Elaesis Guineensis


Elaesis Guineensis homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


  Common Names: Aouara, Avoira, Coco de Dente, Palm. Yields palm oil.

Introduction

Natural Order: Palmae. Preparation: Triturations of the fruit.

Mind

Emotional. Merry mood (first day). Merry mood and laughter, even when alone (second day). Ennui when alone (morning), (first day). Melancholy (third day). Vexed mood; bad humor (third day). Inclination to scold (third day). Disobedience (third day). Intellectual. He recalls the circumstances of a former shipwreck (second day).

Head

Hammering pain all through the head (afternoon), (first day). Hammering in the temple (first day).

Eye

Swelling of the right eye (second day). Swelling of the left eye (second day). Sight is weaker than formerly (third day). He cant look steadily (second day) confused vision by candlelight, he makes letters much two large (third day).

Mouth

Throbbing toothache (fourth day). Burning in the tongue while taking dinner, so violent that he had to stop eating (fifth day).

Bad smell from month (first day). Bad smell in the month after drinking water (fifth day).

Throat

Lancinations in the throat, when swallowing saliva (fourth day).

Stinging pain in the throat while swallowing saliva.

Stomach

Appetite. Good appetite (third day). Want of appetite (afternoon), (first day). Eructation. Foul eructations (first day), Bitter eructations (morning), (first day), Nausea and Vomiting: Nausea (morning), (first day). Desire to vomit (third day). Vomiting of a cake immediately after eating it (second day).

Abdomen

Pain, with bruised sensation, in the abdomen (fourth day).

Colic after a cold drink (third day). Violent colic (third day).

Stool

Frequent diarrhoea (second day), Black stools (third day).

Urinary organs

White urine (third day).

Respiratory organs

Pricking in the larynx, on respiration (fourth day). Cough, with lancination in the sides (fifth day). The respiration is embarrassed (afternoon), (first day). Breathing embarrassed, with a sigh (third day).

Chest

Pain in middle of chest, as if pricked by needles (afternoon), (first day). Lancinations in the right side of the chest every five minutes, less during rest (first day). Bruised pain on the right side of the chest (second day).

Neck

Constrictive pain around the neck, as from a tight string (third day). Throbbing pain in the nape of the neck (morning), (first day).

Superior Extremities

Pains in the right shoulder, as from a blow (third day). Tumor on the left arm (second day). Beating on the left arm, as if it were drummed on with the finger (afternoon), (first day). He approaches his hand to the fire without feeling burnt, though anyone else would get burnt by doing so; after the lapse of an hour, however, he feels badly burnt (fourth day).

Inferior Extremities

Staggering gait (afternoon), (first day). Knee: Pain in the right knee, as from a blow (second and third day). Pain at the bend of the knee, as from a blow (third day). Leg. Swelling of the right leg (second day). Weakness of the legs (third day). Acute pain at the lower part of the left leg, as from the stroke of a pen-knife (second day). Stinging pains in the right leg (second day). Throbbing pain in the calves (third day). Hammering pain in the tibia, nape of the neck, and right foot (third day). Foot. The swelling of the foot gradually increases (fourth day). Pain, on walking, whenever the foot touched the ground; the same pain is felt on touching the soles of the feet with the hand (second day). Constant hammering pain in the foot (fourth day).

General symptoms

He feels strong and healthy (second day). Lancinations in different parts of the body, especially when going downstairs (second day).

Skin

The skin seems thicker (second day). On each side of the pit of the stomach the skin seems thickened with pain in the last false ribs, as if a peg were stuck in there (first day). Swelling, roughness, an d itching of the skin of the left leg (second day). Eruptions. Appearance of small vesicles on the swollen leg; they break under pressure, and a little fluid spurts out (second day). Similar vesicles appear on the left leg, on the arm, and on various other parts, without swelling (second day). The vesicles on the right leg and foot have dried up; others appear on left leg and arm (sixth day). Eruption of vesicles full of water, and larger than the previous ones (first day). Itching all over (second day). Continual itching all over (second day. Itching every five minutes, especially on the legs (first day). Sleeplessness at night on account of itching (second day).

Sleep

Drowsiness in the daytime (morning), (first day).

Fever

Shivering (third day). Heat in the face (morning), (first day).

Aggravation

(After cold drink), Colic. (Descending stairs), Lancinations in different parts.

(On respiration), Pricking in larynx.

Amelioration

(Rest), Lancinations in side of chest.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.