Piper Nigrum

The pounded leaves and young branches of Piscidia eryth. and some allied

species are used, like Cocculus, for poisoning fish—hence the name Piscidia (Piscis-ccdere). The

experiment recorded in Allen is by W. Hamilton, who took a drachm of the tincture in water for

toothache, and went off to sleep with such suddenness that when he awoke, twelve hours later,

he was still holding the glass and vial from which he had taken the dose.

Sad, apprehensive. Unable to concentrate; starts at any noise.

Hot-headed, irascible, and often gay.—Amorousness with hypochondriasis.—Fear of

being poisoned.

Bones brittle —Motion of carriage deafens and = spasms.—Spasms with

tetanic stiffness of limbs.—< From motion; in evening; in damp weather.

• ▸Heavy headache, as if temples were pressed in; pressure in nasal and facial bones.
• ▸Eyes inflamed and burning.
• ▸Red burning face.
• ▸Bursting aching in eyeballs.
• ▸Nose itches; sneezing; nosebleed.
• ▸Lips dry and cracked.

Heaviness and congestion of the cerebellum, with pale face.—Rushing and congestion

of blood to head with throbbing.—Brain: empty feeling; numbness causing swooning; fluctuation

and oscillation in morning.—Pressure on head; as if bones of cranium and face rested on lower

jaw.—Neuralgic pain through whole head at every change of temperature.—Violent headache;

feels as if it would burst at vertex.—Pressing pains at temples as if they would be broken in.

Eyes inflamed and burning, with sensation of cold in lids.—Lids ulcerated and

bleared.—Lachrymation and photophobia.—Dim sight and vertigo, with headache, nausea, and

vomiting.

Frequent sneezing, epistaxis.—Dry and fluent coryza.—Dryness and burning in nostrils;

nostrils stopped up.—Pressure on nasal bones as if being crushed.

Feeling as if temples and malar bones were pressed in, < 1. side.—Red, burning

face.—Drawing faceache; as if muscles and bones were ranging themselves on one

another.—Convulsive closure of jaws.—Eczema on lips.

Constant accumulation of mucus in throat and expectoration —Burning in throat with

sensation of stiffness as if it were an iron tube.—Burning pains in tonsils, with sensation as if

they were being pierced.—Paralysis of muscles of throat; can cry but not articulate intelligibly.

Sore, feels raw, burns. Burning pain in tonsils.

• ▸Gastric discomfort.
• ▸Full feeling.
• ▸Great thirst.
• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Tympanites.
• ▸Colic and cramps.

Constant, unquenchable thirst—Vomiting with great exertion; it seemed as if

stomach itself would be vomited.—Sensation of heat and dryness in stomach.—Cramps and

drawing in stomach, with desire for coarse and extravagant food.—Gastric discomfort.

Burning and lancinating pains in liver, as if a tumour there.—Disposition of

abdomen to obesity——Abdomen swollen, hard, burning. —Tympanites with sensation as if

everything in it were in ebullition—Borborygmi.—Inflammation of intestines with great

thirst.—Heaviness, flatulence —Colic and cramps; sensation as if intestines would burst.—Painful

restlessness and anxiety in intestines.—Sensation of round foreign body rising to stomach, with

heavy pain in intestines.—Electrical-like discharges in intestines when he moves.

Inflammation of rectum, anus swollen and burning; fear to go to stool on

• ▸account of the difficulty and pain.
• ▸—Fissures at anus.
• ▸—Large flowing heemorrhoids.
• ▸—Long-lasting

constipation, then involuntary, thin stools.

Full, swollen bladder, frequent inclination to urinate without

success.—Burning pains in bladder as from live coals.—Burning in glans and

urethra.—Blennorrheea, greenish, offensive.—Difficult micturition —Urine: turbid, brownish;

diabetic; bloody; containing sand.

• ▸Burning in bladder and urethra.
• ▸Difficult micturition.
• ▸Bladder feels full, swollen; frequent inclination without success.
• ▸Priapism.

Ovaries and uterus congested, with pricking and lancinating

pains.—Contraction of uterus with sensation as if something strove to penetrate into it.—Burning

and distending pains in uterus —Menses: difficult, retarded; capricious, irregular, with colic and

black blood.

Excessive priapism.—Inflammation and swelling of penis, with

priapism and burning pains.—Burning, pricking, excoriating pains in glans.—Strong ejaculation,

or almost none, and very difficult.

Ulceration and false membranes thick, deep in larynx.—Voice: low,

deep, rough, unintelligible-—Hoarseness with coughing and constant snuffing.—Severe coughing,

esp. evening and when going to sleep.—Cough: violent, occasionally spitting of blood; croupy;

hollow.—Dyspncea and attacks of suffocation.

Dyspnoea, cough with pain in chest in spots, feels as if spitting blood. Palpitation, cardiac pain slow intermittent pulse. Great flow of milk.

Disposition to obesity of chest—Painful spots an chest, < coughing, breathing,

motion.—At each coughing spell it seemed as if chest would be torn and he would spit

blood.—Burning, lancinating pains; sensation of heat and dryness of chest—Burning and swollen

• ▸heat.
• ▸—Great flow of milk.
• ▸—Dartrous eruption on 1.
• ▸breast.

Crusty ulcers in ears.—Large pustules on face, leaving scars —Eczema on lips.—Very

tender skin.—Itching, < by scratching, heat, and motion.

"A sleep the most profound I ever experienced, arrested me so suddenly that I

remained motionless the whole night with the uncorked vial in one hand, and the glass out of

which I had taken the dose in the other, until the sun was high above the horizon, a space of

twelve hours, when I first returned to consciousness, free from every pain or ache, and without

any of the unpleasant sensations which invariably succeed an overdose of Opium"

"Violent sensation of heat generally, increasing in intensity; the sensation of burning

gradually extended to the surface, and while I was considering what antidote I ought to employ, a

profuse diaphoresis burst out from every pore."

• ▸Compare: Phloriz.
• ▸, Hydrang.
• ▸, Urt.
• ▸u.

Piscidia.

• ▸Piscidia erythrina.
• ▸Jamaica Dog-wood.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Leguminosé¢.
• ▸Tincture of root bark obtained

when the plant is in flower, before leaf.

Low attenuations.