DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA



Shooting pain in the teeth, in the morning, after warm drinks.

(Looseness of the teeth.)

Sensation of coldness in the crown of an incisor (aft. 56 h.). [Gn.]

80. Fine pricking pricks on the dorsum of the tongue (aft. 25 h.). [Gn.]

On the tip of the tongue there appears a whititsh ulcer.

Shooting smarting pain in right side and tip of the tongue. [Gn.]

A small, round, painless swelling in the middle of the tongue (aft. 48 h.).

Smarting pain on the inside of the left cheek (as from pepper) (aft. 2 h.). [Gn.]

85. Copious discharge of watery saliva – water-brash.

Lips always dry and little taste.

Thirst.

Food is quite without any taste for him.

Bread tastes bitter.

90. In the morning, bitter taste in the mouth until he dines.

On the soft palate and deep down in the fauces, a rough, scraping dry sensation, which causes short cough. [Ws.]

Creeping, smarting sensation in the fauces, on the right side, when not swallowing (aft. 35 h.).[Gn.]

(Frequently during the day ravenous hunger, without appetite; when he thought he had appeased it, it returned after one and a half or two hours.)

Frequent hiccup (aft. 28 h.). [Lr.]

95. Something bitter rises from the stomach and comes into his mouth.

Something bitter and sour rises from the stomach and comes into his mouth.

(Nausea comes on by mere imagination.)

After a meal nausea with inclination to vomit.

Nausea with aching stupefying pain in the head, especially in the forehead (aft. 4 h.). [Lr.]

100. Nocturnal vomiting.

Vomiting before dinner.

In the morning, vomiting, mostly bile.

Vomiting of blood.

Shooting and throbbing in the scrobiculus cordis.

105. Squeezing tension in the scrobicukus cordis, as if all were drawn inwards there, especially on inspiring deeply (aft. 10 h.). [Ws.]

Fine, transient clutching together in the scorbiculus cordis (aft. 4 h.). [Ws.]

The region below the ribs (hypochondria) is painful on being touched and when coughing, and when he coughs he must pess on the spot with his hand, in order to mitigate the pain.

Tensive pain in the epigastrium before and after stool, when he kept in his breath; he felt nothing when inspiring and when expiring; when sitting and stooping the pain in the epigastrium becomes very violent; the stool is softer than usual (aft. 50 h.). [Gn.]

From the right side of the abdomen an obtuse drawing stitch darted across to the left side, which almost took away his breath, when walking (aft. 5 d.). [Gn.]

110. Pinching and clawing in the abdomen, with diarrhoea.

A twisting pain in the abdomen.

A shooting in the right side of the abdomen, when sitting.

Cutting in the abdomen (aft. 3 h.).

Nipping, cutting pinching in the abdomen, as if caused by displaced flatulence (aft. 13 h.). [Lr.]

115. Cutting blows in the abdominal and pectoral muscles, more severe when sitting than when moving (aft. 8 h.). [Ws.]

Boring stitches in the right side of the abdominal integuments (aft. 13 h.). [Gn.]

Obtuse stitch in the right side of the abdominal integuments (aft. 13 h.). [Gn.]

Obtuse in the right iliac foss (aft. 51 h.).[Gn.]

Out-pressing pain in thr rectum, independent of stool (aft. 6 h.). [Gn.]

Cutting in the abdomen, not followed by stool (aft. 5 h.). [Gn.]

120. Frequent stools, with cutting in the abdomen.

Bloody mucus comes away with the stool, followed by pains in the abdomen and pain in the sacrum.

The first days thin stool, then somewhat harder, but after the evacuatoin there remained still fruitless call to stool.

A stool always becoming softer as it passes (aft. 1 h.). [Gn.]

Stool consisting of much pappy faeces (aft. 14 h.). [Lr.]

125. Scanty stool of hard faeces, with pressing (aft. 38 h.). [Lr.]

Watery, inodorous urine, with white, slimy foetid stools (aft. 24 h.).

Frequent urging to urinate, with very scanty urine, often onlu passed by drops (aft. 2 h.). [Lr.]

Diuresis. [NICOKAUS, (Observation.) in Vicat, l. c.]

Frequent copious flow of urine, all day (aft. 48 h.). [Lr.]

130. Itching obtuse prick in the glans penis, lasting some minutes (aft. 33 h.). [Gn.]

Crawling sensation in the right nostril, provoking sneezing (aft. 26 h.). [Gn.]

Frequent sneezing, with or without fluent coryza (aft. 13, 24 h.).

Painful sneezing and a cough, during which he must support the chest with his hand laid on it.

Severe fluent coryza, especially in the morning. [Lr.]

135. When coughing, pain in the hypochondria, as if that region were forcibly constricted.

Pain across the lower part of the chest and hypochondria.

Across the chest a violent pain when sitting, also independently of the cough, which is composed more of pressure than shooting, and goes off on moving; the part also aches when touched.

The region beneath the short ribs (hypochondria) suffers from a contractive pain, which hinders the cough; he cannot cough on account of pain unless he presses his hand on the scrobiculus cordis.

Deep breathing.

Dyspnoea.

Tightness of chest, especially whenever he speaks, even at every word – the throat was contracted; he felt no tightness of chest when walking.

Crawling in the larynx, which provokes coughing, with sensation as if of a soft body was located there, with fine shooting therein to the right side of the gullet (aft. 4 d.). [Gn.]

Deep down in the fauces (and on the soft palate) a rough, scraping sensation of dryness exciting short cough, with yellow slimy expectoration and hoarseness of the voice (Very similar to this must be the state, where, in some kinds of so-called laryngeal phthisis (provided that no specific cachexy of a syphilitic, psoric &c. kind is at te bottom of it), sundew is so peculiarly useful. This plant also excites a very violent cough in sheep (See BORRICHIUS, in Actea Hafne., vol. iv, p. 162). Several of the older physicians found this plant useful in some kinds of malignant cough, and in the phthisical persons, thus confirming its (homoeopathic) medicinal power; but the moderns (vide MURRAY, Apparat. Medorrhinum, vol. iii, p. 501), in contornity with their anthipathic theories, warned against its use in account of its supposed acridity.) , so that it is only with an effort that he can speak in a deep bass tone; at the same time he feels an oppression of the chest, as if something there kept back the air when he coughed and spoke, so that the breath could not be expelled (lasting several days). [Ws.]

Cough coming from quite deep down in the chest.

145. Cough, the impulses of which follow one another so violently, that he can hardly get his breath.

Cough in the evening, immediately after lying down.

Nocturnal cough.

He wakes up at night (about 2 a.m.) for a short time to cough and then falls asleep again.

In the evening, while lying in bed, when he breathes out, a sudden contraction of the hypogastrium, which makes him heave as though he could vomit, and excites coughing.

150. The cough, when expectoration did not properly occur, affected the abdomen, like a clawing together and retching.

The cough makes him like to vomit.

On coughing, he vomits water, mucus and food.

On coughing, the breath he brings up from his lungs has a smell of burning.

Cough in the morning with expectorat.

155. (The taste of what he coughs and hawks up is salt.)

What is coughed up in the morning tastes bitter.

What is coughed up has a disgusting taste in the morning – not during the day.

Shooting in the chest when coughing.

From the morning onwards, intolerable stitches when coughing and breathing deeply in the upper part of the side of the chest, near the axilla, which is somewhat alleviated only by pressing the hand on the painful part – with expectoration intimately mixed with blood, and coloured red; but the part is not painful to external touch (aft. 24 h.).

160. Haemoptysis.

When coughing and breathing, stitches in the pectoral muscles.

A burning rough sensation deep down in the throat, immediately after dinner (aft. 29 h.). [Gn.]

Tensive pain in the pectoral muscles, lasting several hours, when inspiring and expiring (aft. 8 h.). [Gn.]

Burning sensation in the middle of the chest, without thirst (aft. 4 h.). [Gn.]

165. Creeping sensation in the left costal mucles, with a pressing headache in both temples, especially the right (aft. 8.1/2 h.). [Gn.]

A hot, obtuse stitch in the muscles of the right true ribs, continuing on inspiration and expiration. [Gn.]

Obtuse stitches in the left costal muscles, so violent that they almost take away his breath, continuing on inspiration and expiration (aft. 3 d.). [Gn.]

Itching stitch in the coccyx, when sitting (aft. 29 h.). [Gn.]

On walking quickly, a clawing-together pinching in the left lumbar region, which tightens the breath, relieved by pressing with the hand (aft. 1 h.). [Ws.]

170. Drawing stitch in the left loin down into the penis (aft. 6 h.). [Gn.]

Shooting tearing from the spine to the anterior process of the left os ilii, when sitting (aft. 8 h.). [Ws.]

An obtuse stitch in the left dorsal muscles (aft. 12 h.). [Gn.]

Here and there pain in the back as if bruised.

The back is painful as if it were beaten (broken on the wheel), in the morning (aft. 12 h.).

175. Drawing pain in the back and shoulders, when at rest and when moving (aft. 6 h.). [Fr.H-n.]

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.