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RESINA ITU. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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RESINA ITU.

“A resin brought from the province of Saint Paul
to Brazil.” Origin unknown.


Authority.

Mure, Pathogénésie
Brésilienne, p. 264.

HEAD.

►
Vertigo, with tendency to fall to the right (first day). ► The head is heavy and falls forward
(eighth day). ► Stunning pain in the
head, worse when stooping (first day). ►
Pressive pain in the forehead and on the eyes (second day). ► Lancination in the right side of the
forehead (second day). ► Throbbing in
the right temple; the pain extends to the ear and the articulation of
the jaw (second day).

EYE.

►
Winking of the eyes (eighth day). ►
Heaviness of the eyes when walking (eighth day). ►
Lancinating pain in the left orbit, terminating at the eyebrow (eighth
day). [10.] ►
Burning in the eyelids (eighth day). ►
Black muscæ volitantes, like pin-heads (eighth day).

EAR.

►
Earache, from the least dampness, extending to the articulation of the
jaw (first day). ► Paroxysm of pain
from the ear to the teeth, less severe but lasting longer than the
previous one (eighth day). ► Sudden
report in the ear like a pistol-shot, with frightful pain extending to
the teeth for two or three minutes; this attack recurs four times during
the forenoon, at hourly intervals (seventh day). ►
The detonating sensations in the ear recur as often as eight times in
the course of the day, and are succeeded by profuse sweat (eighth day).

NOSE.

►
Repeated sneezing (ninth day). ►
Coryza (ninth day).

MOUTH.

►
Toothache aggravated by cold drinks (eighth day). ►
Red tongue (twelfth day). [20.] ► The tongue feels thick, as if it filled
the whole mouth, though really but little swollen (twelfth day). ► Great difficulty in moving the tongue and
in speaking (twelfth day).

THROAT.

►
Pain in the throat, with sensation as of a plug in the pharynx (twelfth
day). ► Tonsillitis (twelfth day).

STOMACH.

►
Prolonged hiccoughing (second day). ►
Nausea, aggravated by movement (second day).

ABDOMEN.

►
Pain in the left hypochondrium when bending forward (second day). ► Lancinating pain in the hepatic region,
worse when walking or stooping (eighth day). ►
Pain in the abdomen, from within outward (first day). ► Cold feeling in the hypogastrium,
especially in the evening (first day). [30.]
► Pain in the posterior iliac spine
when stretching the leg or rising, for several successive days (twelfth
day).

ANUS.

►
Burning pain at the anus after sitting (eighth day).

STOOL.

►
Involuntary stools (sixth day). ►
Profuse painless diarrhœa (seventh day). ►
Copious yellow diarrhœic stools (seventh day). ►
Light-yellow stool, which cannot be retained after standing up (ninth
day).

SEXUAL ORGANS.

►
Burning heat, followed by violent itching of the vulva (ninth day).

CHEST.

►
Pain in the left breast, worse when walking (twelfth day). ► Great itching in the left breast and
nipple, especially in the morning (twelfth day).

NECK.

►
Pain like stiff neck on the left side (second day). [40.] ►
Very stiff neck, so that he cannot raise or incline the head (fifth
day). ► Pain at the nape of the neck,
piercing to the forehead, and causing a numbness and heaviness which
draws the head down (fifth day).

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.

► Severe pain in the knee-joint (twelfth
day). ► Heaviness in the legs, with
lassitude, in the evening (ninth day). ►
Numbness of the legs; on rising from a seat he cannot stand upright
(fourth day). ► Crampy pain from the
calf to the heel (ninth day). ►
Numbness at the ankle-joint, when sitting still (first day). ► Numbness in the ankle-joint, every time
on rising (seventh day). ► Cramps of
the left ankle-joint (sixth day). ►
Crampy pain in the tendo Achillis (ninth day). ►
Cramps at the left tarsal joint (sixth day).

GENERALITIES.

[50.]
► Air aggravates the pains (eighth
day).

SKIN.

►
Violent itching near the sternal extremity of the right clavicle,
followed by a moist herpes, which is dispersed in six hours (third day).
► Great itching on the right arm; it
is covered with red pimples rounded like pins’ heads; the itching ceases
before night, but the eruption lasts all day. Pimples break out on the
left side of the neck; they are less inflamed but itch as much (fourth
day). ► The pimples on the arm and
neck gradually disperse (fifth day).

SLEEP.

►
Light, but unbroken, night’s sleep (second day).

CONDITIONS.

►
Aggravation.
► (Air), Pains. ►
(Cold drinks), Toothache. ► (Bending forward),
Pain in left hypochondrium. ► (Movement), Nausea. ►
(On rising), Numbness in the
ankle-joints. ► (When sitting still), Numbness in
ankle-joints. ► (After sitting), Pain at anus. ► (Stooping),
Pain in head; pain in hepatic region. ►
(Walking), Heaviness of eyes; pain
in hepatic region; pain in left breast.

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