rotten potato - MM
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:34 pm
and now, ...ladies and gentlpersons.. the materia medica!
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PHARMACY - Sol-t-ae. Solanum tuberosum aegrotans. Rotten Potato.
Tincture of the affected tubers. Historical dose: All potencies.
Planets: Moon.
HISTORY - The “Potato murrain” is characterized by “the rapid
putrescence of the leaves and haulm, which is first indicated by the
presence of a little mold, Peronospora infestans, which preys upon the
tissues, spreading rapidly in every direction. The tubers also exhibit
brown spots on their surface and within their tissues and according to
circumstances decay with greater or less rapidity” (Treasury of
Botany).
In 1846 the sudden inroad of this disease led to the fearful
famine in Ireland, which resulted in the death of thousands. Mure made
the first proving of Sol-t-ae., using a potato “in an entire state of
decomposition without, however, being completely rotten.” Effects of
eating diseased potatoes, some of them fatal, have been observed and
these have been added to Mure’s.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Sol-t-ae. has prolapse of the rectum and anus.
Tumors of rectum look like decayed potato. Dreams of pools of blood.
Irritability. Breath and odor of body are offensive. Skin, darkness.
The urine has an oily pellicle. Excruciating muscular pains. Cold water
causes shock.
CLINICAL - Anus, prolapse, patulous. Breasts, painful.
Constipation. Nosebleed. Headache. Ileus. Menses interrupted. Noma.
Pruritus vulva. Rectum, prolapse. Scalp, painful. Sciatica. Scurvy.
Tenesmus. Tongue, cracked. Vertebra, pain, pulsation.
Modalities - Worse by touch and pressure. Headache is worse on
waking, by smell of alcohol, walking at 5 p.m., sleeping, working
(headache).
MIND - Quarrelsome, irritable mood. Bad temper. Dread of work.
Hypochondriac mood. She wants to enjoy a change of scenery. She fancies
she is miserable, and dwells much on the future. Crowd of ideas. His
attention is easily disturbed by other things. Confusion of mind.
Abdomen - Painfulness of abdomen to contact along the median line.
Belly hard, swollen, dropsical. Pain after eating, spasmodic pains, as
though the bowels became twisted together, rumbling. Flatulence. Pain,
as if sprained, in right groin. Stitch in right groin near inguinal
ring.
Back - Swelling of muscles of neck. Violent beating in spine,
early, when lying. Prickling sensation in spine. Stinging pain.
Sensation of weariness in whole back. Stiffness in muscles of back.
Tingling in sacrum. Prickling in psoas muscles. Pain in lumbar
vertebra, impeding walking.
Breasts - Breasts are painful, especially when raising arm.
Chest - Oppression in chest. Tearing in chest. Prickling as from a
thousand pins on the inner surface of sternum. Violent stitching pain
above right breast. Congestions to chest. Acute pain in the sides like
a stitch.
Ears - Ringing in the left ear.
Eyes - Prickling about the lids, the surface of which is red.
Spasmodic contraction and twitching of left upper lid. Burning in lids.
Prickling and burning in eyes. Congestion of the conjunctiva. Profuse
lachrymation, on waking.
Face - Face hot and red. Red pimples on cheeks. Desquamation of
face. Face pale, bloodless. Swollen, especially about eyelids, nearly
closing them. Bluish-black, fetid ulcer of left cheek. Upper lip is
bleeding, cracked.
Female - Twisting pains through uterus. Feeling of dislocation in
hip-joint with pain in womb after a slight exertion. Flatulence presses
on uterus. Menstrual blood rose-colored. Suppression of the menses.
Menses smelling of foul fish. Small pimples and intolerable itching of
labia. Spasmodic pains in uterus. Burning and itching in vagina.
Food - Canine hunger. Salt taste. Taste of raw potatoes. Food
tastes as bitter as gall. Great desire for spirits and oranges. Burning
thirst.
Head - Heat in head, evening. Heaviness of head. Catarrhal
dullness. Lancinations, as if brain would burst open. Sensation of
water splashing in head. Headache at noon, worse by the smell of
spirits. Painful sensitiveness of scalp and roots of hair, cannot bear
combing.
Heart - Weight and pain in heart region. Lancinations in heart.
Palpitations of heart. Pulse is irregular, sometimes weak, hard and
tense.
Kidneys - Region of bladder distended. Difficult urination. Heat
and pain in urethra after urinating. Constant urination while at stool.
Urine reddish, mingled with mucus. Urine is very thick, soapy, turbid,
of a dingy yellow with copious white sediment.
Limbs - Joints swollen and very painful. Sense of weariness in all
the limbs. Inclination to stretch. Heat in hands. Acute pains in
hip-joint caused by least motion. Feeling of dislocation of hip-joint.
Legs edematous. Shuddering in right leg.
Lungs - Constriction and difficulty of breathing. Hoarseness on
walking. In trachea, tearing, prickling with cough. Cough with
expectoration of yellow mucus, at night. Dry cough, day and night.
Expectoration of lumps of black blood, early in the morning. Constant
involuntary sighing. After eating choking and difficult breathing
caused by dryness of mouth.
Male - Weight in right testicle all day.
Mouth - Dry mouth. Tongue pale. Tongue swollen, cracked, early in
the morning. Tongue coated white or yellowish white. Tongue yellowish
along the median line. Prickling in right half of tongue. Breath
horribly fetid.
Nose - Repeated sneezing, followed by feeble cough. Nosebleeds.
Pressure at root of nose. Smell of blood.
Rectum - Frequent urging to stool. Has to strain until tears come.
Hard, large, lumpy stool, with violent burning in anus and rectum.
Constipation. Copious greenish-yellow diarrhea. Violent colic previous
to stool. Alternate protrusion and retraction of rectum during stool.
Prolapsed rectum. Contraction of anal sphincter. Acute pain in anus.
Great heat in anus.
Sensations - Of water splashing on head, as if brain were leaping
in skull, (on stooping). As of something sticking in throat. As if
there were a fleshy growth in throat. As if a spring unrolled in left
hypochondrium. As if a hollow body were turning rapidly in chest. Of
stoppage in trachea. Of something becoming detached from sacrum.
Skin - Skin is tender. Rose-colored patches appear and as suddenly
vanish. Small red pimples cause violent itching.
SOLanum TUB. AEGROTANS
Sleep - Irresistible drowsiness. Restless sleep. Starting from
sleep, as in a fright. Sleepless. Confused dreams, about fires,
revolution, corpses, thieves. Amorous dream. Dreams about men who
become transformed to talking animals.
Stomach - Belchings followed by rumbling in stomach. Sour
belchings causing a cough. Acidity, bitterness, and gulping-up, after
eating. Pain in stomach, with red face, after breakfast. Spasmodic
pains, griping-tearing at night.
Teeth - Swelling of mucous membrane of the inner margin of the two
incisors. Teeth loose and very painful. Gums, especially lower, spongy,
oozing blood. Teeth covered with white mucus.
Temperature - Chilliness and sensation of internal coldness. Heat
all over with sweat. Fever and afterwards dropsical appearance. Violent
paroxysms of heat. Alternate burning heat and chilliness, at night.
Sweat all over, early is morning, in bed, cold night-sweat. The sweat
makes the bed smell of potatoes.
Throat - Mucus accumulates in throat. Feeling as of a fleshy
growth in throat. Feeling as if something sticking in throat. Fauces
and mouth inflamed, ulcerated in patches. Inflamed fauces, unable to
swallow saliva.
COMMENTS - The symptoms of the Sol-t-ae. proving were pretty
severe and one of the most important: Prolapse of the rectum has been
confirmed by the poisoning cases. A man and three children ate boiled
diseased potatoes and among their symptoms were these: “Pain of an
acute character was referred to the region of the anus, which on
examination was found perfectly patulous and exquisitely tender to the
touch.
Two of the four patients had prolapsed anus, which was probably
caused by the violent and ineffectual efforts to discharge the contents
of the rectum. There had not been an evacuation of the bowels, nor had
they passed water, except in drops and with extreme suffering, for six
days. On introducing the finger into the rectum, which caused acute
pain, it was found that the intestine was completely filled to within
an inch of the orifice with a solid substance.”
The foul odor of the diseased potato is reproduced in the breath
and body odor of the patients. Lips cracked and raw, gums bleeding
tongue coated, thick, cracked, throat inflamed and ulcerated with
sensation of something sticking in it or a fleshy growth. In one
poisoning case a condition of noma of left cheek was induced.
COMPARE - (1) Bry., Ars., Plb., Nux-v., Sep., Stron., Vio. tric.,
Squil., Puls., Graph., Alum., Merc., Nat-m., Ign., Calc. (2) Sensation
of machinery inside, Nit-ac. (3) Constipation, black balls, Op. (4)
Prolapsus anus, Podo., Ruta. (5) Patulous anus, Apis., Phos.
SOURCES - Clarke.
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PHARMACY - Sol-t-ae. Solanum tuberosum aegrotans. Rotten Potato.
Tincture of the affected tubers. Historical dose: All potencies.
Planets: Moon.
HISTORY - The “Potato murrain” is characterized by “the rapid
putrescence of the leaves and haulm, which is first indicated by the
presence of a little mold, Peronospora infestans, which preys upon the
tissues, spreading rapidly in every direction. The tubers also exhibit
brown spots on their surface and within their tissues and according to
circumstances decay with greater or less rapidity” (Treasury of
Botany).
In 1846 the sudden inroad of this disease led to the fearful
famine in Ireland, which resulted in the death of thousands. Mure made
the first proving of Sol-t-ae., using a potato “in an entire state of
decomposition without, however, being completely rotten.” Effects of
eating diseased potatoes, some of them fatal, have been observed and
these have been added to Mure’s.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Sol-t-ae. has prolapse of the rectum and anus.
Tumors of rectum look like decayed potato. Dreams of pools of blood.
Irritability. Breath and odor of body are offensive. Skin, darkness.
The urine has an oily pellicle. Excruciating muscular pains. Cold water
causes shock.
CLINICAL - Anus, prolapse, patulous. Breasts, painful.
Constipation. Nosebleed. Headache. Ileus. Menses interrupted. Noma.
Pruritus vulva. Rectum, prolapse. Scalp, painful. Sciatica. Scurvy.
Tenesmus. Tongue, cracked. Vertebra, pain, pulsation.
Modalities - Worse by touch and pressure. Headache is worse on
waking, by smell of alcohol, walking at 5 p.m., sleeping, working
(headache).
MIND - Quarrelsome, irritable mood. Bad temper. Dread of work.
Hypochondriac mood. She wants to enjoy a change of scenery. She fancies
she is miserable, and dwells much on the future. Crowd of ideas. His
attention is easily disturbed by other things. Confusion of mind.
Abdomen - Painfulness of abdomen to contact along the median line.
Belly hard, swollen, dropsical. Pain after eating, spasmodic pains, as
though the bowels became twisted together, rumbling. Flatulence. Pain,
as if sprained, in right groin. Stitch in right groin near inguinal
ring.
Back - Swelling of muscles of neck. Violent beating in spine,
early, when lying. Prickling sensation in spine. Stinging pain.
Sensation of weariness in whole back. Stiffness in muscles of back.
Tingling in sacrum. Prickling in psoas muscles. Pain in lumbar
vertebra, impeding walking.
Breasts - Breasts are painful, especially when raising arm.
Chest - Oppression in chest. Tearing in chest. Prickling as from a
thousand pins on the inner surface of sternum. Violent stitching pain
above right breast. Congestions to chest. Acute pain in the sides like
a stitch.
Ears - Ringing in the left ear.
Eyes - Prickling about the lids, the surface of which is red.
Spasmodic contraction and twitching of left upper lid. Burning in lids.
Prickling and burning in eyes. Congestion of the conjunctiva. Profuse
lachrymation, on waking.
Face - Face hot and red. Red pimples on cheeks. Desquamation of
face. Face pale, bloodless. Swollen, especially about eyelids, nearly
closing them. Bluish-black, fetid ulcer of left cheek. Upper lip is
bleeding, cracked.
Female - Twisting pains through uterus. Feeling of dislocation in
hip-joint with pain in womb after a slight exertion. Flatulence presses
on uterus. Menstrual blood rose-colored. Suppression of the menses.
Menses smelling of foul fish. Small pimples and intolerable itching of
labia. Spasmodic pains in uterus. Burning and itching in vagina.
Food - Canine hunger. Salt taste. Taste of raw potatoes. Food
tastes as bitter as gall. Great desire for spirits and oranges. Burning
thirst.
Head - Heat in head, evening. Heaviness of head. Catarrhal
dullness. Lancinations, as if brain would burst open. Sensation of
water splashing in head. Headache at noon, worse by the smell of
spirits. Painful sensitiveness of scalp and roots of hair, cannot bear
combing.
Heart - Weight and pain in heart region. Lancinations in heart.
Palpitations of heart. Pulse is irregular, sometimes weak, hard and
tense.
Kidneys - Region of bladder distended. Difficult urination. Heat
and pain in urethra after urinating. Constant urination while at stool.
Urine reddish, mingled with mucus. Urine is very thick, soapy, turbid,
of a dingy yellow with copious white sediment.
Limbs - Joints swollen and very painful. Sense of weariness in all
the limbs. Inclination to stretch. Heat in hands. Acute pains in
hip-joint caused by least motion. Feeling of dislocation of hip-joint.
Legs edematous. Shuddering in right leg.
Lungs - Constriction and difficulty of breathing. Hoarseness on
walking. In trachea, tearing, prickling with cough. Cough with
expectoration of yellow mucus, at night. Dry cough, day and night.
Expectoration of lumps of black blood, early in the morning. Constant
involuntary sighing. After eating choking and difficult breathing
caused by dryness of mouth.
Male - Weight in right testicle all day.
Mouth - Dry mouth. Tongue pale. Tongue swollen, cracked, early in
the morning. Tongue coated white or yellowish white. Tongue yellowish
along the median line. Prickling in right half of tongue. Breath
horribly fetid.
Nose - Repeated sneezing, followed by feeble cough. Nosebleeds.
Pressure at root of nose. Smell of blood.
Rectum - Frequent urging to stool. Has to strain until tears come.
Hard, large, lumpy stool, with violent burning in anus and rectum.
Constipation. Copious greenish-yellow diarrhea. Violent colic previous
to stool. Alternate protrusion and retraction of rectum during stool.
Prolapsed rectum. Contraction of anal sphincter. Acute pain in anus.
Great heat in anus.
Sensations - Of water splashing on head, as if brain were leaping
in skull, (on stooping). As of something sticking in throat. As if
there were a fleshy growth in throat. As if a spring unrolled in left
hypochondrium. As if a hollow body were turning rapidly in chest. Of
stoppage in trachea. Of something becoming detached from sacrum.
Skin - Skin is tender. Rose-colored patches appear and as suddenly
vanish. Small red pimples cause violent itching.
SOLanum TUB. AEGROTANS
Sleep - Irresistible drowsiness. Restless sleep. Starting from
sleep, as in a fright. Sleepless. Confused dreams, about fires,
revolution, corpses, thieves. Amorous dream. Dreams about men who
become transformed to talking animals.
Stomach - Belchings followed by rumbling in stomach. Sour
belchings causing a cough. Acidity, bitterness, and gulping-up, after
eating. Pain in stomach, with red face, after breakfast. Spasmodic
pains, griping-tearing at night.
Teeth - Swelling of mucous membrane of the inner margin of the two
incisors. Teeth loose and very painful. Gums, especially lower, spongy,
oozing blood. Teeth covered with white mucus.
Temperature - Chilliness and sensation of internal coldness. Heat
all over with sweat. Fever and afterwards dropsical appearance. Violent
paroxysms of heat. Alternate burning heat and chilliness, at night.
Sweat all over, early is morning, in bed, cold night-sweat. The sweat
makes the bed smell of potatoes.
Throat - Mucus accumulates in throat. Feeling as of a fleshy
growth in throat. Feeling as if something sticking in throat. Fauces
and mouth inflamed, ulcerated in patches. Inflamed fauces, unable to
swallow saliva.
COMMENTS - The symptoms of the Sol-t-ae. proving were pretty
severe and one of the most important: Prolapse of the rectum has been
confirmed by the poisoning cases. A man and three children ate boiled
diseased potatoes and among their symptoms were these: “Pain of an
acute character was referred to the region of the anus, which on
examination was found perfectly patulous and exquisitely tender to the
touch.
Two of the four patients had prolapsed anus, which was probably
caused by the violent and ineffectual efforts to discharge the contents
of the rectum. There had not been an evacuation of the bowels, nor had
they passed water, except in drops and with extreme suffering, for six
days. On introducing the finger into the rectum, which caused acute
pain, it was found that the intestine was completely filled to within
an inch of the orifice with a solid substance.”
The foul odor of the diseased potato is reproduced in the breath
and body odor of the patients. Lips cracked and raw, gums bleeding
tongue coated, thick, cracked, throat inflamed and ulcerated with
sensation of something sticking in it or a fleshy growth. In one
poisoning case a condition of noma of left cheek was induced.
COMPARE - (1) Bry., Ars., Plb., Nux-v., Sep., Stron., Vio. tric.,
Squil., Puls., Graph., Alum., Merc., Nat-m., Ign., Calc. (2) Sensation
of machinery inside, Nit-ac. (3) Constipation, black balls, Op. (4)
Prolapsus anus, Podo., Ruta. (5) Patulous anus, Apis., Phos.
SOURCES - Clarke.
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