Nabalus

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Nabalus signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Nabalus is used…

      Nabalus serpentarius. Prenanthes serpentaria. White Lettuce. Rattlesnake-root. *N.O. Compositae (subord. Chicoraceae) Tincture of whole fresh plant.

Clinical

Constipation. Ophthalmia.

Characteristics

*Nabalus is a native American plant much used in domestic practice as a remedy for diarrhoea and dysentery. There is only one proving, with Ist and 3rd dilutions by a married woman, aged 19. The symptoms resemble somewhat those of its botanical relative, *Lactuca, especially in constipation and somnolence. The most curious symptoms was susceptibility to magnetism and to the personal aura of others. Irritability of temper and occipital pain was worse evening.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Depression followed by unusual buoyancy. Continued melancholy. Irritable.

Head

Tipsy sensation. Deep-seated frontal pains behind right eye-ball and over eye. Headache with irritability and irritation of eyes, throat, and skin. Occipital pains with stiffness in nucha, worse evenings.

Eyes

Great and lasting irritation of eyelids and margins, the margins sting and smart and are slightly swollen. Slight weak.

Nose

Right nostril sore. Smell and taste slightly impaired.

Throat

Throat sore, tickling and scraping (left), worse lying down and swallowing saliva, then both eyes ( worse left) tingle and fill with tears.

Stomach

Appetite and thirst diminished. Desire for lemons. Burning eructations.

Stool

Constipation, only three stools in twelve days, hard, painful, followed by prostration.

Urinary Organs

Sharp pain (transient) in right kidney. Urine diminished.

Female Sexual Organs

Sharp throbbing in uterus. White, jelly-like discharge from vagina, with weakness. Menses delayed.

Generalities

Dull pains in joints and numbness on waking. Susceptibility to magnetic contact and to the personal aura of her friends. Heaviness, as if blood-vessels filled with lead, body heavy, she leans about.

Skin

Subcutaneous glands irritated and swollen, esp., behind right ear and in neck. Prickling as from suppressed perspiration, itching, general.

Sleep

Somnolence. Night sleep prolonged, afterwards lighter and more broken.

Fever

Chilliness not better by heat of fire. No febrile reaction except occasional flushes over head and face.

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John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica