{"id":16442,"remedy_name":"Verbascum Thapsus","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Verb, has a pronounced action on the inferior maxillary branch of the fifth pair of the cranial \nnerves, on the ear and respiratory tract and bladder. \nCatarrhs and colds with periodical prosopalgia,  spasmodic effects, neuralgias. Nervous and bronchial \ncoughs. Urinary irritation. Tearing, stitching, cramping squeezing, crushing, paralyzi ng pains. Intermittent \npains.","modalities":"Better from taking deep in spirations. Worse touch, pressure. Worse cold,  drafts, change of \ntemperature. Worse from stooping, walking, talking. Worse sneezing, biting hard (inferior dental nerve). Worse \n9 a.m. to 4 p.m., twice a day, at same hour.","symptoms_by_system":{"Vertigo":"Vertigo when pressing one cheek while supporting the head. Vertigo sudden, as from pres sure on \nwhole head. \nCOMMENTS - Mullein oil is used, locally, for earache and dry, scaly condition of me atus. Also for teasing \ncough at night or lying down. Bedwetting, five-drop doses night and morning \nCushing introduced this now rather well - known remedy  to the medical profession in 1884. He wrote \u201cMy \nfather\u2019s house was the home for all poor tramps, as well as ministers, etc. He fell into the river, got water in his \nears and was quite deaf for months. \n\u201cA blind man had called, heard loud conversation, aske d the cause, etc., then said for kindness received he \nwould tell us how \nVerbascum thapsus to make something that would surely cure him and it was worth a thousand dollars in \nNew York City. \n\u201cWe made the oil, put it in his ears at night and he was well in the morning. For years we kept a bottle of it and \nit traveled all around the towns and did wonders. That was when I was a youngster.\u201d  \nHering, in \u201cHearing and Ears,\u201d noticed \u201cIn Germany flowers of Verbascum thapsus put in a dark-colored bottle, \nhung up in the sunlight, give in two or three weeks an oily fluid which has cured many old people and children.\u201d \nHahnemann proved Verb, and his proving confirmed many of the old uses. It produced neuralgic pains of very \ngreat intensity, pressing and sharp and especially in the facial bones, navel and limbs and a peculiar cough. \nChronic dermatitis of the external meatus and drumhead or exfoliation after furuncle. Catarrhal inflammation \nof the tympanum Suppurative disease of the tympanum. Ac cumulations of debris in the c ase of perfora tion, \nscarred eardrum. Chronic inflammation of the eyes. Chilblains. Burns. \nNash described a \u201cCough, deep, hollow, hoarse in sound like a trumpet.\u201d He cured many cases and always \nused it low. It is more especially a night cough. It occurs in children during their sleep. \nMullein was used as a popular specific for tuberculosis, the leaves being boiled in milk, which was then strained \nand given warm. \nW. B. McCoy gave several illustrations. According to him Verb, (i.e., the \u201coil\u201d) has a \u201csoothing  effect on the \nentire nervous system in many cases acting as a soporific.\u201d \nIn summer diarrhea he gave one to four drops in two ounces of warm water, a teaspoonful every hour. In \n \n \nbedwetting or dribbling of urine one-drop doses in warm water three or four times a day. \nAmong his cases were those of two boys who had become deaf from getting water in their ears when \nswimming. They were cured by having three drops of the oil instilled \u201cin each ear alternately night and morning.\u201d \nO. S. Laws cured a youth of 16 of bed-wetting with fifteen drops of the oils three times a day. \nThe oil plainly acts on the indications of the proving and may be regarded as an al ternative preparation to the \nofficial tincture. It might be called Verbasci oleum. \nMr. Kemmis spent a large amount of money treating with various physicians for what they pronounced a rose \ncancer and without any relief. An Indian woman told him to use mullein oil. He distilled it (by sun exposure) \nand for a short time bathed the cancer with the oil. \nThe growth of cancer was permanently checked, but it was not healed. Mr. K. lived, perhaps, forty years after \nthe treatment was used and the cancer never again bothered him.","Eyes":"Pains in eyes, as from contraction of the sockets with burning in eyes. Sight confused, as if directed \nthrough a veil.","Ears":"Earache. Numbness in left ear. Otal gia with a sense of obstruction. Deafness from getting water in, as \nin swimming or as if stopped by a valve. Dry, scaly condition of meatus (locally).","Face":"Neuralgia affecting zygoma, temporo -maxillary joint and ear (Meny.), particularly of left side with \nlachrymation, coryza and sensation as if parts were crushed with  tongs. Talking, sneezing and change of \ntemperature aggravate the pains, also, pressing teeth together. Pains seem to come in flashes, excited by \nleast movement, occurring periodically at same hour in morning and afternoon each day.","Mouth":"Copious accumulation of salty saliva  in the mouth. Root of tongue brown. Tongue of abrownish \nyellow color, loaded with viscid mucus in morning and after dinner. \nNose - Profuse coryza from frontal sinuses with hot, burning, profuse lachryma tion. Sensation of stoppage of \nlarynx and ears.","Throat":"Very severe pain in throat on swal lowing. Hoarseness, voice deep, harsh, sounds like a trumpet, \n\u201cbassoprofundo.\u2019\u2019 Sensation of obstruction in the larynx.","Chest":"Shooting in chest, sometimes with oppression and obstructed respiration. Stitch :s in the chest. Red \nnodosity near xiphoid cartilage, painful when pressed upon. Asthma. Catarrh with hoarseness and stuffed chest. Frequent attacks of deep, hollow cough with \nsound like a trumpet , better deep breathing. Soreness in pharynx, cough during sleep. Dry, hoarse cough \nworse at night. Cough, nervous without waking.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Aching of stomach. Sensation of emptiness at pit of stomach, which disappears with a rumbling \nbelow left ribs. Frequent hiccough. Regurgitation of insipid serum. Empty or else bitter risings with nausea.  \nTemperature - Internal coldness of whole body of hands and feet, perceptible also externally. Shuddering, \nespecially on one side of body, as if it were bathed in cold water. As of a lump or twisting around navel. Incessant gurgling and rumbling beneath left ribs. Inflation \nof the abdomen, violent and painful pressure on navel. Pinchings and gripings in abdomen. Mawkish taste with fetid breath. Hunger without relish for food. Insatiable thirst. \n \n \nKidneys - Increased urine with pressure in bladder. Burning urination. Constant dribbling. Bedwetting, at \nnight, worse coughing.","Urinary & Genital":"Pollutions without lewd dreams.","Extremities":"Stitching in the limbs. Stiffness and soreness ofjoints of  lower limbs.  Lower limbs feel heavy. \nCramp-like pain in soles, right foot and knee. Neuralgic pain in left ankle. Thumb feels numb.","Neck & Back":"Lancinations in the back and shoulder blades. Sharp intermittent stitches in left scapula. Backache \nworse from pressure.","Sleep":"Strong disposition to sleep after a meal. Disturbed sleep, at night with tossing. Short sleep at night, \nlasting only until 4 a.m. with anxious, frightful dreams of wars and dead bodies.","Generalities":"As if everything would press out at forehead. As if temples were pinched and crushed. As if ears \nwere stopped up. As if something had fallen before ear. As if left ramus of jaw were pressed against upper \njaw. As if nose and larynx were stopped up. As if intestines were adherent to wall of abdomen and were being \ntorn away. As of a twist around navel. As if cold water were poured over side of body from shoulder to thigh."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}