====== SQUILLA MARITIMA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Squilla. {{anchor:s2}}(Squilla Maritima.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Squills, Sea Onion. {{anchor:s4}}Liliaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}A bulbous plant, bearing a long spike of whitish flowers, found on the sandy shores of the Mediterranean.

{{anchor:s6}}Introduced by Hahnemann, proved by himself, Becher, Hartmann, Hornburg, Mossdorf, Stapf, Teuthorn, Walther and Wislicenus, Mat. Med. Pura, vol. 3, p. 265.

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

{{anchor:s8}}- <span grade2>Affection of eye</span>, Sawyer, Med. Adv., June, 1889, p. 398; <span grade2>Phlyctenule of conjunctiva</span>, Deady, Norton's Ophth. {{anchor:s9}}Therap., p. 171; <span grade2>Enuresis nocturna</span>, Blaisdell, Stitson, A. H. O., vol. 12, p. 390; <span grade2>Asthma</span>, Frank, N. A. J. H., vol. 9, p. 257; <span grade2>Bronchitis</span>, Knorre, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 27; Neidhard, Hah. Mo., vol. 20, p. 27; <span grade2>Pertussis</span>, A. R., Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 729; <span grade2>Whooping cough</span>, Wesselhoeft, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 3; <span grade2>Pneumonia</span>, Deschere, T. A. I. H., 1886, p. 323; <span grade2>Dropsical affections</span>, Hahnemann, Hartmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 355.

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

{{anchor:s11}}Great anxiety of mind, with fear of death.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Angry about trifles.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Aversion to mental or bodily labor.

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

{{anchor:s15}}Vertigo in morning, with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Head beclouded and dizzy.

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

{{anchor:s18}}Drawing lancinating headache.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Pulsation in head when raising it.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Headache in morning on waking, with pressing pains.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Contractive pain in both temples.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Quickly passing pain in occiput, from left to right.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Stitching pain in right side of forehead.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Affections of brain: child rubs its face and eyes a great deal, especially its eyes, as if to relieve itching; profuse or scanty urination.

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

{{anchor:s26}}Painful sensitiveness of vertex, mornings.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Staring look, eyes wide open.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s29}}Left eye looks smaller than right; upper eyelid swollen.</span>\\ {{anchor:s30}}Contraction of pupils.\\ {{anchor:s31}}The eyes feel as if swimming in cold water.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s32}}For two weeks a large phlyctenule of conjunctiva on outer side of cornea; sensation as of cold water in eye, when in a cold wind.</span>

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

{{anchor:s34}}Tearing pain back of left ear.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Sneezes during cough; eyes water; rubs eyes and nose.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s37}}~</span> <span grade3>Measles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Acrid, corrosive, fluent coryza, in morning; a regular general snizzle; coryza; mucous cough, with spurting of urine, and even of watery stools.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Nostrils painful as if sore, with violent coryza.</span>\\ {{anchor:s40}}Humid eruptions under nose, with stinging itching.

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

{{anchor:s42}}Changeable expression and color of face.\\ {{anchor:s43}}During heat, redness of face, followed by paleness, without coldness.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Distorted countenance, with red cheeks, no thirst.

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

{{anchor:s46}}Lips: twitch and are covered with yellow crusts; black and cracked.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Humid spreading eruption on upper lip.

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

{{anchor:s49}}Food tastes bitter, especially bread; or sweetish, especially soup and meat.

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

{{anchor:s51}}Open, dry mouth.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Much viscid mucus in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Burning in mouth and throat.

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

{{anchor:s55}}Burning in palate and throat; dryness in throat.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s56}}Irritation in throat, with heat and tickling, causing constant cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s57}}Irritation to cough in pit of throat, in upper part of trachea.

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

{{anchor:s60}}Insatiable appetite.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Desire for acids.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Thirst for cold water, but dyspnea allows her to take but a sip at a time.

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

{{anchor:s64}}Empty eructations.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Nausea: during morning cough; continuous in pit of stomach, alternating with a pain in abdomen, as with diarrhea.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}Excessive nausea.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s67}}Nausea in back of throat, almost constant accumulation of saliva in mouth.</span>\\ {{anchor:s68}}Nausea in pit of stomach, alternating with pain in abdomen, or sensation as if diarrhea would set in.

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

{{anchor:s70}}Pressure in stomach as from a stone.

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

{{anchor:s72}}Cutting pain in abdomen as from flatulence.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Painful sensitiveness of abdomen and region of bladder.

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

{{anchor:s75}}Frequent discharge of very fetid flatus.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Diarrhea, stool very offensive, watery, during measles, or looking black.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s77}}Stools: dark-brown or black, slimy, fluid, in frothy bubbles; very offensive; painless; involuntary (when coughing, sneezing or passing urine).</span>\\ {{anchor:s78}}Painless constipation.

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

{{anchor:s80}}Continuous, painful pressure on bladder.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Tenesmus of bladder after micturition.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Frequent calls to urinate, especially at night, with scanty or profuse discharge of pale urine.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Sanguinolent urine with a deposit of red sediment.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Violent urging to urinate, with frequent emission of pale, limpid urine, looking like water. <span sbita>{{anchor:s85}}~</span> Diabetes insipidus.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s86}}Involuntary micturition, especially when coughing.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s87}}Continuous painful pressure on bladder and inability to retain urine.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}~</span> <span grade2>Enuresis nocturna.</span>\\ {{anchor:s89}}Unable to retain urine, because the amount is too large.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}Urine: increased, pale, with frequent urging; involuntary, scanty, dark-red.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s91}}~</span> <span grade3>Hydrothorax.</span>\\ {{anchor:s92}}When urinating feces escape.

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

{{anchor:s94}}Atony of cervix uteri.

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

{{anchor:s96}}Moaning, with open mouth; wheezing; rattling, with pleurisy, must sit up; short, with least exertion.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Dyspnea, cannot drink; child seizes cup eagerly, but can drink only in sips.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Difficult or embarrassed respiration.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Frequently obliged to take a deep breath, which provokes cough.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s100}}Dyspnea and stitches in chest, most distressing on inspiration.</span>\\ {{anchor:s101}}Oppression across chest, as if it were too tight.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Shortness of breath from every exertion, especially when ascending.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Difficulty of breathing, with stitches in chest when breathing and coughing.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s104}}Dry asthma for three years, and persistent panting respiration, no actual loss of breath at first; finally was obliged to get out of bed and sit at open window; could not lie on right side without bringing on oppression; drawing pain through both hypochondria; urine scanty, reddish-yellow and neutral.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s106}}Cough: dry, night and morning; short, rattling, disturbing sleep; spasmodic, from mucus in trachea, or tickling creeping sensation in chest; with headache, dyspnea, spurting of urine, stitches in chest or pain in abdomen; caused by cold drinks; during measles; after eating; from every exertion; by changing from warm to cold air.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s107}}Frequent irritation to a short dry cough in four or five shocks caused by tickling beneath thyroid cartilage.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s108}}A violent sudden cough in morning, with stitch in side with every cough, with expectoration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Cough, in morning, with profuse slimy expectoration.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s110}}Constant expectoration of mucus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s111}}Cough in morning, with copious expectoration of thin, frequently reddish-colored mucus.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s112}}The loose cough in morning is more fatiguing than the dry in evening.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s113}}Cough seems to proceed from lowest ramifications of bronchial tubes, with wheezing in lower part of lungs.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s114}}~</span> <span grade2>Bronchitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s115}}Every fit of coughing winds up with sneezing and involuntary urination.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s116}}Sputa: white or reddish mucus; sweetish, or empyreumatic or offensive in odor; in small round balls, very difficult to expectorate.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s117}}Dry spasmodic cough, brought on by taking a deep inspiration, causing pain in abdomen as from a shock and sensation as if intestines would burst out through abdomen, with retching, stitches in sides, pressure upon bladder and involuntary escape of urine; white, slimy, often sweetish-tasting expectoration in morning; none in evening; rattling of mucus before onset of paroxysm.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s118}}~</span> <span grade2>Pertussis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s119}}Cough less troublesome in daytime, yet somewhat spasmodic and with whooping, but every night at 11 o'clock, or between 11 and 3 o'clock she has a sudden attack of suffocation; it is very severe and compels her to spring to her feet and stand on tiptoe on her bed, stretching her body and arms upward in her agony; she cannot gain her breath for many seconds; anxiety and fear is extreme; at length the breath returns, with a whooping sound on inspiration; this is soon followed by a milder attack; the rest of the night is comparatively quiet; but drinking of cold water always brings on severe cough.</span>

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

<span grade4>{{anchor:s121}}Stitches in chest, especially when inhaling and coughing; in sides of chest; pleurisy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s122}}Compressive pain in right side of chest, ending in a stitch.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Broad pressive stitches beneath last ribs of both sides.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s124}}On inspiration, jerking stitches in right and left sides of chest, not far from sternum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s125}}Stitches in left and right true ribs, at same time.</span>\\ {{anchor:s126}}Drawing stitch from last true rib to shoulder.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s127}}Broad blunt stitches in last ribs of left side, in morning in bed, that awakened him.</span>\\ {{anchor:s128}}A contracting stitch in left side, just beneath last ribs.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Drawing pain in chest.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Sharp stitches in scapular end of clavicle during inspiration and expiration.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Severe stitches near sternum, extending downward so that he could with great difficulty get his breath.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s132}}Pains in chest agg. in morning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s133}}Heaviness on chest; congestion of blood to chest.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s134}}Chronic catarrh, profuse secretion of tenacious white mucus, which is only expectorated after severe cough; especially in children.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s135}}Circle of size of palm of hand, dull on percussion, in chest of a young lady.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s136}}Pneumonia right side; cough very painful; high fever; breathing short and anxious, with general anxiety; dullness over right lung on percussion, fine whistling breathing on auscultation; in some places no respiratory murmur; excessive dyspnea, suffering during cough making child almost frantic; could take no nourishment on account of cough not allowing him to swallow; during fits of coughing, in his agony would rub his face all over briskly with his fist.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s137}}Especially suitable in pneumonia and pleurisy, after bloodletting.</span>

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

{{anchor:s139}}Pulse small and slow, slightly hard.

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

{{anchor:s141}}Stiffness of neck.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Painful jerking above left scapula.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Painless drawing in left scapula.

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

{{anchor:s145}}Sweat in armpits.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Convulsive twitching in arms; cold hands.

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

{{anchor:s148}}Convulsive twitching of legs.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Cold foot sweat.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Sweat only on toes.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Soles red and sore when walking.

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

{{anchor:s153}}Tearing and restlessness in upper and lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Convulsive twitching and motions of limbs, agg. morning and evening and during motion.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Soreness in bends of joints.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Dull rheumatic pain; agg. when exercising, amel. while at rest.

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

{{anchor:s160}}Rest: rheumatic pains amel.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Could not lie on right side without bringing on oppression.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Raising head: pulsation in it.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Must sit up: pleurisy.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Sitting: chilliness ceases.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Motion: twitching of limbs agg.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Least exertion: short respiration; cough.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Ascending: shortness of breath.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Walking: soles red and sore; chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Exercising: rheumatic pains agg.

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

{{anchor:s171}}Frequent yawning, without sleepiness.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Restless sleep with much tossing about.

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

{{anchor:s174}}Morning: vertigo and nausea; headache; painful sensitiveness of vertex; fluent coryza; nausea during cough; dry cough; violent sudden cough in morning; cough, with profuse expectoration; loose cough, very fatiguing; stitches in ribs; pains in chest agg.; twitching of limbs agg.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Daytime; cough less troublesome.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Afternoon: great heat in body.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Toward evening: chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Evening: dry cough; sweetish expectoration; twitching of limbs agg.; great heat in body.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Night: frequent calls to urinate; dry cough; internal chill.

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

{{anchor:s181}}From warm to cold air: cough.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Aversion: to being uncovered, with heat.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Must get out of bed and sit at open window.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Cold wind: sensation as of cold water in eye.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Cold drinks: caused cough.

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

{{anchor:s187}}Chill internally at night, with external heat.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Chilliness toward evening when walking, not when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Icy-cold hands and feet, with warmth of rest of body.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Icy-cold feet.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Heat dry, burning, mostly internally.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Heat of whole body, with cold hands and feet, with aversion to being uncovered; face pale after heat.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Sensation of great heat in body, in afternoon and evening, generally with cold feet.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Whenever he uncovers himself during heat, he suffers from chilliness and pain.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Sweat wanting.

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

{{anchor:s197}}Alternating: nausea in pit of stomach, with pain in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Every night at 11 o'clock or between 11 and 3: sudden attacks of suffocation.\\ {{anchor:s199}}For three years: dry asthma.

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

{{anchor:s201}}Right: pain in forehead; compressive pain, side of chest; blunt stitch in last ribs; pneumonia, dullness over lung.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Left: eye smaller than right; pain back of ear; stitch in side; jerking above scapula; drawing on scapula.\\ {{anchor:s203}}From left to right: pain in occiput.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Right and left: stitches in side of chest; stitches in true ribs at same time.

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

{{anchor:s206}}Eyes as if swimming in water; nostrils as if sore; as if diarrhea would set in; as if chest were too tight; as if intestines would burst through abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Pain: in abdomen; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Tearing pain: back of left ear; in upper and lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Cutting pain: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Drawing lancinating pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Severe stitches: near sternum.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Sharp stitches: in scapular end of clavicle.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Jerking stitches: in right and left side of chest.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Stitches: in chest; in side; in left and right true ribs.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Contracting stitch: in left side.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Drawing stitch: from last true rib to shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Broad pressive stitches: beneath last ribs.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Broad blunt stitches: in last rib of right side.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Stitching pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Contractive pain, in both temples; in occiput.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Compressive pain: in right side of chest.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Drawing pain: through both hypochondriae; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Pressing pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Dull rheumatic pains: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Painful jerking: above scapula.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Painful pressure: on bladder.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Painful sensitiveness: of abdomen and region of bladder.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Soreness: of soles; in bends of joints.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Burning: in mouth and throat; in palate.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Great heat: in body.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Dryness: of mouth; of throat.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Pulsation: in head.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Painless drawing: on scapula.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Stiffness: of neck.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Pressure: in stomach, as from a stone.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Heaviness: on chest.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Tickling creeping sensation: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Stinging itching: under nose.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Icy-coldness: of hands; of feet.

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

{{anchor:s241}}Eruptions like itch, with burning, itching.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Excoriation in bends of limbs.

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

{{anchor:s244}}Boy, aet. 9, negro; pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Miss H., aet. 15, fleshy, light complexion, blue eyes, large for her age, recovering from varicella; affection of eye.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Man, aet. 25, suffering two weeks; phlyctenule of conjunctiva.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Widow, aet. 63, suffering three years; asthma.

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

{{anchor:s249}}Compatible: after <span grade2>Bryon.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 09, 1890 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r150|Squilla maritima]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r150|Squilla maritima]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1890 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}