Pyrethrum
by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Pyrethrum Parthenium, L. (Chrysanthemum Parthenium, Bernh.)
Natural order , Compositæ.
Common names , Spanish Pellitory, Feverfew.
Preparation , Tincture of the plant.
Authority.
Dr. H. Langley Browne, Practitioner, 1876, p. 86, a boy, aged three and one-half, took 50 minims of the tincture.
- Very excited, and talked incessantly for four hours (second day).
- Lying in a state of stupor; easily roused, but quickly relapsing (second day).
- Soreness of the tongue (first night).
- At 5, the next morning, diarrhœa commenced, accompanied with pain; at first diarrhœa was profuse and exhausting, with tenesmus; afterwards involuntary evacuations of mucus, slightly tinged with blood; the irritation of the bowels subsided by the following morning.
- Pulse 120 and feeble, becoming much more rapid at intervals (second day); continued rapid (between 120 and 130) until the fifth day, when it became normal.
- Twitching of the muscles of the limbs, not of those of the face (second morning); at 12.30 violent convulsions came on, lasting for an hour, and leaving the child apparently moribund, but he gradually improved, and at 3 P.M. could be roused, took some wine, and went to sleep for some hours, having convulsive movements like those of tetanus (second day); the twitchings subsided by the morning of the third day.
- Restlessness (first night).
- Profuse perspiration (first night).