====== COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Coccinella Septempunctata.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Lady-bird; Sun chafer. {{anchor:s3}}Coleoptera.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}A well-known and widely spread insect, living on vegetables in gardens and fields. {{anchor:s5}}Its head and thorax are black, flat, under body and feet black, wing-shells arched, oval, red or orange-yellow, with black dots, usually seven in number, of unequal size, the wings nearly as long again as body. {{anchor:s6}}When touched with hand there issues from joints of feet thickish juice, yellow, like gambogia. {{anchor:s7}}--Am. Hom. Pharm.

{{anchor:s8}}Tincture prepared from the freshly crushed beetles.

{{anchor:s9}}Dr. Corradori was the first who directed the attention of physicians to the value of this remedy in affections of the teeth; Dr. Hirsch confirmed his views, and made it public in 1798. {{anchor:s10}}(See Salzburger, Med. Ztg., vol. 3, p. 76; Roth, N. A. J. H., vol. 2, p. 45.)

{{anchor:s11}}Dr. Sauter states that if the insect is crushed upon the gum of a healthy person it excites a feeling of coldness in the part, without which sensation a cure is seldom effected. {{anchor:s12}}--N. A. J. H., vol. 2, p. 45.

{{anchor:s13}}According to Noak and Trinks, the Coccinella septempunctata has been used in hydrophobia. {{anchor:s14}}--B. J. H., vol. 15, p. 688.

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

{{anchor:s16}}- Franz, Archiv f. Hom. 13, 2, 187; Sauter, Hufel. {{anchor:s17}}Jour., 14, 2, 91 (from Roth's Mat. Med.); Pehrson (sore throat), manuscript; <span grade2>Chronic faceache; Frontal neuralgia; Periodical toothache; Nocturnal attacks of toothache</span>; Sauter (translated by Roth), N. A. J. H., vol. 2, pp. 45 and 474.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}Slight vertigo after cessation of toothache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s20}}Disappearance of pain in face attended by fainting, oppressed breathing, subdued intermittent pulse.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s21}}~</span> <span grade3>Toothache.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Pressure and heaviness in forehead.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s24}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s25}}Tensive pressure in head of very brief duration.\\ {{anchor:s26}}One-sided headache in forepart of head, tearing, fine sticking.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Dull headache towards both temples and occiput, as if brain would become enlarged or distended at these places.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Pressure and heaviness, especially over right eye, which is sensitive to least touch.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s30}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}During whole paroxysm, cannot open eyes, pain agg. by any bright object.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s32}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s33}}Eyelids open with difficulty, light increases pain.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s34}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>

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

{{anchor:s36}}Tearing pain rhythmical with pulse, extending from right upper jaw to lobule of ear.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Redness and heat of cheeks, especially at night.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Rush of blood to face, like flushes of heat.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Pain over whole side of right face, suddenly jumping to left side, after use of lancet.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s40}}~</span> <span grade3>Toothache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s41}}Pain in course of frontal nerve, becoming more and more severe.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s42}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Pain extending over whole face, even to hairy scalp.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s44}}~</span> <span grade3>Periodical toothache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Chronic pain extending from superior molars to forehead; affected part paler; attack lasts only about one minute; but is instantly repeated; agg. at night, preventing sleep for many weeks.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}Frontal neuralgia, attack commencing by a pressure and heaviness in forehead, especially over right eye, which was sensitive to least touch; attack lasts six to twelve hours, ending in a general heat and sleep of two to three hours, at end of which he awoke without the least pain; paroxysms returning every eight, twelve, fourteen or twenty-one days.</span>

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

{{anchor:s48}}Sensation of coldness in all the teeth.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Pleasant sensation of coldness in one tooth when touched with finger.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Painful sensation in back teeth, as if they were hollow and air was forced into them.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Dull, drawing pain in upper back teeth, extending towards right ear while sitting.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Severe drawing, in jerks, as though tooth would be torn out with a hook.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Rhythmical, violent drawing, in both rows of teeth, while eating.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Jerking and tearing in one and tearing in the other teeth, with some stitches extending towards occiput, and warmth through whole head.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Grumbling pain in back teeth.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Violent throbbing or pulse-like jerking in back teeth.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Periodical toothache, coming on every day at noon in third inferior molar, extending over whole face, even to hairy scalp.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}Raging toothache during day, almost entirely disappearing at night, sleep sound and undisturbed.</span>\\ {{anchor:s59}}Gum swollen.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s61}}Tobacco bites tongue severely.

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s63}}Sensation of icy coldness in entire buccal cavity.

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

{{anchor:s65}}Is awakened by profuse accumulation of saliva; vomits and complains of sore throat.

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s68}}Loss of appetite.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s69}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}With disappearance of pain in face breathing becomes oppressed.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s72}}~</span> <span grade3>Toothache.</span>

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Subdued, intermittent pulse, with remission of pain in face.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s75}}~</span> <span grade3>Toothache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Contracted pulse.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s77}}~</span> <span grade3>Toothache.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Icy cold extremities.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s80}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s84}}While sitting: dull, drawing pains in upper back teeth, extending towards right ear.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s86}}Is much weakened by long-continued suffering.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s87}}~</span> <span grade3>Toothache.</span>

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s89}}Nocturnal attacks of toothache, entirely preventing sleep, even when pain did not appear at night, could not sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}Attack ends in a general heat and sleep of two or three hours, from which he awakes without any pain.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s91}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s93}}At night: heat of cheeks; sleep prevented for many weeks by chronic pain in face; attacks of toothache, entirely preventing sleep, even when pain did not appear, could not sleep.

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

{{anchor:s95}}Of brief duration: tensive pressure in head.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Raging toothache during day, almost entirely disappearing at night.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Lasting six to twelve hours: attacks of frontal neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Periodical: toothache, coming on every day at noon in third inferior molar, extending over whole face, even to hairy scalp.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Paroxysms of frontal neuralgia returning every eight, twelve, fourteen or twenty-one days.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Chronic: pain extending from superior molars to forehead; attack lasts only about one minute, but is instantly repeated, agg. at night, preventing sleep for many weeks.

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

{{anchor:s102}}Right: pressure and heaviness over eye, which is sensitive to least touch; tearing pain, rhythmical with pulse, extending from upper jaw to lobule of ear; dull, drawing pains in upper back teeth extending towards ear.\\ {{anchor:s103}}From right to left: pain over whole side of right face suddenly springing to left side, after use of lancet.

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

{{anchor:s105}}As if brain would become enlarged or distended at temples and occiput; as if back teeth were hollow and air was forced into them; as if tooth would be torn out by a hook.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Pain: in face; in eyes agg. from light or any bright object: in course of frontal nerve, becoming more and more severe; extending over whole face, even to hairy scalp.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Stitches: extending towards occiput, with toothache.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Fine sticking: in forepart of head.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Jerking in one and tearing in the other teeth.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Tearing: in forepart of head; rhythmical with pulse, extending from right upper jaw to lobule of ear.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Severe drawing, in jerks, as though tooth would be torn out by a hook.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Rhythmical, violent drawing in both rows of teeth, while eating.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Drawing: in upper back teeth extending towards right ear.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Soreness: of throat.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Tensive pressure: in head.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Pressure: in forehead; over right eye.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Oppression: of breathing.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Violent throbbing or pulse-like jerking in back teeth.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Grumbling pain: in back teeth.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Dull: headache towards both temples and occiput; in upper back teeth, extending towards right ear.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Heaviness: in forehead; over right eye.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Tobacco bites tongue severely.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Heat: of cheeks; to face, flushes of.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Warmth: through whole head, with toothache.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Coldness: of skin of whole body; in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Icy coldness: in entire buccal cavity; of extremities.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s130}}Touch: right eye sensitive to least.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s132}}Skin of whole body moist and cold.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s133}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>

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

{{anchor:s135}}Woman, aet. 30, robust; toothache.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Young lady; frontal neuralgia.

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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:r877|Coccinella Septempunctata]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r877|Coccinella Septempunctata]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1884 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}