Wiesbaden


Wiesbaden 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

The spring at Wiesbaden (Prussia).

Generalities

The water used for washing is changed to a yellow color. After bathing the body smells of rotten eggs. Great ease of motion. Is able to walk for hours without weariness (twelfth day). He feels so strong and active that he can climb the highest mountain, and is able to walk for several hours in the great heat of the sun (after fifteen days). A feeling of comfort, with very profuse, soaking perspiration, without stretching. (Less weakness), (twelfth day). (No exhaustion), (thirteenth day). Great weakness during the menses. Great weakness and weariness after a long walk, with need of rest. Feeling of great weakness, with a slight perspiration. Feels very sick, inclined to lie down, but does not. Very easily fatigued by a short walk. Loss of strength, with dulness of the head, after moderate talking. Great weariness. Great weariness after a long walk. No desire to walk, only to ride. Obliged to lie down in the forenoon and afternoon, on account of weariness. Great exhaustion. Very much exhausted from early in the morning through the day, so that he walks very slowly. Great prostration and inclination to sleep. Uneasiness and sleeplessness. Anxious restlessness, sleeplessness, itching and formication over the whole body. Anxious uneasiness as soon as she gets into bed, on account of which she cannot sleep. (Faintness). Very great faintness. Rheumatism reappeared though it had been dormant for many months. Rheumatic affections are produced in people who never before suffered from rheumatism. Both from drinking and bathing the body becomes much inclined to take cold, and one suffers frequently from rheumatic pains in the head, teeth, and other parts; warm clothing and drinking very warm spring water frequently removes the trouble, sometimes warm baths have been used, 3. The aversion to the water becomes so great in many people as to cause cramp like sensations as soon as they come near the bath which afterwards disappear. The whole body feels bruised. Tension of the muscles, or here and there tearing pains.

Mind

He becomes more cheerful (after seven days); (after eight days). Impatient and depressed, without hope. General persistent depression of spirits. Anxiety and uneasiness prevent sleep. Great anxiety, with apprehensive solicitude. Ill-humor (second and following days). Peevish, talks with no one. Disinclination to think.

Head

Vertigo. Vertigo; (after first baths). Vertigo, with falling down, while walking. Vertigo and whirling in the head, with a kind of insensibility, trembling, faintness, spasmodic hiccough, alternations of chills and heat, thirst, hemorrhage while riding in a carriage (fourteenth day). Dizziness and heaviness of the head, while lying in bed, a sensation as if she would fall, seven days after cured. Reeling, with moving of objects before the eyes, and staggering gait, as if intoxicated (fifteenth day). Reeling. Reeling and tottering of the whole body, with moving of objects before the eyes (eight day). Tottering when walking. General Head. Heaviness of the head. Heaviness of the head after talking (fifth day). Dulness of the head. Headache. Headache in the evening (seventh day). External Head. The hair grows much more rapidly than usual, even after several months. Even though the hair falls out so profusely, it does not become thin, because the new growth is so rapid and thick, and after four months the head is more thickly covered than before. The hair falls out profusely. Falling of the hair, followed by a very rapid growth; the new hair is darker. The hairs falls out freely on shaking it and on stooping. The hair that was formerly soft became hard and brittle. Large boils on various parts of the head. Desquamation of the scalp thin and in large quantities, not preceded by itching, but accompanied by much perspiration. Itching of the scalp (sixth day). Itching on the scalp obliges scratching, with fine desquamation of the skin, after which the itching ceases for a short time. On the eighteenth day the itching on the head was slight, and only while perspiring. Itching on the head, as from vermin, with increased falling of the hair. Incessant itching on the head, scratching relieves for only a short time; the desquamation of white dust-like scales and falling of the hair are very copious (twenty-third day). Biting itching, as from salt, on the head (twelfth day). Intolerable itching on the scalp, with a copious dust like desquamation. Incessant itching of the scalp, increasing daily.

Eyes

Glistering of the eyes, without clearness; slimy moisture is wiped from them. Copious secretion of mucus on the eyeballs. Frequent secretion of tenacious slimy moisture in the eyes. Discharge of much purulent mucus from the eyes. The mucus wiped from the eyes forms a moisture. The eyes become dim, injected, with profuse secretions. Aching of the eyes after bathing a little; disappears after continuing to bathe. Brow. Fall of the eyebrows and lashes. Falling of the lashes and eyebrows, with rapid secondary growth. Itching of the eyebrows. Lids. Redness of the margins of the lids. Much mucus collects in the canthi, is frequently obliged to wipe them. Itching of the margins of the lids. Ball. Painfulness of the eyeball. Pressure deep in the eyeball. Increased tension in the eyeball. Vision. All things seem to move before the eyes when walking (seventh day); reeling, he staggers to and fro when walking (ninth day).

Ears

Copious secretion of soft earwax. Profuse secretion of earwax. More copious secretion of earwax several times a week, for several weeks. The earwax feels slimy. The earwax became thin, almost fluent. Tickling sticking in the meatus auditorius. Much itching of the ear, disappearing after a copious secretion of wax. Much itching of the ears, followed by discharge of thin pale-brown earwax. Pains in the ears. Roaring in the ears, with diminished hearing.

Nose

Frequent sneezing, secretion of think mucus. A watery secretion from the nose, ceases after a few days. Discharge of thin mucus from the nose. Thin watery discharge from the nose, tenacious, like a solution of isinglass. Frequent discharge of yellow mucus from the nose for four months. Increased discharge from the nose. Almost constant discharge from the nose. Thin liquid mucus flows from the nose. The nasal mucus forms a pellicle on the handkerchief, and when dry scales off like starch. A dry coryza gradually loosens. Nosebleed for six weeks, with which the weakness of vision bordering on blindness disappeared. Inclination to nosebleed. Frequent itching in the nostrils.

Face

The expression is very suffering. Face sunken, emaciated. Redness and heat of the face. Face very red, as if heated, with itching. High color of the face after the first bath, at times with circumscribed redness of the cheeks. Blood rushes violently to the face. Sensation as though cobweb were lying on the skin of the left cheek, which appeared frequently for several days.

Mouth

Teeth. The teeth seem too long. Drawing tearing in the teeth, so that he could scarcely eat. Tearing pain in the teeth. Gums. The gum becomes scorbutic after long bathing. Blisters on the gum. Gum loosened and painful, feeling sore while eating. Gums sensitive. Tongue. Tongue fuzzy, with nauseous, insipid taste. Tongue white on the edges, brown in the middle, with aversion to water. Tongue white, with brown fur in the middle. Margin of the tongue white, the middle brown, with insipid taste. Tongue coated brown. Brown coating on the tongue, disappearing after drinking coffee. Injected veins under the tongue. General Mouth. Dryness of the mouth. The skin forms folds on the inner side of the mouth, lips, and cheeks, after which it peels off. Tickling in the posterior portion of the palate. Taste. Taste and appetite good, but without real hunger and thirst. Very bad taste in the morning.

Throat

Inclination to clear the throat. Swollen cervical glands. Swelling of the glands of the neck and behind the ears. (The previously very large cervical glands become smaller and disappear almost entirely). (The swollen cervical glands remain indurated). The cervical glands become sensitive. The parotid glands become sensitive.

Stomach

Appetite and Thirst. Great appetite daily (after four days). Appetite increased (after the first bath). Appetite at first increased, afterwards diminished. Great desire for food. Loss of appetite. (Loss of appetite disappears after a few days). Aversion to food. Great thirst. Longing for drinking, but not thirst, not relieved several days, and very distressing. Constant longing for refreshing drinks daily, from early in the morning through the day. Great thirst, with chilliness, at night. Eructations. Eructations, with colic. Tasteless eructations. Eructations always after drinking the water. Distressing eructations. Nausea and Vomiting. Qualmishness (after half an hour). Qualmishness and eructations continue only while drinking the water. She becomes qualmish and shudders, without vomiting. Qualmishness always after drinking the waters. Inclination to vomit, with a sensation in the abdomen as after a purge. Inclination to vomiting and to stool, immediately after the first swallow of the water, but only after some hours there follows a thin liquid slimy evacuation, with lumps, with great rumbling in the abdomen. Aversion and inclination to vomit, even while drinking, but if during the nausea quite fresh spring water is taken, qualmishness changes for the moment to an inclination for a watery stool. Vomiting. Stomach. Promotes digestion. Pressure in the stomach. Pressure in the stomach, with a feeling of fullness and perceptible swelling of the epigastric region. Violent pressure in the stomach, lasting the whole 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.