Condensed Materia Medica

Leptandra Virginica lept.

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Mind

Desponding; drowsy; with hepatic derangement.

Inner Head

Constant dull frontal headache; worse in temples, with aching in umbilicus.

Eyes

Smarting and aching in the eyes.

Tongue, etc

Tongue yellow or black down the centre.

Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea, with deathly faintness on rising.
Vomiting of bile, yellow tongue, shooting pains about the liver, black stools.

Stomach

Weak sensation at the pit of stomach.
Great distress in the stomach and small intestines, with immediate desire for stool.
Burning, aching; in stomach and liver, worse from drinking water.

Hypochondria

Dull aching in liver, worse near gall-bladder.
Burning distress in back part of liver and in spine.
Jaundice, with clay-colored stools.

Abdomen

Rumbling and distress in whole bowels, especially in hypogastrium, with black stools.
Constant dull aching in the umbilical region.
Sharp, distressing pains between navel and epigastrium.

Stool, etc

Stools: black, tarry, bilious, undigested, followed by great distress in the liver; mushy, with weak feeling in the bowels; greenish, muddy, spouting out like water; worse morning as soon as he moves; from meat or vegetables.
After stool, griping, but no straining.

Urine

Red, with dull aching in the limber region.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses suppressed or retarded; liver affected.

Heart and Pulse

Soreness in the cardiac region.
Pulse slow and full.

Neck and Back

Sore, lame feeling in the small of the back.

Upper Limbs

Pain in the right shoulder and arm.

Position, etc

Moving: 20. On rising: 16.

Time

Morning: 20.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilly along the spine and down the arm.
Shivering, or dry, hot skin; limbs cold and numb; tongue black down the centre. θ Bilious fever.