DERRIS PINNATA.

Derris pinnata, Lour. (Flora Cochin-china.)

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the plant.

Authority.

Dr. X. Roussel, "symptoms clinically confirmed, obtained from over eighty subjects, with 20 to 30 drops of the tincture," L'Hahnemannisme, 4, 295.

MIND

• Emotional.
• He fancies he is seasick.
• He desires death and will attempt suicide.
• He is discouraged and despairs of a cure, declaring himself a hypochondriac.
• He dreads pain, and is averse to solitude, with great anxiety.
• He is afraid of killing some one with a knife.
• He is disposed to strike, and inveighs against his dearest friends.
• She weeps and sings alternately, and has a tremendous flow of ideas.
• Intellectual.
• Loss of memory.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Vertigo, with loss of consciousness. [10.]
• Vertigo, with inclination to vomit (after one hour).
• He is afraid of falling if he turns his head to the right or left.
• General Head.
• Congestion of the brain, with nausea.
• Sensation as if needles and nails were driven into the head.
• These pains (of the head) are felt for three days in succession, at the evening meal (6 o'clock).
• Forehead.
• Pain throughout the frontal region.
• Parietals.
• Painful lancinations on the left side of the head, with vomiting of mucus, and burning sensation along the œsophagus.
• External Head.
• The scalp is excessively painful; the least touch, even with a pen-feather, aggravates the pain.

EYE

• Objective.
• Red eyes, with lachrymation.
• Eyes fixed and glittering.
• Subjective. [20.]
• Very painful lancinations in both eyes, extending to the bottom of the orbit.
• Brow and Orbit.
• Cannot raise his eyebrows.
• Pain below the left eye.
• Violent pain below the right eye and in the right temple.
• Lids.
• Blepharoptosis.
• Lachrymal Apparatus.
• Swelling of the left caruncula lachrymalis, with large ecchymosis of the left eye (after six hours).
• Conjunctiva.
• Conjunctivitis, with photophobia.
• Chemosis.
• Ball.
• The sclerotic looks yellow.
• Pupil.
• Pupil immovable.
• Vision. [30.]
• Dimness of vision.
• Black points before the eye.

EAR

• Objective.
• Swelling, redness, and heat of the auricle.
• Ozæna.
• Subjective.
• Intense pain in the bottom of the ear.
• Acute pain in the ear, as if caused by lancinating formication, or pinching.
• Hearing.
• Hearing impaired, or excessively acute.
• Humming in the ears; sounds like distant bells.
• Cracking in the ears, when swallowing.

NOSE

• The tip of the nose is red. [40.]
• Fluent coryza.
• Epistaxis.
• Nose very much stopped up.
• Smell.
• Exalted sense of smell; she perceives celestial odors.
• Intolerable smells, after frequent sneezing.

FACE

• Objective.
• Face pale, red, shining, earthy-looking, or lead-colored.
• Face puffy and swollen.
• Subjective.
• Tic douloureux , with spasmodic movements of the facial muscles, especially of the orbicularis palpebrarum.
• Cheeks.
• Painful determination of blood to the left cheeks.
• Burning of the left cheek, with pain in the suboritar canal.
• Lips. [50.]
• Lips dry, black, and cracked.
• Chin.
• Acute pain in the temporo-maxillary articulation, with pain before and in the ears; more frequent and severe on the left side.
• Pain in the whole lower jaw, as if the teeth were being pulled out.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Sagging of the teeth; some loose teeth, previously painless, become excessively painful.
• Severe toothache, compelling him to scream.
• Toothache aggravated by cold.
• The nightly toothache is relieved by heat.
• Gums.
• Swelling and bleeding of the gums.
• Tongue.
• Tongue white, or lead-colored.
• Formication and trembling of the tongue. [60.]
• Painful, dry, cracked tongue.
• General Mouth.
• Slight hæmorrhage from the walls of the mouth.
• Dry mouth.
• Saliva.
• Salivation, with engorgement of the submaxillary glands.
• Copious salivation, with aphthæ, and thready viscid mucus.
• Inclination to spit in the morning and after a meal.
• Taste.
• Intolerable bitterness of the mouth, with burning sensation along the œsophagus.

THROAT

• Violent visible beating of the carotids.
• The throat feels as if completely raw, while swallowing.
• Uvula and Tonsils.
• Red swelling of the tonsils, uvula, and velum palati. [70.]
• Constant tickling of the uvula, as if by a foreign body.
• Constriction of the pillars of the velum palati.
• Œsophagus.
• Sensation as of a ball in the œsophagus, with cramps there.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Bulimy.
• Strong desire for acids.
• Repugnance to meat.
• Thirst.
• Intense thirst, on waking in the morning.
• Eructation and Hiccough.
• Badly smelling eructations.
• Raising of phlegm; nausea.
• Bilious regurgitations. [80.]
• Hiccough, with deep anguish and burning in the stomach.
• Vomiting.
• Vomiting; watery diarrhœa, next morning.
• Stomach.
• Compression at the stomach, with sensitiveness to touch.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Pain and sensation of swelling of the liver.
• Sensation of swelling of the spleen.
• Navel.
• Pressure about the navel.
• General Abdomen.
• Inflation of the abdomen.
• Tympanitis; the intestinal curves gather themselves into clusters, with a pinching pain.
• Borborygmi.
• Fetid flatulence. [90.]
• Cramplike pains; diarrhœa, with anguish.
• Griping, ameliorated by lying on the abdomen.
• Iliac Region.
• Pain in the groins; he feels as if a hernia were about to protrude.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Hæmorrhoidal tumors appear.
• Constriction of the rectum.
• Tenesmus.
• Sensation of formication in the rectum.
• Sensation of a foreign body in the anus.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa.
• Diarrhœa and weakness after vomiting.
• Dysenteric stools. [100.]
• Involuntary stools at night; white or yellowish stools.
• Burning stools, with burning at the anus.
• Undigested stools.
• Bloody stools, with sharp pains.
• Constipation.
• Constipation or diarrhœa; nightly diarrhœa.

URINARY ORGANS

• Bladder.
• Pain in the bladder.
• Frequent ineffectual urging to urinate.
• Micturition.
• Frequent urination, with pains in the kidneys.
• Sometimes incontinence of urine, or flow of dirty-white urine.
• Gluey, fetid urine is discharged guttatim. [110.]
• Difficult urination; slight retention, with sensation of burning in the urethra.
• Urine.
• Discharge of clear and limpid urine.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Agreeable itching of the glans penis; slight orchitis.
• Ileo-scrotal pains.
• Swelling of the epididymis.
• Pungent pain in the left testicles.
• Increased sexual desire.
• Female.
• Swelling of the uterus.
• Sensation of heaviness behind the uterus.
• The uterus feels as if about to issue from the vagina. [120.]
• Leucorrhœa, with menstruation twice a month.
• Cramplike pains during the menses.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Larynx.
• Sharp pungent pain in the larynx.
• Voice.
• Transient hoarseness.
• Feeble voice, with quavering speech.
• Short-lasting aphonia.
• Cough and Expectoration.
• Frequent spasmodic cough.
• Hysteric cough.
• Dry cough, with suffocation; difficulty in raising mucus.
• She expectorates blood and blows it from the nose.
• Respiration. [130.]
• Slow, sighing respiration.
• Respiration short and difficult; suffocation.
• Feeling of suffocation, with fetid breath.
• Obliged to sit up in bed at night to get air.
• Asthmatic paroxysms.

CHEST

• Burning sensation in the chest.
• Her whole chest feels swollen, and she unlaces herself immediately after eating but very little.
• Front.
• Cramplike pains behind the sternum.
• Lancinations in the intercostal muscles behind the sternum.
• Sides.
• Constriction of the left side of the chest, in the evening. [140.]
• Pleuritic stitch in the right side.

HEART

• Violent palpitation of the heart; it seems to be beating in water.

NECH AND BACK

• Violent pains in the nape of the neck and neck, with slight swelling of these parts.
• She feels as if a small stream of water was running from one ear to the other across the nape of the neck, which causes a terrible pain.
• Violent tensive pains along the vertebral column.
• Rheumatic pains between the shoulders.
• Pains in the loins at night, with profuse perspiration.
• Sacro-lumbar pains.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Paralytic pains commencing in the entire left upper extremity (also felt in the right limb, but less frequently).
• Rheumatic pains from the shoulder to the finger-tips, with sensation as if an ice-cold liquid were flowing in the same direction. [150.]
• Pain and swelling from the elbow to the axilla, along the course of the nerves and bloodvessels of the arms.
• Cramplike pains at the insertion of the deltoid on the humerus, relieved by compression.
• Cramplike pains in the right fingers, with paleness of the extremities.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• He staggers like a drunken man, his knees give way under him; he walks as if stepping on down.
• Transient numbness of the lower limbs.
• Intense sciatic pains.
• Pains and bruised feeling in the large muscles of the thigh.
• Weakness and severe pains in the hip-joint.
• Electric shocks in the muscles of the leg.
• Pains from the tibia to the astragalus.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS. [160.]

• He hears the beating of this arteries.
• Debility, with perspiration.
• Erratic pains in the entire trunk, which extort groans at night, but do not awaken the prover.

SKIN

• The skin of the abdomen is painful.

SLEEP

• Sleep after a meal.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Inclination to spit; on waking, thirst.
• ( Evening ), At 6 o'clock, when taking a meal, pains in head; constriction of left chest.
• ( Night ), Involuntary stools; diarrhœa; pain in loins, etc.
• Amelioration.
• ( Compression ), Pains in the humerus.
• ( Heat ), Nightly toothache.
• ( Lying on abdomen ), Griping.