Chimaphila Maculata

Spotted Wintergreen. Pyroleacese. Grows in the woods of North America. Proved by George H. Bute on himself and members of his family, also clinically verified by him. Provings by Dr. H. P. Mitchell in A. 0., v. 13, p. 75, 1876. Prof. H. C. Wood in his Materia Medica, p. 476, pronounces it "the inert congener of Chimaphila umbellata." The United States Dispensatory, Wood and Bache, says, " it probably possesses similar virtues." The umbellata and the maculata, although easily distinguished, have been strangely mixed up, or still more strangely separated. By some the maculata has been pronounced inert The Indians declared it to be poisonous. If the latter opinion rests on correct observation and experience, it could only be explained by the supposition that the maculata has volatile properties which the other has not. Both the Chimaphila maculata and umbellata are old Indian and popular medicines. They were proved by Jeanes and G. Bute as long ago as 1840 and 1856. It was particularly the latter prover who began to separate the symptoms of the two. The Indian doctors used only the umbellata and avoided the maculata, which they thought poisonous, a difference which to us would be a recommendation. Farrington, Flora Cestrica, says, "maculata possesses properties similar to the umbellata, but in a lesser degree." Rafinesque, a good authority, regards the effect in sickness, preferring maculata (mentioned in his Look as a Pyrola), and gives each to a different sub-genus, calling the maculata Chimaphila and the umbellata Pipsissewa.

Sensorium

Momentary unconsciousness.

▌ Sudden headache with dimness of vision; she had to be led to bed; felt light headed.

Inner Head

Sensation of lightness in head.

Pressing frontal headache ; < after lying down.

▌ Sudden headache above eyes; < on lying down.

▌ Frontal headache with fulness in stomach and belching.

Pain in and above forehead.

Rheumatic tearing pain in temples.

Dull, heavy pain in whole front and top of the head.

Sharp pains and heat in interior of head, unfitting for exertion.

Wants the head pressed.

Headache with pain in bowels.

* It is against the genius of the Greek language to spell Kreosote with an a

(see Gross' Comparative Materia Medica), and a scholar will never adopt such

Bailliornian improvements (see N. J. Lucas' Dictionary of English and German

Language, v. 2, p. 239), and yet we find the same blunder, in a reversed form,

committed in spelling the Greek name of this dear little wintergreen.

Sight and Eyes p. 46

Inflammation of eyes, with secretion of mucus.

Whites of eyes yellow.

Hearing and Ears p. 46

Pressive pain, as from a swelling, extending from r. ear downwards, with toothache.

Teeth and Gums p. 46

▌ Toothache; < during eating.

Throat p. 46

Tensive pain in throat on swallowing.

││ Sore throat and swollen tonsils.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 46

No desire for food.

Extreme gnawing hunger.

No thirst, even during fever.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 46

Nausea accompanies colic.

Nausea, with inclination to vomit without being able to do so.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 46

Stitches in scrobiculum.

The acid of fruit produces pain in stomach.

Cutting pain in stomach.

Heaviness in stomach.

Abdomen p. 46

Griping in abdomen, with nausea and lassitude in all the limbs.

Colic and flatulent distension, with drowsiness and sensation as if abdomen would burst, after supper.

Colic, with nausea.

Sensation of a heavy stone in abdomen; severe griping, with repeated stabbing pains upward, followed by diarrhoea.

Colic-like pains between pubes and navel.

Pain in bowels.

Bowels hard and swollen; thinks the glands are swollen.

Bowels very painful, sore and hard.

Feels as if there was dropsy of abdomen.

Stool and Rectum p. 46

Colicky pain after stool.

Diarrhoeic stool containing air-bubbles.

Grey stool.

▌ Diarrhoea accompanying worm fever.

After the colic pains, a diarrhoea, not very weakening.

Urinary Organs p. 46

Had to rise twice a night to urinate.

Urine cloudy and red after standing.

Male Sexual Organs p. 46

Excitement of sexual system.

Female Sexual Organs p. 46

Stinging in labia, as if boils were there.

Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia p. 46

Feeling of roughness in throat when talking.

Feeling of soreness and dryness in larynx.

Hawking of tough mucus from larynx in morning.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 46

Angina with stupor.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 46

Blood as if heated, with prickling.

▌'^^ Neck and Back. Feels as if neck was tired and too small.

Sweat on back, with sensitiveness to cold air in morning.

Needle-like pains in sacrum and similar pains in hip bone.

Upper Limbs p. 47

Sensation in armpits, as if boils were there.

Sensation of swelling in armpits; pain from armpits to scapulae.

Pain in bones of forefinger.

Right arm as if paralyzed.

Lower Limbs p. 47

Chilliness of knees.

Cold, damp feet in evening.

Painful stiffness in r. hip and leg as if bruised, at 5 p.m.

Pain as if beaten in calf and thigh, going downward in r. leg and coming up in left.

Pain in r. foot,- extending to knee and afterwards into thigh.

Limbs in General p. 47

Weakness in all the limbs.

Limbs feel full as if distended; a feeling like that from erysipelas.

Pains as if in all the bones.

▌''^ Rest. Position. Motion. Lying down: headache <.

Exertion: < headache.

Nerves p. 47

Very nervous; cannot bear anything at all.

Hot, irritable, restless.

Time p. 47

At night: rose twice to urinate; dry heat.

Morning: hawking of tough mucus.

5 P.M. : painful stiffness in r. hip and leg.

Evening: cold, damp feet.

Temperature and Weather p. 47

Feels better in a warm room without being chilly.

Fever p. 47

Dry heat during night.

Fever, with burning hot skin and thirst.

Exceedingly hot, as if blood boiling, but cannot sweat.

*"^ .Locality and Direction: Sensation as of something passing downward on r. side of body and coming up again on 1., within the space of an hour.

Beaten feeling goes down r. leg and comes up left.

Going upward : pain from r. foot to knee and thigh.

Right : pressive pain from ear downwards ; arm feels paralyzed; painful stiffness in hip and leg.

Sensations p. 47

As if boils were in labia and in armpits; as if neck was tired and too small; as if beaten, in calf and thigh; as if distended, limbs, like erysipelas; as if blood were boiling or on fire ; as of something passing down r. side of body and up left.

Pain : in and above forehead ; in bowels, with headache ; in throat; in stomach; in bowels; from armpits to scapulae; in bones of forefinger; in r. foot, knee and thigh; in bones.

Sharp pain : in head.

Stitches: in scrobiculum.

Stabbing: upward in abdomen.

Cutting: in stomach.

Stinging: in labia.

Needle-like pains : in sacrum and hip bone.

Prickling: in blood.

Griping: in abdomen.

Colic pains : between pubes and navel ; after stool.

Rheumatic tearing: in temples.

Pressure : frontal headache, as from a swelling from r. ear downward.

Soreness : in throat ; in larynx.

Tensive pain: in throat.

Swelling sensation : in armpits.

Fulness: in stomach.

Lightness: in head.

Painful stiffness: in r. hip and leg as if bruised.

Heaviness: in stomach; as of a stone in abdomen.

Roughness: in throat.

Heat: in head.

Chilliness: of knees.

Paral^zed feeling: in r. arm.

Dryness: in larynx.

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 48

Wants head pressed.

Skin p. 48

Exceedingly hot as of blood boiling, but cannot sweat.

Thinks diseased state of the blood irritates the skin, as before the eruption of erysipelas, scarlet fever, or measles ; itches terribly.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 48

Adapted to mild, amiable, refined, sensitive, intellectual persons.