Mimosa

by Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Mimosa humilis, Willd.

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the leaves.

Authority.

Mure, Pathogén. Brésil., p. 146.

MIND

  • Indolent indifference (second day).

HEAD

  • Vertigo (second day).
  • Sense of heat within the head (second day).
  • The head seems larger than usual (second day).
  • Headache, with weakness of the stomach (first day).
  • Pain in the sides of the head (third day).

EYE

  • Inflammation of the eyes (first day).
  • Inflammation of the left eye (fourth day).
  • Itching of the eyes (third day). [10.]
  • Dimness of vision (third day).
  • Halo like a rainbow around the candle (second day).

EAR

  • Whizzing in the ears (tenth day).

NOSE

  • Sneezing (first day).
  • Coryza, and discharge from the nose (first day).

MOUTH

  • Bleeding of the gums (fifth day).
  • Salivation (first day).

STOMACH

  • Stomachache after breakfast (first and second days).

ABDOMEN

  • Flatulence (eighth day).
  • Flatulence, with borborygmi (first day). [20.]
  • Flatulent colic, in the evening (second day).

STOOL

  • Diarrhœa (third, eighth, and tenth days).
  • Frequent stools, with colic (second day).
  • Easy stools (fourth day).
  • Constipation (first day).

SEXUAL ORGANS

  • Inflammatory swelling of the scrotum (third day).

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

  • Dry cough in the morning (second day).
  • Difficult breathing (second day).
  • Want of breath (fourth day).

BACK

  • Violent lancinations in the back, as from a penknife (fifth day).

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. [30.]

  • Lancinations in the legs and hands (first day).
  • Acute lancinations, now in the arm, now in the leg (fifth day).

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Twitching of the arm, extending to the chest (first day).
  • Numbness of the arm and right hand, ceasing on movement (fourth day).
  • Inflammatory swelling of the left hand (sixth day).
  • Numbness of the hands (second day).

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Trembling of the legs (first day).
  • Smarting pain in the legs, with paralysis of the knee (first day).
  • Stiffness of the bends of the knees (second day).
  • Swelling of the left ankle, with redness, tension, and lancination (fourth day).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS. [40.]

  • Prostration (first day).
  • Pressure at the nape of the neck and the right temple (third day).

SKIN

  • Pimples on the left leg (first day).
  • A pimply excrescence, as large as an almond, on the right leg, with pain and itching; another on the instep (second day).
  • Pimply excrescence on the tendo Achillis (third day).
  • The excrescences on the legs disappear, and similar one come out on the left arm (fourth day).
  • The pimples disappear (fifth day).

SLEEP

  • Yawning (first and second days).
  • Drowsiness (first day); in evening (second day).
  • Drowsy in the evening, with frequent waking at night (fifth day). [50.]
  • Frequent waking at night (second day).

FEVER

  • Horripilation (first and sixth days).

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