Thea

Thea chinensis.

Natural order, Carnelliacese.

Common name, Tea.

Preparation, Tincture or trituration of the leaves.

Authorities. 1, Practice Mittheilungen, 1827, p. 30 (Journ. de la Sac. Gall., Both, Mat, Med. Pure, vol. 1, p. 511), Madame N., T. Chin. ; 2, E. Percival, Dublin Hosp. Rep., 1818, p. 220, a man, unaccustomed to drinking tea, took some very strong green tea three times in one day ; 3, Dr. Harvey, ibid., a man who was up all night and drank much strong tea; 4, Gunther, Buchner's Repertorium, vol. 9, ser. 2 (Journ. de la Sac. Gall., Both, Mat, Med. Pure, vol. 1) ; 5 to 13, John Cole, Lancet, 1832-3 (2), p. 274 : 5, effects of excessive tea-drinking on a woman set. thirty-five years ; 6, Mrs. R., just recovering from an attack of catarrhal fever, drank more than the usual quantity of strong black tea ; 7, a woman, ait. thirty years, drank tea excessively ; 8, Miss P. A., set. thirty years, was accustomed to drink much strong green tea ; 9, a woman, set. twenty-five years, drank tea night and morning ; 10, Mr. M., an excessive tea-drinker, who had been subject to fainting fits, drank a large quantity of- strong green tea after having 12 ounces of blood taken away ; 11, Mrs. T., set. thirty-five years, an excessive tea-drinker; 12, Mrs. S., set. twenty years, drank a large quantity of black tea; 13, effects on a lady, a devoted slave to the teapot; 14, Kremers, Casper's Woch., 1833 (Frank's Mag., 1, 290), a man took an infusion of 3 ounces of very strong black tea within three hours; 15, Z. fur H. Kl., 4, 65; 16, same, effects of 2 to 10 grains of pure Thein ; 17, Dr. A. Teste, Journ. de la Sac. Gall., ser. 1 , vol. 2, 1851, p. 234, T. Sinen. ; 18, Dr. Becker, Archiv. des Ver. fur gem. Arbiet, band 1, heft 2, p. 213 (Brit, and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1853 (2), p. 426), he determined the exact amount of food and water (each of known composition) taken, the amount of exercise, the exact amount of urine and its constituents, and of fseces, and of expired carbonic acid ; the amount of perspiration was calculated ; these experiments were continued for seven days ; in the second series the experiment was conducted in the same manner, only cold tea was substituted for water; 19, G. G. Sigmond, M.D., Lancet, 1838-9 (2), p. 782, common effects of tea-drinking; 20, same, Brit, and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1840 (1), p. 135, effects of green tea on some persons; 21, Dr. Moleschott, De 1' Alimentation et du Regime, 1858, p. 169 (Marvaud, Les Aliments d'Aparine, 1874, p. 324), general effects; 22, Henry S. Purdon, Med. Circular, vol. 26, 1865, 65, effects of excessive tea-drinking observed in women in Belfast Charitable Institution ; 23, Medicus, Month. Horn. Rev., vol. 11, 1867, drank black tea as strong as possible, without sugar or cream, generally a cup before rising, a pint at breakfast, and a pint and a half between 10 and 11 p.m. ; symptoms disappeared after discontinuing the use of tea, but always returned after resuming ; 24, H. M., Month. Horn. Rev., vol. 11, 1867, p. 510, effects of habitual use of black tea (with green tea all is intensified). (25 to 28, C. Wesselhoeft, M.D., New Eug. Med. Gaz., vol. 2, 1857, p. 169.) 25, a lady, over forty years of age, drank tea, often three times a day, and for a few weeks lived almost entirely on it; 26, a lady, over fifty years of age, just recovered from acute bronchitis, the cough and pulmonary symptoms had disappeared, had drank for years two cups of hot strong tea three times a day; 27, a young lady, set. twenty-two years, had lived almost exclusively on strong hot tea for eleven years; 28, an Irish cook, set. thirty-three years, had drunk it three times daily for years instead of taking proper meals ; 29, R. R. Gregg, H. Quart., vol. 2 (Rane's Rec, 1871, p. 32). (30 to 37, Wibmer, Wirkun der Arzneimittel.) 30, Lettsom's Nat. History, effects on a woman ; 31, same, effects of 30 grains of tea in powder three or four times a day ; 32, Whytt, took a cup of strong tea on an empty stomach before breakfast; 33, Murray, feeling rather weak, took a cup of strong tea ; 34, Tode, a child drank a cup of strong tea; 35, Herrmann, Hufeland's Journ., vol. 64, effects of continued use; 36, Newnham, a cup of strong green tea relieved at once tormenting hemicrania with throbbing in arteries; 37, same, experimented on three other persons, each of whom took a third of an infusion of 1 ounce of best green tea digested for twenty minutes in a pint of boiling water; 38, E. I. Dion, Practitioner, vol. 9, 1872, p. 265, a middle-aged woman subsisted mostly on bread and butter and hot tea, generally drinking a pint and a half or more of latter daily ; 39, J. Adams, U. S. Med. Invest., new ser., vol. 6 ; 40, U. V. Miller, North Am. Journ., new ser., 4, 1873, p. 87, effects on C. T., set. twenty-seven years, of drinking two cups of green tea at one meal ; 41, Married, Les Aliments d'Aparine, 1874, p. 324, general effects; 42, S. Swan, New York Journ. of Horn., vol. 2, 1874, p. 202, from various provings of Thea linen., symptoms with (Oo.), produced by Oolong tea.

Mind p. 584

Delirium

Symptoms of delirium

Delirium with great ecstasy; the patient laughed incessantly, talked constantly in rhyme, showed us that he felt extraordinarily well

Sensation as if impelled by some uncontrollable power to commit suicide, to jump out of the window, to put her baby in the boiler with the clothes, to cut its throat while cutting bread, to throw it downstairs (in a woman who kept a pot of tea boiling on the stove and drank several bowlfuls every day ; cured with Thea cm., Fincke)

Temporary exaltation of mind ; has greater confidence in himself (after Thein, 14 grains)

An exciting, and subsequently a debilitating, influence upon the nervous system in general and the lumbar portion of the spinal marrow

At first a genial cordiality, a brilliancy of intellect, with conversation fluent, interesting, and sparkling with wit; then the opposite state supervenes, with great irritability and sensitiveness

Additions: Introduction p. 587

TRACINGS FROM MARVAUD, LES ALIMENTS D'EPARGNE. 1. Man, Pulse normal. 2. Same, 10 minutes after 60 gr. of infusion. 3 u 15 m « « « 4 a 2(t " " " " 6. Man, Pulse normal. 7. " 15 minutes after 60 gr. of an infusion of 15 gr. of Thea to 200 gr.

of water. 8. Man, Pulse normal. 9. Same, 15 minutes after above infusion. 10. Man, Pulse normal. 11. " 15 minutes after above infusion. 12. Man, Pulse normal. 13. " 15 minutes after above infusion. so that there is a disposition to quarrel at the most harmless speech or act (Oo.),42.— Feeling of great ease,42.— Great nervous excitability, with clearness of the intellectual faculties,42.— [10.] A most uncomfortable state of nervousness and want of confidence, relieved by beer (after an hour or so),24. —The sound of the "night bell" made me terribly nervous,23.— Taciturn and peevish,42.— Morose, taciturn ; he is unwilling to utter a word,1. — Gloomy, heavy, and dizzy in the forehead,*2.— Weeps easily,27.— Feeling of anxiety and trembling,37.— Uneasy state of mind, characterized by Lehman as mental anguish (after Thein, 12 grains),42.— The mind is in an excessively uncomfortable and anxious state, which admits not the slightest rest, whether seated, lying, or reading (after Thein, 12 grains),42.— Appeared to be actuated by the greatest terror, and said : " I have called upon you to request you would let me in and allow me to die in your house,"3. — [20.] Nocturnal fright; sinister thoughts; invincible propensity to analyze his life, to look at it on the dark side, and to resolve it into its most hopeless realities,17. — Peevishness, with aversion to everything and to the least fatigue,42. — Excessively ill-humored ; everything became unpleasant to her, whereas she had been very cheerful previously ; she was disinclined to think or write,42.— Dislike to conversation,42.— Very bad temper; disposition entirely changed; usually cheerful, she becomes morose ; all mental exertion, even writing, is disagreeable to her,1. — Is irritable and cross,2'. — Excessively irritable and weak, complaining chiefly of empty gone feeling at the epigastrium,26. — Marked increase of intellectual aptitude without special exaltation of the imagination ; he is conscious of greater aptitude for study, and the mind is unusually capable of sustained attention,1'. — It increases the power of receiving impressions; it disposes to pensive meditation, and causes greater activity and flow of ideas ; the attention easily becomes fixed upon any subject; it causes a general sensation of health and gayety. After an hour, there succeeds to these agreeable sensations general nervous troubles, such as yawning, irritability, pains in the epigastrium, palpitation of the heart, trembling of the limbs, and general sadness. With these symptoms, there is associated a distressing and insupportable insomnia, with great, prolonged, nervous excitation, followed by lassitude and headache,21. — During the sleepless night, the mind was in a state of most active and persistent thinking, in spite of all attempts at forgetfulness (Thein, 12 grains),42. — [30.] Mind obscured,16. — Weakness of memory,33. — In the evening fits of insensibility, lasting three or four hours,11.

Additions: Head p. 585

Vertigo. Vertigo

Great vertigo, with darkness before the eyes (in a tea-drinker, cured with Thea 1, 200)

Intoxication

Giddiness

When walking in the open air, she suddenly feels giddy, as if about to lose consciousness (in the evening)

General Head. Determination of blood to the head, with sensation of fulness, especially in the forehead over the eyes

Congestion of brain

Headache

Excessively disagreeable headache, with throbbing of the carotids

Violent pain in the head

A prolific cause of sick headache

Sick headache occurring every week, so violent that nothing afforded relief; great soreness of the head, and weakness when the acute pain subsided

Has either headache or backache

For more than three years, she was subject to sick-headache ; these came on chiefly at the catamenial period, and also frequently in the intervals; the pain seems to begin in the left ovary and stomach, whence it seems to pass to the head

Neuralgic pain commencing in the nape of the neck, and on both sides of the base of cerebellum, comparatively like a cold flat-iron introduced between tbe skin and skull, thence passing up over the whole cranium, descending over the forehead down to the eyes, with excruciating suffering

Frequent headaches

Severe headache in the morning and in the evening, often with nausea

Forehead. Heaviness and compression in the forehead, principally when walking

Heaviness, vertigo in the forehead, especially when walking

Intense pain in forehead

Temples. Pains through the temples, throbbing, shooting, extending down to the nose. Attacks attended with great acuteness of the olfactory organs

Vevtex. Vertex; heat and vertex vertigo, with sensation of pulsation at vertex, can feel every heart-throb there

Occiput. She suddenly feels a tensive pain in the lowest portion of the occiput, almost in the nape of the neck (in half an hour)

From the beginning of the third day, neuralgic pain, with feeling of damp coldness in the occiput. The fixed seat of this pain, which consists of very sharp and rapid twitchings like electric shocks, is the right occipital protuberance. It extends more slowly to the nape of the neck, to the right shoulder, and even the arm of the same side. It was relieved by the application of the hand, or of a warm cloth

FdCtemal Head. Skin of the head and scalp tender and painful to the touch (Oo.)

Great tenderness of scalp on vertex ; can scarcely comb the hair

Additions: Eyes p. 586

Bright eye

Eyes unusually bright, with dilated pupils

Eyes glittering

Dryness of the eyes from much mental exercise during a sleepless night, followed by neuralgia of the eyes (Oo.)

After awhile the eyes became dry, and resulted in neuralgia of the eyes (Thein, 12 grs.)

Pupils dilated,25 27 28.

Dimness of sight

Darkness before the eyes, with vertigo

Flashing, fiery lines darting from the eyes, and radiating outward from the axis of vision

Sparks before the eyes

Additions: Face p. 586

Neuralgic pains in the cartilage of the ears, with icy coldness of the parts, seeming almost impossible to restore warmth to them (Oo.). The pains extend to the molar teeth and cheek-bones (Oo.)

Roaring in the ears

Hallucinations of the sense of hearing. For five nights in succession he thought he heard the door-bell very distinctly. This hallucination, which was renewed at different hours, followed me even into my sleep, and awakened me frequently with a start

Additions: Nose p. 586

Generally has nosebleed before the menses set in

Soreness of the internal edge of the nose (Oo.)42.

Constant desire to pick the nose (Oo.)

Great dryness in nose (Oo.)

Sensation at root of nose, as if epistaxis would occur

Additions: Face p. 586

Wild and distressed expression of countenance

Pale face

Face pale, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks

Face flushed,6 1227.

Cheeks flushed

Cheeks easily flushed

Additions: Mouth p. 586

The teeth are frequently diseased

Tongue clean and somewhat pale

Tongue red, with white slime (Oo.)

Tongue suffers from stings like blisters; red spots and white blisters on the top of the tongue; exceedingly painful, as if scalded with boiling hot liquid (Oo.)

Intolerably offensive breath on waking in the morning

Sensation of scraping at the soft palate

The whole buccal cavity feels dry and sensitive (Oo.)

A great deal of saliva in the mouth, during the first hours, with sensation of hunger. Six hours after, unpleasant dryness of the mouth, scanty, viscid saliva, with feeling of satiety, although he had eaten very little, with a little thirst. After drinking, the mouth is filled with viscid saliva

Bitter taste in mouth

Additions: Throat p. 587

Diphtheritic sore throat

Painless swelling of the mucous membrane of the pharynx

Uneasy feeling in the pharynx, as if it was obstructed by a foreign body

Additions: Stomach p. 587

Appetite and Thirst. The appetite is not so good. Sometimes I feel as if very hungry, but a little satisfies me, and a feeling of satiety quickly succeeds (sixth day)

Appetite returns two hours earlier than common. There is an empty feeling in the stomach, and a sort of faintness at the habitual dinner hour, although he had eaten as hearty a breakfast as usual

He lost his appetite for dinner if he drank a cup of tea previous to his meal

Bad appetite

Complete loss of appetite for many days

Loathing of food until noon; then she eats, but very sparingly

She is thirsty, but cannot bear cold water, every mouthful affects her head like a shock

Extreme thirst, or rather craving for acids, especially for lemons

She often felt a loathing against tea, but still could not resist it

No thirst, but craving for acids

Dislikes cold water

She never feels thirsty, and never drinks cold water

Heartburn. Occasionally a slight degree of heartburn

Pyrosis

Nausea and Vomiting. Distressing nausea

Slight nausea, lasting two hours

Nausea and vomiting after eating ; cured

Vomiting of bile occurs, but never of food, when the pain has reached its height

Exertion produces vomiting during the headache

Generally vomited the meal which she had lately taken

Disposition to vomit; a double dose increases this inclination, the sick feeling, and the disagreeable feeling in the stomach

Stomach. Digestion is sensibly accelerated, without noticeable disturbance

Sensation in the pit of the stomach as if one would vomit

Exceedingly unpleasant feeling of weakness of the stomach ; sense of disgust, with nausea and accumulation of saliva in the mouth. His stomach seems to hang in his body like an empty bag ; sensation such as results from cleaning out the stomach by an emetic

Sensation of emptiness and nervous excitability, with constriction, preventing a deep-drawn breath (Oo.)

The feeling of emptiness in the stomach is more decided than the distress caused by nightwatching at dinnertime (second day)

Frequent attacks of spasms of the stomach, any slight exertion would suffice to bring on the attack, so that she could scarcely walk without being seized with it

She was seized with a great sense of sinking and oppression at the stomach. In a quarter of an hour she was tossing about, groaning loudly with every breath, occasionally rubbing her stomach with great violence. She described the pain as a dull aching, benumbed feel, with an extreme sense of sinking and oppression

Sinking and craving in the stomach, with fluttering in the left side

Great emptiness and craving at the pit of the stomach

Complained of a faint, gone feeling, which had troubled her for years; these sensations bad recently assumed the character of intolerable dull pain after every meal, cramplike and pressing, reaching up into the throat, and often waking her from sleep at night

Complaining chiefly of empty, gone feeling at epigastrium

Slight pressure in the epigastrium (in a quarter of an hour)

Sudden and oft-repeated pressure at the epigastrium

Pain after eating, with sinking and emptiness at the pit of the stomach

Pain in the epigastrium and umbilical regions, not of an acutely spasmodic, but of a severely aching character; this pain came on at irregular intervals, but principally a short interval after eating, and was on some days scarcely ever absent, except before breakfast; there was no abdominal nor spinal tenderness, nor were there any neuralgic foci

Tickling in the pit of the stomach, causing presently a dry cough, which increases in violence till it shakes the whole digestive organization, bringing on neuralgic head-symptoms described above, with excruciating pains, seemingly unendurable (Oo.)

Great sensitiveness of the epigastrium, feels as if she had caved in

Additions: Abdomen p. 588

After luncheon, painful stitch below the ribs, extending from the right towards the left side, and returning in paroxysms

Relaxation of the fibres of the abdominal intestines

Transient borborygmi in the abdomen, and especially in the epigastric region

Liability to hernia

Additions: Rectum p. 588

Tumefaction of the inferior extremity of the rectum, with a very slight itching

Additions: Stool p. 588

Chronic relaxation of the bowels ; aggravated by beer, relieved by port wine

Relaxation of the bowels, profound constipation (Japan tea)

Three or four stools daily, of natural consistence, but formed very thin

In the daytime, two stools instead of one

Three natural stools during the day (second day)

The stools have become very irregular, in part hard and dry, the rest scarcely formed (sixth day)

Stools irregular and costive

Costiveness

Constipation in some

Excessive constipation.28.

Additions: Urinary Organs p. 588

Very marked increase of urea

Additions: Sexual Organs p. 588

Erections

Unnatural excitement of the sexual organs

Soreness and tenderness of the right ovary

Menses appear only once in seven weeks, are scanty, and accompanied by severe uterine, cramplike, bearing-down pains, from beginning to end of menstrual period. It is not quite evident that these symptoms arose in consequence of the tea, but were undoubtedly aggravated by it

Additions: Respiratory Organs p. 588

All the signs of an oedematous swelling, perhaps general, but more probably partial, of the mucous lining of the respiratory and. digestive tracts, phenomena evidently analogous to those which were brought out on the skin, and which are, relatively to my constitution, the symptoms characteristic of Tea

Scraping in the larynx (sixth to twelfth day)

Voice. Hoarseness, amounting almost to aphonia (sixth to twelfth day)

Cough and Expectoration. Dry cough during one day

Severe cough and bloody expectoration

Respiration. Respiration is greatly increased, the respirations being increased in frequency and amplitude

Respiration irregular and oppressed

Gasping for breath

Unable to go upstairs, without experiencing great breath lessness and palpitation of the heat

Great breathlessness on the least attempt at walking

Sensation of suffocation

Slight fits of apparent asphyxia recurred every five or six minutes

Frequent paroxysms of asphyxia, like nightmare, with violent spasmodic pain in the precordial region, with intermittent, irregular, at times suppressed respiration

Additions: Chest p. 588

Oppression of the chest

Oppression of the chest and heart

Sense of constriction of the chest

Great fulness about the clavicles, with a feeling of suffocation

Fluttering in the left side, with a sense of fulness about the clavicles

Tightness across the upper part of the chest, which obliges her to sit upright in bed

Additions: Heart and Pulse p. 588

Precordium. Anxiety in the pr?ecordium

Oppression of the heart and chest

Feeling of anxious oppression about the heart

Strong infusions sometimes produce a painful oppression and sensation of anguish in the region of the heart

Acute pain, as from a spasm in the region of the heart; and in spite of all his efforts he felt as if he were continually falling into deliquium

A certain uneasiness of the heart, general trembling and debility, making him feel somewhat sick the next day

Unusual and distressing sensation about the prsecordia, as if he were continually on the verge of fainting

Heart's Action. Heart sometimes palpitated, and at other times seemed motionless

Palpitation,16 18 19.

Palpitation of the heart at night, with inability to lie on the left side

Palpitation of the heart and oppression in the prsecordia ; these symptoms, however, soon subsided. If taking tea at supper, he generally experienced a slight feeling of anxiety in the precordial region, and a sleepless night ; but if his brain was more than ordinarily excited by a lively conversation, or by continued thinking, the anxiety disappeared, and he had a refreshing sleep

Palpitations of the heart ; on examination, I generally find dilatation, with thinning of the heart

Violent palpitation, and considerable pain in the region of the heart

Sibilant rale from time to time

In the worst instances that are on record, the fluttering of the heart has been succeeded by a momentary suspension of its action, and long-continued swoonings

Pulse. Pulse very rapid, irregular, often intermittent

Pulse quick, small, and feeble

Pulse quicker and stronger than it had been in the course of her illness

Hurried pulse

Pulse fast

Pulse at first accelerated, afterwards diminished, irregular and even intermittent

Pulse altered, both in frequency and in strength ; in some cases it is weak and slow, in others fluttering or intermitting ; this state of depression of the circulating system occasionally becomes alarming

Pulse expanded, 120,9.

Pulse full and quick

Pulse 92, then 84, then 80,42.

Pulse irregular, small and slow, at times hardly perceptible, lasting two hours

The pulse became quicker, then slower, irregular, and intermittent

Pulse feeble, irregular, and intermittent, in an extraordinary degree

Very irregular, intermittent pulse

Pulse scarcely discernible, and extremely irregular

Additions: Upper Extremities p. 589

Symptoms of paralysis ; the extremities becoming numb, and partial loss of the use of the legs

Joints of the hands and feet tender, and sensitive of touching them (Oo.)

Nervous excitability in wrists, feet, and hands (Oo.)

Additions: Superior Extremities p. 589

Could not sleep at night for a violent pain on the inside of her arms, above the elbow, which awoke her after she had been asleep about half an hour

The hand trembled so violently, that it was impossible to write with any regularity, nor could it be restrained for more than a few seconds ; (after Thein, 12 grs.)

Additions: Inferior Extremities p. 589

Sensation on the under side of either or both thighs as if the circulation had ceased, causing great nervousness, and a desire to kick out the leg with force to restore sensibility (Oo.)

■ Pain in the sciatic nerve (Oo)

Neuralgic pains in the outer hamstrings (tendon of the biceps) of either leg (Oo.)

Inability to lift the legs affected, sometimes the right, at others the left (Oo.)

Restlessness of the feet, cannot keep them quiet in the evening (Oo.)

Sensation as if the weight of a sheet even would crush the toes (Oo.)

Additions: Generalities p. 590

In twenty-four hours. A. Exercise. B. Excretions.

First series.

12G0 grams of water

being taken.

84.14 minutes.

Second series.

1260 grama of tea

being taken.

87 minutes.

Loss of weight

grams.

Additions: Food p. 590

total weight

Water

Solids, Lying on a sofa, his lips and countenance bloodless, his skin bathed with a cold, clammy moisture, and his pulse so slow and feeble as scarcely to be felt

She is lean and pale

An enormous tumor, almost as large as the fist of an adult, is developed in the lumbar region. This tumor, quite circumscribed, is almost indolent, even to pressure. It is movable, and appears formed in the thickness of the derma. The skin which covers it is of a lively pink. The tension of the integuments is felt even to the hips, and is accompanied by a constant itching. After twenty-four hours passed without taking the medicine, this tumor was almost reduced (eighth day); a similar tumor, a little less prominent, but larger, manifests itself on the external and superior portion of the right thigh (eleventh day); a third tumor on the palmar aspects of the right wrist. The mobility of the skin, in this region, permits me to state positively that the ganglionic engorgement exists in the thickness of the former. During twenty-four hours the hand is completely engorged, so much so as to disable me from writing (twelfth day); finally, the same symptom shows itself simultaneously on the scrotum, the penis, and the prepuce, in such a manner as to resemble at once an enormous hydrocele and a phimosis. The parts affected are, moreover, absolutely indolent. These tumefactions, like the others, require two days for their resolution (thirteenth day)

Trembling of the whole body

Little isolated twitchings, exactly resembling the sensation caused by electric sparks, in different parts of the body, especially in the forearms, the hands, and the finger-joints (after three days)

Epilepsy

Epilepsy in a child from swallowing a concentrated infusion

Convulsions; the muscles of the limbs were principally affected

Great agitation

Oppression, slight nausea, general tremor, palpitation and oppression of the heart, with feeling of debility, as if the knees would not support the body

Vascular excitement and sleeplessness in some

Languor

Debility

Great debility

Feeling weak and exhausted

Weakness and pain in the small of the back

General weakness, especially after every meal

A sense of general weakness for two hours after breakfast

A glass of sherry or beer always shortened the attacks of weakness, irregularity of the pulse, and nausea

Great general weakness, and above all, an uncontrollable longing for tea ; a bowl of strong tea was the only source of relief, removing the sensation of "goneness and giving new vigor for a short time

Great inclination to lie down, with dread of movement

Aversion to movement (sixth day)

Incapability of muscular action

Great loss of muscular energy

Very disagreeable feeling, as if she was going to faint away

Great feeling of faintness

Exceeding sensibility to the least draught of air, it causing a deathly coldness to the cartilages of the ears (Oo.)

A kind of dull agitation, at first in the limbs, seeming to proceed from the periphery to the centre, that is, extend from the muscular apparatus to the nervous centres

Sinking, craving, fluttering feeling, often described

If wine or beer was drunk after the tea, the sleeplessness and general malaise was not experienced ; but if strong beer was drunk before the tea, this beverage diminished the frequency of the pulse, and afforded a feeling of comfort and increased buoyancy of mind and body

The effects of the tea were always aggravated when I drank it fasting

Feels generally worse in the afternoon

Additions: Skill p. 591

Great dryness of the skin, as if the pores were obstructed (Oo.)

The skin on the ends of the fingers peels up, from excessive dryness (Oo.)

Eruption of red pimples, indolent or very slightly painful, extending, sometimes in clusters, sometimes singly, over the neck, the shoulders, and especially the thighs. Some of these pimples are the size of large peas. They are easily broken, bleeding a little, and drying up very soon (after three days)

Itching of different parts of the body, more especially the anterior surface of the thighs (after two hours)

The itching of the thighs extends to the legs, and manifests itself, especially at the ankles and instep (second day)

Sensation of crawling and pricking under the skin in various parts of the body, and the extremities, with desire to scratch, and causing extreme irritability (Oo.)

Additions: Sleep p. 591

Sleepiness in the daytime (sixth day)

Disposition to sleep

Sits up late at night because she cannot sleep, and often lies awake until morning

A quiet refreshing sleep followed the excitement caused by animated conversation, and intense thinking

Sleeplessness

Sleeplessness from 10 p.m. till 2 a.m., the mind meanwhile in a state of irritation and persistent thinking, in spite of all attempts at forgetfulness

Sleeplessness, with dryness and heat of the skin, and continued tossing

Wakefulness and entire inability to sleep ; afterwards the eyes become dry, and results in neuralgia of the eyes (Oo.)

Loss of sleep

Sleeplessness or frequent starting from sleep

A cup of tea taken before retiring kept him awake for a few hours

Sleepless nights, relieved by beer

The nights are restless ; almost complete sleeplessness (sixth day)

At night, tardy slumbers, with anxiety in the limbs, slight acceleration of the beats of the heart, sweat on the precordial region, dry heat of other parts of the body

She sleeps very little, and often lies awake all night

Troubled slumber, waking at intervals

Awoke suddenly, as from a struggle of incubus

The ordinary effect of green tea taken late at night is incubus or nightmare in its most formidable shape ; and many persons who, after a hearty dinner, have taken green tea, wake in the midst of the night in a state of the most fearful agitation and excitement; the head is oppressed, a sensation of approaching death is felt, or sometimes the person seems to be dragged from the lowest abyss of darkness back to the world, from which, during his paroxysm, he had felt gradually to sink

Horrible dreams. I murdered, in cold blood, young boys and young girls. These crimes caused in me no horror, nor even any emotion, and even after waking I found pleasure for a long time in the hideous remembrance of this dream

Fever. Intense coldness passing over the whole head (Oo.)

Decrease of temperature

Skin cold

Hands and feet as cold as marble, and bedewed with a clammy perspiration

Almost immediate increase of general heat

Excessive internal heat, with flushes of heat upon the surface, coming and going quickly

Disposition to perspire

Bedewed with chilly moisture

Additions: Conditions p. 592

Aggravation.

(Morning), Nausea.

(Afternoon), Feels worse.

(Evening), Nausea.

(Night), Hallucinations of hearing; palpitation of heart.

(Beer), Relaxation of bowels.

(Exertion), Vomiting.

(After luncheon), Stitch below ribs.

(After meals), Weakness.

( Walking), Breathlessness.

(During walk in open air), Vertigo.

Additions: Amelioration p. 592

(Beer), Nausea; irregularity of pulse; weakness; sleeplessness.

(Pressure of hand), Pain in occiput.

( Warm bath), Pain in occiput.

(Port Wine), Relaxation of bowels.