Upas Tieut
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General
Upas.
Strychnos tieuté. N. O. Loganiaceae. Tincture of the inspissated juice obtained from the root and bark.
Clinical
Amaurosis. Blepharo-conjunctivitis. Convulsions. Coryza. Hang-nails. Headache. Heart, palpitation of. Heels, pains in. Liver, affections of. Nails, affections of. Ptosis. Sciatica. Sexual excess. Spine, pains in. Tendo Achillis, pain in. Tetanus.
Characteristics
The Upas of homoeopathy is obtained from a Strychnos and must not be confounded with Antiaris toxicaria, the concocted juice of which forms the "Upas antiar" poison of the Javanese. S. tieuté is a climbing shrub. Pitet made a courageous proving of it, carrying it to the length of producing tetanic symptoms. A large proportion of the symptoms occurred in the head and eyes.
A remarkable headache was this: "Superficial drawing pain traverses left temple from before backward, and ceases at outer angle of orbit; the part is hot and painful to touch." The pains generally are pressive and lancinating. In the eyes there is pressure and feeling of a foreign body under the lids; severe pains in orbits; inflammation of the conjunctiva of the lids; distorted vision. Drowsiness is a feature in Upas. "Every morning weakness of the eyes with lachrymation, the lids being so heavy that they close involuntarily as if from drowsiness." Up. is chiefly a left-side remedy.
There is pain in the left side of the throat as from a splinter on swallowing; pain in left sciatic nerve; in left iliac fossa. Sensitiveness is a note of the remedy: irritability, crossness, moroseness; increased sensitiveness to cold; the least irritation brought on spasms; pressing in throat causing feeling of suffocation. Noteworthy symptoms are: Vertigo, ending in pressing headache. Twitching in brain and orbits.
Pulsative headache with throbbing all over body. Smell of manure in nose. Sallow complexion was produced, and severe symptoms were felt in the liver and from the right lung to the liver (cutting as with knives). Itching in patella.
Aversion to meat and eggs; the very thought of them = nausea. The tongue is coated white so thickly that it can be scraped off. Left half of face red and hot, right half pale and cold. Peculiar Sensations are: As if the brain were rudely shaken.
As after sexual excess. As if a foreign body in eye; as if sand in eyes. As if a splinter in throat on swallowing. As if a foreign body in oesophagus preventing swallowing.
As if an iron hoop round waist preventing breathing. The sexual function was depressed, coition was followed by distressing symptoms, and many of the symptoms were such as occur after sexual excess. Great exhaustion after convulsive seizures. The symptoms are: < By touch (pain in left iliac fossa).
< Pressure (throat). < By motion; by walking. < Afternoon and evening. < Morning.
> After rising. > Evening after dinner. > In open air (headache).
Relations
Compare: Botan.; spasmodic symptoms, Nux, Ign. Gouty pain, Nux. Lancinations in rectum, Ign. Exaggerated sensitiveness; acid eructations, Nux. Foul smell in nose, Anac. Splinter pain in throat, Hep., Arg. n., Nit. ac.
Causation
Sexual excess.
Mind
Depression
Melancholy; has to force tears back; cold and repelling to friends
Morose; cross; irritable; quarrelsome
Sensitive
Great difficulty in concentrating attention.
Head
Head muddled
Vertigo as if falling; ends with pressing headache; great tendency to feel cold
Severe twitchings in brain and orbits
Pulsating-pains all over head on waking, > in open air
Constant dull tearing In fore-part of brain, r. side, sometimes sharp shootings
Very sharp, deep-seated shootings r. side of forehead
Pulsating heaviness in forehead and through l. eye
Pressure and drawing in both temples, < l.; part hot to touch
Superficial drawing pain, which every few moments traverses left temple from before backward, and ceases at outer angle of orbit; parts hot and painful to touch lasted all day, > next morning
Heat of head with red face
Shootings deep in brain and vertex
In occiput: pressing inward pain; heaviness as after sexual excess
Scalp numb.
Eyes
Eyes sunken, bluish, rings round them
Pressure and dryness in eyes
Sensation as if foreign body in eyes; in l. eye; pustule on inner surface of r. lid
Eyes weak as after sexual excess
Every morning weakness of, eyes with, lachrymation, lids heavy they close involuntarily as if from irresistible drowsiness
Dull pain in orbital and nasal bones
Prolonged and violent lancinations under orbits
Flow of blood from the eyelids
Intense smarting itching on margins of lids and canthi
Lachrymation
Vision: dim, letters run together; fog before eyes
In open air dimness, and as if endless strings of white and transparent globules were floating in the air
After rising from a stooping position, blackness before eyes, as if all the blood had rushed to the head, with vanishing of thought.
Ears
Tearings in ear cartilages
Twitchings in cartilage near orifice (l.)
Ears stuffed without affecting hearing.
Nose
Violent fluent coryza towards and during evening
First r. nostril then l. stopped up, changing every few minutes, preventing sleep
L. nostril stopped and discharging greenish mucus
Smell of manure in nose.
Face
Yellow complexion
Face red with hot head
L. side face red and hot, r. pale and cold.
Mouth
Tongue: dry, burning; coated white; so thickly it can be scraped off
Unable to open his mouth to speak
Blisters inside under lip towards l
Frequent itching in palate
Increased saliva, which tastes sour
Taste: sour p bitter on root of tongue; like old coryza.
Throat
Hawking frequent mucus in morning cured in the prover
Pains and acidity l. side throat on swallowing; the acid sensation extends to l. ear
Scraping burning soreness in throat; cough with burning pain as if throat would burst; difficult expectoration of bronchial mucus
Pain as from splinter in l. side: of throat making deglutition painful, as if food were prevented passing into stomach by foreign body in oesophagus; swallowing of fluids becomes difficult: pressing l. side of throat = sense of suffocation
Feeling of swelling of r. tonsil while writing.
Stomach
Appetite totally lost
Aversion, to all food, esp. meat and eggs, the mere thought of which = nausea
Hunger, but first morsel satisfies
Urgent thirst
Eructations: bitter after meals, tasting of ingesta, all day; violent, of wind
Qualmish, as if going to faint
In morning, while hiccoughing, pinching in a line with lumbar vertebrae.
Abdomen
Pressing pain: in region of, liver; in liver
Out-pressing in l. hypochondrium
Stitches in region of liver and r. kidney
Much flatulency pressing against both hypochondria, breaking it gives no >; flatus odourless
Rumbling
Sharp pains in l. iliac fossa,< drawing breath and by touch.
Stool And Anus
Sharp colic in rectum > passing fetid flatus; shortly after, soft stool, preceded by, renewed colic
Lancinations or slow pinchings in cellular tissue extending to rectum, r. side
Two soft diarrhoeic stools daily
Stools mushy, reddish, ending with brown jelly-like mucus
Stool constipated, after much pressing, and, insufficient brown jelly-like mucus after stool.
Urinary Organs
Pain in region of r. kidney during the night
Frequent urging to urinate, with burning in urethra at 8 a.m
Urine scanty, evacuated with great effort, light red
Urine dark like brandy.
Male Sexual Organs
Erections and diminished desire
Virile function depraved
Coition accompanied by painful and enervating uneasiness, and followed by great depression for several minutes
Itching of pubes.
Respiratory Organs
Roughness in air passages
Hoarseness; aphonia
Dry cough, from soreness in larynx and trachea, < towards evening; expectoration of colourless mucus
Quickened breathing in morning
Inability to breathe deeply from sensation of iron hoop round waist.
Chest
Chest tight
Pinching drawing all round base of chest
Knife-thrusts through r. lung towards liver, stopping breathing
Needle-thrusts across chest behind l. nipple
Pinching l. side chest
Stitches through r. lung, evening.
Heart
After going to bed, severe palpitation and pulsation all over from vertex, where it is pulsative headache, to finger-tips
While writing, severe palpitation and feeling as if r. tonsil swollen (which it is not)
Pulse: frequent; weak, small, slow.
Neck And Back
Painful stiffness of posterior muscles of neck, morning
Pain in r. trapezius
Burning in r. side of nape
Feeling of stretching along spine
Pressive and beaten feeling in spinal column, most in region opposite stomach.
Limbs
Hangnails, which become inflamed; itching and redness at roots of nails
Weakness
Numbness in hands and feet.
Upper Limbs
Pinching along back of nerves of l. arm
Drawings in r. wrist-joint
Painful drawing in joint of l. middle ring-finger
Sharp, deep-seated lancinating pains in palmar surface of l. middle finger.
Lower Limbs
Pinching back of l. thigh along track of sciatic nerve
Pains in knees; under patellae, now one now the other
Lancinations in l. calf
Sudden cutting in l. tendo Achillis when stooping
Violent and dull lancinations in l. os calcis
Dull pains in heels, chiefly l
Sharp pains in r. great toe-joint.
Generalities
Clonic spasms of muscles of nape of neck or extremities, which were at one time extended, at another flexed, frequently repeated spontaneously on the slightest irritation, muscles relaxed completely in intervals.—Sudden jerking of whole body, followed by violent stitches in extensors and drawing back of head.—Great weakness after a paroxysm.—Uneasiness: in morning; in afternoon.—Increased sensitiveness to cold; pale face.
Skin
Herpetic eruption: on upper lip, l. side; under lower lip near l. commissure
At inner border of l. wrist-joint intense and obstinate itching, without eruption, > pressure
Itching of pubes almost constant during several days.
Sleep
Almost irresistible drowsiness in morning.—Restless nights; unable to sleep before 2 a.m.
Fever
Feels chilly very easily, passing shivers
Shivering; burning in palms after dark
Shivering along spine and both arms
Flashes of heat and redness of face and hands, evening after a meal, with drowsiness
Night-sweat.