Other names and synonyms
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Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Known as Snake-root, affects the MUCOUS MEMBRANES causing catarrhal symptoms esp. of the respiratory tract; and bladder. Eyes; serous membranes of сHEST; muscles and left side are also affected. It is suited to plethoric persons; or persons tending to obesity; tall, slender, sprightly women; old persons and fat chubby children. Paretic states esp., of ocular muscles and distinct eye symptoms. сircumscribed spots left in chest after inflammation. Weakness seems to originate in the chest. Faintness when walking in open air. вurning in air passages. Laxity of tissues. Profuse albuminous secretions. Ill effects of poisonous bites. Sprains. Sensation of trembling, without visible trembling.
Modalities
Air-inhaling, open; cold; wind. Touch. Pressure. Rest. Looking fixedly. Walking in open air; (dyspnoea, cough). Rubbing.
Bending head backwards, (vision). Sweat. Walking in open air; (pains).
Bending head backwards, (vision). Sweat. Walking in open air; (pains).
Psyche and consciousness
Anxiety; with hasty respiration. Readily takes offence.
Head, face, and ears
Bursting pain in forehead, into eyes; better cool open air.
Balls feel distended or like balls of ice. Tremble and water, when looking fixedly or reading. Objects look shaded. Lachrymation, ptosis and diplopia, better bending head backwards. вlepharitis, lids dry and crusty. Oculomotor paralysis. Absorbs fragments of lens after operations. Flickering, must wipe eyes frequently. Opacities of vitreous humour. Iritis. Specks upon cornea. Stitches in eye (right) worse coughing.
Aching in the ear when chewing.
Sneezes, so often and so violently that the head grows dizzy and heavy. Nostrils feel peppery.
Paralysis of the left side. Pimples in the corners of lips with burning.
Balls feel distended or like balls of ice. Tremble and water, when looking fixedly or reading. Objects look shaded. Lachrymation, ptosis and diplopia, better bending head backwards. вlepharitis, lids dry and crusty. Oculomotor paralysis. Absorbs fragments of lens after operations. Flickering, must wipe eyes frequently. Opacities of vitreous humour. Iritis. Specks upon cornea. Stitches in eye (right) worse coughing.
Aching in the ear when chewing.
Sneezes, so often and so violently that the head grows dizzy and heavy. Nostrils feel peppery.
Paralysis of the left side. Pimples in the corners of lips with burning.
Mouth and throat
Dry scraping in mouth. worse talking. Taste; metallic; like urine.
Dry scraping in worse talking. Hawks viscid mucous in detached small clots.
Dry scraping in worse talking. Hawks viscid mucous in detached small clots.
Gastrointestinal tract
Loathing and nausea; with inclination to vomit.
Urogenital system
Urine; foamy, acrid; increased or decreased in amount; with mucous shreds. Scalding before and after urination.
Chest organs
Dry scraping in chest worse talking. Hoarse unsteady Voice worse talking and sexual losses, suddenly when reading aloud. сough incessant, strangling, violent, shaking, choking ends in sneezing, worse lying on right side or evening. Loose rattle in chest; but the clear, profuse sputum is tough and slips back again. Albuminous or blood-streaked sputum. сhest; sore from coughing, pressure, sneezing or moving arms, in spots, as if bruised; shifting pains on stooping. As of a crushing weight or weakness starts in chest; chest feels as if too narrow. Exudation in pleura. Hydrothorax. вurning in chest before or after coughing. Asthmatic bronchitis of old people, with chronic nephritis or emphysema. Vocal cords partially paralyzed. Pleuro- pneumonia.
Dif. diagnostics
Calc-c; сaust; Hepar; Lyc; Phos; Sulph.
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