Triosteum Perfoliatum

(Femr Hoot.)

BoTABicAL Desckiptiok Indigenous, wilh & perennial, thick and fleshy root, subdivided into numerous, horizontal branches. Stems, several from the same root, simple, stout, erect, iiollow, soft, pubescent, from two to four feet higli. Leaver opposite, oval, acuminate, mostly crenale, entire, abruptly contracted at the base, nearly smooth above, pubescent beneath, prominently veined, sis inches long by three broad; in some plants the upper leaves are almost amplexicaul.

Flowers, of a dull purple color, axillary, sessile, mostly in clusters of fi;om tliree to Are, in the form of whorls, rarely solitary, ^Vm!(, an oval berry, about nine lines long, and six thick; of ail orange-red or purple color, when ripe; hairy, somewhat liiree-siiled, crowned with the persistent calyx ; three-celled, each cell con- taining B hard, bony, fiiirowed seed.

The root is the officinal part. It is of a dirty, yellowish-brown color, externally; about a foot and a half long, and about nine lines indismoter; whitish internally; sends out fibres, has a nauseous smell and e able amarous taste. When dried, it is readily reduced to powder.

Its virtues are imparted to water, alcohol and ether. The T. angustifo- Uam is a smaller species, and considered to have the same medicinal

OFPrciiTAL Pbbpabationb. — Tincture of the root and berries; dilutions. Analooues. — JB»eulv», Arnicfi, Bryonia, Chilidonivm, Chamomilla, Arsenieu/m, Ipecac, Nux vomica.

Mental Sphere. Extreme nervous irritability; tfear of death.

Headache, which is worse in the right side of the head. Pain in the occipat, with sensation of weight there; coldness

Soreness, as if from swelling of the pharynx, and pain in the

(esophagus on swallowing, " Sore throat from influenza. {Matthmos.)

Peeling of a load and oppression in the epigastrium. Pain in the epigastrium increased by drinking water and by turning in bed

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633 TEIOSTEUM rERFOLIiTTJM.

* Kaasea on rising, followed by copious vomiting and cramps

in the stomacli.

CopionB evacuations of thin stools, without pain.

* Stools watery and frotliy, without pain, followed by exhaustion. Evacuation from the bowels at 7 a. m.

Evacuations most frequent in the evening.

" Bilious colic. {T'all/madge.)

" Diarrhcea, with severe colic pains, {H/'ddha/rd.)

ChQBt.

Audible beating of the heart, and sliglit pain under the left

breast. ° Asthmatic troubles. {^Dr. Tallmadge^ . .

SJiin. V^esicular eruption on the forehead, over' left eye, middle of

the chest, and on the right arm. Violent itching eruption of the skin. ' Urticaria, from gastric derangement.

adie and vomiting. {Dr. Maiihewa.)

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CBTICA UKENS. ^688

UETICA URENS. (Dioua.)

Dull aching pain in right sinciput; right side of the face, ex- tending to malar bone. Neuralgic pain in riglit face and forehead, Pullneaa, dullness, and dizziness, like rush of blood to the

DuU aching in head, with stitches in region of the spleen. Dull aching in occiput and over the eyes, • Urticaria of the scalp — suddenly appearing and determining internally.

Face and Eyes. Pain in right eye and right parietal bone — a stinging pain,

compelling one to rub and press it. Pressing pain over right eye and in the eyebalL Pressing pain in left eye.

Pressing pain over both eyes; they feel weak and sore. Pain in eyeballs as if from a blow, and a sensation as of sand

in eyes. Fever blisters on lips, itching.

Burning in throat, with frequent throwing up of frothy mueo8,

with cough and frothy expectoration. Burning in throat, with nausea.

Gastric and Intestinal. Nausea, with burning in throat

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.634 TTETICA URBS9.

* Vomiting frbm suppression of nettle rash,

* Constipation, {j).)

Pain around the nmbiiicus, with severe dysenteric stools of whitish slime.

White and yellow stools, wit!) slimy mncus, tenesmus and colie-like pains.

Small dysenteric stools of greenish- brown slime, with urging and tenesmus.

Soreness in the bowels, and on pressure a sound as if they were full of water.

Dysenteric stools during the greater part of the proving.

Stools, small and painful, mixed with white matter, like the boiled white of an egg, with much pain over the whole abdomen.

"Dysentery, if accompanied or preceded by nettle rash; dur- ing and after passage of stool, a sensation of rawness and burning in anus.

A small hremorrhoidal tumor, itching and burning, at times quite severe.

TTrinary Organs.

Complete suppression of urine for twelve days, with cedema- tous swelling of the whole upper body down to the um- bilicus.

" Hemorrhage from the bladder.

Menorrhagia after confinement, and at tlie critical period.

° Sudden suppression of milk.

Cbest.

Soreness and bruised feeling in sides of the chest.

° Haemoptysis — from violent exertion of the lungs.

Pain in right deltoid muscle, worse at 9 p. m,, could not put on bis coat without assistance.

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CEUCA CEEN8, fi33

Pain in both aims, right the worst, and in aiiHes; cramp-like pain in right arm, the deltoid feeling aore to the touoh; worse on rotating the arms inward; worse in evening.

Rlienmatic pains in right arm; worse when lying on it.

A sharji stitch darting through the arm.

Muselee of right arm sore, as if bruised.

Inability to stretch or raise the right arm, on account of a pain in the right hypochondriac region.

* Urticaria nodosa on hands and fingers. Kheumatie pains in right wrist and ankles.

The skin of the face, arms and chest burnt frightfitlly; she complained of itcliing and burning as if the skin was scorched; the lips, nose and ears were swollen; theeyeiide oadematona, as if full of water, and closed; (in morning, after drinking an infusion of Urtica at night;) at nooij the wiiole upper part of body, down to the umbilicus, was enormously swollen, but rather pale and dropsical than infiamed, and covered with confluent, smal], trans- parent vesicles filled with serum (sudamina). In other respects the patient was free from pain; the breathing and circulation were undisturbed. On the third day there was violent itching; on the sixth, desc[uamation.

*Kai8ed, red, itching blotches on the skin of the handa and fingers.

*Urti<xm^ nodosa, with stinging itching.

" Urticaria attending or preceding rheumatism.

° Burn8,'vr\\sn the integuments and subjacent tissues are not destroyed, and when the injury is confined to the skin.

"Vesicular erysipelas, of a not very severe character.

" Erythema, with burning and itching.

The skin-symptoms tended to return every year at the same date.

GtoueralitieB.

General cedema of the upper half of body.

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686 usTiLAao maydib.

Tlie seeds induce lethargic sleep.

° Ilfemorrhages from various organs.

° Eesulta of retrocession of urticaria, and other eruptions.

" Affections attended by urticaria.

Tlie rheumatic pains worse in evening.

" The seeds are said to have cured Goiirs.

" Intermittent fever. (?)

" InsuiStieney or entire want of milk after parturition. (?)

" Nettle rash, which affecta the patient every year at the sam