Chenopodium Vulvaria

Chenopodium vulvaria, Linn.

Nat. order , Chenopodiaceæ; Common names , Stinkender gausefuss, L'anserine fétide; Synonym , Chenopodium olidum, Curt.

The plant has an odor of decaying fish, and contains a large amount of Trimethylamine ( Propylamine ).

Preparation , Tincture of the entire plant.

Authority.

Berridge, proving on Mr. J. R. Croker with 30 to 40 grains of the extract a day for three weeks, M. Hom. Rev., 15, 297.

• Increased action of bowels not amounting to actual diarrhœa, sometimes attended with griping.
• Often constipation, the bowels not acting for three or four days, and then with difficulty; the constipation was accompanied with external piles.
• After some time, a feeling in lower lobe of right lung, as if some fluid wanted to discharge itself into the region of the duodenum; recurring frequently for several days.
• Increased secretion of urine of offensive odor.
• Increased sexual desire for ten to fourteen days, followed by considerable loss of sexual desire and erectile power, though the secreting power of the testicles was not diminished, but, if anything, increased.
• This disappeared in about three months.
• Late in the proving, a painful feeling of weariness and weakness in the lumbar and lower dorsal region.