CAINCA.
Chiococca racemosa (L.) Jacq. Nat. order,
Rubiaceæ. Preparation, Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
1, Dr. Koch,
took the infusion, A. Z. f. Hom., 2 (day-books, translated in N. Am. J. of Hom., 2, 50); 2, Wimer, ibid., took an infusion; 3,
Ibid., a young man took 150 and 200 drops of the tincture; 4,
Ibid., a young man took 100 to 700 drops of the tincture; 5,
Ibid., the same prover took, at another time, 20 to 150 drops of the tincture; 6, Dr. Lippe took the 2d dilution.
MIND.
► Feeling of anxiety,
with increased warmth of the lower abdomen (soon after), [3].
HEAD.
► Vertigo. ► Vertigo, [2]. ► Symptoms of giddiness and sickness (after four hours), [4]. ► On going upstairs,
he became giddy, [5]. ►
Giddiness, with vomiturition, [5]. ► Sensations (In General). ►
Heaviness of the head, [2]. ►
Very violent headache, [2]. ►
Severe headache, particularly in the occiput, forbidding reading and every intellectual
exertion, [6]. ►
Sensations (Local). ► Pressure in the
sinciput, [4]. [10.]
► Darting pains in right half of sinciput, [4]. ► Forepart of the head
uneasy, [4]. ►
Heaviness, pressure, and uneasiness of front of head, [4].
► Piercing pain in right temple (after four hours), [4]. ► Feeling of weight
and pressure in occiput, [4].
EYE.
► As his eyes gave him
so much pain, as the sight was considerably impaired, and both upper eyelids began to be
again œdematous, he found himself forced to give up taking the medicine, and to employ
antidotes, [5]. ►
Burning in the eyes, [6]. ►
Increased sensibility of the eyes, [2]. ► Lids. ► Right lower
eyelid œdematous, afterwards a minute pustular point was discerned, which again
disappeared, [4]. ►
Œdema of left upper eyelid, lasting five days; it then became red and wrinkled, and there
was considerable itchiness in it at intervals, [5]. ► Ball. [20.] ► Pressure in eyeballs, [5].
► Pressure in the eyeballs from above downwards and from
below upwards, with sensation as if the eyeballs were pressed and the light fell only from
above, with troubled vision for five minutes, returning after half an hour, [5]. ► Vision. ► Photophobia (seventh to tenth days), [6]. ► On waking from afternoon
sleep, he could not, for a quarter of an hour, see clearly in the open air, from a mist
before the eyes (after eight hours), [4]. ► Before 12 o’clock, as it were clouds before the right eye
(second day), [4].
EAR.
► Intolerable hissing
in the ears, [2]. ►
Roaring and buzzing in the ears, as if from a swarm of insects in the air, [2].
NOSE.
► Violent catarrh of
thin mucus, excoriating the nose, especially in the daytime (twelfth to eighteenth days), [6].
FACE.
► Heat of the face, [2].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► After dinner, obliged to clean the teeth of a great quantity
of paplike mucus, [5]. [30.]
► In evening, tearing pains in the teeth of the upper
jaw, [4]. ► Tongue.
► Tongue coated with mucus, [2]. ► Tongue furred white
(seventh to sixteenth days), [6]. ► Tongue exceedingly dry, with a white and very dark coating, [2]. ► General Mouth.
► Offensive smell of the breath, [4]. ► On awaking, offensive smell
of the mouth (second day), [4]. ► Saliva. ► While it was
taken, there was considerable salivation, [1]. ► Saliva seemed no longer to be secreted, [2]. ► Taste. ► Taste perverted, [2]. ► Taste in the whole mouth like that of the sloe, bitter, the
teeth set on edge, [2]. [40.]
► Mucous, insipid taste, [4].
► Drug tasted like apple-wine, first sweetish, then
bitter and burning, [2].
THROAT.
► Ulcers in the
throat to the Eustachian tube (eighth, ninth, and tenth days), [6]. ► Inflammation of the throat
(seventh day), with foul-smelling salivary flow (eighth, ninth, and tenth days), [6]. ► Distressing
dryness in throat (soon after), [3]. ► Through the day, some roughness of the throat, [4]. ► Obliged to hawk often from
irritation of the upper part of the throat, [5]. ► Burning and grating pain in throat, [2]. ► Rawness of throat, with
taste like that of pepper in it, [4]. ► Rawness and dryness of throat, requiring frequent clearing of
it, [4]. [50.] ► Grating feeling of rawness in throat, which afterwards became
drier, so as to make him hawk (immediately), [4]. ► Grating sensation in throat (after first dose), which
increased more and more as the doses followed quickly on one another. If the doses are large
and frequent, this feeling becomes so distressing that it might well drive one mad, if one
were to take large quantities in the form indicated all through the day, [1]. ► Feeling of scraping in
throat, forcing him to cough, [4]. ► Pharynx. ► Burning in
the pharynx, at first with sensation as if from pepper, [4].
► Dry burning heat in pharynx, [2]. ► Feeling of itchiness and
scraping in pharynx and œsophagus, [4]. ► Œsophagus and Swallowing. ►
Cold feeling down the œsophagus, [4]. ► Burning in the œsophagus while swallowing the tincture, [4]. ► Dysphagia
beginning at the upper and back part of the throat, [5].
STOMACH.
► Appetite and Thirst.
► In the evening, appetite good, [4]. [60.] ►
Absence of appetite, [2]. ►
Less appetite than usual for dinner, [5]. ► No appetite for supper, [1].
► Thirst, [2]. ► Eructations. ►
Eructations, [4]. ►
Eructations, as after small doses of tartar emetic, [2].
► Much tasteless eructation, dryness of the throat,
trembling of the hands, [4]. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. ► Slight qualms (after
half an hour), [5]. ►
Some nausea, [4]. ►
Constant vomiturition, [2]. [70.]
► Vomiturition and slight shivering, for half an hour
(after each dose), [2]. ►
Violent vomiting (from three spoonfuls); it soon abated, however (second day), [1]. ► Stomach. ► Much wind came off the stomach, [4]. ► Feeling of cold in the
epigastric region, [4].
ABDOMEN.
► Hypochondria.
► Stitches in and through the spleen. ► Umbilical. ► Felt a
degree of warmth about the umbilicus, [2]. ► Pain under the umbilicus, with desire to go to stool, [4]. ► General Abdomen.
► Fulness of the abdomen (second day), [4]. ► Although a stool had
already been passed, the abdomen soon became full and distended, [4]. ► Fulness of the abdomen,
with inclination to vomit, and turgescence at upper part, increased by clearing the throat, [5]. [80.] ► Inflation and uncomfortable feeling in the abdomen, with
tenderness to touch, especially under the umbilicus, [4].
► After eating, perceptible pulsation of abdominal aorta
during rest, [4]. ►
Rumbling in bowels, [4]. ►
Gurgling and rumbling in the abdomen, [4]. ► Towards evening, some wind passed without relief. ► Slight pains in abdomen, [4].
► Slight pinching pains in belly, [4]. ► Slight colic, with
borborygmus, [2]. ►
Cuttings in the abdomen (second day), [4]. ► After breakfast and dinner, cutting abdominal pains (second
day), [4]. [90.] ► Cutting pains in abdomen before evacuation of the bowels, [4]. ► Cuttings in
abdomen, with calls to make water (after four hours), [4].
► Tenderness of the abdomen on touching it and bending
backward (after four hours), [4]. ► Hypogastrium. ►
Hypogastrium swollen (after one hour), [5]. ► Hypogastrium distended, but soft, [4].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Inclination to go to stool, with pressure at the anus, [4].
► Frequent calls to stool, with escape of nothing but air
(soon after), [3]. ►
Burning at the anus (second day), [5]. ► In the evening on lying down to sleep, lively tickling in the
anus, obliging him to scratch frequently, [4].
STOOL.
► Fecal evacuations
increased, occurring two or three times a day, of semifluid consistence, yellow color,
preceded by cutting pains in the belly, but moderate and of short continuance, [3]. [100.] ► Fecal diarrhœa (after four hours). In about nine hours the
diarrhœa returned, followed by rumbling in bowels, [4].
► Three stools between morning and midday, first hard,
then softer like pap, and less highly colored (second day), [5].
► Two soft dark-colored stools in the day, [4]. ► Immediately after rising, a
copious, soft stool (second day), [4]. ► After dinner, a soft stool, [4].
► Stool delayed till 2 P.M., then natural; same partially
digested food was evacuated at the same time (second day), [4].
► After increased colicky pains, fecal diarrhœal stool,
mixed with many small air-bubbles (after six and eight hours), [4]. ► Paplike stool, followed by
short colicky pains, which returned periodically throughout the day, never lasting more than
half a minute (after a quarter of an hour), [4]. ► A somewhat hard stool (he was previously constipated), [4]. ► Scanty stool,
followed by itching at the anus (after eight hours), [4].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Urethra.
[110.] ► Slight
feeling of uneasiness, while the desire to pass urine continued (second day), [1]. ► Burning in the glandular
portion of the urethra, [5]. ►
Constant desire to micturate (first day), [1]. ► Micturition. ► In the
morning, difficulty in making water, afterwards accompanied by burning in the glandular
portion of the urethra; at noon with burning at the orifice of the urethra, and unremitting
desire to make water (second day), [5]. ► Passed much urine, though he had done so twice in the
afternoon, [1]. ►
8.30 A.M., a pretty large quantity of urine was passed, though this had been done already at
7 o’clock (after a few minutes), [1]. ► The evacuation of urine had taken place three times to a
considerable amount; and then had set in an increasing nisus to make water without any
uneasiness (second day), [1]. ►
Another discharge of urine, which was passed in tolerably large quantity, and of a lighter
tint than the first (after half an hour), [1]. ► A good deal of colorless water passed (second day), [1]. ► Scanty evacuation
of urine, which was of a dingy brown, exciting burning heat in the urethra, almost with
strangury, [4]. [120.]
► Urinary secretion not increased, but frequently
evacuated, [2]. ►
Urine passed with erection of the penis, fiery, and causing a burning pain in the urethra
(soon after), [3]. ►
Urine. ► Polyuria of some months’ duration
disappeared (on the tenth day), [6]. ► Renal secretion still abundant, and clearer in color (after
eight days), [1]. ►
Urine not increased, but darker in color, [4]. ► Urine through the day is strongly saline; has an animal
smell, not unlike sausage-soup, [5]. ► The urine had the disgusting taste of the root, [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► In the
evening, continual drawing in the testicles and spermatic cord, with flaccidity of the
scrotum, and feeling as if it were enlarged, after half an hour, with pain, such as to make
him go to bed unusually early. During the passing of the urine, which had a pungent smell,
the pains increased (third day), [5]. ► Horridly excited sexual impulses, for a week after, [6]. ► In the night he
had fearfully lascivious dreams, with erections, restlessness, and was finally awaked
towards morning by an emission (second day), [6].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx
and Trachea. [130.] ►
Inclination to cough, [4]. ►
Accumulation of easily detached portions of mucus in the trachea (seventh to twelfth day), [6]. ► Violent heat in
the trachea (seventh to tenth day), [6]. ► Voice. ► Hoarseness, [4]. ► Voice hoarse and
hollow, [2]. ►
Hoarseness and roughness (seventh to tenth day), [6]. ► Hoarseness, vomiturition, and colic ceased after the
occurrence of diarrhœa (after thirty hours), [2]. ► Aphonia (eighth to ninth day), [6].
► Cough. ►
Tickling cough, with tough greenish-gray expectoration, waking him at 3 A.M. (twelfth to
eighteenth day), [6].
CHEST.
► Constriction of
the chest, [4]. [140.]
► Constriction of chest (after four hours), [4]. ► Constriction and
pressure on chest, [4]. ►
Peculiar shooting and beating pain over the trunk, [2].
► Sides. ►
Piercing pain in middle part of right side of chest, [4].
► Dartings in middle third of right side of thorax, [4]. ► Pricking pain in
lower third of right side of chest, with feeling of weight there (after five hours), [4].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Tension
in the præcordia, which did not prevent him, however, from moving about, [5]. ► Pulse accelerated during
the whole day, especially after the siesta, [4]. ► The pulse, though increased in frequency to 55, was quite
uniform (second day), [1]. ►
Pulse full, rather than accelerated, [2]. [150.] ► Pulse 54 (after a few
minutes), [1]. ►
Pulse became small, and sank to 50 (second day), [1].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Pricking pain in left hand, [4].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Stretching of lower limbs, [4]. ►
Heaviness of the lower limbs, [4]. ► Feet and Toes. ►
Feeling of lassitude in soles of feet, [5]. ► Constant pressure in the lower third of the under part of
right foot, [4]. ►
Acute pricking under nail of great toe, [4].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
► Slight
uneasiness (after a few minutes), [1]. ► Weakness, [4]. [160.] ► After dinner,
weakness so as to make him lie down, [5].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Sleepiness.
► Yawning, [4]. ► Yawning; stretching of the limbs, with cramplike feeling
of the lower extremities, [4]. ►
Sleepiness in morning, [4]. ►
Somnolence, [4]. ►
Yielded to his desire to sleep (after eight hours), [4].
► Sleeplessness. ►
Sleepless during the whole night, [2]. ► Sleep very restless, with lascivious dreams, [6].
FEVER.
► Heat. ► Heightened temperature of the body, [5]. ► Warmth all over the body, [2]. ► Sweat. [170.] ► Moist skin; sweating
even when at rest (second and third days), [2]. ► He perspired more easily than usual with him, [4]. ► In the evening, he sweated
all over on moving in the least, and in the cold, [5].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (In daytime),
Catarrh. ► (Morning),
Difficulty in making water, etc. ► (Afternoon), 4 to 6 o’clock, symptoms in general. ► (Toward evening), Passage
of wind. ► (Evening),
Pains in upper teeth; on lying down to sleep, tickling in anus; sweat. ►
(Ascending stairs), Giddiness. ►
(After breakfast), Abdominal pains. ► (Clearing throat),
Turgescence of upper abdomen. ► (After
dinner), Mucus on teeth; abdominal pains; drawing in testicles, etc.; weakness. ► (After siesta), Pulse
accelerated. ► (On waking),
From afternoon sleep, mist before eyes. ► Amelioration.
► (Evening), Appetite
good. ► (After diarrhœa),
Hoarseness, etc., ceased.® 2000
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