SPIGELIA



The first day no stool, the second day (after repeating the dose) hard stool, which was only evacuated after much pressing. [Gn.]

In the rectum, a spasmodic urging and pressing; as if he were unable to retain the stool (aft. 3 h.). [Kr.]

After the evacuation of a complete stool, ineffectual feeling of wanting to go to stool in the belly remains for a long time.

335. A frequent call to stool; but he cannot pass anything (aft. 4 d.).[Bch.]

Call to stool: he has an urging to stool; but nothing is evacuated and the desire goes off. [Stf.]

Faecal evacuation, the first half of which is firm, the remainder thin, after its evacuation a couple of pressive thrusts out at the forehead ensue (aft. 26 h.). [Gn.]

White stool, everyday.

For two days diarrhoea of thin faeces, mixed with a viscid, yellow mucus, two to four times each day, at indeterminate times (aft. 3 d.). [Bch.]

340. Masses of thick mucus pass through the anus for two days; he felt as if flatus was passing; the stool itself looked as if composed of sheep’s dung enveloped in mucus.

Every day one or two thin, even watery evacuations (aft. 16 d.). [Bch.]

At night the urine is passed with difficulty, and after it is discharged burning ensues.

Urging to pass water as from a diuretic potion. [Hbg.]

Frequent urging to urinate, with copious discharge of urine without suffering (aft. 3.3/4 h.). [Lr.]

345. Copious discharge of urine, twice in succession, though he had previously made water before taking the medicine (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Gn.]

Copious and frequent secretion of urine for three and a half days. [Htn.]

He must urinate often and much (aft. 3 d.). [Gn.]

Copious micturition ten times in one night, with pressive pain on the bladder, which always went off when the urine was passed (aft. 12 h.).

(When the bladder was pressed on externally, the urine spurted out.)

350. In the afternoon, when rising from a seat, five or six drops of urine dribble away suddenly and involuntarily, and this occurs four successive times; each time the urine dribbles away there is a burning in the forepart of the urethra.

Watery urine (aft. 2.1/2 h.). [Myr.]

Urine with whitish sediment for several days. [Htn.]

Burning stitch in the urethra with urging to urinate (aft. 59 h.). [Gn.]

Frequent erections of the penis, without internal physical sexual excitement, but with lascivious thoughts (aft. 17 h.). [Htn.]

355. Swelling of one half of the glans penis (aft. 7 d.).

A formication about the glans penis, every day.

Prostatic fluid escaped out of the orifice of the urethra (aft. 20 h.). [Htn.]

Itching prick in the left testicle (aft. 51 h.). [Gn.]

Itching prick in the right testicle and penis, from behind forwards. [Gn.]

360. Burning prick in the right testicle and penis. [Gn.]

Quivering in the scrotum (aft. 4 d.). [Gn.]

Frequent sneezing (aft. 4 h.). [Lr.]

In the morning, after waking, one sneeze with bloody mucus. [Stf.]

Stoppage of the front of the nose, from the posterior nares of which the mucus often flows down into the fauces, for eight days.[Hrr.]

365. Nose stopped up for several days. [Gss.]

Sudden coryza; first stuffed coryza and after four hours fluent coryza, which lasts twenty-four hours.

Catarrh, like catarrhal fever; he was hoarse, and hot to the touch day and night; without thirst or sweat, with protruded eyes, and great flow of coryza, severe headache and lachrymose humour.

All day long he ejects much mucus from the fauces, which comes chiefly from the posterior nares (aft. 24 h.). [Hrr.]

The nasal mucus came away spontaneously only from the posterior nares through the mouth; by vigorous blowing of the nose, very little, extremely viscid, yellowish coloured mucus came away; in addition the anterior part of the nose was constantly dry (from the 16th till the 26th d.). [Bch.]

370. The discharge of mucus through the posterior nares into the mouth often occurred very perceptibly and in such a great quantity, that he had to hawk it up immediately to avoichoking, by which he was often wakened up at night. [Bch.]

On snuffing tobacco he had no sensation, no irritation from the snuff in the nose. [Bch.]

Sometimes white, sometimes yellow mucus comes through the nose, at the same time also much comes from behind through the mouth (aft. 7 d.). [Hrr.]

Coryza chiefly of a stuffed character, after eating (aft. 12 h.). [Lr.]

In the morning when the coryza was almost gone, some cough (aft. 48 h.).

375. At night she gets cough and catarrh.

Quite sudden, violent cough from water getting from the mouth into the windpipe. [Fz.]

A kind of suffocative cough as if produced by a quantity of water streaming from above downwards into the glottis. [Fz.]

Dry, violent hollow cough, from an irritation deep down in the trachea excited especially by stooping forwards; the cough takes away his breath.

In the open air he gets a short dry cough causing sore pain in the chest. [Bch.]

380. Sensation on the chest as from excessive hunger, with flow of saliva into the back of the mouth (aft. 4 h.). [Fz.]

Intermittent pain in the chest. [Myr.]

Under the left clavicle a severe pressure on the chest. [Gss.]

(After hawking and clearing the throat an aching pain in the whole chest.)

Towards evening, an excessive hard pressure on the whole chest. [Fz.]

385. On the middle of the chest, a severe, painful, oppressive pressure. [Gss.]

Pressure over the ensiform cartilage when standing. [Fz.]

Aching and at the same time drawing in the chest, when standing. [Fz.]

Tearing constriction of the pectoral muscles, when standing. [Gss.]

Tearing constriction of the lower part of the chest, above the scrobiculus cordis, with oppression, then the same pain also in the upper part of the chest, under the pit of the throat, with palpitation of the heart. [Gss.]

390. Violent pain like that caused by dislocation, in the upper left side of the chest, only when turning the body to the right, on making a false step, or when twisting the left arm, for one day (aft. 7 d.).[Htn.]

Cutting tearing pain which begins under the left nipple and spreads to the region of the scapula and upper arm, aggravated only by inspiration and by taking a deep breath (aft. 11 h.). [Hrr.]

Tearing boring pain, from within outwards, under the right nipple; the pain always spread to the sternum, and becomes a sharp pressive tearing pain (aft. 2 h.). [Hrr.]

Cutting constriction of the chest with anxiety. [Gss.]

Unconnected with breathing a shooting in the chest form within outwards; but he can breathe easily.

395. Quick, drawing, pricking pain downwards near the sternum. [Hbg.]

Tensive stitches in the left side of the chest, more severe during expiration (aft. 27 h.). [Gn.]

Persistent tensive stitch in the right side of the chest and abdomen, lasting during inspiration and expiration, worst when walking, for two hours (aft. 82 h.). [Gn.]

The chest is contracted with stitches, so that he cannot fetch a breath.

Tensive drawing stitch in the right true ribs persisting during inspiration and expiration, aggravated by external pressure. [Gn.]

400. Tensive persistent stitch in the right side of the chest, more severe during inspiration and expiration. [Gn.]

Tensive boring stitches in the left side of the chest, persisting during expiration (aft. 57 h.). [Gn.]

Tensive stitch in the right false ribs, always persisting during expiration. [Gn.]

Boring stitch in the region of the diaphragm on the right side, persisting during inspiration and expiration. [Gn.]

Across the chest, but chiefly in the sternum, stitches as from within outwards, in all positions. [Myr.]

405. Sharp stitches inwards above the left nipple, recurring at various periods, when writing whilst he sat bent forwards; but if he raised himself up they went off quickly (aft. 31 h.). [Hrr.]

Pricking in the right side of the chest as with fine needles (aft. 5 h.). [Lr.]

In the left side of the chest towards the clavicle, a momentary violent shooting pain, which impedes respiration, in the evening (aft. 12 h.). [Stf.]

In the front of the chest a quick fine twitching pain as from an electric spark. [Hbg.]

In the upper part of the chest, under the axilla, a twitching shooting pain (aft. 55 h.). [Htn.]

410. Violent stitch in the left side just below the heart, which for a short time changed into formication, but then returned just as severely as a stitch (aft. ¾ h.). [Htn.]

Pinching stitch on the left side in the diaphragm, so violent that it took away his breath, and he must stand still (aft. 2.3/4 h.). [Gn.]

Itching prick under the clavicle. [Gn.]

Itching eroding pricking towards the front at the left axilla (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Hrr.]

An itching prick in the left pectoral muscles (aft. 10 h.). [Gn.]

415. An obtuse stitch in the left side of the chest, persisting when inspiring and expiring. [Gn.]

Obtuse stitches in the right side of the chest, persisting only during inspiration (aft. 2 h.) [Gn.]

Obtuse shooting pinching pain under the right nipple, in the thoracic cavity, from within outwards, more violent only during inspiration (aft. 8 d.). [Hrr.]

Where the hearts beat is felt, only somewhat more externally, obtuse stitches recurring synchronously with the pulse (aft. 3 h.). [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.