Cyclamen


Proving Symptoms of homeopathy medicine Cyclamen, described by Richard Hughes in his book, A Cyclopedia of Drug Pathogenesis, published in 1895….


Introduction

Cyclamen europaeum, L. Sowbread. Nat. Ord., Primulaceae.

Provings.

I. HAHNEMANN, Mat. Medorrhinum Pura, vol. v of original, vol. i of translation. Contains 5 symptoms from self, and 197 from 4 fellow-observers.

2. D-, medical student, aet.22, January 27th, 7:50 p. m., 4 dr. tinct. Confusion in left side of forehead, gradually spreading all over head, prickling in scalp, going off in a few morning, then slight pains in abdomen, frequent eructations

tasting of the drug, with acrid taste in pharynx; drawing pains in flexor muscles of both legs, from hough to tips of toes; upper extremities heavy; pressure in canthus of left eye; jerking and drawing pain from left temple to crown, which confusion of head, especially in forehead, and stiff feeling in nape; urging to urinate and pressure in anus; stitches in apex of heart; tearing in left maxillary joint and in left forearm; rumbling and pinching in abdomen; sneezing. At night frequent erections without exciting dreams; frequent waking with pressure on eyelids and stitches in heart; slept long in morning; urine much diminished. – 28th, 6.22 a. m., 6 dr. Immediately throbbing in upper part of abdomen; saliva diminished, spits yellowish – white, consistent lumps the size of lentils or beans (this always occurred, for 5 or 6 days.); no appetite for breakfast; after breakfast rumbling, then pains in abdomen, urging to stool; pressure in eyelids as if they stuck together; confusion of sinciput and itching of scalp; stool forcibly ejected, first lumpy, then soft, with palpitation of heart; heat in head and belly; stools inodorous, brownish-yellow, mixed wit mucus; cross without cause; vertigo; pressure in stomach, pulse and respiration quickened; pulse strong, gradually getting calmer; violent sneezing; itching in ear, much ear-wax; contractive pain and empty feeling in temporal region; great internal heat; frequent sneezing and yawning; jerking-shooting pains in right temple, gradually spreading to face, worse when moving; pulse scarcely perceptible and very quick, as also respiration; itching in eyelids and elbow; weak voice when reading; hiccup; shooting in urethra and urging to urinate; urine dark reddish-yellow; drawing pain in hough when standing; scraping and dry feeling in trachea in open air, causing suffocative cough; light-coloured urine; expectoration of mucus; dryness of nose; feeling of emptiness in head passing into prickling on scalp and skin of face; a lump the size of a lentil above parotid with painful itching; itching on scalp, neck shoulders and axillae; drawing pain in right hough changing into formication; tearing in left leg; shooting in urethra; dislocation pain in shoulder-joint; heat and full feeling in right side of head; twitching, cutting pain along inguinal canal; tearing, shooting, jerking in to of the front right upper molars; chilliness in open air; much urine coming away in a large stream; hiccup; great appetite. 8:40 p. m, 8 dr. Constrictive pain in throat from smell of drug; pressive pain over nasal bones; eructation; severe palpitation; some stitches in right side of chest above 6th rib; tearing pain on outer side of right thigh; veins of back of hand swollen; sore sensation on glans penis and prepuce; pressure in middle of sternum; shooting in both sides of he’d, worst in coronal suture; shooting in hepatic region, left inguinal canal and anus; sneezing; pain from bladder to urethra when urinating; frightful dreams; dryness and painfulness of throat. 29th, 5.26 a. m., 10 dr. Frequently expectoration of above-described substance; itching in left inguinal canal; beats of heart and pulse scarcely perceptible; stool like yesterday; dislocation pain in left foot; pulse diacrotic, very quick; respiration very quiet; fluttering in left side of chest; pains in stomach and abdomen heart;s beats slower; contraction of eyelids as from intense light; frequent yawning; giddy fulness and heat in had; sore pain in both heels hindering walking; loss of smelling power; great thirst when eating dinner; great hunger; restless sleep; itching in lower jaw; papular eruption on scalp face, and other part of skin; much hawking; yawning; renewed straining after stool. -31st, 4:50 p. m., 2 drachms 1st dil. Stitches in left side of chest increased by inspiration. Confusion in forehead and itching of scalp. Numb feeling in right hand; some stitches in stomach; squeezing together of jaws; sore pain in right upper incisors, especially in their crowns and thence over buccal lining; drawing pain in right knee joint, in acromion and hough; pressure in stomach ending in eructation; pulse nearly imperceptible; some coughing; joints painful on movement; itching under shoulders; excited action of heart; vibration in cardiac region; yawning; eyelids seem contracted. – February 1st, 9 a. m., some dr. of 1st dil. introduced into eye. Immediately pupils contracted by soon dilated, the vessels of iris could be seen; contraction and dilatation alternated every second, and connected with respiration in this way, that they occur only after each inspiration or expiration. This phenomenon lasts 1/2 hours in diminishing degree. 9:45, the drops again instilled; great contraction of pupil followed in 3 or 4 seconds by dilation and so on, till at last great contraction of pupils remains; many pimples appear on face, which fill with yellowish-white lymph, and then shrivel up. The cicatrices of former varicella reappear, of a dark red colour; the forehead thickly studded with similarly coloured spots the size of lentils; uvula and tonsils very contracted and white; eructation; pulse scarcely perceptible; confusion of forehead; dislocation pain in left hough. 2 p. m., 3ss of 1st dil., eructation; confusion of head; bowels painful to touch; some pain in abdomen; pressive pain in forehead; abdominal pain increased; yawning blood-vessels visible in white of left eye; tinnitus aurium; contraction of frontal mules as if angry; weakness of memory; out of spirits; distension of abdomen with flatulence; vision sharper, can distinguish colours at a great distance; pressive pain in pit of stomach; painfulness of abdomen on pressure; stitches in umbilical region; buccal and faucial cavity render; quivering of right upper eyelid; sharp stitches in coronal suture; urine dark coloured and many flakes in it; the

pains in belly persist; itching in right inner canthus; whole head confused; noise in ears. 2nd, 12:30 p. m., 3j of 1st dil. Pressive pain in left temple; heat in had; confusion of right side of head; eructation with greasy odour; exhaustion; quivering of eyelids; chilliness, then after crossness attacks of heat and throbbing in head; nearly complete los of appetite and thirst; pressive-tearing pain in right supper jaw and crown of right canine tooth; much expectoration; pupils very contracted; tongue covered with yellowish-white fur; shooting in coronal suture and pulsation of temporal arteries; itching in hairy scalp; stool delayed 9 hours; pain in right lower row of teeth; constriction in throat; shooting in stomach; tearing pains in elbows an wrists; quivering in eyelids when pressed or rubbed; many pimples on jaw, rapidly filling with white lymph; stool of hard lumps, thereafter confusion of head, great forgetfulness, make mistakes in words; pressure on sternum; pressive-tearing pain in left upper row of teeth; starting out of sleep liquid stool; boring pain first in right metatarsal bones and right temple, thence into right upper row of teeth, then in left temple; burning in right eye; thirst after 5 days absence of thirst; retracted prepare open air. – 4th, 4 p. m. 3j of 4th dil. 5th, morning, stool at first normal quite liquid, of light yellow colour; urine light coloured containing many epithelial cells. 9 a. m., shooting in left temple, then in whole sinciput with vertigo; later, pressure in forehead, yawning. 11.44 a. m., 3ij, eructation. 3 p. m., drawing pain in left hough. – 8th. After inhaling vapour of tinct. 2 p. m., pressive, stupefying, frontal pain. -9th, 3 p. m., transient sore pain in left acromion, especially when taking off coat. – 10th. Pressure in left inner canthus; pressive stupefying pain in right side of sinciput, then nausea and eructation; retraction of prepuce; much sediment in urine, which is acid and contains much chloride. – 11th. Slimy stool, which passes unobserved. – 15th and 16th. From inhaling vapour of tinct., pressure, later shooting in right coronal suture, with general confusion of head; quivering of right upper eyelid every 4 or 5 morning, also when he rubs eyes or forehead; this symptom lasted several day. In face and forehead reddish spots and some large pustules; pulse ranged during proving from 60 to 108, resp. from 6 to 19 (normal resp. 15). (HAMPE, Zeitsch. des Vereins day hom. Aerzte Oesterr., 1857, ii, 445.)

3. Dr. EIDHERR, aet 29, took on October 21st, 5, 22nd, 7, 23rd, 9, 24th, 11, 25th, 13, 26th, 15, 27th, 20 dr. About 2 hours after taking drug there always occurred slight headache lasting some hours, and after the 2 last dose also nausea and inclination to vomit; no other symptoms. (Ibid. 444.)

Richard Hughes
Dr. Richard Hughes (1836-1902) was born in London, England. He received the title of M.R.C.S. (Eng.), in 1857 and L.R.C.P. (Edin.) in 1860. The title of M.D. was conferred upon him by the American College a few years later.

Hughes was a great writer and a scholar. He actively cooperated with Dr. T.F. Allen to compile his 'Encyclopedia' and rendered immeasurable aid to Dr. Dudgeon in translating Hahnemann's 'Materia Medica Pura' into English. In 1889 he was appointed an Editor of the 'British Homoeopathic Journal' and continued in that capacity until his demise. In 1876, Dr. Hughes was appointed as the Permanent Secretary of the Organization of the International Congress of Homoeopathy Physicians in Philadelphia. He also presided over the International Congress in London.