Ομοιοπαθητική ΒιβλιοθήκηCypripedium Pubescens
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General EN
(Lady's Slipper.)
Debcription. — Jinct flbroiis and branching ; stems single, a foot nr more higli, bearing tbree or four broad, ovate, rather downy, ribbed leaves, clasping the stem at the base, and one or two large flowers. These consist of two lanceolate, brown-purple sepals, aod a pair of somewhat narrow, wavy petals crossing each other at right angles; from the midst of tliem projects a great yellow pouch or bag, resembling a moccasin, a shoe, or a slipper, as the imagination wills.
Officinal Pebparations. — (1) Tmcture of the root; dilutions, fS) Cypripedin ; triturations; (Tincture of the whole plant when iu bloom, for future provingsy)
A2tATj00VBS.— Ambergris, Coca, Paullinia, Ooffea, TAea, SerUeUaria, Zine, Valerian, Bromidei. (Bhuif)
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Mind and Brain. Exliikrates the inind and nervous eyatem. (primary.) A sense of qniet, or mental lassitude, {secondary.') Talkative, and more disposed to work. (j>.) A sense of weight and oppression on the mind, (a.) Profov/nd indifference to ev^rythi/ng, even to his studies
duties, and the common courtesies of life. Inability to study, think, or listen to lectures. Feeling of intense soreness and irritation of the eyes every
evening 3,\io\ii five o'clock. Slight disposition to drowsiness, (s.)
Slight heaviness, and fullness in the train, with sleepless- ness. (^.) Irritable; fretful; angry at trifles; hysterical. (^,) "Disorders of the gray-nerve matter from mental over-exer- tion, or reflex nervous excitement. (Pai/ne.) 'Delirium tremens, mild attacks. (ITale.) ° Mental despondency— in spermatorrhoea. {H-)
Sleep EN
* Sleeplessness, with desire to talk, or with constant crowding
of pleasant ideas. (./J.)
* Sleeplessness, with restlessness of the body; twitching of
the limbs. (/5.)
Generalities EN
" Hysterical complaints.
" Chorea, and reflex epilepsy.
' Functional irritation of the brain, especially in very young children, from teething, or intestinal irritation.
° Incipient cerebral disorder, when the child is sleepless, and laughs and plays in the night.
" Jactitation and trembling in typhoid fevers.
Skin EN
It has not been known heretofore that Oyprvpedium had any specific action on the skin, but a communication from Prof.
H, H.
Babcock, a scientiflc botanist of Chicago, would seem to show that its efiects are often mistaken for iRhus poisoning.
It seems strange, however, that it has not been observed before, especially in school children in
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the country, who gather the flowers of the Lady'p Slipper daily, during the season of flowering. I have attended Prof. JBabcock several times for attacks of what was sup- posed to be Rhus poisoning. The symptoms were identi- cal with those of Rhus.
He says, in his letter to The PharmaGist.'—'^'Worki'ag botanists have so often been poisoned by Rkus toxicodendron that many of them have come to regard it as their special bane. In the five seasons commencing with 1868, 1 was particularly care ful not to touch this poisonous plant, not to pluck n specimen growing in its immediate vicinity, nor to re ceive from the hands of another person a freshly-gathered plant, for fear it might have come in contact witli Rh^ts. In spite of these precautions, in the latter part of May or first of June in each year, I was poisoned so severely as to be confined to my room for several days.
In Jnne, 1872, after gathering many specimens of Oypripedium speota- hile, I observed that my hands were stained with the purplish secretion of the glandular hairs with which its stem and leaves are densely clothed, and shortly after experienced a peculiar irritation about my eyes. The next day my whole face presented the appearance of a severe case of Rhus poisoning. On reviewing my notes of the previous years, I found that in each season the poisoning had appeared on the day after I had collected Cypripedvum spectabile or C. puhescens.
In 1873 and 1874, 1 collected more extensively than ever before, but suspecting that my previous sufferings had been caused by these two species of Gyprtpedium rather than the Rhun, took no unusual pains to avoid the latter, but re- frained from touching either of the former with the bare hand. The result was what I had expected, for I escaped entirely the poisoning that I had begun to regard as in evitable, and am now convinced that upon myself, at least, Cypfipedi/um spectabile and C. pubescens are capable of producing effects similar to those caused by Rhus toxi- cod&ndron.
Is it not possible that others, also, havo wrongly attributed to Rhus the annoyance caused by
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these plants hiUierto coneidered inoffensive?
A decisive answer, either affirmative or negative, must depend apon the results of future experiment.
Wlio will undertake it?" In a proving by Dr.
Vanderberg, he observed that " every evening, abont five o'clock, the eyes became sore," i. e., were affected by sensations of itching, burning, and sore feeling, but without any apparent redness or swelling.
This symptom may be corroborative of the above, for if the proving had been continued, the itching, burning, etc., might have extended to the face and body.
Perhaps if the proving had been made fi'om a tincture of the whole plaM, cutaneous symptoms would have appeared.