SENNA


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


INTRODUCTION

SENN – See Hahnemann’s “Organon” and “Lexicon for Pharmaceutists.”.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Rushes of blood, particularly at night, disturbing sleep. Sleeplessness, with cries and restless turning (particularly in the case of infants).

HEAD

Headache on stooping. Pain in the nape of the neck on raising the head. The corners of the mouth are covered with burning vesicles.

STOMACH, ABDOMEN, AND STOOL

Loss of appetite. Thirst. Empty or watery eructations, having a bad taste. Loathing and nausea, as if one would vomit. Colicky pains. Colicky pains. Feeling of coldness in the abdomen, with emptiness and sickness of the stomach. Rumbling and fermentation in the abdomen, with emission of foetid flatulence. Diarrhoeic stools, followed by tenesmus and burning at the anus. Heat, pinching in the abdomen, spasmodic incarceration of flatulence, painful colic from incarceration of flatulence. Feeling of warmth in the stomach, pinching in the bowels, flatulence, and yellow stools, no constipation after the diarrhoea.

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.