Doryphora Decemlineata
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
The Colorado Potato Bug. Coleoptera.
"This insect belongs to the same family as the squash bug, the black potato bug, and the Cantharides-all possess the power of blistering the skin if bruised upon it. The Colorado potato bug has its original home in the Rocky Mountains, where it fed on a species of Solanum indigenous to that locality. It got a taste of the Solanum tuberosum, the common potato, and rapidly traveled East, until it reached the Atlantic". Hale's Symptomatology .
The tincture is prepared by crushing the live beetle and covering it with alcohol. Provings by Ruden and Jerkins, see Allen's Encyclopædia , v. 4, p. 167 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Parotitis , Ruden ; Gastric derangement , Ruden, Hom. clin., v. 3, p. 73 ; Gonorrhœa , Ruden, Hom. Clin., v. 3, p. 85 ; Gleet , Ruden, Hom. clin., v. 3, p. 71.
MIND [1]
Stupor, with muttering and loud rumbling in bowels.
Delirious ; talking and muttering about business matters.
Delirium, with red bloated face, protruding eyes, and pulse one hundred and twenty-four.
Irritable temper.
SENSORIUM [2]
Dizziness in head, with nausea and vomiting.
Congestion of blood to head ; meningitis.
INNER HEAD [3]
Dull, heavy headache.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Sight much impaired.
Sensation of dimness and blackness before eyes.
Pupils dilated.
Eyes red, congested and very much protruded.
Eyes feel sore, as from overwork.
Inflammation of the eyes.
UPPER FACE [8]
Face bloated, red, like that of a confirmed drunkard.
Face mottled, puffed, eyes congested, staring ; high fever, with delirium, vomiting and stupor.
Erysipelas of head and face.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Dark brown coating on tongue.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Violent heat ; severe pain across kidneys, < by pressure and motion ; full, hard pulse ; face red and bloated ; staring eyes ; constipation and retention of urine. θ Parotitis.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Burning in throat down œsophagus, with pain in stomach.
Throat feels sore, raw and constricted.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Loss of appetite ; great thirst ; craving for something sour ; symptoms < by smoking.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Nausea and vomiting.
Vomiting : with stupor and delirium ; of dark, grumous, acrid matter ; of dirty brown fluid, with diarrhœa.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Pain in stomach.
Nausea, at times vomiting ; faint feeling ; very tired ; trembling in all her limbs, especially hands ; cramp-like constriction in pit of stomach ; stools hard ; difficult, painful urination. θ Gastric derangement.
HYPOCHONDRIA [18]
Pain all over body, especially in region of spleen.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Loud rumbling in abdomen, with stupor.
Abdomen feels very sore and tender.
Abdomen feels heavy, as if it were full ; severe burning.
Burning pain in abdomen about umbilicus.
Pain in bowels, in hypogastric region.
Violent pain in bowels in right side, passing downward to rectum.
Pain in bowels < by eating and drinking and taking a long breath.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Stools hard. θ Gastric derangement.
Diarrhœa in morning, with intense pain in abdomen and burning in rectum.
Profuse and persistent diarrhœa.
Continued bloody, slimy diarrhœa.
Dysentery, with intense pain in rectum.
Feeling of heaviness in rectum.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Retention of urine.
Difficult urination.
Dysuria, with burning, stinging pain.
Profuse dark red urine, with dirty sediment, and voided with much pain.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Itching and burning in glans penis, which is swollen and bluish-red ; urethra inflamed, with excruciating pain, especially when urinating. θ Gonorrhœa.
Gleet and gonorrhœa.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Soreness and oppression of chest.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Pulse very weak, with coldness and collapse.
Pulse 120 to 140.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Pain in back, in lumbar region.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Swelling of whole arm, very painful ; abraded spot on wrist developed into a deep ulcer, angry, red, with sticking, stinging pains through arms ; ulcer assumed a malignant character, eating until bones of wrist were exposed. (Local effects through na abraded surface).
Could not guide pen while endeavoring to write.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Swelling of feet, with burning and stinging ; sensation as if full of pins.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Great trembling in extremities. θ Gastric derangement.
Trembling in right arm and leg.
Icy coldness of hands and feet.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Lie down : inclination to.
Slightest exercise : causes fatigue.
Talking : weakness <.
Walking : causes fainting sensation.
Motion : pain across kidneys <.
NERVES [36]
Restlessness without weariness.
Nervous restlessness ; twitching and spasms.
Trembling in right arm and leg as if a galvanic battery were attached to the extremity.
Great trembling in extremities. θ Gastric derangement.
Fatigued by slightest exercise.
Weak, languid ; after sleeping.
Great weakness and heaviness, with inclination to lie down, weakness < by talking.
Great weariness increased by talking.
Sensation as if he would fall at every step, with dimness of sight.
Fainting sensation when walking.
Great, general prostration, ending in collapse.
SLEEP [37]
Restless during night ; constant tossing about.
Sleeplessness until 12 at night, then restless sleep, with terrifying dreams.
Comatose slumber ; wild dreams and screams as if in great distress.
TIME [38]
From 8 A. M. to 2 P. M. : violent fever.
Morning : diarrhœa.
Until 12 at night : sleepless, then restless sleep.
Night : restlessness.
FEVER [40]
Coldness of hands and feet.
Fever ; skin alternately cold and clammy, then hot and burning.
Violent fever, with cerebral congestion, vomiting and delirium ; pulse 120 to 140.
Fever of typhoid character.
Violent fever from 8 A. M. to 2. P. M.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
At times : vomiting.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : pain in side of bowels ; trembling in arm and leg.
SENSATIONS [43]
Eyes feel sore, as from overwork ; abdomen feels heavy, as if it were full ; sensation in feet as if full of pins ; trembling in right arm and leg as if a galvanic battery were attached to them ; as if he would fall at every step.
Pain : in stomach ; all over body ; in region of spleen ; in bowels ; in hypogastric region ; in lumbar region ; in arm.
Excruciating pain : in urethra.
Intense pain : in abdomen ; in rectum.
Violent pains : in bowels ; in right side down to rectum.
Severe pain : across kidneys.
Burning pain : in abdomen.
Stinging pain : through arms.
Burning : in throat ; down œsophagus ; in abdomen ; in rectum ; in glans penis ; in feet.
Cramplike constriction : in pit of stomach.
Sore feeling : in throat ; in abdomen ; in chest.
Dull : headache.
Heavy : headache.
Constrictive feeling : in throat.
Oppression : of chest.
Heaviness : feeling of, in rectum.
Trembling : in extremities.
Itching : in glans penis.
Coldness : of hands and feet.
TISSUES [44]
The blood will not coagulate ; blood globules disorganized as after serpent poisoning.
Enormous swelling of whole body, with the mental and cerebral symptoms.
General elastic swelling of whole body, which will not pit on pressure.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Pressure : pain in kidneys <.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
TM. Joliet, little girl, æt. 5 ; parotitis.
Mrs. B., gastric derangement.
Robust young man, light hair, sanguine temperament ; gleet.
Mrs. G. L., æt. 25, weakly constitution, single, light hair, yellow complexion ; gonorrhœa.
RELATIONS [48]
Antidoted by : earth, which absorbs and neutralizes the poison ; vinegar, or other vegetable acids ; Stramon .
Compare : Agar., Ailanth., Apis, Bellad., Canthar., Crotal., Laches., Stramon .