Leptandra

Veronica Virginica, Linn. (Leptandra Virginica, Nutt.).

Natural order , Scrophulariaceæ.

Common name , Culver's Physic.

Preparation , Tincture or trituration of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Burt, provings with "Leptandrin," doses 1 to 40 grains, Hale's New Remedies, 2d ed.; 2 , same, the day after last symptom and four days after last dose of previous proving, began with fluid extract, and took repeated doses of 20 to 160 drops, ibid; 3 , proving of a student in Hahn. Med. Coll., repeated doses of Leptandrin first dec. trit. for two weeks, ibid.

MIND

• Feeling very gloomy (after third dose, first day), 1.
• Very gloomy and irritable all day (second day), 2.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Very dizzy while walking (third day), 2.
• General Head.
• Headache, 3.
• Slight headache (four hours after first dose, first day, and three hours after first dose, second day), 2.
• Severe headache, with frequent pain in the bowels, all day (fifth day), 2.
• Constant dull headache, very much worse in the regions of causality (after second dose, second day), 1.
• Dull, slight headache, with slight distress in the umbilicus (three hours after first dose, second day), 1.
• Forehead.
• Frontal headache (three hours after second dose, third day), 1. [10.]
• Slight frontal headache (four hours after first dose, third day, and after fourth dose, second day), 1 ; (after third dose, second day), 2.
• Slight frontal headache, with neuralgic pain in the right temple (after fourth dose, second day), 2.
• Slight frontal headache, with sharp pains in the temples (three and eight hours after second dose, fourth day), 1.
• Slight frontal headache, with a dull, aching sensation in the umbilicus (after second dose, first day), 1.
• Slept middling well, awoke several times, and found that I had a severe frontal headache (first night), 1.
• Very severe frontal headache; walking makes it almost intolerable, at 8 A.M., and subsequently (third day), 2.
• Great frontal headache (third day), 2.
• Dull, frontal headache (one hour after first dose, first day), 2.
• Dull, frontal headache, with a sensation as if the hair were pulled at (after second dose, first day), 2.
• Dull, frontal headache, which is very deep in the cerebrum (after third dose, third day), 1. [20.]
• Constant, dull, frontal headache, worse in the temples (two hours after first dose, first day), 1.
• Constant, dull, frontal headache, very severe, deep in the region of causality (after third dose, first day), 1.

EYE

• Eyes ache and smart severely (after fourth dose, second day), 1.
• Eyes sore and smart severely (after second dose, second day), 1.
• Eyes smarting constantly, with dull pains in the eyeballs (after fourth dose, second day), 2.
• Eyes smart a good deal (after third dose, second day), 2 ; (three hours after second dose, third day), 1.
• Eyes smart very much (four hours after first dose, and after third dose, third day), 1.
• Eyes smart and ache very much (after third dose, first day), 1.
• Eyelids agglutinated (fourth morning), 1.
• Profuse secretion of tears (one hour after first dose, first day), 2.

MOUTH

• Tongue. [30.]
• Tongue coated yellow (second morning), 2.
• Tongue coated yellow along the centre (third day, fourth and fifth mornings), 1 ; (fourth morning), 2.
• Taste.
• Flat taste in the mouth (fifth morning), 1 ; (second morning), 2.
• Unpleasant, flat taste in the mouth (fourth morning), 1.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Great appetite (fourth day), 2 ; (seventh day), 1.
• Awoke at 5 A.M. feeling very hungry, with great pain in the epigastric region, and continued until I had taken breakfast (sixth day), 1.
• Eructation.
• Foot rises very sour, at 10 A.M. (fifth day), 1.
• Nausea.
• Sick at the stomach, with deathly faintness, immediately after rising in the night (first night), 2.
• Stomach.
• Good deal of distress in the stomach and bowels, with a burning sensation (after second dose, first day), 2.
• Constant distress in the lower part of the epigastric region and umbilicus; by spells there are sharp, cutting pains in the same parts (two hours after first dose, first day), 1. [40.]
• Dull, aching distress in the stomach and umbilical region (one hour after first dose, first day), 2.
• Burning distress in the whole epigastric and hypochondriac regions (after third dose, third day), 1.
• Constant aching distress in the epigastric and umbilical regions, with sharp, cutting pains, by spells (after fourth dose, second day), 1.
• Constant, burning, aching distress in the region of the stomach and liver (three hours after second dose, third day), 1.
• Frequent pains in the epigastric region all day (sixth day), 1.
• Very severe pains in the stomach and small intestines, with great distress and desire for stool (after fourth dose, second day), 1.
• Very severe aching distress came on in the epigastric region, immediately after getting up; the distress in the stomach is constantly getting worse, I cannot sit or stand still, it is so severe, at 10 A.M.; the painful distress in the stomach has been unendurable all the forenoon, it is a hard, aching, burning sensation, and appears to be in the stomach; the painful distress has not been so hard, at 9 P.M. (fifth day), 1.
• Constant, dull, aching pain in cardiac portion of the stomach (after third dose, second day), 2.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Dull pain in the lower part of the right hypochondriac region (third morning), 1.
• Frequent, dull, aching pain in the lower part of the right hypochondriac region, near the gall-bladder, with dull, aching distress in the umbilical region, and rumbling in the bowels (four hours after first dose); dull, aching distress in the whole of the liver, that extends to the spine; the most distress in the region of the gall-bladder; great distress in the whole of the bowels, with sharp, cutting pains, rumbling, and desire for stool (after second dose, third day), 1. [50.]
• Sharp, cutting pains near the gall-bladder (four hours after first dose, first day), 2.
• Umbilical.
• Slight distress in the umbilicus, with dull, slight headache (three hours after first dose, second day), 1.
• Great distress in the umbilicus (after third dose, second day), 2.
• Constant aching distress in the umbilical region (after second dose, second day), 1.
• Constant, aching distress in the umbilicus, with sharp pain by spells (four hours after first dose, and after third dose, first day), 2.
• Dull, aching sensation in the umbilicus, with slight frontal headache (after second dose, first day), 1.
• Dull, aching distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions (five hours after first dose, fourth day, and three hours after second dose, third day), 1.
• Dull, aching distress in the umbilical region, with very sharp pains by spells (after second dose, second day), 1.
• Dull, aching distress in the umbilicus (five hours after second dose); there has been a great deal of distress in the umbilicus, with a great burning distress in the back part of the liver and spine (six hours after second dose, first day), 2.
• Constant, dull, aching distress in the umbilicus; at times there are very sharp pains in the same region (after third dose, first day), 1. [60.]
• Constant, dull, aching distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, with very sharp pains every few minutes; makes me feel very weak and faint (after third dose, third day), 1.
• Frequent pains in the umbilical region (sixth day), 2.
• During the night have had frequent pains in the umbilicus, with much rumbling all day (fourth day), 2.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa of clay-colored evacuations, 3.
• Great distress in the stomach and all the small intestines, with great desire for stool that could not be retained one moment; ran a stream from my bowels, very fetid, with large quantities of mucus in it, followed by severe pain in the hypogastric region, at 8 A.M.; the great distress in the stomach and small intestines continues, with frequent pains in the umbilicus that make me feel very faint and weak; great rumbling in the bowels; stool that could not be retained, consisting of water and large quantities of mucus and a little yellow matter, followed by very hard pains in the umbilicus, at 10 A.M. (after the dose); constant, dull, burning, aching distress in the whole of the bowels, with frequent pain and rumbling, and great desire for stool; stool of water and mucus, followed by very hard pain in the hypogastric and umbilical regions; another very profuse, thin stool, with large quantities of mucus, two hours later; after sleeping two hours awoke at 5 P.M. with great distress in the whole of the bowels, and great desire for stool; profuse watery stool, mixed with mucus, that could not be retained; another stool of water and mucus, with part natural fæces, very fetid; another stool, with large quantities of mucus in it, followed by sharp, cutting pains and great distress in the umbilical region, feeling very weak and faint; an hour later, at 6 P.M., another profuse stool that could not be retained, followed by severe pains in the bowels, three hours later (third day), 2.
• Stool, which ran a stream from my bowels, followed by very severe cutting pains in the intestines, at 3 A.M. (second night), 2.
• *Very profuse, black, fetid stool, that ran a stream from my bowels (during abdominal pains; eight hours after second dose, fourth day), 1.
• Very profuse, black stool, about the consistence of cream , with undigested potatoes in it (during pain in bowels; eight hours after second dose, fourth day), 1.*
• Soft, yellow, papescent stool, preceded by pain in the umbilical region (sixth day), 2.
• Soft, mushy stool (six hours after second dose, first day), 2. [80.]
• Stool soft and mushy, followed by a very weak feeling in the bowels and rectum (after second dose, third day), 1.
• Stool soft, very fetid, and mushy (after fourth dose, second day), 2.
• Stool, first part natural, second part soft and mushy (seventh day), .

URINARY ORGANS

• Urine acid (before the provings); slightly acid (second day); rather scanty and does not affect blue litmus-paper (third day); very red, does not affect blue litmus-paper (fourth day); neutral (fifth day), 1.

BACK

• Very constant distress, with very sharp pains by spells in the lumbar region (three hours after second dose, fourth day), 1.
• Dull aching in the lumbar region (after third dose, third day), 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Both wrists are very lame and ache quite severely in the morning; the left one aches the most; the pain lasting till noon (fifth day), 1.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Feeling very languid (third day, fourth and fifth mornings), 1. [90.]
• Quite weary and languid, can hardly walk (third day), 2.
• Feeling very tired, 1.

SKIN

• A severe attack of jaundice , accompanied with diarrhœa of clay-colored evacuations, headache, and the symptoms usually seen in such cases, 3.

SLEEP

• Sleepiness.
• Slept well (fifth and sixth nights), 2.
• Slept well; arose once in the night (first night), 2.
• Slept soundly (third night), 2 ; (fourth and fifth nights), 1.
• Sleeplessness.
• Had a restless night after midnight (third night), 1.
• Lost my sleep last night, and am feeling very bad to-day (fifth day), 2.

FEVER

• Skin was hot and dry, with frequent pain in the bowels (fourth morning), 1.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Lameness, etc., of wrists.
• ( Walking ), Dizziness; frontal headache.