Illicium Anisatum
Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. VI, p. 181
Star Anise. Magnoliacese.
Tincture of the seeds.
Provings by Franz and Mure. See Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 5, p. 91.
Clinical, Authorities. — Infantile colic, Jeanes, Horn. Clinics, vol. 4, p. 132.
Inner Head
Pains in head ; > evenings, < mornings.
Hearing and Ears
Buzzing in ears.
Ringing in ears, followed by sleep.
Itching over 1. ear, going off when touching place.
Smell and Nose
Acute catarrh.
Watery discharge from nostrils.
Warm smarting sensation in nose, succeeded by sneezing.
Sharp stitches in tip of nose.
Lower Face
Stinging sensation in upper lip, as if blood would press out, > from touch.
Dryness of upper lip, which is drawn closer to teeth.
Burning in inner surface of lower lip, with sensation as if it had gone to sleep.
Taste and Tongue p. 182
Rye bread tastes good, its odor is refreshing.
▌ Tongue covered with aphthae; most on edges.
▌ Edges of tongue folded like little bags.
Throat p. 182
▌ Tough, viscid phlegm from stomach ; with old drunkards.
Eating and Drinking p. 182
Satiety, after eating but little.
All food, except rye bread, tastes too salty or bitter, yet appetite is good.
Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 182
Nausea in stomach, extends to chest, then ceases.
Nausea, with gagging and inclination to vomit.
Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 182
Bloating of stomach ; acidity.
Hypochondria p. 182
Pain in splenic region.
Abdomen p. 182
Three months' colic, especially if it recurs at regular hours; bowels disturbed.
▌ Violent wind colic.
Rumbling in abdomen.
Stool and Rectum p. 182
Stools: bilious; compact and dark colored.
Urinary Organs p. 182
Retention of urine.
Respiration p. 182
▌ Dyspncea in old asthmatics.
Cough p. 182
After coughing, feeling of emptiness.
▌ Frequent cough, with pain.
Spitting blood in small quantities and with pus-like phlegm, pain in r. chest.
Whitish expectoration.
Inner Chest and Lungs p. 182
▌ Tough, viscous phlegm, with old drunkards.
Pain in region of third rib, about one or two inches from sternum, generally on r. side, but occasionally left.
Pain about junction of third r. rib with its cartilage; hemorrhage; cough; congestion; enlarged liver.
Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 182
Palpitation, with aphthae and weakness.
Neck and Back p. 182
Cramp-like drawing, as from a cold, in 1. side of dorsal vertebrae.
Lower Limbs p. 182
Left thigh feels as if broken at middle, when sitting, ceases on rising.
Rest. Position. Motion p. 182
Sitting: L thigh feels as if broken at middle.
Rising: sensation as ifl. thigh was broken ceases.
Time p. 182
Morning: pains in head <.
Evenings: pains in head >.
Attacks, Periodicity p. 182
Three months' colic, especially if it recurs at regular hours.
Locality and Direction p. 182
Right: pain in chest; pain in region of third rib; pain about junction of third rib with its cartilage.
Left: itching over ear; occasionally pain in region of third rib; cramps like drawing in side of dorsal vertebrae; 1. thigh feels as if broken at middle.
Sensations p. 183
As if blood would press out of upper lip; as if lower lip had gone to sleep; cramp-like drawing as from a cold in 1. side of dorsal vertebrae; 1. thigh feels as if broken at middle.
Pain: in head; in splenic region; in r, chest; in region of third rib ; generally on r. side, but occasionally left ; about junction of third rib.
Sharp stitches: in tip of nose.
Violent wind colic.
Warm smarting sensation : in nose.
Stinging sensation : in upper lip.
Burning : in inner surface of lower lip.
Rumbling : in abdomen.
Dryness : of upper lip.
Itching : over 1. ear.
Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 183
Touch : itching ceases
▌ when touching place ; stinging sensation in upper lip.
Stages of Life, Constitution p. 183
Babies with three months' colic.
Old drunkards, catarrh of stomach.
Old asthmatics.
Relations p. 183
Compatible: after Aeon, and Bryon. in haemoptysis.