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Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkeDescription
Lamium album. L. laevigatum. L. maculatum. Dead Nettle. White Nettle. N. O. Labiatae. Tincture of entire fresh plant whilst in flower and seed.
Nosology
Haemorrhoids. Headache. Hernia. Leucorrhoea. Menstruation, too early.
Typical features
Lamium was proved by Hahnemann and others, including Stapf. It produced headaches of several kinds, one a deep-in headache like that of вacil.; tightness of scalp; and a backward and forward motion of the head. Much uneasiness of mind and body; trembling of limbs; weakness during the chill. Tearing and drawing in the limbs. The menses appeared too early and were scanty. Much leucorrhoea, with biting sensation or without sensation, white mucus. Farrington says Lamium has been recommended for external piles. Hard stool with blood is the nearest symptom bearing on this. A characteristic symptom seenms to be backward and forward motion of head. Symptoms were on rising (headache); on sitting (headache);
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Other members of the Mint tribe (Hedeoma, Ocimum canum, Origanum, Mentha piperita); deep-in headache, вacil.; head moves backwards and forwards, Arn., сham., Lyc.
Mental
Whining mood, inclination to weep, feels as if abandoned. Great sadness, with lachrymose humour. Great agitation and anxiety, which permit no rest.
Head, face, and ears
Aching in centre of brain, when seated. - сephalalgia, as if brain were compressed on all sides, with very violent pains in centre of brain. Excessive tightness of scalp, especially near coronal suture. Great mobility of head, especially from before backward. Sight and hearing are diminished.
Mouth and throat
Hawking up of thick mucus of an acid taste, which is detached from bottom of gullet.
Gastrointestinal tract
Burning pain in middle of chest, or in oesophagus, after eating or drinking anything whatever. Nausea and vomiting of food, with heat, great lassitude, excessive dejection, and cloudiness of sight.
Excessive distension of the abdomen. Pinching in the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus, which is not by expulsion of the wind. A dragging in left side of abdomen down into pubic region as if a hernia would protrude there. Great agitation in the abdomen, as if catamenia were about to come on violently.
Evacuations of the consistence of pap, hard, with emission of blood.
Excessive distension of the abdomen. Pinching in the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus, which is not by expulsion of the wind. A dragging in left side of abdomen down into pubic region as if a hernia would protrude there. Great agitation in the abdomen, as if catamenia were about to come on violently.
Evacuations of the consistence of pap, hard, with emission of blood.
Urogenital system
Urgent want to urinate, with very scanty emission. Discharge of serum from the urethra.
Catamenia too early and too scanty; eleven days too early at the new moon. Leucorrhoea, sometimes with a biting sensation in genitals. Leucorrhoea profuse, painless, white mucus.
Catamenia too early and too scanty; eleven days too early at the new moon. Leucorrhoea, sometimes with a biting sensation in genitals. Leucorrhoea profuse, painless, white mucus.
Chest organs
Voice weak and faltering, as from mental agitation. Want of breath when speaking, with weakness of the chest. Anxious pressure on chest, with nausea.
Limbs and spine
Bruised pain in small of back.
Torpor and crawling numbness of back of hand, and of the fleshy part of thumb,.
Intermitting drawing, pressive tearing on lower posterior muscles of right thigh (while sitting). - вlister on heel from slight rubbing, afterwards bursting and changing to an ulcer with smarting and biting.
Torpor and crawling numbness of back of hand, and of the fleshy part of thumb,.
Intermitting drawing, pressive tearing on lower posterior muscles of right thigh (while sitting). - вlister on heel from slight rubbing, afterwards bursting and changing to an ulcer with smarting and biting.
Common symptoms
Tearing and drawing in limbs. Great restlessness of body and mind, with trembling of limbs.
Skin
Smarting and stinging in the ulcer (.
Fever
Shivering, with general weakness, or with anxiety. - вurning heat in both cheeks, without redness, and without thirst. - сonstant thirst, except during shivering fit.
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