Penthorum Sedoides

The prophylaxis and treatment of plague with injections of more or less

modified virus of plague by old-school practioners affords evidence that the nosode of plague is

available, like other nosodes, for the treatment of cases of the disease from which it is derived.

On closing eyes, felt like floating; vertigo —Dull, heavy headache, with heat and

soreness in sacrum (cured during proving).—Catarrhal aching in forehead.—Weight in

sinciput.—Itching of hairy scalp.

Pressure and itching in eyes from reading, evening; sensation of foreign body in

eyes.—Lachrymation from reading.—Dazzling before eyes; objects wave in zigzags; reading

impossible; < candle-light.

Constant wet feeling in nose, which no amount of blowing will relieve. Discharge thick, pus-like, streaked with blood. Post-nasal catarrh of puberty.

Nasal cartilage and upper jaw painful as if bruised (only when touched); nasal cartilage

feels thinner than usual.—Persistent loss of smell.

Appetite increased.—Forcible eructation and dejections of small quantities of

odourless flatus—Disgust and nausea.

Vertical internal pain in line from tip of 1. tenth rib cartilage to anterior superior

spine of |. ilium.

Crawling in lower rectum as though a worm tried to escape.—Burning in

rectum at stool, continuing after.—Itching of anus; hemorrhoids with aching in sacrum and

sacro-iliac joint.—After being constipated, semi-fluid evacuation next morning.—Constipation; an

atonic condition of bowels and rectum.

Dull aching in kidneys.—Bladder sore to pressure.—Urine increased;

burning along urethra when micturating.—Urine alkaline.

During stool ejaculation of semen, without erection followed by

empty feeling in hypogastrium and pain in genitals as after excess; painful lassitude in legs, then

pain above hips, < in sacral region.

(Connected with wet feeling in nose) wet feeling in trachea and

bronchi; passing from above down, as if a coryza would set in, followed by a slight feeling of

constriction, which passed from above down through chest.—In morning a cough (dry, "as

though he would cough his insides out") from deep in chest, with soreness throughout chest.

During dinner stinging pain under false ribs, as from a sharp point, also under

scapuleze.—Severe deep-seated prickings above |. nipple.

Aching through basilar region from back to front—Aching in sacrum and

sacro-iliac joint.—Heat in sacrum with headache (cured).

Wrists sprain easily.—Fatiguing pains in both wrists, and at same time in

feet.

• ▸Vertical lancinations in r.
• ▸thigh.
• ▸—Pain in both knees and r.
• ▸ankle.
• ▸—Pricking

and lancinations, numbness, stiffness of legs.—Itching and sharp pains under great toenails.

Obstinate, intolerable itching on different parts of body, pimples appear.—Sudden

local itching.

Pestinum.

Plaguinum. Nosode of Plague. Trituration of the virus.

Dreams: fantastic; voluptuous and increased desire sympathetic with urinary

excitement.

A very few cold chills rushed in succession up spinal column.

Pepsinum.

A proteolytic ferment found in the gastric juice. The Pepsin in general use is extracted from

the stomach of the pig. [Alcohol, tannin, and the alkaline carbonates destroy its power. It is

prepared in granular form or in glycerinated extract for general use. Homeeopathic

attenuations maybe made by triturating the secretory layer of a fresh pig's-stomach; by

triturating the granular Pepsin with sugar of milk; or by making the lower attenuations of

the liquid extracts with distilled water.]

Compare: Amyg. (the peach is hardly distinguishable from the almond, A.

• ▸communis, botanically; almonds have been known to have fleshy drupes), Pru.
• ▸spi.
• ▸, Pru.
• ▸virg.

Compare: Penthororun often follows Pulsat. Sang; Hydr.

Not very active, and better adapted to chronic affections; its use should be persisted in for some time. Lower potencies.