Cotyledon umbilicus, L. (Umbilicus pendulinus, D. C., Pl. Grass., tab. 156.)

Natural order , Crassulaceæ.

Common names , Pennywort, Navelwort, or Kidneywort; le nombril de Venus.

Preparation , Tincture of the plant.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Wm. Craig, provings with the tincture, 5 to 100 drops, B. J. of Hom., 11, 599; 2 , proving with 1st dec. dil.; 3 , proving with 3d cent. dil.; 4 , proving with 6th dil.; 5 , Dr. Irvine, proving with tincture 20 to 100 drops; 6 , Margaret D., aged 15, proving with 1st cent. dil.; 7 , Dr. Alfred Pope, proving with 3d dil.; [The epigastric symptoms of this prover are not reliable, as the prover was subject to dyspepsia.]

8 , Mary T., aged 17, proving with the 3d cent. dil.; 9 , Frank Holmes, proving with the 1st cent. dil.; 10 , Margaret C., aged 54, proving with 1st dec. dil.; 11 , Annie C., proving with tincture, 3 and 5-drop doses; (all provings with repeated doses).

MIND

Emotional.
After a light sleep, awoke in the middle of the night in a wild, half-unconscious state, with a disagreeable sensation running down the back of the thigh and leg, with a feeling as if there was no foot. The head felt exceedingly light, as if there were no solid head, and she could not articulate for some time, although she endeavored to do so. This left a severe pressing headache on the vertex, passing forward over the eyes, with pulsating pain in the temples, removed by a cup of tea (seventh day), 10.
Awoke, early in the morning, in a state in which she felt as if she were going out of her mind. It was not disagreeable, as she felt in an elevated careless state. This lasted about five minutes, and was followed by trickling, as of blood, down the left arm, from the shoulder to the finger-points (fourth day), 11.
Great liveliness, inclination to sing and be happy, 11.
Strong desire for company and excitement, 11.
Extraordinarily good spirits and energy (sixteenth day), 2.
Spirits extremely low (third day), 7.
Anxiety, with pain in the abdomen and flatulent distension (eighteenth day), 8.
Intellectual.
Apprehension very obtuse (disappearing almost immediately on taking 5 drops of mother tincture), (seventh day), 10.
Great difficulty in collecting her ideas, 11. [10.]
He cannot think (tenth day), 9.
Feels silly and lost (tenth day), 9.
Absence of mind (ninth day), 3.
Feels lost before the headache comes on, 11.
After taking the medicine, she feels lost; cannot collect herself; forgets what she is doing and saying; difficulty in expressing herself (sixth day), 6.
Head clear on getting up, but towards midday it became very obtuse, so that I had to make an effort to collect myself (ninth day), 3.
She has to make an effort to discover where she is, and to whom she is talking, 11.
Forgets the subject of discourse, 11.

HEAD

Vertigo.
Occasional dizziness in the forehead (third day), 7.
General Head.
Head feels dull (fourth day), 1. [20.]
Heaviness of the head, with dulness of the eyes, inducing closing of them (disappearing after 15 drops of the tincture), (second day), 10.
Headache occurs every ten minutes, 11.
General headache (seventh day), 4.
General headache, in the morning, on getting up (fifth day), 4.
Slight general headache, with confusion (after 10 drops of the mother tincture), 2.
Dull headache in front and to the right side; worse on shaking the head (after two hours), (first day), 4.
A weight on the brain (disappearing almost immediately on taking 5 drops of the mother tincture), (seventh day), 10.
During the headache, great inclination to go out into the open air, with relief by going out, 11.
Forehead.
Dull, heavy, stupefying pain in the forehead and vertex, shifting suddenly between these, 11.
Slight aching in the forehead (fifth day), 7. [30.]
Sharp headache over the left eye (nineteenth day), 3.
Occasional beating headache over the left eye (eighth day), 2.
Temples.
Darting through the temples (twenty-third day), 9.
Darting pain through each temple; the darts meet in the centre of the head; worse on stooping (twenty-first day), 9.
Painless beating occasionally, lasting about a minute, in the left temple (first day), 3.
Parietals.
Pain in the right side of the head (sixteenth day), 3.
Pain in the left side of the head (third day), 6.
Awoke with headache in the right half of the brain, in the morning (third day), 4.
Dull pain in the right parietal region, which lasted half an hour (after a few minutes), (first, second, and third days), .

EYE

Fulness and itching in the eyes (third day), 4.
Sudden, extremely acute smarting in the right eye, while reading, soon gone, but leaving a smarting in the external canthus, some redness of the conjunctiva (after four hours). In half an hour the same sensation in the left eye, followed by aching in the right occiput, 4.
Itching in the eyes (second day), 4.
Brow and Orbit.
Aching in the left infraorbital region (seventh day), 4.
Slow drawing over the left eye, and in the left occiput (seventeenth day), 3.
Slight dartings over the left eye (seventh day), 4. [50.]
Shooting pain over the left eye, in the morning (third day), 3.
Slight stinging over the left eye (fourth day), 3.
Ball.
Stinging in the upper part of the right eyeball (seventh day), 4.
Vision.
Dimness of sight; had to rub the eyes frequently (ninth day), 3.
Dimness of sight, and itching of the eyes, during the headache, with great coldness of the feet, 11.
A yellow patch follows the eye when he reads (tenth day); a red patch on the letter as he reads (fourteenth day), 9.

EAR

Right ear feels somewhat stuffed (sixth day), 7.
Eustachian tube of the left side as though it were stuffed with mucus; it was extremely painful and caused great deafness (first day); it was still clogged the next day, and there was a little deafness, 7.
Hearing.
Singing in the left ear (after half an hour, fifteenth day), 1.
Disagreeable singing noise in the left ear (second day), 7.

FACE. [60.]

Flushing of the face, with confusion of the head (after half an hour, fifteenth day), 1.

MOUTH

Running of clear water from the mouth (tenth day), 8.
Sour taste in the mouth (fifth day), 7.

THROAT

Constant choking in the throat-pit, and feeling as if he would burst into tears (twelfth to fourteenth days), 9.
Back part of the pharynx feels as if covered with thick mucus (fourth day), 1.
Difficulty in swallowing, with sense of fulness in the right side of the pharynx (eleventh day), 4.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Want of appetite (twenty-first day), 9.
No appetite till evening (twenty-second day), 9.
Eructations.
After tea, slight regurgitation, with dull pushing pain in the region of the spleen, recurring at intervals (after 50 drops), recurrence (after 20 drops), (fifteenth day), 1.
Nausea.
Slight nausea, with headache (second and third day), 5. [70.]
Excessive nausea (fifth day), 7.
Sick and dizzy (eighth day), 8.
Stomach.
Pain at the epigastrium through to the shoulders, with nausea (fourth day), 8.
Fulness and pricking at the cardiac extremity of the stomach, after a moderate dinner (first day), 2.
Pain in the epigastrium, as from excessive tightness (fifth day), 7.
On swallowing, the morsel seems to pass and press against some swelling in the cardiac region, in the evening (twentieth day), recurring during the proving, 1.
Uneasy pricking at the stomach (sixth day), 2.
Soreness of the epigastrium (after 10 drops of mother (sixth day), 2.
Soreness, tightness, and distension in the epigastric region (fifth day), 7.
Beating at the epigastrium (eighth day), 9. [80.]
The symptoms in the epigastrium are not to be relied on, as the prover was subject to slight dyspepsia, 7.

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Bloating fulness in the right hypochondrium (twenty-second day), 9.
Dull pain in the left hypochondrium, 2.
A long stitch in the left hypochondrium, on taking a deep breath (after 10 drops of mother tincture), 2.
Pricking and fulness in the right hypochondrium, after dinner (eleventh day), 4.
General Abdomen.
Abdomen distended (seventh day), 10.
Bowels much distended with flatulence; no relief can be obtained at stool (fifth day), 7.
Flatulent distension of the abdomen (disappearing after 15 drops of the tincture), (second day), 10.
Borborygmus (after 10 drops of mother tincture), 2.
Flatus (eleventh day), 4. [90.]
Griping in the bowels, before falling asleep (fifteenth day), 1.
Bellyache all the evening, increased immediately after eating even a little bread (eleventh day), 4.
Twitching about the bowels, followed by a loose stool (after half an hour, first day), 8.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa, with sickness (ninth day), 8.
During the proving the bowels were occasionally loose; the stools large and without pain, 6.
Bowels more open than usual; stools large, fluid and bilious (twenty-second day), 1.
Bowels, which are generally confined, freely opened; stools large and fluid (third day); bowels opened twice (fourth day); stools large, liquid, and bilious (sixth day); bowels opened three times (ninth day); stools loose, large, and bilious (twenty-second day); bowels very loose (twenty-third day), 9.
Constipation.
Bowels confined three days (secondary), (eighth day), 4.

URINARY ORGANS

Frequent calls to urinate; urine profuse and limpid (eighth day); frequent micturition, nine times more than natural (tenth day); urine profuse and limpid (twenty-second day), 9.
Increased quantity of clear urine (eleventh day), 4. [100.]
For a few days the urine continued to be increased in quantity, and smelled strongly of sweetbrier; there was a white sediment, 4.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Bronchi.
Tightness and raw sensation about the bifurcation of the bronchi (two hours after 10 drops), (fourth day), 1.
Throbbing, with pain and soreness at the root of the bronchi, on coughing (eighth day), 3.
Cough and Expectoration.
Awoke with slight cough and a little dyspnœa, very similar to that felt yesterday morning, but slighter in degree (third day), 7.
Slight cough, on rising in the morning (fourth day), with a tickling in the larynx (fifth day), 7.
Awoke at 4 A.M. with a violent cough, attended by an excessive tickling in the larynx, and sense of suffocation; respiration hurried and difficult; attack lasted a quarter of an hour; no way relieved by change of posture (first day), 7.
Short, dry cough throughout the day (second day), 8.
Scanty expectoration of frothy mucus (first day), 7.
Respiration.
Sighing (twenty-third day), 9.
Has to take a deep inspiration now and then (twenty-third day), 9. [110.]
Breathing has been all day somewhat oppressed and tight (second day), 7.
Great difficulty in taking a deep inspiration, with aggravation of the sore aching pain in the scapulæ (third day), 7.
Short of breath (eighth and eleventh days), 9.

CHEST

Faint at chest (third day), 6.
A burning dry sensation, with pains in the chest (thirteenth day), 8.
Rising from the bottom of the chest into the throat, with oppression of the breath; he has to sigh often to relieve the feeling of want of air in the chest (tenth day), 9.
Tightness across the chest (twenty-second day), 9.
During the day, twitching tightness round the lower part of the chest, in front, with rising in the throat and want of appetite (third day), 9.
The chest feels too tight to admit of any expansion (third day), 7.
Uneasy aching about the chest (eighth day), 8. [120.]
Chest aches both anteriorly and posteriorly (third day), 7.
Oppression of the chest all day (sixth day), 9.
Oppression at the chest, with difficulty in expanding it (eighth day), 4.
Considerable oppression at the chest, with inclination to sigh (second day), 6.
Greatly oppressed at the chest, as if from a globus behind the sternum (fifth day), 8.
Shooting through the chest (tenth day), 8.
Shooting in all directions through the chest, but particularly under the right scapula and left nipple, during the evening (sixteenth day), 3.
Shooting in the right posterior and left anterior chest, in the evening (seventeenth day), 3.
Soreness of the chest and limbs, though less severe (fourth day), 7.
Front.
Uneasiness behind and to the right of the sternum, on swallowing, as from fulness (for five hours), (eleventh day), 4. [130.]
Pushing aching under the sternum (twenty-fourth day), 9.
Dull pain, varying in intensity, to the right of the sternum, below the cartilages of the fifth and sixth ribs (ninth day), 4.
On breathing deeply, there is a dull heavy pain in the middle of the sternum, as if from a blow, passing through to the back, in the evening (twentieth day); recurring during the proving, 1.
Great oppression behind the sternum, on walking (eighth day), 3.
Constant oppressed sensation at the sternum, relieved for a little by sighing (third day), .

HEART AND PULSE

Præcordium.
Continual weariness, not amounting to pain, in the region of the heart, and in the right hypochondrium (twenty-first day), 3.
Uneasiness about the heart (sixth day), 3.
Slight feeling of heat about the heart (seventeenth day), 3.
Aching at the heart, lasting some hours (fourth day), 1.
There remained, for many weeks, a clawing-dragging pain at the heart, on riding, relieved by compressing the side firmly, 4.
Occasional pushes at the heart (second day), 2.
Heart's Action.
Strong beating of the heart, so bad that he can hear it (eleventh day), 9. [170.]
Palpitation at intervals of three minutes, consisting of three or four heavy throbs, excited more by mental emotions than by bodily movement (third day). After taking 5 drops more the palpitation declined, and did not return, 11.
Occasional palpitation, consisting of three heavy throbs (twenty-third day), 1.
Slight palpitation during the headache, lasting a few seconds, 11.
For upwards of a month after the proving there remained a very troublesome palpitation and fulness at the sternum, on walking up-hill; no exertion seemed to induce it so much as this; it gradually increased for the first fortnight, and afterwards declined in strength and frequency; the sensation occurred at intervals of two or three minutes, and consisted of one or two jumps or rolls of the heart, with occasionally an intermission of the pulse at the wrist, 4.
Repeated attacks of a kind of palpitation similar to that felt after quick running, as if the heart beat heavily and with difficulty; it is accompanied by dull pain, as from an obstruction, somewhere at about an inch to the left of the nipple; this recurs at intervals, aggravated by stooping and taking a deep inspiration in the evening (twentieth day); continue to recur during the proving, 1.
Pulse.
Pulse 106 (seventh day), 10.

BACK

Aching in the back, and down the posterior part of the right thigh (sixth day), 6.
Dorsal.
Violent pain between the shoulders (eighth day), 8.
Aching along the inner border of the right scapula, in the evening (ninth day), 4.
Dull stitches under the right scapula, which continue many hours (sixteenth day), 3. [180.]
Felt very sore at the inferior angles of the scapulæ, particularly the left (after first dose, third day), 7.
Slight tingling under the angle of the left scapula, amounting now and then to pricking (after five minutes); this lasted only a few minutes, but when it passed off, I immediately felt a pain under the angle of the right scapula, as if produced by the pressure of a blunt point. This pain increased in intensity all day, and spread round to the front, being particularly severe under the left mamma. The pain there, and under the angle of the scapula, was a constant dull pressure, but on making any sudden movement with the arm, walking, or expiring strongly, it became shooting, and occupied the interior space, appearing to shoot sometimes from the back to the front, sometimes in the opposite direction. By evening the pain was so great as nearly to prevent my moving about (fourth day); continuing the next day. Had to stay in bed till noon, 5 . [It was the opinion of the prover that this pain was in the pleura.]
Lumbar.
Aching in the back, across the loins (third day), 6.
Aching pain across the loins, and in the left iliac region (fifth day), 7.
Long stitches in the loins (seventh day), 3.
Aching in the region of the kidneys, with shooting in the right loin (fourth day), 3.
Rather severe aching in the region of the kidneys, extending round into the abdomen, in the evening (eleventh day), 4.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Weakness and aching of the limbs (fourth day), 1.
Aching in all the joints, especially the shoulders, and particularly the right shoulder, inducing constant inclination to stir the limbs (twentieth day), 3.
Aching in the large joints, particularly the right shoulder (first day), 6. [190.]
Aching in the fleshy part of the arms, and in the thighs (fourth day), 6.
Uneasy aching in the thick of the arms and down the back part of the right thigh (from eighth day till several days after the proving), 6.
A peculiar weary aching in the thighs, knees, and elbows (twentieth day), 3.
Sore aching of the upper and lower extremities (third day), 7.
Repeatedly complained during the day of a soreness and prickling down the limbs, particularly down the ankles (seventh day), 10.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Arms feel heavy and sore (seventh day), 10.
Shoulder.
Awoke during the night with pain in the right shoulder, 11.
Uneasy aching in the shoulders and elbows (from eighth day till several days after the proving), 6.
Between the attacks of headache, gnawing rheumatic pain in the right shoulder, 11.
Elbow.
Shootings in the left elbow (second day), 4. **[200.]
Forearm.**
Jerking sticking in the left radial artery (half an hour after 10 drops, first day), 3.
Tingling, sickly pain down the ulnar side of the forearm (fourth day), 3.
Wrists.
Wrists very weak, and hands tremble (twenty-second day), 9.
Aching bruised pain in wrists (twenty-second day), 9.
Hand.
Since the climacteric period, and particularly for some months before the proving, she had suffered from aching tingling in the hands, particularly at night, preventing sleep, and tingling down the arm when the nerve is struck. While taking Cotyledon this disappeared, and has never returned. It is upwards of a year since, 10.
Fingers.
Shootings in the joints of the fingers (second day), 4.
Shooting in the phalanges of the fingers (seventh day), 3.
Shooting and aching in the fingers (eighth day), 4.
Acute shootings through the joints of the fingers (seventeenth day), 3.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Legs feel heavy and sore (seventh day), 10. [210.]
She can scarcely walk for aching in the limbs (seventh day), 10.
Shootings from the middle of left thigh posteriorly down to the inner ankle, in the evening (fourth day), continuing till eighth day, 1.
Aching bruised pain all over the lower limbs (twenty-second day), 9.
Hip.
Pain and stiffness of the right hip, going off after a walk, in the evening (ninth day), 4.
Great aching of the hip-joints, relieved by moving about (second day), 2.
Continual soreness of the hip and thigh, posteriorly (before 20 drops, third day), 2.
Thigh.
Aching in the left thigh, followed by numbness (second day), 6.
Aching in the left thigh, posteriorly (seventh day), 6.
Aching in the back part of the left thigh, with numbness of the left knee (third day), 6.
Shooting pain, sudden and sharp, in the right infra-gluteal region, felt principally on walking in the open air (seventh day), 10. [220.]
Stinging pain under the left gluteus maximus, in the region of the great sciatic nerve (before the 20 drops, third day), 2.
Bubbling sensation in the left vastus internus, continuing for some time (fifteenth day), 1.
Knee.
Knees ache (eleventh day), 4.
Uneasy aching, with numbness in the knees (from eighth day till several days after the proving), 6.
Shootings in the right knee (second day), 4.
Very disagreeable nauseating pain in the inner side of the left knee, as after a blow on the knee, extending to the muscles of the thigh (after five hours, ninth day), 1.
Bubbling in the left knee returned (after sixteen days), 1.
Leg.
Aching in the muscles of the legs (second day), 3.
Aching across the shins, relieved by motion (fourth and fifth days), 2.
Bruised pain across the tibiæ keeps returning (eighth day), . [230.]

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
Incapacity for any exertion (third day), 7.
Very weak, particularly in the lower extremities (fifth day), 7.
Very weak and faint (fifth day), 7.
Occasionally during the day had attacks of faintness, with green shadows before the eye (second day), 6.
Subjective.
Feels extraordinarily well (fifth day), 10.
Weariness (third day), 7.
She feels languid and nervous (seventh day), 10.
Pain in the body after eating (twelfth day), 4. [240.]
She declares the symptoms to be similar though different to the beginning of a rheumatic fever, or severe cold (seventh day), 10.
Pains sore and aching, increased on taking a deep inspiration in the same localities as before, but not nearly as severe as on the third day (fifth day), 7.
Pains, aching soreness, chiefly in the bowels and across the loins, and hanging about the chest and scapulæ (fifth day), 7.
Creeping in the flesh, and feeling as before severe cold or rheumatic attack (fourth day), 1.

SKIN

Soreness of the skin at the back part of the left thigh in the afternoon (fourth day), 1.
Painful sensitiveness of the skin at the back part of the left thigh; the rubbing of the trowsers causes an acute sting like a needle (twenty-sixth day), 1.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Drowsy all day (eighth day), 9.
Felt drowsy during the day (first and sixteenth days), 8.
Sleeplessness; could not rest till midnight (first day), 10.
Nightmare, with sense as if he could not escape, from inability to see (tenth day), 9.

FEVER. [250.]

Cold feet in a warm room (after one hour, sixteenth day), 3.
Cold feet, with a dull headache (fourth day), 3.
Feet very cold (sixteenth day), 3.
Burning heat all over, disappearing after a cup of tea (seventh day), 10.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), On getting up, headache; on waking, right-sided headache; pain over eye; on waking, cough, etc.; on rising, slight cough, etc.; on waking, at 4 o'clock, violent cough, etc.
( Afternoon ), Soreness of skin of thigh.
( Evening ), After tea, regurgitation; on swallowing, sensation in cardiac region; bellyache; shooting through chest ; on breathing deeply, pain in sternum; aching in breast; palpitation; aching along border of scapula; aching in region of kidneys; shooting from thigh to ankle; pain in hip.
( Night ), Pain in shoulder.
( In open air ), Pain in sides of head.
( Walking in open air ), Pain in infra-gluteal region.
( Ascending hill ), Palpitation, etc.
( On coughing ), Throbbing, etc.; at root of bronchi.
( Before dinner ), Pain under nipple.
( After dinner ), Pricking, etc.; in right hypochondrium.
( Eating ), Bellyache; pain in body.
( Exertion ), Throbbing at sternum.
( Inspiration ), Pain above and to left of nipple.
( On deep inspiration ), Stitch in left hypochondrium; palpitation; sore and aching pains.
( Mental emotion ), Palpitation.
( While reading ), Smarting in eye.
( While riding ), Pain under nipple; pain at heart.
( Shaking head ), Headache.
( Sighing ), Sensation at sternum.
( Stooping ), Pain through temples; darting through side of head; attacks of palpitation.
( On swallowing ), Uneasiness behind sternum.
( On walking ), Oppression behind sternum; throbs at sternum; pain from nipple to scapula.

COTYLEDON.