Xanthoxylum
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General
XANTHOXYLUM. [Xanthox.] Prickly Ash. Rutaceae.
Mind
► Nervous, frightened feeling. ► Depression and weakness.
Inner Head
► Dullness. ► Bewilderment ; pain in back of head. ► Throbbing headache ; over right eye, with nausea. ► Pain over the eyes with throbbing above root of nose. ► Aching and flashes of throb-like pain as if top of head was about being taken off. ► Tightness of the scalp : 23.
Nose
► Right nostril seems filed up. ► Discharge of mucus, of dry and bloody scales.
Mouth
► Peppery taste in mouth, fauces and throat.
Throat
► Peppery sensation ; soreness, with expectoration of tough mucus. ► Feeling of a bunch in left side of throat when swallowing, shifting to right.
Desires And Aversions
► No appetite.
Nausea And Vomiting
► Sense of oppression at stomach ; frequent chills : 40.
Stomach
► Feeling of fullness on pressure. ► Fluttering.
Stool, Etc
► Griping pains 7 A.M. ; with thin, brown stools, mixed with mucus.
Urine
► Profuse, light-colored urine : nervous women.
Female Sexual Organs
► Ovarian pains extending down the genito-crural nerves : 33. ► Dreadful distress and pain ; headache ; menstrual flow too early and profuse ; pains down the anterior of thighs ; neuralgic dysmenorrhoea.
Pregnancy
► After-pains, when of the above character and with profuse lochia.
Larynx
► Hoarse, husky feeling in the throat.
Lungs
► Desire to take a long breath. ► Tight feeling about the chest, inclined to gape.
Lower Limbs
► Severe neuralgic pains in the course of the genito-crural nerves : 23. ► Excessive weakness of lower limbs ; chlorosis.
Limbs In General
► Pains in the limbs, neuralgic, shooting. ► Numbness and weakness.
Nerves
► Pricking sensation ; shocks as from electricity. ► Numbness, worse on left side.
Chill, Fever And Sweat
► Chills, pains in limbs ; nausea : 16. ► Flashes of heat. ► Sense of heat in veins.
Tissues
► Acts upon the nervous system, mostly upon the sensory nerves, but causes a marked depression of vitality, a non-reactive state, hence its use in chlorosis, measles, neuralgia, etc., when there is sensorial and bodily depression. ► Mucous membrane smarts as from pepper. ► Catarrh.
Skin
► Measles, dulness, bewilderment, drowsiness, want of sufficient development of the eruption (See catarrhal symptoms. Clinical, but trustworthy).
Relationship
► Compare with : Act. rac., Gelsem., Bellad.