Anagallis

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).