Objective.
• The patient remains for an instant as if thunderstruck.
• The staggers like a drunken man.
• Pulsation is stronger in some arteries than in others.
• Congestion, generally at the forehead.
• Languor and depression, making any exercise impossible.
• Want of strength in the muscles and joints.
• Prostration, rapid sinking of strength.
• Subjective.
• The blood surges painfully at every movement. [130.]
• Sensation as if the tendons were shortened.
• Bruised and drawing pains.
• The attacks recur periodically.
• The earliest symptoms appeared a quarter of an hour after taking the medicine, viz., those of the arms, together with the dull pains in the hypogastrium, shiverings, and general heat, especially on the forehead, which was covered with sweat. These were followed by a stupefying pain in the temples, frontal protuberances, orbital arches, and eyes. Next came the following symptoms: Dimness of sight; appetite alternating with nausea; increase of saliva, and vomiting; running of the nose; lachrymation; eructations; rapid sinking of strength; general uneasiness; confusion of mind; weariness; dull, sunken eyes; spasmodic sweating, itching, and pricking in the skin; drowsiness; and thirst. A state of reaction, after four or six hours, brought some quiet. Next day, in the forenoon, or towards evening, the above symptoms reappeared, but with less violence, and some of them assumed a periodic form. Then ensued the coryza, colic, diarrhœa, fevers of various types, pains in the arms, dry cough, etc. The action ended with the symptoms of catarrh, of angina, and of fever in the forenoon, and with confusion and pain in the forehead.

SKIN

• Objective.
• Miliaria.
• Sudden eruptions on the loins.
• Sensations.
• Violent itching all over.
• Formication, as if a worm was crawling over the temples.
• Formication in the hypogastrium.
• Itching of the nose. [140.]
• Itching and pricking in the backs of the hands, chiefly in the fingers.
• Intolerable itching and pricking in the loins and thighs, which prevent sleep.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Drowsiness day and night; cannot keep his eyes open.
• Voluptuous dreams.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• General or partial coldness.
• Heat.
• Feeling of warmth, with sexual excitement.
• Internal sensation of heat.
• Short-lasting heat.
• Sensation of burning heat throughout the body, excepting the skin, which has its natural warmth.
• Fever, with or without subsequent sweat. [150.]
• Fever, with pain in forehead, as if the frontal lobes were enlarged and full of blood.
• Quotidian or tertian fever, in the forenoon or towards evening, preceded or not by chilliness.
• Heat in the forehead; the weight of the hair seems intolerable.
• Sweat.
• General sweat, especially in the forehead.
• Profuse sweat, cold on the forehead.
• Cold sweat.
• Cold sweat on the face.
• CONDITIONS.
• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), On waking, cough.
• ( Evening or night ), Dry cough.
• ( Night ), Diarrhœa; sweat.
• ( Movement ), The symptoms; pain in bladder.
• ( When urinating ), Pain in bladder; weight on bladder.
• ( After urinating ), Burning in urethra.
• ( Walking ), Frontal pains; pain in hips, etc.
• Amelioration.
• ( Eating ), The symptoms.