Polyporus Pinicola

Polyporus pinicola, Fries.

Natural order , Fungi.

Common name , Pine agaric.

Preparation , tincture of the fresh plant.

Authorities. 1 , Dr. Burt, Am. Hom. Obs., 1868, p. 268, took 1/2 ounce of 2d dec. dil. first and third days; 1 ounce, fourth day; 20 drops tincture, fifth day; 1/2 a drachm, morning, and 1 1/2 drachms at 3 P.M., and half of the extract of 1 1/2 ounce, sixth day; the other half of extract and half an ounce of tincture, seventh day; 1 a , same, 100 drops 2d dec. dil., first, second, and third days; 50 drops of 1st dil., fourth day; 100 drops, fifth day; 150 drops, sixth day; 1 b , same, subsequent proving, 50 drops of tincture, first day; 100 drops, second day; 200 drops morning and 1/4 ounce evening, third day; 2 , R.

Fuller, Hahn. Month., 1870, p. 68, effects in a woman of taking three times a day a preparation of 1 or 2 ounces of the fungus in a pint of whisky; 3 , same experiment on self, took 30 drops of tincture first day, 40 drops, second day.

For two hours after the third dose had severe congestion of the head and face; vertigo when walking; face greatly flushed, with a prickling sensation all over it (sixth day), [1] .

Vertigo when walking (seventh day), [1] .

Light feeling of the head, with dull pains in it (fifth and sixth day), [1a] .

Light feeling of the head, with dull pains in the forehead; worse on moving (third day), [1a] . All day have had a fulness of the head, with a hot feeling in the face and eyes (fourth and fifth days), [1] .

Fulness of the head, with face hot and flushed (after second dose, sixth day), [1] . [10.] *Head ached (after one hour), [3] .

Severe frontal headache, while in bed (sixth morning), [1] .

Frequent neuralgic pains in the temples (third day), [1] ; (second day), [1a] . [20.]

Eye.

Smarting of the eyes (after one hour), [1] .

For the last four days the nostrils are constantly filled with a thick yellow mucus (eleventh day), [1] .

[30.]

Face congested (seventh day), [1] .

Severe aching distress in the right malar bone, with neuralgic pains in the temple (after one hour), [1] .

Tongue. Tongue coated white, in the morning (seventh day), [1] .

*Tongue coated white (eighth day), [1] ; (third day), [1a] .

*Tongue coated yellow (fourth, fifth, and sixth days), [1a] ; (second, fourth, and eleventh days), [1b] .

Tongue coated thickly yellow (third days), [1b] .

Sweet, flat taste (eighth day), [1] ; (fifth and sixth days), [1a] .

Sweet, flat taste in the mouth, in the morning (seventh day), [1] .

Tonsils are congested; frequent efforts to swallow, that are quite painful, in the morning (seventh day), [1] .

Tonsils congested slightly (eighth day), [1] .

Tonsils and fauces feeling very sore and stiff, with great dryness and frequent inclination to swallow, for two hours in the morning, and then in the evening (tenth day), [1] .

Tonsils very much congested and enlarged; the soft palate and fauces are also greatly congested (eleventh day), [1] .

Fauces. Great dryness of the fauces, lasting all day, with constant inclination to swallow (after one hour), [1] . [50.]

Great dryness of the fauces, for the first half hour, in the morning, then all passed away (second day), [1] .

Great dryness of the fauces (after third dose, sixth day), [1] .

Pressing distress in the fauces (after second dose, sixth day), [1] .

Distress in the fauces, with frequent inclination to swallow (after third dose, sixth day), [1] . Deglutition quite painful (eleventh day), [1] .

Could eat no supper (second day), [3] . Eructations.

*Constant nausea for the first half hour (after second dose, sixth day), [1] .

Sickness at the stomach (second day), [3] .

Burning in the stomach, with a dragging sensation in the right hypochondrium (first, second, fifth, and sixth days), [1a] . [60.]

Burning distress in the epigastrium, with dragging pains in the right hypochondrium (first and second days), [1b] .

Distress in epigastrium (fifth day, and after first dose, sixth day), [1] .

Frequent pains in the epigastrium, with rumbling in the bowels (after second dose, sixth day), [1] .

By spells great distress in the epigastrium (after third dose, sixth day), [1] .

Dull aching distress in the epigastrium, in the morning (seventh day), [1] .

There is a constant very severe distress in the lower part of the epigastrium that produces great faintness; if I press on it or walk, it is greatly aggravated. This awful distress lasted until noon, when it became quite easy (eighth day), [1] .

Severe pains in the epigastrium all the morning (eleventh day), [1] .

Dull pains in the right hypochondrium (fourth and fifth days), [1] ; (fourth day), [1b] .

Dragging sensation in the right hypochondrium, with burning in the stomach (first, second, fifth, and sixth days), [1a] . Dragging pain in the liver followed stool (fifth day), [1a] . [70.]

Dragging pain in the right hypochondrium, with burning distress in the epigastrium (first and second days), [1b] .

Frequent drawing pains in the right hypochondrium (first day), [1] ; (first, second, fifth, and sixth days), [1a] .

Dull, heavy, drawing, aching pains in the whole liver and spleen (third day), [1b] .

Burning, aching pains in the liver (fourth day), [1b] .

Walking produces sharp pains in the liver (after second dose, third day), [1b] .

Severe pulling pains in the liver follow stool (first and second days), [1b] .

Severe drawing pains in the left hypochondrium (fifth day), [1] . [80.]

Hard, drawing pains in the region of the spleen and left epigastrium, all day (fourth day), [1a] . All the forenoon have had frequent drawing pains in the region of the spleen (first, second, fifth, and sixth days), [1a] .

Frequent sharp pains in the region of the spleen (first and second days), [1b] .

Slight distress in bowels (seventh evening), [1] .

Slight pains in the bowels (fifth and sixth days), [1a] . Frequent drawing pains in the abdomen (first and second days), [1b] . [100.]

Rheumatic pains in bowels (eleventh day), [1b] .

At 9 A.M. distress in the hypogastric region, for ten minutes, followed by stool, first part dry and lumpy, last part mushy (seventh day), [1] .

Five or six hard distressing pains in the hypogastrium, followed by a hard, dry, lumpy stool (after third dose, sixth day), [1] . For the first three hours had hard, sickening pains in the hypogastric regions; then remained quite easy for two hours, when those hard pains came on again every few minutes; the pains would last from five to ten minutes at a time, and produce great faintness (seventh day), [1] . Drawing pains in the right groin (after one hour), [1] .

Loose stool at 8 P.M. (after nine hours, third day); loose stool (fourth day), [1] .

Hard, lumpy stool (fifth day), [1] .

Hard, dry, lumpy stool (after third dose, sixth day), [1] . Stool, first part dry and lumpy, last part mushy, followed the distress in the hypogastric region (seventh day), [1] . [110.]

Stool that ran from my bowels a stream of a deep yellow color; the last part was frothy and mixed with bile (after six hours, seventh day), [1] .

Light-colored papescent stool (first and second days), [1b] .

Papescent, light-colored stool, with great relief of all the pains, at 7 A.M.; profuse papescent stool at noon (second day), [1b] . Soft papescent, very light-colored stool (fourth day), [1b] .

*Bowels have been very costive; stools of a dark color, and in hard, dry lumps (tenth day), [1b] . The stools are so hard that it has brought on a slight attack of piles, which pain me all the time, with slight prolapsus ani (eleventh day), [1b] .

Urine scanty and high-colored, for the last two days (ninth day), [1] .

Respiratory Organs. [120.] Pressing sensation in larynx, with dryness of fauces (after ten minutes), [1] .

Heart And Pulse.

Burning distress in the praecordial region (first day), [1a] . A full inspiration produces sharp pains in the region of the heart (first day), [1a] .

Pulse 84, soft and feeble (after second dose, sixth day), [1] .

Back very stiff (fourth day), [1b] .

*Back ached all day (third day), [1a] .

Dull aching pains in the back and hips (third day), [1a] . Felt very badly, with aching and sore sensations along the spinal column (after two hours, second day), [3] .

*Pain in the back, [2] . Dull, aching pains in the dorsal and lumbar regions (third day), [1b] . [130.]

Dull backache (first and second days), [1b] .

Dull pains in the small of the back (first and second days, [1b] .

Dull pains in the lumbar region (after third dose, sixth day), [1] .

Dull pains in lumbar and dorsal regions (seventh day), [1] .

Violent, dull, aching distress in the lumbar region, all day (eighth day), [1] .

Fingers, knees, ankles, and feet have constant rheumatic pains in them of a drawing, aching character (after third dose, sixth day), [1] .

Severe stitching-drawing pains in the elbows, fingers, knees, ankles, and toes (after second dose, sixth day), [1] .

Drawing pains in the wrist and left knee and ankle-joint; walking makes the pain in the ankle of a sharp cutting character (first day), [1a] .

Dull pains in the wrists (third day), [1a] .

Fingers ache and are quite stiff (fourth and fifth days), [1] . Fingers feel quite stiff, with frequent stitching pains in the joints (fourth and fifth days), [1] .

Inferior Extremities. [150.] Hips ached all day (third day), [1a] .

Great weakness and pain in my ankles and feet (third day), [1] .

Dull pains in the ankles (seventh day), [1] .

Ankles and feet ached severely (first day), [1] . Aching distress in the ankles, feet, and toes, with sharp pains in the toes (fourth and fifth days), [1] .

My ankles, feet, and toes ache and pain me so severely I cannot walk without great difficulty (third day), [1b] . [160.]

The soles of my feet and heels feel as if they had been pounded; cannot bear to have my boots on (third day), [1b] .

My feet are feeling as if they had been pounded (fourth day), [1b] .

*Felt weary (after one hour), [3] .

*Very languid (seventh evening), [1] ; (fifth and sixth days), [1a] ; (third day), [1b] .

Languid all day (second day), [1] .

*Great lassitude (fourth and fifth days, after third dose, sixth day, ninth and eleventh days), [1] .

Great lassitude; could with difficulty get about (third day); great lassitude (fourth day), [1] . Very languid all day yesterday and this morning (eleventh day), [1] . Peculiar sensation as though I would like to get away out of sight and lie down (after one hour), [3] . Felt somewhat sore and lame, in the morning (second day), [3] . [170.] Felt as if I had had a spell of sickness (third day), [3] .

Rheumatic pains in every part of the body, excepting the back (after second dose, sixth day), [1] . Those rheumatic symptoms have all continued since the fourth day; the last three days it has rained most of the time; the dampness of the air has aggravated the symptoms most wonderfully, especially nights; pains in shin-bones, very hard to endure (eleventh day); rheumatic symptoms lasted eight weeks, [1b] . All the pains aggravated by motion (third day), [1b] .

For ten days, every day about 10 A.M., my head would commence at ache, with severe aching pains in the back, but more especially in the legs; would gradually increase until 3 P.M., when the pains in the legs were so severe I had to lie down to get relief; with this there was great despondency and weakness; from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M. it would gradually pass away, and all the evening I would feel perfectly well. The effects in the legs did not entirely leave until four weeks subsequent to taking the medicine, [1] .

Sleep disturbed and restless (second day), [3] . [180.]

*Restless night (seventh night), [1] .

*Paroxysms of chilliness, and cold, shivering sensations, followed by feverishness (which was reduced by hot baths and Aconite, [2c] ), (after two hours, second day), [3] .

Chills and a shivering sensation, [2] .

Feel very cold (third day), [1a] .

Face hot and flushed (second day), [1a] .

Hands hot and dry (fourth day), [1b] .

Palms of the hands hot and dry (second day), [1a] . Slight perspiration (first and second nights), [1] .

( Pressure on epigastrium ), Distress.