Lonicera Xylosteum

• ▸Goullon of Weimar contributed to Zeit.
• ▸des Berl.
• ▸Ver.
• ▸H.
• ▸A.
• ▸(translated in Rev.

Hom. Belge, January, 1897), a notable article on "Zhe Influence of the Moon on the Human

Organism," in which he mentions, among other interesting facts, that somnambulism is a lunar

effect; that worm affections are most troublesome at the full moon, and that goitre diminishes,

more or less, during the waning moon. On this fact is based the following Spongia-Luna

treatment, which he calls "infallible": Cut slices of sponge of the size of a finger. Grill them at a

candle flame till they are brittle at the centre but still elastic at the borders. Triturate the whole

and put 7 or 8 grams into half a litre (rather less than a pint) of rain-water or river-water. The

bottling must be done three days before the new moon. Close the bottle and put it in a cellar,

taking care to shake it once every day. Three days before the full moon the patient commences to

take a tablespoonful night and morning. The greater part of the bottle will be finished during the

waning moon. [Spongia, I may interpolate, is one of the remedies having < at full moon. ]

Goullon quotes the following remarkable case of somnambulism from the Cercle Médical: "A

youth of fifteen, in good health in other respects, had been withdrawn from his apprenticeship,

on account of his nightly promenades on roofs, and put in a private asylum. Although his room

was oriented so that no actual moon-rays could reach, it, the moon nevertheless exercised a

potent influence upon him. As soon as it reaches the horizon he gets out of bed, and carefully,

with closed eyes, moves towards a window, so high that he has to jump in order to reach and

open it. As it is barricaded with an iron trellis he gets down, and, crossing the corridor, goes to

the outer door, above which is a window. With cat-like agility he climbs up to this, when he is

seized by three warders, who take him back to his room, where, only after the moon has set, can

he lie down and go to sleep. In the morning he remembers nothing. At full moon the symptoms

are still more extraordinary." Among other maladies notably influenced by the moon is epilepsy,

and epilepsy < at full moon generally needs Silic. Skin diseases, according to Menuret, are

frequently influenced by the moon. He instances a case of eczematous affection which increased

with each waning moon, and was at its maximum intensity at the new moon, when it covered the

whole face and chest, and was accompanied by unbearable itching. Then there was gradual

improvement and the face became smooth, but scarcely had the full moon passed than all began

again. Scabies and worm affections are < at full moon. Nervous affections, especially in subjects

of sycosis, are frequently influenced by the moon. Moritz Hoffmann observed a young girl

(daughter of an epileptic mother) whose whole body became swollen at every new moon, the

swelling disappearing as the moon waned. [One of Swan's cases cured by Luna presented these

symptoms: Excessive oedema of face, neck, and hands, with neuralgic pain in the swollen parts. ]

Mead tells of a child who was subject to convulsions at each waning moon. Gale remarked that

with weakly persons there are two epochs at which excitability is most pronounced—the new

moon and the full moon. Goullon quotes these words of Arago, which show that he had a proper

estimation of the limits of physical analysis: "A deeper research is needed, for there is nothing to

show that it is the light of the moon which is its only efficient agent. It must further be remarked

that the nervous system, according to a large number of reports, constitutes an instrument far

more delicate than the most subtle apparatus of actual physics. And, in fact, who does not know

that the olfactory nerve detects in the air the existence of odorous particles of which chemical

analysis cannot reveal the smallest trace?" The moon-rays have been treated as other

"Imponderables" (see under Magnetis Poli, &c.) and attenuations prepared. Swan communicated

• ▸to H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xviii.
• ▸469, a proving of Luna 1m.
• ▸made on a lady physician, Dr.
• ▸S.
• ▸J.
• ▸W.
• ▸The prover

was menstruating at the time the proving was commenced, but was otherwise in good health.

Repeated doses were taken for two days. The effects lasted four weeks. The majority of the

symptoms were observed in the generative sphere, the head and the lower limbs. The pains were

> in open air; > by cold-application; > by eructations and by passing flatus from vagina. < After

sleep; < from milk. Swan appends to his article some clinical observations. These symptoms will

be found in the Schema in brackets.

Irritability on being spoken to——Wants to be let alone.—Mind not clear.—Disinclined

• ▸for mental or physical labour.
• ▸—Sad, depressed.
• ▸—Mental faculties, esp.
• ▸ability to receive, retain,

and express ideas, are most powerfully affected by the full rays of the moon in tropical countries;

the influences being most felt the day before the full moon.

(Excessive cedema of face, neck, and hands, with neuralgic pains in the

swollen parts.)

Congestion of head and chest; coma. Contraction of one pupil and dilatation of the other. Sopor, eyes half open red face.

Slight giddiness, with slight bitter taste 1. side of tongue, with increased saliva —While

reading, sharp pain just above root of nose, followed instantly by pain in |. temple, then general

headache (15 minutes); pain in |. temple returns later (half-hour after third dose); also deep

burning, scraping pain in |. upper frontal bone, temporarily > by eating; later > by a walk in open

air.—Pain in occiput, changing to lame feeling on retiring, and preventing turning in bed with

• ▸ease.
• ▸—Woke 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸with very severe headache; later drank cup of tea, which was immediately

returned, tasting sour—Headache > by magnetic passe—(Severe frontal headache during menses

• ▸speedily cured with 1m.
• ▸).
• ▸—(Congestion of blood to head with sensation of great fulness, 8 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸)

Weakness of eyes and feeling of sand < by the medicine.—Sharp stinging sensation,

• ▸leaving a smarting —(Stinging in r.
• ▸eye cured with c.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸—(Swelling of eyelids and profuse

discharge of purulent matter with a painful smarting and profuse lachrymation; without heat, or

change of colour.)

• ▸Sensation of a cold in head.
• ▸—Coryza, sneezing, and pain in occiput.
• ▸—4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸sensation

of heavy cold in head with lachrymation.—Discharge of yellowish-green mucus from nose.

Bitter taste |. side of tongue with increased flow of saliva.—Repeated later after

eighth dose, with stinging in r. eye —Recurred on waking, with faint feeling in

stomach.—Increased flow of saliva, all day.

• ▸(Is excellent in sour eructations, esp.
• ▸if tasting of ingesta.
• ▸).
• ▸—No appetite; slight

nausea.—Desires something, she does not know what.—Flatulency with burning in

stomach.—Burning < after drinking milk —Immediately ejected cup of tea during headache, the

tea tasted sour—Woke at midnight with severe heartburn and great distress in stomach; had to

get out of bed.

Colic, commencing two inches above umbilicus and seeming to pass directly

upward to stomach, causing desire to bend forward.—Faint feeling in stomach on awaking and

sensation of great distension and slight pain round umbilicus, > by eructations—Pain through

liver and spleen, 3 p.m.

Menses less free, strings of dark blood; colic pain above umbilicus

> by eructation.—Sharp pain |. side of vagina, leaving dull aching which seems to extend through

1. external parts, then grows suddenly sharper, again returning to vagina and passing through to

rectum.—Sharp pains fly from vagina through abdomen, ceasing in stomach-pit—This pain was

> later by passing flatus from vagina.—Bearing-down sensation.—Menses returned two days after

ceasing.—After returning intense itching of labia majora extending into vagina, > bathing with

cold water.—After a bath, followed by a short nap, woke suddenly with dull, heavy, dragging

pains in pelvic region, with urgent desire to urinate, and general restless, languid

feeling.—Cramp-like pains in pelvic region, as if uterus were being contracted by a strong

electric current; at intervals.—(Excessive increase of menstrual flow, amounting to hemorrhage.)

After ascending stairs, a peculiar heating sensation, beginning at lower extremity of

sternum and extending outwards, following Somewhat attachment of diaphragm on each side to

a point under each arm; at same time warm glow down arms to finger-tips; "lost in 1. (5 minutes).

On retching, peculiar feeling round heart as though it stopped beating, > by

eructations, < by lying down.—Suffocative sensation round heart.—Pulse rapid.

Sharp, quick pain in |. cervical nerve, intermittent every few

• ▸seconds.
• ▸—Sharp pain in 1.
• ▸great toe.
• ▸—Swollen feeling, and sensation as if tightly bound in r.
• ▸calf

• ▸and in hypochondria.
• ▸—Pain like growing-pain above |.
• ▸knee, > walking.
• ▸—After retiring, aching in

bones of lower limbs, with pain in lumbo-sacral region.—Great lameness in anterior tibial region

from walking.—Acrid yellow leucorrhcea through day, with backache and pain in r. ovary; great

itching, which was not > till cold wet cloth applied after retiring.

• ▸Jerking of limbs.
• ▸Trembling of whole body.
• ▸Violent convulsions.
• ▸Limbs and head fall over as if paralyzed.
• ▸Extremities cold.
• ▸Cold perspiration.

Stinging itching r. side of body as if an insect was biting the parts, felt most on foot,

leg, and forearm.

Symptoms < on waking.—Felt as if had not slept enough.—Dreams: horrible; of

death; of murder; waking in affright.

Woke 6 a.m. with severe chill, after which he had headache; felt sick and weak all

day; at night had horrible dreams of death.

• ▸Acidity.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Inter-menstrual flow.
• ▸Edema.
• ▸Physometra.

Somnambulism. Worms.

• ▸Compare: Athus.
• ▸, Mag.
• ▸c.
• ▸(< from milk).
• ▸The following medicines have relation to

the moon's phases (italics indicate those which have the relation more pronounced): < At new

• ▸moon: Alum.
• ▸, Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Bufo, Calc.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Clem.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Daph.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Saba.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸< At full

• ▸moon: Alum.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Cyc.
• ▸, Graph.
• ▸, Kal.
• ▸n.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Saba.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Spo.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Teuc.
• ▸<

• ▸During increasing moon: Arn.
• ▸, Clem.
• ▸< During waning moon: Dulc.
• ▸, Thuj.

Compare: Lonicera pericylmenum-Honeysuckle --(irritability of temper, with violent outburst (Crocus)).

Third to sixth potency.