Helianthus annuus, Linn.

Natural order , Compositæ.

Common names , Sunflower; Sonnenrose; Le Tournesol.

Preparation , Tincture of the flower heads.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Cessoles took expressed juice of the flowers, B. J. of Hom., 2, 169 (trans. from Bib. Hom. de Genève.); 2 , effects on a lady, aged 40, ibid.; 3 , A. H. Z., 31, p. 20 (apparently from Bib. Hom. de Genève., though the symptoms differ very materially from preceding; the original is not accessible), effets on a man; 4 , effects on a girl; 5 , Davey, from Med. Gaz., Oct. 1848; effects on a woman of eating a quantity of sunflower seeds.

HEAD

Headache, 5.

EYE

Slight redness on the margin of the left upper lid, with smarting in the inner canthus (ninth day), 3.
Eyes suffused, 5.

NOSE

After a short time slight epistaxis occurred, and the nostrils became free, and during the ensuing winter the secretions were healthy, and discharged through the natural passages, 1 . [He was at the time in good health, with the exception of slight nasal obstruction, the secretion from the nose passing constantly through the posterior nares.]

FACE

Anxious countenance, 5.
Face deeply flushed, 5.

MOUTH

Sticking in the upper back teeth, 4.
Tongue and fauces very red, and inclined to dryness, 5.
They had an unusually hot taste while eating, 5. [10.]
Difficulty in articulating, 5.

THROAT

Stiffness and dryness of the throat, 5.
Sensation of glowing in the throat and stomach, immediately, 5.
Severe burning sensation in the fauces, œsophagus, and epigastrium, 5.

STOMACH

Thirst, 5.
Nausea, 5.
Vomiting, produced apparently by too powerful a dose of the medicine; this effect recurred frequently, though in slight degree when Helianthus had been administered for an ordinary cold, 2.
Symptoms increased in severity until she vomited freely, when she felt rather better, 5.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Hæmorrhoids (fourth day), 3.

STOOL

Stools soft, black, with emission of semen (seventh day), 3. [20.]
Hard, black stool every second day, 3.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Voice hoarse, 5.
Cough, in the forenoon, with gelatinous expectoration streaked with blood (eighth day), 3.
Breathing rather difficult and hurried, 5.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Rheumatic pain in the left knee on descending stairs, 4.

SKIN

Skin generally of a scarlet redness, and very hot, 5.
Groups of red pimples on the inner side of the knee, with slight itching (sixth day), 3.
Many urticaria-like pimples, especially on the inner side of the forearm, and afterwards on the leg, afterwards itching in external warmth, in the morning and night, 4.
Small, red tetter to the right of the navel (seventh day), 3. [30.]
Tingling of the skin, 5.

HELIANTHUS.