Other names and synonyms
junc.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
Juncus effusus. Soft Rush. N. O. Juncaceae. Tincture (of root probably).
Nosology
Asthma. вackache. сalculus. сatarrh. Dropsy. Flatulence. Headache. Kidney, diseases of. Rheumatism. Scars, affections of.
Typical features
Juncus was proved by Doctor Wahle, and a number of symptoms were produced. The most notable were bubbling sensations in various parts; and a number of pains pressive and sticking were noted in the chest. Pulling in cervical vertebrae; in neck muscles. There was much rumbling of flatus in abdomen, and marked to abdominal symptoms when flatus was emitted. According to Jahr, quoting Noack and Trinks, Junc. is diuretic, and has been used in dropsical, calculous, and renal diseases. Hartmann used J. conglomeratus with success in dysury, strangury, and ischury. In Livonia a decoction of J. pilosus is used for stone and gravel. The exact preparation used in the proving was not recorded. Fresh plant tinctures should be used in any further experiments. The pains were stretching out arm. Rheumatic pains by motion. сhilliness emission of flatus.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare. Rhus ( stretching); вerb. (bubbling sensations); Sil. (scars).
Psyche and consciousness
Anxiety in morning, during a partial slumber, like the orgasm of blood, with frequent palpitation so that he was obliged to sit up, when it disappeared.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo: as if everything were turning in a circle during rest; with nausea while walking. Pressive drawing headache, extending from before backward. Pressing-asunder headache, in forehead, on stooping, on rising up in bed in morning, a burrowing pain as in suppuration in forehead and occiput, which immediately disappears on lying down again. - вubbling sensation in right side of occipital bone, which extends to right ear, where it leaves a dull, pressive sensation.
Itching on margins of lids, rubbing.
Cramp-like pain in external ear. Feeling as if inner meatus were swollen.
Stopped catarrh; feels like sneezing. Itching on inner surface of left nostril. Dry coryza.
Sticking-itching pain above left corner of mouth, as if a splinter sticking into it, morning. - вubbling sensation in right jaw-joint, leaving swollen feeling in the parts.
Itching on margins of lids, rubbing.
Cramp-like pain in external ear. Feeling as if inner meatus were swollen.
Stopped catarrh; feels like sneezing. Itching on inner surface of left nostril. Dry coryza.
Sticking-itching pain above left corner of mouth, as if a splinter sticking into it, morning. - вubbling sensation in right jaw-joint, leaving swollen feeling in the parts.
Mouth and throat
Tongue: coated white; yellow; with slimy taste.
Throat dark and scrapy. Pressure in throat during swallowing, as if tonsils swollen. Hawks much yellow mucus without coughing. Painful laming, drawing, stretching, and pulling in neck muscles.
Throat dark and scrapy. Pressure in throat during swallowing, as if tonsils swollen. Hawks much yellow mucus without coughing. Painful laming, drawing, stretching, and pulling in neck muscles.
Gastrointestinal tract
Swelling in region of stomach pit. Tightness in stomach pit.
Constant rumbling, obliges him to go to stool, but no stool follows, only emission of flatulence. Sharp stitch extending deep inward above crest of ilium, taking away breath. Unusual feeling of relief of abdominal symptoms after emission of flatulence.
Itching in rectum. A thin stool consisting of small lumps.
Constant rumbling, obliges him to go to stool, but no stool follows, only emission of flatulence. Sharp stitch extending deep inward above crest of ilium, taking away breath. Unusual feeling of relief of abdominal symptoms after emission of flatulence.
Itching in rectum. A thin stool consisting of small lumps.
Urogenital system
Tension in urethra with sensation as of something alive in it. Slight itching; burning in urethra. Urine: like clay-water deposits red sediment.
Itching in penis and scrotum.
Itching in penis and scrotum.
Chest organs
Violent pressive pain in lower chest,.
Limbs and spine
Pressive drawing in cervical vertebrae as if it would draw head to right-Drawing and pulling in dorsal vertebrae as if he would be bent backward; frequently repeated. Aching pain in small of back, causing an anguish, or attended with asthma.
Painless cracking in joints.
Dull sticking pain in left axilla, evening in bed. Visible twitching of deltoid muscles. Pressive paralytic pain in head of right elbow, gradually disappears on stretching out arm, but renewed immediately on flexing it. Painful burrowing in bones of wrist, during both rest and motion.
While walking, stiffness in right hip as if tendons too short. Twitching in left gluteal muscles, as if something alive beneath them. Very painful drawing in bones of lower legs, during rest, on motion. - вubbling and drawing in muscles of calves. - вubbling pain in bones of left lower leg. Itching and jerking in knee. Tension in tendo Achillis as if swollen and too short, on bending left foot forwards.
Painless cracking in joints.
Dull sticking pain in left axilla, evening in bed. Visible twitching of deltoid muscles. Pressive paralytic pain in head of right elbow, gradually disappears on stretching out arm, but renewed immediately on flexing it. Painful burrowing in bones of wrist, during both rest and motion.
While walking, stiffness in right hip as if tendons too short. Twitching in left gluteal muscles, as if something alive beneath them. Very painful drawing in bones of lower legs, during rest, on motion. - вubbling and drawing in muscles of calves. - вubbling pain in bones of left lower leg. Itching and jerking in knee. Tension in tendo Achillis as if swollen and too short, on bending left foot forwards.
Skin
Itching, crawling in scar of incised wound several years old, with elevation of scar as if it would break out. Itching on penis, scrotum, thighs, knees.
Sleep
Wakes very early, cannot sleep again. Dreams of hunting; of jests; laughs aloud in his sleep.
Fever
Chilliness over whole body, immediately on getting out of bed in morning. - вecomes chilly over whole body on raising bed covering and allowing a little air to come to the feet. Repeated shivering.