Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homśopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
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Xanthoxylum.
A tincture is made of the fresh bark of the prickly
ash, Xanthoxylum fraxineum, Willd.
Generalities :- ►
Sharp shooting
pain. ► Neuralgic pain in right side. ► Aching all over ;
in side ; in left side under left scapula and left hip. ►
Indescribable sensation at 4 P.M., thought I was
dying, whole body seemed falling to pieces, could not walk straight, the
atmosphere seemed blue, light flashed before my eyes, body seemed elastic
and as if on the stretch, tongue seemed to alternately expand and
contract, distant ringing in left ear, could not eat but craved ice-water,
which relieved the nausea, left leg heavy, on lying down pain in sacral
region, amelioration at 10 P.M.►
Malaise ; in morning on rising.
► Thrill over whole body. ► Sensation in bed as if I were
sunken deep, on sitting up sensation as if floating. ► Restless,
felt rather easier lying. ► Weakness ; in morning on waking.
► Inability to walk straight or talk straight. ► Falling
asleep of left side if I sat still any time. ► Numbness of whole
body in morning on waking ; in morning on rising ; of left side
in morning on rising ; of left side from head to foot, affecting half
of nose. ► Aggravation at night and in morning. ► Amelioration
from vomiting ; A. after lunch ; after eating, but was tired and
ached all over.
Mind :- ►
Nervous, frightened
feeling. ► Feeling as if something would happen. ►
Depression ; in morning on waking, with languor. ► Felt as if I
would rather die than live. ► Felt as though I would like to take
enough to kill myself, during the headache. ► Indifference and
malaise. ► No life nor ambition to do anything. ► Stupid
feeling after supper.
Head :- ►
Aching ; in
morning, with sleepiness ; and dullness ; and weight in it,
intolerance of motion or shock, every step sends a shock to head ;
throbbing ; delaying sleep, with bright star-shaped spots dancing up
and down on shutting. ► Eyes. ►
Fulness. ► Felt large ; with intolerance of light.
► Tightness, with pain increasing over eyes. ► Dull, heavy
feeling. ► Soreness to touch. ► Throbbing, and in neck.
► Feeling as if dropping to pieces, fear that something would
happen. ► Feeling of looseness or quivering in brain on shaking
head. ► Vertigo ; in morning on rising ; when
walking ; on lifting head ; with black spots dancing before
eyes ; as if falling forward ; in morning on attempting to rise,
everything became black, with nausea preventing me from eating breakfast,
vomiting of the coffee and toast that I had succeeded in eating.
Forehead :- ►
Aching ; in a
spot over nose ; over right eye ; amel. open air and cool
water ; in upper part, agg. right side, pain extends to base of
brain, with soreness ; extending into orbits ; waking her at 4 A.M. ;
throbbing over right eye, with nausea ; burning, agg. sudden motion
of head, extending to vertex and into orbits, with heaviness in eyelids
and bright spots before eyes.
Temples :- ►
Pain ; with
feeling as if top of head were lifted off ; intermittent darting, in
left ; sudden screwing P. through T., spreading over heat at 6 P.M.,
with heavy pressure on vertex, after the pain has lasted an hour blur
before eyes, as if looking through a blue lace veil, dizziness and nausea,
at 9 P.M. loud noise in left ear (like a
windmill ?), the pain prevented sleep till 12.30, awakened at 4 A.M.
by nausea, attempted to rise, but was so giddy that I pitched forward, the
dizziness amel. lying down, but not the nausea.►
Weight on vertex. ► Pain in
vertex ; in upper part of cranium, with flashes of throblike pain as
if the top of head would be taken off ; in left side of head and in
left elbow ; in occiput, with bewildered sensation. ►
Tightening of scalp, with heavy pain in temples, afterwards increase of
head difficulties, with heat and quiet menstrual flow (two days two
early).
Eyes :- ►
Bloodshot, with red
margins, feeling as if full of sand ; B. and heavy, with red burning
lids ; B. and sensitive to light, bright images before eyes, dilated
pupils. ► Heavy grinding pain in left. ► Motion is painful if
much out of field of vision, and eyes are sore on pressure. ► Pain
in right lid. ► Vision of blue sparks. ► Things look far away.
Ears :- ►
Pain in right or in
jaw-socket, he does not know whether it is ear to tooth that aches ;
darting, under and back of right. ► Sensitive. ►
Ringing ; in right. ► Roaring. ► Noise in right like a
valve opening and shutting.
Nose :- ►
Dryness. ► Right
nostril seem filled up. ► Catarrhal symptoms, watering of eyes and
nose. ► Discharge of mucus, with congested feeling as if about to
bleed ; D. of dry and bloody scales of mucus. ► Bleeding.
Face :- ►
Flushed ; but body
cold. ► Pain in lower jaw and left side.
Clinical :- ►
Neuralgia of the face, or left lower jaw.
Mouth :- ►
Tongue coated ;
whit ; whitish-yellow. ► Burning and dry feeling in M. and
tongue. ► Peppery taste ; extending to stomach.
Throat :- ►
Aching ; in
right side ; on touch ; and it tired me to talk. ► Feeling
as if in a vise in morning on rising. ► Soreness of right
side ; S., with expectoration of tough mucus. ► Feeling of
enlargement. ► Feeling of a bunch in left side when swallowing after
dinner, on going to bed it shifted to right side. ► Dryness and
hoarseness ; D., and it was a great exertion to talk. ► Burning
in śsophagus, with stinging.
Stomach :- ►
Loss of
appetite ; with great thirst, craved coffee and lemonade. ►
Thirst for large quantities at a time. ► Empty eructations, with
slight taste of ingesta. ► Nausea ; at the smell of
breakfast ; amel. a glass of ice-water ; with frequent
chills ; with headache ; with oppression of stomach. ►
Fulness or pressure at epigastrium. ► Faintness as if fasting, but I
did not care to ear more than a few mouthfuls, which nauseated me.
Abdomen :- ►
Rumbling, with
soreness on pressure. ► Flatulence. ► Griping at 7 A.M.,
soon after waking, with brown diarrhśa mixed with mucus, next morning G.
on waking, continued at intervals through the day, with indifference and
malaise ; G. and pain, then watery diarrhśa, fever and chill (the
diarrhśa could not be reproduced by large doses). ► Boring deep in
right hypochondrium, amel. hot compresses, steady pressure and constant
motion, agg. lying or sitting. ► Pain in right side below ribs.
► Dragging in lower part of pelvis and back.
Rectum and Stool :- ►
Stinging in
right after stool, with burning and hćmorrhage as from hćmorrhoids.
► Urging, stool large, dark brown, rather loose, causing excoriation
and pain. ► Stools watery, small, dark, offensive, frequent,
followed by burning pain in rectum and anus ; loose S., then burning
and smarting. ► Constipation in morning, stool after supper, next
day three S., on third day S. before and after breakfast. ► Slight
S., twice in one day.
Urine :- ►
Profuse ;
slightly increased, sp. gr. varied from 1015 to 1019. ► Scanty and
high-colored at night and next morning ; S., high-colored, sp. gr.
1025, micturition frequent. ► Thirty oz. in twenty-four hours, sp.
gr. 1030, reaction acid. ► High-colored.
Sexual Organs :- ►
Leucorrhśa
milky, white ; whitish after menses. ► Shooting from region of
right ovary to hip, thigh and back, causing me to walk the floor an hold
my breath, with gushing milk-white leucorrhśa, ceasing suddenly. ►
Cutting in right ovarian region, extending down thigh and over hip, in
morning on waking, could find no position comfortable. ► Sudden
sharp pain in region of right ovary, which later radiated down thigh and
across to left hip, amel. lying down and drawing up legs. ► Pain in
ovaries amel. drawing up knees and by heat ; in left, extending down
high ; in left during menses, sudden, gradually increasing and dying
away as it came.►
Menses profuse ; and too
early ; and early, preceded by leucorrhśa ; and too early,
bright red, slight dysmenorrhśa, amel. walking and hot applications, very
nervous, easily, startled and hysterical. ►
Menses too early and painful ; too early, with
intermittent cramplike pain in head and abdomen, inability to lie still,
hungry, but food nauseated, drank much, urine profuse, left side numb,
nape lame, eye twitched, pupils dilated, face flushed, blue light before
eyes, chill, nausea, when vomiting it seemed as if stomach rose and fell,
pulse rapid, restless night, sleep at intervals, next day awoke with pain
in right ovarian region, frontal headache, head light, left side numb,
left foot went to sleep, menses profuse.
Clinical :- ►
Amenorrhśa from getting her feet wet, scanty, high-colored urine,
nausea at the sight of food, complete discouragement. ►
After-pains. ► Ovarian neuralgia, with violent pains in the loins
and the lower part of the abdomen, agg. left side, extending down the
thigh. ► Neuralgic dysmenorrhśa, pains going down the anterior
portions of the thighs, mostly left-sided. ► Neuralgic
dysmenorrhśa, with neuralgic headaches, especially over left eye,
congestion of head and eyes, photophobia, great bearing down in the
abdomen, pains in the back and down the legs, menses very scanty, thick,
almost black.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
Vocal
cords affected. ► Hoarseness ; in open air ; with frequent
necessity to clear the throat. ► Aphonia. ► Cough in open
air ; C. agg. cold draught, amel. warm room ; hacking ;
hacking, without expectoration, sometimes from tickling in throat, again
deep in bronchi ; spasmodic, voiceless, stifled, about every twenty
minutes, with scraping, even sore feeling under sternum, during each
attack in evening sharp pain in lower part of right lung. ►
Suffocated sensation waking him at night. ► Dyspnśa, with increased
action of heart ; D., with cutting in lower part of right lung.
► Every inspiration an exertion and unsatisfactory, as deep
breathing caused pain in lower part of right lung and in heart. ►
Could not get air enough into lungs. ► Desire to take long
breaths ; and deep.
Chest :- ►
Shooting in right side
like pleuritic pains, occasionally extending to scapula, constant desire
to take a long breath. ► Pain in lower part of right lung on deep
inspiration or coughing. ► Strained pain on deep inspiration, agg.
waking in night and turning in bed. ► Constriction as from running
or as from weight on lungs. ► Tightening, with inclination to gape.
Heart :- ►
Intermittent cutting
in region passing through body antero-posteriorly, making me hold my
breath and turn pale even to lips, agg. inspiration, after each attack was
thirsty, flushed and exhausted. ► Pain in region starting me out of
a sound sleep, apex beat to be seen and felt over large area, with
suffocating feeling, had to sit up in bed and turn one way and then
another, with cough without expectoration, three attacks at night, once
almost unconscious from the tremulous beating of heart, pulse rapid,
temperature high, slept hardly at all.
Pulse :- ►
Rapid ; and
feeble, irregular. ► Slow ; and soft. ► Throbbing in
carotids.
Neck :- ►
Pain in nape ; in
nape, amel. pressing head backward, with stiffness ; in neck and
right shoulder, extending down back, inability to turn head to left ;
rheumatic, in nape, amel. pressing head backward ; drawing, in nape,
extending down right scapula. ► Tired feeling in nape. ►
Stiffness.
Back :- ►
Twitching of muscles.
► Pain, agg. cervical region and upper part of sacral region ;
in spine. ► Muscles tired. ► Coccyx seemed elongated,
sensitive to pressure and aching, could not sit except on a cushion.
Extremities :- ►
Heavy to lift.
► Joints seemed loosened. ► Pain in right arm ; inside
right just above elbow ; in right beginning just above elbow. ►
Arms better from being twisted. ► Arms felt as if I had carried a
weight. ► Numbness of left shoulder and arm. ► Pain in
elbows ; in left elbow, passing to palm, then to shoulder ; in
left knee and left elbow extending to hand, then in left side and top of
left foot ; in wrist extending to thumb ; sudden cramplike, in
wrists and knees, ending in a steady aches ; flashing, in right
thumb, extending to hand.
Lower Extremities :- ►
Inability
to walk straight. ► Weakness. ► Pain ; in left
thigh ; in knee. ► Twitching in left knee and trembling in
right. ► Pain in right leg in morning ; flash of pain in right
calf. ► Legs weak ; and feet. ► Pain in right
ankle ; in left heel ; shooting from feet to knees. ► It
seemed as if the floor were cotton-wool.
Clinical :- ►
Sciatica, agg. hot weather. ► Sciatica of the anterior crural
nerve, after Gnaph.
Skin :- ►
Blotches on face, with
boils.
Sleep :- ►
Gaping. ►
Drowsiness ; all the morning ; in evening. ► Sleep from 4
till 7 P.M. and then from 10 P.M.
till 7 A.M. ► Slept hard all night ; hard
and heavy, dreamed of flying about over tops of houses ; heavy, with
constant dreams. ► Frequent waking. ► Sleep restless,
frightful dreams of being killed or burned. ► Night restless,
although very sleepy, constantly twisted and turned, and when I did sleep
dreamed of being chased and when overtaken and about to be killed I could
not make a sound to called for help. ► Dream and suffocation, waking
me. ► Dream that my throat grew up, I woke in fright about 2 A.M.,
with shaking, and left arm felt like lead and was numb, the position may
have caused the numbness.
Fever :- ►
Temperature low.
► Chilliness ; frequently, with pain in limbs ; in feet in
morning on rising. ► Temperature high. ► Heat ; in all
veins, with desire to be bled, flash of heat from head to foot ; in
flashes ; in flushes over face and head.
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