Itu

by Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Resina Itu.

Authority.

Mure, Pathogén. Brésil.

HEAD

  • Vertigo, with tendency to fall to the right (first day).
  • The head is heavy and falls forward (eighth day).
  • Stunning pain in the head, worse on stooping (first day).
  • Pressive pain in the forehead and on the eyes (second day).
  • Lancination like knife cuts in the right side of the forehead (second day).
  • Beating in the right temple; the pain extends to the ear and maxillary joint (second day).

EYE

  • Lancinating pain in the left orbit, extending to the eyebrow (eighth day).
  • Nictitation of the eyes (eighth day).
  • Heaviness of the eyes when walking (eighth day). [10.]
  • Burning in the eyelids (eighth day).
  • Muscæ volitantes, like pins' heads (eighth day).

EAR

  • Earache, from the least dampness, descending to the maxillary joint (first day).
  • Sudden detonating sensation in the ear, with frightful pain extending to the teeth, for two or three minutes; this paroxysm recurs at hourly intervals four times during the forenoon (seventh day); the detonations in the ears occur as often as eight times during the day (eighth day).

NOSE

  • Frequent sneezing (ninth day).
  • Coryza (ninth day).

MOUTH

  • Toothache, aggravated by cold drinks (eighth day).
  • Red tongue (twelfth day).
  • Great difficulty in moving the tongue and in speaking (twelfth day). [20.]
  • The tongue feels thick, as if it filled the whole mouth, though really but slightly swollen (twelfth day).

THROAT

  • Pain in the throat, with sensation as of a plug in the pharynx (twelfth day).
  • Tonsillitis (twelfth day).

STOMACH

  • Prolonged hiccoughing (second day).
  • Nausea, aggravated by movement (second day).

ABDOMEN

  • Pain in the left hypochondrium when bending forward (second day).
  • Lancinating pain in the region of the liver, worse when walking or stooping (eighth day).
  • Pain in the abdomen, from within outward (first day).
  • Cold feeling in the hypogastrium, especially in the evening (first day).

ANUS

  • Burning pain at the anus after sitting (eighth day).

STOOL. [30.]

  • Profuse painless diarrhœa (seventh day).
  • Copious yellow diarrhœic stools (seventh day).
  • Involuntary stools (sixth day).
  • Bright-yellow stool, which cannot be retained when standing up (ninth day).

SEXUAL ORGANS

  • Burning at the vulva, followed by violent itching (ninth day).

CHEST

  • Pain in the left breast, worse when walking (twelfth day).

NECK AND BACK

  • Great stiffness of the nape of the neck, preventing him from raising or inclining the head (fifth day).
  • Pain at the nape of the neck, penetrating to the forehead and causing numbness, and a heaviness which draws the head down (fifth day).
  • Pain in the left side of the neck, as from torticollis (second day). [40.]
  • Pain in the posterior spine of the ilium, when stretching the leg or rising, for several days in succession (twelfth day).

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Numbness of the legs; he cannot stand upright on rising from a seat (fourth day).
  • Heaviness in the legs and weariness in the evening (ninth day).
  • Severe pains in the knee-joint (twelfth day).
  • Crampy pain from the calf to the heel (ninth day).
  • Crampy pain at the tendo Achillis (ninth day).
  • Numbness at the ankle-joint, after sitting (first day).
  • Great numbness in the ankle-joint, whenever he rises from a seat (seventh day).
  • Cramps at the left tarsal joint (sixth day).

SKIN

  • Much itching in the right arm, which is covered with deep-red pimples, rounded like pins' heads; the itching ceases in the daytime, but the eruption lasts all day; pimples on the left side of the neck; they are less inflamed, but cause the same itching (fourth day). [50.]
  • The pimples on the arm and neck disappear gradually (fifth day).
  • Violent itching near the sternal extremity of the right clavicle, followed by a moist eruption, which disappears in six hours (third day).
  • Violent itching on the left breast and nipple, especially in the morning (twelfth day).

SLEEP

  • Light, but unbroken sleep at night (second day).

FEVER

  • The detonations in the ears are followed by profuse sweat (eighth day).

CONDITIONS

  • Aggravation.
  • ( Morning ), Itching on breast.
  • ( Evening ), Coldness of hypogastrium.
  • ( Air ), The pains.
  • ( Cold drinks ), Toothache.
  • ( Motion ), Nausea.
  • ( Sitting ), Burning at anus; numbness in ankle-joint.
  • ( Stooping ), Pain in head; pain in left hypochondrium.
  • ( Walking ), Heaviness of eyes; pain in breast.

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