Sabadilla

Asagrca is a Mexican genus belonging to the Colchicum family, Melanthaceé.

It has only one species, A. officinalis, which furnishes the Cebadilla seeds from which Veratrine

• ▸is prepared.
• ▸The seeds were formerly used to destroy vermin (Treas.
• ▸of Bot.
• ▸).
• ▸Saba.
• ▸first appears

in homsopathic literature as one of Stapf's additions, Hahnemann being one of the provers.

Stapf's Additions forms a kind of appendix to the Materia Medica Pura. The plant, says Stapf,

was first described by Monaides about the year 1572. At first it was almost exclusively used for

destroying lice, and also worms in putrid ulcers and in the intestines. Stapf points out that the

provings reveal remarkable febrile symptoms. Saba., he says, is "not only specific to a certain

kind of very bad angina, and to a rare kind of pleurisy where no inflammatory fever nor thirst is

present, where the patient complains of coldness mingled with isolated flushes of heat; but also

to some forms of fever and ague, where the chilliness sets in with nausea and inclination to

vomit, recurs frequently, and sometimes alternates with flushes of heat; where the heat is more

perceptible in the face and on the hands than on the rest of the body, with absence of thirst both

in the chilly and hot stage." The same authority says that Saba. has a long period of action; the

primary symptoms develop in the first five days, then recur after the lapse of some time.

Symptoms are periodical and paroxysmal. The periodicity of Saba. may be as clock-like as that

• ▸of Cedr.
• ▸, and renders it a leading remedy in intermittent fevers and neuralgias.
• ▸Saba.
• ▸is a chilly

remedy, the symptoms, especially the coryza, being generally < in the open air. The catarrhal

symptoms are very severe, and correspond to many cases of bay asthma. I have often relieved

cases with Saba., though it does not cure the diathesis. Sore throats characterised by a sensation

of a lump or foreign body in the throat, and a constant necessity to swallow, I have frequently

• ▸cured with Saba.
• ▸Kent (Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, August, 1894) says it is suited to "old, chronic sore throats

that are < from cold air. The patient is sensitive to cold air. Every time he takes cold it settles in

his nose and throat. Tonsillitis going from left to right." The desire for hot drink distinguishes

• ▸Saba.
• ▸from Lach.
• ▸The traditional use of Saba.
• ▸as a destroyer of parasites is depicted in the

provings: "Violent itching of hairy scalp, compelling her to scratch till blood comes." "Itching of

the vertex as if a quantity of vermin had collected there, obliging him to scratch incessantly."

"Itching of anus and rectum as from ascarides." "Itching of anus alternating with itching of al¢é

nasi and meatus auditorius." Kent gave Saba. to a pet dog which had great irritation of anus, and

soon afterwards he passed a very large number of worms. Saba. has an extreme amount of

giddiness in its pathogenesis; it may cause staggering and even fainting. Objects seem to whirl

round, or to whirl round each other. Stapf had "Vertigo early in the morning after rising." After a

dose of Saba. in high potency I astonished myself by falling back on the bed with giddiness on

rising the following morning. Among the characteristic mental symptoms are: Tendency to be

startled. Erroneous impressions as to the state of his body. Imaginary diseases: imagines parts

• ▸shrunken, &c.
• ▸; if there is distension from flatus imagines she is pregnant, &c.
• ▸Saba.
• ▸is intolerant

of mental exertion; thinking = headache. Digestion is disordered and the tongue loaded, sinking

at stomach and gnawing hunger. Saba. corresponds to many forms of indigestion, including that

incident to pregnancy. Peculiar Sensations are: As if things were turning around each other. As

if she would fall if she did not hold on to something. As if eyes went round with the whirling

• ▸sensation.
• ▸Lips as if scalded.
• ▸Tongue as if full of blisters.
• ▸As if uvula were down.
• ▸As if Ssophagus

• ▸would be closed.
• ▸As of a body in throat which he must swallow down.
• ▸As of a lump in throat.
• ▸As

if a morsel of food had lodged in throat. As of a worm in Ssophagus. As if a sore spot was

pressed upon. As of a lump in abdomen. As if a ball of thread were moving and turning rapidly

through abdomen. As if knives were cutting abdomen. As if abdomen were shrunken; were

• ▸empty.
• ▸Croaking as of frogs in abdomen.
• ▸As of something alive in abdomen.
• ▸As if stomach were

• ▸gnawed.
• ▸As of a thread or string in throat.
• ▸As if throat were tied with a string.
• ▸As if articulation

were suspended. As if tape prevented circulation in chest. As if interior of bones were scraped

out with a sharp knife. As if hot breath came out of his mouth and nose. As if everything were in

• ▸motion.
• ▸As if the air itself were in tremulous motion.
• ▸As if he had taken wine.
• ▸Shaking as if in a

severe chill. As if something sharp in throat. As if a soft body in throat must be constantly

swallowed. Pressure on larynx = throat sore. Scratching > itching of scalp; = burning of anus.

Lying perfectly still > vertigo. Lying down = cough immediately, < expectoration. Sitting <

• ▸vertigo.
• ▸Rising from seat vertigo.
• ▸Opening mouth wide = cracking of jaw-joint.
• ▸Walking vertigo

and afterwards headache; pain in stomach. Getting into sweat when walking < itching of scalp. >

• ▸Afternoon.
• ▸Chill 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸< Morning; and evening.
• ▸Gastric symptoms < morning.
• ▸< At new or full

moon; at regular periods. Alternating: canine appetite and disgust for meat and sour things;

thirstlessness and bulimia with aversion to food. Hot drinks: < toothache; mouth intolerant of;

craved in sore throat, more easily swallowed. Cold < all symptoms; < cough. Cold drinks <

toothache. Walking in cold air < toothache. Open air: > vertigo; feels > in; = lachrymation and

• ▸spasmodic sneezing.
• ▸Warm stove > chilliness.
• ▸When over-heated itching of scalp <.
• ▸Mental

• ▸exertion <.
• ▸Fright = hysterical paroxysms.
• ▸< From wine.
• ▸Saba.
• ▸is suited to: Persons of light hair,

fair complexion, with a weakened, relaxed muscular system. Children. Old people.

Nervous, timid, easily startled. Has erroneous notions about himself. Imagines that he is very sick; that parts are shrunken; that she is pregnant; that she has cancer; delirium during intermittents.

Uneasiness and anguish, with great agitation Disposition to be frightened.—Startled

• ▸by noises.
• ▸—Hysteric paroxysms after fright.
• ▸—Ill-humour and passion.
• ▸—Dislike to

• ▸labour.
• ▸—Rage.
• ▸—Difficulty in thinking.
• ▸—Thinking = headache.
• ▸—Delusions of the imagination

with respect to oneself; the body seems to be collapsed, like that of a corpse, the stomach to be

eaten away, &c.—Imaginary diseases.

[Intermittent complaints which come every week, or two weeks, or four

weeks apart.—Esp. suited for children who are disposed to worms; worms discharged with stool,

whether lumbrici or tapeworms.—Sweetish taste.—No thirst during chill; heat often

internal.—Troubles appearing on the r. side; on toenails —Sensation of knocking, throbbing, or

pulsation in the outer parts; great sleepiness in the forenoon.—< in forenoon; before midnight;

from cold in general; while resting. —> From moving; while swallowing something; while getting

warm; from warmth in general.—Many complaints appear, esp. during the new and full

• ▸moon.
• ▸—H.
• ▸N.
• ▸G.
• ▸].
• ▸—Pricking, pressive, and dull lancinations in different parts.
• ▸—Tingling in the

limbs.—Twitchings, convulsive tremblings, or catalepsy from worms.—Nervous diseases from

worms or deeply seated abdominal irritation. —Great debility; in intermittents; paralytic debility

in pleuritis—Convulsions.—Heaviness of tread and of movements generally.—Lassitude and

heaviness in all limbs, < evening, or towards noon, at which times the pains in the limbs are also

<.—In general, < at same hour every day.—Pains in the bones, as if caused by some one cutting

and scraping inside with a knife, esp. in the joint; < by touch, > by a quick movement of the part

affected.—The patient feels better when lying down than when walking or standing; in the open

• ▸air.
• ▸—Several symptoms appear first on the r.
• ▸and then on the |.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Great sensibility to cold air,

which < the uneasiness and pains.

• ▸Vertigo with sensation as though all things were turning around each other, accompanied by blackness before eyes and sensation of fainting.
• ▸Dullness and oppression.
• ▸Over-sensitiveness to odors.
• ▸Thinking produces headache and sleeplessness.
• ▸Eyelids red, burning. Lachrymation.
• ▸Difficult hearing.

Vertigo, with nausea, > by supporting head.—Vertigo: as if things were turning around

him; as if all things were turning round each other; in morning after rising; had to rest his head

on the table the whole afternoon to keep off the fainting; more sitting than standing; when going

to bed.—Vertigo with fainting and cloudiness of eyes (everything becomes black) on rising from

a seat_—Headache with vertigo, > while eyes are fixed steadfastly on an object, and while patient

is thinking of one subject.—Headache as if a thread had been drawn from middle of forehead to

occiput above temples, leaving a burning sensation behind.—Stupefying headache with coryza,

itching, and burning of scalp and general heat of whole body; < in forenoon.—The headache

begins in r. side, whence it extends more and more to |.—Corrosive burning point on top of

• ▸head.
• ▸—Headache with tensive pain, esp.
• ▸during intellectual labour—Headache, esp.
• ▸after every

walk; after eating.—Hemicrania with ténia.—Pressive and stupefying headache in forehead and

• ▸temples.
• ▸—Painful heaviness of head.
• ▸—Boring pains in head after taking exercise.
• ▸—Pulsative and

painful throbbing in head.—Burning, tingling, and pricking in forehead and scalp (as from

lice).—Burning, crawling itching on hairy scalp and forehead, > from scratching, < from getting

into a sweat when walking.—Forehead covered with cold sweat.

• ▸Burning smarting in eyes.
• ▸—Pressure on eyeballs, esp.
• ▸when looking up.
• ▸—Redness of

margins of eyelids —Lachrymation, esp. during exercise in open air, when looking at anything

bright, when coughing, yawning, and on feeling the slightest pain in other parts —Weakness of

sight.

Otalgia with troublesome pressure; with snapping as of electric sparks before

ears.—Tickling in ears.—Itching at anus alternately with itching at meatus auditorius

externus.—Burning itching and shootings in tips of ears.—Deafness as if there were a band over

ears.—Humming, gurgling, and detonation in ears.—Boring in parotids.

Spasmodic sneezing, with running nose. Coryza, with severe frontal pains and redness of eyes and lachrymation. Copious, watery, nasal discharge.

Itching tingling in nose and contractive smarting.—Epistaxis.—Great sensibility to

smell of garlic.—Sensitive dryness of upper part of nose.—Violent spasmodic sneezing (shaking

the abdomen, then lachrymation).—Obstruction of nostrils, alternately —Fluent coryza with

altered features and bewildered head (influenza; hay-fever).—Great masses of white and

transparent mucus are blown from nose, without coryza.—Bright red blood comes from posterior

nares and is expectorated.

Heat of face with fiery redness, esp. after drinking wine.—Blue circles round the

eyes.—Marbled and herpetic skin on the face, burning sensation, pain as from excoriation,

pricking and itching tingling in lips —Beating and jerking in muscles of 1. upper jaw, with

itching.—Boring in lower jaw and submaxillary glands —Cracking of the articulation of the jaw

on opening mouth wide.

Sensation in mouth and on tongue as if they were burnt and excoriated —Cannot bear

anything hot in mouth—Tongue feels sore as if full of blisters.—Pricking (soreness) in tip of

tongue.—Tip of the tongue bluish.—Tongue loaded with a thick yellowish coating (more in

middle and at back).—Dryness of the mouth without thirst—Copious accumulation of (sweetish)

saliva in the mouth.—Jelly-like saliva.

Toothache with drawing and pulsative pain —Shooting pains in molars.—Caries of

teeth.—Gums bluish.—Pricking in gums.

Pain in the throat as if caused by a plug or an internal swelling during deglutition

and at other times.—Constantly obliged to swallow, with pain in mouth and behind larynx as if

something lodged there, with scratching roughness; hawks constantly, < morning and during and

after eating.—Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat, must swallow over it; as if uvula

were down.—Much tough phlegm in throat, must hawk.—Feeling of constriction in the throat (in

fauces as from an astringent drink).—Can swallow warm food more easily, in sore

throat —Pressure and burning sensation in throat during deglutition and at other times.—Dryness

in throat—Roughness and scraping in throat, with continued want to swallow or to

hawk.—Inflammation of uvula.

• ▸Sore; begins on left side (Lach).
• ▸Much tough phlegm.
• ▸Sensation of a skin hanging loosely; must swallow it.
• ▸Warm food and drink relieve.
• ▸Empty swallowing most painful.
• ▸Dry fauces and throat.
• ▸Sensation of a lump in throat with constant necessity to swallow.
• ▸Chronic sore throat; worse, from cold air.
• ▸Tongue as if burnt.

• ▸Spasmodic pain in stomach with dry cough and difficult breathing.
• ▸No thirst.
• ▸Loathing for strong food.
• ▸Canine appetite for sweets and farinaceous food.
• ▸Pyrosis; copious salivation.
• ▸Cold, empty feeling in stomach.
• ▸Desire for hot things. Sweetish taste.

Taste bitter (or of a sickly sweetness).—Violent thirst for cold water, milk, or

beer, also in morning.—Hunger, with dislike to all food, esp. meat (coffee, wine, and

acids).—Bulimy esp. in morning and evening (principally for honey, pastry, and farinaceous

food).—Thirstlessness or thirst only in evening for cold water—Craves hot things, hot tea (in sore

throat).

Risings, generally empty, and sometimes with shuddering.—Painful and imperfect

• ▸risings.
• ▸—Pyrosis.
• ▸—Corrosive burning pain in stomach and Ssophagus; when walking.
• ▸—Coldness

in stomach.—Empty feeling in stomach.—Nausea with inclination to vomit, often with

shuddering, > by eating.—Nausea; with constant spitting of insipid water—Nausea, retching, and

feeling of worm in Ssophagus.—Vomiting of lumbrici.—Softness, uneasiness, and coldness in

stomach.—Digging in epigastric region, with pains as from excoriation (as if a sore spot were

pressed below pit of stomach), when pressing upon it (and on inspiration).—A frequent sudden

sensation of obstructed respiration in scrobiculus, with anxiety.—Sensation of heat in scrobiculus

and burning in stomach.

Pressive scraping in hepatic region.—Digging drawing in liver, with pain as from

excoriation when pressing upon it.—Sensation of heat in hepatic region. —Colicky pain in

abdomen as if caused by worms (or from actual worms).—Constriction in abdomen.—Turning

and twisting through whole abdomen as from a lump.—Cuttings as by knives.—Colic: with

sensation as if a ball were moving and turning through abdomen, cries out, "Oh! my bowels, they

go like a wheel"; with violent urging to stool and borborygmus; from worms.—Violent shootings

in sides of abdomen, which force the patient to bend double —Boring, digging, and rolling in

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Rumbling in abdomen, as if empty.
• ▸—Croaking as of frogs in abdomen.
• ▸—Sensation of

coldness or burning in abdomen.—Spasmodic contraction of muscles of abdomen; of |. side, with

burning pain; he bent double on |. side.—Red spots and specks on abdomen.

Constipation.—Broken, hard, scanty stools.—Very difficult stools with

much burning in abdomen and sensation as if something alive in abdomen.—Urgent want to

evacuate, with scanty evacuation—Loose brown or fermented féces, mixed with mucus and

blood (floating on the water).—Pinchings, tearing, and tingling in rectum.—Crawling in rectum

and anus as from ascarides.—Itching of anus, violent burning after scratching.—Itching of anus,

alternating with itching of nose or ear.—Discharges of worms (lumbrici, tapeworm).

Urgent want to urinate, esp. in evening, with tenesmus and scanty

emission.—Increased secretion of urine.—Turbid, thick urine, like clay-water——Burning in urethra

when urinating.

Menses too late; come by fits and starts. Intermit (Kreos; Puls). (due to transient and localized congestion of womb alternating with chronic anaemic state).

Catamenia: retarded but profuse, and of longer duration; flow by

fits and starts; painful hearing down a few days previous.—Cutting pain as from knives in ovary

(ovaritis).—Nymphomania from ascarides.

Digging and pressive pain in testes —Diminished sexual

desire.—Tensive and painful erections, without desire for coition.—Pollutions, with flaccidity of

penis.

Hot breath.—Hoarse, rough voice.—Hawking up of bright red blood,

which comes from the nasal foss¢.—Short, dry cough, also at night, provoked by a scraping in

throat —Cough dry, with perspiration and water in the eyes—Cough with vomiting, shootings in

vertex, and pain in stomach.—Dull cough, sometimes with h¢moptysis.—Cough immediately on

lying down.—Cough with expectoration and lancinations in chest.

Respiration obstructed, as if there were a stone in the chest.—Short, difficult

respiration—Wheezing respiration.—Pressure on the chest.—Burning sensation in the chest—Pain

from r. (sometimes 1.) shoulder into chest as if circulation of blood arrested by a tight bandage;

not > by unfastening dress; < in open air.—Shootings in sides of chest, esp. when drawing breath

and coughing, which disturbs the sleep at night and does not permit lying on the

• ▸side.
• ▸—(Inflammation of pleura.
• ▸).
• ▸—Red spots and points on chest.

Contusive pain in back and loins, esp. when seated.—Burning-tingling stinging

sensation between scapul¢.—Stitches in rapid succession in r. side of back.

Convulsive movements of arms.—Trembling of arms and hands.—Red spots,

bands, and points on arms and hands.—Pricking lancinations in forearms.—Dryness of skin of

hands.—Distortion of fingers.—Yellow spots on fingers ——Desquamation of skin round nails.

Shootings in thighs and knees.—Weakness and flexion of knees.—Tearing

and tension in calves of legs, also at night.—Heaviness of feet—Swelling of feet, with painful

sensibility of soles.—Profuse perspiration on soles.

Cracking of skin under and beneath toe; inflammation under toe-nails.

• ▸Dry, like parchment.
• ▸Horny, deformed, thickened nails.
• ▸Hot, burning, creeping, crawling sensation.
• ▸Itching in anus.

Parchment-like dryness of skin.—Tingling and burning shootings under skin.—Red

bands, spots, and points in different parts of skin, appearing with greatest intensity in cold air.

Great inclination to sleep during day, with continued yawning and stretching.—Sleep

retarded by a multitude of thoughts Imperfect sleep in evening, with mental fatigue from

wandering thoughts. —Agitated and unrefreshing sleep at night, with anxious dreams.—In the

morning he starts up from his sleep as from a fright.

• ▸Chill predominates; from below upwards.
• ▸Heat in head and face; hands and feet icy cold, with chill.
• ▸Lachrymation during paroxysm.
• ▸Thirstless.

Pulse small but spasmodic.—Sensation as if the circulation were

suspended.—Chilliness in evening always at same hour; frequently not followed by heat; the

chills run up the body.—Heat principally in head and face, often interrupted by chilliness, always

returning at same hour.—Fever without thirst, manifested only by chilliness, with intermittent

heat, which is more perceptible in the face and hands than in other parts of body —Hot

perspiration in face with coldness of rest of body.—Intermittent fever which returns at same hour;

chill, then thirst, then thirst with headache.—Shivering or external coldness and trembling of

limbs without shivering, and with more violent thirst or complete adipsia; afterwards heat with

moderate thirst, accompanied or followed by perspiration.—In the morning hours

perspiration.—During the shivering pain in upper ribs, dry, spasmodic cough, and tearing in all

the limbs and bones.—Delirium, yawning, and stretching during the heat.—Sleep during the

perspiration.—Quotidian, tertian, quartan fever at regular intervals, with anorexia, pressive

inflation of stomach, pains in chest, cough, shivering, weakness and thirst between the shiverings

and the heat —Thirst only between hot and cold stage.—Fever where the gastric symptoms

prevail, with dry, convulsive cough in cold stage (quartan ague).—During the apyrexia painful

weariness of the limbs without any other symptom.

• ▸Coryza.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Diphtheria.
• ▸Dyspepsia; of pregnancy.
• ▸Earache.
• ▸Epistaxis.
• ▸Hay

• ▸asthma.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Head-lice.
• ▸Imaginary diseases.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Intermittents.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Melancholia.

• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Ssophagus, stricture of.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Tapeworm.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Toothache.
• ▸Uvula

elongated. Vertigo. Worms.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸Follows well: Bry.
• ▸(pleurisy).
• ▸Followed well by:

• ▸Ars.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Nux.
• ▸Compare: Botan.
• ▸, Verat.
• ▸alb.
• ▸, Verat.
• ▸v.
• ▸, Helon.
• ▸Congestion, Verat.
• ▸v.

• ▸Feels > in open air, Puls.
• ▸Ovaritis, Coloc.
• ▸Chill in afternoon, Lyc.
• ▸< From 4 to 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Lyc.

• ▸Imaginary diseases, Thuj.
• ▸Sensation of something alive in abdomen, Croc.
• ▸, Thuj.
• ▸; of machinery,

• ▸Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Effect of mental exertion, Nux, Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Fever without thirst, Puls.
• ▸(with unquenchable

• ▸thirst, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸Attacks at same time every day, Ars.
• ▸, Ced.
• ▸Hunger in early morning, Aga.
• ▸, Ant.

• ▸c.
• ▸, Asar.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸a.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Mur.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Ran.
• ▸b.
• ▸, Rhus, Zn.
• ▸Nausea at sight of food, Colch.
• ▸,

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸String sensations; coryza, Cep.
• ▸(Cep.
• ▸coryza > out of doors; Saba.
• ▸<).
• ▸Easily startled by

• ▸noises, Borax.
• ▸< From wine, Zn.
• ▸Nervous diseases from worms, Cin.
• ▸, Pso.
• ▸Worm affections of

• ▸children, Con.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Spi.
• ▸Delirtum during intermittents.
• ▸Complaints go left to right, Lach.
• ▸, Lac c.

Illusions about his body, Bap. Alcaloid, Veratrin.

• ▸Complementary: Sepia.
• ▸Compare: Veratrina (is alkaloid of Sabadilla, not of Veratrum, locally in neuralgias, and for removal of dropsy.
• ▸Five grains to two drams Lanolin, rubbed on inside of thighs, causes diuresis).
• ▸Colch; Nux; Arundo and Pollatin.

Phleum pratense-Timothy-Hay-fever-Potentized-12-specific to many cases and evidently acts in a desensitizing manner (Rabe). Cumarinum (hay-fever).

Antidotes: Puls; Lycop; Conium; Lach.

Third to thirtieth potency.

The Sabadilla patient is a shivering patient, sensitive to the cold air,

a cold room, cold food. He wants to be well wrapped up ; wants hot

drinks to warm up his stomach. He is subject to catarrhal conditions,

and in these he wants hot air. The catarrhal conditions of the throat

require hot drinks and food. Warm things are grateful to him. It is

difficult to swallow cold things ; they increase the pain and difficulty

in swallowing.

We often study remedies by contrast. This remedy travels from

left to right, and at once a good prescriber connects it with Lachesis.

TTie soreness, pain and inflammatory conditions of the throat commence on the left side and spread to the right in both Sabadilla and

Lachesis. But warm things aggravate the pain in Lachesis ; they cause

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a spasmodic condition, with a sensation of choking, and therefore he

wants cold things, which relieve ; they are swallowed more easily and

ameliorate the pain in the throat. Sabadilla on the other hand is relieved by heat, either outside or inside.

Catarrhal condition of the nose, with constant sneezing ; sensation

of great rawness in the nose ; burning ; stutiing up of the nose. Discharge at first of thin mucus and later thick mucus. It has all the

appearance of a coryza. The coryza is ameliorated from inhaling hot

air. He sits before an open grate or register, with the head close to

it, inhaling the hot air. Especially useful when the catarrhal state of

the nose is prolonged ; a prolonged coryza, which does not yield to

ordinary remedies ; a lingering coryza, and the discharge is exaggerated by the odor of flowers. Even thinking of the odor of flowers

makes him sneeze and increases the flow from the nose. So thinking

of various things aggravates his complaints.

Many hay fever patients arc sensitive to the odor of flowers, to the

odor of the hay field, to dying vegetable matter ; so oversensitive to the

odor of fruit are some that apples have to be removed from the house.

Inhalation of odors that are beautiful, as that of the lavender, some

hay fever patients cannot tolerate ; such things may bring on an attack

out of the season. Now Sabadilla is of this sort. Ov'ersensitive to

surroundings, to odors ; these increase the catarrhal state of the throat

and posterior nares. Sneezing and a flow of mucus from the nose ;

goes on even to ulceration. Pericwdical attacks ; a rose cold in June ;

in autumn about August 20 as a hay fever. Hay fever is often an

easy thing to palliate with short acting remedies ; they will cut short

an attack in a few days. But the cure requires years, and the patient

must be treated in the interim and according to his symptoms. When

the hay fever symptoms arc present he has no others ; one group is

manifested at one time, and another group at another time. But the

patient is sick and all the symptoms must be gathered together and

the case treated accordingly.

Many of the annoyances of this individual seem to be imaginary.

His mind is filled with strange things. Imaginations concerning j)ersons or himself are strange. Imagines the body is withering, that the

limbs are crooked, that the chin is elongated, and larger on one side

than the other. She feels that this is so and believes it even in spite

• ▸of her vision.
• ▸It is a sensation which she believes, a delusion, an insanity.
• ▸“Erroneous impressions as to the state of his body.
• ▸*' “Imagines himself sick ; imagines parts shrunken ; that she is pregnant

when she is merely swollen fro.m flatus ; that she has some horrible

throat disease that will end fatally.’' The imaginations are groundless ; nothing is visible, and the suffering is greater than if there was

something to be seen. These patients often get no sympathy ; they

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should Veally have a remedy. Thuja has erroneous impressions as to

the state of the body ; thinks she is made of glass ; the idea is not that

of transparency, but rather of brittleness, fears that she would break

in pieces. There are but a few remedies which have fixed ideas ; these

ideas may be concerning religion, politics, clothing, things of the family

and life. I once had an insane patient who would get out of the street

car if anyone entered who wore a certain color, because she had a fixed

idea that this was of evil import to her. The Pulsatilla mental state

in a man is that a woman would be a detriment to his soul ; it is a

delusion, a fixed idea. Iodine is full of fixed ideas. Anacardium has

a fixed idea that a devil is sitting on one shoulder talking into his ear,

while an angel sits on the other shoulder talking into the other ear,

and he halts between the two and says nothing.

"Delirium during intermittents.'’ "Mental exertion aggravates the

headache and produces sleep.’’ A sleepiness comes on from thinking,

meditating, reading. While meditating in a chair he falls asleep like

Nux moschata and Phosphoric acid.

Dizziness : vertigo. He wakens up at night with vertigo. Vertigo

in the open air ; under all sorts of circumstances. Full of headaches.

Headaches on one side of the head. The meditation which drives him

to sleep brings on headache. Headache in school girls. Feeble children, who have to be taken from school because of headache, come

home with strange imaginations concerning school and themselves.

Headache stupefying and associated with coryza ; in the frontal sinuses, above the eyes. Fulness, bursting, stupefying, aggravated by

jarring, sneezing, walking. Stupefying headaches with coryza. Often

gets up with it in the morning, increases during the forenoon. Head

covered with a cold sweat. Many of the symptoms arc closely related

to Veratrum, especially in the cold sweat on the forehead with complaints.

Hay fever when there is spasmodic sneezing, fluent coryza ; nostrils

stuffed up ; inspirations through nose labored ; snoring ; itching in the

nose ; profuse bleeding from the nose ; bright red blood comes from the

posterior nares and is expectorated ; very sensitive to the smell of garlic : coryza with severe frontal pains and redness of eyelids ; violent

sneezing ; copious watery discharge from the nose.

A peculiar kind of itching coming on in some hay fevers is an itching in the roof of the mouth, on the soft palate, and for relief the

patient must draw the tongue back and forth over the soft palate, with

this coryza, sneezing, etc. Wyethia will cut the attack short.

When the itching extends to the larynx and trachea, with great irritability and sensitive to cold: Nux vomica.

When the discharge burns a red streak over the upper lip and about

the wings of the nose, with sneezing and profuse, watery nasal discharge ; A rsenicum.

Copious acrid lachrymation, and copious bland flow from the nose

with sneezing: Euphrasia,

Copious, bland, watery discharge from the eyes and copious, acrid,

watery discharge from the nose: Allium cepa.

But these are not the constitutional remedies ; they do not cure, but

only palliate during the severe attacks. These symptoms arc the outcome of the psoric constitution, and this constitution must be treated

by antipsorics. Sometimes the hay fever is so severe that it seems to

be the only manifestation of psora in the patient, but if it is restrained

or stopped up by bad treatment he is not well during the whole year.

If let alone he has good health during the rest of the year. Many a

time the hay fever goes through the whole winter and only by constitutional upbuilding can it be mitigated. But with constitutional treatment each yearly attack is lighter, and at the end of treatment he is

able to live in his own climate unaffected. He must not go to the

mountains to mitigate it. If to any place, he should go where the

affection would be worse, so that all its manifestations would be apparent. The hay fever will only be cured if the patient is curable, but

if not, if his constitution is so broken down that he is incurable, his

hay fever will not be cured.

The most striking place of attack is the mucous membrane of the

nose, throat, trachea .and larynx. Violent acute inflammation of the

raucous membrane of these parts.

Great thirst for hot drinks. The Appetite is singular ; it is commonly

seen in pregnant women. She says she is never hungry ; never wants

anything to cat, and often there is aversion to food ; l)ut when, from

a matter of reason, she concludes to eat, and she takes a mouthful, it

tastes good, it recalls the appetite, and she makes a good meal. At

other times not only a loss of appetite, but a disgust and loathing of

food. “Disgust for all food, for meat, for sour things, for coffee, for

garlic.'' '‘Morbid hunger or loathing for food."

A routine remedy in pin worms, scat worms, all sorts of worms ;

stomach and tape worms. A careful prcscriber never thinks of prescribing for worms. He takes all the symptoms of the patient, and

these guide him to the remedy. I remember one time in a lady's house

seeing a dog drag his hinder parts over the carpet as if to scratch the

anus. She said: “Doctor, can’t you give the dog a remedy?" I put

a dose of Sabadilla in its mouth. Some time afterwards she asked

me: “Doctor, what did you give the dog that medicine for?’' I inquired why she asked. "Why," she said, "in a few days it passed an

atvful lot of worms." Sabadilla and Sinapis nigra are well adapted to

cases in which pin worms arc present. Often a remedy restores the

patknt to order in general and then all his particular parts are set in

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Weariness and heaviness in all the limbs, < towards evening, obliging her to lie

down.—Coldness of the limbs.—Painful drawings in limbs as if in marrow of bones, with

inclination to stretch limbs, > by repose.—Painful sensation of paralysis of the limbs, esp. in

knees.