Plumbago Littoralis

A plant, called Plumbago littoralis by Mure. [Plumbago scandens, L., corresponds closely to Mure's figure; it grows in Brazil. -T. F. A.]

Natural order , Plumbagineæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the leaves.

Authority.

Mure, Pathogénésie Brésilienne.

MIND

• Taciturn (second and third days); for some time (fifth day).
• Sadness (third day).

HEAD

• Vertigo (first and third days).
• Vertigo, for three or four minutes, after a meal (second day).
• Heaviness of the head, with vertigo (second day).
• Constant heaviness of the head (third day).
• Heaviness of the head, with weight on the eyelids (third day).
• Lancinations in various parts of the head (second day).
• Constant pain in the head (second day). [10.]
• Pain in the head (second day).
• Constant headache, especially in the forehead (second day).
• Headache, after a walk (second day).
• Headache, in the morning (second day).
• Headache less persistent (third day).
• Slight headache above the eyebrows (fourth day).
• Headache (fourth day).
• Headache, at night (sixth day).
• Frontal headache (fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth days).
• Pain in the temples (third day).

EYE AND EAR. [20.]

• Burning of the eyes (second and third days).
• Inflammation and lachrymation of the left eye (fifth day).
• Fearful pain in the eyes (fifth day).
• Acute pain in the left ear for some minutes (second day).
• Transient pains above the right ear (eighth day).

NOSE, FACE, AND MOUTH

• Sense of smell very acute, all day (second day).
• Lips dry and cracked at the corners (fifth day).
• Frequent and scanty flow of saliva (second day).
• Scanty saliva (fourth day).
• Profuse saliva, in the morning (fifth day). [30.]
• Profuse saliva (sixth day).
• Slightly bitter mouth (sixth day).

THROAT

• Catarrhal inflammation of the throat (second day).
• Pain and constriction in the throat (third day).

STOMACH AND ABDOMEN

• Weakness of the stomach (third day).
• Slight feeling of heaviness in the stomach (second day).
• Heaviness in the stomach (seventh day).
• Weight at the stomach (fifth day).
• Pain in the stomach (fourth, fifth, and sixth days).
• Pain in the abdomen (seventh day). [40.]
• Constant pain in the iliac region (fourth day).

STOOL, URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS

• No stool; red urine (second day).
• Hard inodorous stools (fourth day).
• Lancinating pain in the kidneys; they were wholly painful, and as if pricked (second day).
• Easy discharge of urine (fourth day).
• Red urine (third day).
• Ulcer at the labial commissure (fourth day).
• Violent sexual desire, which immediately disappears for the rest of the day, at 11 o'clock (first and third days).
• There was a feeling as if the menses were to set in, but the sensation passed off without further result (eighth day).

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Pain, with difficult breathing (fourth day). [50.]
• Milky expectoration (fourth day).
• White expectoration (sixth day).

CHEST

• Pain in the chest when making an exertion (fourth day).
• (An old pain in the chest is worse), (fourth day).
• Cannot lean on one arm on account of pain in the thorax (third day).
• Prickings in different parts of the thorax (third day).
• Pain in the sides of the chest (second day).
• Pain below the last left false ribs, when drawing breath; same pain, but less lasting, on the right side (third day).
• Pain in the ribs, when bending over; weak pulse (third day).
• Pain in the ribs and nape of the neck, in the evening (fifth day). [60.]
• Pain in the right ribs (eighth day).

HEART AND PULSE

• Painful palpitation of the heart (third day).
• Palpitation of the heart (fourth day).
• Pain at the heart (fourth day).
• Painful stitch at the heart (fifth day).
• Pulse hard and small (second day).
• Hard and small pulse, at 9 P.M. (third day).
• Agitated pulse (fourth day).

NECK AND BACK

• Slight pain in the right side of the neck, for five minutes (first day).
• Transient pains in the neck (second and third days). [70.]
• Pain in the neck (third and fourth days).
• Pain in the back (fourth day); when sitting (sixth day).
• Pain in the left lumbar region (second day).

EXTREMITIES

• Pain in the limbs, in the evening (second day).
• Pains in the joints, hindering movement (fifth day).
• Pain in the joints (eighth day).
• Pain in the right shoulder (second and seventh days).
• Slight pain in the right shoulder (eighth day).
• Transient pains in the left arm (second day).
• Transient pain in the humerus (third day). [80.]
• Pain at the humerus, when lifting (fourth day).
• Weakness of the joints of the lower limbs, immediately (first day).
• Weakness in the lower limbs (second day).
• Pain in right lower limb, all day (third day).
• Pain in the leg (seventh and eighth days).
• Acute pain in the left leg, in the evening (second day).
• Transient pain in the left leg, for ten minutes (second day).
• Very painful burning pricking in the right leg (second day).
• Pain in the right leg, in the morning (third day).
• Constant pain in the right leg and in the hip (third day). [90.]
• Right leg always painful (sixth day).

GENERALITIES

• Great languor (third and fifth days).
• General languor and prostration (sixth day).
• Aversion to everything, in the morning (fourth day).
• Weariness, and aversion to everything (second day).
• Transient lancinating pains in various parts (second day).
• Momentary pains in various parts of trunk (third day).
• Pains here and there, which seem to shift about (third day).
• Acute pains all over, for three-quarters of an hour (fifth day).
• Pain in various parts of the body (sixth day).

SLEEP. [100.]

• Great drowsiness, in the afternoon (second day).
• Drowsiness, immediately after 9 P.M. (second day).
• Drowsiness (third day).
• Frightful dreams about dead people (seventh day).

FEVER

• Sense of coldness at every movement (second day).
• Cold extremities (first day).
• Burning fever, with vertigo and agitated pulse (fifth day).
• Internal heat (second day).
• Great internal heat, in the night (second day).
• Internal heat, coming and going momentarily (third day). [110.]
• Body and head very warm (first day).
• Head very hot (third day).
• Heat of the head, lasting all day, after a walk (third day).
• Hot face, with qualmishness at the stomach (second day).
• Heat in the face (fourth day).
• Heat of the limbs (third day).
• Heat of the arms, with cold hands (third day).

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Headache.
• ( Forenoon ), 11 A.M., sexual desire.
• ( Afternoon ), Drowsiness.
• ( Evening ), 9 P.M., pulse hard and small; pain in limbs; pain in leg; 9 P.M., drowsiness.
• ( Night ), Headache; pain in right leg; aversion to everything; internal heat.
• ( Bending over ), Pain in ribs.
• ( Drawing breath ), Pain below left false ribs.
• ( On exertion ), Pain in chest.
• ( When lifting ), Pain at humerus.
• ( After a meal ), Vertigo.
• ( When sitting ), Pain in back.
• ( After a walk ), Head hot.