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Myrica Cerifera

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General

MYRICA CERIFERA. [Myr. cerif.] Wax Myrtle. Myricaceae.

Mind

► Pleasant exhilaration, succeeded by depression and pressure about the head. ► Despondent, dejected, irritable. ► Deficient concentrativeness. ► Dull, drowsy state.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : with dulness and drowsiness ; with rush of blood to head and face, on stooping ; with nausea.

Inner Head

► Awakens with pains in forehead, temples and small of back. ► Dull, heavy feeling over and in eyes ; drowsiness ; jaundice.

Eyes

► Congested and yellow. ► Feel dull and heavy ; also on awaking.

Face

► Color : yellow, jaundiced. ► Fulness, with heat and throbbing, especially after being out in open air.

Tongue, Etc

► Thick, yellowish, dark dry and crusty coating on the tongue, rendering it almost immovable. ► Taste : bad, foul, he cannot eat because of it ; bitter, nauseous.

Mouth

► Adhesive coating over buccal membrane ; dry, scaly crusts on roof of mouth, that what scarcely moistens or dissolves. ► Mouth dry, thirst water relieves only partially and temporarily.

Throat

► Stringy, much detached with difficulty ; offensive, tenacious mucus in nose and throat. ► Pharynx dry, sore as if it would crack, impeding and finally obstructing deglutition. ► Slim, glutinous, frothy mucus in the pharynx, even gargling scarcely detaches it ; it causes a disgusting taste, preventing eating.

Desires And Aversions

► Hunger, yet full feeling as after a hasty meal. ► Imagines he cannot eat, hungry but when food reaches pharynx it is expelled because of horrid nausea from mucus there. ► Loss of appetite, loathing of food.

Stomach

► Fullness and pressure. ► Weak, sinking feeling. ► Indescribable feeling of distress in the epigastric region.

Hypochondria

► Jaundice : fulness of hepatic region and of the upper abdomen ; drowsiness, debility ; stools mushy, clay-colored. See 5, 8, 11, 21, 46.

Abdomen

► Griping pains, rumbling, urging to stool, passing only flatus. ► Weak, faint feeling as if diarrhoea would ensue.

Stool, Etc

► Passes very offensive flatus. ► Stools loose, mushy, with tenesmus and cramp-like sensations in the umbilical region. ► Stools light yellow ; or mushy, clay-colored ; jaundice.

Urine

► Urine beer-colored, with yellowish froth ; pinkish-brown sediment ; scanty.

Heart And Pulse

► Impulse increased, but pulse sixty ; pulse feeble, irregular.

Neck And Back

► Dull aching, dragging on waking ; lassitude, headache.

Position, Etc

► Stooping : 2.

Nerves

► Slight nervous excitement and restlessness ; but soon followed by a sick, debilitated sensation that is most characteristic.

Sleep

► Drowsiness, vertigo ; semi-stupor. ► Restless, or sleeps soundly until towards morning ; awakes generally feeling worse.

Temperature And Weather

► Open air : 8, 40.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chilliness on going out of doors, slight aching in lumbar region. ► Excited, feverish feeling, alternating with chilliness ; warm sensation along spine, then chill and gentle sweat. ► Face hot and flushed.

Tissues

► Catarrh of mucous membrane, mouth, pharynx, bile ducts, etc. ► Muscular lameness, lassitude, depressed spirits. ► Seems to affect the system profoundly, and has proved curative in low states with or without jaundice, when with necessary debility, there is a viscous state of the mucous membranes, characterized by scanty, tenacious, crust-forming secretions on the tongue and in mouth and pharynx.

Skin

► Yellow, jaundiced appearance ; itching as from fleabites.

Relationship

► Compare : Digit. (jaundice), Chelid., Podoph.