Amphisboena

AMPHISBŒNA.

A. vermicularis, Wagl.; Animal kingdom.

Nat. order , Ophidians.

Preparation , The jaw containing the poison is removed and triturated.

Authority.

Mure (Brazilian provings).

MIND

• Ennui.
• Depression.
• Tender sadness, which disposes one to be gentle and meek.
• Sadness and lassitude in the morning.
• Impatience.

HEAD

• Dizziness and vertigo with wavering or staggering, which seems to draw you over to the same side, with a series of successive impulses, and then bring you back to the opposite side by an oscillation of the same kind.
• Dizziness when turning round.
• Horrible headache, with sensation as if the feet were in the brain.
• Weight at the forehead. [10.]
• Weight in the forehead and parietal region.
• Repeated beating at the right side of the forehead, as if hailstones fell upon it.
• Lancination and pain through the right side of the head.
• Sweat about the head.

EYES

• Weariness of the eyes, in the evening, with pain and pricking when looking at the light.
• Constriction of the right eye, as if strung together with a cord.
• Sensation as of a grain of sand in the right eye.
• Constant twitching at the upper eyelids, especially the left.
• Pain at the inner canthus of the right eye, as if a stye would form.
• Shooting pain in the outer angle of the left eye.
• Lachrymation and constriction of the left eye.

EARS. [20.]

• Pain in the meatus auditorius, as if air were rushing in.

FACE

• Pricklings and heat at the right malar eminence.
• Painful and large pimple on left side of upper lip, suppurating.
• Swelling of the right lower jaw, worse in the open air.
• Pains in the right lower jaw, and considerable swelling, aggravated by air and dampness.
• Dull pain in the right lower jawbone.

MOUTH

• The teeth feel elongated and set on edge, especially the right lower molars.
• The toothache is worse in the afternoon and evening.
• Chewing is painful, but the contact of liquids is not painful.

THROAT

• Swelling of the tonsils. [30.]
• Deglutition is difficult; one is not able to swallow saliva.

STOMACH

• Chilliness and pains at the epigastrium.

ABDOMEN

• Protrusion of umbilical hernia.
• Tearing pain at the navel, all day.
• Lancination in the navel, as from a stiletto.
• Suppuration of inguinal hernia.
• The hernia is painful, and air is felt in it.

STOOL AND ANUS

• Constipation.

NECK AND BACK

• Violent pain in the whole of the vertebral column, worse when walking, moving the arms, or stooping.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Breaking out of little pimples, especially on the forearm. [40.]
• Painful swelling of the arm, on the fifteenth day.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• Painless drawing up of the legs.
• Cramp in the left leg.
• Cramp in the left leg; it remains behind in walking, as if paralyzed.

GENERALITIES

• Debility.

SKIN

• Painful and large pimples on the left side of the upper lip, suppurating.
• The military acne rosacea spreads over the chest, neck, and back, with itching, which is worse in the morning, and decreases in the evening.
• Breaking out of little pimples, especially on the forearm.
• Acute acne rosacea (a dry itch cured), covering extensive elliptical spots; after the eruption healed, a furfuraceous desquamation took place wherever a pimple had been situated.
• Gradually, a white vesicle forms on every pimple, discharging a clear serum, after which the eruption dries up on the fifth day.

SLEEP AND DREAMS. [50.]

• Wakes at midnight for ten consecutive nights.
• Disturbed sleep.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Sadness and lassitude; itching of the eruption.
• ( Afternoon ), Toothache.
• ( Evening ), Weariness of the eyes, etc.; toothache.
• ( Air ), Pains in lower jaw, etc.
• ( Open air ), Swelling in right lower jaw.
• ( Dampness ), Pains in right lower jaw, etc.
• ( Moving arms ), Pain in vertebral column.
• ( Stooping ), Pain in vertebral column.
• ( Turning round ), Dizziness.
• ( Walking ), Pain in vertebral column.
• Amelioration.
• ( Evening ), Itching of the eruption.