====== ZIZIA AUREA ====== {{anchor:s1}}Zizia. {{anchor:s2}}(Zizia Aurea.) {{anchor:s3}}Meadow Parsnips. {{anchor:s4}}Umbelliferae. {{anchor:s5}}The tincture is prepared from the root. {{anchor:s6}}Proving by Marcy, assisted by Fulgraff, in 1855, N. Am. Jour. of Hom., vol. 4, p. 52. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s8}}Exhilaration: like intoxication; of all faculties, followed by a strong desire to sleep; lasting twelve hours, then great depression for several days.\\ {{anchor:s9}}Laughing and weeping moods in alternation.\\ {{anchor:s10}}Depression of spirits: with disgust of life, followed by great exhilaration and desire for conversation.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Irritability, with lowness of spirits and indifference to everything.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Nervous irritability and depression of spirits; self-dissatisfaction, with weeping.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Indolence, with contentment.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Dreamy, imaginative mood.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Behavior quiet, with much apparent suffering and sadness. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s17}}Giddiness; swimming in head. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s19}}Rush of blood to head and face, with feeling of fullness.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Sensation of tightness around head.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Headache sharp over right eye, begins slightly on second day and increases until eighth (Pulsatilla 6, which promptly relieved it until third day, but feebly on seventh); in its full development on seventh day, headache is grievous, with nausea, inclination to bilious vomiting, need to lie still in a darkened and quietroom; agg. from light, noise and jar; permanent on right side, not shifting; at its worst pain descends behind right ear into neck; lips parched as from fever; severe backache between or at borders of shoulder blades; forehead is affected by a sharp cutting pain by jar of coughing.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Severe pain in right temple, with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Pressure upon top of brain.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Acute aching pain in whole left side of head, increased by light or noise.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Dull pains in occipital region, extending down muscles of neck.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Affections of brain and nervous system. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s28}}Eyes sensitive to light, watery.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Redness of both eyes.\\ {{anchor:s30}}While both eyes exhibit a diffused injection, right eye is more particularly the seat of painful and quite unaccustomed symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Smarting of lids.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Shooting pains through orbits.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Sharp pains in right orbit, agg. by moving eyeball, by stooping or stepping. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s35}}Nasal catarrh with sneezing and coughing.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Nasal discharge of thick mucus.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Obstruction and soreness of right nostril, which is painful to touch.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Right nostril only is affected, it became sore and tender to external touch; a diffused injection of mucous membrane covering arches of pharynx, with ordinary sensations of catarrhal sore throat; conjunctival membrane exhibited a similar diffused injection.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Catarrhal, asthmatic and pleuritic maladies. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s41}}Face pale and puffy.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Redness of one cheek and paleness of other.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Boring pains in cheek bones. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s45}}Dull pains in jaws.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Painful tenderness over lower jawbone, an inch below root of ear. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s48}}Taste: bitter, bitter, bilious, after sick-headache.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Redness of tongue, with unusual sensitiveness to cold and warm drinks.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Tongue covered with a whitish fur.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Yellow fur upon tongue, and oppressed respiration.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Tongue broad, furred in middle and reddened at tip and sides. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Dryness of mouth. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s56}}Increased secretion of mucus in throat.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Slight redness of tonsils and palate, with soreness of throat.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Inflammation of mucous membrane of pharynx. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Craving for acids and stimulants.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Loss of appetite.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Thirst. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Nausea.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Acid and bilious vomiting. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s68}}Stomach sensitive to touch.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Pressure occasioning nausea and faintness. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s71}}Involuntary emissions two nights in succession.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Excitement of male genital organs.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Lassitude and prostration after connection. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Profuse menstrual discharge, followed by acrid leucorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Menses appeared in due time, but ceased after twelve hours.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Sudden suppression of menses.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Leucorrhea: bland and profuse; acrid; commences on second day and continues, slight as to quantity, and at first acrid, afterward more bland and copious; with retarded or suppressed menses; chronic, attended by irritation of spine or brain.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Uterine affections, with increased vascular and nervous excitement. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s82}}Roughness in upper portion of larynx when inspiring or coughing.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Raw and smarting sensation in larynx from coughing.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Sensitiveness of trachea to touch. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s86}}Respiration accelerated and oppressed.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Respiration oppressed, yellow fur upon tongue.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Asthmatic respiration, with inability to retain recumbent position.\\ {{anchor:s89}}She cannot draw a full breath, without severe pain, it catches her about sixth rib in front, and pierces through to back, right side. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s91}}Dry cough, with shooting pains in chest.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Tight cough caused by taking a deep inspiration, or by dryness of larynx.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Short, dry cough, attended by severe stitching pains in right side, and a sense of suffocation.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Cough hard, dry and short, with stitching pain in right side, from region beneath sixth rib down as far as two inches below xiphoid cartilage. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s96}}Dull, aching pains under right scapula.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Severe shooting pain extending from front part of thorax to scapula.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Sharp pains, extending from sides of chest to both shoulder blades.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Severe stitching pains in chest, accompanied by feverish symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Pleuritic stitches in right side, much increased by coughing, or taking or attempting to take a long breath.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Pleural symptoms severe, painful. ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== {{anchor:s103}}Bruised feeling in muscles of chest.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Pressure excites pain in intercostal muscles.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Over xiphoid cartilage and at circumscribed spots on each side, about size of a fifty-cent piece, two inches below, there is a painful tenderness to external touch. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s107}}Dorsal symptoms painful, perhaps sympathetic with uterine sphere; their seat is at posterior lateral margins of scapulae, generally agg. on left side; pains aching, smarting and stinging.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Dull pains in loins increased by movement.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Smarting-burning pain in small of back. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s111}}Lameness in muscles of both arms, from shoulders to elbows.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Pricking sensation in right arm, with slightly diminished sensibility of part. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s114}}Dragging sensation in both hips.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Unusually tired feeling of legs, after slightest muscular exertion. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Lying: asthmatic breathing agg.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Stooping: pain in right orbit agg.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Motion: of eyeball, pain in right orbit agg.; pains in loins agg.; desire for, but causes fatigue; spasmodic movements agg.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Coughing: cutting pain in forehead; pleuritic stitches in right side agg.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Stepping: pain in right orbit agg. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s125}}Increased physical strength, with inclination for muscular exertion.\\ {{anchor:s126}}General aspect and sensation of prover were those of grave and chronic deterioration of health.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Sensitiveness of entire surface of body to touch.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Great desire to move about, with apparent increase of strength, but slight exercise causes fatigue.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Spasmodic movements of muscles of face and extremities.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Before spasms labor pains cease, and feels pains in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Convulsions, epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Chorea, with twitchings during sleep; spasmodic movements of muscles of face and extremities; agg. by movement, noise, light or contact.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Intermittent neuralgia of left ovary. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s135}}Drowsiness, with a sense of lassitude and fatigue.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Sleep is sound until sixth night, when it is prevented by pain.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Spasmodic twitching during sleep. {{anchor:s138}}~ Chorea.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Talking during sleep.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Sleep disturbed by unpleasant dreams. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s142}}Morning: eyelids adhere. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s144}}Chilliness and heat, alternating with faintness, nausea, pain in right temple, redness of eyeballs, dry and red tongue, and thirst for cold water.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Chilliness, accompanied with spasmodic twitching of muscles of face and lower extremities, followed by fever.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Fever, with headache, pain in back, thirst.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Feverish symptoms, accompanying severe stitching pains in chest.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Severe sense of heat and fullness in both cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Flushed cheeks, hot head, visible pulsations of carotid and temporal arteries, coldness of hands and feet, drowsiness and irritability.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Redness and heat of cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Hot flushes in face and head followed by perspiration. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s153}}In alternation: laughing and weeping moods.\\ {{anchor:s154}}For twelve hours: great exhilaration; duration of menses.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Two nights in succession: involuntary emissions.\\ {{anchor:s156}}For several days: great depression. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s158}}Left: acute aching in head; neuralgia of ovary.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Right: sharp pain over eye; headache; pain in temple; pain descends behind ear into neck; severe pain in temple; eye agg.; stye upon lid; sharp pain in orbit; obstruction and soreness of nostril; piercing pain from sixth rib in front through to back; stitches in side; dull aching under scapula; pricking in arm. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s161}}Pain: in right temple; in back.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Severe pain: in right temple.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Sharp pain: over right eye; in right orbit; from sides of chest to shoulder blades.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Cutting: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Boring: in cheek bones.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Piercing pain: from sixth rib in front through to back, right side.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Stitches: in right side; in chest; pleuritic in right side.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Shooting: through orbits; in chest; from front part of thorax to scapula.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Pricking: in right arm.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Stinging: in lateral margins of scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Severe aching: between shoulder blades; in whole left side of head.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Aching: in back.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Smarting: of lids; in larynx; in small of back; in lateral margins of scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Burning: in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Dull pain: in occipital region down muscles of neck; in jaws; in loins.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Soreness: of right nostril; of throat.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Rawness: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Dull aching: under right scapula.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Pressure: on top of brain.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Dragging: in both hips.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Bruised feeling: in muscles of chest.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Tenderness: over lower jawbone, an inch below root of ear.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Tightness: around head.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Lameness: in muscles of arms.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Tired feeling: in legs.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Roughness: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Fullness: in head and face; in cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Heat: in cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Coldness: of hands and feet Itching: pimples on forehead, wrist and legs.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Dryness: of mouth; of larynx; of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Pains increased by movement, noise; light or contact. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s193}}White and puffy appearance of whole body.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Surface of whole body paler than natural.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Face and ankles edematous. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s199}}Touch: right nostril painful; stomach sensitive; trachea sensitive; tenderness over xiphoid cartilage; entire surface of body sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Contact: spasmodic movements agg.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Pressure: on stomach causes nausea and faintness; excites pain in intercostal muscles.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Jarring: headache agg. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s204}}Itching pimples upon forehead; wrists and legs. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s206}}Compare: Mygale and Tarent. in chorea. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 10, 1891 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r471|Zizia aurea]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r471|Zizia aurea]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ year: | 1891 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}