Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Eucalyptus Globulus eucal.
General
A tincture is made of the fresh leaves of Eucalyptus globulus, Lab.
General Action
It produces general vascular excitement, followed by depression and low temperature; finally muscular and sensory paralysis. ▶ Compare Absinthe.
Generalities and Mind
Rheumatic, jerking, tearing, sticking pains, agg. night. ▶ Pain when walking or carrying anything. ▶ Feeling as if he had taken cold. ▶ Malaise during fever. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Effects removed by a cup of coffee. ▶ General excitement and desire for exercise; pleasant excitement with desire to move about and buoyancy. ▶ General calmness and soothing sleep. ▶ Mental depression.
Head and Eyes
Dullness of H. ▶ Fulness of H. ▶ Cerebral congestion, with much excitement. ▶ Congestive headache. ▶ Intoxication, then mental depression and exhaustion. ▶ Vertigo and pulsation in forehead. ▶ Frontal pain. ▶ Eyes hot; and smarting. ▶ Lids heavy.
Nose, Face and Mouth
Stiffness of nose. ▶ Coryza. ▶ Lower lip sore. ▶ Sore pain in upper incisors. ▶ Raw feeling in tongue. ▶ Increased secretion of mucus and saliva.
Clinical
Cures chronic catarrh of nasal passages and acute coryzas.
Subacute cystitis.
Whooping cough. ▶ Gangrene of lungs. ▶ Bronchitis, with profuse expectoration.
It has been prescribed in fevers, intermittent, typhoid and remittent, but without marked indications. ▶ It steadily reduced the pulse and temperature in typhoid.
Throat
Posterior nares, inflamed and smarting, thick, whitish discharge on hawking frequent violent sneezing. ▶ Fulness and soreness on swallowing and burning. ▶ Sensation of phlegm in afternoon, with expectoration of thick, white, frothy mucus and a relaxed aphthous condition. ▶ Tickling smarting, incessant hacking cough in evening weak feeling in chest, expectoration scanty, transparent mucous.
Stomach
Appetite increased; lost. ▶ Thirst; during the fever. ▶ Eructations tasting of the drug; and burning; smelling of the drug. ▶ Digestion difficult and painful. ▶ Fulness as if he had eaten or drunk too much; F., with pressure. ▶ Weight. ▶ Tenderness and burning in S. and abdomen, with heat in rectum, then tenesmus, with discharge of mucus and prostration, purging and hæmorrhage from bowels. ▶ Burning; after dinner; in epigastric and umbilical regions, with thirst, faintness, vertigo, dimness of vision, fulness of head, frontal pain and tightness across bridge of nose as before epistaxis. ▶ Faintness after dinner, with beating sensation in abdominal aorta synchronous with heat, lasting all the afternoon and next forenoon.
Abdomen
Burning, and in sternum. ▶ Sharp pain running through A., agg. morning, with thin diarrhœa; S. pain in hypogastric region after dinner; in hypogastrium in morning on getting up, with yellow watery diarrhœa. ▶ Sticking in spleen and left inguinal region. ▶ Uneasiness in umbilical region, extending farther, with skirmishing pains in upper A., feeling as before diarrhœa.
Stool, Urinary and Sexual Organs
Ineffectual urging to stool. ▶ Diarrhœa smelling of the drug. ▶ Irregular S. ▶ Insufficient S. ▶ Urine has a herbaceous smell; of violets. ▶ Urea increased. ▶ Urine diminished, none at night, which had not occurred for years. ▶ Sexual appetite increased.
Respiratory Organs, Heart and Pulse
Sore pain in trachea and posterior nares during empty swallowing. ▶ Asthmatic, with crampy feeling in chest and back. ▶ Breathing quickened in fever. ▶ Painful palpitation. ▶ Rapid pulse.
Extremities
Pricking, then aching in arms and legs, with fulness in veins and a stiff, weary sensation as if too lazy to move. ▶ Tingling in lower, as if asleep. ▶ Heels sore as from too much walking. ▶ Sticking in left sole, near great toe.
Skin
Swellings in different parts, one of the size of a filbert-nut below right nipple was the seat of stabbing and darting pains; nodular S. over metacarpal and metatarsal joints. ▶ Eruptions. ▶ Herpes; and glandular enlargements, foul and indolent ulcers.
Sleep
Sleepiness during the day, difficulty in falling asleep, sleepiness in morning as if he had not slept at all; S. amel. (in anæmic subjects); S. and dullness. ▶ Sleeplessness.
Fever
Temperature lowered. ▶ Chills running down back; and posterior sides of legs. ▶ Cold fingers; tips. ▶ Fever; seemed to have rheumatic; in flushes, also with sudden sweat. ▶ Burning in palms. ▶ Sweat at night; towards morning. ▶ Sweat odorous; of trimethylamine.