Magnolia Grandiflora

In his Handbook Allen gives a full pathogenesis of Mg/. grand. It produces

bruised and constrictive and rheumatic pains in various parts, and particularly the joints. Pains

rapidly change their place or alternate. Alternating pains between spleen and heart. The

rheumatic action of the drug is particularly manifested in the chest and heart. A marked action

was developed in the female sexual sphere, and an inter-menstrual flow was observed. Allen

gives as indications for it: Rheumatic pain in clavicles. Crampy pain in heart, alternating with

lancinations. Pain in heart with suffocative constriction of throat. Aortic aneurism, crampy pain

in heart, dry cough, nausea, with vertigo and angina pectoris. Rheumatic pains in back,

especially when alternating with similar pains in different parts. Muscular rheumatism of left

arm.

Apprehensiveness; that she will die-—Nervous, easily frightened, illusions and

hallucinations of sight, with sharp pains in eyes.—Repugnance to all occupation.—Ill-humour;

• ▸with burning in hands.
• ▸—Sadness.
• ▸—Uneasiness.
• ▸—Confusion; and dulness.
• ▸—Memory weak; lost.

Vertigo: in evening, > going to bed, with goneness at stomach; with flushing of face;

with dislike for physical labour; beginning with blurring of sight; as from seasickness; causing

loss of appetite —Lancinations in head: <1. side; after eating; and in r. ear—Headache: with

griping in abdomen; with flushes of heat; congestive, throbbing.—Pain in temples: on bending

• ▸forward; in 1.
• ▸temple —Migraine.
• ▸—Pain in occiput and upper dorsal region.
• ▸—Pain in occiput as

from a blow.—Weight in occiput.

Pain in eyes: from sunlight; sharp, with nervousness and with visions.—Lids heavy

sensation in lids as after weeping. —Vision weak; blurred.

• ▸Lancinations in 1.
• ▸ear travelling to shoulder.
• ▸—Pain: in r.
• ▸ear; in morning; sharp in L.
• ▸;

sharp, travelling to throat.

Lancinations in jaw-joints.—Pain in r. side; in joints; < pressure, also impeding opening

of mouth.—Sharp pain going to ear.

Fauces red.—Pain in throat on turning head; waking him frequently at

night—Constriction < r. side; < bending forward.—Burning; and dryness; with pain in pit of

stomach and often extending to abdomen; preventing sleep.—Sensation of mucus, with fruitless

attempts to remove it.—Difficult swallowing; of saliva.

Sensation as from hunger, with acidity —Nausea in morning on rising, > by

breakfast.—Nausea as from tobacco.—Pain in stomach: as from languor; with griping in

intestines; extending to hypochondria; as from a blow; rapid, pulsating, and in 1. side of

abdomen; burning, extending to chest—Emptiness; with general lassitude, vertigo, and nausea.

Flatulence.—Griping; with ineffectual desire for stool.—Pain in abdomen: from

pressure; with diarrhoea; in hypochondria, with suffocation; alternately in spleen and

heart.—Contusive pain in liver and spleen, extending to stomach.—Pain in hypogastrium; in 1.

groin.—Lancinations in liver and spleen.

Congestion of 1. ovary, with pain extending to 1. thigh —Thick

white or yellow leucorrhcea, with straining when urinating, also with constipation.—Bloody flow

in interval between menses.—Menses delayed; pale and scanty; of coagulated blood for two days,

then normal; painful——Before menses: pain in small of back, hypogastrium and thighs, with

headache, flushes of heat to face, nausea, and chill.

Hoarseness.—Dry cough during the day, > night by going to

bed.—Suffocation: when walking fast; when lying on I. side; after a meal, with desire for

stretching with uneasiness; in paroxysms.

• ▸Oppression of chest with inability to expand the lungs.
• ▸Feeling of a large bolus of food which distressed the stomach.
• ▸Suffocated feeling when walking fast or lying on left side.
• ▸Dyspnoea.
• ▸Crampy pain in heart.
• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Endocarditis and pericarditis.
• ▸Tendency to faint.
• ▸Sensation as if heart had stopped beating.
• ▸Pains around heart accompanied by itching of the feet.

Stitches in sides of chest; in r. side.—Pain: with emptiness of stomach and lassitude;

with suffocation and headache; in r. side, with suffocation; rheumatic, in r. clavicle; rheumatic,

in r. side, then in heart, causing fear of death, with general coldness; contusive, with headache;

• ▸erratic, in sides.
• ▸—Constriction as from a band just beneath axilla.
• ▸—Tired feeling.
• ▸—Stiffness of

sides of chest; as from exposure to a draught when over-heated.

Stitches; waking him frequently.—Pain in heart: morning on rising; in morning on

deep breathing; when lying on 1. side; on deep breathing; with fear; with lassitude; with itching

of feet; extending to back; acute; alternating with pain in |. shoulder; rheumatic, and in 1.

shoulder.—Soreness after disappearance of pain.—Sensation as if heart had stopped

beating.—Pulse weak and frequent.

Weight in neck with tiredness of spine.—Stiffness of neck, and contusive

• ▸pain; stiffness and tiredness, and in back.
• ▸—Stitches in r.
• ▸side of back.
• ▸—Pain in back: and in left

side of chest; in dorsal and sacral regions; burning; tingling burning, as from over-exertion of

arms; sharp, in sacrum; sharp, in lumbar region.—Tiredness impeding motion.

• ▸Pain in |.
• ▸upper arm with weakness.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸shoulder extending to heart;

• ▸from I.
• ▸shoulder to 1.
• ▸ear—Stinging in arms.
• ▸—Arms weak.
• ▸—Rheumatic pains in

wrists.—Uneasiness in hands, compelling constant rubbing.—Sharp pain in metacarpal joint of r.

thumb.

Stiffness of lower limbs.—Rheumatic pains: in thigh, with uneasiness in I.

leg; in 1. knee; in tibia; in soles.—Pain: in hip; in thighs, morning on rising, > noon, with

tiredness.—Legs tired as after running.

24. Generalities—Contusive pains in all parts Rheumatic pains in different parts, > morning

• ▸by rising.
• ▸—Pricking in whole body.
• ▸—Soreness, > by exercise.
• ▸—Heaviness as from want of

sleep.—Weakness, with loss of consciousness as to actions, defective hearing and sensation as if

everything were at a great distance.—Debility, with loss of appetite, also with burning in hands

and feet—Aversion to motion; to going out—Stiffness from slightest exposure to draught of

damp air.—Stiffness: > in dry weather; causing sleeplessness, with pain in heart and

apprehension.—Cardiac and rheumatic pains generally > in morning, sometimes after rising; > of

pain in dry weather.

• ▸Stiffness and sharp erratic pains; worse in joints.
• ▸Feet itch.
• ▸Numbness in left arm.
• ▸Rheumatic pain in clavicles.
• ▸Shooting in all limbs.

Yawning during the day, with sleepiness.—Sleepless early in morning.—Extravagant

dreams.

Chill in afternoon, then fever lasting into night.—Erratic chill —Heat: with burning in

throat and headache; flushing, with sweat; of hands; hands and feet; upper limbs.

• ▸Aneurism.
• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Inter-menstrual flow.
• ▸Rheumatism.

Vertigo.

• ▸Compare: Megl.
• ▸gl.
• ▸, Illic.
• ▸anis.
• ▸(botan).
• ▸In rheumatism, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸, Kalm.
• ▸Inter-menstrual

• ▸haemorrhage, Ham.
• ▸, Bovist.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸, Elaps.

Compare: *Rhus; Dulcam; Aurum

Third potency.

Sharp, erratic or rheumatic pains.—Lancinations anteriorly in elbows, and in

popliteal spaces.—Sprained pains in joints.—Limbs tired stiff.