Spiranthes Autumnalis

• ▸Melancholy.
• ▸—Complaining and sobbing.
• ▸—Ill-humour.
• ▸—Confusion of

ideas.—Indolence and ennui.

Vertigo: obliged to lean head against wall; on rising from bed; < sitting or

lying.—Heaviness and heat in brain —Brain troubles < bending or raising arm.—Sensation of band

tied about head—Weight on forehead.—Pain in forehead and nasal bone.—Pain in roots of

hair.—Hair falls out.

Eyes brilliant; fixed.—Pain in eyes on looking up.—Burning in eyes and

• ▸lachrymation.
• ▸—Heaviness of brows.
• ▸—Lids swollen.
• ▸—Eyes hot, inflamed.
• ▸—Vision: dim; obscured,

with sleepiness; instantaneously lost; objects at a distance seem to move; on closing lids, sees

wheels of fire.

• ▸Dry coryza.
• ▸—Epistaxis: in clots.
• ▸—Dripping of water from nose.
• ▸—Pain in (r.
• ▸) nasal

• ▸bones.
• ▸—Burning itching at root of nose.
• ▸—Itching of r.
• ▸ala——Smell very acute.

Face: swollen; red and hot; blackish; pale——Fixed, meditative expression.—Burming in

upper lip.—Chin: red; pain in.

Pain and elongation of teeth——Toothache only at night —Sensation of coldness in

teeth.—Gums red and burning —Numerous small excrescences on palate, which was

• ▸bloody.
• ▸—Putrid odour from mouth.
• ▸—Irritation of sublingual glands.
• ▸—Taste: acid; sweetish, like

nitre; bitter in morning.—Salivation with dryness of mouth.

Globus rising from lower abdomen to Ssophagus.—Sensation of foreign body in

throat —Incessant desire to clear throat, caused by a thick mucus.—Tickling in throat, provoking

cough.—Burning in pit of throat.—Irritation of tonsils—Sensation of acidity and burning in

ssophagus.—Incarceration of air in Ssophagus.—Pain on swallowing.

Desire for acid food.—Loss of appetite—Constant

thirst—Regurgitations.—Eructations: preceded by heat in lower abdomen and lancinations in

colon; acid; bitter; difficult; empty.—Nausea: after eating —Vomiting; of food after

eating.—Epigastrium: distended, intolerant of touch; painful after a meal, the pain corresponding

to the pain in loins.—Heat rising from stomach to head.

Pain: in liver; and spleen; on pressure.—Intermittent pressure in umbilical

region.—Pain; weakness; tympanites; after a meal—Borborygmi.—Desire to tighten

clothes.—Piercing, lancinating, insupportable pain in colon; on becoming erect.—Laughing = heat

in lower abdomen.—Eruption in groin.

Burning and itching in anus < during evacuation.—Stool preceded and

followed by prickling and itching in anus.—DiarrhéSa or constipation; stools sour in children.

In kidneys: cramp-like pain at night, obliging change of position;

burning; pain preventing stooping; < going up stairs, > lying on back; coldness and heat.—In

bladder: pain on urinating; pain and burning after waking.—Urine: abundant; scanty; decomposes

rapidly; deposits a gelatinous red sediment.

Pruritus; vulva red; dryness and burning in vagina. Burning pain in vagina during coition. Leucorrhoea, bloody.

Redness of vulva with pruritus.—Pressing pain in uterus.—Bloody

• ▸discharge from vagina.
• ▸—Y ellowish leucorrhsa.
• ▸—Burning in vagina.
• ▸—Burning pain in vagina

during coition.—Dryness of vagina.

Erections, on waking; constant —Pricking pain in cords.—Great

desire for, or repugnance to, coition.

Burning in larynx.—Hacking cough, caused by tickling in

larynx.—Dry cough at night, with burning in throat——Dry cough.—Respiration: difficult; short;

panting on walking.

Sensation of dilatation of 1. lung —Sensation of weakness of lungs.—Pleuritic and

intercostal pains, < 1. side—Muilk, abundant: more in |. breast—Pain in breast on raising

it-—Burning on tips of breasts, esp. 1.

Pain in heart.—Palpitation: with difficult respiration; from least emotional

excitement.—Pulse full and hard at beginning of proving, afterwards small and quiet.

Cramp-like pain in neck at night compelling change of

position —Lumbago preventing walking.—Pain in centre of scapula—Pain in scapula, when

standing, < walking.

Shoulders: heavy pain in; boring in r., extending to r. breast and preventing

breathing; pressure on and in chest; lancinations < bending over——Arms: trembling; weakness;

• ▸numb and heavy (esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸); desire to stretch.
• ▸—Pain in forearms by the pulse; in r.
• ▸pulse.
• ▸—Rigidity

• ▸of muscles of forearm.
• ▸—Sudden pain in forearm followed by numbness.
• ▸—Hands: swollen, esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸;

veins swollen; blackish; yellowish; red and perspiring; burning, numb.—At night numbness of

hand on which he rested cheek.—Pressing pain in extremities.

Eruptions on nates; in groins; on thighs.—Sciatic pain in limbs, esp.

• ▸r.
• ▸—Drawing pain in r.
• ▸limb.
• ▸—Knees: weak; pain in; pain in r.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸malleolus.
• ▸—Feet (esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸)

swollen.—Pain in heels.

• ▸24.
• ▸Generalities—One appears intoxicated.
• ▸—Pulsations in arteries over whole body.
• ▸—Lies on I.

side rather than r.

• ▸Sciatic pain, especially right side.
• ▸Pain in shoulders.
• ▸Swelling of veins of hands.
• ▸Pain in all articulations of hands.
• ▸Coldness of feet and toes.

• ▸Dryness of skin—Whole skin red; red in spots.
• ▸—Jaundice.
• ▸—Yellow spots.
• ▸—Miliary

rash.—Eruption of red points on nates with itching and heat.—Vesications as from a burn, with

purulent secretion from the groin, and in folds of skin about neck.—Pricking over whole

• ▸body.
• ▸—Burning itching in 1.
• ▸cheek near mouth.
• ▸—Itching: in axill¢; in pubes; scrotum; forearms at

night; backs of hands; tip of 1. thumb.

• ▸Incomplete, yawning.
• ▸—Sleeping during day.
• ▸—Starting up during sleep.
• ▸—Late falling

asleep, evening.—Sleeplessness in infants.—Lascivious dreams with emissions.

Flushes of heat. Sweat on palms. Hands alternately hot and cold.

• ▸Coldness, evening, esp.
• ▸of hands.
• ▸—Alternations of cold and heat.
• ▸—Affected part

• ▸colder than rest of body.
• ▸—Coldness of feet; and toes.
• ▸—Fever, followed by thirst.
• ▸—Fever at night,

sweat in morning.—Heat of whole skin; flushes of heat in head, followed by sensation of

• ▸cold.
• ▸—Heat of head on waking.
• ▸—Heat and itching over head.
• ▸—Heat and redness; external

• ▸ear.
• ▸—Heat of face, esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸side—Hands very hot.
• ▸—Sweat of palms.

• ▸Breasts, painful.
• ▸Breath, putrid.
• ▸Burns.
• ▸Coryza.
• ▸Dysparunia.
• ▸Eczema.
• ▸Hysteria.

• ▸Kidneys, pain in.
• ▸Lumbago.
• ▸Milk, excessive.
• ▸Skin, affections of.
• ▸Vision, dimness of.

Characteristics—The genus to which this orchid belongs received its name from the spiral

• ▸arrangement of the flowers.
• ▸The tuberous roots of Spir.
• ▸autum.
• ▸were "formerly esteemed as an

• ▸aphrodisiac" (Treas.
• ▸of Bot.
• ▸).
• ▸The tincture of the root was proved by Dr.
• ▸Patti Chagon, Duc de

Sorentino, who says of it: "The action of this drug begins with decided symptoms of

inflammation of the eyes, chin, chest, which become red and hot; the whole skin is dry and hot;

the hands are burning, the extremities of the feet are cold most of the time; there is a sensation of

oppression and heat, with palpitation and a desire to uncover." This condition lasted two hours

and gave place to others, including desire to meditate and complain, vertigo, pains in shoulders,

ennui, loss of appetite. The last symptoms to appear are: pains in scalp, on vertex, distress in

kidneys and intestinal troubles after eating. The secretions of urine and milk were first

diminished, afterwards increased. The aphrodisiac property of Spiran. was shown in some of the

symptoms of the proving, and this bears on the increased secretion of milk. A number of

symptoms appear in the lower abdomen, and the globus hystericus rises from thence to

Ssophagus. Heat in lower abdomen; preceding eructations; caused by laughing. Among the

Peculiar Symptoms are: cerebral troubles on bending or raising the arm. Sensation of a band tied

• ▸round head.
• ▸Sensation of a foreign body in throat.
• ▸Coldness of teeth.
• ▸Pulsation in arteries over

• ▸whole body.
• ▸Coldness of the affected part.
• ▸Preference for lying on left side; or else on back.
• ▸Pain

• ▸followed by numbness.
• ▸The symptoms are < by touch.
• ▸< Bending or raising arm.
• ▸< Raising

• ▸breast.
• ▸Laughing = heat in lower abdomen.
• ▸Least emotion = palpitation.
• ▸< Mental effort.
• ▸> Lying

• ▸on left side.
• ▸> Lying on back.
• ▸< Bending over (rheumatism of shoulders).
• ▸< Stooping.

• ▸Compare: Botan.
• ▸, Cypr.
• ▸Skin and mucous membranes, Ar.
• ▸t.
• ▸Desire for tight

clothing; dryness of vagina, Nat. m. Pain followed by numbness, Gnaph.

Third potency.