Apoplexy, threatened. Eczema. Fevers. Migraine. Neuralgia. Vertigo. Voice, affections of.

The flowers of Prim. veris are said to be narcotic (Treas. of Bot.). "Cowslip wine" is a favourite remedy in the country for many small disorders. Cooper cured with P. ver. Ø a case of eczema of the hands after P. obc. had failed. He also cured with it eczema palmaris of years' duration in a man æt. 70. Schier, of Mentz (Univ. Hom. Ann., p. 99), proved a tincture of fresh plant including root. The duration of action is only a few days in healthy persons. The conditions in which Schier commends it, and which are borne out by the symptoms, are: Threatened apoplexy, arising apart from psychic depression; as an external application when there is no skin lesion, "as this remedy has a certain relation with the skin. Prudence is necessary here, especially for persons with sensitive and easily vulnerable skin." The symptoms are < by bent position; stooping; movement; in room; in closed carriage; travelling by rail. < In open air.

Compare: P. obc., P. vulg., Cycl., Anag.

Happy disposition.─Stubbornness.─Heat with anxiety.

Vertigo; whirling; sensation of falling backward; as if brain moved, wanted to get out of skull; as of heavy weight on head.─Fear of falling on standing up.─Fulness and heaviness of head.─Head hot with rush of blood to head; red spots on cheeks.─Hammer-like, boring, beating, sometimes dull headache, in both temples, occiput, and above forehead, < r. temple in morning; > by pressure; < stooping, movement travelling by rail; > in open air; < indoors.─Sensation as if band across forehead and occiput; cannot keep hat on.─Tension of skin of forehead.─Burning itching of scalp, in r. temporal region and occiput.

Flies flying before eyes, violent vertigo as if everything revolving.─Burning and pricking pains in orbital cavities.─Sensitive to light; > in darkness.

Buzzing and ringing in l. ear.

Pressure at root of nose < r. side.

Face hot; pale.

Tongue clear but imprinted with teeth, papillæ of edges very red.─Salivation.─Dull sensation in r. half of tongue and digestive tract.

Burning pains r. side of throat.─Pricking when breathing in r. side of thyroid body.

Tendency to vomiting.─Sensation of emptiness and burning at orifice of stomach and in duodenum.

Rumbling in bowels.

Painless liquid stools; with malaise < by pressure on head.─During stool: fever, goose-flesh.─After stool: tenesmus.

Turbid earth-coloured urine smelling of violets or of strong urine.─Tenesmus, painful irritation of ureter.

Dull sensation r. side of larynx, pharynx, tongue, and digestive tract.─Cough with burning and pricking in respiratory tracts.─Voice remarkably fine, clear, and strong, the high notes easily given out.─Sensation as if r. half of larynx stopped up.

Palpitation with feeling of weakness.

Stiffness r. side of neck.─Short, intense pain beside insertion of r. sterno-mastoid muscle.

Weight and lassitude of limbs, esp. shoulders.─Twitching in throat going to forearm, and in great toe going to calf.

Burning in r. axillary joint preventing movement of r. arm > in bed, lying on painful part.─Pricking in fourth and fifth finger of both hands.─Itching in palms.─Burning in hollow of r. hand, in arm, esp. in l. side.

Tearing in l. leg and thigh.─Sensation as if l. leg was swollen with tearing and drawing.─Itching in l. little toe.

Beating, tearing, burning, and drawing sensations.─Trembling of hands and feet.─Malaise of head > in open air. < In bent position; by movement; in a room; riding in closed carriage.─Weight and lassitude of limbs.

Sensitive, easily vulnerable skin.─Itching.

Sleeps well with pleasant dreams.

Febrile excitement.─Intense heat with anxiety as if fearing a stroke of apoplexy.─Wants to get cool.─Sweat on forehead, feet and hands cold.─Head hot with red spots on cheeks.─Feet and hands sweat, rest of body cold.