Hypericum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Hypericum perforatum, Linn.
Natural order , Hypericaceæ.
Common names , St. John's Wort; (G.), Johannis-kraut, Hartheu; (F.), Mille-pertuis.
Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.
Authorities.
1 , Dr. George F. Mueller, Hygea, 5, 484, "Caroline," aged 23, unmarried, took 4 drops of tincture, one dose; 2 , "Catharine," aged 31, took same; 3 , "Madeline," aged 21, took same; 4 , Thorer, Beiträge, 4, 1839, p. 118, effects of 30th dilution, taken in the evening; 5 , Dr. Stokes's provings on self and wife, with 10 to 30 drops of tincture three times a day, also doses of 1/2 to 1 drachm of tincture and of infusion, Hom. Times, 1853 (from German translation, original not accessible); 6 , Dr. Bruckner, A. H. Z., 68, 132, took 6th dilution (first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth days), 30th dilution (seventh day), 6th dilution (eighth, ninth, fourteenth days); 6 a , same prover took (the subsequent year), 1st dilution for a headache; 7 , Schelling, A. H. Z., 79, 22, took 1st dilution (first day), afterwards 6 drops of tincture, and after four days, 1 drop daily for eight days; 7 a , same prover the next year took 1st dilution, three doses in one forenoon.
MIND
- Emotional.
- Mental excitement, as after drinking tea, 5.
- She talks widely in the night, after 4 A.M., while asleep, with distorted, staring eyes, head hot, carotids throbbing violently, face puffy, eyes very red, fixed, pupils dilated, pulse very rapid, hair of the head moist, with dry, burning heat over the rest of the body, and great apprehensiveness; once she ceased her talk and sang, but soon afterwards wept and screamed frightfully, and gasped for breath; after a few magnetic passes she came to herself; applying the hand to the head produced a comforting, soothing effect; the whole attack lasted about an hour (second night), 1.
- Very sad, out of humor (next morning), 3.
- Great depression of spirits, so that she wished to cry, at 5 P.M. (first day), 1.
- Great depression, inclined to weep, which she endeavored to suppress, in the evening (fifth day), 2.
- Apprehensiveness, 1, 2, 3.
- She was easily frightened for some time after the proving, 2.
- Intellectual.
- Mental exhaustion, 7a.
- Weakness of memory, after the proving, 1. [10.]
- Forgetful (second morning), 5.
- Remarkable weakness of memory for some time after the proving, 2.
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo.
- Confusion of the head, 3 ; morning, on waking (fifth day), 2.
- Constant vertigo, at 9 A.M. (eleventh day), 2.
- Excessive vertigo and nausea, on waking in the morning (eleventh day), 2.
- Dizziness (first day), 7 ; in morning (second day), 4.
- General Head.
- Feeling of weakness of the head, in the evening (first day), and after the proving, 1 ; throughout the proving, 3.
- Heaviness in the head; the brain feels compressed (fourth day), 2.
- Great heaviness in the head, in the afternoon (third day), 2.
- Feeling of heaviness in the head (first day), 3. [20.]
- Head heavy, confused, 7a.
- Head heavy, confused, full, 5.
- Head heavy, with general weakness, in the morning, 7.
- Feeling as though the head were as large again as usual (eighth day), 3.
- Feeling as though the head were as long again as natural (fifth day), 2.
- (Waking at night from headache, but falling asleep again), (second night), 6a.
- Violent headache, as from a hammering, especially on the vertex (third morning), 1.
- Pressing asunder sensation in the head, especially on the vertex, a sensation of dull roaring, at 6 P.M. (first day), 1.
- The brain seems compressed in the evening (seventh day), 3.
- Tearing stitches within the head (third morning), 1. [30.]
- A feeling as of something alive or a tickling in the brain, in bed (first night), 2.
- Forehead.
- Head heavy, tense between the temples, 7.
- A feeling in the forehead as though some one touched it with icy-cold hands, lasting half an hour, afterwards extending towards the right eye, in the evening (fourth day), 2.
- Tension in the forehead, as if it were drawn up, 7.
EYE
- Weariness in the eye, 7a.
- Feeling as though the eyes were difficult to move, as after weeping, 5.
- Burning in the canthi, 7a.
- Tension in both eyes (fifth day), 1.
- Tension in both eyes (third day), 1. [60.]
- Aching sensation in the eyes (second day), 3.
- Stitches through the right eye (tenth day), 3.
- Tearing in the right eye, in the evening (seventh day), 3.
- Brow.
- Drawing stitches above the eyes, especially in the soft parts of the head, 5.
- Lids.
- Eyelids covered with mucus tense, 7a.
- The right eye is spasmodically closed for about a quarter of an hour, in the evening (fourth day), 2.
- Smarting of the eyelids, 7a.
- Pupil.
- Pupils dilated (fifth day), 1 ; at 6 P.M., (first day), 1.
- Vision.
- Slight longer than usual, in a myope, 5.
- Sight weaker than usual, 5.
EAR. [70.]
- Ears hot, on going to bed, without any heat in the body (fourteenth day), 6.
- Drawing pain in the left ear towards the zygoma; on touching the zygoma it feels swollen (eighth day), 3.
- Transient stitches through the right ear, in the evening (fourth day), 2.
- Itching and pressure in the ear, 5.
- Roaring in the ears, especially in the left (not and unusual symptom), (fifth day), 6.
NOSE
- Much sneezing in the morning (second day), 4.
- Nose mostly dry, 5.
- Nose extremely dry (fifth day), 1.
- Remarkably acute smell (first day), 3.
FACE
- Face seems puffy, in the evening (second day), 1.
- Pains in the face (starting from a hollow tooth), worse at night, 5.
- Cheeks. [80.]
- Feeling of tension in the cheeks, lasting several hours (after two hours); from noon till evening (second day), 2.
- A kind of contraction in the left zygoma (seventh day), 2.
- Jerking and crawling in the left zygoma, in the morning (sixth day), 2.
- Dull jerking pain in the cheeks (fourth day), 2.
- Lips.
- Lips dry, the mucous membrane dry (after four hours), 1.
- Feeling of heat in the lips, (second day), 3.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Tension in the teeth, in the forenoon (fourth day), 2.
- Aching in the teeth, in the forenoon (second day), 2.
- Drawing toothache in the whole lower jaw, lasting a short time, after midnight (third day), 1.
- Tearing here and there in the teeth (second day), 3. [90.]
- Tearing toothache in the right upper and lower jaws, on waking, at 3 A.M. (fourth day), 3.
- Dull jerking pain in the teeth and cheeks, in the afternoon (third day), 2.
- Tongue.
- Tongue, coated, in the morning, 5.
- Tongue coated white, 1 ; (eighth day), 3.*
- Tongue whitish-gray, especially at the base, 7.
- Tongue coated dirty yellow (eighth day), 3.
- General Mouth.
- Mouth dry, 5 ; (after one hour), 1.
- Dry burning heat in the mouth, at 5 P.M. (first day), 1.
- Saliva.
- Much mucus in the mouth after eating, 7.
- Taste.
- Bad taste in the mouth, eructations (fifth day), 7. [100.]
- Taste of blood in the throat following the stool; on hawking expectoration of bright-red bloody sputa (third and sixth days), 6 . [For the past two mouths I had a little nosebleed a few times, but only after blowing the nose; formerly it had occurred almost daily.]
THROAT
- Hawking of tenacious mucus, 7.
- Feeling as though a worm were squirming in the throat (ninth day), 3.
- Neck swollen (second day), 1 ; (eighth day), 3.
- Neck puffed up, for a quarter of an hour (after one hour and a half), 1.
STOMACH
- Appetite.
- Great appetite in the morning (second day), 4.
- Great hunger, at noon (second day), 4.
- Speedy satiety, without pressure in the stomach, 7.
- Diminished appetite, aversion to eating, 7.
- Loss of appetite, nausea, and constant pressure as from an overloaded stomach, although he had fasted, 7. [110.]
- No appetite in the evening (first day), 1.
- No relish for breakfast (second day), 4.
- Thirst.
- Thirst (fifth day), 1.
- Thirst, on waking from sleep; is unable to drink on account of choking in the throat and heat, 7.
- Thirst, with feeling of heat in the mouth (after seven hours), 1.
- Great thirst (after one hour), 1.
- Violent thirst (eighth day), 3.
- Most violent thirst (third morning), 1.
- Eructation.
- Frequent eructations, with pressure on the chest, 7.
- Eructations of odorless flatulence, 7. [120.]
- Eructations without taste, on drinking water (after two hours), 1.
- Frequent empty tasteless eructations, without having eaten anything, at 5 P.M. (first day), 1.
- Bitter eructations (second day), 4.
- Eructations of mucus, with burning and pressure in the stomach, in the morning, 7.
- Great heat rising up in the throat, in afternoon (second day), 2.
- Nausea.
- Nausea (after two hours), 1 ; for half an hour (fourth day), 2 ; (sixth day), 3.*
- Nausea, so that he is scarcely able to rise in the morning, with pressure in the præcordial region, 7.
- Nausea, at noon, with inclination to vomit and great weakness (third day), 5.
- Nausea and distress in the stomach, with inclination to vomit, retching, collection of water in the mouth, for half an hour, in the evening, .
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Feeling of fulness in the hepatic region, 5.
- Tension in the right and left hypochondria (eighth day), 3.
- Drawing pain in the hepatic region, 5.
- Sticking in the right hypochondrium (third day), 3.
- Umbilical.
- Cutting in the umbilical region, as if something were cooking therein, in the afternoon (fifth day), 2.
- General Abdomen.
- *Distension of the abdomen (third day), 3.
- Distension of the abdomen, which is tympanitic and hard, in the evening (fifth day), 2.
- Abdomen hard, with tension in the right hypochondrium (ninth day), 2. [150.]
- Flatulence, with tension in the abdomen, 7.
- Much flatulence, pressure, and dragging in the abdomen, through the day, 7.
- Feeling as though flatulence would pass (fourth day), 1.
- Troubles from flatulence at night, 5.
- Pain in the abdomen and diarrhœa-like stool, in the evening after coffee, 7a.
- Abdomen full and tense, as from flatulence, with griping and nausea, 5.
- Pain in the abdomen, griping distension, followed by soft stool, 7.
- Violent griping pains in the bowels, as from flatulence, soon followed by soft stool (sixth day), 1.
- Cutting and griping in the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus (third day), 3.
- Dragging in the groins, 5.
RECTUM AND ANUS. [160.]
- Burning biting, and a feeling of dryness in the anus, in the morning, 5.
- Great desire for stool, with discharge of hard masses (second day), 3.
- Urgent desire for stool, with passage of small fæcal masses (third day), 3.
- Very unusual, severe urging to stool, in bed soon after waking, which could only be restrained with very great difficulty while I dressed; stool normal (third morning), 6.
- Ineffectual urging to stool (third night), 2.
- Stools attended with most violent tenesmus (fourth day), 3.
STOOL
- During the proving the stool almost always occurred twice daily, morning and evening, normal and profuse; usually I had but, one stool, and was not at all inclined to diarrhœa, 6.
- Stool freer than usual, in the morning (second day), 4.
- Stool soft, in the evening (third day), 2.
- Stool hard (eighth day), 3 ; at 3 P.M. (second day), 1. [170.]
- Stool irregular, sometimes hard, sometimes soft, "very bilious," 5.
- Stool delayed, 5.
- Difficult stool, with violent tenesmus, so that it caused nausea, in the evening (seventh day), 3.
URINARY ORGANS
- Burning in the urethra, 5.
- Micturition.
- Urging to urinate, in the afternoon (fifth day), 1.
- Urging to urinate, with vertigo, almost a faintness, at two o'clock at night, when in and when out of bed (eleventh day), 2.
- Frequent emission of very yellow urine, without burning, 7.
- Urine.
- Profuse clear yellow urine, at night, with burning, 7a.
- Urine clear, wine-yellow, 7.
- Urine very highly colored, frothy, of a peculiar sweetish odor, in the morning (fifth day), 6. [180.]
- Strong-smelling urine (first night), 4.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Lascivious thoughts, soon (in a man), 5.
- Tension in the uterine region, as from a short band (seventh night), 2.
- Violent tearing in the genitals, with a desire to urinate, and micturition twice at midnight (seventh night), 2.
- Leucorrhœa for several days after the proving, 2.
- Menstruation more profuse and with less difficulty than usual; the second menstruation was three days earlier and more profuse, with cold feet and acute sensibilities, 5.
- Menstruation fourteen days too late, 3.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Frequent dry, hacking cough (after one hour and a half), 1.*
- Frequent expectoration of gelatinous mucus (fifth day), 7.
- Expectoration of much granular white mucus, 7. [190.]
- Very short breath, in the evening (second day), 1.
- Dyspnœa, in the forenoon (third day), 4.
CHEST
- Anxiety in the chest, like shortness of breath, in the morning (second day), 4.
- Burning pains in the chest, especially in the afternoon, 5.
- Tightness in the chest (fifth day), 1 ; in evening (second day), 1.*
- Pressure upon the chest (third day), 3.
- Pressure and heaviness on the chest, 5.
- Pressure and burning in the chest, at 5 P.M. (first day), 1.
- Oppression of the chest, in the evening (fourth day), 2.
- Transient sticking-cutting pain in the right upper half of the chest, on moving about; these cutting pains occurred a few times in the left lower portion of the chest, in the afternoon of the same day (third day), 6. [200.]
- Sticking in the left chest, in the evening (second day), 1.
- (Sticking in the ribs and shoulders, as after taking cold), 7a.
- Sticking pain in the middle of the chest (internal aching, like heartburn), 7a.
- Stitches through the left chest, at 8 P.M. (first day), 1.
- Constant stitches from within outward, through the left chest and sternum, aggravated by motion (third day), 1.
- Some sharp stitches in the chest, 5.
- Violent stitches through the chest, so that she was obliged to hold the breath, at 5 P.M. (sixth day), 3.
- Crawling and orgasm in the chest, 5.
- Stitches alternately in both sides of the chest (ninth day), 3.
- Violent sticking pain in the left breast, in the evening (second day), 1. [210.]
- Stitches here and there beneath the right breast, in the evening (second day), 1.
HEART AND PULSE
- The heart feels as though it would fall down, in the evening (second day), 1.
- Palpitation of the heart (fifth day), 1.
- Acceleration of the pulse, 5 ; at 6 P.M. (first day), 1.
- Pulse rapid and hard (fifth day), 1.
NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- (Tension in the neck and nape of the neck), (first day), 7.
- Tension in the nape of the neck; motion of the head is painful, 7a.
- Tension in the nape of the neck, with pressure and sticking in the middle of the chest, 7.
- Back.
- Twitchings of muscles in the back, 5.
- Aching in the back (after one hour and a half), 1. [220.]
- Dull drawing and pressure in the back, especially in the lumbar region, more in the afternoon and evening, 5.
- Sticking and burning pain in the back and loins, with feeling of coldness in the back, shoulders, and arms, 7.
- Dorsal.
- Stitches in the scapulæ (tenth day), 3.
- Lumbar.
- Paralytic pain in the small of the back (ninth day), 2.
- Aching in the small of the back (fifth day), 1.
- Pressive pain in the small of the back (eighth day), 3.
- Pain in the small of the back, pressive, paralytic (third day), 3.
- Some stitches in the small of the back, at noon (fourth day), 3.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Numbness of the limbs, 5.
- Feeling of weakness and trembling in all the limbs (sixth day), 3. [230.]
- The right foot and left arm feel paralyzed, alternating with tearing (fifth day), 3.
- Limbs heavy (first day), 7.
- Feeling of stiffness in the limbs, 5.
- Painfulness in all the joints, 5.
- Rheumatic drawing and tension in the limbs, 5.
- Bruised feeling in the extremities, 5.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Trembling and cramp in the left arm and fingers (eleventh day), 2.
- Weakness in the arms (eighth day), 2.
- Tension in both arms (after one hour and a half), 1.
- Fine sticking like needles in the arms (second day), 3. [240.]
- Tearing in the arms (second night), 3.
- Tearing in the left arm, in the morning (seventh day), 2.
- Tearing in the left arm, especially from the elbow to the fingers, in the evening (third day), 2.
- Constant tearing in the arms (fourth day), 2.
- Violent tearing in both arms, in the evening (sixth day), 2.
- Shoulder.
- Stitches in the left shoulder with every inspiration, at 2 P.M. (third day), 3.
- Tearing in the right shoulder and in the forearm, 7.
- Arm.
- (Neuralgia, paralytic pains in the left upper arm). 6 . [On account of this pain I was obliged to omit the proving; it gradually disappeared after several remedies, but an induration of the cellular tissue remained, which after awhile suppurated.]
- Elbow.
- Transient tearing in the elbows (third day), 2.
- Wrist.
- The left wrist is painful on motion, as if sprained, 7.
- Hand. [250.]
- Tension in the hands (second day), 3.
- Pain as from suppuration on the outer margin of the ball of the left hand, while it lies upon the table, 7a.
- Fingers.
- Rheumatic pain, swelling and tension in the last joint of the left little finger, 7a.
- Rheumatic sticking pain in the right middle finger, as though a knife were thrust from the joint along the metacarpal bone to the wrist; afterwards a similar pain in the great toes, but less violent and of shorter duration (sixth day), 6.
- Tearing in the right thumb, in the evening (fifth day), 3.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Thigh.
- Crawling and drawing along the course of the sciatic nerve, 5.
- Knee.
- Transient cramp in the knee (fourth day), 2.
- Slight pain in the outer and upper portion of the left knee as from straining the tendons (third day), 6a.
- Sticking in the left knee, 7.
- Tearing in the right knee (tenth day), 3. [260.]
- Tearing in the right leg and knee (eighth day), 3.
- Leg.
- Tingling in the legs and knees as from weariness, 7.
- (Very acute cramp in the calves, several times at night, first in the right, afterwards in the left leg, obliging him to get up and walk about), (fifth night), 7.
- Foot.
- Painful tension like a cramp in the soles of the feet, 7a.
- Cramp in the left foot, 7.
- Painful cramplike drawing as if the feet would become dead, when lying, 7.
- Feeling as though the left foot were sprained or dislocated, on rising from stool at 3 P.M. (ninth day), 3.
- Sticking in the bone in the inner side of the right foot, as after a sprain, on ascending steps, several times during the day (fourteenth day), 6.
- Tearing extending from the right calf through the whole foot, at 6 P.M. (fist day), 1.
- Toes.
- Toes and heels somewhat swollen, with biting (ninth and tenth days), 2. [270.]
- Sticking as with a dull knife in the fourth toe, in the evening (tenth day), 6.
- Dull sticking, as with a knife, in the ball of the great toe (fourteenth day), 6.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Objective.
- Frequent starting up as from affright, always with rising of great heat into the neck (fifth day), 3.
- Lameness and stiffness with spasmodic restlessness in the muscles and tendons, especially in the evening and at night, often waking from sleep, 5.
- Weariness on waking from sleep, 5.
- Weak, distracted, in the afternoon, after a short walk (first day), 7.
- Weakness when walking, was obliged to walk slowly; when walking, but not when sitting, 7a.
- Weakness even to falling down, 7.
- Great weakness (tenth day), 3 ; continuing after the proving, 1.*
- Great weakness and trembling, on waking in the morning (eighth day), 3. [280.]
- Great weakness, with violent thirst, on waking in the morning (second day), 1.
- Extremely weak (third day), 1.
- Exhaustion (ninth and tenth days), 2.
- Great exhaustion (fifth night), and for three weeks after the proving, 2.
- Subjective.
- Sensitive to the cold, for some time after the proving, 2.
- General nervous and vascular excitement (first to fourth day), 5.
- Inclined to great activity (fifth day), 7.
- Disinclined for mental and physical labor (fourth day), 1.
- Feeling of weakness (after one hour and a half), 1.
- The whole body feels affected as after a course of medicine, 7a. [290.]
- Feeling, on waking at 4 A.M., as though she were not lying in bed, at another time as though she were lying very heavy in bed (second night), 3.
SKIN
- Objective.
- Some small pimples on the skin, 5.
- Biting eruption like nettle-rash on both hands; she was obliged to scratch until they were almost sore (eighth day), 2.
- Violent biting on both hands; nettlerash eruption on the backs of the hands and between the fingers (fifth day), 1.
- Subjective.
- Crawling in the skin at times, 5.
- Great itching, especially in the sacral region, in the evening on undressing; the skin felt rough and seemed full of little pimples (tenth day), 6.
- (Ulcerating pain in the morning in a vesicle on the thigh), (fifth day), 7.
- Biting in the fingers of the left hand, in the evening (ninth day), 2.
- Violent biting on the back of the hands, in the evening (second day), 1.
- Crawling in the hands and feet, they felt fuzzy (third morning), 1.* [300.]
- Tingling in the feet, 7a.
- (Itching on the forehead, vertex, and hip), 7a.
- (Itching on both cheeks, especially in the beard), (second day), 7.
- The feet seem fuzzy, with sticking in them as from needles (fourth day), 3.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Sleepiness.
- Yawning, 7a.
- Frequent yawning, 7.
- Sleepiness, the eyelids keep closed, at 6 P.M. (first day), 1.
- (Sleepy, in the afternoon, after eating), (second day), 7.
- Very sleepy, at 5 P.M. (second day), 1.
- Constantly inclined to sleep (second day), 2. [310.]
- Sleep heavy, exhausting every night, with sweat in the morning, 7.
- Wakes late (second morning), 6a.
- Sleeplessness.
- Falls asleep late, sleep restless, wakes early (first night), 4.
- Sleep uneasy (first and third nights), 4.
- Sleep restless; it seems as though she were lying very heavy in the bed (first day), 3.
- Sleep restless, disturbed by various pains, and with confused, anxious, voluptuous dreams, or dreams of business, 5.
- Sleep extremely restless, with frightful dreams, starting up and apprehensiveness (first night), 1.
- Waking early in the morning with hot perspiration and uneasiness (sixth day), 6.
- Sleeps usually lying on the back and boring the head into the pillow, 5.
- Lies on the back, with emissions (second night), 4.
- Dreams. [320.]
- Dreamy sleep, with sweat in the morning, 7.
- Many dreams (second night), 3.
- She dreamed very much and awoke after every dream (first night), 2.
- Vivid dreams at night, not remembered in the morning (fourth day), 7.
- Busy dreams very indistinctly remembered (fifth day), 6.
- Many dreams at night of journeyings, etc., indistinctly remembered in the morning (first night), 6a.
- Constant dreams at night; after waking several times he always fell asleep and continued to dream, dreamed of journeying, hunting, etc.; very indistinctly remembered (first night), 6.
- Exhausting dreams of climbing mountains, great pressure of business, etc., without sweat at night, .
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Chilliness over the whole body, with nausea, 7.
- Feeling of chilliness through the whole body, at 4 P.M. (fifth day), 1. [330.]
- Shivering over the whole body, in the evening (second day), 1.
- Constant shuddering, while sitting, worse on moving about, with expectoration of mucus, nausea, and qualmishness, slightly relieved by drinking cold water, lasting through the evening till midnight, 7.
- Coldness of the soles of the feet, 7a.
- Shuddering, coldness, extending from the calves over the legs frequently during the day (second day), 7 . [The day was cold and wet.]
- (Shuddering in the back, extending across the shoulders), (fifth day), 7.
- Heat.
- Heat, with anxiety, in the evening (second and third days), 4.
- Dry burning heat over the whole body (third day), 1.
- Sensation of internal heat without thirst, with perspiration, preventing falling asleep for two hour, so that I sought a cool place and was frequently obliged to throw off the covering, but I soon became too cold (fifth morning, soon after the dose), 6.
- Heat in the head and feet, with restlessness and desire to seek cool places, from 3 to 5 A.M. (tenth day), 6 . [Soon fell asleep again after smelling Aconite, 12 .]
- Heat in the face in the morning after a restless night, 5. [340.]
- Feeling of heat in the face, in the afternoon (fifth day), 2.
- Sweat.
- Gets into a perspiration easily on slight exertion, 7.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), On waking, confusion of head; on waking, vertigo, etc., head heavy, etc., on waking headache in vertex; sneezing; at 3 o'clock, toothache; on waking, weakness, etc.
- ( Forenoon ), Pains in teeth.
- ( Afternoon ), Heaviness in head; throbbing in vertex; etc.; pain in teeth; burning in chest; drawing, etc.; in back; at 4 o'clock, chilliness.
- ( Evening ), depression; weakness in head; stitches in temporal regions; tearing in vertex; pressive pain, etc.; in occiput; tearing in occiput; tearing in eye; stitches through ear; distension of abdomen; after coffee, pain in abdomen, etc.; drawing etc.; in back; tearing in arms; tearing in thumb; sticking in toe; lameness, etc., in muscles; biting on fingers; shuddering; heat, etc.
- ( Night ), Pains in face; after midnight, toothache in lower jaw; troubles from flatulence; cramp in calves.
- ( Motion ), Pain in occiput, stitches through chest; lameness, etc., in muscles; shuddering.
SUPPLEMENT: HYPERICUM PERFORATUM.
The following symptoms are taken from Stokes's original report, and are to be accepted in place of those in Vol. V.
Authorities.
5 , August 18th, 1852, smelled and tasted tincture just set to macerate, in the evening (first day); took 1/2 ounce tincture and walked out, 11 A.M. (second day); 1/2 drachm tincture at 10.30 A.M. (third day); 1 drachm tincture (fourth day); 1/2 ounce (fifth day); 1 ounce infusion at 11 A.M., 2 ounces more in afternoon (seventh day); 1 ounce infusion at 4.30 P.M. (eighth day); 5 a , second proving, September 6th, took of infusion half a pint with 2 drachms of tincture for a mixture; infusion, 10 drachms between dinner and tea (first day); 3 drachms of infusion (second day); 1 1/2 ounce infusion (fifth day); 5 b , third proving, September 17th, 10 drops in water of a dilution made with 20 drops tincture to 2 drachms of spirit, at 10.40 A.M. (first day); same at 8 P.M. (second day); 10 drops three times (third day); 10 drops at noon (fourth day); 20 drops on tongue twice, and took the whole lot prepared (fifth day); 5 c , fourth proving, September 26th, took 3d cent. dil., 10 drops in water, 8 A.M. (first day); 10 drops at 11 A.M. (third day); 10 drops in the morning (fifth day); 5 d , female prover, S. E. S., took 10 drops strong tincture three times a day, beginning October 11th, 1852; 5 e , October 19th, second proving with 30 drops, three times a day, on the fourth day stopped the medicine, got an olfaction of Staph., and then one of Chamom.; 5 f , November 3d, 3 globules 3d dec. dynamization.
MIND
- Felt as if excited by tea, all day (second day); at night (third day), 5.
- Religious thoughts, hopeful (fourth day), 5a.
- For a week past, impure ideas have very seldom presented themselves by day; the mind has been reposing on higher thoughts (seventh day), 5a.
- Low spirits (fourth day), 5c.
- Mind soberly inclined for three days (ninth day), 5.
- Mind disposed to be sad and tenderly melancholy (eleventh day), 5.
- Temper touchy, irritable; inclined to speak sharply (second day), 5f.
- The tone of the nervous energy keeps up in a truly remarkable manner all through, and the mind is firm, and views all things with cool consideration (ninth day), 5b. [350.]
- Made mistakes in writing, evening (third day), 6.
- Mistakes in writing, right for left, or ulna for radius (second day), 5c.
- Forgets people's names (tenth day), 5.
- Defective memory; can hardly arrange ideas, and cannot execute her intentions; forgets what she wanted to do (fourth day). There have been several letters omitted in her written statement of symptoms, especially on the first and second days; the same state caused this as made her so forgetful, but it existed in a less degree, 5c.
HYPERICUM. HEAD
- Head feels dull (third day), 5b.
- Felt the dull head clear up (directly after dose, fourth day), 5.
- Head dull, morning in bed (eighth day), 5.
- Head heavy in the morning, improved towards evening (tenth day), 5e.
- Fulness of head (eleventh day), 5.
- Fulness of head and low spirits this morning, which passed off in two hours, and was followed by a feeling of stiffness in the eyes, as if after tears and a strained painful feel in forehead, which went off after second dose (fifth day), 5d. [360.]
- When she arose, felt the head full, which cleared about an hour after breakfast (after first dose), 5f.
- Rose with fulness of head (second day), 5f.
- Fulness and pain, with heat in vertex before waking (fifth day), 5f.
- Pain in head, worse after dinner (fifth day), 5f.
- Pain of weight in head, generally on the passage of a heavy storm-cloud (seventh day), 5c.
- Headache in forehead, as if it were smashed, increased at night, and on lying down; it increased next day, but was more towards the vertex (seventh day), 5e.
- After breakfast, pressure on anterior and upper part of frontal (left side) bone (ninth day), 5b.
- Pressure in left temple after breakfast (eighth day), 5c.
- Attack of weakening, drawing pain in the scalp, over upper and anterior part of parietal bone (left), for a few minutes (fifth day), 5b.
- Back of head feels bothered this forenoon (fourth day), 5. [370.]
- After breakfast immediately felt a severe scalp headache on the left side of occiput, sometimes it was sharp, at others dull (second day), 5.
- In the evening for a few minutes, felt as if a violent headache with pressure were about to come on in left side of occiput (first day), 5b.
- Shoot of dull pain up left occipital nerve, forenoon (seventh day), 5c.
- Creeping feeling in right side of occiput after dinner (eleventh day), 5.
EYE
- After breakfast, slight aching over brows (ninth day), 5.
- Burning stinging in tarsi of left eyelids, at 9 P.M. (first day), 5a.
- Sight weak (sixth day); very weak (eighth day), 5c.
- Focal distance of vision lengthened, this evening (first day), 5a.
EAR
- Simple pain in right ear at entrance of meatus (eighth day), 5.
- Pressure in right ear, with excoriated feel in pharynx on that side, in the evening (eighth day), 5b. [380.]
- Sharp itching in right ear; meatus; goes off by touch, comes again (first day), 5a.
NOSE
- Sneezing, nose dryish (first day), 5a.
- More than commonly sharp sneezing fit after breakfast, with free nasal secretion (sixth day), 5c.
- Sneezing leaves a raw soreness in throat (fourth day), 5d.
- Nose dry on rising, and all day (third day), 5b.
- Nose dry (fourth day), 5b.
- Dryness of left nostril for a week past; crusts in it (fifth day), 5c.
- Rose with pain in bridge of nose (second day), 5f.
FACE
- Slight aching of the brows and face, which increase in the night to severe distressing ache in the right half of face, in an old tooth more particularly (first day), 5a.
- Dull faceache, in afternoon and evening (second day), 5a. [390.]
- The faceache left by diet and abstinence from all sorts of artificial stimulus (after nine days), 5a.
- Face aching more or less all day (eighth day), 5b.
- Sleep disturbed by a faceache, which came on in the afternoon, after eating mulberry tart (lasted fourteen hours), (third day); pain in face (left side) increased (fourth day), 5e.
- After breakfast pressure on malar prominences (second day), 5a.
- Pressure on malar bone, evening (fifth day), 5b.
- Lips dry (third and fourth days), 5b.
- Aching in the articulation of the jaws (second day), 5f.
- At 10 P.M., lancinations from submaxillary gland of right side, down the neck, for a few moments (first day), 5c.
- Last night had severe aching in an old stump of a right upper molar tooth, which kept me awake and restless; it was best lying on that cheek and keeping quiet (sixth day), 5a.
- Took a glass of beer after dinner, and felt the old stump ache a little; it went on to ache very badly during the whole night (seventh day), 5b.
STOMACH. [400.]
- Appetite increased, in the evening (first day); in the morning (second and fourth days), 5d.
- Appetite for pickles, in the evening (sixth day), 5a.
- No great appetite for breakfast (third day), 5a.
- Thirst for wine , in afternoon; took some (second day), 5.
- Eructations after taking medicine, with taste of same (fifth day), 5a.
- Eructations after breakfast (second day), 5c ; (ninth day), 5b.
- Awoke in the night with great nausea (sixth night), 5d.
- Flatulence and distension of stomach, after teatime (third day), 5e.
- Indigestion and flatulence in the night; awoke with distension and cracking pain in lower belly (first night), which was relieved in the morning by relaxation of the bowels, 5c.
- Ate plums and pickles, and had dyspepsia and bilious diarrhœa (after nine days), 5a. [410.]
- Stomach feels contracted and hot, in the evening (third day), 5.
- After breakfast, pressure in the stomach, extending towards the back (fifth day), 5a.
- After meat at breakfast, felt weight in stomach (eighth day), 5a.
- On rising in the morning, the stomach felt hottish and uncomfortable, though only a small bit of bread and mashed potatoes were eaten for supper, with half a glass of port wine, in water; drank a glass of cold water and felt all right (ninth day), 5b.
ABDOMEN
- Dragging pain in liver at point of false ribs, at 6 P.M. (fifth day), 5.
- Weight and dragging in liver, walking from Torwood, 11.30 P.M. (eighth day), 5b.
- In the night awoke with distension and cracking pains in bowels (sixth night), 5d.
- Bowels full and flatulent, in the evening (second day), 5d.
- Crampy pains in abdomen (twelfth day), 5f.
- After tea pinching pains in bowels, which became much relaxed (fourth day), 5f. [420.]
- In an hour felt pressure at left groin, towards ring (third day), 5c.
- Pressure in right iliac fossa, towards the ring (first day), 5a.
- Pressure on left inguinal ring, morning (sixth day), 5f.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Peculiar slightly cutting warm pain all around rectum, internal to sphincter, forenoon (fourth day), 5.
- Rectum felt as if dry, in morning (seventh day), 5b.
- Inclination to stool, at 6 P.M. (first day), 5a.
STOOL
- Stool delayed till noon (fifth day), 5.
- Stool rather scanty and hard, and constipated (seventh day), 5a.
- Free evacuation of the bowels this evening (seventh day), 5a.
- Free and normal evacuation of bowels (eighth day), 5a. [430.]
- Firm stool, in the morning (first day), 5b.
- Soft, yellow, bilious stool, at 4 P.M.; had a firm one after breakfast as usual (second day), 5b.
- Very free stool, bilious, soft (fifth day), 5b.
- Stool very hard and knotty (seventh day), 5b.
- Large, firm, hard, dry stool this morning (eighth day), 5b.
- Tolerably good stool, at 10 A.M. (first day), 5c.
- Stool delayed till morning (ninth day), 5c.
- Bowels irregular; relaxed without pain, morning or evening, for three days past (sixth day); constipation (seventh day); bowels irregular (eighth day), 5d.
URINARY ORGANS
- At 4 P.M., walking, felt pressive pains for a few minutes in the renal region (fourth day), 5a.
- Squeezing pressure in the left kidney, momentary (after one hour, second day), 5b. [440.]
- Biting stinging in orifice of urethra (fourth day), ( 5a.
- Warm biting in urethra, afternoon (eighth day), 5c.
- Urine turbid (seventh day), 5d.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Afternoon while walking, erotic ideas and erection (first day), 5b.
- Access of erotic ideas, very vivid for a quarter of an hour (immediately, second day), 5.
- Catamenia appeared this morning, with less trouble than usual; greater quantity (eighth day), 5e.
- Catamenia increased in quantity; three days previous to their appearance, great pinching in abdomen, with diarrhœa; cold feet; headache, like wrenching pain over eyes, better in motion; very severe pains in back. Catamenia attended with sickening pains in belly, which she never had before, dull pain in head; sensitiveness of the auditory nerves, Menses three days too early (seventeenth day), 5f.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Some scraping and roughness in the larynx, and upper part of pharynx and mares, in the fog late at night (eighth day), 5b.
- Slight bronchial catarrh, without pain or illness, caused by the night fogs (fifth day), 5c.
CHEST
- Pressure on chest at nipples, with a peculiar warm kind of formication (third day), 5a. [450.]
- After breakfast, pressure on outer third of left clavicle (seventh day), 5a.
- After breakfast, dull heavy pressure on right side of chest from seventh rib down (fifth day), 5.
- Single thrill of shooting pain in left pectoral muscles (sixth day), 5a.
- Dull stinging in right pectoral muscles, extending to back around ribs (third day), 5b.
- Sticking pain in left chest, among the tendons of serratus magnus (seventh day), 5c.
- Stinging-burning pain on edge of left pectoral muscle, noon, one minute (fifth day), 5a.
- Creeping feeling in right breast up to the median line (eleventh day), 5.
PULSE
- Pulse accelerated after dinner (second day), 5.
- Pulse 90, after breakfast, before stool, 10 A.M., fell to 80 at noon (seventh day), 5c.
- Pulse 80 (eighth day), 5c. [460.]
- Pulse 82, at 10 A.M. (ninth day), 5c.
NECK AND BACK
- Awoke with pain in right trapezius muscle, early in morning; it went off after washing (fourth day), 5b.
- Aching of the back of the neck and upper part of shoulders (trapezius), (fifth day), 5b.
- Severe pressive pain on top of right shoulderblade, afternoon (third day), 5c.
- Pressive pain in left shoulderblade, after dinner (eighth day), 5c.
- Cutting pains between shoulderblades on right side of vertebræ (tenth day), 5.
- Stinging in back, near edge of right scapula, near spine, morning (sixth day), 5b.
- Cutting pain under left shoulderblade, with pressure in stomach, after dinner (seventh day), 5a.
EXTREMITIES
- Limbs heavy; felt fatigue in walking before dinner (eighth day), 5c.
- All articulations feel bruised (ninth day), 5. [470.]
- Sawing pains in left hand and left inner ankle (eleventh day), 5.
- Tearing of outside of right knee, followed immediately by severe pressure on upper part of shoulderblade (right), (seventh day), 5c.
- Flying pains in right shoulder, and also in left calf (seventh day), 5a.
- Lancing pains in left wrist and ankle, and along inner border of left foot (third night), 5c.
- In bed, this morning, drawing under right malleolus and in right wrist, momentary; also sticking jerking on centre of back of foot, with fugitive feeling of fulness in left half of head (eighth day), 5a.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- This morning, slight rheumatic drawing aching in point of left shoulder (third day), 5b.
- Slight pains in the shoulder-joints, especially the left one, forenoon (third day), 5a.
- Numbness in left arm awoke her three times; it went off after friction (third night), 5d.
- Pressure on right humerus, at insertion of deltoid (ninth day), 5b.
- Hard pain running down left median nerve, followed by the above pain in front of thigh, in the evening (ninth day), 5b. [480.]
- Slight ache in left elbow passing immediately to right forearm (ninth day), 5c.
- Pain in right elbow very severe (fourth day), 5f.
- Weakness and strained feel in right elbow troublesome a month back, has returned, and is aggravated by second dose to-day; worse in lifting (second day), 5c.
- Right arm very weak and painful, just behind elbow-joint (second day), 5f.
- Rheumatic pains in right elbow (fifth day), 6f.
- Slightly lancing pains about head of right radius for a few moments (first day), 5c.
- On going to sleep starting in right forearm above wrist (second day), 5.
- Pressive pains down left forearm, on ulnar side (fifth day), 5a.
- Jerking of tendons in left wrist on going to sleep (sixth day), 5.
- Pressive lancing pain on the middle metacarpal bone of left hand (back), morning (sixth day), 5b. [490.]
- Lancing pains in joints of left hand fingers (first day), 5a.
- Strained pain between index and thumb of left hand, at 1 P.M. (eighth day), 5c.
- Lancing pain in phalanges of middle and little fingers of right hand (fifth day), 5c.
- Cutting pains in the fleshy end of fingers, of late several times (sixth day), 5c.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Crampy feel in the lower part of gluteal muscles, right hip ; immediately on its disappearing, flashing pain on back of left toes, 5 P.M. (ninth day), 5b.
- Drawing in left buttock, under tube ischii, with same in right wrist, slight (ninth day), 5b.
- At night, after a walk, strained feel in right ham (first day), 5b.
- Pain in inner condyle on right thigh for a moment; morning in bed (eighth day), 5.
- On walking in the afternoon, felt a bruised pain in left thigh; muscles supplied by anterior crural nerve are stiff and sore; this lasted some days, going and coming (ninth day), 5.
- Left thigh sore and lame (tenth day), 5. [500.]
- About midday the pain in front of left thigh returned, and came and went frequently (first day), 5c.
- Pressive pain on centre of front of left thigh, afternoon (fifth day), 5c.
- Pains in left thigh as before (sixth day), 5c.
- Slight shoots down the great sciatica on back of pelvis, in bed at night (eighth day), 5.
- Pain in right knee, morning (ninth day), 5.
- Starting of left leg on going off to sleep (third day), 5.
- Numbness in legs (twelfth day), 5f.
- Left leg numb, in evening (first day), 5f.
- Left leg numb (second day), 5f.
- Slight numbness in left leg after first dose (second day), 5c. [510.]
- Cramp in left leg on going to sleep (fourth day), 5d.
- Severe diductive pains down nerves of right leg, for a few moments, afternoon (fifth day), 5c.
- Flashes of weakening of drawing pain all over front of left leg, all the afternoon, either walking or sitting (fifth day), 5b.
- Last night at 12 o'clock, coming home, felt a sudden shoot of pain all over the front of left leg, apparently in the periosteum, it recurred two or three times, and several times to-day (fifth day), 5b.
- Single biting on left shin (seventh day), 5b.
- Biting on front of left shin, evening (seventh day), 5b.
GENERALITIES
- Felt rather dull this morning, and languid; a dull day (third day), 5.
- On rising, feel rather weary and have foul tongue (fourth day), 5.
- Feel rather dull to-day (fourth day), 5c.
- Weary and heavy all day (eighth day), 5.
- Unrefreshed on waking; languid in the morning; felt better towards noon (third day), 5f.
- At various times has felt fugitive pains in the face, shoulders, limbs, and fingers, of a laming character (twelfth day), 5f.
SKIN. [540.]
- Papulæ on the middle of the right sterno-mastoid muscle, such as had appeared before on the chest (fifth day), 5b.
- Pimple on back, right side (fifth day), 5a.
- Very small pimple or boil on right hip (sixth day); pimple rather sore under the friction of the clothes (seventh day), 5c.
- A cluster of itching, psoralike vesicles on root of left thumb, in forenoon; gone at night (ninth day), 5.
SLEEP
- Felt as if under the influence of tea, and went to bed with the brain excited; did not sleep soundly. Dreams vivid and active; next morning found myself lying very much on the back and digging the head backwards into the pillow (first night). Dreams active, confuses (third night). Lay a good deal on back; sleep uneasy; threw the head back, and kept on jerking it backwards (sixth day). This morning conscious of anxious dreams, as if something important were left undone (seventh day). Dreams busy (eighth night). Dreams full of bustle (ninth night), 5.
- Sleep disturbed and uneasy from faceache (first night). Passed a bad night from horrid sexual dreams; disturbed sleep (second night). Dreams horrid and agitated, sexual (third night), 5a.
- Dreams confused (third night). In spite of a bad night rose feeling well (eighth day). At night got late to bed, and dreamed awful horrid dreams, as that God was far from me and repudiated me, etc. (eighth night), 5b.
- Sleep full of dreams of Mormons, of horses, fights, and great action (first day). Found myself very early in the morning lying on my back , dreaming some desperate horror, and half awake, saying to myself, "Why should I fear, the Lord is around and about me" (second day). Sleep disturbed by all sorts of horrid dreams; starting of the legs when falling asleep; slight convulsive shocks and twitches following up, preventing sleep; singular erethic state of nervous system all night; erotic ideas and dreams (third night). Dreams active (fifth day). Sleep disturbed by active dreams (eighth night), 5c.
- Restless night (third night), 5d.
- Sleep lighter, and is more refreshed by it (tenth day), 5a. [550.]
- Slept badly; dreams of distress (second night).
Dreams distressing (third and fourth nights), 5f.