Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA.
[Ailanth.]
Tree of Heaven. P. P. Wells. Simarubaceć.[1] * [2]
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* [47] * [48]► Torpor, stupor ; stoic indifference.
► Loss of memory.
► Inability to concentrate mental effort ; must read a subject
several times, or add a column of figures over and over before correct.
► Depression of spirits ; frequent sighing.
► Great anxiety ; restlessness.
► Constant muttering delirium.
► Vertigo : more when stooping ; with nausea
and cold sweat.
► Dizzy, face hot, cannot sit up ;
drowsy, yet very restless and anxious ; later insensible, with
muttering delirium ; recognizes no one. θ
Scarlatina.
► Feeling as if an electric current were passing through the left
side of head, or down to the extremities.
► Apoplectic fulness of head.
► Headache, with nausea and giddiness.
► Dull, heavy sensation in the forehead, with disinclination to
think or act.
► Thick, heavy feeling in the base and right side of the head.
► Darting through temples and back of head, with confusion of ideas ;
severe pain through temples on waking.
► Dull headache, burning in eyes, oppression of chest.
► Pain in the occiput.
► Beating in the occipital arteries.
► Tender bruised sensation over the fronto-parietal suture.
► Intolerance of light ; tears from bright light,
and from the open air.
► Eyes suffused and congested, startled
look when roused ; pupils dilated and sluggish ; photophobia.
► Burning, smarting and aching in the eyes.
► Rough, smarting and aching in the eyes.
► Rough feeling in the left eye, as from dust.
► Conjunctiva inflamed, towards the outer canthus.
► Pus-like discharge, agglutinating the lids in the morning.
► Dark blue circles around the eyes.
► Pain in the ear when swallowing.
► Itching around the left ear at night ; gets red when
scratched.
► Parotid gland tender and enlarged. θ
Scarlatina.
► Loss of smell.
► Coryza, with rawness inside about the nostrils ; the whole
nose and upper lip became covered with very thick gray-brown scabs.
► Fluent nasal catarrh, with sneezing.
► Copious, thin, ichorous, bloody
discharge, without fetor.
► Chronic catarrh, difficult breathing through the nose.
► Dryness of the nose, secretion suppressed.
► Itching and uneasy feeling around the nose.
► Head and redness of the face ; mahogany color.
► Chronic, speckled, spotted face ; a kind of acne.
► Irregular red spots of capillary congestion, like with drunkards.
► Swelling of the left side of face ; puffed erysipelatous
face.
► Countenance indicating distress ; great prostration.
► Small but deep ragged ulcer near the angle of the mouth ;
lips cracked.
► Inflamed vesicles on the lower lip, chin bright red.
► Covered with a brown slime or sordes.
► Tearing in left upper or lower teeth, face and head ;
worse on lying down, must walk about ; better from pressure and
towards morning.
► Tongue : thickly covered with a whitish coat ;
brown in the middle ; moist, coated white, tip and edges livid ;
dry, parched and cracked.
► Taste : insipid, flat ; feverish. θ
Bronchial catarrh.
► Water tastes brackish and flat.
► Fauces and tonsils inflamed, with spots of incipient
ulceration.
► Throat tender, sore on swallowing, or on admitting air.
► Hawking of mucus, constant effort to raise hard lumps of whitish
matter.
► Throat livid, swollen ; tonsils
studded with many deep, angry-looking ulcers, with scanty, fetid discharge ;
neck tender and swollen. θ
Scarlatina.
► Throat swollen, dark red, almost purple. θ
Scarlatina.
► Thyroid gland tender, enlarged.
► Appetite : capricious ; poor, yet eats as
usual.
► Hunger and sense of emptiness during the chill.
► Thirst for cold drinks.
► Food taken was speedily vomited.
► Sudden, violent vomiting when sitting up.
► Vomiting, with stupor.
► Nausea, vomiting, diarrhśa, spasmodic abdominal pains.
► Peculiar feeling of emptiness in stomach ; pain.
► Oppression, like a stricture, below hypochondria ;
a very debilitating sensation with nausea.
► Weak, burning, uneasy feeling in the bowels, as of
approaching diarrhśa.
► Tympanitis ; slight rumbling in the bowels.
► Dysentery, frequent painful stools, little fecal
matter, much bloody mucus ; very little fever.
► Frequent watery stools expelled with great force.
► Stools thin, watery, offensive, passing
involuntarily with the urine.
► Tapeworm.► Scanty or suppressed ; passed unconsciously ;
acid.
► Chancre-like sore on the prepuce.
► Voice hoarse, failing.
► Awoke in the morning, with almost entire loss of voice.
► Croupy choking.
► Oppression of bronchia with dull headache.
► Hurried, irregular, heavy. θ
Scarlatina.
► Equable oppression, as though the chest were strapped ; as if
air cells stuck together.
► Asthmatic oppression in large bronchi ; wheezing.
► Shortness of breath, with dyspnśa.
► Dry, hacking, constant ; with oppression, burning,
and pains in the chest ; tight and wheezing, with scanty
expectoration ; pains through left lung ; continual deep
bronchial, without pain, worse from exercise or exertion.
► Violent fits of coughing before retiring and on rising.
► Coughs continually until she raises freely, then better.
► Cough, with breathing somewhat oppressed ; muco-purulent
expectoration ; free in the morning, sticky and scanty during the
day.
► Expectoration : at times mixed with blood, at times of blood
alone ; bitter, yellow, more mornings.
► Excessive soreness and tenderness of lungs ;
feeling as if the air-cells were stuck together ; tired feeling in
the lungs.
► Stitching and aching in the chest, under clavicle.
► Burning in the right, aching in the left lung.
► Sensation of fulness and smothering before expectoration.
► Dull pain and contracted feeling in region of base of
heart and through centre of left lung.
► Pulse : rapid and small ; weak, sometimes scarcely
perceptible, very frequent and irregular. θ
Scarlatina.
► Itching around her neck.
► Thickened, swollen feeling of the muscles of neck.
► Neck tender and very much swollen.
► Constant aching between the shoulders.
► Glands of the neck sore, with pain under the left scapula.
► Constant sharp pain through the small of back and hips.
► Large water blister on the end of the thumb, with
smaller ones at the side of the finger nails.
► Tingling in fingers and left arm on awaking.
► Numbness of left leg, with tingling, pricking pain in
the foot and toes.
► Severe pain in left foot, a tension while walking.
► Feeling of uneasiness and aching ; restlessness.
► Heaviness of the limbs.
► Limbs feel as though they were asleep.
► Exertion : 27. Walking : 10,
33. Stooping : 2. Rising : 27.
Sitting up : 16. Lying : 10.
► Great debility, easily exhausted.
► Electric thrill, starting from the brain, to the extremities.
► Jerking cramps of the limbs during sleep.
► Low, adynamic forms of disease, sudden and extreme prostration,
torpor, vomiting, pulse small and rapid, purplish skin.
► Very drowsy, restless, soon passes into insensibility.
► Sleep disturbed, unrefreshing. Heavy sleep through the night.
► Restless at night, talking and moaning in sleep, night-sweat,
frequent waking.
► Sleeps best on the right side. θ
Bronchial affections.
► During the day : 27. Morning 5,
25, 27, 40. Evening :
27. Night : 6, 20,
37, 46. Toward morning : 10.
► Open air : 5.
► Chill, with hunger and sense of general emptiness.
► Miliary eruption before the chill.
► Chills, followed by flushes of heat, with severe pain in the head
and soreness of the lungs.
► Skin either very hot or cool to the touch.
► Dry, hot skin, most in the morning, until noon.
► Cold sweat stood out upon the skin. θ
Verified in cholera.
► Right : 3, 18, 28,
37. Left : 2, 5, 6,
8, 10, 27, 28,
29, 31, 32, 33,
46.
► Feeling of fulness everywhere.
► Soreness, irritability and prickling or tingling.
► Electric current from head into limbs.
► Pressure : 10.
► Pressure of clothes feels uncomfortable.
► Eruption of miliary rash, in patches,
with efflorescence between the points of rash of a dark, almost livid
color ; most on forehead and face.
► Skin cold and dry, of livid color ; after pressing
with the finger the color returns very slowly.
► Itching around left ear, back, face and neck at night ; felt
as if she would go crazy.
► Large maculć, and bullć, filled with a claret-colored serum.
► Petechić.
► Malignant scarlatina.► The odor of the flowers affect the asthmatic ;
also women and children more than men ; old people least of all.
► Nervous sensitive persons.
► Bilious temperament, stout and robust.
► Collaterals : Ptelea
and the Xanthoxyleć.
► Antidotes to Ailanth. : Aloe
soc. (2c), for the dull headache ; Rhus
tox. for the headache and erysipelatous face ; Nux
vom. for the general effects.
► Concordances : Amm. carb. ;
Arnic. (sore lungs) : Arum triph. ;
Aloe soc. ; Baptis. ; Bryon. ; Gelsem. ; Hyosc. ;
Laches. ; Nitr. acid. ; Nux vom. ; Phytol. ; Prussic
acid. ; Rhus tox. ; Stramon.
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