Apium Graveolens ap-g.

Common Celery

Contains a soporific active principle. Obstinate retention of urine, throbbing headaches and heartburn, have been produced by celery. Swelling of throat, face, and hands. Rheumatic pain in muscles of neck also in sacrum. Growing pains. Hungry for apples. Dysmenorrhœa, with sharp, short pains, better flexing legs.

Depressed; energetic; feeling of fidgets; cannot sleep from thinking. Headache; better eating. Eyeballs feel sunken. Itching in eyes. Itching and smarting in inner canthus of left eye.

Sore; sharp sticking pain as if stool was coming on; diarrhœa, sharp pain in left iliac region going over to right. Nausea increases with pains.

Sharp sticking pains in both ovarian regions, left, better bending over, by lying on left side, with legs flexed; nipples tender.

Tickling, dry cough. Intense constriction over sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down. Throat swollen, dyspnœa.

Itching blotches; burning, creeping sensation. Profuse discharge from granulating ulcers. Urticaria with shuddering.

Unrefreshed; sleepless. Wakes from 1 to 3 am.Eating does not help sleep. Not fatigued from loss of sleep.

First to thirtieth potency.

Celery. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of seeds. Tincture of sticks.

Fidgets. Headache. Heartburn. Otorrhœa. Post-nasal catarrh. Rumination. Toothache. Urine, retention of. Urticaria.

A proving of tincture of seeds produced the following symptoms: Unpleasant feeling at stomach, with belchings tasting of celery. Heartburn. Spitting up of food. Gone feeling at pit of stomach lasting for hours and partially relieved by eating. — Effects of eating the root: during the following day and night, most obstinate retention of urine, which could only be relieved by the catheter. On another person this was observed: Inability to sit still or lie still in bed from feeling of "fidgets"; cannot keep mind from I thinking. In a proving under the direction of W. P. Wesselhœft ( Med. Advance , April, 1886) a remarkable symptom was: a dull ache in sacrum < when lying down, > when moving about. Another symptom was "sensation as if both eyes were sunken back into their sockets." Throbbing headaches, < by slightest motion; > by rest, mostly left-sided. Urticaria, always appearing with shuddering; intense stinging itching with rapid change of location. Pressure in stomach preceding urticaria, and relieved when it appears. Toothache in left molars > by holding cold water in the mouth. Hering cured with Apium g . an old abscess near the umbilicus. Allen mentions: "Profuse discharge from granulating ulcers, intense constriction over sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down," as having been cured by it.

Cannot keep mind from thinking.

Frontal headache; over r. eye and r. temple; < during night. — Dull pain r. temple with nausea. — Pain in l. temple spreads over l. side of face and top of head. — Pain as from a jar or blow deep in l. temporal region, a throbbing ache. — Painful throbbing < by expiring through nose. — Headaches: > while eating; in open air; closing eyes; complete rest drinking cold water; by hot compresses. < After eating; by light; by reading or studying; by slightest motion or nodding head.

Eyeballs feel as if sunken into sockets.

Partial deafness ( < l.), painless pulsation. — Troublesome otorrhœa.

Tough pearl-coloured discharge from nostrils. — Sudden dropping of mucus into posterior nares. — Tickling in nostrils with sneezing, forenoon. — Tickling in r. nostril with watery discharge and sneezing. — Nostrils stuffed, with pain in forehead.

Sore spot on tip of tongue. — Dull, sore pain on upper and lower teeth. — Toothache > by cold water.

Soft palate and fauces sore, dark red and swollen. — Air rushing down posterior nares hurts back of throat.

Unpleasant feeling at stomach with belchings tasting of celery. — Heartburn. — Spitting up of food. — Sore feeling at pit of stomach lasting for hours and partially relieved by eating. — Desire for oranges; for oatmeal.

Three urgent well-formed stools during the day. — Before stool sharp pain from abdomen directly into rectum, with feeling that she cannot retain stool a moment.

Obstinate retention of urine, could only be relieved by catheter.

Tickling in top of windpipe causing dry cough. — Wheezing breathing during the night. — Can count heart-beats by hearing and feeling it in chest.

Muscles of back of neck painful on motion, sore to pressure. — Dull pain in sacrum with slight bellyache. — Pain in sacrum more to l. side extending to lumbar region. — Pain in sacrum > after rising from bed and moving about; < lying down. — Red, intensely itching blotches on l. sacral region.

Growing pains in r. leg during night. — Burning on inside of thighs. — Raw, excoriated surfaces on inner thighs extending into groins, < l. side. — Red itching blotches on inside l. foot, and outside ankle.

Inability to sit still, or lie still in bed from feeling of fidgets; cannot keep mind from thinking.

Itching on all parts. — Red elevated pimples like stings of insects; intense itching; itching changes location by scratching; < after undressing in evening; during night till 4 a.m.

Sleepless; not fatigued by loss of sleep. — Sleep broken by bruised pain in l. temporal region.

Perspiration on forehead on awaking 4 a.m.

A tincture is prepared from the seeds of this plant (the common celery; Nat. order, Umbelliferæ).

Bruised sensation in flesh after scratching, with sometimes a raw sensation. ▶ Inability to sit still, from feeling of "fidgets," cannot keep from thinking. ▶ Weakness; in evening. ▶ Remission of symptoms in morning and forenoon.

Aching all day, amel. when eating and in open air; frontal; sharp, over right eye and temple on going to bed and lasting all night, amel. during breakfast; in right temple from noon till evening, with nausea (chronic headache always began in left temple); in left temple, spreading over left side of face and to top of head; agg. deep in left temple, as from a jar, almost throbbing, agg. by light, must keep eyes partly closed, reading tires head, the headache afterwards distinctly throbbing deep in and through temples and somewhat in forehead, most of the time can count the beats in the head, the pain agg. by stooping, moving head and eating, amel. by complete rest and quiet, but the throbbing continued when a rest, expiration through nose makes the throbbing painful, afterwards the pain amel. for some minutes by three mouthfuls of cold water, also amel. by hot compresses to forehead till he begin to move, amel. on waking if he waked without moving, stopped short on eating Indian meal gruel. ▶ Sore feeling over whole top. ▶ Scalp sore to touch.

Eyes feel sunken. ▶ Tickling in nose in forenoon, with desire to sneeze. ▶ Nose stuffed; with pain in forehead. ▶ Sneezing in morning, with tickling and running from nose; S. in morning, with watery discharge from nose and tickling in right nostril.

Itching of lips and desire to rub them with the teeth. ▶ Sore pain in left teeth. ▶ Sore spot on tip of tongue, feeling like a canker sore. ▶ Soft palate red and sore; soft palate and fauces, swollen and dark red. ▶ Back part of throat hurt by air rushing down posterior nares. ▶ Throat sore.

Appetite lost; ate nothing from Sunday morning till Wednesday night. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Spitting up food. ▶ Unpleasant sensation, with belching tasting of celery. ▶ Heartburn. ▶ Gone feeling in pit, partially amel. by eating.

Two urgent, well-formed stools in the day, preceded by pain in abdomen going directly into rectum, with feeling as if she could not retain the stool a moment, next day three stools of the same kind. ▶ Urine retained.

Tickling in top of windpipe at night, causing dry cough. ▶ Cough. ▶ Wheezing at night. ▶ Heart's beats can be counted by hearing or feeling in chest.

Muscles of nape pain on motion and seem sore from severity of headache. ▶ Sacral pain, with bellyache, the S. pain amel. after getting out of bed, agg. on lying down again; S. pain, agg. after lying down, amel. by moving about, with pain in lower abdomen on first lying down, amel. after continued lying, the same sacral pain afterwards on rising, but extending further up back and more on left side. ▶ Growing pain in right leg before going to bed and lasting most of the night.

Itching blotches on left sacral region. ▶ Red, itching eruption on upper inner part of thighs, agg. left, extending to groins, towards night. ▶ Itching on different parts, agg. after undressing and at night; and as soon as it was allayed in one place it appeared in another. ▶ Itching leaving burning after scratching, about face; on left jaw, extending to whole left side of face and nose. ▶ Itching of left cheek and jaw in evening, after scratching red blotches, then burning; I. on left lower jaw, then after scratching red blotches, then itching red blotches on left instep and outside of left ankle; itching on left buttock at night, after scratching felt a blotch like an insect bite; left like the bite of an insect in different parts, causing shuddering or trembling of the part, then little red elevated itching pimples, the itching somewhat amel. by scratching, then burning creeping sensation.

Broken. ▶ Sleepless all night; till 4.30 A.M.; from Sunday till Wednesday. ▶ Could not go to sleep without great exertion and then would wake unrefreshed in ten minutes.

Chill from any change of temperature, agg. in back or where the lower temperature strikes the body. ▶ Hot feeling on vertex. ▶ Intermittent burning inside thighs, which look like a raw surface, extending to groins, agg. on left, with itching, which is agg. at night. ▶ Sweat on forehead on waking at 4 A.M.

Profuse discharge from granulating ulcers, in tense constriction over sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down.