ATHAMANTA.

Peucedanum oreoselinum, Munch. (Athamanta oreoselinum, L.)

Nat. order , Umbelliferæ.

Common names , (German) Grundheil, Hirschwurz.

Preparation , Tincture of the fresh herb.

Authority.

Franz, Archiv, 17, 3, 177.

HEAD

• Pressive confusion of the head and upper row of teeth (sixth hour).
• Vertigo relieved by lying.
• Vertigo and drawing in the brain, now here, now there.
• Constrictive headache in the sides of the head, causing dizziness.
• Dull, befogged headache (tenth hour).
• Severe pressure from within outward, in the region of the temples.
• A stupefaction and confusion rises like a vapor from the lower part of the occiput; on motion and walking (ninth hour).

EYE

• Pressure on one eyeball from below upward.

EAR

• Sensation as if the ears were stopped with wool (one-quarter of an hour).

MOUTH. [10.]

• Accumulation of water in the mouth and dry sensation at the root of the tongue.
• The child has a bitter taste in the mouth.
• Bitter taste in the mouth which is renewed every time on eating.

STOMACH

• Evenings before supper very great hunger with flow of bitter saliva.
• Incomplete eructations, which come as far as the throat and then subside.
• Tasteless eructations, after rumbling in the abdomen.
• Incomplete, frothy eructations with nausea, as if caused by excessive hunger.

ABDOMEN

• Rheumatic drawing externally in the right groin especially on walking, it extends into the hip and leg.
• Drawing and griping in the left groin (one and a half hours).

STOOL AND ANUS

• The stool is sudden, almost involuntary, preceded by bellyache.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS. [20.]

• Bitter mucus in the air-passages, which does not loosen by hacking.
• Evenings after supper, profuse watery fluid in the larynx; crawling irritation in the air-passages provokes hacking (thirteenth hour).

CHEST

• Sensation as if the contents of the thorax were constricted.
• Burning stitch in the left side of the chest externally when sitting (half an hour).
• Pinching pain in the right side of the thorax, worse on inspiration.

HEART AND PULSE

• At evening, rapid pulse with increased warmth of the head and excitement of mind and the powers generally, without thirst (fourteenth hour).

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Drawing pain in the middle of the left metacarpal bone of the thumb and the external surface of the metacarpus lying above it.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• Warm sensation on a part of the left thigh.
• Rheumatic drawing across the thigh when walking, as if it were beaten.
• Gnawing bruised pain across the thigh, even in sitting. [30.]
• Pressure inward in the front of the knee-joint, during a walk; it even continues while at rest; it returns again on walking.
• On the dorsum of the left foot a cold scraping sensation when sitting (seventh hour).
• Tearing burning in the muscles of the left little toe.

GENERALITIES

• He feels weak and depressed.
• He feels depressed and weak, although if he exerts his strength he finds the contrary; especially his eyes seem weak (fifth to sixth hour).
• Burning on several different places, that disappears on laying on the hand; then great coldness with a deadened finger.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleep good and sound; he sleeps longer, mornings, than usual.

FEVER

• Hands and feet are icy cold and he shivers through the whole body, with a kind of weakness that he must often rest (two and a half hours).

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Sleeps longer than usual.
• ( Evening ), Before supper, very great hunger, etc.; after supper, watery fluid in the larynx, etc.; rapid pulse, etc.
• ( Eating ), Bitter taste in mouth.
• ( Inspiration ), Pain in side of thorax.
• ( Motion ), Stupefaction, etc., over lower part of occiput.
• ( Sitting ), Stitching in side of chest, externally; cold, etc.; sensation in dorsum of foot.
• ( Walking ), Stupefaction, etc., from lower part of occiput; drawing in right groin, etc.; drawing across the thigh; pressure in front of knee-joint.
• Amelioration.
• ( Laying on the hand ), Burning in different places, etc.
• ( Lying ), Vertigo.