Laurocerasus
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General
LAUROCERASUS. [Lauroc.] Cherry Laurel. M. Mueller, Hartlaub, Wahle. Amygdalae.
Mind
► Loss of consciousness, with loss of speech and motion. ► Insensibility and complete loss of sensation. ► Dulness of the senses. ► Weakness of mind and loss of memory. ► Inability to collect one's idea. ► Fear and anxiety about imaginary evils.
Sensorium
► Stupefaction, with vertigo. ► Vertigo : with disposition to sleep ; worse in the open air.
Inner Head
► Stupefying pain in the whole head. ► Pulsation in the head, with heat or with coldness. ► Congestive headache ; pulse depressed. ► Sensation of looseness of the brain, as if it were falling into the forehead, when stooping, without pain. ► Feeling of warmth in middle of forehead, then coolness as from a draft or air. ► The brain feels contracted and painful. ► Stitches in the head.
Outer Head
► Sensation of coldness in the forehead and vertex, as if a cold wind were blowing on it, descending through the neck to the back ; worse in the room, better in the open air. ► Itching of the hairy scalp.
Eyes
► Objects appear larger. ► Sensation of a veil before the eyes. ► Eyes ; starting, wide open ; lightly closed ; distorted. ► Pupils dilated, immovable.
Ears
► Hardness of hearing. ► Tingling in the ears. ► Itching in the ears.
Nose
► Nose feels stopped up ; no air passes through.
Face
► Sunken, with livid, grey-yellow complexion ; blue with gasping ; bloated ; idiotic expression of face. θ Chorea. ► Twitching and convulsions of the facial muscles. ► Titillation in the face, as if flies and spiders were crawling over the skin. ► Eruption around the mouth.
Lower Face
► Lockjaw.
Tongue, Etc
► Tongue : dry, rough, dry and white ; cold ; or numb as if burnt. ► Left side of tongue stiff and swollen, with loss of speech.
Mouth
► Foam at mouth. θ Epilepsy. ► Dryness in the mouth.
Throat
► Spasmodic deglutition. θ Chorea. ► Impeded deglutition. ► Spasmodic contraction in the throat and oesophagus. ► The drink he takes rolls audibly through the oesophagus and intestines.
Desires And Aversions
► Disgust for food, during pregnancy. ► Violent thirst, with dry mouth. ► Entire loss of appetite, with clean tongue.
Nausea And Vomiting
► Hiccough. ► Nausea in the stomach and vomiting of the ingesta. ► Eructations tasting like bitter almonds or prussic acid. θ Pregnancy. ► Vomiting of food. θ Cough.
Stomach
► Violent pain in stomach, with loss of speech. ► Burning (or coldness) in the stomach and abdomen. ► Contractive feeling in the region of the stomach, and cutting pain in the abdomen.
Hypochondria
► Sticking pain in the liver with pressure. ► Region of liver distended, pains as from subcutaneous ulceration, or as if an abscess would burst. ► Indurated liver ; atrophic nutmeg liver.
Abdomen
► Pinching about the umbilicus. ► Colicky pains in afternoon, and tearing pains in vertex at night. ► Sensation like the falling of a heavy lump from just above the umbilicus to the small of the back ; produced by talking or overexertion, also with spasmodic pains in cardiac region.
Stool, Etc
► Diarrhoeic stools ; with tenesmus ; of green liquid mucus, with suffocative spells about the heart, forcing her to lie down ; involuntary. ► Constipation, stools hard, firm, and passed only with much straining. ► Ineffectual urging to stool, with emission of flatus only.
Urine
► Suppressed urine. θ Cholera. ► Retention of urine as from paralysis of the bladder ; or, urine is voided slowly. ► Involuntary urination. ► The urine deposits a thick, reddish or mahogany-colored sediment, with floating, jelly-like flocks. ► Itching in the forepart of the urethra. ► Acid urine, corroding the labia.
Male Sexual Organs
► Gangrene of the penis.
Female Sexual Organs
► Menses : too early and too profuse ; blood thin ; with nightly tearing in the vertex. ► Burning and stinging and below the mammae.
Larynx
► Scraping in the larynx, with increased secretion of mucus ; hoarseness. ► Spasmodic constriction of the trachea. ► Laryngismus stridulus ; heart affected.
Breathing
► Slow, feeble, moaning or rattling ; slow, feeble, almost imperceptible ; panting ; very difficult. ► Dyspnoea, with sensation as if lungs would not be sufficiently expanded or as if pressed against the spine. ► Spasmodic oppression of the chest. ► Gasping for breath ; suffocating spells ; he clutches at his heart ; palpitation.
Cough
► Short, titillating ; dyspnoea ; from heart disease, as stenosis of the valves ; cannot lie down ; whizzing, with sensation as if the mucous membranes were too dry ; worse towards evening from motion, stooping, eating and drinking, or warmth ; with copious jelly-like sputa, dotted with bloody points. ► Whooping-cough, day, whistling, no sputum ; impending paralysis of the lungs.
Lungs
► Spasms of chest. ► Threatening paralysis of lungs. ► Pleurisy of drunkards ; pulse soft, but quick.
Heart And Pulse
► Heart's action irregular, pulse slow. ► Stitches in region of heart. ► Beating, fluttering sensation if region of heart ; gasps for breath ; sometimes has slight dry cough. ► Palpitation of heart. ► Cold, moist skin ; convulsions of muscles of face ; pulse scarcely perceptible. ► Apoplexy. ► Pulse extremely irregular ; at times small and slow, often imperceptible ; at others somewhat accelerated ; seldom full and hard. ► Cyanosis neonatorum.
Outer Chest
► Pain in every external part of the thorax on moving it. ► Burning in the chest on taking an inspiration.
Neck And Back
► Painful stiffness in left side of neck, and nape of neck and small of back. ► Pressure in nape of neck, particularly in open air, compelling him to bend head forward. ► Severe pain in sacral region, extending to pubis.
Upper Limbs
► Pressure on right shoulder or in shoulder-joint. ► Pains as from lameness, also stitches, in right shoulder. ► Stitch in both elbows. ► Pain, as if sprained, in the right wrist-joint. ► Distention of the veins on the hands. ► Rough, scaly skin between the fingers, with burning when touched by water.
Lower Limbs
► Pain, as if sprained, in the left hip-joint. ► Sticking in the left knee. ► The feet go to sleep (when crossing the legs or sitting). ► Ulcerative pains in the lower part of the heels. ► Stiffness of the feet after rising from the seat. ► Cold, clammy feet up to knees. θ Chorea.
Limbs In General
► Ends of fingers and toes enlarged, knob-like. ► Stinging and tearing in the limbs. ► Painless paralysis of the limbs.
Position, Etc
► A little exercise produce a gasping for breath and increased blueness ; cyanosis. ► Motion. 27, 30.
After rising from seat : 37.
Stooping : 3, 27.
Must lie down : 20.
Cannot lie down : 27.
Must bend head forward : 31.
Lying down : 27.
Cannot keep still : 36.
Nerves
► Want of energy of the vital powers and want of reaction, especially in chest affections. ► Rapid sinking of the forces ; long-lasting faints. ► Epilepsy. ► Clonic spasm of all the limbs, with paralytic weakness. ► Chorea, with constant jerks, cannot keep still ; speech indistinct, gets angry when not understood ; gasping ; emaciation ; after fright. ► Gasping before, during and after spasm ; bluish skin. ► Apoplexy, with paralyses.
Sleep
► Irresistible sleepiness, especially after dinner and in the evening. ► Deep, snoring sleep ; soporous conditions.
Time
► Afternoon : 19, 40.
Evening : 27, 37, 40.
Evening till midnight : 40.
Night : 19, 40.
Temperature And Weather
► Warmth : 27, 40.
Open air : 2, 4, 31.
Room : 4.
Water : 32.
Chill, Fever And Sweat
► Chill and external coldness. ► Cold, moist skin. θ Apoplexy. ► Chill, coldness and shivering in the afternoon and evening, not relieved by external warmth. ► Chill, alternating with heat. ► Want of natural animal heat. ► Heat after the chill, from evening till midnight. ► Heat descending the back. ► Sweat generally during and after heat, till toward morning. ► Sweat after eating.
Sides
► Right : 32.
Left : 11, 31, 33.
Behind forward : 31.
Above downward : 40.
Sensations
► Painfulness with the ailments. ► Acts on brain and spine, especially upon the medulla oblongata ; hence characteristic tetanic spasms of the upper part of the body, gasping breathing, etc.
Relationship
► Antidotes to Lauroc. : Camphor., Coffea, Ipec., Opium.