Other names and synonyms
hall.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
The salt springs of Hall in Upper Austria, containing chlorides, iodides, bromides, and carbonates of the alkalies and alkaline earths and iron; but by far the largest ingredient is chloride of sodium. Dilutions.
Nosology
Breast, affections of. Exophthalmic goitre. Glands, enlarged. goitre.
Typical features
Provings have been made of this water, many of them on patients suffering from goitre. Great weakness and exhausting night-sweats were produced and all the symptoms of cold in the head and chest. Many marked symptoms appeared in the mammary gland. Three different provers experienced them. A number of symptoms occur after sleep and some of them wake the prover in the night. One prover had a sensation as if her stomach would fall out, and as if her breasts would fall off. In many cases the pains are transient and acute, and return after a short interval.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Nat. mur., Silica marit. (stitches shooting out of nipple) Ol. an.
Mental
Confusion of the senses.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo as if intoxicated. Headache, especially at first, sometimes increasing in severity and accompanied by vertigo, roaring in ears, sparks before eyes. Drawing tearing in vertex towards right temple. Transient, painful tearings in occiput.
Heat, burning and violent watering of eyes, with feeling of catarrh in nose, as after smelling strong ammonia.
Great difficulty of hearing.
Frequent (violent) sneezing and feeling of commencing coryza.
Painful swelling of the lymphatic gland, size of pigeon s egg, right side of face close to ear.
Heat, burning and violent watering of eyes, with feeling of catarrh in nose, as after smelling strong ammonia.
Great difficulty of hearing.
Frequent (violent) sneezing and feeling of commencing coryza.
Painful swelling of the lymphatic gland, size of pigeon s egg, right side of face close to ear.
Mouth and throat
Accumulation of saliva.
Frequent hawking with expectoration of mucus. - вurning and tickling; rawness as if tough mucus collected, difficult to loosen, with hoarseness; scraping. Swelling of one of cervical glands (in a prover who had never had a swollen gland in her life before); in anterior portion of neck between hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage, size of walnut, painless, easily movable. - goitre gradually disappeared.
Frequent hawking with expectoration of mucus. - вurning and tickling; rawness as if tough mucus collected, difficult to loosen, with hoarseness; scraping. Swelling of one of cervical glands (in a prover who had never had a swollen gland in her life before); in anterior portion of neck between hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage, size of walnut, painless, easily movable. - goitre gradually disappeared.
Gastrointestinal tract
Regurgitation of bitter nauseous fluid from stomach. Acidity, like heartburn. Qualmish nausea: in evening; on going to bed; on awaking. Vomiting. Painful sensation of emptiness in stomach and hunger, although she had eaten much supper; the stomach felt painful and sick, as if it would fall out. Violent gnawing, like hunger, in stomach extending downward into intestines.
Cutting griping in abdomen, commencing near right side of navel, extending outward, then following course of colon to rectum, involving a large circle about navel, followed by rumbling as if for stool, lasting an hour and returning at short intervals. Transient painful sensation in right flank.
Thin, pasty evacuations, increasing to diarrhoea. Unusually hard, difficult stool.
Cutting griping in abdomen, commencing near right side of navel, extending outward, then following course of colon to rectum, involving a large circle about navel, followed by rumbling as if for stool, lasting an hour and returning at short intervals. Transient painful sensation in right flank.
Thin, pasty evacuations, increasing to diarrhoea. Unusually hard, difficult stool.
Urogenital system
Increased secretion of pale urine.
Menstruation unusually profuse at first, at the right time. Menstruation lasting only one day (usually three). Menstruation appeared without any pain (very remarkable, as she had always been subject to pains in abdomen therewith. The cure was permanent).
Menstruation unusually profuse at first, at the right time. Menstruation lasting only one day (usually three). Menstruation appeared without any pain (very remarkable, as she had always been subject to pains in abdomen therewith. The cure was permanent).
Chest organs
Hoarse; piping voice, scarcely audible. - сough in morning after rising. Dry cough in evening with catarrh, which became loose in morning. - сough hoarse, barking, very violent, dry, croupy or like the cough of laryngeal phthisis. Remarkable dyspnoea, with palpitation on ascending a slight elevation, followed by the appearance of menstruation.
Oppression of chest with difficult breathing. Frequent waking from sleep on account of sticking in right side of thorax. A transient stitch in sternum, above pit of stomach, wakes her from sleep at night. Two very violent stitches right side, just below right breast, during rest. Her breasts, which were usually firm and full, became small and flabby. Transient burning and sticking in left mamma. Itching-sticking and burning superficially in left nipple, temporarily by rubbing, lasting 8 to 10 seconds, and returning after a short time. Frequent stitches beneath left breast. Frequent transient stitches (very violent at times) in both breasts, with extreme sensitiveness, pressure of linen or bedclothes unendurable; sensation as if an ulcer forming deep in the breast;
Oppression of chest with difficult breathing. Frequent waking from sleep on account of sticking in right side of thorax. A transient stitch in sternum, above pit of stomach, wakes her from sleep at night. Two very violent stitches right side, just below right breast, during rest. Her breasts, which were usually firm and full, became small and flabby. Transient burning and sticking in left mamma. Itching-sticking and burning superficially in left nipple, temporarily by rubbing, lasting 8 to 10 seconds, and returning after a short time. Frequent stitches beneath left breast. Frequent transient stitches (very violent at times) in both breasts, with extreme sensitiveness, pressure of linen or bedclothes unendurable; sensation as if an ulcer forming deep in the breast;
Cardiovascular system
Palpitation. Pulse greatly accelerated.
Limbs and spine
Pain like sprain, extending from right lumbar region, across right side of small of back into right ischium.
Trembling of the limbs.
Unable to exert right arm without violent pain in axilla, where was found a gland, dark red, swollen, hot, very painful to touch, size of a walnut (it gathered and broke in five days). Drawing tearing pain in left humerus to elbow; lower end of left elbow as if in periosteum while sitting still, followed by some violent stitches just below left breast close to its margin.
Violent sticking as with needles in right heel (lasts a quarter of an hour, and returns after short pause).
Trembling of the limbs.
Unable to exert right arm without violent pain in axilla, where was found a gland, dark red, swollen, hot, very painful to touch, size of a walnut (it gathered and broke in five days). Drawing tearing pain in left humerus to elbow; lower end of left elbow as if in periosteum while sitting still, followed by some violent stitches just below left breast close to its margin.
Violent sticking as with needles in right heel (lasts a quarter of an hour, and returns after short pause).
Skin
Boils: right eyebrow; right breast; left breast; back of right upper arm. - вurning pains in skin of dorsal surface of left forearm on oblong spot with slight redness.
Sleep
Night restless, with many dreams; unpleasant.