Jacaranda

Jacaranda caroba, De C.

Natural order , Bignoniaceae.

Preparation , Trituration of the flowers.

Authority. Mure, provings 1 and 2 , Pathogénésie Brésil., p. 279.

Sense of fulness in the head, in the afternoon (second day), [1] . Headache all day (twelfth day), [2] .

Forehead. Dull pain between the forehead and right temple, it disappears on pressing from the other side, in the evening (second day), [1] .

Extensively felt pressive pain from the right upper part of the forehead to the eye, at noon (third day), [1] .

Pain as from a peg pressing vertically against the right side of the forehead (eighteenth day), [1] .

Slight pain in the right temple, as from the simultaneous pressure of several blunt points (third day), [1] .

Eye.

Inflammation of the eyes (twelfth day), [2] .

Dull pain at the outer side of the right eyebrow, it ceases in the open air (sixth day), [1] . Dull pain in the right orbit (third day), [1] .

Ear.

Heat of the left ear, with hot digging pain extending to the left nostril, at 2.30 P.M. (fourth day), [1] .

Sensation as if the left ear were stopped up, at 3 P.M. (fourth day), [1] .

Noise in the ears, like the flapping of butterflies' wings, at 8 A.M. (third day), [1] .

Coryza, with heaviness and weariness at the vertex, forehead, and eyes, at 9 A.M. (fourth day), [1] .

Coryza, with digging, lancinating pain in the left side of the forehead, corresponding to the palatine arch of the same side, at noon (fourth day), [1] .

Profuse watery discharge from the nose (nineteenth day), [1] .

Stoppage of the nose, at 3 P.M. (third day), [1] .

Slight drawing pain from the eye to the right lower jaw, followed by shuddering of the skin in the same region, at 11 A.M.; this pain returns and becomes contusive (second day), [1] .

Sensitiveness of the malar bone when pressed by the finger (second day), [1] .

Pain of excoriation on the left side of the tongue (second day), [1] .

Clammy mouth, at 6 A.M. (third day), [1] .

Bad taste in the mouth, in the morning (twelfth day), [2] . Insipid or sour taste of food; sugar-water tastes like vinegar (nineteenth day), [1] .

Great dryness of the throat (sixth day), [2] .

Feeling of constriction of the throat, lasting till evening (first day), [2] .

Piercing pain over the right external carotid, at 3.30 P.M. (third day), [1] .

Nausea. [40.]

Nausea (twenty-first day), [1] . Nausea while eating (twelfth day), [2] .

Pressure at the pit of the stomach (twelfth day), [2] .

Colic; wind shifts about in the abdomen, followed by emission of inodorous flatulence, at 9.30 A.M. (third day), [1] .

Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. [50.]

Acute pain in the hypogastrium on pressure (twelfth day), [2] . Swelling of the right groin, which is painful to touch (eighteenth day), [1] .

Rectum And Anus.

The excrescence at the anus has considerably decreased for the past eight days (twenty-first day), [1] .

The inflammation of the anus has disappeared (fourth day), [1] . Heat at the anus (twelfth day), [2] .

Acute pain, with lancinations in the anus, as if a large thorn were stuck in three or four times (twenty-third day), [1] .

Prickings around the anus (twelfth day), [2] .

Itching at the anus, in the morning (twenty-fifth day), [1] . Itching at the anus, while sitting (second day), [1] .

Soft and easy stool (previous to the proving, the stools were generally hard and painful), (fourth day), [1] . [60.]

No stool (second and third days), [1] .

The lips of the urethral orifice are inflamed on the inside; touching them causes a slight itching, which extends half way up the penis (twenty-sixth day), [1] . Emission of light-colored urine, four or five times a day (twenty-fifth day), [1] .

The lining membrane of the prepuce is inflamed (twenty-fourth day), [1] .

The inflammation of the prepuce is less on the right side; it shifts to the left (twenty-fifth day), [1] . The inflammation has shifted from the inside of the prepuce to its margin, which has swollen considerably over night, is raw and bleeds in several places; the contact of the urine causes tearing pains, which affect the whole organism, and are followed by great malaise; the nervous system and the head and neck are painfully affected by these pains (twenty-sixth day), [1] . Profuse discharge of a yellowish-white liquid from the prepuce, smelling like ordinary pus (twenty-first day), [1] .

Slight suppuration between the glans and prepuce, on the right side (fourteenth day), [1] .

Painless suppuration of the pimple on the glans, with itching; it looks like a chancre (fifth day), [2] . Itching pimple on the glans penis, half as large as a kernel of wheat (fourth day), [2] . [70.] The chancre-like pimple on the glans has desiccated spontaneously leaving a painless red spot (sixth day), [2] .

The prepuce cannot be drawn back (twenty-first day), [1] .

Erections are painful on account of the continued swelling of the prepuce (twenty-seventh day), [1] .

Heat and pain of the penis; the inflammation is increased by the warmth of the bed (twenty-first day), [1] .

Slight pinching at the tip of the prepuce (sixth day), [1] .

Penetrating pain in the prepuce, as if a small bundle of fibres were seized (twenty-first day), [1] . Pricking in the prepuce (twenty-first day), [1] .

Itching and pricking on the margin of the prepuce (twenty-fifth day), [1] .

The testicle remains a little swollen and painful (twenty-first day), [1] .

Slight pains in the left testicle when walking, or from the pressure of the clothes (seventh to thirteenth days), [1] . [80.]

Acute pain in the left testicle, when walking (sixth day), [1] .

The swelling of the scrotum is less; increased suppuration of the glans (fifteenth day), [1] . The swelling of the scrotum has disappeared; the testicle is less painful; the suppuration has spread to the other side of the prepuce without affecting the glans (eighteenth day), [1] .

The swelling of the scrotum has entirely disappeared (twenty-first day), [1] .

The suppuration and inflammation of the scrotum are worse in the evening; the whole prepuce is affected (twenty-second day), [1] .

Heat and swelling of the scrotum, near the left groin, with pain on rubbing or touching it (fourteenth day), [1] .

Total loss of sexual desire, with relaxation of the penis (twenty-seventh day), [1] .

Emission every night (twelfth day), [2] .

Respiratory Organs.

Dry cough (twelfth day), [2] . Cough with white watery expectoration (twelfth day), [2] . [90.]

Hurried respiration, with sense of fulness under the sternum, several times in the course of the day (second day), [1] .

Slight pain in the lower part of the right ribs, at 2.30 P.M. (second day), [1] .

Pain under the sternum (twelfth day), [2] .

Heart And Pulse.

Sensation as if the apex of the heart was painful on the right side, at noon (second day), [1] . [100.]

Lancinating pain in the region of the heart (second day), [1] .

Palpitation of the heart while going up and down stairs, with sharp pain, as if it were poked with the finger; at 9 P.M. (second day), [1] .

Neck And Back.

[110.] Pain in the nape of the neck (twelfth day), [2] .

The neck is so painful that the head cannot be turned to the right without great difficulty and pain (tenth day), [2] . Drawing from the lower jaw to the middle of the neck on the right side, in the evening (second day), [1] .

Rheumatic pain in left scapula (first day), continuing until evening (third day), [2] . The pain in the calf has extended to the scapula, and is felt from the last ribs as far as the neck (tenth day), [1] .

Pain in the back and chest (twelfth day), [2] .

Stiffness of the loins with bruised pain in the abdomen and hypochondria; at 6 A.M. (fourth day), [1] .

Superior Extremities. Redness of the left arm (twelfth day), [2] . [120.]

Pain in the left arm in the morning (twelfth day), [2] . Elbow.

Dull pain above the wrist and in the radius; at 10.30 A.M. (third day), [1] .

Dull pain in the right wrist, penetrating to the middle of the forearm; the same sensation, but slighter, in the left arm (second day), [1] .

Slight pain in the second joints of the right fingers, at 9.30 A.M. (second day), [1] . [130.]

One of the right finger-nails is painful as if bruised; at 3.30 P.M. (fourth day), [1] .

Constant bruised feeling in the muscles and bones of the legs (second day), [1] . Thighs.

Sensation, while walking, as from dull thorns or straws between the thighs, or at times as if stiff, dry moss were applied to a raw sore (second day), [1] . Knees.

Weariness of the knees (twenty-third day), [1] .

Rheumatic pain in the right knee; it ceases on movement (sixth day), [1] .

Pain and bruised feeling in the right knee, when walking; of short duration, at 10 A.M. (second day), [1] .

Leg.

Pain in the right leg (twelfth day), [2] .

Rheumatic pain in right calf (eighth day), [1] ; it is intense and prevents walking (eighth and ninth days), [2] .

General Symptoms. [140.]

Ability to take a long walk without fatigue (twenty-ninth day), [1] . Lassitude and dejection (twelfth day), [2] .

Weary while talking (second day), [1] .

Great weariness in the evening; he has to go to bed (twenty-second day), [1] .

Debility (twenty-first day), [1] .

General weakness in the morning (second day), [1] .

General malaise (twenty-first day), [1] .

Objective. [150.] Red spot, with a yellowish pellicle and itching on the forepart of the wrist, at 12.30 P.M. (fourth day), [1] .

Ulcers on the legs (twelfth day), [2] .

Subjective. Itching on the forehead, as if mosquitoes alighted on it (sixteenth day), [1] .

Itching at the left labial commissure, at 9 A.M. (third day), [1] .

Itching of the scrotum (twenty-second day), [1] . Violent itching between the left ring and little fingers, and a red, itching spot on the second joint of the ring finger (fourth day), [1] .

Sleep And Dreams.

Sleepless at night and drowsy in daytime (second and twelfth days), [2] .

Very restless night; sleep often disturbed, with very great difficulty in getting to sleep again. (sixth day), [2] .

Very restless sleep, with very eccentric dreams (fifth day), [2] . [160.]

Sleep very restless; frightful dreams (third day), [2] . Always very restless at night; sleep disturbed and unrefreshing (seventh day), [2] .

He starts out of his sleep with fright twice in the night (twelfth day), [2] .

Dreams. Dreams about things which he defends courageously against thieves, who lay a thousand snares for him; and about unknown fruits, which he desires to taste, but which soon vanish (sixth day), [1] .

Dreams about a frightful storm, in which palaces are ruined and burned down, and great mountains fall, sending forth columns of steam (eighteenth day), [1] . Dreams about fighting and corpses; he picks up very small heads which had been half roasted on a brazier, and which opened their eyes and spoke to him very angrily (twenty-first day), [1] .

Loud talking in dreams at night (twelfth day), [2] .

( Morning ), In bed, dry mouth; bad taste; itching of anus; pain in arm. ( Evening ), In open air, fulness in temple; drawing from jaw to neck; pain in elbow.

( Open air ), Pain at side of elbow.