Part 31

Not giving you the day-book records of these provers, a few remarks, showing its general action, may not be out of place. As stated before, only two recorded symptoms after the use of the 30x attenuation.

After taking the tincture, there is soon produced a biting, tingling sensation of the tongue, lips and fauces, not very much unlike the sensation produced by Aconite. In these provers there soon followed a sense of fear, with pain about the heart, and accelerated pulse. In a short time there was noticed a dull pain in both temples, a pressing pain; then shooting pains, which followed the fifth pair of nerves.

The next symptom produced was an accumulation of sticky mucus in mouth and fauces. Then a general languor and weakness followed, always worse in the afternoon. All the limbs felt weak and indisposed to make any motion, and this was accompanied by sharp, shooting, shifting pains. In quite a number of cases the appetite was not affected.

Those using sufficient quantity of the tincture had loss of appetite, with belching of tasteless gas, weakness in the stomach, pain in the right hypochondriac region, accompanied with gas in the bowels; griping pains followed by passing offensive flatus, or a loose, yellowish stool, which always produced great exhaustion. After using the drug several days the face becomes pale, the pulse very much lessened in frequency, and a general exhaustion follows like after a severe and long spell of sickness.

The tongue will then indicate slow digestion, accompanied with belching of tasteless gas. In most of the provers, however, there was a passing of very offensive gas and offensive stools.

You will observe that the remedy exerts quite an effect on the kidneys and bladder, but I am very sorry to say that the urinary analysis made did not show anything but the variations generally observed in ordinary health.

I must say that the provers did not go into the details as much as was desirable. Likewise, I may say the same of the blood tests made, but what was given is very valuable.

I could give you an expression of its special action, but will merely give you the symptoms collected and then you can make your own deductions.

ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA.

A collection of symptoms from twenty-five different provers, anatomically arranged:

MIND.

3 Dullness in head, with cross, irritable feeling. 2 So nervous could not study. 3 Confused feeling of the brain. 2 Felt depressed and much out of sorts. 3 Felt a mental depression in afternoons. 1 Senses seem to be numbed. 5 Drowsy, could not read, drowsiness. 2 Vertigo when changing position of head. 3 Drowsy condition with yawning. 2 Becomes angry when corrected, does not wish to be contradicted.

SENSORIUM.

5 General depression, with weakness. 8 General dullness and drowsiness. 4 General dullness, unable to apply the mind. 5 Does not wish to think or study. 3 Restless, wakes often in the night. 2 Dull headache, felt as if brain was too large, with every beat of heart. 5 Sleep full of dreams.

INNER HEAD.

5 Dull pain in brain, full feeling. 5 Dull frontal headache, especially over left eye, which was relieved in open air. 2 Severe headache in vertex, better by rest in bed. 5 Dull headache above eyes. 4 Dull throbbing headache, worse through temples. 3 Head feels too large. 1 Dull headache, worse in evening. 2 Dull headache, worse in right temple, with sharp pain. 3 Dull pain in occiput. 3 Dull headache, with dizziness.

OUTER HEAD.

3 Constant dull pressing pain in both temples. 2 Shooting pains through temples. 2 Dull occipital headache. 3 Constant dull pain in temples, better at rest and pressure. 2 Head feels as big as a windmill, with mental depression.

EYES.

2 Eyes ache when reading. 1 Tires me dreadfully to hold a book and read. 1 Eyes pain on looking at an object and will fill with tears, closing them relieves. 1 Sleepy sensation in eyes, but cannot sleep. 1 Pains back of right eye. 1 Sense of heat in eyes when closing them. 2 Dull pain in both eyes. 1 Lachrymation from cold air. 2 Sharp pains in eyes and temples.

EAR.

2 Shooting pain in right ear.

NOSE.

2 Stuffiness of nostrils, with mucus in nares and pharynx. 4 Full feeling in nose as if it would close up. 2 Full feeling of nose, obliged to blow nose, but does not relieve. 2 Nostrils sore. 2 Mucus discharge from right nostril. 2 Rawness of right nostril, sensitive to cold, which cause a flow of mucus. 1 Bleeding from right nostril. 1 Right nostril sore, when picking causes haemorrhage. 1 Headache over eyes, with sneezing.

FACE.

2 Paleness of face when head aches. 1 Fine eruptions on forehead and cheeks. 2 Vomiting with pale face.

TEETH.

2 Darting pains in the teeth, worse on right side. 3 Neuralgic pains in superior and inferior maxilla. 2 Dull aching of the teeth.