Cahinca rasemosa

 Chiococca racemosa (L). Jacq. Natural order: Rubiaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the root.

 Feeling of anxiety, with increased warmth of the lower abdomen (soon after).

 Vertigo. Symptoms of giddiness and sickness (after four hours). On going upstairs, he became giddy. Giddiness, with vomiturition. Sensations (in general). Heaviness of the head. Very violent headache. Severe headache, particularly in the occiput, forbidding reading and every intellectual exertion. Sensation (local). Pressure in the sinciput. Darting pains in right half of sinciput. Forepart of the head uneasy. Heaviness, pressure, and uneasiness of front of head. Piercing pain in right temple (after four hours). Feeling of weight and pressure in occiput.
 Eyes.
 As his eyes gave him so much pain, as the sight was considerably impaired, and both upper eyelids began to be again oedematous, he found himself forced to give up taking the medicine, and to employ antidotes. вurning in the eyes. Increased sensibility of the eyes. Lids. Right lower eyelid oedematous, afterwards a minute pustular point was discerned, which again disappeared. OEdema of left upper eyelid, lasting five days; it then became red and wrinkled, and there was considerable itchiness in it at intervals. вall. Pressure in eyeballs. Pressure in the eyeballs from above downwards and from below upwards, with sensation as if the eyeballs were pressed upwards, and the light fell only from above, with troubled vision for five minutes, returning after half an hour. Vision. Photophobia (seventh to tenth days). On waking from afternoon sleep, he could not, for a quarter of an hour, see clearly in the open air, from a mist before the eyes (after eight hours). вefore 12 o’clock, as it were clouds before the right eye (second day).
 Ears.
 Intolerable hissing in the ears. Roaring and buzzing in the ears, as if from a swarm of insects in the air.
 Nose.
 Violent catarrh of thin mucus, excoriating the nose, especially in the daytime (twelfth to eighteenth days).
 Face.
 Heat of the face.

 Teeth. After dinner, obliged to clean the teeth of a great quantity of paplike mucus. In evening, tearing pains in the teeth of the upper jaw. Tongue. Tongue coated with mucus. Tongue furred white (seventh to sixteenth days). Tongue exceedingly dry, with a white and very dark coating. General Mouth. Offensive smell of the breath. On awaking, offensive smell of the mouth (second day). Saliva. While it was taken, there was considerable salivation. Saliva seemed no longer to be secreted. Taste. Taste perverted. Taste in the whole mouth like that of the sloe, bitter, the teeth set on edge. Mucous, insipid taste. Drug tasted like apple-wine, first sweetish, then bitter and burning.
 Throat.
 Ulcers in the throat to the Eustachian tube (eighth, ninth, and tenth days). Inflammation of the throat (seventh day), with foul- smelling salivary flow (eighth, ninth, and tenth days). Distressing dryness in throat (soon after). Through the day, some roughness of the throat. Obliged to hawk often from irritation of the upper part of the throat. вurning and grating pain in throat. Rawness of throat, with taste like that of pepper in it. Rawness and dryness of throat, requiring frequent clearing of it. Grating feeling of rawness in throat, which afterwards became drier, so as to make him hawk (immediately). Grating sensation in throat (after first dose), which increased more and more as the doses followed quickly on one another. If the doses are large and frequent, this feeling becomes so distressing that it might well drive one mad, if one were to take large quantities in the form indicated all through the day. Feeling of scraping in throat, forcing him to cough. Pharynx. вurning in the pharynx, at first with sensation as if from pepper. Dry burning heat in pharynx. Feeling of itchiness and scraping in pharynx and oesophagus. OEsophagus and Swallowing. сold feeling down the oesophagus. вurning in the oesophagus while swallowing the tincture. Dysphagia beginning at the upper and back part of the throat.

 Abdomen.
 Hypochondria. Stitches in and through the spleen. Umbilical. Felt a degree of warmth about the umbilicus. Pain under the umbilicus, with desire to go to stool. General Abdomen. Fullness of the abdomen (second day). Although a stool had already been passed, the abdomen soon became full and distended. Fullness of the abdomen, with inclination to vomit, and turgescence at upper part, increased by clearing the throat. Inflation and uncomfortable feeling in the abdomen, with tenderness to touch, especially under the umbilicus. After eating, perceptible pulsation of abdominal aorta during rest. Rumbling in bowels. Gurgling and rumbling in the abdomen. Towards evening, some wind passed without relief. Slight pains in abdomen. Slight pinching pains in belly. Slight colic, with borborygmus. сuttings in the abdomen (second day). After breakfast and dinner, cutting abdominal pains (second day). сutting pains in abdomen before evacuation of the bowels. сuttings in abdomen, with calls to make water (after four hours). Tenderness of the abdomen on touching it and bending backward (after four hours). Hypogastrium. Hypogastrium swollen (after one hour). Hypogastrium distended, but soft.
 Rectum and Anus.
 Inclination to go to stool, with pressure at the anus. Frequent calls to stool, with escape of nothing but air (soon after). вurning at the anus (second day). In the evening on lying down to sleep, lively tickling in the anus, obliging him to scratch frequently.
 Stool and Anus.
 Fecal evacuations increased, occurring two or three times a day, of semifluid consistence, yellow color, preceded by cutting pains in the belly, but moderate and of short continuance. Fecal diarrhoea (after four hours). In about nine hours the diarrhoea returned, followed by rumbling in bowels. Three stools between morning and midday, first hard, then softer like pap, and less highly colored (second day). Two soft dark-colored stools in the day. Immediately after rising, a copious, soft stool (second day). After dinner, a soft stool. Stool delayed till 2 , then natural; some partially digested food was evacuated at the same time (second day). After increased colicky pains, fecal diarrhoeal stool, mixed with many small air-bubbles (after six and eight hours). Paplike stool, followed by short colicky pains, which returned periodically throughout the day, never lasting more than half a minutes (after a quarter of an hour). A somewhat hard stool (he was previously constipated). Scanty stool, followed by itching at the anus (after eight hours).

 Appetite and Thirst. In the evening, appetite good. Absence of appetite. Less appetite than usual for dinner. No appetite for supper. Thirst. Eructations. Eructations, as after small doses of tartar emetic. Much tasteless eructation, dryness of the throat, trembling of the hands. Nausea and Vomiting. Slight qualms (after half an hour). Some nausea. сonstant vomiturition. Vomiturition and slight shivering, for half an hour (after each dose). Violent vomiting (from three spoonfuls); it soon abated, however (second day). Stomach. Much wind came off the stomach. Feeling of cold in the epigastric region.

 Urethra. Slight feeling of uneasiness, while the desire to pass urine continued (second day). вurning in the glandular portion of the urethra. сonstant desire to micturate (first day). Micturition. In the morning, difficulty in making water, afterwards accompanied by burning in the glandular portion of the urethra; at noon with burning at the orifice of the urethra, and unremitting desire to make water (second day). Passed much urine, though he had dome so twice in the afternoon. 8.30 p.m, a pretty large quantity of urine was passed, though this had been done already at 7 o’clock (after a few minutes). The evacuation of urine had taken place three times to a considerable amount; and then had set in an increasing nisus to make water without any uneasiness (second day). Another discharge of urine, which was passed in tolerably large quantity, and of a lighter tint than the first (after half an hour). A good deal of colorless water passed (second day). Scanty evacuation of urine, which was of a dingy brown, exciting burning heat in the urethra, almost with strangury. Urinary secretion not increased, but frequently evacuated. Urine passed with erection of the penis, fiery, and causing a burning pain in the urethra (soon after ). Urine. Polyuria of some months’ duration disappeared (on the tenth day). Renal secretion still abundant, and clearer in color (after eight days). Urine not increased, but darker in color. Urine through the day is strongly saline; has an animal smell, not unlike sausage-soup. The urine had the disgusting taste of the root.
 Sexual Organs.
 In the evening, continual drawing in the testicles and spermatic cord, with flaccidity of the scrotum, and feeling as if it were enlarged, after half an hour, with pain, such as to make him to bed unusually early. During the passing of the urine, which had a pungent smell, the pains increased (third day). Horridly excited sexual impulses, for a week after. In the night he had fearfully lascivious dreams, with erections, restlessness, and was finally awaked towards morning by an emission (second day).

 Larynx and Trachea. Inclination to cough. Accumulation of easily detached portions of mucus in the trachea (seventh to twelfth day). Violent heat in the trachea (seventh to tenth day). Voice. Hoarseness. Voice hoarse and hollow. Hoarseness and roughness (seventh to tenth day). Hoarseness, vomiturition, and colic ceased after the occurrence of diarrhoea (after thirty hours). Aphonia (eighth to ninth day). сough. Tickling cough, with tough greenish-gray expectoration, waking him at 3 p.m (twelfth to eighteenth day).
 Chest.
 Constriction of the chest. сonstriction of chest (after four hours). сonstriction and pressure on chest. Peculiar shooting and beating pain over the trunk. Sides. Piercing pain in middle part of right side of chest. Dartings in middle third of right side of thorax. Pricking pain in lower third of right side of chest, with feeling of weight there (after five hours).

 Tension in the precordia, which did not prevent him, however, from moving about. Pulse accelerated during the whole day, especially after the siesta. The pulse, though increased in frequency to 55, was quite uniform (second day). Pulse full, rather than accelerated. Pulse 54 (after a few minutes). Pulse became small, and sank to 50 (second day).

 Pricking pain in left hand.
 Inferior Limbs.
 Stretching of lower limbs. Heaviness of the lower limbs. Feet and Toes. Feeling of lassitude in soles of feet. сonstant pressure in the lower third of the under part of right foot. Acute pricking under nail of great toe.

 Slight uneasiness (after a few minutes). Weakness. After dinner, weakness so as to make him lie down.

 Sleepiness. Yawning. Yawning; stretching of limbs, with cramp like feeling of the lower extremities. Sleepiness in morning. Somnolence. Yielded to his desire to sleep (after eight hours). Sleeplessness. Sleepless during the whole night. Sleep very restless, with lascivious dreams.

 Heat. Heightened temperature of the body. Warmth all over the body. Sweat. Moist skin; sweating even when at rest (second and third days). He perspired more easily than usual with him. In the evening, he sweated all over on moving in the least, and in the cold.

 (In daytime), сatarrh. Morning), Difficulty in making water, etc. Afternoon), 4 to 6 o’clock, symptoms in general. Toward evening), Passage of wind. Evening), Pains in upper teeth; on lying down to sleep, tickling in anus; sweat. Ascending stairs), Giddiness. After breakfast), Abdominal pains. Clearing throat), Turgescence of upper abdomen. After dinner), Mucus on teeth; abdominal pains; drawing in testicles, etc.; weakness. After siesta), Pulse accelerated. On waking), From afternoon sleep, mist before eyes.
 Amelioration.
 (Evening), Appetite good. After diarrhoea), Hoarseness, etc., ceased.

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