Taraxacum


Taraxacum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe…


      Common name: Dandelion; (G.) Lowenzahn.

Introduction

Taraxacum Dens-leonis, Desf. (Leontodon Taraxacum, Linn.)

Natural order: Compositae.

Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant just before the perfection of the flower.

Mind

Talkativeness and incessant prattling. Religious, pious mood, happy, contented with himself and his condition. Very much inclined to laugh. Without occupation he is quite gloomy; does not know what to do, and cannot make up his mind to do anything.

Ill-humored, in the morning, and disinclined to any occupation or to talking (after twenty-five hours). Irresolution and dread of work, though it progresses well as soon as he undertakes it.

Head

Vertigo. Vertigo, with insecure step, as if he would fall forward, when walking in the open air (after ten hours).

Vertigo, as if intoxicated, when walking in the open air; the head fell now to the left, now to the right side (after two hours and a half). Great dizziness and dulness in the head; he seemed to reel, as if dizzy, when walking in the open air. General Head. Heaviness of the head, with heat and redness of the face.

In the head, a sensation composed of pressure and itching. A sensation in the head as if the brain were constricted by a soft pressure from all sides. Pressive headache, from within outward (after two hours and a half). Burning pressive headache, extending upward. Forehead. At one time contraction and whirling, like vertigo, in the forehead, above the nose; at another time sensation as if the brain were distended here and there, painless. Drawing-pressive pain on the frontal bone, while standing. Pressive pain in the forepart of the head, extending outward towards to forehead. Pressive stupefying pain in the forehead, as after intoxication (after one hour).

Constant pressive pain in the forehead, while sitting, so that while reading he lost his senses and did not know where he was, associated with nausea; only relieved in the open air (after one hour and three-quarters). Pressive crawling pain in the forehead, extending from the middle of it, as if from something alive, frequently, when walking in the open air (after four hours). Severe frontal headache. Dull sticking pressure in the forehead (after half an hour). Tearing stitches in the left side of the forehead, in quick succession. Sharp stitches, externally, in the left side of the forehead, not relieved by pressure (after thirteen hours). Temples. Pressive pain in the right temple (after thirty-five hours). Drawing pain in the left temple, while sitting, ceasing while walking and standing (after five hours). A constant violent stitch in the left temporal region, while walking in the open air, which was relieved by standing (after thirty-eight hours). Needle like stitches in the left temple, while sitting, which ceases while standing (after one hour and a half). Drawing pressive headache in the temples.

Parietal. A constant sticking pain in the left side of the head, lasting six hours. Occiput. Heaviness in the occiput, which always disappears on stooping, and returns on rising and holding the head erect, when it is worse. Pressure and heaviness in the occiput, after lying down (after nine hours and a half). Tearing pains in the occiput, while walking, which disappears on standing still. Sticking tearing in the occiput behind the right ear.

External head. The anterior portion of the scalp is tense, as if drawn tightly over the vertex. Tearing, externally, in the occiput, while walking.

Eyes

A kind of ophthalmia; the eyes cannot endure the light and constantly water, with pressure in the right upper lid, as from something which he ineffectually attempted to wipe away. Sharp sticking pain in the right eye. Lids. Eyes agglutinated, in the morning on waking, for several days. Hard mucus in the eyes, more in the morning than during the day. Sharp pressure, as from a grain of sand, in the right inner canthus, with a feeling as if the lids were swollen. Fine sticking-burning in both eye-lids (after half and hour). Ball. Violent burning in the right eyeball, towards the inner canthus. Burning sticking in the left eyeball, towards the external canthus (after half an hour).

Burning in the left eyeball (after eleven hours and a half).

Sticking-burning pain in the left eyeball (after twenty-hours).

Pupil. Pupils dilated (after twenty-six hours). Pupils contracted (after four hours).

Ear

Tearing in the outer meatus auditorius, and sharp pressure behind the ramus of the lower jaw. Drawing pain in the outer ear (after five hours). Pressure inward, within the left ear.

Itching-burning sticking in the right ear. Sticking, from within outward, in the right ear, which always extended again inward.

Stitches behind the ear, with tearing pain down the side of the neck. (Difficulty of hearing, as from stoppage of the ears, in the evening; he hears indistinctly). Chirping, like grasshoppers, in the left ear (after thirty-three hours).

Nose

Frequent sneezing, while waking in the open air (after four and twenty-eight hours). Nosebleed, from the left nostril, twice at noon, before dinner (after thirty hours).

Face

Sharp pressure in the right cheek (after half an hour). A pressive stitch in the cheek. Cracking in the middle of the upper lip (after six hours).

Mouth

Teeth. Blood flowed from the hollow teeth of the right side (and had a sour taste). Aching pain, like blows, in two incisors, more in the crowns. A feeling as if the teeth were on edge, as from acid fruit, while chewing food (after thirty-seven hours).

Drawing pain in the right hollow teeth, which extends into the cheeks and as far as the brow. Tongue. Tongue thickly coated on the back part with a yellowish-brown fur. Tongue coated white (after two hours and three-quarters). Tongue covered with white coating, which gradually peels off in spots (after eleven hours and a half). Tongue covered with a white film, with a sensation of rawness in it; afterwards this film comes off in pieces, leaving dark red, and very sensitive spots (after thirty-four hours). Tongue brown and very dry, in the morning on waking.

Burning stitches in the left side of the tongue (after nine hours). Mouth. Suppurating pimple in the right corner of the mouth (after forty-nine hours). Saliva. Collection of sour- tasting water in the mouth. Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, and a feeling as if the larynx were compressed (after thirty-one hours). Taste. A bitter taste arises from the pharynx into the mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth, before eating, but food has a natural taste. Smoking tobacco is not relished; it causes burning in the throat, almost like heartburn, and takes away the breath; on drinking it disappears. Meat, but especially gravy from the roast beef, has a very sour taste when it comes in contact with the tip of the tongue. Butter has a disagreeable taste on the tip of the tongue, a salty sour; tastes as usual on the palate. The mucus hawked up tastes very sour and sets the teeth on edge (after three and four hours).

Throat

Dryness of the throat, in which there was a circumscribed ring of inflammation surrounding the isthmus faucium. Dryness and stitches in the throat. Tickling irritation to hacking cough, in the region of the pit of the throat; he always had a few minutes warning of the paroxysm, but was never able to suppress it (after forty hours). Dry sensation in the fauces, with bitter mucus, which made the voice husky. Sharp pressure on the anterior wall of the pharynx and larynx, when not swallowing, which provokes cough, but disappears on swallowing. Swallowing difficult; a kind of pressure, as from internal swelling, in the throat.

Acute pain in the region below the parotid gland, and in the cervical muscles, and extending from the sternum to the mastoid process, on moving the jaw and neck.

Stomach

Bitter eructations and hiccough. Empty eructations, especially after drinking, for several days (after half an hour).

Some nausea (after three days). Nausea, associated with anxiety, while sitting, disappearing while standing (after two hours and a half). Qualmishness and nausea, in the pharynx (after two hours and three-quarters). Nausea, as from overloading with fat food, he thought he would vomit, with pressive stupefying pain in the forehead, only relieved in the open air (after one hour and three-quarters). Rumbling in the umbilical region, towards the left side. Tension in the pit of the stomach and pressure in the ensiform cartilage, while stooping.

Abdomen

Boring pain, extending from within outward, in the region of the navel, extending towards the right side. Pressive pain in the left side of the abdomen. Constant pressive stitches in the left side of the abdomen (after twenty-four, and thirty-hours).

Violent stitch in the side of the abdomen, lasting a minute.

Tense pressive stitches in the right side of the abdomen.

Painless movements and rumbling in the abdomen. Griping in the abdomen (after one hour and a quarter). Colic; griping in the abdomen, followed by emission of flatus (after three and sixteen hours). Tensive pain in the region of the diaphragm, during violent inspiration (after eleven hours). Stitches in the right side of the diaphragm, when lying upon that side. Itching- sticking pain in the right abdominal muscles. Single, violent, sharp stitches, partly in the left upper abdomen, partly in the left or right side of the abdomen, partly also in the lower abdomen (after fourteen and thirty-one hours). A sudden persistent motion in the lower abdomen, as if bubbles formed and burst (after five hours and a half). Painless bubbling in the muscles of the left lower abdomen. Burning stitches in the left lower abdomen, extending towards the genitals (after twenty-five hours). Painful sensation, as if sprained, in the left groin, when walking, somewhat relieved when standing and on pressure (after six hours).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.