EUPHORBIA HYPERICIFOLIA.
Euphorbia hypericifolia, Linn.
Natural order
, Euphorbiaceæ. Common name, Spurge.
Preparation
, Tincture of the whole plant.
Authority.
Dr. True, Eclectic Med. Journ.,
1875, p. 260, effects of 1/2 pint of infusion of 1/2 oz. of dried herb
in a pint of water.►
I experienced a sensation of fulness
in the frontal part of the head, and also through the lateral portions,
with headache similar to that produced by Cimicifuga, but not so severe;
the pain seemed to centre at the crown of the head, but there was a
feeling of heat above the eyes that was very characteristic; there was
no ringing in the ears or vertigo, but the head symptoms were of that
degree of positiveness, that it was with difficulty I could fix my mind
on anything else but the headache; the maximum of the feeling was about
two hours after taking the medicine, and it subsided in about three and
a half hours, and was succeeded by a feeling of languor and drowsiness
which lasted several hours, but no sleep was produced by it. ► While the head symptoms existed there was
a feeling of unpleasant fulness and oppression at the epigastrium, and I
was compelled to take physic the second day for the constipation it had
caused. (He also got the same symptom of epigastric oppression from two
drachms of the tincture.)® 2000
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