====== OLEANDER ====== {{anchor:s1}}Oleander. {{anchor:s2}}Nerium Oleander; Rose Laurel. {{anchor:s3}}Apocynaceae. {{anchor:s4}}An ornamental shrub to Southern Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia, thrives best in moist ground. {{anchor:s5}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh leaves. {{anchor:s6}}Introduced by Hahnemann and proved by himself, Franz, Gross, Gutmann Hartmann, Langhammer, etc. --Mat. Med. Pura, vol. 1, p. 326. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s8}}- 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. [1] ====== {{anchor:s10}}Weak memory; absence of mind, want of attention.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Slowness of perception; difficult comprehension of what he reads, particularly if he makes great efforts to understand, his thoughts then become confused.\\ {{anchor:s12}}After mental exertion, flushes of heat.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Indolence, aversion to do anything.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Cannot bear contradiction, becomes enraged.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Despondency and lack of self-confidence.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Melancholy, with obstinate constipation.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Peevish, fretful, out of humor with everything. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s19}}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.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Heaviness of head; amel. when lying down.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Fainting as from weakness; relieved by sweat.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Depression of sensorium. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s24}}Pressive pain from within outward, in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Pain in forehead as if it would split.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Pressive pain in brain.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Headache improved by looking cross-eyed.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Sensation of tightness around head, which occasions a feeling of stupefaction rather than pain. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s30}}Biting-itching on scalp, as from vermin, agg. back part of head and behind ears; amel. when first scratching it, followed by burning and soreness, which gives place to biting-itching; agg. in evening when undressing.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Humid, scaly, biting, itching eruption, especially on back part of head.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Desquamation of epidermis of scalp.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Vesicular eruptions about head of children, with smooth, shining surface, and drops of serum standing out here and there. {{anchor:s34}}~ Eczema.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Eruption on scalp and back of ears, simulating that of crusta lactea, oozing a fluid and breeding vermin. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s37}}Momentary loss of sight.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Double vision.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Darkness before eyes when looking sideways.\\ {{anchor:s40}}When reading, burning and tension in eyelids; lachrymation.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Eyes sunken; blue color about eyes. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s43}}Cramplike drawing in outer ear.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Herpes and ulcers in and around ears.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Oozing of serum from behind ears. {{anchor:s46}}~ Eczema. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s48}}Pale, sunken face in morning, with blue rings around eyes.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Alternate paleness and dark redness of face.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Tuberculous eruption on face and forehead. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s52}}Numbness of upper lip.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Foaming at mouth. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s55}}Toothache only when masticating.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Drawing in molar teeth at night when lying down, with anxiety, nausea and frequent micturition.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Pain in second bicuspid in left upper jaw, very bad at night, preventing sleep, amel. getting out of bed; frequent micturition; heat of left cheek.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Bluish-white gums. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s60}}Loss of speech.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Tongue: rough, dirty white, with elevated papillae; coated white, with dryness of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s62}}In evening all food has a flat and nauseous taste. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Ravenous hunger, with trembling of hands and hasty eating, without appetite.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Much thirst, especially for cold water.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Desire for brandy; aversion to cheese. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s69}}Violent empty eructations, while eating.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Nausea and vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Vomiting: of food, bitter greenish water; mucous; of sour liquid food.\\ {{anchor:s72}}After vomiting, ravenous hunger and thirst. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s74}}Pulsation in pit of stomach, as if beats of heart were felt through whole thorax.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Emptiness in pit of stomach, even after eating; from nursing.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Sinking in pit of stomach, suddenly, with nausea or vomiting; wants brandy, which relieves.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Extreme debility of digestive power. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s79}}Stitches and gnawing about navel.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Rolling and rumbling in intestines, with emission of a great quantity of fetid flatus.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Affection of the mesenteric glands, with swelling, hardness and tension of abdomen and frequent lienteric stools. {{anchor:s82}}~ Favus. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s84}}Ineffectual urging to stool.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Emission of flatus smelling like rotten eggs.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Stools: thin; yellow; undigested; involuntary, when emitting flatus; sour, liquid.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Passes food undigested in morning which he ate the day before.\\ {{anchor:s88}}First diarrhea, then hard, difficult stools; during pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Stool and urine involuntary.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Diarrhea with intestinal ulcers. {{anchor:s91}}~ Tuberculosis.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Children much troubled with soiling of clothes when passing flatus.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Burning at anus before and after stool. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s95}}Frequent profuse urination, especially after drinking coffee.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Urine brown, burning, with whitish sediment. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s99}}Viscid mucus in trachea. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s101}}Oppressed breathing while lying; also as if chest were too narrow, with long, deep breathing; as if every breath were his last.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Stertorous breathing. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s104}}Violent, shaking cough, from tickling in larynx. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s106}}Dull stitches in left chest, continuing during and in exhalation.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Sensation of emptiness and coldness in chest. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s109}}Dull drawing pain over heart, agg. when stooping.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Palpitation with weakness and empty feeling of chest, and at same time fullness in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Anxious palpitation; chest feels expanded.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Pulse: quick, skin hot; changeable, irregular; weak and slow mornings, full and rapid evenings. ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== {{anchor:s114}}Dull, continuous stitch in sternum. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s116}}Hands tremble when writing.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Fingers stiff and swollen, with burning pains.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Veins on hands swollen.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Itch-like eruption on inside of wrist and between fingers. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s121}}Itch-like eruption between nates.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Paralysis of legs and feet; painless.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Great weakness of legs, especially knees.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Weakness of thighs and legs and a sensation in forepart of feet, mostly in soles, as if asleep, while walking.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Trembling knees, when standing.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Vesicles on thighs.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Buzzing sensation in legs, especially in soles of feet.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Feet constantly cold. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s130}}Painless stiffness and paralysis of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Want of animal heat in limbs. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s135}}Rest: febrile shivering all over body.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Lying down: heaviness amel.; toothache; oppressive breathing.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Rising from bed: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Stooping: pain over heart.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Standing: looking down, vertigo; trembling of knees.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Motion: constant, amel. stiffness of thighs; febrile shivering all over body.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Exertion: flushes of heat agg.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Masticating: toothache.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Writing: trembling of hands.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Walking: vertigo; feet as if asleep. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s146}}Hyperesthesia or insensibility of whole body.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Loss of muscular power; trembling.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Faintish weakness of whole body; when standing, trembling of knees; when writing, trembling of hands.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Fainting as from weakness; amel. by perspiration.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Immediately after nursing is seized with tremor and is so weak that she is scarcely able to walk across room.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Painless paralysis.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Stiffness and coldness of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Violent spasmodic contractions of muscles; more those of upper part of body and of left side. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s155}}Yawning: with trembling of lower jaw; with chilliness and trembling of muscles.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Restless sleep, frequent waking.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Voluptuous dreams, with seminal emissions. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s159}}Morning: pale, sunken face; passes food eaten day before undigested; pulse weak and slow.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Evening: biting-itching on scalp agg.; food has flat taste.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Night: drawing in molar teeth; toothache agg. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s163}}Open air: walking, vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Getting out of bed: toothache amel.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Draft of air: caused rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Cold water: thirst. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s168}}Chilliness, want of animal heat, or external chill, internal heat; no thirst.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Chill all over, periodically; face hot, hands cold.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Febrile shivering all over body, without thirst and without subsequent heat, during rest and motion.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Periodical flushes of heat; agg. after bodily or mental exertion.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Want of perspiration. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s174}}Periodical: flushes of heat. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s176}}Right: rheumatic pains in shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Left: pains in tooth in upper jaw; heat of cheek; dull stitches in chest; violent contractions of muscles, agg. left side.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Within outward: pressive pain in forehead. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s180}}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.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Pain: in second bicuspid in left upper jaw.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Stitches: about navel, dull, in left chest; dull, continuous; in sternum.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Gnawing: about navel.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Pressive pain: in forehead; in brain.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Rheumatic pains: in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Cramplike drawing: in outer ear.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Dull drawing: over heart.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Drawing: in molar teeth.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Soreness: on scalp.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Burning: on scalp; in eyelids; at anus; in fingers.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Heat: of left cheek.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Pulsation: in pit of stomach; in outer parts.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Tension: in eyelids; of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Tightness: around head.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Stiffness: of thighs; of fingers; of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Fullness: at pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Buzzing sensation: in legs, agg. in soles.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Numbness: of upper lip.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Trembling: of hands; of knees; of lower jaw.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Emptiness: in pit of stomach; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Sinking: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Dryness: of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Biting-itching: on scalp; all over body.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Intense itching: of skin.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Formication: all over body.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Coldness: of chest; of feet; of limbs. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s211}}Scratching: eruption first amel., then burning.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Friction: on skin causes soreness and chapping. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s214}}Itching here and there over body, so that he was obliged to scratch.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Biting-itching all over body, as from an eruption, on undressing, compelling him to scratch.\\ {{anchor:s216}}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.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Very sensitive skin, so that very slight friction causes soreness and chafing, especially about neck, or between scrotum and thighs.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Chapping of skin.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Skin yellow.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Violent itching eruption, bleeding, oozing out a fluid, forming scabs; eczema.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Scurfy pimples; itchlike eruption. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s223}}Girl, aet. 21; headache.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Man, aet. 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. [48] ====== {{anchor:s226}}Antidoted by: Camphor., Sulphur.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Compatible: Conium, Lycop., Natr. mur., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Spigel.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Compare: Anac., Cinchon., Coccul., Clemat., Nux vom., Staphis. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r138|Oleander]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r138|Oleander]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1889 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}