Verbascum


Verbascum 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

Verbascum thanks givings, Linn. Natural order: Scrofulariaceae. Common names: Mullein; (G), Konigs-kerze; (F), Molene. Preparation: Tincture of the fresh herb at commencement of flowering.

Generalities

Sensation of sinking. Indolence and sleepiness in the morning after rising.

Mind

Excited fantasies, especially of a sensual nature, for several days. Excessive joyfulness with laughter (after two hours and a half). Depressed all day, all his efforts and hopes seem unavailing. Anxious mood all day; more lively towards evening. Very fretful and morose mood without cause; but with desire and inclination for work; also he finds satisfaction in having people abut him and in talking with them (after two hours and a half). Indifferent to things to which he is usually attentive (after two hours). Disinclination for work (after eight hours). Distraction of mind f different trains of thought and fantasies throng upon him (after eight days). Diminished memory; it was with great difficulty that he could recall the thoughts he had just had (after four hours). The narcotic effects usually wore off in one or two hours.

Head

Sudden vertigo, as from a pressure upon the middle of the whole head. Attacks of vertigo on pressing the left cheek, while supporting the head. Dulness of the head (after five hours). Dull painful heaviness of the head (after three- quarters of an hour). His head is dull and confused, as if everything would press out at the forehead. Slight sense of weight about the head, with vertigo, often to a considerable extent, but at the same time somewhat pleasurable. Tingling in the head, while walking (after four hours and a half). Forehead. Intermittent pressure and beating near the left frontal eminence. Violent pressure in the whole forehead. Violent pressing pain extending from within outward, in the forehead, disappearing on stooping (after two hours and a half). Violent stupefying pressure deep in the right frontal eminence on going from the cold into warmth. Pressing benumbing headache rather external, especially in the forehead, in every position (after three-quarter of an hour), 4 Pressing stupefying headache, especially affecting both sides of the forehead, in every position (after half an hour). Violent pressing inward in the left side of the frontal bone, like a benumbing. Incessant pressure from within outward, in the forehead, especially between the eyebrows (after three hours). Benumbing drawing in the left frontal eminence in a draft of air (after seventy-two hours). Slow hammering in the left frontal eminence, immediately. Violent slowly appearing and disappearing stitch extending from within outward in the left frontal eminence (after two hours). Deep, sharp, intermittent stitches between the left frontal eminence and the parietal eminence. Intermittent fine needle like stitches in the left side of the forehead (after one hour and three- quarters). Sticking in the left frontal sinus (after five hours). Temples. Dull pressure in the articular eminences of the temporal bone, just in front of the left ear. Dull pressure in the articular eminence of the temporal bone painfully aggravated on biting the teeth together. Sensation as if both articular eminences of the temporal bone were violently pinched and crushed together with pincers. A pressing pain in the right temple, immediately. Pressure from behind forward, in the right temple, immediately. Pressure from behind forward, in the left temple. Sensation as if the temples were pinched together with pincers. Benumbing sticking piercing deeply in the right temple while eating, aggravated by external pressure; after a few hours if extended into the upper teeth of the same side like a tearing. Sharp, benumbing, knife like stitches just above the right temple. Burning and pricking in the left temple (after eight minutes). Sticking jerking externally, first in the left temple, afterwards in the right (after one hour). Vertex and Parietals. Tension in the left side of the vertex, which gradually becomes a sharp pressure, at the same time the left ramus of the lower jaw seems pressed against the upper jaw. Pressing headache on the crown. Violent pressing, but very transient pain, extending from within outward in the whole right half of the brain, which gradually diminishes (after four hours). Tearing pressure in the right half of the brain (after four hours). Benumbing pressure in the whole left side of the head and face (cheek). Jerking pressure in the left half of the brain (after five hours). Pressing, long-drawn stitch from behind forward, through the left hemisphere of the brain (after two hours). Violent intermittent deep sticking behind the left parietal eminence. Occiput. Pressing pain in the occiput (after an eight of an hour). Violent pressure in the right occipital protuberance (after four hours and a half). Stitch in the left side of the occiput (after one hour and a half).

Eyes

Heat in the eyes and sensation of contraction of the orbits (after half an hour). Pain more pressing than tearing above the left orbit (after two hours and a quarter). Pupils dilated (after seven hours and a half). Dimness of sight. A short-sighted person becomes still more short-sighted (dimness of vision?); could scarcely recognize objects a yard away, on account of watery dimness of vision; objects seems indistinct and enlarged, and the daylight seems less bright than usual, which is not the case (after eight hours and a half), 4.

Ears

Sudden pressure, associated, with a violent stitch behind the right ear, which gradually disappears (after three-quarters of an hour). Feeling of numbness in the left ear. Painful tearing and drawing in the left ear, extending inward. Sensation as if the left ear would be drawn inward. Violent tearing within the right ear. Tearing stitches in front of the left ear extending downward, immediately. A tearing stitch in the left ear (while eating), (after two hours). Sensation as if something stopped the ears, first the left, then the right.

Nose

Sensation of stoppage of the nose, larynx, and ears, which, however, does not affect the hearing, while reading aloud (after eight hours).

Face

Face pallid, after large doses. The whole cheek becomes involved in a dull pressure in the left articulation of the jaw, and on pressure becomes a benumbing tension. Sensation as if one were violently pressing upon the left malar bone as far as the ear, aggravated by pressure with the hand, frequently during the day, in the evening before going to bed, and in the morning on waking. Tension in the left malar bone, in the articular elevation of the temporal bone, and in the frontal eminence, on going into the open air and in a draft of air. Violent pressure on the right malar bone (after thirty-six hours). Benumbing, intermittent pressure on the upper margin of the left malar bone. Dull pressing-sticking sensation in the left zygoma (after two hours and a half). Intermittent frightful sticking in the left malar bone. Violent tension in the integuments of the chin, masseter muscles, and throat, but the jaws can be moved easily (after ten minutes). Pressing pinching pain on the right side of the lower jaw (after half an hour).

Mouth

Intermittent tearing in the small molars of the left lower jaw. Tearing in the large molars of the right lower jaw. The root of the tongue is brown, without bad taste, in the morning on rising and in the forenoon. Root of the tongue brown, with a flat, nauseous taste, in the forenoon. Tongue brownish yellow, coated with tenacious mucus, without a bad taste, immediately after dinner. (Salt water collects in the mouth). Flat taste for some time after dinner. Flat taste with an offensive odor to the breath, with a brownish- yellow coated tongue, in the morning (after ninety-six hours).

Stomach

Appetite and thirst. Hunger without appetite through the day; nothing is relished, and yet he wishes to eat. Unquenchable thirst (after two hours and a half). Eructations. Many empty eructations. Bitter qualmish eructations immediately. Uprising of tasteless liquid (after five minutes). Empty eructations, immediately. Hiccough. Hiccough (after half an hour). Frequent hiccough (after two hours and a quarter). Pressure in the stomach. Sensation of great emptiness in the pit of the stomach, which disappeared with a rumbling in the region below the left ribs.

Abdomen

Hypochondrium. Sticking pinching beneath the right hypochondrium (after half an hour). Umbilicus and Sides. Constriction of the abdomen at the umbilical region at various times. Sensation s if the intestines at the umbilicus were adherent to the wall of the abdomen and were being torn away forcibly, aggravated by external pressure. Hard painful pressure as from a stone upon the umbilicus, aggravated by stooping. Stitches as from many needles in the whole umbilical region around to the back, and even in the dorsal vertebrae, on deep inspiration and on stooping. Incessant rumbling and gurgling in the region beneath the left ribs (after five hours). Intermittent dull sticking in the left side beneath the navel, aggravated on bending the body forward after eating (after three hours). Intermittent dull needle stitches in the right side, by the navel. Sharp intermittent stitches in the left side above the navel. A deep sharp stitch in the left side, where the ribs cease, so violent that he started. General Abdomen. Abdomen tympanitic, followed by frequent rumbling in the region beneath the left ribs, which caused several violent loud eructations (after four hours). Griping in the abdomen as from incarcerated flatus, in every position (after one hour and three- quarters). Cutting-griping colic, here and there, though always rising towards the ribs, where it becomes seated (after three hours). Cutting griping in the whole abdomen, with frequent eructations. A pain in the abdomen, extending low down, causing spasmodic contraction of the sphincter ani and a transient desire for stool. Tearing sticking in the abdomen, extending downward. Gurgling in the lower abdomen (after a quarter of an hour). Acute, deep, knife like stitches in the right side of the lower abdomen, above the pubis.

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.