SPIGELIA



Vivid dreams of well-known past events – long about one single subject. [Kr.]

Dreams at night which he only dimly remembers. [Ws.]

Very restless sleep; he tosses from one side to the other, has vivid dreams of fire and quarrelling and strife, and at 1 a.m., imagines it is time to get up. [Gn.]

605. Very vivid anxious dreams of a great conflagration and of ghosts appearing to him. [Gn.]

Anxious dreams at night. [Myr.]

In the morning shortly before awaking, during a lascivious dream (an unusual thing with him), seminal emission not followed by weakness. [Stf.]

Lascivious dreams with seminal emission (the first night). [Gn.]

Voluptuous dreams with seminal emission, without erection of the penis. [Gn.]

610. The pulse at the wrist beats weakly and irregularly, sometimes quick sometimes slow (aft. 7 h.). [Hrr.]

His pulse, which is usually 72, at the period of the morning fever is only 54 (aft. 24 h.). [Gss.]

Chilliness every morning after rising from bed. [Hrr.]

In short intervals of two to ten minutes, a shiver running all over the body, which seems especially to proceed from the chest. [Gss.]

Sometimes the chilliness spreads from the scrobiculus cordis only to the belly and lower limbs, but sometimes also, at the same time, to the back (aft. 24 h.). [Gss.]

615. Very slight movement of the body brings on chilliness. [Gss.]

Immediately after dinner, severe chilliness and coldness; he must on account of that lie down in bed.

In the morning rigor, without thirst, with tolerable facility in the movements of the fingers and wide awake condition of the mind. [Fz.]

Chilliness every morning, after getting up from bed, off and on for a couple of hours. [Hrr.]

Chilliness in the whole body, without thirst, only in the morning (aft. 2 h.), for several successive mornings, recurring by fits, and spreading from the feet upwards. [Hrr.]

620. A severe chill spread through all the limbs all day, without thirst for two successive days.

Every morning chilliness rapidly running over him, sometimes only on the feet, sometimes on the head and hands only, sometimes on the back or on the chest and belly, sometimes, also all over the body, without thirst (aft. 72 h.). [Gss.]

In the afternoon he has first chill then he becomes very hot, and has great thirst (for beer).

Slight chilliness in back spreading to the abdomen as far as the umbilical region (aft. 2 h.). [Stf.]

Shivering, running all over the body, without heat or thirst (aft. 1 h.). [Lr.]

625. Sensation on the right thigh as if goose skin spread over it, but without feeling of chilliness. [Fz.]

Severe chill over the arms and shoulders.

On the arms feeling of chilliness and occurrence of goose skin; he durst not bring his arms close to the body on account of a disagreeable shivering sensation (aft. 4 d.). [Fz.]

Cold shiver runs over all the body, except the arms, with sensation as if the hair stood on end. [Htn.]

A shiver runs over the whole body and yet at the same time heat over the whole body, without thirst (aft. 7 h.). [Lr.]

630. When he lies down in the evening, he has in bed, first half an hour of chill, then immediately afterwards heat with perspiration all over, almost all night.

Cold feeling on the whole body, without actual coldness; he was warm to the touch all over warmest on the chest. [Hrr.]

Fever: in the evening chilliness with cold hands and distended abdomen, without thirst; thereafter at night he lay on the back, he had bruised pains in all the joints while lying quietly, vivid, urgent dreams, talking in sleep, and dry heat on the body, with dryness of mouth, nose, and eyes, without thirst.

Inward matutinal fever: chilliness running over him, recurring at intervals if five to ten minutes, with externally perceptible almost increased warmth; the chilliness seems to come from the scrobiculus cordis and to spread over the trunk, head, and upper extremities, without thirst (aft. 24 h.). [Gss.]

The tips of the fingers are cold, yet the rest of the hand is moderately warm (aft. 3 h.). [Lr.]

635. Cold hands, with hot face, without thirst (aft. 5 d.). [Ws.]

Though he has a feeling of heat on the whole body, and heat especially in the face, yet (in the evening) he longs for the warmth of the bed (aft. 7 d.). [Ws.]

When he lays his hands in his face they appear cold to his face, whereas to one another they seem more warm than usual; in the palms only they somewhat sticky. [Gss.]

Feeling of heat in the face and hands, whilst the hands held to the face appear cold to the face and the face appears cold to the hands (aft. 8 h.). [Lr.]

Cold feeling and hot feeling alternated with one another only on the left side of the forehead, but externally on change of temperature was perceptible. [Myr.]

640. For five successive days at the same hours, first chill in the morning after rising from bed, and at noon (five hours later) heat chiefly on the trunk, but still more severe in the face, with redness, without particular thirst. [Hrr.]

Chill and heat alternating all day long, with redness of face.

Alternate heat and chill, the chill showing itself chiefly on the back, whereas the heat is in the hands and face. [Myr.]

When he gets into bed in the evening chill comes on immediately, and he then has perspiration of a disagreeable odour, so very profuse that he is wet all over. [Myr.]

Feeling of heat in the body, in the forenoon, without externally perceptible heat.

645. Heat with great thirst for beer. [Myr.]

At night feeling of inward heat, with dryness of the mouth, without thirst.

After slight exercise very great heat all over the body, with sweat, especially on the head, without thirst (aft. 1 h.). [Htn.]

Increased warmth in the back; the hands, abdomen, &c., seem to him, to judge by his sensations, burning hot, and so he becomes hot all over. [Stf.]

Flying heat over the back, after supper. [Myr.]

650. A hot feeling in the whole spine. [Gn.]

At night heat only on the lower extremities, without sweat or thirst.

A flush of heat over the face, but no redness (aft. ¼ h.). [Htn.]

Though but lightly covered he immediately got into perspiration.

Want of attention. [Gn.]

655. He does not speak willingly (aft. 7.1/2 h.). [Myr.]

He cannot enjoy himself with others though he is not sad (aft. 7 h.). [Htn.]

Anxiety and anxious concern about the future (aft. 10 d.). [Ws.]

Profound reflection about his future fate (aft. 24 h.). [Lr.]

Anxious forebodings about the future, at the same time with an intolerant humour disposed to crossness. [Bch.]

660. Restlessness and anguish; he could not remain in one place.

Disposition sad, and at the same time discouraged and apprehensive (aft. ½ h.).[Wth.]

Disposition sad, and at the same time very cross. [Myr.]

Sad and cross (with redness of face).

Great dejection, in the evening; he could have killed himself – with chilliness of the body (aft. 8 d.0.

665. Serious humour, he gets cross of the slightest joke is attempted on him [Gn.]

He is very cross and sensitive to everything that he thinks not good, for many hours. [Myr.]

He is easily roused to anger. [Kr.]

At first for three hours gloomy, then cheerful and in good spirits; in the afternoon again gloomy. [Fz.]

Cheerfulness, contentment with his state and trustful humour – alternating with conditions of palpitation of the heart and anxious oppression of the chest. [Gss.]

670. Cheerful, insouciant, tranquil, and contented disposition (Formerly he was nearly always of care and suspicion – therefore secondary action, reaction of the organism, curative action.) during all his pains and sufferings. [Hrr.]

After the first day he is livelier in mind and more active than usual. (Curative reaction of the life.)

Almost extravagant cheerfulness of disposition. [Stf.]

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.