Paraffin (Paraf) = E 905

Negativ: Appetit o. satt/Durst, stechen, Beschwerden ändern/wandern, Schmerz (scharf/reißen) wandert/wechselt ab (Magen-/Rückenschmerz), Gebärmutter/Verstopfung:, < stehen/gehen, > Ruhe, Augen;

Repertorium:

Gemüt: Wahnideen [würde hin und her schwanken (sitzend)/werde Verstand verlieren, verrückt werden]

Kopf: Schmerz (durchbohrend stechend/l.)

Auge: „Wie Fett im Auge“

Sehen: vor den Augen schwarze, schwebende Flecken

Bauch: Auftreibung

Schmerz [ausstrahlend/in Hypogastrium/krampfartig/in Milz/in Nabel(gegend)/wund schmerzend]

Magen: Schmerz (# Schmerz im inneren Hals/in Epigastrium)

Verdauungsstörung

Rektum: Obstipation (+ Hämorrhoiden/bei Kleinkindern)

Stuhldrang häufig

Weibliche Genitalien: Beschwerden in Uterus

Fluor (milchig)

Menses - zu häufig - 6 Tage/reichlich

Brust: Schmerz in Brustwarzen (wund schmerzend)

Rücken: Schmerz [< Gehen/Wirbelsäule (# Schmerz im inneren Hals + Magenschmerz/# Magenschmerz)]

Glieder: Gefühllose, taube r. Arm („Als ob Kleidung zu eng“)

Schmerz in Ischiasnerv (reißend)

Schweregefühl in r. Arme

Allgemeines: Schmerz - schneidend „Wie mit einem Messer“

Ständige Veränderung, Wechsel der Beschwerden

Tabak </abgeneigt

[Edward Pollock Anshutz] Presented by Dr Robert Séror

The remedy is used by the homeopaths of Rome and found to be valuable in uterine and other troubles, indicated by the proving.

It is particularly serviceable in constipation :

Proving Of Paraffine

Head: Weight in the head.

Bruised feeling in the left side of the occiput.

Head heavy and dull; a feeling when leaning forward “As if a weight fell toward the forehead”.

Pulsation in the head.

Pressing pain in the head, ext. from the vertex toward the forehead “As if something would come out”.

Pricking, stinging in the head, ext. l. temporal bone. Pain as of a contusion in occiput.

At 9 h. in the morning there comes a pain in the left side of the vertex as if a nail were being driven into the head, with extension of the pain to the left lower jaw.

Touching the left side of the head causes pain as if the part were crushed and a feeling “As if the whole side of the head soft and spongy”.

Twisting and wrenching in the sinciput so that he must lie down having lain down a quarter of an hour, and having placed the right hand under the head, there was experienced a feeling of painless shock so that the hand

under the head was drawn away and the legs were thrown down from the sofa.

Soon afterward occurred severe palpitation of the heart.

Twisting and wrenching in the whole head, as well as the face.

Feeling “As if knife stabs under the right temporal bone ext. into the right eye” becoming < bending over.

On the outside of the forehead a pressing pain which seems to thrust inward, passing, in half an hour, into the inside of the head.

Painful pulsation in the forehead, which gradually disappears when lying down, but becomes worse when bending over.

The left side of the head and face suffer most; pains stinging and twisting, often going and returning at the same time.

Twisting in the left side of the head and face; the teeth of the same side ache as if they would fall out.

On touching the vertex the skin pains as if it were suppurating, in the afternoon.

Sticking in the forehead extending into the nose.

The skin of the head feels soft on being touched or as if suppuration was going on underneath it.

Falling out of the hair.

Eyes: Throbbing and sticking over the right eye-brow laterally and from without, ext. into the lower jaw and there disappearing.

Stinging pains above the left eye and toward the temple.

Raised spots upon the cornea.

The eyes seem as if there was a veil before them in the morning.

In the morning the eyelids are closed with mucus; dry mucus in the internal angles of the eyes.

Itching in the internal angles of the eyes which ceases a moment on rubbing, but a sore pain remains and very soon the itching returns again.

Pressing pains under the right upper eyelids as if some foreign body had gotten in.

Pain under the upper eyelids as if from the prick of a needle.

The eyelids are red, as after crying.

Pain as of a wound in the external angle of the left eye, in the morning.

Itching of the eyelids, lasting the whole day.

Rubbing relieves only for a short time.

A feeling in the eyes as if they had fat in them.

A feeling in the eyes as it they were always moist.

Eyes moist and tearful.

The mucus in the internal angles of the eyes is cold and viscid.

Lachrymation and itching of the eyes in the morning en rising.

In the morning the left eye is closed with mucus and seems to have a veil before it.

The white of the eye is full of blood; worse toward the external angle.

Vision: A veil before the eyes or they feel as if they contained fat observed on rubbing the eyes.

The eyes are dim, she sees nothing, but feels everything; has sensation as if all the limbs were numb for five minutes toward evening.

The eyes are pale; things seem to be seen through a veil.

Little black flies are seen before the eyes.

Short vision on account of the many little black flies before the eyes.

On fixing any object for some time the eyes become moist, as if a cold wind were blowing into them, with a gentle itching.

In the open air there seems to be a black veil before the eyes; objects seen seem to be pale, with short vision.

She sees objects as if in a mist.

Ear: Roaring in the right ear like the rumbling of a mill wheel, in the afternoon.

Gurgling in the left ear like the beating of the pulse.

Ringing in both ears, in the morning.

Stinging and twisting in the left ear, with a feeling as if it was stopped up.

Nose: The odor of cordials is perceived.

The nose is moist and there is frequent desire to blow it, but without sneezing:

Blood from the nose of a dark red color.

Face: Itching in the face as from urticaria, smooth red spots come out on the face.

Mouth: Tearing in the teeth on the right side- of the jaw, ext. ear on the same side.

It is not relieved until support is given- to the painful cheek.

Stabbing pain in one of the left lower molar teeth.

Twisting in the teeth, with stinging in the ear, which after some hours affects the whole left side of the head and face, down to the lower jaw.

Twisting pain in the lower teeth of the left side, affecting also the temporal region, sleep is rendered thereby impossible.

In the evening there appeared under the upper lip, upon the gum, a hard painless tumor which broke of itself during the night.

Mouth full of saliva; she was obliged to spit constantly, lasting for twenty-four hours.

Voice hollow and harsh.

Mouth feels sticky.

The mouth is without taste and the appetite fails.

Bitter taste in the mouth.

Tongue slightly coated; dirty-white in color; chill, followed by dry heat with thirst, which is soon followed by sweat, lasting a long time.

Throat: Dry, the fauces are as if they were dried up, but without thirst.

Sense of suffocation in the pharynx.

Stomach: Acid eructations some hours after eating.

A constant feeling of satiety.

Appetite good, but nothing seems to taste as it should. Inclination to vomit at 21 h.

After eating, repeated urging to vomit with expulsion of the ingested food.

Disturbance of the stomach with increase of saliva in the mouth as if emesis must occur, with stinging pains in the forehead and cold over the whole body, without thirst or feeling of heat following.

Hunger almost all the time.

Pain across the stomach as if a blow had been received.

The pain persists even after thirty-six hours.

On account of the severe pain in the stomach can only breathe slowly and carefully.

The pains in the stomach extend to the chest, causing oppression thereof, and then pass into the shoulders, with much belching and alternating pains in the throat and in the spine.

Great sensibility of the stomach; cannot draw the vest together.

In walking, a feeling of relaxation in the region of the stomach as if there was a sore in it which was causing pain.

Smoking soon causes pain in the stomach and tobacco is distateful.

Pain as if from a beating in the region of the stomach; she wished to gape and was obliged to support the region of the stomach with the hand, thereupon arose a fixed pain in the left hypochondrium as if some of the

parts were being twisted.

The stomach swells up like a ball and forces itself upwards; hard and very painful to the touch; there is also very little appetite.

When the pains in the stomach subside, those in the teeth also disappear, as if there was a causal relation between the two.

Weight in the stomach as if there were a stone. placed upon it, in the morning, evening and after dinner during the time of digestion, that is from half an hour to an hour after meals.

Sometimes there occurs palpitation of the heart in connection with these stomach symptoms, so severe that he is often incapacitated from doing anything whatever.

After breakfast, between nine and ten o'clock, griping and drawing with crawling in the stomach, which extends into the chest and between the shoulders, causing oppression of the chest with a sense of heat.

The face and hands become hot and red and there is hot sweat upon the upper part of the body, especially upon the forehead.

Pressing the arm against the stomach and squeezing it relieved the pain and then she was able to breathe deeply, which she could not do otherwise.

Abdomen: Sense of lassitude in the abdomen which grows less when the parts are supported.

Swelling of the abdomen and nausea as if about to vomit.

Feeling in the abdomen as if he had been disemboweled; he wishes to walk fast which causes the parts to pain severely.

Cutting pains in the abdomen so that he was unable to sleep the whole night.

In the morning at 9 h. colicky pains in the abdomen which ceased after some minutes and a quantity of white mucus issued from the vagina; these attacks are often repeated.

Under the umbilicus, a cutting pain “As if caused by a sharp knife”, ext. down to the genitals.

Colicky pains for some hours internal to the umbilicus with a painful sensation as if a cord was bound around the abdomen above the stomach, lasting ten minutes.

A griping sensation in the region of the umbilicus ext. to the spine.

When sitting, spasmodic pains in the lower portion of the abdomen extending into the rectum and coccyx.

After long sitting the pains are relieved, but walking makes them worse so that the body must be held in a slightly curved position.

Toward 18 h., griping and cutting internal to the umbilicus with nausea, afterward vomiting of acid water and at the end a little food, with twisting pains in the vertex and temples; mouth dry with much thirst.

Wrenching pains in the calves ext. toes and preventing sleep the whole night; she does not know where to put her legs.

At 20 h. evening, without having supped, the abdomen suddenly swelled “As if she had eaten to excess”; before and during the attack flat and viscid taste in the mouth.

She went to bed in this condition and on waking in the morning the attack was entirely gone; the bowels, however, refused to move.

Painless swelling of the abdomen lasting twenty-four hours.

Abdomen hard, tense and swollen with painless rumblings unaccompanied with belching of wind; he goes to bed with these symptoms but they are gone in the morning.

However, there remains a constrictive pain below the ribs, passing across he stomach with much thirst. Five hours later there occurred alvine discharges; the first was very hard with much tenesmus, the whole abdomen was

retracted the last discharges were fluid, abundant and without tenesmus, in consequence of which the swelling of the abdomen went down a little.

The pains disappear, however, with redness of the face # cold sweat.

Standing and walking soon bring back the symptoms again.

Stomach swollen in the afternoon; went to bed at io o'clock and slept one hour, awoke with urging to vomit and soon after threw up acid water and the food taken the preceding day.

Griping in the abdomen, extending down into the rectum, with a feeling as if this organ was ligated; she feels so weak that she has to support herself to keep from falling, with cold sweat in the face, lasting half an hour.

Severe itching in the abdomen which ceases and is always followed by copious white expectoration, with flashes of heat in the face and great weakness.

At first coldness in the feet, then stinging and pressing pains in the right hypochondrium.

From here the pains pass to the stomach with swelling of the abdomen; then they extend up the spine to the shoulders.

Spasmodic, stabbing pains, one after the other, in the mons veneris; when standing on her feet she has a desire to put one foot over the other.

A spasmodic pain in the left inguinal region as of incarcerated wind, which extends upward across the abdomen, causing a painful spot in the region of the spleen.

Stool: Bowels confined for two days and very hard; the evacuation occurs in small pieces.

No evacuation for three days, the abdomen seems very full, as if much had been eaten, with loss of appetite.

Evacuations accompanied with stinging, cutting pains in the rectum which persist more than an hour, with vehement tenesmus.

Obstinate constipation in children is readily cured.

The child has a movement only once in three or four days, accompanied with severe pain in the anus.

Frequent desire for stool without result.

Stools hard but occurring every day.

After going for three days without stool he is obliged to remain an hour before expelling anything and becomes very much fatigued.

Evacuations hard as nuts expelled with much difficulty, with spasmodic pains in the intestines; the feces escape in small pieces.

Chronic constipation with hemorrhoids and continual urging to stool without result.

Urinary organs: Often passes much urine.

Frequent desire to pass urine after cramps in the stomach.

Was obliged to urinate 3x in the space of four hours, but only a small quantity each time; otherwise she only urinated once during the same length of time and with strangury.

Urin: very hot and light colored.

Passes much urine and after a quarter of an hour passes an equally large quantity, although she had drunk but little.

Female organs: Slight itching and burning in the vulva when not urinating.

Feeling of heat in the vulva.

Very hot urine causing heat at the vulva.

Very hot urine with burning pain at the vulva.

The menstruation appears several days too late.

The blood is black and abundant.

The menstrual blood is reddish-black.

The menstruation comes on six days too soon, when on the feet the blood flows continuously.

During the menstruation she feels cold externally and hot internally and must drink a great deal.

Cutting pains through the body on the second day of the menstruation.

White fluid discharge like milk coming away in drops.

Very profuse white discharge, leaving white and gray spots on the linen, with itching in the abdomen.

The white discharge has a sweetish odor.

A chronic rattling in the throat causes a dry cough.

Chest: The whole chest pains as if compressed, and when breathing, sharp stabbing pains traverse the chest, worse on the left side.

Stinging in the chest which prevents him from taking a long breath.

Pain in the region of the diaphragm as if it was inflamed; when gaping, drawing pains under the right ribs, extending as far as the spine; they come and go frequently and are aggravated by respiration.

Stabbing pains one after another in the upper portion of the left breast, worse when breathing, lasting half an hour.

Stinging pains under the false ribs on the left side which grow on lying down, on external pressure and on deep respiration with flashes of heat.

Twisting pains in the left breast.

The nipples pain on touching them, as if they were sore inside.

Back: Pains in the spine, ext. lumbar vertebrae and then into. both sides above the crests of the ilia and into the inguinal regions, where a pain as of inflammation is felt.

The dorsal pains < bending.

Pains in the spine “As if it had been injured”, as bad during repose as when in motion.

Drawing and stinging between the shoulders with oppression of breath.

Drawing pains between the shoulders, extending downward along the spine, toward the liver and upward into the chest; then the respiration becomes oppressed and frequent shooting pains traverse the entire body.

In the left axilla, an electric shock which shakes the whole body, and in all the joints there occurs a trembling, such as might be produced by an electric machine, and which causes each time a sensation of fear.

Extremities: The whole right arm, but principally the axilla, feels as if it had been dislocated by a blow.

Stabbing pain under the right arm toward the breast.

The right arm feels heavy and she cannot lift it well; feels a sensation of numbness as if the clothing was too tight, with turgescence of the veins.

The muscles of the fore-arm seem to grow large and have a feeling of stiffness.

Wrenching pains in the elbow joints.

Wrenching pains in the joints of the left hand.

Pains as if from fatigue in both loins, when ascending the stairs.

Drawing and cutting pains from one iliac crest to the other as if a knife had traversed the abdomen; often intermitting and always returning.

Painful tension in the muscles of the thigh as if a long walk had been taken.

Wrenching pain on the outside of the right knee extending down the right side of the leg to the malleolus, from thence into the heel, where it ceases.

Trembling of the legs from the knees to the toes so that there is difficulty in walking or raising the feet.

Tearing pains in the calves of the legs, with a feeling of heat, extending down to the toes; the palms of the hands and soles of the feet are very hot.

Tearing pains in the articulations of the feet and in the toes, for several hours.

The back and soles of the feet are swollen, after thirty-four hours, with tearing pains in the ankles and soles of the feet on account of which, though very tired, he was not able to sleep.

A feeling as of electric shocks in all the joints.

Generalities: Chill, heat and sweat, frequently alternating.

General weariness lasting several days.

When sitting down, a feeling as if the whole body were swaying to and fro.

At 16 h. in the afternoon great fatigue with profuse cold sweat and somnolence for two hours.

Much of the hair falls out.

Pulse weak and thready and increased in frequency.

Frequent gaping with great somnolence.

Continued yawning, although the joints of the jaw are painful.

She would like to sleep all the time, day and night.

She cannot keep awake and goes to sleep in her chair; her feet go to sleep.

After having passed the night rolling around in bed without waking and passing from one dream to another, she wakes at 5 o'clock, the bed clothing thrown aside and without her night cap, a thing which had never happened

to her before,

Sensual lascivious dreams.

Vergleich: Enthält: C + wenig H = FEST; Vasaline (= Paraf mit hoher Ölanteil);

Eyeblack (= Beeswax + Parafin + C/gebraucht um besser in Richtung Sonne schauen zu können).

Siehe: Carbon + Amorph

Wirkung: l. seitig

Allerlei: aus Erdölresiduen hergestellt/trennt sich später = schwerer als Naph, gehört zur Methangruppe

schmilzt bei etwa 30°

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