CEDRON
Rattlesnake Bean
(SIMARUBA FERROGINEA)Periodicity is the most marked characteristic of this drug. Its
particularly useful in tropical or in damp, warm, marshy countries. It has been found
curative in malarial affections, especially neuralgia. Adapted to persons of a voluptuous
disposition, excitable, nervous temperament. Has powers of antidoting snake-bites and stings
of insects. Tincture of pure bean scraped on wound. Mania.
Head.–
Pain from temple to temple across eyes. Pain over whole
right side of face, coming on about 9 am.Crazy feeling from pain across forehead; worse,
working on black. Roaring in ears produced by Cinchona. Whole body seems numb with headache.
Eyes.–
Shooting over left eye. Severe pain
in eyeball, with radiating pains around eye, shooting into nose. Scalding
lachrymation. Supra-orbital neuralgia periodic. Iritis,
choroiditis.
Extremities.–
Lancinating pain in joints; worse, feet and
hands. Sudden pain in ball of right thumb, extending up arm to shoulder. Pain in ball of
right foot, extending to knee. Shingles, with radiating pain. Dropsy of knee-joint.
Fever.–
Chilliness towards evening; then frontal headache
extending into parietal region. Red eyes. Heat, with itching of eyes, tearing in limbs, numbness of limbs.
Relationship.–
Antidote: Lach.
Compare: Ars; China.
Dose.–
Tincture to third attenuation.
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