Lycopersicum

Lycopersicum esculentum, Mill.

Natural order, Solanacem.

Common names. Tomato, Love-apple.

Preparation, Tincture of ripe fruit.

Authorities. 1, Dr. Gross, Archiv. f. Horn., 17, 3, p. 183; 2, Dr. Helen J. Underwood, in letter to editor, “ effects in many women, who could not eat a saucer of fresh tomatoes without the following effects.”

Mind

Peevish about trifles, increased by the weakness of memory

Thoughts disappear, worse when leaning the head upon anything; forgets everything he wishes to recollect

Head

Heavy confusion of the head

Dulness of the head

Heaviness of the head, with weakness of the cervical muscles (after a quarter of an hour)

Sensation as if the head were compressed or squeezed from both sides

Boring; therewith the skin of the forehead becomes painfully tense

Pressure beneath the frontal bone, as if the brain would be forced out, relieved by leaning the head against something, always in the evening and continuing awhile after going to bed

Boring in the left side of the occiput

Nose

Stopped catarrh in the nose

Face

Pressure in the right zygoma

A stitch in the left cheek

Stitches in the left zygoma

Urinary Organs

Must rise at night to urinate

Sexual Organs

Profuse leucorrhcea discharge (immediately)

In some cases, what was thought to be too frequent menstruation, brought on by free use of canned tomatoes, and the flow would return whenever this food was eaten for a few meals

Chest

Slight sticking beneath the left side of the sternum; without difficulty of respiration

Back

They will cause a depressing backache, in lower dorsal and lumbar region, wdiich will make any one feel gloomy and depressed

Superior Extremities

^i\C&.\iig on the inner side of the left forearm

Inferior Extremities

\20.^ Painful sticking behind the articulation of the left hip

Sticking above the external malleolus of the right foot, during rest and motion

Generalities

At night he lies upon the back, on account of a sensation of paralysis

Sleep p. 628

Is unable to fall asleep in the evening, tosses about, position is uncomfortable

Frequent waking and tossing the limbs when pressed feel paralyzed

Is wakened by an insigu dream,'. . ^head

Conditions p. 628

Aggravation.

(Evening), Relieved by leaning against something, pressure beneath frontal bone.

(Leaning head ag anything), Disappearance of thought.