DERRIS PINNATA.
Derris pinnata, Lour. (Flora Cochin-china.)
Natural order
, Leguminosæ.
Preparation
, Tincture of the plant.
Authority.
Dr. X. Roussel, “symptoms clinically
confirmed, obtained from over eighty subjects, with 20 to 30 drops of the tincture,”
L’Hahnemannisme, 4, 295.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► He fancies he is seasick. ►
He desires death and will attempt suicide. ► He is
discouraged and despairs of a cure, declaring himself a hypochondriac. ►
He dreads pain, and is averse to solitude, with great anxiety. ►
He is afraid of killing some one with a knife. ► He is disposed to strike, and inveighs against his dearest
friends. ► She weeps and sings alternately, and has a
tremendous flow of ideas. ► Intellectual. ► Loss of memory.
HEAD.
► Vertigo. ► Vertigo, with loss of consciousness. [10.]
► Vertigo, with inclination to vomit (after one hour). ► He is afraid of falling if he turns his head to the right or
left. ► General Head. ►
Congestion of the brain, with nausea. ► Sensation as if
needles and nails were driven into the head. ► These
pains (of the head) are felt for three days in succession, at the evening meal (6 o’clock). ► Forehead. ► Pain
throughout the frontal region. ► Parietals. ► Painful lancinations on the left side of the head, with
vomiting of mucus, and burning sensation along the œsophagus. ►
External Head. ► The scalp is excessively
painful; the least touch, even with a pen-feather, aggravates the pain.
EYE.
► Objective. ► Red eyes, with lachrymation. ►
Eyes fixed and glittering. ► Subjective. [20.] ► Very painful
lancinations in both eyes, extending to the bottom of the orbit. ►
Brow and Orbit. ► Cannot raise his eyebrows. ► Pain below the left eye. ►
Violent pain below the right eye and in the right temple. ►
Lids. ► Blepharoptosis. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ►
Swelling of the left caruncula lachrymalis, with large ecchymosis of the left eye (after six
hours). ► Conjunctiva. ►
Conjunctivitis, with photophobia. ► Chemosis. ► Ball. ► The sclerotic
looks yellow. ► Pupil. ►
Pupil immovable. ► Vision. [30.] ► Dimness of vision. ► Black points before the eye.
EAR.
► Objective. ► Swelling, redness, and heat of the auricle. ► Ozæna. ► Subjective.
► Intense pain in the bottom of the ear. ► Acute pain in the ear, as if caused by lancinating
formication, or pinching. ► Hearing. ► Hearing impaired, or excessively acute. ►
Humming in the ears; sounds like distant bells. ►
Cracking in the ears, when swallowing.
NOSE.
► The tip of the nose
is red. [40.] ►
Fluent coryza. ► Epistaxis. ►
Nose very much stopped up. ► Smell. ► Exalted sense of smell; she perceives celestial odors. ► Intolerable smells, after frequent sneezing.
FACE.
► Objective. ► Face pale, red, shining, earthy-looking, or lead-colored. ► Face puffy and swollen. ►
Subjective. ► Tic douloureux, with
spasmodic movements of the facial muscles, especially of the orbicularis
palpebrarum. ► Cheeks. ► Painful determination of blood to the left cheeks. ► Burning of the left cheek, with pain in the suboritar canal. ► Lips. [50.] ► Lips dry, black, and cracked. ►
Chin. ► Acute pain in the temporo-maxillary
articulation, with pain before and in the ears; more frequent and severe on the left side. ► Pain in the whole lower jaw, as if the teeth were being
pulled out.
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► Sagging of the teeth; some loose teeth, previously painless,
become excessively painful. ► Severe toothache,
compelling him to scream. ► Toothache aggravated by cold.
► The nightly toothache is relieved by heat. ► Gums. ► Swelling and
bleeding of the gums. ► Tongue. ► Tongue white, or lead-colored. ►
Formication and trembling of the tongue. [60.] ► Painful, dry, cracked tongue. ►
General Mouth. ► Slight hæmorrhage from the
walls of the mouth. ► Dry mouth. ►
Saliva. ► Salivation, with engorgement of the
submaxillary glands. ► Copious salivation, with aphthæ,
and thready viscid mucus. ► Inclination to spit in the
morning and after a meal. ► Taste. ► Intolerable bitterness of the mouth, with burning sensation
along the œsophagus.
THROAT.
► Violent visible
beating of the carotids. ► The throat feels as if
completely raw, while swallowing. ► Uvula and Tonsils.
► Red swelling of the tonsils, uvula, and velum palati. [70.] ► Constant tickling of
the uvula, as if by a foreign body. ► Constriction of the
pillars of the velum palati. ► Œsophagus. ► Sensation as of a ball in the œsophagus, with cramps there.
STOMACH.
► Appetite.
► Bulimy. ► Strong
desire for acids. ► Repugnance to meat. ► Thirst. ► Intense
thirst, on waking in the morning. ► Eructation and Hiccough.
► Badly smelling eructations. ►
Raising of phlegm; nausea. ► Bilious regurgitations. [80.] ► Hiccough, with deep
anguish and burning in the stomach. ► Vomiting. ► Vomiting; watery diarrhœa, next morning. ► Stomach. ► Compression
at the stomach, with sensitiveness to touch.
ABDOMEN.
► Hypochondria.
► Pain and sensation of swelling of the liver. ► Sensation of swelling of the spleen. ►
Navel. ► Pressure about the navel. ► General Abdomen. ►
Inflation of the abdomen. ► Tympanitis; the intestinal
curves gather themselves into clusters, with a pinching pain. ►
Borborygmi. ► Fetid flatulence. [90.]
► Cramplike pains; diarrhœa, with anguish. ► Griping, ameliorated by lying on the abdomen. ► Iliac Region. ► Pain
in the groins; he feels as if a hernia were about to protrude.
RECTUM AND ANUS.
► Hæmorrhoidal
tumors appear. ► Constriction of the rectum. ► Tenesmus. ► Sensation of
formication in the rectum. ► Sensation of a foreign body
in the anus.
STOOL.
► Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa and weakness after vomiting. ►
Dysenteric stools. [100.] ►
Involuntary stools at night; white or yellowish stools. ►
Burning stools, with burning at the anus. ► Undigested
stools. ► Bloody stools, with sharp pains. ► Constipation. ►
Constipation or diarrhœa; nightly diarrhœa.
URINARY ORGANS.
► Bladder.
► Pain in the bladder. ►
Frequent ineffectual urging to urinate. ► Micturition.
► Frequent urination, with pains in the kidneys. ► Sometimes incontinence of urine, or flow of dirty-white
urine. ► Gluey, fetid urine is discharged guttatim. [110.] ► Difficult urination;
slight retention, with sensation of burning in the urethra. ►
Urine. ► Discharge of clear and limpid urine.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Male.
► Agreeable itching of the glans penis; slight orchitis. ► Ileo-scrotal pains. ►
Swelling of the epididymis. ► Pungent pain in the left
testicles. ► Increased sexual desire. ► Female. ► Swelling of
the uterus. ► Sensation of heaviness behind the uterus. ► The uterus feels as if about to issue from the vagina. [120.] ► Leucorrhœa, with
menstruation twice a month. ► Cramplike pains during the
menses.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx.
► Sharp pungent pain in the larynx. ► Voice. ► Transient
hoarseness. ► Feeble voice, with quavering speech. ► Short-lasting aphonia. ► Cough
and Expectoration. ► Frequent spasmodic cough.
► Hysteric cough. ►
Dry cough, with suffocation; difficulty in raising mucus. ►
She expectorates blood and blows it from the nose. ►
Respiration. [130.] ►
Slow, sighing respiration. ► Respiration short and
difficult; suffocation. ► Feeling of suffocation, with
fetid breath. ► Obliged to sit up in bed at night to get
air. ► Asthmatic paroxysms.
CHEST.
► Burning sensation
in the chest. ► Her whole chest feels swollen, and she
unlaces herself immediately after eating but very little. ►
Front. ► Cramplike pains behind the sternum. ► Lancinations in the intercostal muscles behind the sternum. ► Sides. ► Constriction
of the left side of the chest, in the evening. [140.] ► Pleuritic stitch in the right side.
HEART.
► Violent
palpitation of the heart; it seems to be beating in water.
NECH AND BACK.
► Violent
pains in the nape of the neck and neck, with slight swelling of these parts. ► She feels as if a small stream of water was running from one
ear to the other across the nape of the neck, which causes a terrible pain. ► Violent tensive pains along the vertebral column. ► Rheumatic pains between the shoulders. ►
Pains in the loins at night, with profuse perspiration. ►
Sacro-lumbar pains.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
►
Paralytic pains commencing in the entire left upper extremity (also felt in the right limb,
but less frequently). ► Rheumatic pains from the shoulder
to the finger-tips, with sensation as if an ice-cold liquid were flowing in the same
direction. [150.] ►
Pain and swelling from the elbow to the axilla, along the course of the nerves and
bloodvessels of the arms. ► Cramplike pains at the
insertion of the deltoid on the humerus, relieved by compression. ►
Cramplike pains in the right fingers, with paleness of the extremities.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► He
staggers like a drunken man, his knees give way under him; he walks as if stepping on down. ► Transient numbness of the lower limbs. ►
Intense sciatic pains. ► Pains and bruised feeling in the
large muscles of the thigh. ► Weakness and severe pains
in the hip-joint. ► Electric shocks in the muscles of the
leg. ► Pains from the tibia to the astragalus.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
[160.] ► He hears the beating of this arteries. ►
Debility, with perspiration. ► Erratic pains in the
entire trunk, which extort groans at night, but do not awaken the prover.
SKIN.
► The skin of the
abdomen is painful.
SLEEP.
► Sleep after a
meal.
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning),
Inclination to spit; on waking, thirst. ► (Evening), At 6 o’clock, when taking a meal, pains in head;
constriction of left chest. ► (Night),
Involuntary stools; diarrhœa; pain in loins, etc. ►
Amelioration. ► (Compression),
Pains in the humerus. ► (Heat),
Nightly toothache. ► (Lying on
abdomen), Griping.® 2000
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