# Chenopodium Anthelminticum ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Herbal Remedy - **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm - **Temperament:** Neutral - **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Constantly repeats an action. - Weep ing mood. - Insensible, convulsed, foaming at mouth. - Loss of memory of attack after it is over. - Weeping mood, suppressed menses. - Forgetful of words while speaking. - Uses wrong words. - Aphasia. - Constantly repeats an action. - Weep ing mood. - Insensible, convulsed, foaming at mouth. - Loss of memory of attack after it is over. - Weeping mood, suppressed menses. - Forgetful of words while speaking. - Uses wrong words. - Aphasia. ### Vertigo - Aural vertigo. - Vertigo with transient vanishing of sight. - COMMENTS - Complete aphasia in a patient who took 1 1/2 oz. - of worm-seed oil and 30 drops of turpentine. - Five days from taking the dose he died in profound coma with high temperature. - “Whatever he did he would keep repeating. - When the doctor entered he arose and shook him heartily by the hand, and then sat down. - In about a minute he arose, solemnly ca me forward and again shook hands. - This he repeated twenty times in as many minutes. - He then went through the performance of washing his hands in an empty basin and repeated this many times.” In poisoning cases, there was hemiplegia with contractions of limbs and certain epileptic seizures. - When given as a vermifuge it frequently produces progressive and long- lasting deafness. - The peculiar deafness corresponds nearly to the “cerebral deafness” described by Cooper in which the watch- hearing is good while the voice-hearing is bad or absent. - Linnell cured with it two cases in which there was deafness to voice-hearing but sensitiveness to other sounds. - In one case there was implication of left labyrinth with slight chronic otitis media of both ears, deafness in the left ear several years, no tinnitus, consciousness of the ear, sensitive to musical sounds, deaf for watch and voice, hearing diminished. - Linnell also cured a roaring tinnitus synchronous with heart. - Sensitiveness to cold. - Hearing better for high - pitched than low-pitched sounds. - Allen reported three cases of poisoning in which there was insensibility, convulsions, and foaming at the mouth. - All remembrance of taking the poison was lost upon recovery. - Deep, heavy, stertorous breathing ac companied by a very peculiar rattle, as if there were a ball rolling loose in the trachea. - Any attempt to swallow threatened instant suffocation. - Pulse small, weak, frequent and feeble. - Eyes insensible to light or external objects. - Convulsive movements of right half of bo dy. - Limbs cold. - In one case, a patient took 1.5 oz. - of worm -seed oil and 30 drops of turpentine. - It produced disagreeable belchings and nausea. - Staggering like a drunken man. - Deafness to the sound of the voice, but exquisite sensi- tiveness to the sound of passing vehicles, they sounded like cannons in his ears, also annoying buzzing. - In smoking, he would scarcely light his cigar before he would lay it down again and take a fresh one, arguing perversion of taste. - By afternoon the mantelpiece was strewn with cigars only partly used. - No disposition to engage in conversation. - Aphasia, he clearly wanted his attendant to get or do something but could not make him understand. - The attendant wrote, “Don’t understand,” showed it to him and gave him, paper and pencil. - After great efforts he wrote distinctly words with no meaning. - The voice and hearing became progres sively worse but he heard the tea -bell three stories below, promptly and to the astonishment of the family, got up and walked deliberately into the dining-room. - He did not seem to know his accustomed seat and sat in the wrong place. - During the afternoon became completely aphasic. - Finding himself unable to express his ideas, this seemed to amuse him much and he laughed heartily. - Whatever he did he would keep repeating. - When the doctor entered he arose and shook him heartily by the hand and then sat down. - In about a minute he arose, solemnly came forward and again shook hands. - This he repeated twenty times in as many minutes. - He then went through the performance of washing his hands in an empty basin and repeated this many times. - Sitting at tea, he ate with apparent relish, taking singly tea and bread. - While grasping a piece of bread, there was a distinct spasm of right forearm and hand, fingers firmly clenched, hand forcibly flexed on forearm. - Assisted to his room, his walk was entirely natural, when put to bed showed some re sistance, striking at the doctor. - He at once commenced to groan, tossed from side to side of the bed, suggesting abdominal dis tress. - Soon became unconscious, right arm paralyzed, dragging helplessly. - The next day, continued impairment of motion and sensation right side, right eyeball insensitive to touch. - During the third day, there was frequent twitching and stiffness of the righ t limbs, culminating in a one -side convulsion during the early morning of the fourth day. - At noon on the third day, copious involuntary urination in bed. - This continued to the end, except when drawn off. - In the afternoon, heavy breath ing and the flapping cheeks of a stroke appeared. - Constant regurgitation of yellow frothy material from mouth, smelling of worm-seed, as also did the perspiration. - This material was at times so profuse as to embarrass respiration. - During one of the attacks of dyspnea and while in drenching sweat, which suggested dissolution, he was gently turned in bed, immediately a general convulsion set in, markedly opisthotonic, lasting ten minutes, despite the use of chloroform. - By this time jaundice appeared, having been only noticed the day before. ### Head - Pain in whole right side of head, with roaring in ears, dim sight or complete loss of vision. - Dull, pressive pain in vertex extending through head. - Kidneys - Slight pain in region of kidneys. - Involuntary urination. - Copious, yellow, foaming urine with acrid sensation in urethra. - Yellowish sediment (Chel.). - Pain in whole right side of head, with roaring in ears, dim sight or complete loss of vision. - Dull, pressive pain in vertex extending through head. - Kidneys - Slight pain in region of kidneys. - Involuntary urination. - Copious, yellow, foaming urine with acrid sensation in urethra. - Yellowish sediment (Chel.). ### Eyes - Impaired movement of right eyeball, loss of sensitiveness. - Vanishing of sight. ### Ears - Torpor of auditory nerve. - Hearing is better for the high-pitched sounds. - Comparative deafness to sound of voice, but great sensitiveness to sound as of passing vehicles and also a shrinking from low tones. - Buzzing in ears. - Roaring in ears as of cannons, deafness. - Tinnitus synchronous with heartbeats. ### Face - Flapping cheeks with stertorous breathing. ### Throat - Enlargement of the tonsils. - Chronically enlarged tonsils, caseous deposits. - Furry feeling in throat. ### Chest - Pains through heart, under right scapula and in right shoulder. - Pain throughout right chest, beginning at attachment of 6th rib to its cartilage and extending to front of right scapula. - Stertorous breathing with flapping cheeks. - Dyspnea, peculiar rattle as of a ball rolling loose in trachea. - Respiration embarrassed by a quantity of yellow frothy material which was constantly regurgitated. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Perversion of taste. - Disagree able belchings, nausea. - Constant, profuse regurgitation of yellow, frothy material smelling of worm-seed. ### Urinary & Genital - Menses is suppressed, has leucorrhea instead, with rough, furry feeling in throat. ### Extremities - Hemiplegia with contraction of limbs. - Frequent twitching and stiffness of right limbs. - Paralysis and spasm of right forearm and hand in flexion. ### Neck & Back - Intense pain between angle of right shoulder blade near spine and through the chest. - Pain beneath point of right scapula, with giddiness in forehead, ringing in ears and pale face. ### Skin - Jaundice.