====== CHENOPODIUM ANTHELMINTICUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Chenopodium Anthelminticum.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Worm Seed. {{anchor:s3}}Chenopodiaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}A rank, odorous plant, known by the names Worm seed, Stinking weed and Jerusalem oak, grows about waste places in almost all parts of the United States. {{anchor:s5}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh herb in flower. {{anchor:s6}}The seeds of this species of Chenopodium are in common use as a vermifuge. <span grade2>{{anchor:s7}}Chenopodium ambrosoides</span>, sometimes confounded with <span grade2>anthelminticum</span>, has been employed as a remedy in hysterical nervous affections, particularly chorea, and in Frank's Magazine, vol. ii, is reported a case of paralysis of the tongue, in and old woman, after apoplexy, which had lasted several years; one of aphasia in a young man suffering from nervous prostration after smallpox; one of hemiplegia in a girl, aet 10, after scarlatina, and in vol. iii, another of paralysis of both feet in a man, aet. 52. {{anchor:s8}}In Oestr. Med. Wochenschrift, 1842, No. 28, is reported a cure of right-sided hemiplegia with aphasia in a primipara, aet. 35, of eight weeks' duration. {{anchor:s9}}Another species, Chenopodium Botrys, has been used in France in catarrh and humoral asthma.

{{anchor:s10}}For remarks by Jeanes (proving by chewing the seed), see Raue's Record, 1872, p. 30.

{{anchor:s11}}To Jacob Jeanes the profession is indebted for the principal characteristic of this remedy, the <span grade2>infrascapular pain, right side</span>; the same was verified in his proving by olfaction, also clinically by C. Hg.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s13}}- <span grade2>Hemicrania and Tonsillitis</span>, C. Hering, MSS.; <span grade2>Asthma</span>, Jeanes, Hahnemann Monthly, vol. 6, p. 332; <span grade2>Suppressed menses</span>, G. Bute, MSS.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s15}}Weeping mood.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s16}}~</span> <span grade3>Suppressed menses.</span>

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Vertigo with transient vanishing of sight.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s19}}~</span> <span grade3>Hemicrania.</span>\\ {{anchor:s20}}Sense of giddiness in forehead accompanies infrascapular pain.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s22}}Pain in head and eyes; neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Pain in whole right side of head, with roaring in ears and dimness or complete loss of vision.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s24}}~</span> <span grade3>Hemicrania.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Dull, pressive pain in vertex, extending through head.</span>\\ {{anchor:s26}}(OBS:) Megrim and frontal headache.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Vanishing of sight.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s29}}~</span> <span grade3>Hemicrania.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s30}}~</span> <span grade3>Suppressed menses.</span>

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Roaring in ears; deafness; ringing in ears.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s34}}Papular eruption on lower portion of right naris between ala and column.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s36}}Pale face, infrascapular pain right side.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Subacute inflammation of tonsils.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Chronic enlargement of tonsils in pale, scrofulous children.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s40}}Caseous deposits, with painful inflammation of tonsils.</span>

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

{{anchor:s42}}(OBS:) Hepatic affections.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Slight pain in region of kidneys.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}Menses suppressed; has leucorrhea instead.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s49}}Soreness in larynx, cannot sing.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s50}}~</span> <span grade3>Suppressed menses.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s51}}A rough furry feeling in throat.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s52}}~</span> <span grade3>Suppressed menses.</span>

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s54}}Difficulty of breathing.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s55}}~</span> <span grade3>Suppressed menses.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Pains through breast, under right scapula, and in right shoulder.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}Pain through right chest, beginning at the attachment of the sixth rib to its cartilage and extending to inferior angle of right scapula.</span>\\ {{anchor:s59}}(OBS:) Cough, with expectoration and rattling of phlegm.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s61}}Pain beneath the point of the right shoulder blade, with sense of giddiness in forehead, ringing in ears and pale face.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s62}}Slight dull pain a little lower down than the inferior angle of the right scapula, but nearer the spine.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s63}}~</span> <span grade4>Hemicrania.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s64}}~</span> <span grade4>Asthma.</span>

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s66}}Pain in right shoulder.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s68}}(OBS:) Fever after a fright.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s70}}Attacks of right-sided hemicrania return at intervals of from one to five weeks.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s72}}Right: pain in side of head; eruption in naris; pains under scapula and in shoulder; pain through chest to inferior angle of scapula.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s74}}Pain: in right side of head; in region of kidneys; through breast; under right scapula; in right shoulder; through right chest.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Neuralgic pain: in head and eyes.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Soreness: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Dull pain: below inferior angle of right scapula, near spine.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Dull pressive pain: in vertex and through head.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Rough, furry feeling in throat.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

{{anchor:s81}}(OBS:) Dropsy.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s83}}Pale, scrofulous children, with inflamed and swollen tonsils.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Mary S., aet. about 20; suppressed menses.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}A man, aet. 35; hemicrania.</span>\\ {{anchor:s86}}Old lady; asthma.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s88}}Compare: <span grade2>Pimpinella saxifraga</span> (tonsillitis), <span grade2>Chel. maj.</span> (r. infrascapular pain), <span grade2>Aphis chenopodii glauci</span> (l. infrascapular pain).

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r588|Chenopodium anthelminticum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r588|Chenopodium anthelminticum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1884 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}