Cajuputum caj.

Cajuput Oil (OLEUM WITTNEBIANUM)

Acts like Oil of Cloves. A remedy for flatulence and affections of the tongue. Sense of enlargement. Causes copious diaphoresis. Retrocedent gout. Neuralgic affections not inflammatory. Nervous dyspnœa.

Feels much enlarged. As if he could not get himself together (Baptisia).

Persistent sensation of choking. Spasmodic stricture of œsophagus. Constricted sensation on swallowing solid food. Tongue feels swollen, fills whole mouth.

Hiccough, on slightest provocation.

Flatulence colic; tympanites (Tereb). Nervous distention of bowels. Urine smells like cat's urine. Spasmodic cholera.

Worse, about 5 am; night.

Compare: Bovist; Nux mosch; Asaf; Ign; Bapt.

First to third potency (5 drops of oil).

Cajuput oil distilled (in water) from leaves of Melaleuca leucadendron. Variety, M. cajupute minor. (Moluccas.) N. O. Myrtaceæ. Solution of the oil in rectified Spirit.

Deafness. Diarrhœa (night). Dropsy. Epilepsy. Gout. Headache. Heartburn. Hiccough. Hysteria. Menstruation, disorders of. Œsophagus, stricture of. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Tongue, affections of; swelling of. Toothache. Urinary disorders. Vertigo.

Cajutut has a reputation in the old school as a local application in rheumatism, and also in cases of dysmenorrhœa. It has had a homœopathic proving, and some very characteristic symptoms have been developed. A feeling of enlargement; too large all over; as if head as large as half a bushel. Feeling as though could not get himself together ( Bapt .); could not get his clothes for a time, though they were quite near. As if poisoned. As if the arms were tied to the body; heavy; useless. Numb feeling all over. A measles-like eruption; intense itching. Many nervous symptoms are developed, some reflected from the female sexual organs. There is the persistent choking sensation of hysteria; nervous dyspnœa; nervous distension of the bowels. Earache and faceache; the lobe of the ear is red; alæ nasi suddenly turn red; nose appears swollen. It has cured obstinate hiccough from slightest provocation, talking, laughing, eating, or any motion. Symptoms appear and disappear suddenly; come at 5 a.m.; disappear suddenly on eating. Many symptoms are < at night. Smoking = desire to vomit.

Compare: Bov. (swollen sensations); Plantago (earache, toothache); Colch. (gout and rheumatism); Aco. and Bell. (effects of checked sweat). Eucalyptus, Eugenia caryophyllacea (clove), Eugenia jambos and the Brazil-nut tree belong to the same order.

Effects of checked perspiration.

Averse to being spoken to, though likes to hear other people talk. — Can't bear to look inside the books he usually studies; can think of a thousand things in a minute. — Prefers to walk alone, slowly. — Feels better in the society of ladies, and can talk with them (though naturally bashful); he does not like to talk with the men.

Intoxicated feeling, feels as if he would stumble over his own legs. — Head feels enlarged; dull and heavy; in occiput. — Frontal headache, esp. in eyes, < on bending forward. — Severe headache 5 a.m., with prosopalgia and stiffness of jaws.

Heavy feeling in eyes; upper lids feel as heavy and thick as leather.

Lobules of ears turn red.

During day alæ nasi suddenly turn red, redness suddenly disappearing. — Nose is most prominent; looks as if large and extending out from face on looking down.

Face feels all puffed up. — Cannot hurt skin of face by pinching it. — Face feels rough. — Stiff, dry feeling in jaws, with neuralgic pains in malar bones, and severe headache all over head on waking at 5 a.m.

Tongue feels swollen; as if it filled mouth all up, making her lisp, feels scalded; looks white and rough. — Profuse salivation. — Speech thick and slow. — Acrid taste.

Constant inclination to spit and hawk up large quantities of tough white mucus, which he could feel drawn through the nares. — Feels closed up. — Œsophagus: paralysed; swollen sensation; constricted, < attempting to swallow solid food. — Burning in pharynx and œsophagus. — Persistent sensation of choking.

Burning in throat down to stomach. — Nausea.

Rectum paralysed. — Bright yellow diarrhœa < night. — Choleraic diarrhœa from sudden check of perspiration.

Urine diminished, milky; smells like cat's urine.

Erections with great desire. — Erections all night, and long after rising, but without the least desire. — Penis soon became shrivelled up.

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

Warmth down trachea into lungs. — Hoarseness. — Cough causing vomiting. — Nervous dyspnœa. — Sharp pain through apices of both lungs from before backward (esp. r.).

All the muscles of the neck are very sensitive to pressure.

Rheumatic symptoms (Cajuput oil is a common remedy as an application to rheumatic joints). — Pain as if joints were enlarged.

Arms feel like soaked wood hanging to one. — Left arm feels out of joint.

Weakness in both knees. — Stitching pains in knees on rising in bed.

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.

Nervous vertigo.

Headache (a few drops rubbed on affected locality).

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

Toothache (applied to cavity of carious tooth).

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

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

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

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.

Choleraic diarrhœa from sudden check of perspiration.

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

Nervous dyspnœa.

Epilepsy ; palsy ; paralysis ; hysteria.

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

Chronic rheumatism.
Dropsy.

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

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

The Oil of Cajuput, obtained from the leaves of Melaleuca leucadendron, L. (Myrtaceæ), is diluted with Alcohol for use.

Trembling, with sensation as if a good deal larger all over. ▶ Sensation as if larger all over. ▶ Feeling all the afternoon as if just getting over a drunken spree. ▶ I feel and walk as if I had taken too much larger. ▶ General feeling as if poisoned. ▶ Weakness; in morning; with sleepiness. ▶ General heavy dull feeling after going to bed. ▶ Numbness, especially in face. ▶ Amelioration after supper; A. on lying down.

Sad, as if I could cry, do not want to be spoken to, feel better in society of ladies. ▶ Do not want any one to speak to me but like to see people and hear them talk. ▶ Want to walk in a slow and very dignified manner, and prefer to walk alone. ▶ Felt at 10 P.M. as if I could not get myself together and could not find my clothes, although they were quite near, felt better in open air. ▶ Dull and stupid feeling at 8.30 A.M., with no energy. ▶ Stupefied and intoxicated feeling all the afternoon. ▶ Cannot think of anything, cannot bear to work or study. ▶ Can think of a thousand things in a minute.

Aching on waking at 5 A.M., with neuralgia in malar-bones and stiff dry feeling in jaws; A. on rising at 5 A.M., suddenly amel. at breakfast, with prosopalgia; at sunset and lasting all night, after riding in afternoon and evening, with pain in face. ▶ Neuralgia almost every day and every other night, suddenly amel. on eating, and in face. ▶ Dull heavy feeling; in morning on rising, amel. after moving around; full and dull heavy feeling, afterwards settling in occipital region. ▶ Dull feeling. ▶ Feeling as if as large as a half-bushel. ▶ Vertigo when walking, can hardly walk straight, feeling as if I should stumble over my own legs. ▶ Sticking above orbital arches, amel. pressure of hand, agg. removing hand. ▶ Frontal headache, especially in eyes, agg. bending forward. ▶ Pain over left eye.

Look about E. as he had taken too much liquid. ▶ Dull look. ▶ Pain in right; pungent, with lachrymation. ▶ Heaviness without sleepiness. ▶ Upper lids feel as heavy and thick as shoe leather. ▶ Burning in left inner canthus. ▶ Inability to see at midnight on going out of doors, rubbed his eyes to bring sight.

Redness of lobules of ears; sudden, clearly defined, of alæ of nose. ▶ Nose is most prominent, on looking down it looks large and as if extending out from face. ▶ Face yellow. ▶ Rough feeling in F. ▶ Puffed-up feeling in F. ▶ Insensibility to pinching in F. ▶ Pain through left malar-bone.

Aching in unsound bicuspids when biting anything. ▶ Tongue white and rough, looking like a calf's with feeling as if scalded and as if the skin would peel off. ▶ Feeling as if the tongue filled the mouth. ▶ Speech thick and slow. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Taste as of lye; T. between sour and bitter; sweetish now (always had been salt); acrid, in pharynx and œsophagus.

Constant inclination to spit and hawk up much tough white mucus, which I could feel drawn through nares. ▶ Burning in lower part; B. down to stomach.

Sensation as if lye from wood ashes had been swallowed. ▶ Soreness in morning, agg. thinking about eating. ▶ Seemed to close and prevent swallowing. ▶ Feeling during breakfast as if solid food lodged until forced down by more food, after breakfast pain as if swollen and constricted and as if something were trying to force through it, agg. after dinner and supper, and on attempting to swallow solid food.

Appetite good, but unnatural feeling while eating, the eating seeming to be performed mechanically; A. disappeared when I got what I had desired; lost. ▶ Thirst; then salt taste; no T. ▶ Nausea; from smoking tobacco; on rising from a seat.

Has proved valuable in obstinate hiccough on the slightest provocation, talking, laughing, eating or any motion.

Griping on riding. ▶ Ineffectual urging to stool, with paralyzed feeling in rectum. ▶ Itching around anus. ▶ Watery frequent, yellowish diarrhœa, agg. at night. ▶ Stools frequent, bright yellow, afterward delayed. ▶ Stool small in morning on rising.

Micturition delayed, urine dark red, smelling like that of cats. ▶ Diminished urine; and sparkling; with milky appearance and smelling like that of cats. ▶ Erections, with great desire; E. all night and long after rising, but without desire, penis soon becoming shrivelled and not half its usual size. ▶ Desire gone.

Hoarseness. ▶ Warmth down trachea into lungs. ▶ Cough, with strangulation; C. almost causing vomiting. ▶ Pain across chest; in right side below ribs; in right lung; sharp, through superior part of lungs; occasional sharp, through lungs; sharp, from before backward through superior and internal parts of right lung. ▶ Soreness across chest, with pain in left shoulder. ▶ Lungs felt loose while riding and as if I must hold them together by pressing on them.

Pulse rapid; full and strong; P. weak. ▶ Sensitiveness of cervical muscles to pressure. ▶ Pain in dorsal surface of left scapula. ▶ Stitches through right lumbar region when stooping.

Almost complete loss of sensibility on outer side of thighs and dorsal surfaces of forearms and hands, with sensitiveness to pinching on inside of thighs and palma surface of hands. ▶ Enlarged feeling in joints, with some pain; in shoulder-joints. ▶ Pain on pressure on inside of shoulder, agg. left.

Dislocated feeling in left, with pain on raising it. ▶ Tired in morning on rising, and heavy. ▶ Feeling as if tied to body, agg. left ; and left particularly numb, with feeling as if they would tremble if I would let them. ▶ Feeling like soaked wood hanging to me, after breakfast. ▶ When raised, feeling as if they would drop in spite of me. ▶ Weakness of elbows, with lame feeling. ▶ Laming sensation in carpal bones of wrist.

Stitches through at midnight on rising in bed. ▶ Pain. ▶ Weakness when walking; with pain, so that walking was difficult.

Eruption as thick as measles all over arms and body and upper par of legs. ▶ Itching, agg. scratching.

Gaping and stretching. ▶ Desire to sleep with arms locked under his head. ▶ Sleep unsound. ▶ Amorous dreams without emissions; unpleasant D., and in the latter part of the dreams disposition to swear and act like a rowdy.

Cold feeling, with cold sweat. ▶ Burning in face. ▶ Profuse and weakening sweat.