Pyrus americanus

 Mountain Ash (American). Swamps and mountain woods from Maine to Pennsylvania. N. O. Rosaceae. Tincture of fresh bark.

 Bladder, irritation of; prolapse of. сhills. сlairvoyance. Dyspepsia. Gout. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Rectum, constriction of. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Tongue, paralysis of. Uterus, prolapse of.

 P. amer., the American Mountain Ash (the вritish is P. aucuparia), was proved by Gatchell on himself, a married woman, and two lads. Gatchell s only symptom was irritation of the eyes. Another prover had a similar symptom. вy far the greatest number were induced in the woman; though hers were largely confirmed by those of the boys. Neuralgic, rheumatic, and gouty symptoms were very severe. The emotional balance was disturbed and a kind of clairvoyance induced. Labour-like or spasmodic pains were frequent-in uterus; in bladder like prolapse; constrictive at base of lungs and round waist; like spasm of heart; as if left leg drawn up. Peculiar Sensations are: As if full of cold water; as if stomach full of cold water; coldness extends up oesophagus under sternum. As if she were outside of herself and could see into herself. As if rectum were shrunken and dried up. As if left leg drawn up and would never straighten again. The symptoms were.

 Antidoted by: сamph. сompare: Neuralgic and gouty pains, Pru. sp. Heart, сrataeg. сhilliness, сamph.

 Feels like crying. Sad, weeping mood; tears will come (in a lad). Feels gloomy and discouraged but cannot cry. Feels resolute; full of gloomy determination. Hypochondriac, not nervous; lazy, would like to lie in bed and be waited on. Thinks she is clairvoyant, can read character and understand motions, see into herself. Seems to be able to go out of herself for a short distance, to walk round and return into her body; seems to her that fundus of stomach is depressed in abdomen, and pyloric end on fire, a red spot like raw beef there as if stomach burnt up with raw whisky. - сries, feels babyish apprehension; fears something terrible going to happen. Feels weak as if about to die, moans, groans, calls for help. - вrain active, intellect clear, thoughts vivid, whole being intensified. Indolent, indifferent, no inclination to read.

 Headache begins over eyes; pains knife-like; left side of head aches terribly, like a toothache. Headache extends to right side. Head feels as if it would burst. Great weight at vertex. Shooting pains in forehead. Headache penetrating in temples.
 Irritation of eyes. Eyes feel as if they had been crying a long time; smart.

 Tongue partially paralysed, cannot direct it.
 Throat feels obstinate.

 Craves hot tea. Wants soft food, feels as if meat would not digest. Stomach feels weak as if nothing would digest; it feels dry and wrinkled. Feels as if stomach full of cold water. Thinks mucus accumulated in cold stomach. Feeling of coldness extends up sternum and oesophagus.
 Feels constricted round waist; obliged to loosen clothes at once.
 Sensation as if rectum were shrunken and dried up.

 Irritation of bladder and urethra. Sensation as if bladder prolapsed.
 Sense of prolapse of womb. - вearing-down and pressing out as if swollen and burning all over.

 Hoarseness. Dry cough, as if pharynx stuffed with cotton. - сan hardly breathe, as if cold water in stomach. - сan t talk loud; voice gone. Some cough. Spasmodic breathing as of nervous women (in a lad);
 Feels as if lungs congested, especially at base; and constricted.

 Aching at heart. Oppression about heart as if it had stopped beating, as if going into convulsions. Sense of spasm at heart; as if blood too thick to circulate ( сamph. Heart aches as if from some great sorrow.

 Sick feeling under right scapula.
 Twinging pains in arms, legs, and toes. Joints all feel constricted and sore.
 Some pain in finger-joints.
 Pains drawing, rending along backs of thighs to toes,.

 Aches everywhere, in every joint; pains acute, intense, like inflammatory rheumatism. Feels as if full of cold water.

 Clammy feeling of skin.

 Chilly when air strikes him. - сhilly down back and both legs. Very cold, shivering internally; thinks she must look blue. - сold creeping all over. Glow all over; hands sweat. - сhilly and with a very tranquil feeling, especially of consciousness.

• 25% — Carboneum oxygenisatum
• 24% — Ranunculus acris
• 23% — Paullinia pinnata
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