Petiveria Tetandra

Excessive gaiety; inclination to sing, laugh, jest; followed by sadness and

tears —Vanishing of thought.

Head heavy.—Compressed feeling as if head bound with a warm cloth.—Head feels as

if it would split—Headache > by motion.—Sensation of hot water on scalp penetrating to

brain—Weight at vertex pressing into brain.

Eyes half-closed, swollen, surrounded by blue rings, esp. next to nose.—Rapid

inflammation of 1. eye while at dinner, lasts three days.—Weight on lids compelling to close eyes;

on doing so sees a variety of figures.—Pain in eyes as if the balls were pushed out of their

sockets.—Painful burning at margin of lids, < on closing

• ▸them.
• ▸—Lachrymation.
• ▸—Conjunctivitis.
• ▸—Dim sight.

• ▸Coryza.
• ▸—Veins of nose swollen, bluish—Redness of 1.
• ▸wing of nose and cheek.
• ▸—Dull

pain over root of nose, evening.—Nose slightly inflamed and shining.—Intense and sudden

itching of bridge of nose.

• ▸Redness of |.
• ▸cheek.
• ▸—Bruised pain in zygomatic process.
• ▸—Sensation as if needle stuck

in upper lip from within out.

Burning tongue as if scalded, morning, on rising.—Dry mouth.—Flow of watery cold

saliva, depositing ashy sediment and whitish granules.—Offensive breath.

Sensation in throat as after eating something astringent —Pain in throat with

difficulty of swallowing saliva.

Sharp lancinations in epigastrium from within out; evening; after dinner; on

rising.—Stomachache with sensation, of internal coldness.

Long blue horizontal spots on r. hypochondrium.—Lancinations: in

hypochondria; through spleen from below up.—Borborygmi, on moving in bed.—Dull pain in

hypogastrium.—Circumscribed acute pains in groins.—Colic of descending colon.

Diarrhcea of dark mucus, mixed with fecal matter in separate hard

pieces.—Constipation.

Micturition every five minutes from 11 a.m. till evening, with heat in

urethra.—Urine: pale, copious.

Voice seems to come from afar.—Voice hoarse from

coughing.—Suffocation, with cold feet.

Deep-seated, dull pain beneath sternum, < moving neck or bending head

forward.—Violent lancinations under r. breast at each inspiration.

Strained feeling in spine, g,: sitting upright and bending back, > bending forward.

Twitching sensation in shoulder-joint on stooping.—Pricking, burning,

• ▸crampy pains in arms; with inflammatory redness.
• ▸—Numbness; at r.
• ▸arm; at wrist; at fingers (r.
• ▸);

• ▸at finger-tips.
• ▸—Lancinating and heat as from whitlow at tip of r.
• ▸thumb.
• ▸—Itching in 1.
• ▸palm.

Weakness of lower limbs.—Sudden numbness of knees with dull pain in

tibia——Numbness, itching and weakness of legs; from knees to soles.

24. Generalities—General rigor when lying down.—Prostration as from drowsiness but without

inclination to sleep.—When walking seems as if she does not touch the ground and would

fall—On lying down body numb.

Drowsy: all day; with frequent yawning; after dinner——Sleep deep and

prolonged.—Dreams: of corpses and starts up in cold sweat; sad; unpleasant; of quarrels.

Excessive coldness of hands and feet piercing to bones.—Cold feeling in interior of

• ▸bones.
• ▸—Febrile heat with pale face and cold hands.
• ▸—Dry heat all over, esp.
• ▸of palms.
• ▸—Profuse

cold sweat all over, with shuddering, after first sleep.—Sweat in palms.

Conjunctivitis. Paralysis. Paraplegia.

Characteristics—Mure proved Petiv., and I have given his terminology. Allen says in a note

that it is probably identical with the Mexican and West Indian species, P. alliacea. Mure's figure

corresponds to this, and he says the roots, which are branching and fibrous, "smell strongly of

• ▸garlic.
• ▸" P.
• ▸alliac.
• ▸(according to Treas.
• ▸of Bot.
• ▸) is called "Guinea-hen Weed" in West Indies," and

"Raiz de Guine" in Brazil, in which country "it is put into warm baths to restore motion to

paralysed limbs." Mure does not mention these names or this fact; but his proving brings out

some strongly confirmative symptoms in numbness and paralytic sensations; weariness and

weight of eyelids. Cold saliva; internal coldness; coldness inside bones were experienced. The

symptoms in general were < by movement; in the morning on waking and on rising; after

breakfast and during and after dinner; bending backward.

Paralytic numbness, heaviness, and weariness in all limbs; after rising from

bed.—Bruised pains in arms and legs.