PHYTOLACCA.
THROAT.
►
*Redness and soreness of the throat (after third dose, second
day), [12]. ► *Sore throat and swelling of the soft palate, in
the morning, with a thick white and yellow mucus about the fauces,
after the removal of which the throat feels better, and still better
after breakfast, [4]. ► *Soreness of the throat, and a feeling when
swallowing saliva as if a lump had formed there; the same sensation is
felt on turning the head to the left side, [4]. [180.] ►► *Throat sore; the isthmus congested and
of a dark-red color; dryness of the throat, with some swelling of the
tonsils, [22]. ►► *Throat felt sore, fauces congested and
of a dark color; dryness of the throat; the tonsils were a little
swollen, [9]. ► *Sensation of rawness and scraping in the throat
and tonsils, as if something had lodged at the root of the
tongue (second day), [16]. ► *Feeling of rawness and excoriation in the
throat (after three hours and three-quarters), [16]. ► *Roughness
and rawness of the throat, [8].
► Feeling in the throat as though it
was burned (after four hours), [18].
► Pain and suffocation in the throat,
fauces, and lungs (after three hours, third day), [18]. ► Pain
and suffocating feeling in the throat and lungs (after two hours), [18]. ►
While riding, in the forenoon, a sensation of a plug in the throat, not
relieved by hawking; this sensation was replaced by an increased discharge of mucus from the posterior
nares, which was detached with difficulty, and which continually excited
a disposition to attempt to expel it (fourth day), [11a]. ►
Sensation of a lump in the throat, [4].
[190.] ►
Sensation as of a lump in the throat, that causes a constant inclination
to swallow; sensation as if an apple-core had lodged in the throat, [8]. ► *A
sensation of the throat being so full that it felt choked; hawking to
rid the throat and posterior nares of mucus; the raising of
the mucus succeeded the feeling in the throat; a sensation of fulness
and as if something had lodged on the left side of the throat came on
after bending the head forward in writing, and was aggravated by turning
the head to the left, [11b]. ► *Pressing pain in the right side of the throat,
[4]. ►
*The throat feels very dry and sore, especially on
swallowing, in the afternoon, [4].
► *Throat very dry, rough, and sore,
with a feeling of a lump therein, [19].
► *Dryness of the throat, which soon
produced soreness, [13].
► *Dryness, soreness, roughness, and
redness in the throat, all the time (fourth day), [12]. ►
*Great dryness of the throat, [4],
[8]. ►
Dryness in the throat, on going to bed, [4].
► Dryness in the throat, worse in the
morning, [4]. [200.] ►
Felt the medicine all the way from the throat down into and through the
abdomen, [27]. ► Tonsils. ►
*Tonsils and palate congested, and of a dark-purple color, [8]. ►
*Tonsils sore and somewhat swollen, in the morning (second
day), [12]. ► *Tonsils red and swollen (after third
dose, second day), [12]. ► Fauces. ►
Eruption in the fauces and œsophagus (after three months), [21]. ►
*General soreness of the posterior fauces, and apparent extension of the
irritation into one of the Eustachian tubes, [4]. ► *The fauces
experienced an uneasy sensation of dryness, which provoked a hacking and
dry cough (after twenty minutes), [5]. ► Slight
fulness in the fauces (first day); sensation of fulness in the fauces
and upper part of the larynx, and a sensation as of a lid there, which
lasted until afternoon (soon, second day); the same feeling of fulness
that was previously noted, with a disposition to hawk up mucus from the
throat, though none could be raised (third day), [11]. ►
Feeling as if a ball of red-hot iron had lodged in the fauces and whole
length of the œsophagus, when swallowing; the pain was so great that I
could eat nothing but fluid for two days; constant choking sensation, [8]. ►
*Smarting in the fauces (after a few minutes), [11a]. [210.]
► Dryness of the fauces, most in the
morning, [4]. ► Sensation of dryness of a spot in the
fauces on the left side, in the morning, continuing until after
breakfast, [4]. ► Pharynx. ►
Roughness in the pharynx (constantly), [8].
► Roughness in the pharynx, [4]. ►
Unpleasant sensation of dryness in the pharynx, towards morning, which
makes him cough, [4]. ► Sensation in the pharynx like that caused
by eating choke-pears, [4]. ► *Dry sensation in the upper part of the pharynx,
disposition to hawk and clear the throat, without affording relief
(after three hours and a quarter); dryness of the pharynx and hawking
still continues; have raised several small pieces of tough, sticky
mucus, at 9 A.M.; have ridden in open carriage three hours; sensation in
throat almost entirely gone, at 1 P.M., have been in a warm room about
two hours, and find symptoms returning, but less violent, at 5 P.M.
(second day), [26]. ► Swallowing. ►
*Difficulty of swallowing, which became so severe that he was unable to
swallow even water; every attempt to
swallow was attended with excruciating-shooting pains through both ears,
[13]. ►
*Could not swallow because the throat felt so dry and rough, [28]. ►
External Throat. ► A very
peculiar pressure and tension in the parotids, [4], [8].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. [220.] ► Raging appetite, [4]. ► Hungry
soon after eating, [4]. ► Canine hunger, [8]. ► The
usual appetite remains, notwithstanding the nausea of the stomach, [4]. ►
Diminished appetite, [4]. ► Little or no appetite for several days, [17]. ►
Loss of appetite, [8]. ► Thirst. ►
Intense thirst (after one hour and a half), [6]; (after five hours), [20]. ►
Thirst, towards morning, with the feverishness, [27]. ►
Considerable thirst (first night), [17].
► Eructations. [230.] ►
Continued eructation of gases while vomiting, [27]. ►
Eructations of sour fluid, [8]. ► Eructation of flatus, [4]. ►
Eructations, with spitting of water, [4].
► Eructations of air, [8]. ►
Eructations, [4]. ► Regurgitation of food through the evening
and until I went to sleep, [11b]. ► Hiccough. ►
Hiccough, with great inclination to vomit, but no nausea, [8]. ► Nausea and
Vomiting. ► Effects first
felt on awaking from an after-dinner nap; nausea, which passed off and
recurred in ten minutes, again passed off and recurred, was first felt
after two hours, [23]. ► Nausea, with the vertigo, immediately
followed by violent retching and vomiting, ejecting the contents of the
stomach, which consisted of the ingesta (after half an hour); vomiting
now continued at intervals of from one to five minutes, ejecting a
transparent mucus, slightly tinged with yellow, [3]. [240.] ► Nausea, on being awoke out of sleep, in
the night, [4]. ► Sickness of the stomach accompanying the
headache, [4]. ► Feeling of sickness, as if he would
vomit, [4]. ►
Sickly feeling in the stomach, [29].
► Nausea, with a very faint feeling, [8]. ►
Nausea, with severe pain in the umbilical region, [8]. ► Nausea
(after one hour), [6]. ► Nausea, with the heat in the head (after
three hours, third day), [18]. ► Slight, nausea, with the dull pressing
pain in forehead (after one hour and a quarter); somewhat relieved by
eating, but soon returning with increased severity; commenced to vomit
ingesta; vomited violently at intervals of ten or fifteen minutes;
nausea relieved, and pain in forehead increased by vomiting (after two
hours and a quarter); vomited an acrid substance, which caused a feeling
of scraping and excoriation in the throat (after three hours); continued
acrid vomiting; took a glass of warm water to prevent the empty retching
which was becoming very painful (after three hours and three-quarters);
drank another glass of warm water, and vomited again in ten minutes
(after four hours and a quarter); drank a cup of strong coffee, which
the stomach rejected in fifteen minutes (after four hours and three
quarters), [16]. ► Slight nausea most of the time (second
day), [18]. [250.] ►
Slight nausea, with profuse vomiting, without much pain attending it,
but a good deal of distress in the stomach, [8]. ► Nausea
and violent vomiting, the ingesta of a dark-red color, [9]. ► Nausea
and vomiting, the ingesta of a dark red color, [22]. ►
Nausea, followed soon by vomiting, and purging, continuing for about six
hours (after two hours), [24]. ► Deathly sickness all the time; position
made no difference about sickness, [27].
► Violent vomiting, [1]. ►
Vomiting severely and frequently (after half an hour), [29]. ► Violent
vomiting of clotted blood and slime, with retching, intense pain, and
desire for death to relieve, [19].
► Seized so suddenly with violent
cramps and vomiting that they had no time to get to bed, but lay upon
the floor, unable even to call for assistance (after half an hour), [19]. ►
Free vomiting at intervals of twenty or thirty minutes (after one hour
and a half); continued to vomit until 6 A.M. (second day), [20]. [260.]
► In about two hours after the second
dose he complained of feeling sick at his stomach, and in a few minutes
more violent vomiting began, first of food, then of greenish matter,
finally of a dark black matter, mixed with clear blood; it required
great effort to vomit; this symptom continued nearly all night, but was
somewhat relieved in the morning, and at 2 P.M. had ceased, [28]. ►
Soon after, all who had eaten of it began to vomit; the matter ejected
was first the aliment and a dark bilious substance, which came away with
as little effort as vomiting in Asiatic cholera; the vomiting and
purging continued all the afternoon, but the vomiting ceased after
taking black coffee; the emesis took place every fifteen or twenty
minutes, [17]. ► In one case there was no vomiting, but
most profound prostration, [6]. ► Repeated vomiting in two cases (after one
hour), [6]. ►
Vomiting, with but little distress in the stomach, [4]. ► The
vomiting was without effort and easy, no taste, but bitter, [27]. ►
A scruple was administered by him in nearly thirty cases, in all of
which, except in one case, it operated as an emetic, usually three or
four times thoroughly, though not severely, generally commencing its
operation on the stomach in an hour, and rarely continuing longer than
four. He found it to excite little or no nausea previous to its
operation, and though it made a powerful impression on the system, it
never produced any disagreeable or unusual symptoms, [3]. ► Ten
grains of the powder will rarely remain on the stomach, and twenty or
thirty produce a powerful operation by emesis, and generally by
catharsis. In its mode of operation this medicine has some
peculiarities, a part of which are favorable, others disadvantageous.
Its advantages are, that it operates with ease and seldom occasions pain
or cramp. Its disadvantages are: 1. That it is slow in its effects,
frequently not beginning to operate until an hour, and sometimes two
hours, after it is taken. 2. That it continues to operate for a greater
length of time than is usual for emetics, although, as far as I have
been able to observe, it is readily checked by an opiate. These
disadvantages, however, are not constant; I have repeatedly known it
commence operating in fifteen minutes, and cease after four or five
ejections. The representations of patients as to any unpleasant feelings
under its effects are not greater than we should naturally expect, when
it is recollected that no emetic is altogether comfortable in its
operation, [2]. ► The substances vomited appeared
dark-brownish in color at first, afterwards light-yellow, [24]. ► Soon
commenced vomiting, first the contents of stomach, and afterwards a
bitter watery mess, which continued almost incessantly from 9.30 P.M.
until 5 A.M., [27]. [270.] ►
During the third attack of nausea colic and purging began; the pain was
not severe, and had no special characteristic; he vomited and purged ten
or twelve times with so little discomfort, that he calls it the best
evacuant that he ever took, [23]. ► Stomach. ►
Tenderness to the touch of the pit of the stomach, [4]. ►
Epigastric tenderness (second day), [20].
► Feeling of weakness at the stomach,
which caused frequent yawning, that was attended by a stitching pain
through the part, [11b]. ► Great oppression of the epigastric
region, with a sensation of weight (after one hour and a half), [6]. ►
Burning pain in epigastric region (after one hour and a half), [29]. ►
Great distress in the stomach and bowels, [8].
► In great agony; complained of his
stomach, where he felt constrictive gripings, [22]. ► In
great agony; he complained of his stomach, saying that it was pinched
together, [9]. ► General disturbed feeling in the stomach,
with dulness in the head, increasing for an hour (after half an hour);
felt better immediately on going into the open air; sat down to tea;
unpleasant feeling in the head and stomach returned; could eat nothing;
head and stomach symptoms have nearly all disappeared (after three hours
and a quarter), [26]. [280.] ►
When completely aroused from their narcotism, they complained of intense
epigastric pain, great thirst, and chilliness (after five hours), [20]. ►
Severe pain in the stomach, on pressure, causing him to cry out, [9]. ►
Pain in the stomach (after five hours), [15].
► While riding, I had a simple aching
pain in the region of the pylorus, which gradually worked up into the
chest on the same side (after one hour and a half, third day), [11]. ►
With the stools much pain in the stomach, upon pressure, which made him
cry, [22]. ►
Pain in the region of the pylorus, [4].
► Pains in the cardiac portion of the
stomach, aggravated by a full inspiration and by walking, [8]. ► The
pain at the pit of the stomach felt like a pain resulting from traumatic
injury, [5]. ►
Bruised and sore feeling at the pit of stomach, with pain in the same
place (second day), [16]. ► Intense burning pain in the stomach and
bowels, which seemed swollen, and became very sore (after two hours, and
again at 9.30 P.M., third day), [24].
[290.] ►
A burning sensation in the stomach, with tenderness of the bowels, and a
peculiar heat in the rectum, which is soon followed by tenesmus and
mucous and bloody discharges, [10].
► Violent pressure in the stomach, on
waking, in the morning, with accumulation of water in the mouth;
disappears after rising, [4]. ► Cutting in the pit of the stomach and in
the abdomen, [4]. ► Cutting-tearing straining pains in the
stomach, followed by soreness to pressure, [19]. ► Heat
in the stomach, after taking the drug (third day), [12]. ► The
symptoms of the stomach, throat, and mouth are worse in the morning, [4].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Heavy
aching pain in hypochondrium, which left as soon as leucorrhœa
commenced, [27]. ► Digging pain in the right hypochondrium,
in the upper and outer portion of the liver, preventing motion; first
felt at 2 P.M., then every morning before daylight, some soreness
remaining through the afternoon and evening, [4]. ► Cannot
lie on the right side, after midnight, on account of penetrating pain in
the right hypochondrium, [4]. ► Violent dull pressing pain in the left
hypochondrium, in the evening, so that he cannot remain in the sitting
posture; he lies on the painful side all night, and the pain is gone the
next morning, [4]. [300.] ►
Recurrence of pain in abdomen, in evening (this pain finally located
itself in the splenic region), (fourth day), [24]. ► Pain
in the left hypochondriac region, when walking, [8]. ► The
diarrhœa appears to be kept up by the increased action of the liver and
consequent redundancy of bile, with but little tormina and tenesmus, [4]. ►
Umbilical. ► Constant dull
pain in the umbilical region, worse by motion, [8]. ► Great
distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, [8]. ► Burning
distress in the umbilical region, [8].
► Burning-griping pains in the
umbilical region, [9]. ► Burning-griping pains in the region of
the umbilicus, [22]. ► Violent cramping pain about the
umbilicus, soon followed by a copious discharge from the bowels, [5]. ►
Boring pain to the left and a little above the umbilicus continuing but
a few minutes, [4]. [310.] ►
Severe colicky pains in the umbilical region, [8]. ► A pain
which commenced at the scrobiculus became intolerable, [5]. ► Pain in
the umbilical region, with desire for stool, [8]. ► General
Abdomen. ► Frequent
passage of wind downwards, [4]. ► Wind passes the bowels constantly, of a
very fetid nature, [8]. ► Flatus was abundant, [14]. ►
Emission of flatus relieves the pain in the bowels, [8]. ►
Rumbling noise in the bowels, [4].
► Rumbling in the bowels, sometimes
with desire for stool, [8]. ► Great rumbling in the bowels, with pain
in the umbilical region, [8]. [320.] ►
Bowels very tender on pressure, and pain severely when walking, [8]. ►
Very weak, especially in the abdomen (second day), [17]. ►
Considerable griping pains and cramp in the abdomen, with the purging,
in the afternoon (first day), [17].
► Griping pain in abdomen, as before
a diarrhœa, [19]. ► Griping in bowels (after one hour and a
half), [29]. ►
Griping pains, without diarrhœa, [4].
► Griping all day long, followed by
the passage of offensive flatus; the griping disappears in the night, [4]. ►
Griping pain, as before a diarrhœa, [4].
► Sensation in the bowels as if a
diarrhœa would follow, [4]. ► Bowels felt like moving, but did not, [27]. [330.]
► Cutting in the abdomen, [4]. ►
Some of the abdominal symptoms disappear in the night, [4]. ► Pain in
the region of the transverse colon, at 7 A.M. (second day), [18]. ►
Deepseated but not severe pain in the left iliac region, [4]. ►
Neuralgic pain in the left groin, [4].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
If continued it produces permanent hæmorrhoids, [10]. ►
Peculiar heat in the rectum, with the burning sensation in the stomach, [10]. ►
In the middle of the night, neuralgic pain shooting from the anus and
the lower part of the rectum along the perineum, to the middle of the
penis, followed in a few minutes by a neuralgic pain in the right great
toe, [4]. ►
Continual inclination to go to stool, with much straining, [19]. ►
Continual inclination to go to stool, [4].
STOOL.
[340.]
► Violent purging, [1]. ►
Purging, severely and frequently (after half an hour), [29]. ► Severe
purging after the vomiting; the stools were thin, dark-brown, [9]. ►
Diarrhœa, with sickly feeling in the bowels; copious discharges of blood, mucus, and what looked like scrapings of the
inner surface of the intestines; involuntary stools, from
straining, which continued even in sleep, [19].
► Purging all the afternoon, with
considerable griping pains and cramps in the abdomen; in the night the
passages were without pain; the diarrhœa continued several days, [17]. ►
Diarrhœa, which lasted three mornings, after the other symptoms had
passed off; the dejections were very abundant, and did not cease until
they became almost watery; they came on at 1 or 2 A.M., and lasted until
after breakfast, [14]. ► At the same time the vomiting began
diarrhœa set in, with fearful tenesmus; could not leave stool for a
moment; the pain did not cease for an instant; the stool was at first
yellow, then of greenish matter, finally dark bloody matter, this
continued all night, and in the morning was somewhat relieved, and at 2
P.M. had ceased, [28]. ► Diarrhœa, attended with a sickly feeling
in the bowels, but no tormina or tenesmus, [4]. ► Purging
(after one hour and a half); half ceased (fifth hour), [20]. ►
Purging, [7]. [350.] ►
Purging continued for about six hours (after two hours), [24]. ►
Copious discharge of bile from the bowels, [4]. ► Copious
discharge from the bowels, soon after a violent cramping pain about the
umbilicus, [5]. ► If continued, it sometimes produces
dysentery, [10]. ► Had usual full and satisfactory stool, at
9.30 A.M. had another full stool, unusual,
at 2.30 P.M.; another natural stool, very unusual, at 7 P.M. (second
day), [26]. ►
(The bowels, which have been more than usually loose for the past six
weeks, have been more regular since I began taking the medicine (fourth
day); more constipated), (fifth day), [11].
► Three stools during the day, the
first one is hard and preceded by griping, and the others with pains
moving about in the abdomen, [4]. ► After the vomiting had ceased, there were
a number of liquid, dark-brown stools, with much pain in the stomach
upon pressure, which made him cry, [22].
► Mushy stool, [4]. ► Stools
during the first days light-yellow, loose, and very loud, [24]. [360.] ► Mucous and bloody discharges and tenesmus
soon follow the heat in the rectum, [10].
► Stool soft and mushy, with
undigested food in it, sometimes with straining, [8]. ► Stool
of mucus, with straining, [8]. ► Stool soft and mushy, [8]. ► Soft
papescent stool, followed by a very faint feeling, [8]. ► Dark,
papescent stools, with undigested food in them, [8]. ► Dark
lumpy stool, [8]. ► Hard stools, [4].® 2000
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