Nuphar luteum, Smith.

Natural order , Nymphæaceæ.

Common names , Nixen-blume, Nenuphar Jaune.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Pitet, Journ. de la Soc. Gal., 3, p. 129, proving with 4th dil., taken irregularly for several days; 2 , same, subsequent proving, frequent doses of 4th and 6th dils.; 3 , same, third proving with 6th, 7th, and 8th dils., continued for twelve days. (Symptoms in brackets are constitutional, that seem to have appeared as the effect of the drug in depressing the vitality).

MIND

Excessive moral sensibility, giving one great pain on witnessing the sufferings of animals (eleventh day), 1.

HEAD

General Head.
Heaviness in the whole head in the middle of the day (tenth day), 2.
Very painful bruising shaking in the brain at every step in walking (eleventh day), 2.
Dull pains in the anterior part of the base of the brain, on a level with the floor of the orbits (twentieth and following days), 3.
Dull or tearing pains, sometimes in the forehead, at others in the whole upper part of the head (tenth day), 2.
Forehead.
Pressive headache in the forehead and left temple (ninth and tenth days); headache in the forehead, and by turns in the left temple, ceasing in the open air (eleventh day), 1.
Dull pains, sometimes lancinating, in the situation of the right anterior cerebral lobe (twenty-fifth day), 2.
Dull pains in the left anterior cerebral lobe (eleventh day), 2.
Dull, deep lancinations behind the left frontal eminence (tenth day), 2. [10.]
Boring pain, in transitory attacks, in the left anterior part of the forehead, in the evening (seventh day), 2.
Painful bruising shocks in the right anterior side of the brain when walking (twelfth day), 2.
Lancinations in the left anterior part of the brain (ninth and tenth days); similar, but less violent, sensations on the opposite side (tenth day), 3.
Temples.
Painful pressure in the right temple (tenth day), 3.
Very painful feeling of weight in the temples, in the morning (twentieth and following days), 3.
Parietals.
Acute lancinations in the left side of the brain (twelfth and following days), 3.
External Head.
(Falling off of the hair), (twenty-seventh day), 2.
(Extremely violent itching of the whole scalp, particularly at night), (twenty-seventh day), 2.

EYE

Face pale, discolored eyes, though otherwise as well as usual (tenth day), 2.
Brow and Orbit.
Painful heaviness in the orbit, at the base of the skull, a very frequent symptom since the beginning of the proving (twenty-fifth day), 2. [20.]
Dull pain, and sensation of painful weight in the orbit all day, since morning, in the right anterior cerebral lobe and right side of the occiput (twenty-third day), 2.
Dull pains occasionally beneath the orbital plate (eleventh day), 2.
Dull pains at the base of the orbit, forehead, and occiput, on the right side (twenty-fifth day), 3.
Vision.
(When standing in the sun, a quantity of brilliant sparks filled the field of vision, converging from the circumference to the centre; frequently perceived subsequently, principally after hard coughing ), (twenty-third day), 2.

MOUTH

Sweetish taste several times a day; taste of Nuphar at the root of the tongue (fourth day), 2.

STOMACH

Slightly painful over the whole anterior surface of the stomach (nineteenth day), 2.
Weakness in the epigastric region, at times (twelfth day), 3.
Sensation of weakness and slight pain on pressing the epigastric region (nineteenth day), 2.

ABDOMEN

General Abdomen.
Emission of flatulence, in the evening, with wind colic (seventeenth day), 2.
Some colic (sixth day), 1. [30.]
Dull deep colic pains, during the day, all around the waist (eighteenth day), 2.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Smarting and burning at the anus, after every stool (seventeenth day), 2.
Stitches, as if from needles, in the rectum, above the anus (twentieth and following days), 3.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Soft stools, preceded by some colic, for several days (eighth day), 2.*
*Diarrhœic stools, morning and evening, preceded by violent colic pains in the rectum, without having eaten more than ordinary (fifteenth day); diarrhœa, preceded by violent colic pains in the rectum, all night (sixteenth day); yellowish diarrhœa, two nights in succession, preceded by violent colic pains in the rectum; six stools from 8 P.M. to 6 A.M.; diarrhœic stool during the day, after breakfast, and another after dinner; two during the evening (seventeenth day); two diarrhœic stools, during the morning, preceded by colic pains in the rectum; two yellow diarrhœic stools in the evening (eighteenth day); two yellow diarrhœic stools between 4 and 5 A.M., and one during the day; diarrhœic stool in the evening (nineteenth day); diarrhœic stool, in the morning (twentieth day), 2.
Yellow diarrhœa , especially very early in the morning, for three days past; five or six stools a day, without colic or epigastric trouble, except, at times, a sense of weakness in the epigastric region (twelfth day); the diarrhœa continues, notwithstanding a considerable diminution in the amount of food taken; the stools are always more numerous towards 5 or 6 A.M. (following days); soft diarrhœic stool, preceded by colic, which disappeared after the stool (twenty-fifth day), 2.*

URINARY ORGANS

Urine.
The urine deposits a copious reddish sand, which is hard, and adheres to the vessel (seventeenth day), 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Lancinations in the right testicle (nineteenth day), 2.
Dull transitory pain in the right testicle, for several days in succession; a similar pain at the extremity of the penis, on the right side; several lancinations in the left testicle, with pains at the extremity of the penis, on the left side (twenty-fifth day), 3.
Some pain in the right testicle (twentieth day), 2. [40.]
Diminution of erections and sexual appetite (twelfth and following days), 3.
Complete absence of sexual desire; penis retracted; scrotum relaxed (eighth day), 2.*
Entire absence of erections and sexual desires; the voluptuous ideas which fill the imagination do not cause erection (tenth day), 2.*
Continued absence of erections and sexual appetite (eighteenth day), 2.
Diminution of lascivious thoughts and the sexual inclination, for some ten days ; opposite effects during the succeeding days, 1.*

CHEST

Painful sensation behind the sternum, when running, as though the subjacent organs were violently shaken (ninth day), 2.
(Dull wandering pains in the left side of the chest), (twenty-seventh day), 2.

NECK AND BACK

Lumbar.
Deep dull pain at the lowest part of the left lumbar region and in the posterior superior part of the external iliac fossa; it coincides with a similar, but not constant, pain in the internal iliac fossa of the same side (eighth day), 3.
Walking, even slowly, causes a painful stitch in the left flank, which is relieved by pressure (twelfth and following days), 3.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Thigh.
Frequent prickings on the posterior surface of the left thigh (sixth day), 1.
Leg. [50.]
Constant restlessness and fatigue in the legs (tenth day), 2.
Painful drawings in the muscles of the anterior region of the left leg (tenth day), 2.
Toes.
Lancinations in the plantar surface of the last phalanx of the right great toe, in the evening (eighth day), 2.
(Paroxysms of very acute, but transitory, pain in the inner border of the last joint of the right great toe, when walking), (twenty-third day), 2.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Weakness of the limbs, in the evening (twelfth and following days), 3.
Great impatience at the slightest contradiction (tenth day), 2.
Sense of weakness (nineteenth day), 2.
The strength, flesh, and healthy complexion, which had diminished, began to return (twenty-ninth and thirtieth days), 2.

SKIN

There appeared on different parts of the body a number of red blotches, tolerably regular in outline, ovoid or circular, prominent, and covered with little scales of a silvery white, in short, resembling psoriasis ; there were a few on the posterior surface of the arms, but they were most abundant on the anterior surface of the legs; they itched violently, especially in the evening; friction removed the little scales, which were rapidly reproduced, remained a few days, and then fell off again from the scratching induced by the itching; this eruption lasted a month and a half; as it disappeared, and the scales ceased to be reproduced, the skin at the place of each blotch became pale red or yellowish (after ten or twelve days), 1.
A red, slightly prominent patch, covered with little white scales, and itching violently, on the interior surface of the right arm, near the axilla (psoriasis), (twentieth and following days); a red, oval, prominent patch, as large as a five-cent piece (pièce de vingt-cinq centimes), on the internal surface of the left arm, exactly like a patch of psoriasis , covered with silvery scales, falling off and renewed again every few days, and itching violently, especially in the evening (twenty-fifth day), 3. [60.]
(Aggravation of a moderate pityriasis capitis of several years' standing; morning and evening, especially, the itching is intolerable, and the comb brings away a great quantity of hair), (twenty-third day), 2.
Sensations like fleabites, in different parts, for several days (eighth day), 3.
Sensation like fleabites, in different spots, on the legs, near the ankles, and on the arms near the wrist; a similar sensation on different parts of the skin of the body (twentieth and following days), 3.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Weight in temples.
( Morning and evening ), Diarrhœa.
( Middle of day ), Head heavy.
( Evening ), Pain in forehead; emission of flatulence; weakness.
( Running ), Pain behind sternum.
( Stepping ), Shaking in brain.
( Walking ), Shocks in brain; stitch in left flank; pain in great toe.
Amelioration.
( Open air ), Headache.
( Pressure ), Stitch in left flank.

Nuphar Luteum