SPIGELIA



Most violent pressure inwards on the left side of the occiput, during which he could not stoop forward without aggravation of the pains, unless he pressed strongly with his hand on the painful part. [Myr.]

55. Aching drawing in the right side of the vertex and occiput. [Hrr.]

Tearing pressure in the head from the left frontal protuberance to the occiput (aft. 34 h.). [Hrr.]

A drawing pressure at the left temple, frequently recurring. [Kr.]

Tearing pressure externally on the frontal bone (aft. 8 d.). [Ws.]

Boring pain in the forehead. [Gn.]

60. Boring pain on the occiput ad crown, as if it strove to draw the head backwards. [Bch.]

Splashing in the brain when walking; he feels every step. [Gn.]

Sensation of splashing in the brain when walking. [Myr.]

When he moves his head there is shaking and splashing in the forehead. [Myr.]

When walking in the open air there occurs at every step a violent pressure in the head as if thrusting from without inwards towards a point in the middle of the brain (aft. 6 h.). [Htn.]

65. While walking in the open air, at every step violent jerks in the occiput, then in the temples (aft. 28 h.). [Htn.]

In the occiput pain as if the arteries had to pulsate over an obstacle.

The pains in the head are worst in the open air. [Gn.]

The pain in the head is worse when lying, better when walking about.(Alternating action.) [Myr.]

Blows and jerks on the left side of the head (aft. 54 h.).[Htn.]

70. Tearing blows in the right temple (aft. 50 h.). [Htn.]

Tearing pain like thrusting in the forehead, most severe in the right frontal protuberance, which also causes him to fix his eyes involuntarily on the object he is looking at, when standing and sitting (aft. 27 h.). [Htn.]

Very violent tearing in the forehead, occiput, and temples. [Myr.]

Tensive tearing pain in the forehead, especially under the left frontal protuberance towards the orbit (aft. 6 h.). [Gss.]

Fine digging tearing in the brain, particularly severe in the left parietal bone, when moving, when walking, and especially violent on making a false step, towards evening; for several successive evenings (aft. 11 h.). [Hrr.]

75. Digging and digging tearing pain in the occiput, left side of the crown and forehead, aggravated by moving, as also by every loud noise, and when he speaks loudly, or only opens the mouth a little; when lying it is most bearable (aft. 12 h.). [Htn.]

Intolerable bubbling pain in the occiput, which us increased to violence at first by walking, afterwards on the slightest movement, and is most relieved by sitting reclined backwards; lying horizontally aggravated it. [Myr.]

When he holds the head bent forwards for a while, he cannot raise it up again on account of pain in the nape.

Towards morning (about 3 or 4 o’clock) severe pains at (in?) the occiput, and the nape is as if stiff; in the morning he cannot move the head until he has risen and dressed himself – then it is gone.

In the morning after rising from bed, pain in the nape; when he holds his nape still it is painful as if gone to sleep; he must consequently always move it; for it does not hurt him when moving.

80. The occiput is painful as from an external blow.

The occiput particularly is painful; he cannot lie on it well.

Slow tearing stitch on the left side of the head. [Htn.]

An intermittent contractive, tearing shooting pain on a small spot of the left parietal bone more towards the back, which appears to be rather external. [Gss.]

Pressive shooting on small point of the left side of the occiput (aft. 49 h.). [Htn.]

85. Large pulsative stitches in the forehead from evening till morning, so that he could have cried out; at the same time a hammering before the ears.

Acute shooting immediately behind and above the right frontal protuberance. [Gss.]

Violent, but fine pricks as from electric sparks, in the left temple. [Hbg.]

Much heat in the head. [Myr.]

Burning pain in the left frontal bone (aft. 13 h.). [Gn.]

90. Burning pain in the left temporal region and forehead. [Hbg.]

Burning on the left temple, externally. [Gn.]

Burning in the skin of the right temple near the eye. [Gn.]

Burning pain on the right side of the forehead which extends into the eyes, so that he cannot turn them without pain. [Myr.]

Burning pain in the left supraorbital arch. [Gn.]

95. Burning itching in the right eyebrow, that went off on scratching (aft. 26 h.). [Gn.]

A running itching on the forehead, which compels much rubbing.

Itching crawling on the left side of the crown (aft. 32 h.). [Gn.]

Smarting pain in the skin of the left side of the forehead (aft. 34 h.). [Gn.]

The scalp feels to him as if contracted and tense. [Kr.]

100. In the region of the vertex the scalp is painful when touched and also when not touched, as if ulcerated, and there occurs there occasionally an obtuse shooting jerk, which seems to penetrate deep into the brain.

The scalp is painful and the hairs hurt when touched.

Sensitiveness of the whole head when touched, especially when moving the scalp. [Ws.]

(The hairy scalp is full of miliary papules.)

Pain in the left orbit were compressed from above downwards. [Gss.]

105. Swelling of the temporal side of the orbit, with aching pain per se, and sore pain when touched.

Severe pressure above the right orbit, a dull pressive pain in the whole head (aft. 2.1/2 h.). [Htn.]

Obtuse pressure above the orbits (aft. 10 m.). [Ws.]

On the left orbital bone near the temple, down towards the On the left orbital bone near the temple, down towards the zygoma, severe pressive pain, followed by swelling of the bone at that place, which is painful when touched.

He always feels as if there were feathers or hairs in the eyelashes; or as if there were a mist before the eyes; a sensation that is aggravated by rubbing them (aft. 1 h.). [Htn.]

110. Formication in the eyes. [MARTIN, (Not accessible) in Konigl. Vetenesk. Ak. Handlingar, f. a. 1771.]

Itching in the left eyeball, which went off by rubbing. [Gn.]

Itching prick in the right eyeball, which returned after rubbing (aft. 1 h.). [Gn.]

Persistent pricking pain in the right eyeball, also when moving it (aft. 24 h.0. [Gn.]

Violent digging stitch in the middle of the eye and its inner canthus, which does not interfere with vision, but presses down the upper eyelid (aft. 74 h.). [Htn.]

115. In the morning redness and inflammation in the white of the eye; his eyelids are so heavy that he can hardly open them. [Fz.]

Redness of the white of the eye and dilated blood vessels in it. [W. WRIGHT, in Samml. br. abh. f. pr. Aerzte, xiv. iii. (London Medorrhinum and Phys. Journal, viii, 217 – Observation.)

Pain in the eyes. [CHALMERS, l. c.]

Pain in and above the eyes. [LINNING, l. c.]

He could not turn the left eye in all the directions without pain. [Myr.]

120. The eyes are painful when moved, as if they were too large for their orbits. [Myr.]

Tensive pain in the left eyeball (aft. 49 h.). [Gn.]

Feeling in the eyes as if they were weeping, which they are not, with slight pressure in them; the sight is at the time affected just as if the eyes were full of tears (aft. 26 h.). [Hrr.]

Pain in the eyes as if sand were in them.

At the sof the right eye a pain pressing from without (aft. 3 h.). [Htn.]

125. Aching pain in the eyeballs.

Intolerable aching pain in the eyeballs, aggravated by turning the eyes; of he attempts to look with the eyes askance he becomes giddy; he must, consequently, when he wishes to look to the side turn the whole head. [Myr.]

A contractive burning pain in the right eyeball. [Gn.]

Burning pain in the left eye, towards the temple (aft. 33 h.). [Gn.]

Dry heat in the eyes in the afternoon. [Kr.]

130. Burning pain in the outer canthus of the right eye. [Gn.]

Burning pain in both eyes, so that he must close them involuntarily, and is unable to open them for five or six minutes, with an anxiety as if he should never be able to open them again; when, after this pain is gone, he could again open them, his sight is impeded by a sea of fire, which has surged up before his eyes in blood-red masses; along with watering of the eyes and great dilatation of the pupils, the visual power returns (aft. 14 d.). [Bch.]

Sparks before the eyes, as before an outbreak of smallpox on measles. [PATRICK BROWNE, (Statements. – In the original this symptom is “the eyes appear bright and sparkling, as they generally do before the eruption of smallpox or measles.” ) Gentleman’s Magazine, 1751, p. 544, and natural history of Jamaica, p. 156.]

The eyes move involuntarily left and right, from irregular actions of the ocular muscles that draw the eye inwards and outwards. (This represents “The musculi adductores et abductores coulorum seem to be greatly affected, from their irregular actions, while the other muscles of the eye, so far as I have had an opportunity of observing, remain unaffected.”) [LINNING, l. c.]

Distortion of the eyes. (Literally, “The eyes seem distented.”) [BROWNE, l. c.]

135. Long sightedness; he can see well at a distance, but not close at hand.

When he directs his eyes upon anything, his sight goes.

He does not see so distinctly as usual, and must strain his eyes very much when writing, as though water stood in the eyes. [Hrr.]

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.