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General
Ailanthus Glandulosa.
The Tree of Heaven. (Eastern Asia; cultivated as a shade-tree in North America.) N. O. Simarubaceae. Tincture from flowers beginning to open.
Clinical
Acne. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Chancre. Coryza. Diphtheria. Headache. Mumps. Puerperal fever. Rheumatic fever. Scarlatina. Syphilis. Typhoid fever. Typhus fever.
Characteristics
Corresponds to conditions characterised by certain livid or purpled appearances of the skin. Rash coming out in patches. Eruptions which are slow in appearing. Low adynamic forms of disease with extreme prostration, torpor, vomiting.
Prostration at the outset of a disease is a leading indication for it. The patient is stupid, dull, delirious, weak. It has proved of signal service in cases of malignant and suppressed scarlatina. The head is burning hot, with piercing pains.
The parotid glands are sensitive and enlarged. The attacks are characterised by fulness of head with heat; pains burning, darting in temples and occiput; vertigo and nausea. The rash of Ailanth. often returns annually. A feeling of fulness everywhere, and a sensation of passage of electric current from head into limbs are prominent in the provings.
With the low fever of Ailanth. there is stupor or indifference with sighing. There is constant frontal headache of a neuralgic character. Paroxysmal headache with drowsiness during day, confused mind, depression. The throat is severely affected: thick, oedematous, dry, choky feeling.
Dry, rough, scrapy, < morning. Livid, swollen, with ulcers oozing a fetid discharge.
The symptoms are > lying on right side (bronchial affections). Sitting up = vomiting, dizziness. Motion = staggering. Walking about > toothache.
It is suited to nervous, sensitive persons. Bilious temperament. Stout and robust.
Relations
Ailanth. is related botanically to: Ptelea and the Xanthoxyleae. It is antidoted by: Alcohol, Rhus t., Nux. Compare: Am. c., Arn., Arum tr., Aloe (dull frontal headache), Bap., Bry., Gels., Hyo., Lach., Nit. ac., Nux v., Phytol., Hydrocy. ac., Rhus t., Stram., Echin. a.
Mind
Anxiety and restlesness
Low-spirited; continually sighing
Extreme irritability
Semi-conscious, cannot comprehend what is said to him
Stupor, delirium, and insensibility
Constant muttering delirium, with sleeplessness and restlessness
Since the poisoning all antecedents are forgotten; or remembered as matters belonging to another, or read about
Raging delirium with brilliant eyes.
Head
Severe headache, delirium, with fever and anxiety
Severe headache, with dizziness, and red, hot face; cannot sit up
Dizzy when rising up
Dull, heavy pressing in forehead; disinclined to think or act
Darting through temples and occiput, with confusion of ideas
Head burning hot with piercing pains.
Eyes
Eyes suffused and congested; startled look when aroused; pupils dilated and sluggish
Photophobia
Conjunctivitis; smarting, aching, lachrymation, purulent discharge.
Ears
Pain in ear when swallowing.—Parotid gland sensitive and enlarged.
Nose
Copious, thin, ichorous, and bloody discharge from the nose
Nostrils congested
Nose dry; secretion suppressed
Coryza, with rawness in nostrils; sneezing
Loss of smell.
Face
Face sallow, jaundiced; blue circles round eyes
Face red and hot, covered with a rash
Face mahogany-coloured
Great prostration, and countenance indicative of much distress
Purplish face
Irregular spots
Lips swollen, cracked; ulcers near commissures.
Mouth
Teeth covered with sordes
Tearing in teeth (l.) and face < lying down, > walking about, and by external pressure
Tongue dry, parched, cracked
Tongue moist; furred white; tip and edges livid.
Throat
Throat tender and sore on swallowing, or on admission of air
Throat sore on swallowing, hawks up a greenish purulent matter
Diphtheria, with extreme prostration
Throat livid, almost purple; swollen; tonsils prominent, and studded with many deep, angry-looking ulcers, oozing a scanty, fetid discharge; external neck swollen and sensitive
Irritability of the throat, and hawking up of mucus; puruloid; hard white lumps
Thick, oedematous and dry choky feeling in throat
Throat dry, rough and scrapy;
< in morning.
Stomach
Vomits food speedily during the chill; suddenly and violently when sitting up; with stupor
Thirst for cold drinks; for brandy
Peculiar feeling of emptiness in stomach.
Abdomen
Tenderness over liver region
Burning in stomach and bowels
Tympanites.
Stool
Thin, watery, offensive diarrhoea, passing involuntarily with the urine
Stools frequent, watery, forcibly expelled
Tapeworm.
Urinary Organs
Scanty or suppressed urine passed unconsciously; acid.
Male Sexual Organs
Sore on prepuce, looking like incipient chancre.
Female Sexual Organs
Malignant puerperal fever.—Vomiting of pregnancy.
Respiratory Organs
Breathing hurried, irregular, heavy
Cough deep, exhausting, dry, hacking: in violent fits, before retiring or on rising, until sputum is raised
Sputa: blood-mixed; yellow; bitter;
< morning
Aphonia
Croupy choking.
Chest
Stitching and aching in chest
Lungs sore and tender
Tired feeling in lungs, almost too much exertion to breathe
Burning in r. lung; contracted feeling in l
Chest feels strapped; or as if air-cells stuck together.
Heart
Rapid, small pulse, weak, frequent, and irregular.—Dull pain and contracted feeling in region of base of heart and through centre of l. lung.
Neck And Back
Neck tender, and very much swollen.—Constant sharp pains through small of back and hips.
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 characterised as above.
Skin
Skin cold, dry, livid
Eruption scanty with sore throat; of a bluish tint; livid; forehead and face of a purplish colour
Body and limbs covered with an irregular patchy eruption of a livid colour disappearing on pressure, returning very slowly
Large blisters filled with dark serum
Eruptions of miliary rash in patches of dark, almost livid colour; most on forehead and face.
Sleep
Drowsy, restless, soon passes into insensibility.