Penthorum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
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.