PIMPINELLA


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


INTRODUCTION

PIMPIN.

Pimpinella Saxifraga, L. Pimpernel. Pimpinel.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Constant pain, contractive pressure in various parts. Languor and general feeling of exhaustion. Painful weariness of the limbs during rest.

SKIN.

Itching on the vertex.

SLEEP.

Irresistible drowsiness. (restless sleep, disturbed with dreams.).

FEVER.

Great sensitiveness to cool air. Unusual chilliness through the whole body.

HEAD.

Violent vertigo. Giddiness and dullness of the head. Heaviness in the head when reading, and disposition to sleep. Dullness of the head, as if senseless and stupefied. Constant dull aching in the occiput. Buzzing in the whole head, with pressure, which increases by the buzzing. Heat, rushing of the blood, and cloudiness of the head.

EYES.

Sore pain of the eye-lids. Burning of the eyes. Disagreeable coolness in the eyes. Dimness of the eyes and indistinct sight. Mistiness before the eyes.

EARS.

Fine stitches in the ear, accompanied with buzzing. Sensation in the ear as from distant noise.

NOSE.

Dry, stopped nose. General catarrhal fever, with languor and painful weariness.

FACE.

Pains as of an ulcer in the cheek.

MOUTH.

Burning aromatic feeling on the tongue, palate, and in the throat. Acrid, burning, somewhat bitter, earthy taste in the mouth and fauces.

STOMACH.

Insipid eructation, with pressure at the stomach. Sourish eructation. Sensation of heaviness in the praecordial region and the abdomen.

CHEST.

Oppressive anxiety in the chest.

BACK.

Contractive pain in the small of the back, particularly when stooping. Burning pain the small of the back and loins. Tensive pain, particularly in the small of the back. Pain as if broken around the hips and pelvis.

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.