Ornithogalum umbellatum
orni-umbStar of Bethlehem To be considered in chronic gastric and other abdominal indurations, possibly cancer of intestinal tract, especially of stomach and Cæcum. Center of action is the pylorus, causing painful contraction with duodenal distention. Depression of spirits. Complete prostration. Feeling of sickness keeps patient awake at night.
Ornithogalum umbellatum — Materia Medica
Ornithogalum umbellatum — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
0Star of Bethlehem) In the days of the Cooper Club, which met in Dr. Clarke’s house, and where the moving spirits were Dr. Robert Cooper, with his genius for the discovery of useful remedies, Dr. James Compton Burnett, who had a genius for grasping their idiosyncracies and possibilities and employing them with success for the patients who beseiged him and Dr. Clarke who noted them with the carefulness of genius and recorded them for the permanent help of humanity in his Dictionary of Materia Medica : working, as he used to say, in order to save himself work, because he must know where to lay his hand on any drug he might need:, one of the very important, but, so far, poorly proved remedies that emerged from their discoveries and deliberations was ORNITHOGALUM, a member of the onion, leek, and garlic tribe, with many of the peculiarities of action, in sensitives, of these comestibles. Boericke has, now, a brief mention of Ornithogalum in his comprehensive Pocket Book. But all he says is : “ To be considered in chronic gastric and other abdominal indurations, possibly cancer of intestinal tract, especially of stomach and cæcum. Center (sic) of action is the pylorus causing painful contraction with abdominal distension. “ Depression of spirits. Complete prostration. Feeling of sickness keeps the patient awake at night.” Years ago one obtained a permit from Kew to pick specimens of medicinal plants. Dr. Cooper’s way of obtaining his plant remedies, was seeking them out at their best, as regards not only season, but time of day or night. Armed with a small bottle three parts filled with spirit of wine, he would secure his choice specimen and bottle it forthwith. He thus provided himself with the purest and most uncontaminated ” mother tincture ” possible.
Ornithogalum umbellatum — stomach · William Boericke
Tongue coated. Agonizing feeling in chest and stomach, staring from pylorus with flatus that rolls in balls from one side to the other, loss of appetite, phlegmy retchings and loss of flesh. Gastric ulceration even with hæmorrhage. Pains increased when food passes pyloric outlet. Vomiting of coffee-ground- looking matter. Distention of stomach. Frequent belching of offensive flatus. Painful sinking across epigastrium.
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