Raphanus
Plant · Brassicaceae
Raphanus suits hysterical women with strong uterine and sexual symptoms, alternating mental states from melancholy to hopefulness, and extreme flatulent distension. There is marked sensitivity to jarring and touch, and many symptoms ascend from below upwards. A state approaching catalepsy may be induced with the patient unable to speak or stir.
Key symptoms
- Flatulence that cannot pass up or down, especially after abdominal operations
- Globus — sensation of balls or a hot foreign body rising from abdomen to throat
- Nymphomania with aversion to her own sex and to children
- Burning in epigastrium followed by hot eructations lasting all day
- Turbid urine with yeast-like sediment
- Sensation of an iron band around the waist
- Numbness in hands and soles of feet
- Wakes between 3 and 4 a.m. with headache and extreme thirst
- Everything swallowed causes pain in the back
Worse (aggravation)
- Night and morning on waking, especially 3 to 4 a.m.
- Touch and jarring
- Motion aggravates abdominal pain
- After eating and drinking
- Laughing causes cough
Better (amelioration)
- Walking in open air
- Throwing back the head relieves occipital pain
- Epistaxis relieves headache
- Vomiting relieves blindness and deafness
- Drinking relieves chest pain
Raphanus sativus. Radish. (And R. raphanistrum. Wild Radish.) N. O. Cruciferæ. Tincture from fresh root immediately before flowering in spring. Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Clinical
Alcoholism. Amblyopia. Axilla, inflamed gland in. Breasts, pains beneath; between. Catalepsy. Cough. Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Emaciation. Epistaxis. Faintness. Fever. Flatulence. Flushings. Headache. Heart, palpitation of. Heel, pain in. Hernia. Hysteria. Insomnia. Lienteria. Liver, affections of; abscess of. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Myopia. Numbness. Nymphomania. Œsophagus, affections of. Olecranon, pain in. Pemphigus. (Priapism.) Pregnancy, toothache of. Seborrhœa. Tonsillitis. Toothache. Yawning.
Anus and Stool
No emission of flatus by mouth or anus for a long time.
Urinary Organs
Turbid urine with yeast-like sediment.
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