Heracleum

("Branca ursina.") Heracleum sphondylium, Linn.

Natural order , Umbelliferæ.

Common names , (Germ.), Bærenklau; (Fr.), Branc-ursine.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.

Authority.

Dr. Rosenburg, Archiv f. Hom., 17, pt. 2, p. 46, provings on self and three others, including a girl of 20, with the tincture; doses, 20 to 60 drops.

MIND

• Hypochondriac troubles.
• Fretfulness and ill-humor, taciturn.

HEAD

• Vertigo while reading and sitting.
• Headache, especially in the occiput and forehead, with nausea and inclination to sleep, worse on moving in the open air, better by tying the head up with a cloth.
• Excessive oily secretion on the head.
• Violent itching on the scalp; on scratching it, the ends of the fingers become fatty.

EYE

• Lachrymation and weakness of the eyes while reading.

NOSE

• Frequent sneezing, with stitches in the region of the spleen.

MOUTH

• Bitter taste in the mouth.

THROAT. [10.]

• Increased collection of mucus, crawling, rawness and scraping in the throat.
• Pressure in the throat, as from tenacious mucus.

STOMACH

• Hunger, with nausea, and dread of all food.
• Increased thirst.
• Sweet and bitter eructations, with gulping up of bitter fluid.
• Qualmish nausea, bitter, bilious vomiting, with pains in the stomach, and violent congestion of the head.
• Pressure in the stomach, with nausea and pressure in the pit of the stomach, after eating, as from a stone; these stomach troubles are always accompanied by nausea.

ABDOMEN

• Throbbing and pain in the region of the spleen.
• Flatulence and colic, with nausea and offensive eructations.
• Sticking and griping colic, obliging him to bend up.

STOOL. [20.]

• Slimy, offensive diarrhœa.
• Stool delayed, with urging and pain in the anus.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Drawings in the penis.
• Stitches in the glans penis.
• Emissions.
• Transient sticking in the labiæ.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Dry, hacking cough, with feeling of soreness and transient stitches in the chest.
• Arrest of breathing on ascending a mountain.

CHEST

• Oppression of the chest, with palpitation.
• Oppression of the chest and chilliness. [30.]
• Stitches in the chest on inspiration.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Gouty, tearing pains in the limbs.
• Sticking and burning in the feet.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Exhaustion, indolence, and weakness.

SKIN

• Violent itching on the skin, and moist eruption, like the itch.
• Dry eruption on the chest, burning after scratching.
• Itching and biting on the scrotum.

FEVER

• Chilliness, with frequent yawning and inclination to sleep, in the afternoon.