Derris pinnata, Lour. (Flora Cochin-china.)

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the plant.

Authority.

Dr. X. Roussel, "symptoms clinically confirmed, obtained from over eighty subjects, with 20 to 30 drops of the tincture," L'Hahnemannisme, 4, 295.

MIND

Emotional.
He fancies he is seasick.
He desires death and will attempt suicide.
He is discouraged and despairs of a cure, declaring himself a hypochondriac.
He dreads pain, and is averse to solitude, with great anxiety.
He is afraid of killing some one with a knife.
He is disposed to strike, and inveighs against his dearest friends.
She weeps and sings alternately, and has a tremendous flow of ideas.
Intellectual.
Loss of memory.

HEAD

Vertigo.
Vertigo, with loss of consciousness. [10.]
Vertigo, with inclination to vomit (after one hour).
He is afraid of falling if he turns his head to the right or left.
General Head.
Congestion of the brain, with nausea.
Sensation as if needles and nails were driven into the head.
These pains (of the head) are felt for three days in succession, at the evening meal (6 o'clock).
Forehead.
Pain throughout the frontal region.
Parietals.
Painful lancinations on the left side of the head, with vomiting of mucus, and burning sensation along the œsophagus.
External Head.
The scalp is excessively painful; the least touch, even with a pen-feather, aggravates the pain.

EYE

Objective.
Red eyes, with lachrymation.
Eyes fixed and glittering.
Subjective. [20.]
Very painful lancinations in both eyes, extending to the bottom of the orbit.
Brow and Orbit.
Cannot raise his eyebrows.
Pain below the left eye.
Violent pain below the right eye and in the right temple.
Lids.
Blepharoptosis.
Lachrymal Apparatus.
Swelling of the left caruncula lachrymalis, with large ecchymosis of the left eye (after six hours).
Conjunctiva.
Conjunctivitis, with photophobia.
Chemosis.
Ball.
The sclerotic looks yellow.
Pupil.
Pupil immovable.
Vision. [30.]
Dimness of vision.
Black points before the eye.

EAR

Objective.
Swelling, redness, and heat of the auricle.
Ozæna.
Subjective.
Intense pain in the bottom of the ear.
Acute pain in the ear, as if caused by lancinating formication, or pinching.
Hearing.
Hearing impaired, or excessively acute.
Humming in the ears; sounds like distant bells.
Cracking in the ears, when swallowing.

NOSE

The tip of the nose is red. [40.]
Fluent coryza.
Epistaxis.
Nose very much stopped up.
Smell.
Exalted sense of smell; she perceives celestial odors.
Intolerable smells, after frequent sneezing.

FACE

Objective.
Face pale, red, shining, earthy-looking, or lead-colored.
Face puffy and swollen.
Subjective.
Tic douloureux , with spasmodic movements of the facial muscles, especially of the orbicularis palpebrarum.
Cheeks.
Painful determination of blood to the left cheeks.
Burning of the left cheek, with pain in the suboritar canal.
Lips. [50.]
Lips dry, black, and cracked.
Chin.
Acute pain in the temporo-maxillary articulation, with pain before and in the ears; more frequent and severe on the left side.
Pain in the whole lower jaw, as if the teeth were being pulled out.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Sagging of the teeth; some loose teeth, previously painless, become excessively painful.
Severe toothache, compelling him to scream.
Toothache aggravated by cold.
The nightly toothache is relieved by heat.
Gums.
Swelling and bleeding of the gums.
Tongue.
Tongue white, or lead-colored.
Formication and trembling of the tongue. [60.]
Painful, dry, cracked tongue.
General Mouth.
Slight hæmorrhage from the walls of the mouth.
Dry mouth.
Saliva.
Salivation, with engorgement of the submaxillary glands.
Copious salivation, with aphthæ, and thready viscid mucus.
Inclination to spit in the morning and after a meal.
Taste.
Intolerable bitterness of the mouth, with burning sensation along the œsophagus.

THROAT

Violent visible beating of the carotids.
The throat feels as if completely raw, while swallowing.
Uvula and Tonsils.
Red swelling of the tonsils, uvula, and velum palati. [70.]
Constant tickling of the uvula, as if by a foreign body.
Constriction of the pillars of the velum palati.
Œsophagus.
Sensation as of a ball in the œsophagus, with cramps there.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Bulimy.
Strong desire for acids.
Repugnance to meat.
Thirst.
Intense thirst, on waking in the morning.
Eructation and Hiccough.
Badly smelling eructations.
Raising of phlegm; nausea.
Bilious regurgitations. [80.]
Hiccough, with deep anguish and burning in the stomach.
Vomiting.
Vomiting; watery diarrhœa, next morning.
Stomach.
Compression at the stomach, with sensitiveness to touch.

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Pain and sensation of swelling of the liver.
Sensation of swelling of the spleen.
Navel.
Pressure about the navel.
General Abdomen.
Inflation of the abdomen.
Tympanitis; the intestinal curves gather themselves into clusters, with a pinching pain.
Borborygmi.
Fetid flatulence. [90.]
Cramplike pains; diarrhœa, with anguish.
Griping, ameliorated by lying on the abdomen.
Iliac Region.
Pain in the groins; he feels as if a hernia were about to protrude.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Hæmorrhoidal tumors appear.
Constriction of the rectum.
Tenesmus.
Sensation of formication in the rectum.
Sensation of a foreign body in the anus.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa and weakness after vomiting.
Dysenteric stools. [100.]
Involuntary stools at night; white or yellowish stools.
Burning stools, with burning at the anus.
Undigested stools.
Bloody stools, with sharp pains.
Constipation.
Constipation or diarrhœa; nightly diarrhœa.

URINARY ORGANS

Bladder.
Pain in the bladder.
Frequent ineffectual urging to urinate.
Micturition.
Frequent urination, with pains in the kidneys.
Sometimes incontinence of urine, or flow of dirty-white urine.
Gluey, fetid urine is discharged guttatim. [110.]
Difficult urination; slight retention, with sensation of burning in the urethra.
Urine.
Discharge of clear and limpid urine.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Agreeable itching of the glans penis; slight orchitis.
Ileo-scrotal pains.
Swelling of the epididymis.
Pungent pain in the left testicles.
Increased sexual desire.
Female.
Swelling of the uterus.
Sensation of heaviness behind the uterus.
The uterus feels as if about to issue from the vagina. [120.]
Leucorrhœa, with menstruation twice a month.
Cramplike pains during the menses.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx.
Sharp pungent pain in the larynx.
Voice.
Transient hoarseness.
Feeble voice, with quavering speech.
Short-lasting aphonia.
Cough and Expectoration.
Frequent spasmodic cough.
Hysteric cough.
Dry cough, with suffocation; difficulty in raising mucus.
She expectorates blood and blows it from the nose.
Respiration. [130.]
Slow, sighing respiration.
Respiration short and difficult; suffocation.
Feeling of suffocation, with fetid breath.
Obliged to sit up in bed at night to get air.
Asthmatic paroxysms.

CHEST

Burning sensation in the chest.
Her whole chest feels swollen, and she unlaces herself immediately after eating but very little.
Front.
Cramplike pains behind the sternum.
Lancinations in the intercostal muscles behind the sternum.
Sides.
Constriction of the left side of the chest, in the evening. [140.]
Pleuritic stitch in the right side.

HEART

Violent palpitation of the heart; it seems to be beating in water.

NECH AND BACK

Violent pains in the nape of the neck and neck, with slight swelling of these parts.
She feels as if a small stream of water was running from one ear to the other across the nape of the neck, which causes a terrible pain.
Violent tensive pains along the vertebral column.
Rheumatic pains between the shoulders.
Pains in the loins at night, with profuse perspiration.
Sacro-lumbar pains.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Paralytic pains commencing in the entire left upper extremity (also felt in the right limb, but less frequently).
Rheumatic pains from the shoulder to the finger-tips, with sensation as if an ice-cold liquid were flowing in the same direction. [150.]
Pain and swelling from the elbow to the axilla, along the course of the nerves and bloodvessels of the arms.
Cramplike pains at the insertion of the deltoid on the humerus, relieved by compression.
Cramplike pains in the right fingers, with paleness of the extremities.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

He staggers like a drunken man, his knees give way under him; he walks as if stepping on down.
Transient numbness of the lower limbs.
Intense sciatic pains.
Pains and bruised feeling in the large muscles of the thigh.
Weakness and severe pains in the hip-joint.
Electric shocks in the muscles of the leg.
Pains from the tibia to the astragalus.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS. [160.]

He hears the beating of this arteries.
Debility, with perspiration.
Erratic pains in the entire trunk, which extort groans at night, but do not awaken the prover.

SKIN

The skin of the abdomen is painful.

SLEEP

Sleep after a meal.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Inclination to spit; on waking, thirst.
( Evening ), At 6 o'clock, when taking a meal, pains in head; constriction of left chest.
( Night ), Involuntary stools; diarrhœa; pain in loins, etc.
Amelioration.
( Compression ), Pains in the humerus.
( Heat ), Nightly toothache.
( Lying on abdomen ), Griping.

Derris Pinnata