The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Cajuputum caj.
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.