A tincture of whole plant of Lycopus Virginicus, L., is used.
Generalities
Aggravation on alternate days.
Mind
Wandering from one thing to another.
Head
Pressure in evening, and in eyes. Pressure in forehead; all day; in morning, (<) l. side; at 8 A.M.; at 3.15 P.M., and in eyes. Frontal and vertical part of head pressing out at 8 A.M. Pain in forehead and eyes.
Eyes
Full and heavy during the day; F. in morning, painful and Pressing out. Pressing out. Painful pressing in balls at 8 A.M. Pressing pain in supraorbital region; pain in l. in afternoon.
Clinical It has been used in morbus Basedowii, with tremulous action of the heart and protruding eyes; it may relieve the protrusion of the eye and the cyanosis from the general relaxation, but it has no effect upon the glandular enlargement of the thyroid, which usually must be treated by Iodine.
Ears, Nose and Throat
Burning of r. ear. Catarrhal sensation in l. ala nasi. Pain deep in l. parotid gland and at angle of r. maxillary bone.
Stomach and Abdomen
Circumscribed pain and compression in epigastric region. Flatulence all day. Colic, then profuse and forcible diarrhoea; C., with rumbling. Griping. Tenderness of A. at 8 A.M. Lugging pain in spleen after 9.45 P.M. Tenderness of l. hypochondrium.
Stool and Urine
Diarrhoea; cough have had a stool at any time of day, but had perfect control over sphincter ani. Costiveness. Tenderness of bladder at 8 A.M. Thirty-two ounces of urine during the day. Specific gravity of urine 1012.
Respiration
Accelerated during exercise in early part of the day, (<) ascending stairs.
Heart
Sticking in cardia. Throbbing pain in cardia at 3.15 P.M. Constrictive pain around H., with tenderness. Cardia viscera pressing outward, but not painful, at 7.30 P.M. Best more distinct on r. of sternum than on l. First sound displaced by a blowing sound, two days afterwards the first sound lacking, sometimes faint, displaced by a blowing sound of mitral regurgitation, the second sound pointed, short, sharp and emphatic, afterwards sound distinct at apex, the blowing sound heard in clavicular region, (<) between scapulae.
Clinical It is indicated in diseases associated with tumultuous action of the heart, with more or less pain and tenderness, often in symptoms associated with hypertrophy of the heart. Palpitation from nervous irritation, with oppression about the heart. Rheumatoid pains in various parts of the body, associated with either valvular disease of thee heart, cough nd hypertrophy, or with simple palpitation and various nervous symptoms. Cardiac disease following rheumatic fever, with hacking cough, palpitation, dyspnoea, small, weak, irritable pulse, which intermits now and then. Haemoptysis, with palpitation and pain in l. side of chest. Feeble, irritable heart, with cold extremities and general nervousness.
Pulse
Irregular in force; and weak; and weak, 48. Irregular, sometimes drags and hurries up. 68, and full.
Back and Extremities
Pain in lumbar region, (<) l., and bladder feels distended when empty; pain in loins like lumbago. Huskiness of l. patella on motion; with pin in knee, (<) motion. L. lower extremity feels half an inch shorter then the other and the foot sounds on the sidewalk as if this were the case.
Sleep
Night restless, full of troubled dreams.