Sedinha
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
A name given by Mure to "an herb common near Rio Janeiro."
Preparation , Tincture of the leaves.
Authority.
Mure, Pathogénésie Brésilienne, p. 272.
HEAD
- Headache, as if from water-bubbles, in circumscribed portions of the forehead.
- Bone-pains above the eyes.
- Pressure in the temples and vertex.
EAR
- Itching in the left ear, with abundant cerumen.
MOUTH
- Caries of an incisor tooth.
- Toothache after eating, with great sensitiveness and bleeding of the gums.
- The teeth are very sensitive and set on edge, especially the right upper incisors.
- Pain in the decayed teeth.
- The gums are very sensitive, and the incisor teeth set on edge.
STOMACH. [10.]
- Pressive pain at the sternal articulation of the fourth ribs.
- Pain in the pit of the stomach on straightening up.
- Distress from seeing any one eat.
- Internal itching at the pit of the stomach, with desire to scratch.
ABDOMEN
- Sensation as from penknife thrusts, in the hepatic region.
- Pain in the abdomen after dinner, apparently proceeding from the pit of the stomach, with slight colic.
- Colic, in the evening, with incarcerated flatulence; relief by discharge of wind.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Tenesmus.
URINARY ORGANS
- Discharge from the urethra of water mixed with small mucous flakes.
- Raw feeling in the urethra. [20.]
- Slight pain when urinating.
- The urine scalds like boiling water.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Expectoration of bloody mucus.
CHEST
- Digging pain in the right lung.
GENERALITIES
- Symptoms aggravated by coffee; the incisor teeth are set on edge, with sensation of coldness in them, which passes downward at times.
SKIN
- Papular eruption, with itching on the back, chest, and arms.
- Desquamation on the back of the hand, which extends to the nails, where the skin becomes loose and forms hangnails.
- Itching at the pubis.
- Burning heat on the back of the hands, as if scorched by the sun, with desquamation after a few days.
SLEEP
- Constant yawning, for two days in succession. [30.]
- Very ludicrous dreams.
- He is pursued by crocodiles, and drives them away by sneezing.
- Troubled dreams about murders and monstrous animals.