SENEGA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Polygala senega, L.
Natural order , Polygalaceæ.
Common name , Seneca snake-root.
Preparation , Tincture of the root.
Authorities. (Nos.
1 to 8 , from Thomas Massie, "An Experimental Inquiry into the Properties of the Polygala Senega," Inaug. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1803).
1 , Mr. Lawrence, took 20 grains of powdered root; 2 , Mr. Ligget, took same; 3 , Mr. Wilson, took same; 4 , Mr. Towles, took 10 grains of the resin dissolved in spirit; 5 , a lady, took 20 grains of resin in spirit; 6 , Massie, took 10 grains of the gum dissolved in water; 6 a , same, took 20 grains of same; 7 , Ths. Redman, took 20 grains of gum in water; 8 , Mr. Pendergrast, took 32 grains of gum in pills. (Nos.
9 to 34 , from Seidel's collection, Archiv f. Hom., 9, 2, 175, and Stapf's Beiträge); 9 , "N-g;" 10 , "S," from pounding the root; 10 a , from 10 drops of tincture; 10 b , from 15 drops; 10 c , from 20 drops; 10 d , from 30 drops; 10 e , from 5 grains of powdered root; 11 , from 1 drop of tincture, in a young woman; 12 , a man, symptoms from 10 drops of tincture; 12 a , from 15 drops; 12 b , from 2 grains of powder; 13 , 15 drops of tincture, in a man; 14 , from 40 to 60 drops of tincture, in a man; 15 , 1 drop of tincture, in a girl of fifteen years; 16 , 10 drops of tincture in a man; 17 , in a man, from 10 drops of tincture; 17 a , from 20 drops; 17 b , from 50 drops; 18 , Arnemann, Arznm., Göttingen, 1795, p. 452; 19 , Bouvard, Mem. de l'Acad. Paris, 1739, p. 53; 20 , Von Ammon, Heidlb. Annal., 5, 2, 231; , Genesius, Handb. der Prak. Heilm., Stendal, 1791, p. 477; , Horn, Ueber die Erkeunt. u. Heil. d. Pneumonie, Frankf. A.M., 1802; , Hecker, Kunst die Krank., Erfurt, 1805, 1, 389; , Lœsecke, Mat. Med., Berlin, 1785, p. 242 (general effects, T. F. A.); , Med. Jahrb. d. K. K. Oest., 13, effects of infusion of 1 ounce of root; , Mœnch, Arznl., Marburg, 1800, p. 212; , Ratzeburg, Handb. d. Zoopharm. f. Thierærzte, Berlin, 1803, part 2; , Richter, Arznm., Berlin, 1827, 2, 134 (effects of chewing the bark of the root, T. F. A.); , Sundelin, Handbuch der Spec. Heilm., Berlin, 1833, 2, 176, effects of 1 scruple of powdered root; , Von Sand and S. Hahnemann, Die Keunzeichen etc. der Arznm., Dresden, 1787, p. 55; , Voigtel, Arznm., Leipzig, 1817, 2, 2, 190; , Vogt, Pharmacod., 1828, 1, 607; , Willmann, Animad. de Nat. Hydropis, p. 119; , Jahn, Mat. Med., 1818, 2, 518 (effects of strong infusion, personal experience, 3d ed., 1814, Vol. 2, p. 958, T. F. A.); , Bigelow, Am. Med. Botany, 2, 99, 1818, effects of root; , same, a man with rheumatism took a wineglassful of infusion; , Lembke, N. Z. f. Hom. Kl., 13, 161, proving with repeated doses of 5 to 10 grains of the extract.
MIND
- Cheerful mood (first days), 10d.
- (Cheerful, disposed to work), (after half an hour), 9.
- Cheerful, and childishly playful; a slight cause makes him mad and vehement (first days), 10e.
- Cheerful, but irritable, and becoming easily vehement when excited (third and fourth days), 10a.
- Frightful anxiety, 34.
- Anxiety and vertigo, from large doses, 29.
- Anxiety, 21.
- Feeling of anxiety, with somewhat accelerated breathing (after half an hour, 13.
- Hypochondriac mood and irritable (eighth and ninth days), 10e. [10.]
- Melancholy mood, evening (first day), 13.
- (Fretful mood, forenoon), (second day), 12b.
- Phlegmatic; inclines to quarrel and give offence, 10d.
- He recollects suddenly, without any cause, unimportant regions which he had seen long ago, and which had never made a deep impression upon him, 10c.
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo.
- Confused feeling in the head (soon), 10c.*
- Vertigo, with roaring in the ears (soon), 10e.
- Vertigo, in large doses, 29.
- Slight vertigo before the eyes (soon), 15.*
- Vertigo in the head, continuing for a few moments, as if the blood ceased to flow, and as if the ideas were arrested (first day), 15.
- Dizziness in the head, with flat taste in the mouth, the first days, 12b. [20.]
- Reeling sensation in the head (after a quarter of an hour), 12.*
- General Head.
- *Dulness of the head, with pressure and weakness of the eyes (fifth day), 10e.
- Dulness in the head (after a quarter of an hour), 12a, 12b.*
- Dull headache, early in the morning (second and third days), 10c.
- Dull pressing headache (soon), 10d.
- Heaviness of the whole head, continuing six hours (soon), 12.
- The head feels heavy, 9, 10a.*
- Violent rush of blood to the head when stooping, especially to the eyeballs, where a painful pressure in experienced (first, second, and third days), 10a.
- A sort of aching pain in the head, in the sinciput and occiput, not increased by pressure; this headache came on every day, and was especially felt when sitting in a warm room; it was accompanied with a pressure in the eyes, which did not bear touch . On the fifth day nausea supervened after dinner, with inclination to vomit. The pain seemed to be relieved by leaning the head quietly on the arm, but exercise in the open air diarrhœa would set in, which however was not the case. After the nausea had passed off, after the lapse of one hour and a quarter, a peculiar though not unpleasant sensation was felt in the parotid gland, and a simple pain in the pit of the stomach, rather external, 14.*
- Violent beating headache, with pressure in the eyes, diminished appetite, bruised feeling, and general feeling of malaise (sixth day), . [30.]
EYE
- When looking at an object intently or permanently the eyes tremble and run (after three hours and a half), 13.* [50.]
- He stares at one object; sensation as if it were difficult to move the eyes (soon), 10a.
- Weakness of the eyes, with slight burning and lachrymation (fifth day), 10d.*
- Weakness of the eyes (soon), 10e.*
- Weakness of the eyes when reading, with lachrymation on exerting them too much (second day), 13.*
- Extreme sensitiveness of the eyes to light (after three-quarters of an hour), 13.
- Dryness of the eyes, with sensation as if the eyeballs were too large for the orbits (after one hour and a quarter), 13.
- Considerable dryness and smarting pain, as of soap, in the eyes (after one hour and a half), 10.
- Drawing in the eyes, changing into a cooling sensation and leaving tears behind (third day), 10c.
- Tensive sensation in the eyes, with too great sensitiveness to the light (fourth day), 13.
- Pressure in the eyes when stooping, as if a fluid were pressing into the eyeballs and distended them, the first days, 10a. [60.]
- Pressure in the eyes in the evening, at candlelight (first day, 10c.
- Pressing in the eyes (sixth day), 10e.
- Painful pressure towards the eye, as if the eye would be pressed out of the socket, disappears in half a minute, leaving a dull feeling, early in the morning (second day), 14.
- Burning in the eyes when reading or writing (first day, 10e , toward evening (second and third days), 10c.
- Burning and pressure in the eyes, toward evening (second and third days), 10c.
- Orbit.
- Aching pain over the orbits (after eleven hours, and on the second day), 13.*
- Pressure over the left eye (after one hour), 13.
- Sensitive pressure in the orbits (after two hours), 12b.
- Lids.
EAR
- Dull pain in the right ear (after half an hour), 10a.
- Sensation of painful pressure in the right ear when chewing, 14.
- A cooling sensation frequently extends through the left ear (second day), 10e.
- Feeling of warmth in the right ear (after half an hour), 10a. [110.]
- Painful sensitiveness of hearing even to usually agreeable sounds (after one hour), 13.
- Slight humming in the ears, which feel stopped (third day), 17a.
NOSE
- Coryza, continuing two days (after six days), 12.
- Frequent sneezing, 12.
- Sneezing and tickling in the nose, 9.
- *Sneezing for five minutes, and so violent and long-continued, that the head became quite heavy and dizzy; afterwards a large quantity of thin watery mucus flowed from the nose (second day), 17b.
- Sneezing several times when pounding the root, 10.
- *Troublesome dryness of the Schneiderian membrane (after one hour and a half), 13.
- Troublesome feeling of dryness in the nose (first days), 11.
- Great dryness of the nasal fossæ, with discharge of a few drops of blood (second day), 10c, 10d. [120.]
- Itching in the nose, 9.
- Smell before the nose, as of a malignant ulcer (after two hours and a half), 13.
FACE
- Paralytic feeling in the left half of the face (after one hour), 10a.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- The lower front teeth are extremely sensitive on inhaling through the mouth cold and damp air, 14.
- Simple pain in single teeth and the jaws (third day), 10b.
- Slight burrowing in the upper left molars (after three hours), 10b.
- Tongue.
- White-coated tongue (after three hours and a half), 13.
- Yellowish-white coating of the tongue (first days), 10c.
- Slimy tongue, early in the morning, and unpleasant slimy taste in the mouth, 14.
- The middle of the tongue is dry, without any coating (after one hour and a half), 13. [130.]
- Disagreeable scraping on the posterior part of the tongue and in the throat, with frequent accumulation of saliva in the mouth, 29 . [Symptoms 139, 218, 240, 248, 267, 299 were occasioned within six hours by taking a scruple of the powdered root every two hours.]
- Creeping under the tongue (after four hours), 10d.
- Slight burning sensation in the tip of the tongue, 14.
- General Mouth.
- Putrid smell from the mouth, the first six days, 10e.
- Dryness in the mouth (after two hours), 10d.
- Dryness in the mouth and throat, with accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat (first day), 10c.
- Excessive dryness in the mouth and larynx, early in the morning and forenoon; continuing for many days, 12.
- Dryness of the mouth, one hour after increased secretion of saliva, 12.
- Astringent acridity affecting the mouth, and especially the uvula, 30.
- The whole of the mouth and fauces were burnt, so that only mild or liquid papescent food could be taken, 25 . [From 1 once of the roof to 8 ounces of water.] [140.]
- Smarting-burning sensation in the region of the palate, as if the skin had become detached, 14.
- Slight prickling and stinging in the mouth, with accumulation of saliva (first day), 15.
- Tensive sensation, which had shifted from the palate to the articular fossæ of the lower jaw (after a quarter of an hour), .
THROAT
- Early in the morning, he frequently hawks up lumps of gray mucus, accompanied with an irritation in the larynx, inducing a short and hacking cough (first day), 17b. [160.]
- Increased secretion of mucus in the throat, inducing a short and hacking cough, continuing for three weeks, 12a.
- Secretion of a whitish tenacious mucus in the throat (after two hours and a half), 13.
- Accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat (first day), 10e.
- Accumulation of mucus in the throat, with dryness in the mouth (after two days), 10e.
- Constant inclination to clear the throat, and to swallow the saliva (after three hours and a half), 13.
- Scraping and dry sensation in the throat, making it difficult for him to talk, and obliging him to cough (second day), 10a.
- Scraping in the throat and on the back part of the tongue, with accumulation of saliva (immediately), 9.
- Scraping sensation in the throat (soon), and when pounding the root, 10.
- Scraping sensation in the throat, which obliges him to hawk frequently (first, second, and third days), 11.
- Scraping and rough sensation in the throat, accompanied with an accumulation of tenacious mucus (fifth day), 10d. [170.]
- Tickling-scraping feeling in the throat, evening (first day), 13.
- Roughness in the throat almost bordering on hoarseness, in the forenoon, the first four days, 12.
- Roughness and dryness in the throat, with dry cough (fourth day), 13.
- Raw feeling in the throat when clearing it (first day), 10c.
- Sore feeling in the throat, for three days (after one hour and a half), 12a.
- Constrictive sensation in the throat (soon), 15.
- Dryness and roughness in the throat, early in the morning when waking (second day), 10d.
- Great dryness in the throat, which makes speech difficult (third day), 11.
- Pressure in the throat when swallowing the food (after three hours and a half), 13.
- Burning in the throat, 34. [180.]
- Burning and scraping sensation in the throat (immediately), 10d.
STOMACH
- Appetite and Thirst.
- Diminution of appetite (first day), 10c, 10e.
- Want of appetite, 9, 20 ; at breakfast (after half an hour), 10e ; (second day), 29 ; (third day), 17a.
- Complete want of appetite, the first three days, 13. [200.]
- Increased thirst (first days), 10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e.
- Much thirst, with roughness and dryness in the fauces (third and sixth days), 13.
- Thirst, with dryness of the palate (after eleven hours), 13.
- Eructations.
- Tasteless eructations, 37.
- Rising of air, 9.
- Eructations, 10e ; several times (first day), 10a.
- Inclination to eructations, 9.
- Nausea and Vomiting.
- Much nausea (in ten minutes); nausea so much increased as to be quite distressing, and the medicine was with difficulty retained on the stomach (in twenty minutes); somewhat diminished (in thirty minutes); still more so (in forty minutes); quite gone (in sixty minutes), 8.
- Great nausea, with retching (immediately), 10e.
- Considerable degree of nausea (in ten minutes); nausea subsided (in forty minutes), 5. [210.]
- Nausea (in thirty minutes); increased (in forty minutes), 2.
- A good deal of nausea (immediately); some nausea (in forty minutes), 4.
- Nausea after dinner, with inclination to vomit (fifth day), 14.
- Nausea, caused by small doses, 26.
- Nausea, 31.
- Nausea, in the stomach, 9.
- Some nausea, 6a.
- Qualmish feeling in the stomach, with accumulation of water in the mouth (after five hours), 17.
- Retching and vomiting, with discharge of much watery mucus (first day), . [See note to symptom 139]
ABDOMEN
- Boring pain in the left hypochondrium, in the evening (first day), 13.
- The aching pains in the umbilical region appear in the afternoon, increasing in the evening, especially during rest (first days), 17b.
- Shifting-boring pain in the umbilical region (after ten hours), 13.
- Loud rumbling and pinching in the left side of the abdomen, 9.
- Sudden pressure in the right side of the abdomen and chest, in the evening when sitting (after two hours), 14.
- Drawing sensation as of a foreign body, between the abdominal integuments on the right side, when walking (second day), 10a.
- Very profuse emission of flatus, 37. [260.]
- Motions and rumbling in the abdomen, at times, the first hours, 16.
- Rumbling in the intestines (after two hours and a half), 13.
- Colic from large doses, 31.
- Colic during dinner (first day), 10e.
- Colic, after some hours, disappearing after a diarrhœic stool, 9.
- Griping in the abdomen, with inclination to stool (after two hours), 10c.
- Violent cutting from the abdomen to the pit of the stomach, the first hours, 16.
- Severe pinching in the abdomen, ceasing after some liquid stools, (See note to symptom 139.), 29.
- Pressing in the hypogastrium, soon after emission of flatus (after half an hour), 9.
ANUS
- Beating pressure in the anus after stool (third day), 10d.
STOOL. [270.]
- Diarrhœa, 18, 22, 28 , etc.
- Purging with the vomiting, 36.
- Nine or ten stools, 33.
- Increased, even watery stools, 20.
- Increased stool (ninth and tenth days), 12a.
- Copious thin stool, painless; it spirted from the anus almost without sensation, 37.
- Two or three easy papescent stools (first day); (seemed to be a secondary effect of a large dose), 14.
- Increasing papescent and loose stools at irregular periods (after four days), 17.
- Papescent stool, with rumbling in the abdomen and emission of flatus (first day), 16.
- Papescent stool (sixth and seventh days), 10a, 10d, 10e. [280.]
- Cathartic in large doses, 35.
- Operated slightly as a purgative, 6a.
- Slight indication of diarrhœa, which, however, did not take place, 14.
- Rare, scanty, hard stools (first days), 10d.
- Hard scanty stools, followed by pressing in the rectum (second day), 10e.
- The stool delays eight to twelve hours (first days), 10c.
- Difficult stool, the fæces being too dry and of too large a size (third day), 14.
- Costiveness, 11.
- Costive until the ninth day, 12a.
URINARY ORGANS
- Burning, early in the morning, on urinating, with sensation as if urine had first to open a passage through the urethra (fifth day), 13. [290.]
- Burning pain along the whole of the urethra, after micturition (after five hours), 13.
- Pressure and burning on urinating, in the evening (fourth and sixth days), 13.
- Transient stitches along the urethra after the emission of a dark-yellow urine, early in the morning (second day), 13.
- Involuntary emission of urine during sleep (first night), 10d ; (twenty-fifth and thirtieth nights), 10c.
- Involuntary emission of urine, while dreaming (he did not pass any urine before retiring), (eighteenth night), 10d.
- Copious secretion of urine, 33.
- Copious diuresis, 20.
- Promotes the secretion of urine, 26, 30.
- Increases the secretion of urine and sweat, 18.
- Increased secretion of urine and slight burning when urinating (first day), 29 . [See note to symptom 139] [300.]
- Increased and more frequent secretion of urine, 10d, 10e.
- Every time he drinks he passes an increased quantity of urine, for several weeks, 10d.
- Urine increased acrid (first day), 16.
- Increased secretion of urine, 9.
- Increased secretion of urine, accompanied with a sensation of pressure in the urethra (second day), 13.
- Frequent emission of urine, with a greenish tinge, depositing a cloudy sediment, although the patient drank but little (after fifteen hours), 13.
- The urine is passed more frequently, but less at a time, and it is of a lighter color (second, third, and fourth days), 12b.
- Diminished secretion of urine (first days), 10a, 10b, 10c.*
- The urine which is emitted, frequently retains for a long time a foamy appearance (as of soap bubbles), (from large doses, in the case of a patient whose chest was affected). (No authority; from Seidel).
- At first the urine is mixed with threads of mucus; after it cooled, it became quite thick and cloudy (fifth day), . [310.]
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Erections (first night), 10a.
- Painful erections, with increase of sexual desire, the first two days; diminution afterwards, 10e.
- Slight burning in the glans when urinating (first days), 10d, 16.
- Paroxysmal cramp-pain in the region of the glans (after two and three hours), 10d.
- Tickling of the prepuce and glans (after two or three hours), 10d.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Larynx and Trachea. [320.]
- *Tenacious mucus in the larynx, inducing a frequent hawking, which results in the discharge of small lumps of mucus (third and fourth days), 10c.
- *Increased secretion of mucus in the trachea, which he is constantly obliged to hawk up (third day), 17a.
- An irritation in the larynx inducing a short hacking cough (after twenty minutes), 10e ; (first days), 17b.*
- *A sudden tickling in the larynx excites cough (first and second days), 10a.
- Voice.
- *Sudden hoarseness when reading aloud (first day), 10d.
- Cough and Expectoration.
- Dry cough, with concussion of the whole chest (soon), 10a.
- *Dry cough, with oppression of the chest and roughness in the throat , evening (first day), 13.
- Frequent dry cough (after nine days), 12.
- Dry cough when pounding the root, 10.
- Cough at breakfast (second day), 10a. [330.]
- *Frequent short and hacking cough, occasioned by an increased secretion of mucus in the larynx, especially in the open air and when walking rather fast (in the forenoon), 12.
- Increased short and hacking cough in the open air, continuing for about three weeks, 12a.
- Excites cough, 27.
- Painless cough, without expectoration (sixth day), 13.
- Disagreeable long-continuing cough, 28.
- Cough, with expectoration of tenacious mucus (second day), 13.
- Desire to expectorate, brought on by smaller doses, 26.
- Expectoration of white mucus, which is easily loosened by a little hawking (third day), 17a.
- Expectorant, in small doses, 35.
- Respiration.
- *Short breathing and oppression of the chest, when going upstairs (second, third, and fourth days), 10c. [340.]
CHEST
- Violent rush of blood to the chest, perceptible by strong pulsations (third day), 10a.
- Great orgasm of blood in the chest, almost causing fainting, when sitting (fourth day), 10b.
- Orgasm of blood and creeping in the chest, when at rest, towards evening (first day), 10d.
- Orgasm of blood in the chest, with dull stitches (first day), 10e.
- Orgasm of blood and oppression in the chest , with flushes of heat in the face, and a frequent pulse, in the afternoon (fifth day), 10d.*
- Sensation of stagnation in the upper part of the lungs, especially during a rapid walk (third day), 10e.
- Oppression of the chest, especially during rest (first days), 10a, 10b, 10e.*
- Oppression of the chest, with slight shooting pains through the chest towards the scapulæ, returning the first ten days at indefinite periods, especially in the open air and during a walk, 12a.
- Oppression of the chest from large doses, 28. [350.]
- Oppression of the chest at different times (the first days), 10, 15.
- The chest feels too tight (fourth day), 13.
- *Tightness and oppression of the chest (soon), 10c.
- Tightness and dull pressure in the chest (after one hour and a half), 10d.
- Tightness and crawling in the upper part of the chest (first day), 10c.
- Violent compression of the upper part of the chest, especially during rest, 10b.
- Compression of the chest, from both sides towards the front, towards evening (fifth and sixth days), 10d.
- Tensive sensation in the lower half of the chest, during deep inspiration (sixth day), 13.
- Pressing pain in the chest (third day), 10c.
- Violent pressing in the chest (fourteenth day), 10e. [360.]
- Violent pressing pain in the chest, from within outward (eighth and ninth days), 10e.
- Pressure on the chest increases the pain, 10c.
- Beating pressure at a small place below the short ribs; generally on the right side, during inspiration, .
HEART AND PULSE
- The aching-boring pain in the chest has become seated in the region of the heart, whence it irradiates towards the left axilla (second day), 13. [430.]
- Aching pain in the region of the heart during deep inspiration (seventh day), 13.
- Slight boring-aching pain in the region of the heart, which seems to be more on the outside (after a quarter of an hour), 13.
- Slight pressure in the region of the heart, with oppression and difficult breathing, when walking (after three hours and a half), 13.
- *Violent boring pain in the region of the heart (after five hours), 13.
- Violent beating of the heart, shaking the whole chest (after three-quarters of an hour), 13.
- The pulse is rather hard and accelerated (80 beats, (after half an hour), 13.
- Hard frequent pulse (soon), 10.
- Unequal soft pulse, 82, 13.
- Pulse 65 (before the experiment); 65 (in five minutes); increased in fulness and 70 (in ten minutes); 72 (in fifteen minutes); 72 (in twenty minutes); 70 (in thirty and forty minutes); 69 (in fifty minutes); 66 (in sixty minutes; 64 (in seventy and eighty minutes); 65 (in ninety minutes), 1.
- Pulse 65 (before the experiment); 65 (in five minutes); 76 (in ten minutes); 80 (in fifteen minutes); 82 (in twenty minutes); 84 (in twenty-five minutes); 90 (in thirty and forty minutes); 82 (in fifty minutes); 80 (in sixty and seventy-five minutes); 86 (in ninety and one hundred and five minutes), 2. [440.]
- Pulse 68 (before the experiment); 72 (in five and ten minutes); 76 (in fifteen minutes); 78 (in twenty minutes); 80 (in thirty and forty minutes); 78 (in sixty, seventy-five, and ninety minutes); 72 (in one hundred and five and one hundred and twenty minutes); 68 (in one hundred and fifty minutes). Pulse was increased in force as well as in frequency, 3.
- Pulse 72 (before the experiment); 80 (in five minutes); 88, much increased in fulness, with some irregularity (in ten minutes); 80 (in fifteen minutes); 72 (in twenty minutes); 70 (in thirty minutes); 65 (in thirty-five, forty-five, sixty, and eighty minutes), 4.
- Pulse 76 (before the experiment); 88 (in five and ten minutes); 92, and much increased in fulness (in fifteen minutes); 92 (in twenty minutes); 88 (in twenty-five minutes); 80 (in thirty, thirty-five, and forty minutes); 78 (in fifty minutes); 72 (in sixty and seventy-five minutes); 76 (in ninety minutes), 5.
- Pulse 84 (before the experiment); 84 (in ten minutes); 76 (in fifteen minutes); 73 (in twenty minutes); 70 (in thirty minutes); 68 (in thirty-five minutes); 73 (in forty minutes); 76 (in fifty, sixty, seventy, and eighty minutes), .
NECK AND BACK
- Drawing in the cervical glands (first day), 10e.
- Violent burning and itching under the skin of the whole surface of the back, but especially between the scapulæ (third and sixth days), 13.
- Pressing pain between the scapulæ, especially when stepping hard, or on other movements which concuss the chest (eighth and ninth days), 10c.
- Drawing-aching pain along the base of the left scapula (after ten hours), 13.
- Aching painful feeling under the left shoulderblade, at indefinite periods, but more frequently in the evening, and only when sitting; continuing some weeks (tenth day), 12b. [450.]
- Pain in the back (after two hours and a half), 13 ; (first days), 10e.
- Slight pressure in the region of the os sacrum (after one hour and a half), 13.
EXTREMITIES
- Tensive pain in the joints, especially in the knee and ankle-joints (after two hours and a half), 13.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Anxious starting and jerking in the upper arm, during the siesta (first day), 10a.
- Paralytic drawing in the left arm, from above downward (after ten minutes), 14.
- Paralytic pain and drawing from the elbow to the little finger (left side), as if one had hit it violently (after half an hour), 10b.
- Pain, as if sprained, in the right wrist-joint (third day), 10d.
- Sticking, crawling, and prickling in the palms of the hands (first days), 10a, 10b.
- Stitches in the palm of the left hand (after four hours), 10c.
- Sensitively painful drawing in the finger-joints, 10d. [460.]
- Sensitively painful drawing in the metacarpal bone of the left thumb, 10e.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Weariness of the lower limbs (after half an hour), 10.
- When turning the thigh, while standing, pain in the hip-joint, as if sprained, 14.
- Painful sensation in the hip, knee, and tarsal joints, as after a long walk (after ten hours), 13.
- Bruised pain in the gluteal muscles and the thighs (first day), 10c.
- Bruised pain in the muscles of the left thigh, with debility of the whole body, and mental indolence (third day), 10a.
- Violet pressure in the right ankle, 37.
- Great weariness of the feet, especially in the forenoon (third day), 12.
GENERALITIES
- Great debility , with stretching of the limbs, confusion, heaviness, and beating in the head (after one hour and a half), 13.*
- Feeling of debility, even to nausea (after one hour), 10c. [470.]
- General feeling of debility, especially of the lower limbs (after one hour), 12.
- Bodily and mental debility (first day), 10a, 10b.
- Weariness and frequent yawning, (the first six days), 12a.
- *Lassitude and slight trembling of the upper extremities (after one hour and a quarter), 13.
- *Faintness, when walking in the open air, afternoon (sixth and seventh days), 10c.
SKIN
- Burning vesicles, itching when touched, on the upper lip, near the nose and corner of the mouth, 9.
- Intense pain in a little pimple, on slightest touch (second and third days), 10a.
- Itching between the nates obliging one to scratch, and abating afterwards (second day), 14.
- Violent itching of the legs, obliging him to scratch; this causes a burning, especially in the evening when in bed (fourth day and several following days), 10a.
SLEEP
- Great drowsiness in the evening (first days), 10c. [480.]
- Sound sleep, full of dreams, with confusion in the head, on waking (fifth night), 10b.
- Sound stupefying sleep, after lying down (first days), 10c.
- Restless sleep in the night, with dreams of which he has no recollection, after waking (the first nights), 10c.
- Restless sleep, full of dreams (fifth, sixth, and thirteenth nights), 10c.
- Restless interrupted sleep, owing to oppression of the chest (second and third nights), 10c.
- Restless sleep at night and frequent waking, on account of dull stitches and tightness in the chest (the first fourteen days), 10a.
- Restless tossing about in sleep (second night), 10c.
- Restless sleep, with frequent starting (first night), 13.
FEVER
- Chilliness, with weakness in the feet (second and third days), 10a ; (first day), 10c.
- Febrile excitement, shuddering over the back, heat in the face, weak burning eyes, beating headache, difficult breathing, stitches in the chest, general bruised feeling of the body, and frequent pulse (sixth and thirteenth days), 10e. [490.]
- Skin became very hot (in one hour and a half), 2.
- The skin became warmer and moister, 29.
- Feeling of warmth in left half of the face (after one hour), 10a.
- Profuse perspiration commenced, and the disagreeable symptoms were quite removed (in one hour and three-quarters), 2.
- Profuse diaphoresis, 36.
- Diaphoresis, 30.
- Medicinally administered it is sudorific in small doses, 35.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Headache; pain in margin of lids; dryness in mouth; flat taste in mouth; on waking, pain in chest.
- ( Forenoon ), Pressure in temples; roughness in throat; weariness of feet.
- ( Towards evening ), Pain in occiput; compression of chest.
- ( Evening ), Pain in umbilical region; in bed, itching of legs; drowsiness.
- ( Night ), Aching pain in stomach; on awaking, pain in chest.
- ( Open air ), Lachrymation; cough; oppression of chest.
- ( Bending head forward ), Pressure under upper part of sternum.
- ( Bending chest forward ), Sore pain and pulsations.
- ( Bending chest backward ), Vertigo.
- ( Concussion of chest ), Pain.
- ( Chewing ), Pressure in right ear.
- ( Cough ), Stitches in left half of chest.
- ( Going upstairs ), Short breathing and oppression of chest.
- ( During inspiration ), Pain in region of heart.
- ( When lying ), Stitches in left half of chest.
- ( Pressure ), Pain between third and fourth left ribs; pain in chest.
- ( Reading or writing ), Burning in eyes.
- ( Reading aloud ), Hoarseness.
- ( During rest ), Oppression of chest; pain in chest; twitching and crawling in upper part of chest; pain in middle of chest.
- ( Running ), Pain through chest.
- ( Sneezing ), Sore pain in chest.
- ( Sitting in a warm room ), Headache.
- ( When sitting ), Orgasm of blood to chest; pain under left shoulderblade; stitches in left half of chest.
- ( ), Rush of blood to head; pressure in eyes; pain in chest.
SUPPLEMENT: SENEGA. Authority.
38 , E. W. Berridge, M.D., New York Journ. of Hom., vol. ii, 1875, p. 459, Miss ---, aged twenty-one years, took several doses of cm. (Fincke), for a cold and cough.
- Menses came on three weeks too soon; this never happened before, even when she had a cold, 38.