INTRODUCTION
PHEL. – Five-leaved Water Hemlock. See Hartlaub and Trinks’ “Mat. Medorrhinum,” II.
COMPARE WITH
Bryonia, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Stramonium, Sulphur
ANTIDOTES.
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GENERAL SYMPTOMS
Phellandrium is said to irritate the mucous membranes and to increase the action of the skin and urinary organs. Indolence, with languor, and no interest in anything Weariness. Feeling of weakness, particularly in the knees, during rest and motion, after dinner. Sensation in the whole body as if all the vessels were trembling, when sitting or standing.
CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES
The majority of the symptoms seem to come on when sitting, standing, and even lying, and to abate and disappear in the open air.
SLEEP.
Excessive drowsiness during work. Waking after mid night, with anxiety, nausea, loathing, which rises from the abdomen to the stomach. Dreams.
FEVER
Diminished temperature of the body. Coldness and chilliness, with frequent shaking. Shuddering, as if cold water were poured over him. Agreeable warmth in the whole body.
MORAL SYMPTOMS
Insolence. Vexed mood. Sad and apprehensive mood. Oppressive anxiety and ill-humor, with tightness about the chest.
HEAD
Vertigo and heaviness of the head. Vertigo, aggravated by walking. Cloudiness and intoxication of the head, in the open air. The head feels large, full, and heavy. Violent, painful, long continued heaviness on the vertex. Constrictive pain in both sides of the head, with dull headache. Dull headache, particularly in the anterior part of the head. Increased warmth in the head, with stupid feeling. The headache seems to abate in the open air.
EYES.
Intermittent pressure around both eyes. The eye-lids close with heaviness and drowsiness. Lachrymation in the room and open air.
EARS
Frequent painful tearing deep in the ear.
NOSE
Red, burning nostrils, swollen, attended with coryza and hoarseness. Complete loss of smell. Fluent coryza and hoarseness.
FACE.
Burning on the cheeks, with redness of the face.
JAWS AND TEETH.
Redness and swelling of the gums of the lower cuspidati, with ulcerative pain on pressing upon them.
MOUTH
Great dryness in the mouth and throat, rendering deglutition difficult, at night.
THROAT
Roughness in the throat, with hoarseness and shortness of breath, continuing a long time. Burning sensation down the oesophagus. Sore throat.
APPETITE
Slimy taste. Want of hunger, sensation as if the stomach were full all the time, loathing of food.
STOMACH
Sensation as if an acrid, rough vapor were ascending from the stomach. Sensation of qualmishness and emptiness in the stomach. Nausea, loathing and inclination to vomit in the stomach. Pinching and cutting in the region of the stomach. Long- continued burning in the stomach. Indescribable disagreeable feeling in the stomach.
ABDOMEN
The abdomen feels bloated. Dull sticking above the pit of the stomach, independent of breathing. Sudden painful pinching and contraction, particularly around the umbilicus. Pinching and cutting in the abdomen, as previous to diarrhoea. Burning from the abdomen to the stomach, followed by eructations tasting of the ingesta. Qualmish feeling in the abdomen.
STOOL.
Liquid stool, with subsequent tenesmus and soreness at the anus. Stool, with flatulence and pinching in the abdomen, and succeeded by tenesmus of the anus.
URINE
Urging to urinate, with scanty emission and violent burning after micturition. Pale and watery, almost greenish urine.
GENITAL ORGANS.
Itching of the prepuce. Cessation of the menses. Premature menses. Appearance of the menses with; languor, yawning, violent pain as if bruised on the inner surface of both thighs, very painful when sitting, standing, walking, and lying.
LARYNX
Hoarseness. Cough, with mucus and hawking at night. Dry suffocative cough and short breathing.
CHEST
Oppression of the chest in walking. Pointed stitches in the region of the heart, with drawing.
BACK
Bruised pain in the small of the back when sitting, relieved by walking. Twitching between the shoulders on the cervical vertebrae.
ARMS
Lacerating in the shoulders and arms.
LEGS
Sensation in the knees as if blood would accumulate there, almost like burning.
