Sumbul

Musk Root. Umbelliferse.

The plant, a perennial, is a native of the Orient ; the root enters commerce by way of Russia; from it, finely powdered, is prepared the alcoholic tincture.

Provings by Lembke, A. H. Z., vol. 34, p. 273; Cattell, Brit. Jour. Horn., vol. 9, p. 256, 1852; Muranjew, Med. Zeit. Euss., 1853; Hirschel's Arch., vol. 1, p. 241; Altschul, Brit. Jour, of Horn., vol. 11, p. 678, 1853.

CiiiKiCAii Authorities. — Diarrhoea, Altschul, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 435 ; Ascarides, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 289 ; Chorea, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 289 ; Porrigo, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 290.

^ Mind. I Intellect dull in morning; inability to study; clearer in evening and in warmth. Happy disposition with continued smiling; expression

idiotic ; fear of becoming insane. /^Chorea. I I Hysterical mood, even in men ; alternate laughter and tears; easily excited; emotional; irritable; fidgety, at first spirits are exalted, then depressed. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo on stooping, using warm water, mov- ing about or rising from a seat, feeling a want of security. Hysteria, with tendency to faint from slightest cause.

Fits, with falling forward. ^ Inner Head. Cold in head, < in morning. ^ Outer Head. ■ Porrigo in infants, 1. side of scalp ; spots round and dry, slightly raised, and reddened at edges, with branlike scales in centre. ^ Smell and Nose. Stuffing in nose.

Tenacious yellow mucus in nose; < in 1. nostril. ^ Upper Face. Acne punctata, black pores on face. ^' Taste and Tongue. Brown coating on tongue in morning. Tongue feels rough as if scraped, with heat in throat.

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IS Throat. Erosion, burDing heat and rawness in throat, with tenacious mucus. Catarrhs of children, with great nervous irritation, sleep- lessness and spasms. ^^ Abdomen. Tensive pain and gnawing in r. hypogastrium.

Abdomen full, distended, painful. *" Stool and Rectum. iiAscarides, with bloated, drumlike abdomen and constipation ; picking at nostrils. I I Chronic diarrhoea due to torpid, inert condition of intes- tinal canal ; discharges cause atony ; diarrhoea in typhoid fever. ^* Urinary Organs. Urine clear, yellowish-red, cloud on bot- tom, and an oily pellicle on surface. Constant desire to urinate. Much urinary difficulty. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Absence of erections and all sexual

desire. ^^ Female Sexual Organs, i ' Corkscrew pains in 1. region of uterus and its appendages. Tensive pain like a string pulling in r. breast. Tightness, tensive stretched feeling across chest between 1.

breast and sternum and in 1. breast, < on inspiration. White leucorrhoea, < after sitting. Menses too early. Flushings at climacteric period. ^^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. Hoarseness. ^^Respiration, i Asthma, catarrhal, but more especially spas- modic, hysterical. ^^ Cough. Hacking cough.

^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Pulse very irregular, com- pressible ; want of elasticity in vessels. I Nervous affections of heart ; rheumatic carditis; heart's impulse strong, jerking, especially after exertion or dur- ing digestion; action of heart full and sharp, strokes at times irregular ; beating rapidly eight or ten times, then slowdy ; bellows sound of heart, with violent and irreg- ular palpitations and flushes of heat in floods from back; sharp pains, like a knife, in chest ; oppression in 1. chest, clogged sensation; < on stooping; 1. arm numb, heavy and weary, with sharp, wiry shooting in fingers ; hys- terical mood. ■ Nervous palpitation in hysterical subjects, or at change

of life. Heart beats softly, as if in water, with sinking of heart,

and sickliness and faintness all over. Palpitation at least exertion, < by paying attention to it. Posteriorly over 1. scapular region, an indistinct mixed murmur and purring sound, associated with rheuma- tism ; not heard anteriorly.

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^^ Neck and Back. Cannot keep warm ; least draft is felt

down spine. '^ Rest. Position. Motion. Stooping : vertigo ; heart symptoms <. Sitting: leucorrhcea < after. Motion : vertigo ; palpitation. Rising : vertigo. ^^ Nerves. Chorea : constant jerking of head and limbs, with protrusion of tongue ; voracious appetite. I I Dropsy dependent on impaired nervous vitality. I I Hysteria and hysterical spasms. I I Epilepsy, she falls suddenly forward, foaming at mouth ;

unconsciousness. ■ Tendency to faint from slightest cause. '^Time. Morning: intellect dull ; cold in head <; brown coating on tongue. Evening : intellect clearer. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Least draft is felt down spine.

Warmth : intellect clearer. ^^ Fever. Dry, transient heat all over body. Coldness of body, pulse 66.

■Typhoid fever with cerebral excitement; low and nerv- ous fevers succeeding to typhus. Numbness and coldness of tips of fingers. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Irregular action of heart, beats rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly. Climacteric period : flushes ; nervous palpitation. *^ Locality and Direction.

Left : porrigo on scalp ; yellow mucus in nostril ; corkscrew pains in uterus ; oppres- sion in chest ; arm numb ; shooting in fingers ; mur- mur over scapular region. Right : tensive pain and gnawing in hypogastrium ; ten- sive pain in breast; miliary spots on shoulder blade and hip. ^ Sensations. As if scraped, tongue ; like a string pulling in r. breast ; clogged sensation in 1. chest; as if heart were beating in water. Knifelike pains in chest.

Corkscrew pains in region of uterus and appendages. Sharp wiry shooting : in fingers. Burning heat : in throat. Gnawing: in r. hypogastrium. Rawness : in throat.

Tensive pain : in r. hypogastrium ; in r. breast. Tightness: across chest; in 1. breast. Numbness : in 1. arm ; of tips of fingers. Heaviness: in 1. arm. ^^ Tissues. Deranges action of inhibitory nerves, while at

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same time it causes a paresis of cardiac branches of

Vertigo, faintness; dreams and mental conditions show deficient innervation.

Anomalous functional disorders of heart, occurring in per- sons possessing a peculiarly sensitive nervous system, especially in hysterical subjects.

Weakened heart. *^ Skin. Acne punctata, black pores on face.

I iPorrigo in infants on 1. side of scalp; spots round and dry, slightly raised and reddened at edges, with bran- like scales in centre.

Skin cold, white, shrunken and dry as if washed in acrid water.

Miliary spots on back, r. shoulder blade and hip.

Reddish spots on forehead, chin and cheeks, containing either water, or thick, white, curdy matter.

Itching in skin. ^'^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Child, set. 2; ascarides.

Girl, set. 10, bilious-sanguine temperament; chorea. *^ Relations. Compare: Asajwt. and Moschus in low fevers,

hysteria, etc.