Sarracenia Purpurea

Pitcher plant. Sarraceniacese.

Grows in boggy places from Canada southward. The tincture is prepared from the fresh plant.

Proved b}' Porcher, Duncan, Thomas, Hale's New Remedies, 1867 ; Cigliano, Am. Obs., 1871.

Cmnicai. AuTHOBiTiES. — Visual disorder, Berridge, N. A. J, H., vol. 22, p. 194; Phlyetenoid herpes, Crica, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 3, p. 78 ; Variola, Martiny, Mowremans, Eaue's Kec, 1875, p. 287 ; Smallpox, Renshaw, A. H. O., vol. 2, p. 234 ; Use in smallpox, Cigliano, A. H. O., vol. 8, p. 467 ; Easton, vol. 1, p. 135.

* Mind. Melancholia, anxious about everything.

Great depression of spirits from frontal headache.

Brain clearer, buoyant spirits.

I iDulness of head, loss of memory, insensibility of r. side; paralysis of hearing and smell.

Want of memory with the headache.

Difficult to concentrate the attention, forgetful ; feels dull and heavy; urine sp. gr. 1020; perspires freely. ^ Sensorium. Head feels dull and heavy.

Feels light-headed.

Vertigo : with cramps in neck, spreading to forehead ; espe- cially at night; sensation as if he received a knock on head, with vertigo, stupor and vacillating gait; he is obliged to support himself or else to lie down ; with drowsiness in head and contractions in spinal column. ^ Inner Head. Frontal headache, low-spirited.

Head dull and aches at coronal region.

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Severe headache in afternoon for two hours.

Full feeling through head just above ears.

Headache with chills, nausea, vomiting ; dim sight, sur-

ring in ears. Pulsations and burning heat of head with sensation as if

it would split.

* Outer Head. Head is hot and aches.

Head and body warm. Soreness of frontal bone. Pruritus and heat of scalp. ^ Sight and Eyes. Eyes weak. Dim sight, headache. I I Gas flame seems a brilliant yellow ring, the two not

being distinct ; he sees black objects moving with the

eye. Great photophobia.

Soreness of r. optic nerve, just behind eyeball. Pain in 1. eye as if congested, on waking. P]yes feel swollen and sore. Eyes and lids inflamed. Increased mucous secretion. Cutting, penetrating pains in orbits.

* Hearing and Ears. Surring in ears.

Sticking pains deep in r. ear; transient but recurring

often ; same in 1. ear. Intense otalgia, fears he will lose his senses. Swelling of parotids. 'Smell and Nose. Fetid smell.

Epistaxis nearly producing fainting. Fluent coryza, with cold chills and loss of smell. Foul-smelling, green-yellowish or bloody discharges. Nose swollen, red, with pressure and pulsation at root.

* Upper Face. Face flushed.

Heat and redness of face.

Face pale, with heat and chill alternating.

Erysipelatous swelling of face.

Miliary eruption on face with heat as if it were on fire.

Scaly herpes on face and forehead.

* Lower Face. Intense neuralgic pains from temples to jaws. "Taste and Tongue. Tongue dry.

Tongue coated brownish white. ^^ Inner Mouth. Mouth dry. Lips and mouth parched. " Throat. Dryness of throat not relieved by tea or water, bor-

borygmi. '* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. 1 1 Hungry all the time, even after a meal. I I Appetite unusually active, but there was a sense of pain

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about stomacli like that after inflammation or that in an overtaxed muscle.

Bat little appetite, yet what is eaten agrees with him;

urine 1018 ; pulse 71 ; sweats freel}'.

'•' Eating and Drinking. Great desire to slee[) during eating.

"Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Copious

painful vomiting frequently after meals, with lightness

from stomach to back and colicky pains.

Vomiting of bile mixed with blood. "^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Empty, hungry feeling; for he can keep nothing on his stomach.

Burning pains in his stomach, with palpitations and con- tractions.

Pinching pains in stomach ; it feels distended and torn. '^ Abdomen. After going to bed, whole abdominal region was in commotion, extending along tract of ascending and descending colon, all in a kind of rolling motion ; epi- gastrium tender on pressure.

Some transient pains in bowels.

Bloated about navel.

Borborygmi and some pain in bowels with constipation ; dry throat. ^" Stool and Rectum. Much flatus.

First part of stool natural, last diarrhoeic.

Much tenesmus ; d3'senteric diarrhoea.

Stool at first costive, then dark, offensive, soluble.

Costive; stools very hard, covered with mucus and dark.

Stool copious, dark, fetid, evacuated with great straining; morning.

Diarrhoeic stools mixed with glairy mucus, bile and blood ; anorexia, prostration and painfully strong palpitation.

Rectum and anus swollen and inflamed.

Morning diarrhoea ; faint after stool, which is dark, often mixed with blood, foul-smelling or smelling of musk ; bloatedness with colic.

Morning diarrhoea ; bloatedness with colic ; faintness after stool which is dark, often mixed with blood ; foul-smell- ing or of the odor of musk. ^'Urinary Organs. Awoke 3 a.m. with urging to urinate; bladder so full it overcame resistance of sphincter and dribbled away.

Voided 27 oz. of urine ; sp. gr. 1024 ; vesical tenesmus.

Urine increased, limpid, colorless, scarcely any sediment even after several hours.

Urine responds to tests for phosphates, earthy phosphates and chloride of sodium.

Urine copious, a little cloudy ; sp. gr. 1030 (cloudy from mucus) ; pale yellow.

Urine scanty, limpid, 1025.

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^^ Female Organs. Watery or milky leucorrhoea, thick, whitish, foul-smelling with spasmodic pains in uterus ; pulsative pains in womb with swelling as if from a tumor or dropsy ; uterus swollen as if full of cysts, especially on r. side ; neck of womb swollen and hot ; miliary erup- tion and heat in vulva ; blood}' discharge at other times than menstrual period as during climaxis. ^* Inner Chest and Lungs. Phthisis pulmonalis and bron- chial affections, joined to or depending on a psoric state; hsemoptysis, thick cough ; continual tickling in larynx and bronchi ; cough, with desire to vomit and vomiting, paroxysms of sufibcation and epistaxis; hard cough, shaking chest and bowels and stopping only after expec- torating a quantity of compact mucus, tenacious, fila- mentous with a bitter, putrid, oily taste. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Feeling of congestion about head, with irregularity of heart's action.

Congestion to chest, heavy feeling about heart.

Slight palpitation in morning.

Pulse: full and strong; 68, general malaise; rose to 100 before morning ; 61, very small ; quick, 80. '" Outer Chest. Slight soreness of whole pectoralis major ; pain ran up r. trapezius muscle with a wavelike motion ; lumbar heat ; pulse 70, full ; bloated feeling at navel (probably from flatus).

Pain in angle of ribs for half an hour. ^^ Neck and Back. Warm sensation passed up back into head.

Weak between and below shoulders.

Back weak, wants to lean on something.

Arms and back tired and sore all over.

Deep-seated pain in back.

Heat in whole r. lumbar region.

Pain and soreness in sacrum. ^^ Upper Limbs. Paroxysms of pain in r. shoulder joint, pain in 1. carpus and tarsus; face flushed.

Arms feel weak.

Bruised feeling from shoulders to hands.

Aching, sore pain in 1. humerus.

Bones in both arms pain. '^ Lower Limbs. Pain in hip joints < rising to feet from a lying posture.

Paroxysms of weakness in coxo-femoral joint with pains of luxation and fear of falling when trying to walk.

Strange lameness in femur, lower third, < in inner con- dyle.

Pain in condyles of femur.

Wavelike motion in muscles of femur.

Sensation of fatigue in bones of legs as if they were too thick. VOL. IX. — 15.

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Bruised ami luxated feeling in joints.

Pain in r. patella and metatarsal bones.

Knees feel weak.

Bruised pain in knees as after a fall; he falls easily on his

knees. Bone pains in tibia and fibula ; intermittent, Ijut bones

continually sore. Bones of feet inflamed ; nodes as in gout. " Limbs in General. Limbs cold when still as from deficient

Languid, heavy. '^ Time. Morning : stool with great straining ; diarrhoea ;

pain up trapezius muscle ; heat in lumbar region ; pain

in shoulder joint ; pain in patella and metatarsal bones. Left: pain in eye; pain in ear; pain in carpus and tarsus;

pain in humerus. ■*' Sensations. As if he received a knock on head ; as if head

would split ; 1. eye as if congested ; heat in face as if on

fire ; swelling in womb as if from a tumor or dropsy ;

uterus swollen as if full of cysts ; as if bones of legs were

too thick. Pain: in 1. eye; in bowels; up r. trapezius muscle; in

angle of ribs; in sacrum; in r. shoulder joint; in 1.

carpus and tarsus; in bones of arms; in hip joints; in

condyles of femur ; in r. patella and metatarsal bones ; in

tibia and fibula.

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Intense neuralgic pains: from temples to jaws.

Severe pain : in head.

Cutting, penetrating pains : in orbits.

Pinching pains : in stomach.

Spasmodic pains : in uterus.

Pulsative pains : in womb.

Deep-seated pain : in back.

Sticking pains : deep in r. ear.

Aching, sore pain : in 1. humerus.

Burning pains : in his stomach.

Cramps : in neck to forehead.

Aching : at coronal region.

Soreness: of frontal bone; of r. optic nerve; of pectoralis major ; of back and arms ; in sacrum.

Bruised feeling: from shoulders to hands; in joints; in knees.

Burning heat : of head.

Pulsations : in head ; at root of nose.

Wavelike motion : in muscles of femur.

Pressure : at root of nose.

Heaviness : of head ; about heart.

Full feeling : through head.

Dryness : of tongue ; of mouth ; of throat.

Tickling: in larynx and bronchi.

Dulness : of head.

Luxated feeling : in joints.

Strange lameness : in femur.

Heat: in vulva; in whole r. lumbar region.

Warm sensation : up back into head.

Light feeling : in head.

Weakness: between and below shoulders; of back; in coxo-femoral joint ; of knees ; of limbs. ** Tissues. Bones feel heavy, sore.

Bones pain, especially cervical and lumbar vertebrae, sa- crum and femur, < in inner condyle and great tro- chanter.

Phlegmonous swelling with a rosy tint on various parts. ^* Skin. I I Phly ctenoid herpes,

I Psoriasis.

■ Scrofulous eruptions.

I Variola (decoction taken when eruption is out and be- ginning to pustulate aborts secondary fever, pitting).

■ Fever becomes less, delirium vanishes, pains lessen, erup-

tion develops sooner and matures rapidly, desiccating without leaving pits.

■ Eruption out, pustules dissipate, first on face, fever les-

sens, urine though scanty and dark becomes abundant and pale ; strength returns.

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lArrests pustules, killiug as it were tlie virus from withiiu

preventing pitting. I Constitutional symptoms in three or four days subside.

■ Even confluent forms are helped, little or no pitting fol-

lowing.

■ Relieves restlessness, sleeplessness during variola.

I I A woman far advanced in pregnancy was cured of small- pox with Sarrac. 3, 6th and 9th, her accouchement being happih' accomplished during her convalescence, the babe bearing upon its body numerous red blotches, indi- cating that it had been similarly affected at the same time with the mother.

I I An infant a few months old was attacked with a grave form of smallpox, with variolous angina, so severe that it was with difficulty it could take the breast ; the mother took Sarrac. 3, 6th and 9th, continued to nurse the infant,, which promptly recovered from the disease, and the mother did not take the disorder, notwithstanding the immediate and constant contact of the child.

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