Remedy

Oleander olnd.

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Duration of action

Not a dosing interval.

Relationships

Knerr's Drug Relationships, from Hering's Guiding Symptoms

Compatible

con.

Antidotes

camph. sulph.

Named under 1 other remedy in this book

These rows are the other remedies’, naming Oleander.

Similar

vinc.

Relationship of Remedies

Remedies that follow well

con. lyc. nat-m. puls. rhus-t. sep. spig.

Antidotes

camph. sulph.

Named under 1 other remedy in this book

These rows are the other remedies’, naming Oleander.

Remedies that follow well

lach.

Polar generals

Thirst

Side

Motion

Rest

Position

Open air

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915

Region

Digestive tract. Skin. Scalp. Nerves: Cerebro-spinal. Motor.

Worse

After suckling. Rubbing. Undressing.

Better

Looking sidewise.

General

Numbing, paretic effects; on limbs and skin. Sopor. Tremulous weakness. Sense of vibration. Emptiness in stomach and chest; after eating; > brandy.

Particulars

Sadness with lack of confidence and power. Distraction. Slow comprehension. Vertigo. Numb tongue. Thin, lienteric stool escapes with the flatus; passes food eaten the day before. Crampy contraction of upper limbs. Sensitive skin; chafes and oozes or bleeds. Eruptions with itching biting, as of lice. Moist milk crust, < occiput. Heat from mental exertion. Paresis after infantile paralysis. General crampings. Numb-skin.

Related

Related: Anac. Chin.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · 1887

Sensations

Buzzing or humming in the body; numb feeling, or painless paralyzed feeling, as if inner parts were distended; pulsations in outer parts; gnawing itching; biting or pungent pain after scratching; numbness of the skin, or itching numbness.

Generalities

Symptoms generally on left side; left ear; affections of the scalp. Momentary loss of sight; blue color about the eyes; undigested feces. Dropsy of outer parts. One of the best remedies for paralysis. Chapping of the skin; want of perspiration.

Remedies following

Conium, Lycop., Natr., mur., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Spigel.

Antidote

Camphor.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Rose-laurel (NERIUM ODORUM)

General

Has a marked action on the skin, heart and nervous system, producing and curing paralytic conditions with cramp-like contractions of upper extremities. Hemiplegia. Difficult articulation.

Mind

Memory weak; slow perception. Melancholy, with obstinate constipation.

Head

Vertigo and diplopia, when looking down. Vertigo, when looking fixedly at an object, and on rising in bed. Pain in brain, as if head would burst. Numb feeling. Dull, unable to think. Indolence. Eruption on scalp. Humid, fetid spots behind ears (Graph; Petrol) and occiput, with red, rough, herpetic spots in front. Corrosive itching on forehead and edge of hair; worse, heat.

Eyes

Can see objects only when looking at them sideways. Eyes water on reading. Double vision. Sensation as if eyes were drawn back into the head.

Face

Pale, sunken, with blue rings around eyes (Phos ac).

Stomach

Canine hunger, with hurried eating, without appetite. Thirst. Empty belching. Vomiting of food; greenish water. Throbbing in pit.

Abdomen

Borborygmus, with profuse, fetid flatus. Gnawing around navel. Ineffectual urging. Undigested feces. Stool passes when emitting flatus. Burning pain in anus.

Chest

Oppression as from a weight; asthmatic when lying down. Palpitation, with weakness and empty feeling in chest. Dyspnœa. Obtuse stitches in chest.

Extremities

Weakness of lower limbs. Paralysis of legs and feet. Want of animal heat in limbs. Cold feet. Painless paralysis. Constant cold feet. Swelling, burning stiffness of fingers. Veins and hands swollen. Œdema. Stiffness of joints.

Skin

Itching, scurfy pimples; herpes; sensitive and numb. Nocturnal burning. Very sensitive skin; slightest friction causes soreness and chapping. Violent itching eruption, bleeding, oozing; want of perspiration. Pruritus, especially of scalp, which is sensitive.

Modalities

Worse, undressing, rest, friction of clothes.

Relationship

Compare: Con; Nat m; Rhus; Caust; Lathyr. Oleander contains Oleandrin and also Nerein which latter is said to be closely related if not identical with Digitalin. The pulse becomes slower, more regular, more powerful. Diuresis; palpitation, œdema and dyspnœa of valvular disease disappear.

Antidotes: Camph; Sulph.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · 1899

Leaders

Chronic diarrhœa, stools undigested; passes stool with the least emission of flatus.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · 1866

Mind and Disposition

Absence of mind, want of attention. Slowness of perception. Indolence, aversion to do any thing.

Head

Vertigo when rising from bed, or if looking fixedly at any object, or when looking down while standing. Heaviness of the head ; better when lying down. Biting-itching on the scalp, as from vermin, principally on the back part of the head and behind the ears ; relieved when first scratching it, which is followed by burning and soreness, which gives place to biting-itching ; worse in the evening when undressing. Humid, scaly, biting-itching eruption on the head, especially on the back part of the head.

Eyes

When reading ; burning and tension in the eyelids ; lachrymation. Double vision.

Ears

Herpes and ulcers on and around the ears.

Face

Pale, sunken face in the morning with blue rings around the eyes. Alternate paleness and dark redness of the face. Numbness of the upper lip.

Mouth and Throat

Toothache only when masticating. Drawing in the molar teeth at night when lying down, with anxiety, nausea and frequent micturition. Bluish-white gums. The papillæ are elevated, dirty-white. Loss of speech. Dryness of the mouth and white tongue.

Stomach and Abdomen

Ravenous hunger with trembling of the hands and hasty eating without appetite. Much thirst, especially for cold water. Violent empty eructations, while eating. Vomiting of food and bitter greenish water. After vomiting ravenous hunger and thirst. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach, even after eating. Beating and pulsation in the pit of the stomach as if the beats of the heart were felt through the whole thorax. Stitches and gnawing about the navel. Rolling and rumbling in the intestines, with emission of a great quantity of fetid flatulence.

Stool and Anus

Ineffectual urging to stool. Almost involuntary discharge of undigested stool. The food which he had taken on the previous day passes off undigested and almost without effort ; imagines he is only emitting flatulence. Chronic diarrhœa ; undigested food, worse in the morning. Burning at the anus before and after the stool.

Urinary Organs

Urinary secretions increased with frequent micturition, especially after drinking coffee. Brown, burning urine, depositing a white sediment.

Respiratory Organs

Viscid mucus in the trachea. Oppressed breathing when lying, as if the chest were too narrow, with long, deep breathing. Violent shaking cough from tickling in the larynx. Sensation of emptiness and coldness in the chest. Dull stitches in the left side of the chest and in the sternum, worse when taking a long breath. Violent, anxious palpitation of the heart ; the chest feels expanded.

Extremities

Upper. Swelling and stiffness of the fingers, with burning pains. The veins on the hands are swollen. Lower. Paralysis of the legs and feet ; painless. Great, weakness of the legs, especially of the knees. Constant cold feet. Buzzing sensation in the legs, especially the soles of the feet.

Generalities

Painless stiffness and paralysis of the limbs. Insensibility of the whole body. Want of animal heat in the limbs. Painless paralysis. Faintish weakness of the whole body ; when standing trembling of the knees, when writing trembling of the hands. Fainting as from weakness, relieved by perspiration.

Sleep

Frequent yawning, with chilliness and trembling of the muscles. Restless, voluptuous dreams and frequent waking.

Fever

Pulse very changeable and irregular ; weak and slow in the morning, full and rapid in the evening. Chilliness and chills over the whole body, periodically, with heat of the face and coldness of the hands. Chilliness and want of animal heat. External chilliness with internal heat without thirst. Flushes of heat periodically, especially from bodily or mental exertion.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902

General

Nerium Oleander. Rose Laurel. (South Europe, North Africa, West Asia. Thrives best in moist ground.) N. O. Apocynaceæ. Tincture of the leaves.

Clinical

Brain, affections of. Eczema . Fainting. Headache. Hyperæsthesia. Lienteria . Memory, weakened. Numbness. Nursing women, affections of. Palpitation. Paralysis. Perichondritis . Rheumatism. Scalp, eruption on . Spasms. Spine, affections of. Strabismus. Tongue, coated; parched. Vertigo.

Characteristics

Oleander , which is one of the remedies proved by Hahnemann, has been recognised as a powerful poison from antiquity. In the Cape de Verde Islands the petals of Olean . blossoms are used with dried orange-peel in all kinds of fevers to promote perspiration and drive out the rash. In animals poisoned by it, the heart becomes paralysed, first the auricles, then the entire heart. Goullon ( H. R ., xii. 402) refers to poisoning cases in which "anguish, inflammation of the stomach, diarrhœa, swoons," and even death had occurred. "Palpitation of the heart, anxiety, insomnia, and unconsciousness," were observed by Petrus de Alvano, and Morgagni noted "vomiting, thirst, slumbering, speechlessness, and death." Goullon also quotes instances of suffering from exhalations of the flowers, and even from the plants when not in flower. A young man, 18, fell sick, had attacks of vertigo, suffered from great weakness of the muscles, headache > in evening, < every morning after waking, which was a difficult process. In addition: pale face; white-coated tongue; slow pulse. On leaving for change of air he soon got quite well; but ill again as soon as he returned. Some oleanders in his bedroom were then suspected by his doctor, and on their removal all the trouble vanished. The doctor then recalled that when a student he had some oleanders before his windows, and in autumn, when the nights were cold, be took them into his bedroom, with this result: On waking in the morning heavy head and sensation of weariness, could only leave his bed by great exertion. As soon as he put his foot to the ground was seized with vertigo and reeled. Having traced this to the oleanders, he purposely repeated the experiment, and always with the same result. Hahnemann says of Olean .: "It will be found to be, if not a complete remedy, yet an indispensable intermediate remedy in some kinds of mental derangements, e.g ., absence of mind, and in certain kinds of painless paralysis, in eruptions on the head, and in some external head affections." Experience has confirmed the truth of these remarks, and more especially of the latter part of them. Olean . is in the front rank of remedies affecting the scalp, more particularly the back part of the scalp or commencing there. "Desquamation of the epidermis of the scalp;" "violent gnawing itching on the scalp, as from lice; after scratching, a smarting as if scratched raw" are symptoms which have been repeatedly verified by cures, and I have confirmed Cooper's experience in one very bad case, in a schoolboy, that a single dose of the Ø may give the best possible result in such cases. The condition was: Head very sore and irritable; covered with crusts; sore to touch. Glands in neck swollen and sore to touch. Olean . Ø two drops in a powder at bedtime on November 14th. On November 27th an aggravation was reported, and the eruption had spread from the head to the back. From this time rapid improvement set in. — The skin generally of Olean . is very sensitive and easily chafed and chapped, and this occurring concomitantly with other Olean . conditions (for example, gastro-enteritis), forms a strong indication. The paralytic symptoms of Olean . are in constant evidence. Involuntary evacuation of fæces and urine. The digestion is paralysed, and the food passes completely undigested. Infants soil their diapers every time they pass flatus. Momentary loss of sight. Peculiar sensations , suggestive of paralysis, are: Buzzing and humming sensations in the body. Numb or painless paralysed feeling as if inner parts were distended. Pulsations in outer parts. Gnawing itching; biting or pungent pain after scratching. Numbness of skin, or itching numbness. Olean . corresponds to "trembling after nursing" in nursing women; to weak memory and slow perception; to functional paralysis. The headaches are mostly pressive and stupefying. Pressure as if a hundredweight were pressing brain forward, and as if everything would come out at forehead. A curious feature in connection with some of the headaches is that they are > by looking cross-eyed; or by looking sideways. This is a clinical observation well verified. There is also cloudiness of vision, < by looking sideways. Eyes distorted. Olean . should cure some cases of strabismus. The left side is most affected; violent contraction of muscles, < left side. Numbness of upper and lower extremities has been frequently confirmed. A case of poisoning is recorded ( H. W ., xxxiii. 9, from Amer. Hom .) in which a boy of four put a broken Oleander leaf into his mouth, but quickly spat it out. In a few minutes the tongue became red and raw where the leaf had touched it. The patch, one inch by one half inch, involving the side and part of dorsum of tongue, appeared denuded, and this appearance remained a year later. Ten months after the occurrence, general roughness of the skin had developed, with a papulo-pustular eruption on ankles and calves. The symptoms are < (after first > ) by scratching; by rubbing. < In open air; by draught of air. Getting out of bed > toothache. There is thirst for cold water. Motion > stiffness of thighs. Mastication < toothache and headache. Looking down < (vertigo, &c.). Looking sideways < dim vision; > headache. Squinting > headache. Rising up < headache; vertigo. Stooping pain over heart.

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The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Nerium Oleander ; Rose Laurel. Apocynaceæ.
An ornamental shrub to Southern Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia, thrives best in moist ground.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh leaves.
Introduced by Hahnemann and proved by himself, Franz, Gross, Gutmann Hartmann, Langhammer, etc. --Mat. Med. Pura, vol. 1, p. 326.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Headache , Farrington, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 2, p. 193 ; Toothache , Rushmore, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 318 ; Lienteric stools, Rheumatism , etc., Martin, T. A. I. H., 1880, p. 227 ; Constipation , Martin, T. M. H. S., Pa., 1882, p. 204.

Mind

Weak memory ; absence of mind, want of attention.
Slowness of perception ; difficult comprehension of what he reads, particularly if he makes great efforts to understand, his thoughts then become confused.
After mental exertion, flushes of heat.
Indolence, aversion to do anything.
Cannot bear contradiction, becomes enraged.
Despondency and lack of self-confidence.
Melancholy, with obstinate constipation.
Peevish, fretful, out of humor with everything.

Sensorium

Vertigo : for a long time before paralysis : when rising from bed ; when looking fixedly, or looking down while standing ; when walking in open air ; he stood firmly, but the things around him, trees and men, seemed to be moving as in a confused dance, sight became obscured, scintillations before eyes resembling dazzling of snow, giddiness and diplopia when looking down ; in forehead, and staggering of lower limbs, as if too weak ; loss of consciousness ; resulting from weakness.
Heaviness of head ; > when lying down.
Fainting as from weakness ; relieved by sweat.
Depression of sensorium.

Inner head

Pressive pain from within outward, in forehead.
Pain in forehead as if it would split.
Pressive pain in brain.
Headache improved by looking cross-eyed.
Sensation of tightness around head, which occasions a feeling of stupefaction rather than pain.

Outer head

Biting-itching on scalp, as from vermin, < back part of head and behind ears ; > when first scratching it, followed by burning and soreness, which gives place to biting-itching ; < in evening when undressing.
Humid, scaly, biting, itching eruption, especially on back part of head.
Desquamation of epidermis of scalp.
Vesicular eruptions about head of children, with smooth, shining surface, and drops of serum standing out here and there. θ Eczema.
Eruption on scalp and back of ears, simulating that of crusta lactea, oozing a fluid and breeding vermin.

Sight and eyes

Momentary loss of sight.
Double vision.
Darkness before eyes when looking sideways.
When reading, burning and tension in eyelids ; lachrymation.
Eyes sunken ; blue color about eyes.

Hearing and ears

Cramplike drawing in outer ear.
Herpes and ulcers in and around ears.
Oozing of serum from behind ears. θ Eczema.

Upper face

Pale, sunken face in morning, with blue rings around eyes.
Alternate paleness and dark redness of face.
Tuberculous eruption on face and forehead.

Lower face

Numbness of upper lip.
Foaming at mouth.

Teeth and gums

Toothache only when masticating.
Drawing in molar teeth at night when lying down, with anxiety, nausea and frequent micturition.
Pain in second bicuspid in left upper jaw, very bad at night, preventing sleep, > getting out of bed ; frequent micturition ; heat of left cheek.
Bluish-white gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

Loss of speech.
Tongue : rough, dirty white, with elevated papillæ ; coated white, with dryness of mouth.
In evening all food has a flat and nauseous taste.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Ravenous hunger, with trembling of hands and hasty eating, without appetite.
Much thirst, especially for cold water.
Desire for brandy ; aversion to cheese.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Violent empty eructations, while eating.
Nausea and vomiting.
Vomiting : of food, bitter greenish water ; mucous ; of sour liquid food.
After vomiting, ravenous hunger and thirst.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pulsation in pit of stomach, as if beats of heart were felt through whole thorax.
Emptiness in pit of stomach, even after eating ; from nursing.
Sinking in pit of stomach, suddenly, with nausea or vomiting ; wants brandy, which relieves.
Extreme debility of digestive power.

Abdomen and loins

Stitches and gnawing about navel.
Rolling and rumbling in intestines, with emission of a great quantity of fetid flatus.
Affection of the mesenteric glands, with swelling, hardness and tension of abdomen and frequent lienteric stools. θ Favus.

Stools and rectum

Ineffectual urging to stool.
Emission of flatus smelling like rotten eggs.
Stools : thin ; yellow ; undigested ; involuntary, when emitting flatus ; sour, liquid.
Passes food undigested in morning which he ate the day before.
First diarrhœa, then hard, difficult stools ; during pregnancy.
Stool and urine involuntary.
Diarrhœa with intestinal ulcers. θ Tuberculosis.
Children much troubled with soiling of clothes when passing flatus.
Burning at anus before and after stool.

Urinary organs

Frequent profuse urination, especially after drinking coffee.
Urine brown, burning, with whitish sediment.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Viscid mucus in trachea.

Respiration

Oppressed breathing while lying ; also as if chest were too narrow, with long, deep breathing ; as if every breath were his last.
Stertorous breathing.

Cough

Violent, shaking cough, from tickling in larynx.

Inner chest and lungs

Dull stitches in left chest, continuing during and in exhalation.
Sensation of emptiness and coldness in chest.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Dull drawing pain over heart, < when stooping.
Palpitation with weakness and empty feeling of chest, and at same time fulness in pit of stomach.
Anxious palpitation ; chest feels expanded.
Pulse : quick, skin hot ; changeable, irregular ; weak and slow mornings, full and rapid evenings.

Outer chest

Dull, continuous stitch in sternum.

Upper limbs

Hands tremble when writing.
Fingers stiff and swollen, with burning pains.
Veins on hands swollen.
Itch-like eruption on inside of wrist and between fingers.

Lower limbs

Itch-like eruption between nates.
Paralysis of legs and feet ; painless.
Great weakness of legs, especially knees.
Weakness of thighs and legs and a sensation in forepart of feet, mostly in soles, as if asleep, while walking.
Trembling knees, when standing.
Vesicles on thighs.
Buzzing sensation in legs, especially in soles of feet.
Feet constantly cold.

Limbs in general

Painless stiffness and paralysis of limbs.
Want of animal heat in limbs.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : febrile shivering all over body.
Lying down : heaviness > ; toothache ; oppressive breathing.
Rising from bed : vertigo.
Stooping : pain over heart.
Standing : looking down, vertigo ; trembling of knees.
Motion : constant, > stiffness of thighs ; febrile shivering all over body.
Exertion : flushes of heat <.
Masticating : toothache.
Writing : trembling of hands.
Walking : vertigo ; feet as if asleep.

Nerves

Hyperesthesia or insensibility of whole body.
Loss of muscular power ; trembling.
Faintish weakness of whole body ; when standing, trembling of knees ; when writing, trembling of hands.
Fainting as from weakness ; > by perspiration.
Immediately after nursing is seized with tremor and is so weak that she is scarcely able to walk across room.
Painless paralysis.
Stiffness and coldness of limbs.
Violent spasmodic contractions of muscles ; more those of upper part of body and of left side.

Sleep

Yawning : with trembling of lower jaw ; with chilliness and trembling of muscles.
Restless sleep, frequent waking.
Voluptuous dreams, with seminal emissions.

Time

Morning : pale, sunken face ; passes food eaten day before undigested ; pulse weak and slow.
Evening : biting-itching on scalp < ; food has flat taste.
Night : drawing in molar teeth ; toothache <.

Temperature and weather

Open air : walking, vertigo.
Getting out of bed : toothache >.
Draft of air : caused rheumatism.
Cold water : thirst.

Fever

Chilliness, want of animal heat, or external chill, internal heat ; no thirst.
Chill all over, periodically ; face hot, hands cold.
Febrile shivering all over body, without thirst and without subsequent heat, during rest and motion.
Periodical flushes of heat ; < after bodily or mental exertion.
Want of perspiration.

Attacks, periodicity

Periodical : flushes of heat.

Locality and direction

Right : rheumatic pains in shoulder.
Left : pains in tooth in upper jaw ; heat of cheek ; dull stitches in chest ; violent contractions of muscles, < l. side.
Within outward : pressive pain in forehead.

Sensations

As if inner parts were distended ; pulsations in outer parts ; as if forehead would split ; as if beats of heart were felt through whole thorax ; as if chest were too narrow ; as if every breath were his last ; forepart of feet as if asleep, chest as if expanded.
Pain : in second bicuspid in left upper jaw.
Stitches : about navel, dull, in left chest ; dull, continuous ; in sternum.
Gnawing : about navel.
Pressive pain : in forehead ; in brain.
Rheumatic pains : in right shoulder.
Cramplike drawing : in outer ear.
Dull drawing : over heart.
Drawing : in molar teeth.
Soreness : on scalp.
Burning : on scalp ; in eyelids ; at anus ; in fingers.
Heat : of left cheek.
Pulsation : in pit of stomach ; in outer parts.
Tension : in eyelids ; of abdomen.
Tightness : around head.
Stiffness : of thighs ; of fingers ; of limbs.
Fulness : at pit of stomach.
Buzzing sensation : in legs, < in soles.
Numbness : of upper lip.
Trembling : of hands ; of knees ; of lower jaw.
Emptiness : in pit of stomach ; in chest.
Sinking : in pit of stomach.
Dryness : of mouth.
Tickling : in larynx.
Biting-itching : on scalp ; all over body.
Intense itching : of skin.
Formication : all over body.
Coldness : of chest ; of feet ; of limbs.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Scratching : eruption first >, then burning.
Friction : on skin causes soreness and chapping.

Skin

Itching here and there over body, so that he was obliged to scratch.
Biting-itching all over body, as from an eruption, on undressing, compelling him to scratch.
Intense itching and an insupportable nocturnal burning after scratching ; affection of mesenteric glands with swelling, hardness and tension of abdomen and frequently loose and undigested stools.
Very sensitive skin, so that very slight friction causes soreness and chafing, especially about neck, or between scrotum and thighs.
Chapping of skin.
Skin yellow.
Violent itching eruption, bleeding, oozing out a fluid, forming scabs ; eczema.
Scurfy pimples ; itchlike eruption.

Stage of life, constitution

Girl, æt. 21 ; headache.
Man, æt. 44, merchant, five feet ten inches in height, sallow complexion, nervo-bilious temperament, ill a year and a half and considered himself incurable, father subject to rheumatism ; lienteric stools ; rheumatism.

Relations

Antidoted by : Camphor., Sulphur .
Compatible : Conium, Lycop., Natr. mur., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Spigel .
Compare : Anac., Cinchon., Coccul., Clemat., Nux vom., Staphis .

Condensed Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · Condensed Materia Medica · 1877

Mind

Weak memory.
Absence of mind, want of attention.
Slowness of perception.
Difficult comprehension of what he reads.
Indolence, aversion to do anything.
Cannot bear contradiction, flushes of heat.

Sensorium

Vertigo: for a long time before the paralysis; when rising from bed; when looking fixedly, or looking down while standing.
Heaviness of the head; better when lying down.
Faintness, as from weakness; relieved by sweat.

Inner Head

Headache improved by looking cross-eyed.
Pressive pain from within outward, in the forehead.
Pain in the forehead, as if it would split.

Outer Head

Biting-itching on scalp, as from vermin, worse back part of head and behind ears; better when first scratching it; followed by burning and soreness, which gives place to biting-itching; worse in evening when undressing.
Humid, scaly, biting-itching eruption, especially on back part of head.

Eyes

When reading, burning and tension in the eyelids; lachrymation.
Double vision.
Eyes sunken.

Ears

Herpes and ulcers on and around the ears.
Cramp-like drawing on the auricle.

Face

Pale, sunken face in the morning, with blue rings around the eyes.
Alternate paleness and dark-redness of the face.

Lower Face

Numbness of the upper lip.
Foaming at the mouth.

Teeth

Toothache only when masticating.
Drawing in the molar teeth at night when lying down, with anxiety, nausea and frequent micturition.
Bluish-white gums.

Tongue, etc

Loss of speech.
Tongue: rough, dirty-white, with elevated papillæ coated white, with dryness of the mouth.
Food has a weak, insipid taste.

Desires and Aversions

Ravenous hunger, with trembling of hands and hasty eating, without appetite.
Much thirst especially for cold water.
Wants brandy: 17.

Eating and Drinking

Violent empty eructations while eating.
After coffee: 21.

Nausea and Vomiting

Vomiting of food and bitter greenish water.
After vomiting, ravenous hunger and thirst.

Stomach

Pulsation in the pit of the stomach, as if the beats of the heart were felt through the whole thorax.
Emptiness in pit of stomach, even after eating; from nursing.
Sinking in pit of stomach, suddenly, with nausea or vomiting; wants brandy, which relieves.

Abdomen

Stitches and gnawing about the navel.
Rolling and rumbling in the intestines, with emission of a great quantity of fetid flatus.

Stool, etc

Ineffectual urging to stool.
Rolling and rumbling, with emission of flatus, smelling like rotten eggs.
Stools thin, yellow, undigested, involuntary when emitting flatus.
Passes food undigested in the morning which he ate the day before.
First, diarrhœa, then had, difficult stool; during pregnancy.
Stool and urine involuntary.
Diarrhœa, with intestinal ulcers. θ Tuberculosis.
Burning at the anus before and after stool.

Urine

Frequent profuse urination, especially after drinking coffee.
Urine brown, burning, with whitish sediment.

Larynx

Viscid mucus in the trachea.

Breathing

Oppressed breathing when lying; also as if the chest were too narrow, with long, deep breathing.
Stertorous breathing.

Cough

Violent shaking cough, from tickling in the larynx.

Lungs

Dull stitches in left chest, continuing during inhalation and exhalation.
Sensation of emptiness and coldness in the chest.

Heart and Pulse

Dull, drawing pain over the heart, worse when stooping.
Palpitation, with weakness and empty feeling of chest, and at the same time fullness in pit of stomach.
Anxious palpitation; chest feels expanded.
Pulse: quick, skin hot; changeable, irregular; weak and slow mornings, full and rapid evenings.

Outer Chest

Dull, lasting stitch in the sternum.

Upper Limbs

Hands tremble when writing.
Fingers stiff and swollen, with burning pains.
Veins on hands swollen.
Itch-like eruption on inside of wrist and between fingers.

Lower limbs

Itch-like eruption between nates.
Weakness of the lower limbs, with sensation in the soles as if "asleep", when walking.
Trembling knees, when standing.
Feet constantly cold.

Position, etc

Motion: causes spasms.
Walking: 33. Exertion: 40. Writing: 32. Rising: 2. Standing: 2, 33. Lying: 2, 10.

Nerves

Painless paralysis.
Stiffness and coldness of limbs.
Loss of muscular power; trembling.
Violent spasmodic contractions of the muscles; more those of upper part of body and of left side.

Sleep

Yawning: with trembling of lower jaw; with chilliness and trembling of muscles.
Restless sleep, frequent waking.
Voluptuous dreams, with seminal emissions.

Time

Morning: 8, 29. Evening: 4, 29. Night: 10.

Temperature and Weather

Undressing: 4.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilliness, want of animal heat, of external chill, internal heat; no thirst.
Chill all over, periodically; face hot, hands cold.
Periodical flushes of heat; worse after bodily or mental exertion.

Attacks

Periodical: 40.

Sides

Right: 36. Left: 28, 36.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Scratching: 4.

Skin

Violently itching eruption, bleeding, oozing out a fluid, forming scabs.

Relationship

Antidote to Oleand.: Camphor.

Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889

General

A tincture is made of the fresh leaves of Nerium oleander, L.

General Action

A narcotic poison, with tendency to convulsions. ▶ General paralytic symptoms supervene, with a weak, irregular pulse. ▶ It exerts a marked effect on the skin, especially on the scalp (Compare Anacard. and Silicea).

Generalities

Fell senseless. ▶ Lay as if in slumber, but conscious and able to move (Gels.). ▶ Stretching of upper part of body and of arms. ▶ Outstretched, stiff, pale, limbs cool. ▶ Arms drawn up against chest, lower limbs to abdomen and chin against chest. ▶ Spasm, with cold, clammy skin and barely perceptible pulse. ▶ Spasmodic contractions of all muscles, more in upper than in lower limbs, on attempting to rouse him, amel. towards evening, between the spasms he lay on his back, but the superior contractions of left side threw him over on the right.

Tearing in left side of neck and left scapula, alternating with T. in temple and second left molar, towards evening and in night. ▶ Pinching in several parts of body of limbs, fingers and toes, as if bones were crushed. ▶ Pressure inward in several parts. ▶ Bad feeling, with weakness in abdomen and chest. ▶ General sick feeling, with weakness of limbs. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Weakness; agg. rising. ▶ Faint; and down-hearted, general giving way. ▶ Stiffness of limbs, agg. left fingers, and S. of back, so that rising in bed was difficult. ▶ (Symptoms more severe on second than on first day.).

Clinical

Hemiplegia preceded by vertigo.

Said to be valuable in the mental condition of slow perception.

Mind

Lively in afternoon and jumping about. ▶ Screaming. ▶ Fretful; and reserved. ▶ Passionate, but he immediately repented of it. ▶ Intolerant of contradiction. ▶ Anxiety. ▶ Loss of self-confidence, causing sadness. ▶ Disinclination to work; or to undertake any other agreeable occupation. ▶ Confusion when reading, if he makes a great effort to understand the book. ▶ Difficulty in grasping the connection when reading a long sentence. ▶ Disturbed by other ideas of his own when reading. ▶ Busy with beautiful images concerning the future when studying. ▶ Loss of memory (Anac.); of the names of his acquaintance. ▶ Stupidity. ▶ Insensibility. ▶ Coma, from which she could be aroused by loud talking, speech connected but difficult, as soon as she stooped talking she sank back into coma, with distortion of eyes.

Head

Boring in brain. ▶ Pain in brain; P. as if head were pressed forward. ▶ Tightness, more stupefying than painful. ▶ Heaviness; amel. lying, with dullness of it, nausea and other disagreeable sensations. ▶ Dullness. ▶ Vertigo; on rising from lying; on walking in open air, swimming of objects, darkness before eyes, with flashes of lightning; if he looked towards the ground when standing erect, with double vision (Gels.); as if hearing and vision would vanish, especially as if it would become black before right eye, during dinner, which he swallowed in haste.

Forehead

▶ Pain as if it would burst. ▶ Hammering in a spot of forepart. ▶ Pulsating pain. ▶ Sudden, stupefying pain in forepart, as from a blow. ▶ Pressure on right eminence. ▶ Pressure outward; above F.; in left eminence, amel. pressure of hand. ▶ Compression. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Whirling vertigo, with tottering of lower limbs.

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A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892

General action

General paralysis, with weak, irregular pulse, follows convulsions.
Its action upon the skin, especially scalp, has been frequently confirmed.

Generalities

Stiffness and paralysis of the limbs, without pain.
A feeling of tension throughout the whole body.
Attacks of faintness and weakness.
Trembling of the knees when standing or of the hands when writing.

Mind

Confusion; difficult to understand reading or to speak connectedly.
Loss of memory.
Distrust of himself.

Head

Vertigo on rising up.
Stupefying pressure, particularly in the forehead, as if it would burst.
Head feels very heavy, > lying.
Gnawing itching of the scalp, particularly on occiput, with a moist, scaly eruption; itching at first > scratching, but followed by smarting.

Eyes

A feeling of tension in the lids when reading; lachrymation when reading; double vision (forcibly squinting the eyes seems to relieve the headache).

Stomach

Ravenous hunger and hasty eating, without real appetite.
Thirst for cold water.
Violent empty eructations.
Vomiting of food or greenish water, followed by hunger and thirst.
Beating in the pit of the stomach.

Abdomen

Flatulent symptoms, rumbling and gurgling.

Rectum and Stool

Burning in the anus.
Undigested stools, sometimes watery or even involuntary.

Chest and Heart

A feeling of emptiness and coldness in the chest.
Stitches in the region of the diaphragm.
Anxious palpitation.
Drawing pain in the region of the heart, < stooping and expiration.
Pulse irregular and variable.

Extremities

Lower extremities particularly, seem asleep and weak when walking.
A kind of buzzing sensation in the legs, particularly in the soles of the feet.

Skin

Sensitive to rubbing; it easily becomes red and sore.
Biting, itching on undressing, with burning after scratching.

The Mnemonic Similiad

Stacy Jones · The Mnemonic Similiad · 1904

Mnemonic names

Ole. / Ole.

Verse

Oleander,-Thine to win,
In the case of tender skin.
Over-sensitive to friction
Of the clothing with an itching,
When undressing (as if making) clear
Some eruption would appear.
Or a lichen is o'erspread
On thy body, and thy head.
When with undigested stool,
Spells of utter weakness rule.

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Mnemonic sentences

Ole,-Has Undigested stools.

Ole Secale, the poetic wag-facing Phebe -Sang of the hue of her face, to the Abbot.

This Ole,-Who is subject to a tender skin, easily chafed,- Is in the Calvin Gray club House, at Petra.

Graph., Lyc., Hep., Sul., Pet.

Indications

Undigested Stools: Ole., Sec., Pod., Ars., Graph., Fer. p., Chin., Ph. a., Sang., Hep., Ferr., Cal. c., Abrot. (Undigested Milk, Mag. c., Mag. m.)

Intertrigo-Chafing of the Skin: Ole., Cal. c.,

Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boenninghausen's Characteristics: Materia Medica · 1905

Mind

Mental stupidity. Great distraction and want of attention. Diminished power of comprehension. Mental derangement. Indolence and dislike for work. Want of self - reliance. contradiction is unbearable. Sudden ebullitions of anger of which he quickly repents.

Vertigo

When rising from lying or looking downward.

Head

Stupefying, pressive ache in forehead. Extreme heaviness, lying.

External Head

Corrosive itching, as from vermin, most on occiput and behind ears, on beginning to scratch, but then it burns and smarts which soon passes into biting and eating, on undressing. Scaly, moist tinea, with biting itching, especially on occiput.

Eyes

Tears in, when reading. Burning and tension in lids when reading. Diplopia.

Ears

Herpes and ulcers on and about. Singing and wailing in, like the wind.

Nose

Dull, numbing pressure on.

Face

Pale, troubles, sunken countenance with blue rings about eyes in morning. Paleness alternating with deep redness. Benumbing alternating with deep redness. Benumbing pressure on and under zygoma. Numb feeling in upper lip.

Teeth

Drawing in molars, at night when lying in bed, with anxiety, nausea and profuse urination. Sensitive when chewing only. Bluish - white gums.

Mouth

Dirty white, elevated papillae on tongue. Power of speech is lost.

Stomach

Throbbing in pit, as after being greatly heated.

Appetite: Ravenous hunger and husky eating, without appetite. Much thirst, especially for cold water.

Eructations: Violent empty.

Vomiting: Of bitter, greenish water. Great hunger and thirst after.

Abdomen

Sense of emptiness and coldness in upper, and in chest. Gnawing pain in umbilical region.

Flatulence. Grumbling and rumbling in abdomen with discharge of much foul smelling flatus.

Stool

Ineffectual urging to. Sluggish. Undigested, watery.

Urine

Brown, burning u., depositing a white sediment. Profuse urination, especially after drinking coffee.

Respiration

Weak, heavy. When lying oppression as though' chest were too narrow, with long, deep inspirations.

Cough

Shattering, from tickling in larynx.

Back

Neck: Violent, sensible but slow pulsation in carotids. Tearing in nape in evening and at night. stiff and numb.

Chest

Sense of emptiness and coldness in. Dull stitches in left c., and in sternum, continuous during expiration and inspiration, but worst when taking a deep breath. Stitches in diaphragm. Anxious palpitation.

Upper Extremities

Cramp - like drawing in arms. Dull, benumbing pressure on lower arms and hands. Distended blood - vessels on hands.

Lower Extremities

Great feeling of weakness in legs, especially knees. Painless stiffness and lameness of limbs, especially of thighs. A spurring or whizzing sensation in legs, especially in soles of feet. Constant coldness of feet.

Generalities

Dull. benumbing pressure in limbs. Painless stiffness and paralysis of limbs. A spurring or whizzing sensation throughout entire body. Forcible inward pressure like a squeezing in many spots. Tension thro' entire body. Insensibility of entire body. Want of natural vital heat in limbs. Painless paralysis/ Faint - like weariness and weakness of entire body, trembling of knees when standing and of hands when writing. Fainting attacks as from weakness (with or without loss of consciousness), disappearing after sweat.

Skin

Very sensitive to rubbing, which quickly causes redness and excoriation. Biting itching, when undressing, after scratching it burns.

Sleep

Frequent yawning followed by shuddering and trembling. Restlessness, voluptuous dreams and frequent waking.

Fever

Pulse: Very changeable and irregular. In evening full and accelerated, in morning weak and slow. chill: Attacks of, and shuddering over entire body, with heat of face and cold hands. Chilliness and want of natural vital heat. Chilly feeling externally, at same time internal heat. Heat: Attacks of flying heat breaking out especially from mental or physical exertion. Sweat: Entirely absent.

Relationship

Allied Remedies: Ag-c., Coccl., Gel.

Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Adolph von Lippe · Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1915

Symptoms

Dull pressing in the limbs.

Painless stiffness and paralysis of the limbs.

Great pressing, as from spasms in many places.

Want of sensation in the whole body.

Tension through the whole body.

Want of animal heat in the limbs.

Faintish debility.

When standing, trembling of the limbs; when writing, trembling of the hands.

Great sensitiveness of the skin to rubbing, it becomes red and sore.

Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen and chest.

Diarrhoea of a watery, painless and undigested character.

Morning diarrhoea.