MELASTOMA.
By Timothy F. Allen โ The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Melastoma (Ackermani, of Mure), (plant figured in Mure, Pathogรฉn. Brรฉsil.).
Natural order , Melastomaceรฆ.
Preparation , Tincture of the leaves.
Authority.
Mure, Pathogรฉn. Brรฉsil., p. 270.
HEAD
- Vertigo (first day).
- Headache, with sensitiveness of the scalp (second day).
- Lancination and prickings at the vertex (second day).
EAR
- Roaring in the left ear (first day).
NOSE
- Sneezing (first day).
FACE
- Pale face (second day).
MOUTH
- Looseness of the teeth (second day).
- Digging in the teeth (second day).
- White tongue (second day). [10.]
- Copious flow of saliva (first day).
- Bitter mouth (second day).
STOMACH
- Sour stomach (first day).
ABDOMEN
- Borborygmi (second day).
- Pain in the abdomen (second day).
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Tenesmus, with constriction of the sphincter (second day).
- Heat and pricking at the anus (second day).
- Pain at the perinรฆum (second day).
- Fearful pain and pulling from the perinรฆum to the anus, when sitting; not ceasing in any position; lasting six hours (second day).
- Lancinations in the perinรฆum, urethra, and testicles (second day).
STOOL. [20.]
- (Cure of inveterate diarrhลa and colic), (second day).
URINARY ORGANS
- Pricking in the urethra (second day).
- Profuse urine (second day).
- Light-colored and foaming urine (second day).
- Red, odorless urine, with bloody clots (second day).
- Fetid urine (second day).
- Urine more cloudy and less foaming (second day).
- The urine deposits a white sediment (second day).
- Albuminuria (second day).
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Hardness of the penis, without erection (second day).
CHEST. [30.]
- Pain in the sternal region, in the morning (first day).
HEART
- Palpitation of the heart (first day).
BACK
- Pain in the loins (second day).
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Weakness of the thighs (second day).
- ลdema of the legs (second day).
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Prostration (second day).
SKIN
- Eruption on the lips, especially the upper (second day).
- Itching and heat at night (second day).
- Pricking over the feet, ankles, and wrists (second day).
SLEEP
- Drowsiness in the daytime (second day).
FEVER. [40.]
- Chills, followed by sweat (first day).
- Violent chills for four hours, followed by heat without sweat (second day).
- General heat (first day).
- Internal heat (second day).