A. Europæum, Linn.

Nat. order , Aristolochiaceæ.

Common name , Haselwurz.

Preparation , Tincture of the root and whole plant.

Authorities. [No.

6 , no mention of A. is found in this place; 7 , is a general statement; 8 , case of poisoning (given by Ray); 9 , general statement; 10 , general statement that A. is abortifacient.]

1 , Hahnemann, M. M. Pura, 3, 225; 2 , Stapf, ibid.; 3 , Franz, ibid.; 4 , Rückert, ibid.; 5 , Hornburg, ibid.; 6 , Murray (Appar. Med., 3, 519), ibid.; 7 , Helmont (Pharmac. Mod.), ibid.; 8 , Wedel (Amœnit. Mat. Med., p. 240), ibid.; 9 , Cost and Villemet (Essais sur plant. indig., 1778), ibid.; 10 , Ray (Hist. univers. plant.), ibid.; 11 , Linnæus (Flora Suecica).

MIND

He imagines he is hovering in the air, when walking, like a spirit, 3.
Great cheerfulness (after six and twelve hours), sometimes interrupted for a few moments by a melancholy and gloomy mood, 4.
Weeping, sadness, and anxious feeling, 2.
Melancholy, fretful, 1.
Angry and cross, before cough, 1.
Feels quite stupid in the head; is not disposed to do anything, 4.
As often as he attempts to reflect a little the pains in the head and the nausea increase; he has to abandon his ideas, which cannot be of much use, since he is quite stupid, 4.
Condition of mind as if just falling asleep; gradual vanishing of ideas, 3.*
His thoughts are so overstrained that they vanish entirely, 3. [10.]
*When attempting to perform some intellectual labor, and reflect, his thoughts immediately vanish; there is a drawing pressure in the forehead, and he must at once cease thinking, 4.
*Inability to do any kind of work whatever; does not succeed in anything; the mental faculties fail (previous to every vomiting, after which feels somewhat relieved); in general, the mental faculties are deficient during the whole proving, 4.

HEAD

Confusion; stupid condition of the whole head, with tension in the region of the ears, 4.
Painful tensive confusion of the head, 2.
Confusion of the head , less perceptible when walking than when sitting, with pressure in the eyes, as with a dull point from within outwards, especially below the right eyelid (after a quarter of an hour), 3.
Sensation of vertigo, as though not standing securely (evening, after four days), 4.
Vertigo, as from being slightly intoxicated, when rising from a seat, and walking about (in ten minutes), 2.
Early in the morning, when rising, dizziness in the head, with headache in the left forehead (after twenty-two hours), 2.
Weight and confusion of the head, with pressure on the sagittal suture, as if he were intoxicated (after three hours), 2.
Weight in the head, as if some wabbling body were in it, which presses in the direction the head is turned, forwards or backwards, 3. [20.]
Drawing headache, as if it would extend into the temples (at noon); the pain seems to decrease in the open air, and when lying down, 2.
(Stupefying) drawing, here and there, in the brain, in the ear, and nape of the neck, 2.
Pressure in the brain, mostly forwards (after three-quarters of an hour), 4.
Pressure over the greater portion of the brain, from without inwards (after two and three-quarter hours), 4.
Pressure in different places in the brain, mingled with various sensations, 4.
Dull headache (after half an hour), 5.
*Sensation of a more or less violent pressure in the forehead, from above downwards, 4.
Pressure in the brain, at a place in the forepart of the head, from above downwards, as if from a stone (after a quarter of an hour), 4.
Violent pressure in the forehead, pressing downward upon the eyes, which then water (after two and a half hours), 4.
Violent drawing pressure in the brain below the forehead (increased when retching), 4. [30.]
Pressive, dull pain in the forehead, causing a dreary feeling, as after being awaked too early, 2.
Sharp, pressive headache above the root of the nose, .

EYES

Warm feeling and slight pressure in the eyes; they have lost a good deal of their lustre, and look weaker, 4.
Painful feeling of dryness in the interior of the eye, 2.*
Feeling of dryness and a drawing in the eyes, 4. [50.]
Pressure in the left eye, 2.
As soon as he reads, sensation in each eye as if pressed asunder, 4.
Pulselike, tearing pain in the interior of the left eye (after one and a half hours), 4.
*Slight swelling of the upper left eyelid, cannot endure much reading, 4.
*Dry burning in the eyelids and the inner canthi, especially in the left eye, 2.
Twitching of the lower right eyelid, 3.
Cold feeling in the outer canthus of the right eye, as if caused by a cold breath, 2.
Sensation of twitching in the left upper eyelid, from within outwards, in paroxysms; it occurs only when holding the eyelid still; as soon as he raises the lid to look at something, the twitching disappears (after nine hours), 4.
Crawling under the upper lid, especially of the left eye, 3.
Obscuration of vision (after quarter of an hour), 3. [60.]
He does not perceive the objects which surround him, 3.

EARS

The whole external right ear is hot to the touch; this symptom frequently returns during the whole proving, 4.
Warm feeling in the region of the right external meatus auditorius, with sensation as if a thin membrane were stretched across it (after half an hour), 4.
Sensation in the left ear, both on the outer and inner side, as if the cartilages of the ear drew towards each other, 5.
Both ears feel stopped in front, 3.
Sensation in the outer meatus auditorius as if narrower, 5.
*The sensation of tension and pressure on the right meatus auditorius almost always remains the same, and afterwards extends to the left lower jaw, accompanied, when violent, with an increased secretion of apparently cold saliva from the right side (after half an hour), 4.
Continued pain owing to pressive tension in the region of the meatus auditorius, 4.
Sensation as if a membrane were stretched across the right meatus auditorius externus; tensive pressure in it, uninterruptedly, for seven days; worse during cold weather, 4.
He imagines a membrane is stretched across the meatus auditorius, with a sensation as if it were compressed (after quarter of an hour), 4. [70.]
He imagines a membrane is stretched across the right meatus auditorius (immediately), 4.
Pressure behind and below the left ear, 5.
Twinging sensation in both the external and internal ear, 15.
He hears worse with the right ear than with the left (after one hour), 4.
Dull roaring in the left ear, resembling the distant roaring of the wind; shrill singing in the right ear, 3.
Diminished hearing of the left ear, as if closed with the hand; it feels as if the walls of the meatus were nearer one another, or as if the ears were stopped with cotton, 3.

NOSE

Discharge of bloody mucus from the nose, 6.
Dry coryza; the left nostril stopped up, 2.
Tingling in the nose, as if caused by the copper pole of the galvanic battery, causing a sneezing after many unsuccessful attempts, and a discharge of a clear fluid, 2.

FACE

Warm feeling in the cheeks (after ten hours), 4. [80.]
Warm feeling in the left cheek (after four hours), 2.
Contractive pain of the left cheek, accompanied by gentle thrusts, as with a pointed instrument, and drawing pains in the third molar tooth, 3.
Fine stinging of the right cheek, 3.
Burning-stinging pain in the left cheek, 3.
Dryness of the inner side of the lower lip, 3.
Cutting cramp pain in the articulation of the lower jaw, 3.

MOUTH

Cold feeling in the upper incisors, as from a cool breath, 2.
Sensation in left row of teeth, as if hollow, 5.
Tongue coated white (after twenty-six hours), 4.
Burning sensation across the middle of the tongue; afterwards, burning and dryness in the whole mouth (after twenty minutes), 2. [90.]
Smarting sensation on the tongue and gums, 2.
Frequent contractive sensation in the mouth, producing an accumulation of watery saliva, 4.
Accumulation of much cool saliva in the mouth, 2.
The saliva in the mouth appears to be quite tenacious (after twenty-four hours), 4.
The saliva in the mouth was burning hot when discharging it (after half an hour), 2.
Sensation as if the breath and saliva were hot, without, however, the mouth feeling dry, 4.
Mucus in the mouth, with a sweetish, insipid taste, 3.
Taste in the mouth as of a foul stomach, 4.
Bread tastes bitter, 4.
Bread, eaten without butter, tastes bitter (in the evening), 3. [100.]
When smoking, tobacco tastes bitter, 3.
Smoking tobacco gives him no pleasure, 4.

THROAT

Tough mucus in the throat, which he is unable to hawk up, for eight days, 4.
*Dryness of the throat, with stinging, 3.
Inspiration irritates the throat and excites a cough, 4.
Scraping in the throat, 2.
Stitches in the throat, and constriction, on account of which the breathing is short and jerking; the constriction was relieved for a short time by the hacking cough, 4.
Difficult deglutition, as if the cervical glands were swollen, 4.

STOMACH

Hunger, early in the morning, 3.
Frequent, empty eructations, 2. [110.]
Imperfect eructations, reaching only the upper part of the chest, 3.
Rising of air from the stomach, when walking in the open air; as it issues, he has to yawn twice, after which he was troubled for a whole hour by eructations and abundant emission of flatulence, 2.
Hiccough (after one and a half hours), 4, 5.
Nausea (one hour), 5.
Nausea and loathing, with shuddering (immediately), 2.
Nausea and inclination to vomit , with pressure in the forehead, and a quantity of water accumulating in the mouth, 4.*
Nausea in the stomach , with disinclination to attend to business; laziness, and sensation as if without a head, 4.
Nausea, inducing shivering, 4.
Continued nausea and inclination to vomit, in the fauces, 4.
Empty retching, water collecting in his mouth (after half an hour, and one and a half hours), 4. [120.]
The retching increases in violence, in proportion as it becomes more frequent; the eyes become full of water, 4.
During the retching, all the symptoms increase, only the stupid feeling in the head decreases, 4.
Vomiting, with great anguish, 7.
Vomiting (one hour after the first attack of retching), with great exertion of the stomach, in five or six paroxysms, every paroxysm being accompanied with a sensation as if the head, in the region of the ears, would burst; only a small quantity of greenish, sourish juice is thrown up from the stomach (after one and a half hours), 4.
Vomiting, with great exertion, and violent pressure on the stomach; the effort to vomit takes away his breath, and almost suffocates him, nevertheless, nothing but a quantity of sourish water is thrown up (after two and a half hours), 4.
Vomiting, with exertion of the stomach, and violent compression in the epigastrium, and a similar sensation in the head (after two and a half hours), 4.
(Vomiting is followed by a diminution of the pains in the head), 4.

ABDOMEN

Constrictive sensation in the region of the diaphragm, 4.
Breaking, in the abdomen, of the flatus not emitted, 3.
Painless and silent movement of flatulence in the abdomen, 2. [140.]
Qualmishness in the abdomen, with repeated attacks of oppressive headache along the coronal suture (after two hours), 2.
Fulness in abdomen, with appetite and hunger, 3.
Pressure in the abdomen, 4.
Excessive colic and vomiting, 9.
Cutting in the abdomen, and sharp stitches in the rectum from above downwards, previous to stool (early in the morning), 4.
Sensation of pressure and painful bearing down on the left side of the abdomen, felt during motion, 4.
Single, painful sensations in the left side of the abdomen, in an oblique direction below the umbilicus, 2.
Raging, intense pain in the left groin, darting through the urethra into the glans, and causing a violent, sore, smarting, contractive pain in the same, for a long time, 2.

STOOL AND ANUS

Diarrhœa, 9, 11.
Diarrhœa, the stools resembling resin, and consisting of tough mucus; for six days, he passes shaggy masses of mucus, with ascarides, 2. [150.]
*One hour and a half after stool, he has another pressing desire for stool, with cutting in the abdomen and rectum, before and during stool , which is softer than the former, 4.
*The usual morning stool delayed for a couple of hours; it was scanty, yellow (mucous), and came out in a thin string, 2.
Stool, consisting of small, hard pieces, 4.
Stool whitish-gray and ash-colored, the first part like bloody mucus, 1.

URINARY ORGANS

Pressure upon the bladder, during and after the emission of urine, 3.
(Drawing in the urethra), 1.
Constant desire to urinate, 3.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Miscarriage (abortion), 10.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

Several attacks of cough, brought on by mucus in the chest, which rises into the throat, and causes difficult breathing, and, lastly, cough with expectoration, 3.
Much expectoration by hawking and coughing, 1. [160.]
(Whistling respiration when beginning to cough), 1.
Very short breath (at night), 1.
Short breathing; the throat feels constricted, and he is attacked with a hacking cough, 4.

CHEST

Visible twitchings and jactitations of the muscles in the region of the clavicle, 5.
Pain around both lungs, as if constricted with a sharp wire, 4.
Feeling of pressure in the whole chest, 4.
Sharp pressure in the region of the last ribs, as with the back of a knife, 4.
Stitches in the chest when taking an inspiration (after twenty-four hours), 4.
Dull stitches in both lungs when taking a rather deep inspiration, 4.
Frequent , dull stitches in both lungs, during an inspiration , for eight days, 4. [170.]
Burning sensation in the right half of the chest, more external than internal, 5.
Painful stretchings in the left side (after three-quarters of an hour), 3.
Constrictive sensation in the left lobe of the lungs, as if a wire or string were twisted round, cutting it through, 4.
Strong pressing in the right side of the chest, at regular intervals (after one and a half hours), 5.
Stitches in the right lobe of the lungs during an inspiration (after twelve hours), 4.
Dull stitch on the left side near the pit of the stomach (after nine hours), 4.
Dull stitch, arresting the breathing, deep, apparently in the left lung, at every inspiration (after fifteen hours), 4.

NECK AND BACK

Sensation in the muscles of the nape of the neck as if a cravat were tied too tight, as if the parts were pressed upon by a blunt edge, 3.
Spasmodic contractions of the left cervical muscles, accompanied by a perceptible bending of the head towards the left side, 2.
Feeling of weight about the neck, and sensation as if the muscles were compressed by a cravat, 5. [180.]
Pain in the left side of the nape of the neck, as if a bundle of muscular fibres had been displaced by violent exertion; the pain afterwards extends over the head and shoulders (after six hours), 2.
*Paralytic pain in one of the muscles of the nape of the neck, as if the parts were bruised moving them, 4.
Dull stitches below the scapulæ, 4.
*Pain, as from a contusion or a bruise, along the inner border of the right scapula, especially when touching the scapula, or moving it inwards (after twenty-five hours), 2.
*Bruised pain in the back, 4.
Paralytic pain in the back, as if bruised; felt standing or sitting; disappearing when lying down, 4.
Burning pain, with stitches, in the small of the back, while sitting, 3.
Pain across the spinal column, from one brim of the pelvis to the other, as if the flesh were torn and pulled toward the outer side, in tearing jerks, when walking, 5.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Lightness of all the limbs ; he is not aware of having a body, 3.*
Occasional darting and tearing pains in the upper and lower limbs, 4. [190.]
Bruised feeling, and sometimes a transient, painful tearing in the upper and lower limbs, 4.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

Paralytic weakness in the arm, 4.
He is unable to let his arm lie upon the table without feeling exhausted; he feels no pain when the arm hangs down, 4.
Tearing ache in the left arm, in every position, 4.
Contractive, tensive pain of the deltoid muscle, when laying the hand upon the table, or when it lies there, 3.
Pain, as from a sprain in the shoulder, when moving the arm, 3.
Violently tearing stitches in both shoulders, both when in motion and at rest, 4.
Pressure in the left axilla, as with a rough piece of wood, 5.
Sudden, dull pain in the axilla, apparently in the axillary glands, 2.
Itching, as if caused by a flea-bite, at a place below the right axilla, in front, 3. [200.]
Drawing, paralytic pain in the left wrist-joint, 2.
Sudden drawing and burning pain, extending from the wrist-joint through the thumb and index finger (after three hours), 5.
Drawing in the fingers, evenings, when lying in bed, 1.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

Feeling of lassitude in the lower limbs, as if not rested sufficiently by sleep, 4.
Lassitude of the lower limbs, when going upstairs, for many days, 4.
Weariness and bruised feeling of the lower limbs and knees, as in the beginning of an intermittent fever, 4.
Painful feeling in the hip, 3.
When stepping, violent pain in the hip-joint, and in the middle of the thigh; the foot feels paralyzed from it; he cannot step on the foot well, 2.
Drawing ache in the hips (when walking), 5.
Dull pressure in the right hip, 5. [210.]
Dull pain in the hip-joint and in the middle of the thigh, when touching the parts, or when walking, or when moving about after being seated, 2.
Sensation from the right hip-joint to the knee, as if the limb would go to sleep, 2.
Drawing and tensive pain in the head of the left femur, and further on in the bone, especially when walking, 2.
Drawing in the hamstrings, evenings, when lying in bed, 1.
Sudden grinding pain in the upper muscles of the left thigh, 3.
Lancinating, tearing pain in the left thigh, 4.
Spasmodic contractions of the muscles of the right thigh, near the knees, abating when extending the limb, 3.
Feeling of lassitude in the knees, with visible staggering when walking, it not very careful (after fifteen minutes), 2.
Drawing in the knee, 1.
Pressure above the bend of the right knee, as from something hard or blunt, 5. [220.]
Uneasiness in the left knee-joint, inducing one to move about (after half an hour), 3.
Violent tearing stitching in the knees, during motion and at rest, 4.
(Clucking in the patella), 1.
The left leg feels as if gone to sleep, and the foot is insensible as when very cold; it looks dead, 3.
Feeling as from bruises in the left tibia, 5.
Visible twitches and jactitations in the calf muscles, 5.
Sudden stitching pain in the sole of the foot (after three and a half hours), .

GENERALITIES

*Excessive sensibility of all the nerves, when merely imagining (which he is constantly obliged to do), that some one is scratching even slightly on linen, or some similar substance, with the finger-tips or nails; a most disagreeable sensation thrills through him, momentarily arresting all his thoughts and functions (after eleven hours), 4. [230.]
*Laziness, slowness, and indisposition to work, 4.
Great lassitude after dinner, 2.
*Great faintness and constant yawning, every afternoon, 4.
General, weary feeling, sometimes as if bruised all over, 4.
Towards evening, he becomes so faint and nauseated, that he feels as if he would die, as soon as he rises from his seat; he is obliged to go to bed, 4.
Ebullition of blood, evenings, in bed, for two hours, prevents sleeping, 1.
General uneasy feeling and nausea, 4.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Frequent yawning, 4.
Great drowsiness by day (after twelve, thirteen, and fourteen days), 4.
Drowsy; out of humor, 2.
Restless sleep (every other night cannot sleep well), 1. [240.]
During sleep, such violent stitches in the dorsum of the left foot, that he dreamed he experienced a stitch, while a blister of Cantharides was applied to his foot; he felt nothing on waking up, 5.
Nightly vexing dreams about insults received, 3.

FEVER

Shuddering over the whole body (immediately).
Slight shuddering over the body (after a half and one and a half hours), 4.
Shuddering (with disgust and nausea), (immediately), 3.
Chilliness and shivering, without any thirst, 4.
Uninterrupted chilliness; goose-skin; hands and face cold; blueness of the face, 4.
Slight chills in the back (suddenly brought on by biting upon a hard crust), 2.
Chilliness when drinking, 4.
Chilliness the whole day; when sitting or lying still, and keeping covered, he feels nothing, except a soreness of the eyes, a pressure on the forehead and on the pit of the stomach, and sometimes external heat, but when taking ever so little exercise in the room, or when exposed to the open air, without taking exercise, he feels an excessive chilliness, with scarcely any thirst; when walking fast in the open air, or entering a warm room after coming out of the open air, or when becoming heated by violent talking in the room, or after dinner, or when lying in a warm bed, he feels healthy, naturally warm, even a little hot, and has a desire for beer, 4. [250.]
Shaking chills in the evening, with extreme faintness, especially in the knees and the small of the back, without any thirst; hands cold, rest of body naturally warm, forehead hot, 4.
Chills, with heat in the face, 4.
Chilliness when not well covered, or when moving; heat as soon as he covers himself, sometimes with chills, 4.
Cold feeling over the body, as if a cold wind blew upon him; at the same time ha was cold to the touch, with goose-skin, the warmth returning in a few hours, and being somewhat increased (in the afternoon), with a slimy mouth, dryness in the throat, and thirst; afterwards another attack of coldness as before; and in the evening, an hour previous to going to sleep, an increase of warmth, continuing while in bed: he is obliged to uncover his hands, with great dryness of the palate, 3.
Fever the whole day; chilliness in the afternoon, abating neither during exercise in the open air nor by external warmth; hot feeling externally, with internal chills and thirst, after dinner, 4.
Chilliness after the hot feeling, the heat of the head and face remaining; chilly at the slightest motion, 4.
Hands icy cold, arms and rest of body warm; still they are covered with goose-skin, and he has violent chills, 4.
Heat of the forehead and hairy scalp, the rest of the body being naturally warm, with slight chills and chilliness; no thirst; pulse strong and quick, .

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Early, when rising, dizziness in head, etc.; early, when rising, throbbing pain in the forehead; early, hunger; previous to stool, cutting in abdomen, etc.
( Noon ), Drawing headache.
( Afternoon ), Great faintness, etc.; warmth increased; chilliness.
( Towards evening ), Becomes faint, etc.
( Evening ), Vertigo; bread tastes bitter; when lying in bed, drawing in fingers; when lying in bed, drawing in hamstrings; in bed drawings in toes; ebullition of blood; shaking chills; an hour before going to bed, increase of warmth; in bed, immediately after lying down, sweat.
( Night ), Very short breath; profuse sweat.
( Every other night ), Cannot sleep well.
( When exposed to open air, without taking exercise ), Excessive chilliness.
( Walking in open air ), Rising of air from stomach, etc.
( During cold weather ), Sensation of a membrane across auditory passage.
( Before cough ), Angry, etc.
( When not well covered ), Chilliness.
( After dinner ), Lassitude; hot feeling externally, etc.
( When drinking ), Chilliness.
( After getting dry again ), Vertigo, headache, burning on tongue and in the mouth, contraction of left cervical muscles, and weakness in knees, return again.
( During an inspiration ), Pressure on region of stomach; stitches in chest; stitches in both lungs; dull stitches in lungs; stitching in right lobe of lungs ; stitch, apparently in left lung.
( When attempting to perform intellectual labor ), Thoughts vanish, etc.
( Laying hand on table ), Pain in deltoid muscle.
( Letting arm lie on table ), Feels exhausted.
( When hand lies on table ), Pain in deltoid muscle.

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