Sanicula aqua
By- VERMEULEN Frans,
Sanicula aqua
Sanic.
Nothing is permanent but change.
[Heraclitus]
Signs
Sanicula Spring Water. Sanicula aqua.
SUBSTANCE Not to be confounded with Sanicula europaea, which is a herbaceous plant in the Umbelliferae, Sanicula aqua is derived from the Sanicula Spring Water of Ottawa, Illinois, USA. An analysis of the water at that time showed it to contain 170 grains of solid matter to the gallon, 92 of which were sodium chloride. The analysis, made by Prof. Silliman in the 1880s, "the highest authority in the land," showed the water to contain the following constituents [in grains per one U.S. standard gallon of 231 cubic inches, which equals 3.785 litres]: sodium chloride [92.7995 grains], calcium chloride [23.5699], magnesium chloride [23.2687], calcium bicarbonate [14.3494], calcium sulphate [9.6236], potassium sulphate [5.1246], sodium bicarbonate [0.9776], silica [0.5394], sodium bromide [0.3220], iron bicarbonate [0.0979], sodium iodide [0.0826], alumina [0.0117], sodium phosphate [0.0045], lithium bicarbonate [trace], borax [trace], organic matter [trace]. In a report on the analysis, Prof. Silliman writes: "I find your springs on the south bank of the Illinois river, where it now fills a large well or fountain built of masonry to receive its flow. This well is eight feet in diameter by about four feet in depth, covered by a neat pavilion. This artificial fountain is a beautiful well of living water of an agreeable and slightly saline taste. It is constantly visited by throngs of people collecting and drinking its waters, or prompted by curiosity to witness so fine a source of health and happiness. It is entirely without odour or colour, and there is scarcely any discolouration or deposit from it on the stones.
repeated trials with an accurate thermometer I find its temperature to be 56.5o F at the lowest point where the water flows from the rocks, and 57o in the well when the outer air has 75o F, the mean temperature of Ottawa climate being 48.5o F, giving a difference of 8o higher temperature for the spring water, which is therefore a thermal spring, drawing its waters from a considerable depth. ... The proportion of those potent elements, Bromine and Iodine, to the total solid contents in the Sanicula Water is considerable. This is particularly true of the Iodine, which exists in larger proportion to other mineral contents in the water of the Sanicula Spring than that of the far-famed Saratoga or Ballston waters of Saratoga county in New York. ... It is evident from this comparison [with ten of the most prominent springs in the east] that the Sanicula Waters are exceptionally rich in Iodine in comparison with other mineral waters renowned for their supposed pre-eminence in this particular constituent."1 According to Grandgeorge, the Sanicula spring has dried up since a freeway was built in the vicinity.
MINERAL WATERS As officially defined under EEC regulations, 'natural mineral water' originates in an underground water table or deposit and is extracted for human consumption from the ground through a spring, well, or other exit. A low mineral content water must not contain more than 500 mg of mineral salts per litre. A water rich in mineral salts must contain more than 1500 mg of mineral salts per litre. 2 [Containing approximately 292 mg of mineral salts per litre, Sanicula water would be a low mineral content water.] Dipping, pumping or drinking mineral waters at spas has been popular for centuries as a remedy for various complaints, particularly for rheumatism or gout, skin diseases, and gastrointestinal complaints. It is therefore hardly surprising that the homoeopathic materia medica contains as many as 22 'remedies' made of spring waters.
HOMOEOPATHY Most of the mineral waters used in homoeopathy have not received any proving; their symptoms were obtained by drinking the water and/or by bathing in it by either patients or provers. The details below, in alphabetical order per country, are derived from Jörg Wichmann and Angelika Bolte's valuable book The Natural Relationship of Remedies, and from Allen's Encyclopedia.
• Austria: [1] Gastein Aqua [hot springs of Bad Gastein] - symptoms from bathing and drinking the water. The waters contain lithium, manganese, phosphoric acid, fluorine, cesium, and trace amounts of radium [radon gas]. [2] Hall Aqua [salt spring of Hall in Tirol] - effects from drinking small amounts of the water, chiefly observed on patients suffering from goitre. [3] Voeslau [mineral spring at Voeslau] - effects of drinking the water.
• Czech Republic: [1] Karlsbad Aqua [mineral water from the Sprudel - a geyser - and Muhlbrünnen springs in Karlovy Vary] - effects from bathing and drinking the water. These springs were believed to do wonders for people with gastrointestinal disorders. "In my family Karlsbad was known as the miracle cure for people who had lived well but not wisely. After eating all the good things for eleven months one would spend three weeks in Karlsbad, drink the terrible waters, lose weight, and one was in fine shape again for another eleven months of feasting, not fasting."3 [2] Teplitz Aqua [warm radioactive springs at Teplice; tepl is Czechian for warm] - effects of bathing and drinking the water.
• France: [1] Bondonneau [mineral springs of Saintes-Fontaines] - effects from drinking the water. [2] Vichy [mineral Grande-Grille springs at Vichy] - effects of drinking the water, and of provings with 2nd and 3rd trits. [of the salt] and of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th dils.
• Germany: [1] Adelheid Aqua [Adelheid-Spring near Heilbronn] - symptoms obtained from drinking the water. [2] Aqua Hochstein [mineral springs near Passau, Ilztal] - proving with high potencies. 4 [3] Kissingen [mineral springs at Kissingen] - effects from drinking and bathing in the waters. [4] Lippspringe [mineral springs in Lippspringe] - effects of bathing and drinking the waters and inhaling the gases. [5] Reinerz [warm spring at Reinerz] - effects of drinking the water. [6] Wiesbaden [warm, saline springs near Wiesbaden] - effects of 'excessive bathing' and drinking the water. [7] Wildbad [mineral spring at Wildbad in Württemberg] - effects from bathing and drinking the water.
• Hungary: [1] Bartfelder Acid Spring [cold springs in Upper Hungary] - symptoms obtained from taking sitz-baths and from drinking the water. [2] Franzensbad [alkaline-saline springs of Franzensbad near Eger] - symptoms from drinking the water.
• Italy: [1] Levico [arsenical mineral water of Levico Terme near Trento] - based on clinical indications of Compton Burnett.
• Russia: [1] Narzan [carbonaceous mineral spring at Kislovodsk in southern Russia] - effects of bathing and drinking the water.
• United Kingdom: [1] Aqua petra [mineral springs of Chase and Brittingham] - provings with the evaporated residue of the water.
• USA: [1] Gettysburg [mineral spring at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania] - five grains of 3rd trit., and one dose of 40M. [2] Sanicula aqua [saline spring water of low general mineral content]. [3] Skookumchuck [water from the 'Medical Lake' near the Skookumchuck river in Washington] - proving of 1st trit. made from the salts from the water.
PROVINGS •• [1] Gundlach - 10 provers [6 males, 4 females], 1884-86; method: Gundlach himself, his wife and their 4 children, as well as the "coloured porter at the bath house" drank the water for more than a year [the porter for a shorter period]. This was also because the Gundlachs more or less got addicted to the spring water: "Great longing for the spring water, which no other water satisfies. Water that formerly tasted good and refreshing now tastes flat and cannot drink it [all the provers]." Five years later Gundlach writes that "we all [that is, my family] still suffer from the effects, and I fear never will fully get over them, as nearly all the symptoms still recur." But it was apparently worthwhile for, as Gundlach observes, "This remedy will when fully developed and understood, go hand in hand, rivalling the most noted of our antipsorics and polycrests. So confident am I of this, that I have come to look upon the proving of this mineral water as the work of my life." In the years following the proving, Gundlach added numerous clinical verifications to the drug picture of Sanicula, as did Sherbino. Three persons proved Sanicula with the potencies: one took the 10c daily for six days, another used the 30c and 10M [manner not stated], and Sherbino, in 1886, took one dose daily of the 10M for five days, and later the 50M.
[1] Gundlach, Proving of the Sanicula Spring Water of Ottawa, Illinois; Transactions of the Intern. Hahn. Ass. 1887. [2] Mervyn, Vitamins and Minerals. [3] Joseph Wechsberg, The Lost World of the Great Spas; New York 1979. [4] Eberle and Ritzer, Arzneimittellehre, Neue homöopathische Arzneien I.
Affinity
Nutrition. Female organs. Neck. Rectum. Skin.
Modalities
Worse: Motion [downward; of hands behind him]. Cold wind on [occiput or neck]. Raising arms. Misstep. Jar. Walking. Riding car, boat. Fasting. Cold drafts. Damp weather. Touch. Drinking. After eating. Walking.
Better: Leaning head backward. After breakfast. Full stomach. Vomiting. Open air. Warm wraps on head. Uncovering. Cold. Rest. Lying down.
Main symptoms
M NO STABILITY OF PURPOSE [due to lack of energy].
Constantly changing occupation.
Wandering thoughts, even when conversing.
• "Has on his table six different kinds of work that he has undertaken. No sooner gets started at one thing when another comes into his head and he drops the first and takes up the other. Though he knows this, yet he cannot help it." [G]
• "She never finishes any one part of her housework; always jumping from one part or thing to another; gets them all mixed up." [Mrs. G]
M Changeable moods.
Cross and irritable, then quickly laughs.
• "Child cries; is cross and headstrong one minute, laughs and plays the next; with stomach and bowel troubles." [baby G, conceived and born during the proving]
Depression alternating with buoyancy.
• "Sudden attacks of feeling a terrible burden on chest, for a few minutes, as if she would burst if the load was not removed; this gradually ceases and a terrible depression of spirits follows; she feels as if no one admired her; everyone hates her and she wants nothing to do with anyone. The most trifling cares of life are unbearable. Then as if by magic this feeling is gone and she is as buoyant and gay as a girl of sixteen. She is subject to spells of melancholy, but not in this manner; never before had any such symptoms." [prover taking 30c and 10M]
M Extreme TOUCHINESS.
Children obstinate; crying and kicking; want to be carried constantly.
Throw themselves backward when angry.
• "Child twists and turns every which way; crying, kicking; nothing seems to pacify it; worse at night, 9 p.m. till after midnight, every night." [baby G]
M Easily upset; "misconstrues actions of others".
• "Says at times she is inclined to be somewhat nervous, but since drinking the water has been very much worse, so much so, that were she not a Christian, she should become unbearable to those about her; often having a queer misty feeling in her head as if she would go crazy; the least thing, word or action upsets her and makes her irritable, so that everything at such times in word or action would be misconstrued." [Mrs. G]
M Great FEAR of DARKNESS.
Constant irresistible desire to look behind her, esp. in the dark.
G Physical symptoms CHANGE CONSTANTLY.
G Chilly.
Yet "kicks off clothing in coldest weather" and desires open air.
G Offensive discharges [smelling like rotten cheese or FISH].
[Gundlach "verified many times"" the value of Sanicula for hard, crumbling stools consisting of greyish-white balls and smelling like rotten cheese.]
G Profuse PERSPIRATION.
Especially on occiput and nape of neck.
Or on parts LAIN on, or on parts touching or pressed against each other.
G Craving for BACON, salt, eggs and ICE-COLD MILK.
• "Child craves meat, fat bacon, etc., although it does not digest them; they aggravate the bowels. Child is emaciated; nothing but skin and bones; skin is dry and flabby." [baby G]
• "All the children crave salt and will almost eat it." [other 3 children of Gundlach]
Bread, unless fresh-baked, tastes "dry and flat." [G, Mrs. G, and one child]
G BURSTING sensation.
[perineum, throat, bowels, bladder, vertex, chest]
G < TOUCH. Child cannot bear to be approached or touched. In bed one cannot bear to lie near or touch another, due to sweat where parts touch. G > Loosening clothing.
G Car / sea - sickness.
• "Has served six years in the U.S. Navy; having been a great sufferer of sea-sickness during all this time. An hour's ride on a railroad train always makes him sick at the stomach, with great desire for the cool open air; could never ride in a closed carriage without having to vomit, or get out. Since proving the Sanicula, has ridden on the cars all day; can read and smoke, things he dare not do before. Can also sail in boats when the river was quite rough, without the least unpleasant sensations. The downward motion of our modern elevator, he could not endure, as it produced a feeling as if everything was giving away under him and as if the top of the head would fly off. This has all been removed since proving the water. [Was it the Borax in the water? Has never taken that remedy, but kept away from the elevators.]" [G]
• "Seasick feeling after riding horseback in the dark." [G]
Fear of downward motion.
• "Child fears the downward motion, clings to its nurse. It seems to take away his breath, going down stairs or lying it down on the bed." [baby G]
P Hair dry and lustreless.
• "Hair of all the [5] provers becomes dry and lustreless, at times seems to be electrified."
Much dandruff.
• "Great accumulations of dandruff on top of the head, with itching on getting the head warm." [5 members of Gundlach family]
P Fluent coryza.
< Eating. P Forcible vomiting of curdled milk. After [cow's] milk or mother's milk. P Constipation. Stool receding; must be mechanically removed. • "Stools scanty, dry, requiring great effort to expel them; it seemed as if all the effort put forth did not help the expulsive process; takes hold of the seat with the hands, holds the breath and strains with all the might, holding breath and pressing until head feels as if it would burst. On stopping to catch the breath, the stool, which seemed on the verge of coming out, would recede. [G, Mrs. G, and one child] [I met a great many such cases as the above while at the springs, in persons who had been drinking it for a long time, at intervals, who would have to resort to the water again, as does the opium eater and whiskey drinkers to their habits.] Soft stools, also, require great effort to expel them. P Or diarrhoea changeable in character and ODOUR. [like scrambled eggs; frothy and green; scum on a frog pond] No two stools alike. Yellow stool turns green when standing. P Leucorrhoea with ODOUR of FISH brine. P Asthmatic attacks preceded by fishy odour from mouth. [Vithoulkas] P Backache. < Putting hands behind him or raising arms. P Foul, excoriating foot sweat [destroys shoes]. [Occurred in all six members of the Gundlach family.] P Burning of the soles of feet. Must uncover them or put them in a cool place. [This occurred in 6 provers, all of them drinking the water.] * [G] Gundlach, Mrs. G [Mrs. Gundlach], baby G [Kent Gundlach, conceived September 1884, born June 1885]. From: Gundlach, Proving of the Sanicula Spring Water of Ottawa, Illinois; Transactions of the International Hahnemannian Association, 1887. Rubrics Mind Anger, when touched [1], on waking [1]. Anxiety from downward motion [1]. Cursing, has to restrain himself in order not to curse [1]. Aversion to darkness [1]. Delusions, that no one admires her [1G], that everyone hates her [1G], people, someone is sneaking up behind her [1/1], someone is behind him when walking in the dark [1]. Fear, of falling [1], of robbers, at night [1], of being touched [1], of work, because of weakness [1G]. Changing constantly occupation [2/1]. Sadness, alternating with buoyancy [1G]. Desire for travelling [1]. Vertigo When kneading bread or making similar motions [1/1]. Head Coldness, sensation as if cold air passed over brain [2]. Dandruff, itching when head gets warm [1G]. Hair, lustreless [1G], dryness [1G], thin [1G]. Eye Photophobia, daylight [1A], with thick yellowish excoriating discharge from eyes [1A]. Sensation as if eyes were pulled backward, during headache [1G]. Vision Dim, while walking [1]. Mouth Pain, burning, tongue, protrudes it to cool it [1/1]. Throat Swallowing of liquids more difficult than solids [1]. Stomach Sensation of fulness and heaviness, after eating anything acid [1G]. Nausea, sudden, while eating [1G]. Vomiting, forcible, shortly after eating [2], of mother's milk [2]. Rectum Diarrhoea, from downward motion [1]. Flatus, offensive, cheese-like [2]. Stool Yellow, turning green when standing [1G]. Bladder Urging to urinate ceases if urine is retained [1G]. Male Ejaculation too quick, without enjoyment [1G]. Odour about glans penis, like fish brine, after coition [1G]. Sexual desire diminished [1G], increased [1G]. Female Leucorrhoea, in children, little girls [1G]; offensive, like fish brine [2]; thin, smelling of fish brine, after coition [1G]. Pain, bearing down, uterus and region, < jar [1G], > lying down [1G], < misstep [1G], < motion [1G], < walking [1G].
Back
Pain, dorsal region, between scapulae, < turning body [1G]. Perspiration, cervical region, during sleep [2].
Limbs
Swelling of feet, in third month of pregnancy [1G], of hands, in third month of pregnancy [1G]. Inclination to uncover feet [2].
Sleep
Position, arms under the head [1G]. Sleeplessness from hunger [1].
Generals
Contradictory and alternating symptoms [1].
* Repertory additions: [G] = Gundlach, Proving of the Sanicula Spring Water of Ottawa, Illinois; Transactions of the International Hahnemannian Association, 1887.
[A] J.V. Allen: "But it is especially to the eye symptoms of Sanicula that I wish to refer. It has marked photophobia without much inflammation. This is so marked that the patient cannot bear the light of day. He must close the eyes constantly, and with this there is a profuse discharge of a thick, yellowish and greenish nature which excoriates the cheek or any part of the face which it touches. All of the cases which were of long standing and failed to be relieved by the old school physicians, were cured in a very short time by Sanicula. The photophobia was the first symptom to disappear." [observation, in Guernsey, Verifications of Sanicula,, Transactions of the International Hahnemannian Association, 1890]
* The repertory symptoms "Makes gestures, involuntary motions of the hands as if kneading bread" [reference: Phatak] and "Delusion that he is seasick, after riding a horse in the dark" [reference: Roberts] are both inaccurate. The correct symptoms are found in Gundlach's proving. The former, produced by Mrs. Gundlach, is "She has giddy spells while kneading bread, or on making any such motions, with rush of blood to the head; has a desire for cool air." The latter, produced by Gundlach, reads "Seasick feeling after riding horseback in the dark."
Food
Aversion: [1]: Bread; fat; warm drinks.
Desire: [2]: Bacon; cold milk; fat ham; salty things. [1]: Cold food; eggs; meat; mineral water; milk; sweets.
Worse: [1]: Cheese; cheese, old; cheese, smell of; fat; fish; meat; meat, smell of; milk, mother's; sour.
Better: [1]: Cold drinks.
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Sanic.
Nothing is permanent but change.
[Heraclitus]
Signs
Sanicula Spring Water. Sanicula aqua.
SUBSTANCE Not to be confounded with Sanicula europaea, which is a herbaceous plant in the Umbelliferae, Sanicula aqua is derived from the Sanicula Spring Water of Ottawa, Illinois, USA. An analysis of the water at that time showed it to contain 170 grains of solid matter to the gallon, 92 of which were sodium chloride. The analysis, made by Prof. Silliman in the 1880s, "the highest authority in the land," showed the water to contain the following constituents [in grains per one U.S. standard gallon of 231 cubic inches, which equals 3.785 litres]: sodium chloride [92.7995 grains], calcium chloride [23.5699], magnesium chloride [23.2687], calcium bicarbonate [14.3494], calcium sulphate [9.6236], potassium sulphate [5.1246], sodium bicarbonate [0.9776], silica [0.5394], sodium bromide [0.3220], iron bicarbonate [0.0979], sodium iodide [0.0826], alumina [0.0117], sodium phosphate [0.0045], lithium bicarbonate [trace], borax [trace], organic matter [trace]. In a report on the analysis, Prof. Silliman writes: "I find your springs on the south bank of the Illinois river, where it now fills a large well or fountain built of masonry to receive its flow. This well is eight feet in diameter by about four feet in depth, covered by a neat pavilion. This artificial fountain is a beautiful well of living water of an agreeable and slightly saline taste. It is constantly visited by throngs of people collecting and drinking its waters, or prompted by curiosity to witness so fine a source of health and happiness. It is entirely without odour or colour, and there is scarcely any discolouration or deposit from it on the stones.
repeated trials with an accurate thermometer I find its temperature to be 56.5o F at the lowest point where the water flows from the rocks, and 57o in the well when the outer air has 75o F, the mean temperature of Ottawa climate being 48.5o F, giving a difference of 8o higher temperature for the spring water, which is therefore a thermal spring, drawing its waters from a considerable depth. ... The proportion of those potent elements, Bromine and Iodine, to the total solid contents in the Sanicula Water is considerable. This is particularly true of the Iodine, which exists in larger proportion to other mineral contents in the water of the Sanicula Spring than that of the far-famed Saratoga or Ballston waters of Saratoga county in New York. ... It is evident from this comparison [with ten of the most prominent springs in the east] that the Sanicula Waters are exceptionally rich in Iodine in comparison with other mineral waters renowned for their supposed pre-eminence in this particular constituent."1 According to Grandgeorge, the Sanicula spring has dried up since a freeway was built in the vicinity.
MINERAL WATERS As officially defined under EEC regulations, 'natural mineral water' originates in an underground water table or deposit and is extracted for human consumption from the ground through a spring, well, or other exit. A low mineral content water must not contain more than 500 mg of mineral salts per litre. A water rich in mineral salts must contain more than 1500 mg of mineral salts per litre. 2 [Containing approximately 292 mg of mineral salts per litre, Sanicula water would be a low mineral content water.] Dipping, pumping or drinking mineral waters at spas has been popular for centuries as a remedy for various complaints, particularly for rheumatism or gout, skin diseases, and gastrointestinal complaints. It is therefore hardly surprising that the homoeopathic materia medica contains as many as 22 'remedies' made of spring waters.
HOMOEOPATHY Most of the mineral waters used in homoeopathy have not received any proving; their symptoms were obtained by drinking the water and/or by bathing in it by either patients or provers. The details below, in alphabetical order per country, are derived from Jörg Wichmann and Angelika Bolte's valuable book The Natural Relationship of Remedies, and from Allen's Encyclopedia.
• Austria: [1] Gastein Aqua [hot springs of Bad Gastein] - symptoms from bathing and drinking the water. The waters contain lithium, manganese, phosphoric acid, fluorine, cesium, and trace amounts of radium [radon gas]. [2] Hall Aqua [salt spring of Hall in Tirol] - effects from drinking small amounts of the water, chiefly observed on patients suffering from goitre. [3] Voeslau [mineral spring at Voeslau] - effects of drinking the water.
• Czech Republic: [1] Karlsbad Aqua [mineral water from the Sprudel - a geyser - and Muhlbrünnen springs in Karlovy Vary] - effects from bathing and drinking the water. These springs were believed to do wonders for people with gastrointestinal disorders. "In my family Karlsbad was known as the miracle cure for people who had lived well but not wisely. After eating all the good things for eleven months one would spend three weeks in Karlsbad, drink the terrible waters, lose weight, and one was in fine shape again for another eleven months of feasting, not fasting."3 [2] Teplitz Aqua [warm radioactive springs at Teplice; tepl is Czechian for warm] - effects of bathing and drinking the water.
• France: [1] Bondonneau [mineral springs of Saintes-Fontaines] - effects from drinking the water. [2] Vichy [mineral Grande-Grille springs at Vichy] - effects of drinking the water, and of provings with 2nd and 3rd trits. [of the salt] and of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th dils.
• Germany: [1] Adelheid Aqua [Adelheid-Spring near Heilbronn] - symptoms obtained from drinking the water. [2] Aqua Hochstein [mineral springs near Passau, Ilztal] - proving with high potencies. 4 [3] Kissingen [mineral springs at Kissingen] - effects from drinking and bathing in the waters. [4] Lippspringe [mineral springs in Lippspringe] - effects of bathing and drinking the waters and inhaling the gases. [5] Reinerz [warm spring at Reinerz] - effects of drinking the water. [6] Wiesbaden [warm, saline springs near Wiesbaden] - effects of 'excessive bathing' and drinking the water. [7] Wildbad [mineral spring at Wildbad in Württemberg] - effects from bathing and drinking the water.
• Hungary: [1] Bartfelder Acid Spring [cold springs in Upper Hungary] - symptoms obtained from taking sitz-baths and from drinking the water. [2] Franzensbad [alkaline-saline springs of Franzensbad near Eger] - symptoms from drinking the water.
• Italy: [1] Levico [arsenical mineral water of Levico Terme near Trento] - based on clinical indications of Compton Burnett.
• Russia: [1] Narzan [carbonaceous mineral spring at Kislovodsk in southern Russia] - effects of bathing and drinking the water.
• United Kingdom: [1] Aqua petra [mineral springs of Chase and Brittingham] - provings with the evaporated residue of the water.
• USA: [1] Gettysburg [mineral spring at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania] - five grains of 3rd trit., and one dose of 40M. [2] Sanicula aqua [saline spring water of low general mineral content]. [3] Skookumchuck [water from the 'Medical Lake' near the Skookumchuck river in Washington] - proving of 1st trit. made from the salts from the water.
PROVINGS •• [1] Gundlach - 10 provers [6 males, 4 females], 1884-86; method: Gundlach himself, his wife and their 4 children, as well as the "coloured porter at the bath house" drank the water for more than a year [the porter for a shorter period]. This was also because the Gundlachs more or less got addicted to the spring water: "Great longing for the spring water, which no other water satisfies. Water that formerly tasted good and refreshing now tastes flat and cannot drink it [all the provers]." Five years later Gundlach writes that "we all [that is, my family] still suffer from the effects, and I fear never will fully get over them, as nearly all the symptoms still recur." But it was apparently worthwhile for, as Gundlach observes, "This remedy will when fully developed and understood, go hand in hand, rivalling the most noted of our antipsorics and polycrests. So confident am I of this, that I have come to look upon the proving of this mineral water as the work of my life." In the years following the proving, Gundlach added numerous clinical verifications to the drug picture of Sanicula, as did Sherbino. Three persons proved Sanicula with the potencies: one took the 10c daily for six days, another used the 30c and 10M [manner not stated], and Sherbino, in 1886, took one dose daily of the 10M for five days, and later the 50M.
[1] Gundlach, Proving of the Sanicula Spring Water of Ottawa, Illinois; Transactions of the Intern. Hahn. Ass. 1887. [2] Mervyn, Vitamins and Minerals. [3] Joseph Wechsberg, The Lost World of the Great Spas; New York 1979. [4] Eberle and Ritzer, Arzneimittellehre, Neue homöopathische Arzneien I.
Affinity
Nutrition. Female organs. Neck. Rectum. Skin.
Modalities
Worse: Motion [downward; of hands behind him]. Cold wind on [occiput or neck]. Raising arms. Misstep. Jar. Walking. Riding car, boat. Fasting. Cold drafts. Damp weather. Touch. Drinking. After eating. Walking.
Better: Leaning head backward. After breakfast. Full stomach. Vomiting. Open air. Warm wraps on head. Uncovering. Cold. Rest. Lying down.
Main symptoms
M NO STABILITY OF PURPOSE [due to lack of energy].
Constantly changing occupation.
Wandering thoughts, even when conversing.
• "Has on his table six different kinds of work that he has undertaken. No sooner gets started at one thing when another comes into his head and he drops the first and takes up the other. Though he knows this, yet he cannot help it." [G]
• "She never finishes any one part of her housework; always jumping from one part or thing to another; gets them all mixed up." [Mrs. G]
M Changeable moods.
Cross and irritable, then quickly laughs.
• "Child cries; is cross and headstrong one minute, laughs and plays the next; with stomach and bowel troubles." [baby G, conceived and born during the proving]
Depression alternating with buoyancy.
• "Sudden attacks of feeling a terrible burden on chest, for a few minutes, as if she would burst if the load was not removed; this gradually ceases and a terrible depression of spirits follows; she feels as if no one admired her; everyone hates her and she wants nothing to do with anyone. The most trifling cares of life are unbearable. Then as if by magic this feeling is gone and she is as buoyant and gay as a girl of sixteen. She is subject to spells of melancholy, but not in this manner; never before had any such symptoms." [prover taking 30c and 10M]
M Extreme TOUCHINESS.
Children obstinate; crying and kicking; want to be carried constantly.
Throw themselves backward when angry.
• "Child twists and turns every which way; crying, kicking; nothing seems to pacify it; worse at night, 9 p.m. till after midnight, every night." [baby G]
M Easily upset; "misconstrues actions of others".
• "Says at times she is inclined to be somewhat nervous, but since drinking the water has been very much worse, so much so, that were she not a Christian, she should become unbearable to those about her; often having a queer misty feeling in her head as if she would go crazy; the least thing, word or action upsets her and makes her irritable, so that everything at such times in word or action would be misconstrued." [Mrs. G]
M Great FEAR of DARKNESS.
Constant irresistible desire to look behind her, esp. in the dark.
G Physical symptoms CHANGE CONSTANTLY.
G Chilly.
Yet "kicks off clothing in coldest weather" and desires open air.
G Offensive discharges [smelling like rotten cheese or FISH].
[Gundlach "verified many times"" the value of Sanicula for hard, crumbling stools consisting of greyish-white balls and smelling like rotten cheese.]
G Profuse PERSPIRATION.
Especially on occiput and nape of neck.
Or on parts LAIN on, or on parts touching or pressed against each other.
G Craving for BACON, salt, eggs and ICE-COLD MILK.
• "Child craves meat, fat bacon, etc., although it does not digest them; they aggravate the bowels. Child is emaciated; nothing but skin and bones; skin is dry and flabby." [baby G]
• "All the children crave salt and will almost eat it." [other 3 children of Gundlach]
Bread, unless fresh-baked, tastes "dry and flat." [G, Mrs. G, and one child]
G BURSTING sensation.
[perineum, throat, bowels, bladder, vertex, chest]
G < TOUCH. Child cannot bear to be approached or touched. In bed one cannot bear to lie near or touch another, due to sweat where parts touch. G > Loosening clothing.
G Car / sea - sickness.
• "Has served six years in the U.S. Navy; having been a great sufferer of sea-sickness during all this time. An hour's ride on a railroad train always makes him sick at the stomach, with great desire for the cool open air; could never ride in a closed carriage without having to vomit, or get out. Since proving the Sanicula, has ridden on the cars all day; can read and smoke, things he dare not do before. Can also sail in boats when the river was quite rough, without the least unpleasant sensations. The downward motion of our modern elevator, he could not endure, as it produced a feeling as if everything was giving away under him and as if the top of the head would fly off. This has all been removed since proving the water. [Was it the Borax in the water? Has never taken that remedy, but kept away from the elevators.]" [G]
• "Seasick feeling after riding horseback in the dark." [G]
Fear of downward motion.
• "Child fears the downward motion, clings to its nurse. It seems to take away his breath, going down stairs or lying it down on the bed." [baby G]
P Hair dry and lustreless.
• "Hair of all the [5] provers becomes dry and lustreless, at times seems to be electrified."
Much dandruff.
• "Great accumulations of dandruff on top of the head, with itching on getting the head warm." [5 members of Gundlach family]
P Fluent coryza.
< Eating. P Forcible vomiting of curdled milk. After [cow's] milk or mother's milk. P Constipation. Stool receding; must be mechanically removed. • "Stools scanty, dry, requiring great effort to expel them; it seemed as if all the effort put forth did not help the expulsive process; takes hold of the seat with the hands, holds the breath and strains with all the might, holding breath and pressing until head feels as if it would burst. On stopping to catch the breath, the stool, which seemed on the verge of coming out, would recede. [G, Mrs. G, and one child] [I met a great many such cases as the above while at the springs, in persons who had been drinking it for a long time, at intervals, who would have to resort to the water again, as does the opium eater and whiskey drinkers to their habits.] Soft stools, also, require great effort to expel them. P Or diarrhoea changeable in character and ODOUR. [like scrambled eggs; frothy and green; scum on a frog pond] No two stools alike. Yellow stool turns green when standing. P Leucorrhoea with ODOUR of FISH brine. P Asthmatic attacks preceded by fishy odour from mouth. [Vithoulkas] P Backache. < Putting hands behind him or raising arms. P Foul, excoriating foot sweat [destroys shoes]. [Occurred in all six members of the Gundlach family.] P Burning of the soles of feet. Must uncover them or put them in a cool place. [This occurred in 6 provers, all of them drinking the water.] * [G] Gundlach, Mrs. G [Mrs. Gundlach], baby G [Kent Gundlach, conceived September 1884, born June 1885]. From: Gundlach, Proving of the Sanicula Spring Water of Ottawa, Illinois; Transactions of the International Hahnemannian Association, 1887. Rubrics Mind Anger, when touched [1], on waking [1]. Anxiety from downward motion [1]. Cursing, has to restrain himself in order not to curse [1]. Aversion to darkness [1]. Delusions, that no one admires her [1G], that everyone hates her [1G], people, someone is sneaking up behind her [1/1], someone is behind him when walking in the dark [1]. Fear, of falling [1], of robbers, at night [1], of being touched [1], of work, because of weakness [1G]. Changing constantly occupation [2/1]. Sadness, alternating with buoyancy [1G]. Desire for travelling [1]. Vertigo When kneading bread or making similar motions [1/1]. Head Coldness, sensation as if cold air passed over brain [2]. Dandruff, itching when head gets warm [1G]. Hair, lustreless [1G], dryness [1G], thin [1G]. Eye Photophobia, daylight [1A], with thick yellowish excoriating discharge from eyes [1A]. Sensation as if eyes were pulled backward, during headache [1G]. Vision Dim, while walking [1]. Mouth Pain, burning, tongue, protrudes it to cool it [1/1]. Throat Swallowing of liquids more difficult than solids [1]. Stomach Sensation of fulness and heaviness, after eating anything acid [1G]. Nausea, sudden, while eating [1G]. Vomiting, forcible, shortly after eating [2], of mother's milk [2]. Rectum Diarrhoea, from downward motion [1]. Flatus, offensive, cheese-like [2]. Stool Yellow, turning green when standing [1G]. Bladder Urging to urinate ceases if urine is retained [1G]. Male Ejaculation too quick, without enjoyment [1G]. Odour about glans penis, like fish brine, after coition [1G]. Sexual desire diminished [1G], increased [1G]. Female Leucorrhoea, in children, little girls [1G]; offensive, like fish brine [2]; thin, smelling of fish brine, after coition [1G]. Pain, bearing down, uterus and region, < jar [1G], > lying down [1G], < misstep [1G], < motion [1G], < walking [1G].
Back
Pain, dorsal region, between scapulae, < turning body [1G]. Perspiration, cervical region, during sleep [2].
Limbs
Swelling of feet, in third month of pregnancy [1G], of hands, in third month of pregnancy [1G]. Inclination to uncover feet [2].
Sleep
Position, arms under the head [1G]. Sleeplessness from hunger [1].
Generals
Contradictory and alternating symptoms [1].
* Repertory additions: [G] = Gundlach, Proving of the Sanicula Spring Water of Ottawa, Illinois; Transactions of the International Hahnemannian Association, 1887.
[A] J.V. Allen: "But it is especially to the eye symptoms of Sanicula that I wish to refer. It has marked photophobia without much inflammation. This is so marked that the patient cannot bear the light of day. He must close the eyes constantly, and with this there is a profuse discharge of a thick, yellowish and greenish nature which excoriates the cheek or any part of the face which it touches. All of the cases which were of long standing and failed to be relieved by the old school physicians, were cured in a very short time by Sanicula. The photophobia was the first symptom to disappear." [observation, in Guernsey, Verifications of Sanicula,, Transactions of the International Hahnemannian Association, 1890]
* The repertory symptoms "Makes gestures, involuntary motions of the hands as if kneading bread" [reference: Phatak] and "Delusion that he is seasick, after riding a horse in the dark" [reference: Roberts] are both inaccurate. The correct symptoms are found in Gundlach's proving. The former, produced by Mrs. Gundlach, is "She has giddy spells while kneading bread, or on making any such motions, with rush of blood to the head; has a desire for cool air." The latter, produced by Gundlach, reads "Seasick feeling after riding horseback in the dark."
Food
Aversion: [1]: Bread; fat; warm drinks.
Desire: [2]: Bacon; cold milk; fat ham; salty things. [1]: Cold food; eggs; meat; mineral water; milk; sweets.
Worse: [1]: Cheese; cheese, old; cheese, smell of; fat; fish; meat; meat, smell of; milk, mother's; sour.
Better: [1]: Cold drinks.
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