ASSIGNMENTS ON

01.TAXUS BACCATA

02.TARAXACUM OFFICINALIS

Submitted By

Miss. M.JASMINE SULTHANA

30th BATCH CRRI (2020-21)

Under the guidance of

Prof.Dr.A.T.Senthilkumar, MD (Hom)

GUIDED BY: PROF .DR.A.T.S ENTHILKUMAR , MD (HOM)

Dr.N.NIRUBANRAJ, MD (HOM) Head of the department
DEPARTMENT OF HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA

Vinayaka Mission’s Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Sankari

Main Road (NH – 47), Chinnaseeragapadi (PO),
Salem – 636 308.

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 TAXUS BACCATA

INDEX

S.NO CONTENT PAGE NO

1. ABSTRACT 03
2. KEYWORDS 03
3. INTRODUCTION 03
4. TAXONOMIC TREE 04
5. PROVER 04
6. HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATION 04-05
7. EPIDEMIOLOGY 05
8. GENERAL USES 06

9. HOMOEOPATHIC USES 06
10. CLINICAL USES 06
11. SPHERE OF ACTION 07
12. CHARACTERISTICS 07
13. MENTAL GENERAL 08
14. PHYSICAL GENERAL 09
15. CHARACTERISTICS PARTICULARS 09-13
16. RELATIONSHIP 14
17. CONCLUSION 14
18. BIBLIOGRAPHY 15

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 TAXUS BACCATA

ABSTACT:

 Taxus baccata ,commonly called as yew.Yew is a tree. People use the bark, branch tips, and needles
to make medicine.Despite serious safety concerns, yew is used for treating diphtheria, tapeworms,
swollen tonsils (tonsillitis), seizures (epilepsy), muscle and joint pain (rheumatism), urinary tract
conditions, and liver conditions. Women use it for starting menstruation and causing abortions.
Pharmaceutical companies make paclitaxel (Taxol), a prescription drug for the treatment of breast
and ovarian cancer, from the bark of the yew tree. They extract paclitaxel, leaving the poisonous
chemicals in yew behind.(1)

KYE WORDS:

 Taxus baccata, Anti-inflammatory, Anti-rheumatic, (11

INTRODUCTION:

FIGURE NO:1 -TAXUS BACCATA

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  A yew is a tree or shrub of the genus Taxus in the family Taxaceae, while English Yew was the first
to be described scientifically as Taxus Baccata. The English yew, like all the yews, contains highly
poisonous berries which can be fatal to humans if they are ingested without removing the seeds. The
tree rising to a height of 10 to 30 metres (about 35 to 100 feet), the tree has spreading branches and
slightly drooping branchlets. The bark is reddish brown and flaky, sometimes deeply fissured in very
old trees. Yews are among the few conifers that produce new growth easily from behind. There are
also many medicinal uses for Yew plants, Yew to treat ailments like rheumatism, fever, and even
arthritis. The Japanese used Yew leaves for things like diabetes and to induce abortions. Paclitaxel
and docetaxel are drugs derived from the Pacific and the English Yew, and they are very effective
against many types of cancer.All parts of an English yew, except the fleshy aril surrounding the seed,
contain alkaloids that are poisonous to humans and several other animals.Most part of the plant are
poisionous,with toxins that can be absorbed through the inhalation and through the
skin :consumption of even small amount of the foliage can result in death.(2)

TAXONOMIC TREE:

 KINGDOM: PLANTAE

 DIVISION: PINOPHYTA

 CLASS: PINOPSIDA

 SUBCLASS: ASTERIDAE

 ORDER: PINALES

 NATURAL ORDER: CONIFERAE

 GENUS: TAXUS

 SPECIES: TAXUS BACCATA. (2)

OTHER NAMES:

 Yew Tree , Hindi: Kash;

 English:Yew; French: Coniferes; German: Eibenbaum.
 European, English, or common yew (Hartzell 1991).

PROVER:

 First proved and introduced by Gastier.(8)

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HOMOEPATIC PREPARATION:

(a) Mother Tincture φ Drug strength 1/10

Taxus Baccata, moist magma containing solids 100 g, 250g

plant moisture 150 ml

Strong Alcohol 874ml

to make one thousand millilitres of the Mother Tincture.

(b) Potencies:
2x and higher with Dispensing Alcohol.4 ml.(8)

BOTANICAL NAME:

 Taxus baccata Linn

EPIDEMIOLOGY:

 Taxus baccata is Found in Europe andEngland,

 Temperate Himalayas and Khasia Hills between 2000 to 3500 m.(7)

PHYTOCHEMICAL:
 A large number of phytochemicals like
taxoidsviz.taxusin,baccatin,lignans,flavanoids,steroids,paclitaxel and sugar derivatives have been
isolated from it.(11)

DESCRIPTION:

 A tall tree, 18 m in height with a usually short trunk, occasionally 2.4 m or even more in diameter.
Bark reddish, flaky, deeply fissured in old trees.
 Branches spreading forming a broad, low head, branchlets somewhat pendulous. Leaves 2-ranked,
linear and usually falcate, shortly acuminate with a prominent mid-rib, dark green above, pale
beneath 1.9 to 3.2 cm long or shorter in some varieties.
 Female cone 0.8 to 1.3 cm across with almost globose disc, about a third longer than broadly
ellipsoid.(8)
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PARTS USED:
 Twigs

GENERAL USES:

 It is used in musical instruments, furniture, and longbows.

 The wood is esteemed for cabinetry and tool handles.
  The hard, slow-growing wood also finds use in gates, furniture, parquet floors, and paneling.
 It is good firewood and is sometimes burnt as incense.(2)

HOMOEOPATHIC USES:

 COMMON NAME:YEW
 BOTANICAL NAME:TAXUS BACCATA LINN.
 KINGDOM: PLANTAE.
 FAMILY NAME:Taxacaeae.
 PROVER:Gastier
 This remedy is indicated in pustular diseases of the skin.
 The pustules are large and flat and are attended with much itching.(7)

CLINICAL USES:

 Ciliary neuralgia.
 Cystitis.
 Digestion too rapid.
 Dysuria.
 Ear,polyps.
 Lachrymation.
 Fainting.
 Gout.
 Nose,eruptions.
 Hair, loss. Headaches. (6)
 Heart disorders.
 Kidneys disorders.
 Knee.
 Abcess.
 Rheumatism.

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  Purpura.
 Sweat viscid.
 Spermatorrhea.
 Strangury
 Vision, dim.(4)

SPHERE OF ACTION:

 Eye
 Muscles
 Female genitals
 Urinary organs
 Skin
 Extremities.
 Stomach
 Respiratory organ
 Liver.(9)

MENTAL SYMPTOMS:

 Anxiety.
 Delirium.
 Helplessness, feeling of
 Imbecility.
 Impatience.
 Restlessness bed, in Sighing
 Unconsciousness
 Coma,
 Stupor.(5)

PHYSICAL GENERALS:

 THERMAL RELATION:Chilly patient

 THIRST: Thirst. Intense thirst 
 APPETITE: Loss of appetite
 TASTE: Bitter taste like that of Quinine, but much less persistent (first day)
 SLEEP: Yawning without sleepiness. Yawned much (after two hours).(3)

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CHARACTERISTIC PARTICULARS:

HEAD:

 Supra-orbital: and temporal pain on right side, with Lachrymation.(6)

 Pupils dilated.
 Face puffy and pale.
 Vertigo. Stupofactions.
 Pain in the forehead, extending to the face, with drawing in the eyes and Burning headache. profuse
lachrymation.
 Dragging pain from both sides of the head, over the eyebrow, accompanicd with luminous circles
which are in eonstant motion.(9)
 Reeling sensation when at rest, on in being seated, and when upright--Headache above eyebrows,
with brilliant and movable fore the sight
 Heavy pain in region of right temple and with a sensation of lachrymation,(15)
 < from slightest cough Squeezing in sides of head. Aching, especiaIly in temporal bone.

EYE:

 In the eyes: drawing with lachrymation and pressure,

 Headace below the eyebrows.
 Itching of externaal angle of eye
 Boring itching in eyelids, disappearing after Scratching.
 Pupils widely dilated.
 Drawing with lachrymation and pressure.
 Itching of extemal angle of eye. Burning itching in eyelids.
 Lachrymation of left eye.
 Vision dim.(15)
 Orbit- Pressive pain over the eyes,"-Preesive pain in the orbital region,"
 Lids- Eyelids fell, and turned of a very dark color, of the left eye.
 Smarting itcbing in both eyelids, relieved by rubbing (after one hour); this symptom occurred all the
provers, without redness or signs of inflammation,
 Lachrymation- Copious lachrymation on using the eyes in the least, wbether in the open air or
indoors
 Itching pain of the eyes(3)

FACE:

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  Looks ill-Face: pale; livid; convulsed.-Lips: purplish; Lvid; blackish brown, especially upper.-
Frothing at mouth.(15)
 Face- Puffyand pale.
 Facial muscles are convulsed.(6)

MOUTH:

 Sensation of Coldness in the upper incisors,

 Tongue- Burning pricking of tongue,
 "Tongue excoriated,".-Tongue moist and tremulous,
 Mouth- Dry, Saliva hot,acrid
 Thick saliva, salter than usual
 Copious secretion of hot saliva, with the sickness at the stomach (third day),-
 Taste- Bitter taste like that of Quinine, but much less persistent (first day),
 Bitter taste, like that of dry Cinchona.(3)

STOMACH:

 Appetite- Two hours aîter breakfast unwonted hunger, Which, when satisfied, returna in an hour and
a half (after five hours); this Symptom, accompanied by general weakness and by uneasiness, with
great weakness or sinking feeling in the region of the stomach, was especially troublesome during
the two last days, Loss of appetite,"-
 Thirst- Intense thirst (after eleven hour),"
 Nausea and Vomiting: Nausea followed sometimes by mucous and saburral vomiting, rarely
mingled with bile,-Nausea and eforts to vomit,"-Retching, and complained of feeling Sickness at the
stomach, with copious secretion of hot saliva;
 Vomiting of mucus and hot curdled grease,
 Stomach- Greater activity of the digestive functions, and, in coneequence, frequent need of enting-(3)
 Feeling of emptiness in the stomach without hunger
 Pain in epigastrium,
 Pain in the pit of the atomach felt only on presure. which increases the oppression and excites a little
ahort cough without expectoration.(3)

ABDOMEN:

 Tension in abdomen, as if the stomach were overloaded. squeezing and tension across abdomen.-
 Aching in umbilical ragion. Squeezing Borboryga(15)
 Dragging and tension across tho abdomen.
 Slight dull pain in the region of the umbilious.(9)
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STOOL:

 Small evacuation, with tenesmus.

 Slight diarrhoea stool, with tenesmus.
 Diarrhoea, with tenesmus and intolerable pain at the anus during and after every evácuationor or
urging.(9)

URINARY ORGAN:

 Cutting pain at base of kidneys which allows him neither to sit still nor stand up, and even prevents
turning in bed.(3)
 Urinary tenesmus.-Frequent want to urinate, with difficult emission in a fine stream.
 Strangury, urine red.(15)

MALE SEXUAL ORGAN:

 Flow of semen without erection or sexual pleasure for several successive nights.
 Great excitement during coition.-After coition, weakness and great oppression.(15)

RESPIRATORY ORGAN:

 Violent and fatiguing cough.-Short cough, after every meal, excited by full inspirations, with
oppression.(15)
 Cough excited by a deep respiration, with slight oppression, soon after dinner. Violent fatiguing
cough.
 Increased expectoration from the bronchi. Respiration frequent. Breathing very hard. Breathing
laborious and frequent.
 Breathing difficult. Respirations shallow, irregular, often sighing (3)

CHEST:

 Oppression, especially when stomach is either too full or too empty, or else with pain below xiphoid
cartilage.
 Lancinating pain in one side of chest.-Lungs engorged.-Chest full and hot(150

EXTREMITES:

 Numbness of limbs and paralysis; especially after several sweats.

 Sharp, transient, wandering pains.

UPPER LIMBS:

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  Aching pain in elbow near humerus, affecting the bone, felt during motion and rest, but < by
movement.
 Violent itching in forearm, followed by an eruption of red and hard pimples round wrist, which itch
chiefly in evening, and at night, and afterwards occasion a tickling sensation.-Lancinations in hand.
 Burning dryness of palms of hands.
 Dull pain in joints of fingers.
 Rheumatic pain in forefinger, renewed by least contact with even warm liquid.(15)

LOWER LIMBS:

 Pain in hip and knee, with tearing pain and coldness in thigh; > at night.
 Pain in hip, with internal heat,
 In thighs, distressing coldness of skin, esp. of fore-part.-
 Tingling in thigh.
 Painful tingling round patella
 Lancinating pain in knee, with weakness of the joint.-
 Abscess at right knee.
 Contusive and incisive pain, which hinders walking.
 Incisive pain, esp. in knee, which awakens patient at night(15)

SKIN:

 All hairy parts became denuded (after a month).

 Black jaundice.
 Skin red.Body covered with pustules.
 On waking, body covered with miliary eruption; disappeared on third day and abscess formed at
right knee.
 Large suggillation on sole followed by dark petechiae over nearly whole body, great swelling of face
and lips, esp. upper lip, exhaustion and death (boy 5, poisoned by berries).
 Eruption of large pimples, slightly elevated, like red spots, on the upper part of both arms.-Dry tetter,
red at the base; and causing much itching, at external angle of eye.
 Large, flat, itching pustules. Badly smelling night-sweats. Podagra. Erysipelas.(14)

FEVER:

 Commencing with general shivering at 2 a.m., followed by dry heat of hands and feet, and general
uneasiness, dryness of mouth, without thirst, afterwards profuse perspiration on forehead; shaking
after breakfast, with general uneasiness, and dryness of mouth, without thirst.
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  Perspiration attends the least exertion, with great prostration of strength. Profuse night-sweats.
 Offensive viscid sweats, with smart itching and redness in the glandular parts at the surface of the
body.
 Peculiarly offensive sweat with eruption of vesicles.(15)
 Chilliness.Coldness of the surface.
 Skin cold and clammy. Skin cold and bathed in perspiration.
 Shivering over the whole body.
 Extremities cold. Unpleasant coldness of the skin of the thighs, especially in front, all day.(3)

GENERALITIES:

AGGRAVATION:

 < Before and after each meal.

 < Pressure,
 < Oppression and cough.
 < Deep respiration,
 < When standing quietly,(3)

AMELIORATION:

 >Rubbing.(3)

RELATIONSHIP:

 COMPARE: The Coniferae. Load at stomach, Ab. n. Rapid digestion, Sul. Podagra, Urt. ur.
 ANTIDOTED BY: Staph (prostration with oppression after an embrace). Compare.
 DOSE: Tincture,to third potency.(14)

CONCLUSION

 From this I conclude that this plant is used for treating diphtheria, tapeworms, swollen tonsils
(tonsillitis), seizures (epilepsy),and also Seems to act especially on muscle and joint pain
(rheumatism), urinary tract conditions, and liver conditions.Treatment of breast and ovarian cancer,
from the bark of the yew tree. Women use it for starting menstruation and causing abortions.(1)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1. www.rxlist.com/yew/supplements.hem
2. www.wikipedia.com
3. T.f. allen- the encyclopaedia of pure materia medica,Taxus baccata,6th edition,volume10,B.jain
publishers pvt.ltd, page no: 550-555
4. Pulford- homoeopathic materia medica of graphic drug pictures,Taxus baccata,1 st edition,b.jain
publishers pvt.ltd, page no: 286
5. Dr.h.l.chitkara- new comprehensive homoeopathic materia medica of mind,Taxus baccata, 4 th
revised edition, B.jain publishers pvt.ltd, page no: 282
6. Robin murphy, m.d-lotus materia medica,Taxus baccata,3rd edition,taxus,B.jain publishers pvt.ltd,
page no:1738-1740
7. Alexander l.blackwood- a manual of materia medica and therapeutics, and pharmacology with
clinical index,Taxus baccata,first edition,B.jain publishers pvt.ltd, page no: 577
8. P.n. verma and indu vaid- encyclopeaedia of homoeopathic pharmacopoeia,Taxus baccata,2nd
edition,,5th volume, b.jain publishers (pvt) ltd- page no: 519
9. Dr.c.j hempel,hulls jahr a new manual of homoeopathic practice with an appendix of the new
remedies,Taxus baccata,4th edition,pg.no:1115-1116
10. https://pubmed.ncbi.nim.gov
11. http://application.emro.who.
12. www.materiamedica.info
13. http://homoeopathybooks.in
14. William boericke- pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica and repertor,taxus baccata,9 th
edition,modern book publication, pg no: 635,
15. J.h.clarke-dictionary of practical materia medica,taxus baccata,2 nd edition ,third volume,b.jain
publishers, new delhi, pg no: 1382-1383

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INDEX

S.NO CONTENT PAGE NO

1. ABSTRACT 19
2. KEYWORDS 19
3. INTRODUCTION 19
4. TAXONOMIC TREE 20
5. PROVER 20
6. HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATION 20-21
7. EPIDEMIOLOGY 21
8. PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION 22
9. GENERAL USES 22

10. HOMOEOPATHIC USES 22

11. CLINICAL USES 22
12. SPHERE OF ACTION 23
13. CHARACTERISTICS 23
14. MENTAL GENERAL 24
15. PHYSICAL GENERAL 24
16. CHARACTERISTICS PARTICULARS 25-32
17. RELATIONSHIP 32
18. CONCLUSION 32
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 33

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 TARAXACUM OFFICINALIS:

ABSTRACT:

 Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) is an herb native to Europe. The leaf, flower, and root have been used
for various infections, but with little evidence.
Dandelion is found throughout mild climates of the northern hemisphere. It contains chemicals that
might decrease swelling, increase urine production, and prevent crystals from forming in the urine that
could lead to infections in the kidneys and urinary tract.
Dandelion used for conditions such as swollen tonsils, kidney infections, UTIs, and many others, but
there is no good scientific evidence to support these uses.(1)

KEY WORDS:

 Bilious diarrhoea, liver enlarged, Jaundice, Headache,Weak digestion.Anti oxidant,anti cancer,anti

diabetes.(1)

INTRODUCTION:

FIGURE NO:1-TARAXACUM OFFICINALIS

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  Taraxacumofficinale,the dandelion or common dandelion, isaflowering herbaceous perennial plant of
the dandelion genus in the family Asteraceae (syn. Compositae). The common dandelion is well
known for its yellow flower heads that turn into round balls of many silver-tufted fruits that disperse
in the wind. These balls are usually called "clocks" in both British and American English. The name
"blowball" is also used.The common dandelion grows in temperate regions of the world in lawns,
and on roadsides, disturbed banks, shores of waterways, and other areas with moist soils. The
common dandelion is most often considered a weed, especially in lawns and along roadsides, but the
leaves, flowers, and roots are sometimes used in herbal medicine or as food.Taraxacum deserves
mention by reason of its curative value in affections of the liver, such as gall-stone, bilious attacks
and jaundice. The tincture is extracted from the Dandelion, a perennial herb common in northern
countries. It belongs to the natural order of Compositæ. The best indication of this remedy is seen in
its mapped tongue. This is caused by little patches of the white coating coming off from different
places exposing red tender sensitive surface of the tongue. The taste of the mouth is bitter. As has
been said before, the most important action of the remedy is seen in its action on the liver.(2)

TAXONOMIC TREE:
 KINGDOM: PLANTAE
 SUBKINGDOM: TRACHEOPHYTES
 CLASS: MAGNOLIOPSIDA
 SUBCLASS: ASTERIDAE
 ORDER:ASTERALES
 NATURAL ORDER:COMPOSITAE
 GENUS: TARAXACUM
 SPECIES: TARAXACUM OFFICINALIS(2)

COMMON NAMES:
 Dandelion
 Hindi: Kanphul;
 English: Dandelion;
 German: Lowenzahn.(9)
PROVER:
 First proved and introduced by Hahnemann; (9)

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 FIGURE NO:2-DR.SAMUEL HAHNEMANN
SYNONYMS:
 Taraxacum officinale Weber

PARTS USED:
 Whole plant.

HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATION:

(a) Mother Tincture φ Drug strength 1/10

Taraxacum, moist magma containing solids 100 g,
plant moisture 300 ml 400 g
Purified Water 200 ml
Strong Alcohol 537 ml
to make one thousand millilitres of the Mother Tincture.
b) Potencies:

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2x to contain one part Mother Tincture, four parts Purified Water, five parts Strong Alcohol; 3x and higher
with(9)

EPIDEMIOLOGY:
 Taraxacum officinalis found in northern Hemisphere,and Europe.(6)

DESCRIPTION:

FIGURE NO:3-TARAXACUM OFFICINALIS

 A perennial herb with milky juice. Leaves radical, sessile, usually glabrous, variable in shape
generally oblong, 5 to 20 cm long, irregularly pinnatifid, lobes linear or triangular, acute, toothed
pointing downwards or rarely oblanceolate and nearly entire. Heads ligulate, 0.8 to 5.0 cm in
diameter, glabrous, solitary on a hollow leafless stalk 5 to 20 cm long.
 Inner involucral bracts linear, erect, nearly equal, margin often white, tips usually thickened or
hooked; outer bracts short, ovate, erect or recurved; receptacle flat, naked. Flowers yellow; pappus,
copious, white, soft; ligules long, spreading, 3 to 5 toothed.(9)

PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION:
 This agent is a feeble hepatic stimulant’laxative,and diuretic.
 It stimulates the other digestive secretions act as a tonic and assits the elimination of urea.(6)

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PHYTOCHEMICALS:

 Taraxacum species contains sesquiterpene

lactones,triterpens,phytosterols,flavonoids,lignans,coumarins,phenolic acid,beta carboline
alkaloids,indole alkaloids and carotenoids.(18)

GENERAL USES:

 The plant has several culinary uses: the flowers are used to make dandelion wine,
 The greens are used in salads, the roots have been used to make a coffee substitute (when baked and
ground into powder) .
 The plant was used by Native Americans as a food and medicine. (2)

HOMOEOPATHIC USES:

 COMMON NAMES: Dandelion

 PROVER: First proved and introduced by Hahanemann.
 KINGDOM: Plantae
 NATURAL ORDER:Compositae.
 SIDE:Right side remedy
 This remedy is indicate, in case where there is loss of appetite ,with weak digetion,gastric headache
and bilious attacks.the tongue is coated white.This comes off in spots,leaving sensitive aphthous
patches,mapped tongue.
 It is service in hepatic congestion and atonic dyspepsia,when the liver and spleen are enlarged and
the liver is indurated.
 The patient complaints of sharp andstitching pain in hepatic region,there is a tympanitis and
jaundice, a bitter taste and erectation and salivation. It is useful in neuraligia of the knee,that is
relived by preesure.(6)

CLINICAL USES:

 Tongue: mapped; covered by a white film, raw sense, film Comes off in patches leaving dark red and
sensitive spots.
 Diarrhoea: bilious,
 Chilly after eating or drinking, pain and soreness over liver, bitter taste, mapped tongue.
 Fever, restless, tearing pain in legs intolerable during rest, constant muttering delirium, tearing in
occiput, chilly atter eating or drinking,

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  Urination: painless urging; frequent copious_discharge. Pain in region of aver and spleen; liver
enlarged,
 Jaundice.
 Finger tips cold.
 Rheumatism and neuralgia after typhus.(8)

SPHERE OF ACTION:
 STOMACH
 URINARY ORGAN
 CHEST
 EXTREMETIES
 FEVER
 SKIN
 LIVER.(4)

MENTAL GENERAL:

 Anxiety
 Audacity Besides oneself, being
 Cheerful, gay, mirthfud followed by irritability
 Concentration, difficult
 Confusion of mind
 Courageous
 Delirium
 Dipsomania, alcoholism
 Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and oomprehending, torpor Exertion, agg. from mental
Fear,
 Irritability
 Laughing
 Loathing, work, at
 Loquacity
 Memory, weakness of (7)

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PHYSICAL GENERALS:

 THERMAL RELATION:Chilly patient

 SIDE: Right sided remedies.(11)
 THIRST: Great thirst, day and night.
 APPETITE: Loss of appetite
 SLEEP: Sleepiness. Frequent yawning while sitting, as though he had not slept much.
 DREAMS: Dreams. Voluptuous dreams.
 PERSPIRATION: Profuse night sweat
 TONGUE: Mapped tonge,tongue coated with white.
 TASTE: Bitter taste in mouth before eating.(14)
 TIME:8pm hands and nose cold.,Night: nausea; heat in face and hands; chillines, with sweat.(16)

CHARACTERISTIC PARTICULARS:

HEAD:

 Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering when walking in the open air.
 Drawing rain in temple while sitting, ceasing when walking or standing.
 Tearing pain in occiput.
 Pressure and heaviness in lower part of occiput, after lying down.
 Headache, as from contraction or expansion of brain.
 Heaviness and pressure in head.-Lancinations in forehead and temples.
 Violent headache, felt only when standing or walking.
 Tension of scalp.(3)

Sensorium.

 Vertigo when walking about; apyreria of ague.

 Dulness of head during a walk in open air, with reeling and dizziness; unsteady gait, head inclines at
times to L, at others to right side.

Inner Head.

 Drawing pain or needlelike stitches in temple while sitting, ceasing when walking and standing.
 Violent tearing in occiput. Typhus.
 Pressure with heaviness in lower part of occiput, alter lying down.
 Sharp stitches externally in one side of forehead.

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  Pressive pain in right temple.
 Sensation in head as if brain were constricted on all Side by pressure.(16)

EYES:

 Pain in eyes, as if a grain of sand were in internal canthus.-(Aversion to light) burning sensation, and
burning shootings in eyes.-
 Burn in eyeball.
 Inflammation of eyes with lachrymation and photophobia.(3)

EARS:

 Shootings in ears.-Drawing pain in external ear.

 Dysecoia in evening. (3)
 Tearing in the outer meatus auditorius, and sharp pressure behind the ramus of the lower jaw.
 Drawing pain in the outer ear.
 Pressure inward, within the left ear.Itching-burning sticking in the right ear.
 Sticking, from within outward, in the right ear, which always extended again inward.
 Stitches behind the ear, with tearing pain down the side of the neck.
 Chirping, like grasshoppers, in the left ear.(4)

NOSE:

 Frequent sneezing, while waking in the open air . Nosebleed, from the left nostril, twice at noon,
before dinner.(4)

FACE:

 Purulent pimples on face, cheeks, alae nasi, and commissures of lips.

 Sensation of heat and redness in face.
 Shootings and pressure in cheeks
 Upper lip cracked.(5)
 Feeling of heat and redness in the face.(10)

TEETH:

 Toothache, with drawing pain in carious teeth, extending to eyebrows.

 Pressive pains in teeth.
 Teeth set on edge as from acids.

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  Flow of acid blood from carious teeth.
 Bluntness of teeth.
 Hawking up of sour mucus, causing teeth to feel dull.(3)

MOUTH:

 Accumulation of acid saliva in mouth (with sensation as if the larynx were compressed).-Tongue
loaded with a white coating, with exfoliation (it cleans off in patches, dark red, and they are very
sensitive).
 Tongue dry, loaded with a brown coating on waking in morning.(3)
 Frequent aceumulation of sourish water in the mouth.
 Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, and sensation as if the laryna were closea by pressure. Tongue
coated white.
 Dry brown-coated Oppres tongue, early in the morning, when waking.(10)

THROAT:.

 Sore throat, with pressive pain, as from internal swelling.

 Dryness, shootings, and bitter mucus in the throat.
 Hawking up of acid mucus.(3)
 Dryness of the throat, in which there was a circumscribed ring of inflammation surrounding the
isthmus faucium
 Dryness and stitches in the throat.
 Tickling irritation to hacking cough, in the region of the pit of the throat; he always had a few
minutes warning of the paroxysm, but was never able to suppress it.(13)
 Dry sensation in the fauces, with bitter mucus, which made the voice husky. Sharp pressure on the
anterior wall of the pharynx and larynx, when not swallowing, which provokes cough, but disappears
on swallowing.
 Swallowing difficult; a kind of pressure, as from internal swelling, in the throat.
 Acute pain in the region below the parotid gland, and in the cervical muscles, and extending from the
sternum to the mastoid process, on moving the jaw and neck.(13)

APPETITE:

 Tobacco-smoke is disagreeable, causes pyrosis, and interrupts respiration.

 Great chilliness after drinking, or eating.(3)

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STOMACH:

 Bitter risings (eructations and hiccough).

 Empty risings, esp. after drinking.
 Nausea (with inclination to vomit or vomiting) from very fat food, with anxiety and pressive
headache, > in open air. Bitter eructations and hiccough.
 Empty eructations, especially after drinking, for several.
 Nausea, associated with anxiety, while sitting, disappearing while standing Qualmishness and
nausea, in the pharynx.
 Nausea, as from overloading with fat food, he thought he would vomit, with pressive stupefying pain
in the forehead, only relieved in the open air
 Rumbling in the umbilical region, towards the left side. Tension in the pit of the stomach and
pressure in the ensiform cartilage, while stooping.(4)

ABDOMEN:

 Pinching in abdomen.
 Pressive shootings in abdomen, and sides of abdomen, chiefly in one side; in hypogastrium.(3)  
 Liver enlarged and indurated. Sharp stitches in left side. Sensation of bubbles bursting in bowels.
Tympanites. Evacuation difficult.
 Grumbling and movements (sudden sensation) in abdomen, as if bubbles were bursting in it.(17)

STOOL AND RECTUM:

 Inefficient urging to go to stool.

 Evacuations several times a day, but accomplished with difficulty (even if stool is not hard).-Faeces
of the consistence of pap, followed by tenesmus.
 Voluptuous itching in perinaeum (compelling one to scratch).
 Stool earlier than usual and pasty; the desire, however, continues without another evacuation. Stool
difficult, not hard, evacuated stool less hard.
 Bowels confined. (16)

URINARY ORGAN:
 Urging to urinate without pain
 Frequent want to urinate (pressure without pain), with profuse emission.(14)
 Continuous boring pain in the glands(10)

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MALE SEXUAL ORGAN:
 Pain in testes.
 Permanent erections.
 Frequent pollutions; on alternate nights.(5)

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGAN:

 Suppressed menses.(5)

RESPIRATORY ORGAN:

 Sensation as if the larynx were pressed together.(3)

 Burning pressure in the sternum.more violent during an expiration than inspiration.
 Tensive pain in the region of the diaphragm,during a deep inspiration.(10)

CHEST:

 Pressure at chest.
 Shootings in chest and sides of chest.
 Jerkings in muscles of sides. Stitches, extending inward into the chest, during inspiration, while
standing.
 Burning pressure in the sternum, worse during expiration than inspiration. Violent stitches in the
sternum .
 Twitching in the right costal muscles.
 Pressure from within against the ribs in the right side of the chest, extending from the hepatic region
into the chest, over a surface larger than the hand, during expiration, while standing.
 A pressive stitch in the right chest, which disappeared on violent inspiration and expiration, but on
pressing upon the part it returned more violent and extended over a larger space; was continuous as a
sticking pain.
 Constant sticking in the right side of the chest, while walking.
 A stitch in the right side of the chest. Stitch in the right side of the chest, just beneath the axilla.
 Violent stitch in the region of the sixth rib. Twitching in the left costal muscles.
 Pressure in the left side beneath the axilla. Pressure beneath the left ribs. Stitch in the left side of the
chest, extending towards the back.(4)
NECK AND BACK:

 Pressive jerkings and shootings in muscles of neck, (throat), and nape.

 Tearing from ear downward to the neck.
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  Pressive pains in loins.
 Pressive and tensive shootings in back and loins, when lying down, with obstructed respiration.
 Pressing-stinging in spine and sacrum with dyspnoea.
 Gurgling and swelling in shoulder-blades and shoulders, with shivering over whole body.-Vibration
and quivering in scapula.(3)

Upper Limbs.

 Pulsative throbbing and jerking in shoulders and arms.

 Jerkings of muscles of arms.
 Twitching in muscles of forearm.-Shootings in arms and elbows.
 Drawings and tearings in forearm and wrist.
 Eruptions of pimples on hands and fingers.
 Icy coldness of ends of fingers.-Pressive pain in three last fingers of right hand.

Lower Limbs.

 Shootings in thighs, knees, calves, soles, and toes.

 Stitching pain in thigh.-Pressive pain in calf.
 Jerking pain in calf, ceasing quickly when touched.
 Drawing pain in dorsum of foot; when standing; stitches when sitting.-Severe or fine stitching pains
in sole.
 Burning sensation in knees, legs and toes.-Profuse perspiration between toes.(3)

SKIN:

 Unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skins.

 skin of the head is sensitive to touch especially above the temples.
 pimples and pustules on the face.
 Eruption at tip of the finger.
 Puritis at the end of the skin of the penis which incites to scratch.(12)

SLEEP:

 Sleepiness, and going to sleep while listening to a scientific discourse.

 Sleepiness in daytime, and yawning while sitting.
 Vivid unremembered dreams; frequent waking and tossing.(5)
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FEVER:

 Chilliness, esp. after eating and drinking.<by drinking.

 Heat stage without thirst.heatin face and toes.during fever finger tips cold and bitter taste in mouth.
 Sweat-perspirstion on falling asleep.(15)

MODALITIES:

AGGRAVATION:

 < Resting, lying down, sitting,.(12)

 < After eating
 < Expiration
 < Rubbing,
 < While sitting
 < Stooping.(4)

AMELIORATION:

 Touch,standing,
 While walking.(4)

RELATIONSHIP:

Compare: 

 Choline, a constituent of Taraxacum root, has given encouraging results in the treatment of cancer.

 Choline is closely related to Neurin, it is the "Cancronie" of Prof. Adamkiewicz (E. Schlegel). Bry;
Hydrast; Nux. Tela aranea (nervous asthma and sleeplessness).

DOSE:

 Tincture, to third potency.

 In cancer 1-2 drams fluid extract.(17)

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CONCLUSION:

 It contains chemicals that might decrease swelling, increase urine production, and prevent crystals from
forming in the urine.It seems to act especially on the kidneys and urinary tract.Dandelion used for
conditions such as swollen tonsils, kidney infections, UTIs, and many others, The leaves, flowers, and
roots are sometimes used in herbal medicine or as food.Taraxacum deserves mention by reason of its
curative value in affections of the liver, such as gall-stone, bilious attacks and jaundice

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