Wildbad aqua

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 The Springs at Wildbad, in Würtemburg. The water contains in 16 ounces, сarbonic ac. gr. 0.972, Nat. m. 1.808, Nat. c. 0.837, Nat. sul. 0.291, K. sul. 0.108, сalc. c. 0.738, Silicic acid 0.480, Mag. c. 0.079, Fer. с. 0.002, Alumina 0.004, and traces of Mang. Dilution.

 Bones, pains in. сatarrh. Gout. Hair, affections of. Indigestion. Knees, creaking of. Nails, soft. Paralysis, spinal. Paraplegia. Rheumatism. Shoulder, rheumatism of.

 In spite of its very slight mineralisation, says сonstantin James, the water produces very distinct effects in a graduated series. The first impression of the bath is delicious; this is succeeded by sensations more clear and distinct: a slight degree of excitement; at times luminous sparks before the sight; a finer (plus subtil) blood seems to flow to the brain. One would like to remain in the bath, but something unusual and strange warns you that it is time to get out. It is chiefly, says the same authority, for affections of the spinal cord that Wildbad is frequented, more than half the patients being paraplegic. Hartlaub, Kallenbach, and others proved the water. Among the symptoms were: Sensation as if the brain were over-filled. Gnawing, sinking, empty sensation. Pain as if sprained. Sensation of looseness in the joints; ankles loose; knees loose; the bones seem as if they did not fit. Teeth seem too long. In one prover the hair, which had been greasy, became dry; and the beard became of a darker colour. Desire to stretch. The symptoms were:

 Compare: Uric acid in urine; pain in right shoulder, Urt. ur. Right shoulder, Sang.

 Great depression with anxiety. Memory weak.

 Rush of blood to head. Head: dull, heavy, especially occiput. Sensation as though whole brain overfilled, intolerable lying with head on pillow. Throbbing headache on waking at night. Tearing pains in forehead, extending from middle of right eyebrow. Violent pulsation on vertex and occiput. Heaviness in vertex on waking at night. Throbbing and warmth in occiput,.
 Pain and pressure in eyes on writing in evening. Fine sticking pain in eyes (.
 Sensation in ears as after taking cold, first right, then left-Sensation of warmth in right ear. Pressing stitches in left ear as if deep in meatus.
 Blood from right nostril in morning.
 Violent painless twitching in face. Pain left jaw-joint, lower jaw, and in top of shoulder.

 Teeth, especially right, painful, as if too long, or as after taking cold. Dryness of mouth; without thirst, and with coated tongue in morning. Mouth and tongue dry toward morning. - вurning point in right corner of mouth or wing of nose. - вloody saliva, apparently from fauces, after talking in open air.
 Expectoration of mucus from throat, larynx, and posterior nares. A retching, spasmodic, or drawing pain in oesophagus, above the stomach, with some nausea.

 Hunger: ravenous; as from an empty stomach in morning, also in evening after supper. Gnawing emptiness in stomach and whole abdomen. Emptiness without hunger. Eructations; empty. Nausea; on waking. Feeling of indigestion or disordered stomach. Pressure in stomach.
 Colic in umbilical region, as before a stool, without an evacuation. Sticking, drawing pains in both hypochondria.
 Spasmodic pressure in anus and perinaeum. Great urging to stool, which was at first dark and thin; afterwards brown with mucus, and at 11 p.m very watery, yellowish grey, with some colic. Stool: dark, with tenacious mucus; lumpy, covered with mucus of a dark blackish-brown colour; retained, hard, lumpy, dark; constipated, after a few days natural with colic.

 Frequent urgent desire to urinate. Mucus in urine with large uric acid crystals.
 Erections: painful on waking; more easy than natural. Painful drawing in cords on waking, after an emission.
 Menstruation usually hastened.

 Dry cough. - вreathing oppressed; on ascending stairs.
 Pain and cracking in upper part of sternum at junction with first right rib.

 Tearing pain, as if sprained, transversely through nape. - сonstant pulsation in nape and occiput at night. Drawing in back as though a hot sponge drawn along skin on waking in morning. Prickling on back, followed by nettlerash. Disagreeable sensation of warmth along lumbar vertebrae.
 Joints weak. Fulness and heaviness in limbs. Drawing pains here and there in limbs; drawing pain in left upper arm and right thigh.
 Violent drawing tearing about right shoulder. Shuddering jerking about right upper arm. Drawing in left upper arm. Acute pain in left arm above elbow, outer portion, as if in bone or tendon, as if sprained. Drawing burning beneath r, elbow, in bone. Rheumatic pain in forearm from back of wrist to elbow, near wrist arm painful. Nails became so soft he could not open a watch with them. Hang-nails. Stiffness and painfulness of all fingers on opening and closing hand. Painful swollen sensation in left thumb.
 Weariness of hips after a slight effort. Pain in nates, right and left, as if in sciatic nerve, especially on walking. Pain in muscles of right thigh, on posterior and inner surfaces. Drawing pain in right thigh, a hand s-breadth above knee, below anterior and outer portions. Violent cracking: in both knees on rising; right knee. Pain and stiffness in right knee, as if contracted, on waking in morning. Knees feel loose, as if bones did not fit; must be supported in walking. Violent itching in left calf and on tibia. Pain in right calf on walking. Ankles feel loose. Drawing: in ankles; in left sole behind toes. Sprained sensation: in first joint of right great toe; in right and left great toes. Acute pain in left little toe.

 Weak, weary, wants to keep quiet. Weary: after walking; especially knees and ankles; sudden, ankles seem loose. Great desire to lie on back and stretch, with feeling of comfort and warmth through whole body, and averse to business, especially after a bath.

 Crawling itching about left half of mouth, around red of lip, especially lower lip. Itching on: one finger of right hand; right thumb, in small spot as if in periosteum, (but not removed) by rubbing; left calf and tibia; left index finger, with development of a small vesicle; middle knuckle of left ring-finger; right natis.

 Very sleepy in evening. Unusual desire to sleep after eating. - сomplete sleeplessness till 4 p.m, with constant excitement and uneasiness, dry, burning heat; sitting erect with head against hard pillow. Sleep: restless; full of confused dreams, wakes every few minutes feeling as if he had slept for hours. Dreams: disagreeable; forgetful; anxious; confused. Violent weeping in a dream, waking in perspiration.

 Hands quite cold, with weakness and sweat on waking. Feet cold. Violent, dry heat over whole body. Prickling heat over whole body, with some sweat. Very disagreeable heat in occiput, intolerable on lying down, and amounting to violent pulsation. Sweat: easy; free at night and during day after any exertion.