Lac defloratum – Medicine



Severe pain over eyes, with intense throbbing in both temples, eyes feel as if full of little stones; eyeballs intensely painful, and on shutting eyes, pressure of lids increases pain; edges of lids feel contracted, and convey sensation as of a narrow band drawn tightly across eyeball; pain over left hip; constipation and profuse urination during paroxysm.

Pain commencing in and above inner end of right eyebrow before rising in morning; soon after rising pain passed into eyeball; agg. until afternoon, at which time it became unbearable; agg. by walking and particularly by sitting down, though done carefully, also by heat radiated from fire or stooping, amel. on pressure; pressure on temples disclosed strong pulsation of artery; pain ceased entirely at sunset and did not return till next day. Light did not agg. it. The eye had no unusual appearance. Lac Fel. had no effect. Partial relief by Sol. and Oxygen (cured by Lac Defloratum cm).

Pains so severe that she would bury her eyes in her hands and press them into pillow.

Severe headache for years; severe pain over eyes; intense throbbing in temples.

General sore pain of head produced by coughing.

Throbbing in temples.

American sick headache, with gastric symptoms.

Hurting or pressing headache, in different places at different times; generally worse in occiput.

Pain in forehead.

Severe frontal headache, with intense throbbing in the temples, during nausea, passing away with the nausea and heat, leaving a bruised feeling in the head.

Several frontal headache in the afternoon, passing off during conversation-pain was just above the eyes.

Several frontal headache above the eyes agg. by suddenly moving or stooping, with depression of spirits, and strong inclination to weep; passed away during conversation.

Headache all day, worse in the afternoon.

Headache and depression of spirits, head feels heavy with marked tendency to fall to the right.

In the morning the head felt very heavy, and fell to the right side, the muscles of the neck being unable to hold it erect.

Headache in the afternoon and heaviness in the evening.

Constant dull pain just above the eyes.

Pain in the head most marked over the left eye, and in the temples, occasionally extending into the eyes, and causing profuse lachrymation.

Head feels large as if growing externally (cured).

Flashes of heat in head and face.

Pain in left forehead, over left eye.

Severe headache for years, severe pain over eyes, intense throbbing in temples (cured).

Forehead feels extremely heavy.

Heavy feeling in forehead and eyes.

Headache with pressure on vertex; pain over eyes.

Dull, heavy pain all over temples and forehead and extending to occiput.

Burning in the top of the head.

Sensation in base of brain as if pressure would relieve her.

During the headache, feet and hands cold.

Bruised sensation in head caused by coughing.

Intense, awful, mixed-up, aching, drawing, pulling, stabbing pains, with delirium after the 1M.

Vertigo with nausea and vomiting.

Intense aching pain with soreness and heaviness of the whole head; face deathly pale and dreadful weakness and prostration.

After 10M. in water, repeated at short intervals, a singular sensation of relief commenced at the head and sensibly passed all through her body, as it were in her nerves, and out through her feet. The next morning, after a good night’s sleep, she felt perfectly well, but lazy.

Eyes

      Some photophobia. Sick headache. Pain with twitching in left inner canthus, worse by reading or sewing. (1).

Pain in eyes on first going into the light, soon passing off Objects appeared to move swiftly from left to right, at other times moving as if tossed up from below in every direction (cured).

Pain in eyes on first going into the light. Great pain in eyes on first going into the light; soon passing off; on closing lids on account of the light; pain was felt in eyeballs as if from pressure of lids.

Dim vision, as of a cloud before eyes. Sick headache. Great photophobia, even to light of candle. Sick headache Upper lids feel very heavy; sleepy all day.

Dim vision; can only distinguish light, not objects. Faint spells. Eyes feel as if full of little stones. Headache. Eyeballs intensely painful; and on shutting the eyes, the pressure of the lids increases the pain, causing a painful pressure, and the edges of lids feel contracted laterally and convey the sensation of a narrow band drawn tightly across eyeball. Headache. Photophobia for sunlight, in both eyes; eyes red, lachrymation; left eye more sore than right 16.

C Great dimness of sight. Diabetes. Bright’s disease Cannot endure light. Incipient softening of brain. Profuse lachrymation, caused by a pain in the temples extending into the eyes (cured).

Pain in and above the eyes.

Eyeballs sore.

Blurring before sight preceding an attack of headache (cured).

Ears

      Noise very annoying. Sick headache. C Cannot endure noise or talking of others. Incipient softening of brain. Slight deafness in both ears, 2 or 3 evenings.

Great paleness of ears, face, and lips, principally in morning.

Nose

      During headache, coryza and an apparent tonsillitis. Sick headache. Catarrh in right nostril in afternoon, coming on very suddenly, gone before morning. Catarrh in afternoon in both nostrils. Catarrh of both nostrils lasted till 19th day. Painful pressure and tightness at root of nose, with catarrh; the tightness was cured, but not the catarrh.

Painful dryness of nostrils.

Face

      Face very pale and bluish, with dark depressed circle around eyes. Sick headache.

Face very pale, and eyes look heavy. Headache from suppressed menses. During the whole proving, but especially in morning, or when the headache or nausea prevailed, she was extremely pale, a deathly pallor of face. Flushes of heat in head and face, especially left cheek. During proving, deathly pallor of face, in morning, so marked as to cause inquiry as to reason of it. Very pale, even lips looked white. Sick headache Face pale. Sick headache.Deathly paleness of face on rising in morning. Sick headache.

Very pale, with vertigo. Quininism. Flushed face. Suppressed menses from putting hands in cold water. Pale face in morning; lips and tips of fingers white. O Constipation. Face feels as if the flesh were off the bones, and the edges separated and sticking out. Headache. Pimples on face and forehead. Intermittent fever. Painful dragging sensation in face, or as if something were dragging down his cheeks. Diabetes A. A.

Yellow pasty look of face. Diabetes. A. A.

His extreme nervousness, sleepless nights and general appearance and expression pointed to some deeply-rooted cerebral trouble. Incipient softening of brain. Twitching of muscles of face. A. A.

Eczematous eruption in a dyspeptic sallow woman. A. A.

Wasted, thin and excessively sallow, with dark stains beneath the eyes.

Face, neck, arms and body generally flushed, color of a red rose, with swelling, but no itching or burning.

Lips dry and parched.

Face looked blue during the cold sensation.

Flushes of heat in head and face.

Face flushed, color of a red rose, with swelling (cured).

Mouth

      Tongue dry and cleaves to the roof of the mouth.

White coating all over tongue. Tongue thickly coated at first.

Tongue coated white, moist, no thirst. Sick headache Tongue coated white; feels tasteless. Sick headache. Tongue red and devoid of epithelium.

Bitter disagreeable taste in mouth. Sick headache. Sweet sickening taste in mouth. Mouth very dry. Breathe exhales a sweetish odor.

Breath very offensive. Headache. Tongue coated whitish-yellow. Incipient softening of brain.

Tongue and lining membrane have a dusky red hue, and covered with aphthae at a later period.

Tongue furred white and rough sometimes. A. A.

Dryness of mouth without thirst.

Dryness of mouth, pharynx and nostrils, with insatiable thirst.

Sweet taste in mouth lasted all day.

Nausea rising from the mouth to the stomach.

Mouth clammy and frothy, especially during conversation (cured).

Teeth

      Gums spongy and teeth loose. Diabetes A. A.

C Grinding of teeth when asleep, with pain in stomach, headache and vomiting.

Spongy bleeding condition of the gums and teeth.

Looseness of the teeth, especially of the incisors.

Throat

      Painful dryness of nostrils, pharynx, and mouth; with insatiable thirst for cold water, a second goblet-full being required as soon as the first had been drunk. 2 (after 9 hours, 1st day.) C Globus hystericus; sensation of a large ball rising from a point about lower end of sternum to upper end of esophagus, causing very distressing sense of suffocation. 3. C Sore throat all around, worse when swallowing, with slight hacking cough.

Painful dryness of the pharynx, nostrils and mouth, with insatiable thirst.

Stomach

      Appetite not so good as formerly, everything taste alike. Was unable to go down stairs or eat a particle when brought to her. Felt hungry and faint, but could not eat from loss of appetite; the thought of food nauseated her. Nausea and gagging after rising, the nausea returning several times during day. Violent retching and straining to vomit; but cannot succeed indescribable nausea returning every 6 hours. Empty retching. For a long time the nausea and empty retching returned every morning after rising. Nausea, with occasional vomiting which relieves. Sick headache. Violent retching, seldom vomiting; in last attack could only vomit by putting finger far down throat. Sick headache. 6.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.