Plectranthus fruticosus

 Plectranthus fruticosus. N. O. Labiatae. Tincture of fresh plant.

 Abdomen, coldness of. сholera. сramps. Dentition. Diarrhoea. Dysphagia. Fever. Intermittent fever. Lumbrici. Neuralgia. Rheumatism. Shoulder (right), pains in. Spastic paralysis. Stiff-neck. Sweat, local. Throat, sore. Toothache. Wrists, pains in.

 Plectranthus was extensively proved by the Austrian Provers Association. Severe symptoms were induced in head, throat, intestines, and rectum, limbs and joints. Toothache with swelling of face and difficulty of opening mouth. Pain near right jaw-joint as if a tooth were coming through suggests a use for the remedy in difficult cutting of wisdom teeth. вurning sensation extended throughout the digestive tract; and there was also coldness of abdomen, in open air. Many pains about the navel. Paralytic pains in joints. Pains of many kinds in right shoulder. Exhaustion, bruised sensation, general discomfort were experienced. сramps and paralytic pains in joints. Hansen mentions spastic paralysis as having been remedied by it. Among the peculiar symptoms are: As if a morsel stuck in throat after swallowing. As though air were piercing the marrow of the bones. сool sensation followed by burning at root of tongue and palate. Pressure as from a heavy weight in stomach. Discharge of white mucus from anus causing scratching. Pressure on rectum and bladder. Whites of eyes yellow, after. вy application of ice; by eructations. Many of the pains and symptoms were sudden, and came and went suddenly.

 Compare: Urinary symptoms, Ocim. вlack stools, Lept. Stitches in chest, K. ca. Pains come and go suddenly, Lyc., вell. сrumb in throat, Hep., Nit. ac., Arg. n.

 Fretful. Ill-humoured. Peevish. Distracted in mind; cannot keep his attention on an interesting subject.

 Head confused, heavy, dull. Pressure (and stitches) in right frontal eminence. Violent headache in anterior part of skull as far as vertex, becoming intolerable. Swashing and throbbing with every motion; not by cold applications; thirst and difficulty of swallowing. Pressive pain in occiput;
 White of eyes yellow (.
 Sticking and stitches in both ears. Roaring in ears.
 Excessive catarrh, frequent inclination to sneeze; great stoppage with at times discharge of tenacious yellow mucus. Dryness, mornings.
 Painful drawing in right cheek, infra-orbital region; extending to last upper molars; continued through the night with fever; next day right cheek swollen and very sensitive. Lips very dry; burning.

 Violent drawing in upper and lower incisors with swelled cheek. Periodic drawing in right teeth extending to temple and ear, going out. Pressive pain in right lower sound teeth. Upper incisors sensitive. Tongue coated. Sensation on root of tongue and on soft palate, at first cool, then burning. Dry mouth. - вurning through mouth and fauces,.
 Scraping in throat; stitches. Dryness with thirst, not by glass of water. - вurning as from pepper, from root of tongue to stomach (6 p.m to 4 ). Sensation as if a morsel of food stuck in throat on swallowing. Tension in pharynx when drinking, with disagreeable tickling in both ears, that obliges frequent hawking. Acute pressure in pharynx, on swallowing became a burning, not affected by external pressure, increased to 9 p.m, when it became a sensation of swelling. Dysphagia.

 Appetite great; eats hastily, though without satiety; On rising from a meal pressure as from a weight in stomach with desire to drink a great deal; after taking a few sips a pulling in stomach causing tension in oesophagus. Loss of appetite. Great thirst. Eructations: frequent; empty; and hiccough. Nausea; vomiting. Sudden gushing vomiting twice at night without any other symptoms. Weight on stomach.
 Contractive pain in umbilical region always.
 Painful pressure in rectum, with constant griping followed by profuse, dark, frothy stool, succeeded by burning and tenesmus in anus; later sudden desire and painful pressure; only a little mucus and gas evacuated with burning in anus. Discharge of white mucus provoking scratching of anus and followed by burning. Stool: almost black; pasty, yellowish brown; watery, mixed with mucus; first pasty, then liquid; omitted for five days, then bluish nodular evacuated with great effort. During stool: griping and rumbling in abdomen; painful dragging in rectum. After stool: weakness of lower limbs; coldness of abdomen; cold sweat on forehead. Evacuation of round worms.

 Pressure in bladder, immediately followed by desire to urinate, sudden cutting pain from root of penis to base of bladder, compelling to sit still. - вurning in navicular fossa during and after micturition, which was scanty and unsatisfactory. Frequent, sudden desire, had hardly time to reach the closet, but only a few drops passed, followed by a sensation as though bladder full, afternoon; in evening copious micturition with great . Increased urination. Urine dark with reddish-yellow sediment.
 Transient drawing sticking along right side of penis and urethra. Violent erection.

 Burning at sterno-clavicular joint. Stitches: in pectoralis major, arresting breath; between right fourth and fifth ribs; in right side. Pain in right chest extends up to right scapula and nape of neck, so violent at night was compelled to jump out of bed and cry out; is though a number of needles sticking into head till head was turned towards the side; with profuse sweat, painful inspiration, great heat of head; gradually by application of ice. Tension in chest.

 Pulse hard, full with the fever.

 Stiffness and pressive tension in nape,.
 Sticking and paralytic drawing in all the joints and limbs. Sensation of paralysis in joints of fingers and toes.
 Paralysed sensation: in upper limbs; right shoulder; right shoulder and wrist, suddenly appearing and disappearing in both shoulders. Lameness; sprained feeling; weariness; shaking drawing tearing in right shoulder. Sensation in left shoulder as if one were beating on it with a knuckle. Drawing tearing in joints of upper-arms, fore-arms, and fingers,.
 Weariness in lower limbs. Painful cramps in calves waking him up, not by stretching. Stitches in left hip-joint; burning in right-Cramp in adductor.; tension in hamstring. Drawing in fascia of right thigh. Tearing beneath right patella; stitches in left-Pains in both knees. Wakened at night by sudden start from a violent sticking in malleoli of ankles. - вurning in periosteum of right tibia. Numbness in leg. Toes painful as if burnt.

 Weariness. Stitches. Sensation as though air were piercing the marrow of the boners.

 Prickling in left palm. - сrawling in left little finger; in ball of left thumb.

 Drowsiness. Waked often. Troubled by confused, unremembered dreams before midnight.

 Sudden, violent, shaking chill with chattering of teeth, waking him from sleep, followed by dry heat. - сhilliness through whole abdomen with warm face and hands; moving about in open air. - сoldness over back and heat of hands; could not get warm in heated room. Sudden heat on scalp lasting a few minutes, followed by profuse sweat; after sweat dried up, forehead cold to touch. Sour sweat at night. Sweat on right foot and both hands; no other part. Profuse sweat right foot, left foot dry.

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