Ptelea trifoliata

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 Common names, Hop Tree, Wafer Ash, etc.

 Ptelea trifoliata, L. Natural order, Rutaceae. Preparation, Tincture of the bark of the root.

 Emotional. After eating, in the morning, a feeling of liveliness and activity for one hour; next hour, gradual passing off of cheerfulness, amounting to sadness, and a disposition to be displeased with every body and everything (third day); feeling, as before, of liveliness after eating, followed by great depression of spirits (fourth day). Depression of spirits, and a feeling of anxiety about some unknown thing, with the severe headache, in the afternoon (eighth day). Disposition to worry about something, he hardly knows what (ninth day). General depression of spirits (ninth day). Lowness of spirits during the forenoon (second day). Great lowness of spirits (first and second days). Despondency (sixth day). Very irritable and desponding (fifth day). Unusually irritably all day (fourth day). Irritable mood; a very slight annoyance keeps recurring to his mind, impelling to speak about it (fifth day). Irritable and intolerant of noise, with feverish feeling (fourth day). Wanted to be let alone (after second dose). Unsteadiness and nervous irritability, at 11 p.m (third day). Ordinary conversation in the room greatly annoys (after thirty-five minutes). Unusually annoyed by noise (third day). Nervousness; an unexpected noise startles and causes a shooting pain over the eyes (seventh day). During the day would be startled at slight unusual sounds (sixth day). Nervousness (fourth and fifth days). Intellectual. Unusual energy to work, in fact feels better than before commencing the (proving), (fifth day). In writing a letter, felt a curious and unusual disposition to hurry through with it as quickly as possible, hardly taking time to write the words (first day). Able to examine papers, but inclined to hurry with it, and in selecting the remedy, inclined to follow Fred Humphrey’s rule, First impressions are the best’ (fifth day). вetter able to study than on previous day, but difficult to concentrate his thoughts (fifth day). Sudden shrinking from any mental work, with sickness and faintness (soon). Disinclination for mental labor (fourth day).
 Disinclination for mental exertion (second day). Marked indisposition for mental work (after seven hours and a half).
 During the whole day, unusual indisposition to a mental or physical exertion (second day); malaise of body and mind; desire to lie on the lounge and think of nothing at all (third day).
 Lassitude and weariness, with disposition to hurry (fourth day); mental lassitude (fifth day); continued (seventh day). сonfusion of thought, with hurriedness of manner (soon). A little ordinary writing difficult, and confusion of the mind and vertigo (after one hour). Lassitude of mind, with disinclination to study; tasks performed in a performed in a perfunctory manner (after seven hours). Extreme lassitude; disinclination for mental labor or bodily exertion (third day). Thoughts chased each other through the mind; it seemed impossible to fix the attention upon any one object; from 1 till 5 p.m (fifth day). вrain seems agitated, mind confused (after second dose, third day). A feeling of mental uneasiness, wandering form one subject to another (after second dose, second day). сould not concentrate his thoughts, in the forenoon (third day). Mind feels dazed and languid (second day). Weakness of mind very marked (fifth day).
 Unfit for mental exertion all day, and toward the afternoon had to give up exertion of every kind (tenth day). Was weighing out a trituration, and the mental confusion was so great that he had some difficulty in telling what was the tenth part of 150 grains (after twelve hours and a quarter, second day). Mind confused (four hours and a half after fourth dose). сonfusion of ideas (one hour after third dose). Unable to follow the train of thought when reading what is by no means difficult (after six hours and two-thirds, third day). Goes about his professional duties in a perfunctory manner, very unlike the fiery zeal with which he usually combats disease and his allopathic step-brethren (second day). Dulness, in the afternoon (sixth day). Severe prostration of mind (fourth day). Memory. His intellectual powers moved slowly and heavily, and had difficulty in recalling familiar things to mind (after thirteen hours, third day).
 Extraordinary weakness of memory; was unable to recall the names of familiar people (fourth day). Forgetfulness, writing one familiar word for another of similar sound (soon). Extreme forgetfulness (after two hours and five minutes). Marked forgetfulness, with increase of the headache (after eight hours); more marked (second day); more forgetful than before the proving, and yet, by collecting the thoughts, able to recall things read many years ago; able to supply some additional items to a professional paper, intended to be exhaustive (fifth day); forgetfulness continued (seventh day), Fretfulness and irritability, without the slightest exciting cause (sixth day).

 Eye.
 Pressure over the eyes, aggravated by lifting the eyebrows (after half an hour). Heavy feeling over the eyes (fourth day). сutting pains over right eye, sometimes left (eleventh day). Occasional throbbing pain over eyes, first right, then left (fifth day). After going to bed, severe throbbing pains over eyes, first right, then left (ninth day). Throbbing pain over right eye (thirteenth day); sometimes shooting from eye, also in right temporal region (twenty-first day). Sensitiveness to the light (fourth day). Nervous weakness of the eyes (tenth day).
 Nervous irritability of the eyes (third day). Smarting of the eyes (after six hours, second day). Eyes heavy (twenty-first and thirty-first days). Pupils contracted (after second dose, third day).
 Ear.
 Soreness and swelling of the lymphatic gland under right ear (fourteenth day). Swelling of lymphatic gland under right ear (twenty-third day); swelling of lymphatic disappearing (twenty- eighth day). At 6 soon after taking the drug, had a pain behind the right ear; also twice during the evening (second day).
 About half an hour after taking drug, had a sharp pain behind the right ear, near the carotid artery (third day). Pain behind right ear, at 3 (third day). Pain behind right ear, at 6 ; hard, at 10 (fourth day). Awoke from nap, at 5 with pain behind right ear and in shoulder, near the spine of right scapula (fifth day). A few minutes after taking drug, had a very severe pain in the right ear (sixth day). At 9 p.m felt a sharp pain behind the right ear; has not felt one since the last proving, and never any before that (third day). Pain behind the right ear, which she felt certain was caused by the drug (soon, seventh day). Occasional stitches behind the right ear (fifth day). Shooting pains from left ear down to the spine (thirty-first day). Sharp pain in left ear, at 8 p.m (eighth day). Intolerance of loud talking; a voice usually pleasant sounds very coarse and rough; thought that it would produce spasms if he were obliged to listen; impression produced by the sound heard last continues a long time (four hours and a half after fourth dose). At 7.30 p.m ringing in the ears, with slight giddiness; the ringing lasted for two or three minutes, and returning for the same length of time, half an hour later (second day). Roaring in the ears (third morning, fourth and fifth days).

 Confusion and Vertigo. сonfusion of the head, with the rising of the bitter fluid (fifth day). Head confused and giddy when retiring to bed at 10.30 (eleventh day). Head weak and confused (twelfth day). Slight vertigo accompanying the rumbling and swelling in the umbilical region (after six hours); increase of the vertigo, with straining at stool (after seven hours and a half); vertigo, aggravated by even a moderate warmth of the room (first day); an attack of vertigo, without any exciting cause other than the Ptelea, so violent as to compel discontinuance of writing and the bow the head on the hands, closing the eyes; it was preceded and accompanied by mild nausea, with slight griping pains in the stomach (after eight hours, second day). Fits of vertigo, lasting three to five minutes, relieved by moving about, but worse on sudden motion; sensation as if all objects about him were in quick violent agitation (after two hours, second day); fits of vertigo not so frequent but more decided; worse on sudden motion and bending forward (after four hours); vertigo only when stooping (after six hours, second day). Vertigo, aggravated by even turning the head gradually (after half an hour). Attempting to walk aggravated the vertigo very much; unable to stand alone (after forty-five minutes). Vertigo, aggravated by rising from a chair (after forty-five minutes). A sudden attack of vertigo, lasting about one minute, at 11 (second day).
 Slight vertigo, with choking feeling in the pharynx (after thirteen hours, third day). Dizziness when walking (seventh day).
 On turning the head to look at the clock, taken with sudden giddiness and with faint feeling (after twenty minutes); too giddy to sit up (after thirty-five minutes); rising aggravates the giddiness. Transient giddiness, with heat of the head and face, especially on the forehead (second day). On rising, giddiness, with piercing pain through the brain, accompanied by severe aching pain in the stomach (seventh day). Giddiness, with vertigo, at 5 ; vertigo long continued, and after it increase of abdominal tenderness (eighth day). Giddiness, with the persistent nausea (tenth day). The giddiness of head and reeling in walking much increased (eleventh day). Attacked with too much giddiness and vertigo to keep up (twelfth day). Giddiness (after second dose). Giddiness, dulness, and languor, in the afternoon (third day). Head in General. Head feels light (four hours and a half after fourth dose). Heaviness of the head, with a muddled feeling, and dull aching pain in forehead (third day).
 Sensation of fullness in brain (tenth day). When coughing, head feels as if it would burst (twenty-first day). Head languid and heavy (after six hours and a half, third day). Dull heavy feeling in the head (sixth day). Dull pain through the head, in the afternoon (second day). Severe dull headache all day, aggravated by walking (third day). Severe dull headache, aggravated by walking upstairs (after three hours, third day). Dull headache set in about 10 p.m; continues through the afternoon (second day). Dull headache, pressing from within outwards. The headache does not incapacitate for mental exertion, but causes a languor and indisposition to work (after one hour and a quarter); increase of headache, with marked forgetfulness (after eight hours); headache aggravated by even a moderate warmth of the room (first day); headache persistent, during the morning (second day); headache a little better before dinner; an hour and a half after much worse, and aggravated by mental exertion (second day).
 Dull headache, with a feeling as if he had fever (after two hours, second day). A little dull headache (ninth day). Rose with a dull headache, which wore away after an hour or two (fourth morning); dull headache in morning (fifth day); rose with headache (sixth, seventh, and tenth mornings). Headache, a stunning pressing pain, in the frontal region, closely resembling a chronic headache, which he had had for many years, and which his master in the institute of homoeopathy, Doctor сonstantine Hering, cured with one prescription of Rhus toxicodendron (third day). Dull oppressive headache came on, while reading, about 9 (third day). Dull pressive headache, with distress in the umbilicus and nausea (after eight hours). сonstant pressive headache all the forenoon (fourth day). Pressive feeling at the base of the brain, closely resembling the well-known Ipecac symptom. Headache, as if the hair and skull were bruised, penetrating through the bones down to the root of the tongue, with nausea (first day). Splitting headache, incapacitating for mental exertion, with nausea (fifth day). Splitting headache, aggravated by stooping, moving the eyes, and reading (fifth day).
 Full throbbing headache, with dizziness and nausea (ten minutes after second dose, second day); headache continued the same for half an hour, when it became sharp and darted from temple to temple; very painful; especially when moving. Severe throbbing headache on rising (twenty-first day). сonscious of stunning headache before he was awake (fourth day). Quick sudden starts of headache during the afternoon (first day); headache (after third dose, second day); headache soon after 5 p.m; severe headache after 1 (third day); arose at 9 p.m with headache; became violent, on a sudden movement after doses, at 4 ; confined to left side; passed off after stool (fourth day); dull headache (fifth day); occasional headache (sixth day), This morning the headache is so severe that mental exertion is a burden, and the pain is materially aggravated by any attempt to study (seventh day). Oppressive headache over eyes (after third dose, second day). In the afternoon a severe headache, with depression of spirits, and a feeling of anxiety about some unknown thing (eighth day). Awoke with headache and hunger, both of which passed off after a hearty breakfast (eighth day). Head aches and feels large, at 2 (fifth day). Headache during afternoon; increased during evening; quite severe upon retiring (third day); during afternoon and evening (fourth and fifth days); headache (sixth day); awoke with slight headache (seventh day). Headache continued all day, aggravated by walking (first day).
 Considerably flighty headache (fourth day). Awoke with hard headache; passed off in a short time (fourth day). Woke with the usual morning headache (sixth day). Singing aggravates the headache, causing shooting pains from within outwards, and increases the nausea (second day). Aching pain at the base of the brain, though the intellectual powers were as active as usual, at 1 (first day). Headache all through cerebrum before rising; relieved somewhat on rising (fifth morning).
 Headache seems to be more in the cerebellum (twenty-second day). Headache over the eyes (ninth day). At 10.15 p.m headache set in; obliged to lie down (seventh day). Headache, at 11 p.m.
 (third and fifth days). Headache (fourth day); (thirty-first day); (tenth day). Some headache during the evening (eighth day); Headache set in on waking; continued during the forenoon (ninth day). Slight headache, after a long walk (first day). Slight headache, at night (fifth night). Slight headache, all the afternoon (sixth day). Slight headache and hot flushes, at 2.
 (seventh day). Slight headache, in the morning (eighth and eleventh days). Slight continuous headache, during the forenoon (second day). Slight headache (eleventh to fourteenth day). Not much headache (third and fourth days). Head just ready to ache, at 5 (fourth day). Sharp cutting pains through the front of the brain, alleviated by pressing it with the hands (ninth day).
 Shooting pains in the head, before rising, in the morning (seventh day). Pains in head quite severe, at 9.30 (eighth day). Pain in head, aggravated by rising (after one hour).
 Slight pain in the head, which increases in severity, towards evening (tenth day). Muddled feeling in the head, with poor appetite for breakfast (seventh day). Sensation of intoxication (after two hours, second day). Slight return of the head symptoms, at 6 p.m (third day). Forehead. Dull aching pain through forehead and temples (fifth day). Dull pains in the forehead (fourth day). Dull heavy feeling in frontal region (thirty-third day). Severe frontal headache, lasting about ten minutes, at 11 p.m (first day). Dull frontal headache all day (second day). Dull frontal headache (twentieth day). Dull frontal headache, feeling as if the temples would be pressed together (after three hours). Dull frontal headache, lasting all the afternoon (first day). Dull heavy headache in frontal region (third night). Heavy pressing frontal headache still continues, the pain pressing from within outwards, aggravated by stooping (third day). Full pressive ache in frontal and temporal regions (half an hour after third dose, third day). A number of times through the forenoon had a feeling in the forehead as if it were being pressed together from temple to temple, with severe distress in the region of the spleen and right side of umbilicus (second day). сonstant frontal headache, with severe pressive pains in the temples, from one temple to the other, every ten or fifteen minutes (third day). Pressure in frontal region, extending into root of nose, with a sensation as if a nail was being driven into the brain on the left side (third day). On rising, in the morning, a feeling of pressure in frontal region and in root of nose (second day). Racking frontal headache on waking, aggravated by rolling the eyes upward (second day).
 Racking frontal headache, with heat of the face and head (after ten hours and a half, fifth day). Throbbing headache in the frontal and temporal regions, very painful (after third dose, third day). Severe frontal headache, the pain throbbing, at 10 (fourth day). Frontal headache so severe that he almost felt it during sleep, and on waking at intervals during the night, noticed that it was more intense than during the day (second night). Headache in frontal and temporal regions, at 6p.m (fifth day). Frontal headache, in the forenoon (second day); in the afternoon (seventh day). Frontal headache all day, pressing from within outwards (second day). Frontal headache was aggravated by moving the eyes and by noise (after forty-five minutes). Sharp pains shoot from the right to the left frontal region (second day). Sharp darting pains through the forehead and temples (after second dose). Severe darting pains through forehead (second night). Severe darting and throbbing pains in the left supraorbital region (soon after fifth dose, third day). Severe darting pains just above the supraorbital ridge (fourth day).
 Sharp darting pain through left superciliary ridge, extending deep into the head, lasting but a short time; would return at intervals, whether in motion or not (one hour after second dose, third day). Severe pains in forehead and occiput, in the evening (second day). Pain in the forehead and temples, in the afternoon (sixth day). Pain in the forehead (seventh day). Severe pain in forehead (tenth day). Pain in the forehead deeper in brain (third day). Temples. Aching pressive pain in the temples, aggravated by chewing (fourth day). Dull pressive pains in the temples, with occasional fine neuralgic pains (after six hours, first day). Sudden pressive pain in the temples; it feels as if the temples would be pressed together (after one hour). Several times through the forenoon had pressive pains from one temple to the other (third day). A number of times through the day had hard pressive pains in the temples (fifth day). In the afternoon had hard pressive pains at times in the left temple (first day). Once in the evening had hard pressing pains in the right temple (fourth day). Hard pressive pain in right temple (after half an hour, third day). Fine sharp pains of a pressive character in the left temple (first day). Several times in the forenoon had severe cutting pains in the right temple (fifth day); not so severe (sixth day). Severe darting pain in the right temple, and throbbing pains in the left supraorbital region (after two hours and a half, second day). Severe darting pains in right temporal region (fourth day). Frequent darting pains in right temple, with constant distress in stomach (probably mechanical), (after one hour). Piercing pain shooting through the temples, with increased headache and nausea, at 12.45 (third and fourth days). Sharp neuralgic pains in the right temple (after twenty minutes). Some throbbing pain in right temple (twenty-third day). Throbbing pain s over left temple, then over right (ninth day). Headache, worse in left temple, about noon (fifth day). Headache in left zygomatic region, at 7 (second day). At 10.
 Headache set in, confined to the temporal region (sixth day).
 Constant dull headache all the forenoon, with frequent paroxysms of pain in the right temple, as if it would be pressed to the left side (second day). Occasional pains in the left temple (after nine hours). Pain in the right temple (seventh day).
 Painful sensations in the temporal region, continuing over an hour, at 1.30 (third day). Pain in left temple, at 6.
 (fourth day). Awoke having hard sticking pain in left temple, followed by a dull headache (fifth morning). Pain in right mastoid process of temporal bone, at noon (fifth day). Fine stitches in the right temple, with dull distress in the stomach (after forty minutes). Vertex and Parietals. Hot flushes and pain in top of head and eyes (fifth day). Some pains in head on left side, but by evening all symptoms were gone (twenty-fourth day). From 2 to 4 headache on the left side and sharp pain in left temple (seventh day). Hard pain in left side of head, at 10 (fourth day). Dull pain in right side of head, at 3.
 (third day). In fifteen minutes felt pain in my left temple, which ran across the forehead to the right temple, and several times in the course of the evening this pain was felt over the left temple and in the forehead; soon after the pain was felt over the left temple and in the forehead; soon after the pain commenced in the left temple, a boring pain was felt in the right temple, which was confined to a small spot, at 8 (after two hours). I had pain in the back part of my head, worse in the left side; later in the evening, the pains in the front and back parts of my head alternated with each other several times; by 11.
 The pains in my head were less in degree, and chiefly concentrated in the left half of my forehead. Occiput. Headache in the occipital region, lasting half an hour, passing then to the frontal, over the eyes, not very severe, at 2 (fifth day). Heaviness in the occipital region, with gloomy feeling in the forehead (second day).