Helianthus Annuus

Helianthus annuus, Linn.

Natural order , Compositae. Common names , Sunflower; Sonnenrose; Le Tournesol.

Preparation , Tincture of the flower heads.

Authorities. 1 , Dr. Cessoles took expressed juice of the flowers, B. J. of Hom., 2, 169 (trans. from Bib. Hom. de Genève.); 2 , effects on a lady, aged 40, ibid.; 3 , A. H. Z., 31, p. 20 (apparently from Bib. Hom. de Genève., though the symptoms differ very materially from preceding; the original is not accessible), effets on a man; 4 , effects on a girl; 5 , Davey, from Med. Gaz., Oct. 1848; effects on a woman of eating a quantity of sunflower seeds.

Headache, [5] .

Eye.

Slight redness on the margin of the left upper lid, with smarting in the inner canthus (ninth day), [3] . Eyes suffused, [5] .

After a short time slight epistaxis occurred, and the nostrils became free, and during the ensuing winter the secretions were healthy, and discharged through the natural passages, [1] . [He was at the time in good health, with the exception of slight nasal obstruction, the secretion from the nose passing constantly through the posterior nares.]

Anxious countenance, [5] . Face deeply flushed, [5] .

Sticking in the upper back teeth, [4] .

Tongue and fauces very red, and inclined to dryness, [5] . They had an unusually hot taste while eating, [5] . [10.]

Difficulty in articulating, [5] .

Stiffness and dryness of the throat, [5] .

Sensation of glowing in the throat and stomach, immediately, [5] . Severe burning sensation in the fauces, oesophagus, and epigastrium, [5] .

Thirst, [5] .

Nausea, [5] .

Vomiting, produced apparently by too powerful a dose of the medicine; this effect recurred frequently, though in slight degree when Helianthus had been administered for an ordinary cold, [2] .

Symptoms increased in severity until she vomited freely, when she felt rather better, [5] .

Rectum And Anus.

Haemorrhoids (fourth day), [3] .

Stools soft, black, with emission of semen (seventh day), [3] . [20.] Hard, black stool every second day, [3] .

Respiratory Organs.

Voice hoarse, [5] . Cough, in the forenoon, with gelatinous expectoration streaked with blood (eighth day), [3] .

Breathing rather difficult and hurried, [5] .

Inferior Extremities. Rheumatic pain in the left knee on descending stairs, [4] .

Skin generally of a scarlet redness, and very hot, [5] . Groups of red pimples on the inner side of the knee, with slight itching (sixth day), [3] .

Many urticaria-like pimples, especially on the inner side of the forearm, and afterwards on the leg, afterwards itching in external warmth, in the morning and night, [4] .

Small, red tetter to the right of the navel (seventh day), [3] . [30.]

Tingling of the skin, [5] .