Ginseng gins.

A tincture is made of the dried root of Panax quinquefolium (wild Ginseng).

Allied botanically and somewhat symptomatically to Aralia.

Heaviness in all movements. ▶ Pressure and drawing alternately in forehead, right forearm, toes, tibiæ and calves. ▶ Sensation when sitting as if the body fell backward. ▶ Malaise; after dinner, with drowsiness, internal coldness, external heat, formication in fingers, yawning, stretching, shivering, trembling, thirst, dryness of mouth, drawing in stomach, weakness of thighs and legs, as during convalescence. ▶ Uneasiness obliging him to walk. ▶ Indolence. ▶ Weakness; after a short walk on entering the house, with heaviness in sinciput; with internal trembling feeling in limbs; agg. legs, with pain in various muscles; alternately in back, knees, and arms; sudden, at 7 P.M., with creeping coldness, flushes of heat, cool sweat and longing to expose the body to cold air and to have something strengthening. ▶ Aggravation on right side.

Anxiety after dinner. ▶ Generally calm, but impatient impulses and fear of accidents, with at times disposition to weep or to be anxious about the future. ▶ Thought difficult. ▶ Not inclined to thought or business. ▶ Forgetful.

Pain; after dinner, with heaviness; deep in brain, changing about; in longitudinal sinuses. ▶ Heaviness; constant, with pressure in forehead rhythmical with pulse, and objects have a tremulous motion rhythmical with pulse. ▶ Confusion; all day; agg. forehead, then vertigo, sleepiness and heaviness of upper lids. ▶ Fulness after dinner. ▶ Seemed enlarged at times and to shake in direction of sides. ▶ Vertigo; on going into open air; on ascending winding stairs, agg. descending; at times; ground seemed to waver when standing; with indistinct vision; with unsteadiness in walking, which seemed to start from hips, so that thighs seemed pushed outward; with obnubilation.

Drawing stitches extending to right inner canthus. ▶ Lancinations; in right eminence, extending above orbit, with heaviness of eyelid. ▶ Pain; in bone; in left eminence; in sinciput; upper part of sinciput; with heat; with drawing transversely through it; at times. ▶ Drawing in right bone. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Confusion in sinciput. ▶ Vertigo.

Pressure in temples; in right, and in left sensation as if too thick; constant P. and pulsation on exertion; on vertex. ▶ Pain on right side of head. ▶ Pressure in sinuses of cerebellum; P. in occiput with impending vertigo. ▶ Drawing in occiput in afternoon, on mental exertion, so that he involuntarily bent the head backward. ▶ Sudden blow upon occiput, then bruised pain. ▶ Sensation in occiput when sitting as if swaying to the sides. ▶ Reeling in O., with gray spot before eyes.

Sticking deep in upper half, then pressure, repeated in evening by the light; S., with lachrymation, redness of conjunctiva of bulb and inclination to close lids. ▶ Pressure inward. ▶ Pupils contracted; with sensitiveness of eyes to daylight in dim weather; large; alternately large and small. ▶ Cold sensation on surface of ball. ▶ Drooping of upper lids, agg. right, lids difficult to open, with heaviness and pain. ▶ Itching of lids. ▶ Biting of margins of lids; with itching; with burning. ▶ Constriction of left upper lid. ▶ Wearied by a bright light. ▶ Blinded by daylight. ▶ Letters run into each other when reading. ▶ Vision indistinct; distinct, but objects are not seen clearly because the eyes wander too quickly from one object to another; swimming of objects on going into open air, with unsteady gait. ▶ Vision of black floating points; of large white spots. ▶ Vision double on looking steadily.

Dryness; with sensitiveness to air. ▶ Scanty, thick mucus in evening, next day thin and copious. ▶ Bleeding from right nostril; at 9 A.M. on slight touch; at 9 P.M. on blowing. ▶ Frequent sneezing.

Alternately red and pale. ▶ Pressure in zygomata; in joint of jaw. ▶ Drawing in left side of lower jaw; D. in ascending ramus of lower jaw, zygomata and upper jaw of right side. ▶ Lips red and dry, they crack and bleed, agg. lower. ▶ Dryness of lips and mouth, agg. open air, amel. dinner, but returning, with scraping and soreness in fauces; D. in lips and mouth as far as pharynx, with swollen feeling in lips and nauseous odor from mouth; in lips, mouth and fauces, agg. talking, with rough voice and scraping in throat; in lips, mouth and fauces, agg. open air and talking, at the same time scraping soreness in fauces, agg. empty swallowing and by drawing air through nose, which is dry; of lips, teeth, mouth and throat, all parts stuck together; D. and roughness of lips, mouth, teeth, tongue and fauces as if covered with sand, in open air or on exercise, with rapid breathing.

Tongue red and smarting, with thirst, then white in middle; T. white, dry, with large glistening papillæ. ▶ Speech difficult and indistinct on account of affection of mouth. ▶ Dryness; amel. eating; of arch of palate; agg. arch of palate and tongue, then flow of saliva; agg. tongue, arch of palate, whole fauces, with stale odor from mouth; so that swallowing of bread and butter is difficult and leaves sticking deep in throat; alternating with salivation; dry sensation in palate, with salivation. ▶ Salivation, with nausea. ▶ Saliva almost grass-green. ▶ Mouth and throat troubles agg. open air, amel. dinner.

Redness of uvula, fauces and posterior pharynx; of uvula and fauces, with pain on empty swallowing an swallowing of saliva. ▶ Sticking in pharynx. ▶ Scraping in fauces; in T. and fauces in afternoon; in fauces and pharynx on empty swallowing, with dryness and rawness; in fauces, agg. talking, also with soreness; agg. empty swallowing, with dryness; scraping soreness in fauces, extending into pharynx, amel. 1.30 P.M., after dinner. ▶ Pain on swallowing bread, which was not relished. ▶ Fauces sensitive to air of the room.

Appetite increased; great, at an unusual time. ▶ Thirst absent. ▶ Eructations, with relief; empty E.; bitter E. ▶ Nausea; with sore pain in right flank, under ribs, agg. touch. ▶ Swelling with throbbing, anxiety and nausea; S. from flatus. ▶ Lancination in right side of epigastrium. ▶ Pain; with feeling as if it would burst, dyspnœa and pressure in left frontal eminence. ▶ Constriction in region, with difficult breathing; C. in pit, like cramp, at 4 P.M., after eating. ▶ Drawings; painful, as from hunger, preceded by shivering. ▶ Oppression, the clothes feel uncomfortable. ▶ Intolerance of clothing in epigastric region.

▶ Inflammation, with pain and borborygmi; I. with tension and pressure in hypogastrium; I. as far as below right ribs, with pain; from flatus, discharge of which relieved; from flatus, and pain in umbilical region, agg. pressure. ▶ Tense, painful. ▶ Rumbling. ▶ Noises from wind, it goes upward and downward. ▶ Tension. ▶ Swollen sensation. ▶ Pain, then liquid stools in evening; P. rising to region of stomach, with pain on leaning against it; vague P., and in chest; as from a bar, with digging and starting in right hip, then internal pain; in right side from hip to below ribs; in right side as far as groin, with formication reaching to foot. ▶ Digging in right side as far as groin, rising to stomach, with griping in whole hypogastrium. ▶ Pain in right side of hypogastrium extending to groin, with painful formication as far as great toe, causing lancinations there; P. on right side of H., extending to left, then rising to region of heart; in H., with pressure in groin; extending from within pelvis to thighs, as if one must sink to the ground, then four thin stools; vague, in H. ▶ Bruised pain in right iliac region, agg. pressure. ▶ Heaviness of pelvic members.

Loud gurgling noise in ilio-cæcal region, dry tongue, delirium on going to sleep. ▶ It seems to have relieved the threatening inflammation of perityphilitis, and possibly also relieved the local symptoms of typhoid fever.

Sticking in rectum. ▶ Stool soft; hard; hard, difficult, then smarting at anus, tenesmus and lancinations in rectum; difficult but not hard; delayed.

Frequent desire to urinate, with smarting. ▶ Sticking in fossa navicularis. ▶ Tickling in fossa navicularis; voluptuous T. in end of urethra, with erections. ▶ Itching in urethra, with burning pain and frequent urging to urinate. ▶ Urine scanty; and dark; and clear, in a thin stream, the bladder did not empty itself, only by pressing is a broad stream produced; abundant and clear; yellowish U., with red lateritious sediment; lemon-colored, after standing a reddish sediment.

Erections when sitting at engrossing business; nocturnal, without pollutions. ▶ Pressure in testicles. ▶ Excitement.

Voice rough; and hoarse, deep. ▶ Dry cough; in afternoon; in paroxysms. ▶ Dyspnœa. ▶ Oppressed breathing; worse when sitting than when walking; slow, deep, difficult; short, anxious; deep now and then. ▶ Frequently deep, labored inspirations; when sitting; frequent deep I., with tightness of chest, anxiety and heaviness of limbs. ▶ Difficult inspiration, with sticking in right lung.

Sticking in right taking away the breath; sudden, beneath left ribs, so that he holds his breath. ▶ Tearing in anterior wall. ▶ Pain near heart, preceded by shivering, which extends to elbow. ▶ Constriction, with anxiety; C. transversely across lower part in evening. ▶ Tightness; in region of heart on deep breathing, amel. walking. ▶ Oppression, agg. sitting.

Lancinations in præcordial region; here and there. ▶ Pain in præcordial region; at left side of cardiac region. ▶ Tightness as if something were lying on præcordial region, with deep, labored inspirations. ▶ Palpitation. ▶ Beats increased; stronger and irregular; violent when sitting, then floundering sensation in heart, with rapid, small, indistinct pulse; sudden violent beats when sitting and lying, with anxious oppression in præcordial region. ▶ Beat not perceptible, but oppression in præcordial region.

Rapid; in morning; in afternoon, and irregular; agg. slightest cause; and full; and irregular; and small, weak; and small and soft, after coughing; and jerky; small, then slow and full, alternately rapid and slow. ▶ Jerky, sometimes like a quick trembling, that is also felt in chest. ▶ Slow and full. ▶ Irregular; and sometimes 90 when sitting; at 3 P.M., more rapid when sitting erect, slower but fuller and larger when sitting bent forward. ▶ Fluttering. ▶ Could not be felt, but it was an undulation, then small, soft beats.

Cracking in upper vertebræ on moving head. ▶ Pain in nape; in muscles of neck and loins. ▶ Drawing in left muscles. ▶ Pulsation in right side. ▶ Heaviness of nape; and occiput, with stiffness of nape.

Sticking. ▶ Painful lassitude along, with bruised feeling down to sacrum. ▶ Stiffness. ▶ Pricking in scapulæ extending to left shoulder. ▶ Lancinations between scapulæ, in shoulders and along spine to sacrum agg. straightening himself, with difficult breathing. ▶ Pressure in spinous processes of several dorsal vertebræ. ▶ Deep lancinations around loins. ▶ Bruised pain in sacrum. ▶ Pain in left lumbar muscles, agg. bending or turning.

Cracking in joints on moving them. ▶ Drawing in arms and limbs as if beaten. ▶ Bruised pain in various muscles; B. pain alternately in different parts; B. pain in afternoon when walking, with weariness; alternately in left knee, elbow and foot when sitting. ▶ Peculiar lightness and vigor in spite of much walking; peculiar lightness and flexibility in morning in spite of a bad night. ▶ Weakness; agg. left.

Pain in shoulders, with cracking in them; P. in shoulder-joint; in left upper arm. ▶ Weakness of shoulders and upper arms; of arms, with painful drawing in muscles of upper arm. ▶ Constriction of flesh of lower part of left arm. ▶ Pain in muscles of lower part of left forearm as from a hoop. ▶ Objects held with uncertainty, so that they easily fell, with haste in all movements. ▶ Sticking in left hand, with insensibility of fingers. ▶ Hands feel swollen in closing them, and as if the skin were tight. ▶ Fingers feel fine and smooth, and agreeable warmth of their skin. ▶ Contraction of right fingers, with stiffness of their joints. ▶ Drawing in side of right index.

Tottering; with knees bent and legs spread apart; in open air, with beginning vertigo. ▶ Sensation as if tottering in open air; always on going into open air, and sometimes real staggering, agg. ascending steps. ▶ Cramp-pain from right hip-joint to tips of toes. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Difficulty in walking, with limping; D. in ascending steps, without weakness. ▶ Cutting in right hip, extending into abdomen and forcing him to bend over. ▶ Bruised pain in hips. ▶ Pain in muscles of left thigh; in muscles of interior and middle parts of thighs when sitting; from left groin to knee, with stiffness; in right knee; in outer side of right knee. ▶ Cracking in right knee on motion and when sitting. ▶ Cramp in right calf. ▶ Retraction of muscles of right leg, with bruised pain in hip-joint. ▶ Sticking in right, then left tibia when walking and sitting. ▶ Tearing here and there in muscles of left leg; in left tibia; on surface of left leg, between tibia and fibula. ▶ Pressure in right calf. ▶ Drawing in calves. ▶ Weakness of legs; right. ▶ Lancinating tearing in right tibial-tarsal joint. ▶ Pain in knees and ankles, soon alternating with drawing in calves and right joint of jaw, agg. walking. ▶ Tensive pain above and behind left malleolus when the foot leaves the ground in walking and the tension is brought upon the tendo-achillis, extending to sole, agg. walking rapidly, so that he limped, amel. walking slowly. ▶ Drawing in feet when sitting, extending to back, with coldness. ▶ Weariness of feet. ▶ Lancinations alternately in both great toes. ▶ Sharp pain in left great toe, long affected with gouty swelling which has disappeared. ▶ Pain in right great toe and in muscles of forepart and middle of thighs. ▶ Peculiar weak pressing in right toes. ▶ Internal trembling sensation in left toes.

Veins very small. ▶ Itching pimples on neck and chest. ▶ Prickling in calves. ▶ Smarting on right cheek, chin and wing of nose, with itching and heat, then erythematous burning redness, then miliary pustules with formication, then tetter ending in desquamation. ▶ Formication along right thigh to foot, with stiffness; F. at night along right thigh to great toe, where there are lancinations. ▶ Itching under right foot.

Yawning though he had slept all the morning. ▶ Sleepiness. ▶ Sleep deep, prolonged, quiet, towards morning. ▶ Wakes with difficulty or else with a start. ▶ Many dreams, with frequent waking, mostly with headache. ▶ Remembered dreams. ▶ Vivid, voluptuous dreams.

Sensitiveness to cold. ▶ Coldness after a walk; C., with trembling and with numbness of hands, coldness of fingers, which are white, numb and prickly; piercing into occiput; in right elbow and parietal eminence, with crawling; through back; in back, extending into bones of arms, with cold hands and blue nails; in back, extending into limbs, which are cold and feel bruised; in spine, amel. walking, with coldness in head and limbs, weakness of limbs, pressure in testicles and elbows, frequent deep breathing, oppression of chest, prickling in calves, pulse 55 to 60. ▶ Shivering through back; with warm limbs; when walking and sitting, extending into arms, with cold skin, bluish nails, weakness of right limb, oppressed respiration, pupils contracted, and sensitive to daylight. ▶ Warmth of skin, which seems soft and fine. ▶ Heat of head; forehead; of whole body, agg. back, from a small glass of Malaga wine, with distention of veins; externally in tips of fingers.