Eugenia Jambos
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General EN
Eugenia Jambos.
Eugenia vulgaris. Malabar Plum-tree. Rose-apple. N. O. Myrtaceae. A tree native to the tropics, never without flower or fruit. Tincture of fresh seeds.
Clinical EN
Acne rosacea. Catarrhal fever. Catarrhs. Comedones. Constipation. Coryza. Cough. Diarrhoea. Diplopia. Hernia. Hiccough. Impotence. Influenza. Otitis. Pimples. Throat, sore.
Characteristics EN
Like Eucalyptus, Eugenia causes a condition of drunkenness. It makes the prover very talkative but indolent. The most characteristic symptom of the proving is: "> after urination." Sudden great change in him after micturition. Everything seems more beautiful and bright, sky and trees more joyous and clear; but after a quarter of an hour everything became gloomy again.
There are many symptoms relating to the eyes and vision: whirling in head while sitting; houses at a distance seem to turn bottom upwards. Darkness and double vision; on looking intently double vision disappears. Whirling before right eye as if it would become dark; eye becomes inflamed. It seems as though fire came out of eyes, and tears ran out in streams in evening and night.
< By sun; causes eyes to fill with water. < By closing eyes; it makes the burning worse, prevents sleeping at night. Nausea > by smoking. Pain in small of back and calves.
Aching in sacrum and knees. Sticking pain in back as if something were sticking in spine, > by bending back. Among the peculiar sensations are: Headache as if a heavy board were lying on right side. Sensation as of cramp in orifice of stomach; as if a ten-pound weight were hanging on rectum, and as if everything below would fall out.
An old wound from a thrust became painful again. Rheumatic pain wanders from place to place with catarrh. Open air: much exhaustion, yawning whilst walking in morning. Cold water does not > burning in eyes.
Skin disease is < during catamenia.
Relations EN
Compare: Eucalypt. (a myrtaceous tree) in catarrhal conditions; Lauroc. and drugs containing Hydrocyanic acid; Puls. (fugitive rheumatic pains). Antidoted by: Coffee; by smoking tobacco.
Mind EN
Continued state, like intoxication, with great loquacity and indolence
Disposition to isolation
The patient is uncomfortable wherever he may be; desires to lie down when seated, and to rise up when lying down
Sudden great change in him after micturition; everything seems more beautiful and bright; after quarter of an hour everything gloomy again.
Head EN
Vertigo, during which all objects seem to be reversed
Fits of megrim in the evening, and rolling and burning pain in the head, with forcing towards the eyes, lachrymation, nausea and vomiting, during which the pains are aggravated
Pains in the head at night, with burning pain in the eyes, violent thirst, and copious discharge of urine
Cramp-like, pressive pains in the head
Neuralgia in forehead over eye
Headache as from a sticking from all sides at once, or as if everything was drawn together from within, recurring like a slow pulsation.
Eyes EN
Lachrymation, with burning and gnawing pains
Burning pain in the eyes in the afternoon
Suddenly biting in the eyes as from pepper
Needle-like stitches id inner canthus r. eye
Violent internal itching in eyes and nose, evening
Darkness before eyes, everything seems double;
> looking intently
Whirling before r. eye
Eyes took sleepy and drunken.
6, 8.
Face and Mouth
Pimples on the face, with painful sensibility of their circumferences
Abundant accumulation of frothy and viscid saliva in the mouth, esp. before a meal; and when talking.
Throat EN
At night, burning in eyes, violent thirst from dryness low down in throat, so that he did not feel the drink, which also did not > the dryness
Pain in small spot in region of l. corner of hyoid bone
Inflamed throat (in catarrhal fever).
Appetite EN
Appetite increased
Agreeable taste of tobacco, when smoking, of food, and of drink
Great thirst
Great desire to smoke tobacco.
11, 12.
Stomach and Abdomen
Cramp in orifice of stomach, causing nausea
Nausea rising up from end of oesophagus
Flatulence rumbling in bowels
Drawing about navel
Inguinal hernia from a fall.
Stool And Anus EN
Loose evacuations, followed by vomiting
Scanty evacuation of excrement, of the consistence of pap, and sandy
Urging to stool and colic
Evacuations scanty, spurting, and fetid, with burning pain in the abdomen
Constipation
Scanty, hard stool, after much pressing, followed by spasmodic closure of anus
Tenesmus.
Urinary Organs EN
Deep-coloured urine.—After making water, shuddering; or sudden increase of brightness and of light before the eyes.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Impotence
Emission of semen too slow, or entirely wanting during coition
After coition, perspiration and thirst.
Chest EN
Moist cough, without expectoration in the evening and at night.—Expectoration of yellowish sanguineous mucus.
Limbs EN
Desquamation and suppuration of the skin round the nail of the thumb
Hot hands
Cramp-like and paralytic pains in the tibia and in the heels
Nocturnal cramps in the sole of the foot.
Generalities EN
Sufferings occur esp. in the evening and at night.—An old wound from a thrust became painful again.—Rheumatic pain wanders from place to place with catarrh.
Sleep EN
Profound stupefying sleep, even at noon, with confused dreams.
Fever EN
Shiverings run over him after micturition
Coldness, as if the body were naked
Perspiration in the morning, with burning thirst
Hot hands
Fever; heat before midnight, with little thirst and much sweat; during fever for several hours in morning, pain in back, > bending inward.