ACTEA RACEMOSA



MIND AND SENSORIUM.

Vertigo, impaired vision, dizziness, dullness in the head. Vertigo, fullness, and dull aching in the vertex. Vertigo, anxiety, and great restlessness.

HEAD.

Acute pain generally through the head during the day; at times more severe on the left side. Remittent headache, of long standing, more or less severe every day, but increased every second day. Dullness of the head, and pain in the forehead and occiput. Dull boring pain in the forehead, over the left superciliary ridge continuing for two hours. Pain form the eyes to the top of the head which seemed as if the nerves were excited to too much action, laying three hours. Pain in the forehead; dryness of the pharynx aching in the eyes, apparently between the eye-ball and orbital plain of the frontal bone. The pain in the head is always relieved by the open air. Dr. Mears reports a decided impression on the brain evinced by a distressing pain in the head, and giddiness, with increased force and fullness of the pulse, and flushed face. Dr. Garden had previously mentioned the tendency top affect the brain, somewhat like Digitalis. J.C.P.

EYES.

Aching of the eyes. Aching pain in both eye-balls, rarely in one alone, continuing for three weeks after discontinuing the drug. Pain in the eye-balls; increased secretion of tears; constant dull aching pain in the right eye-ball and across the forehead, accompanied with nausea. Stinging in the eye-lids; dullness and heaviness of the head and eyes, as if produced by cold.

NOSE

Frequent sneezing and fluent coryza during the day. Copious coryza. Fluent coryza, aching and soreness in the nose during the day. Fluent watery coryza; frequent sneezing; soreness in the throat, causing difficulty in swallowing. Very profuse greenish and slightly sanguineous coryza after rising; fullness of the pharynx, and constant inclination to swallow; dullness of the head, and pain in the forehead and occiput.

MOUTH

Offensive breath. Dryness and soreness of the lips. Unpleasant taste in the mouth; accumulation of thick mucus upon the teeth.

THROAT

Dryness of the pharynx, and inclination to swallow. Fullness of the pharynx, and constant inclination to swallow. Soreness of the throat when swallowing; sensation of fullness and stiffness of the neck. Sensation of rawness in the throat; hoarseness, which increased towards night; constant unpleasant fullness in the pharynx. Palate and uvula red and inflamed.

APPETITE AND STOMACH

Eructations and slight nausea. Pain and regurgitation of food after eating. Loss of appetite. Repugnance to food. Nausea and vomiting. Sense of internal tremor in the stomach after breakfast. Faintness in the epigastrium, with repugnance to food. It requires large doses to produce nausea, and then almost only when taken on an empty stomach.

ABDOMEN

Flatulence, causing a sensation of fullness in the abdomen. Rumbling of flatus below the umbilicus. Fullness and pressure in the lower part of the abdomen.

STOOL

Disposition to diarrhoea.

URINE

Increased flow of urine.

LARYNX

Hoarseness. Unpleasant fullness in the pharynx. Constant inclination to cough, caused by a tickling sensation in the larynx, which almost prevents speaking. Short dry cough in the evening, and at night; fluent coryza.

CHEST.

The pain in the head continuing for ten days, followed by coryza, with sore throat, and gradual extension of the disease to the bronchial mucous membrane; dry, short, and hacking cough, night and day, continuing two weeks, which was uncommon; the prover not having had a catarrh or cold for several years. Acute pain in the right lung, extending from apex to base, aggravated by inspiration. Lancinating pain along the cartilages of the false ribs, increased by inspiration. Soreness of the chest. Cold chills and prickling sensation, during the day, in the (female)mammae. Prickling sensation in the breasts.

SUPERIOR AND INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.

Dull pain in the right arm, deep in the muscles, from the shoulder to the wrist. Dr. Garden experienced pains in both the upper and lower extremities, from the use of large doses.

BACK.

Stiffness of the neck. Drawing pain in the lumbar region. Pulsating pains in the region of the kidneys.

SKIN.

Eruption of white pustules, and large red papulae on the face and neck.

FEVER.

Occasional cold chill. (See Vascular System).

SLEEP.

Very restless at night.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.