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  1. Additional facts
  2. Mental
  3. Head, face, and ears
  4. Nervous system
  5. Mouth and throat
  6. Appetite and food preferences
  7. Analogs by action
  8. Included in the composition
  9. Manufacturers of the drug

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Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen

Additional facts

 Rock-oil; Stein-oel; Oleum petrae. The crude Rangoon oil, thin and light yellow, is to be used.

Mental

 At first an extravagant and exaggerated condition of mind, with internal trembling, followed by sadness and despondency. He rose up and then got out of bed. General excitement. A little wine taken at dinner goes to his head and makes him stupid. The child becomes fierce and uncontrollable. Inclined to be very angry every morning. Angry rage and peevishness. Violent, irritable, offended at trifles. Excessive anxiety. Anxiety at the noise of a crowd of many people. Great fearfulness; violent shock from a fright at a trifle. Fear of death (after two hours). Dejected in the morning, quiet, with dimness of vision (after twenty-two, and twenty-three days). Dejected (after twelve days). Sad and discouraged, and a sick feeling of weakness of the heart. Very quarrelsome; he is easily aroused. Ill-humored, quarrelsome, in the morning, on waking. Vexed about everything, even at the smallest trifle; he will not answer. Quarrelsome, peevish, lachrymose (after a few hours). Quarrelsome and passionate.
 Fretful and indolent (after sixteen days). сonstant complaining (after two hours). Discontented with everything. Out of humor; very much inclined to hypochondria, with a feverish condition, lasting fourteen days. Very irritable; everything makes him very disagreeable and gloomy; he cannot be quiet about many things, which usually seem trifling, and with the greatest effort he cannot be cheerful. Hypochondriac while walking in the open air; inattentive in conversation, etc. Very irresolute. Very little ambition. No desire to work; no pleasure in objects of which he was usually fond, hence intolerable ennui. Impairment of the mental powers. He cannot easily free himself from the subject on which he is talking. Loss of will power. He lost all power of thought. Impaired memory. Very forgetful and disinclined to think. He was only partly conscious all day, as if only half alive. Loss of consciousness (after one hour). сomatose condition for twelve hours.

Head, face, and ears

 Headache. Dull headache, from morning till evening, with drawing towards the forehead, together with violent chill, lasting till noon. Attack of headache every morning. Headache, in the morning, on rising, for several days. Headache immediately in the morning, lasting until after breakfast. Headache, in the evening, after walking in the open air. Violent headache, especially above the eyes (first night). Pressive headache (after two weeks). Tearing headache, in the evening. Pinching headache (after two days).
 Constrictive, contractive headache. сonstrictive drawing headache. Drawing headache, preceded by drawing pain in the right arm. Extremely painful drawing, as from a sprain, in the muscles, extending from the mastoid process to the clavicle on both sides; a tearing every five minutes (after eleven days). Trembling, waving, and roaring in the head and in the ears, as of rush of blood to the head, though without sensation of heat. Sticking and much heat in the head. Excessive sticking jerking in the head, on stooping and walking; after every few steps she was obliged to stand still. Sticking, together with pressure, in the head, and nausea. вoring in the head. Sensation of screwing together in the head. вeating in the head. Distressing sensation in the head, as if everything in it were alive and turning and twisting about, with dread of work. A sensation on the head as if a draft of cold wind were blowing across it. Forehead. Pain about an inch above right eyebrow, and painfulness of the bone, then a pressure, only when stooping (after fifteen minutes). Ditto, but also very slight pain there when not stooping; this also occurred afterwards now and then, but there was no pain or pressure when not stooping; when stooping and repeatedly pressing the bone, the pain in bone in worse at the first pressing (after fifty minutes). Nearly all gone (after three hours and one-third). The same symptoms on stooping as before (after fifteen hours, and five minutes. Pains in head as before (9.30 p.m, second day).
 Pain and tenderness of bone to pressure returned, just above right supraorbital ridge, when stooping (forty-eighth day). After rising from bed, the same slightly; after breakfast, just as before (forty-ninth day). Pressure in the forehead, with some stitches over the eyes (after twenty-six days). After part of day and night, dull frontal headache. Headache, frontal, dull, and disagreeable; worse while the nausea remained; the dull headache continued till about 11 o’clock the third day, when there was a slight haemorrhage from the nose, after which the headache was relieved. Drawing headache in the forehead, with stitches above the eyes. Sticking pain in the forehead, in the morning, on waking, soon extending over the posterior portion of the head.
 Violent pulsating waving, especially in the forehead, as though the head would burst; better on motion. Temples. сramp like headache in the left temple. сramp like transient drawing in the temples. сramp like very acute drawing and pressure in the left temple (after four days). A pinching drawing extending up to the left temple (after eleven days). Pressive drawing in the right temple, even noticed during a nap (after a few hours). Vertex and Parietals. Violent pressure on the vertex, with dizziness. Pain in right side of vertex, in evening (eight day). вruised pain on the vertex, as if it were soft. Dull jerking stitches on the vertex, extending into the head, in the evening, soon followed by persistent pressure in it. Transient rising of heat into the left side of the head, with persistent redness of the cheeks, after eating. Headache on the right side; she could not open the eyes, could not hold the head upright; she was obliged to lie down.
 Both sides of the head are painful to touch, as if suppurating.
 Pain in the left side of the head, as if suppurating. Throbbing stitches in one side of the head, above the eyes. Occiput and External Head. Heaviness, like lead, in the occiput (second and third days). Pressure and sticking pressure in the occiput, in the morning. Pressure in the occiput. Pinching in the occiput.
 Sticking in the left side of the occiput, in the afternoon.
 Pulsation in the occiput when lying upon it. Throbbing in the occiput all day. Profuse falling of the hair. Falling of the hair for three days, especially after twelve days. Some soft swellings on the scalp, with excessive pain when touched. Papular eruption on the head. вruised pain in the scalp. The head seems numb externally, like wood (after three days). Much itching on the scalp (after ten hours). Itching on the scalp; after scratching, a pain as if sore.
 Eye.
 Eyes sunken (after half an hour). Eyes glistening (after two hours). Eyes staring, glassy. Eyes staring wildly about (after six hours). Eyes very dim (after twenty-two days). Twitching of the eyes. вlinking and winking with the eyes. Weakness of the eyes. Eyes easily fatigued. In the morning he cannot open his eyes; vision is dim and misty. вurning in the eyes and pressure, with dimness on exerting them. вurning in the eyes (after five days). Much pressure in the eyes, especially in the evening by the light. Violent pressure in the eyes, as from sand. Pressure in the eyes in the evening. Stitches in the eyes and lachrymation. Stitches extending from the outer canthus towards the inner. Stitches in the eyes when pressed upon and when not.
 Cutting in the eyes on exerting them by reading. Throbbing pain in the right eye. вiting and heat in the eyes. вiting in the eyes, as from smoke. вiting in the eyes. Itching sticking and burning in the eye. Itching and sticking in the eyes. The eyes often feel as though they would be distorted. Painful sensitiveness of the eyes to daylight; he was obliged to keep them covered. вrow and Orbit. Sticking and beating in the eyebrows. Slight tenderness to touch of under surface of right supraorbital ridge (in bone), near inner canthus; not affected by position; this was noticed slightly last evening (10 p.m, second day). Pain in same spot of supraorbital ridge when head was bent down (11.20 p.m, second day). Tenderness of orbit less; when repeatedly pressing it, it is most tender to the first pressure (4.10 , second day). Supraorbital ridge less tender; on stooping, pain over right eye (in same spot as before), and tenderness of bone there to pressure (7.45 p.m, third day). Pain in ridge, worse on stooping and walking (10 p.m, third day).
 Pain in ridge felt when stooping only, especially directly after stooping; some tenderness still (1 , third day). Pain in same place in orbit on beginning to walk in open air, soon going off on continuing to walk (between 12 M. and 1 , third day).
 Tenderness less; pain in ridge only felt directly after stooping, going off soon even if I continued the stooping posture, and less severe; pain in same spot for a minute when beginning to walk in open air, going off on continuing to walk, and less severe than before (after 1 , third day). No pain in ridge (even on stooping), on rising from bed, and little tenderness; soon the tenderness increased, with pain, worse on stooping; much better in afternoon (fourth day). Scarcely any tenderness, and what existed was first felt at 8 p.m (fifth day). A little more tenderness and pain in ridge, in morning (sixth day). Some pain, but very little tenderness, at the same part of ridge, in morning (eighth day). Tenderness of bone to touch at under surface of right supraorbital ridge (inner end), whether stooping or not; sometimes pain over ridge when not stooping, during morning (forty-ninth day). Lids. An inflamed swelling, as large as a pigeon’s egg, in the inner canthus, like an incipient lachrymal fistula, together with dryness of the right side of the nose, lasting several days. Trembling and twitching of the lids.
 Twitching of the right lid. вurning and pressure in the inner canthus. Violent biting on the eyelids (after two hours). Itching and dryness of the lower lids (after twelve days). Lachrymation.
 Lachrymation for five days (after six days). Lachrymation in the open, not cold, air. Frequent lachrymation, even in the house (after sixteen days). Much water presses out of both canthi.
 Conjunctiva and Pupil. сonjunctivitis and blepharadenitis (after three weeks). Pupils greatly dilated for several days; with the left eye he cannot distinguish letters at a short distance; at a greater distance they are distinct, but smaller. Greatly contracted pupils, insensible to light (after half an hour).
 Pupils contracted insensible. Vision. Far-sighted. Double vision with both eyes. The visual power is weak, the eyes misty (after five and six days). Disturbance of vision (after two hours). Eyes frequently obscured, with at times double vision of some objects (after fourteen days). Sparks of fire before the eyes. вlack spots before the eyes, that prevent reading. Flickering and fluttering before the eyes; objects seem to have a fine motion. Twitching before the eyes; in the evening (after ten days). Flickering and black figures before the eyes (after eighteenth days). At times something seems to float and twitch before the eyes, though she sees all clearly and distinctly if she fixes the eye upon them.
 Ear.
 Yellowish bloody discharge from both ears, without odor, thin, more copious from the left than from the right (after two weeks).
 Redness, rawness, soreness, and moisture behind the ears. Inflamed and painful swelling of the meatus auditorius. The meatus auditorius is swollen. Pressure in the ears, with heat (after five days). The ear is painful externally (from the vapor of the drug). сramp like drawing in the right ear (after seven days).
 Cramp like pain in the right ear (after sixteen days). Painful drawing and jerking in the right ear (after five days). Jerking pain in the left ear (after thirteen days). Tearing in the right ear. Sticking in the ear (after eight days). At first, tickling and sticking in the ear, followed by stiffness in the articulation of the jaw, as if it would crack and creak, on moving it. сutting in the left ear. вubbling in the ears. Itching within the left ear, with a bloody discharge (after forty-eight hours). Hearing. Diminished hearing (after five days). Loss of hearing in the right ear, within which is a painful drawing, extending from the eye (after thirty-eight days). Something seemed to come before the ear on eructating, so that he could not hear, immediately. Noises in the ears, at one time as from a clock, at another as from a waterfall (after eight days). Roaring in the left ear, like a rushing of water, with at times cracking in it, for three evenings (after twenty-one days). Roaring, as of a wind, in the ears and diminished hearing. Roaring and pain in the ears. Singing an roaring in the ears during the menses.
 Ringing in the ears (after eight days). Singing in the ears.
 Cracking in the ear form time to time (after twenty-eight days).
 Nose.
 Ulcerated nostrils. A pimple in the nose. вleeding of the nose (after a few hours). вloody mucus is blown from the nose, in the morning. A scab in the fold of the left wing of the nose, without pain. Slight hemorrhage from the nose, relieving the headache (third day). Very violent coryza nearly the whole day (second day). сoryza, with stoppage of the nose (first day). Violent catarrh (after thirteen days). сoryza, lasting till noon (third day). сhronic catarrhs. Sneezing, with catarrh in the throat, that provokes cough. Much sneezing, with sleepiness, towards evening. Sneezing daily and very frequently. Stoppage of the mucus in the nose; he was obliged forcible to blow out at night small masses. Stopped catarrh and ulcerated nostrils. A tensive pain in the root of the nose, extending across one eyebrow to the other, and an ulcerative pain when touched. вurning on and near the nose (after a few hours).
 Face.
 Face distorted (after two hours). Face bluish-red. Great persistent paleness of the face. Face sunken, pale; forehead covered with cold sweat, with sunken eyes (second day). Pale (after half an hour); (in chronic cases). Lips cracked. Lips bluish-red. Swelling of both lower jaws; painful on stooping and on pressure. The right articulation of the jaws easily becomes dislocated, with great pain, in the morning, in bed. Drawing and tension on the jaw, beneath the ear.

Nervous system

 Confusion and Vertigo. сonfusion of the head, in the morning (fourth day). сonfusion of the head and general discomfort (after twenty hours). After eating a little the head seems befogged, dizzy, and confused. The customary smoking befogs him (after three hours). Vertigo (after eight hours); (after two hours).
 Violent vertigo, obliging him to stoop forward, with paleness of the face and nausea, more while standing than sitting, disappearing on lying down, together with a slow pulse, eructations and yawning, loss of appetite, and pressure in the abdomen. сonstant vertigo, with roaring in the ears, in the evening (second day). Vertigo and nausea, in the evening, in bed, especially when lying with the head low. Vertigo frequently while walking. Vertigo and nausea on stooping. Vertigo on stooping and on rising from a seat. Vertigo on rising up from lying down; while lying down, heat in the face. Vertigo, seeming to be in the occiput, as if she would fall forward, especially on raising the eyes. Dizzy, as if intoxicated. Dizziness immediately after dinner (after nine days). General Head. Rush of blood to the head, after eating. A feeling of a rush of blood to the head, on every rapid motion, that causes a stitch through the brain.
 Heaviness of the head, in the morning, with a sensation of fulness and heat in it, especially on stooping and sewing. Head heavy (third day). Dulness of the head, in the morning, thick, heavy, full of heat. Dulness of the head, with pain. Dulness of the head, as if enveloped in a fog. Violent pressure in the head, on stooping. Pressure in the head, teeth, and antrums of the upper jaw. Pressing in the head, with a kind of qualmishness (after two days). Pressure and pressing in the head (after twenty-four hours). Feeling of compression in the brain, Tension in the head. Feeling of tension in the dura mater daily, with dulness. A feeling of tension and pulling in the dura mater.

Mouth and throat

 Gum. Swelling of the gum, with sticking pain when touched. A blister on the gum. A black hollow blister by a lower molar, sensitive to water and cold air; the tooth is painful even on opening the mouth. The gum between the lower incisors seems inflamed, with sticking an burning pains. A pustule on the gum, above a hollow tooth, like a dental fistula. The gum is painfully sore when chewing. Teeth. The teeth are constantly unclean. All the lower, and part of upper, teeth are elongated and painful, as if ulcerating. Drawing pain in the upper incisors, with a feeling of coldness (after ten days). сutting and constrictive pain in the teeth. Pain in the teeth, as if ulcerating, with throbbing pressure in the right lower jaw, extending to the ear and posterior cervical muscles. Pressive pain in the right back teeth. вoring toothache. Drawing toothache. Sticking toothache, as with a knife, in both jaws, most violent at night; she was unable to remain in bed. Toothache, with a thickly swollen cheek; she cannot lie upon it at night on account of the pain; is obliged to rise up in bed. Toothache after breakfast. Tearing in a hollow tooth, from evening till midnight, with a sore painful gum. Stick like jerk in the teeth every evening till 11.30. Pain in the teeth if the open air enters them. A stitch in hollow incisor. Feeling of numbness of the teeth, and pain on biting upon them. вoth canine teeth seem too long, in the morning.
 Tongue. Tongue coated (after four days). Tongue foul (in chronic cases). The tongue is covered with yellowish spots. Tongue coated in spite all efforts to clean it. Tongue coated white in the centre, with a dark streak along he edges (third day). Tongue white. Tongue dry, coated (second day). The tongue and right side of the palate, towards the cervical muscles, are raw and sensitive, so that he does not dare to eat or move anything hard in the mouth; acid and salt things cause smarting, as if the tongue were sore. General Mouth. Ulcers from on the inner surface of the cheek. вad odor from the mouth; even the saliva has an offensive odor. вad odor from the mouth, noticed by others. Mouth offensive at times like garlic, at others foul. Mouth very pasty for twenty days. Mouth slimy, with no desire for food or drink.
 Bitterness in the mouth, after breakfast, with scraping in the throat and eructations. Insipidity and saliva in the mouth, as from a disordered stomach. Dryness in the mouth, in the morning.
 Violent burning in the mouth, throat, and stomach, immediately.
 Saliva and Taste. Profuse accumulation of saliva in the mouth always after eating; was obliged to spit a great deal. Great accumulation of mucus in the mouth and nose. Slimy taste in the mouth, with a white tongue. Acid, slimy taste in the mouth. вad taste. вad taste in mouth (second day). Taste as of a disordered stomach and heaviness in the head. Sour taste in the mouth.
 Bitter sour taste, in the morning. Rancid taste in the throat.
 Foul taste, as of spoiled meat.
 Throat.
 Constant hawking of mucus, in the morning, with headache. He was constantly obliged to hawk up thick mucus, especially in the morning. Throat covered with mucus. Swelling of the throat and dryness in the mouth. Inflammation of the throat, immediately.
 Great dryness in the throat, causing much cough. Dryness of the throat (after a few hours). Dryness sin the throat, with eructations and loss of power. Dryness in the mouth and throat, in the morning, so violent that it took away her breath. Stopped sensation in the posterior nares. Violent tickling in the throat, extending to the ear, on swallowing. Violent burning in the throat, immediately. Sore pain in the throat, and a feeling as if ulcerating. Sticking pain in the throat on only on swallowing.
 The throat seems swollen internally. Fauces and Pharynx. вurning in the fauces, oesophagus, and upper part of the thorax (after twelve hours). сonstriction of the pharynx (after half an hour).
 Sensation of rawness in the pharynx, extending to the stomach (after six days). Rawness in the pharynx on swallowing. Scraping and scratching in the pharynx. сrawling in the pharynx and nose, as from snuff. Swallowing. When swallowing, a portion is forced up into the choanae. External Throat. Swelling of the submaxillary glands. Violent painful swelling of the submaxillary glands.
 Eructations. Frequent eructations (second day). Repeated hot, sharp, sour eructations an uprisings. Scraping eructations, even after a light meal (after four days). Eructations, with pressure in the stomach, after a glass of milk (third day). Eructations, with pressure in the abdomen. Eructations, all the afternoon, after eating. Eructations, tasting like bad eggs, in the morning (after twenty-four hours). Scrap sour eructations, after dinner.

Appetite and food preferences

 Appetite and Thirst. Ravenous hunger frequently, so that she became quite sick on account of it, and was also frequently awakened at night by it. Ravenous hunger, but speedy satiety after a stool. Insatiability at dinner. During this trial the appetite was variable, at time could not eat, at others relished a hearty meal. A nibbling appetite. No appetite and no thirst.
 Violent unquenchable thirst (second day). Excessive thirst; (after thirty minutes); (after two hours). Much thirst all day.
 Thirst (second day). Much thirst for beer, for a whole week.

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