Lapathum

Rumex obtusifolius, Linn.

Natural order , Polygonaceæ.

Common names , Radix lapathi, Radix patientiæ, Grindwurz. ( Note: This is doubtless the old officinal Lapathum acutum, now known as R. obtusifolius, from the blunt-pointed lower leaves. Consult figure in the old Herbal of Matthiolus and Camerarius.)

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authority.

Dr. Widenhorn, Archives de la Méd., Hom., 2, 1835, p. 305.

• Sadness and moroseness alternating with gayety.
• Headache at the vertex.
• Pressive headache, in the morning; it seems as though the head were swollen.
• Headache in the top of the head, as after intoxication.
• Bleeding of the nose.
• Blowing of blood from the nose.
• Pain in the pit of the stomach, with loss of appetite, and weight in the stomach.
• Feeling of distension in the left hypochondrium.
• Extension and pressure, especially in the morning, with production and emission of flatulence. [10.]
• Drawings in the left hypochondrium.
• Pain in the kidneys for five hours, with pressure from without inwards.
• Weak feeling in the internal genital parts.
• (Leucorrheal flow for five days, very copious, thick, whitish, with constriction and expulsive efforts from top to bottom of the womb, and pains in the kidneys ).
• Weariness.
• Bruised pain in all the limbs.
• Excessive coldness in feet, as well inside as outside, so that it was almost impossible to warm them.