Condensed Materia Medica

Myrica Cerifera myric.

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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 diarrhœa 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.