====== SUMBULUS MOSCHATUS ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Sumbul. {{anchor:s2}}(Sumbulus Moschatus.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Musk Root. {{anchor:s4}}Umbelliferae.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}The plant, a perennial, is a native of the Orient; the root enters commerce by way of Russia; from it, finely powdered, is prepared the alcoholic tincture.

{{anchor:s6}}Provings by Lembke, A. H. Z., vol. 34, p. 273; Cattell, Brit. {{anchor:s7}}Jour. Hom., vol. 9, p. 256, 1852; Muranjew, Med. Zeit. Russ., 1853; Hirschel's Arch., vol. 1, p. 241; Altschul, Brit. {{anchor:s8}}Jour. of Hom., vol. 11, p. 678, 1853.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s10}}- <span grade2>Diarrhea</span>, Altschul, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 435; <span grade2>Ascarides</span>, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 289; <span grade2>Chorea</span>, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 289; <span grade2>Porrigo</span>, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 290.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s12}}Intellect dull in morning; inability to study; clearer in evening and in warmth.</span>\\ {{anchor:s13}}Happy disposition with continued smiling; expression idiotic; fear of becoming insane. <span sbita>{{anchor:s14}}~</span> Chorea.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s15}}Hysterical mood, even in men; alternate laughter and tears; easily excited; emotional; irritable; fidgety, at first spirits are exalted, then depressed.</span>

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

{{anchor:s17}}Vertigo on stooping, using warm water, moving about or rising from a seat, feeling a want of security.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Hysteria, with tendency to faint from slightest cause.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Fits, with falling forward.

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

{{anchor:s21}}Cold in head, agg. in morning.

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}Porrigo in infants, left side of scalp; spots round and dry, slightly raised, and reddened at edges, with branlike scales in centre.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s25}}Stuffing in nose.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Tenacious yellow mucus in nose; agg. in left nostril.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s28}}Acne punctata, black pores on face.

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

{{anchor:s30}}Brown coating on tongue in morning.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Tongue feels rough as if scraped, with heat in throat.

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

{{anchor:s33}}Erosion, burning heat and rawness in throat, with tenacious mucus.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Catarrhs of children, with great nervous irritation, sleeplessness and spasms.

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

{{anchor:s36}}Tensive pain and gnawing in right hypogastrium.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Abdomen full, distended, painful.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s39}}Ascarides, with bloated, drumlike abdomen and constipation; picking at nostrils.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s40}}Chronic diarrhea due to torpid, inert condition of intestinal canal; discharges cause atony; diarrhea in typhoid fever.</span>

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

{{anchor:s42}}Urine clear, yellowish-red, cloud on bottom, and an oily pellicle on surface.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Constant desire to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Much urinary difficulty.

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

{{anchor:s46}}Absence of erections and all sexual desire.

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

<span grade2>{{anchor:s48}}Corkscrew pains in left region of uterus and its appendages.</span>\\ {{anchor:s49}}Tensive pain like a string pulling in right breast.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Tightness, tensive stretched feeling across chest between left breast and sternum and in left breast, agg. on inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s51}}White leucorrhea, agg. after sitting.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Menses too early.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Flushings at climacteric period.

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

{{anchor:s56}}Hoarseness.

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

<span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}Asthma, catarrhal, but more especially spasmodic, hysterical.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

{{anchor:s60}}Hacking cough.

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

{{anchor:s62}}Pulse very irregular, compressible; want of elasticity in vessels.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Nervous affections of heart; rheumatic carditis; heart's impulse strong, jerking, especially after exertion or during digestion; action of heart full and sharp, strokes at times irregular; beating rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly; bellows sound of heart, with violent and irregular palpitations and flushes of heat in floods from back; sharp pains, like a knife, in chest; oppression in left chest, clogged sensation; agg. on stooping; left arm numb, heavy and weary, with sharp, wiry shooting in fingers; hysterical mood.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Nervous palpitation in hysterical subjects, or at change of life.</span>\\ {{anchor:s65}}Heart beats softly, as if in water, with sinking of heart, and sickliness and faintness all over.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Palpitation at least exertion, agg. by paying attention to it.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Posteriorly over left scapular region, an indistinct mixed murmur and purring sound, associated with rheumatism; not heard anteriorly.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s69}}Cannot keep warm; least draft is felt down spine.

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

{{anchor:s73}}Stooping: vertigo; heart symptoms agg.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Sitting: leucorrhea agg. after.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Motion: vertigo; palpitation.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Rising: vertigo.

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

{{anchor:s78}}Chorea: constant jerking of head and limbs, with protrusion of tongue; voracious appetite.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}Dropsy dependent on impaired nervous vitality.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s80}}Hysteria and hysterical spasms.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s81}}Epilepsy, she falls suddenly forward, foaming at mouth; unconsciousness.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s82}}Tendency to faint from slightest cause.</span>

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

{{anchor:s84}}Morning: intellect dull; cold in head agg.; brown coating on tongue.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Evening: intellect clearer.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s87}}Least draft is felt down spine.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Warmth: intellect clearer.

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

{{anchor:s90}}Dry, transient heat all over body.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Coldness of body, pulse 66.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}Typhoid fever with cerebral excitement; low and nervous fevers succeeding to typhus.</span>\\ {{anchor:s93}}Numbness and coldness of tips of fingers.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s95}}Irregular action of heart, beats rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Climacteric period: flushes; nervous palpitation.

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

{{anchor:s98}}Left: porrigo on scalp; yellow mucus in nostril; corkscrew pains in uterus; oppression in chest; arm numb; shooting in fingers; murmur over scapular region.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Right: tensive pain and gnawing in hypogastrium; tensive pain in breast; miliary spots on shoulder blade and hip.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s101}}As if scraped, tongue; like a string pulling in right breast; clogged sensation in left chest; as if heart were beating in water.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Knifelike pains in chest.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Corkscrew pains in region of uterus and appendages.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Sharp wiry shooting: in fingers.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Burning heat: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Gnawing: in right hypogastrium.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Rawness: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Tensive pain: in right hypogastrium; in right breast.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Tightness: across chest; in left breast.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Numbness: in left arm; of tips of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Heaviness: in left arm.

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

{{anchor:s113}}Deranges action of inhibitory nerves, while at same time it causes a paresis of cardiac branches of vagi.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Vertigo, faintness; dreams and mental conditions show deficient innervation.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Anomalous functional disorders of heart, occurring in persons possessing a peculiarly sensitive nervous system, especially in hysterical subjects.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Weakened heart.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

{{anchor:s118}}Acne punctata, black pores on face.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s119}}Porrigo in infants on left side of scalp; spots round and dry, slightly raised and reddened at edges, with branlike scales in centre.</span>\\ {{anchor:s120}}Skin cold, white, shrunken and dry as if washed in acrid water.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Miliary spots on back, right shoulder blade and hip.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Reddish spots on forehead, chin and cheeks, containing either water, or thick, white, curdy matter.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Itching in skin.

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

{{anchor:s125}}Child, aet. 2; ascarides.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Girl, aet. 10, bilious-sanguine temperament; chorea.

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

{{anchor:s128}}Compare: <span grade2>Asafoet.</span> and <span grade2>Moschus</span> in low fevers, hysteria, etc.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 10, 1891 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r208|Sumbulus moschatus]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r208|Sumbulus moschatus]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ year: | 1891 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}