Primula Veris

• ▸Cooper cured with P.
• ▸vulg.
• ▸R a case of wandering dropsy.
• ▸In a cancer case,

one dose caused the disappearance of dropsy from the leg and led to oppression at the heart.

"Pressure at heart" Cooper thinks a characteristic aggravation.

Prinos Verticillatus.

• ▸Black Alder.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Aquifoliaceze.
• ▸Tincture of the berries.
• ▸Tincture of fresh bark.

Felt remarkably well after the diarrhceic stool though had lost ten pounds in

weight.

• ▸Sensation of a band around head; cannot keen hat on (Carbol ac).
• ▸Skin of forehead tense.
• ▸Fear of falling when standing up.
• ▸Violent vertigo, as if everything turned around.
• ▸Buzzing in ears; better in open air.

Vertigo; whirling; sensation of falling backward; as if brain moved, wanted to get out

of skull; as of heavy weight on head.—Fear of falling on standing up.—Fulness and heaviness of

head.—Head hot with rush of blood to head; red spots on cheeks.—Hammer-like, boring, beating,

sometimes dull headache, in both temples, occiput, and above forehead, < r. temple in morning;

> by pressure; < stooping, movement travelling by rail; > in open air; < indoors.—Sensation as if

band across forehead and occiput; cannot keep hat on.—Tension of skin of forehead—Burning

itching of scalp, in r. temporal region and occiput.

Flies flying before eyes, violent vertigo as if everything revolving.—Burning and

pricking pains in orbital cavities.—Sensitive to light; > in darkness.

Tongue clear but imprinted with teeth, papill¢é of edges very red.—Salivation.—Dull

sensation in r. half of tongue and digestive tract.

Appetite and digestion better than usual after the liquid stools —Sensation of

commotion in stomach, not exciting nausea, ate heartily in spite of it; walking precipitated

vomiting of a little bile.

Natural stool; half an hour later, most profuse stool consisting of natural

feeces diluted with an immense quantity of greenish liquid; without pain or uneasiness; in another

hour and a half similar stool but less in quantity.

Turbid earth-coloured urine smelling of violets or of strong

urine.—Tenesmus, painful irritation of ureter.

Urine smells strongly of violets (Terebinth).

Cough, with burning and pricking in respiratory tracts. Weak voice.

Dull sensation r. side of larynx, pharynx, tongue, and digestive

tract—Cough with burning and pricking in respiratory tracts.—Voice remarkably fine, clear, and

strong, the high notes easily given out.—Sensation as if r. half of larynx stopped up.

• ▸Stiffness r.
• ▸side of neck.
• ▸—Short, intense pain beside insertion of r.
• ▸sterno-

mastoid muscle.

Burning in r. axillary joint preventing movement of r. arm > in bed, lying on

painful part—Pricking in fourth and fifth finger of both hands.—Itching in palms.—Burning in

• ▸hollow of r.
• ▸hand, in arm, esp.
• ▸in 1.
• ▸side.

• ▸Tearing in |.
• ▸leg and thigh.
• ▸—Sensation as if 1.
• ▸leg was swollen with tearing

and drawing.—Itching in 1. little toe.

• ▸Right axillary muscles painful.
• ▸Weight and lassitude in limbs, especially the shoulders.
• ▸Burning in hollow of right hand.
• ▸Drawing pain in thumb and big toe.

Febrile excitement.—Intense heat with anxiety as if fearing a stroke of

apoplexy.—Wants to get cool.—Sweat on forehead, feet and hands cold —Head hot with red spots

on cheeks.—Feet and hands sweat, rest of body cold.

Primula Vulgaris.

• ▸Primrose.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Primulaceé.
• ▸Tincture of fresh plant.

Diarrhcea. Fever.

Characteristics—The genus Prinos is very closely, allied to the hollies. "The bark of P. vertic.

is bitter, and has been used in the treatment of fever, and in the form of a lotion as an application

• ▸in cases of gangrene.
• ▸The berries are tonic and emetic "(Treas.
• ▸of Bot.
• ▸).
• ▸The only recorded

experiment with Pri. v., the effects of swallowing twenty berries, bears out the last statement: the

effect was to cause vomiting (and also an extremely profuse greenish diarrhoea); increased

appetite and tense feeling of well-being in spite of great loss of weight.

Compare: Cyclamen; Ranunc; OEnothera--Evening Primrose--(exhausting, watery diarrhoea; cholera infantum; hydrocephaloid); Primula farinosa-the wild Primrose--(dermatitis, especially on index fingers and thumbs).

Third potency.

Weight and lassitude of limbs, esp. shoulders.—Twitching in throat going to

forearm, and in great toe going to calf.