Balsam of Peru. Myroxylon Pereirae. (*N. O.) Leguminose. Tincture of the balsam that flows from the stems.
Clinical
Bronchitis. Catarrh. Cracks. Epistaxis. Hectic. Itch. Phthisis. Ulcers.
Characteristics
Peruvian Balsam has been chiefly used empirically in catarrhal phthisis or bronchial catarrh with copious purulent expectoration. Sputa thick, creamy, yellowish white, loud rales, night sweats, hectic. Hale has used it with success in “chronic, purulent, fetid anterior or posterior nasal catarrh, with or without ulceration.” He says that a cerate of the *Balsam is the best application next to *Glycerol of Aloes for indolent ulcers, cracked nipples, cracks in fingers and palmar surfaces of hands, or fissured and chapped lips. The *Balsam is also used externally for killing the acarus of itch. All parts affected are gently rubbed with it at night and a bath taken in the morning. A single application is sufficient. It has been proved by Lembke.
Nose
Bleeding from right nostril without coryza, or sneezing, or blowing nose, repeated at 7 p-m. Profuse thick discharge from nose, whether chronic or otherwise. Ozaena with ulceration.
Throat
Continued scraping of fauces.
Stomach
Vomiting of food and mucus, catarrh of stomach. Mucous diarrhoea, etc.
Stool
Copious liquid stool, painless. Passage of blood with normal stool (does not have piles).
Urinary Organs
Sticking and cutting in urethra. Urination more frequent and copious. Urine scanty, with mucous sediment, catarrh of bladder.
Respiratory Organs
Scraping in larynx in forenoon, dry cough.
Chest
Cough, mucous and purulent expectoration. Phthisis of mucous type, vomica in lungs.
Upper Limbs
Oppressive pain in right wrist.
Lower Limbs
Severe pain in left tibia. Boring in right tibia.
Generalities
Debility, rhagades of nipples and fingers.
