Pediculus Capitis

• ▸Pel.
• ▸ren.
• ▸(G.
• ▸M.
• ▸H.
• ▸in H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxiv.
• ▸546) is a Kafir remedy for dysentery.
• ▸The

root is cut up very fine or bruised, and then boiled in milk for a considerable time. Many British

soldiers were cured of dysentery with it in the Boer War. It is also used for purging in horses.

When a horse is attacked during a journey the root (which is very thick) is wrapped up and tied

to the bit. The juice mingles with the saliva and is swallowed.

Excessive merriment, laughs at everything.—Causeless melancholy.—Irritability,

causeless anger.—Entire carelessness about present or future.—Disposition for study; quick of

apprehension; eager for work; writes with feverish rapidity.—(Stammering improved.)

Confusion, on rising, with beating in r. temple.—Headache: with pressure on root of

• ▸nose; on orbits; with lancinations.
• ▸—Hair ceases to fall out.
• ▸—Horripilation of 1.
• ▸half of

• ▸scalp.
• ▸—Contraction of scalp.
• ▸—Sensation as if lifted up by the hair.
• ▸—Itching of scalp as if lice

were running all over it.

Rings round eyes.—Eyes: weary; smart as if from weeping.—Sight dim; brain feels

compressed.

• ▸Heat in ears.
• ▸—Roaring in ears.
• ▸—Cracking in r.
• ▸ear, when eating —Whizzing in ears

when whistling.

Face deep red, scarlet—Swelling of 1. cheek.—Lips: dry, swollen, very red; black and

cracked.

Dryness, scraping, soreness, constriction of throat——Constant swallowing of saliva.

Hunger with inability to swallow food; the pharynx feels contracted, followed by

faintness and nausea.—Constant nausea; difficult digestion with contraction in stomach.

Violent colic making her scream and weep for half an hour at 9 p.m.—Colic and

diarrhoea after dinner.

Frequent and copious discharge of yellowish green urine, with stool

almost every day (before the proving, was constipated).—Urine light yellow and very

odoriferous.

Very painful lancinations; great heat, and itching in

uterus.—Shifting pain in uterus; she cannot lean upon it, evening.—Painful stitch in

uterus.—Leucorrheea.

• ▸Dry; spasmodic cough.
• ▸—Suffocative feeling (4 to 6 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸) in chest;

which is painful to touch.—Chest pains < by contact.—Pain in breasts when drawing breath.

Bruised pain in shoulders and arms, which are very sensitive to

touch.—Hands tremble so much she cannot sew.

Great weakness of legs.—Violent lancinations above r. and 1.

patella —Throbbing in 1. patella—Ganglion under foot, very painful when walking.—Skin comes

off front of |. leg in patches.

24. Generalities—Eleven days after all symptoms had disappeared, swelling of breast, face, and

almost whole body set in, accompanied by several of symptoms of last days of proving, esp.

constriction of pharynx; > by Chi. 10, but the itching and large pimples produced by the drug

remained long after —Increased physical strength.—Jerks and startings in evening.—Numbness

while drawing breath; shuddering and rigors.—Great weariness when standing; dizziness and

faint feeling.

Red spots on cheeks; white spots on hands.—Red face, hands, feet.—Miliary pimples,

on red base and swollen in centre, at nape of neck.—Miliary eruption on inside of arms, forearms,

and thighs.—Small red pimples with black points.—A fter putting feet in hot water they are

• ▸covered with small red pimples.
• ▸—Horripilation all over.
• ▸—Itching and pricking all over.
• ▸—Itching r.

on wrists; on beard; on nape; face and scalp; backs of hands; backs and soles of feet.

• ▸Yawning.
• ▸—Drowsy.
• ▸—Restless sleep.
• ▸—Dreams: frightful; monstrous; of a hospital,

full of vermin; amorous; confused; of being pursued.

Coldness with rigors.—Heat and dryness of extremities ——Heat: head burning hot,

face bright red; of hands.—Sweat of face.—Sweat (cold) of feet, followed by great coldness.

Pelargonium Reniforme.

• ▸Rabassum (Dutch).
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Geraniaceé.
• ▸Tincture of fresh root.

Antidoted by: Chi. (anasarca). Compare: Colic and diarrhoea after eating, Trombid.

Skin, Pso., Sul.