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Sensations
� Eyes as if pushed outward; accommodation diminished.
� Stomach as if heavy.
� Legs as if paralysed.
Locals
� Dizziness with throbbing in head when rising from reclining posture.
� Headache from occiput to frontal bone, < motion; muscles of neck sore.
� Frontal headache [6 pr.] < motion [2 pr.], stooping, cold air [2 pr.].
� Dryness of right eye; twitching of left. Focusing eyes causes pain.
� Metallic taste at base of tongue.
� Obstruction nose < cold air [3 pr.].
� Right thyroid sore, painful on pressure.
� Swelling right side of throat.
� Pain in abdomen near navel when abdomen is contracted.
� Severe stabbing pain in liver.
� Burning pain in urethra when urinating [2 pr.].
� Violent erections during day [4 pr.].
� Dull aching pain in lumbar region < motion.
� Pain in left chest and left shoulder, especially during deep exhalation.
� Burning in chest < deep inhalation.
� Hands cold with hot fingertips.
� Pain in right leg down to knee, posteriorly; muscles on front right thigh sore.
� Cramps left calf; soreness right calf.
� Skin sensitive to touch of bedclothes [2 pr.].
Worn Down by Worries
‘We find that the drug [Panax quinquefolius, American ginseng] produces a
marked physical depression, also a more marked mental depression. Especially
does it seem to cause a hypochondriacal state, as is shown by the symptoms of
lassitude, restless and unrefreshing sleep; by the irritability and indisposition to
mental or physical labour. These, coupled with the marked effect it produced on
the sexual organs, stimulating them primarily, weakening them secondarily,
should make ginseng a valuable remedy in treating a large class of sexual hypochondriacs.
Four out of the nine provers retained, had amorous dreams and six
had continual nocturnal emissions. This was so marked a symptom that some of
those who commenced the proving become frightened and refused to continue,
which in itself shows that it tended to produce a condition of anxiety which is
constantly present in all sexual hypochondriacs. This temporary sexual stimulation
has been an old use of the drug, and this fact, in connection with the foregoing,
should make it a truly homoeopathic and therefore curative remedy in
such cases of sexual weakness which especially react upon the mind, causing
lassitude, and uneasy mental condition even to fears of approaching impotence.
The digestive symptoms were few and these were of a depressing nature such
as loss of appetite, bad taste, foul breath. There seemed to be a desire for something
stimulating yet little or no thirst. Three provers, tobacco users, had no
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