Introduction
Gum-resin of Garcinia Morella, Desrous. Gamboge. Nat. Ord., Guttiferae.
Provings
1. CAJETAN NENNING provided this medicine on several (female) subjects in doses of 30 dr. of pure tinct., 25 gr. of 1st, 20 gr. of 2nd, and 25 dr. of 3rd trit. He gives us no information regarding the provers or the doses each took, nor does he indicate in what provers the different symptoms occurred.
1 a. Intolerable itching here and there, in hand, left side of forehead, in eyes, eyelids and canthi, in face, in upper surface of forearm just under elbow, on ball of thumb, index finger, instep, back of hands; after scratching there remains a burning and ulcerative pain, along with swelling and redness of scratched parts; the itching usually occurs evening and night. A small pimple over upper orbital border, with tensive pain; eruption of small pimples on inner surface of both forearms, with great redness and itching evening; a burning blister on inner surface of upper lip; very itching blisters on both hands, at first pale, then red, lasting many days.
1 b. Drowsiness all day; longer sleep than usual in morning; very restless sleep at night; sleep disturbed by continual anxious dreams; anxious, vexations dreams; dreams of dancing, lice, etc.
1 c. Chilliness all day, or only a. m., inward and outward coldness from 6 to 8:30 p. m., lasting 1/4, 1 and 2 hours, or all night till 5 a. m., sometimes with thirst; violent rigor, proceeding from back, with general external coldness, even of forehead, commencing at 7 p. m., and lasting till 4 a. m.; rigor, with chattering of teeth, with external warmth of skin, great thirst, lips stick together; at night sudden rigor, waking him up, lasts 5 morning; the chilliness is accompanied by empty erection, burning, sacral pains, and biting as from ants all over body, night, or at the commencement with severe stitches in ears. Increased warmth, with anxiety, also with some perspiration p. m. At night slight perspiration; sweat all over body on waking at 4 a. m.; morning perspiration all over. In evening or night intense thirst that kept him awake. The type of the pain is remittent or intermittent, generally quotidian, but sometimes certain, and more delaying than anticipating.
1 d. Cheerful humour, great loquacity, well feeling, great ability in all movements. Crossness, anxiety with inclination for work; work does not get on well, although the necessity for it is felt. Crossness and disposition to anger, morning on rising.
1 e. Vertigo frequently when at rest and when moving, on rising in morning, or in forehead when spinning. Weight and throbbing in forehead a. m.; weight of whole head, with laziness, drowsiness and pain in sacrum. Pains in whole head and beating in forehead towards nose, a. m.; frequent rising of heat to head, with sweat. Pressive pain in head, with heaviness in forehead, relieved by open air, or with heat in head and whole body; headache compressive from both sides, a. m.; headache in crown as if bruised, a. m.; better in open air. Some sharp stitches in right side of head and in temple. Painful drawing from right ear up to crown, a. m., Transient tearing in left temple p. m. Great cold feeling in left temple, as from a cold wet cloth, for 1/4 hour p. m.
1 f. Itching in left lower eyelid; itching in inner canthi and in forehead, with watering of eyes after rubbing and acrid, eroding tears, going of fin open air; smarting in outer canthus, relieved by rubbing; dryness of eyes, as from drowsiness, with yawning and sneezing; tiresome dryness of eyes, with redness of canthi; nocturnal adhesion of lids burning in morning photophobia all day and frequent shooting pain in eyes; violent itching of eyes, evening; violent burning of eyes and photophobia, p. m. or evening relieved by walking in open air, but recurring next morning; strengthened vision and clearer vision of objects.
1 g. Violent tearing deep in ears, evening violent shooting in both ears; throbbing pain in left ear, as from an abscess; humming in ears frequently, p. m., and evening always going off after a sensation as if a membrane in the ear burst; frequent noises in ear, morning.
1 h. earning in bones of dorsum of nose; itching in both nostrils from evening till morning; ulceration of right nasal cavity, with burning pain; bleeding from right nostril evening.
1 i. Tearing in right zygoma for 1/4 hour evening, and in right side of lower maxilla frequently during day. Throbbing in a right lower molar in cold air; feeling of chill and of lengthening of all front teeth, morning; cold feeling on tops of incisors. Tearing in all molars of right side, also in gums, with raw feeling and swelling there. Dryness of mouth; burning on tip of tongue for 1 hour, evening; burning of front half of tongue;
excessive sensitiveness of palate, pain as from an excoriation or sore, relieved by cold; sweetish taste in mouth and throat, followed by expectoration of bright red blood. Tearing in tendons of right side of neck, also with retching, shooting tearings in left side of neck under ear, much aggravated by external pressure, thence going down to laryngeal region, also shooting in throat when swallowing. Roughness and burning in throat, compelling constant hawking; sore pain in throat, also when touched externally; sore burning at back of fauces when not swallowing; shooting in throat when swallowing, giving off after eating; violent shooting in right side of throat when swallowing and at other times, evening; choking from chest up into throat, taking away breath; swollen feeling in throat; sweet taste in mouth, and expectoration of bloody mucus.
1 j. Bitter taste; appetite increased almost to ravenous hunger, and much thirst; thrust after dinner, and especially evening; loathing and dislike to food; nausea, inclination to vomit, flow of water into mouth roughness of throat; slight sickness and nausea frequently; nausea when taking soup, relieved by eating bread; after eating, immediately pinching in belly or sleep. Nausea from the stomach, as if it would turn over, whilst waking in open air, with collection of water in mouth; belching up of sour water, and movements in stomach; stomach-ache, with slight sickness and flow of water into mouth; frequent violent empty eructation; hiccup after rising, morning; constant retching, going off after dinner; after nausea painful nipping in umbilical region and very relaxed diarrhoeic stools; horrible vomiting and purging, with fainting; empty feeling in stomach and belly; weakness of stomach, as after long hunger, with rising of water into mouth; gnawing in stomach, with rumbling in abdomen; painful feeling of constriction of stomach after dinner; contractive and sore feeling in stomach, with tenderness to touch; ulcerative pains in stomach, going off after eating, afterwards when walking in open air rumbling in belly and ordinary stool after 1/2 hours; persistent sore pain in stomach, with sensitiveness of integuments; sharp shooting in stomach, causing him to start; throbbing in stomach, increased by leaning against anything; a pressure in stomach and chest, taking away breath, in fits at 3 and 9 p. m., going off after eructation.
1 k. Flatulent distension and tension of belly, with pinching in umbilical region; burning and rumbling in belly; extremely painful burning in hepatic region; frequent severe pinching in whole belly, without urging to stool, or sometimes with immediate purging and burning in anus, with cessation of the pinching; extremely painful contraction (as with pincers) about navel; feeling of contraction and twisting below navel, with urging to stool; painful gnawing in a small spot below navel; constrictive pain deep in left iliac region; pinching in iliac region without discharge of flatus; shooting in iliac region, as from flatulence; pinching as with nails in right flank; tension in flanks when standing, sudden startling shooting in right flank when sitting; distension and accumulation of flatulence; feeling of flatulence in abdomen, worst in sacral region, followed by urging to stool; rumbling in bowels.
1 l. Discharge of stinking flatus preceded by cutting and movements in belly; frequent discharge of flatus, especially evening an night; stool late in evening and discharge of much flatus which seems to lie on the bladder, and causes shooting pains, hardness, and tension of vesicle region and shortness of breath; constipation and costiveness, ineffectual urging to stool; frequent urging to stool with pinching about navel from morning till evening, and protrusion of rectum; repeated nocturnal ineffectual urging to stool, a soft evacuation takes place next morning; firm stool followed by burning in anus and evacuation of a round-worm or with shooting in iliac regions and discharge of flatus before midnight; firm, hard, insufficient stool with great urging, pressing and prolapsus of rectum; repeated rather hard, then soft stool, later first hard, then soft stool; repeated soft stool with rumbling in belly or with pain about navel and tenesmus afterwards; soft scanty stool, with feeling to a hard body in the way preventing the further discharge of faces, going off after a subsequent stool; repeated purging with discharge of green mucus after pinching in abdomen; purging with burning pain and tenesmus in rectum, prolapsus ani, and persistent pinching round navel and evacuation of mucus; repeated relaxation of bowels with burning and violent tenesmus; diarrhoeic stool of yellow and green faeces mixed with mucus, preceded by intolerable cutting pain about navel; feculent diarrhoea discharged with great violence with long-continued burning in anus, 1/2 hours before this violent cutting in abdomen waking him out of sleep at midnight; the pain is relieved by firmly compressing the small, empty-feeling abdomen; on falling asleep again, woke up from sacral pain, copious watery diarrhoea with pain in belly and tenesmus; before stool shooting in anus as with coarse needle.
Hughes was a great writer and a scholar. He actively cooperated with Dr. T.F. Allen to compile his 'Encyclopedia' and rendered immeasurable aid to Dr. Dudgeon in translating Hahnemann's 'Materia Medica Pura' into English. In 1889 he was appointed an Editor of the 'British Homoeopathic Journal' and continued in that capacity until his demise. In 1876, Dr. Hughes was appointed as the Permanent Secretary of the Organization of the International Congress of Homoeopathy Physicians in Philadelphia. He also presided over the International Congress in London.