Sumbul. (Sumbulus Moschatus.)
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Musk Root. Umbelliferæ.
The plant, a perennial, is a native of the Orient ; the root enters commerce by way of Russia ; from it, finely powdered, is prepared the alcoholic tincture.
Provings by Lembke, A. H. Z., vol. 34, p. 273 ; Cattell, Brit. Jour. Hom., vol. 9, p. 256, 1852 ; Muranjew, Med. Zeit. Russ., 1853 ; Hirschel's Arch., vol. 1, p. 241 ; Altschul, Brit. Jour. of Hom., vol. 11, p. 678, 1853.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Diarrhœa , Altschul, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 435 ; Ascarides , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 289 ; Chorea , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 289 ; Porrigo , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 290.
MIND [1]
Intellect dull in morning ; inability to study ; clearer in evening and in warmth.
Happy disposition with continued smiling ; expression idiotic ; fear of becoming insane. θ Chorea.
Hysterical mood, even in men ; alternate laughter and tears ; easily excited ; emotional ; irritable ; fidgety, at first spirits are exalted, then depressed.
SENSORIUM [2]
Vertigo on stooping, using warm water, moving about or rising from a seat, feeling a want of security.
Hysteria, with tendency to faint from slightest cause.
Fits, with falling forward.
INNER HEAD [3]
Cold in head, < in morning.
OUTER HEAD [4]
Porrigo in infants, left side of scalp ; spots round and dry, slightly raised, and reddened at edges, with branlike scales in centre.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Stuffing in nose.
Tenacious yellow mucus in nose ; < in left nostril.
UPPER FACE [8]
Acne punctata, black pores on face.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Brown coating on tongue in morning.
Tongue feels rough as if scraped, with heat in throat.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Erosion, burning heat and rawness in throat, with tenacious mucus.
Catarrhs of children, with great nervous irritation, sleeplessness and spasms.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Tensive pain and gnawing in right hypogastrium.
Abdomen full, distended, painful.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Ascarides, with bloated, drumlike abdomen and constipation ; picking at nostrils.
Chronic diarrhœa due to torpid, inert condition of intestinal canal ; discharges cause atony ; diarrhœa in typhoid fever.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Urine clear, yellowish-red, cloud on bottom, and an oily pellicle on surface.
Constant desire to urinate.
Much urinary difficulty.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Absence of erections and all sexual desire.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Corkscrew pains in left region of uterus and its appendages.
Tensive pain like a string pulling in right breast.
Tightness, tensive stretched feeling across chest between left breast and sternum and in left breast, < on inspiration.
White leucorrhœa, < after sitting.
Menses too early.
Flushings at climacteric period.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
Hoarseness.
RESPIRATION [26]
Asthma, catarrhal, but more especially spasmodic, hysterical.
COUGH [27]
Hacking cough.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Pulse very irregular, compressible ; want of elasticity in vessels.
Nervous affections of heart ; rheumatic carditis ; heart's impulse strong, jerking, especially after exertion or during digestion ; action of heart full and sharp, strokes at times irregular ; beating rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly ; bellows sound of heart, with violent and irregular palpitations and flushes of heat in floods from back ; sharp pains, like a knife, in chest ; oppression in left chest, clogged sensation ; < on stooping ; left arm numb, heavy and weary, with sharp, wiry shooting in fingers ; hysterical mood.
Nervous palpitation in hysterical subjects, or at change of life.
Heart beats softly, as if in water, with sinking of heart, and sickliness and faintness all over.
Palpitation at least exertion, < by paying attention to it.
Posteriorly over left scapular region, an indistinct mixed murmur and purring sound, associated with rheumatism ; not heard anteriorly.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Cannot keep warm ; least draft is felt down spine.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Stooping : vertigo ; heart symptoms <.
Sitting : leucorrhœa < after.
Motion : vertigo ; palpitation.
Rising : vertigo.
NERVES [36]
Chorea : constant jerking of head and limbs, with protrusion of tongue ; voracious appetite.
Dropsy dependent on impaired nervous vitality.
Hysteria and hysterical spasms.
Epilepsy, she falls suddenly forward, foaming at mouth ; unconsciousness.
Tendency to faint from slightest cause.
TIME [38]
Morning : intellect dull ; cold in head < ; brown coating on tongue.
Evening : intellect clearer.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Least draft is felt down spine.
Warmth : intellect clearer.
FEVER [40]
Dry, transient heat all over body.
Coldness of body, pulse 66.
Typhoid fever with cerebral excitement ; low and nervous fevers succeeding to typhus.
Numbness and coldness of tips of fingers.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Irregular action of heart, beats rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly.
Climacteric period : flushes ; nervous palpitation.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Left : porrigo on scalp ; yellow mucus in nostril ; corkscrew pains in uterus ; oppression in chest ; arm numb ; shooting in fingers ; murmur over scapular region.
Right : tensive pain and gnawing in hypogastrium ; tensive pain in breast ; miliary spots on shoulder blade and hip.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if scraped, tongue ; like a string pulling in r. breast ; clogged sensation in left chest ; as if heart were beating in water.
Knifelike pains in chest.
Corkscrew pains in region of uterus and appendages.
Sharp wiry shooting : in fingers.
Burning heat : in throat.
Gnawing : in right hypogastrium.
Rawness : in throat.
Tensive pain : in right hypogastrium ; in right breast.
Tightness : across chest ; in left breast.
Numbness : in left arm ; of tips of fingers.
Heaviness : in left arm.
TISSUES [44]
Deranges action of inhibitory nerves, while at same time it causes a paresis of cardiac branches of vagi.
Vertigo, faintness ; dreams and mental conditions show deficient innervation.
Anomalous functional disorders of heart, occurring in persons possessing a peculiarly sensitive nervous system, especially in hysterical subjects.
Weakened heart.
SKIN [46]
Acne punctata, black pores on face.
Porrigo in infants on left side of scalp ; spots round and dry, slightly raised and reddened at edges, with branlike scales in centre.
Skin cold, white, shrunken and dry as if washed in acrid water.
Miliary spots on back, right shoulder blade and hip.
Reddish spots on forehead, chin and cheeks, containing either water, or thick, white, curdy matter.
Itching in skin.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Child, æt. 2 ; ascarides.
Girl, æt. 10, bilious-sanguine temperament ; chorea.
RELATIONS [48]
Compare : Asafœt . and Moschus in low fevers, hysteria, etc.