====== NUPHAR LUTEUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Nuphar Luteum. {{anchor:s2}}Nixen Blume; Small Yellow Pond Lily. {{anchor:s3}}Nymphaeaceae. {{anchor:s4}}A variety of pond lily native to Europe; also found at Manayunk, near Philadelphia. {{anchor:s5}}The width of the flower is about two inches. {{anchor:s6}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh root. {{anchor:s7}}Proved by Pitet, Journ de la Soc. Gal., vol. 3, p. 129. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s9}}- Entero-colitis, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 259; Diarrhea, Shipman, Blaikie, Hale's Therap., p. 446; (3 cases), Pitet, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, pp. 258-9; Diarrhea during typhoid, Lilienthal, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 118; Diarrhea and psoriasis, Lilienthal, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 118; Cholerine, Lilienthal, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 118; Digestive disturbances and weakness of sexual organs, Pilet, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 259; Seminal emissions (2 cases), Pitet, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 257; Rhus tox poisoning (locally), Sawtelle, N. E. M. G., vol. 11, p. 198. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s11}}Impatience at slightest contradiction.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Excessive sensibility giving one pain in witnessing sufferings of animals. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s14}}Painful bruised shocks in right anterior side of brain, in walking.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Headaches attending depressed conditions of generative organs. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s17}}When standing in sun brilliant sparks filled field of vision, converging from circumference to centre. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s19}}Sweetish taste in mouth. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s21}}Tongue white; mouth pasty; painful sensation of weariness in stomach; digestion slow; wind colic, principally early in morning, with liquid or sour-smelling stools; for several years virile function had been badly performed; frequent pollutions during sleep; constant itching of scrotum and perineum; small desire for coitus; infrequent and feeble erections; general weariness; agg. on day succeeding sexual connection. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s23}}Appetite good, at times excessive; frequent regurgitation of an acrid and corrosive taste; digestion slow; colic and rumbling every night and waked several times from 5 to 7 A. M. to go to stool, which was liquid or soft, yellowish, and either sourish or fetid; agg. from least excess of any kind; sleep agitated; heat in palms; frequent pulse; at times dull pains in left renal region, which was sensitive to touch. {{anchor:s24}}~ Entero-colitis. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s26}}Stools: liquid, yellow, fetid.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Diarrhea, obliging him to get up several times towards 5 or 6 A. M.; burning at anus; general depression; no colic.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Early morning stool, weakness of limbs, general exhaustion.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Morning diarrhea with colic; between 4 and 6 A. M., two or three stools and generally one in evening.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Stool liquid, light yellow; call urgent, every morning at six, followed by two or three more passages in a few hours and no more till next morning. {{anchor:s31}}~ Diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Soft stools preceded by colic.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Diarrhea: painless in morning; with exhaustion; during typhoid.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Entero-colitis, with severe colicky pains in rectum and characteristic stools; psoriasis, on different parts of body, with great itching.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Cholerine since a week; stools cause great exhaustion, patient being in last stage of marasmus.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Pricking pains in rectum as from needles. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s38}}Entire absence of erections and sexual desire; voluptuous ideas which fill imagination do not cause erections.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Complete absence of sexual desire; penis retracted; scrotum relaxed.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Weakening nocturnal emissions while convalescing from typhoid.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Involuntary seminal losses during sleep, at stool, and when urinating, with complete absence of erections; inability to perform generative act; general weakness; digestion impaired; pale and languid. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s43}}Leprous eruption on arm. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s45}}Sensation of weakness and loss of power in limbs; agg. in evening. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s49}}Walking: painful shocks in brain. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s51}}General exhaustion; weakness from loss of fluids. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s53}}Between 4 and 6 A. M.: two or three stools.\\ {{anchor:s54}}From 5 to 7 A. M.: wakes several times to go to stool.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Morning: wind colic; stool and colic; painless diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Evening: one stool; weakness in limbs agg.; itching agg. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s58}}Every morning at 6: stool liquid, yellow.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Every night: colic and rumbling.\\ {{anchor:s60}}For several years: virile function badly performed. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s62}}Right: painful shocks in anterior brain.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Left: dull pains in renal region. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Painful shocks: in right anterior side of brain.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Burning: at anus.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Pricking pains: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Weakness: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Itching: of scrotum and perineum; in different parts of body; violent, on skin. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s73}}Touch: renal region sensitive. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Violent itching.\\ {{anchor:s76}}On different parts of body red blotches, tolerably regular in outline, ovoid or circular, prominent and covered with little silvery white scales; violent itching, agg. in evening; as eruption disappeared scales ceased to be reproduced, and skin at place of each blotch became pale red or yellowish.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Rhus tox poisoning; relieved pain and swelling and hastened recovery.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Psoriasis; pityriasis capitis. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s80}}Man, aet. 21, professor of literature; suffering 8 days; diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Man, aet. 28, suffering three months; diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Man, aet. 33, jeweler, suffering a fortnight; diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Man, aet. 37, wood-carver, sick 3 months; digestive troubles, weakness of sexual organs.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Man, aet. 43, addicted to excesses of table and venery, has domestic trouble, has taken much old school and quack medicine, suffering 3 years; entero-colitis.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Miss B., aet. 54, suffering several weeks; diarrhea and psoriasis.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Man, aet. 71, suffering a week; cholerine.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Man, suffering for nine years; seminal emissions. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r672|Nuphar Luteum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r672|Nuphar Luteum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1889 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}