Penthorum sedoides, L.

Natural order , Crassulaceæ.

Common name , Stonecrop.

Preparation , Tincture of plant.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. D. B. Morrow, U. S. Med. Invest., N. S., 3, p. 565 (Eclectic Med. Journ., 1875), effects of tincture, doses of 10 drops, and after one hour 20 drops, on second day 40 drops, third day 60 drops at 9 A.M., and 50 drops at P.M.; 1 a , same, effects of 100 drops; 2 , Dr. Scudder, look 20 drops ("a young man took same dose and had similar effects").

MIND

During both provings the mind was dull and exceedingly discouraged and desponding, everything wrong but dinner, 1, 1a.
Reading interfered with because of mental dulness (second day), 1.
Mind became so dull I gave up reading and lay upon the lounge (third day), 1.

HEAD

On closing my eyes felt like I was floating; vertigo (third day), 1.
Headache continued, could not read; went to hear Boutwell, followed his argument with difficulty, was much annoyed by the little noises made by the audience (second day), 1.
Headache came on again (third day), 1.
(When commencing the proving, had a dull, heavy headache, with heat and soreness in the sacrum; this was cured), (third day), 1.
An unpleasant heavy pain in the forehead, about the edge of the hair (after four hours), 2.
Catarrhal aching in forehead, 1a. [10.]
The fulness in the sinciput became an ache, as though a weight pressed down upon it (second day), 1.
Itching of the hairy scalp (second day), 1.

EYE AND EAR

The inner superior tarsal border of both palpebra itched and burned (third day), 1.
A full sensation in supraorbital region (a hearty supper), (first day), 1.
Ringing and singing in both ears, 1a.

NOSE

*Discharges from nares thick, puslike, streaked with blood, and an odor as if from an open Bore (third day), 1.
*A peculiar wet feeling in my nares as though a violent coryza would set in, which did not; the secretion from the nose became thickened and puslike, but not increased. Wet feeling in trachea and bronchia, passing from above downward, as if a coryza, would set in, followed by a slight feeling of constriction, which passed from above down through the chest (first day), 1.
*The catarrhal feeling repeated itself (third day), 1.
Nose felt stuffed, as if swollen (second day), 1.
Sense of fulness of the nose and ears (after four hours), 2. [20.]
A secondary symptom, a drawing or contractile feeling of the muscles of the side of the nose affected with catarrh, 1a.
Itching in the nares, 1a.

MOUTH

Prickling-burning sensation on the tongue, as though scalded (first day), 1.
Increased flow of saliva (first day), 1.
The bloody sputa continues, 1a.

THROAT

The posterior nares feel raw, as if denuded of epithelium, 1a.

STOMACH

Appetite increased (third day), 1.
Eructations and dejections of little collections of odorless flatus expelled with force (second day), 1.
An unpleasant sensation of disgust and nausea, lasting for three hours, but not interfering with the following meal, which was eaten with greater relish, 2.
Soreness in epigastrium; this symptom appeared at first, not recorded because thought idiopathic, 1a.

ABDOMEN. [30.]

Borborygmus (second day), 1.
Parietes of abdomen felt thickened (second night), 1.
A clawing, uneasy sensation about the umbilicus, which gradually passed to lower bowel (second day), 1.
Twitching of muscles in abdomen (second day), 1.

RECTUM AND ANUS

A crawling sensation in lower rectum as though a worm tried to escape (second day), 1.
Burning in rectum at stool, continuing through afternoon, 1a.
Itching of anus; hæmorrhoids, with aching in sacrum and in sacra-iliac symphysis (some weeks after proving), 1a.

STOOL

Semi-fluid evacuation of the bowels next morning, having been somewhat constipated, 2.
Some weeks after proving, suffered from constipation, an atonic condition of the bowels and rectum, 1a.
Was costive when commencing proving; had two natural stools from yesterday's medicine (third day), 1.

URINARY ORGANS. [40.]

A dull aching in kidneys (third day), 1.
The bladder became sore to pressure (third day), 1.
Urine still increased in flow, with burning along the urethra when micturating (third day), 1.
Urine continued in increased flow for more than a week, as did the burning in the urethra (after three days), 1.
Urine clear, passed more frequently (second day), 1.
Urine actively acid, as shown by litmus; no cloud on boiling; threw down a sediment with sulph. acid, ammonia , and argent. nitricum and nitric acid, when boiled; the next day after the dose it was alkaline, as shown by litmus, and only precipitated with argent. nitricum ; slightly cloudy, with caloric; unloaded, but increased in quantity, 1a.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Sexual orgasm (second night), 1.
Erythismus of the sexual system, almost a satyriasis; a slight varicocele of long standing was apparently cured (some weeks after proving); this condition was succeeded by a corresponding depression of sexual function, approaching impotency, after months of time returning to the normal condition, 1a.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

In the morning, a cough seemed to come from deep in the chest, with soreness throughout the chest (third day), 1.

CHEST

Slight feeling of constriction, which passed from above down through the chest, followed the wet feeling in trachea and bronchia (first day), 1.

PULSE. [50.]

Pulse regular, at 58 (first day), 1.

NECK AND BACK

Aching through basilar region, from back to front, 1a.
The aching in sacral region reappeared, but subsided as the medicine was eliminated, 1a.
Aching in sacrum and in sacro-iliac symphysis, with the itching of anus, hæmorrhoids, 1a.
(When commencing the proving, had heat and soreness in the sacrum, with a dull, heavy headache; this was cured), (third day), 1.

EXTREMITIES

Arm went to sleep (numb), (second night), 1.
Hand felt swollen (second night), 1.
A trembling feeling of legs for several days, with soreness of knees, 1.
While on the lounge the muscles of the leg were suddenly contracted, jerking up the foot as in stepping; in a moment the right one performed the same manœuvre (third day), 1.

SKIN

A long-cured impetiginous eczema reappeared on both legs, 1a. [60.]
A few hot prickings in the skin (second and third days), 1.
Itching of face and forehead, 1a.
The itchings repeated themselves (third day), 1.

SLEEP AND FEVER

Fantastic dreams (second night), 1.
Voluptuous dreams and increased sexual desire, sympathetic with urinary excitement 1a.
A very few cold chills rushed in succession up the spinal column (first day), 1.

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