Phellandrium aquaticum
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PHELLANDRIUM.
(Enanthe Phellandrium^ Lambk. Fine-leaved water-dropwort. Nat. Ord., (/mt-
bellifera.
I. Provings, — i. Nbnning. (Secvol. i,p. jo.) The usual alternations of mood, with great predominance, however, of depression, apprehension, and ill-humour. Vertigo marked, even to falling i in one prover, after 8 m., head was so heavy and giddy that it threatened to fall to side to which he turned it } in another, after same interval, worse when walking, seeming as if something projected from forehead and she could not see over it. Heaviness, sense of intoxication, and various headaches occurred — most of these troubles relieved during dinner and by open air ; vertex was special seat . of pain, which was burrowing pressure, (almost bummg) constriction, throbbing, or stitching, — in one a painful heaviness, as if a hard body were lying on it. Eyes bum, bite, itch, and water. Ears itch, and there is painful tearing or boring in them ; one was awakened at 5 a.m. by a sound in brain as if one were beating on a freely-swinging bell, it gradually died away. There is coryza, with hoarseness, and some su^estton of prosopalgia. The common symptoms of irritation of alimentary mucous membrane obtain, among which may be noted — red vesicles, burning like fire, on tongue ; soreness of throat on empty swallowing, rather relieved by swallowing food ; sense of coldness in abdomen. There is some diuresis or vesical irritation. Menses came <m too early, and were accompanied with unusual weakness, in one with (equally unusual) violent bruised pain in inner part of thighs. There are many stitches in walls of chest, and in mammae \ one woman had violent stitch through r. mamma near sternum, extending to back between shoulders, and then downward into sacrum, hurting her when breathing. Tearing and stitching are felt in neck, back, and limbs. Xhcre was itching at various spots on surface ; sleepiness ; and much chilliness. (Hartlaub u. Trinks, Reine Arzn.y II, i+x.)
II. Poisonings. — i. From eating the plant there has been observed intoxication, confusion and heaviness of head, and vertigo. (Richter, in IbidJ)