Balsamum Peruvianum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Myroxylon Pereiræ, Kl.
Natural order , Leguminosæ.
Preparation , Tincture of the balsam that flows from the stems.
Authority.
Lembke, N. Z. f. H. Kl., 12, 41, provings with repeated doses of from 15 to 30 drops.
NOSE
- Bleeding from the right side of the nose without cause, without coryza, without sneezing, without having blown the nose (eighth day).
- Repeated bleeding from the nose without cause, at 7 P.M. Slight blowing of blood from the right side of the nose (ninth day).
MOUTH AND THROAT
- Redness in the arch of the palate, and pain on every touch (thirteenth day).
- Redness and pain in the arch of the palate persisted in during the whole time.
- The whole arch of the palate and uvula are dark-red, and very painful, especially upon slightest touch; continued for several days.
- After every dose, continued scraping of the fauces.
STOOL
- The first day, two soft stools.
- Profuse fluid stool without pain, at 3 P.M. (fifth day).
- A copious liquid stool, painless, at 2 P.M., and again at 7 1/2 P.M. (tenth day).
- Hard stool (fourth day).
- Passage of blood with the normal stool (does not suffer from hæmorrhoids), (seventh day).
URINARY ORGANS
- Sticking in the urethra.
- Cutting on urinating.
- More frequent urinating than usual in the night.
- Frequent urinating of much clear yellow urine (sixth and seventh days).
- Much clear urine and much urinating (sixth day).
- In the third night, more urine than usual.
- Urine more scanty and darker (eleventh day).
- Red coating on the urinal (fifth day).
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS
- Scraping in the larynx in the forenoon.
- Severe scraping in the larynx, and cough, a quarter of an hour after taking it.
- The same dry cough with scrapings, evenings in bed (fifteenth day).
UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMITIES
- Several times, severe oppressive pain in the right wrist (eleventh day).
- In the morning, severe pain in the left tibia, several times repeated.
- Soon after rising, severe pain in the left tibia.
- Violent boring in the right tibia, at 8 A.M., afterwards in the left (twelfth day).
- At times, severe boring pain in the tibiæ and ankles; scratching in the throat, and long-continued dry cough at 11 P.M., in bed (fourteenth day).
- Drawing in the tibia.
- Tearing in the tibiæ, evenings in bed.
- Continued boring in the left ankle, afterwards in the right (seventeenth day).
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Many dreams of various things.
- In the night, very many dreams, mostly concerning the duties of the day.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Soon after rising, pain in left tibia.
- (
8 A.M .), Boring in right tibia.
- ( Forenoon ), Scraping in larynx.
- (
3 P.M .), Profuse stool.
- (
7 P.M .), Bleeding from nose.
- ( 2 P.M. and 7.30 P.M .), Copious stool.
- ( Evening ), In bed, cough, etc.; pain in tibia; in bed, tearings in tibiæ.
- ( Night ), Frequent urination.
- (
11 P.M .), In bed, scratching in the throat, etc.
- ( Touch ), Pain in arch of palate ; pain in arch of palate and uvula.