Gnaphalium Polycephalum
Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. V, p. 433
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Sensorium
Giddiness, especially after rising from recumbent position.
Inner Head
Fulness about temples.
Dull, continuous pain in back of head, with shooting pain in eyeballs.
Upper Face
Dull, heavy expression; face appears bloated.
Neuralgic pain, of an intermittent form, of superior maxillary of both sides.
Taste and Tongue
Flat, sweetish, sickening taste in mouth.
Tongue covered with long, white fur.
Inner Mouth
Mouth feels parched and tastes badly.
Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting
Flatus of stomach, windy eructations, nausea and hiccough.
Abdomen
Colic pains in various parts of abdomen, which is sensitive to pressure, in caecum.
Borborygmus, with emission of much flatus.
Stool and Rectum
Rumbling in bowels with stool before breakfast.
Looseness of bowels, with passage of pale-colored feces.
▌ Diarrhoeic discharges in morning and during day, with irritable temper; pains in bowels in children.
Copious, watery stool at night, with much prostration, nausea, pain and rumbling in bowels.
Dark-colored, liquid, offensive stool in morning, afterwards pain in bowels all day.
▌ Vomiting and purging, like cholera morbus, in the night and all next day.
Constipation for three days after the diarrhoea.
Urinary Organs
Pain in kidneys, with frequent slight pain in prostate gland.
Sensation of fulness and tension in bladder, even when just emptied.
Male Sexual Organs p. 434
Increase of sexual passion, waking with an erection and urgent desire for an embrace; the desire was rather mechanical than passional.
││ Irritation of prostate gland.
Inner Chest and Lungs p. 434
Pains in chest, darting from side to side.
Neck and Back p. 434
Numbness of lower part of back, with lumbago.
Sensation of weight in pelvis.
Upper Limbs p. 434
Feeling of debility in anus, with rheumatic pains.
Lower Limbs p. 434
Pains dull or darting, or cutting from r. hip-joint j)Posteriorly downward to foot; < lying down, from motion, stepping; > sitting in chair.
▌ Intense pain along sciatic nerve, following its larger ramifications.
▌ Sciatica,
▌ Feeling of numbness occasionally taking j^lace of sciatic pains, making exercise very fatiguing.
Rheumatic pains in knee and ankle-joints.
Frequent cramps of calves of legs.
Cramps of feet in bed.
▌ Gouty pains in big toes.
Rest. Position. Motion p. 434
Lying down : pain from hipjoint to foot <.
Sitting in chair: pain from hip-joint to foot >.
After rising from recumbent position : giddiness.
Motion: pain from hip-joint to foot <.
Stepping: j^ain from hip-joint to foot <.
Exercise very fatiguing : from numbness in lower limbs.
Time p. 434
Morning : diarrhoeic discharges ; dark-colored, liquid, offensive stool.
During day : diarrhoeic discharges ; pain in bowels.
Night: copious, watery stool ; vomiting and purging.
Attacks, Periodicity p. 434
Intermittent : neuralgic pains in face.
Three days: constipation.
Locality and Direction p. 434
Right : dull, or darting, or cutting pain from hip-joint to foot.
Sensations p. 434
Pain: in bowels; in kidneys; in prostate gland ; in chest.
Intense pain : along sciatic nerve.
Cutting pain: from r. hip-joint to foot.
Darting pains : from side to side in chest ; from r. hipjoint to foot.
Shooting pain : in eyeballs.
Neuralgic pain: of superior maxillary.
Gouty pains : in big toes.
Rheumatic pains: in limbs; in knees and ankle-joints.
Colic pains : in various parts of abdomen.
Cramps : of calves of legs ; of feet.
Dull, continuous pain: in back of head, from r. hip-joint to foot.
Lurhbago.
Irritation : of prostate gland.
Weight : in pelvis.
Fulness : about temples ; in bladder.
Tension : in bladder.
Debility : in arms.
Numbness : of lower part of back ; in limbs.
Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 435
Pressure: abdomen sensitive.
▌^^ Relations. Compare: A7ds. stel., Chamom., Ipec, 3Iercur., Pulsat., Xantlwx.