Raphanus Sativus
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Radish. Cruciferæ.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh root.
Symptoms obtained from the effects of eating the root, also by proving the tincture 2d, 15th and 30th dilutions, by Nusser, Rev. de la Mat. Méd. Hom., vol. 1, p. 545, 1840 ; Curie's Journ. de la Soc. Gall., vol. 5, p. 281 ; Martin, Am. J. of Hom. Mat. Med., 1870, p. 154 ; Berridge, Am. Observer, 1875, p. 307.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Flatulence and diarrhœa after ovariotomy , Bell, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 264, from Trans. Am. Inst., 1871, p. 269 ; Flatulence , Hom. Rec., vol. 3, p. 151.
MIND [1]
Anguish with dread of death, which is supposed to be near.
SENSORIUM [2]
Vertigo with dimness of sight.
INNER HEAD [3]
Pressure above root of nose.
Stitches on vertex.
Brain feels tender and sore from least jar when walking.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Pressure above eyes, with difficulty of sight, going off after vomiting.
Œdema of lower lids.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Heat in left ear and over whole left side of face.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Nose somewhat stopped.
UPPER FACE [8]
Face pale.
Expression of pain and exhaustion.
Cheeks burn, are red ; whole head and face red.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Taste : bitter ; pasty.
Tongue coated thick white.
Tongue pale and purplish, with a deep furrow and palered points in middle.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Back of throat dry, > holding cold water in mouth.
White tenacious mucus in throat after heavy sleep.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Loss of appetite.
Thirst : excessive ; violent ; constant.
EATING AND DRINKING [15]
Worse after eating.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Nausea : with efforts to vomit ; when lying down ; constant ; in paroxysms with faintness and inability to lie down.
Vomiting : of food and white mucus, with oppression of chest, heaving of stomach and coldness ; of bile and water.
Shuddering over back and arms before vomiting.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Violent pressure in epigastric region.
Pain in stomach, obliging one to eat all the time.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Pain in abdomen.
Griping about umbilicus.
Colic : after drinking milk or water ; after eating.
Pains in belly constant, but < after motion.
Bowels sore from least jar ; can hardly tolerate clothing.
Gurgling in abdomen (at night).
Accumulation and retention of flatus, no relief upward or downward.
Distension of abdomen, followed by griping, as if stool would occur.
Abdomen much swollen, hard and painful to pressure, especially hypogastrium.
Great swelling of abdomen, commencing at stomach ; abdomen hard as if filled with air, without pain ; cannot bear any pressure on stomach.
Pains from incarcerated flatus, coming in paroxysms ; colon and other intestines project in little tympanitic tumors all over abdomen, which is flaccid in the interval ; diarrhœa of yellow brown fluid, with no passage of flatus by mouth or anus for a long time ; twenty-two days after performance of ovariotomy.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Stool : brown or yellow-brown fluid, coming with much force ; green, liquid, mixed with mucus and blood ; frothy, copious, undigested.
Constipation, bloating of abdomen, absence of gases, no emission of gas upward or downward, prompt satiety when eating, sedentary life.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Urine : more copious than the liquid drunk ; copious, yellow ; yellow, turbid, with a sediment resembling yeast.
Phos. -ammon. -magnes. in excess in urine ; gravel.
During micturition, burning in urethra.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Sexual excitement ; nymphomania.
Great aversion to opposite sex.
Constant titillations in genitals.
Sensation of a foreign body rising from uterus to chest.
Mucous leucorrhœa, at times slightly tinged with blood.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
Feeling as of something sticking in larynx ; after quietly walking or much talking it becomes a dryness and excites a cough.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Pulse : quick, full but soft, with heat at night ; small.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Lying down : nausea.
Inability to lie down : nausea and faintness.
Motion : pain in belly <.
Walking : jar from, brain feels tender and sore.
NERVES [36]
Great weakness and languor ; weakness with tenderness of abdomen.
Hysterical attack.
SLEEP [37]
Sleep restless with distressing dreams.
Awoke in morning with cramping sore pain.
TIME [38]
Morning : awoke with cramping pain ; toward, perspiration after heat.
Night : gurgling in abdomen ; pulse quick, full, soft, with heat.
After midnight : dry heat, thirst, ebullitions.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Cold water : held in mouth > dryness of throat.
FEVER [40]
Chilliness : in back ; along back and posterior surface of arms ; during meals.
Heat in evening, in room, after walking in open air.
Dry heat at night, with violent thirst and ebullition, mostly after midnight.
Disposition to perspire.
Perspiration after heat, toward morning, mostly on forehead.
Intermittent fever after midnight ; heat and violent thirst, with full soft, quick pulse, followed by general perspiration, mostly on forehead.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Paroxysms : pain from incarcerated flatus ; nausea.
During meals : chilliness.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Left : heat in ear and side of face.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if stool would occur ; abdomen as if filled with air ; as of a foreign body rising from uterus to chest ; as of something sticking in larynx.
Pain : in stomach ; in abdomen.
Stitches : on vertex.
Griping : about umbilicus.
Burning : of cheeks ; in urethra.
Heat : in left ear and over left side.
Pressure : above root of nose ; above eye ; in epigastric region.
Tenderness : of abdomen.
Dryness : in larynx ; in throat.
Titillation : in genitals.
Shuddering : over back and arms.
Chilliness : in back ; along arms.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Cannot bear clothing : bowels sore.
SKIN [46]
Vesicular eruption, with acrid, thin, yellowish discharge.
Pressure : abdomen painful ; cannot bear it on stomach.
Least jar : bowels sore.
RELATIONS [48]
Compare : Anacard . in stomach symptoms ; Carbo veg . in flatulence.