Pyrus Americana.
Mountain Ash (American). (Swamps and mountain woods from Maine to
Pennsylvania.) N. O. Rosaceć. Tincture of fresh bark.Clinical.─
Bladder, irritation of; prolapse of.
Chills. Clairvoyance. Dyspepsia. Gout. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Rectum, constriction
of. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Tongue, paralysis of. Uterus, prolapse of.
Characteristics.─
P. amer.,
the American Mountain Ash (the British is P. aucuparia),
was proved by Gatchell on himself, a married woman, and two lads. Gatchell’s only symptom
was “irritation of the eyes.” Another prover had a similar symptom. By far the
greatest number were induced in the woman; though hers were largely confirmed by those of
the boys. Neuralgic, rheumatic, and gouty symptoms were very severe. The emotional balance
was disturbed and a kind of clairvoyance induced. Labour-like or spasmodic pains were
frequent─in uterus; in bladder like prolapse; constrictive at base of
lungs and round waist; like spasm of heart; as if left leg drawn up. Peculiar Sensations are: As if full of cold water; as if stomach
full of cold water; coldness extends up śsophagus under sternum. As if she were outside of
herself and could see into herself. As if rectum were shrunken and dried up. As if left leg
drawn up and would never straighten again. The symptoms were <
by moving about (pains and chilliness); < by exposure
to cold.
Relations.─
Antidoted by:
Camph. Compare: Neuralgic and gouty pains, Pru. sp.
Heart, Cratćg. Chilliness, Camph.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Feels like crying.─Sad,
weeping mood; tears will come (in a lad).─Feels gloomy and discouraged
but cannot cry.─Feels resolute; full of gloomy determination.─Hypochondriac,
not nervous; lazy, would like to lie in bed and be waited on.─Thinks she
is clairvoyant, can read character and understand motions, see into herself.─Seems
to be able to go out of herself for a short distance, to walk round and return into her
body; seems to her that fundus of stomach is depressed in abdomen, and pyloric end on fire,
a red spot like raw beef there as if stomach burnt up with raw whisky.─Cries,
feels babyish apprehension; fears something terrible going to happen.─Feels
weak as if about to die, moans, groans, calls for help.─Brain active,
intellect clear, thoughts vivid, whole being intensified.─Indolent,
indifferent, no inclination to read.
2. Head.─
Headache begins over eyes; pains
knife-like; l. side of head aches terribly, like a toothache.─Headache
extends to r. side.─Head feels as if it would burst.─Great
weight at vertex.─Shooting pains in forehead.─Headache
penetrating in temples.
3. Eyes.─
Irritation of eyes.─Eyes
feel as if they had been crying a long time; smart.
8. Mouth.─
Tongue partially paralysed, cannot
direct it.
9. Throat.─
Throat feels obstinate.
11. Stomach.─
Craves hot tea.─Wants
soft food, feels as if meat would not digest.─Stomach feels weak as if
nothing would digest; it feels dry and wrinkled.─Feels as if stomach
full of cold water.─Thinks mucus accumulated in cold stomach.─Feeling
of coldness extends up sternum and śsophagus.
12. Abdomen.─
Feels constricted round waist;
obliged to loosen clothes at once.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Sensation as if rectum were
shrunken and dried up.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Irritation of bladder and
urethra.─Sensation as if bladder prolapsed.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Sense of prolapse of
womb.─Bearing-down and pressing out as if swollen and burning all over.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Hoarseness.─Dry
cough, as if pharynx stuffed with cotton.─Can hardly breathe, as if cold
water in stomach.─Can’t talk loud; voice gone.─Some
cough.─Spasmodic breathing as of nervous women (in a lad);
18. Chest.─
Feels as if lungs congested, esp. at
base; and constricted.
19. Heart.─
Aching at heart.─Oppression
about heart as if it had stopped beating, as if going into convulsions.─Sense
of spasm at heart; as if blood too thick to circulate (>
Camph.).─Heart aches as if from some
great sorrow.
20. Neck and Back.─
Sick feeling under r. scapula.
21. Limbs.─
Twinging pains in arms, legs, and
toes.─Joints all feel constricted and sore.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Some pain in finger-joints.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Pains drawing, rending along
backs of thighs to toes, < l.─Feels
as if l. leg drawn up and would never straighten again.─Tight feeling of
patella.─Knees and toes feel as if immensely swollen and ache.─L.
great toe feels as if torn from its socket.─Toes burn.─Pain
in knees subsides and is followed by pain in tendons and along calves; drawing, cutting
pain.─Unendurable aching of bones of toes.
24. Generalities.─
Aches everywhere, in every
joint; pains acute, intense, like inflammatory rheumatism.─Feels as if
full of cold water.─< Motion; dreads to
move on account of joints.─< Cold;
sensitive to cold and air.─Pains seem to move in meandering lines.
25. Skin.─
Clammy feeling of skin.
27. Fever.─
Chilly when air strikes him.─Chilly
down back and both legs.─Very cold, shivering internally; thinks she
must look blue.─Cold creeping all over.─Glow all
over; hands sweat.─Chilly and with a very tranquil feeling, esp. of
consciousness.® 2000
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