Populus Candicans

• ▸C.
• ▸F.
• ▸Nichols (H.
• ▸P.
• ▸, viii.
• ▸234) gives an account of Pop.
• ▸cand.
• ▸, the effects of

which he observed. "The resinous gum exuding from buds and stalks, deliciously aromatic in

perfume, is widely used to heal wounds, open sores, and eruptions, and often suppresses these

latter to the harm of the patient." As an application, Nichols says, it is like Arn., dangerous,

though most people are not susceptible to its poisonous effect. He has never seen blisters of the

size of those of Pop. c. produced by any other drug: blisters hang down like bags of water the

• ▸size of walnuts.
• ▸Burning was a common symptom-eyes, nose, throat, bowels, vagina.
• ▸W.
• ▸C.

• ▸Stilson (17.
• ▸P.
• ▸, xi.
• ▸88) relates a case of poisoning in a man who one evening drank rum in which

Balm of Gilead buds had been placed for making a liniment. A few hours later his wife heard

him breathing heavily, and on waking him found he could not speak. Stilson found him only able

to speak in hoarse whispers, and he would forget in the middle of a sentence what he was going

• ▸to say.
• ▸Face ashy pale; wild look.
• ▸Tongue and mouth dry.
• ▸Throat dry, burning, constricted, felt as

if spiders had spun webs on it. It was some days before he recovered. Since this occasion Stilson

has cured several cases of catarrhal hoarseness and aphonia with Pop. c., and one case of nervous

• ▸aphonia: Mrs.
• ▸S.
• ▸had nervous prostration, and during the attack aphonia.
• ▸The aphonia remained

• ▸after the patient got well otherwise.
• ▸Pop.
• ▸c.
• ▸@ cured.
• ▸Among the peculiar symptoms observed by

Nichols is surface anzsthesia with or without numbness. The finger-ends are actually thickened,

horny, insensible to pinching and pricking. There is numbness in back radiating from spine. The

skin is harsh, generally dry and cold, with a stinging burning behind the surface as if an eruption

would appear; or as if sweat would break out. Other peculiar sensations are: Whole body feels

swollen, bruised, lame, sore, and painful, exhausted as in dry, sultry weather. Eye feels twisted

with the headache. Constipation, bowels feel hot and dry. The menses were at first scanty, later

abundant and early, with dysmenorrhceal pain > by application of hot cloths. The symptoms were

• ▸<on moving.
• ▸< Before menses.
• ▸< After food and drink.
• ▸< Lifting arms.
• ▸< By contact of clothes.

> Hot applications. < After sleep (mind).

Hopeless foreboding < after sleep —Fear and anguish —Expectation of death—Feels as

• ▸if the will were paralysed.
• ▸—Loquacity.
• ▸—Vanishing of thought.
• ▸—Forgets to finish a

sentence.—Voices sound distant and words just spoken seem as if uttered long ago; objects seem

multiplied.

Emaciation—Rheumatic and gouty pains to ends of fingers and toes.—Whole

body feels swollen, bruised, lame, sore, and painful, exhausted as in dry, sultry weather,

movements heavy, laboured, clumsy, stinging, restless irritation as if an eruptive fever would

come to the surface, feeling as if sweat would break out.—Burning irritation of eyes, nose, skin,

mucous membrane of mouth, throat, and air passages, and oppression of respiration and

circulation.—Catarrhal feverish state of mucous surfaces —Weakness.—Stiffness of muscles,

tendons, ligaments, with lameness and with dry feeling in cartilages, as if lame.—Insensibility of

surface, < back and abdomen, so that rubbing and pounding were borne without pain and insisted

upon for the sake of warmth.—< Morning; < before menses.

• ▸Discusses her symptoms with every one.
• ▸Hot head with cold extremities.
• ▸Cold-sores on lips (Nat mur).
• ▸Tongue feels thick and numb.
• ▸Burning irritation of eyes, nose, mouth, throat, and air passages.

Vertigo from lifting head.—Vertigo and heat of head as if scorched by sun.—Confusion

in head, with expansive fulness, all parts feel lame, swollen, inflamed, thickened, painful,

burning, throbbing in head and brain, < cerebellum and cerebro-spinal axis, dulness of the senses

• ▸as from congestion.
• ▸—Boring through |.
• ▸temple.
• ▸—Weight on vertex.

Sensation as if 1. eye were twisted during the headache.—Burning irritation in eyes,

nose, mouth, throat, and air passages.

Tongue: white, dry; feels thick and numb.—Tongue and mouth feel burnt and dry,

but are moist, wants drink, but can take only a little, < after food and drink.—Speech

thick.—Taste: bitter; sweet in morning.

Distressing burning in throat, as from swallowing hot fat—Throat red, dry, burning;

felt as if spiders had spun webs in it.—Deficient power of deglutition; food stops in cesophagus or

is passed with difficulty.

Appetite lost, loathes meat.—Nothing relished.—Hungry but dares not eat for fear

of choking.

Belching of gas feeling like hot steam.—Nausea with sinking in

epigastrium.—Vomits bile.

Wears her clothes loose.—Flatulent colic doubling the body forward.—Pain in r.

hypochondrium with enlargement.

Stools watery, green, alternating with constipation.—Constipation, bowels feel hot

and dry.—Stools small, round, preceded by cramps in abdomen; lack of expulsive power.

Urine: strong, high coloured, hot, scanty; increased, variously coloured,

red, dark, light, phosphates abundant.—Urine dark, straw colour; smoky.

Menses scanty, usually delaying, afterwards absent, then abundant,

early, with dysmenorrhea, > hot cloths.—Vagina burns as if scalded.

• ▸Acute hoarseness.
• ▸Throat and nostrils burn.
• ▸Sits bent forward with dry cough.
• ▸Pharynx and larynx feel dry, and the voice weak and toneless.
• ▸Rawness and soreness of chest and throat.
• ▸Cough of children caused by naso-pharyngeal catarrh; mucus drops from posterior nares.

• ▸Hoarseness.
• ▸—Aphonia.
• ▸—Dry cough when tired.
• ▸—Cough caused by

"cobwebs" in his throat—Suffocation.—Breathing dry, asthmatic, with dyspnoea, sits bent

forward, < lifting arms.

Pulmonic, cardiac, and capillary circulation oppressed, feels as if death must result,

as if there must be fatal organic lesions.

Pain in heart, stitches.—Heart's sound irregular, usually muffled, with a

systolic murmur, < before menses.—Palpitation when rising or lying on I. side, with

vertigo.—Pulse rarely exceeded 60.

Finger-ends thickened, horny, insensible to pinching and pricking.—Nails

blue as in ague (not thickened).

Skin harsh, generally dry and cold, with burning-stinging below the surface, as if

eruption would appear, rarely blotches and fine papules.—Burning prickling on face, chest, and

hands, the parts became dark red and swollen, and there were blisters as large as walnuts,

hanging down like bags of water, with watery, acrid, sticky oozing, external heat like coals of

fire on skin, at times internal heat, with cool skin, > hot applications, the eruption returned each

year with fear and expectation of death, loquacity, discussing repeatedly her symptoms, vertigo

from lifting head.

Sleepless after midnight, with restlessness, < from early morning till noon.—Dreams:

frightful, vivid; fearful after fitful sleep.

Sudden coldness of extremities, with numbness of them and heat of head.—Fever and

unrest.—Fever with congestion of brain, fulness, heaviness, dulness, soreness, with expansive

pressure, as if swollen, deadening heat in head as if scorched by the sun, vertigo, oppression of

vital forces and circulation as if over-heated, fatigue, faintness, and burning, throbbing

oppression.—Dry heat.—Heat of cerebellum and neck, with feeling as if the capillary circulation

were congested and oppressed.—Sweat on head and neck.

• ▸Aphonia.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Brain, base of, congested.
• ▸Bullee.
• ▸Catarrhal fever.
• ▸Constipation.

• ▸Coryza.
• ▸Dysmenia.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Dysphagia.
• ▸Ecthyma.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Hydroa.
• ▸Liver,

• ▸enlargement of.
• ▸Phosphaturia.
• ▸Sunstroke.
• ▸Throat, burning in; paralysis of.
• ▸Vagina, burning in.

• ▸Antidoted by: Rhus.
• ▸Compare: Salix, Pop.
• ▸trem.
• ▸, Salicylates.
• ▸< Contact of clothes,

Lach.

Tincture.