The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Cajuputum caj.

Hering, 1879–91 (1879)In every bookSave

General

Oil of Cajeput. Myrtaceæ.
A tree indigenous to East Indian islands. The oil is obtained by distilling the leaves in water ; it is limpid, green, of an odor suggesting camphor, rosemary and mint. --American Homœopathic Pharmacopœia.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Hale's Symptomology and Therapeutics ; Parsons' A. O., vol. 12 ; Affection of tongue , Guernsey, Hom. Phys., vol. 8, p. 593.

Sensorium

Nervous vertigo.

Inner head

Headache (a few drops rubbed on affected locality).

Hearing and ears

Deafness (mixed with almond oil and applied on cotton).

Teeth and gums

Toothache (applied to cavity of carious tooth).

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue felt swollen, seemed to fill whole mouth, making her lisp.

Palate and throat

Persistent sensation of choking.
Nervous dysphagia or spasmodic stricture of œsophagus.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Spasmodic hiccough after an attack of apoplexia nervosa.
Nervous vomiting or vomiting of hysterical persons.

Abdomen and loins

Nervous distension of bowels, reflex from uterine disorder.
Tympanitis in typhoids.
Flatulent colic, particularly when produced by cold or by retrocession of inflammation, gouty or otherwise, of the skin or extremities.

Stools and rectum

Choleraic diarrhœa from sudden check of perspiration.

Female sexual organs

Menses suspended or diminished and attended with pain, when caused by a cold or check of perspiration.

Respiration

Nervous dyspnœa.

Nerves

Epilepsy ; palsy ; paralysis ; hysteria.

Sensations

Tongue as if swollen.
Aching : in head ; in teeth.
Choking sensation : in throat.

Tissues

Chronic rheumatism.
Dropsy.

Stage of life, constitution

Miss B., æt. 21, suffering a week or more ; affection of tongue.

Relations

Compare : Plantago in earache and toothache ; Colchic . in gouty affections and rheumatism ; Acon . and Bellad . in effects of checked sweat.