Convolvulus Duartinus
By Timothy F. Allen тАФ The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Ipom┼Уa bona-nox, L. (styled "Convolvulus duartinus" by Mure).
Natural order , Convolvulace├ж.
Common name , Morning-glory.
Preparation , Tincture of the flowers (obtained by Mure from gardens in Rio Janeiro).
Authority.
Mure, Pathog├йn├йsie Br├йsilienne.
MIND
- Moral weakness (in two provers).
- Discouragement.
- Hypochondria.
- Reveries in the daytime.
- Mental languor.
HEAD
- Vertigo, with fainting.
- Dizziness (in three provers).
- Pain all over the head, especially on the median line.
- Pain in the whole head, from morning till 5 o'clock in the evening. [10.]
- Two small spots on the forehead, disappearing in a few minutes.
- Heaviness and dizziness in the frontal region, two days in succession.
- Burning in the frontal region, ceasing after a cold bath.
- Pain in the frontal region.
- Pain in the frontal region, with heat at the root of the nose (in three provers).
- Pressure at the frontal region.
- Pain in the temples.
- Pain in the left temporal region, corresponding to the eye.
- Acute pain in the morning, in the left temporal region, two days in succession (in two provers).
- Slight pain at the vertex. [20.]
- Violent pain at the vertex, in the morning.
- Violent pain at the vertex, in the evening.
- Headache, sometimes in the vertex, sometimes in the occiput.
- Headache on the left side.
EYE
- Inflammation of the left eye.
FACE
- Dark redness of the face.
- Red spot on the right cheek when rising from bed; it disappears in the course of the day.
- Pain in the right cheek.
MOUTH
- Toothache.
- Swelling of the gums. [30.]
- The tongue feels swollen.
- Spitting of mucus.
- Bad taste in the mouth.
THROAT
- Slight pain on each side of the thyroid cartilage.
- Sore throat for more than eight days.
- Slight heat in the upper part of the ┼Уsophagus.
- Heat and dryness at the anterior and superior part of the ┼Уsophagus (in three provers).
STOMACH
- Appetite on getting up in the morning (in two provers).
- Pain in the stomach for three days.
- Diminished appetite.
ABDOMEN. [40.]
- Pain in the abdomen with internal heat.
- Violent colic, with drawing (in two provers).
STOOL
- Constipation the first days (in eight provers).
URINARY ORGANS
- Red urine.
- Yellow sediment in the urine.
CHEST
- Deepseated pain under the right breast.
NECK AND BACK
- Small red spot on the right side of the neck.
- Numbness in the left scapular region.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Numbness of both arms.
- Numbness of the arm, worse when hanging down. [50.]
- Pain at the left shoulder.
- Deepseated pain in the left forearm.
- Pain in the left wrist-joint.
- Numbness of the right index and middle fingers.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Paralytic pain of the legs and thighs for several days.
- Pain in the right knee.
- Deepseated pain, first in the left, then in the right thigh.
- Lancinating pain in right knee.
- Numbness of left leg and heel.
- Pain at the forepart of the left leg, for four days. [60.]
- Deepseated pain in the calves.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Drowsiness in daytime (in two provers).
- Drowsiness in the evening (in three provers).
- Dreams about quarrelling.
- Dreams about dead persons, and the falling out of his front teeth.
- Dreams of flying along a lighted street; appearance of a ghost; wakes with a start.
FEVER
- Shivering several times in the course of the day.
- Heat and burning of the skin all over, with prickings like the bites of ants.
- Profuse sweat in bed, several nights in succession.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Pain in temporal region; pain at vertex; when rising from bed, spot on cheek.
- ( Night ), In bed, profuse sweat.
- ( When lying down ), Numbness in arm.
- Amelioration.
- ( Morning ), On getting up, appetite.
- ( After cold bath ), Burning in frontal region ceases.