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Lolium Temulentum


NAT. ORD., Gramineae.



COMMON NAMES, Darnel. (G.) Taumellolch.



PREPARATION.--Trituration of the dried seeds.



(The following concerning this little used drug was

reported by Dr. Bonino, an Italian physician, translated

by Dr. Mossa and published in the Allgemeine Hom.

Zeitung, July, 1898. The use of the drug by Dr. Bonino

was truly homoeopath
c for the short proving of it.

Allen's Encyclopaedia reports trembling of the limbs and

hand so great that "he could not hold a glass of water.")



A carpenter, aged twenty-nine years, had been suffering ever since his

eighteenth year of trembling in both hands, especially in the morning;

of late also his legs began to tremble. It is remarkable that both his

father and his brother were subject to the same ailment, while no

definite cause could be indicated. He was first given Mercurius vivus,

then Agaricus, which brought a partial but only transitory

improvement. Finally I prescribed Lolium tem., which in a short time

effected a cure.



(On this Dr. Mossa comments as follows):



The pathogenetic effects of this remedy which has not yet been proved at

all are only known to some degree from its effects when it has been

mixed with grain and baked into bread. It has caused chest troubles,

vertigo (thence the name darnel-grass, in German Taumellolch),

trembling, paralysis with anguish and distress, vomiting, failing of

the memory, blindness, headache, epileptic attacks, deep sleep and

insanity. The good success obtained by its use in the case given above

shows what curative effects may be expected from it in severe affections

of the brain or spinal marrow. An Italian physician, Fantoni, has tried

it in cephalalgia, meningitis rheumatica and in ischias.



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