Cajuputum
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General
Cajuputum.
Cajuput oil distilled (in water) from leaves of Melaleuca leucadendron. Variety, M. cajupute minor. (Moluccas.) N. O. Myrtaceae. Solution of the oil in rectified Spirit.
Clinical
Deafness. Diarrhoea (night). Dropsy. Epilepsy. Gout. Headache. Heartburn. Hiccough. Hysteria. Menstruation, disorders of. Oesophagus, stricture of. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Tongue, affections of; swelling of. Toothache. Urinary disorders. Vertigo.
Characteristics
Cajutut has a reputation in the old school as a local application in rheumatism, and also in cases of dysmenorrhoea. It has had a homoeopathic proving, and some very characteristic symptoms have been developed. A feeling of enlargement; too large all over; as if head as large as half a bushel. Feeling as though could not get himself together (Bapt.); could not get his clothes for a time, though they were quite near.
As if poisoned. As if the arms were tied to the body; heavy; useless. Numb feeling all over. A measles-like eruption; intense itching.
Many nervous symptoms are developed, some reflected from the female sexual organs. There is the persistent choking sensation of hysteria; nervous dyspnoea; nervous distension of the bowels. Earache and faceache; the lobe of the ear is red; alae nasi suddenly turn red; nose appears swollen. It has cured obstinate hiccough from slightest provocation, talking, laughing, eating, or any motion.
Symptoms appear and disappear suddenly; come at 5 a.m.; disappear suddenly on eating. Many symptoms are < at night. Smoking = desire to vomit.
Relations
Compare: Bov. (swollen sensations); Plantago (earache, toothache); Colch. (gout and rheumatism); Aco. and Bell. (effects of checked sweat). Eucalyptus, Eugenia caryophyllacea (clove), Eugenia jambos and the Brazil-nut tree belong to the same order.
Causation
Effects of checked perspiration.
Mind
Averse to being spoken to, though likes to hear other people talk
Can't bear to look inside the books he usually studies; can think of a thousand things in a minute
Prefers to walk alone, slowly
Feels better in the society of ladies, and can talk with them (though naturally bashful); he does not like to talk with the men.
Head
Intoxicated feeling, feels as if he would stumble over his own legs
Head feels enlarged; dull and heavy; in occiput
Frontal headache, esp. in eyes, < on bending forward
Severe headache 5 a.m., with prosopalgia and stiffness of jaws.
Eyes
Heavy feeling in eyes; upper lids feel as heavy and thick as leather.
Ears
Lobules of ears turn red.
Nose
During day alae nasi suddenly turn red, redness suddenly disappearing.—Nose is most prominent; looks as if large and extending out from face on looking down.
Face
Face feels all puffed up
Cannot hurt skin of face by pinching it
Face feels rough
Stiff, dry feeling in jaws, with neuralgic pains in malar bones, and severe headache all over head on waking at 5 a.m.
Mouth
Tongue feels swollen; as if it filled mouth all up, making her lisp, feels scalded; looks white and rough
Profuse salivation
Speech thick and slow
Acrid taste.
Throat
Constant inclination to spit and hawk up large quantities of tough white mucus, which he could feel drawn through the nares
Feels closed up
Oesophagus: paralysed; swollen sensation; constricted,< attempting to swallow solid food
Burning in pharynx and oesophagus
Persistent sensation of choking.
Stomach
Burning in throat down to stomach.—Nausea.
Stool And Rectum
Rectum paralysed
Bright yellow diarrhoea < night
Choleraic diarrhoea from sudden check of perspiration.
Urinary Organs
Urine diminished, milky; smells like cat's urine.
Male Sexual Organs
Erections with great desire
Erections all night, and long after rising, but without the least desire
Penis soon became shrivelled up.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses suspended, or diminished and attended with pain, when caused by a cold or check of perspiration.
Respiratory Organs
Warmth down trachea into lungs
Hoarseness
Cough causing vomiting
Nervous dyspnoea
Sharp pain through apices of both lungs from before backward (esp. r.).
Neck
All the muscles of the neck are very sensitive to pressure.
Limbs
Rheumatic symptoms (Cajuput oil is a common remedy as an application to rheumatic joints).—Pain as if joints were enlarged.
Upper Limbs
Arms feel like soaked wood hanging to one.—Left arm feels out of joint.
Lower Limbs
Weakness in both knees.—Stitching pains in knees on rising in bed.