Materia Medica de A a Z

RAPHANUS SATIVUS (raph)

Produces pain and stitches in liver and spleen. Increases of bile and salivary secretion. Symptoms will not appear if salt is used with the Radish. Great accumulation and incarceration of flatulence. "Globus" symptoms. Seborrhoea, with greasy skin. Pemphigus. Hysteria; chilliness in back and arms. Sexual insomnia [Kali brom (Kali-br)]. Nymphomania. POST- OPERATIVE GAS PAINS.

Head

Sadness, aversion to children, especially girls. Headache, brain feels tender and sore. Oedema of lower eyelids. Mucus in posterior nares.

Throat

Hot-ball feeling from uterus to throat, stopping there. Heat and burning in throat.

Stomach

Putrid eructations. Burning in epigastrium, followed by hot eructation.

Abdomen

Retching and vomiting, loss of appetite. Distended, TYMPANITIC, HARD. NO FLATUS EMITTED UPWARD OR DOWNWARD. Griping about navel. Stool liquid, frothy, profuse, brown, with colic, and pad-like swelling of intestines. Vomiting of faecal matter.

Female

Nervous irritation of genitals. Menses very profuse and long- lasting. NYMPHOMANIA, with aversion to her own sex and to children, and sexual insomnia.

Urine

Turbid, with yeast-like sediment. Urine more copious, thick like milk.

Chest

Pain in chest extends to back and to throat. Heavy lump and coldness in center of chest.

Relationship

Compare: Momordica (Mom-b) (worse, near splenic flexure); Carbo (Carb-v); Anac; Arg-n; Brassica (Brass).

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.