Cainca

Chiococca racemosa (L.) Jacq. Nat. order, Rubiacese. Preparation, Tincture of the root.

Authorities. 1, Dr. Koch, took the infusion, A. Z. f. Horn., 2 (day-books, translated in N. Am. J. of Horn., 2, 50); 2, Wimer, ibid., took an infusion ; 3, Ibid., a young man took 150 and 200 drops of the tincture; 4, Ibid., a young man took 100 to 700 drops of the tincture ; 5, Ibid., the same prover took, at another time, 20 to 150 drops of the tincture; 6, Dr. Lippe took the 2d dilution.

Mind

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

Head

Vertigo. 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

Sensations (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 cedematous, he found himself forced to give up taking the medicine, and to employ antidotes

Burning in the eyes

Increased sensibility of the eyes

Lids. Right lower eyelid oedematous, afterwards a minute pustular point was discerned, which again disappeared

(Edema of left upper eyelid, lasting five days ; it then became red and wrinkled, and there was considerable itchiness in it at intervals

Ball. 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)

Before 12 oclock, as it were clouds before the right eye (second day)

Ears p. 333

Intolerable hissing in the ears

Roaring and buzzing in the ears, as if from a swarm of insects in the air

Nose p. 333

Violent catarrh of thin mucus, excoriating the nose, especially in the daytime (twelfth to eighteenth days)

Face p. 333

Heat of the face

Mouth p. 333

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 Month. 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 p. 333

Ulcers in the throat to the Eustachian tube (eighth, ninth, and tenth days)

Inflammation of the throat (seventh day), with foulsmelling 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

Burning 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

Bharynx. Burning 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

(Esophagus and Swallowing. Cold feeling down the oesophagus

Burning in the oesophagus while swallowing the tincture

Dysphagia beginning at the upper and back part of the throat

Stomach p. 333

Appetite and Thirst. In the evening, appetite good

Absence of appetite

Less appetite than usual for dinner

No appetite for supper

Thirst

Eructations. Eructations

Eructations, as after small doses of tartar emetic

Much tasteless eructation, dryness of the throat, trembling of the hands

Nan sea and Vomiting. Slight qualms (after half an hour)

Some nausea

Constant 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

Abdomen p. 334

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. Fulness of the abdomen (second day)

Although a stool had already been passed, the abdomen soon became full and distended

Fulness 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

Cuttings in the abdomen (second day)

After breakfast and dinner, cutting abdominal pains (second day)

Cutting pains in abdomen before evacuation of the bowels

Cuttings 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 p. 334

Inclination to go to stool, with pressure at the anus

Frequent calls to stool, with escape of nothing but air (soon after)

Burning at the anus (second day)

In the evening on lying down to sleep, lively tickling in the anus, obliging him to scratch frequently

Stool p. 334

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 p.m., 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 minute (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)

Urinary Organs p. 334

Urethra. [HO.] Slight feeling of uneasiness, while the desire to pass urine continued (second day)

Burning in the glandular portion of the urethra

Constant 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 done so twice in the afternoon

8.30 a.m., a pretty large quantity of urine was passed, though this had been done already at 7 oclock (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)

JJri tie. Polyuria of some months duration disappeared (on the tenth day),b.

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 p. 335

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 go 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)

Respiratory Organs p. 335

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)

Cough. Tickling cough, with tough greenish-gray expectoration, waking him at 3 a.m. (twelfth to eighteenth day)

Chest p. 335

Constriction of the chest/.

Constriction of chest (after four hours)/.

Constriction 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)/.

Heart and Pulse p. 335

Tension in the prsecordia, 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)/.

Superior Extremities p. 335

Pricking pain in left hand/.

Inferior Extremities p. 335

Stretching of lower limbs/.

Heaviness of the lower limbs/.

Feet and Toes. Feeling of lassitude in soles of feet

Constant pressure in the lower third of the under part of right foot/.

Acute pricking under nail of great toe/.

Generalities p. 335

Slight uneasiness (after a few minutes)

Weakness/.

After dinner, weakness so as to make him lie down

Sleep and Dreams p. 335

Sleepiness. Yawning/.

Yawning ; stretching of the limbs, with cramplike 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

Fever p. 336

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

Conditions p. 336

Aggravation.

(In daytime), Catarrh.

(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 p. 336

(Evening), Appetite good.

(After diarrhoea), Hoarseness, etc., ceased.