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Filix mas

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Nosology
  3. Mental
  4. Head, face, and ears
  5. Mouth and throat
  6. Appetite and food preferences
  7. Gastrointestinal tract
  8. Urogenital system
  9. Plant characteristics
  10. Limbs and spine
  11. Sleep
  12. Common symptoms
  13. Fever
  14. Patient type and constitution
  15. Analogs by action
  16. Included in the composition
  17. Manufacturers of the drug

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Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica - C. Hering

Additional facts

 Male Fern. Filices.
  Galen, Theophrastus, and Avicenna speak of it as a vermifuge medicine. Dioscorides adds to this its capability to induce sterility and abortion.
 Fragmentary provings by вerridge, Medorrhinum Inv., N. S., vol. 3, p. 282.
 The tincture must be prepared from the fresh root ; old preparations and tinctures won’t do. The best time for curing tapeworm is, therefore, the summer season, when the root of Filix mas may be obtained in a fresh state. It is grated and taken in the course of the forenoon, to the amount of an ounce. Usually in the afternoon, the tapeworm, rolled up in a lump, takes its departure . (A. H. Z., 80, p. 141).

Nosology

 - Tape-worm, (100 cases reported), в. J. H., vol. 22, p. 322 ; (24 cases), Ogle, в. J. H., vol. 23, p. 273 ; (2 cases), Lobeth, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 804 ; Müller, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 388 ; Worms, Werber, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 804.

Mental

 Irritable and cross. θ Worms.
 Great anxiety ; loss of consciousness.

Head, face, and ears

 Itching of nose. θ Worms.
 Pale face ; blue rings around eyes. θ Worms.

Mouth and throat

 Furred tongue. θ Worms.

Appetite and food preferences

 Loss of appetite. θ Worms.
 Coffee better the numbness in right arm.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Painless hiccough, starts 10 minutes after meal, lasting 15 to 30 minutes.
 Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
 Tightness in left hypochondrium, extending forward to middle line, causing difficulty of breathing, in a warm room, in the evening after sunset ; better walking in open air ; kept her awake in bed till 1 A. M., on awaking next morning, the same ; better after a Turkish bath.
 Bloating of abdomen.
 Gnawing and boring in bowels, worse eating sweet things.
 Abdominal pains.
 Ineffectual urging to stool.
 Pappy stools.
 Gnawing and boring in bowels, worse eating sweet things ; constipation ; loss of appetite ; furred tongue ; pale face ; blue rings around eyes ; itching of nose ; irritable and cross. θ Worms.
 Symptoms indicative of worms, particularly when constipation is present.
 A woman who had repeatedly passed segments of tape-worm was seized with severe colic which quickly disappeared under Filix mas, and was followed eight days later by discharge of tape-worm, 50 inches in length.

Urogenital system

 Menstrual function stimulated.

Plant characteristics

 Causes abortion.
 Sterility.

Limbs and spine

 Numbness of back of right wrist, extending up radial side of arm to just above elbow ; felt as if the use of the limb would go ; then the same feeling in left wrist, but transient and slighter ; afterwards the same in a small spot on right vertex, rather anteriorly ; afterward in anterior right shoulder ; the numbness seemed to be in the bone in every case.

Sleep

 Restless and sleepless at night.
 Evening after sunset ; tightness of left hypochondrium.

Common symptoms

 Warm room : tightness of left hypochondrium.
 Open air : better tightness of hypochondrium.
 Turkish bath : better tightness of left hypochondrium.
 As if the use of the limb would go Abdominal pains.
 Gnawing : in bowels.
 Boring : in bowels.
 Tightness : of left hypochondrium.
 Bloating : of abdomen.
 Numbness : of right arm ; of back ; of right wrist, extending up arm ; left wrist ; right vertex ; right shoulder.
 Itching : of nose.

Fever

 Worm fever.
 During 15 or 30 minutes : hiccough.
 Right : numbness in arm ; numbness of wrist, extending up arm ; numbness in small spot on vertex ; numbness in shoulder.
 Left hypochondrium : tightness in ; wrist numb.

Patient type and constitution

 A large majority of the patients cured were young girls or women.
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Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

Доктор Н
Фитасинтекс
ПиК-Крым
Вербена
ОЛЛО
ФармаРус
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