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PTELEA TRIFOLIATA. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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PTELEA TRIFOLIATA.


EYE.

►
Pressure over the eyes, aggravated by lifting the eyebrows (after half
an hour), [1c]. ► Heavy feeling over the eyes (fourth day),
[6a]. ►
Cutting pains over right eye, sometimes left (eleventh day), [6a]. [210.]
► Occasional throbbing pain over
eyes, first right, then left (fifth day), [6a].
► After going to bed, severe
throbbing pains over eyes, first right, then left (ninth day), [6a]. ►
Throbbing pain over right eye (thirteenth day); sometimes shooting from
the root of nose upward (fourteenth day), [6a].
► Throbbing pains over left eye, also
in right temporal region (twenty-first day), [6a]. ►
Sensitiveness to the light (fourth day), [2],
[2a]. ►
Nervous weakness of the eyes (tenth day), [2].
► Nervous irritability of the eyes
(third day), [2a]. ► Smarting of the eyes (after six hours,
second day), [4c]. ► Eyes heavy (twenty-first and thirty-first
days), [6a]. ►
Pupils contracted (after second dose, third day), [7a].
   

EAR.

[220.]
► Soreness and swelling of lymphatic
gland under right ear (fourteenth day), [6].
► Swelling of lymphatic gland under
right ear (twenty-third day); swelling of lymphatics disappearing
(twenty-eighth day), [6a]. ► At 6 P.M., soon after taking the drug,
had a pain behind the right ear; also twice during the evening (second
day), [5]. ►
About half an hour after taking drug, had a sharp pain behind the right
ear, near the carotid artery (third day), [5].
► Pain behind right ear, at 3 P.M.
(third day), [5]. ► Pain behind right ear, at 6 P.M.; hard,
at 10 P.M. (fourth day), [5]. ► Awoke from nap, at 5 P.M., with pain
behind right ear and in shoulder, near the spine of right scapula (fifth
day), [5]. ►
A few minutes after taking drug, had a very severe pain in the right ear
(sixth day), [5]. ► At 9 A.M. felt a sharp pain behind the
right ear; has not felt one since the last proving, and never any before
that (third day), [5a]. ► Pain behind the right ear, which she felt
certain was caused by the drug (soon, seventh day), [5a]. [230.] ► Occasional stitches behind the right ear
(fifth day), [5]. ► Shooting pains from left ear down to the
spine (thirty-first day), [6a]. ► Sharp pain in left ear, at 8 A.M. (eighth
day), [5a]. ►
Intolerance of loud talking; a voice usually pleasant sounds very coarse
and rough; thought that it would produce spasms if he were obliged to
listen; impression produced by the sound heard last continues a long
time (four hours and a half after fourth dose), [7a]. ► At
7.30 A.M. ringing in the ears, with slight giddiness, the ringing lasted
for two or three minutes, and returning for the same length of time,
half an hour later (second day), [1a].
► Roaring in the ears (third morning,
fourth and fifth days), [11]. ► Roaring in the ears, which increases in
severity towards evening (tenth day), [11].
   

NOSE.

►
Sneezing (seventh day), [11]. ► Influenza (seventh day), [11]. ►
Catarrhal symptoms less severe (ninth day), [11]. [240.] ► Nose stuffed up (seventh day), [11]. ►
Soreness of nasal passages (seventh day), [11].
► Breath seems to burn the nostrils
(after two hours, second day), [4c].
► Breath seems so hot that it
irritates the nostrils (third day), [4c].
► Pressure in the nose (fourth day), [6a].
   

FACE.

►
Sickly paleness of the face, especially around the eyes (after three
hours), [1c]. ► The face is yellowish, and the skin feels
dry and hard (seventh morning), [1a].
► Slight burning in face from 2 to 6
P.M. (third day), [5]. ► Pain in right zygoma (seventh day), [11]. ►
Nervous twitching of upper lip, extending to left eye (seventh day), [6a]. [250.]
► Lips cracked (third evening), [2a]. ►
Lips cracked and sore (half an hour after fourth dose), [2]. ► Dryness
of the lips and tongue (after three hours), [1c].
   

MOUTH.

►
Teeth.
► Since the proving
one of the right molar teeth of lower jaw has commenced to decay, but
whether the effect of the remedy or not was uncertain, [6a]. ► Teeth
all ache and feel sore (after three hours, third day), [4c]. ► Aching
of right molar teeth, lower jaw, at 7. P.M. (first day), [6a]. ►
Toothache on right side (fourteenth day), [6a].
► Aching of right molar teeth, lower
jaw, after going to bed (thirty-first and thirty-third days), [6a]. ►
Aching of right molar teeth, lasting only a few minutes, at 2 P.M.,
returning at 6 P.M., lasting the remainder of the evening (fifth day), [6]. [260.]
► Pain in carious tooth, with extreme
sensitiveness; soreness of the gums; all the teeth feel sensitive, with
a dull, aching pain, in the evening (fourth day), [11]. ► Teeth
feel as if elongated (thirteenth day), [6a].
► Sensation as if food were lodged
between the teeth on right side, commencing at lower jaw, extending to
upper (thirteenth day), [6a]. ► Tongue. ►
Yesterday the tongue was slightly swollen, and had white fur on it; more
of swelling and fur to day, with burning of the mouth and lips, as if
touched with tincture of Aconite (fifth day), [10a]. ►
Tongue coated yellow and feeling rough (second day), [4c]. ► Tongue
yellow, coated along the centre and base (third day), [4c]. ► Tongue
coated yellow, and the papillæ were red and prominent (sixth night), [1a]. ►
Tongue coated yellowish, with red papillæ (fifth day), [1b]. ►
Yellow-coated tongue (fifth and thirty-first days), [1c]. ► Furred
tongue (fourth and fifth days), [3].
[270.] ►
The tongue, which had hitherto been clean, was coated with a yellowish
fur, and the nausea was persistent (sixth day), [1]. ► Tongue
dry and coated light brown (second day), [1c].
► Tongue dry and coated brownish
yellow (twelfth day), [1]. ► Roughness of back part of tongue, with
the nausea (first day), [1a]. ► Dorsum of tongue sore on right side,
causing painful mastication and deglutition (fifteenth day); right side
of tongue inflamed not swollen (sixteenth day), [6a]. ►
Feeling as if the tongue had been cut in the middle, and was just
healing up, at 10 A.M. (fifth day), [6].
► Tongue feeling as if it had been
scalded; the whole upper surface feels as after taking Aconite (after
three hours), [4c]. ► Tongue felt as if it were scalded, all
day (first day), [4c]. ► Tongue feeling as if it had been burned
(after two hours, second day), [4c].
► Acrid feeling in the tongue (after
six hours, second day), [4c]. [280.] ►
Biting sensation in the tongue, with increased secretion of saliva
(third day), [4c]. ► Stinging, biting sensation all over the
tongue (after three hours, third day), [4c].
► Tongue smarts and prickles, and
burns a little (eleventh to fourteenth day), [12]. ► Slight
pains about the root of the tongue, worse on the left side (after five
hours), [13]. ► General Mouth. ►
Soft palate and uvula inflamed (fifteenth day), [6a]. ► Breath
hot (twenty-first day), [6a]. ► Mouth and throat dry (fifth day), [5]. ►
Mouth and throat very dry (sixth night), [5].
► Parched mouth, on awaking (second
day), [2]. ►
Bitterness in the mouth, with dryness (after forty-five minutes), [1c]. [290.]
► Dryness of the mouth, with bitter
taste (after one hour and fifty-five minutes), [1c]. ► Great
dryness of the mouth, at 11.15 P.M. (second day), [1c]. ►
Dryness of the mouth (fifth day), [1c].
► Saliva. ► Saliva very profuse; ran from the mouth
during sleep, and wet the pillow (first night); saliva flowed from mouth
very profusely during the night (second night); perceptible increase in
the flow of saliva (third day); troublesome drivelling (third night);
saliva not so troublesome (fourth night); unusual quantity of saliva,
thin and watery (fifth day); drivelling (fifth night); great increase in
the amount of the saliva (sixth day), [2].
► During the afternoon noticed an
increase in the amount of saliva. Spitting became frequent, though
unusual in health (third day); saliva is greatly increased in quantity,
and keeps up a constant drivelling while lying on the face (fourth day);
saliva very abundant at 12.30; not troublesome at 9 P.M. (fifth day); an
unusual amount of saliva has troubled the prover ever since, [2a]. ►
Increased flow of saliva that tastes saltish (after three hours, third
day), [4c]. ►
Increased secretion of saliva, with biting sensation in the tongue
(third day), [4c]. ► Slight ptyalism (seventh, eighth, ninth,
eleventh to fourteenth day), [12].
► Slight salivation (twenty-seventh
day), [12]. ► Taste. ►
In the morning everything tastes and smells sour (twenty-third day), [6a]. [300.] ►
Bitter taste in the mouth, with the colic (fifth morning), [6a]. ►
Peculiar bitter, herby taste, [13].
► Bitter taste in the mouth (sixth
and twelfth days), [1]; (second
and fifth days), [1c];
(thirty-first day), [6a]. ► Bitter taste in mouth, with absence of
thirst (fifth day, [1b]. ► Bitter taste in the mouth, with dryness
(sixth night), [1a]. ► Brassy taste in the mouth (sixth day), [10a]. ►
Rough, flat taste in the mouth (third day), [4c]. ► The
taste of the medicine continually returning in gusts to the mouth; a
feeling as if vomiting would relieve (after half an hour), [1c]. ►
At dinner all food seemed tasteless (second day), [1a]. ► Food
has not its natural taste (seventh day), [1a].
[310.] ►
Food has an unnatural taste, as on recovery from a long illness (fifth
day), [1b]. ►
Nothing tastes natural (after two hours, second day), [4c]. ► Speech.
► Unable to speak aloud for some
time, on waking (seventh morning), [5].
   

THROAT.

►
Throat ulcerated on right side (sixteenth day); throat bitter
(seventeenth day), [6a]. ► Throat sore on right side, at 8 P.M.
(thirteenth day); at 2 P.M.; passed off about 4 P.M. (fourteenth day), [6a]. ►
Throat sore, growing worse in the afternoon (fourth day); worse (fifth
day), [6]. ►
Throat sore (twenty-first day), [6a].
► Slight burning in throat (eighth
day), [12]. ►
Before rising felt pricking pains through and in the throat particularly
in the tonsils and larynx, lasting several minutes, and quite severe
(third morning), [11]. ► Unpleasant feeling in the throat, all the
afternoon (sixth day), [5]. [320.] ►
Sense of dryness, high up in the throat, apparently back of the palate
(after five hours), [13]. ► Fauces. ►
Soreness and inflammation of fauces, worse on right side (fifteenth
day), [6a]. ►
Roughness of the fauces, with feeling as if vomiting would come on (in a
few minutes, first day), [1]. ► Fauces feel sore (fourth day), [4a]. ►
Pharynx.
► Hawking of
mucus from the pharynx (after three hours), [1c]. ►
Choking feeling in the pharynx, with slight vertigo (after thirteen
hours, third day), [1a]. ► Constriction of the pharynx, at 1.30 and
9 P.M. (third day), [2]. ► Œsophagus. ►
Heat and dryness of the œsophagus, as before (sixth day), [5]. ►
A distressing feeling of emptiness in œsophagus (thirty-first day), [6a].
   

STOMACH.

►
Appetite.
► At supper
voracious appetite, followed by pain in the epigastric region (sixth
day), [3a]. [330.] ►
*Appetite voracious
(seventh day), [1a]. ►
Increasing appetite (third and fourth days); hungry all the time (fifth
day); awoke with hunger and headache, both of which passed off after a
hearty breakfast (eighth day), [5a].
► Appetite somewhat increased, at 9
P.M. (third day), [5]. ► Was quite hungry, but did not eat very
heartily (second evening); had an abnormal appetite, but his food did
not distress him (third morning); appetite remained quite good for two
weeks (after the proving), [8]. ► Appetite about the same as usual, except
he gets tired before he gets through eating (fifth day); less appetite
(tenth day), [10a]. ► The appetite was much increased for the
first few days of the proving, after which it diminished; no particular
loathing of food, but rather an indifference to it, [11]. ►
Appetite was indifferently good, but food still tasteless (after fifteen
and a half hours, second day), [1a].
► At dinner the appetite not as good
as usual, though before the proving it had been keen. Throughout the
meal the same faint nausea persisted (first day), [1a]. ►
Appetite good at dinner, but entirely absent at supper-time (first day),
[1]. ►
Little appetite for breakfast; the bread seemed tasteless (second day), [1a]. [340.]
► At dinner appetite very poor, after
driving in the cool air all the forenoon (first day), [1b]. ►
Appetite deficient (fifth day), [1b].
► Very little appetite, after eleven
hours’ abstinence, with a strong repugnance to butter (after four hours
and thirty-five minute), [1c]. ► Appetite at breakfast poor, with the
usual repugnance to butter (second day), [1c].
► Deficient appetite, with pain in
liver (fourth day), [1c]. ► Appetite at breakfast very poor, with
muddled feeling in the head (seventh day), [1c]. ►
Appetite poor; ate a light breakfast, which seemed to afford some relief
(seventh day), [2]. ► Appetite not very good (third day), [2a]. ►
Appetite poor (third, fourth, and fifth days), [3]. ►
Appetite all gone (fourth day), [2a].
[350.] ►
No appetite (ninth day), [6]. ► Unusual hunger, craving for acid food, at
6 A.M. (fifth day), [2]. ► Desire for acid food (fourth and fifth
days), [3]. ►
Before taking the dose had a good appetite, but after swallowing it,
found that he could not bear the sight or smell of food, especially of
roast beef, [1c]. ► At dinner, marked repugnance to butter
and fatty foods (second day), [1b].
► At breakfast, repugnance to butter;
even a small quantity aggravates the epigastric pain (sixth day), [1b]. ►
At dinner, a complete repugnance to animal food, although there was less
nausea than on the preceding day; unable to eat rich pudding, of which
he is ordinarily fond (third day), [1a].
► At dinner, complete disgust at
animal food, unable to eat any, and the appetite was very poor (fourth
day), [1a]. ► Thirst. ►
Thirsty and drank a great deal of water (fourth and fifth days), [3]. ►
Thirsty, with a dry feeling all over the system (ninth day), [2]. [360.]
► Thirsty (half an hour after fourth
dose), [2]. ►
Absence of thirst, with bitter taste in mouth (fifth day), [1b]. ►
No thirst (second day), [1a]. ► Eructations and Hiccough. ► Frequent eructations of wind from the
stomach (thirty-first day), [6a]. ► Eructations of sour fluid from the
stomach (first day), [4]. ► Eructations, with a bitter taste in the
mouth, causing nausea and abortive attempts at vomiting (after four
hours and twenty minutes, second day), [1b].
► Eructations of a bitter taste, with
slight nausea (after seven hours and a half), [1b]. ►
Eructations, almost bringing on emesis (fourth day), [1a]. ►
Eructations tasting of rotten eggs (fourth day), [1a]. ►
Eructations tasting of the medicine, with increased nausea (after
forty-five minutes), [1c]. [370.] ►
Regurgitation tasting of the medicine, but with little nausea (after
half an hour, third day), [1a]. ► Eructations tasting of Ptelea (after
three hours and twenty minutes), [1c].
► Rising of bitter fluid, with a
deathly nausea, confusion of the head, and sweat on forehead, at 1 A.M.
(fifth day), [1]. ► Sour risings from the stomach, at 4 P.M.
(fifth day), [1]. ► Sour risings from the stomach, with
feeling of weight and uneasiness in the stomach (after six hours and
fifty minutes, third day), [1a]. ► Eructation of wind (after first and
second doses, third day), [2a]. ► Hiccough, at 3 P.M. (third day), [5]. ►
Heartburn.
► Awoke in
after part of the night with heart-burn, and a sensation of fine,
violent, agitation of all the muscles of the body and limbs, worse in
hands and fingers; this sensation passed away gradually in about five
minutes (first night), [7]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Some nausea, [13]. ► Severe
nausea for five minutes, with distress in the umbilicus, and dull,
pressive headache (after eight hours), [4a].
[380.] ►
Constant nausea (one hour after second dose), [7a]. ► Slight
but persistent nausea, not at all disagreeable, somewhat resembling the
effect of a few inhalations of sulphuric ether, at 9.30 A.M. (first
day), [1]. ►
Slight but persistent nausea, from 9 till 11 P.M. (first day), [1]. ►
Nausea, with pressive feeling at the base of the brain (first day), [1]. ►
Nausea, with feverish heat and pain in the limbs (second day), [1]. ►
Increased nausea, with heat of skin and profuse perspiration on the
forehead, after dinner (third and fourth days), [1]. ► Nausea
all the afternoon and evening, with splitting headache, incapacitating
for mental exertion (fifth day), [1].
► Persistent nausea and vomiting,
with giddiness of the head, and a feeling as if unsteady in the legs
(tenth day), [1]. ► Some nausea for two minutes, with efforts
to vomit (after six hours, third day), [4c].
► Sensation of nausea (soon after
first dose), [2]. [390.] ►
Nausea for a few minutes (after fourth dose), [2]. ► Nausea,
with full, throbbing headache and dizziness (ten minutes after second
dose, second day), [2]. ► Slight nausea, at 5 P.M. (fourth day), [2]. ►
A very mild nausea, by no means unpleasant, lasted during the whole
forenoon (first day), [1a]. ► Slight nausea, rising from the stomach
upwards, accompanied by roughness of the back part of the tongue (first
day), [1a]. ►
Nausea and pressing pain in the forehead; the pain presses from within
outwards (first day), [1a]. ► At 9.30 P.M., nausea, with rumbling in
the bowels, accompanied with discharge of flatus, with desire for stool
(first day), [1a]. ► Nausea, aggravates by lying down (first
day), [1a]. ►
Singing increases the nausea, and aggravates the headache, causing
shooting pains from within outwards (second day), [1a]. ► Nausea
is much worse on walking (after eight hours and a half, second day), [1a]. [400.] ►
Less nausea; stomach feels weak (third day), [1a]. ►
Pressure aggravates the nausea (sixth day), [1a]. ►
Speaking aggravated the nausea (after forty-five minutes), [1c]. ►
Rising aggravates the nausea (after one hour and forty-five minutes), [1c]. ►
Slight nausea (after first dose); nausea (soon after first and second
doses, second day), [2a]. ► Feeling of nausea (after third dose,
second day), [3]. ► Mild nausea, with slight griping pain in
stomach, preceded and accompanied the vertigo (after eight hours, second
day), [1b]. ►
Nausea (thirty-first day), [6a]. ► Slight feeling of nausea, with the hard
pain in the epigastrium (sixth day), [5a].
► Slight nausea (after second dose), [11]. [410.]
► Burning and qualmishness at the
stomach, with pain on pressure (after forty-five minutes), [1c]. ►
Qualmishness increased (after forty-five minutes), [1c]. ►
Qualmishness of the stomach, with weight and pain in the right
hypochondriac region (after eight hours, fourth day), [1b]. ►
Retching, with increase of frontal headache (third and fourth days), [1]. ►
Nausea and vomiting soon followed, although no relief came after the
vomiting (twelfth day), [1]. ► Stomach. ►
Rumbling in the stomach, with inclination to vomit (soon), [1c]. ►
Stomach sour (sixth day), [10a]. ► Sour stomach and a dull, heavy pain,
extending around the small of the back, after taking the drug (fifth
day), [10a]. ►
Slight sickness at stomach (tenth day), [12].
► Epigastric region is sore to touch
(sixth day), [1a]. [420.] ►
When awake, during night, felt that the weight at the stomach was much
worse than during the day (third night), [1a].
► At breakfast he ate some pudding;
symptoms all aggravated at once, especially the heaviness at the stomach
and the difficulty of concentrating thought (fourth day), [1a]. ► At
dinner ate roast beef and pudding; pain and distress in the stomach soon
after, with feeling as if a stone were there (fifth day), [1a]. ► Awoke
with a weight at the stomach (sixth day), [1a].
► An immediate feeling of heaviness
in the stomach (after first and second doses, third day), [2a]. ► Burden
in stomach, soon after dinner (second day), [2]. ► Weight
and fulness in the stomach, one hour after eating a light breakfast
(after one hour and a quarter), [1b].
► A very moderate meal was followed
in half an hour by a sensation of stuffing and fulness (second day), [1b]. ►
Weight in the stomach, with bloating in the abdomen, on waking (second
day), [1b]. ►
Awakened at 1 A.M. by a pressing pain in the stomach; a feeling as of a
weight; worse on motion, and aggravated by pressure with the hands
(fifth day), [1]. [430.] ►
Constant distress in the epigastric region and right hypochondrium, with
drawing pains in the fingers and ankles, for one hour (after six hours,
fifth day); not so severe (sixth day), [4b].
► Dull distress in the stomach, with
fine stitches in the right temple (after forty minutes), [4c]. ►
Constant distress in the stomach, with darting pains in right temple
(after one hour), [4c]. ► Breakfast relieved the distress in the
stomach (after one hour and ten minutes), [4c].
► Frequent distress in the stomach
(first day), [4c]. ► Distress in the epigastrium (after two
hours, second day), [4c]. ► Burning distress in the epigastrium (not
severe), (third day), [4c]. ► Distress in the epigastric region (after
one hour), [4a]. ► Oppression at the epigastrium, at 11 A.M.
(third day), [2]. ► Attended to his duties as usual, but felt
such an oppression and weakness at the stomach that he had no heart to
work (third day), [1a]. [440.] ►
Faint feeling in the stomach, with sourish rising (after eight hours and
a half, second day), [1a]. ► A faint feeling in stomach (fifth day), [5]. ►
Stomach feels empty (fourth day), [6].
► Empty feeling in stomach, after
dinner (first day), [2]. ► Immediately after eating dinner the
stomach seemed perfectly empty; very troublesome sensation of goneness
(eighth day), [2]. ► Slight burning in stomach (eighth day), [12]. ►
*Pressure as of a stone at the pit of the stomach, aggravated by a light
meal
(third day), [1c].
► *Pressure in the stomach, after a
light meal (fifth day), [1b]. ► Soreness at pit of stomach (third day), [3]. ►
Pain at the stomach follows every meal (seventh day), [1a]. [450.] ► Pain in stomach and umbilicus set in with
vigor (after third dose, third day), [2a].
► Pain in the epigastric region after
supper (sixth day), [1a]. ► Pain in stomach (fourth day), [2]. ►
Griping in the stomach, with sharp pain on slight pressure (after three
hours and fifty minutes), [1b]. ► Griping, contractive pain in the stomach,
for half an hour (after four hours), [1c].
► Griping in the epigastric region
(fifth day), [1c]. ► Griping pain in the epigastrium,
aggravated by speaking and by deep respiration; pressure aggravates the
pain and causes nausea (after forty minutes, third day), [1b]. ► In bed
the griping pain in the epigastric region worse than during the day, and
the abdomen swollen, but not painful (second day), [1a]. ►
Occasional sharp pains in the stomach (fifth day), [4a]. ► Rapid
motion causes sharp pain in the right epigastric and hypochondriac
regions (second day), [1c]. [460.] ►
At 9 A.M., felt a hard pain in the epigastrium, with slight feeling of
nausea for about five minutes, and afterwards, three or four times
during the day (sixth day), [5a]. ► When bending the body, cramplike pains in
cardiac region (twelfth day), [6a].
► Slight colicky pain in the
epigastric region (fourth day), [4].
► In the afternoon frequent, cutting
pains in the epigastric and umbilical regions (first day), [4b]. ►
Severe aching pain in the stomach, with giddiness (seventh day), [1]. ►
Aching pains, with occasional sticking in the region of the diaphragm
(third day), [1a]. ► Continued speaking, even for five
minutes, causes stitching pains in the diaphragm (second day), [1b]. ►
A squeezing pain in the epigastric region (after thirteen and
three-quarter hours, second day), [1a].
► Throbbing pain in the epigastric
region, aggravated by full and deep respiration (fifth day), [1a]. ►
Awakened by gastric and hepatic symptoms, all of which are aggravated
towards morning (sixth day), [1c].
[470.] ►
Eating a very small piece of cheese aggravated all the gastric and
hepatic symptoms (second day), [1c].
► Feeling as of sand in the stomach,
at 5 P.M. (fourth day), [2]. ► Some unpleasant sensation in stomach, at
9 P.M. (first day), [3]. ► Evident signs of gastralgia (fourth day),
[2].

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