Bellis Perennis

Nitro-benzene is a very poisonous substance, and our knowledge of its action

is due to numerous cases of poisoning that have occurred. It produces faintness, sinking,

convulsions, twitchings, stupor. It slows the respiration until death occurs. Rolling of the

eyeballs in their vertical axis is a prominent feature, and the pupils are dilated. Blueness of lips,

face, and finger-nails. Flapping of alee nasi. Head drawn backward and to the left side in spasms.

• ▸Involuntary evacuations.
• ▸Paralysis of all limbs.
• ▸Punctiform ecchymoses.
• ▸The odour of bitter

almonds is strong in the secretions.

Extreme mental excitement.—Loquacity, followed by drowsiness, soon passing into

stupor.—Soon became unconscious with inarticulate, confused speech.

Gait as if intoxicated; staggering here and there.—Violent convulsions; with

unconsciousness.—Fell unconscious; extremities paralysed; evacuations involuntary.—Fainted

from inhaling vapours.—Over-powering odour of bitter almonds.

Worse, left side; hot bath and warmth of bed; before storms; cold bathing; cold wind.

• ▸Vertigo in elderly people.
• ▸Headache from occiput to top of head.
• ▸Forehead feels contracted.
• ▸Bruised soreness.
• ▸Itching around scalp and over back, worse from hot bath and bed.

Vertigo; and headache.—Trembles; staggers; falls unconscious.—Sensation of

formication under scalp, or as if the hair was bristling up.

Rolling of eyeballs —Constant slow movement of eyeballs from 1. to r. under closed

lids.—The eyeballs showed a constant turning inward and outward in a slow, regular motion,

with the visual axes perfectly parallel —Constantly rolling in vertical axes.—Strabismus.—Eyes

staring.—Great injection of conjunctiva of bulbs Eyeballs seemed enlarged.—Pupils dilated;

insensible to light.—Distorted vision and flashes of strange light and colours.

Tongue white and swollen; thick and soft.—Burning taste, followed by numbness and

tingling of tongue and lips—Stammering speech.—Tenacious saliva flowed from the mouth.

• ▸11, 12, 13.
• ▸Stomach, Abdomen, Stool.
• ▸—Burning in throat and stomach.
• ▸—Nausea, vomiting, of

food eaten.—Pains in abdomen.—Involuntary evacuations.

Appetite lost —Craving for lemons and cider—Extreme thirst; for ice-water,

satisfied with a sip, but wanting it again directly.

Occasional nausea and vomiting.—Intolerance of alcohol, "it made him feel so

bad."

• ▸Soreness of abdominal walls and of uterus.
• ▸Stitches in spleen, sore, enlarged.
• ▸Yellow, painless diarrhoea, foul odor, worse at night.
• ▸Bloated; rumbling in bowels.

Continual soreness to pressure in abdominal walls.—Heat and grinding wearing

pains in lower part of bowels, < just before stool.

Several times an hour, a stool, smelling of benzine, of lead-coloured

mucus, mixed with bright blood, accompanied with some tenesmus, and followed by throbbing

in anus and rectum and lancinating pains from below upward, continuing about five minutes.

Diuresis; urine brownish red; odour of bitter almonds.—Urine and feces

passed involuntarily.

• ▸Breasts and uterus engorged.
• ▸Varicose veins in pregnancy.
• ▸During pregnancy inability to walk.
• ▸Abdominal muscles lame.
• ▸Uterus feels sore, as if squeezed.

Sexual desire lost, power diminished (restored when taking liq.

strychnie after leaving off the work).

Sighing respiration.—Respiration frequently

• ▸interrupted.
• ▸—Dyspnoea.
• ▸—Respiration exceedingly slow; shallow.
• ▸—Snoring.
• ▸—Respiration difficult,

catching, accelerated.

Continual aching and throbbing in lumbar region, < by a full inspiration Extreme

irritation of the kidneys.

Continual soreness and aching in muscles of upper arm.

24. Generalities—Wasted, pallid, exhausted; general prostration.—At one time he sank very low,

approaching a typhoid condition —Complained of sensation of falling through bed and floor.

• ▸Joints sore, muscular soreness.
• ▸Itching on back and flexor surfaces of thighs.
• ▸Pain down anterior of thighs.
• ▸Wrist feels contracted as from elastic band around joint.
• ▸Sprains feels contracted as from elastic band around joint.
• ▸Sprains with great soreness.
• ▸Railway spine.

• ▸Boils.
• ▸Ecchymosis, swelling, very sensitive to touch.
• ▸Venous congestion due to mechanical causes.
• ▸Varicose veins with bruised sore feeling.
• ▸Exudations and swellings.
• ▸Acne.

Punctiform ecchymoses.—Skin livid; bluish-grey—Ecchymosed spots, bluish-black,

beneath scalp and on gluteal muscles.

Wakes early in morning and cannot get to sleep again.

For three nights, before the sweating began, complete insomnia, with unpleasant

thoughts crowding the mind, and wide-open eyes, before which photopsic illusions floated

continually.

Skin cold.—Sweat on forehead and face.—Whole body covered with profuse cold

sweat.

• ▸Amaurosis.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Cyanosis.
• ▸Diuresis.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Nystagmus.
• ▸Respiration, slow.

Strabismus. Tetanus. Trismus.

Compare: Arnica; Arsenic; Staphis; Hamamelis; Bryonia; Vanadium (degenerative states).

Tincture to third potency.

Twitchings in hands and feet—Arms spasmodically flexed, sometimes

extended.—Arms spasmodically flexed at first, afterwards relaxed.