Tanacetum Vulgare

T7annin or Tannic acid, of which Gallic acid (C7H6Os) is a derivative, has

produced effects on healthy persons, and on several taking it for diarrhoea. The chief effects were

the production of a state of leathery dryness of mouth and intestinal canal; a condition like ileus;

and a very aggravated state of constipation.

Irritable, sensitive to noise. Mental fatigue, nausea and vertigo, worse in a closed room.

• ▸Conscious to the last, without delirtum.
• ▸—Delirium occasionally occurs.
• ▸—Stupor.
• ▸—Lies

as if asleep, and when roused answers like a drowsy man and then relapses into former

condition.—Anxiety with the vomiting.

Heavy, dull, confused. Headache with least exertion.

Sclerotic congested, dark purple glassy-looking, swollen so that cornea appeared

sunk.—Eyes open, very brilliant, pupils equal, widely dilated, immovable; sclerotics

injected —Pupils contracted.—Slight inward squint; r. eye-—Occasionally slow, lateral, rolling

motion of eyeballs.—Lids agglutinated in morning.—Dull aching in eyeballs.

Roaring and ringing; voice sounds strange; ears seem to close up suddenly.

Stitches in internal ears.—Sensation as if something closed ears very suddenly.—Her

own voice sounds strange in her ears.—Roaring; ringing in ears.

Features seemed fixed, giving an expression of deep solemnity.—Fulness of head and

face.—Face: dusky; flushed, cheeks bright red.—Mouth and nose drawn a little to r.

Tongue white, dry.—Leathery dryness of mucous membrane of mouth and intestinal

canal.

Roughness of throat.—Feeling in throat as if I would cough all the time, without

being able to cough through the whole proving.—Unable to swallow.

Loss of appetite —Thirst—V omiting.—Obstinate vomiting of bilious

substances.—Painful sensation in epigastric region and abdomen.—Violent pains in stomach.

Pain in bowels; relieved by stool. Desire for stool immediately after eating. Dysentery.

The intestines could be felt like cylindrical enlargements through walls of

abdomen.—Ileus —Colic—Abdomen: distended; sensitive to pressure but not distended.

Painless and bloody discharge from bowels.—Obstinate constipation; lasted eight

days; only dissipated on the ninth day by two drops of Croton oil.—Foul stools.

Dysmenorrhoea, with bearing-down pains, tenderness, drawing in groins. Menses suppressed; later, profuse.

Heat and fulness through hips, increasing as the drug is persisted

in until a "show" appears.—Inflammation of vaginal walls, of internal and external labia, which

resulted in an enormous abscess in one labium.—(Dysmenorrheea, bearing-down pains,

• ▸tenderness, drawing in groins.
• ▸).
• ▸—Abortion in early months of pregnancy.
• ▸—Brought back menses

after suppression of several days, not naturally but very profusely, with severe labour-like

pains.—At full term a child was born not larger than a cat; the child lived three weeks.

Hurried, labored, stertorous respiration. Frothy mucus obstructs the air-passages.

Collection of much (frothy) mucus in larynx and fauces impeding

respiration.—Tickling in larynx and fauces causing desire to cough, but no coughing.—My voice

had a strange sound in my ears.—Breathing laborious.—[Frothy, sanguineous mucus in trachea

and bronchi as in rabies; all other symptoms of rabies also (in poisoned animals)].

Great weakness of legs with general prostration of strength.—Unsteadiness

of step with an indescribable feeling far worse than pain.

24. Generalities—Trembling —Convulsions.—Clonic spasms; not convulsive, coming

instantaneously and lasting a minute; slight tremor of arms, they were thrown forward, and at

right angles to the body, forearm supinated, hands bent at right angles, fingers straight, slightly

bent on hands, points of fingers nearly in contact; respiratory muscles strongly affected, air

forced from chest slowly but steadily making a hissing noise at lips; in the intervals muscles

relaxed, except the jaws.—Great irritability, makes extraordinary movements and curious

gestures, stretches himself, draws up his legs, stands on his head; when remonstrated with says,

"Leave me alone, it does me good; I can't help doing it;" when he draws up his legs and the

muscles will not go farther he pulls them up with his hands and then suddenly stretches them out

again; all the time has no pain; lasts half an hour and occurs with each repetition of the medicine

(boy, 12, took one and a half ounces of extract for worms).—Bites tongue in

convulsions.—Sensation like a throb through whole frame.

Surface cool and moist.—Feeling of warmth diffused over whole abdomen.—Cold,

clammy sweat.

Tanghinia.

• ▸Tanghinia venenifera.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Apocynaceé.
• ▸Trituration of the seed.

Compare: Cimicif; Cina; Absinth. Nux follows well.

Tincture, to third potency.