Sinapis Nigra

Thanks to Finsen, of Copenhagen, the place of Light in therapeutics is on the

way to be defined so far as its direct properties are concerned, though Finsen is reviving and

• ▸confirming, rather than originating, light-therapy.
• ▸O.
• ▸V.
• ▸Thayer (7.
• ▸R.
• ▸, viti.
• ▸463) published in

1893 a series of cases in which he had used concentrated rays of sun-light (solar cautery),

including cases of epithelial cancer, rodent ulcer, parasitic diseases, moles, small wens, birth-

• ▸marks, &c.
• ▸H.
• ▸T.
• ▸Webster (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xv.
• ▸126) gives details of a case of epithelioma in which the

growth was removed by solar-cautery and a scarcely perceptible scar left. Swan and his

• ▸coadjutors investigated sun-light from another point of view.
• ▸In 1880 (Org.
• ▸, iti.
• ▸275) Swan

published a pathogenesis of So/, which I have embodied in my Schema. Swan's data were

obtained from four provers, from experiences obtained from sensitives by Reichenbach (Der

Sensitive Mench), from an observation by "Highwood" quoted by Fincke from American

Observer, ix. 210. Reichenbach's observations I have distinguished by "(R)," Highwood's by

"(H)." The remaining symptoms are those who took principally the 1m attenuations of Fincke.

The 15m was taken by one. Two of Reichenbach's symptoms were observed on two of the

provers also, and the letters "(F)" and "(L)" refer to these. Cured symptoms will be found in

brackets. The common effects of strong sun-light, as sneezing, freckling, and sunstroke, my be

added to the list.

Excitement and anxiousness in all her nerves, at first with trembling at heart, finally it

remained in stomach-pit; all that night and next day very sensitive and easily frightened; it was

as if all the nerves were trembling inside of them; the anxiousness in stomach-pit passes off the

second evening.—Anxiousness if somebody comes towards her, being frightened thereat (F and

R).

> Of bad effects of the sun by every cloudy veil drawing over the sun (R).—If

beds and wearing apparel have lain too long in the sunshine, the agreeable feeling after using

them turns suddenly into the most disagreeable, so that she cannot bear it, and falls into headache

• ▸and spasm (R.
• ▸).
• ▸—Spasm coming with sunrise and ceasing with sunset (R.
• ▸).
• ▸—Some spasms

• ▸appearing at sunset (R).
• ▸—Faintness.
• ▸—Prostration.
• ▸—_(General stiffening up of the system; the

bodily strength seems more equalised.)

Scalp hot and itches. Sweat on upper lip and forehead. Tongue feels blistered.

Violent headache from vertex down to forehead, pressing, with sensation of heat in

face; this headache was repeated the second day three times; it seems to be in connection with

the excitement and anxiousness at stomach-pit (first night)—AlII the sensitives are very sensitive

to the immediate action of sunshine on the vertex (R).—Extreme painfulness if the sunshine

strike the bare-head (R).—Most violent stitches in brain (R).—Disagreeable feelings, such as from

retrograde passes, go into brain, cause stitches and headache, and if she does not gain the shade,

• ▸stomach-ache and nausea follow (R).
• ▸—Violent headache (R).
• ▸—L.
• ▸—sided headache

(R).—Headache from sunshine on bare head, > by laying a glass of water on stomach-pit (R).—In

morning, severe pain in crown, and then in neck, passing off after breakfast (L and R).—(Heavy

• ▸pressive pain in vertex.
• ▸).
• ▸—Intense entire cephalalgia.
• ▸—Pain in forehead; it seems as if forehead

would crush itself down upon the eyes.—(Sensation of undulating or floating in head after mental

excitement, such as attending to business or writing a letter.).—Instantaneous shock to brain,

followed by prostration, and a scalding sensation on top of head (remedied by orange-coloured

cloth in stove-pipe hat) (H).—Excessive perspiration of head and neck.

Sun-light diminished the sensitivity of eyes; od.—blindness (R).—Suffusion of veins of

sclerotica.—Sensation of swelling, as if eyes would force themselves out of sockets.—Light

offends eyes.

Sharp shooting pain from |. ear to nose, continued at intervals for some time.—Partial

deafness.

• ▸Mucus from posterior nares feels cold.
• ▸Scanty, acrid discharge.
• ▸Stoppage of left nostril all day, or in afternoon and evening.
• ▸Dry, hot, with lachrymation, sneezing; hacking cough; better lying down.
• ▸Nostrils alternately stopped.
• ▸Dryness of anterior nares.

Tastes like something she cannot tell—She puts anything she is going to eat in the

sunshine, because then it is more palatable to her (R).—Two glasses of water of equal

temperature, the one put in the shade, the other in the sunshine for a quarter of an hour, the latter

tastes agreeably cool to sensitives, and stale and disagreeable to non-sensitives, whilst the other

tastes quite the reverse (R).—Stupid; cannot articulate a word.—Articulates with difficulty.

Feels scalded, hot inflamed. Asthmatic breathing. Loud coughing-spells with barking expiration.

• ▸Offensive breath, smelling like onions (Asaf; Armorac).
• ▸Burning in stomach, extending up oesophagus, throat, and mouth, which is full of canker sores.
• ▸Hot sour eructations.
• ▸Colic; pains come on while bent forward; better, sitting up straight.
• ▸Sweat better when nausea comes on.

Slight inclination to or actual vomiting.—Heat in pit of stomach——Empty feeling

in stomach, as if she had not eaten anything substantial yesterday and to-day.—Sensation of

faintness and vacuity in stomach-pit.

In abdomen, distension and hardness, as large as a child's head, as if it were in

womb, and running throughout from it into mamm<¢, as if milk would rush in as when a child

nurses; this lasted the whole first night till morning; before the distension and hardness came on

a sensation as after childbirth or at conception (with great excitement).—A glass of water

exposed to the sun for six to eight minutes propagates coolness, not only in stomach, but round

about in the viscera (R).

Took away a dreadful anal itching, piles and constipation as if by magic

• ▸(6x).
• ▸—Constipation relieved (3x).
• ▸—Soreness of anus produced (3x).
• ▸—Diarrheea, great debility,

quick pulse: pain in back, inflated stomach, had to loosen dress; profuse night-sweat; cough with

expectoration (3x. gr. 1 twice a day; in a delicate lady).

Pain in bladder, frequent copious flow day and night.

Violent erections during day and night; obstinate, painful, and

continued.—A wakening him at night; with lascivious thoughts; lascivious dreams and emissions

at night.

Cough is relieved by lying down.

• ▸Stitches in region of heart (B).
• ▸—(Oppressed feeling over the heart.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pulse quick.

Rheumatic pain in intercostal and lumbar muscles; sleeplessness from pain in back and hips.

Stiffness at back of neck.—Lumbago; with flatulence.—Aching, dull pain

over small of back (B).

The back of hand exposed to sunshine feels warm, while at same time a

coolness appears in palm, and runs up whole arm into temple (R).—Cool, refreshed hands from

holding a stick partially exposed to the sun (R).

Pains in both knee-caps, sometimes dull, sometimes aching.—(Housemaid's

knee.).—Occasional shooting aching through knees; < going up stairs.

24, Generalities.—Want of energy.

She could not sleep the first night, except from 3 to 4 a.m.; otherwise no idea of sleep

the whole night long.—Head very much excited; could not sleep for hours.—Great sleepiness all

through the head, and not merely in the eyes; heavy, sound sleep all through night.

An agreeable coolness extends over whole body, though the surface of the body

perceives the physical heat of the sun's rays; simultaneously a kind of coldness interiorly

pervades whole body, so that the sun makes warm and cold at the same time, but the feeling of

cold supersedes that of warmth to such a degree that the latter is overlooked (R).—Running chills

of increasing sensation of cold in all limbs from holding wires partially exposed to the sun

(R).—Felt cold in night; drew up more cover and perspired.—Congestive chill from exposure to

sun after drinking cold water freely.—Perspiration streaming out of stomach-pit over whole body

(from the crude saturated sacch. lact., in one of Fincke's provers).

• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Freckles.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Lupus.
• ▸Menses, premature.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Sunburn.

Sunstroke.

• ▸Antidoted by: Aco.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Glon.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸, and other sunstroke remedies.
• ▸Compare:

• ▸Luna, Elec.
• ▸, Mgt.
• ▸Dislike of sun, Lach.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸c.

Compare: Sulph; Capsic; Colocy; Sinapis alba-White Mustard--(throat symptoms marked, especially pressure and burning, with obstruction in oesophagus; sensation of a lump in oesophagus behind the Manubrium Sterni and with much eructation; similar symptoms in rectum). Mustard oil by inhalation (acts on the sensory nerve endings of the trigeminal. Relieves pain in middle ear disease and in painful conditions of nose, nasal cavities, and tonsils).

Third potency.

A fter riding about on horseback in his woods in the sunshine all forenoon, and lying

down about noon on his bed to rest, he suddenly gets peculiar attacks drawing through all his

limbs; after rising and making a few steps up and down, they disappear; this repeats itself several

times (R).—(The r. side, arm, and foot, which had been weak as from partial paralysis, became

equally strong as 1.).—Hands and feet cold.