Oenanthe Crocata

There is a proving recorded by T. Riker Nute on a woman who took on two

occasions—(/) a teaspoonful, (2) 30 drops of the liquid extract for the relief of a wearisome

feeling of mental and physical oppression, and on each occasion, notably the first, distinct

poisoning symptoms were developed. A kind of general paralysis of mental and bodily forces

was induced, and at the same time copious and easy evacuations of bowels and bladder, followed

by relief of the general symptoms. It is in effortless diarrhea that Gnoth. has been most

successfully used in homceopathic practice. Farrington gives the indications: Exhausting, watery

• ▸diarrhoea without effort; with nervous exhaustion; even incipient hydrocephaloid.
• ▸Hurd (4.
• ▸R.
• ▸, x.

419) cured a man, 65, who had "severe pains in his stomach after meals for over two years" with

25-drop doses of the tincture. General numbness; general warm sweat with urgent desire to

micturate; > after evacuation of bowels and bladder, are noteworthy symptoms.

Violent vertigo preventing movement; numbness and prickling of entire

surface, nearly driving her mad; severe rigors and cramps; desire to be covered, rubbed, and have

a warm drink.—Dizziness with weakness in limbs, fluttering about heart, with numbness and

prickling on skin, griping under umbilicus, all passes off with free action of bowels and copious

discharge of urine.

• ▸Pains all over head, dizzy.
• ▸Sudden and complete unconsciousness.
• ▸Furious delirium, giddiness.
• ▸Countenance livid, eyes fixed, pupils dilated,

convulsive twitching of facial muscles, trismus, foaming at mouth, locked jaws. Much yawning. Tendency to cry over little things.

Light-headed.—Violent vertigo with swimming sensation.—Dizziness with weakness

of limbs and fluttering about heart, > by free action of bowels and copious discharge of urine.

Rapid, convulsive twitching of muscles of the face.—Face: livid and turgid, pale and

• ▸cold; ghastly; anxious.
• ▸—Risus sardonicus.
• ▸—Lips blue.
• ▸—Bloody froth issuing from mouth and

nostrils.—Trismus; jaws rigidly closed.—Rose-coloured spots on face.

Convulsive movement of teeth—Tongue half bitten through.—Tongue: sore and

swollen; and protruded; slightly furred; raw at tip; ulcerated at edges; clean, moist,

trembling —Foaming at mouth; bloody mucus.—Excoriation; inflammation; blisters —Mouth dry

and parched.—Loss of speech.

Pressure on throat gives pain; it is sore when he swallows.—Violent constriction and

burning in the throat —Pharyngitis.—Ssophagitis.—Power of swallowing lost.

Total loss of appetite, with debility.—Thirst; craves cold drinks, evening —Cannot

bear to drink anything hot.

Constant and continued eructations, strongly flavoured by the plant.—Distressing

• ▸hiccough.
• ▸—Cardialgia.
• ▸—Nausea and vomiting.
• ▸—Nausea, > if vomiting occurs.
• ▸—Vomited in their

fits Vomiting and diarrhsa——Vomit: clear watery liquid; blood.—Obstinate vomiting, continued

for days, not > by anything.—Heat; biting heat; burning in stomach and epigastrium.—Tenderness

at stomach.—Burning heat at throat and stomach with disturbed intellect.

Cramps in muscles of extremities and abdomen, with a wringing, twisting pain

beneath umbilicus.

Pressing desire to evacuate bowels, and a copious, consistent, and

apparently natural stool promptly evacuated, without least pain or muscular effort; three hours

later another, and still another about midnight.

With the appearance of a warm perspiration over entire surface came an

urgent desire to micturate; passed without effort a large quantity of light-coloured, bland,

unirritating urine; an hour later again passed water freely; and again 9 p.m., and after midnight.

Tickling cough, with rattling in the lower part of the chest, and thick, frothy expectoration. Heavy, spasmodic, stertorous breathing.

Convulsive respiration; breathing laboured, hurried, stertorous, short;

interrupted by constant sighing and convulsive cough; hardly perceptible-—Spasm of

diaphragm.—Burning and constriction in larynx.—Cough for four or five days, < at night, excited

by tickling at top of throat; during cough rattling in lower chest; sputa thick, heavy, white and

yellow, adheres to vessel, a little frothy, copious; aching pain in |. side of thorax, < from deep

inspiration, > from deep pressure.—Expectoration: reddish; bloody; white; frothy.

Lungs hyperémic; hepatised in spots.—Pleuritic exudation.—Chest firmly

• ▸fixed.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸side under the ribs.
• ▸—Pain in breast.

Pain in region of heart.—Pulse: small, feeble, irregular, scarcely

perceptible; accelerated before the fit.

Pain along spinal column.—Intense action of dorsal and lumbar muscles;

opisthotonos.

Arms flexed at elbow in a right angle —Rapid convulsive twitchings of

muscles of hands.—Hands clenched during tetanus.—Irritation of arms and hands with sharp

lancinating pains.—Neck bluish.

Pain along tract of sciatic and crural nerves, commencing in spinal

column.—Cramps in calves.—Legs stretched straight out.

• ▸Convulsions; opisthotonos.
• ▸Pain along crural and sciatic nerves, commencing in back.
• ▸Cold hands and feet.
• ▸Numbness of hand and foot.

• ▸Compare.
• ▸In diarrhoea, Ipec.
• ▸, Gnaphal, Nuphar.
• ▸In > from copious urination, Ign.
• ▸,

• ▸Gels.
• ▸In > after stool, Bry.
• ▸, Colch.
• ▸, Colo.
• ▸, Crot.
• ▸, Oxyt.
• ▸, Rhus, Spi.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Paralytic symptoms,

Gels.

Compare: Cicuta; Kali brom.

First to sixth potency.