[H] FIND THE REMEDY'S NAME (140)
Posted: Mon May 20, 2002 10:03 pm
From Clarke:
[Remedy] was introduced into medicine as a remedy for epilepsy.
It has been extensively proved by homeopaths, and observations have
also been made of its effects on epileptic patients who were receiving large
doses from old-school practitioners.
The provings bring out a number of neuralgic and nervous symptoms.
These have been supplemented by clinical observations, and the place of
[remedy] in the materia medica is now fairly well defined.
Teste tried [remedy] in cases of epilepsy, but with little success,
except in cases arising from the presence of worms.
In cases of worm fever he has used it with great effect.
The patients were children, from ten to twelve years old, lymphatic,
apathetic, peevish, who ate a great deal.
The symptoms were: Chilliness, catarrhal cough, coming in long
paroxysms in evening, whitish, moist tongue, sour or foul breath, large but
soft abdomen, diarrhea of two or three stools in twenty-four hours, like
greyish paper, sour, ascarides in rectum, even crawling out during sleep.
Teste also used [remedy] with success in the following cases: (1)
Semi-liquid diarrhea (three to four stools a day, coming on especially after
exercise in a stout old man, frequently given to excess of eating). (2)
Chronic catarrh of the bladder. (3) Stricture of urethra after old gonorrhea
(with Plumb. and Sep.).
E. P. Colby (N. A. J. H., November, 1879, 666) give it in all cases of
epilepsy coming under his care during twelve years, with the result that he
apparently cured 10 per cent., and reduced the frequency of attacks in many
more.
The dosage is not mentioned, but was probably crude.
IN the dynamic cures of epilepsy effected by [remedy], there has been
great melancholy which the patient has sought to hide, spending many nights
crying alone, or a furious excitable disposition before the attacks and mild
and timid after.
The attacks have been sudden, apparently originating in the solar
plexus, from which flushes of heat arise to the head, induced by cold or
fright.
A peculiar sensation is an undulating sensation in the brain (which I
have also observed in a case of epilepsy benefited by Act. r. The [remedy]
undulation causes obscured vision).
A dry suffocative cough in evening and after going to bed, and a cough
always attended by nose-bleed are characteristics.
S. T. Young (quoted H. R., ii. 271) relates that he had used [remedy]
successfully as an emmenagogue, having been led thereto by the discovery
that a patient of his habitually employed it to procure abortion.
He gave it in amenorrhea in one to four-drachm doses.
His contraindication are important to homeopaths.
In very large doses, he says, the crude drug produces nausea and
vomiting.
It should not be given to pregnant women, nor where there is an
irritable stomach, nor where there is the history of a previous pelvic
inflammation, nor where there is the history of a previous pelvic
inflammation, nor where there is marked cerebral anemia.
A case narrated by Nash (Med. Adv., xviii. 223) brings out one of the
characteristic conditions of [remedy]. A hard-working man, over 70,
gradually became unable to work.
Weak, stiffness all over, especially right side, arm and leg.
Pain in right hip running down leg, worse beginning to move after
resting.
Can hardly turn over in bed.
Appetite poor, stomach distressed, four or five hours after eating, if
he eats more than a very little.
Pains in the limbs decidedly worse after every meal.
[Remedy] cured promptly.
There are marked symptoms of brachial and sciatic neuralgia which have
this peculiarity: they come on or are worse while sitting and are better by
moving about.
Symptoms in general are: Worse by rest, when sitting.
Better by motion, rising, walking.
Better by pressure, by rubbing.
Worse in afternoon, in evening.
The vertigo with headache is better in evening, and worse in open air.
Warmth rushes to head on entering a warm room after walking in cold
air.
All symptoms are worse after eating and after evening meal.
Regards
Wendy Howard
[Remedy] was introduced into medicine as a remedy for epilepsy.
It has been extensively proved by homeopaths, and observations have
also been made of its effects on epileptic patients who were receiving large
doses from old-school practitioners.
The provings bring out a number of neuralgic and nervous symptoms.
These have been supplemented by clinical observations, and the place of
[remedy] in the materia medica is now fairly well defined.
Teste tried [remedy] in cases of epilepsy, but with little success,
except in cases arising from the presence of worms.
In cases of worm fever he has used it with great effect.
The patients were children, from ten to twelve years old, lymphatic,
apathetic, peevish, who ate a great deal.
The symptoms were: Chilliness, catarrhal cough, coming in long
paroxysms in evening, whitish, moist tongue, sour or foul breath, large but
soft abdomen, diarrhea of two or three stools in twenty-four hours, like
greyish paper, sour, ascarides in rectum, even crawling out during sleep.
Teste also used [remedy] with success in the following cases: (1)
Semi-liquid diarrhea (three to four stools a day, coming on especially after
exercise in a stout old man, frequently given to excess of eating). (2)
Chronic catarrh of the bladder. (3) Stricture of urethra after old gonorrhea
(with Plumb. and Sep.).
E. P. Colby (N. A. J. H., November, 1879, 666) give it in all cases of
epilepsy coming under his care during twelve years, with the result that he
apparently cured 10 per cent., and reduced the frequency of attacks in many
more.
The dosage is not mentioned, but was probably crude.
IN the dynamic cures of epilepsy effected by [remedy], there has been
great melancholy which the patient has sought to hide, spending many nights
crying alone, or a furious excitable disposition before the attacks and mild
and timid after.
The attacks have been sudden, apparently originating in the solar
plexus, from which flushes of heat arise to the head, induced by cold or
fright.
A peculiar sensation is an undulating sensation in the brain (which I
have also observed in a case of epilepsy benefited by Act. r. The [remedy]
undulation causes obscured vision).
A dry suffocative cough in evening and after going to bed, and a cough
always attended by nose-bleed are characteristics.
S. T. Young (quoted H. R., ii. 271) relates that he had used [remedy]
successfully as an emmenagogue, having been led thereto by the discovery
that a patient of his habitually employed it to procure abortion.
He gave it in amenorrhea in one to four-drachm doses.
His contraindication are important to homeopaths.
In very large doses, he says, the crude drug produces nausea and
vomiting.
It should not be given to pregnant women, nor where there is an
irritable stomach, nor where there is the history of a previous pelvic
inflammation, nor where there is the history of a previous pelvic
inflammation, nor where there is marked cerebral anemia.
A case narrated by Nash (Med. Adv., xviii. 223) brings out one of the
characteristic conditions of [remedy]. A hard-working man, over 70,
gradually became unable to work.
Weak, stiffness all over, especially right side, arm and leg.
Pain in right hip running down leg, worse beginning to move after
resting.
Can hardly turn over in bed.
Appetite poor, stomach distressed, four or five hours after eating, if
he eats more than a very little.
Pains in the limbs decidedly worse after every meal.
[Remedy] cured promptly.
There are marked symptoms of brachial and sciatic neuralgia which have
this peculiarity: they come on or are worse while sitting and are better by
moving about.
Symptoms in general are: Worse by rest, when sitting.
Better by motion, rising, walking.
Better by pressure, by rubbing.
Worse in afternoon, in evening.
The vertigo with headache is better in evening, and worse in open air.
Warmth rushes to head on entering a warm room after walking in cold
air.
All symptoms are worse after eating and after evening meal.
Regards
Wendy Howard