Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Juglans Cinerea jug-c.
General
A tincture of the fresh, young, inner back of the root of the "Butternut," collected in the spring, is used.
Generalities
Loss of weight. ▶ Aching in various parts. ▶ Feeling as if all internal organs were too large, agg. left side. ▶ Restlessness in afternoon, with pain in region of lumbar vertebræ. ▶ Weakness; with sick feeling. ▶ Faintness, amel. rising and moving about. ▶ Deathlike feeling, with chills and shuddering.
Mind
Want to be alone, want to do nothing but eat and sleep, cannot think of concentrating my mind upon any one subject. ▶ Confusion so that I could not study. ▶ Dull feeling, cannot remember anything that I read. ▶ Absent-minded, forget what I am about.
Head
Aching; in morning on waking, with yellow coat on tongue; in forenoon; in forenoon, agg. right side; in evening; and I can hardly see; heavy, in morning. ▶ Feeling as large as a barrel. ▶ Vertigo at 11 A.M., with nausea; V., with faint feeling in stomach extending to abdomen. ▶ Fulness in frontal region. ▶ Pain in forehead; in right temple in forenoon; in occiput in morning, amel. rising. ▶ Itching of scalp.
Clinical
Occipital headache is said to be a characteristic of the drug.
Angina pectoris, with suffocative pain behind sternum, especially agg. walking, has to stand still.
Numerous cases of scarlatina; eczema; herpes circinatus; impetigo; lichen; erysipelas; erythema nodosum; ecthyma.
Eyes
Red and swollen. ▶ Burning in afternoon. ▶ Feeling as if drawn together. ▶ Loss of vision on sudden motion, with faintlike giddiness.
Nose
Numbness at root; in bridge, amel. rubbing. ▶ Dryness. ▶ Watery discharge. ▶ Bleeding.
Face
Pallor. ▶ Erythematous redness, with dry, burning sensation.
Mouth and Throat
Tongue coated white; coated yellow in morning. ▶ Burning and pricking in mouth and throat. ▶ Taste coppery. ▶ Swelling of submaxillary glands, agg. right. ▶ Sore throat; in forenoon, with roughness; on swallowing; with swollen feeling. ▶ Fauces dry. ▶ Burning in pharynx. ▶ Pain in right side of fauces.
Stomach and Abdomen
Ferocious appetite. ▶ Thirsty, want to drink all the time. ▶ Nausea in morning; N. agg. night. ▶ Burning in stomach. ▶ Stitches in hepatic region. ▶ Pain in each hypochondria; in umbilical region; in abdomen after dinner, then diarrhœa, with burning in anus; in region of inguinal rings, with soreness on rising from a recumbent position; flatulent, in different parts of abdomen; heavy, in umbilical region. ▶ Burning in abdomen after stool.
Stool
Bilious, copious, frequent, painless. ▶ Diarrhœa, with cutting in abdomen; D., with burning in anus before and after stool; painless, in forenoon; yellow, frothy, with tenesmus and burning in anus after stool. ▶ A drastic purge, producing irritation and inflammation of mucous membrane of bowels. ▶ Soft, with pain and flatulence in abdomen; S. and brown; and dark, sticky. ▶ Constipation; with griping in umbilical region. ▶ Hard, and in balls; H. and dark brown; and brown, difficult; first part H. and brown, latter part diarrhœic and greenish-yellow. ▶ Small and brown. ▶ Dark brown.
Urinary Organs
Micturition frequent and copious; frequent, with burning and smarting.
Chest
Expectoration of dark blood. ▶ Pain in left ; in centre at times, by day and night, with foreboding feeling at night; sharp wrenching, in left side at 6 P.M., when walking, with suffocating sensation under sternum, compelling him to stand still, which did not alleviate the pain, the attack being similar to angina pectoris. ▶ Oppression; hindering long breathing.
Pulse
Rapid.
Neck and Back
Neck rigid. ▶ Lame feeling in nape. ▶ Pricking up and down spine. ▶ Sticking under right scapula on stooping. ▶ Pain between scapulæ; under scapula; under right scapula, making breathing difficult; under vertical border of right scapula, agg. moving the part and drawing a long breath; in region of lumbar vertebræ and right sacro-iliac symphysis; in region of lumbar vertebræ in afternoon, with restlessness; in lumbar and dorsal vertebræ at night; in region of sacroiliac symphysis, agg. sitting also in forenoon, and in region of lumbar vertebræ; in lumbar vertebræ, extending through lumbar region and up spine. ▶ Occasional shooting in lumbar region.
Extremities
Pain; in shoulder; right axilla in afternoon; right axilla, extending down arm; left arm; elbows at knees; wrists, extending up arms; thighs and left knee in forenoon; right knee on ascending stairs; ankles; sharp, rheumatic, in shoulders and wrists; occasionally sharp, in calves; cramplike, in hip at night; arms and wrists, as if sprained by hard work; numb, in right axilla, extending down arm along nerves; numb, in arms and wrists in forenoon. ▶ Numbness of left foot when sitting still.
Skin
▶ Exanthematous eruption resembling flush of scarlatina. ▶ Eruption resembling eczema simplex on upper chest, with itching pricking when heated by overexertion. ▶ Pustules on thighs, hips and nates, with itching and burning, a few pustules on body, face and arms. ▶ Itching in spots, now here, now there; I. on arms, amel. scratching, with burning; head, neck and shoulders, with pricking; arms, with burning and redness.
Sleep
Constant yawning, without sleepiness. ▶ Sleepiness. ▶ Sleeplessness; after 3 A.M. ▶ Sleep restless; and light. ▶ Sleep unrefreshing. ▶ Dreams vivid; frightful; frightful all night, and waking covered with sweat; troublesome; of being among Indians; ridiculous.
Fever
Chilliness alternating with flashes of heat C. along spine; beginning in back when near the fire, without coldness of flesh.