Hedysarum Ildefonsianum

Hedysarum desmodium. Barba de Roy. Carapicho. Brazilian Burdock. N. O. Leguminosæ.

Clinical

Gonorrhœa / Gonorrhœal ophthalmia / Penis, inflammation of

Characteristics

This plant is named by Mure, who gives a figure of it in his book and describes it thus: "The brownish ligneous stem of this plant is about three feet high; it is ramose, pubescent, especially above. Leaves alternate, pinnate, trifoliate; folioles oval and slightly tormentose, on a hairy, bistipulate petiole. The flowers, which are small and seated on filiform unifloral peduncles, form loose, terminal spikes. Fruit oval, hairy, on bent peduncles, and attaching itself very intimately to clothes and to hairy skin of animals." I give this description in full because the species, according to Allen, is doubtful. The symptoms are not many but they are very definite, and knowing the value of Mure's observations in the case of Ocim. can. and other remedies I give them in full. The chief effect was inflammation of the penis and of the eyes, which should indicate it in some cases of gonorrhœal ophthalmia.

3. Eyes

Pain and pricking in eyes. Redness of sclerotica. Smarting, with lachrymation.

12. Abdomen

Painful tearing from loins to navel (better second day).

13. Stool

Diarrhœa. Constipation.

14. Urinary Organs

Profuse urination.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Sudden appearance of yellowish discharge from urethra. Itching of penis. Redness and smarting of penis. Painful swelling of penis with erysipelatous inflammation. Thin stream of urine in consequence of the glans being swollen.

21. Limbs

Pain in upper and lower limbs.

22. Upper Limbs

Fingers contract with pain.

26. Sleep

No sleep for several nights running.

27. Fever

Fever and rheumatic pains.