Gossypium Herbaceum

Cotton Plant. Malvacese.

The cotton producing plant of the South; a native of Asia. The root pos- sesses the medical virtues, and the tinctui'e is prepared from the fresh inner root- bark, chopped and pounded to a pulp.

Proved by Williamson. See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, p. 458.

^ Sensorium. i i Giddiness of head.

^ Inner Head. Stinging pain in head, going from forehead to vertex. I I Pain, first burning, then stinging, extending from both

temporal bones to middle of frontal bone. 1 I Drawing pain over eyes, with stinging pain in pupils. Knocking pain in r. parietal bone. ' Smell and Nose. Nostrils swollen and inflamed, 1. <. " Taste and Tongue. Taste of bad eggs, > after breakfast. ^^ Inner Mouth. Tonsils swollen, r. <. *^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea, with accumulation of saliva in mouth. ■ Nausea with inclination to vomit in morning before

breakfast. ■Morning sickness. ^Pregnancy, '^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Rotating sensation in pit of stomach, with uneasiness, anxiety and sighing. I I Anorexia, with uneasy, depressed feeling at scrobiculum. cordis, at time of menses.

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^^ Hypochondria. Stitching in r. hypochondrium, lasting for a few minutes, and then drawing pain from both hypo- chondriac regions to pit of stomach. ^ Female Sexual Organs. Stinging pain in both ovarian re- gions, and at tlie same time drawing towards uterus, lasting about ten minutes at a time.

Soreness between thigh and vulva, with a watery secretion.

Soft tumor between 1. thigh and vulva, first as large as pea, and increasing to size of pigeon's egg, secreting a watery fluid, with sticking pain as if caused by a needle, < at night.

Swelling of outer part of 1. labium, accompanied by intol- erable itching; some swelling in r. labium.

Outer skin of both labia studded with innumerable pale, somewhat reddish granules.

lAmenorrhoea; clysmenorrhoea; monorrhagia.

I i Scanty and painful or painless menses.

I I Amenorrhoea, wdth ansemia, and dyspeptic symptoms.

I Menstrual flow lasts about twenty -four hours, and then becomes very sparse and painful.

Menses too watery and nineteen days too late.

■ Sterility, from uterine torpor.

2^ Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation, i Morning sick- ness during early months of pregnancy; sensitiveness over hypogastric region; prostration of nervous system almost to syncope; nausea from least motion in morn- ing soon after waking, with distress in pit of stomach ; and, immediately on raising head, retching and violent efforts to vomit; at first very little comes up, except wind, with a loud noise; soon after, saliva and some thick fluid is discharged, and, occasionally, after much retching, a little bilious matter, but rarely any ingesta; wind is often discharged from bowels during efforts to vomit.

■ Morning vomiting, followed by faintness; she was unable

to rise from bed.

■ Great distress, weakness and prostration. ^Morning

sickness.

Miscarriage.

In cases of lingering almost painless labors, where the uter- ine contractions are feeble or entirely inefficient. The case presents negative rather than positive symptoms.

1 I Retained placenta. ^^ Upper Limbs. Tearing pains in r. arm and hand, and jumping pain from one finger to another.

Pale, red, papular eruption on back of both hands, with intense itching and watery exudation.

Heavy feeling in both hands, > when' hanging them down, < in warmth of bed.

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Crawling sensation in all the fingers, as if from worms. ^ Lower Limbs. Stinging, drawing, tearing, and burning

pain in lower extremities. Trembling, twitching, and weary sensation in legs. Small, round, dark red spots, with pale red spots around

patella, on shins and ankles, itching intensely. ^ Rest. Position. Motion. On raising head : retching and

violent efforts to vomit. Unable to rise from bed : from faintness and nausea. When hanging hands down: heavy feeling >. Motion : nausea from least motion. ^® Nerves. General lassitude, with pains as if beaten. ^^ Time. Morning: nausea with inclination to vomit.

Night: sticking pain in tumor <. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Warmth of bed : < heavy

feeling in hands. ^° Fever. General external chilliness, with internal heat. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. The pains are wandering, come

and go. A few minutes : itching in hypochondrium. About ten minutes at a time : drawing towards uterus. Twenty-four hours : menstrual flow. Menses nineteen days too late.

During early months of pregnancy : morning sickness. ^ Locality and Direction. Right: knocking pain in pari- etal bone; tonsil swollen; itching in hypochondrium;

some swelling of labium ; tearing pains in arm and

hand. Left: soft tumor between thigh and vulva; swelling of

outer part of labium ; itching of labium. Pains are generally from above downward ; < by motion ;

> by rest. *^ Sensations. As if caused by a needle; pain in soft tumor;

crawling sensation in fingers as if from worms ; as if

beaten. Painful menses : pains as if beaten.

Tearing pains : in r. arm ; in hand ; in lower extremities. Stinging pain : in head from forehead to vertex ; from both

temporal bones to middle of frontal bone ; in pupils ; in

both ovarian regions; in lower extremities. Sticking pain: in soft tumor between 1. thigh and vulva. Burning pain : from both temporal bones to middle of

frontal bone; in lower extremities. Jumping pain : from one finger to another. Knocking pain : in r. parietal bone.

Drawing pain: over eyes; from both hypochondriac re- gions to pit of stomach ; in lower extremities. Soreness: between thighs and vulva.

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Anxiety : in pit of stomach.

Sensitiveness : over hypogastric region.

Uneasiness: in pit of stomach.

Uneasy, depressed feeling at scrobiculum cordis at time of menses.

Drawing : towards uterus.

Twitching sensation : in legs.

Trembling sensation : in legs.

Rotating sensation : in pit of stomach.

Crawling sensation : in all fingers.

Distress: in pit of stomach.

Heavy feeling : in both hands.

Weary sensation : in legs.

Weakness.

Itching: in r. hypochondrium ; in outer part of 1. labium; intense on backs of both hands ; intense on red spots oa shins and ankles ; of skin all over body.

Itching changes to burning after scratching. ^ Tissues. Sympathetic symptoms of stomach, heart, bowels- and nervous system, arising from disturbance of uterine- functions, connected with menstruation or pregnancy. *^ Skin. Itching of skin over whole body.

Itching changes to burning after scratching. ** Relations. Compare : Act. rac, Apis, Asar., Bellad., Bryon.y Lit tig., Pulsat., Sabina, Secale, Sepia, Ustil.

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