Yarrow. Composita.
A plant known to the ancients, mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, where Chiron instructs Achilles in the art of surgery ; it was named by Linneus, Achillea Millefolium. The plant is common in old fields, along fences, on borders of woods and cultivated grounds, produces a dense corymb of whitish flowers of feeble aromatic odor, and the leaves have a bitterish, astringent taste. The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant.
Introduced by Hartlaub ; provings by Nenning and Schreter (Hartlaub and Trinks’ Annalen, vol. 4, p. 344) ; later provings by Hering and Raue (Amerikanische Arzneiprüfungen, Translation with additions, N. E. M. G., vol. 9, 1874).
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
– Rückert, Annalen, vol. 1, p. 114 ; Gross, Archives, 15, 3, 25 ; Goullon, Archives, 20, 2, 145 ; Headache, Normand, Roux, Journ. de Medorrhinum, 1771 ; Colic and bloody diarrhoea during pregnancy, Normand ; Hamaturia, Wiedemann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 23 ; Hamoptysis, Lobethal, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 13, p. 356 ; Gross, Hirsch, Rückert, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 219 ; Keil, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 805 ; Okie, N. E. M. G., vol. 9, 1874 ; Jousset, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 111, p. 127 ; Preventive in post-partum hemorrhage, Rev. Hom. Belge, 1876, p. 21 ; Smallpox, with pain in stomach, Maumery, Normand, Frank’s Mag., vol. 1 ; Infantile spasms, Normand ; Fever from suppressed itch, Normand.
MIND.
Anxious, with pain in heart.
Melancholy, sadness ; weak memory.
Much excited, with pains in pit of stomach.
Irritable ; violent ; aversion to work.
SENSORIUM.
Stupefied, intoxicated.
Confused, dull, especially evenings, knows not what he is about, nor what he ought to do ; seems constantly as if he had forgotten something.
Vertigo when moving slowly, walking, but not when taking violent exercise, with nausea when stooping.
** Apoplexy ; paralysis.
INNER HEAD.
Sensation as if all blood ascended to head.
Congestion to head : when stooping in evening ; at night a stream from chest to head, like a gust of wind, with nosebleed ; from coffee ; from portal system.
Slight throbbing in arteries of head and face.
Fulness in head after siesta.
Dull pain in vertex.
Sensation in right side of head as if screwed together.
Hemicrania.
Violent headache, he strikes head against bedpost or wall ; twitching of eyelids and frontal muscles.
Occipital headache, dull towards evening.
Piercing or thrusts in head, vertex, over eye, occiput, side of head.
Headache < : stooping ; on awaking.
SIGHT AND EYES.
Like a mist before eyes, not near, but at a distance.
Nebulous vision, weak sighted, with contortion of facial muscles.
Eyes brilliant.
Inward piercing, pressing in eyes to root of nose and sides of forehead.
Sensation of too much blood in eyes.
Fistula lachrymalis ; lachrymation and discharge.
Agglutination of eyes in morning.
HEARING AND EARS.
Noise in left ear causes her to start with fright ; later, when laughing, sensation as of cold air passing out.
Sensation as if ears were stopped up, after dinner.
Darting in left ear.
Earache.
SMELL AND NOSE.
Nosebleed : congestion to chest and head ; excessive.
Stuffed nose.
Piercing pain from eyes to root of nose.
FACE.
Redness of face without internal heat.
Sensation of heat as if blood was rising to head.
Tearing : in face to temples ; from right lower jaw to ear, then teeth.
Contortion of face.
TEETH AND GUMS.
Toothache : from heating things ; with pain in jaw ; rheumatic, with diseased gums.
Gumboil.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE.
Tongue swollen and coated.
INNER MOUTH.
Thirst, mouth dry.
Stomacace, ulcerated gums ; putrid, sore mouth.
PALATE AND THROAT.
Uvula relaxed, also tonsils ; asthenic catarrh.
Rough feeling in throat.
Dull, piercing pains, right, then left side.
Ulceration of throat ; pain in left side of throat when swallowing.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING.
Hiccough ; empty eructations.
Nausea, with vertigo.
Retching and vomiting.
Vomiting when coughing.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH.
Painful gnawing and digging in stomach as from hunger.
Pain in stomach as if empty, mornings after waking.
Burning in stomach ; < when doubling body, in region of right hypochondrium, where it became a drawing, burning pain.
Burning in stomach and abdomen ; extending to chest.
Pains in stomach, in young, hysterical, irregularly menstruating girls.
Great pain in pit of stomach ; excited, pulse accelerated and constricted, pustules collapsing. θ Smallpox.
Pain in stomach after confluent smallpox.
Cardialgia.
Sensation of fulness in stomach ; pressure, like a plug.
Cramp in stomach, with sensation as of a liquid moving from stomach to intestines, towards anus.
HYPOCHONDRIA.
Pain in region of liver ; piercing in right lower ribs.
Congestion to portal system.
Stagnation in liver and system of vena porta ; sluggish digestion ; want of appetite ; flatus ; distension of abdomen.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS.
Bloatedness.
Pain in abdomen from flatus.
Griping and tearing in abdomen, caused by dysentery and lientery.
Wind colic in hysterical or hypochondriacal patients ; colic during menstruation.
Hemorrhages from bowels in typhoid fever, with tympanitis.
Incarcerated hernia.
Ascites.
STOOLS AND RECTUM.
Frequent emission of fetid flatus.
Violent colic with bloody diarrhoea. θ During sixth month of pregnancy, prevailing dysentery.
Mucous diarrhoea.
Chronic blenorrhoea from atony of mucous membranes ; great pain.
Dysentery.
Bloody dysentery, tenesmus ; during epidemics of dysentery.
Bloody flux after much exertion, lifting, or internal injuries.
Pains from blind hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoidal hemorrhages.
Profuse flux from condylomata.
Ascarides.
URINARY ORGANS.
Pain in region of left kidney, followed by profuse hamaturia, lasting from five to eight days ; chilliness, which obliges him to keep his bed.
Catarrh of bladder from atony.
Stone in bladder, with retention of urine ; bloody urine.
Pus-like discharge after lithotomy.
Urine bloody ; blood forms a cake in vessel.
Incontinence of urine.
Constant desire to urinate.
Incontinentia urina.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS.
Want of ejaculation when cohabiting.
Spermatorrhoea.
Swollen penis ; discharge of blood and watery slime. θ Gonorrhoea.
Condylomata ; gleet.
Swelling of penis and testicles.
Wounds and injuries of penis.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.
Sterility, with too profuse menstruation.
Dysmenorrhoea in irregularly menstruating young girls, pain in stomach.
Menses suppressed with pain in stomach, or epileptic attacks, or cough with bloody sputum.
Menses excessive, last too long, with colic.
Leucorrhoea of children from atony.
Uterine hemorrhages ; after great exertion ; miscarriage.
Hemorrhage of bright red and fluid blood.
Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, with congestive headache.
PREGNANCY, PARTURITION, LACTATION.
Sterility with too profuse menses or tendency to miscarry.
During pregnancy, cramplike affections.
Painless or bleeding varices in pregnant women.
Colic or cramplike affections in confinement ; severe after pains.
Attacks following a hard delivery.
Convulsive motions of all limbs, terrible pains and total suppression of lochia ; third day after confinement.
Lochia : too copious ; suppressed ; violent fever, no milk, convulsive twitchings ; great pain.
Painless drainings from uterus, nose or lungs, after labor, after abortion, or when an abortion threatens, if the blood be bright red and there are no pains in joints.
Preventive in post-partum hemorrhage.
Sore (cracked) nipples of nursing mothers.
No milk with suppressed lochia and fever.
VOICE AND LARYNX, TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA.
Secretion of mucus in larynx ; roughness.
RESPIRATION.
Shortness of breath.
Very difficult breathing, with tetanic spasms.
Asthmatic affections.
COUGH.
Cough : with frequent spitting of bright blood ; oppression of chest with palpitation ; in phthisis ; in suppressed hemorrhoids ; suppressed menses.
Has fallen from a height and spits blood in consequence.
Hemorrhages from lungs from a weak condition of vessels.
In phthisic conditions with coughing of blood, or after frequent attacks of hemorrhage of lungs.
Hamoptysis : in incipient phthisis (after Aconite and Arnica) ; in hemorrhoidal patients ; from a rupture of bloodvessel ; after injury.
Oppression of chest ; excessive palpitation.
Coughing blood, vigorous woman of 48 ; no menstruation for two years ; ebullition in chest every evening, < when lying in bed, not at all during day ; warm blood rises into her throat and flows out of her mouth ; then cough with more light red, bloody expectoration, half a pound in all, accompanied by great prostration.
Coughing blood every afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Lung disease after coughing blood.
Repeated bronchorrhagia, in phthisis, or after a fall.
Blenorrhoea of lungs.
Expectoration of florid blood, without much coughing, sometimes in consequence of violent exertions.
