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Apocynum Cannabinum. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.

[2]
Sensorium.

[3]
Inner head.

[4]
Outer head.

[5]
Sight and eyes.

[6] Hearing and ears.

[7]
Smell and nose.

[8]
Upper face.

[9]
Lower face.

[10] Teeth and gums.

[11]
Taste, speech, tongue.

[12]
Inner mouth.

[13]
Palate and throat.

[14]
Appetite, thirst. Desires..

[15]
Eating and drinking.

[16]
Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.

[18] Hypochondria.

[19]
Abdomen and loins.

[20]
Stools and rectum.

[21]
Urinary organs.

[22]
Male sexual organs.

[23]
Female sexual organs.

[24]
Pregnancy. Parturition..

[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..

[26]
Respiration.

[27]
Cough.

[28]
Inner chest and lungs.

[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.

[30] Outer chest.

[31]
Neck and back.

[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.

[34]
Limbs in general.

[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.

[36]
Nerves.

[37]
Sleep.

[38]
Time.

[39]
Temperature and weather.

[40]
Fever.

[41]
Attacks, periodicity.

[42]
Locality and direction.

[43]
Sensations.

[44]
Tissues.

[45] Touch. Injuries..

[46]
Skin.

[47]
Stage of life, constitution.

[48]
Relations.

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LOWER LIMBS. [33] [Apoc.]

Stiff knees.

Hard aching in both knees ; fears inflammatory rheumatism.

Œdema of feet and ankles, general dropsy ; also after typhus.

Lower extremities, penis, scrotum and abdomen swollen. θ Heart disease.

The whole left leg is contracted.

Pain in ball of right big toe.

   

LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] [Apoc.]

Constant involuntary motion of one leg and one arm. θ Hydrocephalus.

General stiffness of legs and body, can scarcely bend.

Weakness of limbs.

Itching on limbs.

Pains in arms and legs.

   

REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] [Apoc.]

Had to be supported in sitting posture in bed. θ Dropsy.

Could not lie down. θ Dropsy of pericardium.

Region of kidneys sore on using muscles.

Raising head : fainting.

Lying : face bloated ; > sitting up ; cannot lie, dropsy.

Moving about house : palpitation <.

Walks with great difficulty. θ Dropsy of pericardium.

   

NERVES. [36] [Apoc.]

General restlessness.

Involuntary motions of one arm and leg. θ Hydrocephalus.

Greatly debilitated, pulse feeble and quick. θ Menorrhagia.

Disposition to faint ; vital powers much depressed. θ Menorrhagia.

   

SLEEP. [37] [Apoc.]

Drowsy in afternoon, restless in night.

On going to bed desire for sleep ; with inability to sleep.

Drowsiness ; vomiting, weak.

Stupor.

Restlessness ; little sleep.

After sleep : nausea ; thirst ; dry mouth and lips ; sinking at stomach ; oppression of chest.

   

TIME. [38] [Apoc.]

Morning : pains in forehead ; heat, redness, feeling of sand in eye ; yellow mucus in nostrils and throat ; dry lips and mouth.

Evening : heaviness of head ; aching in back and limbs ; eyes more inflamed ; going to bed, skin hot.

Night : restless ; wetting the bed ; violent attack of cough.

   

TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] [Apoc.]

From a cold, during a sleigh-ride, after flow of catamenia had set in, menorrhagia lasting four and a half weeks.

   

FEVER. [40] [Apoc.]

Heat of skin on going to bed.

Sweat ; when skin moistens, dropsy improves.

Clammy sweat. θ Hydrothorax.

Body covered with large drops of cold sweat. θ Heart disease.

   

ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] [Apoc.]

Paroxysmal menorrhagia.

   

LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] [Apoc.]

Right : outward pressure in eye ; fine stitches in eye ; pressure in throat ; stitches in chest ; pain in ball of big toe.

Left : oppression on chest ; contraction of leg.

   

SENSATIONS. [43] [Apoc.]

Feels as if she could do nothing but cry ; as if right eye was pressed outward ; feeling as of sand in eye.

Stitches : fine, in right eye ; in right chest.

Aching : in small of back and limbs ; in kidneys ; in both knees.

Soreness : in region of kidneys.

Pressure : as if right eye was pressed outward ; on right side of throat.

Undefined pain : in forehead ; caused by drinking water ; in distended abdomen ; in stomach, from deep cough ; in ball of right big toe ; in arms and legs.

Fulness : about stomach.

Heaviness : in head.

Oppression : about epigastrium and chest.

Dryness : of lips ; of mouth ; of skin.

Heat : of left eye ; in fauces and larynx ; of skin.

Itching : on limbs.

Weakness : of limbs.

   

TISSUES. [44] [Apoc.]

Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat.

Dropsy of serous membranes.

Acute inflammatory dropsy.

Dropsy : with great thirst, but water causes pain or is vomited ; after typhus, scarlatina, cirrhosis ; mostly uncomplicated with organic disease.

General dropsy after scarlet fever.

Rheumatic stiffness.

   

SKIN. [46] [Apoc.]

Skin dry and harsh. θ Ascites.

Skin cold, with vomiting.

Skin hot, evening going to bed.

   

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] [Apoc.]

Woman, æt. 24, mother of three children, black hair and eyes, fair complexion, disposed to uterine hemorrhage.

Woman, æt. 40, mother of several children, a hard worker, dark complexion, dark eyes and black hair ; menorrhagia.

Women with amenorrhœa.

A girl ; θ enuresis.

   

RELATIONS. [48] [Apoc.]

Concordances : Acet. ac. ; Apis (which has no thirst in dropsies) ; Arsen. ; Bellad. ; Bryon. ;
Cinchon. ; Colchic. ; Digit
. (dropsy ; slow pulse) ; Elat. ; Helleb. (hydrocephalus, ascites, etc.) ; Kali carb. ; Lycop. ;
Mercur. ; Merc. sulph. ; Scilla ; Sulphur ; Veratr. alb
.

Dropsy after abuse of quinine.

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