Relation
*Compare:Phelland., Cicuta-v., Conium In epilepsy, Bufo. In priapism. Pic-ac.
Causation
Injuries.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Furious delirium, as if drunk, insanity, hallucinations. Sudden and complete loss of consciousness. Delirium like delirium tremens, constantly moved from place to place, talked without cessation and without knowing what they said, grasped at imaginary objects. Epileptic insanity, sudden furious attack. (Epileptic condition at periods when menses are due in amenorrhoea.) _ Averse to be questioned. Coma after convulsions.
Head
Vertigo: with falling, with nausea, vomiting, syncope, and convulsions. Suddenly falls down backward. Headache and giddiness. Apoplectic conditions, speechless, insensible, face puffed and livid, pupils dilated, respiration laborious, limbs contracted, trismus. Pain all over, but especially in head. Momentary sensation of pungent heat determining to head. Hyperaemia of brain, extravasation and serous exudation. Violent pain in head. Hair fell off.
Eyes
Eyes: much sunk, full and projecting, inflamed. Pupils first contracted, then dilated. Eyes turned upward and inward, and firmly fixed. Eyes red. Saw nothing on awaking. Vision disturbed, obscured.
Nose
Bleeding from the nose.
Face
Rapid, convulsive twitching of muscles of the face. Face: livid and turgid, pale and cold, ghastly, anxious. Risus sardonicus. Lips blue. Bloody froth issuing from mouth and nostrils. Trismus, jaws rigidly closed. Rose-coloured spots on face.
Mouth
Convulsive movement of teeth. Tongue half bitten through. Tongue: sore and swollen, and protruded, slightly furred, raw at tip, ulcerated at edges, clean, moist, trembling. Foaming at mouth, bloody mucus. Excoriation, inflammation, blisters. Mouth dry and parched. Loss of speech.
Throat
Pressure on throat gives pain, it is sore when he swallows. Violent constriction and burning in the throat. Pharyngitis. Oesophagitis. Power of swallowing lost.
Appetite
Total loss of appetite, with debility. Thirst, craves cold drinks, evening. Cannot bear to drink anything hot.
Stomach
Constant and continued eructations, strongly flavoured by the plant. Distressing hiccough. Cardialgia. Nausea and vomiting. Nausea, better if vomiting occurs. Vomited in their fits. Vomiting and diarrhoea. Vomit: clear water liquid, blood. Obstinate vomiting, continued for days, not better by anything _ Heat, biting heat, burning in stomach and epigastrium. Tenderness at stomach. Burning heat at throat and stomach with disturbed intellect.
Abdomen
Much distended, with colic pains. Griping and Tormina. Gastro- enteritis with violent pain and vomiting. Tympanites with the convulsions. Great tenderness, slightest touch on any part of abdomen causes great pain.
Stool
Stool: involuntary, diarrhoea.
Urinary Organs
Micturition painful. Urine copious, dark, turbid, reddish. Sediment: copious, thick yellow.
Male Sexual Organs
Semi-priapism.
Respiratory Organs
Convulsive respiration, breathing laboured, hurried, stertorous, short, interrupted by constant sighing and convulsive cough, hardly perceptible. Spasm of diaphragm. Burning and constriction in larynx. Cough for four or five days, worse at night, excited by tickling at top of throat, during cough rattling in lower chest, sputa thick, heavy, white and yellow, adheres to vessel, a little frothy, copious, aching pain in left side of thorax, worse from deep inspiration, better from deep pressure. Expectoration: reddish, bloody, white, frothy.
Chest
Lungs hyperaemic, hepatised in spots. Pleuritic exudation. Chest firmly fixed. Pain in right side under the ribs. Pain in breast.
Heart and Pulse
Pain in region of heart. Pulse: small, feeble, irregular, scarcely perceptible, accelerated before the fit.
Neck and Back
Pain along spinal column. Intense action of dorsal and lumbar muscles, opisthotonos.
Limbs
Numbness and feebleness of limbs. Loss of nails and hair.
Upper Limbs
Arms flexed at elbow in a right angle. Rapid convulsive twitchings of muscles of hands. Hands clenched during tetanus. Irritation of arms and hands with sharp lancinating pains. Neck bluish.
Lower Limbs
Pain along tract of sciatic and crural nerves, commencing in spinal column. Cramps in calves. Legs stretched straight out.
Generalities
Epileptiform convulsions. Terrible convulsions, followed by coma or deep sleep. Convulsions, with vertigo, madness, nausea, vomiting, unconsciousness, risus sardonicus, eyeballs turned up, pupils dilated. Sudden convulsions, trismus, biting of tongue, followed by total unconsciousness. Convulsions with swollen, livid face, bloody froth from mouth and nostrils, convulsive respirations, insensibility, feeble pulse, prostration. All symptoms worse from water.
Skin
Rose-coloured rash on face, chest, arms, and abdomen.
Sleep
Drowsy. Roused with difficulty. In a deep sleep, snoring loudly and moaning.
Fever
Deadly cold and pale. Face and limbs cold and blue Extreme coldness, loss of animal heat. Burning heat that mounted to head. Slight fever with pain at pit of stomach. Profuse sweat, offensive, accompanied all symptoms.
