COLLINSONIA.
Collinsonia Canadensis, L.
Natural order
, Labiatæ.
Common names,
Horsebalm, Richweed, Stoneroot.
Preparation
, Tincture of root “and
plant” (Hale).
Authority.
Burt, proving with half an
ounce of 3d dec. (twice), and afterwards with 20 drops of tincture,
Hale’s New Remedies, 2d ed.
HEAD.
►
Dull frontal headache, with frequent rheumatic pains in the arms, hands,
and legs (after three hours). ► Dull
frontal headache, with frequent flying pains in the legs (second day). ► Dull frontal headache, with tearing pains
in both knees, passing down the inside of the legs of the feet, while
sitting (after one hour). ► Dull pain
over the eyes, with pressing pain in the right temple (after half an
hour).
NOSE.
►
Dryness of the nostrils, with frequent sharp pains in the right temple,
and dull aching distress in the stomach and bowels (after four hours).
FACE.
►
Face quite yellow around the eyes (second morning). ► Neuralgic pains in the superior maxillary
bone when in the open air (after one hour).
MOUTH.
►
Tongue coated yellow along the centre and base, with a rough, bitter
taste in the mouth (second morning).
STOMACH.
►
Nausea while sitting, with cutting pains every few minutes in the whole
hypogastrium (second day). [10.] ► Slight nausea, with distress in the
stomach and bowels (second day). ►
Severe nausea, with hard cutting pains in hypogastrium, and frequent
emissions of flatus from the anus; lasted one hour, when I went to sleep
(after four hours). ► Sharp cutting
pains in the stomach for five minutes, while sitting down (after five
hours).
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Dull
distress in the right hypochondrium (second day). ► Umbilical. ►
Distress in the umbilicus, with eructations of air (after half an hour).
► Dull pains in the umbilicus for
five minutes, at 10 P.M. (third day). ►
Hypogastrium. ► Great pain
in the hypogastrium and desire for stool (second morning). ► *Cutting pains in the hypogastric region
every ten or fifteen minutes; the pains were so hard that I was
compelled to sit down each time, and became very faint (second morning).
► All the afternoon and evening had
cutting pains in the hypogastrium every half hour to one hour, that
would last from two to five minutes at a time (second day). ► Cutting pains in the hypogastrium, with
stool of bilious matter, mucus streaked with blood, and tenesmus, at 2
P.M. (second day). [20.] ► Awoke twice in the night with sharp
cutting pains in the hypogastrium, and again at 4 A.M. with same pains
and great desire for stool (first night).
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Mushy stool
at 8 A.M. (fourth day). ► Papescent
stool at 7 P.M., preceded by dull pains in the small intestines (third
day). ► Stool of bile, mucus, and
yellow matter, accompanied by severe tenesmus, and followed by hard,
cutting pains in the bowels (second morning). ►
Stool of yellow fecal matter, mucus, and about one teaspoonful of blood,
with tenesmus, and followed by sharp, cutting pains in the hypogastrium
for fifteen minutes, in the morning; 10 A.M., small stool of mucus and
blood, with tenesmus, preceded and followed by sharp cutting pains in
the hypogastrium; 12 M., stool of bilious matter, mucus, and blood, with
the same symptoms as the last stool. ►
Stool first part hard and lumpy, last part ran from bowels thin as milk,
with severe pains in the hypogastrium, accompanied with straining,
severe nausea, and fainting. The pains continued fifteen minutes, when
there followed another copious watery stool, with the same symptoms as
the first (second morning). ►
Constipation. ►
Constipation for two days, with a feeling of great languor. ► *Light-colored, lumpy stool, with hard
straining, followed by dull pains in the anus and hypogastrium for half
an hour (after two hour). ► No stools
(second and third days). ► Not stools
for three days (after fourth day).
URINARY ORGANS.
[30.]
► Urine high-colored and scanty
(second day).
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Great lassitude, with desire to sleep all day (second and third days). ► Feeling weak (second day). ► Feeling very weak and faint (second
morning).
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Afternoon and evening), Pains in
hypogastrium. ► (In open air), Pains in maxillary bone. ► (While sitting),
Nausea, etc.; pains in stomach.
SUPPLEMENT: COLLINSONIA.
Authority.
2,
M. M. Dowle, M.D., U. S. Med. Invest., N. S., 3, 1876, p. 386; took a
teaspoonful and half of the powder.After about half an hour, while partaking of warm
mashed potatoes and hot sweetened milk, at supper, I first experienced a
warmth in my lips, and simultaneously a tensive, pressive headache at
the point of emergence of the supraorbital nerve of the left side.
Pressed with thumb over the spot to relieve the aching. Presently, say
perhaps ten minutes later, headache was no longer noticed, only an
increasing warmth spreading along the internal mucous surfaces of the
upper and lower lips; the sense of warmth was deepening rapidly into a
feeling of largeness of the parts, attended with a sensation as if the
parts were occupied with innumerable needles, which were darting back
and forth.The face, as the cheeks, the forehead, and also all
the hairy parts of the under chin, from ear to ear, and thence reflected
down almost to breastbone, seemed to feel the same numbness or
needlelike darting to-and-fro sensation. Strangely enough, the tongue
did not share the same sensations. (There was a caustic
sensation in the fauces, which induced some coughing and spitting when
the powder was first swallowed, but there was no universal burning in
the throat-pit or gullet at any time afterwards.) While the inner
surface of the lips, as well as the whole buccal mucous cavity were
experiencing an intensity of excitement, the face seemed to grow broader
and broader, making the prover feel, in humorous phrase, as if he had a
touch of the “big-head.” The mind partook of the sense of
pleasurable exhilaration.Next, the entire right forearm, from the elbow to the
tips of all the fingers, felt the sense of numbness, a weary heaviness;
then the left arm and its fingers. The balls of the two thumbs were very
numb; they were worse than the fingers. Rested my head at supper-table
on my left hand. Felt a sense of nausea, and thought I must vomit. No
better in the open air. Lips seemed growing larger all the while, and
mouth seemed to stand open like a huge catfish’s; lips dry; no flow of
saliva at any time during the proving.Lay down on bed with coat and boots off, with a
blanket as covering; lay there from five to ten minutes; mouth tingling
and burning; lips “enlarging;” face flushing and pricking, and
whole head seeming to take on “growing” dimensions; both arms,
from elbows to finger-tips, “fast asleep” and hands feeling as
broad and heavy again as they naturally were. Wanted to lie with head
high, to get more air; suddenly, low down in left lung, felt a gurgling,
followed by an immediate desire to cough which I restrained, because
just three weeks from this date the prover had a slight attack of hæmoptysis
coming from that side, which was checked with Trillin.
Uneasy; got up in stocking-feet and shirt-sleeves, and sat near stove.
Was, if possible, growing worse. Head seemed to grow bigger while
straining to get boots on; went to front door, and staggered against the
large elm tree near the step. While closing shutters felt sick and
faint, and re-entered house. At no time did there seem to be any
striking departure from a natural breathing; the breathing and pulse did vary, however, while lying down; the
pulse under the finger would withdraw like a thread, and then return
with more volume. This condition of my pulse was noticed while lying on
my left side, recently affected as stated, and I got up to avoid, if
possible, a return of that trouble. Hot things taken into the mouth and
swallowed, seemed at all times to intensify the effects of the medicine.
Had I taken the medicine by mistake in the dark, I would have compared
the sensations experienced to those of Aconite;
it seems the analogue of Arum triphyllum
also. To antidote the Collinsonia action I employed Chloride of sodium; the spirits of Camphor
containing Laudanum was used by olfaction, but the mucous membrane of
the nostrils, as far within as this volatile stimulant penetrated,
seemed only to resent its presence by inducing an unwelcome aggravation
of the existing local troubles. Nux vom. was
the antidote. The face returned to a feeling of naturalness
with each dose; the Collinsonia
effects seemed to pass away like a vapor or aura from above downwards;
it was felt to move; the sensations
of relief being first felt in the forehead; then the cheeks lost their
grotesque unbecomingness, or largeness; next the lips parted with their
pungent glow, while the two arms, down to their finger-tips, were next
severally alike bettered. However, the balls of the thumbs persisted in
their numbness, the right feeling somewhat unnatural even the next day.
To restore the thumbs and fingers to their right feeling, I slapped my
outspread hands at the time across and around my sides, as the
wood-chopper does when his hands are numb with cold.These toxic sensations lasted full three hours, say
from 6 to 9 P.M. Feeling “well” at this latter hour, I visited
a lady patient, a block from my dwelling. In the cool, open air,
walking, my feet and limbs felt strangely light, like a deer’s, and as
though I could run very fast if chased. I seemed to lose the sense of
physical or personal identity, as far as the lower extremities were
concerned. Returning home, after an absence of perhaps ten minutes, I
now felt for the first time a strong glow in the bowels, from the
umbilicus clear down to the toes. A sense of increasing largeness and
numbness was felt from hip to hip; while the right thigh was thus
affected, the left was skipped; the calves of both legs seemed
elephantine, and “fast asleep.” I sat still and sipped Nux vom. The dynamic antidotal effect which
this agent has over the Collinsonia poison in the system was decided,
and it was felt to be like removing a swaddling-cloth that embarrassed
nervous action by its tightness and weight. I took a teaspoonful of a
solution of twenty drops of the 1st attenuation of Nux vom. in twenty teaspoonfuls of water,
every few minutes. Urinated several times, and had a stool during
proving, the latter being in the form of balls, or lumpy agglomeration, [2].® 2000
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