Dulcamara patient carves out a territory,insistent upon her own.
- VERMEULEN Frans
Dulc.
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being right.
[Lord Hailsham]
Signs
Solanum dulcamara. Bittersweet Nightshade. Woody Nightshade. N.O. Solanaceae.
CLASSIFICATION Solanum dulcamara belongs to the Solanaceae or Nightshade family, a widespread plant family comprising abouhough occurring around the world [except in the arctic areas], the principle centre of the Nightshade family lies in Andean South America. The plants in this family commonly produce poisonous alkaloids. The family is of huge economic importance as a source of foodstuff [tomato, eggplant, green peppers, red pepper, potato, pepino, Cape gooseberry], medicines and narcotics [belladonna, mandrake, datura, etc.], a fumatory [tobacco], and poisons [belladonna, henbane, etc.].
GENUS The genus Solanum comprises some 1400 species of annual and perennial herbs, shrubs, climbers, and trees with simple or lobed leaves and bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, five-lobed flowers. The genus is widespread, particularly in tropical America. Solanum dulcamara is native to Europe, North Africa and northern Asia, and has been naturalized in North America.
NAME The generic name is possibly derived from L solanum, a solace. Dulcamara is a contraction of L. dulcis, sweet, and L. amarus, bitter; it alludes to the taste of the root and stems: first bitter and then sweet.
FEATURES Solanum dulcamara is a woody shrub with a straggling or climbing stem up to 2 metres in length. It is mainly seen in hedgerows and on moist grassy banks beside rivers, streams and ponds. "It is a perennial, shrubby plant, quite woody at the base, but throws out long, straggling, slender branches, which trail over the hedges and bushes among which it grows, reaching many feet in length, when supported by other plants. They are at first green and hairy, but become woody and smooth as they grow older, with an ashygreen bark. The flowers, which are open all the summer, are in loose, drooping clusters, on short stalks opposite the leaves. They are of a bluish purple tint, with reflexed petals when expanded, so as almost to appear drooping. Their bright yellow stamens project in a conical form around the pistil, or seedbearing portion of the flower. The leaves are chiefly auriculate on the upper stems, i.e. with little ears, having at their base from one to two [rarely three] wing-like segments, but are heart-shaped below. They are placed alternately on either side of the stem and arranged so that they face the light. The flower-clusters always face a different direction to the leaves. 'One may gather a hundred pieces of the Woody Nightshade, and this strange perversity is rampant in all,' remarks an observer of this very curious habit. The berries are green at first, afterwards becoming orange and finally bright red, and are produced in constant succession throughout the summer and early autumn, many remaining on the plant long after the leaves have fallen."1
CONSTITUENTS Solaniceine [about 1%]; dulcamarin, dulcamaric and dulcamaretic acids; lycophyll, a carotenoid pigment also present in the tomato; diosgenin; atropine; tannins [10%]. Immature green berries contain parent steroidal alkaloid aglycones: 50% solasodine and 50% of another aglycone thought to be soladulcidine.
RAIN Warm weather favours the formation of alkaloids in such Solanaceae species as Atropa, Hyoscyamus and Datura; in areas with high precipitation the alkaloid content in these plants is reduced. Observations of Solanum dulcamara show that the alkaloid content in this species is directly related to the water supply and the amount of precipitation; here high precipitation increases the accumulation of alkaloids.
INTOXICATION All parts of the plant are potentially toxic, but the berries, in particular when green, are often highest in toxicity. The mature red berries contain only a small amount of toxin. The major toxin is solanine, an alkaloidal glycoside, and along with other glycosides have numerous and powerful effects on the body. Nightshades cause problems with the gastrointestinal tract and can also affect the central nervous system. Signs can include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, incoordination, weakness, depression, hallucinations, convulsions, and possible death. Secretions, esp. of kidneys and skin, are increased. Nearly all grazing animals will avoid eating plants in the Nightshade family unless they are extremely hungry and there is little else to eat. The plants lose some toxicity with drying, but the toxin is not eliminated.
MEDICINE The ancients drank the roots in wine to induce sleep. The plant has been used in folk remedies for felons, warts and tumours. It was formerly used as a narcotic, diuretic, sweat inducer, for skin eruptions, rheumatism, gout, bronchitis, and whooping cough. In 1735, the Irish herbalist K'Eogh summarized its uses: "it has a hot, dry nature. A decoction in wine ... opens obstructions of the liver and spleen, and is therefore good for jaundice. It also heals all internal wounds, bruised and ruptures, for it dissolves congealed blood, causing it to be passed by the urine." It has been confirmed to show significant anti-cancer activity. Due to its diosgenin content it is used as a starting material for steroids.
FOLKLORE Culpeper thought that Dulcamara could protect against evil. "It is good to remove witchcraft both in men and beast ... Being tied about the neck, it is a remedy for the vertigo or dizziness of the head, and that is the reason the Germans hang it about their cattle's neck, when they fear any such evil hath betided them." Some bittersweet placed beneath the pillow will help one in forgetting a past love, according to popular belief.
PROVINGS •• [1] Hahnemann - 11 provers; method: unknown.
•• [2] Wesselhoeft - 5 [female] provers, 1886; method: 1-3 doses in water or every 3-4 hours during the day, repeated at infrequent intervals - potencies used: CM, 24c, 18c, 12c, and 6c.
•• [3] Berridge - 1 prover; method: one dose of 1M.
•• [4] Knorre, Rockwith, Robinson - self-experimentations with tincture, effects recorded for, at most, 48 hours.
•• [5] Clark - 1 female prover, 1887; method: three doses of 30c at intervals of three hours, symptoms recorded for 30 days.
[1] Grieve, A Modern Herbal.
Affinity
MUCOUS MEMBRANES [bronchi; bladder; eyes]. BACK [muscles; LOINS]. SKIN. Lymphatics. * Left side. Right side.
Modalities
Worse: BEING CHILLED [WHILE HOT; change of temperature; uncovering; COLD WET: feet, ground, cellars, beds, etc.]. Suppressed discharges, perspiration, eruptions, menses, etc. Autumn. Night. Rest. Injuries. Mercury. Before storms. COLD AIR.
Better: Moving about; motion; moving the affected part; walking. Warmth. Dry weather.
Main symptoms
M Quarrelsome or scolding without being angry.
• "In the afternoon a peculiar humour, he must quarrel with everyone, but he is not angry." [Hahnemann]
• "Since her childhood she has always been very short tempered. She was very obstinate and abrupt in her way of talking. Her speech was like a person who is angry. Therefore people misunderstood her often, due to which she had frequently quarrels."1
Impatience.
• "Impatience in the morning; he stamps the feet, throws everything away from him, begins to rave, and at last to cry." [Allen]
M Domineering, strong-minded and possessive, esp. in family.
Anxiety for others [not out of dependency or fear, but to keep others under control].
• "The typical Dulcamara patient carves out a territory, a sphere of influence - usually with her own family, but possibly including neighbours and friends as well. Within this sphere of influence she attempts to dominate others by her strong will and forceful opinions. ... Outside her own circle, however, she is suspicious of others. She is on guard. She becomes so wrapped up in her own state that she finds fault with other people. She expects that they will not understand her, that they will misunderstand and misinterpret her feelings and behaviour. ... This type of patient is very insistent upon her own point of view. She is always right, and she expects others to acknowledge that. ... Arising out of the Dulcamara's possessiveness is great anxiety about others. Her husband may be facing an important meeting at work, and she feels compelled to give him detailed instructions on how to behave, what to say, etc. This is not merely helpful advice, as Phosphorus might offer. Dulcamara insists that her opinions be followed, and she is disturbed if they are not. ... The Dulcamara state is very self-centred. It almost never crosses her mind that others also have rights and freedom of choice. ... The anxiety for others is an anxiety for the health of her relatives in particular. This may be carried to such an extreme that she exaggerates trifles out of all proportion to reality. ... The Dulcamara patient picks up on minor faults and blows them out of proportion - merely in order to prove herself right." [Vithoulkas]
G Ailments from exposure to COLD WET WEATHER.
Or from sudden change from warm to cold or from dry to moist.
[esp. in Autumn, with warm days and cold nights]
Rheumatic affections, coryza, diarrhoea, cystitis, asthma, spasmodic cough, urticaria, sciatica, stiffness neck, backache, swelling of glands, tonsillitis, catarrhal ailments.
• "Ailments of persons who live or work in damp cold basements, ice cream factories, air conditioned rooms or milk dairy." [Mathur]
G CHILLY persons, very susceptible to COLD.
• "The skin tends to be dry, delicate and very sensitive to cold. Lips are apt to twitch in cold air." [Gibson]
G Sensation of coldness in PAINFUL PARTS.
G Waking from sleep - from sensation of being called.
• "She wakes early as if she had been called; sees a ghostly figure that always grows bigger and seems to vanish upwards." [Hahnemann]
c This peculiar symptom occurs in Wesselhoeft's proving too!
• "Restless sleep after midnight. Wake up often thinking some one has called me."2
G < ENTERING a COLD place. G > Warm STOVE.
G > MOTION; > motion of affected part.
G Excessive SECRETION of MUCUS. Thick and yellow.
G Every cold settles in eyes or affects bladder, bowels or respiration.
P Earache with every change of weather.
P Obstruction of nose or coryza in [cold] wet weather.
> Motion [= getting warm] and warm room.
P Cystitis from lying, standing or sitting on cold, damp ground [e.g. camping].
P MOIST asthma, loose cough and rattling from mucus.
Thick, yellow discharge from nose and lungs.
Moist asthma and dry, blocked nose.
P Cough.
• "I first saw the Dulcamara in fruit in 1846. It was growing near and spreading over a stone wall, which surrounded land now covered by city residences, having since become a part of Brooklyn. I broke and carried away some branches bearing the berries, and while walking toward my home, some three-fourths of a mile distant, I chewed one of the berries till its peculiar bitter-sweet taste became a little unpleasant, when it was thrown out, and besides this taste nothing more was looked for. But in about five minutes I became aware of another impression, a slight nausea and general uneasiness, which was almost immediately followed by violent, spasmodic, suffocative coughing. It almost took my breath away. These paroxysms were repeated every three or four hours for two weeks, when they were arrested by other medicine. They were accompanied by the peculiar resonant inspiration, or whooping, characteristic of the cough called by this name. The paroxysms were excited by any attempt at loud speaking, or even the slightest movement toward coughing. They followed almost immediately after eating, with retching, and too often this resulted in the loss of what had just been taken with good appetite. The paroxysms sometimes attacked me while eating, and spoiled the disposition to continued this useful employment for that time. These paroxysms were only experienced in the daytime. There was no coughing at night."3
P Skin eruptions brought on by coldness.
Yet < warmth / at night in bed [= itching], and > cold.
• "Sensation of prickling as by nettles all over body, when undressed for the night; no eruption, no itching."4
• "The appearance of the rash, and the sensations attending it, were different on different parts of body. On the back the skin was studded with red points the size of a pin's head, and the sensation there was as if 1000 fine needles were sticking under and between scapulae. On the arms there were spots where the epidermis was detached in fine scales; the fine spots which were there at first had gone, and the patient felt there a smarting itching. On the legs there were red stripes, and she felt as if she was lying up to her hips in nettles. ... The cooler the patient kept herself, the better she felt; bed always aggravated the itching and eruption. The heat and itching of body increased after each meal." [Hughes]
• "Numerous spots scattered over thighs and buttocks. Itched when in bed, and also when walking, from friction of clothing. No sensation after bathing. [Had urticaria when a child, after bathing in a very cold stream, but have had nothing of it for twenty years at least.] ... Sharp pricking and itching on various parts, of only momentary duration."5
P Rash, eruptions before and during menses.
P Large, fleshy, smooth warts on face or back of hands and fingers.
[1] Samant, Quarrelsome without anger: A case of Dulcamara; HL 1/97. [2] Provings of Dulcamara; Int. Hahn. Assoc., 1887. [3] Wells, Dulcamara; Int. Hahn. Assoc., 1887. [4] Wesselhoeft, Dulcamara; Int. Hahn. Assoc., 1887. [5] Clark, A Proving of Dulcamara; Int. Hahn. Assoc., 1887.
Rubrics
Mind
Abusive, without being angry [1/1]. Confusion, as to his identity, sense of duality [1]; during paroxysms of pain [1]. Delusions, calls, someone calls on waking [1]. Dulness, from wet air [1]. Always in a hurry [1]. Insanity, erotic, before menses [1; Stann.]. Loquacity, despite inarticulate speech from swollen tongue [1H]. Quarrelsome, without anger [2]. Restlessness, in morning on waking [1], driving out of bed [1], during headache [1].
Vertigo
When hungry [1]. While lying, as if sinking down through or with the bed [1]. Objects seem to stand still [1/1]. After sleep < [2]. Head Coldness, occiput, in cold wet weather [2/1]. Constriction, occiput, as from a band from ear to ear [1W]. Pain, headache, noon until 2 p.m. [1W], > tea [1W]; pain in small spot [1], > talking [1], from changes of weather [1], from cloudy weather [2], from damp, cold weather [3].
Eye
Twitching, lids, in cold air [1/1].
Vision
Sparks, < during rest [1/1]. Ear Noises, snapping, like electric sparks [1], on opening mouth [1/1]. Nose Epistaxis, after getting wet [2]. Hayfever, newly mown grass [1]. Obstruction, from wet weather [2]. Mouth Paralysis, tongue, in cold wet weather [2/1]. Teeth Pain, toothache, alternating sides [2], from sour things [1]. Bladder Urging to urinate, constant, from becoming cold [2]. Urination, involuntary, from becoming cold [2]. Urine Odour, offensive, during perspiration [1]. Respiration Asthmatic, alternating with eruptions [1], after suppressed eruptions [2], during wet weather [2]. Back Stiffness, cervical region, during coryza [1]. Limbs Pain, > motion [2], rheumatic, alternating with diarrhoea [1].
Sleep
Waking, as from a call [1], from vertigo [2].
Skin
Itching, > cold air [1HU].
Generals
Cold feeling in bones [1]. Paralysis, one side, with coldness of the paralyzed part [2]. Weakness, noon until 2 p.m. [1W].
* Repertory additions: [H] Hering; [HU] Hughes; [W] Wesselhoeft.
Food
Aversion: [2]: Coffee.
Desire: [2]: Cold drinks. [1]: Sweets; tea [W].
Worse: [3]: Cold food. [1]: Cold drinks; frozen food; ice cream; sour.
Better: [1]: Tea [W].
Dulc.
[Lord Hailsham]
Signs
Solanum dulcamara. Bittersweet Nightshade. Woody Nightshade. N.O. Solanaceae.
CLASSIFICATION Solanum dulcamara belongs to the Solanaceae or Nightshade family, a widespread plant family comprising abouhough occurring around the world [except in the arctic areas], the principle centre of the Nightshade family lies in Andean South America. The plants in this family commonly produce poisonous alkaloids. The family is of huge economic importance as a source of foodstuff [tomato, eggplant, green peppers, red pepper, potato, pepino, Cape gooseberry], medicines and narcotics [belladonna, mandrake, datura, etc.], a fumatory [tobacco], and poisons [belladonna, henbane, etc.].
GENUS The genus Solanum comprises some 1400 species of annual and perennial herbs, shrubs, climbers, and trees with simple or lobed leaves and bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, five-lobed flowers. The genus is widespread, particularly in tropical America. Solanum dulcamara is native to Europe, North Africa and northern Asia, and has been naturalized in North America.
NAME The generic name is possibly derived from L solanum, a solace. Dulcamara is a contraction of L. dulcis, sweet, and L. amarus, bitter; it alludes to the taste of the root and stems: first bitter and then sweet.
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RAIN Warm weather favours the formation of alkaloids in such Solanaceae species as Atropa, Hyoscyamus and Datura; in areas with high precipitation the alkaloid content in these plants is reduced. Observations of Solanum dulcamara show that the alkaloid content in this species is directly related to the water supply and the amount of precipitation; here high precipitation increases the accumulation of alkaloids.
INTOXICATION All parts of the plant are potentially toxic, but the berries, in particular when green, are often highest in toxicity. The mature red berries contain only a small amount of toxin. The major toxin is solanine, an alkaloidal glycoside, and along with other glycosides have numerous and powerful effects on the body. Nightshades cause problems with the gastrointestinal tract and can also affect the central nervous system. Signs can include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, incoordination, weakness, depression, hallucinations, convulsions, and possible death. Secretions, esp. of kidneys and skin, are increased. Nearly all grazing animals will avoid eating plants in the Nightshade family unless they are extremely hungry and there is little else to eat. The plants lose some toxicity with drying, but the toxin is not eliminated.
MEDICINE The ancients drank the roots in wine to induce sleep. The plant has been used in folk remedies for felons, warts and tumours. It was formerly used as a narcotic, diuretic, sweat inducer, for skin eruptions, rheumatism, gout, bronchitis, and whooping cough. In 1735, the Irish herbalist K'Eogh summarized its uses: "it has a hot, dry nature. A decoction in wine ... opens obstructions of the liver and spleen, and is therefore good for jaundice. It also heals all internal wounds, bruised and ruptures, for it dissolves congealed blood, causing it to be passed by the urine." It has been confirmed to show significant anti-cancer activity. Due to its diosgenin content it is used as a starting material for steroids.
FOLKLORE Culpeper thought that Dulcamara could protect against evil. "It is good to remove witchcraft both in men and beast ... Being tied about the neck, it is a remedy for the vertigo or dizziness of the head, and that is the reason the Germans hang it about their cattle's neck, when they fear any such evil hath betided them." Some bittersweet placed beneath the pillow will help one in forgetting a past love, according to popular belief.
PROVINGS •• [1] Hahnemann - 11 provers; method: unknown.
•• [2] Wesselhoeft - 5 [female] provers, 1886; method: 1-3 doses in water or every 3-4 hours during the day, repeated at infrequent intervals - potencies used: CM, 24c, 18c, 12c, and 6c.
•• [3] Berridge - 1 prover; method: one dose of 1M.
•• [4] Knorre, Rockwith, Robinson - self-experimentations with tincture, effects recorded for, at most, 48 hours.
•• [5] Clark - 1 female prover, 1887; method: three doses of 30c at intervals of three hours, symptoms recorded for 30 days.
[1] Grieve, A Modern Herbal.
Affinity
MUCOUS MEMBRANES [bronchi; bladder; eyes]. BACK [muscles; LOINS]. SKIN. Lymphatics. * Left side. Right side.
Modalities
Worse: BEING CHILLED [WHILE HOT; change of temperature; uncovering; COLD WET: feet, ground, cellars, beds, etc.]. Suppressed discharges, perspiration, eruptions, menses, etc. Autumn. Night. Rest. Injuries. Mercury. Before storms. COLD AIR.
Better: Moving about; motion; moving the affected part; walking. Warmth. Dry weather.
Main symptoms
M Quarrelsome or scolding without being angry.
• "In the afternoon a peculiar humour, he must quarrel with everyone, but he is not angry." [Hahnemann]
• "Since her childhood she has always been very short tempered. She was very obstinate and abrupt in her way of talking. Her speech was like a person who is angry. Therefore people misunderstood her often, due to which she had frequently quarrels."1
Impatience.
• "Impatience in the morning; he stamps the feet, throws everything away from him, begins to rave, and at last to cry." [Allen]
M Domineering, strong-minded and possessive, esp. in family.
Anxiety for others [not out of dependency or fear, but to keep others under control].
• "The typical Dulcamara patient carves out a territory, a sphere of influence - usually with her own family, but possibly including neighbours and friends as well. Within this sphere of influence she attempts to dominate others by her strong will and forceful opinions. ... Outside her own circle, however, she is suspicious of others. She is on guard. She becomes so wrapped up in her own state that she finds fault with other people. She expects that they will not understand her, that they will misunderstand and misinterpret her feelings and behaviour. ... This type of patient is very insistent upon her own point of view. She is always right, and she expects others to acknowledge that. ... Arising out of the Dulcamara's possessiveness is great anxiety about others. Her husband may be facing an important meeting at work, and she feels compelled to give him detailed instructions on how to behave, what to say, etc. This is not merely helpful advice, as Phosphorus might offer. Dulcamara insists that her opinions be followed, and she is disturbed if they are not. ... The Dulcamara state is very self-centred. It almost never crosses her mind that others also have rights and freedom of choice. ... The anxiety for others is an anxiety for the health of her relatives in particular. This may be carried to such an extreme that she exaggerates trifles out of all proportion to reality. ... The Dulcamara patient picks up on minor faults and blows them out of proportion - merely in order to prove herself right." [Vithoulkas]
G Ailments from exposure to COLD WET WEATHER.
Or from sudden change from warm to cold or from dry to moist.
[esp. in Autumn, with warm days and cold nights]
Rheumatic affections, coryza, diarrhoea, cystitis, asthma, spasmodic cough, urticaria, sciatica, stiffness neck, backache, swelling of glands, tonsillitis, catarrhal ailments.
• "Ailments of persons who live or work in damp cold basements, ice cream factories, air conditioned rooms or milk dairy." [Mathur]
G CHILLY persons, very susceptible to COLD.
• "The skin tends to be dry, delicate and very sensitive to cold. Lips are apt to twitch in cold air." [Gibson]
G Sensation of coldness in PAINFUL PARTS.
G Waking from sleep - from sensation of being called.
• "She wakes early as if she had been called; sees a ghostly figure that always grows bigger and seems to vanish upwards." [Hahnemann]
c This peculiar symptom occurs in Wesselhoeft's proving too!
• "Restless sleep after midnight. Wake up often thinking some one has called me."2
G < ENTERING a COLD place. G > Warm STOVE.
G > MOTION; > motion of affected part.
G Excessive SECRETION of MUCUS. Thick and yellow.
G Every cold settles in eyes or affects bladder, bowels or respiration.
P Earache with every change of weather.
P Obstruction of nose or coryza in [cold] wet weather.
> Motion [= getting warm] and warm room.
P Cystitis from lying, standing or sitting on cold, damp ground [e.g. camping].
P MOIST asthma, loose cough and rattling from mucus.
Thick, yellow discharge from nose and lungs.
Moist asthma and dry, blocked nose.
P Cough.
• "I first saw the Dulcamara in fruit in 1846. It was growing near and spreading over a stone wall, which surrounded land now covered by city residences, having since become a part of Brooklyn. I broke and carried away some branches bearing the berries, and while walking toward my home, some three-fourths of a mile distant, I chewed one of the berries till its peculiar bitter-sweet taste became a little unpleasant, when it was thrown out, and besides this taste nothing more was looked for. But in about five minutes I became aware of another impression, a slight nausea and general uneasiness, which was almost immediately followed by violent, spasmodic, suffocative coughing. It almost took my breath away. These paroxysms were repeated every three or four hours for two weeks, when they were arrested by other medicine. They were accompanied by the peculiar resonant inspiration, or whooping, characteristic of the cough called by this name. The paroxysms were excited by any attempt at loud speaking, or even the slightest movement toward coughing. They followed almost immediately after eating, with retching, and too often this resulted in the loss of what had just been taken with good appetite. The paroxysms sometimes attacked me while eating, and spoiled the disposition to continued this useful employment for that time. These paroxysms were only experienced in the daytime. There was no coughing at night."3
P Skin eruptions brought on by coldness.
Yet < warmth / at night in bed [= itching], and > cold.
• "Sensation of prickling as by nettles all over body, when undressed for the night; no eruption, no itching."4
• "The appearance of the rash, and the sensations attending it, were different on different parts of body. On the back the skin was studded with red points the size of a pin's head, and the sensation there was as if 1000 fine needles were sticking under and between scapulae. On the arms there were spots where the epidermis was detached in fine scales; the fine spots which were there at first had gone, and the patient felt there a smarting itching. On the legs there were red stripes, and she felt as if she was lying up to her hips in nettles. ... The cooler the patient kept herself, the better she felt; bed always aggravated the itching and eruption. The heat and itching of body increased after each meal." [Hughes]
• "Numerous spots scattered over thighs and buttocks. Itched when in bed, and also when walking, from friction of clothing. No sensation after bathing. [Had urticaria when a child, after bathing in a very cold stream, but have had nothing of it for twenty years at least.] ... Sharp pricking and itching on various parts, of only momentary duration."5
P Rash, eruptions before and during menses.
P Large, fleshy, smooth warts on face or back of hands and fingers.
[1] Samant, Quarrelsome without anger: A case of Dulcamara; HL 1/97. [2] Provings of Dulcamara; Int. Hahn. Assoc., 1887. [3] Wells, Dulcamara; Int. Hahn. Assoc., 1887. [4] Wesselhoeft, Dulcamara; Int. Hahn. Assoc., 1887. [5] Clark, A Proving of Dulcamara; Int. Hahn. Assoc., 1887.
Rubrics
Mind
Abusive, without being angry [1/1]. Confusion, as to his identity, sense of duality [1]; during paroxysms of pain [1]. Delusions, calls, someone calls on waking [1]. Dulness, from wet air [1]. Always in a hurry [1]. Insanity, erotic, before menses [1; Stann.]. Loquacity, despite inarticulate speech from swollen tongue [1H]. Quarrelsome, without anger [2]. Restlessness, in morning on waking [1], driving out of bed [1], during headache [1].
Vertigo
When hungry [1]. While lying, as if sinking down through or with the bed [1]. Objects seem to stand still [1/1]. After sleep < [2]. Head Coldness, occiput, in cold wet weather [2/1]. Constriction, occiput, as from a band from ear to ear [1W]. Pain, headache, noon until 2 p.m. [1W], > tea [1W]; pain in small spot [1], > talking [1], from changes of weather [1], from cloudy weather [2], from damp, cold weather [3].
Eye
Twitching, lids, in cold air [1/1].
Vision
Sparks, < during rest [1/1]. Ear Noises, snapping, like electric sparks [1], on opening mouth [1/1]. Nose Epistaxis, after getting wet [2]. Hayfever, newly mown grass [1]. Obstruction, from wet weather [2]. Mouth Paralysis, tongue, in cold wet weather [2/1]. Teeth Pain, toothache, alternating sides [2], from sour things [1]. Bladder Urging to urinate, constant, from becoming cold [2]. Urination, involuntary, from becoming cold [2]. Urine Odour, offensive, during perspiration [1]. Respiration Asthmatic, alternating with eruptions [1], after suppressed eruptions [2], during wet weather [2]. Back Stiffness, cervical region, during coryza [1]. Limbs Pain, > motion [2], rheumatic, alternating with diarrhoea [1].
Sleep
Waking, as from a call [1], from vertigo [2].
Skin
Itching, > cold air [1HU].
Generals
Cold feeling in bones [1]. Paralysis, one side, with coldness of the paralyzed part [2]. Weakness, noon until 2 p.m. [1W].
* Repertory additions: [H] Hering; [HU] Hughes; [W] Wesselhoeft.
Food
Aversion: [2]: Coffee.
Desire: [2]: Cold drinks. [1]: Sweets; tea [W].
Worse: [3]: Cold food. [1]: Cold drinks; frozen food; ice cream; sour.
Better: [1]: Tea [W].
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