Solanum Oleraceum

by Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Solanum oleraceum, Velloz.

Natural order , Solanaceæ.

Common names (Brazilian), Gyquerioba, Juquerioba.

Preparation , Tincture of the flowers.

Authority.

Mure, Pathogénésie Brésilienne.

MIND

  • Mental dejection.
  • Irritable and impatient.

EYE

  • Inflammation of the left upper eyelid.
  • Stye on the left lower eyelid.
  • Pain in the inner canthi.

NOSE

  • Acute catarrh.
  • Discharge of offensive mucus from the left nostril.

FACE

  • Constant redness of face.
  • Pain and swelling of the face and throat with inflammation. [10.]
  • Pain in the face.
  • Violent pain in the left cheek, extending all over the face.

MOUTH

  • Toothache.
  • Toothache at night.
  • White-coated tongue.
  • Ptyalism.

THROAT

  • Inflammation of the throat.
  • Swelling of a cervical gland.

STOMACH

  • Loss of appetite.
  • Difficult digestion. [20.]
  • Short-lasting lancinating pain in the stomach.

URINARY ORGANS

  • Scanty micturition.

SEXUAL ORGANS

  • Discharge of milk-white mucus from the vagina.
  • Short-lasting menses.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

  • Suffocating cough.

CHEST

  • Cold feeling in the left side of the chest, after drinking.
  • Swelling of the mammary gland, with profuse effusion of milk (second day).

GENERALITIES

  • Soon after taking, the breasts of a colored woman of sixty became swollen and discharged a great deal of milk.

SKIN

  • Pustular eruption all over, first white, then red, and itching intolerably at times.
  • Urticaria febrilis. [30.]
  • Herpetic eruption on the ankle.
  • Itching.
  • Itching of the legs.

SLEEP

  • Drowsiness with headache.
  • Drowsiness for four hours, in the middle of the day.
  • Sleepiness, all day.
  • Sleeplessness.
  • Sleeplessness, for two nights.

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