AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA

AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA. [Ailanth.] Tree of Heaven. P. P. Wells. Simarubaceae.

► Torpor, stupor ; stoic indifference. ► Loss of memory. ► Inability to concentrate mental effort ; must read a subject several times, or add a column of figures over and over before correct. ► Depression of spirits ; frequent sighing. ► Great anxiety ; restlessness. ► Constant muttering delirium.

► Vertigo : more when stooping ; with nausea and cold sweat. ► Dizzy, face hot, cannot sit up ; drowsy, yet very restless and anxious ; later insensible, with muttering delirium ; recognizes no one. θ Scarlatina. ► Feeling as if an electric current were passing through the left side of head, or down to the extremities. ► Apoplectic fulness of head.

► Headache, with nausea and giddiness. ► Dull, heavy sensation in the forehead, with disinclination to think or act. ► Thick, heavy feeling in the base and right side of the head. ► Darting through temples and back of head, with confusion of ideas ; severe pain through temples on waking. ► Dull headache, burning in eyes, oppression of chest. ► Pain in the occiput.

► Beating in the occipital arteries. ► Tender bruised sensation over the fronto-parietal suture.

► Intolerance of light ; tears from bright light, and from the open air. ► Eyes suffused and congested, startled look when roused ; pupils dilated and sluggish ; photophobia. ► Burning, smarting and aching in the eyes. ► Rough, smarting and aching in the eyes. ► Rough feeling in the left eye, as from dust. ► Conjunctiva inflamed, towards the outer canthus. ► Pus-like discharge, agglutinating the lids in the morning. ► Dark blue circles around the eyes.

► Pain in the ear when swallowing. ► Itching around the left ear at night ; gets red when scratched. ► Parotid gland tender and enlarged. θ Scarlatina.

► Loss of smell. ► Coryza, with rawness inside about the nostrils ; the whole nose and upper lip became covered with very thick gray-brown scabs. ► Fluent nasal catarrh, with sneezing. ► Copious, thin, ichorous, bloody discharge, without fetor. ► Chronic catarrh, difficult breathing through the nose. ► Dryness of the nose, secretion suppressed. ► Itching and uneasy feeling around the nose.

► Head and redness of the face ; mahogany color. ► Chronic, speckled, spotted face ; a kind of acne. ► Irregular red spots of capillary congestion, like with drunkards. ► Swelling of the left side of face ; puffed erysipelatous face. ► Countenance indicating distress ; great prostration.

► Small but deep ragged ulcer near the angle of the mouth ; lips cracked. ► Inflamed vesicles on the lower lip, chin bright red.

► Covered with a brown slime or sordes. ► Tearing in left upper or lower teeth, face and head ; worse on lying down, must walk about ; better from pressure and towards morning.

► Tongue : thickly covered with a whitish coat ; brown in the middle ; moist, coated white, tip and edges livid ; dry, parched and cracked. ► Taste : insipid, flat ; feverish. θ Bronchial catarrh. ► Water tastes brackish and flat.

► Fauces and tonsils inflamed, with spots of incipient ulceration. ► Throat tender, sore on swallowing, or on admitting air. ► Hawking of mucus, constant effort to raise hard lumps of whitish matter. ► Throat livid, swollen ; tonsils studded with many deep, angry-looking ulcers, with scanty, fetid discharge ; neck tender and swollen. θ Scarlatina. ► Throat swollen, dark red, almost purple. θ Scarlatina. ► Thyroid gland tender, enlarged.

► Appetite : capricious ; poor, yet eats as usual. ► Hunger and sense of emptiness during the chill. ► Thirst for cold drinks.

► Food taken was speedily vomited.

► Sudden, violent vomiting when sitting up. ► Vomiting, with stupor. ► Nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, spasmodic abdominal pains.

► Peculiar feeling of emptiness in stomach ; pain.

► Oppression, like a stricture, below hypochondria ; a very debilitating sensation with nausea.

► Weak, burning, uneasy feeling in the bowels, as of approaching diarrhoea. ► Tympanitis ; slight rumbling in the bowels.

► Dysentery, frequent painful stools, little fecal matter, much bloody mucus ; very little fever. ► Frequent watery stools expelled with great force. ► Stools thin, watery, offensive, passing involuntarily with the urine. ► Tapeworm.

► Scanty or suppressed ; passed unconsciously ; acid.

► Chancre-like sore on the prepuce.

► Voice hoarse, failing. ► Awoke in the morning, with almost entire loss of voice. ► Croupy choking. ► Oppression of bronchia with dull headache.

► Hurried, irregular, heavy. θ Scarlatina. ► Equable oppression, as though the chest were strapped ; as if air cells stuck together. ► Asthmatic oppression in large bronchi ; wheezing. ► Shortness of breath, with dyspnoea.

► Dry, hacking, constant ; with oppression, burning, and pains in the chest ; tight and wheezing, with scanty expectoration ; pains through left lung ; continual deep bronchial, without pain, worse from exercise or exertion. ► Violent fits of coughing before retiring and on rising. ► Coughs continually until she raises freely, then better. ► Cough, with breathing somewhat oppressed ; muco-purulent expectoration ; free in the morning, sticky and scanty during the day. ► Expectoration : at times mixed with blood, at times of blood alone ; bitter, yellow, more mornings.

► Excessive soreness and tenderness of lungs ; feeling as if the air-cells were stuck together ; tired feeling in the lungs. ► Stitching and aching in the chest, under clavicle. ► Burning in the right, aching in the left lung. ► Sensation of fulness and smothering before expectoration.

► Dull pain and contracted feeling in region of base of heart and through centre of left lung. ► Pulse : rapid and small ; weak, sometimes scarcely perceptible, very frequent and irregular. θ Scarlatina.

► Itching around her neck. ► Thickened, swollen feeling of the muscles of neck. ► Neck tender and very much swollen. ► Constant aching between the shoulders. ► Glands of the neck sore, with pain under the left scapula. ► Constant sharp pain through the small of back and hips.

► Large water blister on the end of the thumb, with smaller ones at the side of the finger nails. ► Tingling in fingers and left arm on awaking.

► Numbness of left leg, with tingling, pricking pain in the foot and toes. ► Severe pain in left foot, a tension while walking.

► Feeling of uneasiness and aching ; restlessness. ► Heaviness of the limbs. ► Limbs feel as though they were asleep.

► Exertion : 27. Walking : 10, 33. Stooping : 2. Rising : 27. Sitting up : 16. Lying : 10.

► Great debility, easily exhausted. ► Electric thrill, starting from the brain, to the extremities. ► Jerking cramps of the limbs during sleep. ► Low, adynamic forms of disease, sudden and extreme prostration, torpor, vomiting, pulse small and rapid, purplish skin.

► Very drowsy, restless, soon passes into insensibility. ► Sleep disturbed, unrefreshing. Heavy sleep through the night. ► Restless at night, talking and moaning in sleep, night-sweat, frequent waking. ► Sleeps best on the right side. θ Bronchial affections.

► During the day : 27. Morning 5, 25, 27, 40. Evening : 27. Night : 6, 20, 37, 46. Toward morning : 10.

► Open air : 5.

► Chill, with hunger and sense of general emptiness. ► Miliary eruption before the chill. ► Chills, followed by flushes of heat, with severe pain in the head and soreness of the lungs. ► Skin either very hot or cool to the touch. ► Dry, hot skin, most in the morning, until noon. ► Cold sweat stood out upon the skin. θ Verified in cholera.

► Right : 3, 18, 28, 37. Left : 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 46.

► Feeling of fulness everywhere. ► Soreness, irritability and prickling or tingling. ► Electric current from head into limbs.

► Pressure : 10. ► Pressure of clothes feels uncomfortable.

► Eruption of miliary rash, in patches, with efflorescence between the points of rash of a dark, almost livid color ; most on forehead and face. ► Skin cold and dry, of livid color ; after pressing with the finger the color returns very slowly. ► Itching around left ear, back, face and neck at night ; felt as if she would go crazy. ► Large maculae, and bullae, filled with a claret-colored serum. ► Petechiae. ► Malignant scarlatina.

► The odor of the flowers affect the asthmatic ; also women and children more than men ; old people least of all. ► Nervous sensitive persons. ► Bilious temperament, stout and robust.

► Collaterals : Ptelea and the Xanthoxyleae. ► Antidotes to Ailanth. : Aloe soc. (2c), for the dull headache ; Rhus tox. for the headache and erysipelatous face ; Nux vom. for the general effects. ► Concordances : Amm. carb. ; Arnic. (sore lungs) : Arum triph. ; Aloe soc. ; Baptis. ; Bryon. ; Gelsem. ; Hyosc. ; Laches. ; Nitr. acid. ; Nux vom. ; Phytol. ; Prussic acid. ; Rhus tox. ; Stramon.