Zingiber

Zingiber’ officinale, Roscoe. (Araonium zingiber, Linn.)

Natural order, Zingiberaceje.

Common names, Ginger; (G.), Ingwer ; (Fr.), Giugembre.

Prejnaroiion, Tincture of dried rhizome.

Authorities. 1, Franz, Stapf’s Archiv, 13, Part 1, p. 182 ; (2 to 20, from Dr. Charles H. Gundelacb’s provings); 2, Ch. G.; 3, L.; 4, E ; 5, ]\Irs. E.; 6, Johnson, a student of medicine; 7, Miss. J. J.; 8, Dr. Beths ; 8 a, same, a second proving; 9, Charles Arthur, a student of medicine; 10, Mrs. T., subject to colds ; 11, Mrs. St.; 12, Lippe ; 13, C. Hg.; 14, Stump; 15, Shah Elkindi; 16, Elbar; 17, Unknown ; 18, Ebu Sina ; 19, Graves; 20, Alex. Tralles; 21, Lesser, Diss. de Zingiber, 1723 (Dr. Both, Journ. de la Sac. Gall. Mat. Med. Pure, vol. i, p. 313).

—Mind cheerful (third day),®.—Mind cheerful, with a pleasing sensation in his system, at 10 a.m. (first and second days),®.—Was in a good humor all the days of the proving, enjoyed company, was lively in conversation, not so silent as usual (eleventh day); again (thirtieth day),^—Very irritable and sick during menstruation,®. — Irritable and chilly, in evening (third day'),*®. — Increased activity of the brain,'*.— Strengthens the memory,'®.—His memory is better since he began the proving (eleventh day),^

Head

Feels confused and empty in his head (one hour and a half),'. - Dizziness and heaviness in all her limbs (third day)

Rush of blood to the head, especially the temples; pulse from 72 and weak to 84, full, in the afternoon (four hundred and sixteenth day),l

Head feels sore to the touch; dull headache

Head feels as if pressed (ninth day)

Pressing headache, externally, disappears on touch

Pressing pain, with heat all over the head, in the morning (sixth day)

Pressing-drawing headache, as if the right eye were pressing out, all day

By walking in the cold damp air experienced heavy pressure in the head, from external to internal, affecting afterwards the whole body (third day)

When stooping, sensation as if the contents of the head pressed into the forehead and root of the nose (tenth day)

Headache, with heat in the head

Headache, worse on moving; worse by stooping (ninth day)

Headache, with stiffness of the neck on the left side (eleventh day)

Headache, worse by noise, less after dinner (fifteenth day)

Heavy pressure throughout the whole head, as if from external to internal (after fifteen minutes, second day)

The circle of the pain extended in a line above and behind the head through the cerebellum ; it was shifting, 12° 30'; dull, heavy pain encircling the head above the eyes, extending to the occiput (second day)

Pain encircling the head ; dull, heavy pain, like a board pressing through the whole head, continuing for one and a half hours, at 11 a.m. (thirty minutes after 30th)

Fovehead. Headache when he exerts himself, a drawing pressure on the frontal bone

Slight dull pain over the left eye, with stitches now and then, was a little worse by going into cold open air, afternoon and evening (second day); dull, heavy, with stitches now and then through the day (third day)

Over the left eye a dull headache, from 9 till 10 p.m. (third day)

Frontal headache, in the morning (twelfth day)

Headache, at first over the left forehead, then changing about, at 11 a.m. (sixth day)

Frontal headache, especially over the eyes, worse when laughing or talking (third day); worse by stooping (second day)

Sharp, aching, drawing pain over the eyebrows; aching of the eyebrows, followed by nausea, lasting but a few moments, in a warm room ; later, more aching and heavier sensation than in the morning, extending all around the head, more heavy on the left vertex, 12° 15'; afterwards, heavier over the right eye and left occiput; this diagonal direction it took after the circular pain passed off; later a pain over the right eye, and heavy pressing pain in the left occiput, all in the warm room, continued in the cold damp air, and in motion and by sitting at rest (second day)

Drawing, frontal headache, especially over the root of the nose (at 6 A.M., fifth day, and on the ninth day)

Headache, a dull pressing, more in the forehead and temples (eighth day), with the same pain in the left eye (ninth day)

Drawing-pressing pain over the left eye, at 7 p.m., lasting ten minutes (twelfth day)

Pressing-drawing frontal headache, more on the left side, at noon (fifteenth day); dull drawing with oppressive heat (thirteenth day); afterwards pain over the eye ; dull, pressive, heavy all over, but more on the forehead, with stiff neck; 12 M. to 1 p.m., at noon (sixteenth day)

AVhen in church, pain over the left eye, drawing extended a little to the right, and settled then in the right occiput, where she felt a heavy, drawing pain for about two hours, with the headache in front, with nausea, and as if she were going to faint; at the same time very chilly. All these symptoms disappeared when she came home, in a warm room (twelfth day)

Twitching over the right eye and in the muscles of the neck (eighth day)

Stinging pain over the left eye, at 5 p.m., when it passed off she had a pressing frontal headache, the eyes were somewhat sensitive to the light (sixth day)

Very fine but violent stitches in the forehead

Temples. After eating bread, immediately a pressing headache in the temples

Slight headache, pressing in the temples (second day)

Slight headache in both temples, dull and sore feeling over the left eye, at 11 p.m. (second day) ; dull, pressing-drawing headache, which at last settled in the right temple (third day)

Headache, mostly in the temples, and stiff neck (ninth day)

Dull, aching-pressing pain in the left temple till she went to sleep, 8 p.m. (third day); pressing headache in temples, in the afternoon (fourth day); dull pressing pain in both temples, in the evening (fifth day) ; dull, pressing headache, especially in the temples (twelfth day)

Pressing pain and numbness in both temples, pressure over the eyes, heat in the face, fainting weakness (seventh day)

Headache internally above the temples, like a pressing drawing, while walking in the open air, with the head covered ; it lessens when standing still, and Avhen uncovering the head in a warm room it disappears

Drawing pain in the left temple and over the left eyebrow, at 5 p.m. (eighth day)

A beating pain in the left temple (ninth day)

Vertex a tul Par let fils. Pulsating pain in the vertex, right side (ninth day) ; worse by rising (tenth day)

Left vertex feels sore, more on touching (third week)

Dull heavy pain in the left vertex and in the arras and legs, at 11 a.m. (third day)

Dull pressing headache on the left side, with heat in the head and much thirst, in the evening (eighth day)

Occiput and External Head. Beating pressure in the left occiput

Itching on the head and cheeks during the morning (second day)

Itching on the scalp (fifth day)

Eyes p. 226

Pressure on the eyes (seventh day)

Pressure in the left eye (first day, after 3 drops of the tincture twice; also after chewing the root several times, fifth day)

Dull pressing in the left eye with the headache (ninth day)

Pressure in and over the left eye; beating pressure in the left occiput, in the evening (thirtieth day),I

In the left eye, a sensation as from a grain of sand, which ceases from rubbing (after thirty minutes)

Smarting-burning pain in both eyes (second day) ; smarting burning in the eyes all day (third day); the same (second day)

The eyes are sensitive to the light (sixth day) ; very sensitive, with stinging pain in the eyeballs, in the afternoon and evening (seventh day)

The eyes are sensitive to the light; affected by it, in the evening (sixteenth day)

Painful sensitiveness of the eyes by looking in the light (second day)

Eyes somewhat sensitive to the light, with the headache (sixth day)

Lids. Transient sensation on the margins of the eyelids like a cutting from above downward

Fine stitches inside the eyelids

jMcJiVi/Dial A]>pat‘ati(S. Watery eyes (second day)

Hall. Sharp drawing pain through and around the eyeballs and through the superciliary ridges

Vision. Sudden glimmerings before the eyes (sixteenth day)

Ears p. 227

Drawing tearing in the right ear (third day) ; tearing at 7 p.m. (ninth day)

During the day more sensitive to noise (fourth day) ; very sensitive to noise (fifteenth day)

Humming in the ears

Nose p. 227

Much sneezing, niue times in succession, and many times attempts to sneeze without success, at 6 p.m. (ninth day),’b

Discharge of pure water from the right nostril (fifth day); later, all the symptoms of a cold in the head ; running from the right nostril seems worse (sixth day); the left nostril is becoming affected like tbe right (eighth day); and the watery discharge from both nostrils is especially in the open air (ninth day)

Dryness of nose, it feels obstructed (seventh day) ; with discharge of thick mucus (eleventh aud previous days)

While her cough is worse, streaks of blood iu the watery discharge from her nose (third day),’". ■

Has a cold in the head (third day); the same considerable discharge from the nose, first serous, then thicker; posterior nares completely obstructed (next day after 30th)

Nose feels obstructed (second day) ; since proving much thirst, dry in the mouth, obstruction in the nose, cannot breathe through the nose (sixth day); when the obstruction passed off she had more watery discharge from the nose (ninth day)

Sense of painful dryness in the nose (ninth day)

Intolerable itching in the nose, even not relieved by scratching

Face p. 227

Looks exhausted in the morning, blue rings below the eyes (before menstruation), (fifth day)

Drawing iu the left upper jaw to the temples (third day)

Slight drawing pain in the left upper jaw (fourth day),f

Drawing pain from the upper jaw to the temple

Slight drawing pain iu the left lower jaw, from the second molar tooth to the first incisor (ninth day)

Drawing pain in the left lower jaw, in all the teeth, at 5 P.M. (second day ); drawing-stinging pain from the left lower jaw to the first incisor, at 10 p.m., and in the night (third night)

Drawing pain in the left lower jaw, at 9 p.m. (sixth day Drawing pain in the left lower jaw, in the first two molar teeth (eighth and sixteenth days)

Soreness in the right lower jaw, with a little swelling, in the niorniug (seventh day)

Mouth p. 227

Teeth. All the teeth of the lower jaw begin to be painfully sensitive, with a pressing drawing in their roots

Drawing pain in the left lower teeth to the first incisor, she has a decayed tooth on this side, at 7 P.M. (third day) ; returns after being in the air (fifth day)

General Uloath. Breath smells foul to herself, as from a bad stomach (sixth day)

Great dryness of thereof of the month and posterior nares, which are entirely stopped

Burning in the mouth

Sfflivff. Augments salivation

Abundant saliva

Much saliva, with little vesicles on the tongue and gums, which feel sore (ninth day)

Tffste, Bad slimy taste in the mouth with the diarrhoea,'h

Slimy mouth, bad taste in the morning (tenth day) ; very slimy taste on rising (fifteenth day)

Throat p. 228

Going home (10 p.m., January 2d), dryness of throat, feeling of swelling externally, constant desire to swallow', and pressure, with slight stinging pain (ninth and tenth days)

Dryness and obstruction of the posterior nares (eleventh day); with discharge of thick mucus (sixteenth day)

On awaking dryness of the throat and difficult swallowing, it is as if there were an obstacle in the way (ninth day) ; same dryness in the throat-pit in swallowing, something in the way over which it has to pass, 7 to 9 A.M. (tenth day) ; same in the night; raised thick, hard mucus (tenth day)

Soreness in throat and pit of stomach, and looseness of mucus in throat (second day)

Tickling in the throat, irritates to cough six times, in the evening (fifth day),h

Tickling in the throat, more on the left side, for half an hour, at 3 p.m., till evening (second day)

Tickling in the throat more on the left side, irritates to cough till evening; soon after 10 drops of 2d, at 10 p.m. ; tickling in the throat produces cough (ninth day)

Choanse stopped up

Stomach p. 228

Appetite a ail Thirnt. Was fond of smoking, but lost almost all desire to smoke since taking the Zingiber (tenth day)

Much thirst, with heat in the head

Much thirst with the headache (eighth day)

Much thirst (ninth and fifth days)

At night thirst; in the morning, dry lips and mouth (sixth to seventh day)

Since proving much thirst, dry in the mouth (ninth day)

Thirsty all the time (fourteenth day)

Drinks "water on account of the rancid feeling, with the cough

Eructations. Eructations of wind (soon after 5 drops of x, fourth week)

Eructations (eleventh day); much in the evening, 11 p.m. (fourteenth day); in the evening (thirtieth day); at 5 p.m. (thirty-first day)

Much wind ; eructations in the evening (third day)

Incomplete eructations

Xaasea. Nausea

Frequently a nauseous rising from the stomach into the chest

On rising, qualmishness ; much wind and rumbling in the bowels, preceded by a slight drawing pain in the lower part of the abdomen, at 7 A.M. (half an hour after 10 drops of the 30th ), (nineteenth day)

Nausea one hour, 7 p.m.; 7 to 8 a.m. (second day); passed away near noon (second day)

Slight nausea, with empty feeling in the stomach, at 7.30 p.m. (fifteenth day)

Nausea, after a short unrefreshing sleep; could not get to sleep again (eighth night)

Nausea with the headache (twelfth day)

Nausea and colic after drastics

Nausea, with backache,*; (twelfth day)

Acidity of the stomach with the diarrhoea

Sickness, sick feeling through the whole day and night (third day)

Stomach. Promoting digestion

Stomach has been out of order, with sickening eructations (tenth day)

Weak digestion retarding the stool

Bread causes a pressure in the stomach (after one hour)

Soreness in pit of stomach and in throat (second day)

Heaviness, like a stone in the stomach, cannot sleep, feels nervous and fidgety, with cramps in the soles and palms, and a hoarseness such as she had in the cholera ; all in the evening after chewing ginger candy

Pain in the stomach and backache, better after going to bed

A drawing pain went from the pit of the stomach under the sternum, when it feels like flatulence (second day)

Abdomen p. 229

ITffpochO'Udfia. Heavy pain in the right hypochondrium, towards the back, especially when breathing deeply, at noon (fourth day)

Stinging pain in the left hypochondrium at night (eighth and ninth days)

Stitching pain in the left hypochondrium (twelfth day),h

Stitches in the spleen and pressure in the left eye ; slight headache, worse by moving, two hours, at 7 p.m. (second day)

Ulilhilicilfi and Sides. Slight cutting pain in the left umbilical region (ninth day)

Unbearable sore pain on a small place in the right side of the abdomen, in the middle of a line from the umbilicus to the hip-joint, all day long, after eating a ginger-cake the evening before

General Abdomen. Expanded abdomen (eleventh day); distended (twenty-ninth day)

Much flatulency (seventh day); at 10p.m. (ninth day); in the evening (tenth day); before supper (sixteenth day)

More motions, at 10 p.m.; rumbling in the left side of the abdomen, flatus; sometimes a slight pain through the bowels (eleventh day)

Moving, rolling in the bowels (fifteenth day)

Much flatulency by rising from bed (eleventh day )

Colic and nausea after drastics

Contracting colic passes through the abdomen, while standing; soon followed by desire for stool

Colic the whole night, a feeling of weight and drawing, with flatulency and much wind (seventh day)

Sensation of nausea in the abdomen, two bours after the usual stool, in the morning

Drawing pain in the lower abdomen

Towards evening, a drawing downward in the bowels and lower abdomen, especially in both sides, and when this passed off she had nausea (eleventh day) ; pressing downwards in the abdomen (twelfth day) ; drawing downwards in the bowels, at 8 p.m. (twelfth day)

Slight drawing pain low down in the abdomen, passing from the right to the left side; it went higher up before passing off (fifteenth day)

Drawing pain in the lower abdomen and back, had to go to stool soon after, at 10 p.m. (third day) ; dull drawing, more in the left side, at 7 p.m. (sixth day)

Pressingstinging pain in the bowels, especially in the left iliac region, at G.15 p.m. (sixteenth day)

Pressure in the left and right iliac region till he sleeps, 5 P.M. (twenty-ninth day) ; pressing pain in the left, in the evening (thirtieth day); sore, with pressing pain, at 5 p.m. (thirty-first day)

Pressing pain in the left inguinal region, with superficial soreness on a small spot, at 2 P.M. (elevent^h day) ; over Poupart’s ligament, at 8 p.m. (eleventh day)

A sudden drawing-stinging pain in the left iliac region, going upwards, at 3 P.M. (sixteenth day)

After supper felt quite a sharp pain in the left iliac region, at 7 p.m. (fourth day) ; a short time after breakfast (fifth day)

Rectum and Anus p. 229

* In and around the anus a redness, inflammation, burning itching extends higher up to the back, in a child after eating ginger

Chewing ginger for an asthma, which it did not relieve; very soon hemorrhoidal tumors, very hot and painfully sore; the same whether sitting or lying. Nux vomica cured them

Stool p. 229

Diarrhoea, with acidity of stomach, and a bad slimy taste in the mouth

Mucous diarrhoea often during the day (second day); with much wind (thirteenth day)

Diarrhoeic looseness before breakfast (.second day)

One diarrhoeic, brown, mucous stool, with much wind (twenty-ninth day)

Soft stool; thirsty all the time (fourteenth day )

Two loose stools soon after breakfast (fifth day)

It moves the bowels

Stool soon after pain in the abdomen, at 10 p.m.

Urinary Organs p. 229

Yellow discharge from the urethra in the night (cured by Nux vom.)

While urinating, acute pain in the orifice of ‘he urethra (cured by Nux voin.)/l

Stinging-burning pain in the orifice of the urethra, 110 pain while urinating; urine very pale (twelfth day)

Alter urinating the urine continues to ooze in drops (tenth day)

Increased secretion of urine (second day)

Increased secretion of urine (third day); profuse, continued so for some time (second day)

Thick turbid urine (Nux vom. cured)

-Urine dark brown (sixth day)

Urine of strong smell, and increased in quantity (tenth day)

Urine brighter in color and in greater quantity (ninth day); clear, bright, and in great quantity (tenth day); very pale (twelfth day)

Sexual Organs p. 230

Male. Painful erections (cured by Nux vom.)

Itching on the prepuce (tenth day); (fourteenth day), which feels cold and moist (fifteenth and sixteenth days)

Emission in the night

Increase of the secretion of sperma

Excites sexual desire ®

Female. Menstruation, with pain in the lumbar region, more on the left side (fifth day)

Menstruation set in four days too early, more abundant, dark, clotted ; felt very sick and irritable during the time (tenth day)

Respiratory Organs p. 230

Lain/nx. Soreness in the upper larynx, like a ridge in it

Smarting sensation below the larynx, followed by a cough, with expectoration of mucus,'-.

Scratching in the larynx irritates to a dry hacking cough, feels rancid by it, which makes her drink water (ninth day

Scratching in the larynx, irritating to a dry cough (eleventh day)

- Foice. Hoarseness, such as she had in the cholera

Some hoarseness (seventh day)

Couffh and Expectoration. Cough, excited by a contraction of the skin in the Iegiou of the larynx, without previous pain

Cough from scratching in the larynx, 1 to 2 A.M.,h

Cough from tickling and dryness of the larynx (sixth day)

Much coughing, especially in the morning, with much expectoration, which she has to swallow (seventh day)

Much coughing before midnight (eleventh night); in the night (twelfth night)

Cough excited by a burning and smarting

Dry, hacking cough, with pain in the lungs and difficult breathing; in the morning expectoration

Scraping cough without stitches

\yas often awakened in the night by dry cough from scratching in the larynx, 1 to 2 A.M. (fourth and eighth nights)

Respiration. Breathing difficult, had to sit up; pain in the right lung

Breathing shorter for fifteen minutes (second day)

Difficult breathing from pain in the right lung

Chest p. 230

Broken feeling around the chest, in the evening (sixteenth day)

A soft pressure on the chest while walking, the time when he does not cough

Dull, pressing pain in the right lung, from the second to the sixth rib in front, worse at intervals, and then somewhat difficult breathing, at 7 p.m. (sixteenth day)

After motion, stinging pain now and then, in the lungs (fifth day)

Several times pain in lung at 9 P.M. (sixteenth and eighteenth day)

At night slept very well until 2 A.M., when she awoke with a violent stinging pain in the lower portion of the right lung, breathing was difficult, had to sit up in bed ; a dry hacking cough made the pain and difficulty in breathing much worse. In the morning much expectoration, pain in the right lung lasting the whole day, with external soreness. This attack came without any other cause and different,as she was well again sooner than usual (third and fourth days)

Several times pain through the middle lobe of the left lung at 9 p.m. (sixteenth and eighteenth days)

Stitching pain in the left lower lung (tenth day)

Stitches through the chest

All day pain under the breast-bone (second day)

Pain under the sternum, from the pit of the stomach

Pressure from within outward, under the upper part of the sternum (fourteenth day) ; more on the right side (sixteenth day)

Pressing pain under the sternum at 4 p.m. (nineteenth day)

Stitching pain in the right side of the chest (fifteenth day)

Violent stinging-pressing pain in the left side of the chest, in the region of the heart, at 4 p.m. (nineteenth day),l

Jtledvt and Pulse, Fluttering of the heart (third day)

She feels exhausted ; fluttering of the heart; languid ; has an empty sensation (third day)

Accelerated circulation

Pulse hard and full; heat with redness in the face; humming in the ears ; lasted thirty minutes, at 11 a.m. (third day)

Pulse in the evenings full, hard, and slow (sixth day)

Pulse from 72 and weak to 84 and full, with the rush of blood to the head (four hundred and sixteenth day)

Neck and Back p. 231

Neck. Stiffness in the neck (fifth day); worse on motion (seventh day)

Stiff neck and headache, mostly in the temples (ninth day)

Stiffness in the neck, more on the left side (ninth day)

Stiffness of the neck on the left side, with the headache (eleventh day)

Stiffness in the back of the neck with nausea (thirteenth day) ; with the headache (sixteenth day)

A loud cracking sound in the first cervical vertebra, on rising from sitting, with a little stiffness in the left side of the neck (tenth day)

Cracking sound in the region of the first cervical vertebra on looking upward, in the evening (thirty-first day)

Pack. Lameness in the back, after much walking

Backache in the afternoon, passed off and reappeared towards evening (fourth day)

Backache, as from weakness, better when sitting and leaning against something (twelfth day)

Porsal. Dull aching, drawing pain in the back, between the shoulders, at 6 p.m. (tenth day),Lumbar. Dull aching pain in both lumbar regions (kidneys), more in the right side; better when leaning against something (ninth day)

Dull pain in the right lumbar region (ninth day)

Stiffness and heavy feeling in the lower part of the back ; pain in the abdomen ; better after going to bed (first day) ; drawing pain in the back and lower part of the abdomen, worse than the first day; had to go to stool soon after at 10 p.m. (third day),“. Pain in the small of the back, as if beaten, while walking or standing (third hour)

Drawing, sometimes stitching pain in the small of the back, and lower down in the abdomen, could not sit erect ; this pain went up with stitches through the chest, and settled as stingy pains under the left should^blade; pain increased by deep breathing, at 7 p.m. (fifteenth day)

Stitching pain in the small of the back

Backache, first low down, but passing ofl she feels it higher up, at 8 p.m., several times, with nausea (twelfth day)

Drawing pain in the lower part of the back, in the evening (fourth day)/.

In the left loin a shocklike moving downwards, as from a dropping fluid

Broken feeling around the hips (twelfth day),. Broken around the hips, feels very tired when standing; feels best when sitting (ninth day)

Sacral. Backache in the sacral region (fifth day) Drawing pain in the left sacral region, in the evening, the first day of menstruation (soon after 10 drops of 4th, fifth day) Pain, as from weakness, in the sacral region after lying down, in the evening (cured by Nux vom.),’®. . . • , 1 , 1 • j i

Upper Extremities p. 231

Very weak in all the joints; in the back a kind of lameness; had been walking much the day before (thirteenth day),®®. Lassitude in all her limbs (tenth day)

Heaviness in all her limbs and dizziness (third day)

Dull, heavy sensation in all her limbs

Dull, heavy pain in the arms and legs, and in the left vertex, at 11 a.m. (third day)

Cramps in the soles and palms

Drawing and stinging pain in all her limbs as before, after taking cold (seventh day)

Superior Extremities p. 232

Heaviness in the left arm ; numbness, especially in the forearm, at 10 a.m. (thirty-second day)

Dull aching pain in the right arm, going down to the wrist (third day),k

Jumping twitching in the muscles of the left arm, downwards, at 4 and 6 p.m. (fifteenth day),I

Drawing pain in the left arm (first day),k

Drawing in the left arm (fourth day); first in the right, then in the left arm (fifth day)

After coming into a warm room at noon (in December) drawing pain in the left arm, continued all the afternoon and evening, especially in the left upper arm, and worse when coming into a warm room (tenth day)

Shoulder, After working some, she felt violent drawing pain from the right axilla to the sternum, from the third to the sixth rib, in the intercostal muscles, at 9 a.m. (thirteenth day)

Drawing pain in the left shoulder at 11 p.m. (second day)

Fell on the ice on the twelfth day, and strained the left shoulder-joint; his arm fell, as if paralyzed, could not use it much, very difficult and painful to raise it, much more than was to be expected from the fall; had all through the provings a weakness and drawing pain in the left shoulder-joint

Pain along the left deltoid, as from overworking; a sensation of lameness, worse from motion, at 8 p.m. (ninth day)

Avui. Heavy feeling, a kind of lameness in the upper arms (fifteenth day)

Twitching in the muscles of the right upper arm (fifth day)

Twitching in the muscles of the back part of the right humerus, and in the right thigh ; 5.30 p.m. (second day)

Pulling-tearing })ain along the triceps muscle of the right arm at 7 p.m. (ninth day)

Drawing pain in right upper arm, in the evening (fifth day) ; from the inner side of the humerus, in its lower part, to the middle of the forearm, at 4 P.M. (tenth day)

Elbow. Felt a loud crack in the left elbow on moving (tenth day)

Eoreu/rm. Internal trembling of the muscles of the forearm, while holding something

Twitching in the muscles of the left forearm at 4 p.m. (nineteenth day)

Drawing pain in the right forearm towards the wrist at 9 p.m. (fourth day)

Hand. Drawing over the back of the hand, like rheumatism

Drawing cramplike pain in the palm of the left hand at 5 p.m. (thirty-first day)

Superior Extremities p. 232

Hip, Drawing pain in both hip joints, with a feeling of lameness afterwards, the pain came by spells; after two drawing pains followed a little rest, then pain again ; it is worse in the left joint, at 10 a.m. (seventh day)

Stiffness in both hip-joints, feeling of lameness, at 5 p.m. (ninth day)

Had long ago a fall, injuring the left hip-joint, but for several weeks felt nothing of it at all; as soon as he commenced the proving the same soreness returned as after a fall

T'lUjJl, Drawing in the right thigh (third day); in the left (sixteenth day)

Drawing pain in the outer side of the left thigh at 5 p.m. (sixth day)

Knee. A pain, as if from over-straining the muscles in the bend of the knee (three hours)

Drawing pain below the left patella, in the afternoon (sixteenth day)

Dull aching-drawing pain, first in the left, then in both knees, extending down to the feet (fourth day)

Drawing pain along the inner side of the right patella (eleventh day)

Exceedingly painful crawling, like that in parts that have gone to sleep and prickling in the balls and soles of the feet while sitting; evening.s

A very acute drawing (digging) pain on the top of the foot while it is stretched out (after one hour and a half)

Heels ache, after long standing

Prickling, crawling pains in the sole of the foot, while walking or standing,h

While sitting in the evening, a fine prickling crawling, almost like a sore pain, in the sole of the foot

Burning-j)ricking crawling in the soles, the heels and toes while sitting, particularly burning in a corn on the sole; evening

Generalities p. 233

If epileptics smell it, it brings on spasms

Cold rheumatism

Very weak and general feeling of faintness

Feels tired all over, in the afternoon (seventh day) ; feels tired on standing (ninth day),l

Felt somewhat relaxed all over (second day)

Inclination to lie down (sixth day)

Prostrated and feverish (second day)

Fainting weakness (seventh day)

Feeling as if she were going to faint, with the headache (twelfth day)

Feels very unwell all day

Skin p. 233

Redness of the skin, with sensation of heat and stinging

Redness of the skin (from external application)

Large, scarletred pimples on the face, on the forepart of the head, and on the neck (seventh day)

Two large red pimples on the left cheek (fifth day)

Red pimples on both sides of the alte naris

Skin feels relaxed, soft, and pliable (second day)

Itching in the beard

Itching on the pubic parts

Sleep p. 233

Sleepiness. A feeling of sleepiness and exhaustion all day and evening; felt a little better in the afternoon and in the air (ninth and tenth days)

After a good sleep at night, very sleepy all the morning, with frequent yawning (ninth day)

Felt very sleepy, slept from 6 till 9 P.M., with very lively dreams (ninth day)

Sleepy, tired, eyes affected by the light (fifteenth day)

Was very sleepy, in the afternoon (third day)

Sleepy, tired nearly all the time since the proving; never slept well during the night (ninth day)

Very sleepy all the afternoon (second day)

Very sleepy all the morning, after a good night’s sleep (third day)

Sleepy and lazy, as if from spring-fever (third day)

Sleeps well at night, with many dreams, pleasant (second and third days) ; unpleasant (third, fourth and twelfth days); still many dreams (third week)

Very sleepy, as if she would lie down (third day)

Very sleepy towards evening (fifth day) ; sleepy all the time, in the afternoon towards evening (ninth day)

Sleeplessness. Sleepless in the night; wakens at 3 A.M.; falls asleep again late in the morning (Nux vom. cured)

Sleepless till towards morning, falls from one dream into another; dreams of fire, fright, etc. (tenth and eleventh days)

Did not sleep much at night (fifth and sixth days)

Cannot sleep, feels nervous and fidgety

Wakefulness the latter part of the night (third day)

Awakened very early (fourth day)

Irritable, lazy sleep (fifteenth day)

Unrefreshing sleep (ninth day)

Sleeps well till 2 a.m., then restless, and sleeps with manv dreams (of the church), (tenth and eleventh days)

z>? 'earns. In the night many dreams (dancing, throwing somersets by an old man), incomplete emissions; wakened up (fourteenth and fifteenth days) ; dreams of fire (thirty-first and thirty-second days)

In the night many dreams (fifth and sixth days) ; frightful (ninth and tenth days)

Anxious dreams (third night); not unpleasant (fourth night); anxious (eighth night)

In the night no refreshing sleep; dreamed all night (second and third days); sleepless, half awake, dreamed all night (sixth and seventh days)

Wandering dreams; the dreams varied somewhat, cheerful, vivid, and aspiring (third day)

Fever p. 233

Chilliness. (Previous chilly sensibility to open cold air is leaving him), (second day)

Chilliness, commencing in the lower limbs, and creeping upwards to the back four or five times, lasting each time ten minutes, in the evening (first day)

Creeping chilliness, more about the trunk, evenings in a warm room (sixth day); during the evening (seventh day)

A chill from below upwards, each time after taking the medicine (seventh day)

Chilliness with the headache (twelfth day)

Cold shiverings (fifteenth day)

Chilly towards noon, 11.30 had first cold feet, then cold hands (sixteenth day)

Very chilly, with faintness and sick headache

Cold hands and feet alternately (fifteenth day)

Heat. Oppressive heat with the headache

Increased temperature of the body

Heat in the head, especially in the ears, and slight headache (10'), (second day)

Heat in the head all day (ninth day)

Heat in the ears

Heat in the face (seventh day)

Heat in the face, red face (second day)

Heat in the face and palms of the hand (one hour)

Heat in the face and right cheek, and burning heat, with some pain in the temples, at 5 p.m. (tenth day)

Profuse perspiration

Conditions p. 234

Aggravation.

(Morning), Frontal headache.

(Open air), Pain over left eye.

(Deep breathing). Pain in small of back.

(Laughing), Frontal headache.

(During menses). Sick and irritable.

(Motion), Headache; stiffness in neck; pain along deltoid muscle.

(iVoise), Headache.

(On rising). Pulsating pain in vertex.

(Stooping), Headache.

(Talking), Frontal headache.

(Walking), Lameness in back.

( Walking in ojoen air). Pain above temples.

( Wamn room). Pain in left arm.

Amelioration p. 234

(Leaning against something). Pain in back.

(Sitting), Backache.

( Touch), Pressing headache.

Carum aureum, Mentha and Hooker.

Thaspium aureum, Nutt. (Smyrnium aureum, Linn; Zizia aurea, Koch).

Natural order, Umbelliferae.

Common name. Meadow parsnips.

Preparation, Tincture of the root.

Authorities. (E. E. Marcy, M.D., North Am. Journ., vol. iv, 1855, p. 52). 1, Judge Gray says a gentleman chewed a piece of the root; 2, same, relates the case of a young lady who ate a large root; 3, Dr. Marcy, in a case of epilepsy the patient took more than the prescribed dose ; 4, Marcy himself took 5 drops 3d dil. every four hours, until some effects were produced, also two other gentlemen and one lady took the same dilution, and Dr. O. Fullgraff took 1st dil. and tincture; 5, Under inspection of M. E. Lazarus, M.D., Miss J. L., in her twenty-third year, has suffered in years past from dyspepsia, difficulties of kidneys, and from asthma, during two years past chiefly from occasional paroxysms of nervous and sick headache, with pains between shoulderblade, and disorders of uterine function, without serious organic change or displacement; at each inhalation 4 drops 3d dil. were added to 4 tablespoonfuls of water, and inhaled four times a day for six days, for ten minutes each time ; during a proving of four days the symptoms were like those she had often observed, but they all appeared in increased severity in the second proving; the actual state of health at time of beginning the second proving was good.

Unusual exhilaration of spirits

Exhilaration like intoxication (from the first dilution)

Exhilaration of all the faculties, followed by a strong desire to sleep

Sense of exhilaration, lasting twelve hours, and then succeeded by great depression, which lasted for several days

Laughing and weeping moods in alternation

Depression of spirits, with disgust of life

Depression of spirits, followed by great exhilaration and desire for conversation

Irritability, with lowness of spirits and indifference to everything

Nervous irritability and depression of spirits, which increase throughout the proving, and on the sixth evening culminate in a paroxysm of self-dissatisfaction, with weeping (after one day)

Indolence, with contentment (first day)

Dreamy, imaginative mood

The behavior throughout is quiet, with much apparent suffering and sadness

Giddiness p. 235

Swimming in the head,*; (first day)

Lightness and pain in the head

Rush of blood to the head and face, with feeling of fulness

Affections of the brain and nervous system

Sensation of tightness around the head

Headache sharp over the right eye, begins slightly on the second day and increases until the eighth. Pulsatilla 6°, which promptly relieves it on the third day, acts but feebly on the seventh. In its full development on the seventh day the headache is grievous, with nausea, inclination to bilious, vomiting, need to lie still in a darkened and quiet room ; light, noise, and jar aggravate; differs from the usual type only in the pain being permanent on the right side, instead of shifting. It abates twenty-four hours after discontinuing the inhalations, leaving much sensitiveness, a bitter taste in the mouth, and a susceptible and feeble stomach for several days longer. While inhaling the headache was worse in the evening; after stopping the inhalations its aggravations occurred in the morning, in accordance with the constitutional predisposition. When at its worst the pain descends behind the right ear into the neck ; it leaves the lips parched as from fever. It is consociated with severe backache, between or at the borders of the shoulderblade; the forehead is affected by a sharp cutting pain by the jar of coughing; on the ninth day after the cough pain had ceased in the chest,“.f

Sensations of tightness around the forehead and at the back of the head

Severe pain in the right temple, with nausea

Pressure upon the top of the brain

Acute aching pain in the whole left side of the head, increased by light or noise

Dull pains in the occipital region, extending down the muscles of the neck

Redness of both eyes

While both eyes exhibit a diffused injection, the right eye is more particularly the seat of painful and quite unaccustomed symptoms

Shooting pains through the orbits

Sharp pains in the right orbit, increased by moving the balls, by stooping or stepping

Eyelids adhere together on rising, in the morning, in consequence of a yellowish, mucopurulent secretion

Stye upon the right lid

A stye developed in the middle of the upper lid, and gave so much pain on the fourth day that she sought relief from an antidote, Carbo animalis; four doses at hour intervals relieved promptly, and in twenty-four hours the stye had vanished ; still the right eye continues burning, smarting, and weeping, and both eyes continue on the fifth day after stopping the inhalation very weak and painful if they are used at night

Smarting of the lids,k

Eyes watery,k

Eyes sensitive to light,k

Nasal catarrh, with sneezing and coughing, from the first inhalation

Nasal discharge of thick mucus

Catarrhal, asthmatic, and pleuritic maladies

Obstruction and soreness of the right nostril, which is painful to touch,k

The right nostril only is affected, it becomes sore and tender to the external touch ; consociated with this was observed a diffused injection of the mucous membrane covering the arches of the pharynx, with the ordinary sensations of catarrhal sore throat; the conjunctival membrane exhibited a similar diffused injection

Face p. 236

Face pale and puffy

The face exhibits throughout the proving a pale puffy state, quite morbid

Redness of one cheek and paleness of the other

Boring pains in the cheek-bones

Dull pains in the jaws

Painful tenderness over the lower jaw-bone, an inch below the root of the ear, observed only on the seventh day

Mouth p. 236

Redness of the tongue, with unusual sensitiveness to cold and warm drinks

Tongue covered with a whitish fur

Yellow fur upon the tongue, and oppressed respiration

The tongue was broad, furred in the middle and reddened at the tip and sides

Dryness of the mouth

Bitter taste

After the sick headache there was a bitter bilious taste in the mouth seventh day)

Throat p. 236

Increased secretion of mucus in the throat

Slight redness of the tonsils and palate, with soreness of the throat

Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx

Stomach p. 236

Appetite and T/first. Craving for acids and stimulants

Loss of appetite

The appetite diminished as the drug illness became more and more serious

Thirst

Thirst increased

Nausea and Vouiitiuif. Nausea

Nausea and vomiting, immediately

Acid and bilious vomiting

Violent vomiting, soon; the speedy discharge of the poison by vomiting enabled her to resist the toxical influence and regain her usual health in a few days

Storm(ieh. Stomach sensitive to touch

Pressure occasioning nausea and faintness

Sexual Organs p. 236

Male. Juvoluntaryemission for two nights in succession, while taking the drug

Excitement of the male genital organs

In one instance, where great lassitude and prostration had long been habitual after connection, the drug appeared to effect an entire change for the better

Sexual power enhanced

Female. Uterine affections characterized by increased vascular and nervous excitement

Bland and profuse leucorrhoea

Acrid leucorrhoea

* Leucorrhoea commences on the second day and continues, slight as to quantity, and at first acrid ; afterwards more bland and copious; this is a constitutional disorder, and was observed during both provings ; it ceased on the seventh day

Profuse menstrual discharge for one day, followed by an acrid leucorrhoea

The catamenia appeared in due time, but ceased after only twelve bours; this is altogether unusual with the prover

Sudden suppression of the menses

Respiratory Organs p. 236

Larix and Teaehea. Roughness in the upper portion of the larynx when inspiring or coughing

Raw and smarting sensation in the larynx from coughing

Sensitiveness of the trachea to touch

Cough aud Fpectoratlon. Dry cough, with shooting pains in the chest

Tight cough caused by taking a deep inspiration

Tight cough, excited by dryness of the larynx

Short, dry cough, attended with severe stitching pains in the right side, and a sense of suffocation

The cough is hard, dry, and short, with stitching pain on the right side, from the region beneath the sixth rib down as far as two inches below the xiphoid cartilage

JieSftirfftion. Respiration accelerated and oppressed

Oppressed respiration and yellow fur upon the tongue

Asthmatic respiration, with inability to retain the recumbent position

She cannot draw a full breath, without severe pain, in the latter days of the proving from the fourth day ; worst on the seventh, and sensible on the tenth ; it catches her about the sixth rib in front, and pieces through 10 the back, like the other pains, confined to the right side

Asthmatic group, not very severe or remarkable by other persons, but recognized by the prover as a reproduction of symptoms which have been latent for years. It is now six years since the critical acme and sudden disappearance of a chronic asthma. Since then she remembers only one short attack, about two years ago, merely a fit of half an hour. After each inhalation she felt almost stifled for about ten minutes, although the inhalation itself was made easily and freely. This annoyance augments as the proving proceeds, and becomes moi'e oonsfawt, though less severe, since discontinuing the inhalations. It is still felt on the thirteenth day, although faint}'. Its seat is central, beneath the sternum on a line with the axilla. There is no audible wheezing, yet the same sensations in the chest as during her former fits of asthma ; sometimes so serious as to keep her up for hours at night

Chest p. 237

The pleural symptoms are severe, painful, regularly developed from the first inhalations, reach their acme on the seventh day, and are still very troublesome on this, the tenth

Bruised feeling in the muscles of the chest

Pressure excites pain in the intercostal muscles

Over the xiphoid cartilage and at circumscribed spots on each side about the size of a fifty-cent piece, two inches below, there is painful tenderness to the external touch

Dull, aching pains under the right scapula

Severe shooting pain, extending from the front part of the thorax to the scapula

Sharp pains, extending from the sides of the chest to both shoulderblade

Severe stitching pains in the chest, accompanied by feverish symptoms

Pleuritic stitches in the right side, much increased by coughing, or taking or attempting to take a long breath

Back p. 237

The dorsal symptoms are painful, perhaps sympathetic with the uterine sphere; they begin to be felt on the second day of the proving, increase in severity until the seventh evening, and are still felt on the thirteenth day. They are ordinary with her at any time when her vitality is depressed, as by prolonged nervous headaches or other causes; she has no reason to expect them from any such cause before commencing the Zizia proving. Their seat is at the posterior lateral margins of the scapula, generally worst on the left side; during the inhalations it was the right side which chiefly suffered; since leaving off it is the left. The pains are aching, smarting, and stinging, when worst there is also aching in the small of the back

Dull pains in the loins, increased by movement

Smarting-burning pain in the small of the back

Superior Extremities p. 237

Lameness in the muscles of both arms, from the shoulders to the elbows

Pricking sensation in the right arm, with slight diminished sensibility of the part

Inferior Extremities p. 237

Dragging sensation in both hips

Unusually tired feeling of the legs, after the slightest muscular exertion

Generalities p. 237

Increased physical strength, with inclination for muscular exertion

The general aspect and sensations of the prover were those of a grave and chronic deterioration of health

White and puffy appearance of the whole body

[HO.] Surface of the whole body paler than natural

Face and ankles oederaatous

Convulsions, epilepsy

Spasms, swooning, and convulsions

Spasms, general convulsions, and fainting fits, immediately, which terminated in death at the expiration of three hours

Spasmodic movements of the muscles of the face and extremities

Great desire to move about, with apparent increase of strength, but slight exercise causes fatigue

Sensitiveness of the entire surface of the body to the touch

The pains of Zizia have been fixed; those to which the prover is at other times subject are oftener shifting

Pains increased by movement, noise, light, or contact

Most of the functional disturbances persist after ceasing the inhalations, and very generally abate during fifteen days

The exacerbation assumed the evening type. The morning is, on the contrary, the time at which the prover’s constitutional disorders are generally most severe

Stool p. 238

Itching pimples upon the forehead, wrists, and legs

Sleep p. 238

Drowsiness,*; (first day)

Drowsiness, with a sense of lassitude and fatigue

The sleep is sound until the sixth night, when it is prevented by pains

Spasmodic twitching during sleep

Talking during sleep

Sleep disturbed by unpleasant dreams

Fever p. 238

Chilli ness. Chilliness and heat, alternating with faintness, nausea, pain in the right temple, redness of the eyeballs, dry and red tongue, and thirst for cold water

Chilliness, accompanied with spasmodic twitchings of the muscles of the face and upper extremities, followed by fever

Heat. Fever, with headache, pain in the back, thirst

Feverish symptoms, accompanying severe stitching pains in the chest

Severe sense of heat and fulness in both cheeks

Flushed cheeks, hot head, visible pulsations of the carotid and temporal arteries, coldness of the hands and feet, drowsiness and irritability

Redness and heat of the cheeks (after 1 drop of 3d dil.)

Hot flushes in the face and head, followed by perspiration

Conditions p. 238

Aggravation.

(Evening'), Headache ; symptoms.

(Coughing), Pleuritic stitches in right side.

(Deep breath). Pleuritic stitches in right side.

(Light), Pain in left side of head ; pains.

(Motion), Pain in loins ; pains.

(Moving eyes), Pain in right orbit.

(Stepping), Pain in right orbit.

(Stooping), Pain in right orbit.

Footnotes p. 234

† The old name should be retained, especially as botanists differ in opinions whether it should now be Tliapsiuin (Gray), or Carum (Mentha and Hooker).

† This group is suspected to be sympathetic with the uterine, yet not wholly so, as there is a hereditary predisposition to headache, From the father’s side, from which only two members of a large family are exempt.