Cajuputum

Cajutut has a reputation in the old school as a local application in rheumatism,

and also in cases of dysmenorrheea. It has had a homeeopathic proving, and some very

characteristic symptoms have been developed. A feeling of enlargement; too large all over; as if

head as large as half a bushel. Feeling as though could not get himself together (Bapt.); could not

get his clothes for a time, though they were quite near. As if poisoned. As if the arms were tied to

• ▸the body; heavy; useless.
• ▸Numb feeling all over.
• ▸A measles-like eruption; intense itching.
• ▸Many

nervous symptoms are developed, some reflected from the female sexual organs. There is the

persistent choking sensation of hysteria; nervous dyspnoea; nervous distension of the bowels.

Earache and faceache; the lobe of the ear is red; alze nasi suddenly turn red; nose appears

swollen. It has cured obstinate hiccough from slightest provocation, talking, laughing, eating, or

• ▸any motion.
• ▸Symptoms appear and disappear suddenly; come at 5 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; disappear suddenly on

eating. Many symptoms are < at night. Smoking = desire to vomit.

Averse to being spoken to, though likes to hear other people talk.—Can't bear to look

inside the books he usually studies; can think of a thousand things in a minute.—Prefers to walk

alone, slowly.—Feels better in the society of ladies, and can talk with them (though naturally

bashful); he does not like to talk with the men.

Feels much enlarged. As if he could not get himself together (Baptisia).

Intoxicated feeling, feels as if he would stumble over his own legs.—Head feels

enlarged; dull and heavy; in occiput.—Frontal headache, esp. in eyes, < on bending

• ▸forward.
• ▸—Severe headache 5 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, with prosopalgia and stiffness of jaws.

During day alz nasi suddenly turn red, redness suddenly disappearing.—Nose is most

prominent; looks as if large and extending out from face on looking down.

Face feels all puffed up—Cannot hurt skin of face by pinching it—Face feels

rough.—stiff, dry feeling in jaws, with neuralgic pains in malar bones, and severe headache all

over head on waking at 5 a.m.

• ▸Persistent sensation of choking.
• ▸Spasmodic stricture of oesophagus.
• ▸Constricted sensation on swallowing solid food.
• ▸Tongue feels swollen, fills whole mouth.

Tongue feels swollen; as if it filled mouth all up, making her lisp, feels scalded;

• ▸looks white and rough.
• ▸—Profuse salivation.
• ▸—Speech thick and slow.
• ▸—Acrid taste.

Constant inclination to spit and hawk up large quantities of tough white mucus,

which he could feel drawn through the nares.—Feels closed up.—Esophagus: paralysed; swollen

sensation; constricted,< attempting to swallow solid food.—Burning in pharynx and

cesophagus.—Persistent sensation of choking.

Hiccough, on slightest provocation.

• ▸Flatulence colic; tympanites (Tereb).
• ▸Nervous distention of bowels.
• ▸Urine smells like cat's urine.
• ▸Spasmodic cholera.

Rectum paralysed.—Bright yellow diarrhoea < night.—Choleraic

diarrhoea from sudden check of perspiration.

Menses suspended, or diminished and attended with pain, when

caused by a cold or check of perspiration.

Erections with great desire.—Erections all night, and long after rising,

but without the least desire.—Penis soon became shrivelled up.

Warmth down trachea into lungs.—Hoarseness.—Cough causing

vomiting.—Nervous dyspnoea.—Sharp pain through apices of both lungs from before backward

(esp. r.).

• ▸Deafness.
• ▸Diarrhoea (night).
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heartburn.
• ▸Hiccough.

• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Menstruation, disorders of.
• ▸Esophagus, stricture of.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Tongue,

• ▸affections of; swelling of.
• ▸Toothache.
• ▸Urinary disorders.
• ▸Vertigo.

Compare: Bov. (swollen sensations); Plantago (earache, toothache); Colch. (gout

• ▸and rheumatism); Aco.
• ▸and Bell.
• ▸(effects of checked sweat).
• ▸Eucalyptus, Eugenia caryophyllacea

(clove), Eugenia jambos and the Brazil-nut tree belong to the same order.

Compare: Bovist; Nux mosch; Asaf; Ign; Bapt.

First to third potency (5 drops of oil).

Rheumatic symptoms (Cajuput oil is a common remedy as an application to

rheumatic joints).—Pain as if joints were enlarged.