====== LACTUCA VIROSA ====== {{anchor:s1}}Lactuca Virosa. {{anchor:s2}}Poisonous Lettuce. {{anchor:s3}}Compositae. {{anchor:s4}}A plant native to Europe; has a strong, disagreeable smell, like that of opium, and a bitterish, acrid taste. {{anchor:s5}}Provings by German provers, collected by Seidel. {{anchor:s6}}See Jour. f. Hom. Arzneien, vol. 2. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s8}}- Cough, Neidhard, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 373; Whooping cough, A. R., Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 723; Catarrh of chest, Meyer, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 686; Hydrothorax, Neidhard, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 372. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s10}}Anguish and internal uneasiness.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Sadness with exaggerated fancies.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Difficulty of thinking. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s14}}Vertigo with heaviness of head and lower limbs, blackness before eyes and sensation as if head was too large and expanded. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s16}}Aching, pressing pain in forehead; sensation as if brain was loose.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Painful spot near vertex, agg. on touching it.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Heaviness in occiput with pressure.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Dull pain in whole head, early in morning.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Trembling and pulsation in head during rest.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Head is very painfully shattered by slight cough, so that a whirring and pressing remain a long time afterward.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Headaches: with affections of respiratory organs; nervous. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s24}}Musca volitantes; dim-sightedness, as through mist or gauze.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Pupils very much dilated.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Biting in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Lids covered with mucus. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s29}}Heat of face, with trembling of lips, and sensation as if they were swollen. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s31}}Twitching in lips. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s33}}Tongue coated white; tip of tongue feels burnt. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s35}}Increased flow of acrid saliva. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s37}}Bitter taste in throat, as from bile.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Tenacious mucus in throat early in morning. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s40}}Tightness in pit of stomach, followed by true precordial anxiety.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Feeling of warmth in stomach, accompanied by nausea, rising into throat, and flat taste at root of tongue, changing to icy coldness of stomach and throat.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Pit of stomach retracted; pain in stomach, agg. from pressure, amel. by sitting, bending, or emitting fetid flatus.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Icy coldness in stomach and esophagus.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Stitches in pylorus. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s46}}Swelling of liver with pressure, or with tightness when pressing on it. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s48}}Pinching in umbilical region, agg. crossing legs.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Fullness in abdomen, especially right side, impedes respiration; amel. by discharge of flatus.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Ascites, with induration of liver, and asthma. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s52}}Dry, hard, knotty, difficult stool, with burning at anus.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Hemorrhoidal tumors, with tenesmus of rectum. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s55}}Dragging, pressing in region of bladder.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Frequent micturition and increased secretion of urine, urine clear as water.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Burning at orifice of urethra. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s59}}Swelling of lymphatics on penis, painful erections during morning sleep. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Hypertrophy of ovaries in a woman, aet. 50, consequent upon an abortion twenty-five years previously; abdomen as large as that of a woman with twins at ninth month; could get no rest day or night, tumor causing pain by pressure in all positions; rectum contracted, evacuates feces with great pain.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Excessive swelling of abdomen, feet and eyelids. {{anchor:s63}}~ Dropsy of uterus.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Painful gonorrhea in females. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Frequent desire for air and a deep breath; oppression of chest.\\ {{anchor:s67}}She feared to take a deep breath on account of tightness in lower part of chest; there was then felt a slight shock.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Difficult breathing, with stitches in left lung.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Wakes suddenly and must bounce out of bed upon his feet. {{anchor:s70}}~ Suffocation. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s72}}Cough from tickling in throat; tightness in chest.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Dry cough in short paroxysms, shaking chest and occiput.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Dry, suffocative cough, with coldness in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Spasmodic, dry, hollow, racking cough, as if chest would fly to pieces.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Incessant spasmodic cough, which threatens to burst chest; always caused by peculiar tickling in fauces, which, in turn, seems to be produced by sensation of suffocation in throat.\\ {{anchor:s77}}A woman past climacteric years, tickling cough, with oppression of middle and right side of chest, pain in posterior part of region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Whooping cough, paroxysms preceded by anxiety.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Dry, spasmodic cough, from tickling in larynx, with dyspnea and oppression of chest, as if it would burst; agg. in morning, amel. sitting up; before attacks, great anxiety. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s81}}Pinching, dull, sticking pain, which becomes seated in upper part of left side of chest, with tightness of whole chest.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Pleuritic stitches from middle of sternum toward right side.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Dull sticking from left chest to scapula.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Pain catches him in his lungs, back and front, and across top of sacrum.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Several sharp stitches beneath short ribs of left side.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Cramping, pressing pains in various parts of chest.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Feeling of coldness in chest.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Fullness in chest, as of a heavy weight; loosens clothing.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Cannot bear anything to bear on chest, lest breathing should become oppressed.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Sensation as if lower part of chest was too tight.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Great oppression of chest at night, waking him from sleep and obliging him to sit up with anxious suddenness; feels as if he would suffocate, and suddenly he finds himself on his feet.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Congestion of blood to chest, with pressing, obliging one to breathe hurriedly.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Irritation to cough caused by constant tickling in throat, cough short, taking away breath, patient almost in despair. {{anchor:s94}}~ Catarrh of chest.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Hydrothorax with anasarca; unable to lie down or sleep, could not express ideas for want of words, inclined to weep; fluids choke him; violent palpitation. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s97}}Tightness and oppression of chest on waking from sleep; feels as if suffocating, must get out of bed. {{anchor:s98}}~ Angina pectoris.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Pulse slow, contracted and small. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s101}}Pain as if in spinal marrow, extending through coccyx. {{anchor:s102}}~ Coccygodynia. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s104}}Painful twitching or trembling of hands. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s106}}Sensation in legs as if circulation was suspended, particularly when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Cold feet. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s109}}Sharp, cramplike twitchings in neighborhood of joints. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s113}}Rest: trembling and pulsating in head.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Sitting: pains in stomach amel.; oppression of chest amel.; as if circulation in legs was suspended.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Bending: pains in stomach amel.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Crossing legs, pinching in umbilical region agg.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Unable to lie down: hydrothorax with anasarca.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Must sit up in bed: oppression of chest.\\ {{anchor:s119}}In all positions: painfullness of tumor. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s121}}Irresistible drowsiness, in daytime.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Sleep restless or lethargic. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s124}}Morning: dull pain in whole head; tenacious mucus in throat; during sleep, painful erections; oppression of chest agg.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Day: irresistible drowsiness.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Night: great oppression of chest.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Day or night: no rest, hypertrophy of ovaries. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s129}}Warm room: chilliness. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s131}}Slight shivering.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Frequent coldness over back and head, with heat in face.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Chilliness in a warm room, with coldness of hands and feet.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Dry heat of upper part of body, with icy coldness of feet.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Profuse perspiration. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s137}}Right: fullness in abdomen agg.; oppression of side of chest; stitches toward side from sternum.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Left: stitches in lung; pinching pain in upper part of side of chest; dull sticking from chest to scapula; sharp stitches beneath short ribs. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s140}}As if head was too large and expanded; as if brain was loose; as if looking through mist or gauze; as if lips were swollen; tip of tongue as if burnt; as if chest would fly to pieces; as of a heavy weight in chest; as if lower part of chest was too tight; as if he would suffocate; pain as if in spinal marrow, extending through coccyx; as if circulation in legs was suspended.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Pain: in stomach; in posterior part of region of liver; in lungs, back and front, and across top of sacrum.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Painful spot: near vertex.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Head is very painfully shattered by slight cough, so that a whirring and pressure remain a long time afterward.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Anxiety: in precordial region.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Sharp stitches: beneath short ribs of left side.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Stitches: in pylorus; in left lung; from middle of sternum toward right side.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Pinching: in umbilical region.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Sharp, cramplike twitching: in neighborhood of joints.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Cramping, pressive pains: in various parts of chest.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Dragging, pressing: in region of bladder.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Pinching, dull sticking pain: upper part of left chest.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Dull sticking: from left chest to scapula.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Aching pressing pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Dull pain: in whole head.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Painful twitching and trembling: of hands.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Biting: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Burning: at anus; at orifice of urethra.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Heat: of face.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Dry heat: of upper part of body.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Warmth: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Pressure: on occiput.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Heaviness: of head and lower limbs; of occiput.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Oppression: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Tightness: in pit of stomach; of liver; in lower chest.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Fullness: in abdomen; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Tickling: in throat; in fauces.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Trembling: of lips.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Trembling and pulsating: in head.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Twitching: of lips.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Coldness: of stomach and throat; in chest; of feet. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s172}}Dropsical swellings; hydrothorax; ascites, with induration of liver and asthma. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s176}}Touch: agg. painful spot on vertex.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Cannot bear anything on chest: difficulty of breathing.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Pressure: pain in stomach; tightness of liver; pain in tumor amel. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s180}}Woman, past climaxis; cough.\\ {{anchor:s181}}A man, aet. 22; asthma with hydrothorax (relieved).\\ {{anchor:s182}}Man, aet. 26; phthisical, after intermittent, hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Man, had for years suffered from blood dyscrasia and affection of brain; hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Woman, aet. 30; hysterical, spasmodic cough.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Woman, aet. 50; hypertrophy of ovaries after miscarriage (improved).\\ {{anchor:s186}}Woman, aet. 59; hydrothorax (relieved).\\ {{anchor:s187}}A woman, aet. 60; hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s188}}A man, aet. 61; asthma with general edema after taking cold. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s190}}Compare: Opium (drowsiness), Laches., Kali carb., Kali iod. (heart symptoms). ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 06, 1888 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r233|Lactuca virosa]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r233|Lactuca virosa]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1888 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}