Juncus effusus. Soft Rush. *N.O. Juncaceae. Tincture (of root probably).
Clinical
Asthma. Backache. Calculus. Catarrh. Dropsy. Flatulence. Headache. Kidney, diseases of. Rheumatism. Scars, affections of.
Characteristics
*Juncus was proved by Dr. Whale, and a number of symptoms were produced. The most notable were bubbling sensations in various parts, and a number of pains pressive and sticking were noted in the chest. Pulling in cervical vertebrae, in neck muscles. There was much rumbling of flatus in abdomen, and marked better to abdominal symptoms when flatus was emitted. According to Jahr, quoting Noack and Trinks, *Junc. is diuretic, and has been used in dropsical, calculous, and renal diseases. Hartmann used J. conglomerates with success in dysuria, strangury, and ischuria. In Livonia a decoction of *J. pilosus is used for stone and gravel. The exact preparation used in the proving was not recorded. Fresh plant tinctures should be used in any further experiments. The pains were worse on left side, appeared or were worse at night and came on again in morning and evening. worse Flexing parts, worse bending sideways, better stretching out arm. Rheumatic pains worse by rest, better by motion. Chilliness worse on uncovering, better emission of flatus.
Relations
*Compare: Rhus ( worse rest, and uncovering, better stretching), Berb (bubbling sensations), Silicea (scars).
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Anxiety in morning, during a partial slumber, like the orgasm of blood, with frequent palpitation so that he was obliged to sit up, when it disappeared.
Head
Vertigo: as if everything were turning in a circle during rest, with nausea while walking. Pressive drawing headache, extending from before backward. Pressing-asunder headache, in forehead, on stooping, on rising up in bed in morning, a burrowing pain as in suppuration in forehead and occiput, which immediately disappears on lying down again. Bubbling sensation in right side of occipital bone, which extends to right ear, where it leaves a dull, pressive sensation.
Eyes
Itching on margins of lids, worse rubbing.
Ears
Cramp-like pain in external ear. Feeling as if inner meatus were swollen.
Nose
Stopped catarrh, feels like sneezing. Itching on inner surface of left nostril. Dry coryza.
Face
Sticking-itching pain above left corner of mouth, as if a splinter sticking into it, morning. Bubbling sensation in right jaw joint, leaving swollen feeling in the parts.
Mouth
Tongue: coated white, yellow, with slimy taste.
Throat
Throat dark and scrapy. Pressure in throat during swallowing, as if tonsils swollen. Hawks much yellow mucus without coughing. Painful laming, drawing, stretching, and pulling in neck muscles.
Stomach
Swelling in region of stomach pit. Tightness in stomach pit.
Abdomen
Constant rumbling, obliges him to go to stool, but no stool follows, only emission of flatulence. Sharp stitch extending deep inward above crest of ilium, taking away breath. Unusual feeling of relief of abdominal symptoms after emission of flatulence.
Stool & Anus
Itching in rectum. A thin stool consisting of small lumps.
Urinary Organs
Tension in urethra with sensation as of something alive in it. Slight itching, burning in urethra. Urine: like clay-water, deposits red sediment.
Male Sexual Organs
Itching in penis and scrotum.
Chest
Violent pressive pain in lower chest, worse on expiration and by bending body sideways. Sticking commences in left third false rib extending to right nipple. Pain as if lower sternum were pressed inwards.
Back and neck
Pressive drawing in cervical vertebrae as if it would draw head to right Drawing and pulling in dorsal vertebrae as if he would be bent backward, frequently repeated. Aching pain in small of back, causing an anguish, or attended with asthma.
Limbs
Painless cracking in joints.
Upper Limbs
Dull sticking pain in left axilla, evening in bed. Visible twitching of deltoid muscles. Pressive paralytic pain in head or right elbow, gradually disappears on stretching out arm, but renewed immediately on flexing it. Painful burrowing in bones of wrist, during both rest and motion.
Lower Limbs
While walking, stiffness in right hip as if tendons too short. Twitching in left gluteal muscles, as if something alive beneath them. Very painful drawing in bones of lower legs, during rest, better on motion. Bubbling and drawing in muscles of calves. Bubbling pain in bones of left lower leg. Itching and jerking in knee. Tension in tendo Achillis as if swollen and too short, on bending left foot forwards.
Skin
Itching, crawling in scar of incised wound several years old, with elevation of scar as if it would break out. Itching on penis, scrotum, thighs, knees.
Sleep
Wakes very early, cannot sleep again. Dreams of hunting, of jests, laughs aloud in his sleep.
Fever
Chilliness over whole body, immediately on getting out of bed in morning. Becomes chilly over whole body on raising bed covering and allowing a little air to come to the feet. Repeated shivering.
