PAEONIA


PAEONIA symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy PAEONIA…


INTRODUCTION

PAEON – Peony. See “Pract. Commun. for Hom. Phys.,” 1827, p.61, and “Hom. Gaz.,” XXVIII., No.12.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Languor and heaviness of the limbs. Nausea, hissing in the head, vanishing of the senses.

SKIN.

Burning smarting on the head, chest, and limbs, accompanied with itching of the skin. Prickling, itching, and stinging in the open air.

SLEEP.

Restless sleep, with fancies and dreams.

SENSORIUM AND HEAD.

Vertigo, gloominess, and heaviness of the head. Reeling sensation in the head, with staggering of the limbs. Dullness, heaviness, vertigo, and feeling of heat in the head. Gnawing headache. Continuous aching pains in the occiput and nape of the neck. Rushes of blood to the head, and feeling of sweat.

EARS.

Intensely-painful darting through the right ear. Painful jerking of dryness in the eyes.

EYES

Burning of the eye-lids and eyes. Burning, itching and feeling of dryness in the eyes.

FACE

Burning heat in the face.

NOSE

Stoppage and dryness of the nose.

JAWS AND TEETH.

Violent pressure from the articulation of the jaw through the inner ear.

THROAT

Burning sensation in the pharynx and oesophagus.

STOMACH AND ABDOMEN

Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as from great anxiety.

STOOL

Papescent diarrhoea, with feeling of qualmishness in the abdomen, burning in the anus after stool, afterwards internal chilliness and increased feeling of illness. Painful ulcer at the anus, with exudation of a fetid moisture.

CHEST

Throbbing through the right chest. Cutting pressure in the left side of the chest. Dull stitches in the chest, as if through the heart.

BACK AND EXTREMITIES

Pinching, at times in the back, at others in the abdominal muscles. Sharp stitches in the axillae. Tension in the muscles on bending the arms, as from pressure. Severe cramp in the wrist-joint. Transitory creeping in the fingers and sides. Burning itching of the toes, which are bloated.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.