Homeopathy Remedy Papaya Vulgaris


Papaya Vulgaris homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Papaya Vulgaris……


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Generalities

      Loses flesh. Takes cold easily when riding; takes C. easily during menses. Nervous before and during menses. Pain (<) towards evening; P. (>) rubbing. Dull feeling in morning on rising. Muscular debility. Languor; and drowsiness. Papaya has evidently waked up an old psoric taint caused by suppression of itch forty years ago.

Mind

      Impatient. Wants to be alone. Dislikes to be talked to or to answer. Listless, lacking in ambition. Unusually active, can study longer without weariness, likes to read. Unable to think quickly. Stupid, confused feeling. Easily confused. Could hardly trust herself to do anything during menses for fear of making mistakes. Forgetful.

Head

      Aching after eating pop-corn and candy, (<) towards evening; A. (<) bright light, warm air and motion, (>) cold air and sleep; (>) rubbing; involving eyeball; increased for twenty-four hours, passing backward to occiput and nape, drawing head backward. Dulness. Fulness in evening. Vertigo and throbbing frontal pain, with nausea. Frontal pain. Piercing pain traveling like lightning from r. side of H. to r. side of foot. Bruised feeling in l. side. Soreness of parietal region, with throbbing. Itching greater, but dandruff less than usual.

Eyes, Nose and Face

      Prickling in eyes. Pain in eyeballs. Dry feeling in eyeballs. Inflammation of r. lid, feeling as if a foreign as if a foreign substance were in it, preventing much reading by artificial light. Vision not as good as usual. Nose stopped, (<) l. side. Thick discharge from N. Watery, Colorless, bland coryza. Neuralgia on l side of face.

Mouth

      Toothache (<) cold water; T. in l. lower molars; in r. lower molars, with soreness. Tongue dry at night. Taste bad; flat to food.

Stomach and Abdomen

      Appetite diminished in morning. Thirst, but inability to drink cold water on account of toothache. Drinks much water. Taste less eructations. Nausea after dinner. Faint for want of food, but food distresses stomach. Pain around waist.

Stool

      Soft. Constipation. First part large and hard, breaking into balls, latter part mushy, with wind. Irregular.

Urinary Organs

      Tearing in bladder, with desire to urinate. Straining with the first urinary effort in morning, with burning as if an obstruction were being overcome, which being removed the urine passes easily. Frequent desire; irresistible desire at sound of running water, even in a horse’s throat when drinking. Burning in urethra during and after micturition, with continuous desire. Urine increased; scanty. Less sediment than formerly.

Sexual Organs

      Flaccid and lifeless. Pain running from perineum to of penis as if a rough, jagged body forced its way out. Erections towards morning; E., but no emissions; not long-lasting and not due to sexual thoughts. Pain in l. testicle, waking him at night. Instinct abnormally aroused. Functions depressed. Emissions without lascivious dreams.

Respiratory Organs and Chest

      Pain in larynx. Hoarse in evening. Cough keeping him awake at night; violent, sudden, spasmodic C.; with easy expectoration and soreness of l. lung. Shooting in lungs and around heart. Pain in l. lung. Shooting in lungs and around heat. Pain in l. lung; deep in upper lobe of l. lung; from l. chest to l. thigh and knee; heavy, in l. lung, extending through to back and be coming stabbing. Lungs fee tired and hot.

Heart and Pulse

      Shooting in heart. Pulse 100, temperature 102. Pulse slow; and weak.

Back

      Bruised pain in side. Sore pain in point under. scapula. Pain in region of kidneys; region of l. kidney, running around ilium.

Extremities

      Go to sleep easily. Numbness. (>) waking; N., pricking and sleepiness. Rheumatic pain in l. shoulder. L. arm helpless. Numbness of r. hand and fingers while asleep, (<) little finger; N. of r. ring finger,(<) outer side. Trembling of lower, with weakness of them. Prickling in lower, but not in foot, with tingling. R. leg went to sleep when writing. Pain on ball of r. foot under little toe, with swelling and with heat extending to toes.

Skin

      Eruption in groins, bends of knees and r. elbow, extending along flexor surface, and on r. forearm and abdomen. Pimples on face and body. Red, sore, elevated points like acne, on thighs; red, itching elevations, (<) evening and warmth of bed, (>) scratching. Itching eruption over r. eye. Eruption like nettle-rash after scratching. Pinkish erysipelatous swelling on dorsum of l. great toe, with itching,(>) scratching or rubbing. Itching all over body; behind l. ear; on mons veneris; on r. ankle on going to bed; forearms and anterior part of thighs, with diffused redness, (<) forearms; (<) warmth of bed.

Sleep

      Yawning and stretching. Drowsy, but cannot sleep. Heavy. Disturbed. Frequent waking. Dream horrible, vivid, of shipwreck, fire being drowned, shot, etc.

Fever

      Chilliness; at night; in open air. Cold hands and feet; forefingers, with deadness, stoppage of circulation.

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.