Lapathum
by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Rumex obtusifolius, Linn.
Natural order , Polygonaceæ.
Common names , Radix lapathi, Radix patientiæ, Grindwurz. ( Note: This is doubtless the old officinal Lapathum acutum, now known as R. obtusifolius, from the blunt-pointed lower leaves. Consult figure in the old Herbal of Matthiolus and Camerarius.)
Preparation , Tincture of the root.
Authority.
Dr. Widenhorn, Archives de la Méd., Hom., 2, 1835, p. 305.
- Sadness and moroseness alternating with gayety.
- Headache at the vertex.
- Pressive headache, in the morning; it seems as though the head were swollen.
- Headache in the top of the head, as after intoxication.
- Bleeding of the nose.
- Blowing of blood from the nose.
- Pain in the pit of the stomach, with loss of appetite, and weight in the stomach.
- Feeling of distension in the left hypochondrium.
- Extension and pressure, especially in the morning, with production and emission of flatulence. [10.]
- Drawings in the left hypochondrium.
- Pain in the kidneys for five hours, with pressure from without inwards.
- Weak feeling in the internal genital parts.
- (Leucorrheal flow for five days, very copious, thick, whitish, with constriction and expulsive efforts from top to bottom of the womb, and pains in the kidneys ).
- Weariness.
- Bruised pain in all the limbs.
- Excessive coldness in feet, as well inside as outside, so that it was almost impossible to warm them.