Badiaga

Volume I — Special Symptomatology

{Fresh-water Sponge.) Officinal Preparations. — Tincture and triturations from the dried sponge.

Analogues. — Spongia, Silicea, Carbo animalis, Kaolin, Kali bichromicum, Clematis, Sulphur, Iodine, Mercurius, Phytolacca, Baryta jod.

Mental Sphere.

In spite of the headache, he is still clear in his mind, and more inclined to mental activity than before.

Upon the slightest emotion or thought, forcible pulsation of the heart

Head.

Dull, dizzy feeling of the head. Congestion in the forehead.

Headache from two p. m. till seven in the morning, with slight aching pains in the posterior portion of both eyeballs, and in the temple.

During the day more or less headache, with pain in the eyeballs, worse in the left; more from one o'clock in the afternoon till seven in the evening.

Frontal headache during the forenoon, worse in the temples, and extending into the posterior portion of the left eyeball, aggravated by moving the eye.

Headache, with inflamed eyes.

During the afternoon, heat, pain and congestion in the forehead, worse at seven p. m.

In the temples and eyeballs, pain; to the temples from the eyeballs.

A very severe headache on the top of the head; remains the same in all positions; better at night after sleeping and

better in the morning, returning violently after breakfast, lasting several days.

Headache, commencing between one and two p. m., lasting till between six and seven in the evening.

Headache and soreness of the body, aggravated, from seven to ten in the evening.

An excess of dandruff or dry, tetter-like appearance of the scalp, with slight itching.

Scalp sore to the touch, with tetter-like eruption on the forehead and dull, dizzy feeling of the head during the forenoon.

Eyes.

0 Slight intermitting pains in the posterior portion of right

eyeball and temple; more during the afternoon. Pain in the posterior portion of both eyeballs, more in the

left one; more between one and seven in the evening. Inflammation of the eyes, especially the right. Pain in left eyeball and temple, quite severe, extending to the

left side of the head and forehead. Twitching of the left upper eyelid (from triturating the

Badiaga.)

Left eyeball quite sore, even upon closing it tightly. Scrofulous inflammation of the eyes, with hardening of the

meibomian glands. Bluish-purple margin of the eyelids and blue under the eye.

Nose.

Itching of the left wing of the nose (while triturating the Badiaga.)

Prof me coryza, mostly from the left nostril, worse in the

afternoon and p. m. Discharge of thick, yellowish mucus from left nostril, during

the afternoon.

Occasional sneezing, with more profuse coryza, most on the left side, with occasional stoppage of the nose; worse in the afternoon and evening.

Coryza and cough.

Face.

On forehead tetter-like eruption.

Pale, ashy, or lead color of the face. Stiffness in the maxillary joints.

Mouth and Throat. Mouth hot and dry, with thirst for large quantities at a time 0 Throat inflamed and sore, especially on swallowing/ tonsils

red and inflamed. Mouth and tongue feel as if scalded.

Hawked up a viscid, solid lump of bloody mucus, in the morning.

Stomach and Abdomen.

Severe, lancinating pain in pit of stomach, extending to the vertebrae opposite and to the right scapula, and at times to the right side, resulting in a pleuritic pain.

A lancinating pain, with a bounding movement in the region of the liver.

Bowels costive; haemorrhoids.

Urinary Organs.

Sharp pain in the right kidney.

Urine high-colored and reddish.

Severe, sharp lancinating pains in and near the orifice of the urethra.

Groins.

° Indurated, inguinal glands. (Tiering, Mat. 31 ed.)

° Syphilitic bubo in the left groin; a longish swelling, as hard as a stone ; border rugged, like a scirrhus ; at night violent lancinations, as if with red-hot needles. (Ib.)

° Buboes originating with consensus or cellular irritation, with shooting pains, if suppuration has not commenced, will disappear in three days completely, if with rest, low diet, cold local application, the tincture of Badiaga is given, one drop in a tablespoonful of water, every three or four hours. (Tb.)

c Buboes, with decided fluctuation, are scattered and absorbed from six drops of the tincture, every day in water. (Ib.) Cough and Chest.

While lying on the right side in bed, and at the moment of becoming unconscious by sleep, severe oppressive suffocating attacks, from suspended respiration, causing a

quick effort to prevent suffocation, by changing position.

On full inspiration, pleuritic pain; aggravated pain in side.

Occasional severe paroxysms of spasmodic cough, ejecting viscid mucus from the bronchial tubes, which at times comes flying forcibly out of the mouth, more during the afternoon; caused by a tickling in the larynx.

Cough, with yellowish mucous expectoration; better in the. warm room.

A sense of sharp, lancinating pain in the right supra-clavicular region, in or near the sub-clavian artery, lasting several minutes during the evening.

Pain in the upper part of the right chest.

Pleuritic pain in right side, also on the left; increased with stitches on both sides, aggravated on motion or full respiration, with soreness of the whole body, especially the chest.

Severe stitches in the side, especially the right side, from the seventh to the eighth rib; aggravated by the least motion. Heart.

Severe vibrating tremulous palpitation of the heart, even while

sitting or lying quiet, upon the least elation or other

emotion of the mind. While lying in bed, forcible pulsations of the heart felt and

heard, extending from the chest up into the neck, upon

the slightest emotion or thought. Palpitation of the heart, with a fluttering and vibrating upon

the slightest emotion. Occasional spells of severe jerking, fluttering palpitation of

the heart upon a sudden elating thought or emotion of

the mind, even while sitting or lying. While lying on the right side, the heart is both heard and felt

to pulsate from the chest up to the neck. Midnight, while in bed, vibrating palpitation of the heart,.

lasting but a few minutes, after which, while lying on the

right side, a sensation as if the lower lobe of the left

lung was settling down, or being collapsed — relieved by

changing position.

Neck.

A very stiff neck.

Soreness and lameness, with stitches in the nape of the neck, aggravated by bending the head back and forth.

° Glandular swellings on the left side of the face, throat and neck, nearly all of the size of a hen’s egg, some hard, some suppurating ; they disfigured and enlarged the whole region considerably, since his early youth, now twenty years; in often repeated doses, lessened it more than half the former size. {Herincfs Mat. Med.) Back.

Painful drawing near the spine to the left, downwards from

the shoulder blade. Severe lacerating pains and stitches in the posterior right side

below the scapula, aggravated very much by throwing the

shoulders back and the chest forward. Pain in small of the back, hips, and lower limbs. Pain in the front of the upper part of the right shoulder,

afterwards in the left shoulder and arm.

Limbs.

Palms of the hands hot and dry, dry and husky.

An intermitting pain in the muscles of the lower posterior third of the right leg, with a sore, contracted, clumsy, bruised feeling of the arterior muscles of the lower third of the right leg, which is aggravated by flexing the foot and going up stairs, when the toes have a tendency to drop down, as if the foot were asleep.

The anterior muscles of the right leg sore, as if beaten.

Several small hard lumps along the shin bone.

° Lessened hard-cellular swelling of both legs.

Sharp, stinging pain in the posterior portion of the right heel, aggravated by the slightest pressure.

° Bad ulcers on the feet of horses. — {Popular remedy?)

° Hurts of the hoofs of horses. « "

0 Chilblai is.

A general soreness of the muscles and integuments of the whole body, especially the integuments; aggravated on motion, and especially by the friction of the clothes.

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Flesh feels sore, as if it had been beaten, and very sensitive to touch or friction of the clothes.

Sleep.

Awoke with frightful dreams and severe crampy pains in the

metatarsal bones of both feet. Restless night, could lie only a short time in one position, on

account of the soreness of the muscles and whole body. ° At night violent lancinating pains in the limbs. In the night palpitation, lying on the right side. Headache better after sleep.

Fever.

Feverish, hot breath and mouth. Hot and dry palms of hands.

Skin.

Itching on scalp.

° Scrofulous diseases, particularly swollen glands. 0 Bruised spots from falls or from being beaten. Flesh and skin sore to the touch.

Volume II — Special Therapeutics

The provings of this medicine appeared in the “ Hahnemannian Monthly,” and also in Hering’s “ Materia Medica,” but no clinical use of it has since been reported. I am not able, therefore, to give any additional information relative to its curative value. I have never used it myself. Many of its symptoms closely resemble those of the marine sponge which we use in practice.

Th head symptoms would indicate its probable value in some cases of headache , and “ tetterlike eruptions on the scalp.”

It causes painfulness of the left eyeball, especially the posterior portion, and Dr. Bedford says he has had very good results from its use in “ scrofulous inflammation of the eyes, with hardening and induration of the Meibomian glands.”

Hahnemann considered it an antipsoric, but never published any account of it. It contains Carbonate of lime, Silicea, Phosphate of lime, and a trace of Alumina, which would make it an antipsoric in the sense Hahnemann used the word. Hering says of it: “A comparison with Spongia, its nearest of kin in the animal kingdom, will show striking similarities and remarkable differences.”

He also compares it with Silicea and Clematis. Rosenstein considers it complementary to Sulph., Iodine, and Mercurius. This last writer reported a complete cure of a chronic syphilitic bubo with Badiaga, after Sulph., Carbo, Clemat., Sil., Iod., and Ars. had been given in vain.

Among the new indigenous remedies its analogues are Phytolacca, Corydalis, and Still ingia.

Hering thinks the Badiaga will be useful for the complaints of adults who had scrofulous complaints in childhood, and which showed again in after life. He adds that it had a reputation in Russia for the cure of haemorrhoids. He thinks it follows well after Lachesis.

I doubt if it will be used much, for we have many similar and more active remedies. It may, however, meet special cases when its analogues fail.

Its heart-symptoms are peculiar, and are worthy of attention.