Verbascum Thapsus verb.

A tincture is made of the fresh plant, Verbascum Thapsus, L. (the mullein).

Narcotic effects. ▶ Sinking sensation.

Excited fantasies, especially of a sensual nature. ▶ Joyfulness, with laughter. ▶ Fretfulness, with inclination to work and satisfaction in having people about him and in talking with them. ▶ Anxiety all day, amel. towards evening. ▶ Depression all day, all his efforts and hopes seem unavailing. ▶ Disinclination for work. ▶ Indifference. ▶ Distraction. ▶ Memory diminished. ▶ When writing, tendency to omit words or insert wrong ones in their places, or to leave out letters in well-known words.

▶ Benumbing pain, rather external, agg. forehead; stupefying P., agg. sides of forehead. ▶ Tingling when walking. ▶ Confusion; with confined sensation; as if everything would press out at forehead. ▶ Heaviness; with vertigo, somewhat pleasurable. ▶ Vertigo in attacks when head is supported by pressure on left cheek; sudden V. as from pressure upon middle of head.

Sticking outward in left eminence; intermittent S. and left side; intermittent, deep between left eminence and parietal eminence. ▶ Prickling in left sinus. ▶ Slow hammering in left eminence. ▶ Pain; agg. over right eye; sharp, in right eminence; extending outward, amel. stooping; intermittent P. and beating near left eminence; stupefying, deep in right eminence on going from the cold into warmth; more pressing than tearing above left orbit. ▶ Pressure outward, agg. between brows; benumbing P. inward in left side of bone. ▶ Benumbing drawing in left eminence in a draught of air.

Sticking jerking externally in left, then right. ▶ Benumbing stitches above right; deep in right when eating, agg. pressure, after a few hours it extended like a tearing into right upper teeth. ▶ Sensation as if pinched together with pincers; in articular eminences of bone. ▶ Prickling in left, with burning. ▶ Pain in right; in articular eminence of bone in front of left ear; in articular eminence of bone, agg. biting teeth together. ▶ Pressure forward in left.

Pressing pain on it. ▶ Tension in left side, gradually becoming a sharp pressure, at the same time left ramus of lower jaw seems pressed against upper.

▶ Sticking extending forward through left hemisphere of brain; intermittent S. behind left eminence. ▶ Tearing in right half of brain. ▶ Pain extending outward in right half of brain; jerking P. in left half of brain; benumbing, in left and in left cheek.

Sticking in left side. ▶ Pain; in right protuberance.

Heat, with contracted sensation in orbits. ▶ Pupils dilated. ▶ Dimness of vision, watery, increase of short-sightedness, objects seem indistinct and enlarged.

Tearing stitch in left when eating; in front of left, extending downward. ▶ Tearing in right; in left, extending inward, with drawing. ▶ Sensation as if left would be drawn inward. ▶ Sudden pressure behind right, with stitches. ▶ Feeling of deafness in left. ▶ Stopped sensation in left, then right; in ears, nose and larynx when reading aloud, not affecting hearing.

Deafness; as feeling as though the ears were stopped (this very ancient use of the mullein has been lately revived in the local use of "mullein oil." See current literature).

Facial neuralgia; the pains tend to recur periodically, they feel like the crushing of tongs, benumbing, sometimes lightning-like, particularly beginning in the malar-bone and articulation of jaw, agg. change of temperature, pressure, or any motion of the muscles of the face. ▶ Infraorbital and supraorbital neuralgia.

Constant dribbling of urine. ▶ Nocturnal enuresis.

A popular remedy for asthma and chronic coughs.

Coryza, with watery, bland discharge. ▶ Thick tenacious mucus in posterior nares, causing constant inclination to hawk, could raise but little.

Pallid. ▶ Sticking in left zygomatic arch; intermittent, in left zygomatic process. ▶ Pressure on right malar-bone; on left zygomatic arch as far as ear, during the day, in evening before going to bed and in morning on waking, agg. pressure; benumbing, intermittent, on upper margin of left zygomatic process (Compare Plat.). ▶ Tension in integuments of chin, masseter muscles and throat, but jaws can be moved easily; in left zygomatic process, articular elevation of temporal bone and frontal eminence on going into open air and in a draught of air. ▶ Pinching on right side of lower jaw. ▶ Pressure in left joint of jaw, involving whole cheek, becoming on pressure a benumbing tension.

Tearing in right large lower molars; intermittent, in left small lower molars. ▶ Tongue brown at root in morning on rising and in forenoon; brown at root in forenoon, with flat, nauseous taste; coated brownish-yellow in morning, with flat taste and offensive breath; brownish-yellow after dinner, coated with tenacious mucus. ▶ (Collection of salt water.). ▶ Flat taste some time after a meal.

Hunger without appetite through the day, nothing is relished, yet he wishes to eat. ▶ Unquenchable thirst. ▶ Eructations of tasteless liquid; empty E.; bitter, qualmish. ▶ Hiccough. ▶ Pressure. ▶ Emptiness in pit, which disappeared with rumbling below left ribs.

Tympanitic, then rumbling beneath left ribs, which caused loud eructations. ▶ Tearing sticking extending downward; intermittent S. in back part between right loin and spine. ▶ Griping as from incarcerated flatus; cutting G., with eructations; cutting G. here and there, rising towards ribs, where it becomes seated. ▶ Pain extending low down, causing spasmodic contraction of sphincter ani and desire for stool. ▶ Tumbling in left hypochondrium, with gurgling. ▶ Sticking deep in left side where ribs cease. ▶ Sticking pinching beneath right hypochondrium. ▶ Umbilical region, stitches round to back and in dorsal vertebræ, on deep inspiration and on stooping; intermittent stitches in right side; intermittent stitches in left side above navel; intermittent stitches in left side beneath navel, agg. bending forward after eating; sensation as if intestines were adherent to wall and were being torn away, agg. pressure; pressure as from a stone, agg. stooping; constriction. ▶ Gurgling in hypogastrium. ▶ Sticking deep in right side above pubis.

Soft; with straining. ▶ Scanty and like sheepdung, with pressure. ▶ Thick, pasty, nearly black. ▶ Omitted.

▶ Frequent micturition, copious, afterwards scanty. ▶ Frequent desire, with scanty discharge; with copious discharge.

Desire, with lascivious fancies. ▶ Emissions at night; without lascivious dream; in morning after waking and falling asleep again, with erratic dreams.

Hoarseness on reading aloud.

Sticking in left in middle axillary line; in next to last rib where it passes into the cartilage, amel. pressure, but returning; beneath left nipple on inspiration, whereby another deep inspiration was caused; intermittent, near left side of ensiform cartilage; benumbing, taking away the breath, in region of first and second costal cartilages. ▶ Intermittent, benumbing cutting near left side of ensiform cartilage, below last ribs. ▶ Sharp pressure beneath left nipple. ▶ Pain and oppression, with disinclination to frequent breathing. ▶ Tension in evening as soon as he lay down, with stitches in region of heart.

Reduced in number, and especially in force.

Sticking in last dorsal vertebra on sitting bent over; intermittent, in left scapula.

Stretching. ▶ Pain on top of shoulder, pressing rather than tearing, amel. motion. ▶ Cramplike pressure at left elbow, extending into forearm. ▶ Tearing downward in shaft of left ulnar. ▶ Tensive pain in left wrist. ▶ Stitches like a sprain (or paralysis) where carpal bone of thumb articulates with radius. ▶ Sticking in external condyle of palm; between metacarpal bones of right thumb and index; tearing, in palm. ▶ Cramplike pressure now in right, now in left metacarpus on moving arm. ▶ Pain on back of right hand, pressing rather than tearing. ▶ Bruised pain on outer side of metacarpal bones of little fingers on touch. ▶ Sticking in proximal phalanx of left thumb; tearing, through left little finger; intermittent, in middle joint of index; intermittent, in distal phalanx of index, on motion the pain extended into proximal joint. ▶ Cramplike pressure in proximal phalanx of right thumb, amel. motion. ▶ Paralytic drawing in left index. ▶ Paralytic pain in left fingers, agg. metacarpal joints. ▶ Insensibility of thumb (from application of juice).

Tottering in open air. ▶ Weariness. ▶ Heaviness on ascending and descending stairs. ▶ Stitches above left patella on stepping. ▶ Cramplike pain in muscles of right thigh when walking in open air; in muscles above right knee when sitting and standing. ▶ Drawing pressing from middle of right thigh to knee when sitting. ▶ Paralytic pain on inner side of right thigh when leg is drawn up in sitting, on treading sticking extending towards knee. ▶ Knees tremble. ▶ Sudden pain through right knee when standing, sitting and walking. ▶ Leg, tearing downward; cramplike pressure on left near ankle. ▶ Weakness in bone of right when riding right thigh over left. ▶ Intermittent sticking in metatarsal bones of left great and adjacent toes during rest. ▶ Cramplike pressure in right sole when standing, amel. walking.

Pimple in front of right ear, with stinging on touch; red, near thyroid cartilage, painful on pressure. ▶ Tingling and pricking almost like nettles (from the leaves). ▶ Itching, crawling tickling on side of left middle finger. ▶ Itching on forearm.

Yawning and stretching. ▶ Sleepiness; in morning after rising, with indolence; irresistible, after dinner. ▶ Restless sleep. ▶ Sleep only till 4 A.M., filled with dreams of war and corpses, several nights.

Coldness over whole body, perceptible externally on hands and feet; cold limbs. ▶ Shivering, agg. from one shoulder to thigh, as if cold water were poured over it.