Jacaranda Caroba
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Caroba. Bignoniaceæ.
A tree common to Brazil. The tincture is prepared from the flowers. Provings by Mure. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 17 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Schüssler, Gilchrist's Surg., p. 572.
INNER HEAD [3]
Fulness : in head ; first in right, later in left temple, going to nape of neck, where it disappears.
Pain, as if a plug was pressing on right side of forehead.
Dull pain between forehead and right temple, shifting to other side and then disappearing.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Flapping in ears, as of wings.
Stoppage and heat in left ear, with burning, digging pain, extending to left nostril.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Sneezing and fluent coryza.
Coryza, with heaviness and weariness at vertex, forehead and eyes.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Food tastes flat or acid.
Raw pain at left side of tongue.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Dry mouth in morning in bed.
Mouth dry and clammy.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Sore throat, with constriction of pharynx and difficult deglutition.
Constrictive sensation at throat.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Nausea when eating.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Fulness at pit of stomach, with hurried breathing.
Pressure at pit of stomach.
Sensation as if heart beat in pit of stomach.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Painful stitch : between pit of stomach and umbilicus ; in left side of navel.
Acute pain at hypogastrium when pressing upon it.
Swelling of right groin painful to touch.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Constipation.
Acute pain, with lancination in anus.
Pricking around anus.
Excrescence at anus.
Itching at anus while sitting.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Contact of urine with chancre causes tearing pains, which affect whole organism. θ Syphilis.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Heat and pain in penis.
Orifice of urethra looks like two inflamed lips, itching on being touched.
Discharge of yellowish white liquid from prepuce.
Prickling in prepuce.
Pain in prepuce, as if a small bundle of fibres was seized.
Phimosis.
Suppuration between glans and prepuce.
Itching and pricking at margin of prepuce.
Itching pimple at glans, suppurating like a chancre, and leaving a red point when dry.
Acute pain in left testicle when walking.
Heat and swelling of scrotum.
Painful erections caused by swelling of prepuce.
Prepuce much swollen, could not be drawn over glans ; on attempting to do so, copious discharge of yellowish green pus. θ Secondary syphilis.
Chordee in gonorrhœa.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Dull pain under sternum on raising head and drawing breath.
Prickings under sternum.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Lancinating pain in region of heart.
Painful stitch at heart, extending to right side.
Stitch at heart, which seems to beat slowly.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Rheumatic pains in left arm in morning.
Pain from left elbow through forearm.
Red spot with a yellowish pellicle on wrist.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Ulcers on legs.
Rheumatic pain in right knee, disappearing on motion.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Sitting : itching at anus.
Raising head : dull pain under sternum.
Motion : > rheumatic pains in right knee.
Walking : acute pain in left testicle.
SLEEP [37]
Restless sleep with frightful dreams.
TIME [38]
Morning : dry mouth ; rheumatic pain in arm.
FEVER [40]
Internal chill.
Dry, pricking heat all over.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : fulness in temple ; pain on side of forehead ; swelling of groin ; painful stitch from heart to side ; rheumatic pain in knee.
Left : fulness of temple ; stoppage and heat in ear ; burning in nostril ; raw pain on side of tongue ; painful stitch on side of navel ; acute pain in testicle ; rheumatic pain in arm ; pain from elbow through forearm.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if a plug was pressing on right side of forehead ; flapping as of wings in ears ; as if heart beat in pit of stomach ; as if a small bundle of fibres was seized.
Pain : from left elbow through forearm.
Acute pain : at hypogastrium ; in anus ; in left testicle.
Tearing pains : when urine comes in contact with chancre.
Lancination : in anus ; in region of heart.
Rheumatic pains : in left arm ; in right knee.
Painful stitch : between pit of stomach and umbilicus ; in l. side of navel ; at heart, extending to right side.
Raw pain : at left side of tongue.
Pricking : around anus ; under sternum.
Prickling : in prepuce.
Soreness : of throat.
Heat and pain : in penis.
Dry pricking heat : all over.
Dull pain : between forehead and right temple, shifting to other side, then disappearing ; under sternum.
Painful erection.
Constriction : of pharynx ; at throat.
Stoppage and heat in left ear, with burning, digging pain, extending to left nostril.
Pressure : at pit of stomach.
Fulness : in head, first in right, later in left temple, going to nape of neck ; at pit of stomach.
Heaviness and weariness : at vertex ; forehead and eyes.
Itching : at anus ; at orifice of urethra ; at margin of prepuce ; pimple at glans.
TISSUES [44]
Gonorrhœal rheumatism.
Syphilis : Hunterian chancre.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Touch : groin painful ; causes itching on urethra.
RELATIONS [48]
Compare : Coral. rub . in red and sensitive chancres or chancroids ; Thuja in gonorrhœal rheumatism.