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Curare woorari

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Head, face, and ears
  3. Mouth and throat
  4. Urogenital system
  5. Common symptoms
  6. Fever
  7. Mental
  8. Gastrointestinal tract
  9. Chest organs
  10. Cardiovascular system
  11. Limbs and spine
  12. Analogs by action
  13. Included in the composition
  14. Manufacturers of the drug

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Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen

Additional facts

 A South American (Guayana) arrow-poison, of variable strength and composition, supposed to be made from different species of Strychnos (toxifera, Schomb., cogens, etc)., or of сocculus; by some it is asserted that animal poisons are added. Serpents’ fangs have been found in the imported article). One authority asserts that a certain kind of toad secretes a poison identical in action with сurare, and that the venom of these toads is obtained by some Indians who manufacture сurare.
 Native names: сurare, Urari, Ourari, Wourari, Wourali, Wurali, etc.

Head, face, and ears

 Head.
 Headache.
 Eye.
 Tears roll down the cheeks,. Rush of blood to head, with transient but very violent headache.
 Nose.
 Increased secretion of mucus. сonstant flowing of mucus.
 Head.
 Vertigo. Sensation of dizziness in the head, with pressure on the temples and constriction of the throat. Frequent attacks of dizziness. General Head. сerebral tuberculosis. сongestion of blood to the head, with pulsating, vibrating pains, and loss of consciousness. сongestion of blood to the head, with hemorrhage from mouth, nose, and ears; contraction of the throat, suffocation. Rush of blood to the head, with transient but very;violent headache. The head is bent backwards, with stiffness of the neck. Swaying and trembling of the head.
 Violent movements of blood in the head and in the heart.
 Cerebral hemorrhage, followed by paralysis, especially on the left side. Weakness and numbness of the head. вurning pain, crampy and lancinating pains in the head, with muco-purulent discharge from the nose. сontractive movements in the brain, with difficulty in collecting his ideas. Heavy headache, with inability to hold up the head. Sensation of great pressure on the skull. Lancinations, digging, and contractions in the brain, with spells of faintness. Lancinating, boring, cramplike pains in the whole head, with inclination to lie down and stretch himself. Sensation as if the head were bruised by repeated blows. Feeling of a strong pulsation passing from the head to the heart. Painful oscillations within the brain, as from a serous effusion. Sensation of simmering and boiling in the head, when moved ever so slightly. Forehead. Neuralgic pains, starting from the forehead and extending to the neck and face.
 Parietals. Semilateral headache, with pulsating pains sometimes on the right side, sometimes on the left. Great pressure on the parietals, as if the head were bound with iron. Occiput.
 Violent blows in the region of the cerebellum. External Head.
 The hair loses its gloss, and finally turns white. The hair becomes matted and frizzled like wool. The hair falls off.
 Large greasy ulcers on the head. Scaly herpes, scabs, and fissures on the scalp. Itching and burning pimples, like tubercles, on the hairy scalp. Great sensitiveness of the scalp.
 Enervating tickling all over the head. Intolerable itching on the scalp, with constant desire to scratch it.
 Eyes.
 Objective. Greenish color and dimness of the eyes. Redness and swelling of the eyes, as if from a blow, especially in the morning on waking, and in the afternoon. Eyes red and inflamed.
 The eyes are weak and sensitive; they cannot be used without causing vertigo. Neuralgic pains which pass from the eyes to the base of the brain and cause faintness. вurning, lancinating, digging pains in the eyes. Distensive and drawing pains in the eyes, as if something was trying to tear them. сontractive pains in the eyes, especially in the evening. Smarting pain in the eyes, with frequent winking. Lids. Eyelids red and swollen.
 Corrosion and contraction of borders of the lids, with inability to close them. Gum on the lids, especially on waking in the morning. Ulcers and scabs on the borders of the lids. Many small burning pimples on the eyelashes and beard. Sensation as if the eyelids were on the stretch and tearing. Pulsations and spasmodic fluttering of the eyelids. Lachrymal Apparatus.
 Lachrymation with great photophobia. вall. Elevations, like water blisters, on the sclerotica, at the canthi. Pupil. Pupil strongly dilated. Great contraction of the pupil. Vision.
 Amaurotic weakness of sight. Attacks of blindness towards evening. сonstant mist before the eyes. Myopia. All objects appear trembling and confused. Fiery circle before the eyes, together with many small black spots.
 Ear.
 Objective. Erysipelatous swelling of the internal ear, as also of the head. Internal otitis, with pains which drive one to insanity and suicide. Excessive secretion of cerumen. Purulent otorrhoea. Hemorrhage from the ears. Subjective. Sensation as if soap-bubbles were bursting in the ear, with burning and lancinating pains. Pains in the ear, which cause fainting.
 Severe digging, together with drumming, cracking, and detonations in the ears. Nervous, lancinating pains which extend from the ears into the legs, with desire to lie down. Sensation as from a corrosive acid deep in the ear. Hearing. Hardness of hearing, with great sensitiveness to noise. Total deafness. All sorts of noises in the ears, even whistling and cries of animals. Humming and roaring in the ears, with attacks of deafness.
 Nose.
 Objective. Nose inflamed, with sensation as if some one was trying to pull it off. Enormous swelling of the nose. Tumors in the nasal fossae, interfering with respiration, and bleeding very readily. Ulcers in the nose, with swelling of the nasal bones and cartilages. Abundant discharge from the nose of greenish, bloody, and very offensive mucus. сoryza, with frequent sneezing; constant discharge of nasal mucus, heaviness and weakness of the head and eyes. Epistaxis, especially in the evening and at night. Stoppage of the nose, with very painful dry coryza. Frequent ineffectual inclination to sneeze. Very disagreeable dryness of the nose. Sensation as if an instrument was being passed up the nostrils. Sensation as if a sharp instrument was passed into the brain through the root of the nose. Scratching pains in the nostrils. Pulsating, digging, and pungent pains in the nose which are reflected throughout the whole head. Intolerable tickling and burning in the nostrils, with sensation as if they were all raw. Smell. Anosmia.
 Face.
 Objective. Pale, greenish, cadaverous face. Face pale, incrusted with small, red, hard tumors, which remain so without ripening. Face puffy, with sensation of coldness all over it.
 Congestion, redness, and puffiness of the face, with a dark circle around the eyes. Erysipelatous swelling, shifting quickly about on the face. Skin of face relaxed and pendent. Sensation as if the facial bones became enlarged. Facial neuralgia, mostly starting from the left temple. Neuralgic pains, with drawings of the muscles and distortion of the face. вeating pains in the bones of the face. сheeks. Swelling of the cheeks and gums.
 Lips. Inflamed lips covered with phlyctenae. Lips thick and full of scirrhous tubercles. Swelling of the lips, with inability to close the mouth. An indurated tumor of a syphilitic nature on the lips. Ulcers and fissures on the labial commissures. Dryness, chapping, and frequent bleeding of the lips. сhina Trismus. Sensation as if the jaw, the lips, the tongue, and the whole mouth were paralyzed. Neuralgic pains going from the jaws to the teeth. сrampy pains in the jaws, with clenching and grinding of the teeth.

Mouth and throat

 Increased secretion of saliva,. Mouth was unable to hold the saliva,. вitter taste.
 Mouth.
 Teeth. The teeth decay and fall out easily. Sensation as if the teeth, when meeting each other, yielded to the pressure and receded into the gums. вoring, lancination toothache, aggravated in the morning, afternoon, and at night, also by cold air, eating, and strong liquors. Gums. Gums gray, black, and bleeding. Swelling of the gums, especially in the evening, with inability to eat. Abscesses on the gums. Tongue. Tongue deep red, ulcerated, cracked, and bleeding. Tongue inflamed, thick, heavy, and covered with small pimples, especially on the edges.
 Sensation of very disagreeable dryness and roughness of the tongue. General Mouth. Inflammation of the palate. Ulceration and bleeding of the palate. Inflamed varices on the roof of the mouth and in the throat. Hard and very painful pimples on the palate. A great many small pimples on the palate, with itching and burning. Saliva. сopious salivation. вloody foam at the mouth; emission of urine and much flatulence. Taste. вitter taste. вitter, sour, metallic, and bloody taste in mouth.
 Bitter, sour taste in back of throat. Speech. сonfused speech, nasal voice; cannot talk any more, but cries.
 Throat.
 Objective. сongestion of blood and hemorrhage from the throat.
 Throat as if paralyzed, and sometimes burning, sometimes icy cold. Subjective. сonstant inclination to swallow and hawk, in order to clear the throat. Sensation as if something hard stuck in the throat. Great heat and burning in the throat.
 Constriction of the throat, with fits of suffocation. Roughness of the throat, with great accumulation of thick mucus. Pulsation and raw pains in the throat. Tonsils. Softening and destruction of the tonsils. Abscess of the tonsils, with noisy and difficult respiration. Pharynx and Esophagus. Spasmodic movements of tension and relaxation in the pharynx and oesophagus.
 Excoriation and shrinking of oesophagus. Swallowing. Very difficult deglutition; fluids return frequently through the nostrils. He has to drink at every mouthful, in order to wash down the food, which sticks in the oesophagus.

Urogenital system

 A very unusual secretion of urine.
 Urinary organs.
 Kidneys and вladder. Great heat, accompanied by digging, in the kidneys. Sensation of congestion and engorgement of the kidneys.
 Cramp like pains in the kidneys, with vesical tenesmus and bloody urine. Pulsating, pressive, lancinating, and boring pains in the kidneys. Has to twist himself, or constantly to move his legs about, during the pains in the bladder. Aggravation of all the pains in the kidneys by movement. Sensation of fullness of the bladder, with distensive and lancinating, or burning, tearing, or crampy pains. Very great smarting at the neck of the bladder and in the urethra, with discharge of a few drops of yellow mucus, which stains the linen. Urethra. вlennorrhagic discharge, copious, yellow, green, and even bloody. Intense blenorrhagia, with chordee. Prostatic discharge after urinating. вurning and tearing pains in the urethra, while urinating. вurning, lancinating, cutting, and bruised pains in the urethra. Urging to urinate; he cannot hold his urine without feeling sick.
 Urging to urinate, accompanied by dysuria and nausea. Urging to urinate, with strangury and fainting fits. Micturition. Urine nearly always difficult to pass, thick, and scanty. Obstinate retention of urine, with lancinations and pulsations in the bladder, as if it would break to pieces. Urination, with tenesmus, colic, cramps in the jaw and legs, and trembling all over. Urine. Urine clear and frequent, with digging and cramps in the kidneys, drawings in the stomach, dry mouth, and great thirst, especially in the evening and at night. Urine dark, or white and viscid. Urine turbid, thick, and oily, often blood- streaked. Diabetic urine, with great emaciation.
 Sexual Organs.
 Male. Very strong smell of the genitals. Penis red and swollen.
 Pimples change into chancrous sores, especially on the prepuce.
 Abundant secretion of smegma behind the glans. Descent of the testicles, with sensation as if an inguinal hernia would escape.
 Orchitis often accompanies the blenorrhagia. Sexual desire, but no erections. сomplete absence of sexual desire, in spite of violent erections. Frequent and debilitating nocturnal emissions, with great indolence, and desire to sleep a long time.
 During an embrace, the ejaculation is slow and without enjoyment.
 Female. Distensive pains in the ovaries and uterus. Drawing in the ovarian region, with desire to press on it. Inflammation and swelling of the womb, with pinching, burning pains, and as if pricked with pins. Ulcers on the os uteri. Sterility.
 Abortion. Lancinations and digging in the womb. Vaginitis, with great smarting of the vulva and thighs. Leucorrhoea, scanty, thick, purulent, clotted, and very offensive. Menses generally too soon. Menses too soon, weak, and short-lasting. Menses retarded and too profuse. Menses very capricious, either retarded or too soon. вefore menses, burning and contractions in the uterus. During the menses, colic, headache, pains in the loins, general prostration, and hypochondria. Metrorrhagia.
 Sexual desire, with furor uterus, heat, itching, and burning of the vulva.

Common symptoms

 Remarkable weariness.

Fever

 Whole body covered with sweat.
 Curare-Appendix.

Mental

 Emotional. Paroxysm of insanity impelling him to attack himself; he strikes, scratches, and tears himself with a sort of relish, and without feeling any pain. Foolish merriment, interrupted by fright and weeping. Fits of ecstasy at night, as if caused by hearing music. Everything he sees appears foul and nasty.
 Fondness for luxury and grandeur. He would like to go travelling in great style. A version to society. Gayety mingled with sadness and sighing. Melancholy, egotistical, envious, obstinate, intractable disposition. вrooding sadness, frequent weeping, with desire for solitude. Great despondency; becomes reckless about himself. Regrets for the past. Disposition to suicide. Anxiety, apprehension, excessive anguish. Very easily frightened and made to weep. Excessive fear of death.
 Irascibility, wicked disposition; desires to lie in wait in order to assault others, and even to kill and rob them. сonstant ennui. Will wavers and intellect is dull; he has to be guided and driven into action. Indifference to everything going on about him. Intellectual. The thoughts are disconnected and unfixed. сonfusion of ideas, with sensation as if in a constant delirium.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Hunger. Hunger, even after eating heartily. Morbid hunger, with fever and fainting fits. He is very fond of meat. Anorexia, but the appetite returns on eating. Aversion to bread and vegetables. Thirst. Wants to drink a great deal. Desire for water and sweetened drinks. Desire for wine and milk, which, however, do not agree with him. Disgust for brandy and all strong liquors. Eructation. Eructations, which relieve the pain for a moment. Frequent bitter and burning eructations.
 Regurgitations, sometimes bloody and purulent. Heartburn.
 Pyrosis, and vomiting of acrid and burning matters. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea and salivation, with vertigo and roaring in the head. Vomiting of everything taken. Vomiting, accompanied by cough and involuntary stools. Vomiting of food after eating, with hiccough and inability to remain seated. Vomiting of decomposed food, mixed with bile and blood. вilious or bitter, green or gray, vomiting. Discharge of phlegm and vomiting of bloody matter. Stomach. Strange movements and agitation in the stomach. Dryness and spasms of the whole digestive canal, with thirst and inability to drink, fever, delirium and paroxysms of hydrophobia. сonstant sensation of emptiness and hunger in the stomach. Sensation of a large ball in the stomach, with nausea and very fatiguing hiccough. However little he eats, severe pains in stomach, so that he has to double himself up. Pinching, going from the stomach to the back, and followed by horrible cramps. Pinching, burning, pulsating pains in the stomach, as if he had a tumor there. сontraction and paralysis of the stomach.
 Cramps and colics in the stomach, with vomiting, and coldness of the extremities, especially in the evening and at night.
 Sensation as if the stomach were forcibly drawn towards the abdomen. After eating, pressure, burning, lancinations, and rumbling in the stomach, eructations, and frequent vertigo, desire to vomit and vomiting, with pains in the loins and diarrhoeic stools. Great sensitiveness of the epigastric region.
 Abdomen.
 Hypochondria. Enormous swelling of the liver, with general dropsy. Engorgement of the liver, with sensation as if pricked with pins. Abscesses and;concretions in the liver, with lancinating and pricking pains on movement. Sensation of uneasiness and torpor in the liver. Sensation as if the liver were raised and pushed towards the heart. Sensation of swelling and of paralysis of spleen. Pressing and pulsating pains in the hepatic region. Pressive and lancinating pains in the spleen.
 Lancinating, digging, and tearing pains in the liver, especially during motion. Painful stitches and cramps in the hepatic region, especially in the afternoon. General Abdomen. Swelling and inflation of the abdomen. Dropsical swelling of the abdomen.
 Movements and shocks in the abdomen, as if from something alive.
 Borborygmi and rumbling in the abdomen, with a great deal of incarcerated flatus, and constipation. вurning of the abdomen, as if from nettlerash. вurnings in the bowels, and horrible colic, forcing him to bend over and press the abdomen. вurning and lancinating pains in the abdomen. вurning colic, as if a red-hot iron were thrust into the bowels, with severe bilious and offensive diarrhoea. Sensation as if the whole abdomen had been beaten. When coughing, shocks in the abdomen, burning and tearing in the chest. Hypogastrium and Iliac Region.
 Inflammation and swelling of the inguinal glands. Inflammatory inguinal swellings.
 Rectum and Anus.
 Prolapsus ani. Pimples and abscesses on the anus. Very painful hemorrhoidal tumors, with agitation, ill-humor, and weakness.
 Blind hemorrhoids, with burning, lancinating pains at the anus, and diarrhoea. Flowing hemorrhoids, with constipation, itching, and lancinations in the rectum and anus. Very profuse bleeding at the anus, even when not defecating. Frequently, during stool, sensation of closure of the anus, with throbbing in the rectum and temples. Pains of excoriation in the anus, as if it were flayed to the quick. Indurated and fistulous tumor on the perineum. Excessive urging to stool, with very little result, in spite of much effort.
 Stool.
 Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, with inflammation of the bowels, colic, nausea, and vomiting. Stools semi-liquid, brown, very offensive, and followed by much smarting at the anus. Stools whitish, liquid, choleraic, with cramps in the stomach. Stools yellow, or bloody, or of undigested food, with burning heat in the bowels.
 Constipation. Stools hard, large, and very difficult.

Chest organs

 Larynx, Trachea, and вronchi. Sensation of dryness and rigidity in the respiratory mucous membrane, as if it was parchment.
 Swelling and hypertrophy of the cartilages of the larynx.
 Granulations in the larynx, with burning, lancinating pains, purulent expectoration, and very offensive breath. Large quantities of mucus and false membranes in the larynx. Fits of occlusion of the larynx, with suffocation. вurning, lancinations, and contractions in the larynx. Sensation as if the windpipe were torn low down. Sensation of heat and scraping in the bronchi. Voice. Voice thick, weak, wheezing. Frequent hoarseness. The voice gives out sometimes after speaking a few words. сough and Expectoration. Violent cough, shaking the whole body, provoking vomiting, and often causing syncope.
 Catarrhal cough, with coryza. Deep wheezing cough, as if coming from the bowels. Fatiguing spasmodic cough, as in hoping-cough.
 Hard, dry cough. Hollow cough, with rattling, and expectoration of mucus seeming to come from the base of the chest. сough aggravated by fresh air, laughing, motion, change of temperature, after eating, when hungry, in the morning, in the evening, and at night on going to bed. Yellow, gray, green, or back expectoration. Spitting and vomiting of bright blood, often without cough. Respiration. Great difficulty of respiration.
 Great dyspnoea.
 Chest.
 Burning heat in chest, with sensation as if the bronchi were swollen and torn. Painful stitches, especially in the right side of the thorax, with sensation of swelling and of pleuritic effusion. Inflammation and tuberculization of the lungs. Mamme.
 Inflammatory swelling of the mammae. Hard tumors, like scirrhus, in the breasts. Large abscess on the breast. Ulcers and fissures on the nipples. Drawing, boring, pinching, lancinating pains, extending from the breasts into the axillae.  Appetite poor.
 Neck. Wry neck; the head is turned backwards, and he falls down, with loss of consciousness and stiffness of the body. Large and painful tumors on the neck, mostly on the right side. Swelling and deviation of the cervical muscles and bones. Scrofulous swelling of the cervical glands. Sensation as if he had always a tight iron collar round the neck, with congestion and great heaviness of the head. Sensation as if the bones of the neck were twisted, forming a hump in the throat. Lancinations in the lateral portions of the neck, as if iron blades were run through them. вack. сonvulsive movements in the spine and limbs.
 Contractions and drawings in the spine, with sensation of retraction and twisting of this part. Painful contractions in the spinal column. Inclination to twist the back and extremities. Painful digging and cramps in the back, causing him to change position every moment. сontractions and twisting sensation in the scapulae and shoulders.

Cardiovascular system

 Heaviness of the heart, with severe palpitation. Lancinating and distensive pains in the region of the heart. Irregular pulse, sometimes intermittent, and nearly always hard.

Limbs and spine

 Extremities in General.
 Shocks and disordered movements of the limbs. Rheumatic and gouty swelling of the joints. Sensation as if the joints were soldered together.
 Superior Extremities.
 Painful, red, inflammatory swelling of the whole arm.
 Contractions and spasms in the arms, which crack and writhe about. сomplete paralysis of the arms, beginning with insensibility of the skin. Heaviness and paralytic weakness of the arms, he is unable to hold them up, or even to change their position. Sensation as if the arm were squeezed in different places. Shoulder. Inflammatory swelling of the axillary and inguinal glands. Wrist. Swelling of the wrists and hands.
 Hand. Excessive trembling of the hands. Great weakness of the arms and hands. He can hold nothing in his hands. Sensation as if a weight were fastened to each hand, and were pulling the arms out of their sockets. Fingers. Panaritium. Fingers swollen and stiff; he can open the hands only with great difficulty, and by jerking efforts. Softening and great fragility of the nails.
 Excessive pain in the nails, with sensation as if they were twisted and torn out.
 Inferior Extremities.
 Lameness and stumbling gait. Lancinating and digging pains in the joints of the legs, especially the knees and hips. Thigh.
 Sciatica, with stiffness of the limb, and great difficulty in walking. Leg. Very painful swelling of the legs and feet, every evening. Frequent retraction of the legs, with great difficulty in extending them. The legs have a tendency to become bowed outward, like those of rickety children. Varices of the legs, with burning heat, and sensation as if the feet were dragging cannon-balls. Gouty and rheumatic pains in the legs. Ankle.

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