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POINTERS
TO SOME HAYFEVER
REMEDIES
By
Dr. M.L. Tyler
Euphrasia
Profuse acrid
lachrymation, with profuse bland coryza (reverse of Allium Cepa). Short-acting
remedy: very useful in catarrhal affections without fever. Sneezing;
fluent bland coryza with acrid tears Eyes worse open air, and wind.
Allium
Cepa
Begins sneezing,
with increasing frequency. Watery discharge drips from nose; excoriates
lip and wings of nose. (Ars., Arum trip.) Rawness in nose; copious lachrymation.
Fluid from nose excoriating: from eyes bland. (Reverse of Euphrasia).
Generally begins left side and goes to right. Every year in August (Naja)
morning coryza with violent sneezing: very sensitive to odor of flowers
and skin of peaches. Spring coryza: Hayfever in August every year on
rising from bed, and handling peaches.
Arsenicum
Discharge
burns a red streak over upper lip and about wings of nose, with sneezing
and profuse, watery nasal discharge The typical Ars. patient is anxious,
restless, often asthmatic, when his worst hour is soon alter midnight.
Sneezing a prominent symptom, but sneezing no joke. Starts from tickling
in one spot nose; after sneezing tickling as bad as before. Hay asthma.
Arum
Triphyllum
A prickling
sensation that cannot be left alone. Pinches and pricks, and bores into
the nostrils, however sore. A dreadful catarrh. Nose stopped, worse
left side. Sneezing worse during the night. Fluent acrid coryza, with
lachrymation usually bland. (Comp. Allium Cepa.) Fluid from nose, produces
rawness, smarting, burning: leaves red streaks as it flows over skin'.
(Ars.) - KENT.
Arsenicum
Iodatum
Hay fever
with fetid, corrosive discharge. Discharges excoriating, thick and yellow,
resembling honey. (Graph.)
Kali
Iod
Violent sneezing,
acrid, watery discharge. Worse cool air, worse open air: but patient
feels better in open air: i.e.: finds no quarters for relief. Frontal
sinuses involved with the coryza; much pain in forehead, eyes, cheekbones.
Carbo
Veg
Frequent
sneezing, with constant violent crawling and tickling in nose; lachrymation
and biting pain in and above nose. Ineffectual desire to sneeze, with
crawling in left nostril. Watery discharge, and sneezes day and night.
Suffers from heat: is chilled by cold: sweats in a hot room. No comfortable
place.
Ranunculus
Eyes smart;
lips burn and are sore. Nose stuffed, especially evenings, with pressure
root of nose and tingling and crawling inside. May attack posterior
nares: hawks and swallow in effort to scratch affected part. (Comp.
Wyeth.) Hoarseness: stitching pains chest: muscles sore.
Silica
begins with
itching and tingling in nose. Violent sneezing and excoriating discharge.
Itching in posterior nares, or orifice of Eustachian tubes. (Ars., Sil.,
Wyeth.)
Natrum
Mur
Squirming
as from a small worm. Watery discharge from eyes and nose. Severe coryza,
had to lay a towel under nose. Woke with headache; after rising nasal
discharge with violent and frequent sneezing. Loss of taste and smell:
cough from tickling in throat pit. Lachrymation acrid; canthi red and
sore. Characteristics: Worse in sun; desire for salt in hay fever, better
at seaside. Recorded case, cured by a swim in the sea.
Zincum
Frequent
sneezing starts with cutting-crawling in nose, without coryza; or fluent
coryza; sensitive nostrils; crawling in nose; frequent sneezing. Itching
in left nostril: in right: followed by frequent sneezing. Much burning
in eyes. Itching. Photophobia. Overworked; over-excitable; extremely
over-sensitive. (Nux.) Characteristic: Burning whole length of spine:
fidgety feet; relief with menstruation.
Bromium
Fluent coryza
with frequent violent sneezing. Corrosive soreness under and margins
of nose. Right nostril more affected. Aversion to smoking: to drinking
cold water.
Gelsemium
Sneezing:
hot face: feeling of great weight and tiredness in whole body and limbs.
Violent morning paroxysms of sneezing: tingling in nose. Watery, excoriating
discharge. Curious symptom, a feeling from throat up to left nostril,
like a stream of scalding water.
Nux
Vom
Distressing
prolonged paroxysms of sneezing. Excessive irritation in nose, eyes.
face; - Heat as if a hot iron plate were near it. Itching extends to
larynx and trachea. Nux is very irritable: very sensitive to cold.
Dulcamara
Nostrils
stopped up, cannot breathe through nose. (Lach) Constant sneezing, profuse
watery discharge from nose and eyes. Worse open air: better in closed
room: worse near newly cut grass: better at Seaside. (Nat.mur.) Eyes
swelled and full and most affected, then nose, then again eyes. Dulc.
cannot stand cold and wet: worse from chill when hot.
Psorinum
A sort of
continuous hay fever, runs all the year and ripens up in the Fall. Catarrhal
state of eyes and nose. Nose dries up part of the time and runs part
of the time: must continually use handkerchief. "Hay fever a difficult
condition to fit a remedy to; constitution must be built up before hay
fever will cease" - KENT. Must wrap up in hottest summer. Wants
head covered. Skin greasy, oily, looks unwashed.
Sabadilla
Spasmodic
sneezing: fluent coryza. Nostrils stuffed up: inspirations through nose
laboured: snoring. Itching in nose; bleeding from nose. (Zinc.)Violent
sneezing; with copious watery discharge. Severe frontal pains and redness
eyelids. Very sensitive to smell of garlic.
Arundo
Mauritanica
KENT gives
this drug in black type in the Repertory for Hay Fever. Hay fever begins
with burning and itching of palate and conjunctiva. Coryza with snuffling.
First water runs from the nose, later green mucus. With sneezing, pieces
of indurated greenish mucus. Itching, burning, dryness of Schneiderian
membrane. Curious symptoms, when sneezing, stitches in loins.
Wyethia
Peculiar
itching in roof of mouth (Arund.), for relief patient must draw tongue
back and forth over soft palate; with this coryza, sneezing, etc.
Kali
Phos
Hay fever,
said to be prophylactic. Itching in posterior nares. Sneezing ; at 2
a.m. Eyes burn, sting, swim in tears. Tongue coated like stale brownish
liquid mustard.
Sanguinaria
Rose colds
in June. Sensitive to flowers and odors. Hay fever with burning in nose,
throat - dry: as if mucous membranes would crack open. Dry burning in
larynx with hoarseness of chest with asthma. Palms dry, burning, wrinkled.
Burning palms and soles: puts them out of bed. (Sulph., Puls., Cham.,
Med.)
Naja
Much sneezing:
water runs from nose: cannot lie down at night; dryness of air passages
of nose. Hay fever. Suffocative attacks in August. (All. Cepa.). Like
Lach. wakes suffocating gasping, choking. Rawness of trachea and larynx,
as if excoriated.
Lachesis
Paroxysms
of sneezing worse after sleep even in the day time. Headache extending
into nose, with frequent and violent paroxysms of sneezing. Mucous membrane
or nose thickened: dry stuffed sensation through head: face red, puffed:
eyes seem almost pressed out. Red, sore nostrils and lips. Lach. is
purple: sleeps into aggravation; throat sensitive to touch or pressure.
Sticta
Pulmonaria
Constant
need to blow nose, but no discharge results on account of dryness. Nose
is stuffed up; secretion drying so rapidly it cannot be discharged.
Almost constant sneezing; tingling right side nose. Fullness right side
forehead to root nose. Excessive dryness of soft palate. Tickling high
up in pharynx.
Sinapis
Nigra
Mucous membrane
of nose dry and hot: worse afternoon and evening: one nostril affected,
or alternate nostrils. Nose swollen, stuffed: discharges a thin acrid
mucus. (Ailanthus.) Eyes suffused, itch, smart .