CUBEBA.
Piper Cubeba, Linn. (Cubeba officinalis, Mig.). Natural
order, Piperaceæ.
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authorities.
1, Broughton,
effects of 1 to 2 drachms thrice daily for a fortnight in gonorrhœa, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1,
405; 2, Cattell, “Symptoms,” from Med. Times,
8, 239, 295, Gaz. des Hôp., 1842, B. J. of Hom., 11; 3,
John North, Lond. Med. and Phys. Jour. (Boston Med. and Surg. J., 6, 221), effects of large
doses three times a day for a trifling gleet; 4, from
the same, Madame T., effects of six doses, each a small teaspoonful twice daily for severe
leucorrhœa; 5, Puel. Rec. Med., 16, 48, 1825,
experiment with pulv. Cubebs, first day, 1 dr.; second day, 2 drs.; third day, 3 drs.; 6, Heyfelder, Heidelb. Med. Ann., 3, from Noack’s collection, A.
H. Z., 15, 369; 7, Sablotzky, Herschel’s Archiv, 1,
general effects; 8, Benatzek, effects of 70 grs., B. J.
of Hom., 24, 185.
Appendix
. -(Houat’s proving, from Nouvelles Données de Mat.
Méd.) This truly astonishing collection of symptoms is put by itself, since there is no way
of determining what is pathogenetic and what clinical, and since there is no intimation of
how the symptoms were obtained; in these days all accounts of scientific experiments must be
accompanied by a most complete detail of methods, that they may be verified.
MIND.
► Weakness of mind, [7]. ► Loss of memory, [7].
HEAD.
► Dulness of head, [2]. ► Headache, [5]; (fourth day), [3].
► Rather severe headache (after two doses), [4]. ► Deepseated
headache, [2].
EYE.
► Eyes turgid and
watery (fifth day), [4]. ►
Very disagreeable sensation of fulness in eyes (after two doses), [4].
NOSE.
► Coryza (fifth day),
[4].
FACE.
[10.] ► Features so completely changed as to leave no trace of their
natural expression (fifth day), [4]. ► Face excessively swollen (fifth day), [4]. ► Fulness of face, which is
occasionally florid, [2]. ►
Flushing of face, [2]; (fourth day), [3]. ► Lips. ► Lips puffed, dry, and shining (fifth day), [4]. ► Extraordinary twist of
mouth to one side every time he attempts to speak or smile, [1].
MOUTH.
► Tongue very white
(fifth day), [4]. ►
Tongue furred and moist, [1].
STOMACH.
► Increased
appetite, [2]. ►
Slight thirst, with burning in the throat, [5]. [20.] ► Intense thirst (fifth
day), [4]. ►
Disagreeable eructations, with feeling of warmth in the epigastric region, [5]. ► Acrid eructations, with
uneasiness, heat at pit of stomach, and fever, [2]. ► Nausea, [5], [6]. ► Nausea and
vomiting, [2]. ►
Constant nausea and occasional vomiting (fifth day), [4].
► Sickness at stomach (fourth day), [3]. ► Inclination to vomit, [6]. ► Stomach
disordered, [8]. ►
Burning and pressure in the epigastric region and about the navel, [6]. [30.] ►
Burning pain in stomach, [2]. ►
Continued gastric irritation, [5].
ABDOMEN.
► Flatulence, [8]. ► Burning in the
abdomen, [6]. ►
Griping and diarrhœa, [2]. ►
Colic, [7].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► Hæmorrhoids,
[2]. ► Burning in
the rectum, [6].
STOOL.
► Slight diarrhœa, [2]. ► Distressing
diarrhœa, with headache, [2]. [40.] ► Copious diarrhœa-like
evacuations, [6]. ►
Peculiar odor to the evacuations, perspiration, and saliva, [6].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Chronic
inflammation of bladder much aggravated, [2]. ► *Inflammation of urethra, [2].
► *Secretion of mucus from urethra greatly increased,
[2]. ► Cutting and
constriction after micturition (once), [8]. ► Irritation of urinary passages (always), [8]. ► Micturition. ► Urine increased in quantity, deepened in color, and smells of
the drug, [2]. ► Urine.
► Urine frothy, [6].
► Hæmaturia (in two cases), [2].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
[50.] ► Prostatitis; the gland feels enlarged to finger in
rectum; perineum tender; last drops of urine passed with pain; after micturition, sensation
as if bladder still contained water, [2]. ► Testicles swollen, [2].
► Hernia humoralis, [2].
► Sexual excitement, [2].
► No inclination for coition, with general weakness of
the sexual organs (for a long time after its use for gonorrhœa), [6].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► It
aggravates the cough, or lung troubles, when given to persons suffering from them, [6]. ► Respiration
hurried and difficult (fifth day), [4].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Pulse
quickened, [8]. ►
Pulse frequent and full, [2]. ►
Pulse small, and varying from 120 to 130 (fifth day), [4].
[60.] ► Pulse
irregular, suspending two or three beats each minute; sometimes slow, at intervals hurried;
not exceeding 84, [1].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
Numbness of the fingers and toes, [7].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Stiffness of the wrists, and thickened around the joint, [2].
► Acute, deepseated pain in wrists, speedily followed by
redness and swelling, [2]. ►
Hands much swollen, and so stiff that the fingers could not be bent (fifth day), [4].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Pricking sensation in soles of feet, [2].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Emaciation, [7]. ►
General convulsive movements, [2]. ► Convulsions, [2]. ► Extreme weakness, [7]. [70.] ► Partial paralysis, [2]. ► Great restlessness
(fourth day), [3].
SKIN.
► Eruptions. ► Covered with an eruption from head to foot; accompanied by a
high degree of sympathetic fever (fifth day), [3]. ► Eruption like urticaria, [2].
► A “flush of red” over whole body (third day).
A decided eruption appeared (fourth day). Covered with an eruption from head to foot, which,
in some parts, could not have been distinguished from urticaria febrilis, while in others it
had more the appearance of lichen in its papular stage, but with more intense inflammation
around the base of the papulæ than is commonly seen in that disease (fifth day), [4]. ► Urticaria, [2]. ► Severe urticaria
febrilis, [2]. ►
Subjective. ► Intense itching sensation, [2].
FEVER.
► Temperature of
body increased, [8]. ►
Skin burning hot (fifth day), [4]. [80.] ► Increased heat, with
thirst, [2]. ►
Slight febrile excitement, lasting an hour, [5]. ► Fever with heat at pit of stomach, [2]. ► A slight fever lasting into
the night, and also on the following day, [5]. ► Felt feverish, with a tingling and heat over the whole
surface of the body (after two doses), [4]. ► Heat at times in palms of hands and soles of feet, [2]. ► Heat in flashes
upon face, soles of feet, and palms of hands, [2]. ► Hands and feet felt hot and numbed (after two doses), [4].APPENDIX: CUBEBA.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► Madness, with all sorts of beastly extravagances. ► Impatient, irritable; a mere trifle provokes him. ► Furious insanity, with wickedness; he breaks everything
within his reach, out of sheer malice. ► Mania; desire to
strike and to kill. ► Delirium; lascivious words and
thoughts, with violent priapism. ► Impulse to swear at
people; to strike them and spit in their faces, even to bite them. ►
Proneness to debauchery and every species of excess. ►
Shamelessly indecent in thoughts, words, and gestures; especially towards evening. ► Paroxysms of foolish gayety, with great loquacity, or silent
weeping, also towards evening. [10.] ► Want of decision and will-power. ►
Fits of dejection, apathy, insensibility; is indifferent to everything. ► Regards himself as more of an invalid than he really is;
fancies he is very unfortunate. ► Is much disturbed about
his health and social position. ► Paroxysms of anxiety,
suffocation and fainting. ► Excessive nervous excitement;
he is very easily frightened. ► Intellectual. ► Weakness of intellect; frequent absence of mind; loss of
memory. ► Is unable to accomplish anything. ► Waking reveries. ► All his
ideas are confused and wandering. [20.] ► Cannot find words to express himself.
HEAD.
► Vertigo. ► Frequent giddiness, so that he is afraid of falling. ► General Head. ►
Sensation of numbness, and as if intoxicated in the brain. ►
Feeling in various places as if the brain were dried up, with great weakness of the head,
which falls from side to side, and has to be supported. ►
Neuralgic pains in the whole head, extending to the face, and causing him to distort it. ► Bone-pains in the head, with sensation of swelling in the
cranial bones. ► Headache with constant drowsiness, but
inability to go to sleep. ► Heavy headache, with
obnubilation and dread of falling. ► Contractive pains in
the brain, extending to the facial muscles. ► Pressive
and lancinating pains in the whole head; aggravated by warmth and by touch. [30.] ► Pressive and
lancinating headache, with general debility; loss of ideas and of consciousness; on coming
to himself he is a prey to uneasiness and despairing anxiety. ►
Pungent pains, which are felt from cerebellum to forehead. ►
Hammering pains in the cranial bones, with pressure in the temples. ►
All the pains of the head are aggravated by inclining it to the right side. ► Cold applications alleviate the pains of the head, but
afterwards increase them. ► External Head. ► The hairs become white. ►
Falling off of the hair, especially in the evening. ►
Pustules on the scalp, forming scabs like those of small-pox. ►
Intolerable itching of the head, with burning ulcers.
EYE.
► Objective. ► Eyes inflamed; sclerotic injected with blood. ► Subjective. [40.] ► Sensation as from exudations in the eye. ► Heat and smarting of the eyes as if from pepper. ► Lancinations in the eyes; beginning at the outer canthi, and
darting all across the ball. ► Lids. ► The edges of the eyelids are swollen, red, ulcerated and
gummy. ► Painful and obstinate styes on the lids. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ►
Considerable lachrymation, especially in the evening, in the morning, on waking, and in the
open air. ► Pupil. ►
Very dilated pupil, of a whitish color. ► Sight. ► Progressive weakness of sight; strabismus. ► He can only discern very near objects. ►
Photophobia; he has to keep shutting his eyes to relieve the pains. [50.]
► All objects not close by appear confused.
EAR.
► Objective. ► Ears swollen and covered with corroding ulcers. ► Subjective. ► Numb
sensation in the ears. ► Intolerable pain, especially in
the left ear; it feels as if something in it was being twisted. ►
Great heat in the ears. ► Hearing. ► Very hard hearing. ►
Complete deafness, sometimes with purulent discharge. ►
Words and noises are heard confusedly. ► Frequent
deafening roaring in the ears.
NOSE.
► Objective. ► Nose red, swollen, very sensitive; the least touch on it
causes excessive pain, which is felt even in the head. [60.]
► Discharge from the nose of rusty greenish-yellow
purulent matter, always smelling very badly. ► Coryza,
with discharge of mucus, sometimes thin, sometimes thick; burning in the throat and nose;
stuffed up head and fever. ► Obstinate stoppage of the
nose, especially in the evening, so that the voice becomes nasal. ►
A great many small painful pimples in the nostrils. ►
Paralysis of the olfactory nerve. ► Subjective. ► Very unpleasant dryness of the nose, preventing speech and
respiration. ► Fulness and pulsation in the nose, with
epistaxis, especially in the afternoon, on movement and from heat. ►
Sensation of fulness and compression in the nose. ►
Lancinating and gnawing pains in the nasal bones.
FACE.
► Objective. ► Wan features; skin tense and oily. [70.]
► Face yellow, pale, or grayish, with blue circles around
the eyes. ► Enormous swelling of the face. ► Crampy and lancinating pains in the facial muscles and bones.
► Cheeks. ►
Bone-pains in the zygoma; inflammation and swelling of the facial bones. ► Lips. ► Lips swollen,
thick and everted. ► Lips hard and tense like parchment. ► Chin. ► The lower jaw
hangs loosely. ► Bruised pains in the lower jaw, with
sensation as if it was dislocated.
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► Lancinating and boring pains in the teeth, especially in the
evening. ► Gums. ►
The gums recede, with caries of the teeth. [80.] ► Ulcers and abscesses on the gums. ►
Tongue. ► Tongue swollen, heavy, burning;
speech impeded. ► Feeling of erosion on the tongue,
palate, and inner cheeks. ► General Mouth. ► Aphthæ and small gray ulcers at various places in the mouth.
► Burning eruption in the mouth. ►
Dry mouth, with constant taste of blood. ► Burning
eruption in the mouth, like erythema, followed by gray patches. ►
Mouth burns, as if from holding alcohol in it. ► Saliva.
► Great salivation; he froths at the mouth when talking. ► Froth from the open mouth, during sleep. On waking, twitching
in the stomach, bulimy, fatigue and painful weakness. ►
Taste. [90.] ►
Taste usually sour, bitter, acrid, or insipid and bloody. ►
Everything he eats tastes too salt or insipid.
THROAT.
► Objective.
► Congestion of blood to the throat and head, with strong
pulsation of the arteries. ► Obstruction of the throat by
viscid mucus, often black. ► Tubercles in the throat and
larynx. ► Subjective. ►
All the muscles of the throat seem paralyzed. ► Sensation
of great heat in the throat. ► Burning heat and
contraction of the throat, with constant inclination to hawk and hem; he desires milk, and
warm, sweet decoctions, especially such as promote perspiration. ►
Sense of fulness and strangulation in the throat. ►
Sensation, as if the throat was full and stopped up, with heaviness of the head, and danger
of suffocation. ► Tonsils. [100.] ► Inflammation and
swelling of the tonsils, with lancinating burning-pulsating pains, spreading all over the
neck. ► Abscesses on the tonsils. ► Swallowing. ►
Difficult and very painful deglutition; food and drink often escape through the nose, and
into the larynx, making him cough till he raises blood. ►
External Throat. ► Swelling of the
submaxillary and cervical glands, which burn and are painful.
STOMACH.
► Appetite.
► Great hunger, which is satisfied by the first
mouthfuls, but returns in a moment, and is insatiable. ►
Longing for underdone meat, and for milk. ► Longing for
fresh bread, garlic, and onions. ► Longing for dainties,
oranges, and acid fruit. ► Thirst. ► Unquenchable thirst, with sensation of great dryness in the
mouth, although it is constantly bathed by a flow of oily saliva. ►
Much thirst and hunger, or complete absence of both, with feeling of great fulness of the
stomach. [110.] ►
Desire for strong liquors, especially brandy. ► Eructation.
► Bitter and acrid risings, with heat and burning in the
stomach and œsophagus. ► Incessant eructations of an
unpleasant odor. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Frequent and very painful nausea and hiccough. ► Nearly all the gastric symptoms are accompanied by nausea. ► Vomiting of food, often long after eating. ► Vomiting of ingesta mixed with blood, with painful weariness,
debility, altered features, hanging jaw, moral dejection, and delirium. ► Vomiting of mucus and bile, or of brownish offensive matter. ► Great accumulation of bile on the stomach, provoking repeated
vomiting. ► Stomach. ►
Inflation of the stomach, with hardness, tympanitic resonance and great sensitiveness. [120.] ► Sensation of
intolerable insipidity in the stomach and mouth, with frequent nausea and salivation. ► Sensation as if live creatures were gnawing and slashing the
walls of the stomach. ► Sensation as if cold worms were
wriggling about in the stomach, and rising to the throat, with inclination to vomit. ► Stomach feels as if full and barred up, with difficulty of
breathing. ► The stomach always feels tense, and full of
water. ► Contractive pains in the stomach, with sensation
of burning and of coldness. ► Stomachache, with longing
for almonds and nuts. ► Sensation as if the stomach was
falling, and dragging down the œsophagus, with paroxysms of noisy, dry cough. ► Lancinating and contractive pains in the stomach, which seems
to turn round upon itself. ► Sensation as if there were
ulcers in the stomach, with pains extending to the loins, and making him writhe about. [130.] ► Pulsating, crampy,
and burning pains in the stomach, with sensation of acidity, uneasiness, and hunger.
ABDOMEN.
► Hypochondria.
► Lancinating pains in the hypochondria; burning and
heaviness in the abdomen, with inclination to lie upon it. ►
Cramps and electric pricking in the hepatic region, extending to the back. ► Bruised pains in the hepatic region, and at the same time
lancinating pains in the opposite portion of the stomach. ►
Pulsating pains in the hepatic region, as if from an abscess or calculi. ► Incisive pains in the splenic region; spleen sometimes
swollen and indurated, sometimes shrunken and dried up. ►
Inflammation and swelling of the liver, with contractive and distensive pains, extending to
the stomach. ► General Abdomen. ► Inflammation and swelling of the bowels, with constipation. ► Borborygmi and a great deal of incarcerated flatulence, with
violent colic, which returns at night, and obliges him to leave his bed, in which the pains
are aggravated. ► Sensation as if an itching eruption or
worms were in the bowels. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
[140.] ► Colic and
gripes in the hypogastric region, extending into the loins, impelling him to bestir himself
and walk about; noisy flatus and frequent, copious, soft, bilious, black, yellow, and
sometimes blood-streaked stools. ► Swelling of the
inguinal glands.® 2000
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