Indigo. (Indigo Tinctoria.)
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Indigo. Leguminosæ.
Proved extensively by German provers. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 92 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Prolapsus ani , Schüssler, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 123 ; Sciatica , Preston, T. H. M. Soc. Pa., 1872, p. 120 ; Epilepsy , four cases, Kenyon, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 254-255.
MIND [1]
Melancholy, sadness.
Sad, discontented, ill humored, introverted.
Gloomy ; endeavors to hide it, has spent many nights alone crying. θ Epileptic convulsions.
SENSORIUM [2]
Excessive giddiness with headache.
Vertigo with headache, fulness of abdomen, great discharge of flatus, and nausea, going off in evening after remaining some time in open air.
Undulating sensation through whole head from behind forward.
INNER HEAD [3]
Sensation as if head were tightly bandaged around forehead.
Constant pain in sinciput, attended with an aching pain in right hypochondrium.
Tearing in vertex.
Heaviness of head, as from a heavy load on vertex, when stooping.
Beating, with painful stinging in occiput.
Beating in whole head.
Feeling as if brain was distending at centre.
Headache with redness and heat of face.
Severe, lacerating pain in head.
Sick headache, originating in a state of debility.
Migraine.
Pains are characterized by great intensity, are < during rest and when sitting, and can frequently be entirely suppressed by rubbing and pressure, or by motion, or alleviated, so as to reappear with less intensity.
OUTER HEAD [4]
Sensation as if a bunch of hair was pulled from vertex.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Pressure in ball of eye.
Inflammation of meibomian glands on lower lids.
Violent jerking and twitching in lids.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Excessive continued sneezing, succeeded by violent bleeding of nose.
Nose bleeding, with dry cough.
Epistaxis.
UPPER FACE [8]
Pricking in right malar bone.
Small blisters on left side of face, from forehead to neck.
TEETH AND GUMS [10]
Toothache, of a rheumatic character.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Metallic taste in tongue, with contracted feeling in pharynx.
Vesicles on tip of tongue.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Numbness of inner mouth.
Pain in submaxillary glands, extending to teeth.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Retching and vomiting of watery fluid.
Vomiting of glue-like mucus.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Tingling pain in pit of stomach.
Bloating of stomach.
Catarrh of stomach and intestines, with colic.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Emission of excessive quantity of flatus.
Diarrhœa ; stool liquid, with flatulence ; creeping over skin, cold hands and colic.
Prolapsus ani after each stool.
Pin worms.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Inflammation of kidneys.
Renal colic.
Catarrh of bladder with pustules and boils on body, menses often appearing too early.
Chronic catarrh of bladder.
Frequent desire to urinate, burning in fundus of bladder ; painful emissions of small quantities of turbid urine.
Increased emission of turbid urine, containing much mucus, without thirst, with violent contraction of urethra and pain in bladder.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Depressed sexual desire.
Urethral stricture following gonorrhœa.
Itching of urethra, glans and scrotum.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Menstruation too early.
Burning in mamma during menses.
Stinging in mamma, going off momentarily by rubbing.
COUGH [27]
Dry cough, always attended by nosebleed.
Violent cough ; inducing vomiting ; bleeding of nose.
Suffocative cough in evening and after going to bed.
Cough dry, always accompanied with expectoration.
Spasmodic cough with tough, mucous expectoration.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Severe sharp stitch in middle of sternum, passing through chest, when sitting.
OUTER CHEST [30]
Painful spot, size of hand, in region of right lower ribs, with stitch extending to shoulder joint when sitting, going off by motion.
Stitch in region of lower false ribs, toward small of back.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Drawing, lancinating pains, following course of left rhomboideus muscle.
Boils on neck and buttocks.
Stitch between scapulæ.
Stitch in small of back, > after an evacuation.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Excessive itching (preceded by a dull headache), especially on right elbow joint.
Blotches on hands.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Intense aching, stinging and bruised pain in middle of the posterior of thigh, extending to knee ; boring pain in knee-joint ; sharp tearing, stinging or pricking in calf above ankle ; < sitting ; > by motion, though motion also painful ; < afternoon and evening ; much pricking in calf just before knee and in popliteal space ; must lie down. θ Sciatica.
Indescribable pain, extending from middle of thigh to knee, in the bone, > walking, returning during rest, in afternoon.
Tearing pain four fingers' breadth above left knee joint, extending to a hand's breadth above ankle ; in afternoon while sitting, > rising and walking about.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Rest : pain < ; pain in thigh bone <.
Must lie down : pain in calf so severe.
Sitting : pain < ; stitch in middle of sternum ; stitch extending to shoulder joint ; sharp tearing, stinging in calf < ; tearing above knee joint.
Stooping : heaviness of head.
Motion : pains >.
Rising : tearing above knee-joint >.
Walking : indescribable pain in thigh bone > ; tearing above knee-joint >.
NERVES [36]
Excessive nervous irritation.
Illusory sensations.
Subsultus tendinum.
Paroxysms come suddenly ; falls down or out of chair, becomes convulsed all over ; frothing at mouth ; convulsive movements followed by a rigid condition of body ; before attacks he had a furious disposition, excitable, easily angered, since then had become mild and even timid. θ Epilepsy.
Paroxysms lasting five minutes, clonic and very violent ; occur every nine or ten days ; very melancholy, exceedingly timid ; did not want to live. θ Epilepsy.
Convulsions regularly once a week ; gloomy, but endeavors to hide it, has spent many nights alone crying. θ Epilepsy.
Fits every day ; exceeding melancholic. θ Epilepsy.
Flushes of heat from abdomen to head, with sensation as if head was tightly bandaged around forehead ; fits begin with dizziness. θ Epilepsy.
Epilepsy, originating from plexus solaris, or from abdominal ganglia, or from a cold or fright.
TIME [38]
Afternoon : sharp tearing in calf < ; pain in thigh bone returns ; tearing above knee joint.
Evening : vertigo with headache > ; suffocative cough ; sharp tearing in calf <.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Open air : vertigo with headache.
FEVER [40]
Chilliness, with cold hands and violent headache, with constant desire to urinate ; urine turbid.
Flushes of heat from abdomen to head.
Great heat, particularly in face, with increased secretion of urine.
Worm fevers in children.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Paroxysms : come suddenly.
Last five minutes : paroxysms.
Every day : fits.
Once a week : convulsions.
Every nine or ten days : paroxysms.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : aching pain in hypochondrium ; pricking in malar bone ; painful spot in region of lower ribs ; excessive itching on elbow joint.
Left : small blisters on side of face, from forehead to neck ; drawing, lancinating pains following course of rhomboideus muscle ; tearing pain in knee joint.
From behind forward : undulating sensation through whole head.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if head was tightly bandaged around forehead ; as if a heavy load was on vertex ; as if brain was distending at centre ; as if a bunch of hair was pulled from vertex.
Pain : in submaxillary glands ; in bladder.
Pains : characterized by great intensity.
Constant pain : in sinciput.
Painful spot : size of hand in region of right lower ribs, with stitch extending to shoulder joint.
Indescribable pain : extending from middle of thigh to knee.
Severe lacerating pain : in head.
Sharp tearing, stinging or pricking : in calf above ankle.
Tearing : in vertex ; four fingers' breadth above left knee-joint, extending to a hand's breadth above ankle.
Drawing, lancinating pains : following course of left rhomboideus muscle.
Severe sharp stitch : in middle of sternum.
Stitch : extending from ribs to shoulder-joint ; in region of lower false ribs ; between scapulæ ; in small of back.
Boring pain : in knee joint.
Intense aching, stinging and bruised pain : in middle of the posterior of thigh.
Stinging : in mamma.
Aching pain : in right hypochondrium.
Beating, with painful stinging : in occiput.
Beating : in whole head.
Tingling pain : in pit of stomach.
Toothache : of rheumatic character.
Painful emissions : of small quantities of turbid urine.
Picking : in calf just below knee and in popliteal space.
Pricking : in right malar bone.
Burning : in fundus of bladder ; in mamma.
Heat : of face.
Contracted feeling : in pharynx.
Pressure : in ball of eye.
Heaviness : of head.
Fulness : of abdomen.
Undulating sensation : through whole head.
Creeping : over chin.
Numbness : of inner mouth.
Excessive itching : especially on right elbow joint.
Itching : of urethra, glands and scrotum ; of skin.
TISSUES [44]
Congestive condition of head and lungs, with palpitation of heart.
Rheumatic and gouty affections of nerves and joints, accompanied by slight fever and great debility.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Pressure : pains >.
Rubbing : pains > ; stinging in mamma, going off momentarily.
SKIN [46]
Itching of skin with constipation (improved).
Pimples on face and body.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Little boy : prolapsus ani.
Boy, æt. 9, suffering three years ; epileptic fits.
Boy, æt. 12, has had fits ever since he could remember.
Boy, æt. 17 ; epileptic fits.
Woman, æt. 33, unmarried ; epilepsy.
Married woman, æt. 35, tall, slender build, phthisical habit, nervo-bilious temperament ; sciatica.
RELATIONS [48]
Compare Sulphur in epilepsy, hot flushes, and worm fever.