Senna

Used as a laxative in ordinary practice, Senna has proved an excellent remedy

in the colic of infants, with incarcerated flatulence and sleeplessness. Infantile colic when the

patient seems full of wind—The symptoms of the Schema are mostly derived from overdosings.

A peculiar symptom is: "Repeated sneezing, which caused heat (especially of hands), exhaustion,

and panting breathing," Exhaustion is typical of Senna. Farrington says it is one of the best

remedies in the materia medica for "simple exhaustion with excess of nitrogenous waste." The

exhaustion is exemplified in the sinking immediately after meals. The pods caused a nasty

• ▸unclean smell from the body of a woman taking them for constipation (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

Repeated sneezing, which caused heat (esp. of hands), exhaustion, and panting

breathing.

• ▸Anorexia.
• ▸—Thirst.
• ▸—Empty, or watery and fetid, risings.
• ▸—Loathing and nausea,

with inclination to vomit.—Sinking immediately after meals.

Colic, esp. in little children.—Painful colic from incarcerated flatulence

(particularly in young children).—Sensation of coldness in the abdomen, with emptiness and

uneasiness in the stomach.—Accumulation of flatus, with grumbling and fermentation in the

abdomen, and discharge of fetid flatus.

• ▸Fluid yellowish, with pinching pains before.
• ▸Greenish mucus; never-get-done sensation (Merc).
• ▸Burning in rectum, with strangury of bladder.
• ▸Constipation, with colic and flatulence.
• ▸Liver enlarged and tender, stools hard and dark, with loss appetite, coated tongue, bad taste, and weakness.

Two liquid stools with griping pains.—Loose evacuation, with tenesmus,

and followed by a burning sensation in the anus.—Diarrhcea with straining and prolapsed rectum

• ▸and sore anus (cured in children.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

24. Generalities—Universal swelling —Exhaustion.—Unclean body swell.

Specific gravity and density increased; hyperazoturia, oxaluria, phosphaturia, and acetonuria.

Ebullition of blood, esp. at night, disturbing the sleep.—Sleeplessness, with cries and

tossing, esp. in the case of infants.

• ▸Colic; flatulent, of infants.
• ▸Exhaustion.
• ▸Nitrogenous waste.
• ▸Sleeplessness.
• ▸Sneezing,

with heat.

• ▸Compare: Infantile colic and sleeplessness, jal.
• ▸Exhaustion, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸Sinking after

• ▸meals, Ars.
• ▸, Cin.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Stp.
• ▸, Ur.
• ▸nit.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Tab.

Compare: Kali carb; Jalapa.

Antidotes: Nux; Cham.

Third to sixth potency.