Nuphar Luteum
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Nixen Blume ; Small Yellow Pond Lily. Nymphæaceæ.
A variety of pond lily native to Europe ; also found at Manayunk, near Philadelphia.
The width of the flower is about two inches. The tincture is prepared from the fresh root.
Proved by Pitet, Journ de la Soc. Gal., vol. 3, p. 129.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Entero-colitis , N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 259 ; Diarrhœa , Shipman, Blaikie, Hale's Therap., p. 446 ; (3 cases), Pitet, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, pp. 258-9 ; Diarrhœa during typhoid , Lilienthal, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 118 ; Diarrhœa and psoriasis , Lilienthal, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 118 ; Cholerine , Lilienthal, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 118 ; Digestive disturbances and weakness of sexual organs , Pilet, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 259 ; Seminal emissions (2 cases), Pitet, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 257 ; Rhus tox poisoning (locally), Sawtelle, N. E. M. G., vol. 11, p. 198.
MIND [1]
Impatience at slightest contradiction.
Excessive sensibility giving one pain in witnessing sufferings of animals.
INNER HEAD [3]
Painful bruised shocks in right anterior side of brain, in walking.
Headaches attending depressed conditions of generative organs.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
When standing in sun brilliant sparks filled field of vision, converging from circumference to centre.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Sweetish taste in mouth.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Tongue white ; mouth pasty ; painful sensation of weariness in stomach ; digestion slow ; wind colic, principally early in morning, with liquid or sour-smelling stools ; for several years virile function had been badly performed ; frequent pollutions during sleep ; constant itching of scrotum and perineum ; small desire for coitus ; infrequent and feeble erections ; general weariness ; < on day succeeding sexual connection.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Appetite good, at times excessive ; frequent regurgitation of an acrid and corrosive taste ; digestion slow ; colic and rumbling every night and waked several times from 5 to 7 A. M. to go to stool, which was liquid or soft, yellowish, and either sourish or fetid ; < from least excess of any kind ; sleep agitated ; heat in palms ; frequent pulse ; at times dull pains in left renal region, which was sensitive to touch. θ Entero-colitis.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Stools : liquid, yellow, fetid.
Diarrhœa, obliging him to get up several times towards 5 or 6 A. M. ; burning at anus ; general depression ; no colic.
Early morning stool, weakness of limbs, general exhaustion.
Morning diarrhœa with colic ; between 4 and 6 A. M., two or three stools and generally one in evening.
Stool liquid, light yellow ; call urgent, every morning at six, followed by two or three more passages in a few hours and no more till next morning. θ Diarrhœa.
Soft stools preceded by colic.
Diarrhœa : painless in morning ; with exhaustion ; during typhoid.
Entero-colitis, with severe colicky pains in rectum and characteristic stools ; psoriasis, on different parts of body, with great itching.
Cholerine since a week ; stools cause great exhaustion, patient being in last stage of marasmus.
Pricking pains in rectum as from needles.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Entire absence of erections and sexual desire ; voluptuous ideas which fill imagination do not cause erections.
Complete absence of sexual desire ; penis retracted ; scrotum relaxed.
Weakening nocturnal emissions while convalescing from typhoid.
Involuntary seminal losses during sleep, at stool, and when urinating, with complete absence of erections ; inability to perform generative act ; general weakness ; digestion impaired ; pale and languid.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Leprous eruption on arm.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Sensation of weakness and loss of power in limbs ; < in evening.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Walking : painful shocks in brain.
NERVES [36]
General exhaustion ; weakness from loss of fluids.
TIME [38]
Between 4 and 6 A. M. : two or three stools.
From 5 to 7 A. M. : wakes several times to go to stool.
Morning : wind colic ; stool and colic ; painless diarrhœa.
Evening : one stool ; weakness in limbs < ; itching <.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Every morning at 6 : stool liquid, yellow.
Every night : colic and rumbling.
For several years : virile function badly performed.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : painful shocks in anterior brain.
Left : dull pains in renal region.
SENSATIONS [43]
Painful shocks : in right anterior side of brain.
Burning : at anus.
Pricking pains : in rectum.
Weakness : in limbs.
Itching : of scrotum and perineum ; in different parts of body ; violent, on skin.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Touch : renal region sensitive.
SKIN [46]
Violent itching.
On different parts of body red blotches, tolerably regular in outline, ovoid or circular, prominent and covered with little silvery white scales ; violent itching, < in evening ; as eruption disappeared scales ceased to be reproduced, and skin at place of each blotch became pale red or yellowish.
Rhus tox poisoning ; relieved pain and swelling and hastened recovery.
Psoriasis ; pityriasis capitis.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Man, æt. 21, professor of literature ; suffering 8 days ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 28, suffering three months ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 33, jeweler, suffering a fortnight ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 37, wood-carver, sick 3 months ; digestive troubles, weakness of sexual organs.
Man, æt. 43, addicted to excesses of table and venery, has domestic trouble, has taken much old school and quack medicine, suffering 3 years ; entero-colitis.
Miss B., æt. 54, suffering several weeks ; diarrhœa and psoriasis.
Man, æt. 71, suffering a week ; cholerine.
Man, suffering for nine years ; seminal emissions.