OLEANDER



Pinching in the bowels (aft. 24, 75 h.). [Gn.]

He feels as if the bowels were weakened by purgatives or as if he should have diarrhoea. [Gss.]

170. Great emptiness in the upper part of the abdomen. [Gss.]

Inwardly below the navel a gnawing. [Gss.]

On the left just above the navel a gnawing pain. [Gss.]

Pain like needle-pricks under the navel (aft. 58 h.). [Gn.]

Painful sensitiveness around the navel, with discomfort in the whole hypogastrium, and an uneasiness about the navel, which shows itself at one time as aching, at another as gnawing. [Gss.]

175. Quite low in the hypogastrium, above the root of the penis, transient twitching blows, which make him start. [Gss.]

Rumbling and rattling in the umbilical region, with empty feeling in the abdomen; soon followed by discharge of flatus (aft. ½ h.). [Htn.]

Rumbling in the upper and lower parts of the abdomen. [Gss.]

Rumbling in the abdomen. [PETRUS DE ABANO, l. c., cap. 37.]

Discharge of much very foetid flatus smelling of rotten eggs (aft. 26, 30 h.). [Gn.]

180. Frequent discharge of flatus. [Gss.]

Ineffectual straining and urging to stool. [Fz.]

The first day no stool. [Htn.]

Stool; the first faeces are diarrhoeic, but the nest firmer; he must, however, strain. [Gss.]

185. Stool only after 24 hours, the first part of which is hard and crumbly, the remainder thin. [Htn.]

Stool hard and difficult (aft. 31 h.). [Gn.]

Stool quite thin and yellow, but before the stool rattling and rumbling in the abdomen (aft. 39 h.). [Htn.]

Diarrhoea.

The food eaten the previous evening passed somewhat undigested and almost without effort; he thought that flatus only was discharged (aft. 48 h.). [Gn.]

190. Soft stool (aft. 48 h.). [Gn.]

Evacuation of scanty, thin, watery stool (aft. 6.1/2 h.). [Lr.]

Burning in the anus, at other times than when at stool, also before and after stool. [Fz.]

Frequent urging to urinate with scanty discharge of urine (aft. 27 h.). [Lr.]

Frequent discharge of much urine (aft. 24 h.).[Gn.]

195. Two violent sneezes. [Gss.]

Prick in the thyroid cartilage. [Gn.]

Viscid mucus in the windpipe, he has much hacking cough in the morning on rising. [Gss.]

Tickling in the larynx, which is excited by inspiration, and produces a short cough that shakes the whole body. [Htn.]

Sudden cold feeling on the left side of the chest. [Gss.]

200. Great emptiness of the chest, as if eviscerated. [Gss.]

Severe palpitation of the heart, with a sensation as if the chest had become dilated; he breathes with great elevation of the chest, without anxiety. [Gss.]

When lying he feels as if the chest were too narrow; he must draw his breath in long and deep respirations (aft. 6 h.). [Htn.]

His chest in the scrobiculus cordis is oppressed when lying, and a quarter of an hour after lying down he vomits mucus, water, and small bits of bread he had swallowed previously; when he rises up from lying the oppression of the chest goes off (aft. 7.1/2 h.). [Htn.]

Sensation as if something heavy lay on the chest, which pressed it together, whereby a deep and anxious respiration is produced, when walking, standing and lying (aft. 10 h.). [Htn.]

205. Palpitation of the heart (Rather, “distress at the heart.”) and anxiety. [PETRUS DE ABANO, l. c., cap. 13.]

Several attacks of palpitation of the heart.

Anxiety about the heart, without anxious thoughts, with trembling of all the body, for several hours (aft. 7 h.). [Lr.]

Dull drawing pain over the heart, more violent when stooping, and continued during expiration (aft. 55 h.). [Gn.]

Digging pain in the costal cartilages of the right side of the chest. With intermitting pressure on a small spot, increased by pressing on it. [Gss.]

210. Pain of the right side of the chest externally, as if hard pressed. [Gss.]

Formicating shooting in the sternum.

In the sternum and obtuse, continued stitch (aft. 24 h.). [Gn.]

On the right near the sternum, on one of the false ribs, obtuse stitches, where there is simple pain when pressed. [gss.]

Tensive shooting in the sternum, more violent when stooping (aft. 12 h.).[Gn.]

215. Whilst walking obtuse stitches in the chest, more violent when expiring (aft. 8 h.). [Gn.]

On the upper part of the sternum in the chest, more violent when expiring (aft. 8 h.). [Gn.]

On the upper part of the sternum obtuse pressure. [Gss.]

In the ribs on the left side, some intermitting, obtuse blows. [Gss.]

On one of the ribs on the left side (opposite the scrobiculus cordis) an intermitting gnawing. [Gss.]

On the chest under the right shoulder, a beating like obtuse blows. [Gss.]

220. Dull pain in the sternum (aft. 10 h.). [Gn.]

Obtuse stitch in the left side of the chest, continuing during inspiration and expiration (aft. 29 h.). [Gn.]

Obtuse stitch in the right side of the chest, continuing during inspiration and expiration (aft. 51 h.). [Gn.]

Stitches in the diaphragm when lying during inspiration and expiration, which cease on rising up (aft. 31 h.). [Gn.]

Pricks in the left side of the chest (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Gn.]

225. A stab in the left side of the chest as with a knife (aft. 48 h.). [Gn.]

Pinching stitch in the left side of the chest out at the false ribs (aft. 6 h.). [Gn.]

Obtuse shooting in the left side of the chest while walking. [Gss.]

Tensive stitch in the middle of the chest (aft. 31 h.). [Gn.]

Twitching in the right pectoral muscles (aft. 15 h.). [Gn.]

230. In the right side of the back, a pain, as if a hand were forcibly thrust in there, or as if from over-lifting. [Gss.]

Tensive shooting in the spine, when walking and standing (aft. 29 h.). [Gn.]

Burning stitch in the back under the left scapula, when sitting, which went off when moving (aft. 78 h.). [Gn.]

In the right half of the back, deep in, sudden pricks, so as almost to make him start. [Gss.]

Itching on the right scapula. [Gn.]

235. On the top of the right shoulder obtuse pressure. [Gss.]

When he raises his arms up high, or lays them under his head in bed, their shoulder-joints are painful as if dislocated. [Gss.]

A lasting stitch in the left axilla, relieved by rubbing (aft. 2h.). [Gn.]

Externally on the upper part of the upper arm, a pinching pain. [Gss.]

Cramp-like drawing in the shaft of the left humerous near the elbow, in measured jerks. [Gss.]

240. Twitching in the muscles of the left arm (aft. 36 h.). [Gn.]

Sensation of twitching in the right upper arm. [Fz.]

Itching prick somewhat prolonged in the left upper arm (aft. 31 h.). [Gn.]

Sensation of itching above the bend of the elbow. [Fz.]

Itching on the point of the right elbow (aft. 34 h.). [Gn.]

245. Obtuse pressure on the forearm, as from a hard blow. [Gss.]

On the outside of the left forearm, on a small spot, intermitting pressure. [Gss.]

Obtuse stitches or blows on the left forearm, near the intermitting pressure. [Gss.]

Drawing in the right forearm, over the wrist-joint. [Gss.]

Obtuse pressure on the forearm, over the wrist-joint. [Gss.]

Obtuse pressure on the forearm, just below the elbow. [Gss.]

250. Burning stitch in the left forearm (aft. 28 h.). [Gn.]

Swollen blood-vessels of the hand, without heat of it. [Fz.]

Intermittent obtuse aching in the palm of the hand. [Gss.]

Pulsating pain on the inner side of the right forearm near the wrist-joint. [Gss.]

Trembling of the hand whilst writing (before a meal). [Gn.]

255. In the fingers cramp pain (cramp-like drawing). [Gss.]

Drawing in the proximal finger-joints. [Gss.]

Burning stitches in the tip of the left index finger (aft. 12 h.). [Gn.]

On the distal phalanx of the right index a burning stitch, so that the finger trembles. [Gss.]

On the proximal phalanx of the left middle finger, cramp-like, twitching tearing. [Gss.]

260. Pricking and itching on the proximal phalanx of the middle finger. [Fz.]

Sudden swelling of the ring-finger, with burning pain; he could not bend it.

Fine twitching on the finger. [Gss.]

Itching on the right thumb, so that he must scratch, whereupon it first goes off, but soon afterwards changes into eroding. [Gss.]

Tensive burning in the tip of the left thumb (aft. 2 h.). [Gn.]

265. In the distal phalanx of the thumb pain as if he had got a hard blow on it, whereby the thumb becomes trembling. [Gss.]

Above the nates, itching, compelling him to scratch. [Gss.]

Itching vesicles on the nates. [Gn.]

In the gluteal muscles of one thigh, contractive pain when walking, like dislocation. [Fz.]

Obtuse stitches, posteriorly on the hip-bone; pressure causes simple pain. [Gss.]

270. Drawing shooting in the right thigh; not observed when standing and going up hill (aft. 37 h.). [Gn.]

Pain like needle-pricks in the muscles of the inner side of the left thigh (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Lr.]

Weakness in the thighs and legs and a feeling in the feet, chiefly in the soles, as if they were gone asleep, when walking (aft. 12 h.).

On the side of the thigh a hot feeling, soon afterwards a cold feeling lower down. [Gss.]

(Burning and tension in the right thigh.). [Gn.]

275. A quivering down through the lower extremities. [Gss.]

When walking quickly, on the front of the thigh a pain as when a bruised spot is pressed on.

Bubbling in the right thigh. [Gn.]

On the outer side of the left thigh a numbing pressure, as if the part were tightly bound and the circulation thereby stopped. [Gss.]

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.