====== PAEONIA OFFICINALIS ====== {{anchor:s1}}Paeonia. {{anchor:s2}}(Paeonia Officinalis.) {{anchor:s3}}Peony. {{anchor:s4}}Ranunculaceae. {{anchor:s5}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh root gathered in Spring. {{anchor:s6}}Provings by Helbig, Geyer and Hegel, Praktische Mittheilungen, 1827, and Schelling, A. H. Z., vol. 28, p. 182. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s8}}- Fissures in anus, Rafinesque, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 40, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 218; Ozanam, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 58; Anal and rectal fissure, Eggert, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 162, from Trans. A. I., 1873, p. 468; Ulcer of coccyx, of great toe, on dorsum of foot, on anterior surface of tibia, on right leg, on sacrum, on breast, Ozanam, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 53; Ulceration, Ozanam, Hughes' Phar., p. 599; Varicose veins, Rafinesque, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 200. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s10}}Anxious, afraid to talk with any one; much affected by bad news, after pinching in belly. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s12}}Vertigo: on every motion, with constant reeling and staggering.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Dullness, heaviness, vertigo and feeling of heat in head.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Syncope and cold sweat. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s16}}Burning, itching and feeling of dryness in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Violent tearing around right eye. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s19}}Burning heat in face. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s21}}Crawling in upper lip and tip of nose. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s23}}Burning and heat in throat.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Tenacious mucus in throat, inducing hawking. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s26}}Pressure in pit of stomach, as from great anxiety. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s28}}Papescent diarrhea, with qualmishness in abdomen, burning in anus after stool, followed by internal chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Hemorrhoids with fissures in anus; intolerable pains during and after stool.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Hemorrhoids and ulceration of rectum for eighteen years; subject to several operations; constipated nervous and emaciated; disagreeable smell from body; anus and surroundings purple and covered with a thick crust; at verge and entrance of rectum several fissured ulcers with elevated and indurated edges, exquisitely painful; whole mucous membrane at verge and higher up studded with ulcers, cracks and rhagades; coating of rectum purple and congested.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Very painful and sensitive ulcers and rhagades in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Very painful ulcer, partly in integument, round, sharpcut edges and exuding much moisture. {{anchor:s33}}~ Ulceration of anus.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Atrocious pains, with and after each stool, recurring after an hour or two and lasting twelve hours, preventing sleep, must walk floor nearly all night; exudation of offensive moisture. {{anchor:s35}}~ Fissures of anus.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Fissures, with much oozing, constantly keeping anus damp and disagreeable; great soreness and smarting.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Six months previously had abscess just below coccyx, large as hazelnut, which soon opened, but wound, in place of healing, remained open and there resulted a funnel-shaped ulcer, about one centimeter deep and same in circumference; bottom and walls of bright red color, a purulent secretion constantly exuded; sitting posture very painful.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Small ulcer on perineum, near anus, constantly oozes moisture of very offensive odor; is painful for eight days.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Biting, itching in anus, provokes scratching; orifice seems somewhat swollen. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s42}}Complete loss of voice, could not utter least sound for hours (after smelling). ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s44}}Throbbing through right chest and extending posteriorly up to nape of neck, where it terminates in intermittent pinching.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Violent shootings vertically from collar bone down through heart to diaphragm, agg. in walking.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Dull shooting from front to back through heart. ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== {{anchor:s48}}Ulcer about a centimeter in diameter on lower part of left breast, consequent upon an abscess which had never healed. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s50}}Stinging in shoulder-blades.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Ulcers below coccyx.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Ulceration of seat from decubitus, in a bed-ridden patient.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Sacral sores; vitality of skin destroyed by pressure. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s55}}Ulcer on anterior surface of right tibia, caused by a violent blow she had received six months ago.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Chronic ulcer of right leg of ten years' standing, serpiginous, crept slowly on destroying a vast extent of skin; a portion of this cicatrized and became covered with a thin, violet, shining pellicle, whilst ulcer continued to spread four centimeters in diameter; severe shooting pains hindering walking by day and rest by night.\\ {{anchor:s57}}After wearing a tight boot a blister appeared on dorsum of foot beneath which skin had ulcerated, and showed no tendency to heal; three centimeters long by two broad; edges perpendicular and very irregularly indented; its soft and fungoid surface was covered with a brick-red sanies mingled with violet and black streaks from admixture of venous blood.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Ulcer on external surface of left great toe, about level of articulation of first phalanx with metatarsal bone, one centimeter in diameter; edges perpendicular; base greyish, flat and exuding; caused by wearing ill-fitting boot. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s62}}Pain compelling the sick to walk the floor all night. {{anchor:s63}}~ Fissures of anus.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Rolling on floor from pain. {{anchor:s65}}~ Fissures of anus.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Sitting posture: painful from abscess below coccyx.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Motion: vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Walking: agg. pain from collar bone to diaphragm. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s70}}Nightmare.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Dreams: of a figure, or ghost sitting on his chest; anxious; vivid; frightful; amorous; quarrelsome. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s73}}Coming into warm room after a walk in cold air he gets nausea and feels faint. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s75}}An hour or two after stool: pains recur and last twelve hours.\\ {{anchor:s76}}For ten years: ulcer on leg.\\ {{anchor:s77}}For eighteen years: ulceration of rectum. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s79}}Right: violent tearing around eye; throbbing through chest; ulcer on tibia; chronic ulcer on leg.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Left: ulcer on breast; ulcer on great toe. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s82}}Intolerable pain: during and after stool.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Tearing: around right eye.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Shooting: from collar bone through heart to diaphragm; through heart; in ulcer on leg.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Pinching: in nape of neck.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Throbbing: through right chest; nape of neck.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Stinging: in shoulder-blades.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Biting: in anus.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Burning: in eyes; in face; in throat; in anus.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Heat: in head; in throat.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Pressure: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Heaviness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Dryness: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Itching: in eyes; in anus. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s96}}Varicose veins, ulcers and fissures. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s100}}Ulcers from decubitus.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Pressure: destroyed vitality of skin; of boot caused ulcer.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Blow: caused ulcer on right tibia. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s104}}Sensitive, painful ulcers on lower parts of body.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Chronic ulcers, particularly those seated on parts of body below umbilicus. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s107}}Children with spasmodic affections.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Engineer on railway, aet. 22, case not complicated by syphilis or varicose veins; ulcer on dorsum of foot.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Lady's maid, aet. 27, after receiving violent blow six months previously; ulcer on leg.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Officer of African army, aet. 28, after wearing ill-fitting boots, no history of syphilis; suffering five months; ulcer of great toe.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Miss H., aet. 37, chambermaid, robust, but complained frequently of gastralgia, pituitous vomiting and chronic constipation; high living; suffering three months; fissures of anus.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Woman, aet. 50, laundress, otherwise healthy; ulcer of coccyx.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Man, aet. 52, suffering eighteen years; anal and rectal fissure.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Woman, aet. 60, suffering four months; ulcer of breast.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Miss M., aet. 84, affected for nine months with osteosarcoma of left femur; ulceration of seat from decubitus.\\ {{anchor:s116}}A poor old man, suffering ten years; ulcer of leg. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s118}}Antidotes: Aloes and Ratanhia.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Compare: Hamam. in varicosis; Silica in ulcers; Sulphur in diarrhea. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r337|Paeonia officinalis]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r337|Paeonia officinalis]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1889 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}