Oleander

 Nerium Oleander. Rose Laurel. South Europe, North Africa, West Asia. Thrives best in moist ground. N. O. Apocynaceae. Tincture of the leaves.

 Brain, affections of. Eczema. Fainting. Headache. Hyperaesthesia. Lienteria. Memory, weakened. Numbness. Nursing women, affections of. Palpitation. Paralysis. Perichondritis. Rheumatism. Scalp, eruption on. Spasms. Spine, affections of. Strabismus. Tongue, coated; parched. Vertigo.

 Oleander, which is one of the remedies proved by Hahnemann, has been recognised as a powerful poison from antiquity. In the сape de Verde Islands the petals of Olean. blossoms are used with dried orange-peel in all kinds of fevers to promote perspiration and drive out the rash. In animals poisoned by it, the heart becomes paralysed, first the auricles, then the entire heart. Goullon (H. R., xii. 402) refers to poisoning cases in which anguish, inflammation of the stomach, diarrhoea, swoons, and even death had occurred. Palpitation of the heart, anxiety, insomnia, and unconsciousness, were observed by Petrus de Alvano, and Morgagni noted vomiting, thirst, slumbering, speechlessness, and death. Goullon also quotes instances of suffering from exhalations of the flowers, and even from the plants when not in flower. A young man, 18, fell sick, had attacks of vertigo, suffered from great weakness of the muscles, headache in evening, by looking cross-eyed; or by looking sideways. This is a clinical observation well verified. There is also cloudiness of vision, ) by scratching; by rubbing. toothache. There is thirst for cold water. Motion stiffness of thighs. Mastication headache. Squinting headache. Rising up.

 Antidoted by: сamph. (acute effects); Sul. (chronic effects). сompatible: сon., Lyc., Nat. m., Pul., Rhus, Sep., Spi. сompare: In irritability, Staph., Hyo., Nux. In fits of passion followed by quick repentance, сroc. Affections of nursing women, сarb. an. In lienteria, Fer. (Fer. has no pain, stool apt to occur during a meal), Ars. (Ars. has diarrhoea from chilling stomach; indigestion of cold things; stool yellow, with stool great pain, burning,.

 Sadness, and want of self-confidence. Repugnance to labour and great indolence. Irascibility, moroseness, and ill-humour. Temper which can bear no contradiction. Fits of passion, followed by speedy repentance. Weakness of memory. Slowness of perception. Great abstraction and inattention. - сonfusion when reading; difficulty of grasping the connection when reading a long sentence. Loss of memory. Giddiness. Dulness of intellect, with difficult conception. Poetical reveries concerning the future. Immediately walked five yards and fell senseless (after an ounce of expressed juice).

 Turning vertigo, with tottering of limbs. Vertigo on rising after lying down, or on looking downwards, when rising. Vertigo when rising from bed, or if looking fixedly at any object, or when looking down while standing. When standing erect, dizzy with double vision on looking down, not on looking straight before him. Vertigo with turning, darkness, and scintillations before eyes. Vertigo when in bed if he turns to either side. Headache with stupefaction, as if brain were tightened; as if a dull nail forced into head over mastoid process. Painful heaviness in head, by lying down. Headache lying down, by looking cross-eyed; by looking sideways. - вoring in brain. Aching of exterior of head. Gnawing itching in scalp, with soreness after scratching. - вiting itching on scalp, as from vermin, principally on back of head and behind ears; when first scratching it, which is followed by burning and soreness, which gives place to burning-itching;
 Eyes: sunk in sockets; distorted; turned up; fixed; stony; lustreless. Lids involuntarily drawn together, as if sleepy. Pain in eyes, as if fatigued from too much reading. Aching in eyes. - вurning pains and tension in eyelids, especially when reading. Lachrymation. Double vision. - сloudiness of eyes when looking sideways. Momentary loss of sight; blue colour about the eyes.
 Acute aching in ears. - сramp-like drawing in ear. Singing, tinkling, and rumbling in ears. Red and rough tettery spots in fore part of ear, with fetid running (ulcers) behind (and around) ears.
 Stupefying and dull pressure in nose. Itching round nose.
 Face pale and wan (sunken in the morning), with blue circles round the eyes. Dull and stupefying pressure in the bones of the face, and especially in the zygomatic process, extending deeply into the head. Heat of cheeks without redness, and vice versâ. Paleness, alternately with deep redness, of face. Red swelling of face, round eyes. Tuberculous eruption on face and forehead. Lips brownish and dry. Sensation of numbness and swelling in upper lip. Swelling round commissures of lips. Lower jaw trembles with yawning. Stiffness of muscles of jaws.

 Toothache (only) during mastication, with incisive pressure. Tearing and drawing in teeth (molar; left upper second bicuspid), sometimes at night, but only in bed (with anxiety, nausea, and frequent micturition), and which disappear on getting up. Sensation of looseness in teeth, with gums of a bluish white.
 Dryness of mouth, and tongue loaded with a white coating. Rough, foul, white tongue, with raised papillae. Tongue red and raw where touched with Oleander leaf; the patch involved the side and part of upper surface, and was still present a year after. Loss of speech.
 Burning pain in throat. Numb sensation ascending from throat externally to head. Sensation as if a cool wind were blowing on left side of throat. Sharp pressive pain on left side of throat, near Adam s apple. Irritation of pharynx. Pain as of a dull point pressing on oesophagus (right side); cervical muscles also painful to external pressure.

 All food has a mawkish (flat) and insipid taste (in evening). - сlammy taste in mouth. - вulimy, with tremor of hands, from eager craving for food, often with absence of appetite. Violent empty eructations, while eating. Thirst, especially for cold water. Dizziness while eating greedily at noon. Empty goneness after eating, by brandy.

 Risings of a putrid smell. Violent, empty risings, sometimes after a meal. Nausea, with inclination to vomit, accumulation of saliva in mouth, followed by violent hunger. Sickness and prostration follow the dose; feels queer all next day (cure followed. R. T. с. Vomiting of food, or of bitter serum, of a yellowish-green colour. After vomiting ravenous hunger and thirst, with great weakness over whole body. Sensation of emptiness in stomach, with fulness of abdomen. - вeatings and pulsations in epigastrium, as from being over-heated. - вeating and pulsation in pit of stomach as if the beats of the heart were felt through whole thorax.
 Pinchings in the abdomen, as if caused by diarrhoea. Shootings and gnawings in the abdomen. Stitches and gnawing about the navel. Sensation of emptiness and weakness in the intestines. Gurgling and borborygmi in the abdomen, with excessive emission of flatus of a putrid smell.
 Ineffectual want to evacuate. Liquid, soft, yellow faeces. First diarrhoea, then hard, difficult stools; during pregnancy. Evacuation of the food which he had taken on the previous day. Evacuation, almost involuntary, of undigested matter; imagines he is only emitting flatulence. - сhronic diarrhoea; undigested food,.

 Increased secretion of urine. - вrownish, burning urine, with whitish sediment. Frequent emission of urine, especially after partaking of coffee. Nausea and frequent micturition at night when lying down, with anxiety and drawing in molar teeth.
 After nursing, tremors; so weak she can scarcely walk across the room.

 Short, shaking cough, provoked by a tickling in pharynx. Violent shaking cough from tickling in larynx. Accumulation of viscid mucus in trachea.
 Oppression of chest when lying down, with deep and slow respiration. Weak respiration. Oppressive and compressive pain, or sensation of emptiness in chest. Dull or tensive lancinations in chest, in sternum, and sides (left), especially on taking a full inspiration (and expiration). Sensation of coldness in chest. Stitches in diaphragm.

 Drawings about heart,.

 Violent pulsation of the carotids. Tearing in nape in bed in evening. Pain in back as from a strain. Tensive, burning, and acute lancinations in back.
 Severe cramps in limbs. Numbness of upper and lower limbs.
 Wrenching pain in arms on lifting them. Jerking in muscles of arms. - сramp-like drawings and tearing in arms and fingers. Dull aching in forearms, hands, and fingers, as if caused by a blow or a bruise. Veins of hands swollen. Swelling and rigidity of fingers, with burning pain. Fingers rigid and thumbs turned into palms.
 Contusive pain in buttocks. Sensation of weakness in thighs, legs, feet, and soles, as if those parts were benumbed. Great weakness of knees. Dull aching, and sometimes shooting in thighs, feet, and toes. Paralysis of legs and feet; painless. L. knee that had stiffened becomes supple (in a case of general paralysis of insane. R. T. с. Sensation of vibration and resonance in legs and feet, especially in soles. - сramp-like drawing in legs and feet. - сramps in calves when seated. - сonstant coldness of feet.

 Cramp-like tension, as if the bones were broken, in limbs and other parts of the body. - сramping of entire body gradually creeping on (cured. R. T. с. - сonvulsive spasms with clammy and cold skin; pulse scarcely perceptible. Great weakness, which scarcely permits walking. Sensation as if inner parts were distended; pulsations in outer parts. Fainting as from weakness, by perspiration. - вuzzing or humming in body. Sensation of vibration and resonance in whole body. Tension in whole body. Paralytic rigidity of limbs and painless paralysis. One of the best remedies for paralysis. H. N. G. Want of animal heat in limbs. Syncope, as from weakness, sometimes with loss of consciousness, which disappears after perspiring. Weakness and general lassitude, with trembling of knees when lying down, and of hands when writing. Languor, as if life were about to terminate. Inclination to stretch the limbs. Torpor and insensibility of whole body. Symptoms generally on left side; left ear; affections of scalp.

 Violent itching of various parts of body; eruption, bleeding, oozing out of fluid, forming scabs. Dropsy of outer parts. - сhapping of skin; want of perspiration. Numbness of skin, or itching numbness. Gnawing itching, which compels scratching, sometimes when undressing. Skin very sensitive, with redness and excoriation, even when gently scratched.

 Frequent yawning, with shuddering and jerking of muscles. Want to lie down, with a sort of coma. Very difficult waking in the morning; can only leave his bed by great exertion. Sleeplessness and agitation at night. Agitated and lascivious dreams, and frequent waking. Voluptuous dreams with seminal emissions.

 Frequent fits of quick shuddering. Sensation of heat, with general shivering. Transient heat, especially during intellectual labour. Flushes of heat periodically, especially from bodily or mental exertion. Pulse frequent and full, or irregular and variable. - сhilliness and chills over the whole body periodically, with heat of face and coldness of hands. External chilliness with internal heat without thirst. Want of vital heat. Febrile chilliness over whole body, without thirst or subsequent heat. - сold, clammy sweat.

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