====== MEPHITIS PUTORIUS ====== {{anchor:s1}}Mephitis Putorius. {{anchor:s2}}Skunk. {{anchor:s3}}Mustelidae. {{anchor:s4}}The alcoholic dilution is prepared from the liquid contained in the glands of the animal. {{anchor:s5}}Introduced by Hering; symptoms obtained from the 30th dilution, and from inhaling the substance while preparing the dilutions. {{anchor:s6}}Also proved, in 1853, by Cowley, through Neidhard, MSS. (Not contained in Allen's Encyclopaedia). {{anchor:s7}}"If the facts collected since 1851, which are numerous, do not prove that Mephitis will supersede all other remedies in whooping cough, it certainly may be considered a valuable specific. {{anchor:s8}}In order to insure its full success, it should be exhibited in the lower dilutions, from one to three, at least in severe cases.{{anchor:s9}}" --NEIDHARD. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s11}}- Spasm of glottis, Searle, Raue's Path. and Therap., p. 338; Asthma, MSS.; Cough, Blake, Hahn. Mo., vol. 10, p. 375; Pertussis, Moore, N. E. M. G., vol. 4, p. 446; (23 cases), MSS., Neidhard, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 504; Cushing (9 cases out of 10), MSS.; Knerr (numerous cases), MSS.; Sleeplessness, Theobald, Org., vol. 1, p. 300. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s13}}Fancies so vivid they unfit for labor.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Talkative, as if drunk; excited, with heat of head.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Angry about trifles or imaginary things.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Disinclination to work, with inclination to stretch. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s18}}Vertigo: sitting, stooping, turning in bed.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Numb and dull, with sensation as if head became enlarged, with ill humor and nausea. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s21}}Pain above eyes; violent pain in head, as if a fullness was pressing upwards.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Fullness of forehead and front part of head.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Fullness in head, more on vertex, agg. from studying.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Headache while riding in a carriage.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Heaviness in back part of head, as if fingers were pressing on it.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Slight pain like pulsation or undulation in front part of head, left side, amel. on stooping reading, agg. on writing steadily.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Strange feeling in right side of cerebellum. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s29}}Inability to read fine print.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Letters become blurred, he is unable to discern them, they run together.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Weakness of sight, with headache and pain in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Pain in eyes: when turning them in certain directions; as from a foreign body; as from overexertion.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Stitches in eyes as from needles.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Stinging and itching in eyes, evening and morning.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Inflammation of eyes and lids, especially right side.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Redness of conjunctivae.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Heat and burning of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Pressing on lids, with burning of margins as if a stye would form. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s40}}Fetid discharge from ears.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Erysipelas of ear, with itching, heat, redness and blisters.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Neuralgic pain in and about ears; deafness. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s44}}Dry nose; bleeding from nose; swelling.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Fluent coryza, cough and soreness in chest. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s47}}Bloated face. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s49}}Sudden jerks in roots of teeth; strumming toothache.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Pains in hollow back teeth. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s52}}Taste in mouth: coppery; as after eating onions.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Want of sensation in tongue. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s56}}Wants every dish very much salted.\\ {{anchor:s57}}No appetite in morning. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s59}}Nausea, with emptiness in stomach and sensation as if head was distended. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Pressure in stomach, with colic. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s63}}Rheumatic pain in region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Pain under short ribs. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Colic from cold, amel. near warm stove. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s68}}Stool infrequent but thin. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s70}}Difficulty in urinating, all day; stream interrupted.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Frequent micturition: with clear urine; with rheumatic pain; with chill.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Urine turbid in morning, after evening fever. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s74}}Dwindling of testicles from masturbation.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Heat of genitals at night.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Itching of scrotum. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s78}}Burning leucorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Soreness of genitals and swelling of labia and uterus. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s82}}When drinking or talking, liability to have something get into larynx. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s84}}Asthma: as from inhaling vapor of sulphur; in sleep; of drunkards.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Inhalation difficult, exhalation almost impossible, or barking.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Suffocative feeling, with inability to exhale; bloated face and convulsions. {{anchor:s87}}~ Spasm of glottis.\\ {{anchor:s88}}When drinking or talking, liability to get foreign substance into throat. {{anchor:s89}}~ Asthma thymicum.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Asthmatic paroxysm at night on lying down, also sometimes waking him in morning; at 10 P. M. had to sit up in bed, got to sleep at 12 P. M., but was wakened by paroxysm exactly at daybreak; had to get up and walk about, whereby a slight cough was excited, the more he coughed the worse the breathing became, but each cough brought up a little transparent phlegm, like white of egg, with sourish taste; urine turbid on standing a few minutes, of fetid smell and depositing brick-dust sediment; sensation during paroxysm as from inhaling fumes of sulphur, and a general oppression of front part of chest, especially behind upper part of sternum; agg. from ice water, wine, horseback riding. {{anchor:s91}}~ Asthma. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s93}}Cough: after drinking, talking or loud reading; with fluent coryza and soreness in chest; spasmodic, hollow or deep, with rawness, hoarseness and pain through chest; with suffocative feeling when inhaling; cannot exhale; vomits all food some hours after eating; bloated face; convulsions; agg. at night and after lying down; in morning it is loose, with some expectoration.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Whooping or any kind of cough which is very violent, coming on spasmodically, and seeming as though each spell would terminate life.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Spells day and night; child must be raised, gets blue in face and cannot exhale; convulsions; fetid diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Eight or more paroxysms of cough every night; rattling of phlegm during cough, with vomiting after eating.\\ {{anchor:s97}}After slight catarrh, whooping cough; during day cough slight, but in night paroxysm every ten minutes, with frequent vomiting and fever.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Spasmodic cough of phthisical girls (where Dros. failed). ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s100}}Pains in chest (last left short rib) when touching it; when coughing and sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Strange feeling like that produced in throat when taking the preparation is felt in right lung and hypochondrium. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s103}}Stitches in spinal column during motion.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Pain in back and all limbs, with lameness.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Tension and pain in right side of neck. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s107}}Sensation in right arm, over deltoid muscles, similar to that produced by substance on throat.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Rheumatic pains in arms, amel. on motion.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Restlessness in left arm, with sensibility.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Trembling of arm when leaning on it.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Painful twitching of left hand.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Feels impelled to stretch fingers and make them crack. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s114}}Rush of blood to legs on getting awake at night.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Rheumatic pains from hips to feet; arthritic pain in heel.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Legs restless as if becoming insensible; knees feel bruised.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Peculiar spasmodic pain in left foot.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Stitches in feet.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Pain in big toe as if being pinched off.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Burning and pains in corns. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s122}}Rheumatic wandering pains in limbs, with much pressure to urinate and shocks.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Stretching of limbs. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s127}}Lying down: asthmatic paroxysm; cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Had to sit up in bed: asthmatic paroxysm.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Child must be raised: whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Sitting: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Stooping: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Leaning on arm: trembling in it.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Motion: stitches in spinal column; rheumatic pains in arms amel.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Turning in bed: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Stretching of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Had to get up and walk about: asthmatic paroxysm.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Disinclination to work, inclination to stretch. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s139}}Very fine nervous vibrations, causing great uneasiness.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Convulsions.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Inclination to stretch one's self, with disinclination to do anything.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Restlessness.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Lameness, especially with the pains. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s145}}Frequent yawning; lachrymation.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Extremely sleepy in morning, during day, even in company.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Cannot sleep whole night.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Sleeplessness from "fidgets" in left side, both legs and arms.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Nightmare.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Awakens in night with congestion to legs.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Night walking, open eyes, angry gestures; hair on head rises, cannot be made conscious.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Vivid dreams which he recollects.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Asthma during sleep; not waking; continues after he has waked up. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s155}}Morning: stinging and itching in eyes; no appetite; urine turbid; asthma waking him; cough loose; extremely sleepy; increased warmth.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Day: occasional spells of whooping cough; cough slight.\\ {{anchor:s157}}All day: difficulty in urinating; extremely sleepy.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Evening: stinging and itching in eyes; fever; chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Night: heat of genitals; asthmatic paroxysm; cough agg.; spells of whooping cough; on getting awake rush of blood to legs; cannot sleep.\\ {{anchor:s160}}At 10 P. M.: asthmatic paroxysm; got to sleep at 12 P. M., but was wakened by paroxysm exactly at daybreak. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s162}}Warm stove: colic from cold amel.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Feels less chilly in cold weather; feels pleasant after ice cold washing.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Ice water: asthma agg. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s166}}Cold feeling predominates; evening chilliness, with desire to urinate; colic as if diarrhea would set in.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Increased warmth, especially in morning. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s169}}Every ten minutes: paroxysms of cough at night.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Every night: eight or more paroxysms. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s172}}Right: strange feeling in side of cerebellum; inflammation of eyes and lids agg.; strange feeling in lung; tension and pain in side of neck; sensation in arm over deltoid muscles, similar to that produced by substance on throat.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Left: undulation in side of front part of head; pains under short ribs; restlessness in arm; painful twitching of hand; peculiar spasmodic pain in foot; "fidgets" in side. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s175}}Strumming through body; anxiety.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Feels as if threads had been drawn through head and trunk.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Wandering pains with pressure to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Fine nervous vibrations in bones.\\ {{anchor:s179}}A kind of burning feeling as from raw onions, in stomach, nose, head, right arm, right lung and down esophagus.\\ {{anchor:s180}}As if head became enlarged; as if a fullness was pressing upwards in head; as if fingers were pressing on back of head; pain as from a foreign body in eyes; as from overexertion; stitches in eyes as from needles; as if a stye would form; as if head was distended; as if inhaling vapor of sulphur; legs as if becoming insensible; as if big toe was being pinched off; as if diarrhea would set in.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Pain: above eyes; in eyes; in hollow back teeth; under short ribs; through chest; in back and all limbs; in right side of neck; in big toe in corns.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Violent pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Stitches: in eyes as from needles; in spinal column; in feet.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Neuralgic pains: in and about ears.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Rheumatic pain: in region of liver; when urinating; in arms; from hips to feet; wandering, in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Arthritic pain: in heel.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Spasmodic pain: in left foot.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Slight pain-like pulsation in front part of head.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Painful twitching: of left hand.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Sudden jerks: in roots of teeth.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Stinging and itching: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Soreness: in chest; of genitals.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Burning: of eyes; of margins of eyes; in corns.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Heat: of eyes; of ears; of genitals.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Pressure: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Fullness: of forehead and front part of head; in head.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Heaviness: in back part of head.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Tension: in right side of neck.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Pressing: on lids.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Lameness: in back and limbs.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Suffocative feeling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Strange feeling: in right side of cerebellum; in lungs.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Restlessness: in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Fidgets: in left side, both legs and arms.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Trembling: of arm.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Itching: of ears; of scrotum. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s210}}Touch: on last short ribs, pain.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Riding in a carriage: headache.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Horseback riding: asthma agg. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s214}}Pimples on thighs, forehead, face, neck and nates. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s216}}Baby, aet. 20 mos.; pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Boy, aet. 1; pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Child, aet. 2; pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Boy, aet. 3; pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Boy, aet. 4; pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Girl, aet. 6; pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Boy, aet. 6; pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Boy, aet. 6; pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Two children, aet. 8 1/2 and 5 1/2; pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Girl, aet. 9; pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Man, aet. 26; bilious temperament, while in army two years previously had suffocative catarrh; asthma. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s228}}Compare: in asthma, Drosera, Rumex and Sticta; in pertussis, Coral. rubr. and Drosera; in vertigo, Carbo veg.; in loquacity, Amanita (Agaric.) and Laches.; in effects on nervous system generally, Castor. and Moschus; in chorea, with fidgety feet and legs, Act. rac., Am. carb., Arsen., Asaf., Aurum, Sticta and Tarent. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 07, 1888 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r329|Mephitis putorius]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r329|Mephitis putorius]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1888 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}