====== LACHNANTHES TINCTORIA ======
{{anchor:s1}}Lachnanthes Tinctoria.
{{anchor:s2}}Red Root. {{anchor:s3}}Haemodoraceae.
{{anchor:s4}}An herb growing in sandy swamps near the coast; the root red, fibrous; the leaves sword-shaped; the stem hairy; flowers yellow, woolly. {{anchor:s5}}The first specimen was sent in 1852 by Dr. Byron, from Monticello, Florida, to Hering, under whose direction it was proved by Raue, Lippe and Fincke. {{anchor:s6}}See Am. Hom. Rev., vol. 4, p. 458.
====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======
{{anchor:s8}}- Headache, Lilienthal, Hom. Clin., vol. 1, p. 26; Dryness of throat, Lippe, Am. Hom. Rev., vol. 5, p. 488; Diphtheria, Hosfield, Parker, Org., vol. 3, p. 369; Stiff neck, Berridge, Hom. Clin., vol. 4, p. 108; Typhoid pneumonia, Duffield, Am. Hom. Rev., vol. 4, p. 489.
====== MIND. [1] ======
{{anchor:s10}}While dozing through day, sees images.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Loquacious delirium, brilliant eyes, circumscribed red cheeks, agg. from 1 to 2 A. M. ~ Typhoid pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Loquacity, afterwards stupid and irritable.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Excited over a trifle.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Restless while perspiring; tosses about; whining.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Great hilarity in evening.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Despondency, bitter crying spells. {{anchor:s17}}~ Headache.
====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======
{{anchor:s19}}Giddy: with sensation of heat in chest and around heart, boiling bubbling; with icy coldness of forehead.
====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======
{{anchor:s21}}Tearing: in forehead from left to right side; in right temple, extending to cheek; in temples.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Pain in forehead, with general heat, alternating with crampy pain in chest; at last tearing in nose and shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Head feels enlarged and as if split open with a wedge from outside to within; body icy cold, skin moist and sticky; cannot get warm even under a feather bed, face yellow; whines with pain; head burns like fire, much thirst.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Vertex feels enlarged and extended upward; tearing pain.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Headache: until 10 A. M.; pressing eyes outward; agg. toward noon, she becomes more giddy; in evening, pricking headache.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Continuous stitch in left forehead from within to without, leaves after a few minutes a pressing pain, and extends over whole forehead, pressing from within outward.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Congestive and neuralgic headaches; eyes much affected.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Violent pain in right side of head and temple; a splitting, bursting pain, occasionally extending down to jaw, agg. moving head or body; disposition to keep eyes closed; great despondency; bitter crying spells; disturbed by least noise; cannot bear even walking of persons over heavy carpet; head feels enlarged, as if split open with a wedge; tearing pains agg. from vomiting.
====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======
{{anchor:s30}}Draws skin of forehead upward, agg. left side.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Sensation as if hair was standing on end, agg. on occiput.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Scalp very painful, even to touch.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Red pimples on forehead, become larger and suppurate.
====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======
{{anchor:s35}}Looking intensely, sees grey rings.\\ {{anchor:s36}}If he looks at a spot for some time, it becomes quite dark, also if he reads any length of time.\\ {{anchor:s37}}When reading or writing, small grey spot, as large as lentil, runs before left eye.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Moving head quickly, sight becomes obscure.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Obscuration of sight, as if a cloud were before eyes; could not see in evening; amel. walking about; agg. sitting down.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Eyes brilliant, face red, pupils large, delirium. {{anchor:s41}}~ Pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Lachrymation and burning, with sensation of dryness.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Compression of left eyeball, from below upward.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Pressing as from dust in eyes, discharge of white mucus.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Eyes feel heavy, as if they could not be kept open.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Eyes feel cold.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Eyebrows and lids drawn upward, looks with fixed eyes.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Twitching in upper eyelids, agg. when closing them.
====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======
{{anchor:s50}}Almost complete deafness during acute diseases.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Singing in right ear when walking in open air.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Tearing in ears.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Crawling in right ear while eating; in left ear, amel. boring with finger, but immediately returning and feeling as if something had closed ear.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Itching in left ear and sore feeling in right.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Sensation of coldness in external ear.
====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======
{{anchor:s57}}Burning on right side of root of nose.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Nose bleeds profusely, blood pale.
====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======
{{anchor:s60}}Circumscribed red face, 1 to 2 A. M., violent delirium, eyes brilliant. {{anchor:s61}}~ Typhoid pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Face swollen, with redness and blueness under eyes.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Pale, sickly, yellow countenance; face and lips bluish.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Tearing in temples down into cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Tearing pressing in left cheek toward eyes.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Sensation as if something was crawling over face.
====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======
{{anchor:s68}}Redness, swelling and tension of lips.
====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======
{{anchor:s70}}Upper incisors and eye teeth feel loose and sore, agg. touching with tongue and closing teeth.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Teeth feel loose and too long; agg. in bed.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Teeth ache after eating or drinking warm things.
====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======
{{anchor:s74}}Sensation as if mouth was sore and thick.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Saliva of tough mucus.
====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======
{{anchor:s77}}Great dryness of throat, agg. on awaking during night, with much coughing.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Roughness of throat, with pricking when swallowing; continuously increasing dryness of throat, with sleeplessness, followed by hoarseness.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Sensation of swelling in left side of throat; when he swallows he feels an itching in spot.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Sore throat, with short cough.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Diphtheria, stiffness of neck; head drawn to one side.
====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======
{{anchor:s84}}Much thirst.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Aversion to meat.
====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======
{{anchor:s87}}Hiccough in bed.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Rising of sweetish water, with nausea; qualmishness about navel when walking in open air.
====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======
{{anchor:s90}}Full feeling in stomach; rolling of wind.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Beating in pit of stomach, as from a pulse, as if a hammer was beating on an ulcerated spot.
====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======
{{anchor:s93}}Cutting in upper part of abdomen from left to right.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Twirling and twisting in upper part of abdomen, two inches above navel.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Fermentation and rumbling; rolling of wind in abdomen, left side, hears it but does not feel it.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Much flatulency. {{anchor:s97}}~ Typhoid pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Sensation of heat through abdomen, feels as if bowels would be moved; evacuation, amel. head.
====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======
{{anchor:s100}}Frequent desire to evacuate, without result.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Evacuation, with much flatulency and pressing.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Continuous stitch in anus, morning.
====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======
{{anchor:s104}}Pressing on bladder when urinating.\\ {{anchor:s105}}During night, drops flow from urethra, coloring shirt red.
====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======
{{anchor:s107}}Violent burning in left half of scrotum, drawing toward right side.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Tingling and itching of scrotum and surrounding parts.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Sweat and itching of scrotum and penis.
====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======
{{anchor:s111}}Menses: too early, blood viscid, mixed with mucus; profuse, bright red.\\ {{anchor:s112}}During menses, sensation of distension of abdomen, it feels as if it were boiling.
====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======
{{anchor:s115}}Hoarseness; dry cough from irritation of throat, agg. in bed.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Burning in right side of larynx.
====== COUGH. [27] ======
{{anchor:s118}}Dry cough as from larynx; sputa blood-streaked; severe pain in chest. {{anchor:s119}}~ Typhoid pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Cough agg. in bed, also from sleeping.
====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======
{{anchor:s122}}Stitches: like knives, in quick succession, in right side of chest below mamma, at rest and moving, in afternoon; in left side of chest.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Severe pain in chest, with cough, circumscribed red cheeks, soreness over abdomen, with sensitiveness to touch; pulse 110, small and wiry; bowels costive; between 1 and 2 A. M. delirium, at times great, wanted to be dressed and go out; tongue coated yellowish brown and dry; deafness; bloody expectoration; much harassed with flatulency. {{anchor:s124}}~ Typhoid pneumonia.
====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======
{{anchor:s126}}Stitches in heart, with anxiety.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Sensation of heat, bubbling and boiling in chest and region of heart, rising to head; giddy; breaks out in perspiration.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Frequent violent pulsations of heart, each beat double, one hard and full, the other soft and small.\\ {{anchor:s129}}While lying, feels beating of heart in his head.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Trembling of heart, with great debility.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Pulse: slow, irregular; from 58 to 68; during coldness, 74, some beats fast, some slow; 110, small, thin, hard (pneumonia).
====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======
{{anchor:s133}}Stiffness, wry neck.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Pain and stiffness in neck, going over whole head and down nose, then as if pinching nostrils together.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Torticollis; neck stiff, head drawn to one side; pain in nape as if dislocated, when turning neck or bending head backward. {{anchor:s136}}~ Diphtheria, scarlet fever, etc.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Right side of neck stiff, head drawn to right side.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Sensation as if a piece of ice was lying on back between shoulders, followed by a chill, with gooseflesh all over.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Sensation between shoulder blades as if wet with cold perspiration, skin being dry and cool.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Burning: on right shoulder blade; in region of left kidney, deep, extending toward right side; in spine, four inches above small of back; in os sacrum, 4 P. M.
====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======
{{anchor:s142}}Tearing: from shoulder, extending to finger joints; in upper part of arm, beginning at elbow joint, where it pains most, extending into shoulder; in elbow joints, at times upward and then downward; in knuckles of middle fingers of right hand.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Left index finger drawn crooked.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Thumb and index finger feels as if sprained.
====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======
{{anchor:s146}}Tearing: in right ischium; in left knee, when walking; in right tibia; in right big toe, awakening from sleep.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Tingling: from knees to ankles; legs and feet, agg. in heat.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Cramps: in calves lying in bed; in feet during night.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Burning: in feet; under nail of left toe.
====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======
{{anchor:s151}}Tearing pains in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Burning of palms of hands and soles of feet.
====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======
{{anchor:s156}}At rest: stitches in chest.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Lying: feels beating of heart in head; in bed cramps in calves.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Sitting down: obscuration of sight agg.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Bending head backward: torticollis.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Morning: stitches in chest; attacks of coldness agg.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Moving head quickly: sight becomes obscure.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Turning head: torticollis.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Moving head or body: pain agg.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Walking: obscuration of sight amel.; singing in right ear; tearing in left knee.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Tosses about: while perspiring.
====== NERVES. [36] ======
{{anchor:s167}}Sensation of great weakness, as from loss of fluids.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Very restless, throws herself about.
====== SLEEP. [37] ======
{{anchor:s170}}Somnolency during day, sees images.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Sleepiness, with yawning, eyes feel so heavy she cannot keep them open.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Sleepless: feverish, circumscribed red cheeks; with increasing dryness of throat; without feeling weak.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Restless sleep, followed by sweat.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Feverish, distressing dreams (following cramp in left foot during night).\\ {{anchor:s175}}Awakens: 2 A. M., with cramp in her breast, extending from right to left; after awaking and stretching, a shock, followed by chilliness and gooseflesh all over.
====== TIME. [38] ======
{{anchor:s177}}Morning: dryness of eyes; stitch in anus; sweat.\\ {{anchor:s178}}From 1 to 2 A. M.: loquacious delirium agg.; circumscribed red face.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Noon: headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s180}}After 12 P. M.: sweat.\\ {{anchor:s181}}In afternoon: stitches in chest.\\ {{anchor:s182}}At 2 A. M.: awakens with cramp in breast.\\ {{anchor:s183}}During day: somnolency.\\ {{anchor:s184}}At 4 P. M.: burning in os sacrum.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Evening: pricking headache; could not see.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Night: dryness of throat; drops flow from urethra, coloring shirt red; cramps in feet; skin burns and itches.
====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======
{{anchor:s188}}Heat: tingling in legs and feet agg.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Hot flat irons: amel. icy coldness of body.\\ {{anchor:s190}}In bed: teeth feel loose and too long; cough agg.; attacks of coldness.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Cannot get warm under a feather bed.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Eating or drinking warm things: toothache.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Open air: when walking, singing in right ear; qualmishness about navel.
====== FEVER. [40] ======
{{anchor:s195}}Continuous chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Sensation as if piece of ice was lying on back, between shoulders, then a shock, followed by coldness over whole body with gooseflesh; these attacks recur on moving and pass off after going to bed.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Body icy cold, hot flat irons relieve.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Flushes alternately with chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Feels hot, but chills run all over her before heat can develop.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Evening fever, agg. 6 to 12 P. M.; face red, agg. upper part.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Dry heat, feet burn; restless tossing; rumbling in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Burning heat, face red, agg. on right side; followed by circumscribed redness of cheeks, also agg. right side.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Feverish, with somnolency.\\ {{anchor:s204}}General heat, with sweat on forehead.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Fever with delirium, circumscribed redness of cheeks and brilliant eyes. {{anchor:s206}}~ Pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Sweat: with dizziness, boiling and bubbling in chest and region of heart; after 12 P. M., after a restless sleep; in morning; icy cold, principally on forehead.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Skin cold, damp and clammy.
====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======
{{anchor:s210}}Alternately: flushes and chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s211}}From 6 to 12 P. M.: fever agg.\\ {{anchor:s212}}For six weeks: dull toothache in second left upper molar.
====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======
{{anchor:s214}}Right: tearing in temple; violent pain in side of head and temple; singing in ear; crawling in ear; sore feeling in ear; burning in side of root of nose; stitches in side of chest; stiff neck; tearing in ischium; in tibia; in big toe; burning heat agg. side of face; circumscribed redness of cheek.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Left: continuous stitch in forehead; draws skin of forehead upward, agg. left side; small spot before eye; compression of eyeball; singing in ear; itching in ear; tearing pressing in cheek towards eyes; sensation of swelling in side of throat; rolling of wind in abdomen on side; violent burning in half of scrotum; burning in region of kidney; tearing in knee; burning under big toe nail.\\ {{anchor:s216}}From right to left: cramp in breast.\\ {{anchor:s217}}From left to right: tearing in forehead; cutting in upper part of abdomen; burning in scrotum; in kidney.\\ {{anchor:s218}}From outside to within: head as if split.\\ {{anchor:s219}}From within to without: stitches in forehead, pressing.\\ {{anchor:s220}}From below upward: compression of left eyeball.
====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======
{{anchor:s222}}Head as if enlarged; as if split open with a wedge; vertex as if enlarged; as if hair was standing on end; as if a cloud was before his eyes; pressing as from dust in eyes; as if eyes could not be kept open; as if something had closed ear; as if something was crawling over face; upper incisors and eye teeth as if loose and sore; teeth as if too long; as if mouth was sore and thick; as if a hammer was beating on an ulcerated spot in stomach; as if bowels would be moved; abdomen feels as if it was boiling; pain as if pinching nostrils together; nape as if dislocated; as if piece of ice was lying on back between shoulders; as if back between shoulder blades was wet with cold perspiration; thumb and index finger as if sprained; weakness as from loss of fluids; skin as if an eruption would appear.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Pain: in forehead; in neck; in nape.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Violent pain: in right side of head and temple.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Severe pain in chest.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Tearing: in forehead from left to right side; in right temple, extending to cheek; in temples; in nose and shoulders; in vertex; in ears; in temples down into cheeks; from shoulder extending to finger joints; in upper arm from elbow joint to shoulder; in elbow joints; in knuckles of middle fingers of right hand; in right ischium; in left knee; in right tibia; in right big toe; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Tearing pressing: in left cheek towards eyes.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Cutting: in upper part of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Beating: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Splitting, bursting pain: down jaw.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Stitches: in side of chest; in heart.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Continuous stitch: in left forehead; in anus.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Neuralgia: in head.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Cramps: in calves; in feet; in left foot.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Crampy pain: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Violent burning: in left half of scrotum.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Pricking pain: in head; in throat.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Pressing pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Soreness: over abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Sore feeling: in right ear; in throat.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Burning: in head; in right side of root of nose; in right side of larynx; in shoulder blade; in region of left kidney; in spine; in os sacrum; in feet; under nail of left toe; in palms and soles; in right side of face.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Heat: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Tingling: of scrotum and surrounding parts from knees to ankles; in legs and feet.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Pressing: on bladder when urinating.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Twirling and twisting: in upper part of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Dull pains: in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Boiling bubbling: around heart.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Feels beating of heart in head.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Trembling: of heart.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Full feeling: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Tension: of lips.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Stiffness: of neck.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Crawling: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Twitching: in upper eyelids.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Dryness: of throat.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Itching: in left ear; in spot in throat; of scrotum; of penis; of skin.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Sensation of coldness: external ear.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Icy coldness: of forehead.
====== TISSUES. [44] ======
{{anchor:s260}}Hemorrhages; typhoid pneumonia.
====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======
{{anchor:s264}}Touch: scalp very painful; with tongue or closing teeth, soreness of teeth agg.; soreness over abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Boring: with finger in ear, crawling amel.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Scratching: burning and itching of skin agg.
====== SKIN. [46] ======
{{anchor:s268}}Skin itches and burns all night, agg. after scratching.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Red pimples; pimples here and there containing a watery fluid.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Sensation in skin as if an eruption would appear.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Skin cold, damp and clammy.
====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======
{{anchor:s273}}Woman; typhoid pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Woman, aet. 37, married, nervo-sanguine; headache.
====== RELATIONS. [48] ======
{{anchor:s276}}Compare: Act. rac., Aethusa, Agar., Bellad., Cann. ind., Cicuta, Crotal, Gelsem., Glonoine, Gymnocladus, Hyosc., Laches, Opium, Platina, Phosphor., Sanguin., Stramon.
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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 07, 1888 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r277|Lachnanthes tinctoria]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r277|Lachnanthes tinctoria]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1888 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}