Apium Graveolens

A proving of tincture of seeds produced the following symptoms: Unpleasant

• ▸feeling at stomach, with belchings tasting of celery.
• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Spitting up of food.
• ▸Gone feeling

at pit of stomach lasting for hours and partially relieved by eating.—Effects of eating the root:

during the following day and night, most obstinate retention of urine, which could only be

relieved by the catheter. On another person this was observed: Inability to sit still or lie still in

bed from feeling of "fidgets"; cannot keep mind from I thinking. In a proving under the direction

• ▸of W.
• ▸P.
• ▸Wesselhoeft (Med.
• ▸Advance, April, 1886) a remarkable symptom was: a dull ache in

sacrum < when lying down, > when moving about. Another symptom was "sensation as if both

eyes were sunken back into their sockets." Throbbing headaches, < by slightest motion; > by

rest, mostly left-sided. Urticaria, always appearing with shuddering; intense stinging itching with

rapid change of location. Pressure in stomach preceding urticaria, and relieved when it appears.

Toothache in left molars > by holding cold water in the mouth. Hering cured with Apium g. an

old abscess near the umbilicus. Allen mentions: "Profuse discharge from granulating ulcers,

intense constriction over sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down," as

having been cured by it.

Inability to sit still, or lie still in bed from feeling of fidgets; cannot keep mind

from thinking.

• ▸Depressed; energetic; feeling of fidgets; cannot sleep from thinking.
• ▸Headache; better eating.
• ▸Eyeballs feel sunken.
• ▸Itching in eyes.
• ▸Itching and smarting in inner canthus of left eye.

• ▸Frontal headache; over r.
• ▸eye and r.
• ▸temple; < during night—Dull pain r.
• ▸temple with

• ▸nausea.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸temple spreads over |.
• ▸side of face and top of head.
• ▸—Pain as from a jar or blow

deep in |. temporal region, a throbbing ache.—Painful throbbing < by expiring through

nose.—Headaches: > while eating; in open air; closing eyes; complete rest drinking cold water;

by hot compresses. < After eating; by light; by reading or studying; by slightest motion or

nodding head.

Tough pearl-coloured discharge from nostrils.—Sudden dropping of mucus into

• ▸posterior nares.
• ▸—Tickling in nostrils with sneezing, forenoon.
• ▸—Tickling in r.
• ▸nostril with watery

discharge and sneezing.—Nostrils stuffed, with pain in forehead.

Sore spot on tip of tongue.—Dull, sore pain on upper and lower teeth.—Toothache >

by cold water.

Soft palate and fauces sore, dark red and swollen.—Air rushing down posterior nares

hurts back of throat.

Unpleasant feeling at stomach with belchings tasting of

• ▸celery.
• ▸—Heartburn.
• ▸—Spitting up of food.
• ▸—Sore feeling at pit of stomach lasting for hours and

partially relieved by eating —Desire for oranges; for oatmeal.

Sore; sharp sticking pain as if stool was coming on; diarrhoea, sharp pain in left iliac region going over to right. Nausea increases with pains.

Three urgent well-formed stools during the day.—Before stool sharp pain

from abdomen directly into rectum, with feeling that she cannot retain stool a moment.

Sharp sticking pains in both ovarian regions, left, better bending over, by lying on left side, with legs flexed; nipples tender.

Tickling, dry cough. Intense constriction over sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down. Throat swollen, dyspnoea.

Tickling in top of windpipe causing dry cough.—Wheezing breathing

during the night—Can count heart-beats by hearing and feeling it in chest.

Muscles of back of neck painful on motion, sore to pressure —Dull pain in

• ▸sacrum with slight bellyache.
• ▸—Pain in sacrum more to |.
• ▸side extending to lumbar region.
• ▸—Pain

in sacrum > after rising from bed and moving about; < lying down.—Red, intensely itching

blotches on I. sacral region.

Growing pains in r. leg during night.—Burning on inside of thighs —Raw,

excoriated surfaces on inner thighs extending into groins, < |. side.—Red itching blotches on

inside |. foot, and outside ankle.

Itching blotches; burning, creeping sensation. Profuse discharge from granulating ulcers. Urticaria with shuddering.

Itching on all parts—Red elevated pimples like stings of insects; intense itching;

itching changes location by scratching; < after undressing in evening; during night till 4 a.m.

• ▸Unrefreshed; sleepless.
• ▸Wakes from 1 to 3 am.
• ▸Eating does not help sleep.
• ▸Not fatigued from loss of sleep.

Sleepless; not fatigued by loss of sleep.—Sleep broken by bruised pain in 1. temporal

region.

• ▸Fidgets.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Otorrhcea.
• ▸Post-nasal catarrh.
• ▸Rumination.
• ▸Toothache.

Urine, retention of. Urticaria.

First to thirtieth potency.