Juncus Effusus

Juncus was proved by Dr. Wahle, and a number of symptoms were produced.

The most notable were bubbling sensations in various parts; and a number of pains pressive and

sticking were noted in the chest. Pulling in cervical vertebr¢; in neck muscles. There was much

rumbling of flatus in abdomen, and marked > to abdominal symptoms when flatus was emitted.

According to Jahr, quoting Noack and Trinks, Junc. is diuretic, and has been used in dropsical,

calculous, and renal diseases. Hartmann used J. conglomeratus with success in dysury,

• ▸strangury, and ischury.
• ▸In Livonia a decoction of J.
• ▸pilosus is used for stone and gravel.
• ▸The

exact preparation used in the proving was not recorded. Fresh plant tinctures should be used in

any further experiments. The pains were < on |. side; appeared or were < at night and came on

again in morning and evening. < Flexing parts; < bending sideways; > stretching out arm.

Rheumatic pains < by rest, > by motion. Chilliness < on uncovering; > emission of flatus.

Anxiety in morning, during a partial slumber, like the orgasm of blood, with frequent

palpitation so that he was obliged to sit up, when it disappeared.

Vertigo: as if everything were turning in a circle during rest; with nausea while

walking.—Pressive drawing headache, extending from before backward.—Pressing-asunder

headache, in forehead, on stooping, on rising up in bed in morning, a burrowing pain as in

suppuration in forehead and occiput, which immediately disappears on lying down

• ▸again.
• ▸—Bubbling sensation in r.
• ▸side of occipital bone, which extends to r.
• ▸ear, where it leaves a

dull, pressive sensation.

Stopped catarrh; feels like sneezing.—Itching on inner surface of 1. nostril—Dry

coryza.

Sticking-itching pain above |. corner of mouth, as if a splinter sticking into it,

morning.—Bubbling sensation in r. jaw-joint, leaving swollen feeling in the parts.

Throat dark and scrapy.—Pressure in throat during swallowing, as if tonsils

swollen.—Hawks much yellow mucus without coughing.—Painful laming, drawing, stretching,

and pulling in neck muscles.

Constant rumbling, obliges him to go to stool, but no stool follows, only

emission of flatulence.—Sharp stitch extending deep inward above crest of ilium, taking away

breath —Unusual feeling of relief of abdominal symptoms after emission of flatulence.

Tension in urethra with sensation as of something alive in it.—Slight

itching; burning in urethra.—Urine: like clay-water deposits red sediment.

Violent pressive pain in lower chest, < on expiration and by bending body

• ▸sideways.
• ▸—Sticking commences in I.
• ▸third false rib extending to r.
• ▸nipple.
• ▸—Pain as if lower

sternum were pressed inwards.

Pressive drawing in cervical vertebré as if it would draw head to

r.—Drawing and pulling in dorsal vertebré as if he would be bent backward; frequently

repeated.—Aching pain in small of back, causing an anguish, or attended with asthma.

Dull sticking pain in I. axilla, evening in bed.—Visible twitching of deltoid

muscles.—Pressive paralytic pain in head of r. elbow, gradually disappears on stretching out arm,

but renewed immediately on flexing it.—Painful burrowing in bones of wrist, during both rest

and motion.

While walking, stiffness in r. hip as if tendons too short.—Twitching in 1.

gluteal muscles, as if something alive beneath them.—Very painful drawing in bones of lower

legs, during rest, > on motion.—Bubbling and drawing in muscles of calves.—Bubbling pain in

• ▸bones of |.
• ▸lower leg.
• ▸—Itching and jerking in knee.
• ▸—Tension in tendo Achillis as if swollen and

too short, on bending |. foot forwards.

Itching, crawling in scar of incised wound several years old, with elevation of scar as

if it would break out.—Itching on penis, scrotum, thighs, knees.

Wakes very early, cannot sleep again.—Dreams of hunting; of jests; laughs aloud in

his sleep.

Chilliness over whole body, immediately on getting out of bed in

morning.—Becomes chilly over whole body on raising bed covering and allowing a little air to

come to the feet—Repeated shivering.

• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Backache.
• ▸Calculus.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Kidney,

diseases of. Rheumatism. Scars, affections of.

Compare. Rhus (< rest, and uncovering; > stretching); Berb. (bubbling sensations);

Sil. (scars).

Tincture, and first potency.