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8) SPIGELIA MARILANDICA
Common name - worm grass
Tincture - from root.
Has a predominant action on central nervous system. It produces complete mental derangement. There will be fits of laughing and cryings, running and skipping about, wild and incoherent talk, wild, staring expression with strabismus of right eye and dilated pupil. Face will be flushed.
Drowsiness, on attempting erect position, the patient is seized with general tremor lasting a few seconds & leaving the patient exhausted.

(9) UPAS TIENTE
Common name - upas tree
Tincture prepared from Juice of root and bark
It is used as an arrow poison and produces tonic spasms, tetatanus and asphyxia.

• Mentally the patients are depressed and melancholic. Cold and repelling to friends Irritable and quarrelsome.

• Severe neuralgic sharp shooting pain over the forehead, temple and eye especially of left side. Parts are painful and hot to touch >open air.

• Eyes are weak as after sexual excess lids so heavy that they close involuntarily as if from irresistible drowsiness.

• Coryza with nostrils stopped up, changing every few minute, preventing sleep. smell of manure in nose.

• Painful deglutition, pain as from splinter in left side of throat making deglutition painful, as if food were prevented passing in to stomach by foreign body in oesophagus. Swallowing of fluids becomes difficult.

• Appetite totally lost Aversion to all food especially meat and eggs, the mere thought of which causes nausea. Eructation tasting of ingesta all day. Flatulency sharp colic in return>passing fetid flatus .

• Pain in the region of right kidney, during the night. Frequent urging to urinate with burning in urethra. Urine scanty and dark.

• Sexual functions are diminished coition painful and followed by great depression.

• Hangnails, itching and redness of roots of nails.

• Clonic spasms of muscle, of nape of neck or extremities; frequently repeated on the slightest irritation. Muscles relaxed completely in between.
  Fever with chilliness shivering along spine and both arms. Drawinsess.

GENERAL FEATURES

1.Over sensitiveness:-
Nuxvomica :- Over impressionable and sensitive to all external impression-cannot bear odors, noises, light, draught, air etc. Even harmless words offend.
GELSEMIUM: Very sensitive to external impressions. Excitement, shocks, fright, unusal ordeals etc bring about bodily ailments.
Ignatia:- Hyperaesthesia of all senses.
Spigelia:- Very sensitive to touch. Parts touched feels chilly; send shudder through out body. Sensitive to cold, wet stormy weather.
Upas:- Increased sensitiveness to cold.

2. Depression of mind and great irritability:
Gelsemium:- Extremely nervous and irritable. Every exciting news causes diarrhoea. Desires to be let alone, does not wish to be spoken to yet there is dread of being alone. Suicidal inclination wants to throw oneself from a height.
Spigelia Marilandica:- Maniacal excitement with running and skipping, paroxysmal laughing and crying, loud and incoherent talk.
Curare:- Depression with inabilityto think or study. Very indolent and sleepy Patient desires to be let alone.
Upas:- Depression and melancholy. Irritability, moroseness and crossness very cold to friends.
Spigelia anthelmia:- Sadness and discouragement to the extent of suicidal mania. Afraid of pointed things, pins etc.
Ignatia:- Hysterical temperament predominates, melancholic with love of solitude. Changeable disposition. Alternation of foolish gaietyand tearful sadness.
Nux Vomica: Oversensitive and hypochondriacal. Even harmless words offend. Suicidal thoughts but is afraid to die. Impulsive with insane desire to kill her husband whom she adores. Spitefull and malicious disposition. Quarrelsome, even to violence.
Brucea:- Gloomy, melancholic, tanciturn and hypochondriacal. Sad and gloomy humour on waking in the morning

3. Paralystic action:
Many medicines of this family has prominent action upon spinal cord. They act as depressants and has a paralysing action upon motor nerves with sparing of sensations.
Gelsemium:- Acts on the anterior column of spinal cord producing muscular paresis. Extreme muscular weakness, prostration and inco-ordination. Paralysis of muscles of different parts of the-body of third nerve causing ptosis, diplopia, dimvision and strabismus of muscle, around mouth and pharynx causing difficulty in speech and swallowing, of larynx causing hoarseness of voice and aphonia, of extremities causing locomtor ataxia, of heart produces of sensation as if it will cease to beat if he didn’t more. In cases of poisoning, death occurs due to respiratoryparalysis from depression respiratory centre.
Curare:- Produces motor nerve paralysis but sensations are spared. Paralysis of various parts. In eyes it produces ptosis, in face - facial and buccal paralysis with deviation to the right. Paralysis of extremities with numbness tingling and leaden heaviness.
Upas:- Ptosis, eyelids heavy, close involuntarily from irresistible drowsiness Eyes weak as after sexual excess.
Spigelia anthelmia:- Acronarcotic producing numbness of hands and feet. Squint from worm affections.

4. Spasmodic Affection:
Most of them are useful in spasms convulsion, tetanus with lock jaw, chorea etc.
Curare: Epilepsy, catalepsy There is immobility with fixed gaze on waking.
GELSEMIUM: Convulsions occurring in children and young people of nervous excitable nature. Useful in infantile spasms where there in incessant quivering of the chin.
Upas: Tonic-clonic spasms, tetanus, violent stitches in extensors with sudden jerking of whole body followed by clonic spasms of muscles of nape of neck and extremities. Attacks repeated spontaneously on slightest irritation. Muscle completely relaxed in between the attacks and there is great weakness after paroxysm.
Ignatia: Hysterical spasms and convulsion especially after fright, worry, grief and also associated with difficult dentition. Epileptic convulsions with foam at mouth. Face red or alternately pale and red.
Nux vomica: Excitability of whole nervous system with great over sensitiveness to all external impressions. Every distressing emotion brings recurrent epileptic fits. Convulsions with consciousness spasms with tetanic rigidity of nearly all muscles of the body. In between the attacks the muscles are relaxed.

5. Neuralgic Pain
Gelsemium: Orbital neuralgia in distinct paroxysms. with intense pain over the right eye. Bruised feeling in eyes Dim vision, diplopia, ptosis and aversion to light.
Curare: Sharp, stitching pain over right eye with ptosis and black spots before vision. Unbearable earache. With lancinating pain starting from ears and extending down to legs.
Spigelia: Facial neuralgia-left sided involving eye, zygoma, cheek, teeth & temple cannot bear slightest touch or movement with shining swelling of affected side<from morning until sunset <motion,noise, steping etc.
Ciliary neuralgla involving left eye. Eye feel to large with severe pressing pain on turning them. Weakness of eye with ptosis redness and photophobia.
Spigelia marilandica: Pain in and around the right eye with sensation of stiffness of eyelids strabismus of right eye with wild staring look.
Nuxvomica: Infra orbital neuralgia. with watering of eyes, orbital twitching <in morning> by lying in bed.

6. FEVER WITH PREDOMINANCE OF CHILL STATE
Brucea: Chill every other day with shaking yawning and stretching with cold feet.
Curare: Chill from stomach, on abdomen, chill creeping up the back and spreading all over chill without thirst.
Nuxromica: Cold stage predominates must be covered in all stages of fever. Excessive rigor with blueness of fingernails. Burning heat of body especially of face. Yet cannot move or uncover without feeling chilly.
Ignacia: Chill with thirst, not relieved by external heat. During fever, itching, nettle rash all over the body.
Gelsemium: Influenza. Chillness so severe that the patient wants to be held, chill, wavelike up and down the back. Thirstless. Heat and sweat stage prolonged and exhausting. Face flushed with a besotted look and apathy regarding his illness.
Upas: Feels chilly very easily. Shivering along spine and both arms.

7. TOBACCO AGGRAVATION
Gels: Tobacco smoking causes occipital headache. Indicated in nervous affections of cigar makers.
Ignatia: Cannot bear tobacco in any form. Toothache and congestive headache aggravated after smoking.
Nuxvomica: Gastric disturbances from tobacco.
Spigelia: Toothache from smoking. Repugnance to tobacco smoke and snuff.

8. AGGRAVATION OF COMPLAINTS FROM COFFEE
Ignatia: <from coffee
Nuxvomica: Dyspepsia from drinking strong coffee.
Spigelia: Disike for Coffee.
An exception is Geisemium which has > from alcoholic stimulants.

9. Genarel aggravation during summer season
Brucea: Headache in the evening, after having walked long in sun
Gelsemium: General depression from heat of sun. Occipital headache. spreading all over with dim vision and dizziness.
Spigelia: Headache increasing and decreasing with the sun.
Nuxvomica: Headache aggravated from sunshine.

10. AGGRAVATION FROM CHANGE OF WEATHER
Gelsemium: Complaints from sudden change from hot or dry to damp weather<damp, cold atmosphere.
Spigelia: Sensitive to wet, stormy weather.
Nuxvomica: Though sensitive to cold the general< in dry weather> in wet weather.

11. ACTION ON CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM:
Gelemium: Irregular beating of heart; sensation as if unless on the , go the heart will stop beating. A feeling as if it were necessary to keep in motion or else hearts action would cease to beat. Pulse soft, feeble and slow but greatly accelerated on motion.
Spigelia anthelmia: Rheumatic carditis - pericarditis with sticking pain, palpitation and dyspnoea aggravated from movement. Angina pectoris with neuralgia extending to arms, craving for hot water which>. Dyspnoea must lie on right side with head high ,pulse weak and irregular.
Ignatia: Cardiac hyperaesthesia, palpitation<at night and during repose.
Nuxvomica: Palpitation<after eating, from coffee, from overexertion associated with nausea and heainess in chest.
Upas: Severe palpitalion <after going to bed. Pulse frequent, weak and small.

12. ACTION UPON URINARY ORGANS
Gelsemium: Partial paralysis of bladder with retention or intermittent flow. Incontinence of nervous children profuse, clear, watery urine along with headache which> the headache.
Nuxvomica: Irritable bladder from spasmodic sphincter. Ineffectual urging and strangury. Frequent calls, passes little and often. Renal colic with haematuria and pain extending to genitals.
Curare: Diabetes mellitus Urine clear, frequent and contains sugar. Great emaciation, dryness of mouth and thirst during evening and night crampy pain in kidneys.
Upas: Pain in right kidney at night. Frequent urging to urinate with burning in urethra at 8.a.m urine scanty, dark brown in colour and evacuated with great effort.

13. ACTION ON GENITALIA
Gelsemium: Dsymenorrhoea with scanty flow. Aphonia and sorethroat during menses.
In males, genital, are‘cold and relaxed. Spermatorrhoea without erection.
Curare: Dsymenorrhoca. Menses too early. Thick, purulent and offensive leucorrhoca.
Ignatia: Menses black scanty or too profuse, tooearly. Suppression of menses from grief.
Nuxvomica: Irregular menses. Too early and too long lasting. Dark blood. Dsymenorrhoea with constant urging to stool. Inefficient labour pains with frequent urging for stool and frequent urination.
In males, impotence from sexual excess.

14. ACTION ON DIGESTIVE ORGANS:
Gelsemium: Gastric upset from fever, sudden emotions, fright, grief, bad news, anticipation of any unusual ordeal etc. Stool loose, yellow or cream coloured. Paralysis of sphincter ani with disposition to prolapse ani.
Upas: Total loss of appetite with aversion to all food especially meat and egg. Eructation tasting of ingesta all day along.
Curare: Empty gone feeling in stomach Frequent and annoying hiccough.
Spigelia anthelmia: Inability to bear tight clothing around umbilicus. Least contact causes anguish with redness and heat of face.Hard and difficult evacuation with frequent ineffectual urging. Itching and crawling in rectum due to worm trouble.
Ignatia: All gone feeling in stomach Sinking in stomach > by taking a deep breath. Hiccough always after eating and drinking, from smoking and emotional disturbances. Aversion to ordinary diet with longing for great variety of indigestible articles. Haemorihoids with pain, haemorr hage and prolapse. Pain <during cough Pain and worse haemorrhage worse when stool is loose. Diarrhoea from fright.
Nuxvomica: Weight and pain in stomach.painful sensitiveness to least pressure. Tight clothes are insupportable. Liver engorged with stitches and soreness from alcohic excess. constipation with ineffectual urging constipation
and bleeding piles from abuse of allopothic drugs and other stimulants. Nausea and vomiting every morning with depression of spirits.

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