Lachnanthes

Lachnanthes tinctoria, Ell.

Natural order , Hæmodoraceæ.

Common name , Red-root.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Lippe's provings, Am. Hom. Rev., 4, p. 458, W. Raue took 3d dilution (first and second days), 15th dilution (third day), 30th dilution (tenth day); 2 , Mrs. B. took 3d dilution (first day), 15th dilution (second day); 3 , Charles Raue took 3d dilution twice (first and fourth days), one drop of tincture (fifth day); 4 , Miss B. took 6th dilution, one dose of 2 pellets.

MIND

• Lively, singing, and whistling (first day), 1.
• Towards evening he is in good spirits (third day), 1.
• Low-spirited (after three-quarters of an hour, third day), 1.
• Ill-humored and sleepy, at 5 P.M. (fifth day), 4.
• Became much excited over a trifle; he had suppressed his anger, in the evening (second day), 1.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Giddiness in the head (after five minutes, third day), 1.
• General Head.
• Sensation of dulness in the head (second day), 1.
• Headache till 10 A.M. (sixteenth day), 4.
• Headache, with pressing out of the eyes, in the forenoon (fourth day), 1. [10.]
• Dull headache, 4.
• Stinging headache every day for about four weeks (after twenty-four days), 4.
• Headache in the morning, worse at noon; she becomes more giddy; in the evening the headache is a stinging pain; at 6 P.M. the head feels enlarged, and as if split open with a wedge from the outside to within; the body is icy cold, she cannot get warm, although one and a half hours under a feather bed; the whole face becomes yellow; she has to whine with the headache; the head burns like fire, with much thirst (eighth day); same attack, but less severe in the evening (ninth day), 4.
• Forehead.
• Dull pain in the forehead (after three-quarters of an hour, third day), 1.
• Pain in the forehead (first night), 2.
• Pain in the right side of the forehead, extending around to the right side of the occiput, when lying down in bed; shortly afterwards a dull pain over the occiput, which was followed by stiffness of the neck (fifth day), 1.
• Dull headache in the forehead and temples (fifth day), 3.
• Drawing of the skin on the forehead upwards, worse on the left side (after one hour and three-quarters, third day), 1.
• Pain in the forehead, drawing from the right to the left side, better after eating, towards evening (first day), 3.
• A continued stitch in the left part of the forehead from within to without (after fifteen minutes); the stinging changed in a few minutes into a pressing pain, and extended from the left part of the forehead to the right side, over the whole forehead, as if it were pressing from within outwards; the pressing pain in the forehead became a dull sensation, in the whole forehead (first day), 1. [20.]
• Tearing in the forehead, from the left to the right side (after two hours, second day), 1.
• Tearing in the forehead from the left temple to the right, in the evening; the tearing in the forehead continues all night, and awakens him several times from his sleep (sixth day), .

EYE

• Objective.
• Bright, sparkling eyes (twelfth day), 4.
• Secretion of white mucus from the eyes, 1.
• Twitching of the canthus (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), 4.
• Subjective.
• Dryness of the eyes (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), 4.
• Pressing in the left eye, in the afternoon (tenth day), 1.
• Pressing in both external canthi, in the morning (third day), 1.
• Pressing in the eyes, as from dust, first in the right and then in the left (after three hours and a half, first day), 1.
• Pressing as from dust in the eyes, with secretion of white mucus from the eyes, 1. [40.]
• Pressing out of the eyes, with headache, in the forenoon (fourth day), 1.
• Pressing pain over the left eye, near the glabella (seventh day), 1.
• The right eye begins to itch, but does not become red (sixth day), 3.
• Itching in the left internal canthus of the eye (after one hour and a half, second day), 1.
• Brow.
• Drawing of the eyebrows and eyelids upwards, so that he looks with fixed eyes; even when he tries to bring them down with force, they continually go up again; this sensation lasts one hour (after three-quarters of an hour, second day), 1.
• Lids.
• The margin of the eyelids a little swollen, in the afternoon (fourth day), 1.
• When closing the eyes, visible twitching of the upper eyelids; closing them firmly makes it worse (fifth day), 3.
• Sensation of twitching in the upper eyelids (after three hours and a half, first day), 1.
• The left upper eyelid, near the inner canthus, begins to itch in the afternoon; a small hard knot is formed on the spot, which becomes red (fifth day); the redness has extended farther, and is covered by little vesicles; they itch a great deal (sixth day); it has almost disappeared (tenth day), 3.
• Lachrymal Apparatus.
• Sensation in the left os lachrymal, as if something separated itself, afterwards extending from that part over the left eye into the left temple; behind the left ear a bruised pain (after one hour and a half, second day), .

EAR

• Tearing in the right ear (seventh day), 1.
• Tearing in the left ear (fourth and seventh days), 1.
• Tearing in the left ear, of short duration (after three hours and three-quarters, third day), 1.
• While eating, crawling in the right ear (after two hours, second day), 1.
• Tingling in the right ear (after one hour and a half, first day), 1.
• Tingling in the left ear, relieved by boring with the finger, but it begins again immediately, and then the ear feels as if closed, with singing in it (after two hours, second day), 1.
• Itching in the left ear, and soon afterwards in the right ear, towards evening (first day), 3.
• Itching in the right ear; after introducing the finger and taking it out again, sensation as if cold air was rushing into the ear (fourth day), 2.
• Hearing. [70.]
• Singing before the left ear (after one hour and a half, first day), 1.
• Singing in the right ear, while walking in the open air, in the afternoon (sixth day), 1.
• Cracking in the right ear, followed by a sensation as if the ear would discharge (fourth day), 3.

NOSE

• Objective.
• Coryza after the cough and sore throat, at night in bed (third night), 4.
• Violent bleeding of the nose (half a pint); the blood is pale (sixth day); bleeding of the nose, but less violent, at 4 P.M. (seventh day), 4.
• Subjective.
• Burning on the right side of the root of the nose (eighth day), 1.
• A pressure as from a thumb on the right side of the nose (after one hour and a half, first day), 1 . [The prover had fallen when a child and broken the nasal bones, which had partly suppurated and left an indentation.]
• A strong pressure on the left side of the nose (after one hour and a half, second day), 1.
• Crawling in the left nostril (after one hour and a half, second day), 1.

FACE

• The whole face becomes yellow (eighth day), 4. [80.]
• Circumscribed redness of the face, in the afternoon (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), at 8 P.M., 1.
• Pressing tearing in the left cheek, towards the eye, as if the eye would be pressed out (third day), 1.

MOUTH

• Sensation as if the upper eye teeth and incisors were loosened, with sensation of soreness, worse when closing the teeth or when touching them with the tongue (after eight hours and a quarter, third day), 1.
• Pain in all the teeth whilst drinking coffee (after three hours and a half, first day), 1.
• Pain in all the teeth; they feel too long and loose, in the afternoon; toothache worse in bed (twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second days), 4.
• Sudden pain in all the teeth, while eating broth at noon; pain in all the upper teeth after eating (sixth day), 1.
• Tearing from the left temple down to the left molar teeth (after one hour, second day), 1.
• On the left side of the tongue, far back, sensation as from biting on it (second day), 1.
• Saliva thick and tough (after three hours and three-quarters, third day), 1.
• Tincture tasted bitter (fifth day), 1.

THROAT. [90.]

• Scraping throat, with stinging when swallowing, sleeplessness, dryness increasing, afterwards hoarseness, at 10 P.M. (second day); throat is better, hoarseness continues till 2 P.M. followed by burning and itching on the right knee, which looks scarlet-red (third day), 4.
• Sensation of swelling in the pharynx; an itching sensation there when swallowing (three hours and a half, first day), 1.

STOMACH

• Aversion to meat (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), 4.
• Much first, 4.
• Sweetish rising of water, with nausea, at 4 P.M. (fourteenth day), 4.
• Hiccough in bed, lasting half an hour (tenth day), 1.
• Sudden qualmishness in the stomach (second day), 1.
• When walking in the open air, sensation of squeamishness above the navel (after two hours, second day), 1.
• Rumbling in the left side of the stomach, very soon; later in the left side of the abdomen, then as if it were in the large intestines low down; can hear it, but does not feel it (first day), 2.
• Fulness in pit of stomach (fifth day), 3.

ABDOMEN. [100.]

• In the upper part of the abdomen, one inch above the navel, turning and twirling (after two hours, second day), 1.
• Cutting in the right upper side of the abdomen (seventh day), 1.
• Cutting pain in the right side of the abdomen over the navel (after seven hours, third day), 3.
• Rolling of wind in the abdomen (fifth day), 2.
• Much rumbling in the abdomen (first night), 2.
• Frequent rumbling and rolling in the abdomen (fourth day), 2.
• Continuous rumbling and rolling in the abdomen (after three hours, second day), 2.
• Much rumbling and rolling in the abdomen and discharge of flatulency (fifth day), 3.
• Sensation of heat in the abdomen, with a sensation as if the bowels would be moved, soon; after a movement of bowels, the sensation decreased (first day), 2.
• Cutting in the upper part of the abdomen from the left to the right side (first day), 2. [110.]
• Sensation as if the bowels would be moved, but they were not (after each dose, fourth day), 3.
• Sensation in the left groin as if wind was moving in it (after seven hours and a half, second day), 1.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• A continuous stitch in the anus, in the forenoon (first day), 1.
• Slight inclination to stool (fifth day), 3.
• Frequent inclination to stool without success (third and fourth days), 1.

STOOL

• Bowels are much moved, evacuation natural, passes much wind and has to strain a great deal, at 5.45 P.M. (after a quarter of an hour); has usually, one regular evacuation in the morning, nose in the afternoon (first day), 2.
• Bowels moved twice, morning and night (second day); twice in the morning (third day), 2.

URINARY ORGANS

• Pressing in the bladder during micturition (after two hours and a half, first day), 1.
• Some drops flow out of the urethra, coloring the shirt red, during the night (tenth day), 1.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Strong burning in the left half of the scrotum, extending towards the right side (after two hours, second day), 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS. [120.]

• Burning in the right side of the larynx (fourth day), 1.
• Short cough, with sore throat, at night in bed (third day); worse in bed and preventing sleep (fourth and fifth days); slight (sixth day); a little, in morning (ninth day); some, in evening (tenth day), 4.

CHEST

• Feels full in the chest, and this compels him to take a long breath (after three-quarters of an hour, third day), 1.
• Felt hot in the chest and around the heart (after five minutes, third day), 1.
• Awakens at 2 A.M. with a crampy pain in the chest extending from the right to the left side; afterwards pain in the forehead, with general heat alternating with the above-mentioned pain in the chest; at last it moves into the neck and shoulders (first night), 2.
• Stitches in the left side of the chest (seventh day), 1.
• Stitches as with a knife in quick succession, in the right side of the chest under the right breast; motion or rest has no influence; afterwards stitches as with knives in the region of the left collar-bone, after midnight (second night); again under the right breast, at 8 A.M. (third day), 2.
• Boiling and bubbling in the chest and the region of the heart; it ascends up to the head and makes him quite giddy; breaks out into perspiration (after three-quarters of an hour, second day), 1.

HEART AND PULSE

• Sensation of heat in the region of the heart, going and coming (after fifteen minutes, third day), 1.
• When lying, he feels the beating of his heart to his head (after three hours and three-quarters, third day), 1. [130.]
• Pulse 54, at 5 P.M. (fourth day), 1.
• Pulse 58 (after six hours, first day); 60 (after one hour and a quarter, second day); 64, in the morning (third day), 1.
• Pulse 60 (after three-quarters of an hour); 74, some beats are slow, others are fast (after one hour and three-quarters); 54 (after three hours and three-quarters); 68 (after six hours and three-quarters); 76 (after twelve hours and a quarter, third day), 1.
• Pulse 84 (before taking); 80 (after twenty minutes); 72, after lying down and sleeping (two hours and twenty minutes after first dose, first day); 74 (on taking second dose); 58 (four hours after second dose, fourth day); 86 (fifth day), 3.

NECK AND BACK

• Neck.
• Stiffness of the neck (fifth day), 1.*
• Pain in the neck and shoulders (first night), 2.
• Pain and stiffness in the neck, going over the whole head down to the nose, then like pinching the nostrils together (after one hour, second day), 1.
• Pain in the nape of the neck, as if from dislocation, when turning the neck or bending the head backward (after two hours, second day), 1.
• Back.
• Burning in the spine, about four inches above the small of the back (after one hour and a half, second day), 1.
• Sensation of pressure under the short ribs of the right side of the back, deepseated, while taking a long breath (after three-quarters of an hour, third day), 1.
• Dorsal. [140.]
• Burning on the right shoulder-blade (eighth day), 1.
• Stitches as from the stings of bees on the inner edge of the shoulder-blade (after two hours and a half, first day), 1.
• Lumbar.
• Burning in the region of the left kidney, deep internally, drawing towards the right side, soon after the burning in the juncture of the ilium with the sacrum (after three-quarters of an hour, second day), 1.
• Sacral.
• Burning in the os sacrum (after seven hours and a half, second day), 1.
• Burning in the right side above the sacrum (fourth day), 1.
• Burning in the spine four inches above the sacrum, in the forenoon (fourth and seventh days), 1.
• Burning in the juncture of the ilium with the sacrum, deep internally, drawing towards the right (after three-quarters of an hour); soon after burning in the region of the left kidney, deep internally, drawing towards the right side (second day), 1.
• Tearing in the right ischium (second day); deep inside (after three-quarters of an hour, third day), 1.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Tearing in the limbs (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), 4.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Tearing in the left upper arm from the elbow-joint to the shoulder-joint; it pains most in the elbow-joint (after five hours and a half, first day), 1. [150.]
• Tearing in both elbow-joints, sometimes upwards, then downwards, frequently through the day (seventh day), 1.
• Tearing in the left elbow-joint (after one hour, second day), 1.
• Tearing in the right arm below the elbow (eighth day), 1.
• It drew the left index finger crooked (after one hour and a half, first day), 1.
• Tearing in the knuckles of the middle fingers of the right hand (tenth day), 1.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Thigh.
• Burning on the right thigh, far up on the inside (after three-quarters of an hour, third day), 1.
• Knee.
• Pain below the left knee-pan (seventh day), 1.
• Tearing in the right knee, while walking (tenth day), 1.
• Tearing in the right knee-cap (ninth day), 1.
• Tearing in the left knee (tenth day), 1.
• Leg. [160.]
• Tingling in both lower legs and feet, through and through, but worse in the calf (second day), 1.
• Tearing in the right tibia (eighth day); in the afternoon (fourth day), 1.
• Cramp (spasm) in the right calf, in the morning when lying in bed (fourth day), 1.
• Foot.
• While running, suddenly a sensation as if the left foot was out of joint, so that he stumbles, afterwards tearing in the joint of the left foot (fourth day), 1.
• Stitch behind the right external malleolus (after three hours, first day), 2.
• Cramp in the left foot, continuing for half an hour, about 9 A.M. (sixth day), 4.
• Cramp in the left foot, at night (seventeenth night), 4.
• Toes.
• Burning in the left big toe (after one hour and three-quarters, third day), 1.
• Burning under the nail of the left toe (after one hour, first day), 1.
• Tearing in the right big toe, waking him from his sleep (sixth night), 1.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS. [170.]

• Feels weak (ninth day), 4.
• Restless, throws herself about (first night), 3.
• Very restless while perspiring (eleventh night), 4.

SKIN

• Objective.
• Appearance of some few little pimples in the bends of the elbows (fifth day), 3.
• On the left gluteus muscle just on the point is formed a pimple with hard red circumference of the size of a penny, is very painful, when touched exceedingly sore, afterwards burning (sixth day); the pimple does not break, but is very painful (tenth day); a few more pimples formed around the gluteus muscle, they itch, and when opened by scratching ooze out some watery substance (eleventh day), 3.
• On the forehead elevated red pimples (fifteenth day); they become larger and suppurate (sixteenth day), 4.
• Subjective.
• Itching and burning of the skin, lasting all night, worse after scratching (third night), 4.
• Stinging-itching all over, for one hour (thirteenth day), 4.
• Sensation on the skin of the inside of the left lower leg as if blisters were bursting; soon after the same sensation on the right lower limb (after fifteen minutes, first day), 1.
• Burning and itching on the right knee, which looks scarlet-red (third day), 4. [180.]
• Burning-stinging in the left knee-pan of short duration (after seven hours, third day), 1.
• Burning-stinging pain over the left knee-pan (after three hours); above the left knee-pan, on a spot the size of a cent (after nine hours and a half, second day), 2.
• Tingling in the lower extremities (after fifteen minutes, third day), 1.
• Tingling in the lower parts of both legs from the knees to the ankles (first day), 1.
• Tingling and itching about the scrotum and around it (after three hours and three-quarters, third day), 1.
• Itching as if deep within the right thigh (after one hour and a half, second day), 1.
• Itching in the left tibia (after one hour and a half, second day), 1.
• Crawling-itching on the left elbow-joint, soon afterwards on the right elbow-joint, continues for several days, and is worse in the evenings (fifth day), 9.
• Stinging-itching on the lower side of the first joint of the right second toe, when lying down in the afternoon (fourth day), 3.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness.
• Drowsiness during the day (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), 4.
• Sleeplessness. [190.]
• Cannot go to sleep, early, contrary to his habit (fifth day), 1.
• Awakens often during the night, contrary to his habit (second night), 1.
• During the night she is over-wakeful without much difficulty (symptoms?), (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), 4.
• Restless sleep at night, followed by perspiration (first night), 4.
• Little and restless sleep, during the night (third night), 4.
• No sleep before midnight (eleventh night), 4.
• No sleep till morning, when she has feverish distressing dreams (eighteenth night), 4.
• Sleepless (first eighteen nights, except sixteenth night, and twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second nights), 4.
• Dreams.
• Distressing dreams every night (fifth day), 4.
• Dreams that she is spinning, and marked her yarn with red wool (first night), 2. [200.]
• When sleeping, she sees all kinds of images (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), 4.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Body icy cold, she cannot get warm, although one hour and a half under a feather-bed; head burns like fire, with much thirst (during headache); (eighth and ninth days), 4.
• Heat.
• She feels hot and oppressed in chest, with mild perspiration all over, of short duration (after four hours and a half, first day), 2.
• General heat alternating with crampy pain in the chest (first night), 3.
• Burning heat, with redness of the face, more on the right side; after the heat had ceased circumscribed dark redness of the cheeks , worse on the right side, in the afternoon (twelfth days), 4.
• Dry heat; the feet burn, she is restless, throws herself about; much rumbling in the abdomen (first night), 2.
• Flushes of heat alternating with chilliness (nineteenth day), 4.
• Feverish at 8 P.M. (nineteenth day), 4.
• Fever from 6 to 12 P.M., then better, with redness of the face, and more on the upper part of the face (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), 4.
• Burning in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet (twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), 4.
• Sweat. [210.]
• Breaks out into perspiration (after three-quarters of an hour, second day), 1.
• Perspiration, following restless sleep (first night), 4.
• Perspiration and itching of the penis and scrotum, for some days (fifth day), 1.
• Much perspiration after midnight (eleventh night); continued perspiration, in the morning (twelfth day), 4.
• During the cold sensation, the skin is moist and sticky (eighth and ninth days), 4.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Pressing in canthi.
• ( Forenoon ), Headache, etc.; pressing out of the eyes, etc.
• ( Afternoon ), At 5 o'clock, ill-humored, etc.; pressing in left eye; from 2 to 5 o'clock, when reading MS., spot before eyes; while walking in open air, singing in ear; redness of face.
• ( Evening ), Itching in elbow-joint.
• ( Night ), From 6 to 12 o'clock, fever; after midnight, perspiration.
• ( Open air ), Tearing in forehead.
• ( In bed ), Toothache.
• ( While drinking coffee ), Pain in teeth.
• ( Eating ), Pain in teeth.
• ( Walking ), Tearing in knee.
• Amelioration.
• ( Towards evening ), In good spirits.
• ( After eating ), Pain in forehead.
• ( Walking about ), All symptoms; obscuration of sight.