Helianthus

Helianthus annuus, Linn.

Natural order , Compositæ.

Common names , Sunflower; Sonnenrose; Le Tournesol.

Preparation , Tincture of the flower heads.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Cessoles took expressed juice of the flowers, B. J. of Hom., 2, 169 (trans. from Bib. Hom. de Genève.); 2 , effects on a lady, aged 40, ibid.; 3 , A. H. Z., 31, p. 20 (apparently from Bib. Hom. de Genève., though the symptoms differ very materially from preceding; the original is not accessible), effets on a man; 4 , effects on a girl; 5 , Davey, from Med. Gaz., Oct. 1848; effects on a woman of eating a quantity of sunflower seeds.

HEAD

• Headache, 5.

EYE

• Slight redness on the margin of the left upper lid, with smarting in the inner canthus (ninth day), 3.
• Eyes suffused, 5.

NOSE

• After a short time slight epistaxis occurred, and the nostrils became free, and during the ensuing winter the secretions were healthy, and discharged through the natural passages, 1 . [He was at the time in good health, with the exception of slight nasal obstruction, the secretion from the nose passing constantly through the posterior nares.]

FACE

• Anxious countenance, 5.
• Face deeply flushed, 5.

MOUTH

• Sticking in the upper back teeth, 4.
• Tongue and fauces very red, and inclined to dryness, 5.
• They had an unusually hot taste while eating, 5. [10.]
• Difficulty in articulating, 5.

THROAT

• Stiffness and dryness of the throat, 5.
• Sensation of glowing in the throat and stomach, immediately, 5.
• Severe burning sensation in the fauces, œsophagus, and epigastrium, 5.

STOMACH

• Thirst, 5.
• Nausea, 5.
• Vomiting, produced apparently by too powerful a dose of the medicine; this effect recurred frequently, though in slight degree when Helianthus had been administered for an ordinary cold, 2.
• Symptoms increased in severity until she vomited freely, when she felt rather better, 5.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Hæmorrhoids (fourth day), 3.

STOOL

• Stools soft, black, with emission of semen (seventh day), 3. [20.]
• Hard, black stool every second day, 3.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Voice hoarse, 5.
• Cough, in the forenoon, with gelatinous expectoration streaked with blood (eighth day), 3.
• Breathing rather difficult and hurried, 5.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Rheumatic pain in the left knee on descending stairs, 4.

SKIN

• Skin generally of a scarlet redness, and very hot, 5.
• Groups of red pimples on the inner side of the knee, with slight itching (sixth day), 3.
• Many urticaria-like pimples, especially on the inner side of the forearm, and afterwards on the leg, afterwards itching in external warmth, in the morning and night, 4.
• Small, red tetter to the right of the navel (seventh day), 3. [30.]
• Tingling of the skin, 5.