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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Dandelion. {{anchor:s4}}Compositae.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}Introduced and proved by Hahnemann, assisted by Franz, Gutmann, Kummer, Langhammer and Rasazemsky.

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

{{anchor:s7}}- <span grade2>Ague</span>, Bartl., Newmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 990; <span grade2>Typhoid fever</span>, Boenninghausen, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 54; Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 790.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s9}}Constant muttering to himself.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s10}}~</span> <span grade2>Typhus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s11}}Inclined to talk, laugh and be merry.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Undecided, shunning labor, but after beginning, works well.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s14}}Vertigo when walking about; apyrexia of ague.</span>\\ {{anchor:s15}}Dullness of head during a walk in open air, with reeling and dizziness; unsteady gait, head inclines at times to left, at others to right side.

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

{{anchor:s17}}Drawing pain or needlelike stitches in left temple while sitting, ceasing when walking and standing.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Violent tearing in occiput.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s19}}~</span> <span grade3>Typhus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s20}}Pressure with heaviness in lower part of occiput, after lying down.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Sharp stitches externally in left side of forehead.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s22}}Pressive pain in right temple.</span>\\ {{anchor:s23}}Sensation in head as if brain were constricted on all sides by pressure.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Nausea with headache; anxiety.

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

{{anchor:s26}}Head falls now to left, now to right side, with vertigo.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s27}}Sweat on falling asleep, most on head.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s28}}~</span> <span grade2>Quotidian ague.</span>

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

{{anchor:s30}}Aversion to light.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Burning in left eyeball.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Burning sticking in left eyeball, toward external canthus.

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

{{anchor:s34}}Drawing pain in external ear.

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

{{anchor:s36}}Nosebleed, left side.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s37}}Nose cold.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s38}}~</span> <span grade2>Quotidian ague.</span>

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

{{anchor:s40}}Face hot and red.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Pimples on cheeks, alae nasi and corners of mouth.

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

{{anchor:s43}}Upper lip cracked.

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

{{anchor:s45}}Teeth: feel dull; set on edge, as from acids, when chewing food.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Bleeding from carious teeth, blood having a sour taste.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s48}}Taste: bitter, before eating; bitter, rising from pharynx into mouth; sour; saltish, especially of butter and meat.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s49}}White spots on tongue among the red.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Tongue: coated white; cleans off in patches, leaving dark-red, tender, very sensitive spots; mapped tongue.</span>

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

{{anchor:s52}}Tough, ropy, sour-tasting saliva.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Sour water accumulates in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Accumulation of saliva in mouth, with sensation as if larynx were compressed.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Suppurating pimple in right corner of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Smarting, burning and rawness in mouth and fauces.

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

{{anchor:s58}}Throat and larynx feel as if closed.\\ {{anchor:s59}}During and after swallowing of food, aching across clavicles, up left side of her neck into ear; gullet feels too small for food.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Dryness in throat.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Hawking up of sour mucus setting teeth on edge.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Sharp pressure in anterior wall of pharynx and larynx, disappears on swallowing.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s65}}Great thirst, day and night.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}Loss of appetite.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s67}}~</span> <span grade2>Jaundice.</span>

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}After taking anything to eat or drink, great chilliness.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}~</span> <span grade3>Typhus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s71}}Coughs after eating.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Bitterish taste in mouth before eating.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Empty belching, after drinking.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Burning in throat from smoking, amel. from drinking.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Irresistible drowsiness after a meal.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s77}}Eructations bitter; hiccough.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s78}}Belching, gagging, nausea at night.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}~</span> <span grade2>Ague.</span>\\ {{anchor:s80}}Nausea, with headache, anxiety; after fat food.

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

{{anchor:s82}}Rawness extending from mouth to stomach, with burning in stomach, rising up toward throat.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s83}}Digestion disturbed.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s84}}~</span> <span grade2>Jaundice.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}Bilious dyspepsia; bitter taste; nausea as after fat food; mapped tongue; pain in legs amel. when moving.</span>

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s87}}Liver enlarged, indurated.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}~</span> <span grade3>Jaundice.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s89}}Pain in region of spleen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s90}}~</span> <span grade2>Ague.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s91}}Tongue mapped, bitter taste in mouth, chilliness after eating or drinking, pain and soreness in region of liver, bilious diarrhea.</span>

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

{{anchor:s93}}Motions in lower abdomen as if bubbles were forming and bursting.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s94}}Abdomen puffed.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s95}}~</span> <span grade2>Jaundice.</span>\\ {{anchor:s96}}Stitching pains in abdomen, especially in sides.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s98}}Ineffectual urging, with much pressing; scanty hard stool.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s99}}~</span> <span grade2>Ague.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s100}}Stool difficult, even if not hard.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s101}}~</span> <span grade2>Ague.</span>\\ {{anchor:s102}}Voluptuous itching in perineum, compelling scratching.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s103}}Constipation.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s104}}~</span> <span grade3>Jaundice.</span>

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

{{anchor:s106}}Frequent, profuse pale urine. <span sbita>{{anchor:s107}}~</span> Diabetes.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s109}}In a hard swelling in left epididymis, following an inflammation after contusion, violent shooting pains, running upward and spreading over whole pubic region, after urinating.</span>

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s111}}Suppressed menses.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

{{anchor:s114}}As if larynx were compressed, with saliva in mouth, hoarse in speaking, with bitter phlegm in throat.

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

{{anchor:s116}}With deeper inhalations tensive pain in region of diaphragm.\\ {{anchor:s117}}With exhalation, more than with inhalation, burning pressure in sternum.\\ {{anchor:s118}}With exhalation, pressure from inside to short ribs in region of liver, extending up chest.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Deeper respirations amel. pressive stitch in right chest.

====== COUGH. [27] ======

{{anchor:s121}}Sour-tasting sputa.

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s123}}Stitches in chest, during inspiration.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s124}}Boring, digging in chest.</span>\\ {{anchor:s125}}Pressing pain in chest.

====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s127}}Twitching in right intercostal muscles.</span>\\ {{anchor:s128}}Pressure on xiphoid process.

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

{{anchor:s130}}Tearing from ear down to neck.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Rolling and gurgling sensation in right scapula, feeling chilly.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Pressing stitches along spine, mostly in sacrum, with dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Twitching in lower portion of side of neck.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Sticking, as with a somewhat blunt needle, in left side of nape of neck, disappearing on sitting down.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s136}}Twitching in muscles of arms.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Numbness in left arm, side of head and ear.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Pressive pain in right middle, ring and little fingers.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Hands hot or cold.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Finger tips icy-cold.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Twitching of muscles of left forearm.

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

{{anchor:s143}}Stitches in thighs, calves and soles.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Tension in left thigh when stooping.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Pressive pain in left calf.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Jerking pain in right calf, ceases quickly when touched.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s147}}Tearing pains only in lower limbs, agg. during rest.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s148}}~</span> <span grade2>Typhus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s149}}Pressure in dorsum of right foot, while sitting.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Burning in knees, legs and toes.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Drawing pain in dorsum of right foot, when standing; ceasing when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Severe, or fine stitching pains in right sole from within outward, while sitting.

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

{{anchor:s154}}Can move limbs, but they feel as if bound or powerless.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Limbs painful to touch and when in a wrong position.

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

{{anchor:s159}}Rest: tearing pains in limbs agg.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Lying: pressure in occiput.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Sitting: pain in left temple; pressure in dorsum of right foot; drawing in dorsum of right foot amel.; stitching pains in right sole; yawning.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Standing: drawing in dorsum of right foot.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Stooping: tension in left thigh.\\ {{anchor:s164}}A wrong position: causes pain in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Walking: vertigo; in open air, dullness of head.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Motion: amel. pain in legs; vertigo.

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

{{anchor:s168}}Exhausted, inclined to sit or lie down; semi-conscious.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s169}}Debility, loss of appetite, profuse, exhausting night sweat; thirst; restless sleep.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s171}}Yawning, sleepy when sitting.</span>\\ {{anchor:s172}}At night on waking, heat, mostly in face and hands.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Sleep disturbed by: dreams; sweat.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Vivid, unremembered dreams.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s175}}Unconquerable desire to sleep on leaving table; frightful dreams, of which he preserves no recollection other than a painful impression.</span>

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

{{anchor:s177}}At 8 P. M.: hands and nose cold.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Night: nausea; heat in face and hands; chilliness, with sweat.

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

{{anchor:s180}}Temperature and Weather\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s181}}Inclined to open air.</span>\\ {{anchor:s182}}In open air: chill.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s184}}Tips of fingers icy-cold.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s185}}Chilliness: all over; at night, with sweat and gastric ailments; after food or drink.</span>\\ {{anchor:s186}}Chill in open air.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s187}}Long lasting chill, copious sweat; pain in spleen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s188}}~</span> <span grade2>Ague.</span>\\ {{anchor:s189}}Heat: at night, on waking; most in face and hands; without thirst.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s190}}Sweat: mostly with thirst; copious, debilitating, at night, causing biting on skin.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s191}}Chilliness of long duration, often whole day, followed in night by general and profuse sweat; gastric disturbances; nausea; belching; stools delayed, scanty, hard, with much pressing; pain in region of spleen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s192}}~</span> <span grade2>Ague.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s193}}About 8 P. M. hands and nose get cold, desires to go to bed and is soon asleep; is hardly asleep before a profuse sweat appears, particularly on head, lasting an hour; lassitude; tendency to vertigo when moving about.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s194}}~</span> <span grade2>Quotidian ague.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s195}}Great prostration, loss of appetite; profuse sweats at night, was compelled to change his shirt three times every night; great thirst, day and night; restless sleep.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s196}}~</span> <span grade2>Ague.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s197}}A hard chill, after eating or drinking.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s198}}~</span> <span grade2>Typhus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s199}}Ague: where Cinchona has only slightly delayed paroxysms, and where disease degenerated into a slow fever, especially in dry and bilious subjects.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s200}}Typhoid fever; during rest intolerable tearing pains, in lower extremities; constant muttering delirium; violent tearing pain in occiput; great chilliness after eating or drinking; mapped tongue.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s201}}Violent pains of typhoid or typho-malarial fevers, particularly in thighs.</span>

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

{{anchor:s203}}Left: drawing or stitches in temples; stitches in forehead; burning sticking in eyeball; nosebleed; aching from neck into ear; epididymitis; sticking in side of neck; numbness of arm; twitching in forearm; tension in thigh; pressive pain in calf.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Right: pressive pain in temple; pimple in corner of mouth; twitching in intercostal muscles; rolling and gurgling in scapula; pressive pain in fingers; jerking pain in calf; pressure in dorsum of foot; stitching pains in sole.

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

{{anchor:s206}}As if brain were constricted; as if teeth were set on edge; as if larynx were compressed; as if closed, throat and larynx; as if bubbles were forming and bursting in abdomen; as if rolling and gurgling in right scapula; as if limbs were bound or powerless.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Pain: in region of spleen; in region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Jerking pain: in right calf.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Needlelike stitches: in left temple.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Stitches: in left forehead; in abdomen, especially sides; in chest; in thighs, calves and soles; in right sole.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Pressing stitches: along spine; in sacrum.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Shooting: from epididymis over pubic region.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Sticking: in left eyeball; as with blunt needle on left side of nape.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Stinging: in skin.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Tearing: in occiput; from ear to neck; in lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Boring digging: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Drawing pain: in left temple; in external ear; on dorsum of right foot.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Burning: in left eyeball; in mouth and fauces; in throat; in stomach; in knees, legs and toes.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Burning pressure: in sternum, agg. with exhalation.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Biting: in skin with sweat.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Smarting: in mouth and fauces.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Soreness: in region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Rawness: in mouth and fauces; from mouth to stomach.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Pressure: in occiput; from region of liver into chest; in chest; on xiphoid process; in fingers; upon back of foot.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Aching: across clavicles; up left neck into ear.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Tensive pain: in region of diaphragm with deep inhalation.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Pressive pain: in right temple; in left calf.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Tension: in left thigh when stooping.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Dullness: of head.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Heaviness: in occiput.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Numbness: in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Itching: in perineum.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s234}}Gastric bilious attacks, with mapped tongue.</span>\\ {{anchor:s235}}Neuralgia and rheumatism during and after typhus.

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

{{anchor:s239}}Touch: amel. in right calf; limbs painful.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s241}}Unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skin.</span>\\ {{anchor:s242}}Stinging in skin.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Eruption over body and limbs, itching severely and appearing to be a mixture of lichen and urticaria.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Biting in skin, with sweat.

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

{{anchor:s246}}Boy, aet. 8; ague.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Girl, aet. 19, servant; typhoid fever.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Man, aet. 46; ague.\\ {{anchor:s249}}A man: unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skin.

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

{{anchor:s251}}Compatible: Arsen. in night-sweats.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Compare: Chelid., Hydrast., Pulsat.

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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:r162|Taraxacum officinale]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r162|Taraxacum officinale]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ year: | 1891 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}