====== ERYNGIUM AQUATICUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Eryngium Aquaticum.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Button Snakeroot. {{anchor:s3}}Umbelliferae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}An indigenous plant, growing in low, wet places; flowers in August.

{{anchor:s5}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh root.

{{anchor:s6}}Provings by C. H. McClelland, Coggswell and Jones. {{anchor:s7}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, p. 213.

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

{{anchor:s9}}- <span grade2>Incontinence of urine</span>, Barenburg, Organon, vol. 3, p. 367; <span grade2>Spermatorrhea</span> (2 cases), Parks, Thomas' Add. to Mat. Med., p. 49.

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

{{anchor:s11}}Very sober and depressed in spirits; very dull at night.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Not able to think steadily on any subject.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Thoughts confused; cannot concentrate them upon any subject without much exertion; causes heavy full pain in persisted in.

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

{{anchor:s15}}Vertigo.

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

{{anchor:s17}}Expanding sensation in frontal region above eyes, agg. stooping.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Continual dull heavy pain in frontal portion of brain.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Severe pain in frontal region, causing dimness of sight.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Frontal headache on rising.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Reading or writing causes hard, heavy pain in forehead; agg. stooping.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Pain in head, agg. by lowering it or thinking intently upon and subject; pain especially in frontal region and more particularly over left eye, of a sharp and shooting character; when sitting in stooping posture it leaves eye, passes into neck and along muscles of shoulder, and beneath scapula, where it remains for some time.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Shooting pains in coronary region, and in right side of face, from eyes to teeth, in morning.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Dull dragging pain in occiput, neck and shoulders.

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

{{anchor:s26}}Scalp sore to touch, combing hair causes pain.

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

{{anchor:s28}}Dull expression of eyes, great inclination to sleep.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Eyes sensitive to light.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Burning pain in eyes, they feel heavy and slightly congested.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Sclerotitis; smarting burning sensation, with heavy aching pains, produced by strong light; squinting on exposure to strong light; tearing burning pains in eyes; watery or purulent discharge.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Purulent inflammation of left eye; congested, red, swollen tender to pressure; constant dull aching, amel. by heat profuse discharge of purulent, sticky fluid, glueing lids together, and flowing on cheek from all parts of eyelid; conjunctiva granulated and rough.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Muscles of eye feel stiff, pain on turning them quickly.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Severe tearing, boring pain over left eye.

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

{{anchor:s36}}Continued ringing, singing with cracking sound in left ear.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Bruised tearing pain about ears, as if they were being torn from their location.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Inflammation of Eustachian tube; left ear swollen in and out, tender to pressure, constant aching pain, bleeding readily, thick, white, bloody, foul-smelling pus.

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

{{anchor:s40}}Profuse thick, yellow, mucous discharge from nose.

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

{{anchor:s42}}Shooting pains in right side of face from eye to teeth.

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

{{anchor:s44}}Thick, tenacious, disagreeable mucus in mouth.

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

{{anchor:s46}}Smarting raw pain along left side of throat; dry tongue.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Intense redness and congestion of mucous membrane of throat, slight swelling without pain, profuse secretion of thick, whitish mucus.

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

{{anchor:s50}}Partial anorexia.

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

{{anchor:s52}}Nausea followed by acrid eructations.

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s54}}Hollowness or emptiness in stomach, with heavy, dragging pain.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s55}}Spitting up of bright arterial blood, mixed with black clots, with burning in epigastrium, after a blow on stomach.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s57}}Severe colicky or cramping pain in small intestines.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Severe pain in left groin and testicle.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s60}}Bowels constipated.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s61}}Mucous diarrhea of children.</span>\\ {{anchor:s62}}Tenesmus at stool; feces seem to be cut as they pass through anus.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s63}}Hemorrhoids and prolapsus ani.</span>

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

{{anchor:s65}}Frequent desire to urinate; stinging burning pain in urethra, behind glans during urination.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s66}}Must urinate every five minutes; urine dripping away all the time, and burning like fire.</span>

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s68}}Sexual desire suppressed, then excited, with lewd dreams and pollutions.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Discharge of prostatic fluid from slightest causes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Involuntary emissions occasioned by onanism or excessive sexual indulgence.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Emissions at night with erections; semen also passed by day with urine; loss of semen followed by great lassitude and depression, lasting from twelve to forty-eight hours; partial impotence.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s72}}Emissions of semen without erections, day and night, and followed by great lassitude; after injury to testicles.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s73}}Gonorrhea with painful erections.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s74}}Gleet.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s76}}Leucorrhea.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}Laryngeal irritations; short, hacking cough.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s80}}Chronic laryngitis.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Cough, with sensation of constriction in throat.</span>

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

{{anchor:s84}}Oppression of chest, feeling of fullness, inability to take a full breath.

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

{{anchor:s86}}When pain in head is less severe, it is worse in neck and shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Weakness and heavy dragging pain in lumbar region.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s89}}Lower extremities languid and heavy, with profuse perspiration on walking.

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

{{anchor:s91}}Transient rheumatic pains in left shoulder and arm, also right wrist and hand.

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

{{anchor:s95}}Sitting in stooping posture: pain leaves eye and passes to neck and shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Stooping: expanding sensation above eyes agg.; heavy pain in forehead agg.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Lowering head: agg. pain in head.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Rising: frontal headache.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Turning eyes: causes pain in them.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Walking: causes profuse perspiration.

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

{{anchor:s102}}Slight erethism of nervous system Loss of energy.

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

{{anchor:s104}}Morning: shooting pains in right side of face.\\ {{anchor:s105}}By day: semen passes; emissions without erections.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Night: very dull in spirits; emissions without erections.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s108}}Heat: agg. dull aching in left eye.

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

{{anchor:s110}}Flashes of heat.

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

{{anchor:s112}}Every five minutes: must urinate.\\ {{anchor:s113}}From twelve to forty-eight hours: great lassitude after loss of semen.

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

{{anchor:s115}}Left: pain over eye; inflammation of eye; severe tearing boring pain over eye; constant ringing, singing and cracking sound in ear; ear swollen; ear tender to pressure; pain along side of throat; pain in groin and testicle; rheumatic pains in shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Right: pain in face; pain in side of face; rheumatic pain in wrist and hand.

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

{{anchor:s118}}As if ears wee being torn from their location.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Pain: in head; in forehead; over left eye.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Erratic pains: all over body.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Tearing pain: in eyes; about ears.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Severe pain: in frontal region; in left groin; in testicle.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Severe boring pain: over left eye.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Hard pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Sharp shooting pain: over left eye; extending to neck and shoulders; in coronary region; right side of face from eye to teeth.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Stinging pain: in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Colicky pain: in small intestines.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Cramping pain: in small intestines.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Constriction: of throat.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Burning pain: in eyes; in epigastrium; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Bruised pain: about ears.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Dull dragging pain in occiput; in neck; in shoulders; in stomach; in lumbar region.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Rheumatic pains: in left shoulder; in left arm; in wrist; in right hand.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Aching pain: in left ear.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Dull, heavy pain: in frontal part of brain.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Heavy aching: in eye.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Smarting: in eyes; along left side of throat.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Soreness: of scalp.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Oppression: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Ringing: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Singing: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Cracking sound in left ear.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Expanding sensation in frontal region.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s145}}Dropsy of an asthenic character.</span>

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

{{anchor:s149}}Touch: scalp sore.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Pressure: left eye tender; left ear tender to pressure.\\ {{anchor:s151}}After a blow; burning in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s152}}After injury to testicles: emissions without erections, followed by lassitude.

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

{{anchor:s154}}Married man, after injury to testicles by jumping upon a horse, for fifteen years; spermatorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Married man, not conscious of having sustained any injury, seminal emissions for eight or ten years.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Man, aet. 82; incontinence of urine.

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

{{anchor:s158}}Compare in pollutions <span grade2>Cinchona, Gelsem., Phosphor.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r498|Eryngium aquaticum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r498|Eryngium aquaticum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1887 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}