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

Main * Apoc.

[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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MIND. [1] [Apoc.]

Low-spirited and nervous. θ Ascites and chronic diarrhœa.
Stupor. θ Hydrocephalus.
   

INNER HEAD. [3] [Apoc.]

Pain in forehead in morning. θ Ophthalmia.
Hydrocephalus ; stupor, sight of one eye totally lost, the other slightly sensible ; constant involuntary motion of one arm and leg ; forehead projecting ; sutures open. θ Stage of exudation.
Hydrocephalus acutus.
   

OUTER HEAD. [4] [Apoc.]

Forehead projecting, sutures open. θ Hydrocephalus.
   

SIGHT AND EYES. [5] [Apoc.]

Sight of one eye totally lost, the other slightly sensible. θ Hydrocephalus.
Eyes inflamed ; worse morning and evening.
   

SMELL AND NOSE. [7] [Apoc.]

Violent irritation of Schneiderian membrane, resembling a severe attack of coryza.
Cold in head.
Nose stopped up.
   

UPPER FACE. [8] [Apoc.]

Face expressive of much anguish. θ Dropsy.
Face bloated ; of a bluish lead color, also lips. θ Heart disease.
Face much swollen. θ Hydrothorax.
   

LOWER FACE. [9] [Apoc.]

Dry lips ; if taken in evening this is the first symptom the next morning.
   

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] [Apoc.]

Tongue dry, immoderate thirst. θ Hydrothorax.
   

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] [Apoc.]

Great thirst. θ Hydrothorax.
Great thirst, but water disagrees, causing pain, or is immediately thrown off. θ Dropsy.
Thirst on waking.
   

HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] [Apoc.]

Nausea after sleep.
Distressing vomiting at intervals. θ Menorrhagia.
Patient becomes very drowsy and vomits very often ; pulse slow.
Considerable gastric disturbance. θ After scarlet fever.
   

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] [Apoc.]

Sense of oppression about epigastrium and chest, so that there was the greatest difficulty in getting breath enough to smoke a cigar, or to speak with any comfort, and this happened after lighter meals than ordinary.
Sinking at stomach on awaking.
Stomach so irritable, not even a draught of water can be retained. θ Dropsy.
Great irritability of stomach and vomiting. θ Menorrhagia.
Congestion of liver, of portal system ; followed by ascites.
   

ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] [Apoc.]

Abdomen very much distended and painful. θ Ascites.
Bloated abdomen and limbs. θ Amenorrhœa.
Ascites.
Ascites with chronic diarrhœa.
   

STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] [Apoc.]

Evacuations very scanty.
Bilious stools ; loose, but not very copious.
   

URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Apoc.]

Scanty urine. θ Hydrothorax.
Urinary difficulties. θ Dysuria. θ Strangury.
Urine diminished to one-third of usual quantity.
Very profuse light-colored urine, several gallons a day.
Urine high-colored and very scanty. θ After scarlet fever.
Urine high-colored, diminished in quantity, and voided with difficulty. θ Ascites.
Urine diminished to one-third the usual amount, without pain or uneasiness about kidneys or bladder ; on contrary, chest organs seemed remarkably comfortable ; they seemed simply torpid.
Urine suppressed. θ Meningitis infantum.
A most inveterate case of wetting the bed at night, in a girl.
   

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] [Apoc.]

Penis and scrotum swollen. θ Heart disease.
   

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Apoc.]

Very profuse flow of blood, preceded for a day or two by a moderate discharge. θ Menorrhagia.
Discharge fluid and abundant. θ Menorrhagia.
Hemorrhage ceasing at intervals, always recurred when vital powers rallied. θ Menorrhagia.
Most exhausting menorrhagia for about six weeks.
Blood expelled in large clots, sometimes in fluid state. θ Menorrhagia.
The moderate flow of catamenia for a day or two suddenly sets in with such violence that she cannot be out of bed. θ Menorrhagia.
Shreds or pieces of membrane, with fluid blood. θ Menorrhagia.
Metrorrhagia continual or paroxysmal ; fluid or clotted ; nausea, vomiting, palpitation ; pulse quick, feeble, when moved ; fainting, when raising head from pillow.
   

PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] [Apoc.]

Cough during pregnancy, sometimes short and dry, sometimes deep and loose ; if very deep, it pains in stomach.
   

VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] [Apoc.]

Could not utter a syllable, although perfectly conscious ; answering by signs. θ Hydrothorax.
   

RESPIRATION. [26] [Apoc.]

Could scarcely speak for want of breath. θ Heart disease.
Could only breathe in a sitting posture, with head thrown forward. θ Hydrothorax.
Panting for breath. θ Heart disease.
Oppression of chest on awaking.
Oppression about epigastrium and chest, difficulty in getting breath enough to speak ; after a light meal. θ Hydrothorax.
Agonizing difficulty of breathing. θ Dropsy.
Short and unsatisfactory respiration.
Gasping for breath. θ Hydrothorax.
Difficult breathing, entirely unable to remain in a recumbent position.
Dropsy.
Great dyspnœa, wheezing breathing and cough ; could walk with great difficulty. θ Dropsy of pericardium.
   

COUGH. [27] [Apoc.]

Cough dry, hacking, suffocative, and incessant. θ Hydrothorax.
Violent attack of a hoarse cough at night, with vomiting.
Short cough, alternating with a deep cough.
Loose rattling, with oppression of chest.
Scanty expectoration of white mucus.
Hemorrhage from lungs.
   

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Apoc.]

Hydrothorax. θ After scarlet fever.
Hydrothorax and anasarca depending on organic disease of heart.
   

HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] [Apoc.]

Palpitation very troublesome whenever she attempted to move about house. θ Menorrhagia.
Dropsy of pericardium ; heart’s action scarcely perceptible ; face bloated and anxious looking.
Very feeble, with a quick pulse.
Small weak pulse. θ Hydrothorax.
Pulse 45 between attacks of vomiting ; feeble. θ Menorrhagia.
Pulse small and irregular. θ Ascites.
Almost pulseless and disposed to faint whenever she attempted to raise her head from pillow. θ Menorrhagia.
   

UPPER LIMBS. [32] [Apoc.]

Finger nails of bluish lead color. θ Heart disease.
   

LOWER LIMBS. [33] [Apoc.]

Stiff knees.
Œdema of feet and ankles, general dropsy ; also after typhus.
Lower extremities, penis, scrotum and abdomen swollen. θ Heart disease.
   

LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] [Apoc.]

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

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

Had to be supported in sitting posture in bed. θ Dropsy.
Could not lie down. θ Dropsy of pericardium.
Walks with great difficulty. θ Dropsy of pericardium.
   

NERVES. [36] [Apoc.]

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.]

Drowsiness ; vomiting, weak.
Stupor.
   

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.]

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

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.
   

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.
A girl ; θ enuresis.
   

RELATIONS. [48] [Apoc.]

Dropsy after abuse of quinine.

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