Illicium Anisatum

Star Anise. Magnoliacese.

Tincture of the seeds.

Provings by Franz and Mure. See Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 5, p. 91.

Clinical, Authoeities. — Infantile colic, Jeanes, Horn. Clinics, vol. 4, p. 132.

^ Inner Head. Pains in head ; > evenings, < mornings. ^ Hearing and Ears. Buzzing in ears.

Ringing in ears, followed by sleep.

Itching over 1. ear, going off when touching place. ^ Smell and Nose. Acute catarrh.

Watery discharge from nostrils.

Warm smarting sensation in nose, succeeded by sneezing.

Sharp stitches in tip of nose. ^ Lower Face. Stinging sensation in upper lip, as if blood would press out, > from touch.

Dryness of upper lip, which is drawn closer to teeth.

Burning in inner surface of lower lip, with sensation as if it had gone to sleep.

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" Taste and Tongue. Rye bread tastes good, its odor is refreshing. I Tongue covered with aphthae; most on edges.

■ Edges of tongue folded like little bags.

^^ Throat. ■ Tough, viscid phlegm from stomach ; with old

drunkards. ^^ Eating and Drinking. Satiety, after eating but little.

All food, except rye bread, tastes too salty or bitter, yet

appetite is good. ^® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea in

stomach, extends to chest, then ceases. Nausea, with gagging and inclination to vomit. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Bloating of stomach ; acidity. ^^ Hypochondria. Pain in splenic region. ^^ Abdomen, l Three months' colic, especially if it recurs at

regular hours; bowels disturbed.

■ Violent wind colic. Rumbling in abdomen.

^^ Stool and Rectum. Stools: bilious; compact and dark

colored. ^^ Urinary Organs. Retention of urine. ^•^ Respiration. iDyspncea in old asthmatics. ^^ Cough. After coughing, feeling of emptiness.

■ Frequent cough, with pain.

Spitting blood in small quantities and with pus-like

phlegm, pain in r. chest. Whitish expectoration. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. ■Tough, viscous phlegm, with old drunkards. Pain in region of third rib, about one or two inches from

sternum, generally on r. side, but occasionally left. Pain about junction of third r. rib with its cartilage; hemorrhage; cough; congestion; enlarged liver. ^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation, i Palpitation, with aphthae

and weakness. ^^ Neck and Back. Cramp-like drawing, as from a cold, in

1. side of dorsal vertebrae. ^ Lower Limbs. Left thigh feels as if broken at middle,

when sitting, ceases on rising. ^^ Rest. Position. Motion. Sitting: L thigh feels as if broken at middle. Rising: sensation as ifl. thigh was broken ceases. ^ Time. Morning: pains in head <.

Evenings: pains in head >. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Three months' colic, especially if it

recurs at regular hours. ^Locality and Direction. Right: pain in chest; pain in region of third rib; pain about junction of third rib with its cartilage.

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Left: itching over ear; occasionally pain in region of third rib; cramps like drawing in side of dorsal verte- brae; 1. thigh feels as if broken at middle. *^ Seusations. As if blood would press out of upper lip; as if lower lip had gone to sleep; cramp-like drawing as from a cold in 1. side of dorsal vertebrse; 1. thigh feels as if broken at middle.

Pain: in head; in splenic region; in r, chest; in region of third rib ; generally on r. side, but occasionally left ; about junction of third rib.

Sharp stitches: in tip of nose.

Violent wind colic.

Warm smarting sensation : in nose.

Stinging sensation : in upper lip.

Burning : in inner surface of lower lip.

Rumbling : in abdomen.

Dryness : of upper lip.

Itching : over 1. ear. *^ Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries. Touch : itching ceases

■when touching place ; stinging sensation in upper lip. *' Stages of Life, Constitution. Babies with three months' colic.

Old drunkards, catarrh of stomach.

Old asthmatics. ^^ Relations. Compatible: after Aeon, and Bryon. in haemop- tysis.