Helianthus Annuus

The effects of Hel. f, have been observed on several persons. It is a violent

narcotico-acrid poison, and in fatal poisoning cases death has taken place in convulsions. The

vision is disordered; choleraic symptoms occur; skin, hair, and nails exfoliate. The anxiety is >

after vomiting.

Headache in forehead, like a pressure and drawing pressing, > walking in open air.

Great difficulty in reading, in evening, by candle-light; the sensation is as when the

light flickers from a draught of air; cannot follow the lines.

(In a rover who had a slight nasal obstruction causing constant passage of secretion

through the posterior nares), after a short time epistaxis occurred, and the nostrils became free,

and during the ensuing winter the secretions were healthy, and discharged through the natural

passages.

Smarting at tip of tongue —Painful sensation like aphthz in mouth (inhaling fumes

of triturated plant).—Taste of manure; tongue yellow in middle—Excoriation of mouth and

throat.

11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen.—Nausea and vomiting of food (taken an hour before with

relish).—Constant inclination to vomit.—When pounding the plant it seems that the epigastrium

with difficulty keeps time with the inflation of the chest on inspiration.—Frightful pain in pit of

stomach.—Colic.

Stiffness and dryness of the throat.—Sensation of glowing in the throat and stomach

immediately.—Severe burning in fauces, cesophagus, and epigastrium.

Pressure in pit of stomach and internal surface of sternum, at times with fine

sticking externally in the same place; esp. < on inspiration, and the epigastric region is sore to

touch; most violent after eating and in evening.

Violent purging and vomiting with pain in stomach.—Abundant liquid

stool during night; next day two liquid, whitish stools; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours later.

Pressure on mons veneris only when sitting —(Membranous

dysmenorrhcea; leucorrhoea; uterine displacements; with backache; esp. if subject to loss of

voice.)

(Voice thick; clergyman's sore throat.).—Pressure and oppression of

external parts of chest, without affecting breathing.

Numbness in muscles of neck; sensibility to touch blunted it becomes stiff eighteen

hours later.

Pain in outer part of leg above ankle, extending up the muscles, as if beaten,

even when sitting.—Itching on tibia, with sensation as if there was an eruption.

Helix Tosta.

• ▸Toasted snail.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Helicidz.
• ▸Trituration.

Skin of whole body peels, hair falls out, all the nails fall off—Profuse discharge from

ulcerated surface (from application).

• ▸Cholera.
• ▸Hair, failing off.
• ▸Nails, falling off.
• ▸Scarlatina.
• ▸Skin, peeling.
• ▸Stiff-neck.