Lepidium

Lepidium Bonariense, D. C.

Natural order , Cruciferæ.

Preparation , Tincture or trituration of the leaves.

Authority.

Mure, five provings, Pathogénésie Brésilienne.

MIND

• Emotional.
• She fancies herself alone in a graveyard, pursued by a ghost, and screams so that her voice is lost next day; yet nobody hears her (fourth day), 2.
• Merry mood (curative effect, after the sadness of the previous days), (fourth day), 2.
• Merry mood; she laughs about everything (sixth day), 1.
• Sadness on awaking (second day), 1.
• Sad, uneasy, quarrelsome, dissatisfied; with deep sleep (fifth day), 1.
• Deep melancholy; with thoughts of sickness (fourth day), 1.
• Intellectual.
• Want of ideas; inability to think; with indifference to everything (first day), 3.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Vertigo, with disposition to fall forward (fourth day), 1.
• Vertigo, with falling forward of the head, on setting down a basin of water (third day), 2. [10.]
• Vertigo and nausea, in the evening (eighth day), 1.
• Dizziness, at about 9. A.M.; her head fell forward, and she imagined the floor was sinking under her; everything seemed turning around (second day), 1.
• General Head.
• Heaviness of the head, with an indefinite feeling of uneasiness in the brain, especially on the left side (third day), 5.
• Headache, with heat at the forepart of the vertex (first day), 3.
• Violent headache, at 4 P.M. (first day), 3.
• Violent headache in the morning, lasting till 2 P.M. (thirteenth day); violent headache in the evening; with sense of compression in the forehead, from temple to temple (sixteenth day); the violent headache continues, and is felt all day; beginning regularly at about 10 A.M., and ceasing at night (seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth days), 5.
• Constrictive pain in the head (fourth day), 1.
• Constant dull headache (first day), 3.
• Pressing and pricking pain around the head (fifth day), 2.
• Pain on rising, as from the pressure of a heavy ring on the head (third day), 1. [20.]
• On waking, acute pains in the head and posterior cervical muscles (fourth day), 5.
• Beating and throbbing in the head, from within outward, which causes it to hang down (fourth day), 2.
• Violent headache, as if the brain were beaten with a hammer from the inside and jumped up and down in an empty space; it lasts half an hour (second day), 5.
• Forehead.
• Pain in the forehead, with throbbing in the left side, for ten minutes (sixth day), 1.
• Headache above the orbits and in the temples, worse by contact and when raising the eyes (third day), 2.
• Tightness in the forehead, as if compressed, at 11 o'clock, lasting a quarter of an hour (first day), 3.
• Pulling in the forehead and at the root of the nose (first day), .

EYE

• Eyes red, injected, and painful (seventh day), 5.
• Burning sensation in the eyes, at 11 o'clock (fifth day), 4.
• Pain in the right eye, as from a heavy ring which presses against it and causes an itching in the inner canthus (fifth day), 2.
• Lancinations in the right eye, without redness, for three hours (third day), 3.
• Pricking in the eyes, in the evening, as from something very astringent (sixth day), 5.
• Orbit.
• Lancinating pains above the eyes, and in the temples (seventh day), 5.
• Lancinations above the left eye, and in the left temple (twenty-first day), 5.
• Lids. [40.]
• Eyelids very weary; she can scarcely lift them all night (second day), 3.
• Weight on the eyelids, with inclination to close them (first day), 3.
• Lachrymal Apparatus.
• Painless lachrymation (third day), 2.
• The left eye is full of water; the pain is worse when moving; it follows the eyebrow, and lasts six hours; left eye still watery, worse in the open air; ending with itching; for ten minutes (sixth day), 1.
• When attempting to read, her eyes fill with tears (fourth day), 1.
• Ball.
• Eyeball and lids much injected (sixth day), 5.
• Vision.
• Dimness of vision, as if a white bandage were over the eyes; when she looks up, the sky seems gray (sixth day), 1.

EAR

• External.
• Pain around the right ear, as if pricked by needles, relieved by rubbing; it lasts a quarter of an hour (third day), 1.
• Beating pain above the left ear (second day), 1.
• Middle.
• The left ear feels as if completely stopped up; hearing is lost on that side (sixth day), 2. [50.]
• Lancinations in the ears (sixth day), 1.
• Pricking in the ear and down along the jaw (third day), 1.
• Great itching in the right ear, worse when stooping, lasting half an hour (second day), 1.
• Hearing.
• Hard of hearing (fourth day), 1.
• Roaring in the left ear (third day), 2.
• Roaring in the right ear, for almost two minutes, at 5 o'clock (seventh day), 4.

NOSE

• Objective.
• Nose swollen on the left side, with pain, which is less in the open air, and worse by contact (third day), 2.
• Violent coryza, with inflammation and itching of the nose (third day), 2.
• Epistaxis from the right nostril; the blood is black and clotted, with itching; the epistaxis continued until 1 o'clock, when it became profuse; the blood, however, being light red (fifth day), 2.
• Subjective.
• Heat in the nose, and sensation as from a current of cold air in the left nasal fossa (third day), 1. [60.]
• Burning in the corner of the left nostril, with pricking at the tip of the nose, for fifteen minutes (sixth day), 1.
• Great itching in the right nostril (third day), 1.

FACE

• A streak of pain from the temple to the chin, as if the face were cut with a razor (sixth day), 2.
• Cheeks.
• Pain in the left cheek-bone, with redness (third day), 1.
• Pain in the right cheek, which passes off by pressing on the malar bone (third day), 2.
• Painful but short-lasting sensation in the right zygoma (third day), 5.
• Pricking on the cheeks (fourth day), 1.
• Chin.
• Pain in the left lower jaw, extending towards the shoulder; for five minutes (eighth day), 1.
• Pain as from a cut by a penknife on the top of the jaw, short-lasting (sixth day), 2.
• Lancination in the left jaw-bone (twenty-first day), 3. [70.]
• Pain and beating in the left jaw, for ten minutes (eighth day), 1.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Pain in the teeth of the left lower jaw, felt also in the ear, and causing deafness for three minutes (seventh day), 1.
• Pains in the jaw-bones, as if all the teeth were affected (twentieth day), 5.
• Sharp pain in the right lower jaw-bone, in which all the teeth are quite sound (second day), 5.
• Toothache on the right side; at 1 o'clock (sixth day), 1.
• Toothache; the teeth are soft and on edge, all day; every day since taking; not at night (seventh day), 1.
• Gums.
• Acute pain in the lower gums lasting an hour (second day), 1.
• Tongue.
• Burning at the tip of the tongue as if from spice, with an expansive feeling in the papillæ (third day), 2.
• Itching on the tongue, like pricking, for five minutes (eighth day), 1.
• General Mouth.
• Great dryness of the mouth and throat (sixteenth day), 5. [80.]
• Heat in the left side of the mouth, as from eating spice (third day), 1.

THROAT

• Burning in the throat, with nausea, and noise in the ears when swallowing saliva (fourth day), 1.
• Drawing pain deep in the throat; tongue thick, as if much swollen (first day), 2.
• Swallowing.
• When eating a cake, it sticks in the œsophagus, and then suddenly falls as if shaken down; the same occurs when drinking (third day), 2.
• External Throat.
• Pain from the left ear to the lower part of the neck, along the course of the carotid artery, worse when inclining the head to the right (sixth day), 2.
• Pain like a cramp in the right side of the neck, extending to various parts of the shoulder and arm; relieved by pressure (third day), 2.
• Violent drawing pain from the shoulder to the ear, hindering the motion of the head for three minutes (seventh day), 1.
• Feeling as if a string were pulled from the shoulder to the ear (seventh day), 1.
• Lancination from the ear to the shoulder (fourth day), 2.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Hunger after dinner (second day), 1. [90.]
• Longing for chocolate, salad, green fruit (third day), 1.
• Longing for fruit, with loathing of all food (fourth day), 2.
• Longing for water cresses, but on seeing them it is replaced by aversion (third day), 2.
• No appetite (twenty-second and twenty-third days), 5.
• Complete loss of appetite; loathing of meat (twenty-first day), 5.
• Loathing of food, especially meat (twentieth day), 5.
• Aversion to meat (sixth day), 2.
• Aversion to milk (first day), 3.
• Thirst.
• Thirst (first day), 3.
• Thirst; dry mouth (sixth day), 1. [100.]
• Great desire for vinegar (third day), 1.
• Longing for tea (sixth day), 1.
• Intense longing for coffee (first day), 3.
• Eructation.
• Eructations (twentieth and twenty-fourth days), 5.
• Eructations of air, without acidity, in the evening (seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth days), 5.
• Foul eructations all day (seventh day), 4.
• Sour eructations (fourth day), 4.
• Nausea.
• Nausea all night (fourth day), 1.
• Nausea after dinner, when holding the head down (sixth day), 1.
• Nausea, which keeps getting worse, and reaches its height in half an hour; it goes off on stirring about (third day), 2. [110.]
• Great nausea, for half an hour (seventh day), 2.
• Qualmishness before eating (fourth day), 3.
• Qualmishness followed by nausea before eating (third day), 3.
• Stomach.
• Difficult digestion; weight on the stomach (sixth day), .

ABDOMEN. [130.]

• Pricking, as from pins, in the left hypochondrium (third day), 1.
• Colic in the umbilical region (fourth day), 1.
• Nightly pain in the whole abdominal region (seventh day), 4.
• Dull pain in the abdomen, chiefly on the right side, not aggravated by pressure (first day); at 4 o'clock (second day), 3.
• Stitch in the left side of the abdomen; at 2 o'clock (fifth day), 4.
• Colic caused by damp air (third day), 2.
• Severe colic, better when sitting, with emission of flatulence; at 8 P. M. (fourth day), 4.
• Great sensitiveness of the abdomen, as from an internal wound; at 7 A. M. (fifth day), 4.
• Worm-colic in the hypogastrium for five minutes, with ineffectual urging to stool, and tenesmus (third day), 2.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa (fourth day), 4.

URINARY ORGANS. [140.]

• Heaviness and pressure on the bladder, when urinating (fourth day), 1.
• Urine clear white, and not very thick (seventh day), 1.
• Dark urine (third day), 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• The blood which is discharged on the second day of menstruation is darker and coagulated (third day), 1.
• The menses cease after twenty-four hours (fourth day), 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Cough and Expectoration.
• Nocturnal cough; light sleep (eighth day), 1.
• Cough with hoarseness (eighth day), 1.
• Dry cough, with loss of breath (fourth day), 2.
• Dry short cough, which causes desire to spit, and after repeated efforts produces a salty saliva (eighth day), 1.
• Thick, tenacious expectoration, with roaring in the ears (fourth day), 1. [150.]
• Thick, salty sputa, raised with difficulty (sixth day), 1.
• Slight hæmoptysis after the cough (fourth day), 1.
• Respiration.
• Short breathing (fifth day), 4.
• Suffocative fit at night, while lying (seventh day), 4.
• Suffocative oppression, after eating (third day), 1.

CHEST

• Pain in the left lung, striking through the back, and worse when carrying anything heavy; for twelve hours (seventh day), 1.
• Pain in the pectoralis major, commencing under the axilla, and a few minutes extending to the cardiac region (third day), 2.
• Contraction of the diaphragm, as on the day before (fourth day), 1.
• Violent lancinations under the right third rib, for some minutes, every now and then (first day), 5.
• Stitch in the right lung for five minutes (third day), 1.
• Sides. [160.]
• Pain in the left side, which takes away the breath (seventh day), 2.
• Pain in the right side, as from a tight girdle, as if the diaphragm were contracted; it hinders breathing, and is aggravated by pressure (third day), 1.
• Stitch in the left side, at 8 o'clock; it disappeared spontaneously (first day), 3.
• Stitch in the left side; when drawing breath, the pain seems to penetrate the body like a knife-stab, and in a little while coalesces with the previous pain; three times (seventh day), 1.
• Mammæ.
• Sensation as from a cord around the right breast; painless (seventh day), 1.
• Cutting as with a penknife below the left breast (fourth day), 1.
• Lancination in the right breast, less when standing up (third day), 1.
• Pain with palpitation of the muscles under the right breast, which diminishes as it extends to the axilla (third day), 2.
• Itching of the nipples; congestion of the mammary glands; hardness of the breasts; the itching does not last long (eighth day), 1.

HEART

• Præcordium.
• Constrictive pain at the heart, extending to the left axilla (seventh day), 2. [170.]
• Severe piercing pains in the region of the heart, with lancinations under the false ribs (second day), 5.
• Sensation as if a knife were slowly piercing the heart relieved by pressing hard upon the part for a few minutes; renewed in the evening (third day), 1.
• Heart's Action.
• Spasmodic tremor of the heart (third day), 1.
• Palpitation of the heart (second and twenty-third days), 5 ; at 3 o' clock (seventh day), 4.
• Palpitation of the heart, felt in the side, with a severe pain which takes away the breath; worse when stooping, relieved by lying down (third day), 1.
• Transient palpitations (twentieth day), 5.
• Violent palpitation of the heart (seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth days), 5.

NECK AND BACK

• Neck.
• Pain in the right side of the nape of the neck, relieved by moving the neck and rubbing it (third day), 1.
• Severe and repeated pains in the muscles of the neck and of the left shoulder-blade (thirteenth and sixteenth days); in morning (fifteenth day), 5.
• Back.
• Crampy pain behind the neck for five minutes (sixth day), 2. [180.]
• Pain in the back as from a nail, extending to the interscapular region (seventh day), 2.
• Sensation as from a violent blow across the middle of the back (fourth day), 2.
• Throbbing in the back, which seems to proceed from the aorta (first day), 3.
• Dorsal.
• Pains for five minutes from the shoulder to the middle of the back, with lancinations which take away the breath (sixth day), 1.
• Rheumatic pain in the right shoulder-blade, lasting only a few minutes (third day), 2.
• Pain in the shoulder-blade, as if a needle were piercing the bone; for three minutes (eighth day), 1.
• Lancination in the right shoulder-blade (sixth day), 5.
• Lancination, as from a knife, in the spine of the scapula, shifting to the other shoulder; less when standing erect (third day), 1.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• The limbs feel bruised (third day), 2.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Left arm very numb; pain in left shoulder as if struck with a hammer (second day), 2. [190.]
• Pain in the left arm, she can scarcely lift it; short-lasting (third day), 3.
• Severe pain in the left arm before rising; she cannot stretch it; the more she covers it the greater is the pain; at last she uncovers it, and the pain ceases at once (first day), 1.
• Paralytic pain in the left arm, when held still for some time (third day), 4.
• Pain in the right arm, as if struck by a hammer, with numbness (third day), 2.
• Shoulder.
• Pain in the shoulder, which extends around the neck, compresses it like a snake, and pricks her in the pit of the stomach and nape of the neck (fifth day), 2.
• Feeling at 2 o'clock as if a small hammer were beating quickly on the right shoulder, for nearly a minute (fifth day), 4
• Acute pain under the left axilla (third day), 2.
• Acute pain in a crescentic space under the axilla (third day), 1.
• Pain as from a cut with a penknife under the left axilla, at 6 o'clock (second day), 4.
• Lancinations under the axilla (fourth day), 1. [200.]
• Pricking under the axilla (third day), 1.
• Arm.
• Lancinations from the elbow to the shoulder-blade (fourth day), 1.
• Pain as if from a cut with a penknife, with itching over the right biceps (eighth day), 1.
• Hand.
• Crampy pain in the left hand (fifth day), 2.
• Crampy pain in the right hand, which prevents closing it; followed by horripilation all over (second day), 2.
• Intense lancinating pains in the muscles and phalangeal articulations of the right hand; two hours later, similar sensations in the right shoulder-blade, with pains in the right wrist; all these pains are short-lasting but well-marked (fourth day), 5.
• Fingers.
• Pain in the bone of the left thumb, with trembling when attempting to use it (fourth day), 1.
• Pain, while running, in the middle finger, which remained stretched for four minutes (eighth day), .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Great weariness in the legs for three hours (fourth day), 3.
• Hip.
• Pain in the left hip, extending to the knee, with weakness of the leg, which abates when sitting down (eighth day), 1.
• Bruised pain in the right hip, relieved by pressure (third day), 2.
• Thigh.
• Pain in the gluteus maximus, for one hour at 6. 30 o'clock (sixth day), 4.
• Pain below the loins in the left gluteus maximus, as if contracted and twisted; at two o'clock (second day), 4.
• Pulling along the course of the left sartorius muscle (second day), 4.
• Knee.
• Contraction of the legs, which cannot be bent on account of the stiffness of the bend of the knee (third day), 2.
• Pain in the bend of the knee, as if a tendon were drawn slowly inwards (third day), 2.
• Pricking pain in the knee, relieved by walking (fourth day), 1.
• Leg. [220.]
• Severe pain in the anterior portion of the right tibia (first day), 5.
• Toes.
• Sensation as if the left great toe were struck by a hammer (fourth day), 2.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Great weariness (third day), 2.
• General physical and moral prostration, loss of appetite, and aversion to food (fourth day), 4.
• The open air feels very cool (first day), 3.
• Almost constant physical and mental torpor (first day), 3.
• Heaviness of the body (second day), 5.
• Inclination to walk about (first day), 3.
• Pain in the trunk from above downwards at 10 A. M. (second day), 4.
• Violent pains in the muscles of the neck, thigh, and left leg, very transient, but recurring frequently in the course of the day (seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth days), 5. [230.]
• Transient lancinations in the abdomen, sides, and breasts (fourth day), 5.
• Pain as if scratched by a cat, lasting an hour, and followed by heat of the feet (second day), 1.

SKIN

• Pricking of the skin, followed by itching (third day), 1.
• Pricking at the temple, with itching, which becomes general and lasts all day (eighth day), 1.
• Pricking in the left side of the face (first day), 3.
• Pricking between the breasts (third day), 1.
• Pricking at the shoulder-blade, extending to the right side of the neck (third day), 1.
• Formication above the left shoulder (fourth day), 1.
• Itching of the whole under surface of the chin, from ear to ear; it proceeds from the throat (eighth day), 1.
• Great itching in the right corner of the lips, at 7 A. M. (third day), 2. [240.]
• Great itching on the backs of the hands (third day), 2.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness.
• Constant inclination to yawn (fourth day), 4.
• Frequent yawning (first day), 3 ; (third day), 2.
• Sleepiness from noon till 3 P. M. (third day), 2.
• Drowsy all day (second day), 5.
• Heavy and drowsy, unable to keep her attention on her work; at 3 P. M. could apply herself without difficulty (fifteenth day), 5.
• Great drowsiness, with horripilation in the legs, as before an attack of fever; very transient (first day), 3.
• Comatose drowsiness, with inability to sleep (first day), 3
• Sleeps all the time (third day), 5
• Deep sleep (sixth day), 2 [250.]
• Heavy sleep, with great numbness on waking; feeling as if bruised all over (first day), 2
• Sleeplessness.
• Sleeplessness at night; general lassitude, as on the third night (sixth day), 1
• No sleep at night; general restlessness followed by pricking all over, all night (second day); same restlessness as on the day before, followed by similar sleepiness (third day), 3
• Very restless all night, without apparent cause; no sleep (fifth day), 5
• No sleep until midnight (third day), 2
• Slept well until midnight; no sleep after that until daylight; pains in the body when she stirred (first day), 1.
• Very bad night; great nervous restlessness (second day), 5.
• Short sleep (fourth day), 1.
• Dreams.
• Sad dreams, with great fear on waking; the sadness and fear continue for a quarter of an hour (eighth day), 1.
• Dreams at night about the dead (third day), 4. [260.]
• At night, dreams of talking with dead people; great restlessness (second day), 1.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• General chilliness, as in the beginning of a fever (seventh day), 2.
• Coldness, as when in convulsions (second day), 1.
• When the air strikes her, it causes rigors and cold sweat (third day), 2.
• Rigor, with paleness and circles around the eyes; this febrile attack abates by covering herself, and getting into a profuse perspiration; it is succeeded by malaise (seventh day), 1.
• Heat.
• Heat after the coldness, especially in the loins (seventh day), 2.
• General heat, with dull pain; left side most painful (first day), 1.
• Great internal heat and restlessness after lying down; she has to get up again (first day), 3.
• Heat in the head, without sweat, at 6 o'clock (fourth day), 4.
• Heat in the head, with cold sweat and a little fever, at 2 o'clock (fourth day), 4. [270.]
• Heat in the left side of the face, at 11 A. M. (second day), 1.
• Great heat in the back, of short duration, followed by rigors (first and fourth days), 3.
• Very hot face, in the evening (second day), 1.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Evening ), Vertigo, etc.; pricking in eyes.
• ( Night ), While lying, suffocative fit.
• ( After dinner ), When holding the head down, nausea.
• ( Pressure ), Pain in side.
• ( Stooping ), Itching in ear; palpitation of heart.
• Amelioration.
• ( Night ), Headache.
• ( Lying down ), Palpitation of heart.
• ( Pressure ), Pain in hip.
• ( Sitting ), Colic.
• ( Standing erect ), Lancinations in scapula.
• ( Walking ), Pains in knee.