ITU.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Resina Itu.
Authority.
Mure, Pathogén. Brésil.
HEAD
- Vertigo, with tendency to fall to the right (first day).
- The head is heavy and falls forward (eighth day).
- Stunning pain in the head, worse on stooping (first day).
- Pressive pain in the forehead and on the eyes (second day).
- Lancination like knife cuts in the right side of the forehead (second day).
- Beating in the right temple; the pain extends to the ear and maxillary joint (second day).
EYE
- Lancinating pain in the left orbit, extending to the eyebrow (eighth day).
- Nictitation of the eyes (eighth day).
- Heaviness of the eyes when walking (eighth day). [10.]
- Burning in the eyelids (eighth day).
- Muscæ volitantes, like pins' heads (eighth day).
EAR
- Earache, from the least dampness, descending to the maxillary joint (first day).
- Sudden detonating sensation in the ear, with frightful pain extending to the teeth, for two or three minutes; this paroxysm recurs at hourly intervals four times during the forenoon (seventh day); the detonations in the ears occur as often as eight times during the day (eighth day).
NOSE
- Frequent sneezing (ninth day).
- Coryza (ninth day).
MOUTH
- Toothache, aggravated by cold drinks (eighth day).
- Red tongue (twelfth day).
- Great difficulty in moving the tongue and in speaking (twelfth day). [20.]
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The tongue feels thick, as if it filled the whole mouth, though really but slightly swollen (twelfth day).
THROAT
- Pain in the throat, with sensation as of a plug in the pharynx (twelfth day).
- Tonsillitis (twelfth day).
STOMACH
- Prolonged hiccoughing (second day).
- Nausea, aggravated by movement (second day).
ABDOMEN
- Pain in the left hypochondrium when bending forward (second day).
- Lancinating pain in the region of the liver, worse when walking or stooping (eighth day).
- Pain in the abdomen, from within outward (first day).
- Cold feeling in the hypogastrium, especially in the evening (first day).
ANUS
- Burning pain at the anus after sitting (eighth day).
STOOL. [30.]
- Profuse painless diarrhœa (seventh day).
- Copious yellow diarrhœic stools (seventh day).
- Involuntary stools (sixth day).
- Bright-yellow stool, which cannot be retained when standing up (ninth day).
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Burning at the vulva, followed by violent itching (ninth day).
CHEST
- Pain in the left breast, worse when walking (twelfth day).
NECK AND BACK
- Great stiffness of the nape of the neck, preventing him from raising or inclining the head (fifth day).
- Pain at the nape of the neck, penetrating to the forehead and causing numbness, and a heaviness which draws the head down (fifth day).
- Pain in the left side of the neck, as from torticollis (second day). [40.]
- Pain in the posterior spine of the ilium, when stretching the leg or rising, for several days in succession (twelfth day).
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Numbness of the legs; he cannot stand upright on rising from a seat (fourth day).
- Heaviness in the legs and weariness in the evening (ninth day).
- Severe pains in the knee-joint (twelfth day).
- Crampy pain from the calf to the heel (ninth day).
- Crampy pain at the tendo Achillis (ninth day).
- Numbness at the ankle-joint, after sitting (first day).
- Great numbness in the ankle-joint, whenever he rises from a seat (seventh day).
- Cramps at the left tarsal joint (sixth day).
SKIN
- Much itching in the right arm, which is covered with deep-red pimples, rounded like pins' heads; the itching ceases in the daytime, but the eruption lasts all day; pimples on the left side of the neck; they are less inflamed, but cause the same itching (fourth day). [50.]
- The pimples on the arm and neck disappear gradually (fifth day).
- Violent itching near the sternal extremity of the right clavicle, followed by a moist eruption, which disappears in six hours (third day).
- Violent itching on the left breast and nipple, especially in the morning (twelfth day).
SLEEP
- Light, but unbroken sleep at night (second day).
FEVER
- The detonations in the ears are followed by profuse sweat (eighth day).
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Itching on breast.
- ( Evening ), Coldness of hypogastrium.
- ( Air ), The pains.
- ( Cold drinks ), Toothache.
- ( Motion ), Nausea.
- ( Sitting ), Burning at anus; numbness in ankle-joint.
- ( Stooping ), Pain in head; pain in left hypochondrium.
- ( Walking ), Heaviness of eyes; pain in breast.