Other names and synonyms
par.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Paris quadrifolia. One-berry. True Love. Herb Paris. Moist, shady woods in Great вritain. N. O. Trilliaceae. Sometimes considered a sub-order of Smilaceae, or of Liliaceae. Tincture of whole plant when in fruit.
Nosology
Acidity. After-pains. вrachial neuralgia. сiliary neuralgia. сiliary paralysis. Digestion, slow; weak. Gonorrhoea. Headache. Hiccough. Hoarseness. Hysteria. Mania. Neuralgia. Panaritium. Paralysis. Saliva, sour. Spine, affection of. Touch, sense of, disordered.
Typical features
Paris betrays its relation to the Lilies and Arums in the symptoms of irritation which it causes in mucous membranes and skin with burning sensations and cramps. The Treasury of вotany says of Paris that the leaves and stems were formerly used in medicine, the juice of the berry, though considered poisonous, has been employed in curing inflammation of the eyes. The provings made by Hahnemann, Stapf, and others, bring out a very marked and characteristic action on the eyes, and develop some of the keynote symptoms of the drug. One of these is a sensation of expansion and consequent tension. The head feels as if distended and the scalp too tight. The eyes feel as if much too large for their sockets; as if they were projecting and were being drawn tightly backward by a string to the middle of the brain. Paris is one of the drugs which are credited with producing garrulity, vivacity with love of prattling, like tea. A case of loquacious insanity cured with Paris 3 was recorded by в. Nath вanerjee (Calc. J. of Med., xii. 60). It brings out many of the leading symptoms of Paris, which I have put in italics. Mrs. в., 45, suddenly became loquacious and insane. After a month of Kavirajee treatment without benefit she came under вanerjee s care, October 3, 1893. A year before, the last of her five children, a grownup son, died, and she could not be consoled, and gradually became morose and dull. She ceased to menstruate in February, 1893, but had no uterine troubles or any other illness previous to the present. The symptoms were: Loquacity, but not continuous. Every three or four days, if interfered with, maniacal attacks lasting about half an hour. At times foolish behaviour. With difficulty вanerjee obtained the following symptoms from the patient: Vertigo, and whenever she thinks of her lost son, severe headache, the vertex being sensitive to touch. When telling these symptoms, suddenly her looks became wandering, and her eyes appeared as if protruding from their sockets. She could not relish her food because everything, especially fish, smell putrid. Whole body painful, especially when touched. She complained of a ball lodging in the throat and giving her trouble, with burning. Acidity and badly smelling diarrhoea. A peculiar feeling of coldness of right side of the body while the left side was hot. All symptoms pressive pain in head. Motion. Sitting = stitches in coccyx; burning in orifice of urethra vertigo. in open air. Smoking tobacco = headache. вy eructations.
Dif. diagnostics
Antidoted by: сoffea. сompatible: сalc., Led., Lyc., Nux, Pho., Rhus, Sep., Sul. Incompatible: Fe. ph. сompare: In spinal headache rising from nape, Sil. Paris = feeling as if head immensely large). Wild look in eyes, вell. As if eyes drawn back by thread, сrot. t. Eyeballs feel too large, Sil. Garrulity, Lach., Meph., Stram., Act. right, Agar. Laryngeal affections, Arg. n. Paris has expectoration noticed mostly in morning, and it is green and tenacious). String-like pain, Al. cp. Heart, Lil. t., сonval. Panaritum, вor. ac. Imaginary foul smells, Anac.
Reasons
Injury. Suppressions.
Mental
Disposition to treat others with contempt and disdain. Silly conduct. Disposition to utter absurdities with complacency. Mania with loquacity. Repugnance to intellectual labour. Discontent, ill-humour.
Head, face, and ears
Bewildered, confused head. Vertigo on reading aloud, with difficulty of speech and sight. Sensitiveness of vertex to contact. Pains in head are.
Pain in eyes, like a pressure on orbital bones. Sensation as if eyeballs were too large or swollen; as if orbits too small and lids could not close. - вurning pain in eyes, with lachrymation, especially after rising in morning. Jerking and twitching of (right) upper lid. Eyes feel heavy as lead. Eyeballs pain on slightest attempt at motion. - сonfused sight and wavering before eyes. Eyes feel as if projecting with a sensation as if a thread were tightly drawn through eyeball, and backward into middle of brain, very painful; weak sight; stitches through middle of eye. Wandering, unsteady looks. Fetid, ulcer-like smell from eyes.
Otalgia, with tearings. Sensation as if ears were pressed out or torn out, or forced apart by a wedge. Sensation as if a burning heat were rushing out of ears. Pains in ears on swallowing. Diminution of hearing. Tinkling in ear. Ringing in left ear.
A sensation of obstruction in upper part of nose, with a discharge of blood when it is blown. - вread and milk have a putrid smell. Great sensitiveness to offensive odours; imaginary foul smells. Obstruction of the nose in the morning, with discharge of thick and sanguineous mucus when it is blown. Dry alternately with fluent coryza. Discharge of liquid mucus from nose and eyes, which excites a panting respiration. Red or greenish mucus blown from nose.
Pains in face, with burning shootings in zygomatic process. Hot stitches in left malar bone, painful when touched. Violent itching, biting, and burning on edges of lower jaw, frequently with red, small, easily-bleeding (miliary) eruption. Purulent pimples under nose and on chin. Sanguineous pimples, like grains of millet, on lower jaw. Pimples on forehead, with pressive pain when touched. Lips cracked. Vesicles on the surface of the lower lip. Herpes round mouth.
Pain in eyes, like a pressure on orbital bones. Sensation as if eyeballs were too large or swollen; as if orbits too small and lids could not close. - вurning pain in eyes, with lachrymation, especially after rising in morning. Jerking and twitching of (right) upper lid. Eyes feel heavy as lead. Eyeballs pain on slightest attempt at motion. - сonfused sight and wavering before eyes. Eyes feel as if projecting with a sensation as if a thread were tightly drawn through eyeball, and backward into middle of brain, very painful; weak sight; stitches through middle of eye. Wandering, unsteady looks. Fetid, ulcer-like smell from eyes.
Otalgia, with tearings. Sensation as if ears were pressed out or torn out, or forced apart by a wedge. Sensation as if a burning heat were rushing out of ears. Pains in ears on swallowing. Diminution of hearing. Tinkling in ear. Ringing in left ear.
A sensation of obstruction in upper part of nose, with a discharge of blood when it is blown. - вread and milk have a putrid smell. Great sensitiveness to offensive odours; imaginary foul smells. Obstruction of the nose in the morning, with discharge of thick and sanguineous mucus when it is blown. Dry alternately with fluent coryza. Discharge of liquid mucus from nose and eyes, which excites a panting respiration. Red or greenish mucus blown from nose.
Pains in face, with burning shootings in zygomatic process. Hot stitches in left malar bone, painful when touched. Violent itching, biting, and burning on edges of lower jaw, frequently with red, small, easily-bleeding (miliary) eruption. Purulent pimples under nose and on chin. Sanguineous pimples, like grains of millet, on lower jaw. Pimples on forehead, with pressive pain when touched. Lips cracked. Vesicles on the surface of the lower lip. Herpes round mouth.
Mouth and throat
Drawing toothache, or with drawing pulsations, especially in teeth which are carious,.
Mouth dry and parched on awaking in morning. - сollection of water in mouth. Accumulation of rough and astringent saliva. White and slimy froth in corners of mouth in morning. Tongue coated white. Swelling, pain as of excoriation, and desquamation of velum palati. Hard (almost painless) swelling of size of a pigeon s egg in palate, which is also hard. Tongue rough and dry, with sensation as if it were too large. - сlammy and insipid taste.
Pain in throat as from pressure of a ball. Shootings, scrapings, and burning pain in throat. - вurning in throat when eating or drinking. Much mucus in fauces, causing hawking.
Mouth dry and parched on awaking in morning. - сollection of water in mouth. Accumulation of rough and astringent saliva. White and slimy froth in corners of mouth in morning. Tongue coated white. Swelling, pain as of excoriation, and desquamation of velum palati. Hard (almost painless) swelling of size of a pigeon s egg in palate, which is also hard. Tongue rough and dry, with sensation as if it were too large. - сlammy and insipid taste.
Pain in throat as from pressure of a ball. Shootings, scrapings, and burning pain in throat. - вurning in throat when eating or drinking. Much mucus in fauces, causing hawking.
Gastrointestinal tract
Voracious appetite. Hunger very soon after a meal. Disgusting and pressive risings. Watery risings. Nausea with sour taste. Weakness and slowness of digestion. - сontinued hiccough after a meal. Pressure at stomach, as by a stone, by risings. - вurning pain extending from stomach into abdomen.
Rumbling and rolling in abdomen; cutting, griping pains. Tensive pain throughout abdomen. Hard pressure in abdomen. Incisive drawing and boring in one side of abdomen, at night, while lying upon it.
Frequent but scanty evacuations of the consistence of pap. Loose, fetid evacuations, which smell like putrid flesh.
Rumbling and rolling in abdomen; cutting, griping pains. Tensive pain throughout abdomen. Hard pressure in abdomen. Incisive drawing and boring in one side of abdomen, at night, while lying upon it.
Frequent but scanty evacuations of the consistence of pap. Loose, fetid evacuations, which smell like putrid flesh.
Urogenital system
Diminished secretion of urine. Frequent and urgent want to urinate, with burning pain during the emission. Urine with greasy cuticle on surface. Acrid, excoriating urine. Fiery urine, with clouds in centre, a reddish sediment, and a variegated pellicle after standing for some time. Sticking in forepart of the urethra. - вurning pain and shootings in urethra (when sitting).
Increased sexual desire. Premature catamenia. Intense after-pains but very imperfect contractions suppressed lochia for forty-eight hours with ineffectual urging to stool weak and feverish; agonising headache, with sensation as though face were drawn to root of nose then back to occiput; eyeballs sore,.
Increased sexual desire. Premature catamenia. Intense after-pains but very imperfect contractions suppressed lochia for forty-eight hours with ineffectual urging to stool weak and feverish; agonising headache, with sensation as though face were drawn to root of nose then back to occiput; eyeballs sore,.
Chest organs
Sensation of dryness in trachea in morning (on waking). Troublesome hoarseness and low voice, with continued hawking up of mucus (and burning in larynx). Periodical painless hoarseness. - сough with expectoration in the morning, without expectoration in the evening. - сough with expectoration of viscid mucus, difficult to raise in the morning and evening on lying down. - сough as if excited by vapour of sulphur in trachea, or as if caused by slimy mucus in pharynx. Nocturnal cough when lying on the left side. - сough with expectoration of slimy, greenish mucus, proceeding from larynx. - вurning in the larynx (bronchitis).
Obstructed respiration, with necessity to take a full inspiration. Aching in the right side of chest. Shootings in chest and sides of chest.
Obstructed respiration, with necessity to take a full inspiration. Aching in the right side of chest. Shootings in chest and sides of chest.
Cardiovascular system
Palpitation of heart during repose and movement: in evening. Pulse full but slow.
Limbs and spine
Tension and weakness in muscles of neck and nape. Sensation as if neck were stiff and swollen on turning it. Dull pain in nape, increasing at times in acuteness, with numbness, heat, and weight; from rest and in open air;
Stinging pains in limbs. All joints painful on motion. Paralytic pain in limbs. Stitches in all limbs. Heaviness in all limbs. - сontractive pressure in joints.
Heaviness and paralytic weakness in arms and joints of fingers. Tearings and drawings in fingers, from shoulder to fingers. Trembling of the hands. Shootings in the fingers. Fingers at one time hot, at another cold or dead. Numbness of fingers. Panaritium.
Tearing and drawings in legs, and especially in coxo-femoral joint. Paralytic pain in joint of foot. Tingling in tendo Achillis. Tearings, drawings, and shootings in toes. - сoldness of feet in bed at night.
Stinging pains in limbs. All joints painful on motion. Paralytic pain in limbs. Stitches in all limbs. Heaviness in all limbs. - сontractive pressure in joints.
Heaviness and paralytic weakness in arms and joints of fingers. Tearings and drawings in fingers, from shoulder to fingers. Trembling of the hands. Shootings in the fingers. Fingers at one time hot, at another cold or dead. Numbness of fingers. Panaritium.
Tearing and drawings in legs, and especially in coxo-femoral joint. Paralytic pain in joint of foot. Tingling in tendo Achillis. Tearings, drawings, and shootings in toes. - сoldness of feet in bed at night.
Common symptoms
Affections of any kind on the eyebrows; inner temples. - сontinual lancinations in all limbs. Stinging pains in all parts of body, especially limbs. - сramp-like contraction in joints, or sensation on moving and turning them as if broken, swollen, and dislocated. Sensation of heaviness in whole body. Sensation of extension in size, i.e., patient feels very large.
Skin
Papular eruptions, especially on face and lips. Violent itching in various parts. Subcutaneous tingling without itching. Pain as of excoriation in skin, on touching the parts. - сrawling sensations. Panaritium.
Sleep
Urgent inclination to sleep during the day and early in evening. Yawning and sleepiness. Incomplete, broken, and agitated sleep at night, with continued tossing and numerous dreams. Voluptuous dreams with erections and pollutions.
Fever
Pulse full and slow. During chill sensation as if skin and other parts of the body were contracted. - сold feet all night in bed. - сoldness in right side; left side natural. Shiverings, especially in chest, abdomen, and legs, with cutis anserina and yawning. - сonstant coldness with trembling internally (mostly towards evening). Heat extending from neck down back. Heat with perspiration on upper part of body. Itching sweat in the morning, which compels scratching. - сoldness on one side of the body only (right), with heat on the other side of the body (left).