Oenanthe Phellandrium. Phellandrium aquaticum. Water drop wort. Fine-leaved water-hemlock. Horse-bane. *N. O. Umbelliferae. Tincture of fresh ripe fruit.
Clinical
Abdomen, coldness in. Asthma. Breasts, affections of. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Ciliary neuralgia. Coryza. Cough. *Headache, Influenza. Intermittent fever. *Nipples, *painful. Phthisis. Sleeplessness, excessive. Tongue, soreness of.
Characteristics
*Phelland. which, like *OEnanthe croc., grows in moist places, and even in the water itself, has not shown the poisonous properties of the latter. The provings were made by Nenning and Richter with tincture of the seeds. The symptoms show a general resemblance to those of the poisonous Umbelliferae vertigo, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, drowsiness and weakness, but *Phelland. is easily distinguished from the rest in its particular features. The provings developed many symptoms in both mammae, especially the right, stitches shooting inward being most marked. Clinical experience in nursing women has further brought out its characteristics. The keynote is “Intolerable pain in lactiferous tubes between the acts of nursing.” It has also “Pain
in nipples on each application of child.” Either breast may be affected, but the right breast and nipple were more affected than the left. The breast and chest symptoms have led to the use of *Phelland. in phthisis and other chest affections, and it is in right-side affections and *Phelland., had done its best work. The cough is continuous and suffocating, the sputa purulent and horribly offensive. There are also offensive eructations, smelling of bed-bugs. There is burning as from vesicles on the tongue, and again the right border is most affected. Nausea, sick, empty, faint felling at epigastrium Burning and stitches. “Desire for acids” is a leading symptom. The headaches and eye- pains are a leading feature of *Phelland. Headaches involving the eyes, with inflammation of the eyes. Heavy headaches, as if a crushing weight were on vertex, as if the head would be drawn back by a weight in the nape. Ciliary neuralgia. Obscured vision. *Phelland. has the sense of enlargement of the head with fullness. Abnormal sleepiness following confinement has been cured by it. Goullon, junr., calls attention to the value of *Phelland. as a cough remedy (H. R., iii. 151). He regards it as a “universal cough remedy,” but particularly useful in phthisic coughs. He gives this case: Mrs. E., of spare build, has almost always a slight cough, and has had repeated attacks of influenza of weeks’ and even months’ duration. Of late she suffers early in the morning with continuous cough for an hour or more accompanied by dyspnoea and prostration. *Phelland. 2x in water, thrice daily, effected a rapid cure. *Phelland. 2x also cured a young teacher who was harassed by a chronic persistent cough. A. J. T. (H. R., i. 170) with *Phelland. 200 removed in an inveterate coffee-drinker this symptom: “In the evening turns purplish-red in the face, with staring eyes and extreme difficulty in breathing.” He found in an old repertory under *Phelland.: “Livid redness of face 7 to 8 p.m.” Ussher (H. W., xxiv. 20) had a patient who suffered from excessive sleepiness after the birth of her last child. She would even go to sleep standing over her washtub. *Phelland O., and later 200, repeated thrice daily, quickly relieved her. *Peculiar sensations are: As if head were moving to and fro. Sound in brain as if striking a piece of silver. As if a stone or lump of lead on vertex. As if a red-hot iron were moved close to left side of neck. As if blood-vessels in whole body were in vibrating motion.Though there were many symptoms of heat and burning, symptoms of coldness are also pronounced. Coldness of head with headache (also sweat with headache), coldness in abdomen, with movements, icy coldness after stool. *Phelland. is suited to: Persons of a feeble, irritable, lymphatic temperament, with weak and deficient nutrition. The symptoms are worse in open air, after dinner, during and after eating, on appearance of menses, sitting, standing, lying down, after spirituous drinks, after drinking water, while swallowing, after stool (coldness in abdomen). better in open air (vertigo and head symptoms), during dinner (headache), eating bread (sore throat), motion, in open air, lying on left side, scratching, rubbing. Chilliness predominates, and the catarrh and asthma of *Phelland. are better in warm and worse in cold seasons. Open air causes sense of intoxication, aggravates vertigo. Worse during increasing moon.
Relations
*Antidoted by: Rheum (diarrhoea). *Compare: Breast symptoms, Conium, Phytolacca, Bryonia, Ol.an. (Ol.an. Has stitches shooting *out, Phelland. stitches shooting *in). Painful nursing, Croton tiglium (pains in breast go through to back when nursing), Bovista (empty feeling). Stitches, K. ca. Headache involving eyes, Onos. Pains in right chest, Zn. (right apex, Calcarea, Arsenicum, right middle, Sepia, right base, Chelidonium, Lachn., K. ca., Sepia, left apex, Arsenicum, left base, Ox. Ac., Sul.). Last stage of phthisis, sputa terribly offensive, Silicea Offensive breath with cough, Caps. Sleepiness, Opium, Nux moschata
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Character sad, anxious, profoundly meditative, sometimes given to extravagant merriment. Peevish arrogance.
Head
Confusion in head, as from intoxication. Heaviness of head, as if too large and too full, as if it would be drawn back by a weight in nape. Vertigo, which almost occasions falling backward, forward, or sideways, especially to side to which one turns in room, worse (sometimes better) in open air, better by lying down. Sound in brain as if one were beating on a metal that was freely swinging, which woke him, after which the sound died away (5 a.m.). Headache, which disappears in open air, and during dinner Headache with perspiration on top of head, fifteen minutes after dinner, soon followed by coldness of the head. Dizzy headache in (left) forehead with increased warmth of head and hands without perspiration. Headache involving nerves going to eyes, crushing feeling on vertex with burning of eyes and lachrymation. Painful heaviness of vertex as if a hard body were lying on it. Pain like weight on vertex with aching, burning, shooting pains in temples. Compressive pain in sides of head. Digging pain in head. Ebullition of blood, with heat and throbbing in head. In occiput: intermitting pressure, burning, constrictive sensation, tearing, burrowing, stitches. Itching, biting like flea-bites in scalp.
Eyes
Itching in eyes. Burning sensation in lids, morning and evening. Frequent twitching of left lids. Twitching of lids, which close easily from a sensation of heaviness and sleepiness. Dryness of eyes, with shooting and burning pain. Frequent tearing in upper right orbital margin in the bone. Ciliary neuralgia, worse attempting to read or sew, fearful intolerance of light, lids swollen and half-closed. Lachrymation, especially in open air. Sight cloudy, as if directed through a fog, worse when looking intently at any object.
Ears
Tearings and boring in ears. Singing and noises in right ear.
Nose
Nostrils red, burning, and (with upper lip) swollen. Itching, confluent vesicles in nostrils. Loss of smell. Coryza, with obstruction of nose, can only breathe through mouth.
Face
Heat in face. Livid redness of face from 7 to 8 p.m. Tension in skin of face. Violent, and almost tearing, quivering in cheek.
Mouth
Toothache with tearing or shooting pain. Gums red, swollen, and painful. Dryness of mouth and throat at night. Increase of frothy saliva in mouth, which it is necessary to expectorate. Burning pain and burning vesicles on tongue (right margin towards lip). Clammy or cheese like taste. Sweetish taste after drinking water. Beer has a bitter taste.
Throat
Sore throat, with pressive and shooting pain when not swallowing, and during empty deglutition, but not when swallowing food.
Stomach
Thirst for milk and for beer, with repugnance to and dread of water. Desire for acid drinks with thirst. Disgust and nausea with inclination to vomit and to eructate. Offensive risings, which have the smell of bugs, or with taste of food. Pain in stomach, as if it were empty. Sensation as if stomach are full of water, that would run up, followed by a sensation as if a large round body were twisting about in stomach, that afterwards fell downward, followed by rumbling in stomach. Burning pain in stomach.
Abdomen
Pinchings in the abdomen. Sensation of coldness in the abdomen, with movements in intestines. Icy coldness in intestines, after stool, after spirituous drinks. Burning extending from abdomen up into stomach, following eructations of the drug. Pinching and cutting pains as if diarrhoea would come on. Cutting and pinching in hypogastrium. Dull stitch in right flank, on bending to that side violent shock in right inguinal region, after dinner. Incarcerated flatus in hypochondria and lumbar region.
Stool and Anus
Hard faeces, with clawing and pressure at anus. Liquid evacuation, with tenesmus, followed by pain as of excoriation in anus. Abundant expulsion of flatus during and after the evacuation. Burning in anus. Itching in anus that becomes a burning after rubbing.
