LAPPA.
Lappa officinalis, Allioni.
Natural order
, Compositæ.
Common name
, Burdock.
Authority.
Jacob Jeanes, M.D., Hahn.
Month., vol. iv, 1868, p. 151, I took, about 11 A.M., 2 or 3 drops of 2d
cent. dil. in 1 ounce of water.
1.
Immediately.
Tickling in the rima glottis, with loose-sounding cough, but no
expectoration.
2.
Pain about the sixth and seventh ribs,
on the left side.
3.
Chilliness. Pain in the lower
extremities, as if fatigued.
4.
Severe tingling pain, with acute
cutting pain, under the sternum, about on a line with the insertions of
the fourth and fifth ribs, and extending across the breast.
5.
Oppression of breath, especially in the
sternal region, with shortness of breath on exertion.Wishing to take a drink of water before retiring to
bed, I took the tumbler out of which I had taken my dose in the
forenoon, and allowed a strong stream of water to flow into it, shaking
the glass strongly during this flow and overflow, to aid in the process
of rinsing. I then drew and drank one or two tumblers of water. I had
not taken it a minute before I was affected in the following manner:
6.
The symptoms of pain across the breast,
mentioned above, in 4 and 5, but to these is added aching of the throat
and violent constrictive feeling; pain in the head; extremely rapid
pulse, with frequent intermissions (about every second or third
pulsation); pain in the head, in the region of veneration, and pain in
the region of the heart, with a indescribable movement in the chest,
under the sternum, on a line with the third ribs. At the same time pain
in the anterior muscles of the right thigh.
7.
Pains in the back about eighth dorsal
vertebræ.
8.
The pulse becomes fuller and slower,
but seldom more than three pulsations without any intermission.
9.
Bowels opened two or three times as if
purged, with some abatement in the violence of the symptoms.
10.
The mind much agitated from the
distressing feelings more than from the fear of death, which, however,
appears to be threatened.
11.
The symptoms continued violent and
distressing through the greater part of the night. ►
At the date of this occurrence I was about forty-five years of age, had
never had an attack of this kind, and had never noticed any intermission
of the pulsations of my heart. My pulse had been, for many years, and
still continues to be, abnormally frequent, 84 in the minute. Within a
few years I have had two or three attacks of febrile disorder, in which
the pulse for some hours was exceedingly feeble, frequent, and
irregular, but entirely different in character from the intermittent
pulse I had after taking the Arctium lappa.® 2000
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