Oleander


Oleander homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Common names: Rose-laurel; (G.), Larbeer-rose; (Fr.), Le laurier rose.

Introduction

Nerium Oleander, L.

Natural order: Apocynaceae.

Preparation: Tincture of the leaves.

Mind

He seemed remarkably lively, and jumped about like a kitten, the whole afternoon, quite contrary to habit. Screaming. Anxiety.

Became restless (after ten minutes). Loss of confidence in himself and on that account a sad mood. He immediately became overheated; he became passionate, though he immediately repented of it. He cannot tolerate contradiction. Peevish, fretful, out of humor with everything. Ill-humored, reserved. Dulness of sense, ill-humor, disinclination to do anything. Disposed neither to work nor to undertake any other agreeable occupation. Weak, indolent, disinclined fro every work. Disinclination to work.

Mind dull’ he cannot think well. While studying he had constantly other thoughts; he found himself dreaming of the future, and busying himself with beautiful images concerning it (after four hours). On reading a book he comprehends its ideas least if while making great efforts to understand the, he thinks that he will not succeed; his thoughts then become confused, and he becomes quite unable to continue reading; he comprehends everything more easily if he does not think at all that he wishes to understand it; he is then not occupied with any other thoughts besides those of the book itself. It was very difficult to read a learned book; he was frequently obliged to read a sentence three or four times before he understood it, because he could not, with the greatest exertion, mentally grasp what he had read because his mind was disturbed by other ideas of his own, that always took his attention away from what he was reading. While reading a long sentence, it was often difficult to grasp the connection. His memory is weak; he is unable to recall the names of those with whom he is well acquainted (after two hours and a half). He recollected nothing from the moment he swallowed the draught, and could form no opinion of the time which elapsed since the suicidal attempt and his recovery (third morning). Complete stupidity. Stupefaction. A kind of stupidity, so that he did not understand what was said to him. Slight coma, in which, however, the patient could be aroused by loud calling, when she answered connectedly, though speech coma, with distortion of the eyes.

Complete insensibility. Immediately walked five yards and fell senseless. Loss of senses.

Head

Vertigo. Vertigo, not amounting to reeling and falling (on walking in the open air); he stood firmly, but objects, trees, and people seemed to run together and swim, as in a confused dance, and it became dark before the eyes, with flashes of lightning (as if blinded by snow), (after four hours and a half).

Whirling vertigo in the forehead, and tottering of the lower extremities, as from weakness of them (after one hour and a half). On rising from a recumbent posture, he could scarcely walk across the room on account violent vertigo in the whole head (after one hours). He is not free from vertigo, even while walking in the open air. During dinner, which he swallowed with haste, as in ravenous hunger, the head became so dizzy that it seemed as though his vision and hearing would vanish, especially as if it would become black before the right eye. If, on standing erect, he looked towards the ground it became dizzy before the eyes, and it seemed as though he saw everything it double; but if he looked straight ahead on standing or stooping he noticed nothing of it (after seven hours). Whirling, reeling. General Head. He cannon hold up his head on account of a feeling of great heaviness in it; he is obliged to cease reading and lie down; while lying down he experiences no headache, and is well, but if he rises he feels again the heaviness and dulness of the head, nausea, and other disagreeable sensations (after nine hours).

Dulness of the whole head (after half an hour). Heaviness of the head (after twenty-four hours). Pressure in the upper cranial bones, as if they were sore (after thirty-six hours). Pressive pain in the brain (after six, and fourteen hours). Pain in the head, as if pressed forward by a hundredweight (after ten hours).

A pain beneath the ear, over the mastoid process, as if a dull nail were being forced into the head, with stupefaction.

Sensation as if the head were tight, more stupefying than painful. Boring pain in the whole brain. Boring pain in the upper part of the brain (after twenty-six hours). Forehead. Pain in the forehead, as if it would burst. A pressive pain in the head, from within outward, above the forehead (after eleven hours and a half). Pressive headache, from within outward, at the forehead (after four, and twenty-four hours). Acute pressure in the left frontal eminence, from within outward, disappearing after pressing the hand upon it (after one hour and a quarter).

Pressive uneasiness about the forehead. Pressure on the right frontal eminence. A dull compression in the forehead. Sudden stupefying pain n the forepart of the forehead, as from a dull blow. A few beatings in the forepart of the forehead, as with a hammer, in a small spot. Pain, slowly throbbing, like a pulse, in the forehead. Temple and Vertex. Violent pressive pain in the temples, at one time higher up, at another lower down, while chewing. Pressive pain in the left temple, drawing upward and downward, disappearing in the open air. Pain, like a shock, in the left temple. Pinching pain in the right temple. A slight drawing in the left temple. A sensation like that caused by yawning, in the left temple and in the external meatus auditorius. Contractive burning pain, externally on the left side of the vertex. Deeply piercing sharp stitches in slow succession in the right side of the vertex. Parietals and Occiput.

Stupefying pressure in the right side of the head, as if a dull instrument were slowly pressing inward. Pressure on the right side of the head, as if it were pressed inward. Sharp pressive pain externally on the left side of the occiput. Dull pressure in a small spot in the occiput. A tensive stitch in the occipital bone. External Head. Itching papular eruption on the scalp.

Desquamation of the epidermis of the scalp. Violent gnawing itching on the scalp, as from lice; after scratching, a smarting as if scratched raw. Gnawing itching on the scalp, that obliged scratching. Gnawing itching, as from vermin, over the whole scalp, that obliges scratching alternately all day (after fifty- six hours). Constant biting itching on the scalp, at night, as from lice.

Eye.

Eyes sank into their sockets. Eyes distorted. Eyes fixed. Eyes staring, lusterless. Aching of the eyes as if he had too greatly exerted them in reading. Pressure in the left eye, from above downward, and in the left malar bone. Pressure as from a hard substance in the eyes. Sore pain in the right eyebrow, towards the temple, when touched (after fourteen hours). Biting in the left eye. Orbit and Lids. Dull pressure on the upper margin of the orbit, intermittent, at one time more, at another less severe. The eyelids are involuntarily drawn together, as if sleepy (after eight hours and a half). Burning in the left lid and itching about the lids. Burning in the right upper lid (after ten hours and a half). Burning tension in both right lids, even on motion (after eight hours). Tension in the left eyelids on reading (after six hours and a half). Tensive pain in one canthus, as if the eye were turned excessively upward; it was difficult to turn the eye the opposite way, in the evening (after five days). Fine sticking and itching of the left upper lid.

Lachrymation and Ball. Lachrymation on reading. Itching of the right eyeball (after thirty hours). Pupils and Vision. Greatly dilated pupils. Pupils somewhat dilated, though reacting to the light. Pupils dilated. Pupils dilated (after twenty-five hours).

It becomes black before the eyes on looking sideways without turning the head. It becomes black before the eyes on rising up.

It seems as though it would become black before the eyes.

Ear

Cramp like drawing on the outer ear, and below it, as if it were drawn outward, at first gradually increasing, and then diminishing. Sharp pressive pain within the ear. Burning in the entrance of the left ear. Shrill stupefying ringing in the left ear. Singing in the left ear. Incessant whizzing in the left ear.

Nose

Sneezes twice violently. Biting itching of the root of the nose, towards the left eye, as if there were smoke in the room. Numb sensation, like a painless pressure, on the back of the nose.

Face

Face and eyes flushed, soon; face pale, towards evening. Face very much distorted, after rising, in the morning; he looks very pale; the eyes are surrounded by blue rings, and the cheeks are sunken. Pale face. Pale color of the face, all day (after forty hours). Spasmodic twitching of the facial muscles, particularly about the mouth. Pressive pain in the bones of the right side of the face, persistent even on moving the lower jaw (after three- quarters of an hour). A stupefying dull pressure between the root of the nose and left orbit. Redness of the cheeks, without heat.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.