PERSICA.

Amygdalus (Prunus) Persica.

Natural order , Rosaceæ.

Common name , Peach.

Preparation , Tincture of the flowers.

Authority.

Dr. Demeures, Journ. de la Soc. Gal., Ser. 1re, vol. 4, p. 118.

1 , Effects of pounding the flowers while preparing the tincture; 2 and 3 , provings with the tincture.

EYE

• Pressure and itching in the eyes from reading, in the evening; it seems as if there were a foreign body in the eyes, 3.
• Lachrymation, at night, from reading, three days after; this symptom lasts four days, 2.
• Dazzling before the eyes, in the morning; it is impossible to read; objects seem to waver in a zigzag direction; ceases after two hours (after twelve hours), 3.
• The sight, the same evening, by candlelight, was wholly unfatigued by late reading, nine hours after (a curative effect and a reaction from a previous reverse condition), 1.

NOSE

• The nasal cartilage and the upper jaw are painful to touch, as if they had received a blow from a fist (only when touched); the nasal cartilage feels as if thinner than usual, 3.
• Persistent loss of smell, 3.

FACE

• Raw pain in the middle of the lower lip, lasting five hours, 3.
• Small swelling on the left lower jaw, in front of the facial artery, causing pain and itching, 3.

MOUTH

• Loss of taste; what he eats appears deprived of any kind of flavor, even that of sea salt; this state persists like that of the loss of smell, 3.

ABDOMEN. [10.]

• Internal pain in the left side of the abdomen, always vertically, following a line drawn from the extremity of the cartilage of the tenth rib to the anterior superior spine of the ilium (after three days and a half), 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• During stool, ejaculation of semen, without pollution or erection, followed by a peculiar feeling of emptiness in the hypogastrium, and of pain in the genital organs, such as follows sexual excess.
• At the same time painful lassitude in the legs, then pain above both hips, but more especially in the sacral region (after ten days), 3.
• Indifference to sexual intercourse, lasting more than six months, 3.

CHEST

• During dinner, stinging pain under the false ribs as from a sharp point, likewise under the shoulder-blades; this pain is short-lasting (after twenty-four hours), 1.
• Severe and deepseated prickings above the left nipple, several times, 3.

HEART AND PULSE

• Sharp pains in the region of the heart, vertically, following a line parallel to the axis of the body, 2.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Extreme liability to sprain both wrists, accompanied with weakness in these parts, 3.
• Fatiguing pains in both wrist-joints, and at the same time in both feet; the pain is more severe in the left ankle and left foot (after thirteen days), 3.
• The wrist-joint, which had been hurt, and had been cured by this remedy, six months previously, became again momentarily painful (after four days), 2.
• Pain as from a sprain in the right wrist-joint, which prevents him from seizing an object, from lifting it, and from squeezing it with his hand, during twelve hours (after eighteen hours), 1. [20.]
• Little shootings between the index and middle fingers of the left hand (after nine and ten days), 3.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Drawing and pain in the left thigh, which soon ceases, 2.
• Lancinations in the posterior part of the right thigh, always in the direction of its length (after nine days and a half), 3.
• Painful twitchings all along the right thigh, on the outside (after eight days), 3.
• Numbness in the left knee, in the morning, in bed, which ceases on rising. Three hours after this symptom, acute pain in a transverse direction, in the end of the left metatarsus, which ceases in a few minutes, and is followed by tension and painful stiffness in the left calf, which goes off as quickly (after four days), 2.
• Next morning, when wishing to rise, inability to bend the knees; in a few moments, this sensation passes off, and I get up without any trouble (seventy-two hours after all the symptoms have disappears), 1.
• Pain in both knees, and at the same time in the right ankle-joint, which impedes walking, 3.
• The legs are numb and stiff when sitting, even on a low chair; likewise the feet, as if they had been held in a false position, 1.
• Prickings, in the form of lancinations, in the outer portion of the left leg, along the peroneus muscle, 3.
• Painful lancinations, a little above the internal malleolus of the left foot, 3. [30.]
• At the same time as the eruption, as sharp pain under the right great toe nail, only when pressing on the nail, not when walking, 2.
• Internal pain in the bend of the left fourth toe; this pain lasts only a few minutes (after three days and a half), 2.
• The itching and the pain under the left tonsil are experienced anew. The pain under the nail is unaccompanied with heat or swelling (after three days), 3.
• Pricking pain in the lower extremity of the tarsus, at the root of the fourth toe, in the evening, when writing (after three hours and a half), 3.

GENERALITIES

• A single glass of wine is sufficient to intoxicate him; this symptom also lasts six months, 3.

SKIN

• Small tumor, size of a nut, on the lobe of the right ear, very painful to touch, 3.
• Obstinate itching on different parts of the body, in the head, in the forehead, in the temples, in the middle of the back, in the arms, on the abdomen, over the thighs, on both hams, on portions of which (regions) there appears an eruption of very small, pointed pimples, the top of which was torn off by scratching, leaving a red, bleeding point. The tops of these pimples before they were detached, were filled with a clear liquid. The itching was at times intolerable, obstinate, deepseated; not, however, voluptuous; only pressure was felt when scratching. When the inclination to scratch was resisted, the itching, after being for some time aggravated, ended in a stinging, as if a needle were slowly and deeply thrust into the part, a feeling which ceased on applying the hand. This itching and the eruption lasted for a month, 2.
• At night, in bed, a general itching, which evades the hand when scratching, 1.
• Itching of the temples, in the morning, a few moments after in the hairy scalp, in every part of the head, in the lobes of the ears, in the forehead. This symptom lasts three hours, at the end of five days, 3.
• Sudden local itching, obliging him to scratch immediately on the face, and in every part of the body, 3.

SUPPLEMENT: PERSICA. Authoriry.

4 , Dr. Demeures, Journ. de la Soc. Gall., vol. iv, p. 108, effects of a drop of the tincture.

The gums are swollen and bleed on the least suction, without pain, 4.

• A quarter of an hour afterwards, while lying on the grass, pain in the cartilage of the last true rib, near the sternum, felt especially during inspiration, less on touching, like the pain of a blow, 4. [40.]
• Immediately, numbness of the fingers, 4.
• Twenty-four hours after, numbness of the fingers when writing; the eyes are tired and are filled with tears when reading, 4.
• Pain in the right thumb, at the extremity of the great flexor muscle. This pain is not felt when touching the part, nor when writing, 4.