Sabina


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


Introduction

Juniperus sabina, L. Savin. Nat Ord., Coniferae.

Provings

I. HAHNEMANN. [Of this and the nine succeeding provings no account is given, save that they were made with a tincture prepared from the leaves.] Weakness of memory, he could not recollect what he had been doing during day; pressive stitching pain through brain; pressive digging boring headache; drawing headache, first in forehead then in occiput; drawing headache in forehead and temples during day only; forehead painful when moving, she could hardly wrinkle it, it pained as though skin was grown fast; clouds rise before eyes, trembling, these pass off in open air; twitchings in upper eyelid; eyes ache and discharge a biting fluid; an efflorescence in cheek towards mouth and temple, sore and painful, worse from touching; hardness of hearing; pinching and nipping deep in ear; stitches behind ear, also when at rest; stitches from lower jaw to zygoma. Toothache in evening and n., awaking him, as if tooth would be forced out, a pressing outwards, better after getting up, worse from drinking and smoking, he could not bear the warmth of bed (2 evening in succession); toothache, excited almost only from chewing, began always in hollow tooth and then extended to others, lasting 5-6 m.; an ulcer in gum of a front tooth, painful on touching; front teeth feel blunt, drawing pain in all teeth; drawing in fang of a hollow tooth, when drinking or eating either cold or warm things and when drawing breath through open mouth; during eating and chewing, but chiefly afterwards, pain in lower row of teeth as if gums were swollen and teeth were standing out and loose; externally in neck drawing pain; bruised pain in muscles and vertebrae of neck, not aggravated from touching; tongue coated white and brownish, with insipid taste; fine stitches in tip of tongue; contractive and stitching pain from front to back through throat when now swallowing; dryness in throat with drawing pain; soreness in throat when swallowing, p. m.; pressure in throat when swallowing saliva; feeling of swelling in throat, it felt like swallowing over a foreign body; saliva is quite white and forming when speaking; taste bloody and greasy, – saliva reddish; foul smell from mouth, not noticed by herself; nasty taste in mouth and throat, especially when expectorating, like phlegm from an old catarrh; inclination to vomit early in bed, passing off after getting up; violent stitches from pit of stomach right through back; in scrob. cordis first pressure then stitches; bruised pain over a abdominal muscles, evening in bed; pressive pain over navel; strong stitches in hypogastric region from without inwards, evening in bed; compressive pain in left hypogastrium; constrictive pain in region of womb; stool first of soft then of hard feces; biting sore stitches in anus during stool; jerking stitches in anus and in front of thighs on walking. Dull pressive stitches from glans backward through whole of penis; violent stitching and pricking in glans in morning; fig – warts become painfully tender; burning soreness of fig-warts and glans, worse from touching; the frenulum is swollen and too tight; preputium painful, he cannot draw it back; much milky vaginal discharge, with itching of genitals; violent stitches deep in vagina backwards. Stuffy coryza; shortness of breath, without pain, at rest and when moving; tightness of chest amounting to stoppage of respiration; continued sore stitching pain in xiphoid cartilage, worse from deep respiration and touch, most bearable in perfect rest, lasting a fortnight. When stopping a stitch enters his sacrum, leaving severe tension as if the parts were torn, he had to remain stooping for some time, afterwards in bed a violent rigor without thirst; pain in right shoulder-joint as if dislocated, even when not moving; pressure in shoulder – joints; stitch from axilla to tip of elbow, and at same time stitch from wrist to elbow, like electricity; in forearm many quick stitches like needles, sitting; weakness in hands while writing, could not guide his pen, – with chilliness; drawing pain in vola and through fingers; ring finger goes to sleep; pain in right hip – joint on rising in m., so that at first she could not walk, it passed off walking; furuncle on upper part of nates, with sticking pain; straining and drawing in thighs and knees; stitches from lower part of tibia to toes, evening in bed; many stitches as from needles in great toe; cracking of joints; feeling of pulsation in all vessels almost like twitchings; heaviness and laziness in body, inducing to lie down; general malaise all over body, as if he had danced and revelled for several n., – whimsical with it; after walking in open air feels hot; short walk tires him so much that he has to lie down (after 10 d.). Restless sleep and dreams of many works begun but not finished; tosses about in bed during n., says many irrelevant things in his sleep, and blows loudly with expiration; dreams in n. as if people were falling down dead from a height. Frequent shudderings all over, including hairy scalp, before going to bed; chilliness all day; on going to bed in evening rigor after rigor; feeling of cold in right legs as if it stood in cold water; heat in face, with icy cold hands and feet; always much flying heat in face, rest of the body frequently chilly. Does not take part in any joy, but is not discontented; cares for nothing, indifferent (after several d.); very fretful, crying aloud (STAPF’s Beitrage.)

2. GROSS – In left tuber frontale painful pressure, involving eyeball, which seems compressed; behind right tuber frontale, about sutura coronalis, boring pain; chapped-stitching pain, as if someone was thrusting a sharp knife several times from right tuber frontale deep into brain (2 h.). Pressing, almost paralytic, pain in sphincter muscle of anus, a sort of urging almost all day without having to go to stool, – some time after compelled to go to stool-the first time hasty and fluid, but later slow and hard. In right chest under sternum several times during day painless trembling (as if in substance of lung), tremulous motion with dull crackling of crepitating, almost like sound of treading on fresh ice (8 d.); under manubrium sterni, left, painful dull stitches; cutting in chest over scrob-cordis. Pain in front of left thigh, only when walking, tensive-tearing, making him limp (48 h.); thighs feel bruised and painful in front of centre, not felt going upwards, but only on level or going downwards, – also when sitting, and drawing-in legs, a tension and pain on touch in thigh; he cannot cower or squat for painful tightness of muscles of thigh, feeling as if too short; on back of tibia over ankles painful tensive pressure (sitting); in plantar of right heel violent dull stitches during n. General uneasiness without being able to localize it; heaviness in all limbs, tired and languid, with great depression of spirits; peevish and depressed. (Ibid.)

3. F. HAHNEMANN. – Bitter taste in mouth, of food, milk and coffee; biting in urethra when passing water; pain in frenulum, intermitting; dark redness of glans; fever, especially towards evening first much chilliness, then heat in whole body, much perspiration in night; night sweats, several night; peevishness and feeling in body of impending or actual coryza. (Ibid.)

4. HARTMANN. – Oppression of whole head, most in forehead down towards nose, where it is more of a tearing, with feeling in left nostril as if blood was going to flow; pressive heaviness in whole head, as if she had taken much strong drink (whole m.); pressive painful heaviness in whole head (6 h.), lasting till bedtime; sudden piercing pressure in left frontal eminence; pressive stunning feeling in forehead; pressing squeezing in left forehead; pressing tearing in right frontal eminence; pressing feeling of heaviness in whole of left side of head, sometimes with transient stitches (1 h.); shooting pressure in left half of brain; tearing in whole of right half of brain from occiput to forehead; painful feeling of pressing asunder in right tuber frontale and right temple, springing up suddenly, disappearing gradually, and returning frequently; vertex tender to pressure, causing pressive pain in head; painful drawing in left temple on closing eyes, together with painful pressure on left upper eyelid (1 h.); painful feeling of outward pressure in right temple; dull pressure both sides of occiput (1/2 h.); painful oppressive heaviness in occiput, lessened from pressing it strongly on a firm cushion; pressing painful feeling in right occiput, arising and disappearing gradually (3/4 h.); feeling in left side of occiput as if a keen wind was piercing it, degenerating into pressing – boring pain; feeling in right temple as of a weight pressing inwards, with painful stitches rapidly coming and going in left frontal eminence; pressing tight pain outwards in whole head, coming on rapidly, disappearing slowly; pale face and dull eyes, as in a convalescent from grave disease (1 h.), lasting several days, tearing in left ear, almost like earache (after 1 1/2 h.); burning sensation at margin of left ear and lobule, the latter redder than the right, but without noticeably increased heat (1 1/2 hrs. Choking pressive feeling in left side of throat, without swallowing; repeated empty risings, immediately after medicine and lasting; water-brash, with frequent yawning; squeezing pressive feeling in scrob. cordis, independent of inspiration or expiration; pressive pinching in small spot right of scrob, cordis; when sitting bent, continual feeling like flatulent distention of region of stomach, causing annoying pressure there, sometimes relieved for short time by eructation, – when remaining longer in this posture very painful and descending to left side of abdomen, disappearing again at once when sitting upright; writhing and pinching in abdomen about navel, repeatedly occurring and each time worse, with feeling as if it would cause vomiting, – without nausea (1 3/4 h.); painful drawing in right side of abdomen towards genitals. Tensive pressive feeling in left testicle, repeatedly returning; trivial excitements cause violent and lasting erections, but still aversion to coition; drawing pressure deep in abdomen towards genitals as if menses would appear (2nd d.); painfully pressing feeling of heaviness deep in abdomen, worse from pressing externally (2nd d.), as it was always with her the first day of her menses; painful drawing in sacrum, especially when bending backwards, as always before menses set in. Frequent sneezing first three day; stuffy cold in right nostril; pressure into chest as from wind, seeming to expand it, yet causing momentary oppression 924 h.); fleeting stitches in left breast; pressive tensive pain in middle of sternum, increased neither by inspiration nor expiration; spasmodic pressive pain in front of chest above scrob. cordis, extending across like a band, increased by inspiration; after much walking, pressive burning in lower false ribs of right side; pressive pain just over margin of left scapula, in soft parts, while at rest, disappears on moving in evening; pressing under left scapula in a small spot, not felt when moving arm (2 1/2 h.); pressure in muscles of neck, left side; tearing pressing feeling in left axilla (3/4 h.); feeling of weakness and want of power in whole of left arm, not lasting; tremulous feeling of weakness in left forearm; heaviness and bruised feeling in both forearms when bending them inwards, and anxieties, so that he has to change their position frequently to get some relief (16 hours, after coitus); stitching in left elbow, outer side, not perceptible on moving (2 1/2 h.); pressive tearing drawing from middle of right metacarpal bone to wrist (7 h.); feeling in left palm as if it were going to be contracted spasmodically; tearing pain in right carpal bones (2 h.); burning tearing in third metacarpal bone of left hand (2 1/2 h.); tearing pain in 2nd and 3rd joints of little finger and 3rd joint of 4th finger of right hand; burning tearing stitches in muscles of first joint of 4th finger of right hand (4 h.); drawing tearing in fourth finger of right hand (6 1/2 h.); tearing in knuckle of left metacarpal bone of little finger; transient painful pressure from middle of right thigh down to knee, where it is worst, spreading out, – it then gradually subsides; tearing pain close over left knee in soft parts (4 1/2 h.); painful heaviness in right foot, beginning a hand’s breadth above malleolus and extending downwards; burning tearing pain in hollow of right foot at rest; droning pressing stitch on outer side of hollow of right foot (1 1/2 hours, sitting); tearing pain in metacarpal bones of left little and fourth toes (3/4 h.). As soon as he gets into open air all symptoms at once subside; after entering room they begin again. Overtired, awakes after midnight, cannot go to sleep again, compelled now to stretch, now to bend legs, and to shift from one side to other; evening in bed, greatest restlessness of blood, must constantly shift position and cannot get to sleep; restlessness and anxiety, evening in bed, with chilliness and goose – skin, preventing him from going to sleep; restless sleep with confused dreams, frequent waking, after which much tossing about before getting to sleep again. Unbearable burning heat in whole body, with great restlessness, must constantly shift position of limbs, without externally perceptible heat or thirst, – after dinner. (Ibid.)

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.