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

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SABINA.

Juniperus Sabina, Linn.


Natural order

, Coniferæ.

Common names

, Savin; (G.), Sadebaum;
(Fr.), Genevrier savinier.

Preparation

, Tincture of the stems.

Authorities.

(Nos. 1 to 10,
from Stapf’s Compilation, Archiv f. Hom., 5.) 1,
Hahnemann; 2, Gross; 3, Fr. H—n; 4,
Hermann; 5, Hartmann; 6, von Pleyel; 7,
von Sonnenberg; 8, Roch; 9, Stapf; 10,
“W.”; 11, Hartlaub and
Trinks, R. A. M. L.; 12, Mohrenheim,
Versuche, II, p. 245 (from Wibmer), effect of an infusion in a pregnant
woman; 13, Bell, On Venereal
Diseases, 1, 350, effects of the powder inserted into the urethra (from
Stapf); 14, Kopp, Denkwürdigkeiten,
a. d. a. Praxis, Bd. I. (from Stapf); 15,
Home, Clinical Exper., p. 419, effects of doses of the herb from a
scruple to half a drachm, twice daily (from Wibmer); 16, Haller, Hist. Stirp. Helv., II, p. 321,
No. 1662 (from Wibmer), effects of the herb taken to produce abortion; 17, Sauvages, Nosologie (from Stapf’s
collection); 17a,
Dr. C. Hering, Prakt. Mittheilungen, 1827, p. 84 (original not
accessible), from Noach and Trinks; 18,
Buchner, A. H. Z., 20, 304, a healthy girl took 100 drops of the
tincture, four times; 19, Deutsch,
Preus. Ver. Zeit., 1851, a pregnant woman drank about 6 drachms of an
infusion; 20, Dr. E. vander Warker,
“The Detection of Criminal Abortion,” p. 67, experiments, took
at 2.10 P.M., 10 minims of Oil Savinæ; at 4 P.M., 5 minims; at 8.55
P.M., 10 minims; 20a, same, second experiment, took at 10.30
A.M., 15 minims, and again same, at 1 P.M.; 21,
Letheby, Lancet, 1845, 1, 677, effects of an unknown quantity upon a
pregnant woman, aged twenty-one (followed by death); 22, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1845, p. 646, effects in
a woman, aged twenty-four, pregnant (fatal); 23,
May, Assoc. Med. Journ., 1854, p. 224, effects in a pregnant woman, aged
eighteen (fatal).

MIND.

►
*Great anxiety
, as if apprehended some evil, [4]. ► *He is
desponding and hypochondriac
, [2].
► Great ill-humor; not disposed to
talk, [1]. ►
Ill-humored; indifferent to a jest, [9].
► Irritable nerves; music was
intolerable, it penetrated marrow and bone, with aching pain in the
occiput, feeling of weakness, debility, and inclination to sweat,
especially on the back; these symptoms disappeared in half an hour, when
taking continuous exercise in the open air (after one hour), [8]. ►
Out of humor several days; she is not disposed to speak; she is
desponding, joyless, with a sense of debility in all the limbs, [9]. ►
Ill-humor, with sensation as if he had taken cold, [3]. ► Vexed;
she weeps aloud, [1]. ► Indifferent, but not ill-humored;
unsolicitous, but not dissatisfied (after several days), [1]. [10.] ► Disinclined to talk, in the morning,
while walking, [10]. ► Confusion of ideas (after five minutes), [20]. ►
Ideas slightly confused, as if from several drinks of whisky (after ten
minutes), [20]. ► Weakness of memory; he could not
recollect what he had done during the day, [1]. ►
Perfectly insensible, [21].

HEAD.

►
Vertigo.
► *Violent vertigo,
when standing
, as if he would fall forward, [1]. ► Violent
vertigo, even when sitting, with great weakness, as if he would fall
over, and as if his eyes would close, [1].
► Continual vertigo, with mist before
the eyes (after two hours), [1]. ► Vertigo, on rising, she was obliged to
lie down again, [18]. ► *Vertigo, as if he would fall, [1]. [20.]
► *Vertigo, with obscuration of vision,
[18]. ►
Vertigo, with stupefaction, [7]. ► Dizzy, with orgasm and heat in the head, [6]. ►
General Head.
► Stimulant
effect on brain, evinced by semi-intoxication (after twenty-minutes), [20a]. ►
Dulness of the whole head, especially in the forehead, extending down
towards the nose, in which it became a sort of drawing, causing a
sensation as if blood would flow from the left nostril (after one hour),
[5]. ►
Dulness of the head after dinner, [11].
► *Pressure and dulness in the head,
especially in the forehead
, as after intoxication (after one
hour), [1]. ►
Oppressive heaviness in the head, as if she had taken much spirits; all
the forenoon, [5]. ► Feeling of heaviness and pressure in the
left side of the head; shooting stitches sometimes dart through the left
hemisphere (after one hour), [5]. ► Oppressive and painful heaviness in the
whole head, continuing until she goes to bed (after six hours), [5]. [30.]
► Most severe headache the following
day, with slightly congested conjunctiva, [20].
► Intense headache (after two hours
and ten minutes), [20a]. ► Severe headache through the day (second
day), [20a]. ►
Headache (after five minutes), [20],
(after one hour), [20]. ► Headache early in the morning, as if the
mastoid processes were pressed towards one another (after two days), [11]. ►
Pressing pain in the whole head, from within outward, resembling a wind,
which rushes in suddenly, and disappears again slowly, [5]. ► Drawing
headache, [1]. ► Stitching pressure darting into the left
hemisphere of the head, [5]. ► Sticking pain through the brain, with
pressure, [1]. ► Tearing in the whole of the right
hemisphere, from the occiput to the forehead, [5]. [40.] ► Digging-boring headache, [1]. ► Beating
headache, with heaviness and stupefaction, [7]. ► Forehead.
► Boring pain behind the right
frontal eminence, in the coronal suture, [2].
► Raging pain in the forepart of the
head, [18]. ► *Painful sensation in the right frontal eminence
and in the right temple, as if the parts were pressed asunder; it comes
suddenly, disappears gradually, and recurs frequently
, [5]. ►
Drawing headache, first in the forehead, afterwards in the occiput, [1]. ►
Drawing headache in the forehead and temples, only in the daytime, [1]. ►
Pressing in the left side of the forehead, [5]. ► Sudden
pressure in the left frontal eminence, from without inward, [1]. ►
Sensation of pressure in the forehead, it stupefies him, [5]. [50.] ► Painful pressure in the left frontal
eminence, affecting the eyeball, which feels compressed, [2]. ►
Tearing, with pressure in the right frontal eminence, [5]. ► The
forehead was painful on motion, she could scarcely wrinkle it; a pain as
if the skin had grown fast to the skull, [1].
► Smarting-stabbing pain, as if a
sharp knife were plunged several times into the right frontal eminence,
deep into the brain (after seventy-two hours), [2]. ► Temples.
► Aching pain in the region of the
left temporal bone, from within outward, [10].
► Aching pain in the region of the
right and left temporal bone (third hour), [4]. ►
Transient aching above the right temple (after three hours), [11]. ►
Transient pressive pain over the right temple (after three hours), [11]. ►
Sensation in the right temple, as of a weight pressing inward, with
frequently an acute sticking in the left frontal eminence, coming and
going suddenly, [5]. ► Painful pressing sensation in the right
temple, from within outwards, [5].
[60.] ►
Painless drawing from the right temple to the forehead (after four
hours), [10]. ► Painful drawing in the left temple, when
closing the eyes, accompanied with a painful pressure on the left upper
eyelid (after one hour), [5]. ► Sense of painful stricture over the temples
(after twenty minutes), [20a]. ► Circumscribed pain in each temporal region
(after ten minutes), [20]. ► Vertex. ►
The vertex is sensitive to touch, and when touched an aching pain is
felt in the head, [5]. ► Aching pain in the right sinciput, [10]. ►
Pressure under the vertex, at dinner, [11].
► Occiput. ► Heaviness of the occiput and nape of the
neck, descending along the whole of the back down to the small of the
back, [6]. ►
Pressing heaviness in the occiput, acutely painful, and relieved by
strong pressure upon a hard cushion, [5].
► Dull pressure on both sides of the
occiput (after half an hour), [5].
[70.] ►
Painful pressing sensation in the right occiput, appearing and
disappearing gradually (after three-quarters of an hour), [5]. ►
Pressive-tearing pain externally in the left occipital bone, as far as
the left side of the frontal bone, in a curved direction across the left
temporal bone, more violent when touched, [1].
► Sensation in the left side of the
occiput, as if a sharp wind penetrated it, after which the sensation
changes to a pressing-boring pain, [3].

EYE.

►
Blue rings around the eyes, [10]. ► Eyes shut, [21].
► Tensive pain in the eyes; sensation
when looking up, as if the internal and inferior muscles were too short,
[10]. ►
Pain in the eyes, and discharge of smarting water, [1]. ► Feeling
of heat in the eyes, [7]. ► Pressive tearing in the left eyebrow, [5]. ►
Twitching in the upper eyelid, [1].
[80.] ►
Pricking below the cartilage of the lower lid (after seven hours), [1]. ►
Conjunctivæ congested (after two hours and ten minutes), [20a]. ►
Pupils of the eyes slightly dilated, but contracted readily on a candle
being placed near them, [23]. ► Pupils much contracted, [21]. ►
Tremulousness and a sensation as if clouds were rising before the eyes,
disappearing in the open air, [1].

EAR.

►
Pressure externally above the right ear, [10].
► Stitches behind the ear, even
during rest, [1]. ► Burning sensation in the border of the
left ear and lobule, which looks a little redder than the other, but is
not warmer to touch (after one hour and a half), [5]. ► Tearing
in the left ear, almost like otalgia (after one hour and a half), [5]. ►
Pinching deep in the ear, [1]. [90.] ►
Hardness of hearing, [1].

NOSE.

►
Frequent sneezing (the first three days), [5].
► Dry coryza, [1], [6]. ► Dry coryza in the right nostril, [5].

FACE.

►
Face painful flushed and congested (after forty minutes), [20a]. ►
Countenance turgid, [21]. ► Pale face, with lustreless eyes, as on
recovery from severe illness, continuing several days (after one hour), [5]. ►
Dryness of the lower lip for several days, [11]. ► Aching
in the left malar bone, aggravated by touch, [4]. ►
Paralytic pain in the right malar bone, [1].
[100.] ►
Pain in a small spot behind the angle of the lower jaw, when touched and
pressed upward, [11]. ► Pressive-drawing pain in the angle of the
right lower jaw, in the masseter muscles, aggravated by touch (after two
hours), [4]. ►
Single jerks through the left lower jaw into a hollow tooth, when
walking in the open air, after a meal, [11].
► Dull sticking pain the left side of
the lower jaw (after four hours), [4].
► Stitches from the lower jaw into
the malar bone, [1].

MOUTH.

►
Teeth.
► Toothache,
excited almost only by chewing; it commenced in a hollow tooth, and
afterwards spread to other teeth; lasting five or six minutes, [1]. ►
Toothache evening and night
, which wakes him, as if the tooth
would be shattered; pressure from within outward, relieved after rising,
aggravated by drinking and smoking; he is unable to bear the warmth of
the bed two evenings in succession, [1].
► Front teeth on edge, [9]. ► Drawing
pain in all the teeth, [1]. ► Drawing in the root of a hollow tooth,
when drinking or eating either cold or warm things, and when breathing
through the open mouth, [1]. [110.] ►
Pain in the lower row of teeth, when eating or chewing, but especially
afterwards, as if the gum were swollen, and as if the teeth were
elongated and loose, [1]. ► Tearing pain in the root of the molars,
near the gums, [4]. ► Gums. ►
Swelling of the gum around a hollow tooth, whitish, painful to touch,
early in the morning, when waking; accompanied with heaviness in the
tooth and jaw (eighth day), [11]. ► Ulcer on the gum of a front tooth,
painful on touch, [1]. ► The gum around the roots of a broken off
hollow tooth is painful when touched, [11].
► Tongue. ► White and brownish coating of the tongue,
with flat taste, [1]. ► Every morning the tongue is thickly
coated yellow, especially posteriorly (twelfth day), [11]. ► Fine
pricking in the tip of the tongue, [1].
► General Mouth. ► Foaming at the mouth, [21]. ►
Peculiar odor of drug very evident in breath, [20]. [120.] ► Putrid smell from the mouth, not noticed
by herself, [1]. ► Scraping sensation in the palate and
uvula, aggravated by swallowing saliva (after half an hour), [8]. ►
*Dryness of the mouth and throat
, [18]. ► Saliva.
► Accumulation of water in the mouth,
with frequent yawning, [5]. ► Increased secretion of saliva, [10]. ►
*The saliva is quite white, and becomes frothy while talking, [1]. ►
Taste.
► Disgusting taste
in mouth and throat, like old catarrhal mucus, especially on hawking, [1]. ►
Bloody greasy taste in the mouth, the saliva reddish, [1]. ► The
food, milk, and coffee taste bitter, [3].
► Bitter taste in the mouth, [3]. [130.]
► Bitter taste in the mouth, after
milk, [10].

THROAT.

►
Frequent hawking of mucus, early in the morning, the mucus is loose, but
does not come up; he feels that some mucus is all the time lodged in the
throat, which causes hawking from time to time, [9]. ► *Dryness in
the throat with drawing pain
, [1].
► Heat and weight at stomach (after
twenty minutes), [20a]. ► Pressure in the throat when swallowing
saliva, [1]. ►
Sore pain in the throat during deglutition, in the afternoon, [1]. ►
Choking pressive sensation in the left side of the throat, when not
swallowing, [5]. ► Contractive and pricking pain through the
throat, from before backward, when not swallowing, [1]. ► Drawing
pain in the throat externally, [1].
► Sensation of swelling in the throat, as
if he had to swallow over a foreign body
, [1]. [140.] ► Crawling in the throat, [18]. ► Dull
stitches in the throat during rest, [10].

STOMACH.

►
Appetite.
► Desire for
milk, [7]. ► *Desire for acid things, especially for lemonade,
[6]. ►
*Appetite poor
(second day), [20a].
► Loss of appetite; food has a
natural taste, but he is immediately satiated, [2]. ►
Eructations.
► Eructations
accompanied with nausea (immediately and afterwards), [4]. ►
Frequent eructations tasting of the medicine, [9]. ►
Frequent empty eructations, [4]. ► Frequent empty eructations (immediately
and continuing), [5]. [150.] ►
*Heartburn
, [10]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea and pain in umbilical region
(after forty minutes), [20a]. ► Several short attacks of nausea and
disposition to vomit (after a quarter of an hour), [8]. ► Nausea,
as when fasting, [18]. ► Nausea with cough (after two hours), [10]. ►
Nausea and feeling of fulness, [9].
► Nausea and desire to vomit,
accumulation of saliva in the mouth, [10].
► Slight nausea and pain in bowels
(after two hours and ten minutes), [20a].
► Nausea, after breakfast (second
day), [20a]. ►
Nausea and vomiting, for a long time, after miscarriage, [19]. [160.] ► Nausea, and vomiting of food taken the
day before; the milk thrown up is curdled and tastes sour (after half an
hour), [10]. ►
Qualmishness, after eating, [18]. ► Acidity in the stomach after every meal;
occasional hiccough, then heartburn (first day), [11]. ►
Retching, immediately, [10]. ► Desire to vomit, early in the morning in
bed, disappearing after rising, [1].
► Vomiting; the vomited matter was of
a yellowish green color, and when examined with the microscope, showed
the presence of a vegetable tissue, with rectilineal fibres and
turpentine cells, it appeared identical with some powdered savin, which
was compared with it, [23]. ► Frequent vomiting of large quantities of
green matter looking like bile, [22].
► Vomiting of bile, [10]. ►
Repeated violent vomiting, [19]. ► Incessant vomiting (the gall-bladder had
burst), [12]. ► Stomach. [170.]
► The whole epigastric region is
bloated and distended, [10]. ► Oppressive feeling in the pit of the
stomach, unaffected by inspiration and expiration, [5]. ► When
sitting bent, sensation in the region of the stomach as if distended
with air, which causes a distressing pressure, which is relieved for a
short time by eructations of gas; when remaining in that position for a
longer time, it becomes very painful, and descends lower down into the
left side of the abdomen; it disappears entirely when sitting erect, [5]. ►
Pain in stomach, [23]. ► Violent pain in stomach, [21]. ► Aching
pain in the region of the stomach and liver, [6], [7]. ► Sensation as if the stomach were too
full, as if she had eaten too much, with rumbling in the abdomen, [9]. ►
Pressive pain in the epigastric region; on pressure it is painful
internally, as if beaten, [10]. ► Painful, anxious, oppressive sensation in
the region of the pylorus, very sensitive to hard pressure, especially
before a meal, [11]. ► Pressure in the pit of the stomach,
followed by stitches, [1]. [180.] ►
Pinching with pressure in the right side near the pit of the stomach, in
a small spot, [5]. ► Severe stitches from the pit of the
stomach through to the back, [1]. ► Sticking tearing in the epigastric
region, [18]. ► Feeling of warmth and burning in the
stomach, in the cardiac region; desire to eructate, and eructations
tasting of the drug; soon followed by frequent tasteless eructations;
the burning in the stomach diminishes after every eructations (after ten
minutes), [8]. ► Heat in stomach (after ten minutes), [20].

ABDOMEN.

►
Writhing and pinching in the abdomen, in the umbilical region;
frequently recurring with increasing violence and a sensation as if
vomiting would come on, without nausea
(after one hour and
three quarters), [5]. ► Griping above the navel, [18]. ►
Twisting-griping pain about the umbilicus (after one hour), [5]. ►
Pressive pain above the umbilicus, [1].
► Painful drawing in the right side
of the abdomen, towards the genitals, [5].
[190.] ►
Aching intermittent pains in the right renal region, [11]. ► A kind
of bubbling by the border of the short ribs, in the angle beneath the
pit of the stomach, as if the cartilages were bent outward, and as if
cartilages and muscles were raised; he is made somewhat anxious and
obliged to sit upright, [11]. ► Colic, as if he had taken cold, and would
have diarrhœa; flatus was passed and the colic ceased, [10]. ► The
colic, as from taking cold, returns several times a day, [10]. ► The
abdominal parietes are very tense (after two hours), [10]. ►
Excessive distension of the abdominal parietes, as if she would burst, [10]. ►
Abdomen distended and painful, [19].
► Flatulence (after five and ten
minutes), [20]. ► Flatulence, with intense taste of Sabina
(after one hour), [20a]. ► Rumbling in the intestines (after five
minutes), [20]. [200.] ►
Rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening, so loud that the bystanders
hear it, a very fine high tone, [11].
► Rumbling in intestines (after one
hour), [20a]. ► Inflammation of the bowels, [12]. ►
The abdominal muscles feel bruised, in the evening in bed, [1]. ►
Griping in the abdomen, especially in the left side, in the morning in
bed, [18]. ►
Great pain in the track of the colon, with the free evacuation of the
bowels (after one hour and a half), [20a].
► Pain as if the intestines were
constricted, [4]. ► Pain in abdomen, [23]. ►
Cutting in the bowels, with rumbling, [4].
► Drawing pains in the abdomen, which
is somewhat distended, [10]. [210.] ►
Painful oppressive heaviness, low down in the abdomen, aggravated by
external pressure, to which she is accustomed on the first day of the
menses (second day), [5]. ► Drawing pressure in the hypogastrium
towards the genitals, as if the menses would appear, [5]. ► Violent
stitches in the lower abdomen, as from without inward, while lying in
bed in the evening, [1]. ► Severe stitches from without inwards, in
the hypogastrium, in the evening in bed, [1].
► Compressive pain in the left iliac
region, [1].

RECTUM AND ANUS.

►
Hæmorrhoidal tumors especially painful, in the morning, [11]. ► *Discharge
of bloody mucus from the anus
, [7].
► Transient pains in the rectum
during stool (fourth day), [11]. ► Pressive-burning pain in the swollen
periosteum, [1]. ► A pressive, almost paralytic pain in the
sphincter of the anus; a kind of urging almost all day, without any
evacuation; only after a long time is he obliged to go to stool, the
first part of the evacuation being quick and liquid, the second portion
slow and hard, [2]. [220.] ►
Creeping in the anus, [6]. ► Biting sore stinging in the anus at
stool, [1]. ►
Jerklike stitches in the anus, and in the forepart of the thighs, when
walking, [1].

STOOL.

►
*Diarrhœa
, with emission of much flatus, [10]. ►
Painless diarrhœa, with rumbling, for four days, [10]. ►
Diarrhœa for a long time after miscarriage, [19]. ►
Frequent bloody stools, [19]. ► Free evacuation of the bowels, with great
pain in the track of the colon, and burning at the anus (after one hour
and a half), [20a]. ► Sometimes the stool intermits for a day;
afterwards, after much pressing, he has several papescent evacuations,
towards evening (eighth day), [11].
► Liquid, slimy, and frequent stools,
[6]. [230.]
► The stool comes on eight hours to
soon, [10]. ►
Stool at first soft, then hard, [1].
► The stools become harder and
painful, followed by discharge of blood from the anus, which is painful
to pressure (twelfth day), [11]. ► No evacuation of the bowels during the
day (second day), [20a].

URINARY ORGANS.

►
Transient burning pains in the vesical region (first days), [11]. ►
The whole length of the urethra is inflamed and painful, with purulent
gonorrhœa, from the fourteenth to twenty-first day (from introducing
the powdered leaves into the urethra), [13].
► Smarting in the urethra, during
micturition, [3]. ► Violent desire to urinate, but little
urine is passed; after which she feels as if the would pass more (after
a quarter of an hour), [10]. ► Intermittent, almost painful desire to
urinate (after four hours), [11]. ► Irresistible desire to urinate, [10]. [240.]
► Frequent emission of much urine,
for the first eight days, with very little thirst; even at night he
wakes to urinate; the urine is turbid when passed, [3]. ► Urine
passed in small quantities, but frequently high-colored, and highly
charged with the odor of Sabina (after one hour and a half); passed
frequently, but no strangury (after two hours and ten minutes), [20a]. ►
Urine passed twice in an hour, slight increase in amount, and Sabina
odor strong, [20a]. ► Increased emission of dark-yellow urine, [11]. ►
Copious emission of urine
, [61].
► Retention of urine, with burning
and dribbling discharge, [7]. ► Peculiar odor of drug in urine, [20].

SEXUAL ORGANS.

►
Male.
► Violent and
frequent erections, day and night, [3].
► Visible swelling on the dorsum of
the penis, not far from the glans, the skin over which is movable; the
swelling feels like a cartilage, is flat towards the median line, but
with a swollen border externally, is painless even to pressure, becomes
harder during an erection, more manifest, with a peculiar, dull, tensive
sensation, for eight weeks, [11]. ► Dark redness of the glans, [3]. [250.] ► The frænum is swollen and too tense, [1]. ►
Dull stitches, with pressure from the glans backwards through the whole
penis, [1]. ►
Violent stinging itching in the glans, early in the morning, [1]. ►
Paroxysmal pain in the frænum, [3].
► Burning sore pain of the figwarts and
glans
, worse when touched, [1].
► The figwarts become painfully
sensitive, [1]. ► Painfulness of the foreskin, he cannot
draw it back, [1]. ► Intermittent drawing pressive pains in
the right spermatic cord, [11]. ► Contused pain in the right testicle, [11]. ►
Tensive sensation, with pressure in the left testicle, frequently
recurring, [5]. [260.] ►
Immoderate irresistible sexual desire, [3].
► Increased sexual desire, slight
excitement brings on violent and continuous erections, with aversion to
coition, [5]. ► Female. ►
*The os tincæ is open
, the blood
looks red, the discharge is profuse and paroxysmal, especially during
motion
, [10]. ► *Miscarriage at three months and a
half preceded by discharge of thin black blood, [19]. ►
*Miscarriage; metrorrhagia
, [12].
► Milky leucorrhœa, causing itching,
[1]. ►
Leucorrhœa, with itching of the pudenda, [1].
► (Permanent disappearance of
leucorrhœa, of a starchlike consistence, yellowish, ichorous, fetid,
and of painful discharges of blood, which occurred every fortnight,
fetid, resembling meat washings; the menses then appear regularly),
(curative effect), [7]. ►► *Hæmorrhage from the uterus, at the period of the menses, [15]. ►►
*Hæmorrhage from the uterus
, [18].
[270.] ►
*Contractive pain in the region of the uterus
, [1]. ► Severe
stitches, deep in the vagina, from before backward, [1]. ► The
menses, generally too early, now came on eight days late, [5]. [Curative effect, but the dose being too
strong, eight drops of the tincture, the reaction still continued at the
appearance of the menses.] ► *The
menses appear without pain, but are three or
four times more profuse than usual
; she passes clots of blood
after rising, [10]. ►► *The menses continue for nine days very
profusely
, [10]. ► Violent menstruation returned three days
after the menses had ceased, with violent colic and labor-pains; the
blood was partly fluid, partly clotted; there was less discharge of red
urine with strangury, and discharge of a slimy fluid from the vagina, [7]. ►
The menses, which generally appeared four or five days too early,
appeared at the right time for only a few hours, and looked watery, on
the next day pure blood appeared, but only for two hours, and so in
succession for four days, [5]. [Curative effect, inasmuch as the blood was generally
bright-red and passed in large quantities
; the scantiness of
the discharge was probably owing to the large size of the dose, she had
taken drops; the next period was normal.] ►
Increases the sexual desire to a great degree, and the consequent
gratification in females, [14].

RESPIRATORY ORGANS.

► *Crawling and tickling in the larynx, exciting
cough and a slimy expectoration
, sometimes the cough is dry, [10]. ►
Crawling in the larynx as if something were crawling out of it, [18]. [280.]
► *Dry hacking cough, and
tickling in the trachea; expectoration streaked with blood the next day,
[6]. ►
Breathing laborious, and with stertor, [21].
► Asthma, increasing to arrest of
breath, [1]. ►
Painless shortness of breath, during rest and motion, [1].

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