MOSCHUS



55. Itching prick in the right side of the abdomen under the short ribs; the itching continues after the prick has gone and compels him to rub. [Gss.]

Single violent stitches in the umbilical region, deep in, especially when inspiring (aft. ½ h.). [Stf.]

Clutching together by jerks above the navel, that takes away his breath. [Stf.]

Pain in the umbilical region. [MORGEUSTERN, l. c.]

In the right side of the abdomen, below the navel simple pain. [Gss.]

60. She feels too tight in the abdomen, without pain, with anxiety; so that she cannot do any work nor remain in one place, but must run about; she ran to several of her acquaintances, but remained with none above a few minutes (immediately). [Fr.H-n.]

Loud rumbling without cessation in the abdomen, with flatulence sufferings; it ceases after a meal, and even while eating. [Gss.]

Diarrhoea. [MORGENSTERN, l. c.]

He has urging to evacuation of flatus and stool; the stool is natural; before but not with the latter, a little flatus is expelled. [Gss.]

Constipation for several days. [Fr.H-n.]

65. Formication at the orifice of the rectum, which goes off on rubbing. [gss.]

It seems to excite the sexual desire. [Gss.]

Excitation of the sexual desire. [VOGEL, Hist. Mat. Medorrhinum, p. 356. (Observations.) – PIDERIT, Pharm. Rat., p. 268. (General statement.) ]

Exalted sexual power in a weak old man. [WEICKHARD, Medorrhinum Pract. Handbuch, Heilbronn und Rothenb., 1798, 1799. (66, 67, 68 merely primary effects.) ]

Promotes the menses. [SCHROECK, l. c.]

70. Occurrence of the menses from the mere smell. [VOGEL, l. c. – TH BARTHOLIN, Epist. Medorrhinum, cent. ii, 87. (Observation of effect of odour.) ]

A drawing and forcing towards the genitals; feeling as if the menses were coming on (aft. 9, 22 h.). [Stf.]

The menses came six days too soon, and very profusely (aft. 5 d.). [Stf.]

Violent sneezing. [Gss.]

The nose which was previously stopped up with coryza becomes suddenly free after copious discharge by blowing it. [Gss.]

75. In the larynx a sensation like sulphur vapour, with constriction of the windpipe from the smell (immediately). [Stf.]

During inspiration, which is quite free, he has almost the sensation as if he had previously inhaled sulphur vapour. [Gss.]

In the upper part of the larynx a sudden feeling as if his breath would be stopped, almost like what occurs when sulphur vapour has been inhaled. [Gss.]

Suffocating constriction of the chest. [FR. HOFFMANN, Medorrhinum Rat. Syst., iii, p. 92. (General statement of effects of odour od “suaveolentia.”) ]

Tightness of breath; she must breath deeply. [Stf.]

80. Compression of the chest. (With the “fulness” of S. 82.) [TRALLES, l. c.]

In the left side, under the short ribs, tightness on breathing deeply. [Gss.]

Fulness in the chest. [TRALLES, l. c.]

In the side, at the short ribs, itching pinching. [Gss.]

In the left side, under the short ribs, intermittent obtuse stitches. [Gss.]

85. In the left half of the chest obtuse, intermittent stitches (aft. 28 h.). [Gss.]

In the left side, above the coccyx, in the sacrum, painful pressure, as with a blunt instrument. [Gss.]

Violent drawing in the back; she feels as if tightly bound there, as before the menses. [Stf.]

On the left, near the spine in the middle of the trunk, intermittent, obtuse stitches. [Gss.]

Drawing pressure in a muscle of the nape. [Gss.]

90. In the evening, after lying down in bed, there came a drawing and shooting in the left forearm, from the wrist to the elbow-joint, which prevented her going to sleep; she must put it of bed and move it up and down, in order to allay the pain, for half an hour (aft. 6 h.). [Stf.]

Squeezing pressure in the right forearm, just above the wrist. [Gss.]

Cramp-like drawing in the hands and fingers, as if cramp (tetanus) would come there. [Gss.]

In the left hand semi-obtuse shooting. [Gss.]

95. Paralytic drawing in the left thumb, as if cramp would come there. [Gss.]

In the left thumb paralytic twitching. [Gss.]

A kind of chilling burning in the distal joint of the right index. [Gss.]

In the distal phalanx of the left index an inward, simple pain; the finger trembles from it (immediately).

On the inner side of the left thigh paralytic twitching. [Gss.]

100. On the inner side of the left thigh sudden aching. [Gss.]

squeezing, obtuse pressure in the flesh of the right thigh on its posterior aspect, more towards the outer side. [Gss.]

Itching pricking, compelling rubbing, on the anterior side of the thigh. [Gss.]

Above the right knee sharp pinching. [Gss.]

On the outer side of the left thigh, nit far from the knee, simple aching with feeling of weakness. [Gss.]

105. On the left tibia sudden feeling of coldness. [Gss.]

On the outer side of the left thigh, not far from the knee, simple aching with feeling of weakness. [Gss.]

105. On the left tibia sudden feeling of coldness. [Gss.]

On the outer side of the let tibia, towards the calf, sharp itching, which is removed by rubbing. [Gss.]

A paralytic pain (painful powerlessness) extends downwards through the left leg, as if it would become stiff, when sitting. [Gss.]

Restlessness in the left leg, so that he must now draw it up, one extend it – a paralytic (stiff) feeling, that compels him to move the leg in order to obtain momentary ease. [Gss.]

When sitting he must constantly move the lower extremities, otherwise they feel quite weak, and he has a restlessness in them, as after a long walk. [Gss.]

110. If, when sitting, he holds the legs still, they threaten to go to sleep, a humming sensation. [Gss.]

If, when sitting, he draws his feet back, he feels in the legs, somewhat also in the thighs, a whirring (tingling) sensation, as if they were fatigued by a long journey, or as if they would go to sleep. [Gss.]

In the right little toe a squeezing, as if someone had trod on it. [Gss.]

Burning aching in the tips of the toes of the right foot. [Gss.]

Prickling aching in the tips of the toes of the right foot. [Gss.]

Prickling in all the muscles. [J. A. HEMANN, Medorrhinum Aufsatz, Berlin, 1778. (Not accessible) ]

115. Itching pinching and fine needle-pricks on various parts of the body, which compel rubbing. [Gss.]

(In venereal tetters, which generally kept quiet, a violent, intolerable burning.) [Fr.H-n.]

Haemorrhages. (The original is, “Sanguinis pellit.”) [PIDERIT, l. c.]

Bruised pain in the whole body. [Stf.]

He knows not what ails him, but there comes on sometimes a kind of discomfort, a slight faintness, which immediately passes off again. [Gss.]

120. Tetanus. [F. C. MEDICUS, Samml. v. Beobacht. A. d. Arzn., ii, pp. 605 – 618. (Observation. – The original simply has “stiffness of the body,” and the symptom occurred in a maniac.) ]

Convulsions. [FR. HOFFMANN, – MORGENSTERN, l. c.]

The most violent convulsions in women and men. [BOERHAAVE, de Morb. Nerv., p. 744. (General statement as to effects of odour. – Boerhaave says,”hypochonriacal hypochondriacal men.” )]

Hysterical sufferings. [SCHROECK, l. c. – SENNERT, Medorrhinum pr. Lib. 4, (Observation of effects of odour.) p. 125. – G. W. WEDEL, Amoen. Mat. Medorrhinum, p. 198. (Statement as to effects of “suaveolentia, moschata, et volatilia” generally.) – JAC. SYLVIUS, Meth. Medorrhinum C. et Simpl., I, cap. de Animalibus. (Observation of effects of odour. – All these observers add to :hysterical affections” – “in persons subject to them.”) ]

Hypochondriacs are affected by it. [WEDEL, l. c.]

125. Hysterical affections, even in males. (Should be – “even in a man:” i.e. the subject of the observation.) [RIEDLIN, (Musk was combined with ambra.) Lin. Medorrhinum, p. 856.]

Syncopes. [FR. HOFFMANN. – CARTHEUSER, l. c. – MEAD, Monita mwed., p. 123. (Observation.) – PELARGUS, (Musk in a pessary.) Obs., ii, p. 492. (Not accessible.) – FULLER, Pharm. Extemp., p. 302. (General statement of effects of odour.) ]

Syncope, followed by headache. [SCHROECK, l. c.]

When walking he does not feel any weakness, but when he sits down he immediately feels paralytic weakness in the knees, as from great loss of power and exhaustion. [Gss.]

Somnolence (coma) [TRALLES, l. c.]

130. Sleep. [CULLEN, Mat. Med., ii, p. 644. (Effects of large doses.) ]

Restless night; he dreams incessantly, dreams full of effort and exertion; he could not lie long on one place, for the part on which he lay pained as if dislocated or broken (aft. 24 h.). [Gss.]

Night full of vivid, defamatory dreams, in which everything goes wrong, and which make him very angry (aft. 48 h.).[Gss.]

He felt as if a cool wind suddenly blew on him, especially on the uncovered parts, particularly the hands. [Gss.]

When he went out into the open, not cold, air it felt cold to him, and he sought the heat of the stove (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Gss.]

135. Slight shuddering on the hairy scalp, which spread in a less degree over the whole body (immediately). [Gss.]

Whilst his hands seemed to be of the natural heat the left felt warm, the right cold; to the face both felt cool (aft. 2 h.). [Gss.]

Pulse fuller, but from 4 to 5 beats slower (at. ¼ h.). [LOR. CRELL, in Baldingers’s Magaz., vii. St., p. 656. (Not found. (The volume specified has only 511 pages.) ]

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.