Hæmatoxylon

Hæmatoxylon Campechianum, Linn.

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

Common names , Logwood; Bois d'Inde; (Germ.), Blauholz.

Preparation , Tincture of the heart-wood.

Authority.

Jouve, Pathogénésie Symptomatique de la Bib. Hom., 2de Série, 1839, "Symptoms obtained from two healthy persons of different sexes, who took the tincture for fifteen days, in doses gradually increasing from 1 drop to 20 drops."

MIND

• Sadness.
• Desire to weep.
• Bad temper.
• Spitefulness.
• Morose disposition.
• Dulness of mind.

HEAD

• Confusion, heaviness, and dulness of the head, with difficulty in thinking and expressing himself.
• Head burning hot.
• Headache, as from indigestion, with swelling of the stomach and abdomen, anxiety, inclination to vomit, sour eructations of food; at night. [10.]
• Pain in the forehead; inclination to vomit when stooping.
• Pain in the left forehead, spreading over the face, and affecting the teeth on that side.
• Head affected in the frontal and occiput, left side, extending to the ear.
• Head affected in the frontal region; sensation of a weight (soon).
• Bruised pain on the upper portion of the left temple.

EYE

• Sunken eyes, with blue rings around them.
• Heaviness in the eyes.
• Sensation of sand in the eyes.
• Violent pinching and pressive pain above the left eye near the temple; after a quarter of an hour, it shifts to the corresponding spot on the right side.
• Painful pressure over the eyes, with feeling of constriction on raising the lids. [20.]
• Heaviness of the lids, compelling them to close; inability to look long at anything.
• Redness of the ocular conjunctiva, especially inwardly; also of the caruncula lachrymalis.
• Contracted pupils.
• Dimness of vision.
• Mist before the eyes; in reading, the letters vanish.
• Appearance of a veil before the eyes.

EAR

• Pain in the external auditory meatus, with sensation as if there was a flea in it.

FACE

• Pale face, with sad, dejected, uneasy expression.
• Pain on the left lower jaw, with lancination in the teeth and cheek of that side.

THROAT

• Sore throat; difficulty in swallowing saliva. [30.]
• Constriction of the œsophagus, with inclination to swallow.
• Severe pain, starting from the right ear and descending along the side of the neck, with constriction and smarting of the throat, difficult deglutition, and frequent spitting.

STOMACH

• Eructations of air.
• Swelling of the stomach, with eructation of inodorous air.
• Pain in the stomach, aggravated by pressure.
• Critical pain in the stomach and hypogastrium, with tearing, as after taking poison.
• Pressure in the epigastrium, painful swelling of the stomach, and eructations, which afford relief.

ABDOMEN

• Borborygmi colic, and diarrhœa in the morning (after twelve hours).
• Bellyache with inclination to vomit, and a painful digging, which ascends from the abdomen to the throat, settling in the region of the heart and there causing a sort of bruised pain, aggravated by touch; with oppression.
• Colic, with pain in the kidneys and nausea. [40.]
• Colic in the left side of the abdomen, with yawning and stretching, and desire to vomit.
• The colic is sometimes constant, sometimes severe, sometimes slight; then there is a cold feeling.
• Very painful abdomen, with colic, borborygmi, digging in the bowels, soft stools with griping, weariness in the legs, strong palpitations; uneasiness and extreme anxiety, followed by shivering and general coldness.
• Uneasiness in hypogastrium, as if the menses were coming on.
• Pain in the abdomen, as if the menses were coming on, with a white, mucous, leucorrhœal discharge.
• Severe colic and griping in the entire hypogastrium, with tension and swelling, followed by a soft stool, with relief; transient pain in the sacrum.
• Very severe colic in the hypogastrium, as if diarrhœa was coming on, with inflation and tension, the swelling being very sensitive to touch.

URINARY ORGANS

• Urine red, scanty, and burning.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Pressure on the genitals.

CHEST

• Constriction of the chest as far as the epigastrium, with sensation of smarting and burning, aggravated by contact on the left side of the chest posteriorly. [50.]
• Sensation as if a bar lay transversely across from the region of the heart to the right side, with acute pain in the left upper portion of the chest.

HEART AND PULSE

• The region of the heart is very painful, causing extreme anxiety, with violent palpitation, small pulse, burning hands, and general shivering.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Pain in the left shoulder, as from inflammation.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Short-lasting lancinating pain, from the left hip to the knee.
• Stiffness of the knees, as after a long march, in the evening (after twelve hours).
• Sensation of painful swelling in the lower part of the legs, as from inflammation, with shuddering and great lassitude, in the evening (after twelve hours).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Inclination for repose.
• General malaise, with anxiety, starting from the stomach, and colic.

SKIN

• Gooseflesh.

SLEEP

• Yawning and stretching; sensation as from a foreign body in the throat; frequent spitting of saliva. [60.]
• Frequent yawning.
• He thinks he is going to sleep.

FEVER

• General coldness, rather internal than external.
• General coldness when the colic ceases, with burning heat in the palms.
• Horripilation.
• Dry skin, especially on the palms, which are usually moist.
• Diminished perspiration of the feet, with palpitation of the heart.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Borborygmi, etc.
• ( Evening ), Stiffness of the knees; sensation in legs.
• ( Night ), Headache, etc.
• ( Stooping ), Inclination to vomit.
• Amelioration.
• ( In open air ), The symptoms.