Sarracenia Purpurea

Pitcher plant. Sarraceniacese.

Grows in boggy places from Canada southward.

The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant.

Proved b}' Parched, Duncan, Thomas, Hale's New Remedies, 1867 ; Cigliano, Am. Obs., 1871.

Cmnicai. Authorities. — Visual disorder, Berridge, N. A. J, H., vol. 22, p. 194; Phlyctenoid herpes, Erica, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 3, p. 78 ; Variola, Martin, Mowremans, Eaue's Kee, 1875, p. 287 ; Smallpox, Renshaw, A. H. O., vol. 2, p. 234 ; Use in smallpox, Cigliano, A. H. O., vol. 8, p. 467 ; Easton, vol. 1, p. 135.

Mind

Melancholia, anxious about everything.

Great depression of spirits from frontal headache.

Brain clearer, buoyant spirits.

│▌ Dulness of head, loss of memory, insensibility of r. side; paralysis of hearing and smell.

Want of memory with the headache.

Difficult to concentrate the attention, forgetful ; feels dull and heavy; urine sp. gr. 1020; perspires freely.

Sensorium

Head feels dull and heavy.

Feels light-headed.

Vertigo : with cramps in neck, spreading to forehead ; especially at night; sensation as if he received a knock on head, with vertigo, stupor and vacillating gait; he is obliged to support himself or else to lie down ; with drowsiness in head and contractions in spinal column.

Inner Head

Frontal headache, low-spirited.

Head dull and aches at coronal region.

Severe headache in afternoon for two hours.

Full feeling through head just above ears.

Headache with chills, nausea, vomiting ; dim sight, surring in ears.

Pulsations and burning heat of head with sensation as if it would split.

Outer Head p. 223

Head is hot and aches.

Head and body warm.

Soreness of frontal bone.

Pruritus and heat of scalp.

Sight and Eyes p. 223

Eyes weak.

Dim sight, headache.

││ Gas flame seems a brilliant yellow ring, the two not being distinct ; he sees black objects moving with the eye.

Great photophobia.

Soreness of r. optic nerve, just behind eyeball.

Pain in 1. eye as if congested, on waking.

P]yes feel swollen and sore.

Eyes and lids inflamed.

Increased mucous secretion.

Cutting, penetrating pains in orbits.

Hearing and Ears p. 223

Surring in ears.

Sticking pains deep in r. ear; transient but recurring often ; same in 1. ear.

Intense otalgia, fears he will lose his senses.

Swelling of parotids.

Smell and Nose p. 223

Fetid smell.

Epistaxis nearly producing fainting.

Fluent coryza, with cold chills and loss of smell.

Foul-smelling, green-yellowish or bloody discharges.

Nose swollen, red, with pressure and pulsation at root.

Upper Face p. 223

Face flushed.

Heat and redness of face.

Face pale, with heat and chill alternating.

Erysipelatous swelling of face.

Miliary eruption on face with heat as if it were on fire.

Scaly herpes on face and forehead.

Lower Face p. 223

Intense neuralgic pains from temples to jaws.

Taste and Tongue p. 223

Tongue dry.

Tongue coated brownish white.

Inner Mouth p. 223

Mouth dry.

Lips and mouth parched.

Throat p. 223

Dryness of throat not relieved by tea or water, borborygmi.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 223

││ Hungry all the time, even after a meal.

││ Appetite unusually active, but there was a sense of pain about stomach like that after inflammation or that in an overtaxed muscle.

Bat little appetite, yet what is eaten agrees with him; urine 1018 ; pulse 71 ; sweats feel}'.

Eating and Drinking p. 224

Great desire to slee[) during eating.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 224

Copious painful vomiting frequently after meals, with lightness from stomach to back and colicky pains.

Vomiting of bile mixed with blood.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 224

Empty, hungry feeling; for he can keep nothing on his stomach.

Burning pains in his stomach, with palpitations and contractions.

Pinching pains in stomach ; it feels distended and torn.

Abdomen p. 224

After going to bed, whole abdominal region was in commotion, extending along tract of ascending and descending colon, all in a kind of rolling motion ; epigastrium tender on pressure.

Some transient pains in bowels.

Bloated about navel.

Borborygmi and some pain in bowels with constipation ; dry throat.

Stool and Rectum p. 224

Much flatus.

First part of stool natural, last diarrhoeic.

Much tenesmus ; d3'enteric diarrhoea.

Stool at first costive, then dark, offensive, soluble.

Costive; stools very hard, covered with mucus and dark.

Stool copious, dark, fetid, evacuated with great straining; morning.

Diarrhoeic stools mixed with glairy mucus, bile and blood ; anorexia, prostration and painfully strong palpitation.

Rectum and anus swollen and inflamed.

Morning diarrhoea ; faint after stool, which is dark, often mixed with blood, foul-smelling or smelling of musk ; bloatedness with colic.

Morning diarrhoea ; bloatedness with colic ; faintness after stool which is dark, often mixed with blood ; foul-smelling or of the odor of musk.

Urinary Organs p. 224

Awoke 3 a.m. with urging to urinate; bladder so full it overcame resistance of sphincter and dribbled away.

Voided 27 oz. of urine ; sp. gr. 1024 ; vesical tenesmus.

Urine increased, limpid, colorless, scarcely any sediment even after several hours.

Urine responds to tests for phosphates, earthy phosphates and chloride of sodium.

Urine copious, a little cloudy ; sp. gr. 1030 (cloudy from mucus) ; pale yellow.

Urine scanty, limpid, 1025.

Female Sexual Organs p. 225

Watery or milky leucorrhoea, thick, whitish, foul-smelling with spasmodic pains in uterus ; pulsative pains in womb with swelling as if from a tumor or dropsy ; uterus swollen as if full of cysts, especially on r. side ; neck of womb swollen and hot ; miliary eruption and heat in vulva ; blood}' discharge at other times than menstrual period as during climaxis.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 225

Phthisis pulmonalis and bronchial affections, joined to or depending on a psoric state; hæmoptysis, thick cough ; continual tickling in larynx and bronchi ; cough, with desire to vomit and vomiting, paroxysms of suffocation and epistaxis; hard cough, shaking chest and bowels and stopping only after expectorating a quantity of compact mucus, tenacious, filamentous with a bitter, putrid, oily taste.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 225

Feeling of congestion about head, with irregularity of heart's action.

Congestion to chest, heavy feeling about heart.

Slight palpitation in morning.

Pulse: full and strong; 68, general malaise; rose to 100 before morning ; 61, very small ; quick, 80.

Outer Chest p. 225

Slight soreness of whole pectoralis major ; pain ran up r. trapezius muscle with a wavelike motion ; lumbar heat ; pulse 70, full ; bloated feeling at navel (probably from flatus).

Pain in angle of ribs for half an hour.

Neck and Back p. 225

Warm sensation passed up back into head.

Weak between and below shoulders.

Back weak, wants to lean on something.

Arms and back tired and sore all over.

Deep-seated pain in back.

Heat in whole r. lumbar region.

Pain and soreness in sacrum.

Upper Limbs p. 225

Paroxysms of pain in r. shoulder joint, pain in 1. carpus and tarsus; face flushed.

Arms feel weak.

Bruised feeling from shoulders to hands.

Aching, sore pain in 1. humerus.

Bones in both arms pain.

Lower Limbs p. 225

Pain in hip joints < rising to feet from a lying posture.

Paroxysms of weakness in coxo-femoral joint with pains of luxation and fear of falling when trying to walk.

Strange lameness in femur, lower third, < in inner condyle.

Pain in condyles of femur.

Wavelike motion in muscles of femur.

Sensation of fatigue in bones of legs as if they were too thick.

Bruised ami luxated feeling in joints.

Pain in r. patella and metatarsal bones.

Knees feel weak.

Bruised pain in knees as after a fall; he falls easily on his knees.

Bone pains in tibia and fibula ; intermittent, Ijut bones continually sore.

Bones of feet inflamed ; nodes as in gout.

Limbs in General p. 226

Limbs cold when still as from deficient circulation.

Limbs easily benumbed.

Weakness of limbs with paralytic debility.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 226

Wants to lean on something ; weakness of back.

Rising to feet from a lying posture: pain in hip joint <.

Trying to walk : fear of falling.

Nerves p. 226

Debility, wants to lie down all the time.

Languid, heavy.

Time p. 226

Morning : stool with great straining ; diarrhoea ; slight palpitation ; feverish, with shaking chills.

Afternoon : severe headache.

Night: cramps in neck <.

Temperature and Weather p. 226

In open air : chilly, hands and feet cold ; head hot and sore, feels full.

Cold air : makes him feel chilly and increases bone pains.

Fever p. 226

Feverish, with shaking chills < in morning.

Skin hot and dry.

Hands hot, warm all over ; cold air makes him feel chilly and increases bone pains, especially in knees.

Hot, feverish ; pulse 80, small and quick.

Attacks, Periodicity p. 226

Alternating : heat and chill.

For half an hour : pain in angle of ribs.

For two hours : headache in forenoon.

▌*^ Locality and Direction. Right : insensibility of side ; soreness of optic nerve ; pain deep in ear ; uterus swollen ; pain up trapezius muscle ; heat in lumbar region ; pain in shoulder joint ; pain in patella and metatarsal bones.

Left: pain in eye; pain in ear; pain in carpus and tarsus; pain in humerus.

▌*' Sensations. As if he received a knock on head ; as if head would split ; 1. eye as if congested ; heat in face as if on fire ; swelling in womb as if from a tumor or dropsy ; uterus swollen as if full of cysts ; as if bones of legs were too thick.

Pain: in 1. eye; in bowels; up r. trapezius muscle; in angle of ribs; in sacrum; in r. shoulder joint; in 1. carpus and tarsus; in bones of arms; in hip joints; in condyles of femur ; in r. patella and metatarsal bones ; in tibia and fibula.

Intense neuralgic pains: from temples to jaws.

Severe pain : in head.

Cutting, penetrating pains : in orbits.

Pinching pains : in stomach.

Spasmodic pains : in uterus.

Pulsative pains : in womb.

Deep-seated pain : in back.

Sticking pains : deep in r. ear.

Aching, sore pain : in 1. humerus.

Burning pains : in his stomach.

Cramps : in neck to forehead.

Aching : at coronal region.

Soreness: of frontal bone; of r. optic nerve; of pectoralis major ; of back and arms ; in sacrum.

Bruised feeling: from shoulders to hands; in joints; in knees.

Burning heat : of head.

Pulsations : in head ; at root of nose.

Wavelike motion : in muscles of femur.

Pressure : at root of nose.

Heaviness : of head ; about heart.

Full feeling : through head.

Dryness : of tongue ; of mouth ; of throat.

Tickling: in larynx and bronchi.

Dulness : of head.

Luxated feeling : in joints.

Strange lameness : in femur.

Heat: in vulva; in whole r. lumbar region.

Warm sensation : up back into head.

Light feeling : in head.

Weakness: between and below shoulders; of back; in coxo-femoral joint ; of knees ; of limbs.

Tissues p. 227

Bones feel heavy, sore.

Bones pain, especially cervical and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and femur, < in inner condyle and great trochanter.

Phlegmonous swelling with a rosy tint on various parts.

Skin p. 227

││ Poly ctenoid herpes,

▌ Psoriasis.

▌ Scrofulous eruptions.

▌ Variola (decoction taken when eruption is out and beginning to pustulate aborts secondary fever, pitting).

▌ Fever becomes less, delirium vanishes, pains lessen, eruption develops sooner and matures rapidly, desiccating without leaving pits.

▌ Eruption out, pustules dissipate, first on face, fever lessens, urine though scanty and dark becomes abundant and pale ; strength returns.

▌ Arrests pustules, killing as it were the virus from within preventing pitting.

▌ Constitutional symptoms in three or four days subside.

▌ Even confluent forms are helped, little or no pitting following.

▌ Relieves restlessness, sleeplessness during variola.

││ A woman far advanced in pregnancy was cured of smallpox with Sarrac. 3, 6th and 9th, her accouchement being happih' accomplished during her convalescence, the babe bearing upon its body numerous red blotches, indicating that it had been similarly affected at the same time with the mother.

││ An infant a few months old was attacked with a grave form of smallpox, with variolous angina, so severe that it was with difficulty it could take the breast ; the mother took Sarrac. 3, 6th and 9th, continued to nurse the infant,, which promptly recovered from the disease, and the mother did not take the disorder, notwithstanding the immediate and constant contact of the child.

││ In an epidemic occurring in the environs of Wave it was given to more than two thousand persons living in the very middle of the disease and coming in constant intercourse with it, but all who took it escaped the disease ; during the same time more than two hundred cases were treated by the same remedy without the loss of a single patient.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 228

Man, set. 35, sanguino-bilious temperament, suffering a long time ; phlyctenoid herpes.

Relations p. 228

Antidoted by : Podophyl. (diarrhoea).