Eugenia Jambos

Euonymin is largely used by eclectics in cases of constipation, indigestion, and

torpid liver. It has not been proved, but Hale quotes from Coe the following account of its

effects: "In very large doses, it proves a drastic cathartic, its operation being attended with a

death-like nausea, excessive tormina and cold sweats. The dejections from the bowels are

profuse, violent, and accompanied by much flatus." This clearly outlines the sphere of the

remedy, which does not seem to differ much from that of the Euonymus Europea. Lutze records

• ▸(Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xxiv.
• ▸227) a case of albuminuria of pregnancy with dropsy cured with the 1x; and

also a case of albuminuria and dropsy in a young man of seventeen. This patient had had eczema,

and was cured by Lutze with Arsen. 200 Later he got a chill from standing in the water fishing.

He suffered from malaise, and finally dropsy developed. After a week of treatment the condition

was as follows: Indifferent, drowsy, sleeping most of the day and night; sometimes with heavy

breathing. Anasarca general, chiefly in face and extremities. Pulse full, slow, 50 to 60.

Occasionally dull frontal or occipital headache, face sallow, sclerotics yellow; temperature 102°

to 103°. Urine scanty, 1,017 (later 1,009), containing large quantities of albumen, epithelial casts

and granular debris, no bile or chlorides. Stool greyish. He had no pains or subjective symptoms.

There were all the evidences of a fully-developed case of acute Bright's disease. He was given

Euonymus 1x, 2 grains in half a tumbler of water, a spoonful every hour. In three days there was

evident improvement. The treatment was continued for a month, when he was nearly well, the

• ▸cure being completed with Puls.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Sulph.
• ▸at long intervals.

Continued state, like intoxication, with great loquacity and indolence.—Disposition to

isolation.—The patient is uncomfortable wherever he may be; desires to lie down when seated,

and to rise up when lying down.—Sudden great change in him after micturition; everything

seems more beautiful and bright; after quarter of an hour everything gloomy again.

Sufferings occur esp. in the evening and at night.—An old wound from a

thrust became painful again —Rheumatic pain wanders from place to place with catarrh.

Headache as if a board were lying on right side. Talkative. Hot lachrymation.

Vertigo, during which all objects seem to be reversed.—Fits of megrim in the evening,

and rolling and burning pain in the head, with forcing towards the eyes, lachrymation, nausea

and vomiting, during which the pains are aggravated. —Pains in the head at night, with burning

pain in the eyes, violent thirst, and copious discharge of urine—Cramp-like, pressive pains in the

head.—Neuralgia in forehead over eye.—Headache as from a sticking from all sides at once, or as

if everything was drawn together from within, recurring like a slow pulsation.

Lachrymation, with burning and gnawing pains.—Burning pain in the eyes in the

afternoon.—Suddenly biting in the eyes as from pepper.—Needle-like stitches id inner canthus r.

eye.—Violent internal itching in eyes and nose, evening.—Darkness before eyes, everything

seems double; > looking intently.—Whirling before r. eye—Eyes took sleepy and drunken.

6, 8. Face and Mouth.—Pimples on the face, with painful sensibility of their

circumferences.—A bundant accumulation of frothy and viscid saliva in the mouth, esp. before a

meal; and when talking.

At night, burning in eyes, violent thirst from dryness low down in throat, so that he

did not feel the drink, which also did not > the dryness.—Pain in small spot in region of |. corner

of hyoid bone.—Inflamed throat (in catarrhal fever).

Appetite increased.—A greeable taste of tobacco, when smoking, of food, and of

drink.—Great thirst—Great desire to smoke tobacco.

• ▸11, 12.
• ▸Stomach and Abdomen.
• ▸—Cramp in orifice of stomach, causing nausea.
• ▸—Nausea rising

• ▸up from end of cesophagus.
• ▸—Flatulence rumbling in bowels.
• ▸—Drawing about navel.
• ▸—Inguinal

hernia from a fall.

Loose evacuations, followed by vomiting.—Scanty evacuation of

excrement, of the consistence of pap, and sandy.—Urging to stool and colic.—Evacuations scanty,

spurting, and fetid, with burning pain in the abdomen.—Constipation.—Scanty, hard stool, after

much pressing, followed by spasmodic closure of anus.—Tenesmus.

Deep-coloured urine.—After making water, shuddering; or sudden

increase of brightness and of light before the eyes.

Impotence.—Emission of semen too slow, or entirely wanting during

coition.—A fter coition, perspiration and thirst.

Moist cough, without expectoration in the evening and at night.—Expectoration of

yellowish sanguineous mucus.

• ▸Nightly cramp in soles of feet (Cupr; Zing).
• ▸Skin cracks about toes.
• ▸Fissures between toes.
• ▸Skin recedes from the nails, forming pus.

Shiverings run over him after micturition —Coldness, as if the body were

• ▸naked.
• ▸—Perspiration in the morning, with burning thirst.
• ▸—Hot hands.
• ▸—Fever; heat before

midnight, with little thirst and much sweat; during fever for several hours in morning, pain in

back, > bending inward.

Euonyminum.

A concentrated extract, so-called active principle, from the bark of Euonymus Americana,

E. atropurpurea and other American species of Euonymus.

• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Bright's disease.
• ▸Cholera.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Gall-stones.

Indigestion. Liver, affections of.

Compare: Eucalypt. (a myrtaceous tree) in catarrhal conditions; Lauroc. and drugs

containing Hydrocyanic acid; Puls. (fugitive rheumatic pains). Antidoted by: Coffee; by smoking

tobacco.

Compare: Eugenia chekun-Myrtus chekan (chronic Bronchitis); Antim; Berb aquif.

Desquamation and suppuration of the skin round the nail of the thumb.—Hot

hands.—Cramp-like and paralytic pains in the tibia and in the heels.—Nocturnal cramps in the

sole of the foot.