A tincture is made of the dry leaves of Duboisia myoporoides, R. Br. These contain the alkaloid-Duboisine-from which most of the effects have been observed.
General Action
Almost identical (as far as known) with belladonna.,
Allies-Belladonna, Stramon.
Generalities
Trembling. Intoxicated appearance. Restlessness; in afternoon. Ineffectual efforts to sit up in bed. Weakness; all afternoon. Faintness. Asleep sensation in legs, then in thighs, arms and other parts, afterwards patient could hardly talk or stand. Lemon -juice acted as an antidote.
Mind
Delirium, with tendency to pick at surrounding objects, drawing up of arms, restlessness, rapid pulse, heat, attempt to get. up. Hallucinations. Fidgety Stupor with weakness as if he had no life in him. Unable to concentrate thoughts, absent-minded, thoughts wander from one subject to another, but all are silly and nonsensical. Memory lost. Unconsciousness Carphology, suspicious glancing beneath the bed clothes and behind. the back incessant activity, the whole room was upset, flow of disconnected sentences, memory of things that happened years ago, an air of fun and humor, symptoms of childishness rather than of violence, imagined it was dark, afterwards unconsciousness of what had occurred.
Head
Inability to hold it up. Aching over eyes, in forehead and temples over I. eye. Dullness as after interrupted sleep. Heaviness. Strange feeling. Vertigo; on rising up or walking the legs seem unable to bear the body, staggering, but can walk straight by concentrating mind on the action and watching steps, inclination to fall backward. (<) ascending stairs, almost impossible to stand with eyes shut, constantly swaying backward and forward, obliged to be held by another when eyes are closed.
Eyes
Pain; when reading could read better and print looked blacker at double the usual distance eyes feel tired, sharp pain in upper part of ball, afterwards paralysis of accommodation, could not bear to read at any distance, could not look at food when eating
Hot and tired; hot and dry, also face, lids oedematous. Cool feeling; in evening. Lachrymation. Pupils dilated; irregularly, apparently in segments; avoid, afterwards nearly round dilatation grows less as paralysis of accommodation increases; pupil vertically ovoid and irregular, in response to change of light and shadow the least dilated parts show the most movement, at ten minutes it is firmly contracted everywhere, except at temporal side, and is irregularly round, at twelve minutes it is contracted evenly all around, sees horizontal lines best.
Disc very red small vessels. of disc visible, larger vessels, enlarged and tortuous, outline of disc indistinct, retinal veins dilated, arteries diminished, whole fundus hyperaemic accommodation paralyzed, could fundus hyperaemic, accommodation paralyzed, could not read Jager No.1 at any distance, but with Plus 36 could read it at twelve inches, any change in distance causing blur. Smarting sharp pain in upper part of ball. On looking up from book pain in upper part of balls and in forehead similar to sick headaches, and eyes feel large and protruding. Lids agglutinated in morning. Palpebral orifices contracted all day.
Photophobia. Things seem elevated. Letters ran together in evening when reading. Vision misty for near objects. Accommodation paralyzed; soon and before the pupil was fully dilated and continued when it had regained its normal size; cannot read at any distance, can read with plus 20 glasses. Cannot make out print within two feet of me, print shows blue, orange and reddish-brown, can see read with plus 20 glasses, but glass strained the eyes.
Clinical Neuro-retinitis. Exophthalmic goitre.
Ears, Nose and Face
Earache in morning. L. ear felt as if water were in it, a dull feeling. Sudden ringing in ears, (<) r. Nose stopped; and dry. Dark flush on face. Smarting sharp pain down r. side of face.
Mouth
Dryness; and of tongue; and throat, (>) lemon-juice; of M. and throat in afternoon, (<) lips, temporarily (>) water, constantly thirsty for large quantities frequently repeated; of M., throat and tongue, with stickiness, but no much desire for water. Taste bad; bitter.
Throat
Patches of partially translucent, adherent, yellowish-white mucus in pharynx. Pain as from a splinter in l. side on swallowing, (<) empty S. Dryness; (<) back part; with burning and cough; without much thirst; pharynx dry and hyperaemic, purple- red, capillaries much engorged, here and there varicosities, follicles very prominent and configuration of spinal column readily distinguishable, a picture of pharyngitis sicca.
Stomach
Appetite lost. Nausea; all the afternoon. Deadly, gone feeling all afternoon, as if at greater curvature, not (>) eating or drinking. Sick feeling, general faintness, (<) epigastric region, head light as if intoxicated, face feels warm but is not flushed, mouth and throat dry, saliva scanty and viscid, giddiness on walking, it seemed as if I could not control all parts of body at the same time, pain in forehead, pulse 52, full, occasionally at rate of 80 for a few beats.
Urinary Organs
Burning in urethra during micturition. Urine increased.
Respiration Organs
Epiglottis hyperaemic, (<) vicinity of glosso-epiglottidean folds, membrane lining larynx engorged, dry, with patches of viscid, semi-translucent, adherent mucus, appearing like a pseudo- membrane, the hyperaemia (<) along course of ary-epiglottidean folds, the membrane covering cartilages of Wrisberg, the capitula Santorini and the interarytaenoidal commissure, in the last- mentioned localities the most of the dry, translucent discharge was seen, vocal cords congested, (<) neat posterior commissure, mucus adherent to their free borders, forming narrow bands that stretched from side of when the cords were widely separated in deep inspiration. Hoarseness; and phonation difficult, constant desire to clear throat, generally unsuccessful; voice husky an indistinct.
Cough increased (have always had a C., but not os severe as this), next morning hard, dry, hacking, from tickling at bifurcation of trachea, cough causes soreness or rawness over lungs, (<) lower lobe of l. and upper lobe of r.
Pulse
Rapid; varied from 108 to 112, but always fell to 80 when the patient was supported in a sitting posture and increased again on reclining. Slow. Intermittent; and feeble. Strong, full, regular.
Extremities
Heaviness, (<) lower. Weakness of arms and legs. Jerking of muscles of arm on extending hand to grasp anything. R. hands and fingers feel as if going to sleep. Gait unsteady, occasionally feeling as if I stepped on empty space, and I would catch myself for fear of falling. R. knee sore below patella, as if strained or rheumatic. Lower limbs tingle as if asleep.
Sleep and Fever
Gaping and sneezing all day. Drowsiness. Night restless, could not get to sleep for hours, had to get up for water every five minutes. Chilliness. Heat; (<) internally.
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.