SPIGELIA



Fine pricks in the right side of the tongue. [Gn.]

240. The tongue was full of chaps, just as if it would scale off, which go off the following night (aft. 5 d.). [Bch.]

Vesicles at one time on the tongue, at another on the palate, with burning sensation when touched (aft. 4.1/2 h.). [Bch.]

When chewing the tongue was painful as if it were swollen at the back. [Myr.]

Sensation at the back of the tongue as if it were swollen (aft. 12 h.). [Myr.]

Burning pain on the palate.

245. Swelling on the left side of the fauces and pricking there then swallowing. [Wth.]

First shivering and chilliness, towards evening, in the open air, with tensive pain on the left side of the neck below the ear, the following morning at that place, glandular swelling, which is hard and painful when touched; at the same time shooting in the left side of the throat when swallowing, with swelling of the gums and difficulty of opening the jaws; the shooting while swallowing ceased when he pressed the cervical glandular swelling inwards; for two successive mornings he perspired at the same time (aft. 9 d.). [Htn.]

In the throat in the region of the larynx, a frequent pressing stitch which is at first fine, and then becomes always immediately afterwards (aft. 28 h.). [Htn.]

Tongue covered with a white fur.

White furred tongue. [Myr.]

250. Disgusting smell from the mouth, all day, only perceptible to others. [Gn.]

In the morning on awaking, he has much mucus sometimes white, sometimes yellowish, without particular taste, in the fauces and mouth (aft. 22 h.). [Hrr.]

White frothy saliva, of ordinary taste, collects in the mouth, which he must often spit out (aft. 16 d.). [Bch.]

Tickling itching in the oesophagus and sensation as if a semifluid substance would rise from the oesophagus into the fauces, accompanied by a hollow cough and water-brash; all so severe that in his anxiety he feared to fall into a faint, for three minutes (aft. 4.1/2 h.). [Gn.]

He could not swallow his saliva, because it was always brought up again, as if from disgust; he must spit it out. [Bch.]

255. Collection of saliva in the fauces. [Fz.]

Putrid taste in the mouth and he thinks he has foetid odour from the mouth.

Foetid putrid taste in the mouth.

Flat taste in the mouth; but food tastes well. [Gn.]

In the morning immediately after waking, an extreme dryness in the mouth; he felt as if his mouth were full of pains and as if stuck together, without thirst, indeed with much saliva (aft. 24 h.). [Stf.]

260. Late in the evening, great thirst (aft. 28 h.).

Much thirst and no appetite. [Myr.]

He has no wish to eat, but great thirst.

(Whilst eating cool food he becomes hot.). [Stf.]

Very great appetite for food and drink, for three and a half days. [Htn.]

265. No relish for smoking and snuffing tobacco. [Bch.]

Complete aversion from smoking and coffee during the whole duration of the medicine’s action. [Bch.]

Eructation. [Lr.]

Empty eructation. [Fz.]

270. Frequent eructation of air, after every meal.

Empty eructation of air only. [Stf.]

Sour eructation up to the tongue. [Myr.]

Nausea as if he had fasted for a long time; a kind of bulimia with nausea. [Myr.]

Inclination to vomit. [MARTIN, l. c.]

275. Aching in the stomach (aft. 13 h.). [Myr.]

Pressure in the scrobiculus cordis as from a weight lying on it together, which goes off when pressed with the hand and changes into tension and pressure in the chest. [Fz.]

Pressure in the scrobiculus cordis, as if he would eructate and thereby get relief; but on eructation occurred until he swallowed some air. [Myr.]

Stitches in the scrobiculus cordis during expiration, not so much when lying as when sitting and walking.

280. In the evening, under the left ribs, several stitches; so that he was drawn quite crooked.

Troublesome feeling of fulness in the abdomen, after a very moderate meal. [Stf.]

Feeling in the hypogastrium as if a great weight fell down; it seemed to fall down particularly during inspiration (aft. 3 h.). [Myr.]

Pain in the abdomen as from a hard swelling packed together in the umbilical region, in the evening.

Painful pressure in the hypogastrium, as if it would burst outwards, especially in the evening, before a soft stool, after which it is somewhat relieved (aft. 9 d.). [Ws.]

285. In the abdomen, a wandering pressive pinching, which goes off after the discharge of some flatus, on three successive afternoons about 3 o’clock. [Htn.]

Aching pinching pain in the abdomen. [Gn.]

Pinching in the whole abdomen, when lying, so violent that he could not move for pain (aft. 44 h.). [Gn.]

Pinching in the abdomen, as if the bowels were constricted, which causes great anxiety and makes respiration difficult (aft. 4, 7 d.). [Htn.]

Violent pinching in the belly, and immediately afterwards a soft stool, always becoming thinner, which, however, is not evacuated without effort (aft. 49 h.). [Gn.]

290. Sometimes a pinching, sometimes a rumbling and turning about in the hypogastrium, and at each attack of this kind of pain, urging to pass water, which was unaltered, but discharged in greater quan, for six days (aft. 14, 15 d.). [Bch.]

Pinching pain in the hypogastrium (aft. 11 d.). [Hrr.]

Pinching in the umbilical region, on the left (aft. 10 h.). [Myr.]

Pinching stitch in the belly with discharge of flatus; immediately thereafter, urging to stool (aft. ½ h.). [Gn.]

Pinching in the belly, which extended as a stitch to the chest, with discharge of flatus (aft. 84 h.). [Gn.]

295. On the left near the navel, a shooting while walking. [Gss.]

Obtuse stitch in the scrobiculus cordis and oppression of the chest, worse when inspiring. [Gss.]

On the left side of the navel, obtuse stitches during inspiration. [Gss.]

Obtuse intermittent stitches, a couple of fingers’ breadth on the left near the scrobiculus cordis (aft. 1 h.). [Gss.]

Sharp stitches in the abdominal cavity, in the region of the os innominatum, like stitches in the spleen, only when walking, which, however, always go off after taking thirty or forty steps. [Hrr.]

300. On the left near the scrobiculus cordis, intermittent, burning sharp stitches. [Gss.]

In the right side below the ribs, deep inwards, regularly recurring sharp stitches, which go off when he takes a very long deep breath, and return during expiration. [Gss.]

In the right side below the ribs, deep inwards, regularly recurring sharp stitches, which go off when he takes a very long deep breath, and return during expiration. [Gss.]

On walking quickly and jumping, stitches in the hepatic region, which went off on walking more quietly. [Kr.]

Cutting in the umbilical region, on several afternoons (from 5 to 6 o’clock) with chilliness, diarrhoea and profuse micturition.

In the abdomen, severe cutting from both sides towards the middle (in the morning in bed), with discharge of flatus without relief. [Bch.]

305. The cutting and digging in the whole abdomen, which appeared to occur from sitting down, and to proceed from displaced flatulence, became much less painful when he rose up from his seat. [Gss.]

Tearing drawing through the hypogastrium (aft. 5 d.). [Gss.]

Slight burning in the whole abdomen, with tasteless eructation apparently mixed with some watery fluid (aft. 2.1/2 d.). [Bch.]

Itching in the left groin. [Gn.]

Above the groin the hypogastrium, stitches, with stitch-like oppression of the chest.

310. Obtuse stitch in the groin. [Gn.]

In the right groin a tensive pain when touched.

Tensive stitch in the right groin, only when walking. [Gn.]

Boring digging pain in the right groin. [Gn.]

In the region of the inguinal ring, a cutting and shooting; the bowel protruded (which had seldom hitherto occurred) and remained out as a hernia; the part was painful as if sore when touched.

315. Itching eroding pricking in the muscles of the left so innominatum. [Hrr.]

Intermittent obtuse stitches in the left side just above the os ilii. [Gss.]

Posteriorly on the border of the left os ilii near the os sacrum, a burning stitch at every inspiration. [Gss.]

Boring stitch in the os ilii. [Gn.]

320. Crawling in the rectum and anus as from thread-worms (aft. 1 h.). [Myr.]

Itching for many days at the anus and on the coccyx, which was with difficulty removed by scratching. [Gn.]

Itching at the anus which went off by scratching (aft. 4.1/2 h.). [Gn.]

Obtuse pressure in the rectum, independent of stool. [Gn.]

Grumbling in the abdomen, like the croaking of frogs (aft. 4 h.). [Lr.]

325. Audible grumbling in the belly (aft. 4 h.). [Gn.]

Loud grumbling in the abdomen in the left, then also in the right side (aft. ¼ h.). [Kr.]

Rattling as from flatulence here and there in the hypogastrium, occasionally painful. [Stf.]

Rumbling in the bowels before stool, which is evacuated of a pappy character twice in the morning and once in the evening (aft. 6 d.). [Ws.]

On the discharge of flatus, sensation as if at the same time some diarrhoeic evacuation came away, which, however, was not the case. [Stf.]

330. Flatus of the smell of rotten eggs, for several hours. [Kr.]

During the stool of rotten eggs, for several hours. [Kr.]

During the stool and whilst urging to it, a painful bruised feeling on the first four ribs of the left side, which went off every time after the evacuation. [Bch.]

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.