Oniscus Asellus

Ononis ary. is indigenous to Britain, growing on barren pastures and on the

borders of ill-cultivated fields. It owes its name, "Rest-harrow," to its tough underground roots,

which cause stoppages to harrow and plough. In some parts it is called "Cammock," and the

country people, having the idea that it communicates its nauseous, goatlike odour to cheese made

from the milk of cows who have eaten it, call the cheese so tainted "cammocky" (Treas. of Bot.).

• ▸Cooper records (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxv.
• ▸538) the case of a brickfield labourer, 45, who at 13 was prostrated

for a week, apparently with sunstroke; "something seemed to catch the back of his head." At 25,

had attacks similar to present. In March, 1900, began to have daily attacks. An aura seems to

spread over the head from the occiput; he makes frightful grimaces, but does not scream out;

becomes unconscious, turns deathlike and blue in face, and falls down. After the attacks has

violent headache, giddiness, and wakeful nights. Onon. R in single doses at rare intervals

produced improvement at once and cured in nine months. A symptom apparently induced by

Onon. was this: Nose-bleed three or four times in one day, < when washing his face." After that

he was better. Hansen gives "chronic nephritis" as having been cured by Ononis spinosa.

In. young patients h¢moptysis is induced by the salt with which these insects

abound.—Inclination to stretch.

Boring pain behind right ear in mastoid process (Caps). Violent pulsation of arteries (Pothos; Glonoine). Painful pressure above the root of nose.

Dull heaviness of the head.—Boring pain from behind r. ear on mastoid process, with

violent pulsation in the arteries.—Painful pressure above eyebrows and on margin of nose, first 1.

side, afterwards r.—Painful pressure above the root of the nose.

Toothache, which had disappeared, returned.—Pressure on soft palate, posteriorly as

if it would close.

Cramps in the gullet, as if it were about to close-—Hawking up of mucus streaked

with blood.

Persistent pressure in cardiac orifice. Vomiting.

Nausea, with continued pressure at the orifice of the stomach.—Continual

vomiting.

Distended; meteorism; very severe colic.

Urgent and sudden want to evacuate, with prompt and liquid

evacuation.—Burning pain in anus.

Tenesmus of bladder and rectum, with absence of stool and

urine.—Cutting boring in urethra with excessive bodily restlessness.

Cutting, burning in urethra. Tenesmus of bladder and rectum, with absence of stool and urine.

Frequent yawning.

Ononis.

• ▸Ononis arvensis.
• ▸Rest-harrow.
• ▸Cammock, N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Leguminos¢.
• ▸Tincture of fresh plant.

Compare: Pothos foet; Canth.

Sixth potency.