Celery. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of seeds. Tincture of sticks.

Clinical

Fidgets / Headache / Heartburn / Otorrhœa / Post-nasal catarrh / Rumination / Toothache / Urine, retention of / Urticaria

Characteristics

A proving of tincture of seeds produced the following symptoms: Unpleasant feeling at stomach, with belchings tasting of celery. Heartburn. Spitting up of food. Gone feeling at pit of stomach lasting for hours and partially relieved by eating. Effects of eating the root: during the following day and night, most obstinate retention of urine, which could only be relieved by the catheter. On another person this was observed: Inability to sit still or lie still in bed from feeling of "fidgets"; cannot keep mind from I thinking. In a proving under the direction of W. P. Wesselhœft (Med. Advance, April, 1886) a remarkable symptom was: a dull ache in sacrum < when lying down, > when moving about. Another symptom was "sensation as if both eyes were sunken back into their sockets." Throbbing headaches, < by slightest motion; > by rest, mostly left-sided. Urticaria, always appearing with shuddering; intense stinging itching with rapid change of location. Pressure in stomach preceding urticaria, and relieved when it appears. Toothache in left molars > by holding cold water in the mouth. Hering cured with Apium g. an old abscess near the umbilicus. Allen mentions: "Profuse discharge from granulating ulcers, intense constriction over sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down," as having been cured by it.

1. Mind

Cannot keep mind from thinking.

2. Head

Frontal headache; over r. eye and r. temple; < during night. Dull pain r. temple with nausea. Pain in l. temple spreads over l. side of face and top of head. Pain as from a jar or blow deep in l. temporal region, a throbbing ache. Painful throbbing < by expiring through nose. Headaches: > while eating; in open air; closing eyes; complete rest drinking cold water; by hot compresses. < After eating; by light; by reading or studying; by slightest motion or nodding head.

3. Eyes

Eyeballs feel as if sunken into sockets.

4. Ears

Partial deafness (< l.), painless pulsation. Troublesome otorrhœa.

5. Nose

Tough pearl-coloured discharge from nostrils. Sudden dropping of mucus into posterior nares. Tickling in nostrils with sneezing, forenoon. Tickling in r. nostril with watery discharge and sneezing. Nostrils stuffed, with pain in forehead.

8. Mouth

Sore spot on tip of tongue. Dull, sore pain on upper and lower teeth. Toothache > by cold water.

9. Throat

Soft palate and fauces sore, dark red and swollen. Air rushing down posterior nares hurts back of throat.

11. Stomach

Unpleasant feeling at stomach with belchings tasting of celery. Heartburn. Spitting up of food. Sore feeling at pit of stomach lasting for hours and partially relieved by eating. Desire for oranges; for oatmeal.

13. Stool and Anus

Three urgent well-formed stools during the day. Before stool sharp pain from abdomen directly into rectum, with feeling that she cannot retain stool a moment.

14. Urinary Organs

Obstinate retention of urine, could only be relieved by catheter.

17. Respiratory Organs

Tickling in top of windpipe causing dry cough. Wheezing breathing during the night. Can count heart-beats by hearing and feeling it in chest.

20. Neck and Back

Muscles of back of neck painful on motion, sore to pressure. Dull pain in sacrum with slight bellyache. Pain in sacrum more to l. side extending to lumbar region. Pain in sacrum > after rising from bed and moving about; < lying down. Red, intensely itching blotches on l. sacral region.

23. Lower Limbs

Growing pains in r. leg during night. Burning on inside of thighs. Raw, excoriated surfaces on inner thighs extending into groins, < l. side. Red itching blotches on inside l. foot, and outside ankle.

24. Generalities

Inability to sit still, or lie still in bed from feeling of fidgets; cannot keep mind from thinking.

25. Skin

Itching on all parts. Red elevated pimples like stings of insects; intense itching; itching changes location by scratching; < after undressing in evening; during night till 4 a.m.

26. Sleep

Sleepless; not fatigued by loss of sleep. Sleep broken by bruised pain in l. temporal region.

27. Fever

Perspiration on forehead on awaking 4 a.m.

Apium Graveolens across the other classic books

Apium Graveolens appears in 3 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.

“A. graveolens, L., (Celery.) Nat. order , Umbelliferæ. Authority. Beckwith (O. M. and S. Rep., 3, 116), took twenty and sixty drops of tincture from the seeds. Unpleasant feelings in stomach, with belching; the regurgitation tasting of the celery (within one hour, after 20 drops). Heartburn (soon after 60 drops)…”

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.

“Common Celery Contains a soporific active principle. Obstinate retention of urine, throbbing headaches and heartburn, have been produced by celery. Swelling of throat, face, and hands. Rheumatic pain in muscles of neck also in sacrum. Growing pains. Hungry for apples. Dysmenorrhœa, with sharp, short pains, better…”

Apium Graveolens in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Apium Graveolens in 8 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.

HEAD - PAIN, - headache in general

HEAD - PAIN, - breakfast, - amel.

HEAD - PAIN, - eating, - during - amel.

BACK - PAIN - lying - back - on

TEETH - PAIN, - cold, - cold water amel.

BACK - PAIN - walking - amel.

HEAD - PAIN, - air,open - amel.

BLADDER - RETENTION of urine

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Apium Graveolens