OSTRYA.

Ostrya Virginica, Willd.

Natural order , Cupuliferæ.

Common names , Iron-wood, Hop-hornbeam, Lever-wood.

Preparation , Tincture of the heart-wood.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. W. H. Burt, Trans. West. Inst. of Hom., 1867-8, p. 139, effects of decoction from heart of the tree evaporated to a powder and triturated to 2d dec., dose 20 grains; 1 a , same, second experiment with 20 grains of 3d dec. first day, 40 grains second day, 60 grains third and fourth days; 1 b , same, effects of 2 grains of crude powder; 1 c , same, effects of 5 grains of crude; 2 , E. H. King, Thesis Hahnemann Med. Coll., proving with 3d dil. in water, repeated doses; afterward tincture, doses of 5 to 100 drops; 2 a , same, took 1st dec. trit., 5 to 25-grain doses; 3 , same, proving of Dr. H. T. Snyder, with 50-drop doses of tincture; 4 , same, proving of Dr. W. S. Moffatt, proving with the tincture; 4 a , same, effects of large doses of fluid extract.

HEAD

• Light feeling in the head, with the distress in the epigastric and umbilical regions; walking aggravates the pain in the head (after two hours), 1.
• Light feeling of the head, with the constant slimy taste (second day), 1a.
• Dull headache, with a numb prickling feeling of the head, face, and hands, for the last hour; the head is especially affected (after three hours), 1b.
• Dull headache, at 6 A.M. (second day), 3.
• Slight headache in the morning, which continued most of the day, and in the evening had a sharp pain immediately back of the mastoid process of the temporal bone; the pain seemed to pass from within outwards (twenty-third day), 2.
• Dull headache, with constant distress in the umbilicus (second day), 1a.
• Slight headache, with an uneasy feeling throughout the system (half an hour after second dose, second day), 3.
• Very slight headache, hardly sufficient to notice (twenty-fourth day), 2.
• Slight pain in the head (after eleven hours, third day), 3. [10.]
• By spells numb feeling of the head (after five hours), 1b.
• Forehead.
• Severe headache in the frontal region; at first the headache was of a throbbing character, but gradually it grew more dull; worse on the right side (fifteen hours after first dose, twenty-second day), 2.
• Walking or stooping produces severe throbbing pains in the forehead, passing off in an hour (second day), 1c.
• Dull frontal headache, with frequent nausea, lasting but a moment (after two hours and a half), 1b.
• Dull frontal headache (after fourteen hours), 1c ; (third day), 3.
• Slight frontal headache (after two hours), 1 ; (after ten hours), 1a.
• Temple and Parietals.
• Severe pressing pain in the right temple; (fifteen minutes after first dose, second day), 3.
• Pain in the right temple of a pressing character (fifth day), 3.
• Dull pain in the temples (after five hours), 1a.
• Slight pain in the right temple, and also in the right lower molars (fourth day), . [20.]

EAR

• Drawing pain deeply seated in the left ear (after first dose, second day), 3.

MOUTH

• Boring pain in the right lower molar teeth (after first dose, second day), 3.
• Slight pain in the right lower molars and also in the right temple (fourth day), 3.
• Tongue coated yellow at the root (fourth day), 3.*
• Slimy coppery taste in the mouth (after five hours and 2d and 4th dec.), 1a.
• Slimy taste in the mouth (fourth day), 1a.
• Constant slimy taste in the mouth, all day (third day), 1a.
• Slight bitter taste in the mouth (fourth day), 3. [30.]
• Sweet slimy taste, with distress in the umbilicus, at 2 P.M. (second day), 1c.
• Rough bitter taste in the mouth (second day), 1c.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Appetite very much increased, so that the prover can eat three times the usual quantity (after eleven hours, third day), 3.
• Increase of appetite, 4 ; (twenty-first day), 2.
• Awoke at 4 A.M., with great desire for something to eat (second day), 1a.
• Slight increase of the appetite, 2a.
• Decreased appetite (twenty-second day), 2.
• Loss of appetite for breakfast and dinner (second day), 1c.*
• Not much appetite, in the morning (twenty-second day), 2.
• Nausea.
• Frequent nausea, with the dull frontal headache (after two hours and a half), 1b.* [40.]
• Nausea, with the distress in stomach and bowels (third day), 1a.
• Nausea (after a quarter of an hour, first day), 3.
• Nausea, with the pains in the umbilicus (second day), 1a.
• Nausea, with distress in the umbilicus (after one hour); severe (after three hours), 1a.
• Nausea, with the distress in the epigastric and umbilical regions (first day), 1c.
• Qualmishness, with the distress in stomach and bowels (after one hour), 1.
• General Stomach.
• Stomach sour, with frequent eructations of food (after ten hours), 1b.
• Awoke several times in the night with very sour stomach, with distress and soreness of the stomach and whole of the bowels (third night), 1a.
• Sour stomach, in the evening (first day), 1a.
• Distress in bowels and stomach, with qualmishness (after one hour), 1. [50.]
• Distress in the stomach (after one hour), 1c.
• Burning distress in the stomach (after fifteen minutes), 1.
• Dull distress in the whole epigastrium (after one hour), 1b.
• Uncomfortable sensation in the epigastric region, a sensation as if an indigestible substance were in the stomach, continuing until breakfast (7.30 A.M.), which partially relieved it; it totally disappeared before 12 M. (soon after first dose, sixteenth day); the same sensation as yesterday morning, but to a less extent, and lasting a shorter time (after first dose, seventeenth day), .

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondrium.
• Dull pains in the right hypochondrium, aggravated by walking, with the dull headache and nervousness (after five hours), 1b. [60.]
• Have had constant dull pains in the right lobe of the liver and whole epigastrium for the last hour, with frequent eructations of sour fluid (after seven hours), 1b.
• Umbilicus.
• Retraction of the umbilicus (after nine hours, third day), 3.
• Several times through the day had hard pains in the umbilical region (third day), 1b.
• Hard, sickening pains in the umbilicus at 3 P.M. (second day), 1b.
• Frequent hard, cutting pains in the umbilicus, extending into the hypogastric region, with nausea (after four hours, second day); with desire for stool (after five hours, second day), 1a.
• Neuralgic pain in the umbilical region (after nine hours, third day), 3.
• Distress in the umbilicus with the nausea (after one hour); have had constant distress in umbilicus, with occasional pains in the stomach (after three hours). Have had constant distress in the umbilicus, with frequent sharp pains in same region and stomach (after five hours); constant and severe pain in umbilicus all the evening (first day); several times this morning have had a dull distress in the umbilicus (second day), 1a.
• Hard, aching distress in the umbilical region, with severe nausea; the distress extends all over the bowels, but is the greatest in the umbilicus; this has been the leading symptom (second day), 1a.
• Occasional pain in the umbilical region, with borborygmus and tenesmus (third day), 3.
• General Abdomen.
• Rumbling in the bowels (after five hours); for the last hour loud rumbling of the bowels, with pains in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, and desire for stool, relieved with frequent emissions of very fetid gas from the bowels, showing that the liver is very prominently affected (after eleven hours, third day), 1a. [70.]
• Some flatus (second night), 3.
• Flatus, followed by a loose stool (eleven hours after first dose, second day), 3.
• Have had frequent spells of distress in the abdomen, with rumbling in the bowels (after fourteen hours), 1c.
• Cutting colicky pains in the abdomen, followed in a short time by a mushy stool, accompanied with burning at the anus and slight tenesmus, in the afternoon (twenty-fourth day), .

RECTUM AND STOOL

• The rectum feels sore; a protruded feeling after stool (fourth day), 3.
• Desire for stool; natural stool, first one to-day (after three hours), 1a.
• Slight inclination for stool, at 8 A.M. (fourth day), 3. [80.]
• Loose stool (eleven hours after first dose, second day); with slight tenesmus, in the morning (third day); bilious stool with tenesmus and straining; afterwards (at noon) a bilious stool, very thin, with pressing for stool afterwards; in the evening a watery stool with tenesmus and sore feeling in the rectum (fourth day); loose stool without tenesmus (fifth day), 3.
• Severe tenesmus (after seven hours), followed by diarrhœic stool; tenesmus continued an hour and a half (third day), 3.
• Mushy stool, accompanied with burning at the anus and slight tenesmus, in the afternoon (twenty-fourth day), 2.
• Soft stool (after five hours, second day); dark-colored mushy, very fetid stool, with distress in the whole of the bowels (after two hours, fourth day), 1a.
• Natural dark-colored stool (after fourteen hours), 1c.
• Small natural stool (after two hours and a half); natural stool (after seven hours); black, dry, lumpy stool at 6 P.M. (second day); stool of natural consistence, but very black (third day), 1b.

BACK

• Back so painful that it is with difficulty that I can turn over in bed (after thirteen hours); so painful that I cannot stand erect; it is a regular attack of lumbago, whether caused by the Ostryin or not, remains to be proved (after sixteen hours); the pains in the back remained four days, I took Macrotin, Bry. and Nux, to relieve it, the pain was so severe. A year ago I had an attack of lumbago which lasted a week, 1.
• Dull pains in the whole dorsal region (after ten hours), 1b.
• Have had a great deal of pain in the dorsal region, extending into the left hypochondriac region (third day), 1a.
• 5 P.M. since 2, have had constant pain in the lumbar region, worse when stooping or walking (after seven hours), 1.

EXTREMITIES. [90.]

• Arms and legs ache (after five hours), 1b.
• Dull pains in the arms and legs (after seven hours), 1b.
• Fine drawing rheumatic pains in the first joint of the left forefinger and little finger, lasting ten minutes (after five hours), 1a.
• Fine drawing pains in the fingers (second day), 1c.
• Frequent drawing pains in the fingers in the morning (third day), 1a.
• Awoke several times with a cramplike pain in the lower extremities (first night), 3.
• Pain in the lower extremities, worse when walking (third day), 3.
• Drawing pains in the right ankle (first day), 1c.

GENERALITIES

• Very nervous, with dull headache, and dull pains in the right hypochondrium, aggravated by walking (after five hours), 1b.
• Feeling nervous (first day), 1c. [100.]
• Numb, prickling feeling of the head, face and hands, the head is especially affected, with the dull headache (after three hours), 1b.
• Feeling very languid (after ten hours), 1b.
• Feeling languid, with constant pain in the lumbar and sacral region (after eleven hours), 1.
• Feeling of weakness or debility, with gentle perspiration covering the entire surface (after eleven hours, third day), 3.
• Uneasy feeling throughout the system, with slight headache (half an hour after second dose, second day), 3.
• Slept well, but feeling as though I had not slept any (second morning), 1b.
• The system feels as though I had been acted upon by an active or drastic purgative (after eleven hours, third day), 3.
• A slight tonic effect, 4a.

SLEEP

• Constant disposition to yawn (after ten hours), 1b.
• Rested and slept much better than the previous night (twenty-second day), 2. [110.]
• Slept well and sound (twenty-third night), 2.
• Slept well all night (third night), 3.
• Did not sleep well, was very restless, as if produced by strong tea (fourth night), 3.
• Slept but little, was not sleepy (twentieth night), 2.

FEVER

• Cold, chilly sensations about the shoulders (second day), 1b.
• Gentle perspiration covering the entire surface, with a feeling of weakness or debility (after eleven hours, third day), 3.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), 6 A.M., headache; right lateral headache; loss of appetite; dull distress in umbilicus; drawing pain in fingers.
• ( Afternoon ), Sickening pain in epigastrium; 3 P.M., pain at umbilicus; mushy stool with burning at the anus.
• ( Evening ), Sharp pain back of mastoid process of temple; sour stomach; sickening pain at epigastrium; pain in umbilicus.
• ( Night ), Cutting pain in epigastric region.
• ( Moving ), Distress in bowels.
• ( Stooping ), Throbbing pain in forehead; pain in lumbar region.
• ( Walking ), Throbbing pain in forehead; pain in head; pain in right hypochondrium; pain in lumbar region; pain in lower extremities.