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Ptelea Trifoliata. – 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.

Ptel. * Full text (40 Ko) * Red
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LOWER LIMBS. [33] [Ptel.]

Great weariness of lower limbs with trembling.

Aching pains in back part of thighs.

Constant aching distress in calves of legs.

   

LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] [Ptel.]

Aching bruised feeling in muscles and joints on waking ; drawing pains in gastro-hepatic region.

Hands and feet hot, dry and feverish.

   

REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] [Ptel.]

Supporting abdomen with hands : soreness >.

Sitting erect : soreness of abdomen >.

Lying on back : suffocation.

Lying on right side : liver >.

Standing : soreness of abdomen <.

Stooping : headache < ; soreness of abdomen >.

Motion : sudden, causes vertigo ; of eyes, headache < ; soreness of abdomen < ; abdominal pains <.

Rising : vertigo <.

Turning head : vertigo <.

Walking : giddiness < ; constant dull headache < ; nausea, vomiting and giddiness, weight in both hypochondria ; aching of bowels.

Going up stairs : dull headache <.

Writing : vertigo <.

   

NERVES. [36] [Ptel.]

Restless, uneasy ; malaise.

Great languor and indifference to duties.

Loss of energy ; languor and depression of spirits.

Feeling of weakness, languid, irritable ; sick, faint sensations, as in bilious patients.

Very languid and faint, with flushed face and feverish.

Aching distress in all the joints, with great languor.

Great lassitude and weariness, with a disposition to hurry through duties.

Extreme weakness of limbs, brain, memory, thought and will as if from a powerful and all pervading disease.

   

SLEEP. [37] [Ptel.]

Heavy sleep.

Awoke 2 A. M., restless ; headache, etc.

At 4 A. M. ; aroused by gastric and hepatic symptoms.

Sleep broken and restless and disturbed by frightful or annoying dreams ; awaking in a profuse perspiration.

Nightmare.

Languid on awaking and unrefreshed.

   

TIME. [38] [Ptel.]

At 1 A. M. : suffocation.

At 2 A. M. : awoke restless, headache.

At 4 A. M. : aroused by gastric and hepatic symptoms.

Morning : pain from forehead to root of nose < ; before rising shooting pains in head ; hepatic and gastric symptoms <, awaking at 4 A. M.

Afternoon : fever.

All day : frontal headache ; urging to stool and rumbling in bowels ; feverish heat.

Night : drooling.

   

TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] [Ptel.]

Wants to be near fire : chilliness.

Warmth : headache < ; spots on limbs <.

Warm room : vertigo <.

Generally > in open air (except lung) ; < in warm room.

   

FEVER. [40] [Ptel.]

Chilliness : shivering ; with stool ; wants to be near fire.

Dry, general heat ; < face hands ; irritable, intolerant of noise.

Hot, dry feeling on body, with cold feet.

Hot flushes and slight headache ; feverish hot head, dull frontal headache.

Feverish heat, lasting all day, with pains in limbs and nausea.

Sweat profuse on awaking ; on forehead during stool or with raising of a bitter fluid.

Tertian ague, with profuse vomiting of bilious matter.

Attacks of quartan ague, continuing for two years, resisting many remedies.

   

LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] [Ptel.]

Right : pressive pain in temple < ; soreness of uvula < ; fauces < ; distress in hypochondrium ; occasional pains hypochondrium ; sharp pains in hypogastrium ; dull pain in hepatic region > lying on side ; pain in infraclavicular
region ; white blisters on red base on ear.

Left : darting pains over eye ; pain in temple ; turning to side causes a dragging sensation ; aching distress in hypochondrium ; pain in left scapula and shoulder joint.

From within outward : pressing frontal headache.

   

SENSATIONS. [43] [Ptel.]

Reeling as if intoxicated ; as of a nail driven into brain ; teeth as if elongated ; as of a stone at pit of stomach ; as if walls of chest would sink in.

Pain : from forehead to root of nose ; in top of head and eyes ; from left temple to right ; in eyes ; in epigastrium ; in liver ; in right hypochondrium ; in hypogastrium and bladder.

Racking pain : in brain.

Severe pain : near umbilicus.

Sharp pains : in right hypochondrium.

Cutting : in epigastrium ; in liver.

Darting : over left eye, deep into head.

Piercing : through temples.

Shooting : in head.

Stitches : in abdomen.

Pricking pain : in throat.

Pricking : all over tongue ; in fingers and hands.

Drawing : in epigastric and umbilical region ; in gastro-hepatic region.

Dragging : in hypochondria.

Cramplike pain : in cardiac region.

Griping : in epigastric region ; in stomach ; in bowels.

Burning : in stomach.

Smarting : in anus ; in urethra.

Soreness : of fauces ; in epigastrium ; of abdomen.

Tenderness : of splenic region.

Dull pain in head ; in hepatic region ; in liver ; in right infra-clavicular region ; in back.

Aching : in stomach ; in forehead ; in frontal and occipital regions ; in hepatic region ; of bowels ; about navel ; in lumbar and sacral regions ; in back of thighs ; in muscles and joints.

Drawing, aching pains : in left scapula and shoulder joint.

Aching distress : in umbilical region ; in hepatic region ; in left hypochondrium ; in bowels, back and legs ; in dorsal region ; in calves ; in all joints.

Pressive pains : in temples.

Pressure : in forehead ; at base of brain ; at root of nose ; at pit of stomach ; in rectum ; on lungs.

Heavy feeling : over eyes.

Fulness : in stomach.

Weight : in stomach ; in both hypochondria.

Goneness : in stomach.

Empty feeling : in stomach.

Faint feeling : in stomach.

Throbbing : over one eye ; about navel.

Weariness : of lower limbs.

Heat : of face and head ; of skin ; in stomach.

Itching : all over.

Roughness : of fauces.

Dryness : in mouth ; of throat ; of lips.

   

TISSUES. [44] [Ptel.]

Mucous membranes are congested and irritated, with sense of roughness, smarting or prickling ; causes congestion of liver, stomach and bowels and secondarily of lungs ; is indicated briefly when there are irritability, and dull, confused frontal headache ;
bitter taste, eructations like rotten eggs or bitter ; swollen liver, relief from lying on right side, bilious stools ; languor ; muscular soreness.

   

SKIN. [46] [Ptel.]

Itching all over as from flea bites.

White blisters on a red base on right ear, discharging a watery fluid ; later desquamation or pus and scabs form ; boils.

Spots on limbs red, later purple ; < when warm or excited ; annoying itching ; on disappearing they leave yellowish marks like bruises.

A peculiar reddish, clouded appearance of entire surface of skin, lasting two days.

Erysipelas ; quinia and iron had been used in large doses without success.

Pityriasis versicolor ; eruption on all parts of body except hands and face.

   

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

Erysipelas ; two cases.

A middle-aged man ; pityriasis versicolor.

   

RELATIONS. [48] [Ptel.]

Compare : Other Rutaceæ, Arnic., Bryon., Chelid., Nux vom., Berber., Podoph., Hydrast., Mercur.

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