Cajuputum.
Cajuput oil distilled (in water) from leaves of Melaleuca leucadendron.
Variety, M. cajupute minor. (Moluccas.) N. O. Myrtaceć. Solution of the oil in rectified
Spirit.Clinical.─
Deafness. Diarrhśa (night). Dropsy.
Epilepsy. Gout. Headache. Heartburn. Hiccough. Hysteria. Menstruation, disorders of.
Śsophagus, stricture of. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Tongue, affections of; swelling of.
Toothache. Urinary disorders. Vertigo.
Characteristics.─
Cajutut
has a reputation in the old school as a local application in rheumatism, and also in cases
of dysmenorrhśa. It has had a homśopathic proving, and some very characteristic symptoms
have been developed. A feeling of enlargement; too large all over; as if head as large as
half a bushel. Feeling as though could not get himself together (Bapt.);
could not get his clothes for a time, though they were quite near. As if poisoned. As if the
arms were tied to the body; heavy; useless. Numb feeling all over. A measles-like eruption;
intense itching. Many nervous symptoms are developed, some reflected from the female sexual
organs. There is the persistent choking sensation of hysteria; nervous dyspnśa; nervous
distension of the bowels. Earache and faceache; the lobe of the ear is red; alć nasi
suddenly turn red; nose appears swollen. It has cured obstinate hiccough from slightest
provocation, talking, laughing, eating, or any motion. Symptoms appear and disappear
suddenly; come at 5 a.m.; disappear suddenly on eating. Many symptoms are < at night. Smoking =
desire to vomit.
Relations.─
Compare:
Bov. (swollen sensations); Plantago (earache, toothache); Colch. (gout and rheumatism); Aco.
and Bell. (effects of checked sweat). Eucalyptus, Eugenia caryophyllacea (clove), Eugenia
jambos and the Brazil-nut tree belong to the same order.
Causation.─
Effects of checked perspiration.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Averse to being spoken to, though likes
to hear other people talk.─Can’t bear to look inside the books he
usually studies; can think of a thousand things in a minute.─Prefers to
walk alone, slowly.─Feels better in the society of ladies, and can talk
with them (though naturally bashful); he does not like to talk with the men.
2. Head.─
Intoxicated feeling, feels as if he
would stumble over his own legs.─Head feels enlarged; dull and heavy; in
occiput.─Frontal headache, esp. in eyes, <
on bending forward.─Severe headache 5 a.m., with prosopalgia and
stiffness of jaws.
3. Eyes.─
Heavy feeling in eyes; upper lids feel
as heavy and thick as leather.
4. Ears.─
Lobules of ears turn red.
5. Nose.─
During day alć nasi suddenly turn red,
redness suddenly disappearing.─Nose is most prominent; looks as if large
and extending out from face on looking down.
6. Face.─
Face feels all puffed up.─Cannot
hurt skin of face by pinching it.─Face feels rough.─Stiff,
dry feeling in jaws, with neuralgic pains in malar bones, and severe headache all over head
on waking at 5 a.m.
8. Mouth.─
Tongue feels swollen; as if it filled
mouth all up, making her lisp, feels scalded; looks white and rough.─Profuse
salivation.─Speech thick and slow.─Acrid taste.
9. Throat.─
Constant inclination to spit and hawk
up large quantities of tough white mucus, which he could feel drawn through the nares.─Feels
closed up.─Śsophagus: paralysed; swollen sensation; constricted,< attempting to swallow solid food.─Burning
in pharynx and śsophagus.─Persistent sensation of choking.
11. Stomach.─
Burning in throat down to stomach.─Nausea.
13. Stool and Rectum.─
Rectum paralysed.─Bright
yellow diarrhśa < night.─Choleraic
diarrhśa from sudden check of perspiration.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Urine diminished, milky;
smells like cat’s urine.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Erections with great
desire.─Erections all night, and long after rising, but without the
least desire.─Penis soon became shrivelled up.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Menses suspended, or
diminished and attended with pain, when caused by a cold or check of perspiration.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Warmth down trachea into
lungs.─Hoarseness.─Cough causing vomiting.─Nervous
dyspnśa.─Sharp pain through apices of both lungs from before backward
(esp. r.).
20. Neck.─
All the muscles of the neck are very
sensitive to pressure.
21. Limbs.─
Rheumatic symptoms (Cajuput oil is a
common remedy as an application to rheumatic joints).─Pain as if joints
were enlarged.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Arms feel like soaked wood
hanging to one.─Left arm feels out of joint.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Weakness in both knees.─Stitching
pains in knees on rising in bed.® 2000
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