Lamium Album

Lapathum is the old name of the Docks now generally named Rumex. The

word is of Greek origin and signifies, according to Gerarde, "to soften, ease, or purge the belly,"

and the name was given to "herbs used in pottage and medicine, very well known to have the

• ▸power of cleansing.
• ▸" Lapath.
• ▸was proved by Widenhorn.
• ▸It produced some rather severe

headaches and nosebleed. (Hansen says it is indicated in epistaxis following headache.) Weight

in stomach. Pain in kidneys with pressure from without inwards. Weak feeling in genital parts;

leucorrhoea with uterine bearing down and pain in kidneys.

Headache at vertex; as after intoxication.—Pressive headache, in morning; it seems as

though the head were swollen.

Hawking up of thick mucus of an acid taste, which is detached from bottom of

gullet.

• ▸Feeling of distension in 1.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Extension and pressure, esp.
• ▸in

morning, with prostration and emission of flatulence —Drawings in |. hypochondrium.—Pain in

kidneys for five hours, with pressure from without inwards.

Urgent want to urinate, with very scanty emission.—Discharge of serum

from the urethra.

Weak feeling in internal genital parts ——(Leucorrhceal flow for five

or six days very copious, thick, whitish, with constriction and expulsive efforts from top to

bottom of the womb, and pains in the kidneys.—This symptom is put in brackets and at the same

time italicised by Allen.)

Voice weak and faltering, as from mental agitation —Want of breath

when speaking, with weakness of the chest.—Anxious pressure on chest, with nausea.

Torpor and crawling numbness of back of hand, and of the fleshy part of

thumb, < by touch, with painful sensation of rawness in the parts on moving the hand.—Tearing

and drawing in fingers.

Intermitting drawing, pressive tearing on lower posterior muscles of r. thigh

(while sitting).—Blister on heel from slight rubbing, afterwards bursting and changing to an ulcer

with smarting and biting.

Smarting and stinging in the ulcer (< in evening when lying) with redness and

swelling around it, and smarting early in morning in bed.—Ulcers, with pain as from excoriation,

and shootings.

Excessive coldness in feet, as well inside as outside, so that it was almost impossible

to warm them.

• ▸Rumex c.
• ▸and Rheum (botan.
• ▸—Phytolacca is a near ally); Sep.
• ▸, Lil.
• ▸t.
• ▸; kidney ache,

Santal.

Third potency.