Aristolochia (Milhomens)

A. cymbifera, Mart.

Nat. order , Aristolochiaceæ.

Common name , Brazilian snake-root.

Preparation , Tincture from the flower.

Authority.

Mure (Brazilian provings).

HEAD

• The head is burning hot.
• Head heavy.
• Acute lancination in the head.
• Throbbing in the right frontal eminence for a minute.
• His temples are very sensitive to touch during the whole day.
• Sensation of torpor at the vertex.
• Acute lancination in the left side of the head.
• Severe lancination behind the head.
• Shooting in the cerebellum. [10.]
• Sensation of torpor in the cerebellum.

MOUTH

• Excoriations of the lips and gums.
• Excoriations of the lips and gums, as on the second day.
• Mouth pasty through the whole morning.

STOMACH

• Anorexia.
• Complete anorexia.
• Want of appetite.
• Thirst.
• Great thirst, with bitterness of the mouth.
• Continual thirst and bitter mouth. [20.]
• Borborygmus in the stomach and intestines.
• Fulness of the stomach.
• Pain at the scrobiculus.

ABDOMEN

• Pain in the right groin.

STOOL AND ANUS

• Burning pains at the anus.
• Colic, followed by a stool, at first soft, then diarrhœic, twice in succession.
• Easy stool.

URINARY ORGANS

• He makes water more frequently than usual.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Itching on the skin of the prepuce.
• Pricking in the right testicle.

CHEST. [30.]

• Bruised pain over the left pectoral muscle, which is sensitive to the touch at night.
• Pain in the right side.

HEART AND PULSE

• Lancinating pain at the apex of the heart, which takes away his breath at night.

NECK AND BACK

• Painful spot under the scapula, as if from having received a blow.
• Sharp pain between the shoulders.
• Uneasiness in the lumbar region.
• Dull pain at the lower part of the lumbar region, and in the hypogastrium.
• Acute pain in the sacro-lumbar region.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• The upper and lower parts of the left arm are painful to the touch.
• Itching above the bend of the right arm. [40.]
• Pain in the hypothenar eminence of the right hand.
• Stinging in the hypothenar eminence of the left hand.
• Pain in the dorsal portion of the left index.
• Pricking in the joint of the first phalanx of the little finger.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• The leg is swollen and violet-colored in the morning; it becomes inflamed by fatigue, and turns blackish-red towards evening.
• The whole leg is covered by large, irregular patches, formed by extravasated blood.
• The pains in the legs continue.
• Stiffness of the leg, with impossibility of standing up for a few minutes.
• Numbness of the left leg.
• The left leg is red and swollen. [50.]
• Lancinations through the whole extent of the left inferior extremity.
• Pricking on the internal surface of the right leg.
• Itching on the anterior part of the right leg.
• Uneasiness, then pricking, in the thighs.
• Malaise, as if something were collected in the internal part of the right leg above the knee.
• Acute pain in the right thigh.
• Smarting on the internal superior part of the right thigh.
• Pricking in the right thigh.
• Itching on the right thigh.
• Itching on the internal surface of the left thigh. [60.]
• Bruised pain in the left knee.
• Bruised pain under the left patella.
• Painful lancinations in the internal part of the left knee.
• The upper part of the left leg is painful to the touch.
• Prick as from a pin in the lower part of the left leg.
• Numbness of the lower part of the calf.
• Cramplike pains in the left tendo-achillis.
• Uneasiness in the lower part of the tendo-achillis.
• Prick under the heel.
• The malleoli appear swollen. [70.]
• Partial numbness around the malleoli.
• Malaise after waking in the morning; he cannot go to sleep again; he feels as if something incommoded him about the malleoli for several hours; this pain increases, becoming a bruised pain.
• Feeling as if the lower part of the right leg had a tendency to fall down upon the malleoli, as a stocking might do; he often carries his hand there as if to raise it up.
• Pain above the right internal malleolus.
• Cramplike pain in the right internal malleolus.
• Lancinations in the lower part of the right leg and internal malleolus.
• Persistent pain above the left internal malleolus.
• Disagreeable sensation behind the left internal malleolus.
• Lancinations in the anterior part of the left external malleolus.
• The left leg is painful as if excoriated; the pain passes to the right internal malleolus and becomes more acute. [80.]
• Itching on the left external malleolus.
• Itching on the left internal malleolus.

GENERALITIES

• Prickings in different parts of the body.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Disturbed rest.
• Unquiet sleep.
• Dreams.
• Disgusting dreams.
• He dreams that he can neither work nor drink nor walk.
• He dreams of a sheep and a dog covered with red scarves; the former, elevated above the ground, shook his head, and was seized by the dog in the middle of his back; the dog himself was suspended by the back by a man accompanied by many other individuals; afterwards, a very amorous dream, with pollution.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Mouth pasty; leg swollen, etc.; after waking, malaise.
• ( Towards Evening ), Leg becomes inflamed etc.
• ( Night ), Left pectoral muscle sensitive; pain at apex of the heart.