SOLANUM TUBEROSUM AEGROTANS


Solanum Tuberosum Aegrotans 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…


Introduction

Diseased potato. The disease is owing to the development of a fungus of the order of moulds (mucedines); now known as Peronospora infestans, Montague; the leaf is first attacked.

Mind

She rises in the night, imagining that thieves are hidden behind the curtains; but she does not dare to look for them, and begs some one else to do so (thirty-third day). Sadness (fifteenth day). Hypochondria (fifteenth day). Anxiety on waking (thirty- fourth day). She is much concerned about her future destiny, which she fancies will be wretched (thirty-eighth day). She is very irritable, and will listen to no explanation (fifty-second day). Bad temper; nothing suits him, and he cannot bear to have anything about him disturbed (third day). Quarrelsome mood (twelfth day). The least thing puts her out of humor (eighth day). An unintelligible expression irritates her so that she would like to break everything and to bite her hands (sixteenth day). Great flow of ideas, at 5 P.M. (fifth day). While listening, or at work, the attention often wanders off on a different train of thought; this occurs several times during the proving (fifteenth day). Disposed to recall past journeys; flow of theatrical ideas, etc. (twenty-third day).

Head

Confusion of the head (fifteenth day). The head, and especially the forehead, are confused as during a coryza, all the afternoon (second day). Heaviness of the head (eleventh and fourteenth days); slight (fifteenth day); on waking (twenty-third day).

Heaviness in the head, at times becoming very severe, especially on lowering and raising the head (twelfth day). Heaviness of the head, worse in the morning than in the evening (thirteenth day).

Heaviness of the head, in the morning (second day). The head feels heavy; she can hardly hold it up (fifteenth day).

Sensation, when stooping, as if the brain were leaping in the skull (thirteenth day). Headache (fourteenth day); (twelfth day); at noon (fifteenth day). Headache aggravated by the smell of alcohol, and disappearing at 3 P.M. (twenty-fourth day). Headache ceasing for awhile, and then recommencing without being worse; decreases in the evening (thirteenth day). Headache during a half slumber (seventeenth day). The headache is aggravated by working (thirty-seventh day). Sensation of heat in the head, at 4 P.M.

(eighth day). Sensation as of water splashing in the head (thirty-seventh day). Lancinations as if the brain would burst open, when going upstairs (thirteenth day). Forehead. Confusion of the forehead (fourteenth day). Frontal headache with dull feeling and tendency to fall forwards (thirteenth day). Frontal headache, all day (fourteenth day). Violent frontal headache and coryza, all day (nineteenth day). Frontal headache (twenty-first day). Severe frontal headache, when walking, at 5 P.M. (twenty- first day). Lancinating pain in the forehead, from dinner-time until 9.30 P.M. (twelfth day). Pressure in the forehead and above the orbits (third day). Temples. Slight throbbing in the temple (tenth day). Pulsations in the left temple (sixteenth day).

Vertex. Heaviness at the vertex (eighteenth day); in the evening (seventeenth day). Tearing in the vertex; she cannot bear the least covering on her head (forty-second day). Pain at the vertex (thirty-seventh day). External Head. Painful sensitiveness of the scalp and roots of the hair (forty-second day). The scalp is painful every day; she feels such a pulling that she cannot bear to have it combed; this pain disappears after stirring about and talking (forty-fourth day).

Eye.

Injection of the sclerotica (thirteenth day). Heaviness of the eyes and forehead, on waking; as on the day after getting drunk (second day). Heaviness of the eyes (tenth day). Smarting and pricking in the eyes (twelfth and sixteenth day). Smarting in the eyes, in the evening (fifteenth day). Contraction and pulsation on the left upper eyelid, at 7 P.M. (sixteenth day). Pricking around the eyelids; they are red and bloodshot on their inner surface (seventh day). On waking, prickling around the eyelids (eleventh day). Smarting of the eyelids (sixteenth day).

Lachrymation of the right eye, for a few minutes (twelfth day).

(Profuse lachrymation), (seventh day). (Lachrymation on waking), (fifteenth day).

Ears

Ringing in the ears as if she were going to faint (seventeenth day). Whizzing in the left ear, at 5 P.M. (twenty-third day).

Nose

Sneezing when going upstairs (ninth day). Sneezing after going upstairs (thirteenth day). Sneezing (fifteenth day); at 4 P.M.

(sixteenth day); at 5 P.M. (seventeenth day). Repeated sneezing, followed by a slight cough, every day at 5 P.M., for four days (fourteenth day). Repeated sneezing, at 8.30 P.M. (fourteenth day). Coryza (twentieth and twenty-first day). Slight epistaxis, at 11 A.M. (fifteenth day); at 6 P.M. (twenty-third day). Slight epistaxis after supper (twenty-seventh day). Epistaxis in the morning (forty-second, forty-third, and forty-fourth days).

Blowing of bloody mucus from the nose, in the morning (forty- fourth day). Pressure at the root of the nose (first day). Smell of blood; she would like to bleed at the nose, at 7 A.M.

(fourteenth day).

Face

Face and head enormously swollen. A red erysipelatous state of the face and scalp, with oedematous swelling of the eyelids, so as nearly to close them. Face pale and bloodless, much swollen, particularly about the eyelids, and having a dull languid expression. On her left cheek, half way between the mouth and angle of the jaw, there was a portion of integument of the size of a half-crown piece, dark, pulpy and exhaling a fetid smell.

Over the cheek and the greater part of the anterior surface of the neck, th parts were much swelled, very hard, and of a deep- red color; some parts, especially in the immediate vicinity of the sore, having a yellowish tinge, and others a bluish-black appearance. Countenance expressive of pain and features sunken (sixth day). Countenance pallid, unmeaning, and indicating indifference of her fate. Red and hot face (thirteenth day). Dark redness and heat of the cheeks (fourteenth day). Deep redness of the face (twenty-third day). (Scarlet redness of the face), (forty-seventh day). Red face, with injected sclerotica (fifty- second day). Bright redness of the right cheekbone (thirteenth day). Scarlet redness of the cheeks (thirty-seventh and thirty- eighth day). Lips cracked, bleeding, and almost raw (fifteenth day).

Mouth

Teeth. Teeth loose and extremely painful. The teeth are covered with a white substance (seventh day). Teeth covered with white mucus (fifteenth and sixteenth day). Gums. The gums, especially of the lower jaw, swollen, painful, spongy, and bleed on the slightest touch; even the attempt to swallow causes an oozing of blood. Tongue. Tongue flabby, and thickly loaded with white fur.

Loaded tongue. Tongue pale. Tongue coated white (seventh day); (seventh, fourteenth, and thirty-fifth days); in the morning (sixteenth day). Thin yellowish coating on the tongue, in the morning (eighth day). Greenish-yellow coating on the tongue along the middle (fifteenth day). Tongue slightly coated white (sixteenth day); in the morning (fifth day). Slight yellowish- white coating on the tongue, in the morning (fifth day). Pricking in the right side of the tongue, from noon until 3 P.M.

(eighteenth day). Thick tongue, at 2 A.M. (ninth day). White- coated tongue, with a yellow line along the middle (sixteenth day). Cracked tongue, in the morning (thirty-fourth day). Tongue white in the middle and red at the tip (thirty-seventh day).

Tongue very red (thirty-seventh day). General Mouth. Breath horrible fetid. Breath fetid. Swelling of the mucous membrane of the internal alveolar border of both incisors, and the left canine tooth (nineteenth day). The mucous membrane of the palate feels as if coming off in different places (third day). Clammy mouth, in the morning (fifteenth day); at night (sixteenth day).

Mouth dry (thirty-third day). Dry mouth, with tearing sensation in the chest, at 2 A.M. (thirty-third day). Taste. Taste of raw potatoes, in the morning (fourteenth day). (After eating potatoes at supper, he has the taste in his mouth all night), (sixteenth day). At dinner, the dishes taste as bitter as gall (forty-sixth day).

Throat

Mucus accumulates in the throat, and seems to cover its whole anterior portion (forty-fourth day). Inflammation of the throat; she cannot swallow her saliva, in the evening (twentieth day).

Salt taste in the throat (third day). Roughness in the throat, with thirst, in the evening (eighteenth day). Pricking in the throat, provoking a cough (seventeenth day). Tickling in the throat, causing a cough (twenty-sixth day). Tearing in the throat, at 8 A.M. (seventh day). Feels as if there were a fleshy growth in the throat (twenty-first day). Feeling as of something sticking in her throat that she cannot bring up, followed by the expectoration of a small, hard, yellowish-gray lump (forty- seventh day). Tearing sensation in the throat, with accumulation of mucus, which it is difficult to raise (forty-fourth day).

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.