ALLIUM SATIVUM.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Allium sativum, L.
Nat. order , Liliaceæ.
Common names , Garlic; (German), Knoblauch; (French), L'Ail.
Preparation , Tincture from the fresh bulb.
Authorities.
1 , Petroz, Journ. d. l. Soc. Gal., 3, 279; 2 , Teste, Systematization; 3 , All. Hom. Zeit., 83, 184; 4 , Cattell, B. J. of Hom., 11, 340.
MIND
- Weeping during sleep, 1.
- Sadness; restlessness when alone, 1.
- Mental anxiety, 1.
- Dread of being poisoned, 1.
- Fears he will never get well, 2.
- Fears of being unable to bear any medicine, 12.
- Impulse to run away, 1.
- Impatience, 1.
- Moral sensitiveness, 1. [10.]
- Wandering thoughts, 1.
HEAD
- Vertigo on looking long and steadily at anything, 1.
- Vertigo of short duration, and on rising from one's seat, 2.
- Heaviness in the head, 2.
- Heaviness of the head, ceasing during menstruation, and returning afterwards, 1.
- Heaviness in the forehead almost preventing him from opening his eyes, 2.
- Pulsation in the temples, 2.
- Dull pain in the occiput, in the morning , while lying on the back, 2.
EYES
- *Catarrhal ophthalmia at night; smarting burning lachrymation; agglutination; continued difficult opening of the agglutinated lids; (this set in regularly every night, when he desired to read an hour in bed (usual habit), so that he had to give it up), 3.
EARS
- *The customary aural catarrh disappeared; he heard better from the diseased ear, [°], 3. [20.]
- Humming in the ears, 2.
NOSE
- Coryza , rather dry, then fluent, with pressive pain from above the root of the nose, 2.
- Increased secretion of nasal mucus, together with slight stoppage of both nostrils, 2.
- Blowing blood from the nose in the night, 2.
FACE
MOUTH
- Tickling sensation in the lower teeth, 1.
- Transient pressive pullings (in the forenoon) in both jaws, and in the right upper molars, 2.
- Swelling of the lower gums, 1.
- Troublesome feeling during the night and in the morning, as of a hair on her tongue; renewed on waking, 1. [30.]
- Dryness of the palate, 2.
- Very copious flow of sweetish saliva into the mouth in the forenoon, after meals; more especially after supper and during the night, 1, 2.
- Hot taste in the mouth, proceeding from the throat, and strongly reminding him of the taste of garlic, immediately after taking the medicine, and returning after breakfast to such a degree as to excite a flow of saliva, 2.
- The symptoms of the mouth are aggravated by reading, 1.
THROAT
- Inflammation of the throat, 1.
- Sensation as of something cold rising in the throat, 1.
- Sensation as of a hot and smarting vapor rising in the throat, 1.
- Mucous accumulations in the throat, in the morning, with heaviness of the head, 2.
STOMACH
- Voracious appetite, 2.
- Feeling of great hunger, from weakness of the stomach, without increase of appetite, 2. [40.]
- Thirst, 2, 4.
- Thirst, which prevents sleep, 1.
- Burning eructations, 1.
- Burning eructations after a meal, 2.
- Eructations (immediately), 2.
- Eructations; which excite copious salivation, 2.
- Nausea and loathing of food (immediate and very short-lasting symptoms), 2.
- Vomiting during the fever, 1.
- Burning in the stomach, which is not painful when not touched, but is very sensitive to the least pressure, 2.
- Lancinations in the stomach, 2. [50.]
- Sensation of a weight in the stomach, which prevents sleep, 1.
- Dull pains in the epigastric region, felt only on deep inspiration, but which finally embarrass respiration, 2.
- A pressure inward, as if a stone were in the epigastric region, 3.
- Pressure in upper abdomen (stomach and along the transverse colon); relief only by sitting bent and pressing with both hands; the pain became unendurable on walking out, 3.
ABDOMEN
- Pressure in upper abdomen (stomach and along transverse colon); relief only by sitting bent and pressing with both hands; the pain became intolerable on walking out, 3.
- Twistings and pinchings around the umbilicus, 2.
- Borborygmi in the forenoon, 2.
- Flatulence, 4.
- Incomplete, and as if interrupted, emission of fetid flatulence, 2.
- (The usual colic disappeared for some days, [°], 3 .) [60.]
- Every step on the pavement caused excruciating pain, as if the intestines would be torn apart (ameliorated by lying down), 3.
- Everything (in abdomen) seemed to drag downward, 3.
- Weight in the hypogastrium, immediately after a meal, without urgency to stool or urinate, 2.
STOOL AND ANUS
- Piles, 4.
- Diarrhœa, 1.
- Involuntary stools, 1.
- Diarrhœic stool (at the end of thirty hours), towards 3 o'clock A.M., preceded, accompanied, and followed by cuttings in the abdomen and loins, 2.
- Several soft, but not diarrhœic, stools every twenty-four hours, during three days, 2.
- Stool, first fæces, then watery; hot passage, 3.
- Normal stool immediately after a meal (contrary to habit), 2.
- Stool delayed from morning (usual time) till after dinner, with great urging; with the stool, heat in the rectum, 3. [70.]
- Constipation, which becomes obstinate, 1.
- Constipation, with almost constant dull pain in the bowels , during eight days (chiefly in the forenoon), 2.
URINARY ORGANS
- Sensation in the bladder and urethra as of urging to urinate, which, however, does not exist, 2.
- Urine increased, 4.
- Whitish, very abundant urine, becoming cloudy from nitric acid, 2.
- A kind of diabetes, 2.
- Scanty, high-colored urine, 2.
- Urine scarcely half the normal (first day); one-third normal (second day), 3.
- Did not urinate in the night (contrary to habit), 3.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Suppurating pimples on the vulva during the menses, 1. [80.]
- Bright red spots, with itching and smarting, on the inside of the labia majora, and at the entrance of the vagina, 2.
- Menses five days too early, 2.
- During the menses, the skin of the internal portion of the thighs presents large excoriations, 2.
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS
- Painful irritation of the windpipe when coughing, 1.
- Scraping in the larynx, exciting dry cough, with no other symptom, 2.
- Almost continual mucous râles in the bronchi, 2.
- Deepseated cough, 1.
- Cough, which seems to come from the stomach, 2.
- Cough, which gives rise to a perceptible fetid smell, 1.
- Dry cough after eating, 2. [90.]
- Morning cough after leaving his bedroom, with extremely copious mucous expectoration, 2.
- Sudden paroxysms of hard, dry cough while smoking, obliging him to quit, 2.
- Great difficulty in expectorating a glutinous mucus, 1.
- Expectoration increased, 4.
- Expectoration of a thin, yellowish, purulent-looking, blood-streaked mucus, of a putrid odor, 2.
- Difficult respiration, as if the sternum was compressed, 2.
- Uneasiness in respiration, 1.
- The cough symptoms are aggravated by bending the head, and after eating, and by going into the open air, 1.
CHEST
- Oppression of the chest during sleep, 1.
- Darting pain in the chest, which prevents sleep, 1. [100.]
- Lancinations in one side of the chest, 2.
- Twitching pain in the side of the chest; it seems to him as if there was an empty spot in his chest, 1.
- Lancinations under the shoulder-blades and pectoral muscles, increasing during the cough and deep inspirations, and becoming spasmodic if the latter are renewed several times in succession; with irresistible impulse to cough, 2.
- Swelling of both mammæ, which become sensitive to touch (at the end of twenty-four hours), 2.
- Dull stitches in the right mamma, 2.
- Eruption of red blotches between the breasts and around the nipples, 2.
HEART AND PULSE
NECK AND BACK
- Drawing pains in the neck, 1.
- Insensibility to touch of the anterior portion of the neck, 2. [110.]
- Itching between the shoulders, 2.
- Darting pain in the back, 1.
- Itching in the back, 1.
- Red spots, like ringworm, come out on the back, 1.
- Tearing pain in the sacrum, 1.
- Cutting pain in the sacrum, in the morning, 1.
- Simple pain in the coccyx, 1.
UPPER EXTREMITIES
- Painful feeling of contraction in the arm, 1.
- Tension and heat in the right elbow, which is painful during movement of the arm, 2.
- Pain in the forearm, it seems as if paralyzed, 1. [120.]
- Burning, then moisture, in the palms of the hands, 2.
- Some red spots appear on the hands, 1.
- Tearing pain in the fingers extending below the nails, 1.
LOWER EXTREMITIES
- Weakness of the lower limbs, 1.
- Tearing pain in the hip, 1.
- Almost intolerable pain, confined to the common tendon of the iliac and psoas muscles; this pain, only slightly felt in the daytime, during rest, is renewed by the least movement; it is so acute as almost to extort cries to cross his legs, while sitting, i. e ., to place the right thigh over the left; but this movement is performed with scarcely any pain, if, instead of using the muscles of the pelvis and thigh, he lifts the latter gently with his hand.
- Finally, this pain, which is endurable while walking, although compelling him to limp, is aggravated towards 8 P.M., in bed, where it becomes impossible to change his position, or to sleep, 2.
- Painful weariness in the thighs, 1.
- Boil on the thigh, 1.
- Pain as of a sprain in the ankle-joint, 2.
- All these symptoms are much aggravated by walking, 1.
- Tearing pain in the feet, 1. [130.]
- Burning in the soles of the feet, 1.
- Sensation of stiffness in the feet, 1.
- Tingling in the feet, 1.
- Pain as of a sprain in the toe-joints, 1.
- These symptoms are much more troublesome during rest, especially if the foot is not supported, 1.
- The pains in the limbs were always aggravated by changes in temperature, and under the influence of moist heat, 1.
GENERALITIES
- General lassitude, especially in the lower limbs, to such a degree that he dreads having to go two or three steps upstairs, 2.
- Morning lassitude, which appears to depend on nervous insensibility, 1.
- Relaxation of the muscles, 1.
- Sense of oppression; weakness, 1. [140.]
- Drawing in the muscles during the night, 1.
- Sensation of contraction in the muscles, 1.
- Tingling in the affected parts, 1.
- Pain in the glands, 1.
- Lancinations in the limbs, 2.
- Often the pains are gradually increased to a high degree, and subside in like manner, 1.
SKIN
- Looseness of the skin, 1.
- Hard swelling of the integuments, 1.
- Swelling with tingling, 1.
- Dryness of the skin, 1. [150.]
- It blisters the skin (locally), 1.
- Spots at first white, and which become yellow, and are accompanied with a tingling-itching, 2.
- Darting-itching, 1.
- Formication in the skin, 2.
- Tension in the skin of the joints, 1.
- Extreme sensitiveness of the skin, 1.
FEVER
- Chilliness from one day to another, 1.
- Chilliness on one side only, 1.
- During the coldness, redness of the face, 1.
- Horripilations before midday and in the evening, 2. [160.]
- Catarrhal fever with predominant coldness, 1.
- General heat during which there is distress, 2.
- Heat during which she feels twitching in the limbs, 1.
- During the fever, vomiting, 1.
- Sweat in the afternoon, 1.
- Sweat causing itching, 1.
- Sweat of a sour smell, 1.
- Fetid sweat, 1.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Drowsiness after meals, 2.
- Restless sleep at night, 2.
- Frequent waking up, through coldness, 1.
- Startings in the muscles and shocks in the feet, at night, when going to sleep, 2.
- Sleep prevented by darting pain in the chest, 1.
- Sleep prevented by sensation of weight in the stomach, 1.
- Sleep prevented by thirst, 1.
- Slight cold fit when going to sleep, 1.
- Coldness of the body during sleep, 1.
- Dreams in which he thinks, 1.
- Dreams which are continued when he is awake, 1.
- At midnight, frightful, anxious dreams, with headache, pressure in the vertex, 3.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Pain in occiput; mucus in throat, etc.; cutting in sacrum; feeling of hair on tongue; cough after leaving bedroom.
- ( Forenoon ), General symptoms; pullings in jaws and teeth; flow of saliva ; borborygmi; horripilations.
- ( Afternoon ), Sweat.
- ( Evening ), Horripilations ; general symptoms.
- ( Evening, in bed ), Pain in muscles of thigh.
- ( Night ), Starts and shocks when going to sleep; catarrhal ophthalmia; blowing from nose; flow of saliva; feeling of hair on tongue; drawing in muscles; restless sleep.
- ( At midnight ), Frightful dreams.
- ( Open air ), Cough-symptoms.
- ( When alone ), Restlessness.
- ( Bending head ), Cough-symptoms.
- ( After breakfast ), Return of hot taste.
- ( Deep breathing ), Epigastric pains.
- ( Coughing ), Irritation of windpipe.
- ( After eating ), Cough-symptoms.
- ( During Fever ), Vomiting.
- ( Moist Heat ), Pain in limbs.
- ( Looking steadily ), Vertigo.
- ( During Menses ), Pimples on vulva.
- ( Movement ), Pain in muscles of thigh.
- ( Moving arm ), Pain in right elbow.
- ( Reading ), Symptoms of mouth.
- ( Rest ), Feet-symptoms.
- ( On rising from seat ), Vertigo.
- ( Speaking and stooping ), General symptoms.