BELLIS PERENNIS.

B. perennis, L.

Nat. order , Compositæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant when in flower.

Authority.

Dr. Thomas, Br. Journ. of Hom., 16, 325; proving of the tincture, 20-drop doses repeated for fourteen days; of the 3d dilution; effects of external application of the tincture, and of chewing the flowers.

HEAD

• A little giddiness in the head at times (after two weeks), (from the tincture).
• Headache extending from occiput to sinciput (after two weeks), (from the tincture).
• Brain feels as though contracted in the frontal region (after two weeks), (from the tincture).

STOMACH

• Want of appetite (after two weeks), (from the tincture).
• Slight nausea (after two weeks), (from the tincture).

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Pain in inner side of right forearm, as of a boil developing (after two weeks), (from the tincture).
• Pain in inner side of left forearm, as of a boil developing (after two weeks), (from the tincture).
• Pain in middle finger of left hand, as of a gathering, for a short time only (after two weeks), (from the tincture).

SKIN

• Development of a small boil (after five hours), (from external application of tincture).
• Small boil at the angle of the inferior maxilla, right side (after chewing the flowers).
• Painful pimple a little behind the angle of left inferior maxilla (3d dilution), (after third day).
• Large boil on back of neck, commencing with a dull, aching pain, some difficulty and bruised pain in keeping the head erect; began as a slight pimple, with burning pain in the skin, increasing until, in six days' time, it was very large, of a dark, fiery, purple color, and very sore, burning and aching pain in it; accompanied with headache extending from occiput to sinciput, of a cold, aching character; brain as though contracted in frontal region, dizziness, etc. (after two weeks), (from the tincture).