Face swollen, bright red, erysipelatous.
Thick swollen upper lip; gums swollen.
Digestive Organs.-Great dryness of the fauces; tonsils bright red and swollen.
Tongue partially paralysed; right side most affected.
Sore throat; fauces and pharynx deep red, soft palate and tonsils swollen; swallowing painful, particularly of fluids; speech thick; feels as if there was a lump in the throat, which induces hawking; the throat is swollen outside, and sensitive to the touch.
Parotid glands hard, red, and swollen.
Spasms of the throat, cannot swallow.
Inflammation of the inner mouth, with redness, and the mucous membrane swollen.
Tongue hot, dry, red, cracked; or red on the edges, with brown fur in the centre.
Toothache of a drawing, throbbing, tearing nature; worse at night; from cold air; mental exertion, and from contact.
Spasms of the stomach during a meal, the pain running through to the spine.
Colic in hypogastric region, as if from clutching and griping with the nails.
Tenderness of the abdomen, is aggravated by the least jar even of the bed or chair upon which she lies or sits. She is obliged when walking to step with great care for fear of a jar.
Involuntary discharge of the faeces, from paralysis of the sphincter ani.
Piles, with a feeling as if the back would break.
Piles so sensitive to the slightest touch that the patient has to lie down, with the nates separated.-RAUE.
Involuntary discharge of urine, form paralysis of the sphincter vesicae.
Generative Organs of Women.-Great pressing in the genital organs, as if every thing would protrude.
Pressure as though all the contents of the abdomen would issue through the genital organs, this is particularly felt early in the morning.
Os uteri rigid, hot and dry.
Vagina hot and dry.
Menses too early; blood bright red.
Profuse flooding, with a feeling as if everything would issue from the vagina.
Spasmodic contraction of the uterus.
Inflammation of the uterus.
Acute metritis, with many brain symptoms.
Breasts feel heavy, are very hard and redness runs in radii.
(Streaks from a centre).
Indurated mammae.
Men.-Inflammation of the testicles, with great hardness.
Chest.-Constriction of the trachea.
Takes cold from every draft of air, especially when uncovering the head; complaints from cutting the hair.
For common colds, with hard, dry, teasing, spasmodic cough, it is the best remedy we have, especially if it is worse at night.
Skin.-Erysipelas, with smooth shining skin, and not much swollen.-RAUE.
Eruptions, smooth and scarlet color, with very pale face.
Glands inflamed, swollen and indurated.
Inflammations that come suddenly, and leave suddenly.
All fevers traceable to an invasion o the functional powers of the brain itself.
Disease are usually worse after 3 p.m., and again after midnight.
Where there s a doubt whether Aconite or Belladonna should be given, I have always found that a disposition to perspire constitutes a valuable indication for Belladonna.-BAEHR.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881