ANAGALLIS.
A. arvensis, L. Nat. order,
Primulaceæ. Common names, Scarlet pimpernel;
weather-glass. Preparation (from the red-flowered
variety), Tincture.
Authority.
Schreter, N. A., 3, 3, 174.
MIND.
► Lively; more gay
than usual, with great joy; he attends to his business, and is contented with himself (first
hours). ► Great flow of spirits for several days; he
takes pleasure in everything; on account of very joyful feelings, without thinking of
anything in particular, he cannot collect his thoughts during a sermon. ► He thinks of everything; his mind is vigorous (first hour).
HEAD.
► Heat rising to the
head, and sensation of slight sweat on the forehead, followed by a pressive sticking in the
eyeballs, and a tickling prickling in the urethra, inclining him to coition (a quarter of an
hour). ► Spasmodic stitches in both temples, extending
thence to the eyes, in the middle of which it presses (four hours). ►
Pressive headache in the forehead, after the blowing of cold air on him (five hours).
EAR.
► Twinges in the right
ear follow pressure in the eyes (four hours).
THROAT.
► Sensation of
dryness, with some scraping in the throat (first evening).
STOOL.
► Desire for stool
(a quarter of an hour). [10.] ►
Stool well digested. ► Itching in the rectum, and some
pressure in the loins, as with hæmorrhoidal troubles (first day).
URINARY ORGANS.
► On
urinating, especially in the morning, a burning pain in the urethra; the orifice seems
agglutinated, and a violent pressure is required before the urine passes, which it does in
two, three, or several streams (first day). ► A tickling
prickling along the urethra, especially at the orifice, neither pleasant (since it is half
painful) nor unpleasant, since it inclines to coition (a quarter of an hour). ► Desire for coition (first and second days). ► With the erection before coition, a burning tensive pain in
the urethra; disappears on coition (third day).
CHEST.
► A kind of anxiety
in the chest (first evening). ► Suddenly, a feeling as
if, internally in the chest, he were struck with a cushion full of pins (second day).
UPPER EXTREMITIES.
► A
tensive drawing from the left shoulder to the neck, which, after it had entirely
disappeared, returned if he completely raised the left arm and forcibly extended it downward
(first day). ► On cutting with the shears, a feeling of a
cramp in the ball of the thumb, which becomes a dull drawing; when it leaves this place, it
appears in the left thumb (first evening). [20.] ► In the metacarpal bone of the thumb, a dull drawing pain,
sometimes like a tearing, mostly in the right hand, at times also in the left hand,
returning at uncertain times (first day).
SLEEP.
► Sleep bad,
restless; falls asleep late, wakes early, and has not slept enough in the morning (first
night).
GENERALITIES.
► Trembling,
like shivering (first evening). ► Violent trembling of
the heart, with trembling and shivering of the whole body, both before and with a dull pain
in a hollow tooth, with anxiety in the chest (first evening, in bed).® 2000
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