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Squilla Maritima

Sea-onion
29 sectionsBoericke · 11Clarke · 17Kent · 1

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke · Kent
  • Broncho-pneumonia

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Sea-onion

  • A slow acting remedy.
  • Corresponds to ailments requiring several days to reach their maximum.
  • Persistent, dull, rheumatic pains permeate the body.
  • A spleen medicine; stitches under left free ribs.
  • Important heart and kidneys medicine.
  • Broncho-pneumonia.

Acts especially on mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive tracts, and also upon the kidneys. Valuable in chronic bronchitis of old people with mucous rales, dyspnoea, and scanty urine.

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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke

Scorpion stings are attended with a certain amount of danger, especially to

  • children.
  • The symptoms of the Schema are from effects of stings.
  • Scorp.
  • has not been proved in

the attenuations. Pain and swelling of the injured part are first experienced, and constitutional

symptoms follow. These include sleepiness, prostration, and possibly tetanus. Strabismus has

been observed in some cases; and the pupils are dilated.

Mentals

Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Great anxiety of the mind, with fear of death—Angry over trifles.—Aversion to mental

and bodily labour.

Generals

Symptoms — Generalities
Clarke

Bitten part much swollen, with violent pains lasting from one to three

days.—Heat and pain at bitten spot, sleepiness, sneezing, restlessness; later, abundant saliva,

meteorism; later, trismus or tetanus.—Complete prostration—Always acute pains in and

diminished temperature of the part bitten.

Modalities

Modalities
Boericke
Worse
motion
Better
rest;

Eyes

Eyes
Boericke

Feel irritable; child bores into them with fists. Sensation as if swimming in cold water.

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

Burning in mouth and throat.—Irritation in throat with heat and tickling, causing

constant cough.—Dryness in throat.—Pain in submaxillary glands.

Stomach

Stomach
Boericke

Pressure like a stone.

Symptoms — Appetite
Clarke

Insatiable appetite Longing for acids.—Thirst for cold water, but the dyspnoea

compels her to take but a sip at a time.—The food tastes bitter, esp. bread; or it tastes sweet, esp.

soup and meat.—Tastelessness of tobacco when smoked.

Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

Nausea.—Vomiting of a pale yellow, glairy matter, continued at short intervals

with increasing violence, till the child in a convulsive struggle ceased to breathe.

Stool

Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Painless constipation.—Diarrhcea; stool very offensive; watery (during the

measles) or looking black.—Passes threadworms and white fibres with tenesmus.—Stitches in

anus when walking.—Itching in anus.

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

Sticking in orifice of urethra and somewhat further back. —Frequent

urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of pale urine (these may occur separately or

together) —Continuous, painful pressure on bladder.—Involuntary micturition; esp. when

  • coughing.
  • —Enuresis nocturna.
  • —When urinating feeces escape.
  • —Cannot retain the urine because

the quantity is so great——Dropsy: dropsy of outer parts, dropsy of chest, all with profuse

urination.

Urinary
Boericke

Great urging; much watery urine. Involuntary spurting of urine when coughing (Caustic; Puls).

Respiratory

Respiratory
Boericke
  • Fluent coryza; margins of nostrils feel sore.
  • Sneezing; throat irritated; short, dry cough; must take a deep breath.
  • Dyspnoea and stitches in chest, and painful contraction of abdominal muscles.
  • Violent, furious, exhausting cough, with much mucus; profuse, salty, slimy expectoration, and with involuntary spurting of urine and sneezing. Child rubs face with fist during cough (Caust; Puls).
  • Cough provoked by taking a deep breath or cold drinks, from exertion, change from warm to cold air.
  • Cough of measles.
  • Frequent calls to urinate at night, passing large quantities (Phos ac).
  • Sneezing with coughing.
Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

Moaning breathing, with the mouth open.—Wheezing

breathing.—Frequently obliged to take a deep breath, which = cough.—Shortness of breath from

every exertion, esp. when ascending.—Whooping-cough, when accompanied with sneezing,

watering of eyes and nose, and the child rubs eyes with the hands; in all catarrhal affections and

coughs, also troubles of the lungs with the above symptoms; profuse nasal secretion.—Cough

with expectoration in the morning and none in the evening.—Difficulty of breathing, with stitches

in chest when breathing and coughing —Cough in the morning, with copious expectoration of

thin, frequently reddish-coloured mucus.—Dry cough morning and night.—Violent dry cough

which = shattering pain in abdomen and dryness in the throat.—Internal tickling in region of

thyroid cartilage that provokes cough, which, however, < the tickling.—Short, dry cough in four

or five shocks, from tickling beneath thyroid cartilage.—Fits of spasmodic cough with pains in

splenic region.—Cough. with a stagnant watery condition of the blood, and enlarged spleen

(Burnett).—Sputa: white or reddish mucus; sweetish or empyreumatic or offensive in odour; in

small round balls, very difficult to expectorate—Rattling precedes the cough, disappears

after—Cough caused by tickling, creeping sensation in chest; from drinking something cold;

from every exertion.—Cough with stitches in sides of chest; pain in abdomen; sensation of

internal heat; dyspnoea; headache; pressure in the bladder and involuntary spurting of urine—The

loose morning cough is much more severe and causes more suffering than the dry evening

cough.

Chest

Heart
Boericke

A cardiac stimulant affecting the peripheral vessels and coronary arteries.

Symptoms — Chest
Clarke

Stitches: in chest, esp. when inhaling and coughing; sharp in scapular end of clavicle

during inspiration and expiration; severe near sternum, extending downward; in middle of

ensiform cartilage; recurrent in side; broad, pressive beneath ribs of both sides; jerking in r. and

1. side of chest near sternum; broad, blunt in last rib of |. side, in morning in bed, waking

him.—Contracting stitch in |. side, just beneath last ribs, caused by rapid walking.

Neck & Back

Symptoms — Neck and Back
Clarke

Stiffness: of nape of neck; of 1. cervical muscles.—Painful jerking above I.

scapula.—Painless drawing in |. scapula—Bubbling sensation beneath scapulz, in back of 1.

upper arm.—Perspiration in armpit.

Upper Limbs

Symptoms — Upper Limbs
Clarke

Arm greatly swollen; erysipelatous blush extending half over arm; black

dotted impression in two rows three-quarters of an inch apart, raised in dark lines extending from

dot to dot, 51 inches long, thus showing the entrance of every foot; pain deep and dull; no

perspiration on r. (bitten?) arm for three months.

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke

Convulsive twitching of legs.—Soreness between limbs.—Burning pain in

ball of r. foot, as after freezing it—Icy-cold feet—Cold foot-sweat.—Perspiration only on toes.

  • 24.
  • Generalities—Weariness.
  • —-Spasmodic movements.
  • —Pains over whole body.
  • —Dull

rheumatic pains; < when exercising, > when at rest—Deficiency of blood.—Heat, with aversion

to undress or uncover.—Respiration anxious.—Sweetish taste—Symptoms generally appearing in

  • 1.
  • upper extremity; on |.
  • side generally; in lower belly; lower part of chest.
  • —< In morning; during

inspiration; from undressing. —> While lying in bed; after lying down; from wrapping up

warmly.

Extremities

Extremities
Boericke

Icy cold hands and feet, with warmth of the rest of the body (Menyanthes). Feet get sore from standing. Tender feet with shop girls.

Skin

Skin
Boericke

Small, red spots over body, with prickling pain.

Symptoms — Skin
Clarke

A large red spot, becoming black, in the middle of which an eschar forms as large as a

five-franc piece—The whole affection resembled a malignant pustule, and was associated with

swelling of lymphatic glands.—Violent itching, followed by violent pain in bitten part.

Sleep

Symptoms — Sleep
Clarke

Frequent yawning without sleepiness.—Restless sleep, with much tossing

about.—Dreamed that his body was excessively swollen; dream so vivid, on waking felt himself

to see if it was so.

Fever

Symptoms — Fever
Clarke

No perspiration of r. arm for three months.

Scorpio.

  • Scorpio (several species).
  • Scorpion.
  • N.
  • O.
  • Scorpionida.
  • (Class, Arachnida.
  • ) Tincture of

living animals.

Relations

Relationship
Boericke

Compare: Digit; Strophant; Apocyn can; Bry; Kali carb. Squilla follows Digitalis, if this fails to relieve water-logged cases.

Posology

Dose
Boericke

First to third potency.

Kent's Lecture

Lecture
Kent

Squilla was given in the olden times by the old school in all lung,

bronchial, and kidney affections ; pneumonia, asthma, scanty urine and

dropsical affections.

Cough; Has a loose morning cough and a dry evening cough {Alum,,

Carbo veg,, Phos, ac,, Sep,, Stram,, Puls., Squilla). Puls, and Squil,

being strong here, but Squil. has a hard cough ; coughs, gags, sneezes ;

urine escapes and quite frequently fasces ; the patient coughs until he

is covered with sweat ; he gags and coughs and finally succeeds in raising two or three little lumps of white, tenacious mucus ; it is a spasmodic cough caused by mucus in the trachea or a tickling, creeping

sensation in the chest.

The loose morning cough is worse than the dry evening cough. Pa-

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.

Additional notes

Symptoms — Limbs
Clarke

Convulsive twitchings and motions of the limbs; convulsions.—Frequent falling

asleep of hands when resting head upon them, and in lower limbs when crossing the legs, during

  • the day.
  • —(Nails become brittle and split—Cracked hoof in horses.
  • —Boger.
  • )
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