Cubebs. Piperaceæ.

The unripe berries of the Piper Cubeba, a climbing plant of Java and other portions of the East Indies.

CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.

Pressure and pain in region of femoral ring , E. M. Hale, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 496 ; Dysentery , Bachmeister, Organon, vol. 3, p. 357 ; Nocturnal enuresis , Battmann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 513 ; Gonorrhœa (six cases), Hirsch, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 83 ; Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 176 ; Gleet , Rosenberg, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 83 ; Urethro-vaginitis , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 176 ; Croup , Emil Tietze, H. M., vol. 2, p. 363.

MIND [1]

Exaltation of temper and mental faculties, or weakness and loss of memory.

Uneasiness, anxiety, cannot remain in bed.

INNER HEAD [3]

Sensation as if head was choked up ; with heaviness of head and danger of suffocation. θ Croup.

Contractive and pressive headache, with drowsiness, but without sleep.

Deep-seated headache ; dulness.

SIGHT AND EYES [5]

Fulness in eyes, turgid and watery.

Rheumatic or gonorrhœal ophthalmia.

UPPER FACE [8]

Fulness of face which is occasionally florid and flushed, or red and pale by turns.

LOWER FACE [9]

Lips puffed, dry and shining.

Extraordinary twist of mouth to one side every time he attempts to speak or smile.

TEETH AND GUMS [10]

Aphthæ of lips and gums.

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]

Tongue furred and moist or very white.

INNER MOUTH [12]

Feeling of dryness of mouth, though moistened with an oily saliva, great thirst.

PALATE AND THROAT [13]

Constant need to swallow saliva to relieve dryness and burning in throat and larynx.

Throat dry and parched.

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]

Increased appetite.

Desire for delicacies ; oranges ; acid fruits ; spirits ; brandy ; fresh bread ; onions ; almonds ; nuts.

Unquenchable thirst, with feeling of dryness of mouth, and burning in throat.

HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]

Disagreeable or acid eructations.

Nausea and vomiting.

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]

Uneasiness, heat at pit of stomach, and fever.

Burning pain in stomach ; feeling of warmth in epigastric region.

Dyspepsia of long standing ; sourness after eating, and distress of stomach from food.

ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]

Abdomen distended and very sensitive.

Burning in abdomen. θ Croup.

Burning and pressure about navel.

Sensation of weight, pressure, and pain in region of femoral ring, similar to that which precedes occurrence of femoral hernia ; downward pressure and weight < after walking, riding, lifting, and especially before and during menstrual period.

Hernia femoralis.

STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]

Before stool : cutting pains in hypogastrium.

During stool : tenesmus ; cutting pain ; loud discharges of flatus.

Distressing diarrhœa, with headache and griping.

Stools : blackish, yellowish, fecal ; bilious ; yellow, transparent, mucous ; mingled with whitish, shining particles, looking like kernels of rice ; bloody mucus ; frequent (dysenteric) ; copious ; bilious and fecal ; involuntary ; < at night in bed ; > from rising from bed and moving about (colic).

Countenance fallen, indicating great suffering ; discharges every half hour of transparent slime mixed with blood ; before stool severe griping pains in bowels, with backache ; with stool, the same, and urging to urinate ; after stool, long-continued tenesmus, and relief of pains, except heavy dull pain in back and bowels ; tongue flabby, white, furred ; throat dry ; little thirst < ; from food or drink. θ Dysentery.

Stools of colorless, transparent slime, mixed with bright blood, and plentifully interspersed with shining, white bodies, the shape of rice kernels. θ Dysentery.

Diarrhœa, with rumbling and cutting in abdomen and burning in rectum.

Constipation ; hemorrhoids ; perineum tender.

Suppuration of rectum.

Burning and itching of anus.

URINARY ORGANS [21]

Chronic cystitis ; cutting and constriction after micturition ; urine increased in quantity, deepened in color ; hæmaturia.

Urethritis (accompanied by vesical irritability) of females, especially of married women ; feeling of fulness in bladder with desire to urinate every ten or fifteen minutes, with smarting in urethra during micturition, which is very scanty, but a few drops passing at a time, and followed by vesical tenesmus ; filaments of ropy mucus escaping with first or last drops of urine.

Irritation of urinary passages ; cutting and constriction after micturition ; hæmaturia.

After micturition, sensation as if bladder still contained water.

Last drops of urine passed with pain.

Urine : foaming ; bloody ; smells of violets.

Nocturnal enuresis.

Burning and itching in fossa navicularis.

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]

Sexual excitement.

Testicles swollen.

Inflammation of urethra.

Prostatitis.

Secretion of mucus from urethra greatly increased.

Discharge from urethra of a dark reddish color.

Inflammation of penis, pressure and heaviness.

Gonorrhœa, with profuse discharge and scalding pain whilst urinating ; pus very thick and glutinous ; excessive ardor urinæ and frequent desire to empty bladder.

Pale, copious, slimy discharge, causing soiled linen to become stiff ; sometimes, particularly after coitus, or use of spirituous liquors, sensation of warmth and slight burning in urethra on urinating. θ Gleet.

After six weeks, thick, yellow, pus-like discharge from urethra. θ Gonorrhœa.

After two months, profuse pus-like discharge, with painless urination, slight redness of meatus, no swelling of glans. θ Chronic gonorrhœa.

Thick, yellowish-green discharge, with frequent obstruction of urethra. θ Gonorrhœa.

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]

Urethro-vaginitis, severe and of long standing, with acute pains and abundant discharge.

Leucorrhœa profuse, yellow, greenish, very acrid, and of a very offensive odor ; erythema at inner surface of thighs and pruritus of vulva, with intense desire for coition ; small, burning pimples ; womb swollen and painful, as if from a tumor ; menses too soon, often preceded and followed by leucorrhœa, or in small quantity, and consisting mostly of leucorrhœa.

Acrid leucorrhœa of children.

VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]

False membranes, thick and of a dark shade, principally in larynx ; respiration noisy and panting ; sensation as if throat was choked up, with heaviness of head ; danger of suffocation ; voice harsh and wheezing.

RESPIRATION [26]

Respiration hurried and noisy.

Respiration impeded, difficult, with crepitant rales ; great fulness of chest ; dyspnœa and sense of suffocation.

COUGH [27]

Incessant bronchial cough ; < evening, by heat, and in open air ; throat dry and parched ; hurried and noisy respiration.

Harsh cough, which seems to tear and rupture the bronchi ; expectoration difficult and painful, or yellow-greenish, rusty, streaked with blood ; hæmoptysis, especially evenings.

Barking and croupy cough, with feeling as of a foreign body in larynx.

Cough with coryza and hoarseness, during and after cough cold sweat upon breast and back, burning in abdomen.

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]

Burning and tearing pain in chest ; severe cough.

Pulmonary catarrh ; hæmoptysis, particularly in evenings. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.

HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]

Pulse full, frequent.

Soft, slow pulse, weak and small.

Pulse irregular, suspending two or three beats each minute, sometimes slow, at intervals hurried, not exceeding 84.

UPPER LIMBS [32]

Acute, deep-seated pain in wrists, speedily followed by redness and swelling ; stiffness of wrist and thickening around joint.

LOWER LIMBS [33]

Pricking sensation in soles of feet.

LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]

Sensation of heat in palms of hands and soles of feet.

Numbness of fingers and toes.

REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]

Stools and colic < at night in bed, > by getting up and moving about.

Walking, riding, lifting : downward pressure and weight in region of femoral ring <.

NERVES [36]

Great restlessness ; extreme weakness.

Convulsive movements, and partial paralysis.

TIME [38]

Evening : bronchial cough < ; hæmoptysis <.

At night : stools < in bed ; enuresis.

TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]

Heat : bronchial cough <.

Open air : bronchial cough <.

FEVER [40]

Heat, flushes in face, soles of feet and palms of hands.

Increased heat with thirst.

Feverish, tingling and heat over whole surface of body.

Fever with heat at pit of stomach.

Cold sweat upon chest and back ; burning in abdomen. θ Croup.

ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]

Frequent : stools ; desire to empty bladder.

Constant : need of swallowing saliva ; bronchial cough.

Every ten or fifteen minutes : desire to urinate.

Every half hour : discharge of transparent slime mixed with blood.

Chronic : cystitis ; results of gonorrhœa.

SENSATIONS [43]

As if head was choked up ; as if bladder still contained water, after micturition ; as if cough would tear and rupture bronchi ; as of a foreign body in larynx.

Pain : in region of femoral ring similar to that preceding occurrence of femoral hernia.

Cutting : in hypogastrium ; during stool ; in abdomen ; after micturition.

Tearing : in chest.

Burning : in throat and larynx ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; about navel ; in rectum ; of anus ; in fossa navicularis ; in urethra ; in pimples upon vulva ; in chest.

Constriction : after micturition.

Contractive : headache.

Griping : with diarrhœa ; in bowels before stool.

Scalding : while urinating.

Smarting : in urethra.

Pricking : in soles of feet.

Tingling : over whole surface of body.

Deep seated : headache ; acute pain in wrists.

Heavy dull pain in back and bowels, with dysentery.

Pressure : about navel ; in region of femoral ring ; with inflammation of penis.

Pressive : headache.

Weight : in region of femoral ring.

Heaviness : of head ; with inflammation of penis.

Fulness : in eyes ; of face ; in bladder ; of chest.

Uneasiness : at pit of stomach.

Dulness : of head.

Itching : of anus ; in fossa navicularis ; of vulva ; of skin.

Numbness : of fingers and toes.

Dryness : of mouth ; in throat and larynx.

Heat : at pit of stomach ; in palms and soles.

Warmth : in epigastric region ; in urethra.

TISSUES [44]

Skin diseases with kidney affection ; catarrh of bladder and urethra ; paralysis of sensation, with affections of urinary organs.

Makes the urine albuminous and bloody, and increases the uroxanthine.

Emaciation.

SKIN [46]

A flush of red over whole body.

Intense itching.

General eruption of roseolous papules without fever or itching, confluent on face, buttocks and upper limbs, more scant on lower.

Severe urticaria febrilis.

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]

Acts particularly well in persons of bilious temperament with tendency to constipation.

An apprentice, æt. 15, healthy, suffering for three months ; nocturnal enuresis.

Man, æt. 26, otherwise healthy ; gleet.

Man, æt. 28 ; gonorrhœa.

Ha., æt. 32, choleric temperament ; gonorrhœa.

Man, æt. 34, hemorrhoidal constitution ; gonorrhœa.

RELATIONS [48]

Compatible : copaiva (gonorrhœa, gastric urticaria), Oil of Sandal Wood (gonorrhœa).

Botanically related to : Piper meth., Matico, Piper nigrum .

Compare : Capsic., Canthar . (irritable bladder in females), Tereb., Cann. sat., Iod . (membranous croup).