====== CHIMAPHILA MACULATA ====== {{anchor:s1}}Chimaphila Maculata. {{anchor:s2}}Spotted Wintergreen. {{anchor:s3}}Pyroleaceae. {{anchor:s4}}Grows in the woods of North America. {{anchor:s5}}Proved by George H. Bute on himself and members of his family, also clinically verified by him. {{anchor:s6}}Provings by Dr. H. P. Gatchell, in A. O., vol. xiii, p. 75, 1876. {{anchor:s7}}Prof. H. C. Wood, in his Materia Medica, p. 476, pronounces it "the inert congener of Chimophila umbellata.{{anchor:s8}}" The United States Dispensatory, Wood & Bache, says, "it probably possesses similar virtues.{{anchor:s9}}" The umbellata and the maculata, although easily distinguished, have been strangely mixed up, or still more strangely separated. {{anchor:s10}}By some the maculata has been pronounced inert. {{anchor:s11}}The Indians declared it to be poisonous. {{anchor:s12}}If the latter opinion rests on correct observation and experience, it could only be explained by the supposition that the maculata has volatile properties which the other has not. {{anchor:s13}}Both the Chimophila maculata and umbellata are old Indian and popular medicines. {{anchor:s14}}They are proved by Jeanes and G. Bute as long ago as 1840 and 1856. {{anchor:s15}}It was particularly the latter prover who began to separate the symptoms of the two. {{anchor:s16}}The Indian doctors used only the umbellata and avoided the maculata, which they thought poisonous, a difference which to us would be a recommendation. {{anchor:s17}}Darlington, Flora Cestrica, says, "maculata possesses properties similar to the umbellata, but in a lesser degree.{{anchor:s18}}" Rafinesque, a good authority, regards the effect in sickness, preferring maculata (mentioned in his book as a Pyrola), and gives each to a different sub genus, calling the maculata Chimophila and the umbellata Pipsissewa. {{anchor:s19}}[It is against the genius of the Greek language to spell Kreosote with an a (see Gross' Comparative Materia Medica), and a scholar will never adopt such Ballhornian improvements (see N. J. Lucas' Dictionary of English and German language, vol. ii, p. 239), and yet we find the same blunder, in a reversed form, committed in spelling the Greek name of this dear little wintergreen.]. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s21}}Momentary unconsciousness.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Sudden headache with dimness of vision; she had to be led to bed; felt light-headed. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s24}}Sensation of lightness in head.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Pressing frontal headache; agg. after lying down.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Sudden headache above eyes; agg. on lying down.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Frontal headache with fullness in stomach and belching.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Pain in and above forehead.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Rheumatic tearing pain in temples.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Dull, heavy pain in whole front and top of head.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Sharp pains and heat in interior of head, unfitting for exertion.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Wants head pressed.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Headache with pain in bowels. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s35}}Inflammation of eyes, with secretion of mucus.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Whites of eyes yellow. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s38}}Pressive pain, as from a swelling, extending from right ear downward, with toothache. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s40}}Toothache; agg. during eating. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s42}}Tensive pain in throat on swallowing.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Sore throat and swollen tonsils. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s46}}No desire for food.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Extreme gnawing hunger.\\ {{anchor:s48}}No thirst, even during fever. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s50}}Nausea accompanies colic.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Nausea, with inclination to vomit without being able to do so. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s53}}Stitches in scrobiculum.\\ {{anchor:s54}}The acid of fruit produces pain in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Cutting pain in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Heaviness in stomach. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s58}}Griping in abdomen, with nausea and lassitude in all the limbs.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Colic and flatulent distension, with drowsiness and sensation as if abdomen would burst, after supper.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Colic with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Sensation of a heavy stone in abdomen; severe griping, with repeated stabbing pains upward, followed by diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Colic-like pains between pubes and navel.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Pain in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Bowels hard and swollen; thinks the glands are swollen.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Bowels very painful, sore and hard.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Feels as if there was dropsy of abdomen. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s68}}Colicky pain after stool.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Diarrheic stools containing air bubbles.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Grey stool.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Diarrhea accompanying worm fever.\\ {{anchor:s72}}After colic pains, a diarrhea, not very weakening. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s74}}Had to rise twice a night to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Urine cloudy and red after standing. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s77}}Excitement of sexual system. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s79}}Stinging in labia, as if boils were there. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s82}}Feeling of roughness in throat when talking.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Feeling of soreness and dryness in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Hawking of tough mucus from larynx in morning. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s86}}Angina with stupor. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s88}}Blood as if heated, with prickling. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s90}}Feels as if neck was tired and too small.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Sweat on back, with sensitiveness to cold air in morning.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Needle-like pains in sacrum and similar pains in hip bone. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s94}}Sensation in armpits, as if boils were there.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Sensation of swelling in armpits; pain from armpits to scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Pain in bones of forefinger.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Right arm as if paralyzed. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s99}}Chilliness of knees.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Cold, damp feet in evening.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Painful stiffness in right hip and leg as if bruised, at 5 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Pain as if beaten in calf and thigh, going downward in right leg and coming up in left.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Pain in right foot, extending to knee and afterwards into thigh. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s105}}Weakness in all the limbs.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Limbs feel as if distended; a feeling like that from erysipelas.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Pains as if in all the bones. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s111}}Lying down: headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Exertion: agg. headache. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s114}}Very nervous; cannot bear anything at all.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Hot, irritable, restless. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s117}}At night; rose twice to urinate: dry heat.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Morning: hawking of tough mucus.\\ {{anchor:s119}}At 5 P. M.: painful stiffness in right hip and leg.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Evening: cold, damp feet. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s122}}Feels better in a warm room without being chilly. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s124}}Dry heat during night.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Fever, with burning hot skin and thirst.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Exceedingly hot, as if blood boiling, but cannot sweat. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s128}}Sensation as of something passing downward on right side of body and coming up again on left, within the space of an hour.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Beaten feeling goes down right leg and comes up left.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Going upward: pain from right foot to knee and thigh.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Right: pressive pain from ear downward; arm feels paralyzed; painful stiffness in hip and leg. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s133}}As if boils were in labia and in armpits; arm as if paralyzed; as if neck was tired and too small; as if beaten, in calf and thigh; as if distended, limbs, like erysipelas; as if blood was boiling or on fire; as of something passing down right side of body and up left; as if abdomen would burst.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Pain: in and above forehead; in bowels, with headache; in teeth; in throat; in stomach; in bowels; from armpits to scapulae; in bones of forefinger; in right foot, knee and thigh; in bones.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Sharp pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Stitches: in scrobiculum.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Stabbing: upward in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Cutting: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Stinging: in labia.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Needle-like pains: in sacrum and hip bone.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Prickling: in blood; Griping: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Colic pains: between pubes and navel; after stool.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Rheumatic tearing: in temples.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Pressure: frontal headache, as from a swelling from right ear downward.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Dull, heavy pain: in front and top of head.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Soreness: in throat; in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Tensive pain: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Swelling sensation: in armpits.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Fullness: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Lightness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Painful stiffness: in right hip and leg as if bruised.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Heaviness: in stomach; as of a stone in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Roughness: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Heat: in head.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Chilliness: of knees.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Paralyzed feeling: in right arm.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Dryness: in larynx. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s161}}Wants head pressed. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s163}}Exceedingly hot as of blood boiling, but cannot sweat.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Thinks diseases state of the blood irritates the skin, as before the eruption of erysipelas, scarlet fever, or measles; itches terribly. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s166}}Adapted to mild, amiable, refined, sensitive, intellectual persons. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r970|Chimaphila Maculata]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r970|Chimaphila Maculata]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1884 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}