Eupionum
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General
Eupionum.
On distilling wood tar a volatile oil is obtained, which separates into a lighter and heavier oil; the heavier oil is Kreasote, the lighter is Eupion. C5 H12.
Clinical
Amenorrhoea. Cough. Cramps. Dreams. Epistaxis. Glandular swellings. Groins, pain in. Haemorrhages. Headache. Leucorrhoea. Menorrhagia. Neuralgia. Night-sweats. Phthisis. Pruritus. Toothache. Tumours. Vicarious menstruation.
Characteristics
The effects of Eupion., which was proved by Wahle in Rome, who also proved Paraffin, bear a close resemblance to those of Kreasote, but are by no means identical with them. A large number of the symptoms centre in the female sexual organs, some of them being very characteristic. Menstruation is too early and too copious, the flow being thin and fluid. During the time there is great irritability, headache, and chilliness; painless pulsation in the head, wabbling sensation in upper part of body; everything becomes dark to her.
Nose-bleed occurs when menstrual flow intermits. Cutting in abdomen ceases when flow comes on. Yellow leucorrhoea follows, colouring linen yellow. Leucorrhoea with severe backache; has to lean against something to give relief; when the backache ceases the discharge gushes out.
Pulsations all over body while sitting quietly. Haemorrhages occur from nose and bowels. Sticking pains in head and other parts. Weak eyes and obscured vision.
Pressing in ears as if wind were blown in with force and for a long time. Teeth stick together when jaws are closed; in morning sensation as if teeth were embedded in some soft matter. Tongue covered with raised nodules. Pain in inguinal region.
Many painful glandular swellings in groins. Spasmodic, periodic pain an inch up rectum. Palpitation with slow pulse. Nodules appear on inner side of right cheek, left side of neck, and left forearm.
Sensations: of dislocation of joints; as if muscles torn from bones; as if skin and muscles were too short. Cramps in the calves when accompanying uterine or chest complaints. Soles of feet numb as if walking on needles; sticking in heels. Coldness of whole right side of body.
Colliquative perspiration. Perspires from least exertion; when eating; all night (with tuberculosis). Most symptoms are < morning; many appear in evening and night. Cough returning every winter.
Blowing nose <. Coughing and sneezing < pains in abdomen. Hot drink < toothache. Rest > headache and pains in abdomen;
< other symptoms. Bending backwards > backache. Bending forward > pain in abdomen.
Relations
Compare: Kreasote, and the Carbons; Graphites antidoted effect on eyelids; Laches. (pain ceases when discharges appear).
Mind
Cheerful, joyous disposition
Irritable, angers easily
Great weakness of memory.
Head
Vertigo; everything becomes black before eyes, when turning upper part of body from r. to l.; everything turns round when she sits up in bed
Dulness of the head as if too full
Painful pulsations in forehead, > lying down
On l. superior part of forehead, a pain as if a cyst would form
Burning pains in forehead, with pressing down of lids and moisture in eyes as from tears
Heat at vertex; sensation as if hairs were pulled, with headache; lachrymation and drawing on muscles of neck
Stitches radiating from vertex down limbs and into abdomen and genitals, producing painful sensation of squeezing together
Sticking pains from occiput along cervical muscles to back of chest and in middle of chest with every breath; sticking in l. shoulder-blade
Some painful spots on head as if small furuncles would form.
Eyes
Eyes weak as if she had cried
Sensation as if something hung down over eyes, must wipe them continually
Pressure above eyes as if the globes would be pushed out
Burning, pressive pains in eye with copious lachrymation
Swelling of r. upper lid on waking in morning, < during walk in fresh air; lower lid also swells up and then the l.
(Graphites 6 quickly removed this)
Lachrymation < in fresh air, > in room
Everything appears pale, as if a thin veil were before eyes.
Ears
Pressing in ears as if the wind was blown forcibly into them for a long time, the external parts being equally affected.—Shooting and tearing in l. ear, extending to external temporal region.
Nose
L. nostril cracked and the crack bleeds
Sneezing; each time he blows his nose the sneezing reappears
Sneezing with fluent coryza in morning
Bleeding; blood thin and fluid; when blowing nose
Menstrual flow intermits and bleeding from nose occurs
Soreness in upper nose on drawing air through nostrils in evening.
Face
On lower portion of inner side of r. cheek a hard nodule size of a pea
Upper lip fissured and painful as if raw
Lips and throat always dry, yet without thirst
Lips painful as if sore.
Teeth
The teeth stick together when the jaws are closed
In the morning, sensation as if the teeth were embedded deeply in some soft matter, without pain;
> by eating
Teeth painful as if loose, gums swollen, scorbutic;
< by hot soup
Toothache like numbness in carious molars, coming on immediately on lying down, > on rising and moving about
Grumbling in front teeth; sensation as if gums swollen and teeth (which are firm) would drop out
Tearing in all teeth in morning on rising; tearing extends to temples; to forehead; to nose
Gums swollen
Painful jerking-tearing in gums.
Mouth
Whole tongue red, covered with raised pimples like herring roe
Tip of tongue dry, back covered with thin dirty white coating
Anterior part of tongue rough like a grater
Insensible feeling in mouth as if scalded by fat
Pappy and sticky in mouth early in morning
Taste sour after eating; putrid.
Throat
In morning much white bad-tasting mucus in throat, expectorated after slight paroxysms of coughing
Sensation of mucus in throat without being able to expectorate
Sensation of dryness on uvula.
Stomach
Eructations: tasting of food
Vomiting of food
Nausea: till 3 a.m.; on becoming erect; with much thirst and copious Menstruation, and trembling through all limbs; lancinating pains under r. breast
Vomiturition emanating from lower abdomen; dark green tasteless mucus
Bloatedness and sensation of fulness of stomach, with internal chilliness in evening
Region of stomach feels internally sore and distended; pains under both short ribs.
Abdomen
Frequent borborygmus
Passing flatus > pains
Pains < by coughing, sneezing, blowing nose
In muscles of l. side of abdomen, from pelvic bones obliquely downwards, a painful tension like what she formerly felt during pregnancy
Contracting pain and twisting > by bending over; one day before menstruation
Cutting pains during menstruation, when the pains cease discharge is always copious; blood red and very thin
In l. side of abdomen, immediately over crista ilii, when walking, raising arm, or coughing, a severe pain nearly taking breath away; she feels nothing when at rest; after a few hours pains move low down into abdomen and then pass off
In l. anterior crest of ilium stitches when walking
Squeezing, pressing pain in l. groin when quiet.
Stool And Rectum
Spasmodic pains a few inches up into rectum, radiating up and down, extending into labia, with such severity she cannot sit down, > after sleep, but backache and nausea come on
Spasmodic periodically returning pains one inch up rectum, extending to vagina and producing there a spasmodic, contracting pain
Drawing and tearing in rectum, < during (natural) stool
Itching after natural stool
Ineffectual inclination and straining
Tenesmus;
> when blood is passed; this weakens her
Three or four times daily, bloody stools
Hard, dry stools, with great straining
Dark blood in painless stools
Constipation: stool every three or four days, with great straining and prolapsus uteri.
Urinary Organs
Frequent inclination, scanty discharge; worse when standing than sitting
Frequent and copious; lemon colour; chestnut brown before menses
Hot urine passed without pain.
Female Sexual Organs
During urination some pain between labia
Burning, stinging, itching and swelling between labia, momentarily > by rubbing, afterwards burning and <; after washing with cold water genitals feel stiff and numb, with sensation of soreness and rawness
Pruritus pudendi;
< evening; with raw pain in sternum unendurable when touched
Discharge of blood between periods with backache
Eight days after period, leucorrhoea staining linen yellow in spots size of sixpence; lassitude; emaciation; stitching in soles of feet when walking; trembling all over (as if a jelly) when at rest
When backache ceases leucorrhoea gushes out abruptly, with sticking pains in forehead
Copious leucorrhoea, running from her, remits evening, returns morning
Menses a few days too soon, without the leucorrhoea which usually precedes them
Menses too soon; too copious; a flooding; bruised sensation in chest; when breathing, stitches in middle of chest and in heart; taking away breath pains decrease the third day
Copious, thin, fluid menstrual discharge with severe backache, painless pulsating in head, pressing towards forehead, with full sensation
During menstruation painful twisting deep in abdomen extending to rectum, intermitting and returning; as soon as the pains cease the flooding sets in again
Menses stopped twenty-four hours; returned and continued twenty-four hours, with sensation as if whole upper part of body from short ribs to head were wabbling; she has slightly the same soaring sensation in her feet
On third day courses cease and she suffers from severe headache and chilliness; fourth day flow returns copiously for a few hours and headache and chilliness cease
On menses ceasing abruptly, nausea, salivation, and irritability come on, ceasing completely when flow returned
Scanty menses, the usual drawing abdominal pains to genitals did not appear
In a case of suppressed menses Eupion 9 caused severe cutting abdominal pains emanating from sacrum, as if something would press out of genital parts; pains passed and returned at intervals; after twenty-four hours she was well, and the courses appeared without any trouble.
Respiratory Organs
Sensation below larynx as if something was sticking there, with short, dry, hacking cough
Smarting in a spot size of bean, on internal r. side of larynx
Crawling in upper bronchi causing dry cough
Tickling r. side larynx causing continual cough; paroxysms causing short breath which ceases after expectoration of tasteless white mucus
Rough, scraping, metallic, dry cough, as if he had eaten rancid fat and taken brandy afterwards
Hard, suffocating, dry cough with stitches in chest; returning every winter
Cough partly dry, partly loose, with thick yellow, greenish or grey, sometimes foul-tasting expectoration; great lassitude and thirst
Cough > by warm drinks; by sitting up in bed; with breaking out of perspiration.
Chest
Heaviness, oppression, stitches, and tickling in chest
Stitches and pressure in sternum
Mammae increase in size, with pressive pains in them, as if something painful were drawn through them with oppression
Stitches under r. mamma, in the skin;
< by lying, breathing, or walking; beginning 7 p.m. and lasting till midnight, followed by stitches close under heart, and with malaise and hot rising from stomach.
Heart
Palpitation with slow pulse; believes her heart must be heard some distance away.—Four hours before menses appear severe palpitations, ceasing when the flow begins.
Neck And Back
Pulsating and burning node on muscles of neck, l. side, two inches below mastoid process, preventing turning neck
Backache one day before menses, > bending backward, lasts all the first day
Backache alternating with leucorrhoea
Backache during menses, > by leaning up against something
Stiffness and horripilations between shoulders
Pressive heaviness in lumbar vertebrae
Pains in back extend to pelvis; when she stoops she can hardly rise again; sacrum pains as if broken.
Limbs
Lassitude with yawning sleepiness.—Tearing in extremities and restlessness in legs preventing sleep.
Upper Limbs
Trembling; paralytic pain, crampy pain in r. arm
As if muscles beaten off bone (axillary side of r. arm)
Paralysing stitches in r. deltoid
Stitching pains in elbows radiating to fingers
In centre of r. palm, severe stitch radiating to elbow, and leaving sensation of numbness in ring and little fingers
Hands go to sleep easily
Dislocation pains in joints of r. hand
Heads of bones of fingers feel too large.
Lower Limbs
In both thighs a tensive pain as if skin and muscles were too short
From upper end of r. hip painful drawing to middle of thigh, where it ends with a stitch
Sensation at back of thigh as if muscles were torn from bones, < by ascending, stooping, sitting, and by touch
Paralytic, dislocation pain in r. knee
Stitches in either knee
Cramps in calves
Sensation of warmth in l. anterior leg, upper part (as from hot vapour); burning in calves
In morning stitching, burning, and twitching, beginning in the calves, going to the toes, most severe in the heels; in evening the pains lessen in the calves but stitches continue to shoot back and forth in the heels, gradually ceasing after an hour
Dislocation pain in joints of r. foot
Soles of feet numb as if she walked on needles
Stitches in middle of sole first day of menses
Drawing stitching in r. heel running up to calf.
Generalities
R. cheek cold, tip of tongue cold, whole r. side of body cold.
Skin
Nodule on l. forearm
Itching biting in skin; in genitals penetrating whole body;
< night;
> during motion.
Sleep
Yawning with chilliness and shivering
Sleepiness towards noon
Dreams of disgusting things; of naked persons; anxious dreams; of her child falling into the water
Frightful dreams, the same dream repeated
Dreams that she is pursued by oxen; of falling into an abyss
Wakes bathed in perspiration.
Fever
Chilliness with headache; with stitching;> by warm drink
Dry heat towards noon
Sweat of foul odour on least exertion
Colliquative sweating on least exertion; when eating; all night
Copious night-sweat towards morning.