Wildbad


Wildbad 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 Wildbad is used…


      The Springs at Wildbad, in Wurtemburg. (The water contains in 16 ounces, Carbonic ac. gr. 0.972, Natrum mur. 1.808, Natrum carb. 0.837, Nat. sul. 0.291, K. sul. 0.108, Calcarea c. 0.738, Silicic acid 0.480, Magnesia carb. 0.079, Ferrum c. 0.002, Alumina 0.004, and traces of Mang.) Dilution.

Clinical

Bones, pains in. Catarrh. Gout. Hair, affections of. indigestion. Knees, creaking of. Nails, soft. Paralysis, spinal. Paraplegia. Rheumatism. Shoulder, rheumatism of.

Characteristics

In spite of its very slight mineralisation, says Constantin James, the water produces very distinct effects in a graduated series. The first impression of the bath is delicious, this is succeeded by sensations more clear and distinct: a slight degree of excitement, at times luminous sparks before the sight, a finer (*Plus subtil) blood seems to flow to the brain. “One would like to remain in the bath, but something unusual and strange warms you that it is time to get out.” It is chiefly, says the same authority, for affections of the spinal cord that Wildbad is frequented, more then half the patients being paraplegic. Hartlaub, Kallenbach, and others proved the water. Among the symptoms were: Sensation as if the brain were over-filled. Gnawing, sinking, empty sensation. Pain as if sprained. Sensation of looseness in the joints, ankles loose, knees loose, the bones seem as if they did not fit. Teeth seem too long. In one prover the hair, which had been greasy, became dry, and the beard became of a darker colour. Desire to stretch. The symptoms were: worse On waking at night. worse Lying down (throbbing and heat in occiput). worse Walking (pain in sciatic nerve, looseness of knees).

Relations

*Compare: Uric acid in urine, pain in right shoulder, Urt. ur. Right shoulder, Sand.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Great depression with anxiety. Memory weak.

Head

Rush of blood to head.- Head: dull, heavy, especially occiput.- Sensation as though whole brain over filled, intolerable lying with head on pillow.- Throbbing headache on waking at night.- Tearing pains in forehead, extending from middle or right eyebrow.- Violent pulsation on vertex and occiput.- Heaviness in vertex on waking at night. Throbbing and warmth in occiput, worse lying down.- Hair lost its oiliness, hair of beard grew darker.- Moving scalp was difficult, as though frontal muscles too short.

Eyes

Pain and pressure in eyes on writing in evening.- Fine sticking pain in eyes (worse l.) and above eyes (eyebrows, below eyes, and also in eyeballs), without affecting vision.- Acute pain in left upper eyebrow, spot remained sensitive after.- Pain in left (and r.) supraorbital foramen.- Itching in canthi.

Ears

Sensation in ears as after taking cold, first right, then left.- Sensation of warmth in right ear.- Pressing stitches in left ear as if deep in meatus.

Nose

Blood from right nostril in morning.

Face

Violent painless twitching in face.- Pain left jaw-joint, lower jaw, and in top of shoulder.

Mouth

Teeth, especially right., painful, as if too long, or as after taking cold.- Dryness of mouth, without thirst, and with coated tongue in morning.- Mouth and tongue dry toward morning.- Burning point in right corner of mouth or wing of nose.- Bloody saliva, apparently from fauces, after talking in open air.

Throat

Expectoration of mucus from throat, larynx, and posterior nares. A retching, spasmodic, or drawing pain in oesophagus, above the stomach, with some nausea.

Stomach

Hunger: ravenous, as from an empty stomach in morning, also in evening after supper.- Gnawing emptiness in stomach and whole abdomen.- Emptiness without hunger.- Eructations, empty.- Nausea, on waking.- Feeling of indigestion or disordered stomach.- Pressure in stomach.

Abdomen

Colic in umbilical region, as before a stool, without an evacuation.- Sticking, drawing pains in both hypochondria.

Stool & Anus

Spasmodic pressure in anus and perinaeum.- Great urging to stool, which was at first dark and thin, afterwards brown with mucus, and at 11 a.m. very watery, yellowish grey, with some colic.- Stool: dark, with tenacious mucus, lumpy, covered with mucus of a dark blackish-brown colour, retained, hard, lumpy, dark, constipated, after a few days natural with colic.

Urinary Organs

Frequent urgent desire to urinate.- Mucus in urine with large uric acid crystals.

Male Sexual Organs

Erections: painful on waking, more easy than natural. Painful drawing in cords on waking, after an emission.

Female Sexual Organs

Menstruation usually hastened.

Respiratory Organs

Dry cough.- Breathing oppressed, on ascending stairs.

Chest

Pain and cracking in upper part of sternum at junction with first right rib.

Neck and Back

Tearing pain, as if sprained, transversely through nape.- Constant pulsation in nape and occiput at night.- Drawing in back as though a hot sponge drawn along skin on waking in morning. – Prickling on back, followed by nettle rash.- Disagreeable sensation of warmth along lumbar vertebrae.

Limbs

Joints weak.- Fullness and heaviness in limbs.- Drawing pains here and there in limbs, drawing pain in left upper arm and right thigh.

Upper Limbs

Violent drawing tearing about right shoulder.- Shuddering jerking about right upper arm.- Drawing in left upper arm.-Acute pain in left arm above elbow, outer portion, as if in bone or tendon, as if sprained.- Drawing burning beneath right elbow, in bone.- Rheumatic pain in forearm from back of wrist to elbow, near wrist arm painful.- Nails became so soft he could not open a watch with them.- Hang-nails.- Stiffness and painfulness of all fingers on opening and closing hand.- Painful swollen sensation in left thumb.

Lower Limbs

Weariness of hips after a slight effort.- Pain in nates, right and l., as if in sciatic nerve, especially on walking.- Pain in muscles or right thigh, on posterior and inner surfaces.- Drawing pain in right thigh, a hand’s breadth above knee, below anterior and outer portions.- Violent cracking: in both knees on rising, right knee.- Pain and stiffness in right knee, as if contracted, on waking in morning.- Knees feel loose, as if bones did not fit, must be supported in walking.- Violent itching in left calf and on tibia.- Pain in right calf on walking.- Ankles feel loose.- Drawing: in ankles, in left sole behind toes.- Sprained sensation: in first joint of right great toe, in right and left great toes.- Acute pain in left little toe.

Generalities

Weak, weary, wants to keep quiet.- Weary: after walking, especially knees and ankles, sudden, ankles seem loose.- Great desire to lie on back and stretch, with feeling of comfort and warmth through whole body, and averse to business, especially after a bath.

Skin

Crawling itching about left half of mouth, around red of lip, especially lower lip.- Itching on: one finger of right hand, right thumb, in small spot as if in periosteum, better (but not removed) by rubbing, left calf and tibia, left index finger, with development of a small vesicle, middle knuckle of left ring- finger, right nates.

Sleep

Very sleepy in evening.- Unusual desire to sleep after eating.- Complete sleeplessness till 4 a.m., with constant excitement and uneasiness, dry, burning heat, better sitting erect with head against hard pillow.- Sleep: restless, full of confused dreams, wakes every few minutes feeling as if had sleep for hours.- Dreams: disagreeable, forgetful, anxious, confused.- Violent weeping in a dream, waking in perspiration.

Fever

Hands quite cold, with weakness and sweat on waking.- Feet cold.- Violent, dry heat over whole body.- Prickling heat over whole body, with some sweat.- Very disagreeable heat in occiput, intolerable on lying down, and amounting to violent pulsation.- Sweat: easy, free at night and during day after any exertion.

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