Wood Spurge. *N. O. Euphorbiacae. Tincture of plant.
Clinical
Antrum, pain in. Anus, spasm of, prolapse of. Debility. Diarrhoea. Dysentery. haemorrhoids. Skin, eruptions of. Smell, illusion of. Spleen, affections of. Throat, soreness of.
Characteristics
*Euph-a. has the same general characteristics as *Euphorbium, producing irritation and burning sensations of the intestinal tract, with vomiting and diarrhoea and skin affections. Peculiar symptoms are: An illusion of smell, “odor of mice,” and seething sensation in the head and thigh. Rheumatic pains come on when
heated. Cold water relieves burning in back of throat (burning worse from cold water *Caps.). Symptoms go from right to left. Malaise, tired weak feeling during and after walking. Restlessness all night, turning about half awake and half asleep. Many symptoms are worse evening, worse walking, better after eating. For comparisons see under *Euphorbium.
SYMPTOMS.
Head
Seething sensation backwards and forwards in head, extending down back and going off during sleep.
Nose
Strong odor of mice in nose.
Face
Burning pain in left antrum, extending upwards to floor of orbit and into head.
Throat
Burning in back of throat, better by cold water, better by breakfast, followed by heat all over chest and in stomach. Stinging and peppery sensation back of throat.).
Stomach
Nausea, worse moving about indoors, better sitting still, better by supper.
Abdomen
Severe stitches in liver, when walking up hill. Tightness in region of spleen. Stitch in region of spleen. Sensation as if a long worm writhing in region of transverse colon or duodenum. Throbbing in groins.
Stool
Stool difficult from painful spasm of anus, which was continued after the evacuation, faeces small, lumpy, slimy, with prolapsus, though there had been no straining. Slight prolapsus after the stool. Offensive diarrhoeic stool, preceded by griping and followed by prolapsus. Diarrhoea returns at lengthened intervals. Feeling or action of the liver, followed soon by griping and passing of offensive flatus, then offensive diarrhoea, after which the feeling of the liver passes off, followed by slight prolapse rendering sitting uneasy, going off gradually. Dark brown, watery, mucous stool, sometimes mixed with solid faeces, sometimes offensive, sometimes with blood, mostly in afternoon from 4 to 10 P.M. If it lasts two or three days there is prolapsus returning very gradually, if replaced within half an hour the bowel generally prolapses again, if the diarrhoea lasts longer external piles appear, not returning with the prolapsus.
Urinary Organs
Urine hot during micturition.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness. Heat in chest, radiating from stomach. Feeling as if lungs remained partly inflated.
Heart
Slight throbbing in region of heart.
Back and neck
Peculiar seething sensation in region of spine, sometimes extending from occiput to loins.
Upper Limbs
Rheumatic pains in right arm just above olecranon, on becoming warm and perspiring. Rheumatic pains in elbows and elbow joints.
Lower Limbs
Seething sensation in lymphatics of right leg, at times, from foot to groin, as if circulation were felt, afterwards to a less extent in left leg, chiefly felt from foot to knee, only when sitting, worse in evening. Sudden sharp pain about middle of right tibia, which was tender to touch.
Skin
Pimple just under lobe of right ear. Hard white itching vesicular pimples on right internal malleolus and foot.
Fever
Chill 11 P.M. increased to violent rigor when undressing, lasted till next morning, and was not followed by heat or sweat.
