GOSSYPIUM.

Gossypium herbaceum, L. (include G. album, Ham., "short staple," and G. nigrum, Ham., Sea Island cotton).

Natural order , Malvaceæ.

Common name , Cotton plant.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authority.

Dr. W. Williamson; proving by a lady (dose not mentioned); Hahnemannian Monthly, 4, 315.

MIND

• Uneasiness and anxiety, with sighing.

HEAD

• Pain, first drawing, then stinging, extending from both temporal bones to middle of frontal bone.
• Stinging pain in head, going from forehead to vertex.
• Knocking pain in right parietal bone.

EYE

• Drawing pain over the eyes, with stinging pain in the pupils.

NOSE

• Both nostrils swollen and inflamed, the left one most.

MOUTH

• Taste of bad (rotten) eggs (similar to the taste produced by large doses of Hepar. sulph., and is that of sulphuretted hydrogen); better after breakfast.

THROAT

• Tonsils much swollen, the right one most.

STOMACH

• Nausea, with accumulation of saliva in mouth. [10.]
• Nausea, with inclination to vomit, before breakfast; in the morning.
• Drawing pain from both hypochondriac regions to pit of stomach.
• Rotating pain in pit of stomach.

ABDOMEN

• Stitching pain in right hypochondrium, lasting for a few minutes.
• The pains in the hypochondriac regions come and go.
• Soft tumor between the left thigh and vulva, at first the size of a pea, and increased to the size of a pigeon's egg, secreting a watery fluid, with sticking pain as if caused by a needle, worse at night.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Stinging pain in both ovarian regions, and at the same time drawing towards the uterus, lasting about ten minutes at a time.
• The pains in the ovarian regions come and go.
• Swelling of the outer part of left labium, accompanied by intolerable itching. Some swelling in the right labium, but less than in the left.
• Menses too watery, and nineteen days too late.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. [20.]

• Tearing pains in right arm and hand.
• Heavy feeling in both hands, better when hanging them down, and worse in the warmth of bed.
• Jumping pains from one finger to another.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Trembling in both legs when standing; better when sitting or lying.
• Temporary twitching in both legs, changing from one to the other.
• Weariness and crushed feeling in both legs, particularly when going upstairs, and better when lying down.
• Tearing pain from the lower part of the right thigh down to the instep, then jumping over to the left leg.
• Twitching in both thighs, proceeding from the hip to the knee.
• Sensation as if the marrow in the bones of the legs was being squeezed out.
• Drawing pain in the caps of both knees, and from calves to the ankles. [30.]
• Continual drawing pain in legs, from above downwards.
• Drawing pain in right shin-bone, from the knee to the ankle.
• Severe contracting pain in left foot, worse from motion and better from rest.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• General lassitude, with pains at if beaten.
• The pains are of a stinging, drawing, tearing, and sometimes burning character, extending from one place to another, or jumping from one place to another, and from one limb to the opposite one.
• The pains generally take the direction from above downwards.

SKIN

• Eruptions.
• Round little spots around the left ankle, which itch intensely.
• Small, round, dark-red spots, with pale-red circles, around the knee-caps and over the shin-bones. These spots itch very much, and scratching brings on intense burning.
• The outer skin of both labia studded with innumerable pale, somewhat reddish granules.
• Pale-red papular eruptions on the backs of both hands, with intense itching; scratching is followed by a watery exudation.
• Subjective. [40.]
• The itching of the eruption on the skin turns to burning after scratching.
• Itching of the skin over the whole body.
• Soreness between the thighs and vulva, with a watery secretion.
• Crawling sensation in all the fingers, as if from the moving of worms.

FEVER

• Chilliness of whole body externally, with heat internally.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Before breakfast, nausea.
• ( Night ), Pain in tumor between thigh and vulva.
• ( Motion ), Most pains.
• ( Warmth of bed ), Heavy feeling in hands.
• Amelioration.
• ( After breakfast ), Bad taste.
• ( Hanging the parts down ), Heavy feeling in hands.
• ( Rest ), Most pains.

SUPPLEMENT: GOSSYPIUM. Authority.

2 , Van de Waker on Criminal Abortion, p. 54, a girl took a tablespoonful of the extract every two or three hours.

• Headache, 2.
• Frequent desire to urinate, with burning pain, 2.
• Pain in back, 2.
• Caused her to sleep a great share of her time, 2.