Pilocarpinum and salts

• ▸The inspissated sap of P.
• ▸Lamb.
• ▸makes a sugary substance like manna.
• ▸A

small quantity (from a bit the size of a pea to a teaspoonful) has a decided but gentle laxative

action, and in larger quantities emphatically so. It has also an action on the menstrual function,

restoring menses when suppressed; and producing abortion in pregnant women.

Vertigo: inclination to one side, morning, on rising; dizzy confusion.—Heat, rush of

blood and confusion of head, soon followed by nose-bleed; afternoon.—Rushing in whole head,

esp. down back part, with pressure.—Whizzing in head and sounds as in an empty

barrel——Dulness and heaviness in head, with drowsiness when reading.—Head feels tied up and

compressed.—Sticking in forehead, extending to both sides along eyes.—Sticking burning from

vertex to both sides and down over temples.—Pressing and pushing from temples to occiput and

nape.—Sensation of coldness in occiput as though a sharp draught constantly blowing from

behind; in a closed room.—Tension and pressive pain from occiput into nape.—Pain in occiput, <

reading or thinking. —Acute stitches in occiput concentrated in protuberance.—Itching on

vertex.—Shivering of scalp, hair bristles.

• ▸Smarting pain in r.
• ▸eye.
• ▸—Burning in eyes, esp.
• ▸upper surface of eyeballs; disagreeable

coolness.—Smarting in lids —Vision dim, misty.

Fine stitches extending out through r. ear, with roaring. —Roaring in ears as from a

distant sound.

Sore, pressive pain in stump of tooth, 1. lower jaw.—Burning aroma on tongue,

palate, and throat.—Saliva increased during and after chewing.—Collection of mucus in mouth

and fauces, obliging hawking.—Taste: acrid, burning, earthy; penetrating while chewing, later

spreading a warmth through whole body; mouldy.

Hawking of tenacious whitish mucus from arch of palate, and a crumbly, cheesy,

offensive concretion from fauces.

Eructations: frequent, of gas; with vertigo and yawning; tasteless; acid, after

stooping.

Fine stitches just above navel.—Rumbling and gurgling. —Sensation as if

intestines would sink down from their own weight.

Used by Indian women to procure abortion.—In suppressed menses

restores the flow and removes painful sensations resulting from suppression.

Oppression whilst walking, in open air and in house.—Breathing

short, difficult; feeling of apprehension in chest—Frequently impelled to take a long breath,

which is difficult.

The portion of the chest against which he leans becomes painful as if

weary.—Transient, needle-like stitches, back and forth in sides of chest, back, small of back, and

walls of abdomen.

Sensation of heaviness in précordial region and abdomen as if intestines would sink

down of their own weight.

Stiff neck.—Pressive, tensive pain from nape to shoulder.—Constant,

pressive, contractive pain alternately in nape, side of neck, and r. shoulder.—Constant tension and

sticking in nape and occiput.—Constrictive, cramp-like pain in small of back, esp. on stooping;

on standing upright; on walking.—Tension and tearing in small of back, extending into hips and

• ▸back.
• ▸—Burning in loins and small of back.
• ▸—Pressive stitches in loins.
• ▸—Tensive pain in back, esp.

sacral region.

• ▸Pressive, sticking pains in r.
• ▸shoulder; stitches shoot deep into r.
• ▸chest.
• ▸—The

arm that is resting on the table feels weary and falls asleep.—Fine sticking, drawing from r. upper

arm to hand, with a shivering extending through the limb.—Stinging as from nettles on last joint

of r. ring finger.

Pain in hips and pelvis as if broken.—A cold stream, extending into r. leg

and foot, with fine stitches now and them.—Painful burning in corns (quite unusual).

Fine stinging as from nettles deeply piercing the skin on last joint of r. ring finger,

while writing.

Frequent yawning; with eructations.—Overpowering sleepiness (for an hour after

chewing the drug).—Sleep dreamy.

Unusual chilliness over whole body (in warm room).—Chilliness and shivering of

scalp, the hair bristles (in warm-room).—Chill runs up middle of back; rest of body warm, and

icy cold hands.—Great sensitiveness to every cool temperature, shivering in back when window

is opened.—Violent catarrhal fever—Sweat every morning.

Pinus Lambertiana.

• ▸Sugar Pine.
• ▸(North America.
• ▸) N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Coniferz.
• ▸Trituration of inspissated sap.