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Hale - Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies · Edwin Moses Hale · 3,772 chars
General
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OppicmAL PnEPAKATiONS. — Tlncturc of the leaves, wifb strong alcohol ; infusion ; dilutions.
Amalogtjes. — Aielepias inc., OamlophyUutu, Gimie^fuga, Ohi'ata^\ila, Eupatorium purp., Helonioi, PuUatilla, Seneeio, Wvaurti.
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442 MITCHELLA KEPENS,
Dread of approaching death. Perceptive faculties very dull.
Head and Eyes. Throbbing pain on right side of head. Severe frontal headache just behind the superciliary ridges. Ejefi dull and heavy. Eyes feel weak and watery.
Dull aching pain in right ear; burning of left car.
Face
Hush of blood to the face.
Mouth And Throat
Pricking and burning sensation in the tongue.
Fauces teel dry and irritated.
Constriction hindering deglutition.
Stomach
Eructation, with burning in the stomach, and along up the
(esophagus.
Dull aching pain in the epigastrium.
AbdoQien.
Distension of the bowels with expulsion of flatus.
Colic pain in the colon which is tender on pressure.
Bectum and Stool. Bowels costive.
Urging to stool; diarrhtEic stools. Small stool with tenesmus, expelled with difficulty.
Urine
* Urging to urinate; urine high color; white sediment.
* Dull aching pain over the region of the kidneys.
* Swollen and irritated condition of urethra and neck of bladder,
* Catarrh of the bladder, especially in women. {Hale.)
* Dysuria accompanying uterine complaints, A feeling of uneasiness at neck of the bladder. Kotable increase of the urinary secretion {priTnary).
Uterus.
A powerful uterine-tonic, {Ki/ng^ Cervix engorged, dark, red and swollen.
" Delayed menstruation.
" Engorgement of uterus, from lack of tone in muscular wall of the organ.
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* AmenorrlKea, dysmenorrhcea and menorrliagia.
" False labor pains in last months of pregnancy.
" Slow, feeble and inefficient labor pains. (The tincture to be
taken three times a day (ten drops) for two weeks before
continemeiit.) {Male.) Breathing hun'ied; dry, hacking cough, from accumulation of
mucns in the bronchia.
Chest
Burning pain over region of heart {in muscles?).
Heart beats slow and irregularly, then hurried.
HuiTied breathing, dry, hacking cough, and excess of mucoB
in the bronchia.
Back
Back feels very weak, with great soreness.
Mnscles of both shoulders very sore.
Pain in region of the kidneys.
Dull aching pain in small of the back Burning in small of the back.
Great pain in lower extremities, Gfreat pain in knee joints, relieved by motion. Muscular soreness.
Dull bnrning and sore pains in all the muscles of the extremi- ties.