Paullinia Pinnata

—Paul. p. is less well known than Paullinia sorbilis, better known under its

• ▸name Guarana (see Vol.
• ▸I.
• ▸).
• ▸It was proved by Mure, but I do not know of any clinical experience

with the remedy. The predominating pains were lancinating, stitching, and pressing. Constricting

pains as with iron bands or with iron plates. Head, abdomen, and chest furnished the largest

number of symptoms. The symptoms were < by motion; by inspiration. > In open air (neck); by

friction (pain in right shoulder). There was an unusual longing for coffee—to smell and drink it.

Sensation as if the chest opened on drawing a breath.

Staggering gait.—Pressive and lancinating pains; as if stone or knife driven

into side.—Feels bruised all over.—Pains in joints.

Pain above eyes piercing to brain.—Pain with inability to bend head

forward.—Hammering sensation in |. temple; in vertex—Headache as if head were covered with

a leaden cap and then struck upon.—Great itching and suppuration at back of head.

Pains in eyebrows intersecting at root of nose.—Lancinations in eyes with

lachrymation.

• ▸Cutting in cartilage of I.
• ▸ear extending to neck.
• ▸—Heat in ears.
• ▸—Roaring in I.
• ▸ear.

Pain in r. teeth—Rough, swollen tongue; it feels thick —Mouth dry; bitter—Profuse

saliva.

Appetite increased; or diminished.—Desires coffee and fruit—Nausea on

waking.—Sensation while talking as if a stone were buried deep in stomach.

Pain as from tight cord round hypochondria.—Borborygmi.—Lancinations: in

liver; spleen; umbilicus; groins.

Constipation.—Diarrhoea.—Colic followed by reddish diarrhoeic stool, mixed with

slime.

Hoarse voice.—Violent cough with inflammation of throat —Dry

cough.—Yellowish, bitter, difficult, and tenacious expectoration.—Short, rapid breathing.

Oppression.—Pressure as from an iron band round waist; with pricking in upper

chest, < during movement.—Pressure on chest as if squeezed between iron plates and then

stabbed.—Burning; itching; lancinations in chest.—Chest feels if breaking open with a crash;

while drawing a breath —Burning in chest across breast, which feels as if compressed by an iron

• ▸band.
• ▸—Lancinations under r.
• ▸breast.
• ▸—Pain in 1.
• ▸breast.
• ▸—Pain as of knife thrust in |.
• ▸nipple at

regular intervals.

Pain in neck > in open air.—Burning all down back.—Bruised pain in loins;

cannot raise herself after stooping.

Pricking as with innumerable pins in |. thigh —Weakness and heaviness of

legs.—Numbness of feet after going up stairs.—Pain under sole when walking, < by pressure.

Red patches on face and chest.—Itching in hands and fingers so that she scratches

them raw.

• ▸Coldness.
• ▸—Shuddering with drowsiness.
• ▸—Alternate heat and coldness of face.
• ▸—Heat:

of face; of soles of feet.

Pecten.

• ▸Scallop.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Pectinidé.
• ▸Trituration or tincture of the animal.

Asthma; humid.

Characteristics—Swan (Org., 11. 449), having learned "from a gentleman that every time he

entered a room where scallops were being opened he had such a severe attack of asthma that he

had to leave or suffocate," potentised the Scallop, and used the preparation with success in

• ▸similar cases.
• ▸T.
• ▸Franklin Smith (/bid.
• ▸) reports a case of humid asthma cured quickly and

• ▸permanently with Pecten 1m.
• ▸and c.
• ▸m.
• ▸, characterised as follows: Quick, laboured breathing;

cannot lie flat or on left side; constriction of chest, especially right side. Attacks preceded for two

or three days by sneezing and excessive coryza; burning sensation in throat and chest; fulness of

head; pulse very quick and wiry; subsequently copious expectoration of tough, stringy, and

• ▸frothy mucus.
• ▸Cough < after 6 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸Symptoms < at night.
• ▸Arsen.
• ▸did not relieve.