Homeopathy LibraryGymnocladus Canadensis
Hale - Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies · Edwin Moses Hale · 3,424 chars
General
{American Cuff«e4ree.)
Botanical DESCinprroN A pretty large tree, deslitule of spines or prickies, witli rougli bark and few atont bvanchoa. Leavea unequally bipinnal*. Flowers in axillary racemes.
Petals white. Legume sis to ten inches long and nearly two inches broad; a little curbed, and of a brown color. Seeds more than half an Inch in diameter. The Qymno- cladus is one of the fairest trees in our Western woods, and is planted as an ornament in the gardens of Europe.
A group of tliem stands near Paris, some of whicli are forty feet higli. In their native air they reach even fifty and sixty feet in height, with a stem of twelve or fifteen inches in diameter; even whca standing alone it does not branch out at a height of less than thirty foet ; the top ia formed hy a few but very long branches, and is not wide, but beautifully regular. It flourislies only in tlie best soil, with black walnut, red elm, poplar, blue ash, honey locust, etc. ; has a useful, hard wood, and beara, in some years, an abundance of largo pods, containing two, three or four seeds, of a size of a walnut.
Officinal Prepabations. — Tincture of the seeds.
AsALoatiES. — Agarieas, u^tliwia. Belladonna, Ciaiita, Hyosciaimis, Loch- mis, Lachnanthea, Solantim nigntm. Stramonium.
SCental Sphere. Indifferent to what tranepires. Constantly forgetting.
Head
Fullness and pressure in and over the eyes. Intense frontal headache, feeling as if the eyes were pnshed
forward.
Pain in left temple shooting through to the right side.
Intense headache, with stitclies in the bowels.
Desir's to lean the head on something; headl'eeisaa if bound np.
Face and Eyes.
Sensation as of flies crawling over the right side of the tace.
Face hot, swelled as in erysipelas.
Eyes feel as if pushed forward.
Burning in left orbit, and sensation as if it would be forced out Frequent, violent sneezing.
* Erj'sipelas of the face.
Mouth And Throat
Slightest draught of cold air sets the teeth aching.
* Sore throat, a dark livid redness of fauces and toueils. Tongue coated a bluish white.
Water in the mouth almost to vomiting.
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Stomach
Nausea, with pain and fullness in the stomach.
Heat in the stomach, and sonr, watery eructations.
Gulping' of wind, nausea, dizziness, and nneafiiness of the bowels.
Abdomen
Hot feeling in stomach and bowels after the cold chills. Stitches and pinching pains in the bowels, disappearing aftei
ernetations. Soreness of the abdomen.
Stool
Constipation.
Desire for stool, with inabihty. Feeling in the abdomen as if diarrhcea would follow.
Urinary Organs
Frequent desire to urinate, with pressure and fullnesfl. Urine brown, yellow, turbid.
Generative Organs. Increased sexual desire.
Larynx
Tickling in the throat producing a cough. Dry, racking cough in the evening (increases from morning till night).
Chest
Pain in right breast; pressure in the chest. Stitches in the right breast, and on inspiration.
Superior Extremities.
Violent pain in the left forearm, between the elbow and wiist- Dull pain in the fingers.
Palms of the hands perspire,
Lower Extremities.
Stinging pain in left knee joint.
Pain in left leg, from knee to ankle.
Peculiar feeling of numbness in the whole body. {Left side mostly affected.)
* Epidemic fevers, with typhoid character.
Cold chills and pain in the bowels.
Pulse small and quick; desire for increased heaL
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