Sinapis Alba

• ▸Sin.
• ▸alb.
• ▸, like Sin.
• ▸nig.
• ▸, is indigenous in Great Britain.
• ▸"Its seeds are larger than

those of Black Mustard, and of a yellow colour externally. Chemically they differ in containing a

crystalline substance known as sulpho-sinapism. Moreover, its myrosine yields with water a

pungent oil of a different character from the Volatile Oil of Mustard" obtained from Sin. nig.

• ▸(Treas.
• ▸of Bot.
• ▸).
• ▸The seed-leaves or cotyledons of Sin.
• ▸a/b.
• ▸furnish the "mustard" of "mustard and

• ▸cress "—the "cress" being Lepidium sativum.
• ▸Bojanus proved Sin.
• ▸alb.
• ▸, taking substantial doses of

the triturated seeds and of a tincture made therefrom. The well-known emetic effects of mustard

were produced by it, and also its "burning" sensations in many parts, notably anus, stomach, and

cesophagus. Flatulence, headache, (> walking in open air; < in warm room) and salivation were

• ▸among the observed effects.
• ▸Under Sin.
• ▸alb.
• ▸the prover, who had had no sign of threadworms

since his thirteenth year, passed many both living and dead; and had all the usual rectal

symptoms which accompany their presence. The urine, too, was turbid, as is often the case in

• ▸helminthiasis.
• ▸A.
• ▸L.
• ▸Fisher (Med.
• ▸Vis.
• ▸, xiii.
• ▸316) says that for twenty years Sin.
• ▸alb.
• ▸has had a

prominent place in his armamentarium. He has used it on the indications of the proving, and he

found that the conditions of pregnancy and lactation seem to favour the development of the

conditions calling for it. He has verified these: "Excessive accumulation of watery saliva or

mucus." "Acute bruised pain, even on slight pressure, just beneath ensiform cartilage."

"Vomiting, ejecta consisting of flakes of mucus with blackish veins like clots of blood."

"Crawling and burning in anus, with griping in abdomen." "Spasmodic griping in anus,

appearing at intervals, and especially noticed after swallowing anything." He has cured with Sin.

alb. "Sore mouth with intensely red mucous membrane, dotted with minute white ulcers, the

least food, even of blandest character, increasing the burning that is present all the time, and also

• ▸in the throat.
• ▸" Sin.
• ▸alb.
• ▸has a number of Peculiar Sensations: As if head hollow.
• ▸As of a plug in

throat; of hard-substance high up in cesophagus under manubrium sterni; something hard lying in

stomach, after a moderate meal; hard substance in rectum not > by stool. Bojanus noticed an

alternation between the symptoms of the anus and those of the pharynx. I have cured with Sin.

alb.: "Sharp, shooting pain in right frontal eminence, < in warm room, > moving about and in

• ▸open air.
• ▸" The symptoms are < by touch.
• ▸< Pressure.
• ▸< Motion.
• ▸> Rest.
• ▸< Swallowing (crawling

• ▸in anus).
• ▸< After eating (sensation of hard substance in stomach).
• ▸< Warm room.
• ▸> Rest.
• ▸> Open

air.

Distracted in mind, while reading must make great efforts to keep thoughts from

wandering.

Dulness, with obscured vision, esp. of forehead over eyes; < walking.—Sensation as if

head hollow.—Rush of blood to head—Headache > in open air < in warm room.—Heaviness in

forehead, as from intoxication, or too great warmth of room.—Pain in I. frontal eminence,

paroxysmal, pressive, in the evening.—Pressive pain in r. frontal eminence < moving head back

and forth.

Sudden sensation of warmth with stitching in 1. eye compelling winking; eye fills with

tears, after which the sensation disappears.

Root of tongue thickly coated yellow on rising in morning; later extends along sides,

esp. 1—Profuse salivation; with nausea; nausea > at rest, < walking about.—Saliva frothy, salt.

Scraping in fauces, provoking frequent hawking.—Sensation as if a large morsel of

food had been swallowed.—Burning: in pharynx; in cesophagus rising up from stomach like

heartburn; and pressure in cesophagus.—Sensation of hard body high up in cesophagus; <

swallowing hard food and on empty swallowing; in afternoon seems as if a plug sticking in

pharynx (this sensation alternated with biting and crawling in anus).—Sensation of constriction

on swallowing hard food.

Thirst with heartburn.—Thirst without heartburn; drinking water = sensation of

heaviness and fulness in abdomen as after eating.—Eructations: frequent, tasteless and odourless;

of acid liquid with griping scalding in pharynx; aggravating the heartburn; tasting of

food.—Heartburn: violent; with eructations.—Nausea; qualmishness; inclination to vomit;

salivation.—Nausea > at rest, < by movement.—Retching and vomiting of water, with violent

retching and burning in stomach and abdomen, extending to both sides under false ribs and

whole chest with extreme discomfort and anxiety in stomach-pit—Vomits: Flakes of mucus with

blackish streaks; yellow, odourless, tasteless matter, with much tenacious, jelly-like

mucus.—After vomiting, scraping in throat and burning rising from stomach.—Burning; pressure;

fulness and distension in pit of stomach.—Pit of stomach painful to pressure.—Very acute bruised

pain, even on slight pressure, in pit of stomach, just beneath ensiform cartilage; pressure on it

took away the breath.

Rumbling and gurgling, with emission of odourless flatus.—Emission of

offensive flatus—Griping colic—Movements in abdomen.—Heaviness as of a weight, fulness

and distension in abdomen.

Sensation as though a hard substance were lying in anus and could not be

evacuated; not > by stool—Burning in anus, obliging to scratch —Violent, sudden stitch in anus,

obliging him to cry out—Burning; burning itching in anus.—Spasmodic griping in anus,

appearing at intervals, < after swallowing anything.—Immediately after a stool, sprained

sensation, as though anus were drawn up into rectum, with sticking, itching, burning and biting

in anus.—Sensation as if something hard were lying just by anus, soon followed by a stool,

which, however, was evacuated only with great pressure and was unsatisfactory; first part hard,

crumbling, dark brownish green, covered with mucus and containing threadworms, followed by

the same sensation as before the stool —Crawling biting in anus.—Stool: blackish, hard, covered

with mucus, followed by prickling burning in anus; small, thin, soft, greenish, with dead

threadworms; copious, pasty, partly hard partly soft, sour, fermented; yellowish grey.

Urine: dark yellow, soon forming transparent cloud; bright golden

yellow; dark-brown like beer.—The urine has a cloud of mucus, and contains numerous small

granules looking like frog-spawn; on the surface of the urine, at the bottom and on the sides of

the glass, a number of small red granules.—Many grains of red sand deposited, and iridescent

film on surface.—Thick, fatty pellicle-—Cloud remains suspended in urine.—Sediment: white;

flocculent; like chalk, and containing grains of white sand.

Oppression of chest compelling frequent deep breathing.—Burning beneath sternum.

Pains in small of back and coccyx, as if sprained and bruised, with urging to stool.

Sleep: in afternoon with vivid dreams; after eating —Vivid dreams of dead people

and of death—Dreams: confused and unremembered; of foreign countries and dangerous

expeditions.

Pulse full and hard.—Creeping chills on moving about; over whole body after

vomiting, with coldness of hands and feet and frequent eructations of gas.—Inclined to perspire.

• ▸Anus, itching of; affections of.
• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Gastric ulcer.
• ▸Gastritis.
• ▸Headache.

Heartburn. Lactation, dyspepsia of; sore mouth of. Mouth, inflammation of; ulceration of.

• ▸(Esophagus.
• ▸Pregnancy, dyspepsia of; sore mouth of.
• ▸Salivation.
• ▸Threadworms.
• ▸Vomiting.

Worms.

• ▸[An overdose of table Mustard, which contains both Sin.
• ▸alb.
• ▸and Sin.
• ▸nig.
• ▸, with

• ▸starch, &c.
• ▸, is immediately antidoted by smelling bread.
• ▸] Compare: Sin.
• ▸n.
• ▸Plug sensation, Anac.

• ▸Ball in anus, Sep.
• ▸Lump in stomach, Bry.
• ▸, Ab.
• ▸n.
• ▸, Nux, Pul.
• ▸Helminthiasis, Teucr.
• ▸, Sant.
• ▸, Cin.
• ▸,

Naphth., Scirrh.