EUPHORBIA AMYGDALOIDES.
Euphorbia amygdaloides, Linn.
Natural order
, Euphorbiaceæ. Common name, Spurge.
Preparation
, Tincture of the plant.
Authorities.
1,
E. W. Berridge, proving with the tincture: Mr. Croker took 1 drop first
day, 20 drops fourth day, 30 drops seventh day, 40 drops ninth day, 50
drops tenth day, 1 drachm eleventh day, 70 drops twelfth day; Monthly
Hom. Review, 14, 294; 2, Same prover
took 1 drop of the 3d cent. dilution, ibid.; 3,
A lady took 1 drop of the 3d dilution, ibid.; 4,
E. W. Berridge’s proving with the tincture; 3 drops and 8 drops first
day, 12 drops second day, 16 drops and 25 drops third day, 30 drops
seventh day, 40 drops eighth day, 60 drops ninth day, 60 drops, then 80
drops, twelfth day, 100 drops thirteenth day, 130 drops fourteenth day,
2 drachms fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth days, ibid.
MIND.
►
Out of humor with everything from 6 to 10 P.M.; after eating a few
mouthfuls of supper (in which were onions), it suddenly passed off
(twenty-sixth day), [1].
HEAD.
►
Hard headache, seeming to affect both sides of the head independently;
not felt at the vertex, at 6 P.M.; gradually decreasing towards morning,
at the same time seething sensation, backward and forward in the head,
and extending down the back, lasting some time, and going off during
sleep (twenty-fifth day); on rising the next morning a dull, stupid
headache, chiefly in the forehead and sides of the head, as if from
drinking spirits, going off soon after breakfast, [1].
NOSE.
►
A strong odor of mice, [2]. ► On one occasion a strong odor of nice;
not noticed by others (therefore subjective), [1]. ► She
awoke in the night, perceiving a strong odor of nice, the smell not
being noticed by others, [3].
FACE.
►
Boring pain in the left antrum, extending up to the floor of the orbit,
passing outward with the orbit as far round as the supraorbital canal,
slightly felt in the eye, and extending straight up into the head, for a
quarter of an hour, at 5 P.M. (seventeenth day), [1].
MOUTH.
►
Increased saliva (part of S. 23), [1].
THROAT.
►
Slight burning in the back of the throat (after ten minutes, first day);
relieved by cold water (after ten minutes, seventh day), for some
minutes (after three minutes, eighth day); lasting some time, in a few
minutes, relieved by breakfast (ninth day); for a few minutes (twelfth
day), followed by a sensation of heat in the chest, soon (thirteenth
day); in a few minutes followed by feeling of heat all over the chest,
and an oppression of the chest therefrom, afterwards the heat was
chiefly on the right side of the chest (fourteenth day); burning in the
back of the throat soon after the dose (fifteenth day), followed by a
feeling of oppression in the right chest, causing an inclination to take
a deep breath frequently, which relieved the oppression (sixteenth day);
burning in the throat in a few minutes (seventeenth day), [1]. ►
Stinging at the back of the pharynx, as before, very soon after the
dose, followed by a very slight warmth of the chest (twelfth day), [1]. [10.]
► Slight peppery, stinging pains were
felt at the back of the pharynx in a few minutes (first and seventh
days); less (eleventh day), [1]. ► Warm, peppery feeling in the pharynx and
anterior mediastinum, followed by warmth of the stomach radiating
through the chest (after ten minutes); it passed off in about half an
hour, ending with a feeling as if the liver were excited, which
proceeded to a sensation as if the bowels were about to act, like that
which is often felt after breakfast, a meal which he had not taken
(ninth day), [1].
STOMACH.
►
Poor appetite for breakfast (eighth day), [4].
► Qualmishness, in the evening,
removed by supper (twenty-third day), [4].
► Qualmishness, when moving about
indoors, relieved by sitting still; afterwards, when writing, it
recurred now and then, at 11 A.M., again at 8.15 P.M.; relieved by
eating a plum (fourteenth day), [4].
► Feeling of qualmishness when
walking, lasting some time, about noon (seventh day), [1]. ► Sick
feeling at 3 P.M. (dinner being delayed), (ninth day), [1].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Severe
stitches in the liver, for five minutes, at 9.30 A.M. (thirteenth day), [1]. ►
Violent stitch in the liver when walking uphill in the evening (tenth
and seventeenth days); when walking in the room (twelfth day), [1]. ►
Tightness of the region of the spleen, about 9.15 A.M., for half an hour
(twenty-third day), [1]. [20.] ►
Slight stitch in the region of the spleen when rising from sitting,
followed by some feeling of uneasiness, then; at 10 A.M. (ninth day), [1]. ►
General Abdomen. ► On one
occasion he had a sensation as if a long worm were writhing in the
region of the transverse colon or transverse duodenum (he felt this
before, when proving Caladium seguinum), [1].
► Iliac Region. ► Throbbing in the left
groin for two or three minutes, about 2 or 3 P.M. (fifth day); in the
right for half a minute, at 6.30 P.M. (ninth day); in both, chiefly in the right, at various times,
mostly in the afternoon and evening (ninth and tenth days), [1].
STOOL.
►
Difficult stool, arising from painful spasm of the anus, which was
continued during and after the evacuation; fæces small, lumpy, slimy at
7 P.M. (seventh day); (thinks he noticed the same three days before).
Small, lumpy stool, with prolapsus, for ten minutes, though there had
been no straining, at 11 P.M. (ninth day). Slight prolapsus after the
stool in the morning; offensive diarrhœa, preceded by considerable
griping, first in the upper, then in the lower abdomen, followed by
slight prolapsus, rendering sitting uneasy, and going off gradually in a
short time, between 9 and 10 P.M. (sixteenth day). Feeling of action of
the liver, followed in a short time by griping and a considerable amount
of offensive flatus, then offensive diarrhœa, after which the feeling
of the liver passes off, followed by slight prolapsus, rendering sitting
uneasy, and going off gradually in a short time, between 11 and 12 P.M.
(seventeenth day). Offensive diarrhœic stool, followed by prolapsus as
yesterday, at 10 A.M. (eighteenth day). Offensive diarrhœic stool about
11 P.M., preceded by uneasiness of the abdomen, followed by slight
prolapsus as before; in half an hour the uneasiness returned, but was
not followed by stool, as he expected it would be (twenty-second day).
Offensive diarrhœic stool, preceded by slight griping, and followed by
prolapsus as before, at 10 and 11 A.M. (twenty-third day). Very
offensive diarrhœic stool, of dark liver color, preceded by some
uneasiness in the abdomen, but no prolapsus, at 6 and 8.30 P.M.
(twenty-fifth day). Feeling as if diarrhœa would come on, followed by a
very small diarrhœic stool, at 9 and 11 A.M. (twenty-sixth day). Very
scanty, diarrhœic stool, with slight prolapsus, at 8 A.M.; moderate
diarrhœic stool, no prolapsus, at 2.15 P.M.; scanty, diarrhœic stool,
followed by slight prolapsus, at 5 P.M.; occasional feeling as if
diarrhœa would come on all the evening (twenty-seventh day). Feeling
for some minutes as if diarrhœa would come on, but no stool occurred
all day (twenty-eighth day). Slight diarrhœic stool, no prolapsus, at 8
P.M. (twenty-ninth day). Ordinary stool, followed by prolapsus, for an
hour in the evening (fortieth day). Daily diarrhœa, with prolapsus,
weakening him very much (after two months). Diarrhœa returns at
lengthened intervals (for five months). At uncertain periods he had an
inclination to diarrhœa, as though it was coming on rather suddenly,
with a sympathetic sick feeling and increased saliva; at times, also, a
peculiar seething sensation in the region of the spine, sometimes from
the occiput, to the loins, sometimes to a less extent; sometimes this
goes off without diarrhœa, but rarely; usually it is followed by
dark-brown, watery, mucous discharges, sometimes mixed with solid fæces,
sometimes offensive, sometimes with blood, mostly in the afternoon from
4 to 10 P.M., sometimes more or less griping before stool. If it lasts
two or three days there is prolapsus, which goes back very gradually,
returning with the next diarrhœa; if replaced within half an hour, the
bowel generally prolapses again. If diarrhœa lasts three or four days,
and sometimes even less, external piles appear, not returning with the
prolapsus for the last two or three months (after ten months), [1]. ►
Slight tendency to constipation for the last three or four days
(thirty-ninth day), [1].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urine hot during micturition (ninth and tenth days); slight heat of the
urine in the evening (sixteenth day); heat of urine more in the forenoon
(seventeenth day), [1]. ► Considerable increase of urine from noon
till midnight (seventeenth day), [1].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Hoarse voice (thirteenth day); (also noticed early in the proving), [1]. ►
Hoarse voice soon after the dose (thirteenth day), [4].
CHEST.
►
Feeling of warmth, which seemed to radiate from the stomach through the
chest, gradually subsiding in ten or fifteen minutes (seventh day), [1]. [30.]
► Sensation of heat in the chest when
riding in an open carriage in the evening (first day); also (part of S.
8), [4]. ►
Feeling in the chest as if the lungs remained partly inflated, causing a
sensation of fulness; worse in the evening (ninth and tenth days), (this
occurred before, early in the proving); same fulness all day (twelfth
and thirteenth days), [1]. ► Feeling of constriction in the left side,
about the upper part of the heart or arch of the aorta, as if the part
were constricted into a smaller bulk; worse on walking, about 3 or 4
A.M., and gradually going off in the course of the morning; this symptom
has been present for about six days (twenty-third day); worse at 3 or 4
A.M. (twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh days), [1]. ► Slight
constriction in the left chest on waking at 7 A.M. (twenty-ninth day).
Same at 7 A.M. (thirtieth day). Extending across to the corresponding
part of the right side; latterly, a feeling of tenderness on pressure
has been added to the constriction, becoming more and more painful each
day (thirtieth day). It appeared again in the left chest; worse in the
early morning before daylight; after rising, it went off in the course
of the morning, reappearing now and then in the evening (thirty-ninth
day). Worse in the early morning, going off after rising; the part felt
tender to pressure; in the evening it returned, but without the
tenderness; soon after lying down in bed it increased, almost amounting
to a pain (fortieth day). It went off in the course of the morning
(forty-first day), [1]. ► While writing, a pressing pain occurred
at irregular intervals in the right
chest, just above the nipple; worse on stooping or bending forward,
lasting about an hour, at 3.15 P.M.; in the evening a similar, very
slight sensation in the left chest
(N.B. Right-left), (twelfth day), [4].
► Oppression of the chest (part of S.
2), [4].
HEART.
►
Slight throbbings in the region of the heart for five minutes (after ten
minutes, seventh day), [1].
BACK.
►
Peculiar seething sensation in the region of the spine, sometimes from
the occiput to the loins, sometimes to a less extent, [1]. ►
Prickings in the back during the act of stooping, and when rising from
stooping (fifth day), [4]. ► When kneeling, a sudden pain in the
lumbar region, which seemed to stop the breath for a moment, at 8.20
A.M. (twenty-first day), [4]. [40.] ►
Sharp pain in the right lumbar region, when stooping or taking a deep
inspiration, at 10.35 P.M. (twenty-ninth day), [4].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► On becoming warm and perspiring,
rheumatic pains came on in the right arm, just above the olecranon, in
the tendons of the triceps, felt on bending the elbow (thirteenth day), [1]. ►
Rheumatic pains in the right elbow-joint, just above the insertion of
the triceps, worse on motion (eighth day); in both
elbows, just above the insertion of the triceps, worse on motion (ninth
day), [1]. ►
Rheumatic pains in the lower third of the right radius, worse towards
evening (ninth and tenth days), similar pain in the lower two-thirds of
the right radius at 11 P.M. (twelfth day), [1]. ► Pain in
the radius, heat of the urine, throbbing of the groins, and seething of
the lymphatics gone (is this the effect of onions eaten the previous
evening, or of the repetition of the dose?) (eleventh day), [1].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Seething sensation in the lymphatics of
the right leg, at times, from the foot to the groin, as if the
circulation were felt; afterwards, to a less extent in the left leg,
also; chiefly left from the foot to the knee, only when sitting down,
and worse in the evening (ninth and tenth days), [1]. ► Sudden
sharp pain about the middle of the right tibia, which was afterwards
tender to touch, at 5.15 P.M. (twenty-seventh day), [1].
GENERAL EXTREMITIES.
►
Felt tired when walking, though I could usually bear a great deal of
exercise; at noon (fifteenth day). Unusually tired after walking in the
afternoon (eighteenth day). Tired when walking, slightly so in the
morning, more so in the afternoon; it disappeared after a meal
(nineteenth day). Tired when walking in the morning and first part of
afternoon; after sitting for a few minutes this feeling went off, but
returned soon after I began to walk again; towards the end of the walk,
the fatigue was felt chiefly in the thighs (twentieth day). After dinner
(2 P.M.) felt tired, and at first somewhat sleepy (twenty-first day), [4]. ►
Great sense of fatigue, after walking a mile and a half, at 1 P.M.
(seventeenth day); slightly tired when walking in the afternoon
(nineteenth day), [1]. ► Great restlessness all night, tossing
about half awake and half asleep (twenty-fifth night), [1]. [50.] ► General feeling of malaise all day
(seventeenth day), [1].
SKIN.
►
Two hard, white, itching, vesicular pimples, with a clear spot at the
centre, as if from fluid, one on the internal malleolus of the right
foot, and the other between the former and the metatarsal joint of the
great toe; the itching was worse in the evening (ninth day). They are
red; one has a red areola (twelfth day). Dying away (thirteenth day).
Dying slowly, only itching when rubbed (fifteenth day). Often hurt by
the boot when walking (sixteenth day). Gone (twenty-third day), [1]. ►
A pimple just under the lobe of the right ear (thirteenth day); much
smaller (twenty-third day), [1].
FEVER.
►
Chilly and sensitive to cold at 10 P.M.; this feeling went off after
going to bed, having lasted three-quarters of an hour (twenty-third
day). General feeling of chilliness at 11 P.M.; when undressing (half an
hour later), it was increased to a general violent ague shivering, with
chattering of the teeth; it lasted more or less till the next morning,
and was not followed by heat or sweat (twenty-fifth day), [1]. ► When
walking, perspired much more than usual, in the evening (seventh day);
in the morning (thirteenth day), [1].
► On two occasions I did not perspire
as much as usual when walking in the hot sun, [4].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Early, constriction of chest. ► (Forenoon),
Heat of urine. ► (Afternoon), Towards evening, pains in radius.
► (Evening),
Fulness in chest; after lying down in bed, constriction in chest,
sensation in lymphatics of leg. ► (Bending forward), Pain in right chest;
pricking in back; pain in lumbar region. ►
(Deep inspiration), Pain in lumbar
region. ► (Motion),
Pain in elbow-joint. ► (Rising from sitting), Stitch in region of
spleen. ► (Walking),
Qualmishness; stitch in liver; feeling in chest. ► Amelioration. ►
(Breakfast), Burning in back of
throat. ► (Cold
water), Burning in back of throat. ►
(Eating a plum), Qualmishness. ► (Sitting still),
Qualmishness. ► (Supper), Qualmishness.® 2000
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