PERSICA.
Amygdalus (Prunus) Persica.
Natural order
, Rosaceæ.
Common name,
Peach.
Preparation
, Tincture of the flowers.
Authority.
Dr. Demeures, Journ. de la Soc.
Gal., Ser. 1re, vol. 4, p. 118. 1,
Effects of pounding the flowers while preparing the tincture; 2 and 3,
provings with the tincture.
EYE.
►
Pressure and itching in the eyes from reading, in the evening; it seems
as if there were a foreign body in the eyes, [3]. ►
Lachrymation, at night, from reading, three days after; this symptom
lasts four days, [2]. ► Dazzling before the eyes, in the morning;
it is impossible to read; objects seem to waver in a zigzag direction;
ceases after two hours (after twelve hours), [3]. ► The
sight, the same evening, by candlelight, was wholly unfatigued by late
reading, nine hours after (a curative effect and a reaction from a
previous reverse condition), [1].
NOSE.
►
The nasal cartilage and the upper jaw are painful to touch, as if they
had received a blow from a fist (only when touched); the nasal cartilage
feels as if thinner than usual, [3].
► Persistent loss of smell, [3].
FACE.
►
Raw pain in the middle of the lower lip, lasting five hours, [3]. ►
Small swelling on the left lower jaw, in front of the facial artery,
causing pain and itching, [3].
MOUTH.
►
Loss of taste; what he eats appears deprived of any kind of flavor, even
that of sea salt; this state persists like that of the loss of smell, [3].
ABDOMEN.
[10.]
► Internal pain in the left side of
the abdomen, always vertically, following a line drawn from the
extremity of the cartilage of the tenth rib to the anterior superior
spine of the ilium (after three days and a half), [2].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
During stool, ejaculation of semen, without pollution or erection,
followed by a peculiar feeling of emptiness in the hypogastrium, and of
pain in the genital organs, such as follows sexual excess. ► At the same time painful lassitude in the
legs, then pain above both hips, but more especially in the sacral
region (after ten days), [3]. ► Indifference to sexual intercourse,
lasting more than six months, [3].
CHEST.
►
During dinner, stinging pain under the false ribs as from a sharp point,
likewise under the shoulder-blades; this pain is short-lasting (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Severe and deepseated prickings above the
left nipple, several times, [3].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Sharp pains in the region of the heart, vertically, following a line
parallel to the axis of the body, [2].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Extreme liability to sprain both wrists,
accompanied with weakness in these parts, [3].
► Fatiguing pains in both
wrist-joints, and at the same time in both feet; the pain is more severe
in the left ankle and left foot (after thirteen days), [3]. ► The
wrist-joint, which had been hurt, and had been cured by this remedy, six
months previously, became again momentarily painful (after four days), [2]. ►
Pain as from a sprain in the right wrist-joint, which prevents him from
seizing an object, from lifting it, and from squeezing it with his hand,
during twelve hours (after eighteen hours), [1]. [20.] ► Little shootings between the index and
middle fingers of the left hand (after nine and ten days), [3].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Drawing and pain in the left thigh, which
soon ceases, [2]. ► Lancinations in the posterior part of the
right thigh, always in the direction of its length (after nine days and
a half), [3]. ► Painful twitchings all along the right
thigh, on the outside (after eight days), [3].
► Numbness in the left knee, in the
morning, in bed, which ceases on rising. Three hours after this symptom,
acute pain in a transverse direction, in the end of the left metatarsus,
which ceases in a few minutes, and is followed by tension and painful
stiffness in the left calf, which goes off as quickly (after four days),
[2]. ►
Next morning, when wishing to rise, inability to bend the knees; in a
few moments, this sensation passes off, and I get up without any trouble
(seventy-two hours after all the symptoms have disappears), [1]. ►
Pain in both knees, and at the same time in the right ankle-joint, which
impedes walking, [3]. ► The legs are numb and stiff when sitting,
even on a low chair; likewise the feet, as if they had been held in a
false position, [1]. ► Prickings, in the form of lancinations,
in the outer portion of the left leg, along the peroneus muscle, [3]. ►
Painful lancinations, a little above the internal malleolus of the left
foot, [3]. [30.] ► At
the same time as the eruption, as sharp pain under the right great toe
nail, only when pressing on the nail, not when walking, [2]. ►
Internal pain in the bend of the left fourth toe; this pain lasts only a
few minutes (after three days and a half), [2]. ► The
itching and the pain under the left tonsil are experienced anew. The
pain under the nail is unaccompanied with heat or swelling (after three
days), [3]. ►
Pricking pain in the lower extremity of the tarsus, at the root of the
fourth toe, in the evening, when writing (after three hours and a half),
[3].
GENERALITIES.
►
A single glass of wine is sufficient to intoxicate him; this symptom
also lasts six months, [3].
SKIN.
►
Small tumor, size of a nut, on the lobe of the right ear, very painful
to touch, [3]. ► Obstinate itching on different parts of
the body, in the head, in the forehead, in the temples, in the middle of
the back, in the arms, on the abdomen, over the thighs, on both hams, on
portions of which (regions) there appears an eruption of very small,
pointed pimples, the top of which was torn off by scratching, leaving a
red, bleeding point. The tops of these pimples before they were
detached, were filled with a clear liquid. The itching was at times
intolerable, obstinate, deepseated; not, however, voluptuous; only
pressure was felt when scratching. When the inclination to scratch was
resisted, the itching, after being for some time aggravated, ended in a
stinging, as if a needle were slowly and deeply thrust into the part, a
feeling which ceased on applying the hand. This itching and the eruption
lasted for a month, [2]. ► At night, in bed, a general itching,
which evades the hand when scratching, [1].
► Itching of the temples, in the
morning, a few moments after in the hairy scalp, in every part of the
head, in the lobes of the ears, in the forehead. This symptom lasts
three hours, at the end of five days, [3].
► Sudden local itching, obliging him
to scratch immediately on the face, and in every part of the body, [3].
SUPPLEMENT: PERSICA.
Authoriry.
4,
Dr. Demeures, Journ. de la Soc. Gall., vol. iv, p. 108, effects of a
drop of the tincture.The gums are swollen and bleed on the least suction,
without pain, [4]. ► A quarter of an hour afterwards, while
lying on the grass, pain in the cartilage of the last true rib, near the
sternum, felt especially during inspiration, less on touching, like the
pain of a blow, [4]. [40.] ►
Immediately, numbness of the fingers, [4].
► Twenty-four hours after, numbness
of the fingers when writing; the eyes are tired and are filled with
tears when reading, [4]. ► Pain in the right thumb, at the extremity
of the great flexor muscle. This pain is not felt when touching the
part, nor when writing, [4].® 2000
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