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PENTHORUM · T. F. Allen - Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica · Timothy Field Allen · 6,796 chars
General
Penthorum sedoides, L.
Natural order , Crassulaceae.
Common name , Stonecrop.
Preparation , Tincture of plant.
Authorities. 1 , Dr. D. B. Morrow, U. S. Med. Invest., N. S., 3, p. 565 (Eclectic Med. Journ., 1875), effects of tincture, doses of 10 drops, and after one hour 20 drops, on second day 40 drops, third day 60 drops at 9 A.M., and 50 drops at P.M.; 1 a , same, effects of 100 drops; 2 , Dr. Scudder, look 20 drops ("a young man took same dose and had similar effects").
Mind
During both provings the mind was dull and exceedingly discouraged and desponding, everything wrong but dinner, [1] , [1a] .
Reading interfered with because of mental dulness (second day), [1] .
Mind became so dull I gave up reading and lay upon the lounge (third day), [1] .
Head
On closing my eyes felt like I was floating; vertigo (third day), [1] .
Headache continued, could not read; went to hear Boutwell, followed his argument with difficulty, was much annoyed by the little noises made by the audience (second day), [1] . Headache came on again (third day), [1] .
(When commencing the proving, had a dull, heavy headache, with heat and soreness in the sacrum; this was cured), (third day), [1] .
An unpleasant heavy pain in the forehead, about the edge of the hair (after four hours), [2] .
Catarrhal aching in forehead, [1a] . [10.]
The fulness in the sinciput became an ache, as though a weight pressed down upon it (second day), [1] .
Itching of the hairy scalp (second day), [1] .
Eye And Ear.
The inner superior tarsal border of both palpebra itched and burned (third day), [1] . A full sensation in supraorbital region (a hearty supper), (first day), [1] .
Ringing and singing in both ears, [1a] .
Nose
*Discharges from nares thick, puslike, streaked with blood, and an odor as if from an open Bore (third day), [1] .
*A peculiar wet feeling in my nares as though a violent coryza would set in, which did not; the secretion from the nose became thickened and puslike, but not increased. Wet feeling in trachea and bronchia, passing from above downward, as if a coryza, would set in, followed by a slight feeling of constriction, which passed from above down through the chest (first day), [1] .
*The catarrhal feeling repeated itself (third day), [1] . Nose felt stuffed, as if swollen (second day), [1] .
Sense of fulness of the nose and ears (after four hours), [2] . [20.] A secondary symptom, a drawing or contractile feeling of the muscles of the side of the nose affected with catarrh, [1a] .
Itching in the nares, [1a] .
Mouth
Prickling-burning sensation on the tongue, as though scalded (first day), [1] .
Increased flow of saliva (first day), [1] .
The bloody sputa continues, [1a] .
Throat
The posterior nares feel raw, as if denuded of epithelium, [1a] .
Stomach
Appetite increased (third day), [1] .
Eructations and dejections of little collections of odorless flatus expelled with force (second day), [1] .
An unpleasant sensation of disgust and nausea, lasting for three hours, but not interfering with the following meal, which was eaten with greater relish, [2] . Soreness in epigastrium; this symptom appeared at first, not recorded because thought idiopathic, [1a] .
Abdomen
[30.]
Borborygmus (second day), [1] .
Parietes of abdomen felt thickened (second night), [1] .
A clawing, uneasy sensation about the umbilicus, which gradually passed to lower bowel (second day), [1] .
Twitching of muscles in abdomen (second day), [1] .
Rectum And Anus.
A crawling sensation in lower rectum as though a worm tried to escape (second day), [1] .
Burning in rectum at stool, continuing through afternoon, [1a] .
Itching of anus; haemorrhoids, with aching in sacrum and in sacra-iliac symphysis (some weeks after proving), [1a] .
Stool
Semi-fluid evacuation of the bowels next morning, having been somewhat constipated, [2] . Some weeks after proving, suffered from constipation, an atonic condition of the bowels and rectum, [1a] .
Was costive when commencing proving; had two natural stools from yesterday's medicine (third day), [1] .
Urinary Organs
[40.]
A dull aching in kidneys (third day), [1] .
The bladder became sore to pressure (third day), [1] .
Urine still increased in flow, with burning along the urethra when micturating (third day), [1] .
Urine continued in increased flow for more than a week, as did the burning in the urethra (after three days), [1] .
Urine clear, passed more frequently (second day), [1] . Urine actively acid, as shown by litmus; no cloud on boiling; threw down a sediment with sulph. acid, ammonia , and argent. nitricum and nitric acid, when boiled; the next day after the dose it was alkaline, as shown by litmus, and only precipitated with argent. nitricum ; slightly cloudy, with caloric; unloaded, but increased in quantity, [1a] .
Sexual Organs
Sexual orgasm (second night), [1] .
Erythismus of the sexual system, almost a satyriasis; a slight varicocele of long standing was apparently cured (some weeks after proving); this condition was succeeded by a corresponding depression of sexual function, approaching impotency, after months of time returning to the normal condition, [1a] .
Respiratory Organs.
In the morning, a cough seemed to come from deep in the chest, with soreness throughout the chest (third day), [1] .
Chest
Slight feeling of constriction, which passed from above down through the chest, followed the wet feeling in trachea and bronchia (first day), [1] .
Pulse
[50.]
Pulse regular, at 58 (first day), [1] .
Neck And Back.
Aching through basilar region, from back to front, [1a] .
The aching in sacral region reappeared, but subsided as the medicine was eliminated, [1a] .
Aching in sacrum and in sacro-iliac symphysis, with the itching of anus, haemorrhoids, [1a] .
(When commencing the proving, had heat and soreness in the sacrum, with a dull, heavy headache; this was cured), (third day), [1] .
Extremities
Arm went to sleep (numb), (second night), [1] .
Hand felt swollen (second night), [1] .
A trembling feeling of legs for several days, with soreness of knees, [1] .
While on the lounge the muscles of the leg were suddenly contracted, jerking up the foot as in stepping; in a moment the right one performed the same manoeuvre (third day), [1] .
Skin
A long-cured impetiginous eczema reappeared on both legs, [1a] . [60.] A few hot prickings in the skin (second and third days), [1] . Itching of face and forehead, [1a] .
The itchings repeated themselves (third day), [1] .
Sleep And Fever.
Fantastic dreams (second night), [1] .
Voluptuous dreams and increased sexual desire, sympathetic with urinary excitement [1a] . A very few cold chills rushed in succession up the spinal column (first day), [1] .