Haematoxylon Campechianum

Logwood is the well-known dye of commerce. The tincture was proved by

Jouve in 1839, and some very distinctive symptoms were produced. Constriction appears in

many parts, culminating in the stomach and abdomen in colic and in the chest in symptoms very

like many cases of angina pectoris. This is the most characteristic of all the symptoms of Hem.:

Sensation as if a bar lay transversely across from region of heart to right side, with acute pain in

left upper portion of chest." This bar sensation has been frequently removed by Hem.; and in a

case of zona with agonising pain as if a bar lay across the chest, arresting the breathing, Ham.

did signal service for me. Disordered digestion accompanies and complicates most other

conditions. Chilliness predominates, but the symptoms are > in open air. < At night; on stooping;

by pressure; by touch. There is much general sensitiveness.

Feels constricted; heavy, hot. Eyelids heavy.

• ▸Painful digging from abdomen to throat, causing pain in region of heart with oppression.
• ▸Colic, tympanitis.
• ▸Borborygmi and diarrhoea.
• ▸Swollen, painful.

Pain in hypogastrium, attended with slimy, whitish leucorrhoea. Weak feeling, with painful bearing down sensation at menstrual period.

• ▸Constriction, extending to epigastrium.
• ▸Sensation of a bar across chest.
• ▸Convulsive pain in heart region with oppression.
• ▸Great soreness in region of heart.
• ▸Palpitation.

• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Colic.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysmenorrhoea.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Indigestion.
• ▸Ptosis.

Throat, sore.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸Compare: (in compressive pains) Cact.
• ▸, Lil.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Coloc.
• ▸, Aur.
• ▸,

Compare: Cactus; Colocy; Naja.

Third potency.