====== PLANTAGO MAJOR ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Plantago Major.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Plantain. {{anchor:s3}}Plantaginaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}The greater plantain is common in Europe and North America. {{anchor:s5}}The fresh plant is gathered when coming into flower, and from it is prepared the alcoholic tincture.

{{anchor:s6}}Provings by Heath, Hah. Mo., 1868, vol. 3, p. 332; F. Humphreys, Earhart, Fox, Warren, Wood, Bishop, Freeman, Slocum, Bunting, Leavanway, Humphreys Monograph, 1871; an additional proving by Heath, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1873, p. 502.

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

{{anchor:s8}}- <span grade2>Otalgia</span>, Houghton, N. E. M. G., vol. 11, p. 188; Woodyatt, Times Ret., 1876, p. 48; <span grade2>Toothache</span>, Plympton, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 411; Reutlinger, A. H. O., vol. 6, p. 140; <span grade2>Neuralgia of teeth</span>, Boynton, Hom. Times, vol. 3, p. 204; Times Ret., 1875, p. 119; <span grade2>Tobacco habit</span>, Price, Organon, vol. 2, p. 118; <span grade2>Chronic diarrhea</span>; Times Ret., 1877, p. 95; <span grade2>Polyuria</span>, Allen, Hom. Cl., vol. 4, p. 61; <span grade2>Enuresis</span>, Chamberlain, B. J. H., vol. 25, p. 319; <span grade2>Nocturnal emissions</span>, Jones, N. E. M. G., vol. 2, p. 175; <span grade2>Delayed urination</span>, Chamberlain, B. J. H., vol. 25, p. 319; Ague, Higgins. N. A. J. H., vol. 22, p. 181.

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

{{anchor:s10}}Mind inactive, with dull, muddled feeling in head.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Despondency; confusion of thought.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s12}}Irritable, morose disposition; impatient, restless mood, with dull, stupid feeling in brain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s13}}Great mental prostration, agg. by mental exertion, which also causes rapid respiration and a feeling of great anxiety.</span>

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

{{anchor:s15}}Twinges of pain in different parts of head; now through right temple, extending backward; then through occiput from ear to ear; then in other parts of head, more or less severe.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Severe pain in left side of head, from forehead extending deep into brain, coming on in paroxysms.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Intermittent pulsative pain in vertex and in small spot beneath scalp.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Headache accompanied by toothache.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Dull headache.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s21}}Ciliary neuralgia from decayed teeth; dull, heavy ache in left eye, with exquisite tenderness of ball; left upper incisor decayed.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Pain in ear with pain in teeth and face; pains are sharp, twinging, running.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Otalgia, independent of organic lesions.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Neuralgic earache, associated with toothache; darting, twinging, sharp, stabbing pains in inferior maxillary branch of trifacial nerve.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s26}}Earache, twinging, sharp pains, with pains in teeth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Neuralgic earache, associated with odontalgia.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Frequent sneezing, with sudden attacks of profuse, watery, bland coryza.</span>\\ {{anchor:s30}}Sudden discharge of yellowish water from right nostril.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Yellow water from nose like saffron.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Red papula around nose.

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

{{anchor:s34}}Neuralgia in left side of face, pains shooting and tearing, extending from jaw to ear.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Violent bruised aching pain in right side of face.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Eruption on forehead.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Small, red, rough, scaly erythematous patches, size of pea, on face, especially left side.

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

{{anchor:s39}}Dry, scaly eruption on lower lip.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s41}}Teeth (l. side) feel elongated, sore; pain unbearably severe, boring, digging in sound teeth; agg. from contact and extremes of heat and cold.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s42}}Aching in decayed teeth, or shooting up left side of face; face red.</span>\\ {{anchor:s43}}Excessive boring and digging pain, profuse flow of saliva, agg. by walking in cold air and by contact; teeth feel elongated and sore; soreness even of sound teeth while eating; very rapid decay of teeth; bleeding of gums.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s44}}Continuous aching in badly decayed wisdom tooth in left lower jaw, after ride across ferry in a sharp wind, five weeks previously; sharp pain shooting up left side of face towards temples and ears, with considerable redness of face.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Neuralgia of inferior dental nerve.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s46}}Grinding of teeth at night.</span>\\ {{anchor:s47}}Gums bleed easily.

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

{{anchor:s49}}Food tasteless.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Tongue coated white, with dirty, putrid or clammy taste.

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

{{anchor:s52}}Breath putrid, offensive.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s53}}Aphtha in children.</span>

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

{{anchor:s55}}Dry, parched throat.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Sensation of scraping in throat.

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

{{anchor:s59}}Appetite poor.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Thirst.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s61}}Bad effects of excessive use of tobacco (causes disgust for tobacco in chewers).</span>

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

{{anchor:s63}}Eructations, tasting like sulphur or carbonic acid gas.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Nausea with drowsiness or faint, tremulous feeling.

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

{{anchor:s66}}Sinking feeling at stomach.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Heaviness of stomach even after a light meal; sensation of heat in precordia, with fullness in abdomen while walking in fresh air; amel. sitting down; faint and tremulous feeling, with nausea; slight appetite and speedy satiety; food tasteless; rumbling in abdomen after eating; loud and copious flatulency; diarrhea, with loose frequent stools and flatulency; hemorrhoids.

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

{{anchor:s69}}Sensation of goneness in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Distension of abdomen, with frequent loud and copious discharge of fetid flatus.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Rumbling and uneasiness in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Violent griping pains, mostly in upper part of abdomen.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Colic: amel. by eating; flatulent.</span>

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

{{anchor:s75}}Stool: <span grade3>brown, fermented, frothy</span>; <span grade3>watery, brown</span>; watery; papescent; excoriating (watery, brown).\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}Diarrhea: with loose frequent stools with flatulency; agg. 8 to 10 A. M.</span>\\ {{anchor:s77}}Before stool: colic; frequent discharge of offensive flatus.\\ {{anchor:s78}}During stool: violent griping pains, with tenesmus (or absence of pain), partial prolapse of rectum, weakness; faintness.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}Chronic diarrhea of two years' duration; at least five stools during day and one or two during night; stools loose, watery, but not bloody; gurgling in bowels, without colic; tongue clean; no appetite, could eat no meat, lived chiefly on fish and vegetables; great thirst; sallow complexion; great emaciation, but strength not much reduced, though complained frequently of feeling of emptiness and faintness in head; pulse weak but regular.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s80}}Chronic diarrhea, with flatulency and prolapsus of rectum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Cholera infantum.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Dysentery.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s83}}Blind piles; hemorrhoidal tumors inflamed and exceedingly painful, interfering entirely with the work (locally).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Angry inflamed hemorrhoidal tumors.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s85}}Worms.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s87}}Frequent passages of large quantities of pale urine; every night, besides being taken up two or three times to urinate, he soaked two mattresses; stools grey or mixed grey in color; irritable; puffy under eyes; eats heartily and sleeps soundly.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s88}}Nocturnal copious enuresis from laxity of sphincter vesicae.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s89}}Irritable bladder and frequent micturition.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s90}}Nocturnal enuresis; profuse colorless urine, depositing a white sediment; occurs from midnight to morning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s91}}Enuresis in children where urine is scanty, acrid and loaded with uric acid and its deposits; bladder and sphincter in an irritable condition, causing frequent micturition day and night.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s92}}Delayed dribbling urination in a woman.</span>

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

{{anchor:s94}}Sexual debility.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s96}}Erysipelas of mamma.</span>

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s100}}Erysipelas of the mamma.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s101}}Mastitis; heat, swelling, pain.</span>

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

{{anchor:s103}}Palpitation of heart.

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

{{anchor:s105}}Hard, white, flattened, isolated papula on inside of thighs; some having red point in centre.

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

{{anchor:s109}}Sitting down: fullness in abdomen amel.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Moving about: gooseflesh agg.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Walking: fullness in abdomen.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}Weariness and prostration, with desire to yawn and stretch.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Neuralgia from use of tobacco.</span>

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

{{anchor:s116}}Insomnia from abdominal troubles; cannot sleep after 4 A. M.; tosses about or falls into a dreamy sleep, full of gloom and fright, which rouses him.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Grinding of teeth during sleep.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Sleep restless; disturbed by dreams.

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

{{anchor:s120}}After 4 A. M.: cannot sleep.\\ {{anchor:s121}}From 8 to 10 A. M.: diarrhea agg.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Day: frequent micturition.\\ {{anchor:s123}}At 2 P. M.: gooseflesh.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Night: grinding of teeth; passages of large quantities of pale urine; frequent micturition; itching of skin agg.

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

{{anchor:s126}}Heat of room unbearable.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Warm room: hands cold.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Fresh air: walking, fullness in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Heat and cold: toothache agg.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Cold air: toothache agg.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Sharp wind: ride in, aching in teeth.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s133}}Erratic pains in chest; dullness in head and stretching of limbs.</span>\\ {{anchor:s134}}Chill: without thirst; with gooseflesh, 2 P. M., running over body, agg. when moving about; fingers cold; coldness of body with shivering; head feels irritable; feet and legs cold; hands cold, even in warm room.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Heat, with thirst; great excitability, anxiety, mental agony, restlessness; room seems hot and close; oppression of chest, rapid respiration; breathing difficult, as if there was no air in room; burning heat of head, face, hands and feet; head feels hot, painful, dull and stupid; hands hot and clammy.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Sweat: cold over lumbar and sacral region; heat of room unbearable, producing perspiration.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s137}}Fever, which runs its course for many weeks or months, either in daily paroxysms or repeated every two, three, four, seven or fourteen days; relaxation of sphincter vesicae.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s138}}Chronic intermittent fever, especially after abuse of quinine.</span>

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

{{anchor:s140}}Daily paroxysms of fever, or repeated every two, three, four, seven or fourteen days.\\ {{anchor:s141}}During day: five stools.\\ {{anchor:s142}}During night: one or two stools.\\ {{anchor:s143}}From midnight to morning: nocturnal enuresis.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Two years' duration: chronic diarrhea.

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

{{anchor:s146}}Right: twinges of pain through temple; sudden discharge of yellowish water from nostril; bruised aching in side of face.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Left: severe pain in side of head; dull, heavy ache in eye; upper incisor decayed; neuralgia in side of face; erythematous patches on face; teeth feel elongated.

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

{{anchor:s149}}Pains are tearing in nature.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Teeth: as if elongated; as if there was no air in room.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Pain: in ear, in teeth, in face.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Severe pain: in left side of head.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Boring, digging: in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Shooting: in left side of face.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Twinges of pain: in different parts of head; in ear.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Griping pains: in upper part of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Pulsative pain: in vertex and in small spot beneath scalp.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Erratic pains: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Violent bruised, aching pain: in right side of face.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Neuralgia: in ear; in left side of face; in inferior dental nerve.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Dull, heavy ache: in left eye.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Aching: in decayed teeth.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Dull pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Soreness: of teeth; even of sound teeth.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Exquisite tenderness: of eyeball.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Scraping: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Heat: in precordia; burning of head, face, hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Heaviness: of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Fullness: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Sinking feeling: at stomach.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Goneness: of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Coldness: of body.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Itching: of skin.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s175}}Ill effects of tobacco.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s176}}Inflammation of glands, particularly of mamma.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s177}}Incised wounds become highly inflamed, erysipelatous and even gangrenous.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s178}}Lacerated of incised wounds or injuries, especially when attended with painful swelling and tendency to erysipelatous inflammation or sphacelus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s179}}Bruises.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s180}}Bites of animals.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s181}}Frost-bites; chilblains.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s185}}A lady, while dressing a codfish, thrust one of the fins into palmar surface of middle finger, just over second or third large joint; the wound was deep and bled profusely; the night following the part became excessively painful, pain extending from wound up to shoulder, causing great distress; next morning the whole hand swelled, back and front, especially the injured finger; arm swelled up to shoulder, two distinct light pinkish streaks running up front of arm, from hand to shoulder; third day, after some fruitless applications, being almost agonized with pain and suffering, she applied bruised plantain leaves to part, removing them as often as they became dry; in about half an hour after application she felt so relieved that she fell asleep and slept probably an hour, the first sleep she had after the accident; in two or three days the finger was well.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s186}}A young man cut his thumb through root of nail; it was dressed and treated by an allopathic physician for two or three weeks; it became inflamed, fearfully, swelled and was very painful. {{anchor:s187}}(Plantago externally and internally.)</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s188}}A young man had his finger bitten through first joint, so as to almost sever end of finger; it was swollen to about the size of a hen's egg, and very much inflamed. {{anchor:s189}}(Two or three external applications cured finger.)</span>

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

{{anchor:s191}}Violent itching.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Intolerable itching of skin, agg. at night.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Pricking, stinging pains.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Tensive sensation.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Burning after rubbing and when scratched.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Redness, swelling and vesicles on hands and face.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Papula which exude a yellowish humor and form a crust.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s198}}Erythema.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s199}}Burns.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s200}}Poisoning with ivy; the hand and a portion of the face red, swollen, itching violently, and in places covered with vesicles (pellets medicated with Plantago and a lotion made by a teaspoonful of the tincture to a cup of water).</span>\\ {{anchor:s201}}Inflammatory affections of skin, with involvement of cellular tissue.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Aggravation from rubbing and scratching.

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

{{anchor:s204}}Boy, aet. 5; polyuria.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Boy, aet. 14, bilious, sanguine temperament, healthy; enuresis.\\ {{anchor:s206}}A young lady; poisoning with ivy.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Man, aet. 45, suffering two years; diarrhea.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s209}}Plantago</span> antidotes <span grade2>Apis</span>, and produces a taste for tobacco.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r203|Plantago major]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r203|Plantago major]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1889 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}