Gymnocladus

Gymnocladus Canadensis, Linn.

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

Common names , Chicot, Coffee tree of Kentucky.

Preparation , Tincture of the fresh pulp in the pods around the seeds.

Authorities.

Provings collected by Dr. C. Hering, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1, 1851; 1 , Charles Sellers ate a small portion of the pulp; 2 , same, took two doses each of about 1/6 of a drop; 3 , Dr. Hering, effects of exhalations while preparing tincture; 4 , same effects of handling the moist pulp; 5 , F. Husemann, proving (dose not given); 6 , J. Schmid; 7 , Schmid's son, Max; 8 , Dr. Daniel Jauncy took 3 drops of tinct. first day; 4 drops, second day; 4 drops, twenty-second day; 2 drops, twenty-third day; 6 drops, twenty-fifth day; 9 , Dr. J. R. Coxe, Jr., took tincture daily for ten days, 3 to 25-drop doses; 10 , Dr. J. E. Gross took 5 drops of tincture, fasting in morning; 11 , Dr. J. B. Munsey took repeated doses of tincture for four days, 3 to 30-drop doses.

MIND

• Emotional.
• Indifferent to what happens (after second dose, second day), 11.
• Intellectual.
• Cannot think or study; forgets what he knew (after first dose, third day), 11.
• Cannot think quickly, compelled to gaze at an object some time to comprehend it (after first dose, second day), 11.
• Cannot study (after second dose, second day), 11.
• Could not take an abstract of the lectures in the afternoon (fourth day), 11.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Vertigo at times (ten hours after first dose, second day), 11.
• Dizziness (after first dose, second day), 11.
• Dizziness, with dimness of sight, 10.
• General Head.
• Head swelled, as in erysipelas, for several days; compelled to wash with Arnica to obtain relief (fifth day), 11. [10.]
• Head feels heavy and eyes dull (two hours after second dose, second day), 11.
• Desire to lean the head on something (there hours after third dose, first day), 11.
• Pain in the head, mostly over the eyes (eleventh day), 9.
• Pain in the head and stitches in the bowels, in the umbilical region at times (twenty-fifth day), 8.
• Fulness of the head, 10

(in morning, fourth day), 11.

• Feeling as if the head would burst, 10.
• Head feels tight, as if bound up, 10.
• Headache, at 12 M. (twenty-sixth day), 8.
• Dull headache for two hours (after first dose); slight headache (after second dose, first day), 11.
• Slight headache (fourth day); intense headache; never had headache in his life before (from fifth to tenth day), 9. [20.]
• Bruised feeling of head, mostly left side, in the morning (third day), 11.
• Forehead.
• Dulness in forehead and left eye (one hour after second dose, third day), 11.
• Dull pains in the forehead, mostly over the left eye, 10.
• Headache, fulness, and pressure in and over the eyes, in the forehead, and extending to the top of the head, with occasional shooting pains (after four hours and a half), 2.
• Headache over the eyes, first on the left, and after awhile also on the right side; headache over the right temple, 4.
• Feeling in the sinciput as if the eyes were pushed forward (from fifth to tenth day), 9.
• Sharp, violent pain in the forehead, over both eyes, very near the eye, lasting three minutes or longer; extending triangularly into the upper part of the head, mostly on the right side, 6.
• Temples.
• Pain in the left temple (after first dose, second day), (morning, fourth day), 11.
• Pain in left temple and head (fifth morning), 11.
• Pain in temple to the ear and top of the head, sometimes shoots through to the right side (after three hours, fourth day), 11. [30.]
• Soreness in left temple (one hour after second dose, third day), 11.
• Vertex.
• Dull pain on the top and right side of the head, 10.
• Parietals.
• Pain in the left side of the head (two hours after first dose, third day), 11.
• Pain in the left side of the head and right breast, and in the arms (two hours after third dose, first day), 11.

EYE

• Desire to rub the eyes, must rub them (after three hours, fourth day), 11.
• Sensation of agglutination of left eye, a desire to rub or scratch it externally, in the morning (third day), 11.
• Heat and burning in the eyes, at 12 M. (twenty-sixth day), 8.
• Burning in the left eye, as if it would be forced out (after three hours, fourth day), 11.
• Stinging pains in the right eye, 10.
• Eyes sore (fifth morning), 11.
• Brow and Orbit. [40.]
• Dull heavy pain between the eyes, 10.
• Violent throbbing over the left eye, 10.
• Lachrymal Apparatus.
• Water from the eyes (after three hours, fourth day), 11.
• Ball.
• Pain in left eyeball and temple (two hours and a half after second dose, second day), 11.
• Pressure in the eyeball and chest, in breast and sternum (fifth morning), 11.

NOSE

• Frequent, violent sneezing, which originated very high up in the nose, 3.
• A peculiar sneezing, as if very soft, and each exhalation slow (second or third day), 7.

FACE

• Pain and soreness in the left malar bone, as if from a contusion, in the morning (third day), 11.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Reappeared, a great sensibility of the teeth; more on the left side, and most in the upper teeth; the slightest draught of cool air sets the teeth aching; cold drinking hurts most severely (first day); much worse (second day); disappearing (third day), 4.
• Pain in a plugged tooth (fifth day), 11.
• Tongue. [50.]
• Tongue coated bluish white (fifth morning), 11.
• General Mouth.
• Scraping burning in the roof of the mouth, extending to the uvula (after four hours and a half), 2.
• Burning-drawing sensation in roof of mouth, extending to the uvula, soon passing away, 1 ; (after half an hour), 2.
• Soreness in palatine arch (one hour after second dose, third day), 11.
• Saliva.
• Water in the mouth (two hours after third dose, first day), 11.
• Water in the mouth, almost to vomiting (after three hours, fourth day), 11.
• Accumulation of mucus in the mouth, and sticking in the throat (two hours after third dose, first day), 11.
• Taste.
• Taste of medicine in mouth and throat for two hours (after five minutes, third day), 9.
• Bad taste in mouth (fifth day), 11.
• Bitter taste, very soon, 4.

THROAT

• Objective. [60.]
• Mucus in throat, frequent hawking (second day), 11.
• Hawking shooting in throat (fifth day), 11.
• Subjective.
• Burning in throat and stomach for three hours (fourth day), 9.
• Sticking in throat (ten hours after first dose, second day), 11.
• Throat smarts and burns (after second dose, third day), 11.
• Tickling in the throat, producing a cough, which continued to increase all day, and in the evening was one of the worst hard dry coughs I ever had (second day), 2.
• Drawing pain in the uvula and tonsils, particularly the right side; right tonsil very much inflamed, and of a purple color (after four hours and a half), 2.
• Burning in œsophagus, immediately (third day), 9.
• Squeezing pain on the left sterno-cleido-mastoideus, high up, of short duration, 5.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Slight appetite for breakfast; bread tastes dry (fifth morning), 11. [70.]
• Loss of appetite (fourth to ninth day); has not eaten as much in the last five days as at an ordinary breakfast, his principal meal (tenth day), 9.
• No appetite in the morning (fourth day), 11.
• Eructation.
• Eructations (fourth day); increasing to ninth day, 9.
• Eructations, slight burning in the scrobiculus cordis, at 11 P.M., continuing till midnight (second day), 9.
• Gulping of wind, 11.
• Gulping of wind and uneasiness of bowels (two hours after third dose, first day), 11.
• Spitting up of sour water (from fifth to tenth day), 9.
• Heartburn.
• Heartburn, all day (fourth day), 9.
• Nausea.
• Nausea (second and third days), 11.
• Nausea, after eating, lasting three hours, 10. [80.]
• Nausea, with unpleasant feeling in the stomach (fifth day), 11.
• Stomach.
• Pain in the stomach (one hour after second dose, third day), 11.
• Heat in the stomach and sour watery eructations, the last continuing till 11 A.M. (thirteenth day), 9.
• Hot feeling in the stomach and bowels (two hours after second dose, second day), 11.
• Slight burning in pit of stomach, all day (third day), 9.
• Burning in the stomach very intense (from fifth to tenth day); he never had the most trifling uneasiness there before, 9.
• Constant burning in the stomach, circumscribed, about the size of a dollar (eleventh day), 9.
• Sensation of fulness in the stomach, with slight nausea (after four hours and a half), 2.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Pain in the left side, as though the spleen was swollen (fifth day), 11.
• Umbilical.
• Commotion in umbilical region (fifth day), 11. [90.]
• Pain in umbilical region (after second dose, first day), 11.
• Pain in umbilicus, at 11 o'clock, lasting two hours (twenty-third day), 8.
• General Abdomen.
• Flatulency and rumbling in the bowels (sixth day), 8.
• Frequent flatus in the abdomen, pressing on the bladder, 3.
• Feels as if he had taken a purgative, in the morning (fourth day), 11.
• Feels as if diarrhœa would come on (two hours after first dose, third day), 11.
• Feeling in the abdomen as if diarrhœa would follow; hard stool, the last part somewhat softer (after three hours); and afterwards an aching fulness in the rectum, about five or six inches above the anus, all around; the whole sensation occupying a space of the size of the fist, 4.
• Pain in the bowels (after three hours, fourth day), 11.
• Pain and uneasiness in the bowels and stomach (twenty-third day), 8.
• Pain in the bowels and flatulency (twenty-second day), 8. [100.]
• Dull pain in the bowels (twenty-sixth day), 8.
• Pressing pain on the left side of the abdomen, disappearing after eructation, 5.
• Stitches and pain in the bowels (second day), 8.
• Soreness of abdomen (two hours after first dose, third day), 11.
• Tenderness of abdomen (one hour after second dose, third day), 11.
• Hypogastrium.
• Pain in the lower part of the abdomen (after four hours and a half), 2.
• Pinching in the lower part of the abdomen, towards the left side, 5.
• Pain in the right inguinal glands, 5.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Disposition to go to stool, with inability to do so, lasting for three or four hours, 10.

STOOL

• Bowels relaxed, in the morning (fourth day), 11. [110.]
• Bowels constipated (fourth day), 8.

URINARY ORGANS

• Pressure in the bladder, as if large quantities of urine had been retained too long, 3.
• Desire to urinate frequently; urine in small stream (ten hours after first dose, second day), 11.
• Urine brown, yellow, turbid, in the morning (fourth day), 11.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Itching of glans penis (ten hours after first dose, second day), 11.
• A long-continuing, increasing sexual desire, and erections at night, 4.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Smarting in the larynx (after second dose, first day), 11.
• Now and then a slight cough, not violent nor unpleasant, 7.

CHEST

• In the left chest, in the middle, is a painful pressure, more the second and less the third day, 1.
• Sharp pain in the right side, at 11 P.M.; continued about an hour (fourth day); returned again in the morning in the same place, 8. [120.]
• After walking a few squares, sharp shooting pain in the right side, in the intercostal muscles; the same pain in the left side of the face; walked home and was not able to go out any more that afternoon; slept in the chair from 2 to 4 P.M., then felt better, and had a good appetite for supper; can think and study some (fourth day), 11.
• Stitches in right breast, and in drawing a breath cannot think, comprehend, nor study; forgets everything (after three hours, fourth day), 11.
• Shooting in right breast (two hours after first dose, third day), 11.

PULSE

• Pulse small and quick (ten hours after first dose, second day), 11.

BACK

• Pain in dorsal vertebræ and head, at 8 P.M. (twenty-fifth day), 8.
• Pain in the small of the back (after four hours and a half), 2.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Feels it in all his limbs, immediately (after second dose, third day), 11.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Dull pain in the left elbow-joint, 10.
• A most violent pain in the left forearm, in the radius, between the elbow and wrist, as if the bone were crushed or broken; often repeated, 4.
• Pain in left hand (one hour after second dose, third day), 11. [130.]
• Pain in ring finger of left hand (fifth day), 11.
• Burning on the point of the left thumb, 4.
• Dull pains in the fingers, 10.
• Pulsation in the left index, as if a panaritium were forming (two hours and a half after second dose, second day), 11.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Knee.
• Pain in left popliteal region (one hour after second dose, third day), 11.
• Sticking pain in the popliteal region of the left leg, in walking, in the forenoon (third day), 11.
• Stinging pain in the left knee-joint, 10.
• Leg.
• Pain in the left leg, from the knee to the ankle (two hours after second dose, second day), 11.
• Pain in tibia (two hours after first dose, third day), 11.
• Pain in the left calf, on walking (fifth day), 11.
• Foot. [140.]
• Dull pains in both feet, 10.
• The boots are uncomfortable; the feet ache; especially the left; most between the little toe and the external ankle (second day), 4.

GENERALITIES

• Repugnance to motion (after three hours, fourth day), 11.
• Desire to lean on something (second day), 11.
• A peculiar feeling of numbness in the whole body, 10.
• Feels badly for two hours (after one hour, fourth day), 11.

SKIN

• Sensation as if flies were crawling over the right side of the face (third day), 8.
• Itching of the prepuce (two hours after first dose, third day), 11.

SLEEP

• Drowsiness, at 12 M. (twenty-sixth day), 8.
• Slept badly (second night), 11.

FEVER

• Chilliness. [150.]
• Feels as though cold had been taken, wants to be near the fire, cold, chilly (three hours after third dose, first day), 11.
• Cold, chilly, and pains in the bowels, in the descending colon (two hours after second dose, second day), 11.
• Heat.
• Forehead hot to the touch (two hours and a half after second dose, second day), 11.
• Face hot and feels swollen (after three hours, fourth day), 11.
• Sweat.
• Perspiration of axillary region and palms of hands (two hours after first dose, third day), 11.