Parthenium Hysterophorus

• ▸E.
• ▸Fornias brought Parthen.
• ▸to light (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, 1.
• ▸42, 71).
• ▸It is a Cuban remedy of

• ▸great repute in the treatment of fevers.
• ▸An alkaloid Parthenia was isolated by C.
• ▸J.
• ▸Ulrice, of

• ▸Havana, and Dr.
• ▸J.
• ▸L.
• ▸Duenas published experiments with this on the human organism and on

• ▸animals.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸B.
• ▸H.
• ▸B.
• ▸Sleight proved increasing doses of the @ tincture, and later on of 6x, which

reproduced most of the symptoms of the first proving. The Schema is made up chiefly of

Sleight's symptoms; additions from Duenas being marked (D). Dr. Ramirez Tovar has reported

these cures by Parthenia: (1) A lady living in the lower part of the city, where the rain leaves

channels of infection, had daily attacks of intermittent, more intense each day. One grain of the

alkaloid was divided into six powders, one every hour after the attack. No further attacks. The

patient was nursing at the time, and she noticed a marked increase of milk in the breasts. Half a

grain divided into five doses completed the cure. (2) A tailor, 30, moved to lower part of the city,

and contracted tertian intermittent, the fourth seizure being attended with much pain in left

hypochondrium. One grain in five doses cured, though the conditions were unchanged. [The

removal of this left hypochondriac pain is important in connection with Burnett's experience with

Helianthus. (3) Girl, 6, lymphatic, living near the beach of the harbour, ill for seventeen days

with malaise, loss of appetite, sleepiness, and fever. Had had Quinine internally and externally

and was wasting visibly. The alkaloid, aided by a tonic wine prepared from the extract of the

plant, cured. (4) Man, 45, of delicate constitution, poorly nourished, straw-yellow face, yellow

sclerotics, enlarged liver and spleen, spleen painful to pressure. Had had fever in Panama, had

taken Quinine; complained of a pain in right side (more severe in some parts than in others),

which commenced at | p.m. with shiverings, disappeared in two hours, and returned at precisely

the same hour next day. Five doses of ten centigrams each removed the pain. About six weeks

later there was a relapse, the pain this time being located in the stomach. One grain in five doses,

one dose every two hours, removed the pain, but it returned the third day. The same treatment

then removed it permanently. (5) Young lady, 18, had periodical facial neuralgia; cured by same

treatment., Fornias adds this case: His niece, 5, living in Havana, had been suffering from a

continued fever with periodical midday exacerbations, which later on assumed an intermittent

form. She had been saturated with Quinine, and complained at the time of malaise, lassitude,

headache, gastric intolerance, &c., when she was seen by Dr. Govantes, who prescribed an

• ▸extract of Parthen.
• ▸hyst.
• ▸, three doses a day, each the size of a pea.
• ▸In four or five days she was

free from fever, and made a quick recovery. In the proving the pains were sudden, congestive,

out-pushing. A large number were experienced in the head and ears, and singing and fulness in

the ears was among them, which points to its antidotal action towards Quinine. The symptoms

were < by sudden motion; < after sleep; > after getting up and going about.

Feels dull and stupid. —Difficult to fix attention —Malaise, apathy, lassitude

(D).—Indifference (D).

Tremors (D).—Muscular relaxation; anzesthesia (D).—Coagulation of blood

retarded (D).—The alkaloid is very rapidly absorbed and eliminated.—General depression and

lassitude.

• ▸Aches, extending to nose; feels swelled; pain in frontal eminence.
• ▸Eyes heavy; eyeballs ache.
• ▸Ringing in ears.
• ▸Pain at root of nose; feels swollen.
• ▸Aching in teeth.
• ▸Teeth feel on edge; too long.
• ▸Disordered vision.
• ▸Tinnitus and pain in ears.

Vertigo; while sitting, with heat of face and blurred vision.—Heaviness and dulness of

• ▸head.
• ▸—Full feeling, esp.
• ▸in vertex, pressing from within.
• ▸—Stitching pain in |.
• ▸temple, of short

• ▸duration.
• ▸—Aching pain at 1.
• ▸supra-orbital foramen.
• ▸—Head heavy, brain feels loose; < moving

• ▸head.
• ▸—Head feels as if in a vice.
• ▸—Sudden stitching and severe plunging pain in I.
• ▸frontal

eminence.—On rising, after restless night, throbbing deep in brain as if it would push through top

• ▸of head; "big head," > after moving about and washing face.
• ▸—Sudden darting pains in r.
• ▸, then 1.
• ▸,

frontal eminence, < by sudden movement.—Head feels swelled; brief feeling as if blood would

burst through face; returning in a few minutes, esp. above nose and root of nose.—Heart beat felt

all over head and over eye, < motion.—Pressure at r. frontal eminence, increasing to sharp,

penetrating pain, going to root of nose, then to tip, where it is most severe; restlessness succeeds;

seems in an bones of nose, < |.—Front of head feels big.

Eyes heavy; drowsy.—Aching in eyeballs.—Must look intently to see the words; when

writing the letters seem pale and eyes ache.—Aching over eyes; wants to close them.

Ringing in ears, < 1—Some sharp pain in ears.—Aching at lower edge r. ear spreads

over face; ear feels plugged up.—Stitching at lobe of |. ear, deep in and above external auditory

meatus.—Dulness and aching in ears, coming suddenly.—Splitting pain over both ears in spots

• ▸size of a dollar.
• ▸—Stabbing pain in |.
• ▸ear.
• ▸—Singing, dull aching, pushing out in ear.

Pain at root of nose and in nose; in all bones of nose, < 1—At root of nose stuffed

feeling as with dry coryza.—Nose feels swollen; and tender to touch.—Aching in bridge of nose

• ▸(<1.
• ▸side) and of upper 1.
• ▸molars.
• ▸—Aching at end of nose, which feels full of blood.

Bursting, pain in r. malar bone.—Seems as if blood would burst through face —Aching

pains run up from above I. eye-tooth to eye and over face; occurs by starts and stops.

Upper teeth feel on edge; pricking pains in sockets.—Head thick, heavy.—Sharp

aching twinges in upper molars.—Upper incisors tender at sockets when biting. —Sharp pain in 1.

• ▸upper and lower molars.
• ▸—Teeth feel too long.
• ▸—Tingling in tip of tongue.
• ▸—Profuse, very fluid,

salivation.

Goneness in epigastrium; hunger.—Irrepressible, tasteless

• ▸eructations.
• ▸—Eructations tasting of the drug.
• ▸—Hard lumps at epigastrium.
• ▸—Heat and weight in

stomach.

Pain in left hypochondrium. Spleen affections.

Severe pain in 1. hypochondrium, with tertian fever (cured with

Parthenia).—Spleen painful to pressure; pain in r. side, worse in some parts than in others, with

• ▸shiverings | p.
• ▸m.
• ▸daily (cured with Parthenia).
• ▸—Loud rumbling in bowels; about navel.
• ▸—Slight

colicky pains at navel—Colic deep in pelvis; pains run down backs of thighs to knees.—Sore.

Stabbing pain runs up rectum after passing flatus.—No desire at usual time

• ▸(10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸), 10.
• ▸30 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸mushy stool.

Given to pregnant women for febrile conditions, it has caused

abortion and premature delivery (D).—Given in a case of subacute tuberculosis, it restored the

menses, which had been absent since the illness commenced.—Great increase of milk in breasts

of nursing women cured with Parthenia of intermittent fever.

Excitation of heart-beats; or slow heart (D).—Progressive slowness of pulse,

followed by syncope, cardiac paralysis, and death (D).—Pulse slow, soft, compressible.

Pains run from pelvis down backs of thighs to knees.—Marked diminution of

reflex in hips and extinction of voluntary movements (D).

• ▸Restless night, wakes at 3 and 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, then dozes and dreams till 7.
• ▸30.
• ▸—Increased

stupor; desire to be quiet (D).

• ▸Abortion.
• ▸Amenorrhoea.
• ▸Cheyne-Stokes breathing.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Ear,

• ▸affections of.
• ▸Fevers.
• ▸Headache; extending to nose.
• ▸Liver, pain in.
• ▸Milk, increased.
• ▸Neuralgia,

• ▸periodic.
• ▸Salivation.
• ▸Spleen, affections of.
• ▸Syncope.
• ▸Toothache.
• ▸Vision, disordered.

• ▸It antidotes Quinine.
• ▸Compare: In spleen affections, Helianth.
• ▸, Ceanoth.
• ▸In malaise

• ▸and periodic neuralgia, Malar.
• ▸off.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Cedr.

Compare: China; Ceanoth; Helianth.