Armoracia Sativa
Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. I, p. 500
Vulgo Cochlearia. Brassicacece or Criiciferce.
The common horse-radish, a popular rubefacient, which has sometimes accidentally proved of great use, of course only when the symptoms corresponded. Proved by Dr. Franz, who introduced Asafoetida and Valeriana into our Materia Medica; printed in Staph 's Archives, Val. 17, No. 3, p. 176 ; later in the Gallican Journal, No. 3, p. 7. In this country applied and somewhat proved by Dr. Gate, Amer. Jour. Horn., Val. I., p. 336, 1851. In 1868 we got another more complete proving from one of our students, J. C. D., too modest to write his name on his treatise. Mind. ▌ Difficult thinking in the evening. Melancholy is changed into merry mood. Anxiety. θ Hydrothorax. See 28. Driven to despair, θ Cramp in stomach. Great irresoluteness, stupid feeling and inability to collect one's thoughts. Worse from nervous excitement, see 20 ; from vexation, see
Sensorium
Dullness of the head, is unable to collect his thoughts quick enough.
Buzzing in the head, with weakness, < forenoon and when walking.
• Syncope.
Inner Head
Dull pain in frontal sinus.
Sore, uneasy feeling in frontal sinus.
Dull, heavy headache.
Pressing, boring pain in the head, as if frontal bone would fall out.
Pressure deep in the brain, aggravated by opening the eyes (wide), but not by reading or motion.
Headache, now in one, then in another side of the head ; worse when opening the eyes widely.
Headache, with nausea ; < when sitting up.
▌ Violent headache, with vomiting.
▌ Acute pain in the head.
Outer Head
Fullness of frontal sinus and antrum highmore.
^ Sight and Eyes. Obscuration of the sight for some minutes.
Lachrymation.
Spots on the cornea.
Swelling of the eyes.
Inflammation of the Meibomian glands.
▌ Rheumatic ophthalmia.
Hearing and Ears p. 501
Pain in left ear, deep in.
' Nose. Sneezing.
Chronic catarrh.
▌ Inflammation of the nose. θ With eye complaints.
^ Face. Pale face.
Lower Face p. 501
Twitching of left corner of mouth, 4 A.M.
Soreness of upper lip.
Teeth and Gums p. 501
Toothache, especially of a rheumatic character.
Dull sensation in the teeth, as if they were soft and became bent on chewing.
│▌ Scurvy of salt eaters.
▌ Toothache in carious teeth, θ Scurvy.
Dental fistula.
Taste and Tongue p. 501
Slight metallic taste in mouth.
▌ Glossoplegia.
Dull pain in left sublingual gland for a few moments, followed by a flow of saliva.
Burning biting sensation on the tongue.
▌ Tongue furred whitish, θ Cramp in stomach.
Inner Mouth p. 501
Very offensive odor from the mouth and lungs. See 28.
▌ Clotted blood filled up the mouth, θ Apparent death.
Palate and Throat p. 501
Dryness of pharynx, larynx and posterior nares.
Scraping in the throat, with nausea.
Hawking up thick, viscid mucus, consisting of mucous corpuscles and plasma, with little granular matter.
Inflammation of the tonsils, with difficulty in swallowing.
▌ Warm water put in the mouth seemed to go no further than the throat, θ Apparent death.
Appetite p. 501
Little appetite for breakfast.
Fearful hungry feeling, unnatural craving for food, with profuse painless diarrhoea. See 20.
Eating and Drinking p. 501
Dyspepsia.
Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 501
Troublesome belching of a sulphurous odor similar to garlic.
Scraping in the throat, with nausea.
Slight nausea, with irritation of the pharynx.
Belching and vomiting of bilious fluid.
Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 501
Highly stimulant, exciting the stomach and promoting the secretions, especially of the stomach.
▌▌ From region of stomach the pain draws through both sides toward back. θ Cramp in stomach. See 31.
Dull pain or soreness at scrobiculum cordis.
▌ Violent cramp in stomach beginning toward morning, continually increasing, driving to despair ; goes from region of stomach through both sides around to the back. A slight pressure on the last dorsal vertebrae increases the pain very much.
▌ Cramp in stomach after taking cold.
Hypochondria p. 502
Crampy, tensive pain above the epigastrium, apparently in the diaphragm, relieved by bending forward.
Griping pain in the bowels (epigastric region) for a few moments upon lying down upon the back.
Colicky pains in the left side below the short ribs, similar to that which she has with her monthly, on the right side.
Abdomen and Loins p. 502
Spasmodic affection in abdomen.
Griping pain around the umbilicus.
▌ Tearing pain from the belly through to the back, down the back and settling in the sacrum.
Borborygmi in the morning.
▌ Loins ache.
Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 502
Stools increased in frequency.
Profuse painless diarrhoea, not sick with it, but craving food. See 14.
Twenty movements of her bowels in one day.
In the afternoon two stools, first profuse and thick, later less, not thin ; four or five times during the evening, with a great deal of straining ; very weakening.
After great nervous excitement, looseness, six or seven times during the afternoon, with much pain ; took gin to check it ; fever followed.
Tenesmus all night until morning, sometimes discharging a little blood.
▌ Mucous stools.
▌ Intestinal catarrh.
Involuntary passage of mucus from the anus.
Straining at anus, with burning and stinging.
▌ Itching and burning at the anus.
Urinary Organs p. 502
Uneasiness in region of kidneys, as if congested.
Increased inclination to urinate.
▌ Increased secretion of urine.
Urination eight or ten times daily, instead of four.
Urine pale and limpid.
Strangury very severe ; frequent and scanty urination ; water thick, like jelly on standing, yellowish color, although neither yellow nor white.
Ischuria and bloody urine.
Dysuria.
│ Gravel.
▌ Calculi.
Albuminuria.
▌ Nephritis albuminous, with great paleness, and atony of kidneys.
Frequent desire to urinate ; the urine is discharged with difficulty, causing burning, tenderness and inflammation of the urethra, as in the first (inflammatory) stages of gonorrhoea.
Male Sexual Organs p. 503
Impotence, torpidity.
Burning or cutting at the glans during micturition, felt also before or after.
▌▌ Inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea.
▌ Gonorrhoea, with violent smarting and burning, difficult micturition, and a rather scanty discharge from the urethra.
▌▌ Gonorrhoea, after cutting and Durning pains during micturition had been nearly removed by the 1st or 2d dilution, the 6*th acted with good effect.
▌ Chronic and neglected gonorrhoea.
Female Sexual Organs p. 503
During the night pieces of coagulated blood pass from the vagina.
When urinating stringy black blood from vagina.
Menses every ten or fifteen days.
Suppressed menses and chlorosis.
▌ Leucorrhoea and menostasis.
▌ Since climaxis, cramp in stomach.
Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 503
Milk tastes and smells like horse-radish.
▌ After a vexation of the mother the nursing child vomits the milk.
Voice and Larynx p. 503
▌ Loss of voice; whispering.
▌ Aphonia, with blood-spitting.
▌ Hoarseness and roughness in throat.
Dryness of larynx.
Used by singers to clear the throat.
Respiration p. 503
Oppression of breathing, with hoarseness ; scorbutus.
▌ Pituitous asthma.
Increases activity of respiratory organs.
Cough p. 503
Hard or loose cough, < from suppertime until going to bed.
Hawking up of thick, viscid mucus, consisting of mucous corpuscles, plasma, and but little granular matter.
▌ Pituitous consumption.
• It relieves cough and promotes expectoration.
Inner Chest and Lungs p. 503
Inflammation of the lungs.
Pleuritis, with painfulness in the scapular region, •< afternoon and leaning back.
│ After violent cough, hemorrhage and apparent death.
OEdema of the lungs.
Mucous asthma. See 44.
▌ During convalescence from pneumonia.
Relieved pressing, stitching in chest, bloody sputum, anxiety and oppression (external application).
Hearing and Ears p. 504
^No palpitation of the heart; apparent death.
▌ Pulse small. θ Cramp in stomach.
• Accelerates the pulse.
Outer Chest p. 504
Grasping pain in left side and both shoulders.
Chest painful to touch.
Neck and Back p. 504
Pain in back as from incarcerated flatulence.
▌ A slight pressure on the last dorsal vertebrae increases the pain exceedingly, θ Cramp in stomach. See 17.
▌ Pain from abdomen through to back and down into sacrum.
Upper Limbs p. 504
Painful twitchings in third left phalanx.
Lower Limbs p. 504
Pain at the adductors of both thighs, upper part ; it almost drags her to pieces.
Twitching in leg (right), outside of tibia, middle third.
Pain in left gastrocnemius.
Twitching in right foot, third metatarsal tendon.
▌ Suppressed foot-sweats.
Limbs in General p. 504
Toward morning pains in all the joints when lying still; ▌< lying on the side; pass off on motion and when getting up.
Rest. Position. Motion p. 504
Toward morning pain in all the limbs when lying still, worse when lying on the side, pass- ▌ ing off on motion and when getting up.
Bending forward : >> cramp. See 18.
Lying on side: pains in joints <C-
Lying on back : pain in bowels.
Motion : pains in every joint better.
Rest: pains in every joint worse.
Nerves p. 504
General prostration, θ With backache. -
\ Palsy.
▌ Apparent death after a hemorrhage from lungs, with a child suffering from whooping-cough.
It raises the vital forces w^hen sunken to the lowest degree.
▌▌ Asphyxia.
Sleep p. 504
Sleep very refreshing.
Heavy sleep.
Awoke with a clearer mind than usual.
Sleepless nights, with bearing down in abdomen. See 19.
Time p. 504
Night : tenesmus ; coagulated blood from vagina.
Morning: borborygmi ; pains in joints ; Cramp in stomach worse.
Afternoon : 4 p.m. twitching of corner of mouth ; stools, see
Evening : difficult thinking ; stools ; cough.
Temperature and Weather p. 504
After a cold: cramp in stomach. See 17.
Fever p. 505
│ Increases warmth, local and general exhalation.
Causes perspiration.
': Intermittent fever.
Locality and Direction p. 505
Right : twitching in leg ; in foot.
Left : pain deep in ear ; corner of mouth twitches ; dull pain in sublingual gland ; grasping pain in side and shoulders ; third phalanx, painful twitches ; pain in gastrocnemius.
Pain draws from stomach through sides to back.
Sensations p. 505
Bloated sensation as if everything was distended without being actually larger.
Externally applied, causes violent pains.
Stitches: inchest. See 28.
Cutting : and burning during micturition.
Burning : and biting on tongue ; — and stinging at anus ; — and itching at anus ; in urethra ; — and cutting in glans.
Pressing : and boring in head, see 3 ; deep in brain ; in chest, see 28.
Tearing pains : from belly through back into sacrum.
Grasping pain : in 1. side and both shoulders ; in r. foot.
Griping : in bowels.
Cramp : in stomach ; crampy, tensive pain above epigastrium.
Soreness : of upper lip ; at scrobiculum cordis.
Sore, uneasy feeling : in frontal sinus.
Scraping : in throat.
Smarting : and burning, gonorrhoea.
Aching: in loins; in all joints toward morning.
Rheumatic toothache.
Dull pain: in frontal sinus; in teeth, as if soft; in 1. sublingual gland ; at scrobiculum cordis.
Undefined pain : in head ; in 1. ear ; with looseness of bowels ; in scapular region ; in back ; in adductors of thighs ; in 1. gastrocnemius.
Dullness : of head.
Uneasiness : in region of kidneys.
Fullness : frontal sinus and antrum.
Buzzing : in head.
Twitching: 1. corner of mouth; in third 1. phalanx, painful; in r. leg.
Dryness : pharynx, larynx and nares.
Itching : at anus.
Tissues p. 505
Pain in all the joints. See 34.
▌▌ Rheumatism, wandering, chronic. See 10.
Gout ; also its suppression, followed by colic and retention of urine (used in foot-bath). See 19.
▌▌ Antiscorbutic. See also 10, 46.
" Mucous " diseases. See 7, 13, 20, 21, 27, 28.
Torpid, chronic catarrhs.
Anasarca after intermittents. See also 28.
▌ Dropsy, with albuminuria.
▌ After pneumonia, during reconvalescence.
▌ Beginning enteritis.
▌ Beginning pleuritis.
Chronic catarrhs.
Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 506
Touching the abdomen and small of back gives pain which extends into the r. leg.
Chest painful to touch.
Slight pressure on back : < cramp. See 31.
Skin p. 506
The rubefacient effect is shorter than that of mustard.
The skin is reddened and irritated, sometimes blisters are formed.
Erysipelatous affections (the leaves).
Eruptions of skin.
Freckles and liver-spots.
Scorbutic ulcers.
Stages of Life, Constitution p. 506
A stout woman, get. 40, subject to cramps in stomach ; violent attack with backache.
▌ A woman suffering from violent headache, with vomiting, since the climaxis. θ Cramp in stomach.
▌•^ Relationship. Useful in scurvy of salt eaters.
Contains an etheric oil, very similar, if not identical with Sinapis.
Comparable with : Oanthar., Capsic, Rhus tox. and Sinap.
Juniper berries antidote bladder and urinary complaints.
Took gin for the colic, and for the fever following it, Bellad. See 20.
Eating horse-radish, after Merc. sol. had been given, was followed by an aggravation of pain in hips, which was followed by a lasting improvement.
Similar to tea, see 43, first symptom.
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