Xanthoxylum

Prickly Ash. Rutacese.

A shrub from five to ten feet in height, growing in woods and moist, shady places throughout the Northern, Middle and Western States,

The tincture is prepared from the fresh bark.

Proved by Cullis, Pub. Mass. Ham. Soc, vol. 2, 1861-6, p. 267.

Clinical, AtrTHOBiTlES.-^Dysmenorrhoea, Buck, Org., vol. 1, p. 484; Woodbine, N. E. M. G., vol. 8, p. 22; Franz, Hah. Mo., vol. 12, p. 382; Amenorrhoea-,

Anal

Therap., vol. 1, p. 129; Williams, U. S. M. & S. J., Oct., 1871;

Davis, M. I., vol. 11, p. 584; Incipient phtkisia, Conant, Org., vol. 1, p. 324; Cong'>,

Davis, M. I., vol. 11, p. 584.

Mind p. 478

Nervous, frightened feeling.

Depression and weakness.

Indifference and malaise.

Inner Head p. 478

Pain over eyes, with throbbing above root of nose.

Head dull and aching.

Frontal headache.

Severe frontal headache with dizziness.

A dull headache, in a space not larger than half a dollar, over nose.

Diffused pain in upper part of forehead ; < in r. side ; pain extends to base of brain, with soreness.

Throbbing headache over r. eye, with nausea.

Darting pain in 1. temple, recurring again and again.

A tightening of scalp and heavy pain in temples ; increase of head difficulties with a great heat and quiet flowing (menstrual), being two days in advance of proper time; some headache.

Pain in 1. side of head and 1. elbow.

Heavy feeling in top of head.

About upper part of cranium, an achy feeling accompanied by flashes of throblike pain, as if top of head were about to be taken off.

Pain in back of head, also a bewildered sensation.

││ Head feels full.

Pressure in head, with fulness of veins.

Tightness of head, with pain increasing over eyes.

Headache, with sleepy feeling in morning.

Shaking head produces a feeling of looseness or quivering of brain, followed by dizziness.

││ As if head were surrounded by a tight band. θ Dysmenorrhoea.

Sight and Eyes p. 478

Watering of eyes and nose.

Lachrymation, pain in lid of r. eye.

Dull, heavy, grinding pain in 1. eye.

││ Ophthalmia.

Hearing and Ears p. 478

Ringing in ears, more particularly in r.

Dull pain in r. ear seeming to affect jaw socket; does not know whether his tooth or his ear aches.

Darting pain under and back of r. ear.

Smell and Nose p. 478

Right nostril seems filled up ; discharge of dry and bloody scales of mucus.

Dryness of both nostrils.

Discharge of mucus from nose, with congested feeling, as if it were about to bleed.

Fluent coryza.

Upper Face p. 478

Pain in r. jaw-socket.

Lower Face p. 478

UDuU pain in 1. side of lower jaw.

Taste and Tongue p. 479

Ptyalism ; tongue coated yellow.

Inner Mouth p. 479

Peppery taste in mouth, fauces and throat.

Burning and dry feeling in mouth and tongue.

Throat p. 479

Peppery sensation ; soreness, with expectoration of tough mucus.

Feeling of a bunch in 1. side of throat when swallowing, shifting to right.

.. Pain and soreness in r. side of throat.

Throbbing in throat, and sensation of swelling.

A feeling of enlargement of throat.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions p. 479

No appetite.

Eating and Drinking p. 479

Anorexia, could eat but a few mouthfuls at breakfast, and could only drink half a cup of coffee, which was vomited soon afterward.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 479

Empty eructations, with slight taste of ingesta.

Nausea, with headache.

Slight nausea, with sense of oppression at stomach; nausea increased, accompanied by frequent chills.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 479

Feeling of fulness or pressure in epigastrium ; fluttering.

Hypochondria p. 479

Some pain in r. side below ribs.

^"Abdomen. Colic pain in r. iliac region.

Rumbling, with soreness on pressure.

Flatulence.

Soon after waking, at 7 a.m., severe griping abdominal pains, with thin, brown, diarrhoeic discharge, mixed with some mucus.

Griping pain, on waking, in morning, continued at intervals through day, with general feeling of indifference and malaise.

Stool and Rectum p. 479

Constipation in morning.

Griping pains 7 a.m., with thin, brown stools, mixed with mucus.

││ Epidemic dysentery, characterized by spasmodic tenesmus, intestinal spasms, tympanitis, etc.

Inodorous discharges, with tenesmus.

││ Cholera, in stage of collapse.

Urinary Organs p. 479

Urine at night and next morning, scanty and high-colored.

Profuse, light-colored urine ; nervous women.

Female Sexual Organs p. 479

Ovarian pain : with scanty and retarded menses; extending down genito-crural nerves; and sacral pains during pregnancy.

││ Menses appeared one week before usual time ; attended with a good deal of pain.

▌▌ Dysmenorrhoea: with agonizing pains, driving patient almost distracted; neuralgic pain runs along course of genito-crural nerve; in women of spare habit and of a delicate, nervoustemperament; with headache, especially over 1. e^^e, commencing day before menses; fulness in head; eyes congested, with photophobia; face flushed and feverish ; agonizing bearing down ; abundant discharge ; excruciating pain in loins and lower abdomen.

▌ Menstrual flow: tooearly and profuse; pains down thighs; scanty and retarded.

││ Constant headache, < during menses, at which time she also suffered agonizing pains in pelvic region.

││ Severe headache, generally over 1. eye, commencing day before menses ; sense of fulness in head, with feeling as if surrounded by a tight band ; eyes congested, great photophobia ; noises aggravate symptoms ; face flushed and feverish ; constant agonizing bearing-down in abdomen as if everything were being forced out; pain in back as if broken ; pain starting at iliac crest and shooting down limbs to knees; screams out in agony; no relief in any position ; discharge very scanty, thick, almost black, in strings and clots, intermitting every other day, and lasting two weeks; perfectly well between periods. ^D3'amenorrhoea.

││ Amenorrhoea for five months ; face and legs oedematous; very nervous, sensitive to least noise, hysterical mood ; voice tremulous; fears she is going to die; general chlorotic appearance, constipation, scanty frequent and dark urine.

││ Amenorrhoea for five months, with severe pains in r. ovary ; constant headache ; bearing down and tension in hypogastric region.

││ Amenorrhoea from getting feet wet ; lasting six months ; emaciation with cough ; dirty-grey expectoration ; pale face, night sweats.

││ Miss , set. 19, four months ago took cold by getting her feet wet; no menses since ; no appetite ; the sight of food almost nauseates, smallest amount distresses; cannot sleep ; bowels constipated, bloated ; urine scant and high-colored; nervous; discouraged, don't care whether she lives or dies; limbs below knees bloated; shortness of breath; cheeks colorless. θ Amenorrhoea.

▌ Great increase of leucorrhoea during the time when menses should appear.

^'Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation, i After pains.

▌ Profuse lochia.

Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia p. 480

Hoarseness, with husky feeling in throat; obliged to clear throat frequently.

││ Aphonia from cold or general debility.

Respiration p. 481

Shortness of breath.

Constant desire to take a long breath.

Cough p. 481

Slight hacking cough.

││ Dry cough night and day, from sheer exhaustion could scarcely turn herself in bed; face pale, bloated ; dark rings about eyes ; head full and heavy ; lips colorless ; tongue pale and flabby; shortness of breath; no appetite; bowels constipated; urine light-colored, alkaline, spir. 1025; fluttering in stomach, pain in 1. side; limbs weak and bloated.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 481

Tightening about chest, with inclination to gape.

Tightness of chest, difficulty to inflate chest.

Pain in 1. side, under fourth rib.

Sharp pains in r. side, of a neuralgic character.

Oppression of chest, with a desire to take deep inspiration.

Sharp shooting pains in r. side (like pleurisy pains), occasionally extending through to shoulder blade ; continual desire to take a long breath.

││ Menses irregular and scanty; tight, dry cough, which hurts chest and shoulders ; bowels almost constantly loose; profuse night sweats; is getting very much wasted and weakened; frequent violent headache, affecting whole head, and sometimes accompanied by vomiting ; feet and ankles oedematous ; bubbly mucous rales, especially distinct in apex of 1. lung; whole appearance bloodless and miserable; family history of phthisis; thinks she is "going into a decline."

Neck and Back p. 481

Slight pain in 1. side and under 1. shoulder blade, also in 1. hip.

Upper Limbs p. 481

Pain in r. shoulder and arm.

││ Pain and pricking feeling in r. arm, extending to third finger.

││ Pricking and throbbing sensation in 1. arm and fingers.

Severe pain in r. arm, commencing just above bend of elbow.

Whole 1. arm and shoulder numb.

Pain in 1. elbow and 1. side of head.

Dull pain in 1. elbow, passing to palm of hand, then to shoulder.

Pain in both elbows.

Severe pain in wrist, extending to thumb.

A flash of pain in r. thumb, extending to hand.

Lower Limbs p. 481

▌ Severe neuralgic pains in course of genitocrural nerves. θ Dysmenorrhoea.

Excessive weakness o^f lower limbs. θ Chlorosis.

Pain in 1. leg, between hip and knee.

Weakness in lower limbs, with pain in knees; pain of extremities increased, accompanied by frequent chills.

Legs and feet feel tired.

Pain in 1. knee very severe; pain has lasted, without cessation, a little more than half an hour.

Dull pain in r. knee.

A flash of pain in calf of r. leg.

Pain in ankle.

Pain in 1. heel.

Pain in both feet, shooting up to knees.

Limbs in General p. 482

Pain in limbs, neuralgic, shooting; numbness and weakness.

Dull pain in 1. knee; also in 1. elbow, extending to hand, then in 1. side and top of 1. foot.

Nerves p. 482

' ' Paralysis of single members.

││ Hemiplegia (after Nux vom. failed).

Pricking sensation, shocks as from electricity.

Numbness, < on 1. side.

Sleep p. 482

Continued gaping; drowsiness.

Slept hard and heavy ; dreamed of flying about over tops of houses.

Awoke in morning, languid and depressed.

Time p. 482

Morning : headache, with sleepy feeling ; griping pain on waking; languid and depressed.

7 A.M. : griping pains in abdomen.

Night and day : dry cough.

Temperature and Weather p. 482

Getting feet wet : amenorrhoea.

Fever p. 482

Sense of heat all over veins, with a desire to be bled ; flash of heat from head to foot.

Frequent chills, with pains in extremities ; nausea.

▌ Typhoid fever, in stage of collapse.

Attacks, Periodicity p. 482

Intermittent : darting in 1. temple.

At intervals: griping pain.

Locality and Direction p. 482

A feeling of numbness through whole of 1. side of body from head to foot, the division made perceptible in head, affecting half of nose; this feeling lasted two or three minutes.

Left: darting in temple; pain in head and elbow; pain in eye; pain in lower jaw; headache over eye; pain under fourth rib; pain under shoulder blade; pain in hip; pricking and throbbing in arm and fingers; arm and shoulder numb ; pain in thigh ; pain in knee ; pain in heel; pain in top of foot; numbness <.

Right: pain in forehead < ; throbbing over eye; pain in eyelid ; ringing in ear < ; dull pain in ear and jawsocket; darting under and back of ear; pain and soreness in throat; pain below ribs; neuralgic pain in side; pain in shoulder and arm ; pricking in arm ; flash of pain in thumb ; pain in knee ; pain in calf.

Left to r. : feeling of a bunch in throat.

Sensations p. 483

As if top of head would be taken off by flashes of throblike pain; as if bewildered, with pain in back of head; a feeling of looseness or quivering of brain ; as of pepper in mouth and throat; as of a bunch in throat; as if throat were swollen and enlarged ; as if head were surrounded by a tight band ; as if legs and feet were tired ; pricking as from electric shocks.

Pain : over eyes ; in 1. side of head ; in back of head ; in lid of r. eye; in r. jaw-socket ; in r. side of throat; in r. side below ribs ; in 1. side under shoulder blade and in hip ; in r. shoulder and arm ; in r. arm to third finger; in 1. elbow; in elbows; in 1. leg between hip and knee; in knees; in ankle and 1. heel.

Agonizing pain : dysmenorrhoea.

Excruciating pain : in loins and lower abdomen.

Severe pain : in r. ovary ; in r. arm above bend of elbow ; in wrist to thumb.

Dull, heavy, grinding pain : in 1. eye.

Shooting : like pleurisy, in r. side ; from feet to knees ; in limbs.

Pricking: in r. arm to third finger; in 1. arm and fingers.

Darting : in 1. temple; under and back of r. ear.

Neuralgic pain : along course of genito-crural nerve ; in r. side; in limbs.

Colic pain : in r. iliac region ; after waking.

Throbbing: above root of nose; over r. eye; in vertex; in throat.

Burning: in mouth and tongue.

Soreness : in r. side of throat.

Dull pain: in r. ear and jaw-socket; in 1. side of lower jaw; in 1. elbow to palm of hand, then to shoulder; in r. knee ; in I. knee ; in top of 1. foot.

Pressure: in head; in epigastrium.

Tension : in hypogastric region ; about chest.

Tightness : of head.

Fulness : in head ; in veins ; in epigastrium.

Heaviness : in top of head.

Heat: in veins ; in flashes from head to foot.

Dryness: of nostrils ; in mouth.

Numbness: in 1. arm and shoulder; in limbs; of 1. side.

Tissues p. 483

Acts upon nervous system, mostly upon sensory nerves, but causes a marked depression of vitality, a non-reactive state ; hence its use in chlorosis, measles, neuralgia, etc., when there is sensorial and bodily depression.

Mucous membrane smarts as from pepper.

Old and indolent ulcers,

Dysmenorrhoea.

^^Skin. Measles, dulness, bewilderment, drowsiness, want of sufficient development of the eruption.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 484

Spare habit, nervous temperament, delicate organization.

Girl, set. JG, suffering four years; dysmenorrhoea.

Girl, set. 17, family history of phthisis; incipient phthisis.

Girl, set. 20, well developed and healthy-looking, nervous temperament ; dysmenorrhoea.

Relations p. 484

Compare: ^d. rac. (headache), Bryon. (lack of eruption in measles, etc.), Colocyn. (dysmenorrhoea with reflex neuralgias), Gnaphal. (sciatica).