The Tree of Heaven. (Eastern Asia, cultivated as a shade-tree in North America.) *N. O. Simarubacae. Tincture from flowers beginning to open.
Clinical
Acne. Cerebrospinal meningitis. Chancre. Coryza. Diphtheria. Headache. Mumps. Puerperal fever. Rheumatic fever. *Scarlatina. Syphilis. Typhoid fever. Typhus fever.
Characteristics
Corresponds to conditions characterized by certain livid or purpled appearances of the skin. Rash coming out in patches. Eruptions which are slow in appearing. Low adynamic forms of disease with extreme prostration, torpor, vomiting. Prostration at the outset of a disease is a leading indication for it. The patient is stupid, dull, delirious, weak. It has proved of signal service in cases of malignant and suppressed scarlatina. The head is burning hot, with piercing pains. The parotid glands are sensitive and enlarged. The attacks are characterized by Fulness of head with heat, pains burning, darting in temples and occiput, vertigo and nausea. The rash of *Ailanth. often returns annually. A feeling of Fulness everywhere, and a sensation of passage of electric current from head into limbs are prominent in the provings. With the low fever of *Ailanth. there is stupor or indifference with sighing. There is constant frontal headache of a neuralgic character. Paroxysmal headache with drowsiness during day, confused mind, depression. The throat is severely affected: thick, oedematous, dry, choky feeling. Dry, rough, scrapy, worse morning. Livid, swollen, with ulcers oozing a fetid discharge.
The symptoms are better lying on right side (bronchial affections). Sitting up causes Vomiting, dizziness. Motion causes staggering. Walking about better toothache.
It is suited to nervous, sensitive persons. Bilious temperament Stout and robust.
Relations.
Ailanth. is *related *botanically *to: Ptelea and the Xanthoxylceae. *It is antidoted by: Alcohol, Rhus t., Nux-v. *Compare: Am-c., Arnica, Arum-t., Aloe (dull frontal headache); Baptisia, Bryonia, Gelsemium, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, nitricum acidum, Nux-v., Phytolacca, Hydr- ac., Rhus-t., Stramonium, Echi.
Mind
Anxiety and restlessness. Low-spirited, continually sighing. Extreme irritability. Semi-conscious, cannot comprehend what is said to him. Stupor, delirium, and insensibility. Constant muttering delirium, with sleeplessness and restlessness. Since the poisoning all antecedents are forgotten, or remembered as matters belonging to another, or read about. Raging delirium with brilliant eyes.
Head
Severe headache, delirium, with fever and anxiety. Severe headache, with dizziness, and red, hot face, cannot sit up. Dizzy when rising up. Dull, heavy pressing in forehead, disinclined to think or act. Darting through temples and occiput, with confusion of ideas. Head burning hot with piercing pains.
Eyes
Eyes suffused and congested, startled look when aroused, pupils dilated and sluggish. Photophobia. Conjunctivitis, smarting, aching, lachrymation, purulent discharge.
Ears
Pain in ear when swallowing. Parotid gland sensitive and enlarged.
Nose
Copious, thin, ichorous, and bloody discharge from the nose. Nostrils congested. Nose dry, secretion suppressed. Coryza, with rawness in nostrils, sneezing. Loss of smell.
Face
Face sallow, jaundiced, blue circles round eyes. Face red and hot, covered with a rash. Face mahogany-coloured. Great prostration, and countenance indicative of much distress. Purplish face. Irregular spots. Lips swollen, cracked, ulcers near commissures.
Mouth
Teeth covered with sordes. Tearing in teeth (left) and face worse lying down, better walking about, and by external pressure. Tongue dry, parched, cracked. Tongue moist, furred white, tip and edges livid.
Throat
Throat tender and sore on swallowing, or on admission of air. Throat sore on swallowing, hawks up a greenish purulent matter. Diphtheria, with extreme prostration. Throat livid, almost purple, swollen, tonsils prominent, and studded with many deep, angry-looking ulcers, oozing a scanty, fetid discharge, external neck swollen and sensitive. Irritability of the throat, and hawking up of mucus, puruloid, hard white lumps. Thick, oedematous and dry choky feeling in throat. Throat dry, rough and scrapy, worse in morning.
Stomach
Vomits food speedily during the chill, suddenly and violently When sitting up, with stupor. Thirst for cold drinks, for brandy. Peculiar feeling of emptiness in stomach.
Abdomen
Tenderness over liver region. Burning in stomach and bowels. Tympanites,.
Stool
Thin, watery, offensive diarrhoea, passing involuntarily with the urine. Stool frequent, watery, forcibly expelled. Tapeworm.
Urinary Organs
Scanty or suppressed urine, passed unconsciously, acid.
Male Sexual Organs
Sore on prepuce, looking like incipient chancre.
Female Sexual Organs
Malignant puerperal fever. Vomiting of pregnancy.
Respiratory Organs
Breathing hurried, irregular, heavy. Cough deep, exhausting, dry, hacking, in violent fits, before retiring or on rising, until sputum is raised. Sputa: blood-mixed, yellow, bitter, worse morning. Aphonia. Croupy choking.
Chest
Stitching and aching in chest. Lungs sore and tender. Tired feeling in lungs, almost too much exertion to breathe. Burning in right lung, contracted feeling in left Chest feels strapped, or as if air-cells stuck together.
Heart
Rapid, small pulse, weak, frequent, and irregular. Dull pain and contracted feeling in region of base of heart and through center of left lung.
Neck and Back
Neck tender, and very much swollen. Constant sharp pains through small of back and hips.
Generalities
In low adynamic forms of disease, with extreme prostration, torpor, vomiting, pulse small and rapid, purplish appearance of the skin. Prostration at very onset of the disease. Stupid, dull, delirious, weak. Puerperal fever characterized as above.
Skin
Skin cold, dry, livid. Eruption scanty with sore throat, of a bluish tint, livid, forehead and face of a purplish colour. Body and limbs covered with an irregular patchy eruption of a livid colour, disappearing on pressure, returning very slowly. Large blisters filled with dark serum. Eruptions of miliary rash in patches of dark, almost livid colour, most on forehead and face.
Sleep
Drowsy, restless, soon passes into insensibility.
