MYRICA.
Myrica cerifera, L.
Natural order
, Myricaceæ.
Common names
, Bayberry, Wax-myrtle.
Preparation
, Tincture of the bark of the
root.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 7,
provings of the Mass. Hom. Med. Soc., 1864, Transactions, 2, p. 397). 1, Dr. H. L. Chase, took 5 drops of extract; 2, Dr. Chs. Cullis, took 10 drops; 2a, same,
second proving; 3, same, Miss E.,
aged thirty, took repeated doses of 10 drops, each (9 P.M. first day, 7
A.M. second day, 7 and 11 A.M., third day); 4,
same, Mrs. H., aged thirty-one, took 10 drops, first and second days,
and four days later 11 drops at 11 A.M., and 10 drops at 7 P.M.; 5, Dr. Conrad Wesselhœft, dissolved 10
grains of extract in 1 ounce of alcohol, took 5 drops, first and second
days; 5a,
same, took 10 drops of tincture at 11 A.M. and 10 P.M. first day, 15
drops at 7 A.M., and 25 drops at 10 P.M., second day; 6, Dr. F. H. Krebs, took 5 drops of tincture
at 11 A.M. and 4 P.M. first day, 5 drops at noon second day; 6a, same,
repeated three months later; 7, Dr.
J. E. Linnell. took repeated daily doses of tincture, 5 to 120 drops,
for then days; [Subject to occasional rheumatic and neuralgic pains, and
at this time suffering from influenza.] 8,
Dr. L. Walker, Hale’s New Remedies, 2d. ed., p. 728, from Inaug. Thesis,
1865-6, took 1st dec. dil., repeated doses, 10 to 60 drops for three
days, then tincture repeated, doses 20 to 140 drops for four days; 8a, same,
took powdered bark, repeated doses of 5 to 160 grains, for eight days; 9, Dr. Wm. Sharp, M. Hom. Rev., 20, p. 749,
proving of 1st dil., by a friend, and of 1 drop of tincture, night and
morning, for eight days, by self.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► A pleasant
exhilaration (half an hour after second dose); followed by an excited
state of the nervous system, precluding sleep for several hours; this
was accompanied by a restlessness which required a frequent change of
position (eighth day), [7]. ► A pleasant exhilaration, succeeded by
depression and pressure about the head (ninth day), [7]. ►
Depression of spirits (one hour after first dose, third day), [7]; lasting three or four days (second
morning), [2a]. ► Great depression of mind, irritable, do
not want to speak or be spoken to, [1].
► Great and unusual depression of
spirits, all the morning (second day), [2].
► Miserable dejected feeling all day
(tenth day); (fourteenth day), [8a].
► Great despondency, at 11
A.M. (second day), [2a]. ► Feels gloomy, terribly
depressed; this depression of spirits continued for three
days, and to such an extent that it was impossible to write; did not
care about anything or for any friends; was perfectly wretched, beyond
description, [2]. ► Awoke in a gloomy state of mind, an
unusual condition for him; felt very irritable, and had a constant
desire to find fault; everything went wrong; looked upon this world as a
place not fit to live in any longer; considered himself better than the
rest, in the morning; felt very low-spirited; condemned himself for
various imaginary faults; complete hypochondria, in the afternoon
(second day), [6]. [10.] ►
Felt irritable, easily provoked (after half an hour, fourth and fifth
days), [7]. ►
Irritable, worried by little things; everything seemed to go wrong, in
the morning (tenth day), [7]. ► Exceedingly irritable; the slightest
thing fretted and irritated him; ungovernable petulancy (sixth day), [7]. ►
Intellectual. ► Loss of
energy (sixth day), [7]. ► Deficient concentration of the mind on
any subject (after five hours and a half, seventh day), [8a]. ►
Confusion of intellect; could not concentrate his thoughts (one hour
after first dose, third day), [7].
► Dulness of intellect (sixth day), [7]. ►
Felt dull and drowsy, for the last two hours (five hours and twenty
minutes after first dose, fifth day), [8].
► Semi-stupor, attended with pain all
through the head, quite severe in the temples, with throbbing in the
superficial veins (after four hours, seventh day), [8]. ► Drowsy
stupor, very difficult to keep the mind concentrated on any one thing
long at a time (after sixteen hours and a half, seventh day), [8a]. [20.]
► Drowsy stupor, all the forenoon;
could not keep the mind on the subject of the lectures (eighth day), [8a]. ►
A kind of drowsy stupor, at 12.50 P.M., continuing through the day
(eighth day), [8].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo, with
dulness and drowsiness much of the time during lectures, all the
forenoon (tenth day), [8]. ► Slight vertigo (sixth day), [7]. ►
Dizziness and rush of blood to the head and face, on stooping
(premonitory symptoms of headache with him), (after two hours, second
day), [5a]. ►
General dizziness, all the morning, with feverish acceleration of the
pulse, attaining its height about 4 o’clock (second day), [7]. ► Slight
dizziness, with nausea (after first dose, second day), [7]. ► Slight
dizziness, with repeated yawning, almost immediately (first day), [7]. ►
Light-headedness and nausea (a few minutes after first dose, seventh and
eighth days), [7]. ► General Head. ►
Dulness of the head (sixth morning), [7].
[30.] ►
Dulness and heaviness of the head and eyes (fifteenth day), [8a]. ►
Dull, drowsy sensation of the head, hardly to be called a pain on waking
(eighth morning), [8a]. ► Heaviness of head (one hour after first
dose, third day), [7]. ► Empty feeling in the head (soon), (second
day), [5a]. ►
Pain all through the head, quite severe in the temples, with throbbing
in the superficial veins, attended with a semi stupor (after four hours,
seventh day), [8]. ► Fulness about the head, with bad
indescribable taste in the mouth (third morning), [7]. ► Awoke
with dull pain in head and eyes (ninth days), [8a]. ► Dull
pains in the head and back, on waking (fourth day), [8a]. ► Dull
heavy pains all through the head, most severe in the frontis and through
the temples, at 7 A.M. (seventh day), [8].
[40.] ►
Head has ached all day, at 10 P.M. (second day), [2]. ► Slight
headache (soon, and second morning), [2a];
on waking (seventh morning), [8a].
► Awoke with severe headache, better
after rising and washing with cold water (eleventh day), [8]. ► Head
ached severely, particularly over the left eye, at 11 A.M. (second day),
[2a]. ►
Heavy headache followed the severe nausea (after five minutes, second
day), [4]. ►
Dull aching pain all through the head and in the neck (seven hours and a
half after first dose, sixth day), [8].
► Dull grinding headache (forty
minutes after first dose, sixth day), [7].
► Pressure alike in all parts of the
head (after half an hour, fourth day), [7].
► Pressure with dull pain in the
head, worse in the right temple (one hour after first dose, sixth day), [7]. ►
Pressure about the head, with ringing in the ears (tenth day); the
pressure increased very much, causing confusion of thought, and giving
rise to a staggering gait (eleventh day); less so (twelfth day), [7]. [50.]
► Heaviness and pressure in the head
(after second dose, third day), [7].
► Headache, with severe pressure
(seventh night), [7]. ► Bruised feeling in head (seventh
morning), [7]. ► Throbbing of arteries in the head (sixth
day), [7]. ►
Throbbing in the superficial veins of the head, on waking (ninth
morning), [8]. ► Pain in head, worse when stooping or
moving about, in the morning (fourth day), [8]. ► Forehead.
► Awoke about daylight, with severe
pain in the frontis and temples (tenth day), [8]. ► Dull
pain in the frontis and temples (after five hours and a half, seventh
day), [8a]. ►
Awoke with dull pain in the frontis and temples (third morning), [8a]; continuing through the day (eighth
day), [8]. ►
Awoke with dull pain in the frontis and temples, and in small of back;
head feels better, in afternoon (fifth and sixth days), [8a]. [60.] ► Dull pain in the forehead and eyes, all
the evening (fifth day), [8]. ► Dull heavy pain through the front portion
of the head, worst in the left temporal region (five hours and twenty
minutes after first dose, fifth day), [8].
► Awoke with dull heavy pain in the
frontis and through the temples (fourth, sixth, and ninth days), [8]. ►
Dull, aching pain in the front part of the head and through the temples,
in the forenoon (eighth day), [8a].
► Frontal headache (one hour after
first dose, third day), [7]. ► Quite severe frontal headache, in the
afternoon (ninth day), [7]. ► Severe headache just over the eyes,
increased by motion, at 8.30 A.M. (second morning), [2a]. ► Dull
headache in the forehead, on waking in the morning (second day), [2]. ►
Awoke this morning with pressive frontal headache (fifth day), [7]. ►
Awoke with dull pressure in the forehead, with headache and feeling as
though he had not slept enough, at 6.30 A.M. (second day), [7]. [70.]
► Pressure and dull pain in forehead
and vertex, with throbbing synchronous with the pulse (after one hour,
first day), [7]. ► Dull, oppressive headache in the right
side of forehead, at the juncture of parietal and frontal bones, with
fulness in the head, in the afternoon and evening, until bedtime (second
day), [5a]. ►
Sharp pain on left side of forehead (after five hours), [1]. ► Temples.
► Numb feeling in right temple; felt
as if some hard substance were strongly pressed against the part (after
first dose, eighth day), [7]. ► Vertex. ►
Drawing sensation in the crown of the head (soon), (second day), [5a]. ►
Strange sensation in the top of the head, like foam rising in anything
fomenting; this was very clear and
perceptible, and lasted ten minutes, and then gradually subsided (after
forty minutes, second day), [4]. ► Parietals. ►
Severe pain in head on both sides, near temples, which settles into a
heavy grinding feeling in top of head (soon), (first day), [4]. ►
Occiput. ► Heaviness in
back of head (immediately after second dose, third day), [3]. ► Pain in
the back part of the head on the right side (after five minutes, first
day), [3]. ►
Pain in the occiput (after two hours, second day), [6]. ► External
Head. [80.] ► Scalp feels sore to the touch, on waking
(eighth morning), [8a].
EYE.
►
Eyes congested and yellow (ninth day), [8a].
► Dulness and heaviness of the eyes
and head (fifteenth day), [8a]. ► Eyes feel dull and heavy, in the forenoon
(eighth day), [8a]. ► Eyes feel heavy and dull (after sixteen
hours and a half, seventh day), [8a].
► Eyes feel heavy and weak, on waking
(eighth morning), [8a]. ► Hot feeling in the eyes (after second
dose, second day), [7]. ► Eyes burned and tired easily on reading
(after nine hours, fourth day), [7].
► Eyes feel swollen and with a
yellowish tint, in the morning (tenth day), [8]. ► Awoke
with dull pain in eyes and head (ninth day), [8a]. [90.] ► Sharp pain in left eye, at 9 A.M. (second
day), [2a]. ►
Left eye sore, and looked inflamed (third morning), [2a]. ► Both
eyes quite sore, at 8 A.M. (second morning), [2a]. ►
Smarting in eyes (after half an hour, fourth day), [7]. ►
Smarting in the eyes followed evanescent itching, like fleabites (a few
minutes after first dose, second day), [7].
► Smarting, with dryness in both
eyes, and feeling of sand in them, making it difficult to close the lids
(after one hour, first day), [7]. ► Smarting in left eye (after five hours), [1]. ►
Brow. ► Dull, heavy
feeling over the eyes, soon followed by a stricture across the nose
(after fifteen minutes), [2]. ► Dull pain in right eyebrow (after half an
hour, first day), [7]. ► Lids. ►
Eyelids heavy and swollen (second morning), [2a]. [100.] ► Fulness in eyelid of left eye,
approaching to soreness (after a few minutes, second day), [3]. ►
Quivering sensation in left upper lid (after half an hour, first day), [7]. ►
Conjunctiva. ► Conjunctiva
congested and yellow (fifteenth day), [8a].
► Smarting sensation in conjunctiva
of left eye, followed by an aching pain in right eyeball (after half an
hour, first day), [7].
EAR.
►
Pain in back of left ear (after five minutes, first day), [3]. ► Ringing
in the ears (sixth and seventh days), [7].
► Ringing in the ears, with pressure
about the head (tenth day), [7]. ► Ringing noise in left ear (after first
dose, second day), [7].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Nasal organs
affected very much like catarrh (ninth day), [8a]. ► An
attack of coryza obliged him to omit the medicine (after two days), [6a]. [110.]
► A severe attack of coryza appeared
towards night, and the miserable feelings in general prevented the
taking of any more medicine (second day), [6].
► Subjective. ► Pressure in the nose (immediately after
second dose, third day), [3]. ► Very severe pressing pain in left side of
the nose, lasting about ten minutes, then shifting to left axilla, where
it was sharp and lancinating (after four hours), [1].
FACE.
►
Face and neck yellow (fifteenth day); complete jaundice aspect
(seventeenth day), [8a]. ► Burning most of the day in the face, as
one experiences in a cool day on coming into a warm room (first day), [7]. ►
Burning about face and head, especially after being out in the open air
(October 20th), (five hours after first dose, third day), [7]. ► Fulness
about face and head, with throbbing (after second dose, second day), [7]. ►
Feeling of pressure in both malar bones (after half an hour, first day),
[7]. ►
Sharp darting pain in articulation of jaw, right side, all day, [1].
MOUTH.
►
Tongue. ► Tongue furred
(ninth day), [8a]. [120.] ►
Thick, yellow coat upon tongue (fifth and sixth days), [7]. ► Tongue
thickly coated, a dirty white or yellowish color (sixteenth day), [8a]. ►
Mouth. ► The whole buccal
cavity, including the roof of the mouth, was coated with an adhesive
coating, exceeding difficult to detach (eleven day); less in degree
(twelfth day), [7]. ► Dryness of mouth and fauces (after half
an hour, fourth day), [7]. ► Taste. ►
Sweetish taste about the palate, for half an hour (first day), [5]. ►
Bad taste (sixth morning), [7];
(ninth and sixteenth days), [8a]. ► Bad, indescribable taste in the mouth,
with fulness about the head (third morning), [7]. ► Foul
taste (eleventh day); less so (twelfth day), [7]. ► Bitter,
nauseous sensation in fauces, with slight heat and burning in stomach
(immediately), (second day), [5a].
► Bitter, nauseous taste to the
tincture (first day), [5a].
THROAT.
►
Objective. [130.] ► Stringy mucus in the throat, detached
with difficulty (after sixteen hours and a half, seventh day), [8a]. ►
Throat and nasal organs filled with an offensive, tenacious mucus,
detached with difficulty (sixteenth day), [8a].
► Subjective. ► Dryness of throat (after first dose,
second day), [7]. ► Constricted feeling in the throat; throat
feels swollen inside, in the morning (fifth, sixth, and seventh days), [8a]. ►
An aching, excruciating feeling in posterior nares, as if a fresh cold
had been taken (after first dose, second day), [7]. ►
Semi-lancinating pain in the right side of the throat, near the tonsil,
in the afternoon (ninth day), [7].
► Throat sore, sensation of a foreign
substance requiring it to be frequently cleared; deglutition rather
painful (fourth day), [8a]. ► Throat sore and rough, with frequent and
difficult deglutition (after thirteen hours and a half, eighth day), [8a]. ►
Slight soreness in the throat, on waking, and continuing through the day
(third day), [8a]. ► Roughness of the throat (ninth day), [8a]. [140.]
► Roughness of the throat, requiring
it to be constantly cleared (after fifteen hours, sixth day, [8a]. ►
Throat rough and constricted (after seven hour, sixth day), [8a]. ►
Dry, sore feeling in pharynx, as when one has taken cold succeeded by
difficult deglutition (after half an hour, first day), [7]. ►
Constant need to swallow, from sense of constriction in the throat
(after five hours and a half, seventh day), [8a].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Increased
appetite (five hours and twenty minutes after first dose, fifth day);
constant hunger, yet a sensation of fulness, as if I had just eaten a
hearty meal, although nothing has been taken into my stomach for five
hours (ten hours and a half after first dose, fifth day); craving
hunger; fulness of the stomach and abdomen (thirteen hours and
three-quarters after first dose, sixth day); sensation of hunger and
fulness in the stomach and abdomen, with rumbling of bowels, in the
morning (sixth day); constant, craving appetite, with sensation of
fulness in the stomach and abdomen (seventh day), [8]. ► Feel
hungry; fulness in stomach and abdomen, on waking (fourth morning);
craving hunger; fulness in the stomach and abdomen, as after a hearty
meal, at 5 P.M. (before eating); continuing at 11 P.M. (fifth day);
after eating (sixth day), [8a]. ► Appetite had been fair since commencing
the proving, but not as keen as usual (fourth day), [7]. ►
Appetite not so good as usual, but enjoyed a hearty meal, at 6 P.M.
(after seven hours, first day), [5a].
► Indifferent appetite (fifth day), [7]. ►
Appetite poor, in the morning (seventh day), [8a]. [150.] ► Appetite for breakfast considerably
impaired (third day), [7]. ► Appetite very much impaired (eleventh and
twelfth days), [7]. ► No appetite (ninth day), [8a]. ► No
appetite; took no breakfast this morning (fifteenth day), [8a]. ► No
desire for food (tenth day), [8a].
► No desire for food, but rather a
loathing; strong desire for acids; ate very little breakfast, per force
(sixteenth day), [8a]. ► Eructation. ►
Empty eructation (after second dose, second and third days), [7]. ►
Frequent eructation of flatus from the stomach (after sixteen hours and
a half, seventh day); in the forenoon (eighth day); relieving the
pressure in the stomach for a short time only (fifteenth day), [8a]. ►
Acidity of stomach, at 8.30 A.M. (second morning), [2a]. ►
Heartburn, with an increase of saliva, which had to be frequently
expectorated (after two hours, second day), [6]. ► Nausea.
[160.] ►
Nausea (after half an hour, first day), [3];
(second morning), [2a]; (third
day), [7], etc. ► Nausea, with slight dizziness (after
first dose, second day), [7]. ► Nausea and light-headedness (a few
minutes after first dose, seventh and eighth days), [7]. ► Nausea
and gagging, without being able to vomit (soon), (sixth day), [8a]. ►
Slight nausea (ten minutes after first dose, sixth day), [4]; (after two hours); less marked (second day),
[6]. ►
Slight feeling of nausea in stomach, for half an hour (first day), [5]. ►
Severe nausea (after five minutes, second day), which was followed by
heavy headache, [4]. ► Stomach. ►
Stomach and upper part of the abdomen distended, in the forenoon (eighth
day), [8a]. ►
Strange sensation in stomach, not any nausea (ten minutes after second
dose, sixth day), [4]. ► Weak, sinking feeling, and pressure in
the epigastrium, sometimes approaching nausea (after half an hour);
increasing after breakfast, and lasting very perceptibly all day, and
passing off towards evening, after rapid walking (second day), [5]. [170.]
► Dinner caused distress (second
day), [2]. ►
Pain in the region of the stomach (after two hours, first day); less
marked (second day), [6]. ► Severe pain in the stomach (one hour
after second dose, third day), [3].
► Slight heat and burning in stomach,
with bitter, nauseous sensation in fauces, immediately; the heat and
burning soon changed into painful griping pressure from left epigastric
region, in a straight line to left of navel (second day), [5a]. ►
Feeling of fulness in digestive organs, as though food was being slowly
digested (after nine hours, fourth day), [7].
► Fulness in the stomach and bowels;
craving hunger, in the morning, and at 6.20 P.M. (eleventh day), [8]. ►
Fulness in the stomach and abdomen; appetite poor, in the morning
(seventh day), [8a]. ► Fulness and pressure in the stomach
(after five hours and a half seventh day), [8a]. ►
Unpleasant fulness in the stomach and upper abdomen (five hours and
twenty minutes after first dose, fifth and tenth days), [8]. ► Severe
griping pains about the stomach, followed by empty eructations (after
one hour and a half, tenth day), [7].
[180.] ►
Dull pain in the stomach (sixth day), [7].
► Slight colicky pressure in stomach,
which would hardly have been noticed, had not attention been drawn to it
previously in the proving (third day), [5a].
► Slight stinging and pressure in
epigastrium, while walking (ten minutes after first dose, first day), [5a].® 2000
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