Senega seneg.

MUCOUS and serous membranes: CHEST. Eyes. Nose. Bladder. Muscles. Left side.

Air: Open. Wind. Inhaling cold. Rest. Pressure. Touch. Looking fixedly.

Motion; in open air. Bending head back.

Sub-acute, catarrhal or paretic states; of old people or fat, chubby children. Lax tissues. Profuse, albuminous secretions. Burning in air-passages.

Headache, into eyes, > cool air. Eye-balls feel distended. Bends head backward for > diplopia, ptosis, etc. Eye-balls feel like balls of ice. Sneezes, until dizzy. Coppery taste. Dry scraping in mouth, throat and chest; < talking. Nausea. Shreddy urine. Hoarse, unsteady voice; < sexual losses. Wheezing. Emphysema. Cough, incessant; strangling, choking ends in sneezing; < lying on right side or evening. Loose rattle in chest, but the profuse, clear expectoration is tough and slips back. Blood-tinged or albuminous expectoration. Chest sore (in spots), as if bruised; shifting pains on stooping. As of a crushing weight on or weakness starting from chest. Pleuro-pneumonia.

Related: Caus. Hep.

Where there is a great burning in the chest, either before or after coughing; profuse secretion of mucus. Dryness of inner parts which are usually moist; dry skin. General affections in the windpipe; left side of the chest particularly; right eye; lower eyelids.

From looking fixedly at an object a long time.

Calc. carb., Lycop., Phosphor., Sulphur.

Bryon. Sometimes, Arnic., Bellad., Camphor.

Snakewort

Catarrhal symptoms, especially of the respiratory tract, and distinct eye symptoms of a paralytic type, are most characteristic. Circumscribed spots in chest left after inflammations.

Suddenly remembers unimportant regions which he saw long ago. Inclined to quarrel.

Dullness, with pressure and weakness of eyes. Pain in temples. Bursting pain in forehead.

Hyperphoria, better by bending head backwards. Acts on the rectus superior. Blepharitis; lids dry and crusty (Graph). Dryness, with sensation as if too large for orbits. Starting. Lachrymation. Flickering; must wipe eyes frequently. Objects look shaded. Muscular asthenopia (Caust). Double vision; better only by bending head backward. Opacities of the vitreous humor. Promotes absorption of fragments of lens, after operation.

Dry. Coryza; much watery mucus and sneezing. Nostrils feel peppery.

Paralysis of left side of face. Heat in face. Burning vesicles in corners of mouth and lips.

Catarrhal inflammation of throat and fauces, with scraping hoarseness. Burning and rawness. Sensation as if membrane had been abraded.

Hoarseness. Hurts to talk. Bursting pain in back on coughing. Catarrh of larynx. Loss of voice. Hacking cough. Thorax feels too narrow. Cough often ends in a sneeze. Rattling in chest (Tart emet). Chest oppressed on ascending. Bronchial catarrh, with sore chest walls; much mucus; sensation of oppression and weight of chest. Difficult raising of tough, profuse mucus, in the aged. Asthenic bronchitis of old people with chronic interstitial nephritis or chronic emphysema. Old asthmatics with congestive attacks. Exudations in Pleura. Hydrothorax (Merc sulph). Pressure on chest as though lungs were forced back to spine. Voice unsteady, vocal cords partially paralyzed.

Greatly diminished; loaded with shreds and mucus; scalding before and after urinating. Back, bursting distending pain in kidney region.

Worse, walking in open air, during rest. Better, from sweat; bending head backwards.

Compare: Caust; Phos; Saponin; Ammon; Calc; Nepeta cataria-Catnip (to break up a cold; infantile colic: hysteria).

Tincture, to thirtieth potency.

Great anxiety, with rapid breathing. Melancholy mood, with great irritability of temper. Hilarity, with great irritability, changing to anger and wrath.

Dulness and stupefaction of the head, with pressure in the eyes, and obscuration of sight. The headache always extends to the eyes, is aggravated in the warm room, and relieved in the cold air. Shuddering on the hairy scalp.

The eyes pain as if they were pressed out, as if the eyeballs were being expanded, especially in the evening at candle-light. Congestion of blood to the eyes, with pulsation in them on stooping. Swelling of the eyelids, with tingling in them. Hardened mucus in the morning in the eyelashes. Lachrymation in the open air, and when looking intensely on an object. Obscuration of the cornea. Sensitiveness of the eyes to the light. Obscuration of sight, with glistening before the eyes, worse from rubbing them.

Painful sensitiveness of hearing.

Smell of pus before the nose.

Heat in the face. Burning blisters on the upper lip, and in the corners of the mouth.

Burning in the throat, mouth and on the tongue. White-coated tongue. Inflammation and swelling of the throat and pallet. Dryness in the throat and accumulation of tough mucus in the throat, which it is difficult to hawk up. Metallic taste in the mouth, or taste like urine.

Violent thirst. Gnawing hunger, with sensation of emptiness in the stomach. Eructations (relieving the mucus and hawking of mucus from the thorax). Nausea, as from the stomach, with vomiturition and straining to vomit. Burning in the stomach. Colic, with pressing pain. Warmth and oppression in the upper part of the abdomen when inhaling. Gnawing in the upper part of the abdomen.

Hard, retarded, and insufficient stool. Diarrhœa, with vomiting and great anxiety.

Urinary secretions diminished. At night, in bed, involuntary micturition. Urine contains strings of mucus, foaming when getting cold, turbid and cloudy. Burning and stinging in the urethra during and after micturition.

Dyspnœa as from stagnation in the lungs. Oppressed breathing, as if the chest were not wide enough, especially in the open air and when stooping. Congestion of blood to the chest. Shortness of breath from accumulation of mucus in the chest and trachea. Dry, shaking cough from tickling in the larynx, especially in the open air. Cough with copious expectoration of tough mucus. Shaking cough, like hooping-cough, from burning and tickling in the larynx, in the morning, with copious expectoration of tough, white mucus (like the white of an egg). The cough is worse in the evening and at night, during rest, in the warm room, when sitting, when lying on the (left) side. Pressing pain in the chest, worse during rest. Great sensitiveness to the inner chest, also to the touch. Stitches in the chest when coughing and breathing. Soreness in the chest, aggravated by pressure, coughing and sneezing. Accumulation of mucus in the chest, in the larynx, and trachea. Phthisis mucosa : Hydrothorax. Hoarseness ; bronchitis. The most chest symptoms are aggravated during rest and do not affect the breathing. Violent palpitation of the heart.

Upper. Sensation as if the wrist were sprained. Lower. Sensation of great weakness or debility in the legs ; the joints feel as if lame.

Pain under the right shoulder-blade as if the chest should burst, when coughing or drawing a long breath.

Great bodily and mental lassitude. Great weakness, which seems to originate in the chest. Diseases of mucous membranes. Dropsy of internal organs (especially after inflammation). Inflammation of internal organs.

In the evening, as soon as one lies down, heavy sleep ; in the morning one wakens frequently from dyspnœa.

Pulse hard and frequent. Chilliness and chill almost only in the open air, with weakness in the legs and dyspnœa. Shudders over the back, with heat in the face and chest symptoms. Sudden flushes of heat. Perspiration wanting.

Bites of poisonous animals or animals when in a state of rage.

Especially suitable for plethoric, phlegmatic persons. Most symptoms, especially those of the chest, are aggravated when at rest and are relieved when walking in the open air.

Polygala senega. Seneca Snake-root. N. O. Polygalaceæ. Tincture of powdered dried root.

Amblyopia. Ascites. Asthma. Bladder, irritable ; catarrh of. Blepharitis ciliaris. Bronchitis . Constipation. Cornea, opacity of. Cough . Enuresis. Facial paralysis. Hay-fever. Hydrothorax. Hypopion. Influenza. Iritis. Œsophagus, stricture of; catarrh of. Phthisis mucosa. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Snake-bites. Sneezing: fits of; at end of cough. Styes. Throat, sore. Whooping-cough.

Senega was introduced to medical practice by Dr. Tennant, of Virginia, who was led to test its properties through hearing that the Indians used it as an antidote to snake-bites. As it relieved the symptoms of snake venom, Tennant concluded that it might also relieve dyspnœa, cough, and hæmoptysis arising from other causes, and gave it with success in cases of pneumonia, pleurisy, and hydro-thorax (Teste). Other old-school practitioners used it as an expectorant in chronic respiratory catarrh, acute phthisis, rheumatic fever, dropsies, incipient cataract, croup. It is at present regarded as "a stimulant, diaphoretic, and expectorant, especially in chronic bronchitis." It is in affections of the chest, eyes, and bladder that homœopaths have found it of most service, and the extensive provings have supplied excellent data for prescribing. Teste (who includes Seneg . with Phos. ac., Cham . and Canth . in his Conium group) considers it specially suited to "females of slender and tall make, thin, but having retained a good deal of sprightliness and moral power." He cites this case in which it gave great relief: Lady, 45, had contusion, pressive, sometimes cramping, very old pains in chest, anterior wall of which was sensitive to contact (on both sides); pains at times < , at times > in open air; respiratory mucus at apices feeble, without rhoncus; dyspnœa when walking, and especially when going up stairs; paroxysms of vesicular agitation in chest as if she would faint; catarrhal cough, not very frequent, with ropy, not very profuse expectoration; spitting of red blood now and then; paroxysms of palpitations, during which the rhythm of the heart changed to an almost imperceptible tremor, and which, in some instances, lasted all night, and even longer; menses regular; the palpitation generally took place after the period or in consequence of some moral emotion. This patient was apparently of the type Teste mentions, and the case shows that the correspondence of type must not be too closely considered, for other observers, including myself, have found Seneg . more suited to plethoric, phlegmatic persons; persons tending to obesity; fat persons of lax fibre; fat, chubby children; and old persons. Senega is one of the sources of Saponin . It has a nauseous taste, and leaves a scraping sensation in the throat. Guernsey outlines its action thus: "Where there is a great burning in the chest, either before or after coughing; profuse secretion of mucus. Dryness of inner parts which are usually moist; dry skin. General affections of the windpipe; left side of chest particularly; right eye; lower eyelids." Nash (who has only obtained success with low attenuations of Seneg .) has cured many cases of "cough with great accumulation of mucus which seems to fill the chest, with much rattling, wheezing, and difficult breathing." It is especially valuable, he says, with old people, but works well with others. I have used Seneg . only in the 30th, and have found it answer to its indications exceedingly well. In the case of a very stout elderly lady, of phthisical family history, who had pneumonia of both bases, especially right, very violent paroxysmal cough, with ropy, difficult expectoration tinged with blood, Seneg . 30 quickly relieved a very dangerous condition when other remedies had failed. Leading indications for Seneg . in chest cases are: ( 1 ) Great accumulation of clear albuminous mucus, which is difficult to expel. ( 2 ) Great soreness of walls of chest. ( 3 ) Pressure on chest as though lungs were forced back to spine. Whooping-cough in fat, chubby children, clear mucus like white of egg, difficult to raise, cough < towards evening. The soreness of the chest walls makes Seneg . appropriate to cases of pleurodynia. There is hoarseness, and the throat is so dry and sensitive it hurts the patient to talk. Cough often ends in sneezing. Clinton Enos (quoted A. H ., xxiv. 253) relates this case: A very fat girl, æt. 10, with cold, damp feet and hands and sweating about the head, had spells of sneezing for two years, ever since whooping-cough. Several spells a day lasting about half an hour. Sharp pains in chest and temples during the attacks. In nose a large quantity of mucus with stuffed-up feeling. One dose of Seneg . 200 removed the whole trouble in a week. A. R. Macmichæl ( N. A. J. H ., xl. 824) cured Mrs. B., 40, of acute Catarrhal laryngitis which had lasted ten days with Seneg . 1. There was hoarseness; hawking of thick, tenacious mucus (profuse, a quart in twenty-four hours) from larynx, especially in morning, with burning sensation. Relief set in within three hours from first dose. Seneg . acts on the eyes even more powerfully than on the nose, producing pains, inflammation both of the exterior and interior of the eye and lids, and much disorder of vision. The eye troubles are < when looking intently at an object; and another modality brought out in the proving has taken the rank of a keynote: > Bending head backwards. The symptom in which it was first noticed was this: "When walking towards the setting sun he seemed to see another smaller sun hover below the other, assuming a somewhat oval shape when looking down, disappearing on bending the head backwards , and on closing the eyes." The prover took from 40 to 60 drops of the tincture. " < Bending head forward" and " < stooping" are scarcely less characteristic. Eye symptoms as an accompaniment of head symptoms indicate Seneg .: "Violent rush of blood to head when stooping, especially to eyeballs, where a painful pressure is experienced." Extreme tenderness is another note of Seneg .: "A sort of aching pain in head, in sinciput, and occiput, not < by pressure; < sitting in warm room; accompanied with pressure in eyes, which did not bear touch ." Pressure; dulness; heaviness are the leading head sensations. There is painful sensitiveness of hearing. The digestive organs are disordered. Seneg . has been used as an emetic. The urinary organs are very prominently affected, irritability and catarrh being the leading effects. There is frequent urging, scalding in urethra before or after micturition, and the urine is loaded with mucous threads. Peculiar Sensations of Seneg . are: Eyes, as if they were pressed out; as if eyeballs were being expanded; as if soap in eyes. As if red pepper throughout nostrils and air passages. As if chest too narrow. Dyspnœa as from stagnation in lungs. As if lungs pushed back to spine. As if chest would burst. Wrist as if sprained. Joints as if lame. Seneg . has the gnawing hunger and empty feeling well marked. It is predominantly left-sided in its action. The symptoms are < by touch and pressure (but pressure on left side > ). < Rubbing. Most symptoms < rest; > walking in open air. Rest > dry cough. Lying down = tickling in larynx; fear of suffocation. Lying on right side = pain in chest. Motion = pain under sternum. Motion of arms = soreness of walls of chest. < Going up stairs. Stepping hard, walking fast, or running = pain through mediastinum; piercing pain between scapulæ. > Bending head back. < Stooping; bending forward. < Morning; and night. Whooping cough < towards evening. < In warm air; in warm room. Lachrymation, sore chest. Cough and chilliness < in open or cold air. Sweat > . < Looking intently at an object.

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Confused or reeling sensation in head.
Dulness and stupefaction of head, with pressure in eyes and obscuration of sight.

Aching pain in head, in sinciput and occiput, not increased by pressure, every day when sitting in a warm room, accompanied by pressure in eyes which did not bear touch.
Pressing pain in forehead and orbits after dinner, especially left side, < in open air.

Shuddering on hairy scalp.

Drawing and pressure in eyeballs, with diminution of vision.
Weakness of sight and flickering before eyes when reading, necessitating frequent wiping of eyes, which aggravates.
While reading eyes feel dazzled.
Flickering and running together of letters when reading.
Flickering before eyes and weakness of sight when continuing to read or write.
On walking toward setting sun, another small sun seemed to float beneath it, on turning eyes outward it changed into a compressed oval, disappeared on bending head and closing eyes.
Weakness of eyes with burning and lachrymation.
Obscuration of cornea.
Sensitiveness of eyes to light.
Obscuration of sight, with glistening before eyes, < from rubbing them.
Hypopion in scrofulous subjects.
To promote absorption of lens fragments after cataract operations or injuries to lens.
Paralysis of muscles of eye.
Iritis and specks upon cornea.
Opacities in vitreous.
Paresis of superior oblique.
Oculo-motor paresis ; Mr. A., æt. 33, four years ago eyes began to be weak with difficulty in seeing clearly ; drooping lids, was obliged to pull them open ; began to see double with right image obliquely above real one ; stopped using eyes and improved ;
this summer visited Mammoth Cave, followed by a return of double vision ; walked into room with head thrown backward (occasionally shutting his left eye and holding his head straight), this position relieving confusion of vision ; double vision caused him to make missteps,
etc. ; paresis of left oculo-motor nerve, with paralysis of superior rectus ; upper lid very weak, falling half over eye ; difficult convergence ; weak back ; deficient muscular power ; subject to bilious headaches.
Aching over orbits, eyes tremble and water when he looks at an object intently or steadily ; eyes weak and watery when reading.
Eyes pain as if they were pressed out, as if eyeballs were being expanded, especially in evening in candlelight.
Congestion of blood to eyes, with pulsation in them on stooping.
Swelling of eyelids, with tingling in them.
Hardened mucus in morning in eyelashes.
Lachrymation in open air when looking intently at an object.
Blepharitis ciliaris, < in morning, much smarting, dry, crusty lashes.
Cilia hang full of hard mucus ; smarting of conjunctiva as if soap were in eyes, mornings ; blepharitis ; sometimes lids stick so after sleep they must be soaked before they can be separated.
Pimple on margin of left lower lid.
Stye on lower lid.
Hydrophthalmia with intraocular compression.

Painful sensitiveness of hearing.

Sneezing for five minutes, so violent and long continued that the head became quite heavy and dizzy ; afterward a large quantity of thin watery fluid flowed from nose.
Troublesome dryness of Schneiderian membrane.
Frequent coryza, commencing with feeling as if red pepper were throughout nostrils and air passages, followed by distressing cough. θ Influenza.
Smell of pus before nose.

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Senega is an old lung tonic, and I suspect it has been an ingredient in most of the lung medicines for the last one hundred years.

It has been only partially proved, and needs further proving to bring out its particulars. When a medicine has been fully proved , it can be said of it that its symptoms are so well known that they can be examined as an image, i. e., the drug has affected all portions of man in such a manner as to stamp itself upon all of his natural actions and functions in a way peculiar to itself. This remedy has done some wonderful things, and these results in many instances can be only attributed to mere guesswork. This is about all that can be said in favor of careless and loose. prescribing.

Senega is more especially a chest medicine. It is full of chest symptoms and its relation to the air passages makes it worthy of consideration, although many of the individualizing symptoms have not yet been brought out.

From its most striking action on the mucous membrane of the air passages, its chief use has been in chest complaints, asthmatic complaints, in various forms of dyspnoea, cardiac and asthmatic. There are violent pains in the chest, especially like those of pleurisy. It has also symptoms like pneumonia; one of its most useful spheres is in pleuro-pneumonia. The pleuro-pneumonia of cattle has almost found its specific in Senega.

The finding of specifics is more likely to be true of animals than of human beings, as a remedy that is only partially indicated - may cure an animal, but it requires much finer discrimination among remedies in dealing with human beings.

A violent attack of pleurisy associated with pneumonia, too deep and too vicious for Bryonia, often finds its remedy in Senega. Senega is a sort of cross between Bryonia and Rhus tox . The violent symptoms are those of Bryonia, yet it is worse from rest, unlike Bryonia. The symptoms of Senega are not so much like Rhus tox., but it has an amelioration like that of Rhus tox., better from motion, the pains being worse when at rest.

The chest pains, rheumatic pains and inflammatory pains are worse during rest, but the cough is made worse from motion and the asthmatic troubles are made worse from the slightest motion. The Senega patient cannot walk up hill; he cannot walk against the wind, because it brings on chest symptoms and dyspnoea.

The rattling in the chest is as marked as in Antimonium tartaricum the tenacious mucus is as copious, as gluey and stringy as in Kali bichromicum, so much is this the case that he can get it only part way up, and with a spasmodic effort he swallows it, like Spongia and Causticum.

Senega is a remedy of deep action, as well as an acute remedy. It is filled with sharp and acute sufferings, sufferings that come on with rapidity, from taking cold, or from a cold that involves the whole chest.

There are some eye symptoms in the text that are worthy of attention.

"Paralysis of the muscles of the eyes."

"Iritis and specks upon the cornea."

"Paresis of the superior oblique."

"Aching over the orbits."

"Eyes pain as if pressed out."

"Blepharitis."

It has cured opacity of the vitreous humor.

Of the larynx the text says,

"Aphonia from severe cold or excessive use of the voice."

"Constant tickling and burning in the larynx, leaving the patient not a moment's rest and preventing him from lying down; fear of suffocation."

When Senega is indicated there is a dryness in the mouth and throat, and the cough is incessant; there is a constant metallic coppery taste in the mouth and throat, as if he were coughing up pulverized copper.

A very little of this medicine in proving will produce such a dryness and metallic taste in the mouth, and such a tickling at the root of the tongue, the pharynx and larynx, and it will finally end in a copious, thick, gluey discharge.

"Grippe, with stitches in right eye when coughing."

"Laryngeal phthisis."

"Copious accumulation of tough mucus in air-tubes, which causes the greatest often ineffectual, efforts at coughing and hawking for its expulsion."

This thick, tough mucus will lead most routine prescribers to give such medicines as Kali bichromicum, Lachesis and Mercurius corrosivus, entirely overlooking the usefulness of Senega.

It is a remedy of very wide range in complaints of the chest, larynx and trachea, in the severe "colds" that settle in these parts, especially when associated with tenacious mucus, so tenacious that he cannot cough it up; it seems at times that he will strangle; he will cough and vomit in the effort to expel the mucus, but it seems to disappear and he does not know where it goes.

"Sensation as if the chest were too narrow."

"Most violent suffocation with asthma."

"Short breathing and oppression of chest when going up stairs."

"Dyspnoea especially during rest."

"Dry cough with aphonia; worse in cold air and from walking," is like Phosphorus and Rumex.

Those two remedies cause a cough, which commences when he first goes into the air. Senega, has another feature like Phosphorus, in that the cough is so violent that it makes him shake from head to foot; it brings on a tremulous feeling all over the body. He coughs from inhaling cold air; the cough is violent and the expectoration most difficult. In old, chronic catarrh of the chest for the earlier stages of which Bryonia was the most similar remedy, with this thick, tough, ropy mucus,

Senega is most suitable, and even when the patient is in the last stages of consumption. The symptoms become most troublesome, the gagging and coughing and effort to expectorate because of the thick, ropy mucus, are very distressing.

He breaks out in a cold sweat, especially on the upper part of the body. The chest is full of coarse rales from the tough mucus which he cannot expectorate. We think in such a case of remedies like Antimonium tartaricum, Pyrogen, Kali bichromicum, etc., but this remedy is just as suitable, especially when there is a great amount of dryness in the throat and larynx, dryness in the throat during sleep and observed on waking, and inability to expectorate the tough ropy mucus.

"Shaking cough," i. e., the cough is so violent that it shakes the whole frame.

The concussion from the cough causes discharge of urine involuntarily and causes violent pains in the head and over the eyes. Senega, is called for especially in those cases where the pleura has been involved at one stage or the other.

The pains are increased and it seems as if the chest would be torn on coughing.

"Walls of the chest sensitive or painful when touched."

"Profuse secretion of mucus in lungs of old people."

Senega is one of the leading remedies for the tough mucus and coarse rales in old people without any other symptoms. It very often clears the throat and helps to patch up an old man when he is breaking down.

"Great rattling of mucus in chest and flying pains in chest-"

It has sometimes cured pleuro-pneumonia when there was the extreme exhaustion of Phosphorus and Arsenicum. In such cases Senega has caused reaction; it has such weakness. Especially is it suited in the advanced cases of phthisis, when those symptoms that I have mentioned are present.

It acts as a palliative. It does excellent patch work without serious aggravations, as it relates more especially to superficial conditions. It is not as deep acting as Sulphur and Silicea . We give such remedies only when we have a reasonable assurance that we can cure, when the patient is yet curable.

But when we have given up all hope, then we pay more attention to the most painful parts; we pay more attention to the local symptoms, to the group which causes the most suffering and attempt to do patch work.

If the sufferings in the chest and the exhaustion become most severe it is true that Arsenicum will patch him up a little and make him feel more like life, and he will go on to the end with more comfort. If the pains in the chest are most severe such medicines as Senega or Bryonia will help him; if he is sore and feels as if bruised and he most move from side to side Arnica will relieve; but these are not the remedies to go deep into the life and eradicate a deep-seated disease like phthisis.

Yet with these one may take a consumptive patient in comfort to the very grave, by simply patching him up and prescribing for his immediate sufferings. Homoeopathic remedies give these incurable sufferers much greater comfort than sprays and anodynes.

The pains of the chest are worse during rest and on inspiring. Stitching pains in the chest when lying on the right side. Great soreness in the walls of the chest. Pain under right scapula when coughing. The chest pains are better while walking in the open air.

Cheerful, but irritable, easily becomes vehement when excited.
Phlegmatic.
Anxiety with accelerated breathing.

Confused feeling in the head.
Dulness, with pressure and weakness of the eyes.
Slight vertigo before the eyes.

Head feels heavy.
Sort of aching in forehead, sinciput and occiput; comes every day, is felt when sitting in a warm room and accompanied by pressure in eyes, that does not bear touch, though headache is not worse from pressure; better from exercise in open air.
Pressing pain in forehead and orbits after dinner, especially in left side of head; relieved in the open air.

Aching over the orbits, eyes tremble and water when he looks at an object intently or steady; eyes weak and watery when reading.
Weakness of sight and flickering, must wipe the eyes when reading, but they are aggravated thereby.
Evenings, on walking towards setting sun, seems to see another sun beneath the first; on turning eyes outward it appeared like a compressed oval, and disappeared when head was bent backwards and when eyes were closed.
Promotes absorption of lens fragments after operation for cataract.
Paresis of the left oculo-motor nerve, with paralysis of the superior rectus muscle; patient could see clearly only by bending head backwards which relieved double vision.
Drawing and pressure in the eyeballs, with diminution of visual power.
Eyes pain as if pressed out, or as if balls were being expanded, especially in the evening and in candle-light.
Hypopion in scrofulous patients.
Cilia hang full of hard mucus; smarting of the conjunctiva, as if soap was in the eyes; mornings; blepharitis; sometimes lids stick so after sleep, they must be soaked before they can be separated.

Troublesome dryness of the Schneiderian membrane.
Smell before the nose as of a malignant ulcer.
Sneezes so often and so violently that the head grows dizzy and heavy; followed by thin coryza.

Coated white, yellowish-white, or slimy in the morning, with slimy, unpleasant taste.
Taste: bad, with rumbling in stomach; metallic; like urine.

Mouth and throat dry; tenacious mucus difficult to hawk up; scraping and roughness; constriction in the fauces; hawking.

Eructations, which relieve the mucus and hawking.
Nausea with vomiturition; burning in the stomach.

Pressure below the pit of the stomach; senses of gnawing hunger.
Digging pain in the epigastrium, disposition to flatulence and to outbursts of ill-humor.

Purging, vomiting and anxiety; watery stools, spurting from the anus.
Stools scanty, hard, or dry and large, insufficient.

Urine diminished, dark-colored, foams when shaken.
Urine acrid, increased in amount.
Urging and scalding before and after micturition; mucous shreds in the urine; on cooling becomes thick and cloudy, or deposits a thick sediment, yellowish-red, with upper stratum yellow and flocculent.

Tenacious mucus causing hawking or coughing; often an irritating, shaking cough as in old cases of bronchitis.
Sudden hoarseness when reading aloud.
Hoarse; throat so dry it hurts when he talks.

Short breathing and oppression of the chest on going up stairs.
Dyspnœa as from stagnation in the lungs; also on awaking and during chill. See 37, 40, etc.

Dry, with oppression of chest and roughness in throat; short, hacking, from mucus or from irritation in larynx, worse in the open air and from walking fast.
Cough often ends in a sneeze (often in common colds).
Shaking cough like whooping-cough from burning and tickling in the larynx in the morning, with copious, tough, white, mucous sputum (like white of egg).
Soreness of the chest, dry cough, throat dry, hoarseness; later much mucus in bronchi and trachea.
Cough worse evenings; at night, during rest, sitting, lying on (left) side, and in a warm room.

Orgasm of blood; oppression with flushes of heat; oppression especially during rest; tightness.
Certain movements cause pain, as if chest was too tight; disposed to expand the chest, this leaves soreness.
Shooting stitches in the chest, worse during inspiration, during rest.
Dull stitches and burning pain in left chest when lying on the right side.
Walls of chest sensitive or painful when touched, or when he sneezes (often as a remnant of colds on the chest).
Burning sore pain under the sternum, especially during motion and on deep inspiration.
Stepping hard, walking fast or running, causes pulling sore pain, as if through mediastinum.
Accumulation of much mucus in larynx, trachea and chest.
Is said to be useful for hydrothorax after inflammations in chest.

Violent boring pain in region of heart.
Heart's beat shakes the whole body; violent palpitation while walking.

Pressing pain between the scapulæ especially when stepping hard, or on other movements which concuss the chest.
Pulse rather hard and accelerated.

Many symptoms worse during rest. Also See 27, 28.
Exercise: 3. Motion: 28. Bending head back: 5. Going up stairs: 26. Walking, walking fast: 5, 27, 28, 30. Sitting: 3, 27. Lying on sides: 27, 28.

Debility, with stretching of the limbs, confusion, heaviness and beating in the head.
Legs feel weak; joints feel lame.
Weakness seems to originate in the chest.
Lassitude and slight trembling of upper limbs.
Faintness, when walking in open air.

As soon as he lies down evenings, heavy sleep.
Restless sleep, full of dreams; awakens often from all dull stitches and tightness in chest.

Day: 3. Evening: 5, 27. Night: 27. Morning: 5, 11, 27.

Warm room: 3, 27. Open air: 3, 27, 36, 40.

Chilliness, weakness of feet; chill in open air; dyspnœa.
Shuddering over back heat in face, weak, burning eyes, beating headache, difficult breathing, body feels bruised.
Flushes of heat: see 28. Skin hot. Skin becomes warmer and moister.

Diseases of mucous membranes; especially of the lining of larynx, trachea and bronchi.
Catarrh that tend to leave sore and tender places in the walls of the chest, as though there were left circumscribed spots of inflammation.

Touch: 3, 28, 46. Stepping hard: 28, 31. Wiping eyes: 5.

Burning vesicles, itching when touched.
Bites of poisonous, enraged animals.

Best suited for the phlegmatic, also for fat children predisposed to catarrh; or to the sluggish, who react from colds imperfectly.

Compare: Sapon., Calc. carb., Caustic., Baryt. (in fat children); Aspar. (bronchial and cystic catarrh, both drugs have difficult detachment of mucus, turbid urine with burning, etc. Senega, more a shaking cough; Aspar., one that causes gagging latter has, too, more weakness of heart, and tendency to gravel and gout in old people); Bryon., Scilla., Hepar, Cubebs, Copaiva (last two in frothy urine with mucous shreds).

A tincture is made of the dried root of Polygala Senega, L.

It presents imperfectly two important phases: (1) Laryngo-bronchial catarrh, with numerous characteristic indications, and (2) paralytic symptoms everywhere, but most pronounced in the eye and larynx. ▶ Closely allied to Causticum, partly to Phos. and Spongia.

▶ Weakness, with trembling of upper limbs (Caust.); W., stretching of limbs, confusion, heaviness and beating in head; with yawning; with mental indolence and bruised pain in muscles of thighs; even to nausea; physical and mental. ▶ Faintness in afternoon on walking in open air. ▶ Amelioration from sweat.

Cheerful; and childishly playful, but a slight cause made him mad and vehement; (and disposed to work). ▶ Hypochondriac and irritable; H. in evening. ▶ (Fretful in forenoon.). ▶ Anxiety; with accelerated breathing. ▶ Phlegmatic, inclined to quarrel and to give offense. ▶ Suddenly remembers unimportant regions which he saw long ago and which never made a deep impression upon him.

Boring stitches. ▶ Aching; in morning; amel. cold; beating, with pressure in eyes, diminished appetite, bruised feeling and malaise. ▶ Dullness; with pressure and weakness of eyes. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Emptiness. ▶ Rush of blood on stooping, agg. eyeballs, where there is painful pressure. ▶ Vertigo; in morning, with flat taste; with roaring in ears; as if blood ceased to flow and as if ideas were arrested.

Tearing in left half. ▶ Pain; over orbits; over left eye; in right half; after dinner, and in orbits, agg. left side of head, amel. open air; in sinciput and occiput every day, agg. sitting in a warm room, with pressure in eyes, which did not bear touch, on the fifth day nausea after dinner, the pain amel. leaning head on arm, but exercise in open air gave the greatest relief, with sensation as if diarrhœa would come on, which was not the case, after the nausea a peculiar but not unpleasant sensation in parotid and external pain in præcordial region. ▶ Beating pain in evening. ▶ Painful drawing.

Tearing in temples extending into face, with drawing pain. ▶ Pain in temples; right; towards forehead, in forenoon. ▶ Pain in occiput; afterwards extending to temples and finally to whole head; stupefying, towards evening. ▶ Itching on scalp in morning.

Staring, with sensation as if it were difficult to move eyes. ▶ Pressing; towards evening, with burning; in evening by candle-light; as if it would be pressed out of the socket in morning, then dull feeling; as if a fluid pressed into balls and distended them, on stooping. ▶ Dryness, with smarting as from soap; D., with sensation as if balls were too large for orbits. ▶ Burning when reading or writing. ▶ Drawing changing into coolness, then lachrymation. ▶ Lachrymation in open air; and sensation as if threads were hanging before eyes, agg. right; left on looking intently, with trembling of eyes. ▶ Pupils contracted and sluggish.

Swelling; with burning and pain; of right, agg. towards inner canthus, with inflammation and pain. ▶ Pimple on margin of right lower. ▶ Vesicle on margin of left upper, causing pressure in eye, on being opened it discharged clear fluid. ▶ Lashes full of hard mucus in morning. ▶ Jerking; of right upper; of lower, causing lachrymation. ▶ Lower spasmodically drawn towards nose. ▶ Pressure in right upper, towards inner canthus; burning P. in margins in morning. ▶ Burning when writing. ▶ Pulsation in right lower. ▶ Crawling, with sensation of sand in them.

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General tendency to catarrhal affections, particularly of the larynx and bronchi.
Weakness and trembling of the limbs, and general paralytic symptoms.
Faintness in the afternoon on walking in the open air.

Dull aching in the forehead and orbits, associated with sensitiveness of the eyes; headache generally extends into the eyes, is < warm room and > cold.
Sense of rush of blood to the head, with throbbing, especially on stooping.

Forcing-outward pain in the orbits < evening by the light.
Sense of congestion of the eyes, with burning.
Dryness, with smarting, and a feeling as if the eyeballs were too large for the orbits.
Lachrymation on looking intently or in the open air.
Lachrymation when reading, with flickering; must wipe the eyes often, with burning.
Letters run together when reading.
Double vision > bending backward.
Loss or power of the upper lid, with formication and swelling.

Coryza, with discharge of watery mucus.
Dryness, with heaviness of the head and vertigo.

Roughness and rawness, with inclination to clear the throat, < evening, with dry cough and oppression of the chest.
Burning.
Hawking of gray mucus in the morning.
Burning extends into the œsophagus.

Frequent micturition, at times, involuntary at night.
Diminished secretion of urine.
Urine mixed with mucus, becoming turbid.
Burning and stinging in the urethra during and after micturition.

Tearing, stinging in the larynx and trachea, causes hacking cough.
Constant hoarseness when reading.
Cough from mucus in the larynx, < open air or walking; with expectoration of tenacious mucus.
Dyspnœa on ascending stairs, with oppression of the chest.
Pressive pain in the chest, especially when at rest.
Stitches in the chest on coughing and inspiring.
The chest feels sore internally, on pressure or on sneezing and coughing.
Chest symptoms are < during rest.

Clinical:
Hydrothorax.
Œdema of the lungs, with soreness of the chest.
Chronic pneumonia, with rattling of mucus, oppression, burning.

Weakness and paralytic weariness in the lower extremities.

Vacancy and dull confusion in head, with pressure in eyes and cloudy vision. Great anxiety, with quick breathing. Melancholic mood, easily irritated by offences. Cheerfulness, with great excitability, which turns to anger and rage. Hypochondriasis.

Dull outward pressure in forehead and orbits, as though' brain and eyes would be forced out, with sensitive eyes, Jerkings and thrusts in forehead. Congestion, with throbbing therein, especially when stopping. Hollow, empty feeling affecting eyes. The headache always extends to eyes, is intensified in a warm room and during rest and is better in the cold, open air. Shivering on scalp.

Out pressing pain in orbits, as though' eyeballs were expanded, especially in evening by artificial light. Congestion of blood to eyes when stooping, with burning therein. Swelling of lids, with crawling therein. Hardened mucus crusts in lashes early in morning. Watering, when in open air and looking intently. Clouded cornea. Sensitive to light. Weak vision and flickering before.

Painfully sensitive hearing.

Odor: As of an ulcer in, as of pus before.

Heat of. Burning vesicles on upper lip and in angles of mouth.

Mouth: - Burning on palate, in throat and at tip of tongue. Inflammatory swelling of fauces and uvula. Dry buccal cavity, with tenacious mucus in throat. Increased saliva. Roughness in throat.

Taste: Sweat, metallic or urinous, in mouth.

Burning. Spasmodic pressure.

Appetite: - total loss of. Increased thirst.

Nausea: Starting in stomach, with gagging and inclination to vomit.

Warmth and oppression in upper, during inspiration. Boring, digging pain in upper. Drawing, as from a foreign body n wall of.

Retarded hard and too scanty.

Diminished discharge of. Nocturnal enuresis. Urine mixed with mucus threads, becoming turbid and cloudy on cooling. Burning and sticking in urethra during and after urination.

Increased sexual desire with painful erections.

Difficult as from stoppage of lungs. Tight, as though' chest were too narrow, especially in open air when stooping. Short, from accumulation of mucus in chest and air passages.

Dry, shattering c., from burning and tickling in larynx, especially when open air and in evening, with copious expectoration of tenacious albuminous mucus, of a somewhat offensive odor in morning, and when in the house.

Extraordinary quantity of mucus in, and in tracheas. Catarrhal croup. Tracheal phthisis, Hoarseness.

Congestion to, with throbbing therein while sitting. Pressing pain in, worse during rest. Great sensitiveness internally, and to touch externally. Stitches in, when coughing and during inspiration. Painful soreness of, increased by external pressure, sneezing, coughing, etc. Most chest symptoms are worse when at rest and have no influence on the breathing. Copious accumulation of mucus in. Phthisis mucosa. Hydrothorax. Violent, shaking palpitation.

Bursting pain under right scapula.

Lower Extremities: Sense of great weariness, with trembling thereof. Paralytic weariness in joints of lower legs.

Extraordinary mental and physical relaxation. Relaxed, plethoric, phlegmatic constitution, old persons. Great weakness, especially when it seem to start from chest. Diseases of the mucus membranes. Dropsy of the mucous membranes. Dropsy of internal parts (especially after inflammations).

Bites of poisonous animals. Anasarca.

Sound and at same time stupefying, in evening immediately upon lying down. Frequently awakened by chest difficulties, toward morning.

Pulse: Irregular, mostly hard and accelerated, with strong of ebullition of blood, seldom soft. Chill: And shivering, almost exclusively in open air, with weariness in legs and difficult breathing. Shuddering over back, with heat of face. Chest symptoms and other sufferings: Heat: Only in rapid flashes. Sweat: Wholly wanting and appears only during its secondary action.

Allied Remedies: Ars., Bell, Bry., Stann.

Great bodily and mental debility, with stretching of the limbs and accompanied with heaviness and dullness of the head.

Great weakness, which seems to come from and of the chest.

Diseases of the mucous membranes.

Many symptoms, especially those of the chest, are aggravated during rest and are relieved by walking in the open air.

Fainting while walking in the open air.

Wounds from the bites of poisonous animals.

Aggravation in the evening.

Angina mucosa.

Bronchitis.

Inflammation of the lungs.

The urinary secretions are diminished.

Menses come on too soon.

Gnawing pain in the left side at the waist.

Nausea continuously.

Dry, scraping sensation in the pharynx.

Hoarseness.