Yucca

Yucca filamentosa. Bear Grass. N. O. Melanthaceae (Liliaceae). Tincture of root and leaves when not in flower. Tincture of flowers.

Clinical

'Biliousness. Coryza. Diarrhoea. Flatulence, odourless Headache ; temporal. Post-nasal catarrh. Throat, granular.

Characteristics

Yucca was proved by Rowdi and four others in the 30th. Farrington gives these indications: BtUousocss with pain going through upper part of liver to back. Bad taste in mouth. Stools diarrhoeic, and contain an excess of bile. Much flatus passed by rectum. Frontal or temporal headache with frequent flushing of face. Face sallow. Tongue coated yellow and taking imprint of teeth. Dull ache in centre of liver. Abdomen sensitive. Frequent passage of flatus and of watery, yellowish-brown stools. The tongue of Yuc is usually a bluish white. As with many liver disorders, there is chilliness : cannot bear to be away from the fire. Among the ScnuiUons are : As of something hanging down from back of nares. As if cold air blowing on left side of scalp. The symptoms are : < By noise ; motion ; pressure. Griping pain is > bending forward.

Relations

Antidoted by: Coccul. Compare: Constriction in heart, Lil. t. Biliousness, Bry. Tongue imprinted with teeth, Merc, Pod. Blue tongue, Gymnocl

Mind

Very despondent — Irritable. — Irresolute. — Disinclined to stady. — hind wanders ; uses wrong words.— Unable to remember anything read, with severe pains, which spear first on r. side, then in apex of heart. — Dull sensation in head 1.30 p.m. when others talking to him, hears but doesn't seem to understand, and two minutes after doesn't know what was said.

Head p. 1580

Headache : frontal, heavy, pressing ; throbbing. — Tempes : pressing pains in both all day ; < r., and cringing feeling in both, < by motion ; dull, heavy pain extending to eyes, with aversion to lit; intense aching, < t noise, motion, and heat, but at same time chilly when away from stove. — Headache somnolent, > sitting still ; throbs with every step.— Strange feeling in temporo-maxillary joint — Temporal arteries throb. — Head itches all evening, very annoying.— -Sensation of cold air blowing on L side of scalp.

Eyes p. 1580

Dark rings under eyes. — Eyes feel hot and inflamed. — Itching and smarting L tye ; L inner canthus--DuU pain over l. eye (momentary).

Ears p. 1580

Pain behind r. ear, 6.30 p.m. — Very sensitive to least noise.

Nose p. 1580

Nose red. — In evening r. side of nose constantly running, L dry. — Profuse, bloody, watery discharge. — Some coryza.

Face p. 1580

Face : pale ; flushed ; burning ; yellow. — Momentary aching in zygoma, recurring several times. — Pain in jaw-joints.

Mouth p. 1580

Tongue : coated white evening, with raised, scattered papillae ; looks parboiled ; white at root ; bluish white ; raised papillae teethmarks on edge ; pale, flabby.— Bad odour from mouth. — Back of mouth diy. — Soft palate dry, had to drink to moisten it. — Taste of rotten eggs. g. Throat* — Sensation as if something hanging down from posterkxnares, cannot get it up or down. — Tonsils dark red, not sore. — Pharynx seems covered with granules, is dark red. — Strings of mucus hang from mouth to root of tongue. — Stringy, greasy-looking mucus back of throat

Stomach p. 1580

Appetite : increased, food relished ; lost — Aching and sharp pains in stomach. — Region of stomach sore and sensitive.

Abdomen p. 1580

Abdomen bloated ; after dinner, and feels sac — Morb flatus emitted ; odourless. — Rumbling. — Colic. — Crampy pains in abdomen after breakfast, > lying down, < by movement ; followed by diarrhoea.— Throbbing, painless, r. side about twelfth rib.

Stool and Anus p. 1580

Constant desire. — Sodden, violent tenesmus, followed by discharge of wind, which > the pain. — Tenesmus after stool— Diarrhoea flowing pains in abdomen, several yellowish stools in an hour.— Stools : increased in number, but natural though small ; at 6.30 a.nL ; hard and large at first, later thin and watery ; copious, thin, yellowish brown, with smarting at anus.

Urinary Organs p. 1580

Irritable bladder, frequent urination. — Round meatus circumscribed œdematous red swelling, raw sensation. — Burning when urinating. — Urine increased, high specific gravity.

Male Sexual Organs p. 1580

Erections ; all night long but no emissions ; all forenoon, cannot study, mind runs on sexual subjects.

Respiratory Organs p. 1580

Hard, rattling cough.

Chest p. 1580

Constriction in whole chest and in heart — Pain in upper intercostal muscles, 9.15 p.m. — At 3.30 p.nu extremely severe cramping pain in r. chest, < stooping, partially > sitting straight or leaning a little back ; lasted five minutes.

Heart p. 1580

Constriction in heart — Momentary aching in heart regkm. — Visible throbbing in arteries of hand. — Pulse : full and heavy ; a little irregular.

Neck and Back p. 1580

Constriction of neck muscles, seems to draw head backward. — Tight feeling round neck, evening, had to take off collar. — Severe pain in l. scapula, 9 p.m. — Backache ever since she took the drug.

Lower Limbs p. 1581

Crampy pains in knees.— Sore, crampy pains in muscle of back of l. leg, just above ankle ; as if sprained.

Generalities p. 1581

Restless, feverish.

Sleep p. 1581

In evening very sleepy. — Restless night — Lewd dreams.

Fever p. 1581

Coldness of scalp, l. side, as if cold air blowing on it. — Coldness ; cannot bear to be away from fire« — Hot ; feverish. — Face sweats, evening