MEPHITIS PUTORIUS


MEPHITIS PUTORIUS symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy MEPHITIS PUTORIUS…


INTRODUCTION

MEPHIT. Viverra Putorius, North American Skunk. See Nordameric journal. Duration of Action; short.

ANTIDOTE.

Camphor relieves the pains for a short time.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Rheumatic pains of various kinds. Erratic pains, with desire to urinate. Paralytic feeling, particularly during the pains. Uneasiness in the whole body, with excessively disagreeable feelings. Fine, nervous vibrations, reaching to the interior of the bones, and causing a good deal of anxiety. Greatest languor and weariness with pain of the muscles when touched or moved. Inclination to stretch one’s self, with indisposition to do anything.

CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES.

During the first days the symptoms frequently alternate with their opposites, or with entirely different symptoms, after which they become more permanent, until the disappear entirely in a few weeks.

SKIN.

Itching of the hairy scalp, face, and chin. Pimples on the thighs, forehead, lower jaw, back, and nates.

SLEEP.

Frequent yawning, with lachrymation. Drowsiness in the daytime. Wakes in the night, with congestion of blood to the legs. Nightmare. Vivid dreams. Overwhelmed with sleep.

FEVER.

Coldness in the evening, with desire to urinate and colic. Warmth of the head, genital organs, and legs, at night.

MORAL SYMPTOMS.

Nervous excitement, with warmth of the head.

SENSORIUM AND HEAD.

Dullness, with sensation as if the head became larger, accompanied with ill-humor and nausea. Vertigo. Violent headache, like a fullness pressing upwards. Pain above the eyes. Heaviness and dull pressure.

EYES.

Pain of the eyes on turning them. Pain as if something had lodged in the eyes. Pain of the eyes, as from over-exertion. Prickings in the eyes. Heat, burning, and burning pressure in the eyes, particularly morning and evening. Redness of the conjunctiva, as if suffused with blood. Inability to read fine print. The weakness of sight is generally accompanied with pain in the head and eyes.

EARS AND NOSE.

Lacerating in the ear, jaw, and teeth. Erysipelas of the ear, with itching, heat, redness, and blisters. Dry nose. Bleeding from the nose.

TEETH.

Sudden jerks in the roots of the teeth. Lacerating and drawing in the teeth.

APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

Coppery taste in the mouth. no appetite in the morning. After a meal; bruised feeling and drowsiness. Eructations. Nausea, with scraping of the palate. Nausea, with emptiness of the stomach, and sensation as if the head were distended.

STOMACH AND ABDOMEN.

Pressure in the stomach and colic. Pain in the region of the liver. Rheumatic pain in the region of the liver. Pressure and writhing sensation in the abdomen, as from a cold, with pressure on the bladder, feeling of coldness and shaking, relieved near the warm stove.

STOOL AND URINE.

Stool rare, but thin. Turbid urine, in the morning, after the evening fever.

GENITAL ORGANS.

Warmth of the sexual organs. Itching of the scrotum. Soreness f of the female parts, and swelling of the labia.

LARYNX.

Cough, with fluent coryza and soreness in the chest, when reading loud.

CHEST.

Pain in the chest, in the region of the last true ribs, when touching or pressing the parts, particularly when coughing or sneezing. Soreness in the region of the last ribs, and in the chest, from below and upwards, on taking a deep inspiration and moving the back.

BACK.

Weariness in the small of the back, early in the morning. Pain in the back and the limbs, with lameness. Stitches in the spinal column, during motion.

ARMS.

Laming, drawing, rheumatic pains in the arms, relieved by motion. Lacerating and bruised feeling in the bones.

LEGS.

Drawing, rheumatic pains in the lower limbs, from the hip to the foot. The knees feel bruised. Stitches in the foot. Arthritic pain in the heel.

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.