Picrotoxin

Picrotoxinic acid, C12H14O5.

Obtained from the fruit of Cocculus.

Authority.

John H. Henry, M.D., Amer. Obs., vol. xv, 1878, p. 16, most of the symptoms were produced on myself by taking the P. for five days.

MIND

• Sad thoughts, desires to sleep.

STOMACH

• Pressure in stomach, without coated tongue and eructations; dyspepsia, with eructations, with pain in the pit of the stomach; frequent eructations; nausea, with a tendency to faint; inclination to vomit, with headache.

ABDOMEN

• It caused flatulence, with fetid diarrhœa, followed by tenesmus, painful and continued; seems to extend all over the bowels; fainting, violent, subacute irritation of the intestinal lining membrane.
• Pain in the bowels as if bruised; soreness in the inguinal ring, left side, as if the bowels would protrude.
• I became alarmed, and resorted to Camphor, Chloroform, and Opium combined, to give relief to the violent sore pains in the bowels, attended with diarrhœa and dysentery, with large and frequent discharges of urine.

URINARY ORGANS

• A large quantity of clear urine passes as many as twelve times a day.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• A feeling as if one wanted to get more breath, impeding respiration.

BACK

• The back feels bruised.
• Drawing pain in the back.
• Drawing in the left side of the back.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Dragging sensation of the right arm.
• Pain in left arm, forearm, runs up into the shoulder.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• The lower limbs have a tendency to draw backwards with the back, giving great relief to the extremities.
• The lower extremities feel bruised and paralyzed.
• Constrictive painless sensation in the lower extremities.
• Cramp pain in the lower extremities.
• A paralytic feeling in the left lower extremity.
• Pains in the left outer ankle.