====== CASTOREUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Castoreum. {{anchor:s2}}(Castoreum Canadense.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Castor Fiber. {{anchor:s4}}Rodentia.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}Tincture of secretion in preputial sacs of the beaver.

{{anchor:s6}}Mentioned by Galen, Hippocrates and Pliny, and in use among the Arabians, who gave it in hepatic and uterine troubles, and in epilepsy and convulsions. {{anchor:s7}}Recommended later for hysterical complaints by Pomet and Hill; for deafness, by Lemery.

{{anchor:s8}}The only provings are by Caspari and Nenning; the former proved the Russian, the latter the Austrian variety. {{anchor:s9}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 3, p. 24. {{anchor:s10}}The original in Hartlaub and Trink's Annalen, vol. iii, p. 314.

{{anchor:s11}}Clinical symptoms are from Gosewisch, Siegrist, Neidhard, Trousseau and Pidoux, and H. M., 1879.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s13}}Very peevish humor, indisposed to talk.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Very sensitive to all kinds of impressions.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Irritable in morning: cheerful abandon in evening.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s16}}Melancholic and full of anxious longing.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s17}}~</span> <span grade3>Hysteria.</span>\\ {{anchor:s18}}Angry exclamations during sleep.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s20}}Giddiness and fainting.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s22}}Headache, with giddiness and fainting.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Heaviness, with drawing pain in head.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Transitory pressure in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Dull headache from in outward in right forehead.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Dimness of vision, and lachrymation.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s28}}~</span> <span grade3>Catarrh.</span>\\ {{anchor:s29}}Appearance before eyes, as though he had not slept enough.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s30}}Eyes are agglutinated nearly all night.</span>

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

{{anchor:s32}}Earache and buzzing in ears.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Pain behind left ear.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Otorrhea.

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

{{anchor:s36}}Pain in left lower row of molar teeth.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Swelling of gums.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s39}}Swelling of tongue.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s40}}A rounded elevation in centre of tongue, size of a pea, surrounded by an angry suspicious-looking base, size of a nickel five-cent piece, extremely sensitive to touch or food, with a drawing sensation as if a string was pulling centre of tongue towards hyoid bone, with burning in tongue.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s42}}Bad smell from mouth.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s44}}Dryness of esophagus.

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

{{anchor:s47}}Want of appetite.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s48}}Thirst is so violent that she could not drink enough water, after dinner.</span>

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s50}}Belching, with stitches in chest.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Nausea after urinating.

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s53}}Weight at stomach.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Griping in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Tenesmus in stomach, with constrictive pain under sternum.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Tension and heaviness in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Emptiness in stomach.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}Sensation in stomach as though it would go to sleep.</span>

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

{{anchor:s60}}Pressure in region of liver from in outward.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s62}}Pain in left side of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Colic from flatulency.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Yawning, in abdominal complaints.</span>\\ {{anchor:s65}}Abdomen distended, in afternoon.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}Umbilical hernia, with colic, in a screaming infant.</span>\\ {{anchor:s67}}Abdomen feels as though full and distended.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Above feels as though full and distended.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Above left ilium in flanks, sensation of soreness as though from an internal wound.\\ {{anchor:s70}}On taking a deep breath stitching pains on both sides in abdomen, above hips to spinal column, extending to region of liver, as though he was being stuck; in various places above ilium, with needles.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s72}}Stools: <span grade3>whitish, watery</span>; bloody mucus; greenish mucus; frequent.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Stools contain pus; patient is compelled to sit bent double; feels gagged when lying down.</span>\\ {{anchor:s74}}Before stool: cutting or pinching colic; painful rumbling; dragging in groin.\\ {{anchor:s75}}During stool: fetid flatus; <span grade3>burning at anus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s76}}After stool: burning at anus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s77}}Accompaniments of bowel complaints: yawning; chilliness; bad smell from mouth; violent thirst.

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s79}}Scanty urine; heat and burning when urinating.\\ {{anchor:s80}}After urinating: nausea.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s82}}Seminal emissions, with great excitability of sexual parts.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

{{anchor:s84}}During menses: pain commences in middle of thighs, extending over limbs, and more or less over entire body.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Dysmenorrhea; abdomen distended; blood leaves uterus in drops, with tenesmus-like pain.

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

{{anchor:s89}}Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

{{anchor:s92}}Hoarseness with disposition to clear throat.

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

{{anchor:s94}}Shortness of breathing, in forenoon; when walking fast.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s95}}Short, difficult breathing, with frequent, long inspirations.</span>\\ {{anchor:s96}}Very deep inspirations, with heat in breast and in face.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Frequent, slow, deep inspirations, with short expirations.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s99}}Stitches in chest, with belching.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Heat in breast, as though a fire was burning there, in evening.

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

{{anchor:s102}}Feeling of oppression about heart.

====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======

{{anchor:s104}}Cramplike pains extending across breast.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Pain under sternum, when touching it.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s106}}On taking a deep breath, sensation as though something heavy lay under sternum.</span>\\ {{anchor:s107}}Pressure on sides of sternum, especially on expiration.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Sensation of internal heat under sternum.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s110}}Pain in right shoulder when at rest and in motion, as though he has carried something heavy.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Hot hands, with distended veins.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s113}}Great feeling of lassitude in lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Pressure in left flank downward through inguinal gland, when walking.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Feet are weary, cannot walk any farther.

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

{{anchor:s117}}Spasms of hands and feet.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s121}}During rest and motion: pain in shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Lying down: feels gagged.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s124}}Jerking of small groups of muscular fibres.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Sensation of heaviness in whole body.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Trembling of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s127}}(OBS:) Chorea, epilepsy, whooping cough, nervous palpitation, cramp in various parts of body, and tetanus.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Paralysis.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s130}}Sleepiness.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s131}}Constant yawning, though never sleeping in daytime.</span>\\ {{anchor:s132}}In sleep, angry exclamations.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Cannot sleep after eating.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s135}}Morning: irritable.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Night: eyes agglutinated.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Afternoon: abdomen distended.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s139}}Shuddering of single parts, back, vertex, forehead, elbow, feet.\\ {{anchor:s140}}(OBS:) Typhus.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s142}}Left: behind, ear, pain; lower row of molars pain; abdomen, pain; ilium, soreness; flank, pressure.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Right: forehead, dull headache; shoulder, pain.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Within out: dull headache; pressure in region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s145}}As if a string was pulling centre of tongue towards hyoid bone; as though stomach would go to sleep; as though something heavy lay under sternum.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Tearing drawing pains in various parts of body.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Burning: in tongue; at anus; in breast; as of fire.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Stitching: pains on both sides of abdomen; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Griping: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Pain: behind left ear; in molar teeth; under sternum; in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Weight: at stomach.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Heat: in breast and face; under sternum.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Drawing pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Pressure: on sides of sternum; in left flank; in forehead; in region of liver.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Heaviness: in whole body; under sternum; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Cramplike pains: across breast.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Tension: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Emptiness: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Dryness: of esophagus.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s161}}(OBS:) Enteralgia, having its seat in small intestines, no evacuations; appearing suddenly after mental emotions, or getting cold feet; accompanied by pallor, cold sweat and fainting.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Inflammatory and spasmodic affections of digestive and sexual organs.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s164}}Hysterical individuals.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s166}}Antidotes: <span grade2>Camphor., Opium</span> and vegetable acids.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Compare: <span grade2>Ambra gris., Ignat., Moschus, Valer.</span>, especially in nervous women with pains, cramps and weakness after severe illness.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 03, 1881 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r238|Castoreum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r238|Castoreum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1881 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}