Part 37 (1/2)
In the male we find diminished s.e.xual desire. Cold feeling in the glans p.e.n.i.s. Nocturnal emissions. Too speedy emissions. Deficient erections with diminished pleasure.
In the female we find SEVERE UTERINE PAINS. BEARING-DOWN PAINS IN THE UTERINE REGION. Uterine cramps. _Soreness in region of uterus_, increased by _pressure_ of the hand or of the clothing; had to remove the corset. Return of old uterine pains. Dull, heavy aching, and slowly pulsating pains in the ovaries. Pains pa.s.s from one ovary to the other and leave a soreness which remains till the pain returns. Ovarian pains increased by pressure. s.e.xUAL DESIRE COMPLETELY DESTROYED. This symptom I have verified a number of times, and in every case the parties prevented conception. The uterine pains are all better when undressed or lying on the back. Constant feeling as though the menses would appear. Menses early and profuse, but otherwise normal so far as known.
Leucorrhoea light yellowish, slightly offensive and excoriating; profuse, running down the legs. Itching of the v.u.l.v.a aggravated by scratching and from the leucorrhoeal discharge. Aching in both b.r.e.a.s.t.s, but worse in the left. b.r.e.a.s.t.s feel swollen and engorged. Left breast feels bruised and painful on pressure. Nipples itch. In one case where this remedy was given for dryness of the nose and throat, the diminutive almost absent, b.r.e.a.s.t.s were restored to their pristine glory, and resulted in the displacement of the cotton batting pads to the exceeding joy and delight of the proud woman.
_Pains in the neck_, running back from the forehead. _Dull aching in the neck._ Bearing down pain in the lumbar region. Dull, aching pain in the lumbar region. In the female provers there was produced a pain over the crest of the left ilium. TIRED, WEARY AND NUMB FEELING IN THE LEGS AND POPLITEAL s.p.a.cES. FEELING OF NUMBNESS, MOSTLY BELOW THE KNEES. The legs feel as if they were partially anaesthetized. The tendons and joints of the knees have a dull, aching pain. Tremulousness of the legs.
DISTURBANCE OF THE GAIT IN WALKING, WITH A SENSE OF INSECURITY IN STEP.
STAGGERING GAIT, _he cannot keep in the walk_. The sidewalks seem too high; he must step high which jars him and greatly aggravates the headache. Dull, heavy pain in the instep of the left foot. Numb, tingling pain in the outer side of both little toes. THE LEGS FEEL TIRED, _as though they would not sustain the weight of the body_.
Sensation of formication in the calves of the legs. Ankles swollen.
_Pain in the left scapular region_, confined to a small spot. _Fluoric acid_ and _Lilium tig._ have pain confined to a small spot in any location, while _Oxalic acid_ has a pain confined to small longitudinal spots. _Magnesia phos._ has a sharp burning pain, about an inch in diameter, under the border of the left scapula, as from a hot iron (see also _Phos._); with _Onosmodium_ there is a dull, aching pain in the biceps muscle, also a pain of like nature in the elbow joint and wrists.
_The arms and hands feel tired and weak_; they tremble. Inability to co-ordinate the muscular movements of the arms. Pain in the phalangeal articulation.
The aggravations are generally from motion or jarring; from pressure or tightness of clothing.
The ameliorations are peculiar and marked. Better when quiet, _when lying down on the back_, _when undressed_, when in the open air, from sleep, _from cold drinks_, _from eating_.
In the generalities we find great MUSCULAR WEAKNESS OR PROSTRATION AND TIRED FEELING OVER THE ENTIRE BODY. A feeling as though one had just gotten up from a severe spell of sickness. Nervous trembling as if from hunger. The least exertion produces a tremulousness. _The muscles feel treacherous and unsteady as though one did not dare to trust them._ A desire to change position without any definite cause or reason, and without any change for the better or worse. Later in the proving there was a desire to lie down and be quiet, with a drowsy, sleepy feeling. _A sensation as if a chill would come on_; a tired, aching, stretching, gaping, disagreeable feeling. All sensations are worse in the left side.
In my own experience I have used the remedy from the mother tincture up.
I got no results from the tincture. Hardly any from the 30th, but a marked, decided, and very rapid action from the CM. I use nothing lower than the CM, and prefer the higher.
ORIGANUM MAJORANA.
NAT. ORD., l.a.b.i.atae.
COMMON NAME, Sweet Marjoram.
PREPARATION.--The whole plant without the root, gathered when in flower, is macerated in two times its weight of alcohol.
(A treatise on the ”s.e.xual Pa.s.sion,” by the late Dr.
Gallavardin, Lyons, France, contains this item on _Origanum_):
The person who discovered a remedy that in a certain sense may be considered as a specific against s.e.xual pa.s.sion was a clergyman of Mizza, the founder of an orphan asylum. This remedy is _Origanum majorana_ (or common marjoram), which proves effective in masturbation and in excessively-aroused s.e.xual impulses. The author uses it in the 4th dilution, as he has not found the higher potencies effective. He dissolves five or six globules of this dilution in four teaspoonfuls of fresh water, and the young masturbator takes of this every two days, a quarter of an hour before the meal, one teaspoonful. If the cure is not accomplished eight days after this solution is used up, the same dose is repeated in the same way. When desired, this remedy can be used, according to the author, without the knowledge of the patient, by pouring a teaspoonful into the soup, milk or chocolate.
The effect frequently appears very rapidly, but sometimes it does not appear.
OXYTROPIS LAMBERTI.
NAT. ORD., Leguminosae.
COMMON NAMES, ”Loco” Weed. Rattle Weed.
PREPARATION.--The whole plant without the root is macerated in two times its weight of alcohol.
(The following proving of the ”loco weed” was conducted by the late Dr. W. S. Gee, of Chicago, in 1887):
OXYTROPIS LAMBERTI, Pursh.--_Commonly taller, as well as larger_, than other varieties (the scapes often a foot or more high); silky,--and mostly silvery-p.u.b.escent, sometimes glabrate in age; leaflets from oblong-lanceolate to linear (4 to 16 inches long); _spike, sometimes short-oblong and densely flowered_, at least when young; _often elongated and spa.r.s.ely flowered_; _flowers mostly large_ (often an inch long, but sometimes much smaller), variously colored; pod, either narrowly or broadly oblong, _sericeous p.u.b.escent_, _firm-coriaceous_, half-inch or more long, _imperfectly two-celled_. Includes _O.