====== SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Symphytum. {{anchor:s2}}(Symphytum Officinale.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Comfrey; Healing Herb. {{anchor:s4}}Borraginaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}A native of Europe, where it grows on banks of streams and in meadows; also found in United States.

{{anchor:s6}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh root.

{{anchor:s7}}Introduced by Jeanes.

{{anchor:s8}}Fragmentary proving by Macfarlan.

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

{{anchor:s10}}- <span grade2>Injury to eye</span>, Gross, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 317; <span grade2>Inflammation of inferior maxillary bone</span>, Cate, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 378; <span grade2>Pain in knee</span>, Funk, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 928; <span grade2>Fracture of bones</span>, Gilchrist, Med. Inv., vol. 9, p. 79; <span grade2>Non-union of fracture</span>, Hendrichs, A. H. Z., vol. 107, p. 71.

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

{{anchor:s12}}Headache in occiput, in top of head, in forehead, changing places.

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s14}}Pain in eyes after a knock or contusion of an obtuse body.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s15}}After being struck upon eye with a cane by a child, no visible injury, but a sensation on closing eye as if upper lid passed over an elevation on bulb of eye; on waking eye could not be easily opened, seemed spasmodically closed.</span>

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

{{anchor:s17}}Cannot hear well; feels as if ears were stopped up.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Inflamed ears.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s20}}Inflammation of inferior maxillary bone; hard, red swelling.</span>

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

{{anchor:s22}}Pains across epigastrium from one side to other, agg. opposite spleen, in walking; when sitting agg. about navel; griping pain.

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

{{anchor:s24}}Menses stopped; headache, weight in forehead when she stoops; has it almost all time; a good deal of fever every other hour; cold all day, cramp and diarrhea; nose sore inside alae, wants to pick it; wants to rub her eyes; inflamed ears; feels as if something were in them, stopped up, cannot hear well.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s26}}Psoas abscess.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s28}}More than a year ago fell and struck knee upon a stone; wound healed and left scarcely any trace, but there remained an acute stitching pain in place, felt when clothing touched part, or when knee was bent.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s29}}Man suffering with a spontaneous luxation of thigh since childhood, fell and received a fracture of affected thigh; after two months fragments were quite movable, and as union was despaired of, an apparatus was made which allowed him to sit on a chair during day; Symphytum 4, four globules every six hours, brought about complete union in twenty days.</span>

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

{{anchor:s33}}Sitting: pain about navel.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Stooping: weight in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Walking: pain opposite spleen.

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

{{anchor:s37}}Every other hour: fever.\\ {{anchor:s38}}All day: cold.

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

{{anchor:s40}}As if upper lid passed over an elevation on closing eye; as if ears were stopped up.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Peculiar pain: in periosteum, after wounds have healed.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Pain: in eyes after a knock or contusion; across epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Stitching pain: in healed wound on knee.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Griping pain: about navel.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Weight: in forehead when stooping.

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

{{anchor:s47}}Bruises, sprains; sore breasts.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s48}}Inflammation of bones; diseased spinous processes.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}Psoas abscess.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Facilitates union of fractured bones and lessens peculiar pricking pain; favors production of callous.</span>

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

{{anchor:s54}}Touch of clothing: acute pain in injured knee, after wound healed.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Wants to rest eyes.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s56}}Mechanical injuries, bad effects from blows, bruises, thrusts on eye.</span>\\ {{anchor:s57}}Non-union of fracture, particularly when trouble is of nervous origin.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Injury to bones; for example, when a blow on eyes injures orbital plates of frontal bone.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Irritable stump after amputation.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Peculiar pain in periosteum after wounds have healed.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Irritability of bone at point of fracture.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Gunshot wounds.

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

{{anchor:s64}}Girl, aet. 7, psoas abscess.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Miss P., aet. 48; inflammation of inferior maxillary bone.

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

{{anchor:s67}}Compare: <span grade2>Arnic.</span> in blows; <span grade2>Fluor. ac., Hepar, Calc. phos.</span> and <span grade2>Silica</span> in injuries to bones.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 10, 1891 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r656|Symphytum Officinale]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r656|Symphytum Officinale]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ year: | 1891 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}