====== SENEGA ======
{{anchor:s1}}Senega.
{{anchor:s2}}Seneca Snake Root. {{anchor:s3}}Polygalaceae.
{{anchor:s4}}This plant grows wild in all parts of the United States.
{{anchor:s5}}The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the powdered, dried root.
{{anchor:s6}}For general effects obtained from experiments with the powdered root and tincture see Allen's Encyclopaedia, including Seidel's and Lembke's collections, vol. 8, p. 586.
====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======
{{anchor:s8}}- Hypopion, Noack, B. J. H., vol. 23, p. 341; Paresis of oculo-motor nerve, Allen, Hah. Mo., vol. 7, p. 106; Catarrh of pharynx, Gerstel, A. H. Z., vol. 91, p. 150; Sore throat, Haynes, Org., vol. 3, p. 97; Catarrh of bladder, B. J. H., vol. 27, p. 142; Influenza, Hermann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 50; Trinks, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 706; Weinke, A. H. Z., vol. 91, p. 150; Asthma, Müller, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 802; Whooping cough, A. R., Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 728; Gerstel, A. H. Z., vol. 92, p. 148; Soreness in chest, Ockford, Org., vol. 3, p. 377; Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Hydrothorax, Gallavardin, Strecker, Lorbacher, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 338; Pleuro-pneumonia, Strecker, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 335; Pneumonia, Kallenbach, Pop. Hom. Ztg., 1867, No. 12; B. J. H., vol. 27, p. 141; Hydrothorax and Ascites, Lorbacher, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 64.
====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======
{{anchor:s10}}Confused or reeling sensation in head.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Dullness and stupefaction of head, with pressure in eyes and obscuration of sight.
====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======
{{anchor:s13}}Aching pain in head, in sinciput and occiput, not increased by pressure, every day when sitting in a warm room, accompanied by pressure in eyes which did not bear touch.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Pressing pain in forehead and orbits after dinner, especially left side, agg. in open air.
====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======
{{anchor:s16}}Shuddering on hairy scalp.
====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======
{{anchor:s18}}Drawing and pressure in eyeballs, with diminution of vision.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Weakness of sight and flickering before eyes when reading, necessitating frequent wiping of eyes, which aggravates.\\ {{anchor:s20}}While reading eyes feel dazzled.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Flickering and running together of letters when reading.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Flickering before eyes and weakness of sight when continuing to read or write.\\ {{anchor:s23}}On walking toward setting sun, another small sun seemed to float beneath it, on turning eyes outward it changed into a compressed oval, disappeared on bending head and closing eyes.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Weakness of eyes with burning and lachrymation.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Obscuration of cornea.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Sensitiveness of eyes to light.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Obscuration of sight, with glistening before eyes, agg. from rubbing them.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Hypopion in scrofulous subjects.\\ {{anchor:s29}}To promote absorption of lens fragments after cataract operations or injuries to lens.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Paralysis of muscles of eye.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Iritis and specks upon cornea.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Opacities in vitreous.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Paresis of superior oblique.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Oculo-motor paresis; Mr. A., aet. 33, four years ago eyes began to be weak with difficulty in seeing clearly; drooping lids, was obliged to pull them open; began to see double with right image obliquely above real one; stopped using eyes and improved; this summer visited Mammoth Cave, followed by a return of double vision; walked into room with head thrown backward (occasionally shutting his left eye and holding his head straight), this position relieving confusion of vision; double vision caused him to make missteps, etc.; paresis of left oculo-motor nerve, with paralysis of superior rectus; upper lid very weak, falling half over eye; difficult convergence; weak back; deficient muscular power; subject to bilious headaches.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Aching over orbits, eyes tremble and water when he looks at an object intently or steadily; eyes weak and watery when reading.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Eyes pain as if they were pressed out, as if eyeballs were being expanded, especially in evening in candlelight.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Congestion of blood to eyes, with pulsation in them on stooping.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Swelling of eyelids, with tingling in them.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Hardened mucus in morning in eyelashes.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Lachrymation in open air when looking intently at an object.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Blepharitis ciliaris, agg. in morning, much smarting, dry, crusty lashes.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Cilia hang full of hard mucus; smarting of conjunctiva as if soap were in eyes, mornings; blepharitis; sometimes lids stick so after sleep they must be soaked before they can be separated.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Pimple on margin of left lower lid.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Stye on lower lid.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Hydrophthalmia with intraocular compression.
====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======
{{anchor:s47}}Painful sensitiveness of hearing.
====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======
{{anchor:s49}}Sneezing for five minutes, so violent and long continued that the head became quite heavy and dizzy; afterward a large quantity of thin watery fluid flowed from nose.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Troublesome dryness of Schneiderian membrane.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Frequent coryza, commencing with feeling as if red pepper were throughout nostrils and air passages, followed by distressing cough. {{anchor:s52}}~ Influenza.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Smell of pus before nose.
====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======
{{anchor:s55}}Paralytic feeling in left half of face.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Heat in face.
====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======
{{anchor:s58}}Burning blisters on upper lip and in corners of mouth.
====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======
{{anchor:s60}}Tongue coated white, yellowish-white or slimy in morning, with slimy unpleasant taste.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Taste: metallic; like urine.
====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======
{{anchor:s63}}Increased secretion of saliva; offensive breath.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Burning in throat, mouth and on tongue.
====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======
{{anchor:s66}}Very dry, sore throat; short hacking cough, which tears and scrapes throat; loss of voice, even whispering is very painful to throat and causes cough; agg. in open air.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Inflammation and swelling of throat and palate.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Dryness in throat and accumulation of tough mucus which is difficult to hawk up.
====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======
{{anchor:s71}}Much thirst, with loss of appetite.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Gnawing hunger with sensation of emptiness in stomach.
====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======
{{anchor:s74}}Nausea, vomiting of mucus.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Nausea as from stomach, with vomiturition and straining to vomit.
====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======
{{anchor:s77}}Pressure below pit of stomach; sense of gnawing hunger.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Digging pain in epigastrium, disposition to flatulence; outbursts of ill-humor.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Cramps and burning in stomach.
====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======
{{anchor:s81}}Ascites accompanying hepatic diseases, peritonitis or abdominal tumors.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Colic, with pressing pain.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Warmth and oppression in upper part of abdomen when inhaling.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Gnawing in upper part of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Griping in bowels.
====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======
{{anchor:s87}}Mushy or copious watery stools.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Purging, vomiting and anxiety; watery stools, spurting from anus.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Stools: scanty, hard, dry and large, insufficient.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Watery diarrhea, with griping pain in bowels; nausea and vomiting.
====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======
{{anchor:s92}}Urine: diminished; dark and frothy for a long time after passing; passed only night and morning; at first mixed with mucous filaments, afterward thick and cloudy; frequent, with greenish tinge depositing a cloudy sediment; acrid, increased in quantity.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Involuntary micturition at night in bed.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Irritability of bladder.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Urging and scalding before and after micturition; mucous shreds in urine; on cooling becomes thick and cloudy, or deposits a thick sediment, yellowish-red with the upper stratum yellow and flocculent. {{anchor:s96}}~ Catarrh of bladder.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Subacute and chronic catarrh of bladder.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Burning and stinging in urethra during and after micturition.
====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======
{{anchor:s100}}Menses come on too soon; has to press in her left side at tenth rib to relieve gnawing pain.
====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======
{{anchor:s103}}Sudden hoarseness when reading aloud.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Aphonia from severe cold or excessive use of voice.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Irritation in larynx inducing a short, hacking cough.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Sudden tickling in larynx excites cough.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Tenacious mucus in larynx inducing frequent hawking, which results in discharge of small lumps of mucus.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Constant inclination to clear throat and swallow saliva.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Great dryness of throat impeding speech.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Titillating, scraping feeling in throat.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Catarrh of pharynx in a tenor lasting six months; not hoarse but when mucus collected in fauces was uncertain of his ability to bring out either high or low tones; voice feeble; throat red, covered with a thin layer of dark green, half-transparent mucus; burning and raw feeling in throat and hawking.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Influenza: constant tickling and burning in throat and larynx, leaving patient not a moment's rest and preventing him from lying down; fear of suffocation.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Grippe with stitches in right eye when coughing.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Constant burning and tickling in larynx and throat, with danger of suffocation when lying; copious expectoration of tough mucus; relief by outdoor exercise. {{anchor:s115}}~ Influenza.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Laryngeal phthisis.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Increased secretion of mucus in trachea, which he is constantly obliged to hawk up.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Copious accumulation of tough mucus in air tubes which causes the greatest, often ineffectual, efforts at coughing and hawking for its expulsion. {{anchor:s119}}~ Bronchitis.
====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======
{{anchor:s121}}Sensation as if chest were too narrow, with tendency to relieve this feeling by taking deep inspirations and respirations. {{anchor:s122}}~ Asthma.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Short breathing and oppression of chest when going up stairs.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Dyspnea as from stagnation in lungs.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Oppressed breathing, as if chest were not wide enough, especially in open air and when stooping.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Shortness of breath from accumulation of mucus in chest and trachea.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Dyspnea, especially during rest.
====== COUGH. [27] ======
{{anchor:s129}}Dry cough with oppression of chest and roughness in throat.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Frequent short and hacking cough, occasioned by an increased secretion of mucus in larynx, especially in open air and when walking rather fast.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Dry cough with aphonia; agg. in cold air and walking, amel. by warm air and rest.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Irritating cough with secretion of mucus, with much pain about chest.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Soreness of chest, dry cough; throat dry; hoarseness, later much mucus in bronchi and trachea.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Cough agg. in morning, while dressing and before breakfast.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Irritating, shaking dry cough, in chronic bronchitis in the aged.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Loose, faint, hacking cough, with expectoration of a little phlegm.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Cough often ends in a sneeze.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Shaking cough like whooping cough, from burning and tickling in larynx, in morning, with copious expectoration of tough, white mucus like white of egg.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Whistling cough; great oppression of chest; pressing pains when breathing; cough dry or yellow expectoration, at times streaked with blood; inflammatory conditions of chest; useless in convulsive stage. {{anchor:s140}}~ Whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Whooping cough: chubby children; tough expectoration clear like white of egg; cough agg. toward evening; expectoration difficult to raise; crushing weight on chest; agg. at night with excessive rattling of mucus.
====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======
{{anchor:s143}}Congestion to chest, with flushes of heat in face and frequent pulse in afternoon.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Tightness and oppression of chest, especially during rest.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Rattling in chest; loose but feeble cough with little expectoration; hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Feeling as if thorax were too narrow, with constant inclination to widen it by deep inhalation; burning in chest.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Certain movements, especially stooping, cause a pain in chest as if it were too tight; there is a disposition to expand chest by frequent stretching; this leaves considerable soreness in chest.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Soreness through chest, with feeling of oppression when in open air and when reposing; headache amel. in open air.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Soreness in chest, agg. by pressure, coughing and sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Violent aching pain in chest, at night, when waking.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Burning sore pain under sternum, especially during motion and on every deep inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Stitches in chest when coughing and breathing.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Shooting stitches in chest agg. during inspiration and rest.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Dull stitches and burning pain in chest when lying on right side.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Walls of chest sensitive or painful when touched or when he sneezes (often as a remnant of colds).\\ {{anchor:s156}}Stepping hard, walking fast or running causes pulling, sore pain as if through mediastinum.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Accumulation of mucus in chest.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Constant accumulation of phlegm in bronchial tubes, with irritation in bowels, tendency to diarrhea; irritation may alternate from chest to bowels and vice versa.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Profuse secretion of mucus in lungs of old people, with loose, rattling cough.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Great rattling of mucus in chest, with flying pains in chest.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Great soreness in walls of chest and great accumulation of clear albuminous mucus which is difficult to expectorate; pressure on chest as if lungs were pushed back to spine.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Profuse expectoration of clear, transparent mucus; whole chest filled with large mucous rales. {{anchor:s163}}~ Grippe.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Tough mucus causes the greatest, often ineffectual efforts of coughing and hawking for its expulsion. {{anchor:s165}}~ Bronchitis.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Bronchitis of old people; irritating, shaking cough.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Twentieth day of pneumonia in a woman, aet. 56, right side, violent stitches, sinking strength, small, scarcely perceptible pulse, short rare cough without expectoration, great rattling of mucus in chest, somnolence, dejected features.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Adynamic pneumonia; low fever and much prostration.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Pleuro-pneumonia in left lung; at first Bry., Acon., Bell. had been given; the lancinating pains had completely disappeared, but there was still some oppression; expectoration was without blood, but very difficult, and strength was greatly reduced; in evening covered with cold sweat; pulse very small and wiry; oppression so great he must sit upright constantly; mucus stagnating and rattling in chest.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Pleurisy in a latent form; dullness in lower three-fourths of right side of chest; aegophony of same side toward upper part of lung; pulse 110; Seneg. removed not only the effusion but also the thickening of the pleura consequent on the pleurisy.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Pleurisy; after inflammation has passed; copious mucous secretion with difficult expectoration; tightness and burning in chest.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Subacute or chronic exudations of pleura; catarrhal pleuro-pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Hydrothorax and ascites after scarlatina; anasarca; ascites; hoarse and feeble cough, with little expectoration.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Phthisis mucosa.
====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======
{{anchor:s176}}Boring pain about heart.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Heart's beat shakes the whole body; violent palpitation while walking.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Pulse hard and frequent.
====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======
{{anchor:s180}}General sensitiveness or simple pain of walls of thorax, especially when touching them, it is felt less during a deep inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Soreness of walls of chest on moving arms, particularly left.
====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======
{{anchor:s183}}Pressing pain between scapulae, especially when stepping hard, or on other movements which concuss the chest.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Pulse rather hard and accelerated.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Pain under right shoulder blade, as if chest would burst, when coughing or drawing a long breath.
====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======
{{anchor:s187}}Sensation as if wrist were sprained.
====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======
{{anchor:s189}}Sensation of great weakness or debility in legs; joints feel as if lame.
====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======
{{anchor:s193}}Most symptoms, especially those of chest, are agg. when at rest and amel. when walking in open air.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Rest: dyspnea; dry cough amel.; tightness of chest; shooting through chest.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Cannot lie down: tickling in larynx; fear of suffocation.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Lying on right side: pain in chest.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Stooping: oppressed breathing; pain in chest.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Motion: pain under sternum; of arm, soreness of walls of chest.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Going up stairs: shortness of breathing and oppression of chest.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Stepping hard, walking fast or running; causes pulling, sore pain as if through mediastinum; pressing pain between scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Walking: fast, causes short, hacking cough; violent palpitation.
====== NERVES. [36] ======
{{anchor:s203}}Faintness when walking in open air.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Great mental and bodily lassitude.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Lassitude and slight trembling of upper extremities.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Sensation of trembling, with no visible trembling.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Legs feel weak, joints feel lame.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Great debility with stretching of limbs, confusion, heaviness and beating in head.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Great weakness which seems to originate in chest.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Mental and physical debility, with dropsical effusions.
====== SLEEP. [37] ======
{{anchor:s212}}In evening, as soon as one lies down, heavy sleep; in morning awakes frequently with dyspnea.
====== TIME. [38] ======
{{anchor:s214}}Morning: hardened mucus in eyelashes; blepharitis ciliaris agg.; tongue slimy; cough agg.; awakes from dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Afternoon: heat in face and frequent pulse.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Evening: pressure in eyes agg.; toward, whooping cough.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Night and morning: urine passed only.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Night: involuntary micturition; whooping cough agg.; aching in chest.
====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======
{{anchor:s220}}Warm air: dry cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Warm room: pain in head.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Open air: pain in forehead agg.; lachrymation; sore throat and cough agg.; oppressed breathing; short, hacking cough; headache amel.; oppression of chest; faintness when walking; chilliness and chill only in.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Cold air: dry cough agg.
====== FEVER. [40] ======
{{anchor:s225}}Shuddering over back, heat in face, weak, burning eyes, beating headache, difficult breathing, body feels bruised.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Flushes of heat; skin hot; skin becomes warmer and moister.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Chilliness and chill almost only in open air, with weakness in legs and dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Shudders over back with heat in face and chest symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Sudden flushes of heat.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Perspiration wanting.
====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======
{{anchor:s232}}Alternate: irritation from chest to bowels and vice versa.\\ {{anchor:s233}}For five minutes: sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s234}}For six months: catarrh of pharynx.
====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======
{{anchor:s236}}Right: stitches in eye; stitches in side; pain under shoulder blade.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Left: pain in forehead agg.; pimple on margin of lower lid; paralytic feeling on half of face; must press side to relieve pain; pleuro-pneumonia in lung; moving arm causes soreness of walls of chest.
====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======
{{anchor:s239}}Eyes pain as if they were pressed out; as if eyeballs were being expanded; as if soap were in eyes; as if red pepper were throughout nostrils and air passages; as if chest were too narrow; dyspnea as from stagnation in lungs; as if lungs were pushed back to spine; as if chest would burst; as if wrist were sprained; joints as if lame.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Pain: about chest; in walls of thorax; under right shoulder blade.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Flying pains: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Boring pain: about heart.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Digging pain: in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Shooting stitches: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Stitches: in right eye; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Dull stitches: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Cramps: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Gnawing: in bowels; under tenth rib left side.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Pressing pain: in forehead and orbits; in abdomen; between scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Drawing: in eyeballs.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Aching pain: in head; over orbits; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Stinging: in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Smarting: of conjunctiva.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Burning: of eyes; in throat, mouth and on tongue; in stomach; in urethra; in larynx; in chest; and under sternum.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Soreness: of chest; in walls of chest.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Scraping feeling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Heat: in face.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Beating: in head.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Pressure: in eyes; below pit of stomach; on chest.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Tingling: in eyelids.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Titillating feeling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Dryness: of Schneiderian membrane of throat.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Oppression: in upper part of chest.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Tightness: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Dullness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Emptiness: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Weakness: of legs.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Reeling sensation: in head.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Paralytic feeling: in left half of face.
====== TISSUES. [44] ======
{{anchor:s271}}Catarrhs that tend to leave sore and tender places in walls of chest as if there were left circumscribed spots of inflammation.\\ {{anchor:s272}}Diseases of mucous membranes; especially of lining of larynx, trachea and bronchia.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Subacute or chronic exudations of pleura, catarrhal pleuropneumonia (after Bry.) in cachectic pleuritis, in hydrothorax, edema pulmonum, in diseases of heart, primary and secondary anasarca; in dropsies after albuminuria; hydrophthalmia with intraocular compression; in ascites accompanying hepatic diseases, peritonitis and abdominal tumors; in lymphatic constitutions with tendency to mucous and serous exudations.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Dropsy of internal organs (especially after inflammation).\\ {{anchor:s275}}Inflammation of internal organs.
====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======
{{anchor:s279}}Touch: walls of chest painful; of vesicles causes itching.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Pressure: on left side amel.; pain; soreness of chest agg.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Rubbing: glistening before eyes agg.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Bites of poisonous or enraged animals.
====== SKIN. [46] ======
{{anchor:s284}}Burning vesicles, itching when touched.
====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======
{{anchor:s286}}Especially suitable for plethoric, phlegmatic persons.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Girl, aet. 5; after scarlatina; ascites.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Girl, aet. 13, after miliary fever; hydrothorax and anasarca.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Tenor singer, aet. 26, suffering six months; catarrh of pharynx.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Miss X., aet. 30, small stature, poor constitution, pale, thin face; latent pleurisy.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Man, aet. 33; oculo-motor paresis.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Man, aet. 33, slender, leading a sedentary life, first noticed trouble with eyes four years ago; paresis of oculo-motor nerve.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Woman, aet. 56; pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Man, aet. 60; pleuro-pneumonia.
====== RELATIONS. [48] ======
{{anchor:s296}}Compare: Ammon. in bronchial affections; Calc. ost. in fat and plethoric people predisposed to catarrhs; Caustic. in muscular asthenopia, loss of voice, paralytic conditions; Phosphor. in laryngeal and pulmonary catarrh; Spongia in bronchial catarrh.
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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 09, 1890 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r143|Senega]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r143|Senega]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1890 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}