Wyethia Helenoides

Wyethia was introduced and proved, with the fresh root or the © tincture, on

• ▸seven men and two women, by J.
• ▸M.
• ▸Selfridge.
• ▸Their symptoms make up Allen's pathogenesis.
• ▸A

• ▸later proving (Pacif.
• ▸C.
• ▸J.
• ▸H.
• ▸, vii.
• ▸127) was made under Selfridge's direction with the 1x on Dr.

• ▸A.
• ▸McNeil, the 15x on Dr.
• ▸M.
• ▸R Underwood, and the 30x on Dr.
• ▸Eleanor F.
• ▸Martin.
• ▸Their

symptoms I have marked respectively (M), (U), and (E M) in the Schema. The first proving gave

Wyeth. a definite and important place in throat affections. These symptoms have been confirmed:

"Throat feels swollen; epiglottis dry, and has a burning sensation; constant desire to swallow

saliva to relieve the dryness yet affording no comfort; swallows with difficulty.—Prickling, dry

sensation in posterior nares; sensation as if something were in nasal passages; an effort to clear

them through the throat affords no relief. Burning sensation in bronchial tubes. Dry, hacking

cough, caused by tickling in epiglottis." The following case was reported tome: A boy had been

kept awake many nights by a persistent, dry, hacking, nervous cough. Wyeth. 30 cured in one

dose. Hale gives these cases from Selfridge: (/) Dry asthma in a lady; Wyeth. gave prompt relief

in several paroxysms. (2) Chronic follicular pharyngitis with dryness of pharynx and burning in

• ▸epiglottis.
• ▸In a severe epidemic of influenza Hale found Wyeth.
• ▸most successful.
• ▸Other

noteworthy symptoms are: Tough, ropy saliva. Pain over left ovary, shooting down to knee. In

one case menses, which had been in abeyance since confinement a year before, returned with

• ▸much pain.
• ▸Peculiar Sensations are: Mouth as if scalded.
• ▸Uvula as if elongated.
• ▸Epiglottis feels

dry and burning. Weight in stomach as if something indigestible had been eaten. Uterus feels as

if it enlarged in order to contain all the pain. There is belching alternating with hiccough. The

• ▸symptoms are: < After eating.
• ▸< By motion.
• ▸< By exercise; it = perspiration.
• ▸< Afternoon.

Nervous, uneasy; apprehensive of calamity—Depressed; incapacitated for mental

work; averse to company; impatient, quarrelsome (U).

Feels weak, nervous, uneasy; apprehensive.—Feels as after a severe

• ▸illness.
• ▸—Irritability from exertion; least exercise = sweat.
• ▸—All symptoms < afternoon.
• ▸—Aching

all over body, with chill and fever (E M).

• ▸Nervous, uneasy, depressed.
• ▸Dizzy.
• ▸Rush of blood to head.
• ▸Sharp pain in forehead.

• ▸Dizziness.
• ▸—Rush of blood to head.
• ▸—Severe headache.
• ▸—Sharp pain in forehead over r.

• ▸eye, followed by feeling of fulness—At 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸headache in 1.
• ▸anterior part of brain, as if

• ▸radiated from |.
• ▸inner canthus; 12.
• ▸30 in |.
• ▸occipital protuberance (M).
• ▸—Terrific headache during

the sweat; intense, congestive; eyes sensitive; bones of face sensitive; least movement

intolerable.

Feels as if scalded; sensation of heat down oesophagus. Itching of the palate.

Mouth feels as if scalded —Increased flow of tough, ropy saliva—Mouth full of

sweetish saliva (M).

Throat feels swollen; epiglottis dry and has a burning sensation; constant desire to

swallow saliva to relieve the dryness; swallowing with difficulty —Prickling, dry sensation in

posterior nares; sensation as if something were in the nasal passages; an effort to clear them

through the throat does not >.—Uvula feels elongated.—Dryness of fauces; constant desire to

clear throat by hemming.—Sensation of heat down cesophagus into stomach, < while

eating.—After restless night waked with sharp pain in r. tonsil, throat swollen and sore, glands

externally swollen and sore (E M).

• ▸Constant clearing and hemming.
• ▸Dry, posterior nares; no relief from clearing.
• ▸Throat feels swollen; epiglottis dry and burning.
• ▸Difficult swallowing.
• ▸Constant desire to swallow saliva.
• ▸Uvula feels elongated.

Sense of weight. Belching of wind alternating with hiccough. Nausea and vomiting.

Belching of wind alternating with hiccough.—Nausea and vomiting.—Sense of

weight in stomach as if something indigestible had been eaten.

Pain below ribs of right side.

Loose, dark, at night. Itching of anus. Constipation, with haemorrhoids; not bleeding.

Itching in anus.—Itching in rectum (M).—Stools: diarrhoeic, dark brown,

came on at night, lasted five days; small, dark brown, look burned; previously light-coloured,

irregular, and constipated, became dark, regular, and soft.—Great constriction, hemorrhoids, not

bleeding (never had them before or since-several provers).

Pain in left ovary, shooting down to knee. Pain in uterus; could outline its contour.

Pain in |. ovary, shooting down to knee.—Menses appear for first

time after birth of last child, a year before; purple, scanty, great pain —Leucorrhcea.—Menses

commenced with intense burning pain, constant, but increasing in paroxysms, with sensation as

if uterus expanded in order to keep all the pains within its walls (E M).

• ▸Dry, hacking cough, caused by tickling of the epiglottis.
• ▸Burning sensation in the bronchial tubes.
• ▸Tendency to get hoarse talking or singing; throat hot, dry.
• ▸Dry asthma.

Burning sensation in bronchial tubes.—Dry, hacking cough, caused by

tickling in epiglottis.—Persistent, dry, hacking, nervous night cough (in boy, cured with 30th).

Pain in r. arm, with stiffness of wrist and hand.—Neuralgic pain commenced

• ▸in |.
• ▸arm and hand, spreading to back and other parts (E M).
• ▸—Sore hang-nail on r.
• ▸third finger

(M).

Pain in back; extends to end of spine. Pain right arm, stiffness of wrist and hand. Aching pains all over.

• ▸Chill at 11 am.
• ▸Thirst for ice-water during chill.
• ▸No thirst with heat.
• ▸Profuse sweat all night.
• ▸Terrific headache during sweat.

Chill 11 a.m.; thirst for ice-water during chill; no thirst with heat; profuse sweat all

• ▸night; pains in back and limbs, at times jerking; chill recurred at 1.
• ▸30 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸six days later, with

intense headache (E M).—Cold sweat over whole body, which soon dies off, and comes again

and goes as if by flashes.—Fever and pains all over body, with inflamed r. tonsil (E M).

• ▸Amenorrhoea.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysmenorrhcea.

• ▸Epiglottis, affections of.
• ▸Fever.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Hiccough.
• ▸Indigestion.
• ▸Influenza.

• ▸Nervousness.
• ▸Ovaries, pain in.
• ▸Post-nasal catarrh.
• ▸Salivation.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Uvula, affections of.

• ▸Compare: In throat affections, Ar.
• ▸dracon.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Stict.
• ▸, Rumex, Penth.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸,

Sul. Tough, ropy saliva and headache, Epipheg. Sensation as if something indigestible eaten, Ab.

n. Scalded mouth, Ran. sc.

Compare: Arum; Sang; Lach.

First to sixth potency.