Helianthus

Helianthus annuus, Linn.

Natural order, Compositse. Common names. Sunflower; Sonnenrose; Le Tournesol.

Preparation, Tincture of the flower heads.

Authorities. 1, Dr. Consoles took expressed juice of the flowers, B. J. of Horn., 2, 169 (trans. from Bib. Horn, de Geneve.); 2, effects on a lady, aged 40, ibid.; 3, A. H. Z., 31, p. 20 (apparently from Bib. Horn, de Geneve., though the symptoms differ very materially from preceding; the original is not accessible), effects on a man; 4, effects on a girl; 5, Davy, from Med. Gaz., Oct. 1848 ; effects on a woman of eating a quantity of sunflower^er seeds.

Head

Headache

Eyes

Slight redness on the margin of the left upper lid, with smarting in the inner canthus (ninth day)

Eyes suffused

Nose

After a short time slight epistaxis occurred, and the nostrils became free, and during the ensuing winter the secretions were healthy, and discharged through the natural passages,bt

Face

Anxious countenance

Face deeply flushed

Mouth p. 546

Sticking in the upper back teeth/.

Tongue and fauces very red, and inclined to dryness

They had an unusually hot taste while eating

Difficulty in articulating

Throat p. 546

Stiffness and dryness of the throat/.

Sensation of glowing in the throat and stomach, immediately

Severe burning sensation in the fauces, oesophagus, and epigastrium

Stomach p. 546

Thirst

Nausea

Vomiting, produced apparently by too powerful a dose of the medicine; this effect recurred frequently, though in slight degree when Helianthus had been administered for an ordinary cold

Symptoms increased in severity until she vomited freely, when she felt rather better

Rectum and Anus p. 546

Hsemorrhoids (fourth day)

Stool p. 546

Stools soft, black, with emission of semen (seventh day)

Hard, black stool every second day

Respiratory Organs p. 546

Voice hoarse

Cough, in the forenoon, with gelatinous expectoration streaked with blood (eighth day)

Breathing rather difficult and hurried

Chest p. 546

Pulse 110, full, soft, and compressible

Inferior Extremities p. 546

Rheumatic pain in the left knee on descending stairs,/

Skin p. 546

Skin generally of a scarlet redness, and very hot

Groups of red pimples on the inner side of the knee, with slight itching (sixth day)

Many urticaria-like pimples, especially on the inner side of the forearm, and afterwards on the leg, afterwards itching in external warmth, in the morning and night,/

Small, red tetter to the right of the navel (seventh day)

Tingling of the skin

Footnotes

† He was at the time in good health, with the exception of slight nasal obstruction, the secretion from the nose passing constantly through the posterior nares.