Cedron
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General
Cedron.
Simaba cedron. N. O. Simarubaceae. Tincture of seeds.
Clinical
Brow ague. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Ciliary neuralgia. Chorea. Coitus, complaints after. Epilepsy, menstrual. Glaucoma. Gout. Hydrophobia. Hysteria. Intermittent fever. Neuralgia. Neuritis. Rheumatism. Snake-bites. Toothache.
Characteristics
Petroz and Teste introduced Cedr. into homoeopathic practice, having received the seed from Panama, with an account of its powers of entrusting snake-bite when chewed immediately after being bitten; and also of its traditional reputation in intermittent fevers. Hellert was bitten by a coral snake. "During the few seconds which it took him to take the antidote out of the little bag which he wore suspended round his neck, he was siezed with violent pains at the heart and throat; but he had scarcely chewed and swallowed a small portion of Cedron, of the size of a small bean, when the pain ceased as by magic.
An oppression and general prostration remained. He chewed another portion of the same fruit, and applied it to the wound externally, and in another quarter of an hour all he felt was a slight colic, which disappeared after eating a little. This colic was followed almost immediately by a copious evacuation of a substance that looked like curdled milk, white, with a slightly yellowish tint" (Teste). Other cases were reported.
The great characteristic of Cedron is a clock-like periodicity in the recurrence of the symptoms; accurately periodic neuralgias; intermittent fever commencing the same hour every day or every other day. In fever there is: Red face in hot stage; thirst with desire for warm drinks. Profuse perspiration. "Excitement before chill" is peculiar to Cedr.
Fevers of low, marshy regions in warm seasons and tropical countries. General debility, languor, and fainting. Malaise. Trembling.
Complaints after coition (chorea in women; neuralgia in men). Epileptiform convulsions during catamenia. Swollen sensations; numbness of whole body. Adapted to persons of a voluptuous disposition, and of an excitable nervous temperament; especially to females.
< After sleep; lying down; night; (objects appear red at night, yellow by day); in open air; before a storm; chills in persons returned from tropical climates. > Standing erect.
Halbert relates a case of malarial fever in a soldier. Chills and fever were clock-like in regularity of recurrence. Liver and spleen were much enlarged. Anaemia was extreme; and there was this additional peculiarity: intermittent gastralgia occurring with the febrile crises.
In conjunction with these conditions there was a manifestation of choreic symptoms, involving face and shoulders mostly, the twitchings being troublesome in the interfebrile state; often there were debilitating hysterical spasms; the heart became irritable and sometimes irregular. After other remedies had failed to make any impression, Cedr. cured in three weeks, the improvement setting in immediately. Rapidity of action appears to be a characteristic as with Bell. The great predominance of nervous symptoms will be evident in the symptoms of Cedr., also the strong sexual excitement it causes.
Numbness; enlarged sensation; malaise; sensation as if paralysed. A large number of symptoms appear on l. side, but r. side of head, face, r. elbow, and r. deltoid are affected.
Relations
Compare: Chi., Ars., Aran. d., Bell., Cedr. removes roaring in ears of Chi. Bell. removes "Objects appear red at night, and yellowish by day" of Cedr.; Ars. and Sabad. (complaints return same hour every day); Aran. (ague—Aran., chill predominates). Teste includes Cedr. in the Bell. group, with Agar., Lach., Stram., Op., Ruta, Can. i., Hyo., &c. (action on brain; red, hot, face; febrile excitement). Ced. is antidote to: Lach. Is antidoted by: Lach., Bell.
Mind
Nervous excitement, followed by depression
Restlessness, as driven from place to place; urine dark yellow, increased quantities
Lectophobia
Body heavy, mind depressed
Mental symptoms < at night.
Head
Slight dizziness 11 a.m
On rising from bed, dizzy, could not see to light a candle, and could not tell when it was lighted
Intense frontal headache; sharp pains from above eyes to temples and occiput, < before a storm
Pain across eyes from temple to temple
Sick headache every other day 11 o'clock
Bending the head backwards, with pressure on occiput and parietal regions as if they were going to burst
Headache: < during night;
< in open air
Head feels as if swollen.
Eyes
Severe shooting pains over l. eye
Tic-like pain over l. eye, only after coitus
Objects seem red at night, yellow by day (Bell. cured)
Vision dim
Flashes of light before eyes
Loss of sight with dizziness.
Ears
Tinnitus.—Hardness of hearing at night.
Nose
Point of nose cold; with chilliness and yawning, 9 a.m.
Secretion profuse
Glassy-looking mucus; or thin, clear, acrid.
Face
Animated red face
Flying heat of face alternating with chills
Prosopalgia (r.), wandering pains, spasmodic distortion of muscles
Tumid face, pupils much dilated
Lips cold, bluish, dry; during menses.
Teeth
Toothache every night during catamenia; bleeding gums.—Sudden toothache in l. upper molars; on inspiration, sensation as if cold air touched the teeth.
Mouth
Prickling itching of tongue
Painful pricking of tongue with sensation of heat (during catamenia)
Feels paralysed
Difficulty of speech
Stammering after coitus (woman)
During catamenia: mouth and tongue dry; breath fetid
After catamenia: profuse ptyalism.
Throat
Burning and constriction; difficult swallowing
Prickling and tingling in throat and fauces, extending some way down oesophagus
Pain on small spot next root of tongue, as of a foreign body, < from pressure.
Appetite
Longing for cold drinks in some, for warm in others
Great thirst during menses
Loss of appetite.
Stomach
Sensation as of a stone on stomach.—Nausea, with distension of stomach.
Abdomen
Abdomen hard and distended
Stitches in spleen and liver
Flatulence, colic, and cramp
Borborygmi (l. side).
Stool And Anus
Involuntary stool (in choreic attack).—Ineffectual urging.
Urinary Organs
Pain in kidneys
Burning along ureter and in urethra
Feeling as if a drop of urine in urethra, or a constant dripping from it.
Male Sexual Organs
After coitus pain over l. eye
Gonorrhoea-like discharge, lasting three days
Gleet with formication over whole body
Desire with firm erections; all night; on waking.
Female Sexual Organs
Many symptoms appear after coitus, and during the catamenia
Leucorrhoea in place of catamenia
Profuse ptyalism and leucorrhoea after catamenia
Genital excitement at daybreak, with discharge like leucorrhoea, and swollen mammae, with some pain
Menstrual epilepsy
Puerperal eclampsia.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx constricted and tender
Intermittent laryngitis
Difficult respiration, with partial loss of voice, recurring at different intervals
Suffocative fits recurring regularly every day ten to twelve o'clock
Suffocating fits;
< after coitus;
< after sleep;
> by eating
Troublesome cough every morning at six, lasting two hours
Respiration much affected after coitus
Breath cold.
Chest
Oppression.—Sharp, darting-cutting pains under floating ribs and scapula (r.).
Heart
Palpitation and hurried breathing; with headache
Action irregular
Pulse quick and full, with animated red face
Pulse uncountable.
Neck And Back
Stiff neck, pains all along spine
Pain in neck and loins on rising in morning
Pain under scapula and in pelvis.
Upper Limbs
Pain at insertion of r. deltoid and rheumatic pain in r. side
Sharp cutting pain in both elbows
Numb, dead feeling in r. hand and forearm.
Lower Limbs
Numb, dead feeling in legs; they feel enlarged
Lancinating pains in joints
Cramps; contracting pains; bruised sensations
Twitching in tendons; of tendo Achillis
Icy coldness of extremities.
Sleep
Yawning and stretching
Drowsy; sometimes very profound sleep
Restless; frequent waking.—< After sleep
Dreamed (he seldom dreamed) of pleasant social interviews with female acquaintances
Dreamed of a quarrelling with a dead sister and other dead friends; cried, about it and awoke with a nightmare, with sensation of a stone in the stomach.
Fever
Chilliness and yawning; point of nose cold
Prodrome: For 20 to 40 minutes mental excitement; exaltation of vital energy; florid, animated countenance; sensation of general heat
Chill 4 a.m., followed by sweat; at 4 p.m., after washing in cold water, chill alone
Shivering and chill, followed by profuse perspiration every evening
Chill, with congestion to head; hands, feet, and nose remain icy cold
Regular paroxysms of fever, coming at same hour, commencing every day 6 p.m. by chills in back and limbs, or cold feet and hands
Hot stage: dryness; heaviness of head; redness of face; burning heat in hands; pulse full and accelerated; thirst, with desire for warm drinks
Profuse perspiration
During sweat: coldness and heat, and heat and coldness irregularly, intermingle
Bluish-red face; forearm to elbow and hands and feet cold; sweat beneath axilla and on chest
Quotidian or tertian fever with marked regularity.