CUBEBA.
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► Swelling
of the rectum preventing defecation. ► Excessive
prolapsus ani, which is of a deep-red color. ► Bulky
tumors at the anus. ► Flowing hæmorrhoids, with
discharge of black blood, or of yellow, purulent matter. ►
Itching-burning excoriations, and condylomata at the anus. ►
Distensive and burning pains in the anus, as if it contained a foreign body.
STOOL.
► Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa, with borborygmi, flatulence, and involuntary
stools. ► Light-yellow diarrhœa, specked with white,
with much colic and tenesmus. [150.] ► Diarrhœic and dysenteric stools, with copious discharge of
blood, and rapid failure of strength. ► Constipation.
► Constipation, often lasting over eight days. ► Scanty, but frequent dysenteric stools, with colic and
tenesmus.
URINARY ORGANS.
► Kidneys and
Bladder. ► Swelling and congestion of the
kidneys. ► Painful weariness and weakness in the kidneys
and loins, accompanied by burning and pungent pains, aggravated by the least movement of the
legs. ► Pulsating and burning pains in the kidneys, as if
from concretions or an abscess. ► Bladder full and
distended, with obstruction of its neck, and ischuria. ►
Urethra. ► Ulcers, tuberosities, and varices
in the urethra. ► Blennorrhagia, with great turgescence
of the penis, violent priapism; cutting and burning pains in the urethra, especially when
urinating; yellow-green thick discharge, deeply staining the linen, and sometimes mucous and
clear; painful weariness, hypochondria, indolence, indifference, and nervous irritability. ► Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty emission in a thin
stream, especially in the evening. ► Micturition. [160.] ► Frequent, copious,
diabetic urine, with smarting heat in the urethra, hypogastrium, and loins, clammy mouth,
tongue dry, and as if burnt, urgent thirst, and general decline. ►
Nocturnal enuresis. ► Urine. ►
Bloody urine, especially after an embrace. ► Urine
bloody, or containing only small streaks of blood. ►
Burning, turbid, thick, and red urine. ► Sand in the
urine.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Male.
► Very bad smell of the genitals. Ulcers, fissures, and
small cracked condylomata on the prepuce. ► Priapism,
with incomplete erection. ► Absence of erections;
sensation as if the prepuce, glans, and urethra had been forcibly scraped. [170.] ► Purulent secretion
between the glans and prepuce. ► Itching-burning ulcers
and scabs on the scrotum. ► Burning pains in the
testicles. Tardy and difficult ejaculation of semen. ►
Frequent, copious, and very debilitating nocturnal emissions. The genital symptoms are often
accompanied by headache, ophthalmia, debility, and painful weariness, especially of the
spine. ► Female. ►
Uterus swollen and painful, as if from the presence of a tumor. ►
Cracked and bleeding excrescences on the cervix uteri. ►
Inflammation and swelling of the ovaries, with pulsating and lancinating pains, extending
into the loins and groins. ► Drawing pains in the region
of the ovaries, as if something was pulling them down. [180.]
► Lancinations and pulsations in the ovaries and uterus,
with heat and dryness in the throat, and twitchings in the breast. ►
Lancinating and crampy pains in the ovarian region, mostly on the right side. ► Vagina inflamed and hot. ►
Copious yellow-green, very acrid and very offensive leucorrhœa. ►
Menses sometimes too early, often preceded and followed by leucorrhœa. ► Menses retarded or suppressed. ►
Suppressed menses, with deafness. ► Too profuse menses;
metrorrhagia. ► Menses scanty, and consisting chiefly of
the leucorrhœal discharge. ► During the menses,
headache, cough angina, otalgia, borborygmi, flatulence, intestinal and uterine colic;
clothing has to be loosened at the waist; painful fatigue and weariness in the loins and
thighs; constant drowsiness, trismus, spasmodic contractions of the limbs, trembling and
swaying of the head. [190.] ►
Very strong sexual desire in the female, especially before menstruation.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx,
Trachea, and Bronchi. ► Thick, grayish false
membranes, especially in the larynx. ► A flow of thick
mucus, apparently from the bronchi, which remains in the throat and causes suffocation. ► Sensation as if there were a miliary eruption in the bronchi
and on the lungs. ► Bruised feeling, after each paroxysm
of cough; he is obliged to keep quiet. ► Voice. ► Hoarse, wheezing voice. ►
Cough and Expectoration. ► Cough, especially
night and morning; also, from movement and warmth. ►
Cough, with coryza and hoarseness. ► Incessant cough,
proceeding from the bronchi, and aggravated in the evening by warmth and in the open air. ► Constant short cough, as if something had “gone the
wrong way.” [200.] ►
Hoarse cough, which seems to scrape and bruise the bronchi. ►
Barking, croupy cough, with sensation as from a foreign body in the larynx; dryness and
smarting in the throat; hurried, noisy respiration; face sometimes red, sometimes pale,
pinched, or swollen; contractive and pressive headache, with drowsiness but not sleep; skin
moist and hot; pulse quick and hard; restlessness, anxiety; cannot be quiet in bed;
formication in the legs; has to keep swallowing his saliva, in order to relieve the symptoms
of the throat and larynx; great flow of viscid mucus into the mouth; frequent nausea; desire
for acids, etc. ► Cough, with expectoration of yellow,
green, gray, rusty, or blood-streaked mucus. ► Cough,
with copious, thick, acrid and bilious expectoration. ►
Hard, noisy cough, ending only on expectoration of thick white mucus; especially morning and
evening. ► Severe and long-lasting cough, with congestion
of blood to the head, burning and tearing pains in the chest, and bloody expectoration,
especially in the evening. ► Expectoration is always
difficult and painful. ► Hæmoptysis of decomposed black
blood. ► Respiration. ►
Noisy, panting respiration. ► Bad smell of the breath,
proceeding from the stomach.
CHEST.
► Objective. [210.] ► Inflammation and
swelling of the lungs, as from abscesses and tubercles. ►
Sensation of debility of the lungs, with impeded, difficult respiration, and crepitant
râle. ► Subjective. ►
Pains in the chest, especially on the right side. ► Great
fulness of the chest; dyspnœa and suffocation. ►
Paroxysms of angina pectoris, with loss of consciousness. ►
Acute rheumatic pains in the chest, with palpitation and sensation as if the heart were
forcibly compressed. ► Pains in the chest, as if the
lungs were pierced, especially during respiration; with painful weariness and great weakness
in the back. ► Stitches and lancinations in the chest. ► Sensation when breathing as if the lungs were pricked by a
thousand needles. ► Beating and shocks in the chest. ► Mammæ. [220.] ► The breasts are flaccid and pendant. ►
Large abscess; erysipelas on the breasts. ► Drying up of
the milk in nursing women. ► Burning pains in the mammary
glands. ► Intolerable itching of the nipples.
HEART AND PULSE.
► Præcordium.
► Heart feels as if immersed in water. ► Burning, contraction, and anxiety in the præcordial region,
extending to the region of the liver. ► Sensation of heat
and burning at the heart. ► The heart feels swollen,
full, disordered; with lancinating pain on the right side. ►
Sensation of enormous swelling of the heart, with pulsating and lancinating pains. [230.] ► Sensation of
aneurismal distension of the heart; suffocative attacks, especially from heat and after an
embrace. ► Cramps, which seem to revolve around the
heart. ► Heart feels heavy, with slow, hard movements. ► Heart’s Action. ►
Palpitation of the heart, often with great oppression after eating, when walking, or going
upstairs, and on even the least movement. ► Palpitation
of the heart, oppression, anxiety, fear of death. ►
Tremor and anxiety at the heart, with strong disposition to weep. ►
Pulse. ► Pulse accelerated and hard, or quite
slow and hard, intermittent, irregular, or imperceptible. ►
Pulse hard, hurried or slow.
NECK AND BACK.
► Swelling
and stiffness of the neck; every movement causes pain, as if it was broken and torn; neck
bulky, red, hard, and very sensitive. [240.] ► Burning, pulsating, and crampy pains, starting from the left
occipital protuberance, and extending to the nape of the neck, with stiffness of the neck. ► Pulsating pains in the joints of the neck. ► Back. ► Stiffness of
the spine preventing him from bending forward. ►
Lancinating and burning pains all along the spine and in the loins, extorting cries,
especially during motion; with painful prostration and weakness, and frequent vertigo and
swooning. ► Lumbar. ►
Digging and twitching in the kidney region; sensation as from knife-stabs in the loins, with
coldness and cramps in the stomach, crispation of the limbs, and ineffectual urging to
urinate.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
Frequent numbness of the limbs. ► Burning, lancinating,
and tensive pains in all the joints. ► Violent pains in
the limbs, as if they were being dislocated. ► Tearing
pains in the right arm and left leg. [250.] ► Great liability to dislocations and fractures.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Objective. ► Swelling of the arm, with numb
sensation and pulsating pains. ► Paralytic weakness of
the arms. ► Subjective. ►
Burning pains in the arms during rest; lancinating pains on moving them. ► Sensation of burning heat between the bones and the muscles
of the arms. ► Bruised pain in different parts of the
arm, as if from a beating. ► Smarting, pulsating, and
drawing pains in the joints of the arms, with cramps and inclination to twist them about. ► Shoulder. ► Sensation
as if the arms would fall off at the shoulders. ►
Contractions in the shoulders, forcing them to be thrown backward. ►
Crampy pains in the shoulders, extending into the cervical muscles. [260.]
► Cutting and lancinating pains, as if from stabs with a
penknife, through the shoulder from below upwards. ► Wrist.
► Inflammation and swelling of the joints of the wrist
and fingers. ► Hand. ►
Contraction and stiffness of the hands. ► Ulcers and
fissures on the hands. ► Great awkwardness of the hands. ► Fingers. ► Arthritic
nodosities on the fingers. ► Paronychia. ► Frequent torpor of the fingers.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Hip.
► Crampy and acute pains in the hip, and all through the
leg. ► Thigh. ►
Sensation as if an iron bar were driven into the leg, from the hip to behind the knee. ► Knee. [270.] ► Sensation as if the knee-joints were cut and bruised, with
very painful cramps. ► Leg. ►
Œdematous swelling of the legs, with feeling as if the circulation had stopped. ► Inflammation and swelling of the tibia with abscesses and
much suppuration. ► He loses control of his legs when
walking; they knock against each other, and he staggers at every step. ►
Paralytic weakness of the legs. ► Heaviness and great
weakness of the legs; he cannot put one before the other. ►
Cramps in the legs, mostly in the calf, and especially during and after an embrace. ► Drawing pains in the legs, with contraction and stiffness of
the tendons. ► Acute rheumatic pains in the legs. ► Ankle. ► Swelling of
the malleoli, with intolerable pains and inability to use the feet. ►
Foot. [280.] ►
Inflammatory swelling of the bones of the foot and toes. ►
Hammering pains on the instep. ► Pulsating and
lancinating pains in the heels. ► Toes. ► Pains in the toe-nails, as if they were lifted and pulled
out.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
► Objective.
► Marasmus. ►
Inflammation, swelling, and suppuration of the bones. ►
Abnormal swelling of the arteries and veins. ► Blood
black, thick, and greasy, or watery and pale. ►
Sanguineous congestion. ► Hæmorrhage. [290.] ► Cramps and
convulsions, often accompanied by tetanic rigidity. ►
Laziness and extreme indifference. ► State of fatigue and
exhaustion, as after sexual excess. ► Excessive painful
debility. ► Extreme debility and indisposition,
especially before meals. ► Complete bodily and mental
prostration. ► Partial paralysis. ►
Great agitation and tremor, with heat of the head, ebullition of the blood, headache, and
general sweat, especially in the evening, from heat and on movement. ►
The least noise makes him start and tremble. ► Subjective.
► Constant sense of numbness and intoxication. [300.] ► Heaviness and
constant vertigo. ► Rheumatic and gouty pains. ► Bone-pains. ► Pains
usually appearing on the right side, and then settling on the left. ►
Can only lie on the left side; other positions aggravate all the pains. ► Inclination to be in marshy places full of mud and aquatic
plants; longing for stagnant water, as if it would relieve the pains; great dryness of mouth
and tongue; very bad-smelling breath; the lungs often seem to be without air, so that speech
fails him; constant hacking cough; he is ill-humored, and envious of others who are in good
health.
SKIN.
► Objective. ► Skin red and burning, as if from hard friction, or white in
some places, yellow and transparent in others. ► Skin
soft and very sensitive, or hard, like bacon-rind, and as if paralyzed. ► Skin morbid and very irritable; the least friction inflames
and excoriates it. ► Red and blue swellings on various
parts, as from bruises. [310.] ►
Very bad smell of the skin. ► Warts and callosities. ► Skin of the face hard and apparently very thick. ► Wrinkles and fissures on the skin of the face. ► Great tension of the skin of the arms and hands. ► Eruptions, Dry. ►
Small red elevations, which itch and burn like the bites of insects. ►
Erythema on the inside of the thighs, with itching of the vulva, and increased sexual
desire. ► Eruption of miliary pimples, which prick the
face like pins. ► Eruption of small burning pimples, and
appearance of lice on the pubis. ► Miliary eruption, with
much smarting, on the hands. [320.] ► Miliary eruption on the legs. ►
A great many small black points in the face, which can be squeezed out like fleshworms. ► Severe furfuraceous herpes. ►
Pruriginous and burning furfuraceous herpes on the arm. ►
Eruptions, Moist. ► Vesicular eruption, with
much itching of the arms and hands. ► Phlyctenoid
eruption on the face and lips. ► Eruptions, Pustular.
► Large, hard, subcutaneous pimples, very painful and
rarely suppurating. ► A considerable eruption of pustular
herpes, especially on the cheeks. ► Miliary, urticarial,
vesicular, and pustular eruptions. ► A great many boils. [330.] ► Severe scabby,
suppurating herpetic eruption on the forehead and cheeks, under the nose and on the chin. ► Pustular pimples on the penis, which corrode and suppurate. ► Boils and inflammatory swellings on the thighs. ► Ulcers. ► Phlyctenæ;
large patches of ulceration as from burns, especially on fleshy parts. ►
Ulcers under the nose. ► Ulcers, crusts, and fissures on
the auricles, with suppuration and bleeding. ►
Syphilitic-looking corroding ulcers, with raised edges and copious suppuration, on the lower
extremities. ► Excavated ulcers, white and corroding,
with profuse suppuration. ► Dirty-looking excavated
ulcers on the penis. ► Phlyctenæ and ulcers on the lips.
[340.] ► Small
burning pimples, phlyctenæ, ulcers as from aphthæ, and condylomata on the vulva. ► Subjective. ►
Intolerable itching and prickling all over.
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
► Sleepiness.
► Sleepiness with yawning, especially in the evening and
after a meal. ► Sleepiness accompanied almost always by
lascivious thoughts. ► Great drowsiness as soon as it is
evening. ► Sleep, with starting incoherent talk and
mumbling. ► Heavy sleep, with frequent and anxious
waking. ► Comatose sleep, with weakness and heaviness. ► Sleeplessness. ► Tardy
slumbers. ► Too early waking. [350.]
► Very restless sleep, full of uneasiness and pain. ► sleeplessness for several nights. ►
Sleeplessness when in bed. ► Sleeplessness accompanied by
drowsiness; interrupted by frequent starts, as if on the point of falling; gets no sleep,
although feeling greatly in want of it. ► Dreams. ► Confused dreams, which cannot be recollected. ► Frightful dreams, and especially voluptuous dreams. ► Dreams about the business of the day. ►
Dreams about wickedness and cruelty.
FEVER.
► Chilliness.
► Feeling of coldness in chest and back after coughing. ► Heat. ► Heat with
coldness, shivering, and partial sweat. [360.] ► Heat with heaviness of the head, which feels as if crushed by
a weight, so that he has to fall forwards. ► Biting heat
and dryness all over, excessive thirst, anorexia, insipid, sweetish taste; desire for wine
and strong liquor. ► Fever, aggravated in the evening, at
night, and in the morning on waking. ► Fever, with heat
of the head, especially the temples; dryness of the mouth, titillation on the tongue, and
inclination to spit frequently. ► Flushes of heat rising
to the head, with a sort of electric vibration, which disturbs all his thoughts. ► Great heat of the face and head, with red and burning cheeks,
especially in the evening. ► Burning heat of the head; he
cannot keep his hat on, even when out in the cold. ► Sweat.
► General debilitating sweats, staining the linen yellow,
and seeming to corrode the skin. ► During and after the
cough, cold sweat on chest and back; burning in the abdomen; jerky, broken respiration. ► Profuse cold sweat on the face.
CONDITIONS.
► The pains are
increased by each change of position. ► The pains are
aggravated in the evening at night in bed, in the morning on awaking, also in the wind, by
damp air, movement, or too much rest, and sometimes by heat.
SUPPLEMENT: CUBEBA.
Authority.
9, Thomas S.
Page, M.D., Lancet, 1842-43 (1), p. 672, A. T., æt. twenty-two years, suffering from gleet,
took 1/2 ounce Cubebs.►
Face red and swollen; lips dark purple; mouth containing a
viscid frothy saliva; tongue dry, and chapped in the centre; teeth slightly coated with a
brown sordes; veins of the forehead and temples turgid; eyes rolled upward, injected, and
their pupils contracted to a point; skin moderately warm and moist, with clammy
perspiration; pulse very slow, moderately full, and dispersed by the least pressure;
respiration very slow, short, and gasping. By agitating him violently he was aroused for a
moment, uttered some incoherent expression, and sank back into comatose sleep, [9].® 2000
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