VERBASCUM
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Anus, itching of
- Colic
- Constipation
- Cough
- Deafness
- Enuresis
- Hemorrhoids
- Neuralgia
- Prosopalgia
- Urine, incontinence of
- Neuralgic pains of great intensity, pressing and lancinating, especially in facial bones, navel, and limbs
- Deep, hollow, hoarse cough in sound like a trumpet
- Night cough
- Cough in children during sleep
- Earache
- Painful micturition
- Tearing, stitching pain above left ear, downward and inward
- Outer ear numb
- Dulness of hearing left side
- Heavy pressure in vertex
- Shivers run up back and left side with the pain
- Irritable and despondent
- As if everything would press out at forehead
- As if left ramus of jaw were pressed against upper jaw
- As if temples were pinched and Crushed
- As if ears were stopped up
- As if nose and larynx were stopped up
- As if something had fallen before ear
- As if one were violently pressing on left malar bone
- As of a crushing with tongs
- Pressure as from a stone on umbilicus
- As from needles from umbilical region to back
- As if intestines were adherent to wall of abdomen and were being torn away
- As of a twist around navel
- As if a weight were hanging on lower extremities
- As if cold water were poured over side of body from shoulder to thigh
- Salt water collects in mouth
- Apathy
- Moroseness, ill-humour, and irascibility
- Excessive gaiety, with laughter
- Mental excitement, with voluptuous images
- Weakness of memory
- Distraction
- A great concourse of ideas, and liveliness of imagination
- Dulness and confusion in the head
- Vertigo: when pressing one (l.) cheek while supporting the head; sudden, as from pressure on whole head
- Headache, with a forcing outwards at forehead
- Pressive, stupefying headache, principally in forehead; or semilateral, and mostly when passing from a warm into a cold temperature (and vice versa)
- Heaviness of head, with dull pain
- Pinching in temples
- Deep, stupefying stitches in brain (pressing, slow stitch from behind forward through l. hemisphere of brain)
- Stupefying shooting in temples (in r. temple when eating; < from pressure; extending into upper teeth of r. side)
- Resonance in head, when walking
- Pains in eyes, as from contraction of the sockets, with burning in eyes
- Sight confused, as if directed through a veil
- Tearing in ears, sometimes when eating, with lancinations
- Sensation as if ear were drawn inwards
- Deafness as from stoppage of ear
- Sensation of a stoppage of ears (first l., then r., also of nose and larynx) when reading aloud; hearing unaffected
- Numbness in l. ear
- Sensation of stoppage of larynx and ears
- Profuse coryza from frontal sinuses, with hot, burning, profuse lachrymation
- Facial neuralgia (esp. caused and < by a change of temperature), generally with stupefying, pressive or tensive pains, principally in cheek-bones, and commencing from maxillary joint, < by clenching teeth, and by external pressure
- Violent pressure in l. malar bone and zygoma
- Stitches in l. zygomatic arch
- Shootings in the cheek-bones, with dull pressure
- Violent tension in integuments of chin, masseters, and throat
- Toothache, with tearing pain in the molars
- Pinching pressing pain on lower side of jaw
- Copious accumulation of salt saliva in the mouth
- Root of tongue brown, without bad taste, in morning and during forenoon
- Tongue of a brownish yellow colour, loaded with viscid mucus in morning and after dinner
- Very severe pain in throat on swallowing
- Mawkish taste, with fetid breath
- Hunger, without relish for food
- Insatiable thirst
- Regurgitation of insipid serum
- Empty, or else bitter risings, with nausea
- Frequent hiccough
- Aching of stomach
- Sensation of emptiness at pit of stomach, which disappears with a rumbling below l. ribs
- Cuttings and shootings in l. hypochondrium
- Incessant gurgling and rumbling beneath l. ribs
- Inflation of the abdomen, violent and painful pressure on navel, as by a stone, < by bending double
- Spasmodic constriction of the hypogastrium, towards the umbilical region
- Pains in abdomen, which extend deeply downwards, with want to evacuate, and spasmodic contraction of anus
- Pinchings and gripings in abdomen
- Shootings in abdomen, principally in umbilical region, sometimes tearing and tending downwards
- Sensation as if intestines had adhered to umbilical region, and were torn away
- Fearful diarrhea; griping; much pain as if pierced with a lance through inside of l. ankle-joint; pain in both cheekbones and above eyebrows; menses came on early this time, and she has coughed a good deal
- Suppressed evacuations
- Feces hard, like sheep-dung, and expelled with effort
- Frequent want to urinate, with profuse emission (afterwards scanty)
- Enuresis nocturna; (obstinate, with seminal emissions
- Pollutions without lewd dreams
- Sensation of obstruction in the larynx and nose, with hoarseness when reading aloud; deep voice
- Catarrh, with hoarseness and stuffed chest
- Cough esp. in evening, and at night, when sleeping, generally rough and dry, or hollow and dull
- Dry, hoarse cough < at night
- Frequent attacks of deep, hollow, hoarse cough, with sound like a trumpet, caused by tickling in larynx and chest
- The cough is lessened as soon as the patient succeeds in taking a breath
- Shooting in chest, sometimes with oppression and obstructed respiration
- Tension in chest, with lancinations in region of heart, in evening, after lying down
- Stitches in the chest
- Red nodosity near xiphoid cartilage, painful when pressed upon
- Lancinations in the back and shoulder-blades
- Sharp intermittent stitches in l. scapula
- Fine persistent stitch in last dorsal vertebra
- Between r. loin and spine deep, knife-like stitches quite intense in intestines
- Backache < from pressure
- Stitching in the limbs
- Tearing pain in the shoulder, back of hand, and elbow
- Spasmodic pressure in forearm, hand, and thumb
- Tearing shootings in hand and fingers
- Tensive pain in wrist
- Wrenching pain in joint of hand
- Stitches like a sprain (or paralysis), where carpal bone of thumb articulates with radius
- Paralytic pain in joints of fingers
- Excessive heaviness and lassitude in legs and feet, esp. when going up stairs
- Cramp-like pain in muscles of r. thigh, while walking in open air
- Spasmodic pressure in thighs, legs, and soles
- Cramp-like pressure in sole of r. foot, while standing, disappears when walking
- Trembling of knees
- Dull lancinations in patella, bones of feet, and toes
- Violent, intermittent, dull sticking in metatarsal bones of great and adjacent toes of l. foot during rest
- Tearing along, legs
- General indolence, and disposition to sleep, after rising in the morning
- Stretching and frequent yawning
- Hemorrhoids; affections of the inner navel region; obstruction from induration of stool
- Darting pains in inner parts; want of perspiration
- < When sitting; from change of temperature
- > On rising from a sitting posture
- Stinging pains in the limbs
- Benumbing sensation with almost all the pain
- Tearings, sometimes lancinating, in different parts (going downwards)
- Tottering when walking
- Strong disposition to sleep after a meal
- Disturbed sleep, at night, with tossing
- Short sleep at night, lasting only till 4 a.m., with anxious, frightful dreams of wars and dead bodies
- Internal coldness of whole body, of hands and feet, perceptible also externally
- Shuddering, esp. on one side of body, as if it were bathed in cold water