Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Elaeis guineensis. Aouara. Avoira. N. O. Palmae (yields Palm Oil). Triturations of the fruit.

Clinical.─Diarrhoea. Elephantiasis arabum. Gastric affections. Headache. Leprosy. Scleriasis. Scleroderma. Sight, defective. Skin, affections of. Sore throat.

Characteristics.─Proved by Mure, it produced lancinations, burning, bruised and throbbing pains. Notable symptoms of leprosy and of scleroderma appear in the provings: anaesthesia; swelling and hardening of skin. Among other symptoms are: sensation as if a peg stuck in false ribs. Swelling of parts. The greatest number of symptoms appeared on the lower extremities and skin. < From cold drinks (colic); from descending stairs (lancinations); from breathing. > Rest.

Relations.─Compare: Anacard., Rhus t.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Merry mood.─Disobedient.

3. Eyes.─Swelling of eyes.─Sight weak; confused vision by candle-light.─He makes letters much too large.─Unable to look steadily at an object.

8. Mouth.─Burning in tongue; has to stop eating.─Bad odour from mouth.

9. Throat.─Lancinations in throat when swallowing; stinging when swallowing saliva.

11. Stomach.─Foul eructations.─Vomiting of a cake immediately after eating it.

12. Abdomen.─Colic after a cold drink.─Pain with bruised sensation in abdomen.

13. Stool.─Frequent diarrhoea.─Black stools.

14. Urine.─White urine.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Breathing embarrassed.─Pricking in larynx on breathing.─Cough with lancination in sides.─Pain in middle of chest as if pricked by needles.─Lancinations every five minutes in r. chest.

20. Neck.─Constrictive pains round neck as if from tight string.─Throbbing in nape.

22. Upper Limbs.─Swelling of l. arm.─Beating in l. arm.─Insensibility of hand to fire-heat when approached to fire, but an hour after he feels it badly.

23. Lower Limbs.─Staggering gait.─Weakness of legs.─Swelling of r. leg.─Sharp pain lower part of l. leg as if a pen-knife were stuck in.─Throbbing in calves.─Hammering in tibia, nape of neck, and r. foot.─Soreness of soles of feet when walking and when touched.

24. Generalities.─Lancinations in various parts, esp. when going downstairs.

25. Skin.─Skin seems thicker.─On each side of epigastrium skin seems thickened, with pain in last false ribs as if a peg were stuck in them.─Swelling, roughness, and itching of skin of l. leg.─Small vesicles appear on swollen r. leg; and l. arm; and on other parts without swelling.─Itching all over, preventing sleep.