Sumbul

Musk Root. Umbelliferse.

The plant, a perennial, is a native of the Orient ; the root enters commerce by way of Russia; from it, finely powdered, is prepared the alcoholic tincture.

Provings by Lembke, A. H. Z., vol. 34, p. 273; Cattell, Brit. Jour. Horn., vol. 9, p. 256, 1852; Muranjew, Med. Zeit. Euss., 1853; Hirschel's Arch., vol. 1, p.

Altschul, Brit

Jour, of Horn., vol. 11, p. 678, 1853.

CiiiKiCAii Authorities. — Diarrhoea, Altschul, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 435 ;

Ascarides, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 289 ; Chorea, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 289 ;

Porrigo, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 290.

Mind

Intellect dull in morning; inability to study; clearer in evening and in warmth.

Happy disposition with continued smiling; expression idiotic ; fear of becoming insane. θ Chorea.

││ Hysterical mood, even in men ; alternate laughter and tears; easily excited; emotional; irritable; fidgety, at first spirits are exalted, then depressed.

Sensorium

Vertigo on stooping, using warm water, moving about or rising from a seat, feeling a want of security.

Hysteria, with tendency to faint from slightest cause.

Fits, with falling forward.

Inner Head

Cold in head, < in morning.

Outer Head

▌ Porrigo in infants, 1. side of scalp ; spots round and dry, slightly raised, and reddened at edges, with brainlike scales in centre.

Smell and Nose

Stuffing in nose.

Tenacious yellow mucus in nose; < in 1. nostril.

Upper Face

Acne punctate, black pores on face.

Taste and Tongue

Brown coating on tongue in morning.

Tongue feels rough as if scraped, with heat in throat.

IS Throat. Erosion, burning heat and rawness in throat, with tenacious mucus.

Catarrhs of children, with great nervous irritation, sleeplessness and spasms.

Abdomen p. 207

Tensive pain and gnawing in r. hypogastrium.

Abdomen full, distended, painful.

Stool and Rectum p. 207

▌▌ Ascarides, with bloated, drumlike abdomen and constipation ; picking at nostrils.

││ Chronic diarrhoea due to torpid, inert condition of intestinal canal ; discharges cause atony ; diarrhoea in typhoid fever.

Urinary Organs p. 207

Urine clear, yellowish-red, cloud on bottom, and an oily pellicle on surface.

Constant desire to urinate.

Much urinary difficulty.

Male Sexual Organs p. 207

Absence of erections and all sexual desire.

Female Sexual Organs p. 207

│ ' Corkscrew pains in 1. region of uterus and its appendages.

Tensive pain like a string pulling in r. breast.

Tightness, tensive stretched feeling across chest between 1. breast and sternum and in 1. breast, < on inspiration.

White leucorrhoea, < after sitting.

Menses too early.

Flushings at climacteric period.

Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia p. 207

Hoarseness.

^^Respiration, i Asthma, catarrhal, but more especially spasmodic, hysterical.

Cough p. 207

Hacking cough.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 207

Pulse very irregular, compressible ; want of elasticity in vessels.

▌ Nervous affections of heart ; rheumatic carditis; heart's impulse strong, jerking, especially after exertion or during digestion; action of heart full and sharp, strokes at times irregular ; beating rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly ; bellows sound of heart, with violent and irregular palpitations and flushes of heat in floods from back; sharp pains, like a knife, in chest ; oppression in 1. chest, clogged sensation; < on stooping; 1. arm numb, heavy and weary, with sharp, wiry shooting in fingers ; hysterical mood.

▌ Nervous palpitation in hysterical subjects, or at change of life.

Heart beats softly, as if in water, with sinking of heart, and sickliness and faintness all over.

Palpitation at least exertion, < by paying attention to it.

Posteriorly over 1. scapular region, an indistinct mixed murmur and purring sound, associated with rheumatism ; not heard anteriorly.

Neck and Back p. 208

Cannot keep warm ; least draft is felt down spine.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 208

Stooping : vertigo ; heart symptoms <.

Sitting: leucorrhoea < after.

Motion : vertigo ; palpitation.

Rising : vertigo.

Nerves p. 208

Chorea : constant jerking of head and limbs, with protrusion of tongue ; voracious appetite.

││ Dropsy dependent on impaired nervous vitality.

││ Hysteria and hysterical spasms.

││ Epilepsy, she falls suddenly forward, foaming at mouth ; unconsciousness.

▌ Tendency to faint from slightest cause.

'^Time. Morning: intellect dull ; cold in head <; brown coating on tongue.

Evening : intellect clearer.

Temperature and Weather p. 208

Least draft is felt down spine.

Warmth : intellect clearer.

Fever p. 208

Dry, transient heat all over body.

Coldness of body, pulse 66.

▌ Typhoid fever with cerebral excitement; low and nervous fevers succeeding to typhus.

Numbness and coldness of tips of fingers.

Attacks, Periodicity p. 208

Irregular action of heart, beats rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly.

Climacteric period : flushes ; nervous palpitation.

Locality and Direction p. 208

Left : porrigo on scalp ; yellow mucus in nostril ; corkscrew pains in uterus ; oppression in chest ; arm numb ; shooting in fingers ; murmur over scapular region.

Right : tensive pain and gnawing in hypogastrium ; tensive pain in breast; miliary spots on shoulder blade and hip.

Sensations p. 208

As if scraped, tongue ; like a string pulling in r. breast ; clogged sensation in 1. chest; as if heart were beating in water.

Knifelike pains in chest.

Corkscrew pains in region of uterus and appendages.

Sharp wiry shooting : in fingers.

Burning heat : in throat.

Gnawing: in r. hypogastrium.

Rawness : in throat.

Tensive pain : in r. hypogastrium ; in r. breast.

Tightness: across chest; in 1. breast.

Numbness : in 1. arm ; of tips of fingers.

Heaviness: in 1. arm.

Tissues p. 208

Deranges action of inhibitory nerves, while at same time it causes a paresis of cardiac branches of

Vertigo, faintness; dreams and mental conditions show deficient innervation.

Anomalous functional disorders of heart, occurring in persons possessing a peculiarly sensitive nervous system, especially in hysterical subjects.

Weakened heart.

Skin p. 209

Acne punctate, black pores on face.

│▌ Porrigo in infants on 1. side of scalp; spots round and dry, slightly raised and reddened at edges, with brainlike scales in centre.

Skin cold, white, shrunken and dry as if washed in acrid water.

Miliary spots on back, r. shoulder blade and hip.

Reddish spots on forehead, chin and cheeks, containing either water, or thick, white, curdy matter.

Itching in skin.

Stages p. 209

of Life, Constitution. Child, set. 2; ascarides.

Girl, set. 10, bilious-sanguine temperament; chorea.

Relations p. 209

Compare: Asajwt. and Moschus in low fevers,

hysteria, etc.