Erechthites Hieracifolia

(Fire WesA.)

Dbsoription'. — This common plant is found in moist woods, and is very common in recent clearings, where the groimd lias been burned over — whence Its popular name. It grows fl'om one to Ave feet high, has a hairy, grooved stem; a coarse looking annual, of rank smell; alternate simple 'eaves, lanceolate, acute, cut, toothed, sessile ; flowers white, in a large head. It was once called a sonecio. It blooms from July to September.

Ofpicihal Pbepabations.— Tincture of the plant; dilutions. The o^;, and dilutions from it.

Analogues. — Asarum, Cvieba, Copaiva, Erigeron, MtllefoKwa, Sabiiut, TriUium, Terebinthina.

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BEECHTHITES HIEKACIF0LI08. 279

Vertigo, everything goes up, down and sidewise. Dull frontal headache.

Headache, with throbbing in the temporal arteries, with flashes of heat running across the hack from one shoulder to the other; the sensation of heat suddenly gives way to cold- ness, wliich darts across the face and back in a similar manner, accompanied with nausea.

* Epistaxis of bright I'ed blood.

* Bleeding from tlie gums and looseness of the teeth.

Eructations, with burning in the stomach, cramps in the bowels.

Uneasiness of the stomach as if nausea was about to set in.

Vomiting, with burning in stomach, afterwards empty retching.

Feeling in the stoujach as if it would be dissolved; after drinking cold water.

Nausea, with giddiness and headache.

Extravagant appetite.

Vomiting of bloody mucus ; ° even pure blood.

" Eructations and heartburn after eating warm bread or coffee. Abdomen and Stool.

Cramps in the region of umbilicus, recurring every 15 minutes.

Constipation, followed by copious diarrhtea.

Copious diaiThcea of yellow fcecal matter, of a mushy consist- ence, preceded by griping in the morning, followed by two or tiiree days' constipation.

" Haemorrhage from the bowels (in typhus).

?sive haemorrhage from hemorrhoidal veins. :;eric discharges of almost pure blood.

Small mucous stools, streaked with blood, with tenesmus. Generative Organs.

(female.) * Profuse menorrhagia and metrorrhagia of bright red blood.

" Premature and profuse menses.

(Male.) Stimulation of the genital organs, with erection and dreams of nudity and sliame.

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aOO EiflOEEON OANADENSE.

Erection, with dreams and emissions toward morning.

* Slight baruing pains in meatus urinariue, with profuse urina-

tion.

* Swelling of the right testicle, with painful, continuous aching,

tenderness to the touch.

* [Trine very scanty, painful, scalding and bloody; blood oozed

from the urethra after urinating.

* TJriue dark, scanty, and mixed with blood.

* Hemorrhage from the kidneys and bladder.

Urine contained a large amount of mucus floating about in

Bronohia. Cough, with rauco-punilent expectoration (almost bloody).

•^ Active arterial hsemorrhages, with general excitement of the circulation.