Condensed Materia Medica

Caulophyllum Thalictroides caul.

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Sensorium

Swimming, a sort of vertigo, with dimness of sight; gulping up a bitter, sour fluid.

Inner Head

Headache, pressure behind the eyes, dimness of sight; dependent upon uterine derangement.
Severe pains by spells, in the temples, as if they would be crushed together.

Outer Head

Rheumatic headaches, especially with females.

Eyes

Pressure behind the eyes; profuse flow of tears.

Face

"Moth spots" on forehead, with leucorrhœa.

Teeth

Teeth all feel sore, elongated.

Tongue, etc

Tongue coated white.

Mouth

Sensation of dryness in the mouth; heat.
Aphthæ.

Throat

Distress in the fauces, which causes frequent inclination to swallow.

Desires and Aversions

Great thirst.
Canine hunger, with white-coated tongue.

Nausea and Vomiting

Empty eructations.
Frequent gulping up of sour, bitter fluid, with vertigo.
Spasmodic vomiting, cardialgia, excessive nausea spasms of the stomach attending uterine irritation.

Stomach

Heat in the stomach; fulness.
Distress in stomach and bowels, with drawing in the right hypochondrium.
Dyspepsia, with spasmodic symptoms.

Abdomen

Distention of the abdomen, with tenderness.
Rumbling in the bowels.
Spasmodic and flatulent colic.
Spasmodic action of the muscular tissues of the intestines, from irritation of the motor nerves, or from rheumatism.

Stool, etc

Constipation; stool every other day.
Watery stools, great quantity, but no pain; 1 A.M.
Soft stool, very white.

Urine

Emission of copious, pale or straw-coloured urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Every few minutes sharp, stinging pains in the glans penis.

Female Sexual Organs

Sensation, as if uterus was congested, with fulness and tension in hypogastric region.
Menses too soon.
Amenorrhœa; spasms, cramps, or great atony.
Painful menstruation, the flow being normal in quantity.
Spasmodic dysmenorrhœa; spasmodic, intermittent pains in bladder, stomach, broad ligaments (groins), even chest and limbs; congestion and irritability of uterus; scanty flow.
Menstrual colic; uterus retroverted.
Irritable vagina, spasmodic, intense pains.
Aphthous vaginitis and spasmodic pains in the uterus.
Leucorrhœa: profuse, mucous; "moth spots" on the forehead; often in little girls.

Pregnancy

Threatening abortion, spasmodic bearing down pains; vascular excitement; tremulous weakness; pains severe in back and loins, but uterine contractions feeble; slight flow.
Habitual abortion from uterine debility.
Tormenting, useless pains in the beginning of labor.
Labor-pains short, irregular, spasmodic; patient very weak; no progress being made.
Spasmodic rigidity of the os, delaying labor; pains like needles in the cervix.
Pains become weak, flagging from long protracted labor, causing exhaustion; thirsty, feverish.
Passive hemorrhage after abortion or confinement.
Protracted lochia, oozes passively from the relaxed uterine vessels, great atony.
Suppressed lochia.
After-pains, especially after exhausting, lengthy labor; spasmodic, across the lower abdomen; extend into groins.

Larynx

Loss of voice; reflex from uterine disturbances.

Lungs

Spasmodic, intermittent pains in chest, with anemia.

Neck and Back

Rheumatic stiffness of the nape.
Severe drawing pain in the sterno-cleido-mastoid; drawing the head to the left.
Dull pain in the lumbar region.

Upper Limbs

Severe drawing in wrists and fingers.
Rheumatism of wrists and finger-joints, with swelling, cutting in joints when closing hands; pains shift to the nape of neck with spasmodic rigidity; panting oppression of the chest; high fever; delirium; nervous excitement.

Lower limbs

Drawing pains in knees, ankles, feet and toes.
All joints crack when walking or turning.
Pain in feet and toes, worse at night.
Pains recur every day.

Limbs in General

Rheumatism, especially of the smaller joints.
Constant flying pains in the arms and legs; remain only a few minutes in any one place.
Severe drawing pains in the joints of the arms and legs.

Position, etc

Closing hands, cutting: 32. Walking: 33. Turning: 33.

Nerves

Chorea at puberty.
Hysterical or epileptiform spasms at puberty, from menstrual irregularities, especially in rheumatic females.
Paraplegia, with retroversion and congestion of the uterus after childbirth; partial loss of sensation; emaciation, anæmia, general debility.

Sleep

Sleepless, restless, nervous.

Time

1 A.M.: 20. Night: 33.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Fever high, delirious, nervous excitement, rheumatism.

Attacks

Pains are intermittent.
Every day: 33. Every other day: 20. Every few minutes: 22, 34.

Sides

Right: 17. Left: 31.

Stages and States

Especially suited to females.