PTELEA TRIFOLIATA.
Ptelea trifoliata, L.
Natural order
, Rutaceæ.
Common names
, Hop Tree, Wafer Ash, etc.
Preparation
, Tincture of the bark of the
root.
Authorities.
(Dr. E. M. Hale’s provings,
Am. Inst. of Hom., 1868) 1, Prof.
Th. Nicol, proving with repeated doses of tincture, 30 to 50 drops at a
dose; 1a,
same, subsequent proving with tincture, 10 to 25 drops; 1b, same,
6th dil., repeated doses; 1c, same, one dose of 500 drops of
tincture; 2, Dr. Fish, proving with
repeated doses (10 to 30 drops) of tincture; 2a, same, repeated doses (40 to 100 drops)
of tincture; 3, Dr. Train, proving
with repeated doses of the 3d dil.; 4,
Dr. W. H. Burt, took 1/2 ounce of 30th dec. dil. first, third, and fifth
days; 4a,
same, took 6th dil. daily for four days; 4b, same, took 2d dil. daily for five days;
4c,
same, took 40 grains of solid extract first day, 80 grains second day,
150 grains third day; 5, Dr.
Cowles’s proving on Mrs. S. M., aged twenty-seven (average amount of
urine daily 28 ounces), took 10 drops of 1st dec. dil.; 5a, same,
took 6th dec. dil. three times daily for seven days; 6, A. C. Cowperthwait, took 6th dec. dil.
four times a day for seven days; 6a, same, took 1st dec. dil. four times a
day for nine days; 7, Dr. C. H.
Lutes, took repeated doses (3 to 15 drops) of tincture; 7a, same,
proving with repeated doses of the tincture (5 to 20 drops); 8, C. W. Pierce, M.D., proving with repeated
doses (10 to 100 drops) of tincture; 8a, same, 1st dec. dil. three times a day
for three days; 9, Mrs. W. (vide Dr. Pierce), proving with tincture,
three times a day for three days, 10 to 60-drop doses; 10, Dr. Marshall, proving with 1st dec. trit.
four times a day, increasing from 3 to 15 grains at a dose; 10a,
same, took 1 scruple of “Ptelein,” 1/5th, three times daily
for four days; 11, Dr. E. Parsons,
proving with tincture, repeated doses, of 50 drops (several times a
day); 12, Dr. A. Hayward, proving
with frequently repeated doses for twenty-five days of 3d dec. trit.,
then 1st dec. trit. for two days; 13,
Dr. W. Williamson, effects of chewing the bark of the root, Trans. of
Am. Inst. of Hom., 1870.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► After eating,
in the morning, a feeling of liveliness and activity for one hour; next
hour, gradual passing off of cheerfulness, amounting to sadness, and a
disposition to be displeased with everybody and everything (third day);
feeling, as before, of liveliness after eating, followed by great
depression of spirits (fourth day), [8].
► Depression of spirits, and a
feeling of anxiety about some unknown thing, with the severe headache,
in the afternoon (eighth day), [6a].
► Disposition to worry about
something, he hardly knows what (ninth day), [6a]. ► *General
depression of spirits (ninth day), [6]. ► Lowness
of spirits during the forenoon (second day), [2]. ► Great
lowness of spirits (first and second days), [4]. ►
Despondency (sixth day), [1a]. ► Very irritable and desponding (fifth
day), [4a]. ►
Unusually irritable all day (fourth day), [4].
[10.] ►
Irritable mood; a very slight annoyance keeps recurring to his mind,
impelling to speak about it (fifth day), [1b].
► Irritable and intolerant of noise,
with feverish feeling (fourth day), [1a].
► Wanted to be let alone (after
second dose), [7a]. ► Unsteadiness and nervous irritability, at
11 A.M. (third day), [2]. ► Ordinary conversation in the room greatly
annoys (after thirty-five minutes), [1c].
► Unusually annoyed by noise (third
day), [1a]. ►
Nervousness, an unexpected noise startles and causes a shooting pain
over the eyes (seventh day), [6a].
► During the day would be startled at
slight unusual sounds (sixth day), [5a].
► Nervousness (fourth and fifth
days), [3]. ► Intellectual. ►
(Unusual energy to work, in fact feels better than before commencing the
proving), (fifth day), [5a]. [20.] ► In
writing a letter, felt a curious and unusual disposition to hurry
through with it as quickly as possible, hardly taking time to write the
words (first day), [1b]. ► Able to examine papers, but inclined to
hurry with it, and in selecting the remedy, inclined to follow Fred
Humphrey’s rule, “First impressions are the best” (fifth day),
[1b]. ►
Better able to study than on previous day, but difficult to concentrate
his thoughts (fifth day), [1b]. ► Sudden shrinking from any mental work,
with sickness and faintness (soon), [1c].
► Disinclination for mental labor
(fourth day), [11]. ► Disinclination for mental exertion
(second day), [1]. ► Marked indisposition for mental work
(after seven hours and a half), [1b].
► During the whole day, unusual
indisposition to a mental or physical exertion (second day); malaise of body and mind; desire to lie on
the lounge and “think of nothing at all” (third day), [1b]. ►
Lassitude and weariness, with disposition to hurry (fourth day); mental
lassitude (fifth day); continued (seventh day), [1b]. ►
Confusion of thought, with hurriedness of manner (soon), [1c]. [30.] ► A little ordinary writing difficult, and
confusion of the mind and vertigo (after one hour), [1c]. ►
Lassitude of mind, with disinclination to study; tasks performed in a
perfunctory manner (after seven hours), [1c].
► Extreme lassitude; disinclination
for mental labor or bodily exertion (third day), [11]. ►
Thoughts chased each other through the mind; it seemed impossible to fix
the attention upon any one object; from 1 till 5 A.M. (fifth day), [1]. ►
Brain seems agitated, mind confused (after second dose, third day), [7a]. ►
A feeling of mental uneasiness, wandering from one subject to another
(after second dose, second day), [8].
► Could not concentrate his thoughts,
in the forenoon (third day), [8]. ► Mind feels dazed and languid (second
day), [1c]. ►
Weakness of mind very marked (fifth day), [1a].
► Unit for mental exertion all day,
and toward the afternoon had give up exertion of every kind (tenth day),
[1]. [40.]
► Was weighing out a trituration and
the mental confusion was so great that he had some difficulty in telling
what was the tenth part of 150 grains (after twelve hours and a quarter,
second day), [1a]. ► Mind confused (four hours and a half
after fourth dose), [7a]. ► Confusion of ideas (one hour after third
dose), [11]. ►
Unable to follow the train of thought when reading what is by no means
difficult (after six hours and two-third day), [1a]. ► Goes
about his professional duties in a perfunctory manner, very unlike the
fiery zeal with which he usually combats disease and his allopathic
step-brethren (second day), [1a]. ► Dulness, in the afternoon (sixth day), [11]. ►
Severe prostration of mind (fourth day), [1a].
► Memory. ► His intellectual powers moved slowly and
heavily, and had difficulty in recalling familiar things to mind (after
thirteen hours, third day), [1a]. ► Extraordinary weakness of memory; was
unable to recall the names of familiar people (fourth day), [1a]. ►
Forgetfulness, writing one familiar word for another of similar sound
(soon), [1c]. [50.] ►
Extreme forget fulness (after eight minutes), [1c]. ► Marked
forgetfulness, with increase of the headache (after eight hours); more
marked (second day); more forgetful than before the proving, and, yet,
by collecting the thoughts, able to recall things read many years ago;
able to supply some additional items to a professional paper, intended
to be exhaustive (fifth day); forgetfulness continued (seventh day), [1b]. ►
Fretfulness and irritability, without the slightest exciting cause
(sixth day), [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head, with the rising of the bitter fluid (fifth day), [1]. ►
Head confused and giddy when retiring to bed at 10.30 (eleventh day), [1]. ►
Head weak and confused (twelfth day), [1].
► Slight vertigo accompanying the
rumbling and swelling in the umbilical region (after six hours);
increase of the vertigo, with straining at stool (after seven hours and
a half); vertigo, aggravated by even a moderate warmth of the room
(first day); an attack of vertigo, without any exciting cause other than
the Ptelea, so violent as to compel discontinuance of writing and to bow
the head on the hands, closing the eyes; it was preceded and accompanied
by mild nausea, with slight griping pains in the stomach (after eight
hours, second day), [1b]. ► Fits of vertigo, lasting three to five
minutes, relieved by moving about, but worse on sudden motion; sensation
as if all objects about him were in quick violent agitation (after two
hours, second day); fits of vertigo not so frequent but more decided;
worse on sudden motion and bending forward (after four hours); vertigo
only when stooping (after six hours); vertigo all gone, but head feels a
little muddled (after seven hours, second day), [7]. ►
Vertigo, aggravated by even turning the head gradually (after half an
hour), [1c]. ►
Attempting to walk aggravates the vertigo very much; unable to stand
alone (after forty-five minutes), [1c].
[60.] ►
Vertigo, aggravated by rising from a chair (after forty-five minutes), [1c]. ►
A sudden attack of vertigo, lasting about one minute, at 11 P.M. (second
day), [1c]. ►
Slight vertigo, with choking feeling in the pharynx (after thirteen
hours, third day), [1a]. ► Dizziness when walking (seventh day), [6a]. ►
On turning the head to look at the clock, taken with sudden giddiness
and with faint feeling (after twenty minutes); too giddy to sit up
(after thirty-five minutes); rising aggravates the giddiness, [1c]. ►
Transient giddiness, with heat of the head and face, especially on the
forehead (second day), [1a]. ► On rising, giddiness, with piercing pain
through the brain, accompanied by severe aching pain in the stomach
(seventh day), [1]. ► Giddiness, with vertigo, at 5 P.M.;
vertigo long continued, and after it increase of abdominal tenderness
(eighth day), [1]. ► Giddiness, with the persistent nausea
(tenth day), [1]. ► The giddiness of head and reeling in
walking much increased (eleventh day), [1].
[70.] ►
Attacked with too much giddiness and vertigo to keep up (twelfth day), [1]. ►
Giddiness (after second dose), [11].
► Giddiness, dulness, and languor, in
the afternoon (third day), [11]. ► Head in General. ► Head feels light (four hours and a half
after fourth dose), [7a]. ► Heaviness of the head, with a muddled
feeling, and dull aching pain in forehead (third day), [11]. ►
Sensation of fulness in brain (tenth day), [6a]. ► When
coughing, head feels as if it would burst (twenty-first day), [6a]. ►
Head languid and heavy (after six hours and a half, third day), [1a]. ►
Dull feeling of the head, with languor (after ten hours, second day), [4c]. ►
Dull heavy feeling in the head (sixth day), [6a]. [80.] ► Dull pain through the head, in the
afternoon (second day), [12]. ► Severe dull headache all day, aggravated
by walking (third day), [4c]. ► Severe dull headache, aggravated by
walking upstairs (after three hours, third day), [4c]. ► Dull
headache set in about 10 A.M.; continues through the afternoon (second
day), [3]. ►
Dull headache, pressing from within outwards. The headache does not
incapacitate for mental exertion, but causes a languor and indisposition
to work (after one hour and a quarter); increase of headache, with
marked forgetfulness (after eight hours); headache aggravated by even a
moderate warmth of the room (first day); headache persistent, during the
morning (second day); headache a little better before dinner; an hour
and a half after much worse, and aggravated by mental exertion (second
day), [1b]. ►
Dull headache, with a feeling as if he had fever (after two hours,
second day), [4a]. ► A little dull headache (ninth day), [12]. ►
Rose with a dull headache, which wore away after an hour or two (fourth
morning); dull headache in morning (fifth day); rose with headache
(sixth, seventh, and tenth mornings), [10a].
► Headache, a stunning-pressing pain,
in the frontal region, closely resembling a chronic headache, which he
had had for many years, and which his master in the institute of homœopathy,
Dr. Constantine Hering, cured with one prescription of Rhus
toxicodendron (third day), [1a]. ► Dull oppressive headache came on, while
reading, about 9 P.M. (third day), [2].
[90.] ►
Dull pressive headache, with distress in the umbilicus and nausea (after
eight hours), [4a]. ► Constant pressive headache all the
forenoon (fourth day), [4a]. ► Pressive feeling at the base of the
brain, closely resembling the well-known Ipecac symptom. “Headache,
as if the hair and skull were bruised, penetrating through the bones
down to the root of the tongue, with nausea” (first day), [1]. ►
Splitting headache, incapacitating for mental exertion, with nausea
(fifth day), [1]. ► Splitting headache, aggravated by
stooping, moving the eyes, and reading (fifth day), [1a]. ► Full
throbbing headache, with dizziness and nausea (ten minutes after second
dose, second day); headache continued the same for half an hour, when it
became sharp and darted from temple to temple; very painful, especially
when moving, [2]. ► Severe throbbing headache on rising
(twenty-first day), [6a]. ► Conscious of stunning headache before he
as awake (fourth day), [1a]. ► Quick sudden starts of headache during
the afternoon (first day); headache (after third dose, second day);
headache soon after 5 A.M.; severe headache after 1 P.M. (third day);
arose at 9 A.M. with headache; became violent, on a sudden movement
after doses, at 4 P.M.; confined to left side; passed off after stool
(fourth day); dull headache (fifth day); occasional headache (sixth
day), [2a]. ►
This morning the headache is so severe that mental exertion is a burden,
and the pain is materially aggravated by any attempt to study (seventh
day), [1a]. [100.] ► Oppressive headache over eyes (after
third dose, second day), [3]. ► In the afternoon a severe headache, with
depression of spirits, and a feeling of anxiety about some unknown thing
(eight day), [6a]. ► Awoke with headache and hunger, both of
which passed off after a hearty breakfast (eight day), [5a]. ► Head
aches and feels large, at 2 P.M. (fifth day), [5]. ►
Headache during afternoon; increased during evening; quite severe upon
retiring (third day); during afternoon and evening (fourth and fifth
days); headache (six day); awoke with headache (seventh day), [3]. ►
Headache continued all day, aggravated by walking (first day), [4]. ►
Considerable flighty headache (fourth day), [2]. ► Awoke
with hard headache; passed off in a short time (fourth day), [4b]. ►
Woke with the usual morning headache (sixth day), [1a]. ►
Singing aggravates the headache, causing shooting pains from within
outwards, and increases the nausea (second day), [1a]. [110.] ► Aching pain at the base of the brain,
though the intellectual powers were as active as usual, at 1 P.M. (first
day), [1a]. ►
Headache all through cerebrum before rising; relieved somewhat on rising
(fifth morning), [6a]. ► Headache seems to be more in the
cerebellum (twenty-second day), [6a].
► Headache over the eyes (ninth day),
[6a]. ►
At 10.15 A.M. headache set in; obliged to lie down (seventh day), [2]. ►
Headache, at 11 A.M. (third and fifth days), [2]. ►
Headache (fourth day), [2];
(thirty-first day), [6]; (tenth
day), [12]. ►
Some headache during the evening (eight day); headache set in on waking;
continued during the forenoon (ninth day), [2]. ► Slight
headache, after a long walk (first day), [5a].
► Slight headache, at night (fifth
night), [5a]. [120.] ►
Slight headache, all the afternoon (sixth day), [5]. ► Slight
headache and hot flushes, at 2 P.M. (seventh day), [5]. ► Slight
headache, in the morning (eighth and eleventh days), [2]. ► Slight
continuous headache, during the forenoon (second day), [2]. ► Slight
headache (eleventh to fourteenth day), [12].
► Not much headache (third and fourth
days), [12]. ►
Head just ready to ache, at 5 P.M. (fourth day), [2]. ► Sharp
cutting pains through the front of the brain, alleviated by pressing it
with the hands (ninth day), [1]. ► Shooting pains in the head, before
rising, in the morning (seventh day), [6a].
► Pains in head quite severe, at 9.30
P.M. (eighth day), [11]. [130.] ►
Pain in head, aggravated by rising (after one hour), [1c]. ► Slight
pain in the head, which increases in severity, towards evening (tenth
day), [11]. ►
Muddled feeling in the head, with poor appetite for breakfast (seventh
day), [1c]. ►
Sensation of intoxication (after two hours, second day), [7]. ► Slight
return of the head symptoms, at 6 A.M. (third day), [2]. ► Forehead.
► Dull aching pain through forehead
and temples (fifth day), [11]. ► Dull pains in the forehead (fourth day), [6a]. ►
Dull heavy feeling in frontal region (thirty-third day), [6a]. ► Severe
frontal headache, lasting about ten minutes, at 11 A.M. (first day), [6]. ►
Dull frontal headache all day (second day), [6a]. [140.] ► Dull frontal headache (twentieth day), [6a]. ►
Dull frontal headache, feeling as if the temples would be pressed
together (after three hours), [4a].
► Dull frontal headache, lasting all
the afternoon (first day), [6]. ► Dull heavy headache in frontal region
(third night), [8]. ► Heavy pressing frontal headache still
continues, the pain pressing from within outwards, aggravated by
stooping (third day), [1a]. ► Full pressive ache in frontal and
temporal regions (half an hour after third dose, third day), [2]. ►
A number of times through the forenoon had a feeling in the forehead as
if were being pressed together from temple to temple, with severe
distress in the region of the spleen and right side of umbilicus (second
day), [4a]. ►
Constant frontal headache, with severe pressive pains in the temples,
from one temple to the other, every ten or fifteen minutes (third day), [4a]. ►
Pressure in frontal region, extending into root of nose, with a
sensation as if a nail was being driven into the brain on the left side
(third day), [6]. ► On rising, in the morning, a feeling of
pressure in frontal region and in root of nose (second day), [6a]. [150.]
► Racking frontal headache on waking,
aggravated by rolling the eyes upward (second day), [1b]. ►
Racking frontal headache, with heat of the face and head (after ten
hours and a half, fifth day), [1b].
► Throbbing headache in the frontal
and temporal regions, very painful (after third dose, third day), [2a]. ►
Severe frontal headache, the pain throbbing, at 10 P.M. (fourth day), [11]. ►
Frontal headache so severe that be almost felt it during sleep, and on
waking at intervals during the night, noticed that it was more intense
than during the day (second night), [1a].
► Headache in frontal and temporal
regions, at 6 A.M. (fifth day), [2].
► Frontal headache, in the forenoon
(second day); in the afternoon (seventh day), [12]. ►
Frontal headache all day, pressing from within outwards (second day), [1]. ►
Frontal headache was aggravated by moving the eyes and by noise (after
forty-five minutes), [1c]. ► Sharp pains shoot from the right to the
left frontal region (second day), [1b].
[160.] ►
Sharp darting pains through the forehead and temples (after second
dose), [11]. ►
Severe darting pains through forehead (second night), [11]. ► Severe
darting and throbbing pains in the left supraorbital region (soon after
fifth dose, third day), [11]. ► Severe darting pains just above the
supraorbital ridge (fourth day), [11].
► Sharp darting pain through left
superciliary ridge, extending deep into the head, lasting but a short
time; would return at intervals, whether in motion or not (one hour
after second dose, third day), [8].
► Severe pains in forehead and
occiput, in the evening (second day), [12].
► Pain in the forehead and temples,
in the afternoon (sixth day), [11].
► Pain in forehead (seventh day), [11]. ►
Severe pain in forehead (tenth day), [11].
► Pain in forehead deeper in brain
(third day), [1c]. ► Temples. [170.]
► Aching pressive pain in the
temples, aggravated by chewing (fourth day), [1a]. ► Dull
pressive pains in the temples, with occasional fine neuralgic pains
(after six hours, first day), [4].
► Sudden pressive pain in the
temples; it feels as if the temples would be pressed together (after one
hour), [4a]. ►
Several times through the forenoon had pressive pains from one temple to
the other (third day), [4a]. ► A number of times through the day had
hard pressive pains in the temples (fifth day), [4a]. ► In the
afternoon had hard pressive pains at times in the left temple (first
day), [4b]. ►
Once in the evening had hard pressing pains in the right temple (fourth
day), [4b]. ►
Hard pressive pain in right temple (after half an hour, third day), [4c]. ►
Fine sharp pains of a pressive character in the left temple (first day),
[4c]. ►
Several times in the forenoon had severe cutting pains in the right
temple (fifth day); not so severe (sixth day), [4b]. [180.] ► Severe darting pain in the right temple,
and throbbing pains in the left supraorbital region (after two hours and
a half, second day), [11]. ► Severe darting pains in right temporal
region (fourth day), [11]. ► Frequent darting pains in right temple,
with constant distress in stomach (probably mechanical), (after one
hour), [4c]. ►
Piercing pain shooting through the temples, with increased headache and
nausea, at 12.45 P.M. (third and fourth days), [1]. ► Sharp
neuralgic pains in the right temple (after twenty minutes), [4c]. ►
Some throbbing pain in right temple (twenty-third day), [6a]. ►
Throbbing pain in left temple (seventeenth day), [6a]. ►
Throbbing pains over left temple, then over right (ninth day), [6a]. ►
Headache, worse in left temple, about noon (fifth day), [5]. ►
Headache in left zygomatic region, at 7 P.M. (second day), [2]. [190.]
► At 10 P.M. headache set in,
confined to the temporal region (sixth day), [2]. ►
Constant dull headache all the forenoon, with frequent paroxysms of pain
in the right temple, as if it would be pressed to the left side (second
day), [4c]. ►
Occasional pains in the left temple (after nine hours), [4c]. ► Pain
in the right temple (seventh day), [11].
► Painful sensations in the temporal
region, continuing over an hour, at 1.30 P.M. (third day), [2]. ►
Pain in left temple, at 6 P.M. (fourth day), [5]. ► Awoke
having hard sticking pain in left temple, followed by a dull headache
(fifth morning), [5]. ► Pain in right mastoid process of temporal
bone, at noon (fifth day), [5]. ► Fine stitches in the right temple, with
dull distress in the stomach (after forty minutes), [4c]. ► Vertex and
Parietals. ► Hot flushes
and pain in top of head and eyes (fifth day), [5]. [200.]
► Some pains in head on left side,
but by evening all symptoms were gone (twenty-fourth day), [6a]. ►
From 2 to 4 P.M., headache on the left side and sharp pain in left
temple (seventh day), [5a]. ► Hard pain in left side of head, at 10
P.M. (fourth day), [5]. ► Dull pain in right side of head, at 3
P.M. (third day), [5]. ► In fifteen minutes felt pain in my left
temple, which ran across the forehead to the right temple, and several
times in the course of the evening this pain was felt over the left
temple and in the forehead; soon after the pain commenced in the left
temple, a boring pain was felt in the right temple, which was confined
to a small spot, at 8 P.M. (after two hours). I had pain in the back
part of my head, worse in the left side; later in the evening, the pains
in the front and back parts of my head alternated with each other
several times; by 11 P.M. the pains in my head were less in degree, and
chiefly concentrated in the left half of my forehead, [13]. ► Occiput.
► Headache in the occipital region,
lasting half an hour, passing then to the frontal, over the eyes, not
very severe, at 2 P.M. (fifth day), [2].
► Heaviness in the occipital region,
with gloomy feeling in the forehead (second day), [1a].® 2000
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