Hura Brasiliensis
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General
Hura Brasiliensis.
Hura brasiliensis. Assacu. N. O. Euphorbiaceae. Tincture of milky juice.
Clinical
Blindness. Hysteria. Leprosy. Nares, affections of. Skin, affections of. Spine, pains in.
Characteristics
The milky juice (called Assacu by the Brazilians) of Hura is as powerful as that of the better-known Euphorbians. A case of leprosy having been reported cured with Assacu led to its extensive use in this disease, though, as Mure (who proved it) says, without curing any others. Two of his provers had been affected with leprosy, but under homoeopathic treatment they seemed to have got well. One of them during the proving had symptoms of compression of the spinal marrow with very great suffering.
All the provers had symptoms of nervous excitement, twitching and irritability. The gastro-intestinal irritation of the other Euphorbians was marked in the provings. Clinical experience is needed to bring out the characteristics. Farrington gives these indications: Vesicles which are so tense that when pricked they eject their contents; sensation of a splinter under thumb-nails.
The eruptions of Hura, he says, prefer the skin covering projecting portions of bone, or the malar bones. He compares it with Cantharis. Mure's provings were made with single doses of the 5th attenuation.
Relations
Compare: Croton., Ricinus, Euphorb., Hura crepitans. Antidoted by: Camph., Opium.
Mind
Excited and oppressed as if by some misfortune
Causeless weeping followed by laughter
Flow of sad thoughts; imagines she will lose some one dear to her; cries every moment, and for several days past imagines she is seeing the dead person before her eyes
Exaggerated conscientiousness
Irritable
Indisposed to work.
Head
Confusion
Dizziness
Rush of blood to the head
Heaviness of the head
Numbness of the head
Skin of forehead feels drawn tight
Painful lancinations through the head
Constriction in back of head.
Eyes
Prickling and burning in eyes; sensation as if sand in them
Eyelids red
Inflammation of the puncta
Vision dim
Blindness (from touching the eye with the milk)
Sparks and zigzags before the sight when walking.
Ears
Pain behind and in (r.) ear
Stoppage in ears
Loud whizzing and whistling sound in ears.
Nose
Redness of (l.) wing of nose
Constriction; throbbing at root of nose
Coryza; epistaxis
Sense of smell very acute.
Face
Face weary-looking as after a debauch; rings round eyes
Face dull and dark-looking with paleness mottled with red
Face scarlet and bloated
Heat rising to face
Swellings on upper part of r. cheek
Lips red
Small pimples inside lower lip.
Teeth
Lancinations in teeth and gums; passing to ear.—Pimples on gums.
Mouth
Tongue white; pain at tip
Fleshy excrescence on inside of lips
Clammy mouth; foul smell
Taste: of copper; of blood; clammy; smoky.
Throat
Irritation of throat with dryness.—Spitting of blood in morning.
Stomach
Great hunger with pain in stomach; hunger satisfied immediately on eating
Hunger sometimes immediately after a meal
Qualmishness
Stomachache; as from hunger.
Abdomen
Frightful colic with diarrhoea and shivering
Throbbing in l. side abdomen
Twisting pain in l. side, or cutting all round pelvis, with very painful shooting; extorting cries
Stitch in ileo-caecal region < on movement.
Stool And Anus
Constriction at anus
Frequent ineffectual urging to stool
Diarrhoea succeeded by great weakness of chest
Stools: liquid, painless, flowing constantly; offensive, containing thread-worms
Constipation; hard, difficult stools.
Urinary Organs
Acute pain in r. kidney while walking, with great urging to urinate.—Urine: light green; clear; deposits a white sediment.
Male Sexual Organs
Intolerable erections: amorous dreams with erections; lemon-coloured semen.—Weight in testicles when walking.
Female Sexual Organs
Pain in uterus: as if compressed; as if a sharp instrument were thrust into it; followed by lancinations in vagina
Leucorrhoea
Menses: scanty; eight days too early; profuse, with leucorrhoea.
Respiratory Organs
Dryness of glottis causing cough
Considerable yellow, thick, frothy sputa
Sputa: rusty-coloured; foul, bloody; like milk-chocolate
Feeling of suffocation
Sighs and yawns much.
Chest
Nervous shivering all over chest
Suffocative sensation, esp. when thinking of anything that has gone wrong
Lancinations in chest preventing deep breathing
Throbbings in chest
Sensation of a small ball under r. breast
Sharp pain shifting from shoulder to l. breast
Stitches in breasts
Throbbing in breasts.
Heart
Constant pain at heart, sometimes very sharp, arresting breathing.
Neck And Back
Stiff-neck (r. side); least motion is painfully felt in nape
Dislocated and tearing pain in dorsal region; on sitting down
Severe pains in lumbar region; weakness
Excruciating pain in lumbo-sacral region, when trying to lift a weight.
Limbs
Weariness of limbs
Lancinations, throbbing, rheumatic pains, numbness in upper and lower limbs
Dislocated pains in joints.
Upper Limbs
Throbbing in finger-tips
Pain as from splinter under thumb-nail
Heat in nails; sensation as if part of nail had been torn off.
Skin
Large pimples itching very much
Pimples, painful to touch on l. cheek and eyebrows
Small red pimples on r. cheek-bone, with smarting on r. cheek
Cluster of pimples or vesicles on various parts
Red vesicular pimples, the vesicles break on pressure and water squirts out with great force
Small vesicular pimples, with itching, on ribs, arms, and all projecting portions of bones
Itching on forehead; eyelids; chin; beard; back; legs; sleep disturbed by it.
Sleep
Yawning and drowsiness
Nightly restlessness
Dreams: of travelling; of swimming; of yellow water; of corpses; of assassins.
Fever
Feet and body generally constantly cold and damp
Heat and transient perspiration
Flushes of heat in face
Cold sweat on face and all over body.