Hydrophyllum
By Timothy F. Allen โ The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Hydrophyllum Virginicum.
Natural order , Borraginaceรฆ.
Preparation , Tincture of the plant when in flower.
Authority.
Dr. P. B. Hoyt, Am. Hom; Obs. XI, p. 101, effects of gathering a handful of the flowers (the same happened four years later, with addition of headache, and afterward again).
- Dull headache.
- Eyes began to water and burn, with slight itching (after fifteen or twenty minutes); this continued until I reached my boarding-house. I was suffering quite severely; my sister at once asked what was the matter with my eyes, and going to the glass, my eyelids were swollen and the sclerotica much injected, presenting fiery redness; there was some sensitiveness to light. These symptoms continued through the afternoon and evening, and kept me awake for some time; in the morning my eyelids were agglutinated, and on opening my eyes they were quite sensitive to the light; the burning and smarting were less, still my eyes discharged water more or less for two or three days; the symptoms gradually subsided, and in a week I was well again.