ANAGALLIS.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
A. arvensis, L.
Nat. order , Primulaceæ.
Common names , Scarlet pimpernel; weather-glass.
Preparation (from the red-flowered variety), Tincture.
Authority.
Schreter, N. A., 3, 3, 174.
MIND
- Lively; more gay than usual, with great joy; he attends to his business, and is contented with himself (first hours).
- Great flow of spirits for several days; he takes pleasure in everything; on account of very joyful feelings, without thinking of anything in particular, he cannot collect his thoughts during a sermon.
- He thinks of everything; his mind is vigorous (first hour).
HEAD
- Heat rising to the head, and sensation of slight sweat on the forehead, followed by a pressive sticking in the eyeballs, and a tickling prickling in the urethra, inclining him to coition (a quarter of an hour).
- Spasmodic stitches in both temples, extending thence to the eyes, in the middle of which it presses (four hours).
- Pressive headache in the forehead, after the blowing of cold air on him (five hours).
EAR
- Twinges in the right ear follow pressure in the eyes (four hours).
THROAT
- Sensation of dryness, with some scraping in the throat (first evening).
STOOL
- Desire for stool (a quarter of an hour). [10.]
- Stool well digested.
- Itching in the rectum, and some pressure in the loins, as with hæmorrhoidal troubles (first day).
URINARY ORGANS
- On urinating, especially in the morning, a burning pain in the urethra; the orifice seems agglutinated, and a violent pressure is required before the urine passes, which it does in two, three, or several streams (first day).
- A tickling prickling along the urethra, especially at the orifice, neither pleasant (since it is half painful) nor unpleasant, since it inclines to coition (a quarter of an hour).
- Desire for coition (first and second days).
- With the erection before coition, a burning tensive pain in the urethra; disappears on coition (third day).
CHEST
- A kind of anxiety in the chest (first evening).
- Suddenly, a feeling as if, internally in the chest, he were struck with a cushion full of pins (second day).
UPPER EXTREMITIES
- A tensive drawing from the left shoulder to the neck, which, after it had entirely disappeared, returned if he completely raised the left arm and forcibly extended it downward (first day).
- On cutting with the shears, a feeling of a cramp in the ball of the thumb, which becomes a dull drawing; when it leaves this place, it appears in the left thumb (first evening). [20.]
- In the metacarpal bone of the thumb, a dull drawing pain, sometimes like a tearing, mostly in the right hand, at times also in the left hand, returning at uncertain times (first day).
SLEEP
- Sleep bad, restless; falls asleep late, wakes early, and has not slept enough in the morning (first night).
GENERALITIES
- Trembling, like shivering (first evening).
- Violent trembling of the heart, with trembling and shivering of the whole body, both before and with a dull pain in a hollow tooth, with anxiety in the chest (first evening, in bed).