Plantago Fever Symptoms


Allen gives the therapeutic indications of the remedy Plantago in different kinds of fevers like: Continued, Bilious, Intermittent, Malarial, Remittent, Pernicious, Typhoid, Typhus, Septic fever, etc…


Fever

Characteristic – Suitable to chronic cases with regular type, which Quinine will neither change nor suppress.

Persons of irritable, morose disposition, impatient, restless mood, with dull stupid feeling in the brain.

Great mental prostration. increased by mental exertion, which also causes rapid respiration and a feeling of great anxiety.

Teeth (left side) elongated, sore, pain unbearably severe, boring, digging in sound teeth, worse from contact and extremes of heat and cold.

Bad effects of excessive use of tobacco, especially the mental anxiety, digging toothache and frequent attacks of sudden sneezing with profuse, watery, bland coryza.

Nocturnal enuresis, profuse colorless urine, depositing a white sediment, occurs from midnight to morning.

Type: Every type. Quotidian, tertian, quartan. Every two, three, four, seven, or fourteen days. Remittent, continued.

Time: 2 p.m. Any time during the day.

Cause: Abuse of Quinine.

Prodrome: Erratic pains in chest. dullness in head and stretching of limbs.

Chill: Without thirst. Cold chills with goose – flesh at 2 p.m., running over the body, worse when moving about, fingers cold. Coldness of body with shivering, head feels irritable, feet and legs cold, hands cold even in a warm room.

Heat: With thirst, great excitability, anxiety, mental agony, restlessness, room seems hot and close, oppression of chest, rapid respiration, breathing difficult, as if there was no air in the room (anxious, oppressed breathing, Ipecac. air of room intolerable, Apis. ). Burning heat of head, face, hands and feet, head feels hot, painful, dull and stupid. Hands hot and clammy.

Sweat: Cold over lumbar and sacral region. Heat of room was unbearable, producing perspiration.

Tongue: White coated, breath putrid, offensive. Taste dirty, putrid. Food tasteless. Eructations tasting of sulphur, last all day.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.