Teucrium marum, Linn.

Natural order , Labiatæ.

Common names (Germ.), Katzenkraut; (Fr.), Germandrée maritime.

Preparation , Tincture of whole plant.

Authorities.

Provings of Dr. Stapf. Beitræge Zur reinen Arznm., p. 346; 1 , Stapf; 2 , Von Gersdorf; 3 , Caspari; 4 , Bethmann; 5 , Hartmann.

MIND

Gradual exaltation of mind; special inclination to talk much, with increased bodily warmth; towards evening, 2.
Almost irresistible inclination to sing (after some hours), 2, 4.
Very fretful, 1.
Peevish mood during and soon after dinner, with so great irritability that he was greatly offended by the conversation of others that did not concern him; with pressure in the forehead, 2.

HEAD

Vertigo.
Dizziness of the head, 1.
Somewhat dizzy; on walking, he puts one foot over the other, and reels (soon), 3.
General Head.
Dulness of the head, 2.
Dulness in the head, with weariness, so that she was constantly obliged to lie down, 3.
Very frequent dull pinching headache, 2. [10.]
Tearing in the head, coming from both temples, 2.
Forehead.
Pressure in the forehead above the eyes, 2, 4.
On bending the body forward, a painful pressure immediately in the left frontal eminence, that disappears on becoming again erect, 5.
Pressive pain in the whole forepart of the head, that extended outward from deep in the middle of the forehead, and then in both temples, where it was felt most and for the longest time, 5.
Pressive pain in a small spot just above the frontal eminence, 5.
Pressive headache in the right half of the forehead, 2.
Transient pressive and pressing sensation in the right frontal eminence, 5.
Temples.
Very painful pressure in the right temple, frequently alternating with the same sensation in the right frontal eminence, and in the left temple, 1, 5.
Parietals.
Jerklike tearing within the right side of the head, 2.
Occiput.
A painful pressive sensation in the whole occiput, 5. [20.]
Sticking in the occiput, and even over the whole head, 1.
External Head.
Burning-pressive sensation on the forehead externally, 5.
Burning-pressing and tensive sensation externally, now in the right, now in the left frontal eminence, .

EYE

Objective.
Eyes red and inflamed, with coryza, 3.
The eyes look watery, as from weeping, with biting in them, 2.
Subjective.
Pressure as from a grain of sand in the right eye, 2.
Biting in both internal canthi, with increased redness of the conjunctivæ, 2.
Tearing beneath the right eye, 2.
Both upper eyelids are redder than usual and somewhat congested, 2. [30.]
The left eye waters very much in the open air, for several days, 3.

EAR

Some aching in both ears, 2.
Stitches in the left ear, 2.
Sticking-tearing within the left ear, 2.
At times very fine ringing in the right ear on blowing the nose, a peculiar crackling sound as if air were forced through mucus, after which the ear seemed closed for awhile, and then opened with a dull sound (thirtieth day), 3.
On passing the hand through the hair and over the right ear, there followed a hissing sound, extending down the parietal bone and through the whole inner ear; the experiment could be repeated with a similar result for a quarter of an hour, now disappearing, soon returning and lasting a longer time; a similar sound was afterwards caused by talking, and even eructations caused slight or loud sounds; so also forcibly drawing air through the nose in the morning (second day), 3.

NOSE

Objective.
Very frequent sneezing, with crawling in the nose, without coryza, 2, 4.*
Violent sneezing, and then constant fluent coryza, 2.
Coryza, with moist stoppage of the left nostril, together with tearing in the left side of the neck below the jaw, 2.
Fluent coryza, immediately, in the open air for several days, 3.
Subjective. [40.]
Sensation as if he would have coryza, 4.
*A sensation in the right nostril as if it were partly stopped; he was obliged to blow the nose and sneeze, but could not thereby remove the obstruction (after three and four days), 4.
Both sides of the nose are very much obstructed on reading aloud, several times during the day, and especially in the evening (second and fifth days), 3.*
Short sticking-tearing very high up in the right nostril, 2.
Crawling in the nose, soon after taking, 2, 4.*
Violent crawling in the right nostril, with lachrymation of the right eye, 2.*

FACE

Face red and swollen, 2.
Remarkably pale, suffering expression, with deeply sunken eyes and a sensation as if they lay deep, lasting two or three hours (first forenoon), 2.
Pressive tearing in the right cheek-bones, extending to the teeth of the same side, 5.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Violent tearing in the roots and gum of the right lower incisors (after two hours), 2, 4. [50.]
The incisors and gums are sore when chewing, 2.
Grumbling pain in the incisors, 2.
Drawing toothache in the last upper back teeth, 1.
Frequent short drawing toothache in the anterior molars of both sides, 2.
Tongue.
Pain on the right side of the tip of the tongue, as if sore or crushed with the teeth, corrosive, especially when touched by the teeth, 3.
Biting as from upper pepper on the left, and afterwards on the right side of the root of the tongue, 2, 4.
General Mouth.
A few fissures with elevated edges internally on both sides of the lower lip and on the left side a very small painless pimple; on touching with the tongue these places seem sore, velvety, but painless; lasting three days, 3.
Taste.
Bitter taste in the upper part of the throat after dinner; also uprisings of slightly bitter food a few times (after several days), 3.
After he had hawked up the adherent mucus, he noticed for several hours a mouldy taste in the mouth (after four days), 4.

THROAT

An unusual inclination to hawk, and more mucus than usual is raised (first day), 2, 4. [60.]
Pressive pain in the throat at the left side near the pharynx, 2.
Sticking pain in the throat, impeding swallowing, 3.
Biting and scraping sensation posteriorly in the fauces, especially on the left side, 2, 4.
A feeling of warmth extending down the pharynx (immediately), 4.
Slight drawing and tearing at times in the pharynx, 2.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Increased appetite, which was not usually the case in the morning (after two and six hours), 4.
A feeling of hunger, that prevents falling asleep (relieved by Ignatia), 3.*
An unusual sensation of hunger , as if the stomach was not properly filled and satisfied by food; for several days, 3.*
Eructation and Hiccough.
Eructations tasting of the drug (immediately), 2, 4.
Frequent, very violent hiccough , with violent shocks in the pit of the stomach, on eating, 3.
Nausea. [70.]
Sensation of qualmishness in the pit of the stomach, without eructations or nausea, 5.
Stomach.
Sensation of emptiness, with rumbling in the epigastric region, at an unusual time, when no hunger could have been the cause; this also extended low down in the intestines, and constantly returned, 5.
Pressure in the pit of the stomach, 2.
Pressing in pain in the pit of the stomach, without anxiety, 5.
Anxious, oppressed sensation in the pit of the stomach while standing, 5.

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Frequent fine griping, almost as from incarcerated flatus in the right hypochondrium, at various times, especially in the morning and evening, 3.
Umbilical and Sides.
Dull pressive pain transversely through the abdomen, in the region of the umbilicus, with rumbling as from flatus, which also at times passes (after five hours), 5.
Pressure outwards in the left side of the upper abdomen, 2.
Dull griping in the right side of the abdomen, towards the small of the back, transient (after a few minutes), 3.
Tearing-drawing in the right, afterwards also in the left side, beneath the short ribs, exactly in the soft spot between that and the ilium, recurring by paroxysms of varying severity, 2. [80.]
Pressive pain in a small spot in the left side of the upper abdomen, a hand's breadth to the left of and above the navel, aggravated by external pressure, 2.
General Abdomen.
Rumbling in the abdomen (after a few minutes), 3.
Rumbling in the abdomen, with griping colic and loud emission of odorless flatus, 2.
Very frequent emission of noiseless but very warm flatus, often of a "hepatic" odor (first day), 2, 4.
Griping colic, with emission of flatus, 2.
After taking a little pure brown beer at noon, some flatulent colic and emission of very offensive flatus, followed by a sensation of impending diarrhœa and a copious evacuation of a papescent offensive stool (thirteenth day), 3.
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
A griping sensation low down in the abdomen, extending into the testicles, as if they had been violently squeezed, 2.
A dragging down in the right side of the lower abdomen, towards the inguinal ring, in the spermatic cord, not painful, but accompanied by a sensation as if the spermatic cord were compressed, in the evening in bed; it returned at short intervals next morning after breakfast while sitting, but without flatus; at stool nothing was noticed; it returned about 5 P.M. after eating a little, 3.
Pressure in the lower abdomen, above the right inguinal region, .

RECTUM

Crawling in the rectum after a stool, 3.*
Some crawling and at times violent fine sticking in the anus in the evening in bed, 2.*

URINARY ORGANS

On first urinating in the morning after waking, burning and burning pain in the forepart of the urethra for a long time afterwards, 2.
Pressive sore sensation in the forepart of the urethra, not while urinating, 2.
Biting pain in the forepart of the urethra when not urinating, 2.
Increased discharge of watery urine (after three hours), 2, 4.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Drawing pain below the left side of the root of the penis, that also extended into the left side of the scrotum, so that after a time it became sore to touch, in the morning, also at other times during the day, 2.
Very much diminished sexual desire; no tendency to erections, 3.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

In the trachea a very disagreeable sensation, as if coated, for several days, beginning with dryness, which compels constant hawking, whereby after long exertion only a little is loosened; at times some mucus is easily loosened, without relief, 3. [100.]
A tickling sensation as from dust in the trachea, which provokes a disagreeable, dry, irritable cough, that cannot be suppressed, and becomes worse on continuing to cough, in the evening after lying down, lasting about half an hour, preventing falling asleep, and, together with some other symptoms, repeated after eight weeks, 3.
Short, dry, irritable cough, commencing from a slight tickling in the upper part of the trachea, recurring at short intervals (after a few minutes), 3.

CHEST

Pressive tight sensation in the forepart of the chest, 2.
Pinching pain in the short ribs of the left side, 2.
A pinching painful sensation in the lower portion of the chest, together with a pressive pain beneath the left ribs close to the spine, on bending the body backward while sitting; on bending forward everything was relieved (after three-quarters of an hour), 5.
Pressure in the right chest, 2.
Pinching-pressive sensation in the lower portion of the chest, and in the pit of the stomach, extending up into the chest and down into the abdomen, and causing an anxious discomfort; frequently recurring, though always disappearing on walking, 5.
Dull stitches in the left ribs, a hand's breadth below the left nipple, 2.
Some sharp stitches deep in the right chest, on inspiration, 2.
Pressive tearing on the short ribs of the right side, 2. [110.]
Wavelike tearing in the right chest below the axilla, 2.

PULSE

Suddenly in the evening the pulse begins to be felt, and it beats rapidly, in the middle of the phalanx of the left index finger; every beat of the pulse is accompanied by an acute goutlike drawing pain from behind forward, as if in the middle of the bone, lasting several minutes; then the pulse gradually beats more slowly, and the pain decreases at the same time, 3.

NECK AND BACK

Short drawing pain in the right side of the neck aggravated by touch, 2.
Burning on the left scapula, 2.
Rheumatic drawing and tension in the left side of the back near the axilla, 2.
Pressure on the right side near the spine, in the region of the right kidney, 2.
Slight colicky pain in the lumbar region, after eating, 3.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

The upper and lower extremities fall asleep with crawling, in the morning in the bed and in the afternoon while sitting (eighth to eleventh days), 3.
Twinging in the muscles of the arms and legs, especially in the region of the hip (after five hours), 4.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Sensation of heaviness in the whole left arm, so that he was obliged to let it hang down; very transient, 5.
Shoulder. [120.]
Tensive pain in both shoulder-joints near the axillæ, 2.
Rheumatic drawing in the bones of the left shoulder, 2.
Pressive pain on the right shoulder, 2.
Pressive sore pain in the left axilla, as if suppuration would occur, 2.
Arm.
Anxious, visible, painless jerking in the biceps in the right arm, recurring by paroxysms, transversely across the place where the two heads unite (fifth and sixth days), 4.
Very acute paralytic pressive pain in the upper part of the right upper arm; if the arm hangs quietly, or is only moderately moved, he feels nothing, but as soon as it is raised it seems very heavy as if paralyzed; if raised and drawn backward the pain is worse, for example, on taking off the hat; it is felt at the insertion of the deltoid into the humerus; if he attempts to raise it high and move it backward it loses all power and sinks down, 3.
Tearing in the right arm, somewhat above the right side of the wrist, 2.
Elbow.
Burning in the bend of the left elbow, 2.
Rheumatic tension in the left elbow, 2.
Forearm.
Tensive, painful, heavy sensation in the muscles of the left forearm (after ten minutes), 5. [130.]
Sudden, dull, cutting pain transversely through the muscles of the right forearm, at the distance of a span from the wrist (after three hours and a half), 5.
Tearing on the surface of the right forearm close to the tip of the elbow, 2.
Tearing in the lower surface of the left forearm close to the wrist, 2.
Tearing in the lower surface of the thick portion of the right forearm, 2.
Dull drawing-tearing pain in the bones of both forearms (after one hour and a quarter), 5.
Wrist.
Tearing in the right wrist, 2.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Thigh.
If, while sitting, the leg rests upon the chair, a pain extends from the middle of it down to the knee-cap, as if the ischiatic nerve were pressed upon, 3.
Tearing in the articular extremity of the left thigh, streaming downward, recurring during motion, and also in paroxysms during rest, 2.
Knee.
Pressive pain in front below the left knee, 2.
Sticking-tearing just above the left knee, 2.
Leg.
Pressive tension above and in the left tendo Achillis, 2.
Painfully pressive and tearing sensation of heaviness in the whole right lower leg, very perceptible in the calf, 5.
Ankle.
Paroxysmal, frequently recurring tearing in the right ankle, while sitting, disappearing on walking, 5.
Foot. [160.]
Pressing-asunder, tearing pain in the lower extremity of the left os calcis close to the ankle, 5.
Toes.
The right great toe is somewhat inflamed and painful to the left of the nail and the above it, *as if the nail had grown into the flesh (which, however, was not the case); rather relieved than aggravated by walking; during the forenoon, recurring for several days, while sitting quietly; in the afternoon the redness and pain disappeared, 2.
Tearing in the last joint of the left great toe, 2.
Tensive tearing in the last articulations of the three smallest toes of the right foot, 2.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Longs for motion in the open air, where he is constantly in active motion without the slightest weariness; with very good humor, joy, and contentment (first day), 4.
Existed tremulous sensation over the whole body, 2.
Very indolent; inclined to neither physical nor mental exertion (after two hours), 2, 4.
Feeling of prostration (as after intoxication), and fasting, about dinner-time; especially soon after eating (after eight hours, and third day), 2, 4.

SKIN

A bright red painless spot half an inch in circumference in the middle of the right cheek, in the centre of which there was a small pointed elevation, becoming pale under pressure, but instantly becoming red again on removal of pressure, lasting six hours (after two days), 4.
A dry eruption, like a scaly tetter, on the lobule of the right ear just below the articulation; the skin gradually desquamated in white scales; the ear was sore and painful to touch, 3. [170.]
(A kind of rash on the forehead and upper part of the face; the face feels rough like a grater; burning-itching mostly in the evening, worse in he warmth; sticking in the cold; on rubbing it becomes red; lasting several days), 1.
A large red pimple beneath the left nostril close to the septum; sore biting when touched, as if something acrid had got into a sore; with coryza; for several days, 3.
Sticking as from fleas, now in the upper part of the forearm, leg, hips, chest, neck, frequently during the day, 3.
Itching stitches as from fleabites here and there, in the morning in bed, 3.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Very sleepy all day, 1, 3.
In the morning he cannot completely wake out of sleep, and is weary and exhausted on waking and rising, gradually disappearing, 2.
Sleeplessness.
Napping in the afternoon; he wishes to sleep but cannot, for dim, indistinct, confused ideas constantly throng his mind, without ability to retain them (after three days), 4.
Cannot fall asleep till after midnight, then frequently wakes, turns from side to side, dreams somewhat, and towards morning becomes hot over the whole body; however, in the morning he is lively (eleventh and twelfth nights), 3.
Restless at night on account of great excitement, with very vivid and in part anxious dreams, with starting up till after midnight, 2.*
Dreams.
Very vivid, mostly agreeable dreams (first day), 2, 4. [180.]
Very many restless anxious dreams, 1.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Chilliness always after eating, for several days, so that he cannot get as warm as usual, with a feeling in the abdomen as if a stool would occur, and as if the chilliness were dependent upon it, 3.
Chilliness over the whole body, with icy-cold hands, accompanied by frequent yawning, and a sensation as if he must frequently stretch (after a quarter of an hour), 5.
In the evening, as he sat in a warm room and conversed with great interest upon a disagreeable subject, he was attacked with chilly trembling of the whole trunk, which with slight interruptions constantly returned, and disappeared after the close of the conversation, 3.
Heat.
Frequent feeling of flushing heat in the face, without external redness, 2, 4.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Forenoon ), Relieved by walking, inflammation, etc., of great toe.
( Evening ), Obstruction of nose.
( Open air ), Immediately, fluent coryza.
( Eating ), Hiccough, etc.; pain in lumbar region; feeling of prostration; chilliness.
( Sitting ), Tearing in ankle.
Amelioration.
( Walking ), Sensation in chest, etc.

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