Taraxacum Officinale

Sensation of great heat on top of head. Sterno-mastoid muscle very painful to touch.

Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering when walking in the open air—Drawing rain in

• ▸1.
• ▸temple while sitting, ceasing when walking or standing.
• ▸—Tearing pain in occiput.
• ▸—Pressure

and heaviness in lower part of occiput, after lying down.—Headache, as from contraction or

expansion of brain.—Heaviness and pressure in head.—Lancinations in forehead and

temples.—Violent headache, felt only when standing or walking.—Tension of scalp.

Pain in eyes, as if a grain of sand were in internal canthus.—(Aversion to light) burning

sensation, and burning shootings in eyes.—Burn in |. eyeball —Inflammation of eyes with

lachrymation and photophobia.—Nocturnal agglutination of lids.

Purulent pimples on face, cheeks, alze nasi, and (r.) commissures of lips.—Sensation of

heat and redness in face.—Shootings and pressure in cheeks.—Upper lip cracked.

• ▸Mapped tongue.
• ▸Tongue covered with a white film; feels raw; comes off in patches, leaving red, sensitive spots.
• ▸Loss of appetite.
• ▸Bitter taste and eructations.
• ▸Salivation.

Accumulation of acid saliva in mouth (with sensation as if the larynx were

compressed).—Tongue loaded with a white coating, with exfoliation (it cleans off in patches,

dark red, and they are very sensitive).—Tongue dry, loaded with a brown coating on waking in

morning.

Toothache, with drawing pain in carious teeth, extending to eyebrows.—Pressive pains

in teeth —Teeth set on edge as from acids.—Flow of acid blood from carious teeth —Bluntness of

teeth—Hawking up of sour mucus, causing teeth to feel dull.

Sore throat, with pressive pain, as from internal swelling.—Dryness, shootings, and

bitter mucus in the throat—Hawking up of acid mucus.

Bitter taste in mouth, with natural taste of food.—Salt or acid taste of food,

principally of butter and of meat—Tobacco-smoke is disagreeable, causes pyrosis, and interrupts

respiration.—Great chilliness after drinking, or eating.

Bitter risings (eructations and hiccough).—Empty risings, esp. after

drinking. —Nausea (with inclination to vomit or vomiting) from very fat food, with anxiety and

pressive headache, > in open air.

• ▸Liver enlarged and indurated.
• ▸Sharp stitches in left side.
• ▸Sensation of bubbles bursting in bowels.
• ▸Tympanites.
• ▸Evacuation difficult.

Pinching in abdomen.—Pressive shootings in abdomen, and sides of abdomen,

chiefly in I. side; in hypogastrt'um.—Grumbling and movements (sudden sensation) in abdomen,

as if bubbles were bursting in it.

Inefficient urging to go to stool.—Evacuations several times a day, but

accomplished with difficulty (even if stool is not hard).—Feeces of the consistence of pap,

followed by tenesmus.—Voluptuous itching in perinzeum (compelling one to scratch).

Frequent want to urinate (pressure without pain), with profuse

emission.—Enuresis somni (?).

Pain in testes.—Permanent erections. —Frequent pollutions; on

alternate nights.

Pressure at chest—Shootings in chest and sides of chest.—Jerkings in muscles of

sides.

Pressive jerkings and shootings in muscles of neck, (throat), and

• ▸nape.
• ▸—Tearing from ear downward to the neck.
• ▸—Pressive pains in loins.
• ▸—Pressive and tensive

shootings in back and loins, when lying down, with obstructed respiration.—Pressing-stinging in

spine and sacrum with dyspnoea.—Gurgling and swelling in shoulder-blades and shoulders, with

shivering over whole body.—Vibration and quivering in r, scapula.

Pulsative throbbing and jerking in shoulders and arms.—Jerkings of muscles

• ▸of arms.
• ▸—Twitching in muscles of |.
• ▸forearm.
• ▸—Shootings in arms and elbows.
• ▸—Drawings and

tearings in forearm and wrist.—Eruptions of pimples on hands and fingers.—Icy coldness of ends

of fingers.—Pressive pain in three last fingers of r. hand.

Shootings in thighs, knees, calves, soles, and toes.—Stitching pain in I.

• ▸thigh.
• ▸—Pressive pain in |.
• ▸calf—Jerking pain in r.
• ▸calf, ceasing quickly when touched.
• ▸—Drawing

pain in dorsum of r. foot; when standing; stitches when sitting.—Severe or fine stitching pains in

r. sole-—Burning sensation in knees, legs and toes.—Profuse perspiration between toes.

24. Generalities—This remedy acts well in all affections of the liver; sour taste; darting pains in

• ▸outer parts.
• ▸—A ffections in |.
• ▸upper side; r.
• ▸lower side; back of foot; sole of foot—< While lying

down; from fat food; while resting —> From moving; when walking.—Painful tenderness of all

limbs, esp. when touched, and when they are in a false position.—The limbs are Movable, but it

feels as if the power to move them were impeded.—Sensation of weakness and uneasiness

throughout body, with constant necessity to lie down or to sit.—Almost all symptoms appear

while the patient is seated, and are dissipated by walking.

Very restless limbs. Neuralgia of knee; better, pressure. Limbs painful to touch.

Profuse night-sweats.

Unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skins.—Stinging on skin.—Eruption over body and limbs

itching severely, and appears to be a mixture of lichen and urticaria.—Biting in skin with sweat.

Sleepiness, and going to sleep while listening to a scientific discourse.—Sleepiness in

daytime, and yawning while sitting —Vivid unremembered dreams; frequent waking and tossing.

Chilliness after eating, worse drinking; finger tips cold. Bitter taste. Heat without thirst, in face, in toes. Sweat on falling asleep.

Chilliness, esp. after eating and drinking.—Chilliness, shiverings, all over, with

• ▸pressive headache.
• ▸—Chill in open air.
• ▸Heat at night on waking, esp.
• ▸on face and hands.
• ▸—Violent

night-sweats, mostly before midnight, when just going to sleep.—Very debilitating perspiration,

causing biting on the skin.

• ▸Ague.
• ▸Bilious attacks.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Gall-stones.
• ▸Headache, gastric.
• ▸Jaundice.

• ▸Liver, affections of.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Night-sweats.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Tongue, mapped.
• ▸Typhoid fever.

Characteristics—The young leaves of the Dandelion are sometimes eaten in salads. They have

a bitter chicory-like taste, as also has the root. Children eat the flowers, although they are

supposed by them to cause bed-wetting. This has given rise to one of the popular names of the

plant. Its chief traditional uses are as a remedy for jaundice, liver obstruction, in dysentery,

involuntary emissions, and in difficulties in passing water. Hahnemann's provings brought out

these leading symptoms: "Painless urging to urinate;" and "frequent urging to urinate with

copious discharge of urine." Hahnemann points out that this, with the thirst, may indicate 7x. in

some cases of diabetes. 7rx. has caused pains in both splenic and, liver regions, and has cured

jaundice with enlarged indurated liver. Cooper gives me the following case: An old Indian

officer, when in India, suffered much from gall-stones, and was advised to take dandelion

infusion every day. This he did, and soon the symptoms left him, and he remained free from

them for over twenty years. A symptom in connection with disordered digestion, which has

proved a good guide for 7rx. in some cases, is the "mapped tongue." The tongue is coated white,

• ▸and clears off in patches, leaving dark red very sensitive spots.
• ▸Treas.
• ▸of Bot.
• ▸points out that "the

bright-yellow flowers of 7x. open in the morning between 5 and 6 o'clock and close in the

evening between 8 and 9. Hence this was one of the plants selected by Linnzeus to form his floral

• ▸clock.
• ▸" The symptoms of 7rx.
• ▸are < at night.
• ▸Hands and nose cold at 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸"Cold finger-tips" is

a guiding symptom. Peculiar Sensations are: As if brain was constricted. As if teeth were set on

• ▸edge.
• ▸As if larynx were compressed.
• ▸As if bubbles were forming and bursting in abdomen.
• ▸As of

rolling and gurgling in right scapula. As if limbs were bound or powerless. Some leading

indications are: Gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric headaches; the headaches are

generally pressive. Pressure in lower occiput after lying down is characteristic. Debility, loss of

appetite, profuse night-sweats, especially when convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever.

Restlessness of limbs in typhoid. Sweat between toes. The symptoms are: > By touch (jerking in

• ▸right calf).
• ▸Rest <.
• ▸(Almost all symptoms appear when sitting; lying down; resting.
• ▸) Motion >.
• ▸>

In open air. Burning in throat is > by drinking. Hahnemann's dosage was a single drop of the @

• ▸tincture (MV.
• ▸M.
• ▸P.
• ▸).

• ▸Compatible: Ars.
• ▸(night-sweats).
• ▸Compare: In gastric and bilious affections, Bry.
• ▸,

• ▸Chel.
• ▸, Hydr.
• ▸, Nux.
• ▸Mapped tongue, Ars.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Ran.
• ▸s.
• ▸Restlessness of limbs with tearing

pains, Rhus.

• ▸Compare: Choline, a constituent of Taraxacum root, has given encouraging results in the treatment of cancer.
• ▸Choline is closely related to Neurin, it is the "Cancronie" of Prof.
• ▸Adamkiewicz (E.
• ▸Schlegel).
• ▸Bry; Hydrast; Nux. Tela aranea (nervous asthma and sleeplessness).

Tincture, to third potency. In cancer 1-2 drams fluid extract.