Saponinum

 Saponin. A glucoside obtained from Saponaria officinalis, Gypsophila, Struthium, Senega, Quillaja, &c.) с32H54O18. Trituration. Solution. Watery solutions speedily decompose.

 Boils. сonstipation. Diarrhoea. Dysmenia. Enuresis, when walking. Exophthalmos. Fever. Headache. Leucorrhoea. Rheumatism. Sleeplessness. Spleen, pains in. Strabismus. Temperature lowered. Tongue, strawberry.

 Saponin. has had a somewhat extensive proving (in potencies ranging from 1x to 30th), conducted by A. J. Hills. One prover, who took the 30th, for many years a sufferer from articular rheumatism, had none of his usual pains during the proving, and a great enlargement of the left knee was entirely removed. Two female provers had marked disturbance of the menstrual functions, especially pain and sufferings before the flow. A miliary eruption, and colic and leucorrhoea before the menses, pain better but not removed when the flow was established. Severe sore throat, вy cold; by cold bathing; while sitting. вy stool; by onset of menses.

 Compare: Tough mucus, K. bi. Onset of menses, Lach. Spleen pain, сean. Kidney pain, Santal.

 Marked bodily and mental depression. Irritable; cross; wants to be let alone. Disinclined to study. Inability to fix mind; to recall names.

 Dizziness and nausea on stooping. Dizziness followed the vomiting. Dull, heavy headache, with depression; pressure and cold, much.
 Could not turn eyes up or around they felt so sore; moving them = pain to dart back to occiput. Sensation of fulness in eyes, evening. - сonjunctiva yellow and a little congested. Vision dull. Pain, exophthalmos and strabismus of left eye (from a subcutaneous injection into left thigh).
 Dry coryza and frequent sneezing. R. nostril plugged in morning, with headache. Dull pain at root of nose and in temples. Nose cold and pale.
 Miliary eruption on face, neck, and head before menses. Face pale. Lips dry and burning.

 Tongue coated yellowish white on back; red on tip and edges; raised papillae (strawberry tongue), especially on tip. Tongue brown in centre, deep yellow on edges. Hard palate rough. Salivation. Taste: sweet, sickish; flat; acrid.
 Tough, tenacious mucus on posterior nares, extending to larynx. Throat sore,.

 No appetite. Loathing of food for two days till nausea set in. Thirst not by drinking. Nausea, retching, vomiting of greenish-yellow fluid; with agonising pain in both temples, which disappeared as desire to vomit was . On returning home one cold night from place of amusement nausea in oesophagus and throat as soon as she got comfortably warm; as nausea increased cold feeling began at tips of fingers and toes and slowly spread to abdomen, where they met, giving an electric-like shock; then followed griping pain and diarrhoea and vomiting. Sinking at pit of stomach without appetite; with fulness and heat in forehead.
 Dull pain in left hypochondrium, changing to epigastrium, very severe, then shooting up under left scapula, sitting. Painful stitches in left hypochondrium. Dull pain in umbilical region after each stool. - сolic 3 p.m on waking. For twenty-four hours preceding menses, colic, cramps, and profuse watery leucorrhoea, when menses established. Sudden colic, immediately by stool. Pain in left inguinal region.
 Intense itching in rectum, afternoon and night. - вurning in rectum. Smarting in anus, with constipation. - сonstant urging, stool insufficient, rather white. Desire for stool in evening as well as morning. Diarrhoea with tenesmus. Stool: profuse diarrhoeic, painless but urgent; with colic; first hard, then liquid, becomes involuntary; brownish, slimy; desire to defecate or vomit as soon as there is a little ease, both.

 Kidneys torpid; sharp pain in region of right kidney. - вurning during micturition. Waked early to pass water, which left brickdust sediment. Involuntary emission of water on walking. Urine more profuse and high-coloured.
 Menses delayed and diminished. Menses: a week early; profuse,.

 At 4 peculiar cough, which is excited at every forced inspiration through nose, only one cough at a time.
 Formication deep in tissue of lung. Repeated sharp stabbing in right lung; middle lobe; dull aching in left lung. Dull pains through thorax. At time of chill constriction in left chest.

 Dull pain in region of heart. Pulse: accelerated; weak, hardly perceptible.

 Back and limbs tired walking, boots feel extremely heavy. Dull throbbing in left scapula, running up. Severe dull pain in small of back, and sense of weight as if all clothes hanging from back; this sense of supporting a heavy weight extended to hips and knees,.
 Exhausted, weary feeling in limbs, with slight inclination to nausea. Weakness in hands and feet.
 Sudden pain in left arm, apparently muscular, in region of insertion of deltoid; arms weak, muscles exhausted, as after lifting heavy weights. Pain in bones of left forearm. Numbness and tingling in left third and little fingers (ulnar nerve).
 Dull aching in lower limbs; and left loin; muscular pains. Dull pain in left lower limb. Aching in calves. Soles sore, swollen, tender, numb, and tingling.

 Restlessness. Muscular weakness. Exhaustion. Faintness: and prostration; with the chill.

 Miliary eruption before menses. Angry-looking pustules on chest. - вoils, single or in crops. Itching and crawling tingling in various parts.

 Sleepy. Sleepy but cannot sleep. - сannot sleep well after 4 or 5 p.m - Waking early, 5.30 p.m (a very unusual symptom with the prover). Sleep disturbed by dreams; dreamed of urinating.

 Slight chill accompanied by faintness. Severe chill over back on going into warm room. As nausea increased an icy feeling crept up extremities, commencing at very tip of fingers and toes, gradual in ascent and descent, when the two currents met in abdomen it was as if electricity had been applied to them, giving a shock which almost made me jump. During day great coldness of limbs, hands and feet feel as if damp stockings on. Temperature lowered. Temperature rose steadily for three hours (after subcutaneous injection of 0.1 grm. into inner left thigh), then gradually fell to normal, which it reached in twenty-four hours; for the next two days there was some fever, but on the fifth day the temperature was far below the normal, reaching the collapse point of 930; the pulse, which was somewhat elevated at first, fell to 65 on the fifth day. Feverish and weak. Head hot, skin dry. A sensation of spreading heat, commencing in chest and spreading both ways, especially to head.

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