====== COCHLEARIA ARMORACIA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Armoracea Sativa. {{anchor:s2}}(Cochlearia.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Horseradish. {{anchor:s4}}Brassicaceae or Cruciferae.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}The common horseradish, a popular rubefacient, which has sometimes accidentally proved of great use, of course only when the symptoms corresponded. {{anchor:s6}}Proved by Dr. Franz, who introduced <span grade2>Asafoetida</span> and <span grade2>Valeriana</span> into our Materia Medica; printed in Stapf's Archives, Vol. 17, No. 3, p. 176; later in the Gallican Journal, No. 3, p. 7. {{anchor:s7}}In this country applied and somewhat proved by Dr. Cate, Amer. {{anchor:s8}}Jour. Hom., Vol. I., p. 336, 1851. {{anchor:s9}}In 1868 we got another more complete proving from one of our students, J. C. D., too modest to write his name on his treatise.

{{anchor:s10}}Tincture prepared from the root.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s12}}Difficult thinking in evening.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s13}}Melancholy is changed into merry mood.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s14}}Anxiety.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s15}}~</span> <span grade3>Hydrothorax.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s16}}Driven to despair.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s17}}~</span> <span grade3>Cramp in stomach.</span>\\ {{anchor:s18}}Great irresoluteness, stupid feeling and inability to collect one's thoughts.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}Worse from nervous excitement; from vexation.</span>

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

{{anchor:s21}}Dullness of head, is unable to collect his thoughts quick enough.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Buzzing in head, with weakness, agg. forenoon and when walking.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Syncope.</span>

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

{{anchor:s25}}Dull pain in frontal sinus.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Sore, uneasy feeling in frontal sinus.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Dull, heavy headache.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Pressing, boring pain in head, as if frontal bone would fall out.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Pressure deep in brain, agg. by opening eyes (wide), but not by reading or motion.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Headache, now in one, then in another side of head; agg. when opening eyes widely.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Headache, with nausea; agg. when sitting up.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Violent headache, with vomiting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s33}}Acute pain in head.</span>

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

{{anchor:s35}}Fullness of frontal sinus and antrum highmorii.

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

{{anchor:s37}}Obscuration of sight for some minutes.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Lachrymation.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Spots on cornea.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Swelling of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Inflammation of Meibomian glands.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Sore and scrofulous eyes.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Rheumatic ophthalmia.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s44}}Traumatic inflammation of eyes; blearedness and cataract.</span>

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

{{anchor:s46}}Pain in left ear, deep in.

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

{{anchor:s48}}Sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Chronic catarrh.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Inflammation of nose.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}~</span> <span grade3>With eye complaints.</span>

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

{{anchor:s53}}Pale face.

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

{{anchor:s55}}Twitching of left corner of mouth, 4 A. M.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Soreness of upper lip.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}Toothache, especially of a rheumatic character.</span>\\ {{anchor:s59}}Dull sensation in teeth, as if they were soft and became bent on chewing.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s60}}Scorbutis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s61}}Scurvy of salt eaters.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s62}}Toothache in carious teeth.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s63}}~</span> <span grade3>Scurvy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s64}}Dental fistula.

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

{{anchor:s66}}Slight metallic taste in mouth.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s67}}Glossoplegia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s68}}Dull pain in left sublingual gland for a few moments, followed by a flow of saliva.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Burning biting sensation on tongue.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Tongue furred whitish.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s71}}~</span> <span grade3>Cramp in stomach.</span>

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

{{anchor:s73}}Very offensive odor from mouth and lungs.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Clotted blood filled up the open mouth.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s75}}~</span> <span grade3>Apparent death.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s77}}Dryness of pharynx, larynx and posterior nares.</span>\\ {{anchor:s78}}Scraping in throat, with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Hawking up thick, viscid mucus, consisting of mucous corpuscles and plasma, with little granular matter.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Inflammation of tonsils, with difficulty in swallowing.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Warm water put in mouth seemed to go no further than throat.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}~</span> <span grade3>Apparent death.</span>

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

{{anchor:s85}}Little appetite for breakfast.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Fearful hungry feeling, unnatural craving for food, with profuse painless diarrhea.

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

{{anchor:s88}}Dyspepsia.

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

{{anchor:s90}}Troublesome belching of a sulphurous odor similar to garlic.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Scraping in throat, with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Slight nausea, with irritation of pharynx.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Retching and vomiting of bilious fluid.

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

{{anchor:s95}}Highly stimulant, exciting stomach and promoting secretions, especially of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Crampy, tensive pain above epigastrium, apparently in diaphragm; amel. by bending forward.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s97}}From region of stomach pain draws through both sides towards back.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s98}}~</span> <span grade4>Cramp in stomach.</span>\\ {{anchor:s99}}Dull pain or soreness at scrobiculum cordis.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s100}}Violent cramp in stomach beginning towards morning, continually increasing, driving to despair; goes from region of stomach through both sides around to back.</span>\\ {{anchor:s101}}A slight pressure on last dorsal vertebra increases pain very much.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s102}}Cramp in stomach after taking cold.</span>

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

{{anchor:s104}}Griping pain in bowels (epigastric region) for a few moments upon lying down upon back.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Colicky pains in left side below short ribs, similar to that which she has with her monthly, on right side

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s107}}Spasmodic affection in abdomen.</span>\\ {{anchor:s108}}Griping pain around umbilicus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Tearing pain from belly through to back, down back and settling in sacrum.</span>\\ {{anchor:s110}}Borborygmi in morning.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s111}}Loins ache.</span>

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

{{anchor:s113}}Stools increased in frequency.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Profuse painless diarrhea, not sick with it, but craving food.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Twenty movements of her bowels in one day.\\ {{anchor:s116}}In afternoon two stools, first profuse and thick, later less, not thin; four or five times during evening, with a great deal of straining; very weakening.\\ {{anchor:s117}}After great nervous excitement, looseness, six or seven times during afternoon, with much pain; took gin to check it; fever followed.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Tenesmus all night until morning, sometimes discharging a little blood.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s119}}Mucous stools.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s120}}Intestinal catarrh.</span>\\ {{anchor:s121}}Involuntary passage of mucus from anus.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Straining at anus, with burning and stinging.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s123}}Itching and burning at anus.</span>

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

{{anchor:s125}}Uneasiness in region of kidneys, as if congested.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Increased inclination to urinate.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s127}}Increased secretion of urine.</span>\\ {{anchor:s128}}Urination eight or ten times daily, instead of four.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Urine pale and limpid.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Strangury very severe; frequent and scanty urination; water thick, like jelly on standing, yellowish color, although neither yellow nor white.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Ischuria and bloody urine.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Dysuria.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Gravel.\\ {{anchor:s134}}(OBS:) Calculi.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Albuminuria.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Nephritis albuminosa, with great paleness, and atony of kidneys.</span>\\ {{anchor:s137}}Frequent desire to urinate; the urine is discharged with difficulty, causing burning, tenderness and inflammation of the urethra, as in the first (inflammatory) stages of gonorrhea.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s139}}Impotence, torpidity.</span>\\ {{anchor:s140}}Burning or cutting at glans during micturition, felt also before or after.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s141}}Inflammatory stage of gonorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s142}}Gonorrhea, with violent smarting and burning, difficult micturition, and a rather scanty discharge from urethra.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s143}}Gonorrhea, after cutting and burning pains during micturition had been nearly removed by 1st or 2d dilution, the 6th acted with good effect.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s144}}Chronic and neglected gonorrhea.</span>

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

{{anchor:s146}}During night pieces of coagulated blood pass from vagina.\\ {{anchor:s147}}When urinating stringy black blood from vagina.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Menses every ten or fifteen days.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Suppressed menses and chlorosis.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s150}}Leucorrhea and menostasis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s151}}Since climaxis, cramp in stomach.</span>

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

{{anchor:s155}}Milk tastes and smells like horseradish.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s156}}After vexation of mother nursing child vomits milk.</span>

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s159}}Loss of voice; whispering.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s160}}Aphonia, with blood-spitting.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s161}}Hoarseness and roughness in throat.</span>\\ {{anchor:s162}}Dryness of larynx.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Used by singers to clear the throat.

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

{{anchor:s165}}Oppression of breathing, with hoarseness; scorbutus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Pituitous asthma.</span>\\ {{anchor:s167}}Increases activity of respiratory organs.

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

{{anchor:s169}}Hard or loose cough, agg. from supper-time until going to bed.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Hawking up of thick, viscid mucus, consisting of mucous corpuscles, plasma, and but little granular matter.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s171}}Pituitous consumption.</span>\\ {{anchor:s172}}(OBS:) It relieves cough and promotes expectoration.

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

{{anchor:s174}}Inflammation of lungs.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Pleuritis, with painfullness in scapular region, agg. afternoon and leaning back.\\ {{anchor:s176}}After violent cough, hemorrhage and apparent death.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Edema of lungs.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Mucous asthma.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s179}}During convalescence from pneumonia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s180}}Relieved pressing, stitching in chest, bloody sputum, anxiety and oppression (external application).

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s182}}No pulsation of heart; apparent death.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s183}}Pulse small.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s184}}~</span> <span grade3>Cramp in stomach.</span>\\ {{anchor:s185}}(OBS:) Accelerates pulse.

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

{{anchor:s187}}Grasping pain in left side and both shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Chest painful to touch.

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

{{anchor:s190}}Pain in back as from incarcerated flatulence.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s191}}A slight pressure on last dorsal vertebra increases pain exceedingly.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s192}}~</span> <span grade3>Cramp in stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s193}}Pain from abdomen through to back and down into sacrum.</span>

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

{{anchor:s195}}Painful twitchings in third left phalanx.

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

{{anchor:s197}}Pain in adductors of both thighs, upper part; it almost drags her to pieces.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Twitching in leg (r.), outside of tibia, middle third.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Pain in left gastrocnemius.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Twitching in right foot, third metatarsal tendon.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s201}}Suppressed foot sweats.</span>

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

{{anchor:s203}}Towards morning pains in all joints when lying still; agg. lying on side, passing off on motion and when getting up.

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

{{anchor:s207}}Towards morning pain in all limbs when lying still, agg. when lying on side, passing off on motion and when getting up.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Bending forward: amel. cramp.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Lying on side: pains in joints agg.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Lying on back: pain in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Sitting: headache and nausea agg.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Motion: pains in every joint amel.\\ {{anchor:s213}}On widely opening eyes: headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Rest: pains in every joint agg.

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

{{anchor:s216}}General prostration. <span sbita>{{anchor:s217}}~</span> With backache.\\ {{anchor:s218}}(OBS:) Palsy.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s219}}Apparent apoplectic death after a hemorrhage from lungs and nose, with a child suffering from whooping cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s220}}It raises vital forces when sunken to lowest degree.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s221}}Asphyxia.</span>

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

{{anchor:s223}}Sleep very refreshing.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Heavy sleep.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Awoke with a clearer mind than usual.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Sleepless nights, with bearing down in abdomen.

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

{{anchor:s228}}Night: tenesmus; coagulated blood from vagina.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Morning: borborygmi; pains in joints; <span grade3>cramp in stomach worse.</span>\\ {{anchor:s230}}Afternoon: 4 P. M. twitching of corner of mouth; stools.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Evening: difficult thinking; stools; cough.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s233}}After a cold: cramp in stomach.</span>

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

{{anchor:s235}}(OBS:) Increases warmth, local and general exhalation.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Causes perspiration.\\ {{anchor:s237}}(OBS:) Intermittent fever.

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

{{anchor:s239}}Right: twitching in leg; in foot.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Left: pain deep in ear; corner of mouth twitches; dull pain in sublingual gland; grasping pain in side and shoulders; third phalanx, painful twitches; pain in gastrocnemius.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Pain draws from stomach through sides to back.

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

{{anchor:s243}}Bloated sensation as if everything was distended without being actually larger; as if frontal bone would fall out; as if teeth were soft and would bend.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Externally applied, causes violent pains.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Violent pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Stitches: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Cutting: and burning during micturition.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Burning: and biting on tongue; and stinging at anus; and itching at anus; in urethra; and cutting in glans.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Pressing: and boring in head; deep in brain; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Tearing pains: from belly through back into sacrum.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Grasping pain: in left side and both shoulders; in right foot.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Griping: in bowels; around umbilicus.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Cramp: in stomach; crampy, tensive pain above epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Soreness: of upper lip; at scrobiculum cordis.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Sore, uneasy feeling: in frontal sinus.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Scraping: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Smarting: and burning, gonorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Aching: in loins; in all joints towards morning.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Rheumatic toothache.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Tensive pain: above epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Dull pain: in frontal sinus; in teeth, as if soft; in left sublingual gland; at scrobiculum cordis.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Undefined pain: in head; in left ear; with looseness of bowels; in scapular region; in back; in abductors of thighs; in left gastrocnemius; in joints.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Dullness: of head.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Uneasiness: in region of kidneys; in frontal sinus.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Fullness: frontal sinus and antrum.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Buzzing: in head.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Twitching: left corner of mouth; in third left phalanx, painful; in right leg.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Dryness: pharynx, larynx and nares.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Itching: at anus.

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

{{anchor:s271}}Pains in all the joints.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s272}}Rheumatism, wandering, chronic.</span>\\ {{anchor:s273}}Gout; also in suppression, followed by colic and retention of urine (used in footh bath).\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s274}}Antiscorbutic.</span>\\ {{anchor:s275}}"Mucous" diseases.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Torpid, chronic catarrhs.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Anasarca after intermittents.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s278}}Dropsy, with albuminuria.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s279}}After pneumonia, during reconvalescence.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s280}}Beginning enteritis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s281}}Beginning pleuritis.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Chronic catarrhs.

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

{{anchor:s286}}Touching abdomen and small of back gives pain, which extends into right leg.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Chest painful to touch.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Traumatic inflammation of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Slight pressure on back: agg. cramp.

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

{{anchor:s291}}The rubefacient effect is shorter than that of mustard.\\ {{anchor:s292}}The skin is reddened and irritated, sometimes blisters are formed.\\ {{anchor:s293}}(OBS:) Erysipelatous affections (the leaves).\\ {{anchor:s294}}(OBS:) Eruptions of skin.\\ {{anchor:s295}}(OBS:) Freckles and liver spots.\\ {{anchor:s296}}(OBS:) Scorbutic ulcers.

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

{{anchor:s298}}A stout woman, aet. 40, subject to cramps in stomach; violent attack with headache.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s299}}A woman suffering from violent headache, with vomiting, since climaxis.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s300}}~</span> <span grade3>Cramp in stomach.</span>

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

{{anchor:s302}}Useful in scurvy of salt eaters.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Contains an etheric oil, very similar, if not identical with <span grade2>Sinapis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s304}}Comparable with: <span grade2>Canthar., Capsic., Rhus tox.</span> and <span grade2>Sinap.</span>\\ {{anchor:s305}}Juniper berries antidote bladder and urinary complaints.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Took gin for colic, and for fever following it, <span grade2>Bellad.</span>\\ {{anchor:s307}}Eating horseradish, after <span grade2>Merc. sol.</span> had been given, was followed by an aggravation of pain in hips, which was followed by a lasting improvement.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Similar to tea, see 43, first symptom.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r596|Cochlearia armoracia]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r596|Cochlearia armoracia]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1884 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}