Anacardium Orientale

Questions

What is this variety of Anacardium ?

It is the Marking Nut, a native of the East Indies, and a tincture is made from the fresh seed.

What is its general action ?

It depresses the nervous system, producing symptoms of cerebral weakness and general nerve prostration. It also acts powerfully on the skin, producing an active inflammation and vesicular and pustular eruption.

What are the characteristic mental symptoms of Anacardium?

Loss of memory; imagines that he hears voices afar off, and there is a characteristic sensation as if the patient had two wills, one urging him on to do what the other forbids; very irritable; irresistible desire to curse and swear. What is the characteristic sensation of Anacardium?

A sensation of a plug in various parts of the body, as in the head, abdomen, rectum, anus, etc. Give the stomach symptoms of Anacardium. Faint feeling one or two hours after eating in the stomach, extending to the spine. Tasteless or sour eructations. All symptoms are relieved by eating, but they return and continue until the patient eats again; violent gastralgia and urging to stool, which passes off on going to stool.

What other drugs have relief from eating ?

Graphites, Chelidonium and Petroleum.

What is the stool of Anacardium ?

There is a sensation of a plug in the rectum, it seems powerless to expel the stool; even a soft stool is expelled with difficulty.

What is the action of Anacardium upon the skin ?

Intense itching and pustular eruptions; parts swollen, with burning pains. Wheals exuding a viscid, yellowish fluid. Warty excrescences, with thickened epidermis.

What is our use of Anacardium occidentale or the Cashew nut?

In a vesicular eruption on the skin, which is umbilicated and which itches terribly.

What is our principal use of Comocladia dentata?

It has many symptoms on the skin similar to Rhus tox., but its peculiar symptom is a pain in the right eye as if it were pushed out of the head; worse near a warm stove.