Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

N. O. Leguminosae. (Cochin China.) Tincture of plant.

Clinical.─Asthma. Blepharospasm. Diarrhoea. Dysentery. Eyes, inflammation of. Locomotor ataxy. Mania. Ozaena. Smell, sense of, affected. Tic-douloureux.

Characteristics.─Dr. X. Roussel is the authority for this plant, and some of the symptoms are of a very peculiar nature. "He walks as if stepping on down." "He is afraid of killing some one with a knife." Both kinds of tic are noted─painful and convulsive. Sense of smell is exalted. "He perceives celestial odours;" also "intolerable smells, after frequent sneezing." Viscid urine, and viscid saliva. Electric shocks and cramps. Heat > toothache. Many symptoms, including diarrhoea, come on at night. < From touch.

Relations.─Compare: Anacard. (sense of smell); Sticta, etc. (levitation); Ign. (ball in throat, hysteria).

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Fancies he is sea-sick.─Suicidal.─Is afraid of killing some one with a knife.─Disposed to strike, and inveighs against his dearest friends.─Weeping and singing alternately; great flow of ideas.─Loss of memory.

2. Head.─Vertigo; is afraid of falling if he turns his head to r. or l.─Sensation as if needles and nails were being driven into head (6 p.m. at evening meal).─Painful lancinations l. side of head with vomiting of mucus and burning along oesophagus.─Scalp excessively painful; slightest touch < the pain.

3. Eyes.─Cannot raise lids or eyebrows.─Painful lancinations in both eyes, extending to bottom of orbits.─Swelling of l. caruncula lachrymalis with large ecchymosis of l. eye.─Vision dim; black points before eye.

4. Ears.─Swelling, redness and heat of auricle.─Hearing impaired or excessively acute.─Cracking in ears when swallowing.

5. Nose.─Tip of nose red.─Fluent coryza.─Sense of smell exalted; celestial odours.─Intolerable smells after frequent sneezing.

6. Face.─Face puffy.─Tic-douloureux and tic convulsive.─Burning in l. cheek.─Pain in whole lower jaw as if the teeth were being pulled out.

7. Teeth.─Teeth become loose; previously loose teeth become very painful.─Toothache at night, < by cold, > by heat.

8. Mouth.─Formication and trembling of tongue.─Painful, dry, cracked tongue.─Salivation with engorged submaxillary glands.─Copious salivation, with aphthae, and thready, viscid mucus.

9. Throat.─Red swelling of tonsils, uvula and velum; tickling of uvula.─Sensation as of ball in oesophagus with cramps there.

11. Stomach.─Bad-smelling eructations.─Hiccough with deep anguish and burning in stomach.

12. Abdomen.─Sensation of swelling in liver and spleen.─Cramp-like pains; diarrhoea with anguish.─Fetid flatulence.─Griping, > lying on abdomen.

13. Stool and Anus.─Haemorrhoids; constriction; formication.─Sensation of foreign body in anus.─Diarrhoea and weakness after vomiting.─Involuntary stools at night, white or yellowish.─Burning or sharp pains with bloody stools.

14. Urinary Organs.─Pains in kidneys; in bladder; injury; sometimes incontinence.─Gluey, fetid urine discharged guttatim.

16. Female Sexual Organs.─Swelling of uterus; weight behind uterus; feeling as if about to prolapse.─Leucorrhoea, with menstruation twice a month.─Cramp-like pains during menses.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Feeling of suffocation with fetid breath; must sit up in bed at night.─Cramp-like pains, and lancinations behind sternum.

19. Heart.─Violent palpitation; heart seems to be beating in water.

20. Neck and Back.─Violent pains in nape and neck with swelling.─Feeling as if a small stream of water was running from one ear to the other across nape of neck, causing terrible pain.

22. Upper Limbs.─Paralytic pains, commencing in entire l. upper extremity (also in r. less frequently).─Rheumatic pains from shoulder to finger-tips.─Cramp-like pains at insertion of deltoid > by pressure.

23. Lower Limbs.─Electric shocks in muscles of leg.─Intense sciatic pains.─Staggers; he walks as if stepping on down.

25. Skin.─Skin of abdomen painful.

26. Sleep.─Sleep after a meal.