Condensed Materia Medica

Xanthoxylum Fraxineum xan.

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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 dysmenorrhœa.

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.