Senega

COMMON NAME:

      SNAKE ROOT.

Symptoms

      Especially valuable with old people, but works well with others (N.).

Great bodily and mental debility, with stretching of the limbs and accompanied with heaviness and dullness of the head (Rhus- T.).

Great weakness, which seems to come from and of the chest.

Many symptoms, especially those of the chest, are aggravated during rest, and are relieved by walking in the open air.

Fainting while walking in the open air (Lycps., Sepia; while in close room-Aconite, Asafoetida, Ipecac., Lachesis, Tabacum).

Wounds from the bites of poisonous animals (Arsenicum, Ledum).

Disease of the mucous membranes (Bry, Carbo vegetabilis, Hydrastis, Nat-S., Pulsatilla).

Angina Mucosa.

BRONCHITIS (Ant-T., Bryonia, Hepar, Kali carb., Kali-M., Lycopodium, Nat-S., Phosphorus, Rhus toxicodendron, Silicea).

Inflammation of the lungs (Ant-T., Bryonia, Chelidonium, Ferr-P., Lycopodium, Phosphorus).

Hoarseness (Argentum nitricum, Calcarea, Carbo vegetabilis).

Dry, scraping sensation in the pharynx (Aesculus, Nux vomica).

Throat so dry that it hurts to talk (Phosphorus) (D.).

GREAT ACCUMULATION OF ALBUMINOUS MUCUS ON THE CHEST, WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO EXPECTORATE (Ant-T., Kali-M., (D.).

MUCH RATTLING, WHEEZING, AND DIFFICULT BREATHING (Ant-T., Carb- V., Nat-S.) (N.).

Cough : Incessant; strangling; choking; ends in sneezing; worse from lying on the right side, or in the evening (B.).

Sneezes, until dizzy (B.).

Nausea continuously (Ant-T., Ipecac., Tabacum).

Dullness of the head, with pressure and weakness of the eyes (Natrum muriaticum) (N.).

Feeling as though the thorax were too narrow, with constant inclination to widen it (Cact., Ignatia, Phosphorus) (N.).

Emphysema (Am-C., Ant-Arsenicum, Ant-T., Hepar) (Bl.).

Great burning in the chest, either before or after coughing (G.).

Sensation as of a crushing weight on the chest (B.).

Soreness of the walls of the chest on moving the arms, particularly the left, with much rattling of mucus in the chest (Be.).

Bronchiectasis (Caps., China, Sanguinaria) (Bl.).

Adynamic pneumonia (Ant-T., Carbo vegetabilis, Lycopodium) (Bt.).

Useful in sub-acute or chronic’ exudations of the pleura, and in catarrhal pleuro-pneumonia, where Bryonia has failed (Ha.).

Boring pain about the heart (Bc.).

Blood-tinged or albuminous expectoration (B.).

Vocal cords partially paralyzed (Causticum, Phosphorus) (Br.).

Menses come too soon (Calcarea, Ferrum, Millefolium, Sabina).

Has been administered with great success in hydrothorax ascites and anasarca, after primary or secondary albuminuria (Ha.).

Sensation of trembling, with no visible trembling (Sulph-Ac.) (Bt.).

Watery diarrhoea, with griping pains in the bowels, nausea and vomiting (Coloc., Dioscorea, Nux vomica) (Bt.).

Watery stools, spurting from the anus (Crot-T., Gratiola, Thuja) (C.).

The urinary secretions ar diminished (Apis., Berberis, Cantharis, Digitalis, Eup-P., Ferr-P., Gelsemium, Lycopodium, Mercurius)

Urine at first mixed with mucous filaments; afterwards it becomes thick and cloudy (J.).

Frequent urination, with greenish tinge, depositing a cloudy sediment (Hn.).

Gnawing pain in the left side at the waist.

Iritis and specks on the cornea (Hg.).

Is of service fin muscular asthenopia and opacities of the vitreous humour (Bl.).

Objects look shaded (China, Cyclamen, Gelsemium, Mercurius, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sulphur, Zincum met.) (Bl.)P.

Double vision (Belladonna, Gelsemium, Stramonium) (Bl.).

Eyeballs feel distended (B.).

Burning in the eyes when reading or writing (Cob., Lil-T., Nat- Arsenicum, Natrum carbonicum, Natrum muriaticum, Rhododendron, Zincum met.) (C.).

Blepharitis (Borax, Causticum, Graphites, Petroleum) (C.).

Cilia hang full of hard mucus (C.).

Paralytic feeling in the left half of the face (Rhus toxicodendron) (C.).

Pressure below the pit of the stomach (C.).

Deranged digestion (Carbo vegetabilis, China, Ferrum, Graphites, Hepar, Iris., Kali carb., Lycopodium, Nux-M., Nux vomica, Pulsatilla) (C.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In the evening; during rest; from looking fixedly at an object for a long time; in the open air; from inhaling cold air; from pressure; from touch; and at night.

AMELIORATION:

      From motion; from bending head backward; and from sweat.

RELATIONSHIP:

      ANTIDOTES; Arnica, Belladonna, Bryonia, and Camph.

Remedies following: Calcarea, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, and Sulph.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)