Lac defloratum – Medicine



Loss of appetite, the smell or thought of food nauseates. Sick headache. Can neither eat nor drink during attacks. Sick headache. 6. o Deathly nausea and vomiting, the nausea usually lasting 3 or 4 days. Sick headache.

Sense of deathly sickness, and frequent vomiting of green watery bitter fluid and slime. Sick headache. Deathly sickness at stomach. Diabetes mellitus..

Vomits some, but retches more; nausea all the time.o Sick headache. Great thirst. Sick headache. Slight nausea at stomach-pit. Sick headache. Deathly sickness all over, with nausea and vomiting; worse by movement or rising up in bed. Sick headache. Nausea in morning. Sick headache. Great thirst; wants to drink all the time, and takes a glassful at a drink. Appetite entirely gone. Headache. Nausea. Headache. Threatened premature labor. Nausea and sometimes vomiting upon rising in morning, or from a recumbent position at any time during day or evening, or upon moving. Sick headache. C Excessive thirst for large quantities and often. Sick headache.

Deathly sickness, with or without vomiting. Constipation. Inability to drink milk without sick headache. Voluminous tasteless eructations soon after the dose (10M.).

Intense thirst. Diabetes Voracious appetite. Diabetes. C Much dyspepsia, and a feeling as though he would burst after taking food. Bright disease.

C Indigestion, with distressing flatulency, severe palpitation, difficult breathing, and great giddiness, so that she could with difficulty walk across the room. Bright disease. A. A.

Invaluable in functional derangements and diseases of the gastric and intestinal organs, especially in certain forms of diarrhoea, hypochondriasis and diarrhea; also in cases of catarrh, and ulceration of the stomach. A.A.

Little or no appetite, but not much thirst. o Incipient softening of the brain. 20.

Sour eructations.

Violent pain in epigastric region and left side below ribs. A.A.

Incessant vomiting, which had not relation to her meals. A.A.

Cramps in epigastric region. A. A.

Violent pain in stomach-pit; seldom lower, brought on by fatigue. A. A.

Much wind and acidity of stomach, without tenderness. A. A.

Vomiting, first of ingesta, undigested, intensely acid, then of bitter water, and lastly of a brownish clot; which in water separated and looked like coffee-grounds, without odor, but of bitter taste.

Deathly nausea, cannot vomit, with groans and cries and great distress, great restlessness with sensation of coldness, although the skin was hot; pulse normal.

Morning sickness during pregnancy, deathly sickness at stomach on waking, vertigo and water brash on rising, constipation.

C Chronic gastro-enteritis with chronic diarrhoea and vomiting.

A.A.

During headache, nausea, some retching more.

Nausea and frequent vomiting of greenish watery bitter fluid, during the headache. Bloating in epigastric region, with asthma, so that he could scarcely breathe, followed by hard pressive pain about the 4th cervical vertebra-had only been temporarily relieved by a movement of the bowels. Great thirst, wants, to drink all the time, wants a goblet full at a time; dryness of the mouth (cured).

Insatiable thirst for cold water, a second goblet being required as soon as the first has been drunk.

Sweet taste in mouth.

Nausea, or a deathly feeling of sickness at stomach, recurring every six hours, and continuing about one hour; the nausea rose from stomach to mouth, occasioning belching of bitter flatus which momentarily relieved it; eating did not produce or affect the nausea, the periodical recurrence having apparently no reference to anything else; the periodical recurrence continued for three days; she described the nausea as a deathly sickness throughout whole body; she did not vomit, it being extremely difficult to cause it in her even with an emetic; during the nausea there was great internal heat, also severe frontal headache with intense throbbing in temples; the nausea, heat, and headache passed away simultaneously, leaving a bruised feeling in head. Nausea was so unbearable that she discontinued the medicine. Faintness with the nausea. Great thirst, wants to drink continually, but little at a time. Great thirst, drinking followed by a chill. Very little appetite. Nausea during evening.

In morning, faint hollow sensation in stomach, attended with slight nausea, passing off on going into open air. C Soon after being put to bed, vomited ingesta, and afterwards mucus and bitter water. Sick headache. C Awful deathly sick feeling in stomach-pit, without retching or vomiting, worse by rising in bed. Sick headache. Great internal heat during the nausea.

During the nausea severe frontal headache, with intense throbbing.

Deathly sickness, without retching or vomiting, so dreadful and unbearable that the proving had to be discontinued.

Nausea momentarily relieved by belching of bitter flatus.

Nausea and vomiting, and a sensation of deathly sickness, agg. by movement or rising in bed.

Nausea and vomiting, followed by a deathly sick feeling, without either nausea or vomiting, intensified by sitting up in bed.

Sickness described as awful.

Dyspepsia (cured).

Indigestion, and a feeling as if he would burst after taking food.

Faintness and nausea when stepping upon the floor in the morning. (Cured)..

Abdomen

      C Bearing down pain in abdomen and back. After suppressed menses. Sensation of weight and dragging in left side of pelvis; worse next day. Weight and dragging in left side of pelvis, with a burning sensation of pain, relieved somewhat by leaning to right side, increased by pressure of the clothes, or even the hand or arm resting on it.

Drawing pains, with heat, across lower abdomen and bearing down. Sick headache. Cannot bear pressure of arm or hand on abdomen. o Sick headache.

Great fatigue from walking, on account of heaviness as of a stone in abdomen. Sick headache. Abdomen very sore and sensitive to touch. Pain over left hip. Headache. Sensation as if abdomen were full of water, catching the breath like a spasm. Drawing pains across uterine region, with heat and pressive bearing-down in both ovarian regions; cannot bear pressure of hand or arm on abdomen; intense distress in lower part of abdomen during menses, not relieved by any position; violent inflammation in ilio-cecal region, with intense pain, swelling, tenderness, fecal accumulation, and violent vomiting.

C Chronic gastritis and enteritis. Symptoms, chronic diarrhoea and vomiting.

C Severe pain across the umbilicus with headache.

Flatulence.

Constant pain in frontal region; nausea in morning deathly paleness of face on rising in morning, aching pains in wrists and ankles; puffy swelling under malleoli, drawing pains, with heat across lower abdomen and bearing down; frequent scanty pale urine; pressing bearing down in both ovarian regions; cannot bear pressure of hand or arm on abdomen; slight yellowish leucorrhea; great lassitude and disinclination to exertion; depression of spirits, does not care to live; questions as to quickest and most certain mode of hastening one’s death. For years has been subject to attacks of bloating in the epigastric region, attended with asthma, so that he could scarcely breathe (cured).

Stool

      No stool for first four days. Rectum feels impacted with feces, but is unable to eject them Bowels partly moved, but with much straining and some laceration of anus stool being very large and hard.

Bowels again moved, but with the same laceration as anus, stool being very large and hard; the pain while passing stool extorted cries; passed considerable blood with stool. The constipation was so intense that she took one dose of Nux vomica 15 m. (Fincke) with immense relief in 24 hours. C Habitually costive; stools large. Sick headache. Alternate diarrhoea and constipation, the latter predominating. Sick headache. Constipation for 4 days; stool dry, hard, and passed in small lumps with much pain; smarting of anus after stool.

C Constipation. Headache. Threatened premature labor. Great constipation. Sick headache.

Very severe constipation for 15 years; has been in the habit of taking 10 or 12 enemas every day, and often passed 4 or 5 weeks without stool. In higher potencies it has a very powerful action on the liver, as evinced by the white faces. (Swan’s observation).

Causes constipation in most cases of diabetes, rarely diarrhoea.

A. A.

Constipation set in and lasted a week. Stool dry, hard, and passed in small lumps, with much pain and smarting in anus after stool.

During the constipation was constantly cold, so that she looked blue, hands and chest felt cold as if dead, additional clothing or sitting by a stove failed to warm her. Was awakened in the night by the cold.

Constipation (cured).

Is generally constipated, and when it is most persistent is very chilly and cannot get warm (cured).

Frequent but ineffectual urging to stool, had one natural stool daily without urging.

Constipation with chronic headache.

Constipation with extremely tough salmon colored stools.

Constipation simply unconquerable by any constant treatment.

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.