HURA BRASILIENSIS.
Hura Brasiliensis, Willd.
Natural order
, Euphorbiaceæ. Common name (Brazilian), Assacu (name given
to the milky juice of the tree).
Preparation
, Tincture of the milky juice.
Authority.
Mure, provings Nos. 1 to 4,
by two males and two females, each with a single drop of the 5th
dilution (Nos 1 and 3, had been attacked by leprosy, but had
apparently recovered under homœopathic treatment), Pathogénésie
Brésilienne, p. 163; 5, Symptoms
given by Cattell, B. J. of Hom., 11, 341.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Much excited
and oppressed, as if by some great misfortune (seventh day), [4]. ►
Nervous laughter, which makes her shudder, at 7 A.M. (sixth day), [4]. ►
Every paroxysm of pain excites a nervous laugh, with moanings like those
of a sick child (thirty-first day), [3].
► She weeps every little while, and
especially for two days past, fancies she sees the dead person before
her eyes (forty-fifth day), [3]. ► Causeless weeping, followed by nervous
laughter (nineteenth day), [4]. ► The affections are very active (fifteenth
day), [1]. ►
During and after the fainting spell, disposed to love everybody,
especially those about him; he often thinks of death, but does not fear
it; he even feels as though he could die without regret. He reproaches
himself for all his bad actions, even the merest trifles (sixteenth
day), [1]. ►
Great cheerfulness, with inclination to laugh, followed by chills in the
head and legs, at 8 A.M. (seventh day), [4].
► Sadness; inclination to weep, at 7
P.M. (eighth day), [4]. [10.] ►
Sadness, melancholy; she thinks despondency of the future (nineteenth
day), [4]. ►
Sad thoughts; vexation (twenty-eighth day), [3]. ► Flow of
sad thoughts; she fancies she is about to lose a dear friend
(forty-fifth day), [3]. ► Depression; wants to do nothing; nothing
pleases her (first day), [3]. ► Dejection; indolence (second day), [4]. ►
Hypochondria, sadness, despair; he fancies he is repudiated and deserted
by his relations; at 11 A.M. (eleventh day), [2]. ► She
fancies she is left alone in the world and is lost (nineteenth day), [4]. ►
Feelings much affected, and she sighs a good deal; at 9.30 A.M. (first
day), [4]. ►
Inclination to weep (twenty-eighth day), [3].
► Inclination to weep; chest
constricted, as from emotion, at 7.30 A.M.; the tearful mood continues,
the least thing disturbs her and makes her sad; she starts when a door
is opened suddenly; at 8.30 A.M. (ninth day), [4]. [20.] ► Unusual inclination to weep, even when
singing, followed by a suffocative feeling, at 9.30 A.M.; she weeps
(ninth day), [4]. ► Great inclination to weep, at 10.30 P.M.
(third day), [4]. ► Anxiety; sometimes she is taken with
weeping in the streets (thirty-eighth day), [3]. ► Anxiety
about his salvation, during the nervous attack (sixteenth day), [1]. ►
Irritable; the least thing puts him out (thirty-fifth day), [1]. ►
Irritated by the least opposition (first day), [1]. ► Since
taking the drug, the least thing irritates her, and then she feels
oppressed, with desire to weep; she reddens and sighs a good deal,
several times a day (third day), [4].
► Impatience; she wants to break
everything (nineteenth day), [4]. ► Impatience, anger; she bites her hands,
and gets into a passion because her ideas come too slowly (fifty-eighth
day), [3]. ►
Sulky, perverse disposition (thirty-seventh day), [2]. [30.] ► Listlessness; she does everything
mechanically (fourth day), [3]. ► In general she is careless of the future;
ennui and weeping; thinks about death without fearing it (thirty-first
day), [3]. ► Intellectual. ►
Indisposed for work (thirty-seventh day), [2].
► Absence of mind (thirty-seventh
day), [2]. ►
Absence of mind when at work (nineteenth day), [4]. ► Great
absence of mind; he makes many blunders; mistakes one month for another,
as, e. g., July for September; for
several successive days (thirty-ninth day), [2]. ► He
twice takes the wrong street (thirty-ninth day), [2].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head in front (seventeenth day), [1]. ► The
head is still a little confused above the eyebrows (eighteenth day), [1]. ►
Dizziness (second day), [1];
(thirty-eighth day), [3]. [40.] ►
Dizziness; waves before the eyes; the sight becomes dim when writing; at
2 P.M. (twenty-third day), [1]. ► General Head. ►
Rush of blood to the head (eighth day), [4].
► Rush of blood to the head; she
turns very red (twentieth day), [4].
► Dulness of the head in the morning
on rising (tenth day), [3]. ► Heaviness of the head (first day), [2]; (twenty-second day), [4]. ►
Heaviness in the whole head (ninth day), [4].
► Heaviness of the head, with weight
in the orbits, at 8.15 A.M. (sixth day), [4].
► Heavy head; the least motion is
felt in the eyes and over the orbits (seventh day), [4]. ► Heavy
head; considerable epistaxis on rising (thirteenth day), [3]. ► Head
heavy and confused, with weakness of the legs (tenth day), [2]. [50.]
► Numbness of the head (fifth day), [4]. ►
Torpid feeling in the head, with numbness of the upper gums and the
muscles of the eye (tenth day), [4].
► Heat of the head (twenty-seventh
day), [2]. ►
Horrid pain in the whole head and face, beginning at the vertex (fifth
day), [4]. ►
Headache (fifteenth day), [2];
(thirty-eighth day), [4]. ► Headache when walking (twentieth day), [4]. ►
Partial headaches (thirty-second day), [2].
► Pressive pain in the skull (eighth
day), [1]. ►
Pain in the head, as from a weight on the skull, and extending to the
mastoid processes (fifteenth day), [1].
► Lancinating pain in the head
(nineteenth day), [3]. [60.] ►
Painful lancinations all through the head, extending to the left ear and
teeth, and then shifting to the upper part of the orbit (sixth day), [4]. ►
Forehead. ► Redness of the
forehead (fourth day), [3]. ► The skin of the forehead is exceedingly
tense (nineteenth day), [4]. ► Frontal headache at 9.30 P.M. (first
day), [4]; (twenty-third day), [1]. ►
The least thing hurts her, causing horrible pains in the forehead and
temples, and under the chin (twentieth day), [4]. ► Nervous
pain passing quickly from the orbits to the forehead, and disappearing
at once (fourth day), [4]. ► Very severe headache, as if a ring was
revolving quickly over the forehead (thirty-eighth day), [3]. ►
Pressure on the forehead (twenty-fifth day), [1]. ►
Pressive sensation on the forehead, with coldness and moisture of the
hands and feet (twenty-third day), [1].
► Slight pressive pain on the
forehead and vertex (twenty-sixth day), [1].
[70.] ►
Sense of oppression in the forehead (seventeenth day), [1]. ► Weight
in the forehead (twenty-seventh day), [2].
► Headache, slight beating on the
forehead, most of the night; the headache continues, with a heaviness on
the forehead, in the morning (eleventh day); all day (thirteenth day), [3]. ►
Temples. ► Severe pressure
on the left temple (sixth day), [4].
► Lancinations in the temples (second
day), [4]. ►
Throbbing in the right temple (seventeenth day), [4]. ►
Throbbing in the left temple (twenty-first day), [1]. ► Violent
throbbing at the left temple (ninth day), [4].
► Vertex. ► Headache, as from a nail in the vertex,
with violent toothache, and swelling of the gums, at 2 o’clock, after a
walk; throbbing in the whole left side of the face as far as the eye
(thirtieth day), [1]. ► Lancinating pain at the top of the head
(second day), [1]. ► Parietals. [80.]
► She feels as if one-half her head
was swollen (fifty-eighth day), [3].
► Violent headache on the left side
(thirty-second day), [1]. ► Violent headache in whole left parietal
region (thirty-second day), [2]. ► Pain as if the head were compressed above
the ears, with numbness of the jaw (ninth day), [4]. ►
Lancination in the left side of the head, extending to the eye, the
temples, above the ear, and into the lower jaw (sixth day), [4]. ►
Painful sensitiveness of the whole right half of the head, especially
when touched (fifty-eighth day), [3].
► Throbbing in the left side of the
head at 3 P.M. (twenty-first day), [4].
► Pains in the head, like a beating,
in the sides and vertex; felt also in the mastoid processes, and
extending into the sterno-mastoid muscles (fifteenth day), [1]. ►
Hemicrania; pains all through the head (twentieth day), [4]. ► Occiput.
► Constriction of the back of the
head (fifth and twentieth days), [4].
[90.] ►
Pain behind the head and in the neck, extending to the left gums
(fourteenth day), [4]. ► Headache, from the occiput to the vertex,
with throbbing and sharp pains (fifteenth day), [1]. ► External
Head. ► Stiffness in the
trapezius muscle, about its attachment to the occiput (fourth day), [1]. ►
Itching and small scabby pimples on the scalp (twelfth day), [1]. ►
Itching of the scalp, especially behind the ears and mastoid process, as
from a tetter (eleventh day), [1].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Eyes red,
with weak sight; he reads with difficulty (thirteenth day), [2]. ►
Red eyes, with rings around them; face pale, wan, and yellow
(twenty-third day), [1]. ► Sclerotica red and inflamed, and the
capillaries injected (twenty-third day), [1].
► Sclerotica reddened, with rings
around eyes, red eyelids, and red face (fifteenth day), [3]. ► The
eyes are swollen and look smaller (thirty-fourth day), [4]. [100.] ► Swollen eyes, with rings around them
(thirteenth day), [4]. ► Inflammation of the right eye
(thirty-ninth day), [4]. ► Subjective. ►
Eyes fatigued; sight weak (fourteenth day), [2]. ► The
eyes feel tired, with pressure on the upper orbits (fifteenth day), [2]. ►
Sensation as of dust in the left eye at 3 P.M. (seventh day), [1]. ►
Sensation as from dust or foreign bodies in the eye (thirteenth day), [1]. ►
Sensation as of sand in the left eye at 10 P.M. (second day), [2]. ►
Feeling as of breadcrumbs in the eyes (fifteenth day), [3]. ► Bloated
feeling in the eyes (nineteenth day), [1].
► Sensation of weight on the eyes, as
if they were very tired (seventh day), [1].
[110.] ►
Heaviness of the eyes, with drowsiness, at 12.45 P.M. (ninth day), [4]. ►
Pricking in the eyes (nineteenth day), [1].
► Pricking sensation in the eyes all
day, with redness and smarting on the very borders of the lids
(thirteenth day), [1]. ► Pricking in the right eye (second day), [1]. ►
Pricking in the left eye, as from dust (tenth day), [1]. ►
Pricking in the left eye, with intolerable itching and nervous
excitement, which extends to the heart, but is very transient (ninth
day), [1]. ►
The right eye is more sensitive than the left (thirteenth day), [1]. ►
Brow and Orbit. ►
Heaviness over the eyes and in the head (seventh day), [4]. ►
Pricking around the eyes, especially the right eye (first day), [1]. ►
The headache extends to the eyebrows and eyes (twenty-third day), [1]. [120.]
► Pain over the orbits and in the
forehead at 3 P.M. (nineteenth day), [4].
► Pain over the right orbit
(seventeenth day), [4]. ► Pain in the orbits, as from a violent
headache, or from looking too long at one thing (second day), [4]. ►
Pressure on the orbits, as from a violent headache (first day), [4]. ►
Weight on the orbits, as from great drowsiness, at 11 A.M. (sixth and
seventh days), [4]. ► Weight on the left orbit (seventeenth
day), [4]. ►
Throbbing in the right orbit, afterwards in both sides, at 8.30 P.M.
(seventh day), [4]. ► Throbbing over the right orbit, and
sometimes the left, at 4 P.M. (eighth day), [4]. ► Nervous
throbbing over the left orbit (nineteenth day), [4]. ► Lids.
► Red eyelids (thirty-seventh day), [2]. [130.]
► The upper and lower eyelids are
inflamed and bluish (first day), [1].
► Swelling of the lower eyelids at
noon (thirteenth day), [4]. ► Involuntary closing of the eyelids
(twentieth day), [4]. ► Nervous twitching of the left lower
eyelid (forty-third day), [3]. ► Sensation as if small pimples were
beginning to form on the inside of the eyelids (first day), [1]. ►
Heaviness of the upper lids (twenty-third day), [1]. ►
Heaviness of the eyes; he cannot read long (nineteenth day), [1]. ►
Very severe pain near the inner canthus of the left eye (thirteenth
day), [4]. ►
Burning sensation at the inner canthus of the right eye at 9.30 P.M.
(tenth day), [1]. ► Sensation on closing the eyes as if the
lids were cold (fifteenth day), [1].
[140.] ►
Pricking in the borders of the eyelids, in the daytime (second day), [2]. ►
Pricking, as from dust, on the border of the right lower eyelid (fifth
day), [1]. ►
Nervous beating in the eyelids (first day), [1]. ► Itching
of the edges of the eyelids (sixteenth day), [2]. ► Itching
of the left eyelids at 9 P.M. (fourth day), [2]. ► Lachrymal
Apparatus. ► Inflammation
of the puncta lachrymalia (tenth day), [1].
► Inflammation of the left punctum
lachrymal (eleventh day), [4]. ► Smarting and itching of the left punctum
lachrymal and lower lid at 10 P.M. (sixth day), [2]. ► Vision.
► Dimness of vision, with pricking in
the eyelids (fifty-fifth day), [1].
► Blindness (from touching the eye
with the milk), [5]. [150.] ►
Weariness and weakness of sight (twelfth day), [2]. ► Sparks
and zigzags before the eyes when walking or sitting (twenty-third day), [1].
EAR.
►
External. ► A sort of
painful glandular swelling behind the masseter muscle below the right
ear (seventeenth day), [1]. ► Pain behind and in the right ear
(thirteenth day), [4]. ► Slight pain at first above the left ear,
then passing into the left orbit (second day), [4]. ► Very
acute pain behind the ears (twentieth day), [4]. ► Pain,
as from pressing hard on a sore place behind the right ear, and under
the neck, at the larynx; pain when moving the head (fourth day), [4]. ►
Internal. ► Pain in the
right ear (tenth day), [4]. ► Sensation of stoppage in the ears;
afterwards, as if air-bubbles were getting into the left ear; for two or
three seconds (seventeenth day), [2].
► Hearing. ► Whizzing in the ears (sixth day), [4]. [160.]
► Loud whizzing in the left ear
(ninth day), [4]. ► Whistling in the ears, especially the
right (first day), [1]. ► Whistling in the right ear (at 9 A.M.),
(thirteenth day), [4].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Redness on
the left side of the nose (thirteenth day), [4]. ► Redness
of the wing of the nose (fifth day), [4].
► Sneezing and blowing the nose, as
in incipient coryza (third day), [2].
► Sneezing, and frequent blowing of
the nose, as in incipient coryza, followed by involuntary discharge from
the nose of a lemon-colored mucus, with tickling (second day), [1]. ►
A succession of sneezes for two days (thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth
days), [3]. ►
Coryza (thirty-ninth day), [4]. ► Epistaxis in the morning (nineteenth
day), [1]; when lying down
(thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth days), [3];
at 7 A.M. (fitfth day), [2]. at 8
and 10.30 A.M. (twelfth day), [3];
at 10 P.M. (eighth day), [4]. [170.] ►
Constant or very frequent epistaxis, especially in the morning (fortieth
day), [3]. ►
Copious epistaxis from both nostrils (thirty-eighth day), [3]. ► Subjective.
► Dry nose, so that he cannot blow
it, with itching of the inside, at 9.45 P.M. (second day), [1]. ►
Constriction of the root of the nose (seventh and thirteenth days), [4]. ►
Constriction at the root of the nose for a moment (fourth day), [4]. ►
Throbbing at the root of the nose (seventh day), [4]. ► Smell.
► The sense of smell is very acute;
he even smells persons at a distance (sixteenth day), [1]. ► The
epistaxis is preceded by a smell of blood (thirty-eighth day), [3].
FACE.
►
Objective. ► He looks
weary, as after a debauch, though he has slept well (first day), [1]. ►
Weary-looking face, with rings around eyes (second day), [2]. [180.] ► Face dull and dark-looking, with
paleness, and generally mottled with red (thirty-ninth day), [4]. ►
Face scarlet and bloated on awaking (fifth day), [3]. ► Redness
and heat rising to the face; the redness is mostly on the cheeks and
forehead (sixth day), [4]. ► Red face, with little pimples between the
skin and flesh (thirty-eighth day), [3].
► She turns red, and her chest feels
oppressed (twenty-third to twenty-eighth day), [4]. ► Blue
spots on the face; at the beginning of the proving it became red, now it
is sometimes pale (thirty-first day), [3].
► Livid complexion at noon (fourth
day), [2]. ►
Paleness, cold hands and feet, with weakness all over while the pains
last (twenty-eighth day), [1]. ► Pale, sickly face; rings around the eyes
(fifty-ninth day), [1]. ► Pale face, with rings around the eyes,
and redness of the margins of the eyelids (fifteenth day), [1]. [190.]
► Pale face, sunken eyes, with
redness around the lids (nineteenth day), [1].
► Sensation as if the skin of the
face was extremely tense (thirty-eighth day), [3]. ► Short
lancinations all over the face, with constriction of the head, beginning
at the temples (fourth day), [4]. ► Throbbing in the whole left side of the
face as far as the eye (thirtieth day), [1].
► Cheeks. ► The left cheek is very red (fifth day), [4]. ►
Large red spot on the lower part of the left cheek at noon (first day), [4]. ►
Blue cheeks (fourth day), [3]. ► Swelling of the whole right cheek,
without toothache (third day), [4].
► Small swellings on the upper part
of the right cheek, as high as the temples, like those she had on the
face on her return from Brazil (at which time also a very extensive
crusty herpes broke out in the same way), (fifth day), [3]. ► Pain in
the left cheek and gums (tenth day), [4].
[200.] ►
The cheeks are burning, from 1 to 4 P.M. (eleventh day), [4]. ► Burning
in the left cheek; heaviness of the eyes; lancinating pain in the ears
(first day), [4]. ► The cheek seems about to swell (thirtieth
day), [1]. ►
Pain in one-half the jaw, and in the ear, followed by pricking in the
ear (fifth day), [4]. ► Sensation as if a bar ran through the
jaws, from ear to ear, with constriction of the head (seventh day), [4]. ►
Lancination in the whole jaw (sixth day); at 7 A.M. (thirteenth day), [4]. ►
Sensation behind the masseter muscle, as from a recent blow on the
parotid gland; the spot becomes sensitive to touch, and there is a small
swelling extending under the zygoma; at 8 P.M. (fifth day), [1]. ►
Red lips (fifty-fifth day), [1]. ► Small pimples on the inside of the lower
lip (fifth day), [1]. ► Pain under the lower lip, with swelling
on the left side, having a large red pimple in the middle, at 6.30
o’clock (eighteenth day), [4].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. [210.] ► Toothache on the left side (first and
thirteenth days), [4]. ► Pain in the left teeth, felt also in the
eyes, at 4 P.M. (sixth day), [4]. ► Slight lancinations in the two last,
left, lower molars, at 11.30 A.M. (first day), [4]. ► The
teeth and gums are painful on clenching the jaws; the pain extends to
the nose (first day), [4]. ► The teeth are painful when chewing
(seventh day), [4]. ► Swelling of the outside of the left lower
gums of the large molars, with toothache on this side (twenty-ninth
day), [1]. ► Gums. ►
Pimple on right lower part (gum) of the lower jaw (sixth day), [2]. ►
Numbness of the gums (ninth day), [4].
► Pain in the gums (twentieth day);
at 10 A.M. (fifteenth day); at 11 A.M. (twelfth day), [4]. ► Pains
in the gums and right cheek, at noon (eleventh day), [4]. [220.] ► Pain in the gums corresponding to the
left eye, with heat in the face, at 4.15 P.M. (first day), [4]. ►
Pain in the gums, passing to the left eye, at 4.30 P.M. (nineteenth
day), [4]. ►
Pain in the gums of the left side (second and thirteenth days); at 10
P.M. (fourteenth day), [4]. ► Pain in the left gums, felt in the root
of the nose (thirteenth day), [4].
► Sharp pain in the left gums; the
whole left side of the head numb (ninth day), [4]. ► Nervous
pain shifting from the eye to the gums, with throbbing in the left
temple (seventeenth day), [4]. ► Lancination in the gums, at 2.30 P.M.
(first day), [4]. ► Lancination in the gums and left eye, at
11 A.M. (seventh day), [4]. ► Lancinations in the gums, painfully felt
in the whole head (ninth day), [4].
► Lancinations in the gums, with
great heat in the face (seventh day), [4].
[230.] ►
Lancinations in the gums on the right side (second day), [4]. ►
Lancination in the left gums (sixth and seventeenth days); at 6.30 A.M.
(thirteenth day), [4]. ► Lancination in the left gums, passing to
the right ear, at 8 A.M. (sixth day), [4].
► Pain in the left gums, passing to
the eye and behind the ear (ninth day), [4].
► Lancination in the left lower gums;
soon after, in the upper (ninth day), [4].
► Lancination in the left lower gums;
constriction of the nose, felt also in the jaw (seventh day), [4]. ►
Tongue. ► Tongue white, at
6 A.M. (second day), [4]. ► White spots on the tongue (first day), [3]. ►
Pain in the tongue; small pimples on its left side (first day), [3]. ►
Pain in the tip of the tongue, at 2 P.M. (fourteenth day), [4]. [240.]
► Contraction of the papillæ of the
tongue, immediately (first day), [2].
► Pinching at the right side of the
tongue (first day), [1]. ► Pricking on the left side of the tongue,
causing a good deal of water to accumulate in her mouth, at 9.15 A.M.
(fourth day), [4]. ► Throbbing on the left side of the tip of
the tongue (seventh day), [4]. ► General Mouth. ►
Fleshy excrescences on the inside of the lips (sixth day), [1]. ►
Dry mouth in the morning (second day), [1].
► Sense of warmth and scalding in
mouth and throat, [5]. ► Taste. ►
Clammy mouth, in the morning (eighteenth day); on waking (first day), [1]. ►
Clammy mouth every morning, with sputa looking like milk-chocolate, and
of a foul smell (twenty-ninth day), [1].
► Clammy taste in mouth, with great
drowsiness, in the morning, on waking (first day), [3]. [250.] ► Clammy mouth, at 6 A.M. (eleventh day), [4]. ►
Coppery taste in the mouth (thirty-ninth day), [4]. ► Taste
of blood in mouth during an embrace (thirty-fourth day), [1]. ► Taste
of blood in the throat (first and eighteenth days); before breakfast
(sixth and ninth days), [1]. ► Taste of blood in the throat (eighteenth
day), [1]. ►
Very decided taste of blood in mouth and throat, with scraping or
tearing sensation when drawing breath (thirtieth day), [1]. ► Smoky
taste of the water at breakfast (second day), [1].® 2000
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