Chimaphila Maculata
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Spotted Wintergreen. Pyroleaceæ.
Grows in the woods of North America.
Proved by George H. Bute on himself and members of his family, also clinically verified by him.
Provings by Dr. H. P. Gatchell, in A. O., vol. xiii, p. 75, 1876. Prof. H. C. Wood, in his Materia Medica, p. 476, pronounces it "the inert congener of Chimophila umbellata." The United States Dispensatory, Wood & Bache, says, "it probably possesses similar virtues." The umbellata and the maculata , although easily distinguished, have been strangely mixed up, or still more strangely separated. By some the maculata has been pronounced inert. The Indians declared it to be poisonous. If the latter opinion rests on correct observation and experience, it could only be explained by the supposition that the maculata has volatile properties which the other has not. Both the Chimophila maculata and umbellata are old Indian and popular medicines. They are proved by Jeanes and G. Bute as long ago as 1840 and 1856. It was particularly the latter prover who began to separate the symptoms of the two. The Indian doctors used only the umbellata and avoided the maculata, which they thought poisonous, a difference which to us would be a recommendation. Darlington, Flora Cestrica, says, "maculata possesses properties similar to the umbellata, but in a lesser degree." Rafinesque, a good authority, regards the effect in sickness, preferring maculata (mentioned in his book as a Pyrola), and gives each to a different sub genus, calling the maculata Chimophila and the umbellata Pipsissewa.
[It is against the genius of the Greek language to spell Kreosote with an a (see Gross' Comparative Materia Medica), and a scholar will never adopt such Ballhornian improvements (see N. J. Lucas' Dictionary of English and German language, vol. ii, p. 239), and yet we find the same blunder, in a reversed form, committed in spelling the Greek name of this dear little wintergreen.].
SENSORIUM [2]
Momentary unconsciousness.
Sudden headache with dimness of vision ; she had to be led to bed ; felt light-headed.
INNER HEAD [3]
Sensation of lightness in head.
Pressing frontal headache ; < after lying down.
Sudden headache above eyes ; < on lying down.
Frontal headache with fulness in stomach and belching.
Pain in and above forehead.
Rheumatic tearing pain in temples.
Dull, heavy pain in whole front and top of head.
Sharp pains and heat in interior of head, unfitting for exertion.
Wants head pressed.
Headache with pain in bowels.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Inflammation of eyes, with secretion of mucus.
Whites of eyes yellow.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Pressive pain, as from a swelling, extending from right ear downward, with toothache.
TEETH AND GUMS [10]
Toothache ; < during eating.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Tensive pain in throat on swallowing.
Sore throat and swollen tonsils.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
No desire for food.
Extreme gnawing hunger.
No thirst, even during fever.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Nausea accompanies colic.
Nausea, with inclination to vomit without being able to do so.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Stitches in scrobiculum.
The acid of fruit produces pain in stomach.
Cutting pain in stomach.
Heaviness in stomach.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Griping in abdomen, with nausea and lassitude in all the limbs.
Colic and flatulent distension, with drowsiness and sensation as if abdomen would burst, after supper.
Colic with nausea.
Sensation of a heavy stone in abdomen ; severe griping, with repeated stabbing pains upward, followed by diarrhœa.
Colic-like pains between pubes and navel.
Pain in bowels.
Bowels hard and swollen ; thinks the glands are swollen.
Bowels very painful, sore and hard.
Feels as if there was dropsy of abdomen.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Colicky pain after stool.
Diarrheic stools containing air bubbles.
Grey stool.
Diarrhœa accompanying worm fever.
After colic pains, a diarrhœa, not very weakening.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Had to rise twice a night to urinate.
Urine cloudy and red after standing.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Excitement of sexual system.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Stinging in labia, as if boils were there.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
Feeling of roughness in throat when talking.
Feeling of soreness and dryness in larynx.
Hawking of tough mucus from larynx in morning.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Angina with stupor.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Blood as if heated, with prickling.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Feels as if neck was tired and too small.
Sweat on back, with sensitiveness to cold air in morning.
Needle-like pains in sacrum and similar pains in hip bone.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Sensation in armpits, as if boils were there.
Sensation of swelling in armpits ; pain from armpits to scapulæ.
Pain in bones of forefinger.
Right arm as if paralyzed.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Chilliness of knees.
Cold, damp feet in evening.
Painful stiffness in right hip and leg as if bruised, at 5 P. M.
Pain as if beaten in calf and thigh, going downward in r. leg and coming up in left.
Pain in right foot, extending to knee and afterwards into thigh.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Weakness in all the limbs.
Limbs feel as if distended ; a feeling like that from erysipelas.
Pains as if in all the bones.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Lying down : headache <.
Exertion : < headache.
NERVES [36]
Very nervous ; cannot bear anything at all.
Hot, irritable, restless.
TIME [38]
At night ; rose twice to urinate : dry heat.
Morning : hawking of tough mucus.
At 5 P. M. : painful stiffness in right hip and leg.
Evening : cold, damp feet.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Feels better in a warm room without being chilly.
FEVER [40]
Dry heat during night.
Fever, with burning hot skin and thirst.
Exceedingly hot, as if blood boiling, but cannot sweat.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Sensation as of something passing downward on right side of body and coming up again on left, within the space of an hour.
Beaten feeling goes down right leg and comes up left.
Going upward : pain from right foot to knee and thigh.
Right : pressive pain from ear downward ; arm feels paralyzed ; painful stiffness in hip and leg.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if boils were in labia and in armpits ; arm as if paralyzed ; as if neck was tired and too small ; as if beaten, in calf and thigh ; as if distended, limbs, like erysipelas ; as if blood was boiling or on fire ; as of something passing down right side of body and up left ; as if abdomen would burst.
Pain : in and above forehead ; in bowels, with headache ; in teeth ; in throat ; in stomach ; in bowels ; from armpits to scapulæ ; in bones of forefinger ; in right foot, knee and thigh ; in bones.
Sharp pain : in head.
Stitches : in scrobiculum.
Stabbing : upward in abdomen.
Cutting : in stomach.
Stinging : in labia.
Needle-like pains : in sacrum and hip bone.
Prickling : in blood ; Griping : in abdomen.
Colic pains : between pubes and navel ; after stool.
Rheumatic tearing : in temples.
Pressure : frontal headache, as from a swelling from right ear downward.
Dull, heavy pain : in front and top of head.
Soreness : in throat ; in larynx.
Tensive pain : in throat.
Swelling sensation : in armpits.
Fulness : in stomach.
Lightness : in head.
Painful stiffness : in right hip and leg as if bruised.
Heaviness : in stomach ; as of a stone in abdomen.
Roughness : in throat.
Heat : in head.
Chilliness : of knees.
Paralyzed feeling : in right arm.
Dryness : in larynx.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Wants head pressed.
SKIN [46]
Exceedingly hot as of blood boiling, but cannot sweat.
Thinks diseases state of the blood irritates the skin, as before the eruption of erysipelas, scarlet fever, or measles ; itches terribly.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Adapted to mild, amiable, refined, sensitive, intellectual persons.