Astragalus Menziesii

Astragalus Menziesii, Gray.

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

Authority.

J. M. Selfridge, Trans. Pacific Hom. Med. Soc., 1874-76, p. 178.

• Ate some of the green leaves at 4.30 P.M. In fifteen minutes I experienced a slight burning sensation in pharynx, œsophagus, and stomach. At 5 P.M. a feeling of fulness in right temple and superior maxillary bone; also slight nausea, accompanied with shivering and chilliness, such as frequently precede or accompany nausea; 5.20, experienced occasional attacks of dizziness, with fulness of the head; 5.45, felt weak; arms felt as if trembling; 6.30, still felt weak, with a sense of emptiness in the stomach; 7 P.M., ate a light supper, which did not remove the weakness, although the feeling of emptiness was relieved. Had a pressive pain in both temples, which lasted until 9 o'clock; 7.30, felt as if my nerves were all trembling; 9.15, had a slight pain in left superior maxillary bone, followed by a feeling of pressure, which continued but a minute or two; 9.20, aching in the right superior maxillary, with a sense of pressure in both bones; also slight pain in the masseter muscles. Restless sleep after midnight. Frequently disturbed sleep, with dreams of quarrelling. Had a stool at 7.15 A.M., an unusual hour; loose, like diarrhœa, with burning and tenesmus; 8 A.M., slight burning at anus, recurring occasionally; 9.15, occasional feeling of tenesmus.