Senecio

Senecio aureus, L.

Natural order , Compositæ.

Common names , Golden ragwort, Squaw-weed, etc.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. A. E. Small, U. S. Med. and Surg. J., 1866, p. 151, proving with 40 drops of tincture, three times, first day; once, second day; 2 , same, another person took 60 drops of tincture in the same way; 3 , Dr. G. W. Jones, Hale's "New Remedies," 1867, p. 971, repeated doses for seven days of 10 drops to a teaspoonful of tincture; 3 a , same, took, subsequently, tincture, 10 to 100-drop doses; 3 b , same, subsequently took tincture 30 drops, three times a day, for three days, then 10 drops twice a day, fourth and fifth days; a teaspoonful, twice, sixth day; three times, seventh; twice, eighth day; 10 drops, morning, twelfth day.

MIND

• In very good spirits (second day), 3b.
• Evening, in a very meditative mood, very serious, disposition to think of the past and future (ninth day), 3b.
• Sad most of the day (third day); sad (fourth day); gloomy (ninth day); sad and desponding, in the evening (tenth day); sad (fourteenth day); sad most of the day (twenty-fifth day), 3b.
• Home-sickness (second day), 3a, 3b.
• Sometimes very sad, sometimes highly elated (fifth day), 3a.
• Sometimes elated, sometimes depressed (second day), 3a.
• Inability to fix the mind on any one object for any length of time (tenth day), 3b.
• Mind confused (fourteenth day), 3b.

HEAD

• Dizziness, coming on suddenly, while walking the street, so sudden that I came near falling on my face, feeling like a wave from the occiput to the sinciput (fifth day), 3a. [10.]
• Giddiness, feeling like a wave from the occiput to the sinciput (seventh day); giddiness until to-day (thirteenth day), 3a.
• Giddiness (third and fifth days); occasional giddiness (ninth, tenth, and eleventh days); giddiness, a sensation as if the brain was pressing forward so strong that it feels like hard work to stand up (twelfth day); giddiness in the open air (fourteenth day); giddiness (twenty-fifth day); giddiness, coming on suddenly, several times to-day, feeling like a wave from the occiput to the sinciput (twenty-ninth day), 3b.
• Dull stupefying headache (after second dose), 1.*
• Uncomfortable fulness of the head (first night), 2.
• Head feels very light (eleventh day), 3b.
• Headache, in the afternoon, in the forehead, pressing from within outward (nineteenth day), 3b.
• Pain in the forehead, shooting from within outward (fourth day), 3b.
• Darting pain in the forehead and eyes (sixteenth day), 3b.
• Sharp cutting pain in the frontal region, over the eyes (fifteenth day), 3b.
• Headache in the neighborhood of the temples, pain seems to be pressing outward (eighth day), 3b. [20.]
• Sharp lancinating pain in the left temple, the upper part of the left eye, and inside of the left half of the lower jaw (sixteenth day), 3b.
• Sharp cutting pain in the coronary region (fifteenth day), 3b.
• Pain in the anterior part of the head, feeling as if it were pressing outward (twelfth day), 3b.

EYE

• Sharp sticking pain in both eyes and in the forehead, shooting from within outward (twelfth day), 3b.
• Sharp pain in the left eye, shooting from within outward (ninth day), 3b.
• Flow of tears on going into the open air (ninth day), 3b.

EAR

• Tenderness in front of the left ear (fourth day), 3a.

NOSE

• Excessive secretion of mucus in the nostrils and bronchi (fifth day), 3a.
• Abundant secretion of transparent mucus in the nostrils and trachea (first day), 3b.
• Secretion of much white transparent mucus in the nostrils and trachea (fourteenth day), 3b. [30.]
• Coryza (eighteenth day), 3b.
• Catarrh (second, third, and fourth days); affects the trachea, bronchi, nostrils, and eyes (fifth day), 3b.
• (I had a catarrh when beginning to prove this drug, which is now entirely cured), (eighth day), 3.
• Lubrication of the nostrils, in the evening (first day), 1.
• Sneezing and sense of fulness in the nostrils, relieved after a while by a copious flow of mucus (eleventh day), 3b.
• Inclination to sneeze (after second dose), 1.
• Dryness of the nostrils (after second dose), 1.
• Sense of fulness in the nostrils (second and third days), 3a.
• Sense of fulness in the nostrils, but no mucus (seventh day), 3b.
• Sense of burning and fulness in the nostrils, with a little mucus (sixteenth day), 3b. [40.]
• Morning on rising, feeling of tightness in the nose and yawning (tenth day), 3b.
• Sense of smell acute (seventh day), 3b.

FACE

• Face pale; the countenance appeared depressed (second day), 1.
• Lips and gums pale (seventh day), 3b.
• Darting-lancinating pain in the left side of the face (fifth day), 3a.
• Sharp cutting pain inside of the left angle of the lower jaw (fifteenth day), 3b.

MOUTH

• Pain in a carious molar tooth (second day), 3a.
• Teeth very tender (sixth and seventh days), 3a.
• Dry tongue, and slightly coated, in the evening (first day), 1.
• Feverish breath, in the evening (first day), 1. [50.]
• Dryness of the mouth and fauces , in the evening (first day), 1.*
• *Dryness of the mouth and throat (first night), 2.

THROAT

• Frequent hawking (fourteenth day), 3b.
• Frequent hawking of tough, white, transparent mucus (twelfth day), 3b.
• Frequent hawking of white transparent mucus (fifth day), 3a, 3b.
• Frequent hawking of tough, white, transparent mucus; secretion of mucus in the nose and trachea (eleventh day), 3b.
• Sensation of tightness in throat, with a disposition to attempt to relieve it by swallowing (ninth day), 3b.

STOMACH

• Loss of appetite in the evening (first day), 1.
• Thirsty (third day); in the evening (ninth day); in the afternoon and evening (eleventh day), 3b.
• Drinking much cold water (ninth day), 3b. [60.]
• Eructations of sour gas (twelfth and fifteenth days), 3b.
• Occasional eructations of air (ninth day), 3b.
• Nausea in the evening (first day), 1.
• Nausea and weariness, which continued for several hours (second day), 2.
• Nausea (fifth day); nausea until to-day (thirteenth day), 3a.
• Morning, on rising, nausea and yawning (seventh day); nausea, on rising (eighth, fourteenth, and seventeenth days); occasional nausea (ninth day); nausea (fifteenth day), 3b.
• Uneasiness about the stomach, in the evening (first day), 1.
• About the middle of the afternoon, lasting about an hour, sensation as if a ball was in the stomach, rising up into the throat (fourth day), 3a.
• About the middle of the afternoon sensation as of a ball in the stomach, rising into the throat, lasting for a few minutes only (ninth day), 3b.
• Sharp pain in the epigastrium (seventh day), 3b. [70.]
• Sharp pain in the diaphragm (second day), 3a.

ABDOMEN

• Stitches in both hypochondriac regions (fourth day), 3b.
• Before breakfast, pain in the abdomen, seems to have a centre about the umbilicus, and spreads out in all directions; relieved by a stool (ninth day), 3b.
• Cutting coliclike pain in the umbilical region (second day); colic, mostly in the region of the umbilicus (fourth day), 3a.
• Frequent stitches in the region of the umbilicus (sixteenth day), 3b.
• Rumbling of wind in the abdomen, in the evening (first day), 1.
• Flatulence (second and third days), 3a.
• Frequent discharge of flatus (second and third days), 3a.
• Discharge of flatus (fourth day), 3a.
• Flatulent colic (second and third days), 3b. [80.]
• Colic and diarrhœa, in the evening (sixth and eighth days); griping colic-like pain, relieved by a thin watery stool, in the evening and at night (seventh day), 3.
• Colic griping relieved by bending over forward (tenth day), 3b.
• Colic (eleventh day), 3b.
• Colic pain relieved by a thin watery stool (first day); colic (third day), 3a.
• Afternoon, pain of a griping character in the bowels (eleventh day), 3b.
• Griping pain in the bowels, in the evening, mostly in the region of the umbilicus (tenth day), 3b.
• Griping pain in the lower part of the abdomen (fourteenth and fifteenth days), 3b.
• Pain in the bowels and urging to stool, when rising, which soon passed away (sixteenth day), 3d.
• Sensation as if the bowels would move, in the evening (first day), 1.
• Smarting pain in the left inguinal region (third day), 3.

RECTUM AND ANUS. [90.]

• Painful tenesmus (sixth day), 3a.

STOOL

• Copious diarrhœa, in the morning, attended with great debility and prostration (second day), 1.
• Diarrhœa and colic in the evening; stool of a thin watery character (sixth day); thin watery stool, in the evening and at night (seventh day); thin and watery (eighth day), 3.
• Thin watery stools, containing hard lumps (second day), 3a.
• Stools of a watery character (third day), 3a.
• Stool containing blood (sixth day), 3a.
• Fæces in hard lumps, mixed with mucus of a yellow color (eighth day); fæces seem to be natural (ninth day); morning, stool a little thinner than usual, composed entirely of fæces, as far as I can judge from its appearance, in the evening, after supper, thin dark-colored stool, with much straining (tenth day); stool thin, of a dark color (eleventh day); one thin watery stool, with much tenesmus (fourteenth day), 3b.

URINARY ORGANS

• Tenesmus of the bladder , in the morning (second day), 1.*
• Smarting pain in the urethra, about the fossa navicularis, before urinating (seventh day), 3b.
• Urging to urinate followed the chilliness; urine tinged with blood (second day), 1.* [100.]
• Slight urging to urinate; uncomfortable heat in the neck of the bladder; slight pains in the region of the kidneys; passed urine frequently for twenty-four hours (second day), 2.*
• Urinated several times during the night (first night), 2.
• *Copious flow of urine; bloody urine ; urging to urinate, in the morning (second day), 1.
• Urine excessive (fifth day), 3a.
• Increased flow of urine (fourth day); urine about 24 ounces, and high-colored (seventh day); about 20 ounces and high-colored (eighth day); urinated three times to-day, in all about 20 ounces of high-colored urine (ninth day); 8 ounces of high-colored urine (tenth day); 12 ounces, specific gravity 1035, and high-colored (eleventh day); 12 ounces (high-colored, sp. gr. 1030 (twelfth day); 10 ounces, high colored, sp. gr. 1038 (fourteenth day); 10 ounces, sp. gr. 1040, in the morning, 1030 in the evening (fifteenth day); 12 ounces, high-colored, sp. gr. 1038 (seventeenth day); 40 ounces, sp. gr. 1036 (eighteenth day); normal quantity, sp. gr. 1025 (nineteenth day); normal quantity, sp. gr. 1030 (twentieth day); normal quantity, sp. gr. 1040 (twenty-first day); normal quantity, sp. gr. 1040 (twenty-second day); normal in quantity and color, sp. gr. 1040 (twenty-third and twenty-fourth days); for the past two weeks the urine has been of the normal color and quantity, from 30 to 35 ounces a day, average sp. gr. 1040 (thirty-seventh day), 3b.
• Urine void of sediment and inodorous (first night), 2.
• Urine less in quantity than usual (fourth day); scanty (fifth day), 3.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• *Prostate gland enlarged, feels hard and swollen to the touch (fifth day), 3a.
• *Dull heavy pain in the left spermatic cord, moving along the cord to the testicles (third day), 3a.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Hoarse, but the trachea and bronchi seem to be clear (seventh day), 3b. [110.]
• Respiration as if greatly fatigued (second day), 1.

BACK

• *Pain in the back and loins (first night), 1.
• *Sharp lancinating pain in the lumbar regions (fourth day), 3a.
• Dull pain in left lumbar region (seventh day), 3b.*
• Feel very tired in the lumbar region (eleventh and twelfth days), 3b.
• *Severe pain in the small of the back, in the morning (second day), 1.

EXTREMITIES

• Cuticle dry and the nails very brittle, soon after I commenced my proving, 3a.
• Rheumatic pains in the joints (second day), 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Occasionally, during the day, sharp lancinating pain in the right shoulder, left heel, and in the right side of the face (eleventh day), 3b.
• Sharp sticking pain in the left shoulder (twelfth day), 3b.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES. [120.]

• Weariness of the lower extremities (second day), 1.
• About 4 P.M., sharp pain in the neighborhood of the sciatic nerve, shooting down the thigh, lasted for a few minutes only (seventh day), 3b.

GENERALITIES

• Slight exertion produced syncope (eighteenth day), 3b.
• Restlessness and vigilance (first night), 1.
• Great debility and prostration attended the copious diarrhœa (second day), 1.
• For the past few days I have often felt tired, almost too tired to move, for a few minutes at a time (fifth day), 3a.
• Disposition to lie down, great weariness and general malaise (second day), 1.
• Feel very tired (fifteenth day), 3b.
• Weariness and nausea (second day), 2.
• Great languor (third day), 3b. [130.]
• Great lassitude, in the evening (first day); general lassitude (ninth and fifteenth days); lassitude (twenty-fifth day), 3b.
• Nervous trembling (fourth day); trembling (fifth day), 3b.
• Stitches in different parts of the body, in the right and left foot, back of the neck, left and right arm, and the forehead (ninth day), 3b.
• About noon, before dinner, sharp stitches, moving from one part to another, in both inguinal regions, lower jaw, right shoulder, left shoulder, forearms, and the temples, lasting about an hour (ninth day), 3b.
• Sharp lancinating pain in different parts of the body, occasionally through the day, in the arms, legs feet, chest and face (tenth day), 3b.
• Sticking pain in different parts of the body (twenty-second day), 3b.
• Symptoms generally worse in the afternoon (first day), 3a.

SLEEP

• Frequent yawning and shivering, in the forenoon (fifth day), 3a.
• Yawning and nausea, in the morning, on rising (seventh day); yawning (ninth day); morning, on rising, yawning; feeling of tightness in nose; yawning and inclination to stretch (tenth day), 3b.
• Drowsiness all day (fifth day), 3a. [140.]
• Frequent waking from sleep, at night (third and fifth days), 3a.
• Restless before midnight (first night), 2.
• Restless sleep; lascivious dreams (fourth night); unquiet sleep (fifth night); restless sleep; frequent waking during the night; walking so imperceptible that, without an effort, I could not tell whether I had been asleep or not, and sometimes not even then (ninth night); slept better than last night, but sleep is still restless and uneasy (tenth night); slept well (fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth nights); sleep uneasy (seventeenth night), 3b.
• Lascivious dreams, with an emission (second night), 3, 3a.
• Lascivious dreams (fifth and seventh days), 3a.
• Many vivid dreams, showing an active memory (third and seventh days), 3a.
• Vivid dreams (fourth night), 3b.
• Many dreams (fifth night); many dreams, mostly of an intellectual character, and about different events of my life, showing an uncommon activity of memory and of the intellectual faculties generally (sixth night); dreams indistinct (seventh night); many dreams about ships and cargoes, wagons and teams, writing, fighting, and breakneck adventures, always coming off lucky (ninth night); many dreams, about the events of the day mostly (tenth night); many dreams about everyday occurrences; pleasant dreams (eleventh night); many dreams of an intellectual character (fourteenth night); many dreams of a pleasant character (fifteenth and sixteenth nights), 3b.

FEVER

• *Easily chilled; chilliness, followed by urging to urinate (second day), 1.
• Chilliness before noon, followed by fever and perspiration, attended with moderate thirst (second night), 2. [150.]
• Chilliness and heat, particularly towards evening (after second dose), 1.
• Chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air (second day); very sensitive to cool air (third, fifth, seventh, and ninth days), 3b.
• Feverish (third day), 3b.
• Feverish in the afternoon (seventh and eighth days), 3.
• Heat of the forehead (after second dose), 1.
• Lips hot, in the evening (first day), 1.
• Copious warm perspiration, towards morning (first night), 2.
• Perspiration upon the forehead, in the evening (first day), 1.
• Disposition to perspire (second day), 1.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Afternoon ), The symptoms.
• ( Open air ), Flow of tears.
• Amelioration.
• ( Bending forward ), Colic.