TAXUS BACCATA


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


INTRODUCTION

TAX.B. Common Yew Tree. See “Bibliot: Hom. de Geneve.”.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

General malaise. Restlessness. Convulsions. Complete sleeplessness.

Yawning, without drowsiness. Feeling of drowsiness. Excessively taciturn. Jaundice. Gangrenous decomposition of the fluids.? Violent narcotic affection of the nervous system.

SKIN

Cutaneous eruptions. Petechiae without fever. p73.

FEVER

Unpleasant dryness and great heat in the palms of the hands. Profuse night-sweat. Fetid sweat.

HEAD

Vertigo. Stupefactions. Pain in the forehead, extending to the face, with drawing in the eyes and profuse lachrymation. Burning headache. Dragging pain from both sides of the head. over the eye-brow, accompanied with luminous circles which are in constant motion.

EYES AND MOUTH

Itching pain of the eyes. Dilatation of the pupils. Bluish lips. Tenacious, burning, saltish saliva, Ptyalism.

APPETITE AND STOMACH

Loathing, sometimes followed by vomiting of mucus or saburra, rarely mixed with bile. Nausea, with profuse secretion of the hot saliva. Painless vomiting. Pain in the pit of the stomach, sensitive to the least pressure. Pinching and burning pressure in the region of the stomach.

ABDOMEN

Dragging and tension across the abdomen. Slight dull pain in the region of the umbilicus.

STOOL

Small evacuation, with Tenesmus. Slight diarrhoea stool, with tenesmus. Diarrhea, with tenesmus and intolerable pain at the anus during and after every evacuation or urging.

URINE AND GENITAL ORGANS

Tenesmus of the bladder, with some burning pain in the urethra. Ischuria. Strangury and reddish urine. Appearance of the catamenia. Discharge of mucus from the vagina.

LARYNX AND CHEST

Violent fatiguing cough. Oppression in the daytime. Sticking in the left side.

BACK

Cutting pain in the sacral region. Cutting pain under the loins.

ARM AND LEGS

Rigidity of the extremities. Numbness and paralysis if the limbs. Acute pains in the knees, elbows, and various parts of the vertebral column. Acute flying pains in the limbs after sweating. Excessively violent cutting pains in both knees. Podagra.

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.