Ailanthus Glandulosa

AILANTHUS · Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 2,485 chars

General

My observation and experience with this remedy lead me to place unbounded confidence in its efficacy to save life in the most desperate derangements, which are characterized by certain livid or purplish appearances of the skin.

Mental.-- Semi-conscious, can hardly comprehend what is said to him. Stupor, delirium, and insensibility. Muttering delirium, with sleeplessness and restlessness. Low-spirited, continual sighing. Vertigo, hot face, cannot sit up, drowsy, yet very restless and anxious. Raging delirium with brilliant eyes.

Head

Head burning hot, with piercing pains.

Severe headache, delirium, with fever and anxiety.

Dull, heavy pressing in the forehead, dulness of thought, and slow to act.

Skin purplish or in purplish spots.

Eyes

Eyes suffused and congested, startled look when aroused.

Pupils widely dilated.

Photophobia.

Ears

Parotid gland sensitive and enlarged.

Nose

Copious, thin, ichorous and bloody discharge from.

Face

Great prostration, and countenance indicative of much distress. Face dark as mahogany, hot, covered with a rash.

Teeth

Covered with sordes; purplish face.

Tongue.-- Tongue dry, parched and cracked, purplish face.

Throat

Much swollen, dark red almost purple, refuses to swallow anything for a long time.

Throat livid, ulcers in tonsils oozing a fetid discharge, neck swollen and sensitive.

Throat sore on swallowing, hawks up a greenish purulent matter.

A dry, rough, scrapy and choking feeling in the throat.

Irritability of the throat and hawking of mucus.

Diphtheria with extreme prostration.

Stool

Offensive, thin, watery diarrhoea, involuntary with the urine.

Larynx

Hoarse, croupy voice.

Cough dry, hacking, deep, and painful.

Neck tender and very much swollen.

Chest

Pain and contracted feeling, particularly with centre of left lung. Breathing hurried, irregular, heavy.

Skin

Skin cold, dry, livid.

Eruption of miliary rash in patches of a dark, almost livid color.

Eruption scanty with sore throat: of a bluish tint: livid; forehead and face of a purplish color.

Body and limbs covered with an irregular patchy eruption of a livid color, disappearing on pressure, returning very slowly.

Large blisters filled with dark serum.

Generalities

In low adynamic forms of disease, with extreme prostration, torpor, vomiting, pulse small and rapid, purplish appearance of the skin. Prostration at very onset of the disease. Stupid, dull, delirious, weak. Puerperal fever characterized as above.