Eriodyction Californicum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Eriodyction Californicum, Benth. (Wigandia Californica, Hook and Arn.) [The plant has a strong terebinthine taste, and abounds in a resinous matter, which sometimes exudes so copiously, that in drying the specimens stick firmly together and to the paper, hence a name "E. glutinosum," which, however, is not authoritative.]
Natural order , Polemoniaceæ.
Common name , Yerba Santa.
Preparation , Tincture of whole plant.
Authorities.
MS. provings by Dr. G. M. Pease, of San Francisco, contributed to this work: 1 , F. E. B. took tincture, frequently repeated doses, for seventeen days, of 10 to 600 drops; 2 , Mrs. A., aged 42, took 3 drops of tincture every two hours for one day; 3 , Dr. G. M. Pease took 2 to 3 drops of tincture every three or four hours (for asthma of long standing, worse at night).
HEAD
- Vertigo.
- Dizziness, like slight intoxication (immediately), (seventeenth day), 1.
- Sense of intoxication at 6 P.M. (fifteenth day), 1.
- General Head.
- Heaviness in head at 10 P.M. (thirteenth day), 1.
- Head heavy and dull at 12 M.; dizziness continuing until 3 P.M. (fifth day), 1.
- Headache (thirteenth day), 1.
- Aching in base of cranium at 8 A.M. (fourteenth day), 1.
- Sense of pressure outward on all sides in head, greatest at cerebellum upwards, at 10 P.M. (thirteenth day), 1.
- Sense of pressure on head, especially back part, at 5 P.M. (twelfth day), 1.
- Occiput.
- Intense pain, dull and heavy, in back of head and over eyes, at 6 P.M. (sixth day), 1. [10.]
- Burning pain in back of head at 4 P.M., 1.
- Heavy pain in back of head for half an hour, as if occiput was being pressed out, at 10 P.M. (fifth day), 1.
EAR
- Sharp pain in right ear at intervals, or upon suddenly changing position of head to right or left (never before having had headache or earache), at 8 A.M. Shooting pains, after changing to just below external ear, removed to just above and back of it, at intervals of one or two minutes, shooting and quite painful, at 6 P.M.; not felt at night, and on morning following no pain (fourteenth day), 1.
NOSE
- Sneezing at 8 P.M. (fifth day), 1.
- Catarrhal discharge, yellowish-green color, at 8 A.M. (eighth day), 1.
- Coryza at 8 1/2 P.M. (fifth day), 1.
- Coryza and sneezing at 10 A.M.; coryza, as permanent symptom, at 12 M.; coryza increased at 4 and 6 P.M. (sixth day), 1.
- Coryza, with more or less dizziness continually, at 8 A.M. (sixth day), 1.
FACE
- Face flushed at 4 P.M. (sixth day); lasting one hour (fifth day), 1.
MOUTH
- Foul mouth in morning upon rising (sixth day), 1.
THROAT. [20.]
- Burning sensation in fauces and throat (three hours after first dose), 2.
STOMACH
- Great appetite at 9 P.M. (ninth day), 1.
- Great nausea and heavy sickness at 6 P.M. (twelfth day), 1.
- Sick at stomach, immediately after running a few blocks to a fire, at 8 1/2 P.M. (fifth day), 1.
- Deathly sickness at stomach, lasting one hour, at 9 P.M. (fifth day), 1.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Sore and tender feeling of left testis principally; could not bear any pressure upon it, and dreaded to move because of its tenderness; relieved by gentle support. For several days the drug was discontinued, and then again taken as before, when the soreness and dragging tenderness of testis was again prominent, mostly felt in the after-part of the day, 3.
- Slight fluttering at intervals at bottom of testicles at 9 P.M. (ninth day), 1.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Wheezing voice at 5 P.M. (seventeenth day), 1.
- Asthmatic symptoms, slight (fifteenth day); quite strong (seventeenth day), 1.
- Seemed to relieve slightly the asthmatic breathing, and reduce the attendant coryza and mucous secretions, 3.
CHEST. [30.]
- Dull pain in right lung, front (immediately), (seventeenth day), 1.
- Sharp pain in right lung in front, near nipple, occurring at short intervals or upon sudden changes of position, lasting three-quarters of an hour, at 8 A.M. (fourth day), 1.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Quivering of little finger of left hand, also constant twitching of abductor muscle of wrist, when the arm was flexed and lying on the desk, as in the act of writing, at 6 P.M. (fourteenth day), 1.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Rheumatic pain in calf of right leg at 6 P.M. (third day), 1.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Feel sick all over (seventh day), 1.
- Verbal reports of provings give the aggravations as in the afternoon, 1.
SKIN
- In morning, covered with a scarlet rash, which lasted four or five days (second day), 2.
FEVER
- Slight fever; for fifteen minutes cheeks flushed and burning, with slight dizziness at 10 A.M.; fever again, face more flushed, at 5 P.M. (twelfth day), 1.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), On rising, foul mouth.
- ( Afternoon ), Soreness of testis.
- ( Running ), Sickness at stomach.
SUPPLEMENT: ERIODICTYON.
Name Eriodictyon glutinosum, Benth., is now restored, notice correction of spelling.
Authorities.
4 , Dr. Scudder, Electric Med. Journ., Nov., 1875 (U. S. Med. Invest., New Ser., vol. iii, p. 563); 5 , O. W. Lounsbury, M.D., Cincin. Med. Advance, vol. iv, 1876, p. 134, in good health, took 5 drops tincture at 7 A.M., 10 at 1 P.M., 15 at 6 P.M. (first day); 30 drops at 7.30 A.M., 50 at 1.15 P.M. (second day); 75 at 6.30 A.M. (third day); 100 at 7.45 A.M. (fifth day); 160 at 12.20 P.M. (tenth day); all the doses were taken on an empty stomach.
MIND
- During the day great exhilaration; unusually elastic step (third day), 3.
- Daily duties performed mechanically rather than otherwise (twenty-ninth day), 3. [40.]
- Forgetfulness (seventh day), 3.
HEAD
- Headache (twenty-fourth day), 3.
- Severe headache (seventh and twenty-ninth days, 3.
- Oppressive headache, after one hour and three-quarters, fifth day), 3.
- Headache, which had subsided during the night, has returned with increased violence (after two hours, third day), 5.
- General distressed feeling in head (seven hours after second dose, second day), 3.
- Dull frontal headache (after two hours), 3.
- Darting pain in forehead from left to right (after second dose, second day), 3.
- For thirty-six hours past painful frontal headache (twenty-third day), 3.
- Was seized in fifteen minutes with heavy frontal headache, which continued the next day (after ten days), 3. [50.]
- Flying pains in left hemicrania (seven hours after second dose, second day), 3.
EYE
- Aching of eyes on reading (seven hours after second dose, second day), 3.
NOSE
- Sneezing (seven hours after second dose, second day), 3.
- Symptoms of approaching coryza (after second dose), 3.
- Coryza (seven hours after second dose, second day), 3.
MOUTH
- Tongue and mouth felt slightly scalded (second day), 5.
- Yellow streak along centre of tongue (after five hours and a half, second day), 5.
THROAT
- Occasionally small discharge of jellylike mucus from posterior nares (second day), 5.
- Dryness of posterior nares (after third dose), 3.
- Irritation of posterior nares, sticky mucous discharge downward into throat, constant hawking, some irritation of fauces (twentieth day), 3. [60.]
- Irritation of posterior nares, fauces, and larynx (twenty-eighth day), 5.
- Great dryness of the throat (after second dose), 5.
- Dryness of fauces (after third dose), 5.
- Catarrh of fauces and larynx (twenty-third day), 5.
STOMACH
- Loss of appetite (nineteenth day), 5.
- Food taken without relish (twenty-ninth day), 5.
- Eructations (seven hours after second dose, second day), 5.
- Nausea which soon passed away (ten minutes after third dose), 5.
- Nausea, (immediately after second dose, second day), 5.
- Nausea, with severe pressing frontal headache (after eleven days), 5. [70.]
- Nausea, with looseness of bowels (twenty-sixth day); nausea for two days past on taking the least food, followed by sensation of repletion (twenty-eighth day), 5.
- Unusual fulness and distension in the epigastrium, with rumbling in the bowels (after two hours, second day), 5.
- Greatly increased feeling of distension of stomach and bowels, though no real distension is apparent (after seven days), 5.
- Feeling of repletion after taking a few mouthfuls of food (nineteenth day), 5.
- Oppressive sensation in cardiac region (after second dose, second day), 5.
- Slight pains in epigastrium (after two hours), 6.
- Sharp pains in stomach (after four hours, fifth day), 5.
ABDOMEN
- Flying pains in left hypochondrium (seven hours after second dose, second day), 5.
- Sharp transitory pains in umbilical region (seventh day), 5.
- Sensation of great distension of abdomen continuing for thirty-six hours (after two hours, third day), 5.
RECTUM AND ANUS. [80.]
- Have had for twenty-four hours past a feeling of relaxation of external anal sphincter, with cool moisture of anus (seventh day); increased anal relaxation (eleventh day), 5.
- Partial prolapsus ani (after eleven days), 5.
- Very disagreeable relaxation of anus and rectum; prolapsus ani worse (twenty-first day), 5.
STOOL
- Unusual normal evacuations (second day), 3.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Catarrhal symptoms increase (twenty-sixth day); bronchial catarrh (twenty-eighth day), 5.
- In two hours some constriction of larynx, sensation as if something pressed on the trachea near the suprasternal notch, pain and constriction extending to the clavicle in the direction of axilla, dryness of throat and air-passages. The constriction and dryness of the larynx continued for three days distinctly, gradually wearing away, 4.
- Irritation of larynx and trachea (twenty-third day), 5.
- The prover has had ever since the proving an increased sensitiveness of larynx and trachea to changes of the atmosphere, and also to the use of the vocal organs, either of which causes or provokes a paroxysm of coughing (after three months), 5.
- Constant tickling cough (twenty-third day); cough severe, worse at nightfall (twenty-fourth day), 5.
- Aggravated cough (twenty-ninth day), 5. [90.]
- Cough night and morning (after eight weeks), 5.
- Expectoration of thick white mucus (twenty-eighth day), 5.
- Frequent sighing respiration (nineteenth day), 5.
CHEST
- Constant heavy feeling in chest behind sternum (nineteenth day), 5.
- Sensation of a heavy weight on the chest (twenty-third day); great heaviness in chest (twenty-fourth day), 5.
- Heaviness in chest which requires an occasional deep breath to relieve (after eight weeks), 5.
HEART AND PULSE
- Slight pain in the præcordial region (after one hour and a half), 5.
- Pulse 67 (before the proving); pulse accelerated 10 beats, accompanied with a peculiar nervous sensibility (after one hour and a half, first day); 75 (after two hours); 65 (after second dose, second day); 79 (after two hours, third day); 70 (fourth day); 76 (after one hour and three-quarters); 68 irregular (after four hours, fifth day), 5.
- Pulse 68, regular, but weak (seventh day), 5.
NECK
- Rheumatic pain in right sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle (after two hours), 6.
EXTREMITIES. [100.]
- Flying pains in upper and lower extremities (seven hours after second dose, second day), 5.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Pain now and then along the ulnar nerve (fourth day), 5.
- Pain in ulnar and radial sides of left forearm (seventh day), 5.
- Transitory pains in right index-finger (after third dose, 5.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- In three hours severe pain in left knee, with difficulty in using the leg; aching of the muscles of both legs; continuing during afternoon and evening, 4.