Derris Pinnata

Dr. X. Roussel is the authority for this plant, and some of the symptoms are of

a very peculiar nature. "He walks as if stepping on down." "He is afraid of killing some one with

• ▸a knife.
• ▸" Both kinds of tic are noted—painful and convulsive.
• ▸Sense of smell is exalted.
• ▸"He

perceives celestial odours;" also "intolerable smells, after frequent sneezing." Viscid urine, and

• ▸viscid saliva.
• ▸Electric shocks and cramps.
• ▸Heat > toothache.
• ▸Many symptoms, including

diarrhoea, come on at night. < From touch.

Fancies he is sea-sick —Suicidal—Is afraid of killing some one with a

knife.—Disposed to strike, and inveighs against his dearest friends—Weeping and singing

alternately; great flow of ideas.—Loss of memory.

Vertigo; is afraid of falling if he turns his head to r. or 1—Sensation as if needles and

• ▸nails were being driven into head (6 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸at evening meal).
• ▸—Painful lancinations |.
• ▸side of head

with vomiting of mucus and burning along cesophagus.—Scalp excessively painful; slightest

touch < the pain.

Cannot raise lids or eyebrows.—Painful lancinations in both eyes, extending to bottom

• ▸of orbits —Swelling of 1.
• ▸caruncula lachrymalis with large ecchymosis of 1.
• ▸eye.
• ▸—Vision dim;

black points before eye.

Swelling, redness and heat of auricle-—Hearing impaired or excessively

acute.—Cracking in ears when swallowing.

• ▸Tip of nose red.
• ▸—Fluent coryza.
• ▸—Sense of smell exalted; celestial odours.
• ▸—Intolerable

smells after frequent sneezing.

• ▸Face puffy.
• ▸—Tic-douloureux and tic convulsive.
• ▸—Burning in |.
• ▸cheek.
• ▸—Pain in whole

lower jaw as if the teeth were being pulled out.

Formication and trembling of tongue.—Painful, dry, cracked tongue.—Salivation with

engorged submaxillary glands.—Copious salivation, with aphthz, and thready, viscid mucus.

Teeth become loose; previously loose teeth become very painful.—Toothache at night,

<by cold, > by heat.

Red swelling of tonsils, uvula and velum; tickling of uvula.—Sensation as of ball in

cesophagus with cramps there.

Sensation of swelling in liver and spleen.—Cramp-like pains; diarrhoea with

anguish.—Fetid flatulence.—Griping, > lying on abdomen.

Hemorrhoids; constriction; formication.—Sensation of foreign body in

anus.—Diarrhoea and weakness after vomiting —Involuntary stools at night, white or

yellowish.—Burning or sharp pains with bloody stools.

Pains in kidneys; in bladder; injury; sometimes incontinence.—Gluey,

fetid urine discharged guttatim.

Swelling of uterus; weight behind uterus; feeling as if about to

prolapse.—Leucorrheea, with menstruation twice a month—Cramp-like pains during menses.

Feeling of suffocation with fetid breath; must sit up in bed at

night—Cramp-like pains, and lancinations behind sternum.

Violent pains in nape and neck with swelling.—Feeling as if a small stream

of water was running from one ear to the other across nape of neck, causing terrible pain.

Paralytic pains, commencing in entire 1. upper extremity (also in r. less

frequently).—Rheumatic pains from shoulder to finger-tips.—Cramp-like pains at insertion of

deltoid > by pressure.

Electric shocks in muscles of leg.—Intense sciatic pains.—Staggers; he walks

as if stepping on down.

• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Blepharospasm.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Eyes, inflammation of.
• ▸Locomotor

• ▸ataxy.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Ozzena.
• ▸Smell, sense of, affected.
• ▸Tic-douloureux.

• ▸Compare: Anacard.
• ▸(sense of smell); Sticta, &c.
• ▸(levitation); Ign.
• ▸(ball in throat,

hysteria).