Sarracenia

Natural order , Sarraceniaceæ.

Common names , Pitcher plant, Sidesaddle flower, Huntsman's cup, Flytrap, etc.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Porcher, Hale's New Remedies, 1867, p. 939, took sixty pills, 3 grains each, of fresh root, between 10 and 12 P.M., taking six or eight at a time; 1 a , same, took 140 grains at once; 2 , T. C. Duncan, took 1/2 ounce of cold infusion of dried plant; 2 a , same, took 1 ounce of decoction and 1 drachm of tincture; 3 , Thomas, took tincture of dried root for eight days, repeated doses of 10 to 25 drops; 3 a , same, took cold an infusion of dried plant in hot water, frequently repeated (two hours), doses of 15 to 75 drops, for nine days; 4 , Dr. T. Cigliano, Il. Dinamico, Naples, 1871 (translation by Dr. Lilienthal, Am. Obs., 1871, p. 467).

APPENDIX: Symptoms [Most astonishing, and apparently impossible. -T. F. A.] from Houat, Nouvelles Données de Mat. Méd. Hom., etc.

MIND

• Feel remarkably cheerful (first day), 2.
• Spirits buoyant (fourth day), 2.
• 12 M., mind despondent (third day), 2a.
• Dulness of mind at 7.30 A.M. (third day), 2.
• Brain very dull and memory poor, at 9 P.M. (third day); brain feels clearer (fourth day), 2.
• Find it difficult to concentrate the attention; forgetful (fifth day), 3a.
• Alternate apathy and intellectual activity, with heaviness of the head, 4.

HEAD

• Heaviness of the head, with alternate apathy and intellectual activity, 4.
• 3 A.M., head feels dull and heavy (third day), 2. [10.]
• Dull heavy ache in the head, especially in the frontal region, at 7.30 A.M. (third day), 2.
• Head dull, and aches at the coronal region (fourth day), 2a.
• Feeling of congestion about the head, with irregularity of the heart's action, lasting several days, 1.
• 12 M., full feeling through the head, just above the ears (first day), 2.
• Head hot and sore, with a full feeling, at 2 P.M. (third day), 2.
• Head is hot and aches, in the morning; headache continues, at 12 M. (third day), 2a.
• Slight headache (third day); severe headache in the afternoon for about two hours (sixth day); no headache (seventh day), 3.
• Headache for an hour (fifth day); slight headache (seventh day), 3a.
• Dull heavy feeling in the forehead for about two hours, causing great depression of spirits (second day), 2.
• 4 P.M., a soreness of the frontal bone for half an hour (second day), 2. [20.]
• Some frontal headache (second day), 2a.

EYE

• Pain in the left eye, as if congested, for about ten minutes (second day), 2.
• Eyes feel swollen and sore, at 7.30 A.M. (third day), 2.
• Passive pains in the orbits, so that he could not keep his head erect, 4.
• A soreness of right optic nerve, just behind the eyeball, for about ten minutes (fourth day), 2.

EAR

• Sticking pains deep in the right ear; they are transient, but recur very often for a few hours; the same pains appeared in the left ear (second day), 2.

FACE

• 6 P.M., my face feels flushed (second day), 2.

MOUTH

• Tongue brownish white, coated (fourth day), 2a.
• Tongue dry (third day), 2a.
• 3 A.M., lips and mouth parched (third day), 2. [30.]
• Mouth somewhat dry (second day); dry (fourth day), 2a.
• Sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat, not relieved by drinking tea or water (eighth day); dryness in the throat has all passed off (ninth day), 3.
• Bad taste, with loss of appetite, 4.

STOMACH

• The appetite following the next day was unusually active, seeming to demand much to satisfy its requirements, but there was a sense of pain about the stomach like that following inflammation, or that felt in the muscular tissue of a limb after it has been overtasked, 1.
• Appetite extra good since the fourth day (seventh day), 2.
• Appetite poor (third day), 2a.
• But little appetite, but what food I do eat agrees with me (eighth and ninth days), 3a.
• Losing appetite (third day), 2.
• Loss of appetite, with bad taste, 4.
• General vigor of digestive apparatus was increased, 1. [40.]
• Tenderness on pressure of the epigastrium, 1.
• A feeling of emptiness (in one hour), 1.

ABDOMEN

• Feeling at the umbilicus as if bloated (flatus the probable cause), (first day), 2.
• Much flatus present, at 7.30 A.M. (third day), 2.
• Borborygmus and some pain in the bowels, with constipation (third day), 3.
• Borborygmus (eighth day); slight (ninth day), 3.
• After retiring to bed the whole abdominal region was in a state of commotion, extending along the track of the ascending and descending colon, all of which appeared to participate in a kind of rolling motion produced by it. To these were added involuntary rumbling sounds, as if the entire alimentary tube were stimulated, and apparently forewarning a cathartic effect, 1.
• Light colic, 4.
• Some transient pains in the bowels (third day), 2a.

STOOL

• Bowels open freely to-day for the first time since I commenced the proving; stool at first very constipated, afterwards soluble, dark, and highly offensive (fourth day); bowels open this morning, the first for six days; stool copious, dark, fetid, evacuated with great straining (tenth day); bowels opened freely again (eleventh day); bowels normal (fifteenth day), 3. [50.]
• Bowels moved to-day, the first time for the six days I have been proving the drug; stools very hard , covered with mucus, dark color (seventh day); bowels moved (tenth and eleventh days), 3.
• 9.30 A.M., stool; the first portion was natural, the last portion diarrhœic (third day), 2.
• Dysenteric diarrhœa, with a good deal of tenesmus; took a dose of Podophyllum, which quieted it; since then bowels costive (fifth day), 2.
• Bowels moved, closing up with some looseness and tenesmus (second day), 2a.
• Constipation for ten days, with hard and voluminous fæces, 4.
• Constipation, with pain in the bowels (third day); continues (fourth day), 3.

URINARY ORGANS

• Awoke at 3 A.M. with urging to urinate; the bladder was so full that it overcame the contractive powers of the sphincter vesicæ, and the urine was dribbling away; voided 40 ounces of urine (third day), 2.
• Its diuretic action was frequently repeated, the secretion being increased in quantity-pure, limpid, and colorless-with scarcely any sediment after several hours' standing, 1.
• Voided 25 ounces of urine; sp. gr. 1026 (second day); 27 ounces; sp. gr. 1024; vesical tenesmus (third day); urine acid, clear, and pale; responds to test for the phosphates, earthy phosphates, and chloride of sodium; 29 ounces (fourth day); normal (fifth day), 2a.
• Sp. gr. of urine 1020 (second and third days); 1025, scanty, limpid (fourth day); 1028 (fifth day); copious and a little cloudy; sp. gr. 1030; the cloudiness is caused by mucus (sixth day); 1030, copious, and rather cloudy (mucus), (seventh day); 1034, copious, cloudy (eighth day); 1030, copious, pale yellow, which is the color it has been all through the proving (ninth day); 1030 (tenth day); 1025 (eleventh day); 1020 (twelfth day); 1019 (fifteenth day), 3. [60.]
• Urine, sp. gr. 1018 (before the proving); 1018 (first day); 1017 (second day); 1019 and 1020 (third day); 1018 (fourth day); 1020 (fifth day); 1019 (sixth day); at 5 A.M. 1015 (seventh day); 1018 (eighth day); 1019 (ninth day), 1018 (tenth day); 1020 (eleventh day); 1019 (twelfth day); kidneys normal (fifteenth day), 3a.

CHEST

• Pains in the third and fourth ribs, with great apprehension of heart disease (these symptoms lasted for about three months after the remedy was stopped), 4.
• Pain in the angle of the ribs for half an hour, at 9 P.M. (third day), 2.
• A slight soreness of the pectoralis major muscle, from origin to insertion (first day), 2.

HEART AND PULSE

• Slight palpitation of the heart this morning (second day), 3.
• Irregularity of the heart's action, with feeling of congestion about the head, lasting several days, 1.
• Before morning the pulse rose to 100 by the watch, resuming its usual frequency after a time, 1.
• Pulse 70 and full (first day); 76 in the morning; 68 at 9 P.M. (second day); small and quick, 80, at 7.30 A.M. (third day), 2.
• Pulse 64, full (second day); 68, small, in the morning; 61, very small, in the afternoon (third day), 2a.
• Pulse 68, full and strong (second day); 70, full (third day); 72 (fourth day); 74 (fifth day); 78 (sixth day); 78, strong (seventh day); 79 (eighth and ninth days); 78 (tenth day); 76 (eleventh day); 70 (twelfth day); 68 (fifteenth day), 3. [70.]
• Pulse 70 (first day); 68 (second day); 72, 71 (third day); 69, 68 (fourth day); 70, 68 (fifth day); 68 (sixth day); 70, 69 (seventh day); 71, 69 (eighth day); 69, 68 (ninth day); 70 (tenth day); 69 (eleventh day); 70 (twelfth day), 3a.

NECK AND BACK

• A pain up the right trapezius muscle, with a wavelike motion (first day), 2.
• Pain in back; this is very perceptible upon ascending stairs, at 2 P.M.; a good deal of pain in the back, deepseated, at 9 P.M. (third day), 2.
• Back and arms tired and sore all over, at 2 P.M. (third day), 2.
• 9 P.M., a warm sensation passed up the back into the head (second day), 2a.
• Fixed pains in the small of the back, rachialgia, 4.
• 3 A.M., pain and soreness in the sacrum (third day), 2.

EXTREMITIES

• Pains in the diaphyses of all the long bones; worse in the humerus, especially the left, 4.
• 6 P.M., pain in the left carpus and tarsus (second day), 2.
• Soreness in the humerus, radii, ulni, femores, fibulæ, tibiæ, in the tarsi, and metatarsi (third day), 2.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. [80.]

• 6 P.M., paroxysms of pain in the right shoulder-joint (second day), 2.
• Arms and back tired and sore all over, at 2 P.M. (third day), 2.
• 3 A.M., bone-pains in the arms (third day), 2a.
• 3 P.M., aching sore pain in the left humerus (second day), 2a.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Pain in the hip-joints, felt most when rising to the feet from a lying posture, at 9 P.M. (third day), 2.
• Pains in the hip-joints (third day), 2a.
• A strange lameness in the femur, in its lower third, more particularly in the inner condyle. 2 P.M., those bone-pains have appeared in the tibia and fibula; they are intermittent in character, but there is a continued soreness of these bones; 9 P.M., the cold air makes me chilly, and increases the bone-pains, especially in the knees (second day), 2.
• Pain, with that wavelike motion, in the muscles of the femur (second day), 2.
• 12 M., some pains in the condyle of the femur (second day), 2a.
• Pain in the right patella and metatarsal bones (second day), 2a. [90.]
• Knees feel weak, at 2 P.M. (third day), 2.

GENERALITIES

• Disinclination to do anything; want to lie down all the time, at 2 P.M. (third day), 2.
• Dull heavy sore feeling in all my bones (third day), 2a.
• A dull heavy feeling (third day), 2a.
• A languid feeling (fourth day), 2a.
• Tired and badly refreshed (fourth day), 2a.
• Lassitude present all day (third and fourth days), 3a.
• General malaise (fourth day), 3a.
• Feel rather unrefreshed, although slept soundly (third day); sleep still unrefreshing; dreamed a good deal (fourth day), 3a.
• Felt very dull and unfit both for work and study (seventh and eighth days); the dull heavy feeling is passing away (eleventh day); almost well (twelfth day); quite well; all the dull listless sensation is gone (fifteenth day), 3a. [100.]
• Vague pains, 4.
• (Awoke feeling better than usual), second day), 2.
• 7.30 A.M., sore all over, especially deep in the bones (third day), 2.
• Bone-pains, still some present, especially in the cervical and lumbar vertebræ, sacrum, and femur (whole length), especially of the inner condyle and trochanter major (fourth day), 2.
• The symptoms produced were very similar to those described in the above quotation, pointing distinctly to the parts of the system influenced by the drug; namely, the gastric filaments of the ganglionic or organic system of nerves . This produced an increased action of the circulatory system, and drove the blood to the head. It also increased the peristaltic motion of the entire alimentary canal, and promoted the renal and other glandular secretions, without any apparent effect upon the nerves of animal life, 1a.
• Exacerbation of all symptoms in stormy weather, about midnight, and at 3 P.M.; amelioration in fresh air and out of the bed, 4.

SKIN

• Eruptions similar to crusta lactea; on forehead and hands papular eruptions, changing to vesicular with the depression, as in small-pox, lasting from seven to eight days, 4.

SLEEP

• Sleepiness in daytime, sleep disturbed by strange and frightful dreams, 4.
• Sleeplessness, 4.
• Awoke from a refreshing sleep (second day); awoke in fright (third day), 2a. [110.]
• 3 A.M., awoke with urging to urinate, awake an hour; awoke at 7.30, from very unrefreshing sleep, although I slept an hour longer than usual (third day); sleep refreshing (fourth day), 2.
• Awoke at 5 A.M., feeling well in every respect (second day); awoke at 5 o'clock, feeling unrefreshed; by 7 o'clock, feeling this sensation of weariness passed off (third day); awoke at 4 o'clock, feeling very much unrefreshed; after being up an hour or two I felt better (fourth day); awoke at 4.30, feeling as I did yesterday (fifth day); awoke at 5 o'clock, having slept well, but I do not feel at all refreshed (sixth day); awoke at 5 o'clock, slept well, still my sleep does not refresh me (seventh day); awoke at 5 A.M., feeling as usual unrefreshed (ninth day); awoke at 5, feeling the same as yesterday (tenth day); feel well (twelfth day), 3.

FEVER

• General chills between the shoulder-blades, 4.
• Chills, heat, and sweat, at 5 P.M. (in a lady), 4.
• 2 P.M., very chilly, in the open air (third day), 2.
• 9 P.M., the cold air makes me feel very chilly (second day), 2.
• Horripilations between the shoulder-blades, sometimes at 3 or 4 P.M., or in the evening, 4.
• Coldness of the extremities, when idle or still, as if from deficient circulation (third day), 2a.
• 2 P.M., feet and hands cold (third day), 2.
• 3 A.M., feel hot and feverish; feverish, at 7.30 A.M. (third day), 2. [120.]
• Heat in the whole right lumbar region (first day), 2.
• Skin feels hot and dry (third day), 2a.
• Head and body warm (third day), 2a.
• 9 P.M., hands feel hot, warm all over (second day), 2.
• Perspire freely (fifth, eighth, and ninth days); although the weather is still warm and I am actively employed, I do not perspire as freely as I did while taking the drug (eleventh day), 3a.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( About midnight and at 3 P.M .), The symptoms.
• ( Stormy weather ), The symptoms.
• Amelioration.
• ( In fresh air ), The symptoms.
• ( Out of bed ), The symptoms.

APPENDIX: SARRACENIA. MIND.

• Frequent delirium.
• Madness, with wickedness and fury, or good humor and extreme complacency.
• Dementia, with disposition to injure and to destroy himself.
• Idiotism.
• Laughing and involuntary crying.
• Goodheartedness, or impatience and irritability.
• Disposition for excesses, to get angry and to speak injurious words.
• Despair with sorrow and crying and snuffling.
• Melancholy and mournfulness, with great anxiety about everything. [10.]
• He is afraid, and reproaches himself; thinks he has committed something wrong, or disgraced the family or his absent friends.
• Rancorous character, with great punctiliousness, especially as he feels sick.
• Capricious humor, sometimes good-natured, then irritable.
• Invidious, distrustful, and suspicious character.
• Indifference and feeling of annihilation, he tolerates offences without saying anything.
• Great disposition to work at architecture.
• Affluence of ideas, hindering sleep during the night, with sweat, heat, intense thirst, and restlessness.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Vertigo, with cramps in the neck, spreading to the forehead, especially in the evening.
• Vertigo, dulness, with sensation of intoxication; he does not know to keep himself straight.
• Vertigo, with dulness in the head and contractions in the spinal column. [20.]
• Frequent dizziness, especially in the afternoon, after eating.
• General Head.
• He drops his head and supports it on his arms.
• Heaviness of the head, with great difficulty of thinking; excessive debility of the intellectual faculties.
• Dulness of the head, with loss of memory, insensibility of the right side, loss of hearing and smell.
• Rush of blood, pulsations, and burning heat of the head, with sensation as if it would split.
• Excessive headache, with constant desire to sleep.
• Headache with chills, nausea and vomiting, dimness of sight, and buzzing in ears.
• Periodical pulsative headache with desire to recline.
• Aggravation of the headache, in the evening, at night, and in bed, or in the morning when waking up, in fresh air and in great heat.
• Sensation as if the head were bound by an iron band, with contractive pains in the temples. [30.]
• Sensation as if he had received a knock on the head, with vertigo, stupor, and vacillating gait; he is obliged to support himself and to lie down.
• Sensation as if the head would be crushed on a wheel, especially the neck, with abolition of venereal desire and impotence.
• Pressive and lancinating pains, as in tuberculous meningitis, with sensation as if the head were full of water.
• Sensation as if the right temple were pierced by a sharp-pointed instrument, changing to the left ear, with spasmodic pains and deafness.
• Intense neuralgic pains, spreading from the temples to the jaws.
• External Head.
• The hair changes color and falls out.
• The hair feels stiff and as if it were a foreign body.
• The hair entangles and feels like wool.
• Inflammation and swelling of the scalp.
• Eruption like stings of insects, and ulcers on the scalp. [40.]
• Herpes with dark thick scabs, which fall off easily and leave the scalp of a bright-red color; the same on forehead.
• Pruritus and heat of the scalp during the whole afternoon.
• The skin of the head painful and full of scales.

EYE

• Objective.
• Inflammation of the eyes and lids, with great injection of the conjunctiva and sclerotica.
• Eyes congested with vesicles on the conjunctiva.
• In the cornea a spot like a cataract.
• The crystalline lens appears opaque and whitish.
• Subjective.
• Difficulty of moving the eyes and impossibility to discern objects.
• Excessive dryness of the eyes and lids, with great difficulty in opening them.
• Burning in the eyes, as if sand were in them. [50.]
• Excessive itching in the eyes, especially in the afternoon and night.
• Pricking and pulsations in the eyes, as if congested.
• Orbit.
• Cutting-penetrating pains in the orbits.
• Lids.
• Swelling and redness of the lids.
• Scabs and thick tumors on the borders of the eyelids.
• Lachrymal Apparatus.
• Very abundant lachrymation, especially in open air.
• Acrid and corrosive lachrymation.
• Abundant secretion of mucus of the eyes.
• Pupils.
• The pupils frequently contracted.
• Vision.
• Mistiness of the sight and paroxysms of blindness, with malaise and desire to vomit. [60.]
• Great weakness of sight.
• Objects are seen too far off or nearer than they really are.
• A strong light is necessary to distinguish objects.
• Great photophobia.
• Myopia and presbyopia.
• Objects appear multiplied.
• Looking at the light he sees a multitude of rays, which spread out.
• All objects appear covered by a white veil.

EAR

• Inflammation and swelling of the auditory canal, yellowish otorrhœa, thick and frequently bloody.
• Ulcers and fissures in the interior of the ear. [70.]
• Lancinating and spasmodic pains in the ears, with a sensation as if a pointed instrument were stuck in the parotids.
• Spasmodic pains in the ears, spreading to the brain, with heaviness and pressure on the vertex.
• Frequent spasms in the ears, with headache.
• Cramps in the ears, with sensation as if they pulled off.
• Heat and sensation of numbness in the ears.
• Sensation as if a firm body or a tumor were in the ear.
• Intense otalgia, so that he is afraid of losing his senses.
• Hearing excessively sensitive; any great noise produces headache and desire to vomit.
• Momentary deafness.
• Noise of confused music and resonance of the pulse in the ears. [80.]
• Noise of waves, tingling, buzzing, and sometimes detonations in the ears.

NOSE

• Swollen red nose, with pressure and pulsation at the root.
• Small tumors, showing a chancrous character in the nostrils.
• Nasal discharge of green-yellowish, bloody, black, and foul-smelling matter.
• Fluent coryza, with cold chills and loss of smell.
• Coryza, with abundant mucous discharge, tickling and burning in the nostrils.
• Dry coryza, with occlusion of the nostrils, especially night and mornings.
• Epistaxis, nearly producing fainting.
• Frequent sneezing, with jerking in the brain and stupefaction.
• Sensation of evulsion and torsion in the nose, with excoriation of the skin. [90.]
• Burning, pulsative, and pressive pains in the nose, with swelling of the nostrils on the same side.
• Fetid smell.

FACE

• Erysipelatous swelling of the face.
• The face swollen, red, and inflamed.
• The skin of the face tense, with impossibility to smile or open the mouth.
• Yellowish-green face, with black circles round the eyes.
• Great paleness of the face, with heat and chill alternating.
• Sensation as if he had a leaden mask on his face.
• Smarting, heat, or coldness on one side of the face, or on the other.
• Lips.
• Lips swollen, hard, and chapped. [100.]
• Small indurated tumor upon the upper lip.
• Ulcers like chancres on the lips.
• Jaw.
• Spasmodic and contractive pains in the lower jaw.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Teeth yellow, brown, very brittle, and denuded at the roots.
• Appearance or aggravation of toothache, in the morning, in the evening, at night in bed, also when talking or eating, when taking anything hot into the mouth, from the least contact and cold air.
• Toothache accompanied by headache, swelling of the cheeks, extending to the eyes.
• Lancinating, pulsative, breaking, and grinding pains in the teeth, with heat of the face and great prostration.
• Gums.
• Inflammatory swelling of the gums about the maxillary sinus.
• Tongue.
• Hard nodosities and tumors, with an angry look upon the tongue.
• Small pimples on the tongue with pain, as if burnt. [110.]
• Gray coating on the tongue.
• General Mouth.
• Bad odor from the mouth, with bitter saliva and efforts to vomit.
• Inflammation of the whole mouth and gum, with burning and great difficulty in chewing.
• Numerous small white-gray ulcers surrounded by a red areola, mostly on the palate and isthmus faucium.
• Inflammatory swelling of the palate.
• Mouth dry and parched, as if lined with plaster.
• Taste.
• Bitter burning taste, especially after liquid food, flat and sweet.
• Taste putrid, flat, bloody, with dry and pasty throat.
• Food, bread and wine have a bitter taste.

THROAT

• Small very painful ulcers in the throat, with difficulty of talking, and finally with inability to utter many words. [120.]
• Swelling of the throat, with great difficulty in moving the head.
• Pains in the throat worse in the evening and in the open air, seeming to be relieved by drink.
• Pain as if the whole of the throat were excoriated.
• Lancinations, pulsations, heat, and burning in the throat.
• Burning heat in the throat and stomach.
• Burning in the throat and borborygmi during a meal, with a sensation as if the breasts were drawn tight, and impossibility of raising the arms.
• Sensation as if the whole of the throat were burnt, with much tenacious mucus, which seems to come from the nasal fossæ.
• Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils, with a sensation as if they were excoriated.
• Swallowing difficult and painful, with a sensation of constriction and ulcers in the throat.
• Swelling and very decided induration of the submaxillary glands. [130.]
• Swelling of the parotids.

STOMACH

• Appetite and Thirst.
• Disgust for food, which always seems hard and insufficiently cooked.
• Great thirst, with momentary sensation as if one choking for want of drink.
• Great thirst and boulimia, with burning pains in the stomach.
• Eructations.
• Frequent rising of food and of bitter water from the stomach, especially in the afternoon and at night, with fatiguing and ineffectual efforts to vomit.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea and vomiting, principally in the evening and night, also when sitting bent over at writing, and after eating and drinking.
• Vomiting of food and bile, often without any effort.
• Frequent vomiting of food and of yellow bile.
• Vomiting of blood, with a dry cough or without cough.
• Stomach.
• Burning, distensive, and contractive pain in the stomach with oppression. [140.]
• Bad digestion with regurgitation of bile, as in vomiting.
• Stomach excessively inactive, need to take light food and to masticate it much in order to digest it; also need to drink very slowly.
• The thirst passes off frequently, and then the stomach feels as if it were full of water.
• "Pituite," with a sensation of coldness in the stomach.
• Painful sensitiveness in the epigastric region.
• Sensation of indurations and ulcers in the stomach.
• Difficult digestion, especially of pastry and fat food.
• Burning and lancinating pains in the stomach requiring her to hold and press upon the epigastric region.
• Pains in the stomach, with nausea, eructations, emission of flatus, vomiting, and diarrhœa.
• Pain as from an abscess, in the stomach, and a sensation as if worms were moving about it.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria. [150.]
• Burning pains in the hypochondria and kidneys, with the sensation as if a red-hot iron passed through them; he is obliged to lie on his belly.
• Inflammation and swelling of the liver.
• Sensation of pain and of tickling in the liver, as if there were a mass of pus in that organ.
• Pulsations in the region of the liver, aggravated by the least movement.
• Pulsative pains in the liver intermingled with pains as from the thrusts of a knife.
• General Abdomen.
• Swelling of the abdomen as in ascites, with excoriating pains in the kidneys and intestines.
• Inflammation and swelling of the abdomen with constipation and tenesmus.
• Very offensive flatus.
• Colic and cutting, with desire to apply cold water to the abdomen; vomiting and diarrhœa, chiefly in the evening and after eating and drinking.
• The pains in the abdomen and stomach are so violent as to almost cause faintness. [160.]
• Distensive pain in the abdomen and hypochondria with tenderness of the skin of the abdomen.
• Sensation as if the abdomen were full of boiling water and of vesicles, which burst and increased the amount of water in the abdomen.
• Sensation of tearing and excoriation in the abdomen and anus during stool.
• Burning and lancinating pains in the whole abdomen, with a sensation as if the intestines were corroded.
• Excessive burning in the abdomen with lancinating pain, borborygmi, and flatulent colic, principally in the evening, when riding in a carriage, after having eaten and taken a walk.
• Spasmodic pains in the pelvis and thighs, frequently after urinating.
• During menstruation, great debility in the pelvis, as if it were broken, with spasmodic pains in the legs, tingling pains, and many other sufferings.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Hæmorrhoidal troubles, especially in the afternoon and evening.
• Blind hæmorrhoids become fluent, with burning, with indurated tumors in the anus.
• Many suppurating pimples in the anus. [170.]
• Constant rush of blood to the anus, with fistulous abscesses.
• Frequent desire for stool, in the morning and evening, and on lying down.
• Very pressing desire for stool, and stools large, black, very painful to evacuate.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa, especially in the morning, with colic, cutting pains, fever, and prostration.
• Diarrhœa yellowish, of a very deep color, of the odor of musk.
• Dysentery, with colic, tenesmus, and great heaviness.
• Stools semiliquid, yellow, profuse, with burning and griping in the intestines.
• Stools black, mixed with blood, with enormous distension of the abdomen, and sensation as if the intestines were excoriated.
• Involuntary stools, at night.
• With the stool, evacuation of a number of small, very active worms.

URINARY ORGANS. [180.]

• Cramps in the kidneys, bladder, and urethra, with frequent desire to urinate, and incontinence of urine.
• Sensation of obstruction and great heat in the kidneys, with cerebral congestion.
• Burning pain in the region of the kidneys, with constant desire to urinate and emission of urine drop by drop.
• Sensation of ulceration, of fissures, and like polypi in the urethra, with painful and difficult emission of urine.
• Burning and distensive pains in the urethra, with sensation as if it were stopped.
• Pressing desire to urinate, principally in the morning on waking, or in the evening on lying down, but only a few drops were passed with tenesmus, pressure in the kidneys and bladder, and painful weariness.
• Frequent emission of watery urine.
• Involuntary micturition and wetting the bed.
• Retention of urine, as in hypertrophy of the kidney, with tenesmus and intestinal colic.
• Urine very abundant, afterwards scanty, thick, with lancinating pains in the kidneys. [190.]
• Urine scanty, high-colored, of a bad odor.
• Urine bloody or blood-streaked, with pains in the kidneys.
• Urine thick, with a brownish reflex, gray, blackish, seeming to contain membranous particles.
• Urine deposits a gray and somewhat red or mucous sediment.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Sensation as if the genital parts were bruised and being pushed under with violence.
• Sensation of weariness and prostration, originating in the sexual organs.
• Nearly constant semi-erection, during the sufferings of the genital organs.
• Productions like condylomata, or like indurated chancres on the penis.
• Heat, redness, and pains, as if excoriated in scrotum.
• Inflammation and swelling of the spermatic cords and testicles, with burning and pulsative pains, with the sensation as if the circulation of the blood were stopped in said parts. [200.]
• Descent of the testicles, aggravated by heat and motion.
• Sensation as if there were granulations and tubercles in the testicles, with cutting and lancinating pains, especially felt when standing.
• Sensation of an accumulation of water round the left testicle.
• Debility of the genital functions, with want of erection during ejaculation.
• Ejaculation excessively prompt or retarded.
• Venereal appetite with little power.
• Female.
• The neck of the womb swollen and hot.
• The uterus swollen, as if filled with cysts, with startings and cutting pains, especially on the right side.
• Inflammation and excoriation of the vagina, with heat, especially after urinating.
• Violent spasmodic pains in the ovarian regions, especially on the right side. [210.]
• Spasms felt in the womb, with every respiratory motion.
• Heat, with lancinating and distensive pains in the womb, as if it would be torn.
• Tensive and contractive pains in the womb, like labor-pains.
• Pulsative pains in the womb, with swelling, as if from a tumor or dropsy.
• Watery or milky leucorrhœa, thick, whitish, foul-smelling, with spasmodic pains in the uterus.
• Metrorrhagia, with thick and black blood.
• Bloody discharge at other times than the menstrual epoch, as during the climaxis.
• Very abundant and weakening menstruation.
• Burning, thick, green discharge, as in blennorrhagia, with swelling of the glands in the groins and thighs.
• Menstruation anticipating, of clear and rosy blood, or thick and black, with great nervous excitement and disposition to be vexed. [220.]
• Retarded, insufficient menstruation, the blood thick.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Larynx.
• Accumulation of mucus in the larynx, with tickling and itching, so that he is constantly obliged to cough.
• Paroxysms of constriction in the larynx, with heat, extending to the chest.
• Voice.
• Hoarseness, with excoriating pains in larynx and chest.
• Cough and Expectoration.
• Intense spasmodic cough, with expectoration of watery or glairy mucus, stinging pains, and spasms in the chest.
• Raw and hard cough, shaking the chest and bowels, and stopping only after expectorating a quantity of compact mucus.
• Cough, with expectoration of thick, green, or white mucus, tenacious, filamentous, with a bitter putrid taste.
• Cough, with distensive pains in the chest and hypochondria, palpitations, and pains in the heart.
• Cough, with desire to vomit and vomiting, paroxysms of suffocation and epistaxis.
• Fatiguing cough, especially in the evening and at night in bed. [230.]
• Intense and dry cough, with heat on both sides of the chest, at a level with the mammæ, with frequent expectoration of blood.
• Thick catarrhal cough; continued tussication, with great distress in the larynx and bronchia.
• Cough, with hiccough, headache, and dizziness.
• Nervous cough, divided in two parts, as if sobbing, with heat in the chest.
• Hæmoptysis, the blood black and thick, or pale, as if full of water.
• Respiration.
• Short and stertorous respiration.
• Great dyspnœa, with paroxysms of suffocation.

CHEST

• Deformity of the thorax and back, as in rachitis.
• Sensation as if there were abscesses in the lungs, and as if the chest were full of water.
• Pain in the lungs and heart, nearly always with weakness of vision. [240.]
• Inflammation of the chest, with great oppression, dry cough, and sensation as if the base of the thorax would break asunder.
• Congestion of blood to the chest, with sensation of heaviness in the heart, as if the circulation were at fault.
• Lancinating pains in the chest and sides, especially at night.
• Pains in the chest, with œdema in various parts of the body.
• Continual heat in the chest, and sensation of constriction in the bronchi, when breathing.
• Painful stitches in the chest, with cough and great oppression.
• Itching in the chest, with sensation as if it were distended and torn to pieces.
• Sensation as if the left breast was shrunk above the nipple.
• Mammæ.
• Swelling of the mammæ, with great secretion of milk.
• Mammary abscesses and fissures in the nipples. [250.]
• Infarctus of the mammary and axillary glands.
• The mammæ feel soft during menstruation.
• Burning and drawing in the mammæ.

HEART AND PULSE

• Heaviness in the heart, with anguish and fainting spells.
• The blood in the heart seems inspissated, and thus detained in it.
• Strong palpitations of the heart, with oppression, especially when lying on the left side.
• Pulsative lancinating pains in the heart, with paroxysms of suffocation.
• Pulse hard and accelerated.

NECK AND BACK

• Inflammation and enormous swelling of the neck, with infarctus of all the glands in that region.
• Painless swelling of the whole anterior part of the neck. [260.]
• The glands of the neck are ulcerated and suppurated, as in scrofula.
• Rigidity of the neck, with violent pains at the least motion.
• Pressive and compressive pains in the nape of the neck, with general debility.
• Deviation and depression of the spinal column.
• Rigidity of the spinal column, with impossibility to execute any motion.
• Snapping in the bones of the spinal column at the least motion, and with the sensation as if they would become dislocated.
• Cramps and pains in the back and kidneys, as if he had remained for a long while in a curved position.
• Great weakness of the back, with desire to lean on some object and to recline.

EXTREMITIES

• Weakness of the extremities, with paralytic debility.
• The extremities easily feel benumbed. [270.]
• Desire to take a hot bath to ease the pains in the upper and lower extremities.
• Sensation as if the nails were raised up by a white tumor.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Bruised feeling from the shoulders to the hands.
• Drawing and distensive pain in the shoulders, extending backwards and to the chest.
• Inflammatory and œdematous swelling of the arms.
• Trembling and shaking in the arms.
• Great weakness of the arms, with impossibility to raise or to use them.
• Sensation as if the arms had been struck, and the articulations luxated.
• Sensation as if the arms were dislocated by tension from the hands.
• Heaviness and pressure in the arms, with numbness of the hands. [280.]
• Crampy pains in the arms, with sensation as if they were shortened.
• Paralytic debility of the hands.
• Cramps in the hands, extending to the spine, and vice versâ.
• The hands and fingers fall asleep frequently (become benumbed).
• Pains of a felon in the thumb and index finger, with fever, burning, and thirst.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Sympathetic swellings, extending from the groins to the knees, with prostatic flux and great wasting, as from decomposition of the blood.
• Weariness and paroxysms of weakness in the coxofemoral joint, with pains of luxation and fear of falling when trying to walk.
• Pulling, shaking, and convulsive pains in the thighs and legs.
• Swelling of the knees, with heat, burning, and as if tophi would form in them.
• Burning and rheumatic pains, with heat and redness in the knees and feet up to the groin, with difficulty of moving those parts. [290.]
• Bruised pain in the knees, as after a fall; he falls easily on his knees.
• Swelling of the legs and feet, at night.
• Inflammatory erysipelatous swelling, with dropsy, in the legs.
• Restlessness in the legs, especially in the heels, with agitation and impossibility to remain quiet.
• Disposition to keep the legs always flexed; he liked to sit down constantly like the Turks or tailors.
• Paralytic debility in the legs, so that his gait is vacillating.
• Sensation of great fatigue in the bones of the legs, as if they were too thick.
• Heaviness and numbness of the legs.
• Sensation of a bruise and of luxation in the joints of the legs.
• Rheumatic pains in the legs, with inflammation and swelling of the inguinal glands. [300.]
• Tension and traction in the calf of the leg.
• Crampy pains in the legs, with sensation as if they were shortened.
• Inflammation of the bones of the feet, with nodosities, as in gout.
• Great disposition of the feet to become blistered; the blisters break when walking.
• Cramps, especially in the articulations of the feet, with sensation as if pierced by a sword, or as if they were pounded on the heel.
• Lancinating and stitching pains in the heels.

GENERALITIES

• Emaciation.
• Phlegmonous swelling, with a rosy tint on certain parts of the body and disposition to gangrene.
• Abnormal swelling of the veins, with a thin, white, transparent skin, especially on the arms, thighs, and chest, and gray on the rest of the body.
• Dropsical swelling in different parts of the body and anasarca. [310.]
• Debility, cramps, curvature of the trunk, with the sensation as if he were twisted in different parts and his sides were not united.
• The blood decomposed and watery.
• Impossibility to be straight and upright, it seems as if the head and chest would break the spinal column; he only feels easy when lying on his belly.
• Debility, with great desire to be easy and to lie down.
• Debility and weariness, with desire to stretch in order to rest the body.
• Great weariness for many days, after the slightest fatigue.
• Pain and restlessness; he feels vexed and despairing, can hardly remain in bed.
• Bruised pains and contusion, with general debility and confusion of ideas.
• Cramps and convulsive paroxysms, with convulsive constrictions of the jaws, burning heat of the head and eyes.
• Pains, with chills, paleness of face, and headache. [320.]
• Burning and drawing pains, principally aggravated at night.
• Pains and marks as from stings of insects.
• Pains semilateral and frequently changing their place.
• Rheumatic, drawing, and burning pains in the nucha, spinal column, and abdomen.
• Frequent pulsations all over the body.
• Motion or prolonged repose renew most pains in the extremities.
• Aggravation of the pains at night, or in the morning, or after eating.
• Open air alleviates most symptoms, but aggravates those of the head.

SKIN

• Redness of the skin, as if it had been much rubbed, with abundant perspiration of a strong smell.
• The skin of a black or bluish color. [330.]
• Inflammation and swelling of the skin, as in erysipelas.
• Eruption, simulating measles, with headache, fluent coryza, lachrymation, frequent sneezing, bilious, bitter, or bloody taste.
• Ulcers, inflamed or atonic and putrid.
• Abscesses and furuncles, pustules and anthrax of malignant character.
• Redness, phlyctænæ, and ulcers of the skin, as if produced by burns.
• Pustular eruption, like variola, with fever, dry mouth, excessive thirst, heat, and burning in the epigastric region, heaviness of the head, pressive headache, nausea, abdominal inflammation, constipation, pulse hard and accelerated, debility, and delirium.
• Miliary eruption on a red burning base, which ulcerates, with a spongy, suppurating base.
• Small subcutaneous, very painful, furuncles.
• All eruptions are in general very painful.
• The skin very scaly. [340.]
• Rigid skin, as if it were too tense.
• The skin tense and without elasticity.
• The skin very vulnerable, inflamed, get sore, and bleeds easily.
• Herpes, with black scabs, especially on the head and forehead.
• Yellow-dark scabs on the forehead, honeycombed and mammillated like cauliflower, which fall off and form anew.
• Scabs, with itching and burning in the ear.
• Scaly herpes on the face.
• Miliary eruption on the face, with heat, as if it were on fire.
• Large abscess on the right cheek.
• Pustular herpes on the maxillæ. [350.]
• Flesh-colored and painful pimples on the breast, which take on a deep-yellow color.
• Great pimples, like furuncles, on the neck and back.
• Abscesses on the neck.
• Pustular pimples, which greatly sting, on the back.
• Pruritus and military eruption on the scrotum.
• Miliary eruption and heat in the vulva.
• Skin of the abdomen stretched and covered with small red or pale and green pimples.
• Scaly and cracked places on the arms.
• Red plaques on the arms, which ulcerate and suppurate.
• The arms covered with whitish vesicles, turning black when drying up, and appearing by degrees in other parts, with fever, chills, and afterwards great heat. [360.]
• Erythematous eruption on the thighs.
• Excoriation between the thighs.
• The skin of the legs looks as if painted.
• Eruptions on the legs and red spots, which ulcerate, suppurate, itch greatly.

SLEEP

• Sleepiness during the day, with agitation and sleep.
• Sudden attacks of sleepiness during the day.
• Great desire to sleep while eating.
• Great desire to sleep, as soon as twilight begins. [370.]
• Sleep from eight to ten at night, followed by sleeplessness till morning.
• Late sleep, still he is awake early.
• Somnolence during night, by artificial light, with weakness of the head, drooping eyelids, and scintillations before the eyes.
• Sleep and dreams, with despairing anguish.
• Sleep very agitated; frequent waking, screaming, crying, convulsive motions and trembling of the extremities.
• Frequent nightmare, with visions of robbers, highwaymen, insects, noxious animals, and men in armor.
• Dreams, followed by great sadness, during the whole day.
• Dreams of spectres and robbers, also of epidemic and contagious diseases.

FEVER

• Cold or hot sensation in the neck.
• Quotidian and tertian fever, with chills, heat, and sweat. [380.]
• Fever, beginning in the afternoon and lasting during the night.
• Fever, with heat and redness of the face, burning in the stomach, great prostration, delirium, and loss of consciousness.
• Fever, with shaking chills, especially in the morning.
• General heat, with dryness of the skin, excessive thirst, and as if hot vapors rise up to the brain; chills, cold perspiration, strong beats of the pulse, desire to lie down, especially in the afternoon, at night, and after meals.
• Burning heat of the skin, with excoriation and fissures, as if it had been excessively stretched.
• Heat and continual burning in the legs.
• Heat in the feet, as if he had been cut in these parts.
• Great sweat on the limbs, especially in the evening and during rest.
• Copious perspiration, especially during the night.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), When waking up, headache; occlusion of the nostrils; toothache; desire for stool; on waking, desire to urinate; pains; fever, with chills.
• ( Afternoon ), After eating, dizziness; pruritus and heat of scalp; itching of eyes; rising of food and of bitter water from the stomach; hæmorrhoidal troubles.
• ( Evening ), Vertigo, with cramps in neck and head; headache; toothache; pain in throat; nausea and vomiting; colic; hæmorrhoidal troubles; desire for stool; on lying down, desire to urinate; cough; itching; sweat on limbs.
• ( Night ), Headache; itching of eyes; occlusion of the nostrils; in bed, toothache; rising of food and of bitter water from the stomach; nausea and vomiting; cough; pains in chest and sides; swelling of legs and feet; pains; itching; perspiration.
• ( Open air ), Head symptoms; lachrymation; pain in throat.
• ( Cold air ), Toothache.
• ( Contact ), Toothache.
• ( When eating ), Toothache.
• ( After eating ), Pains.
• ( After eating and drinking ), Nausea and vomiting.
• ( Great heat ), Headache.
• ( Heat and motion ), Descent of testicles.
• ( Hot things in mouth ), Toothache.
• ( On lying down ), Desire for stool.
• ( Lying on left side ), Palpitation, with oppression.
• ( Movement ), Pulsations in region of liver.
• ( Great noise ), Headache and desire to vomit.
• ( Respiratory motion ), Spasms in womb.
• ( Talking ), Toothache.
• ( After urinating ), Pain in pelvis and thighs.
• Amelioration.
• ( Open air ), Most symptoms.

SUPPLEMENT: SARRACENIA. Authorities.

5 , Dr. George H. Bute, Hahn. Month., vol. ii, 1867, p. 424, partial proving; 6 , F. G. Oehme, M.D., ibid., vol. xi, 1876, p. 535.

Age, thirty-five years; great sensitiveness of skin, frequent itching, liability to diarrhœa; piles occasionally. Good health generally. I am not a good subject for proving, as drugs cause but a few symptoms.

Took, several times a day, a few drops of the 1st dec. dil., for a number of days.

MIND

• Want of memory, 5.

HEAD. [390.]

• Dull feeling in the head as if stunned or stupefied, 5.
• Dull pain in the head as if benumbed, 5.
• Twelve hours after taking (the medicine), a sudden stroke (paralysis) from the right side of the head downwards to the right shoulder, and subsequent feeling of crawling, paralysis, and numbness in the shoulder and arm, 5.
• Soon after taking (the medicine), headache and want of recollection, with numbness of the arms and weakness of the lower limbs on going upstairs; then a sudden shock through the head like an electric stroke, after which the senses feel as if paralyzed, 5.
• Pain in the forehead, with stitches above the eyes, 5.
• Dull pain in the back of the head, in the evening in bed, 5.

EAR

• By drawing the lower jaw towards the left side, a feeling arises as if the air streamed into the right ear, with whistling therein, 5.

THROAT

• A feeling of pressing inward at the pit of the throat, accompanied by headache, 5.
• Just after taking (the medicine), a cramplike pressure about the lower part of the œsophagus, as if the medicine remained sticking there, 5.

ABDOMEN

• Pain in the umbilical region, 5. [400.]
• Frequently sensation of considerable pressure in the stomach, lasting once for several hours; sensation of fulness in the abdomen, with slight pain in various places, as if caused by flatulency. In a small place in the lower part of the abdomen, a little above the cavity inguinalis, very often a sensation as if a hernia would protrude; sometimes so marked that I examined the place to see if there were any signs of something coming out (I have an incomplete inguinal hernia on the left side, which, however, never caused any trouble or inconvenience). Sensation in the anus as if a stool would come. The same symptoms appeared during a second proving with the 2d dilution, soon after the first proving. Besides these symptoms, bowels irregular, costive. After the close of the proving, bowels very regular. Every morning this call must be answered very soon. During the third proving, a week later, I took the 3d dilution several times a day for several days, whereupon the following symptoms appeared: Slight pain in the bowels as if from flatulency. Costiveness. On various places on the abdomen, a sensation as if a hernia would occur; it felt as if the intestines wanted to come out on a small place; the feeling was very distinct and marked, but not at all painful. Disagreeable sensation in the anus as if it were stopped up with a plug, or as if filled with wind. Hæmorrhoids. Discharge of a little blood with the stool. A proving ten years later yielded the same symptoms as above. As no time the least affection of the skin, 6.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• The menses came at once, out of the proper time; too early, 5.

CHEST

• Bruiselike pain of the muscles and bones of the chest, 5.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Pain extending from the left shoulder downward to the lower ribs, 5.
• A numbness of feeling in the muscles of the arms and hands, 5.
• Gnawing pain in the bones of the arms and hands, 5.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Itching stitches on the right shin-bone, 5.

GENERALITIES

• In the whole body feeling of being unwell, which causes restlessness, 5.

SLEEP

• In his sleep, he dreams that he hears music, and thereupon awakens, and still thinks that he hears it, 5.