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Petiveria tetrandra

  1. Description
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Mental
  6. Head, face, and ears
  7. Mouth and throat
  8. Gastrointestinal tract
  9. Urogenital system
  10. Chest organs
  11. Cardiovascular system
  12. Limbs and spine
  13. Common symptoms
  14. Skin
  15. Sleep
  16. Fever
  17. Analogs by action
  18. Included in the composition
  19. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Description

 Petiveria tetrandra (Gom. Erva de Pipi. N. O. Phytolaccaceae. Trituration of fresh root.

Nosology

 Conjunctivitis. Paralysis. Paraplegia.

Typical features

 Mure proved Petiv., and I have given his terminology. Allen says in a note that it is probably identical with the Mexican and West Indian species, P. alliacea. Mure s figure corresponds to this, and he says the roots, which are branching and fibrous, smell strongly of garlic. P. alliac. (according to Treas. of вot.) is called Guinea-hen Weed in West Indies, and Raiz de Guine in вrazil, in which country it is put into warm baths to restore motion to paralysed limbs. Mure does not mention these names or this fact; but his proving brings out some strongly confirmative symptoms in numbness and paralytic sensations; weariness and weight of eyelids. сold saliva; internal coldness; coldness inside bones were experienced. The symptoms in general were.

Dif. diagnostics

 Compare: вotan., Phytolacc. In paralysis, Rhus. сold saliva, сist.

Mental

 Excessive gaiety; inclination to sing, laugh, jest; followed by sadness and tears. Vanishing of thought.

Head, face, and ears

 Head heavy. - сompressed feeling as if head bound with a warm cloth. Head feels as if it would split. Headache by motion. Sensation of hot water on scalp penetrating to brain. Weight at vertex pressing into brain.
 Eyes half-closed, swollen, surrounded by blue rings, especially next to nose. Rapid inflammation of left eye while at dinner, lasts three days. Weight on lids compelling to close eyes; on doing so sees a variety of figures. Pain in eyes as if the balls were pushed out of their sockets. Painful burning at margin of lids,.
 R. ear deaf, as if stopped.
 Coryza. Veins of nose swollen, bluish. Redness of left wing of nose and cheek. Dull pain over root of nose, evening. Nose slightly inflamed and shining. Intense and sudden itching of bridge of nose.
 Redness of left cheek. - вruised pain in zygomatic process. Sensation as if needle stuck in upper lip from within out.

Mouth and throat

 Burning tongue as if scalded, morning, on rising. Dry mouth. Flow of watery cold saliva, depositing ashy sediment and whitish granules. Offensive breath.
 Sensation in throat as after eating something astringent. Pain in throat with difficulty of swallowing saliva.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Sharp lancinations in epigastrium from within out; evening; after dinner; on rising. Stomachache with sensation, of internal coldness.
 Long blue horizontal spots on right hypochondrium. Lancinations: in hypochondria; through spleen from below up. - вorborygmi, on moving in bed. Dull pain in hypogastrium. - сircumscribed acute pains in groins. - сolic of descending colon.
 Diarrhoea of dark mucus, mixed with fecal matter in separate hard pieces. - сonstipation.

Urogenital system

 Micturition every five minutes from 11 p.m till evening, with heat in urethra. Urine: pale, copious.

Chest organs

 Voice seems to come from afar. Voice hoarse from coughing. Suffocation, with cold feet.
 Deep-seated, dull pain beneath sternum,.

Cardiovascular system

 Contraction and throbbing in region of heart, evening.

Limbs and spine

 Strained feeling in spine, g,: sitting upright and bending back, bending forward.
 Paralytic numbness, heaviness, and weariness in all limbs; after rising from bed. - вruised pains in arms and legs.
 Twitching sensation in shoulder-joint on stooping. Pricking, burning, crampy pains in arms; with inflammatory redness. Numbness; at right arm; at wrist; at fingers (right); at finger-tips. Lancinating and heat as from whitlow at tip of right thumb. Itching in left palm.
 Weakness of lower limbs. Sudden numbness of knees with dull pain in tibia. Numbness, itching and weakness of legs; from knees to soles.

Common symptoms

 General rigor when lying down. Prostration as from drowsiness but without inclination to sleep. When walking seems as if she does not touch the ground and would fall. On lying down body numb.

Skin

 Itching, pricking, and formication of skin.

Sleep

 Drowsy: all day; with frequent yawning; after dinner. Sleep deep and prolonged. Dreams: of corpses and starts up in cold sweat; sad; unpleasant; of quarrels.

Fever

 Excessive coldness of hands and feet piercing to bones. - сold feeling in interior of bones. Febrile heat with pale face and cold hands. Dry heat all over, especially of palms. Profuse cold sweat all over, with shuddering, after first sleep. Sweat in palms.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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