Brachyglottis Repanda

Our knowledge of the pathogenetic effects of Brassica napus 1s derived from

the experience of the Irish famine, during which the people ate it freely. Dropsical swellings,

scorbutic mouth, voracious appetite, tympanitic abdomen, blotches like burns, dropping off of

nails, and gangrene. All the symptoms of impoverished blood appear, such as growth of downy,

colourless hair.

Tingling, itching, pricking in ears.—Throbbing about r. ear, from ear to eyes, and throat

to neck.

Swollen to an enormous extent, the distended state of eyelids and upper lip producing

great deformity.—Burn-like blotches on nose and forehead (also hands and feet), varying from

discoloration to ulceration.

8, 9. Mouth and Throat.—Mucous membrane of mouth and throat inflamed, ulcerated in parts,

gums spongy.

Feeling as if something rolling about. Fluttering in region of ovary.

Ineffectual urging.—Stool dry; like balls; evacuated with sore constrictive

pain in anus; evening.

• ▸Pressure in neck of bladder; urging to urinate.
• ▸Sense of swashing in bladder.
• ▸Soreness in urethra; feeling as if urine could not be retained.
• ▸Urine contains mucous corpuscles and epithelium, albumen and casts.

• ▸First dorsal vertebra sore to touch.
• ▸—Cutting under |.
• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Aching in lumbar

• ▸region.
• ▸—Isolated throbbing r.
• ▸side of back.
• ▸—Feeling as if whole back would contract backward,

and muscles of neck were affected.

Cramp in fingers, thumb, and wrist when writing-soreness extending along flexor carpi ulnaris.

Sallow and muddy-looking; covered with downy hair.—General cedema.—Blotches,

deep red, like burns, on backs of hands and feet and nose and forehead, varying from simple

discoloration to most troublesome ulceration, causing destruction of cuticle and dropping off of

nails, with a marked disposition in the aggravated cases to gangrene.

Compare: Apis; Helonias; Merc cor; Plumbum.

Third potency.

Puka-Puka (BRACHYGLOTTIS)

• ▸Fluttering sensation (Caladium).
• ▸Kidney and bladder symptoms predominate.
• ▸Produces symptoms of albuminuria.
• ▸Itching in ears and nostrils.
• ▸Bright's disease.
• ▸Oppression of chest.
• ▸Writer's cramp.

Hands and feet dry and shrunken, with blotches of a deep red, like burns, on backs

of hands and dorsa of feet, the fingers and toes being frequently cold and livid; ulceration; loss of

nails.