Kino (Australiense)

Eucalyptus rostrata, Schlecht (and other species of Eucalyptus).

Natural order , Myrtaceæ.

Common name , Australian Red Gum, Australian Kino.

Preparation , Tincture of the gum that exudes from incisions in the bark.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Blundell, Mon. Hom. Rev., 7, 199, 1863, proving on self and friend with 1st dec. Dil., 5 to 15-drop doses; 2 , same, effects of smaller quantities (2 to 4 drops in water).

HEAD

• Headache, 2.

STOMACH

• Appetite decreased, 2.
• Nausea, 2.

ABDOMEN

• Great amount of flatulent distension, 2.
• Colicky pains towards evening (first day); continuing next day, more continuous (third day), 1.
• Most severe colicky pains, with bearing-down of the lower bowel; only relieved by lying flat on the face; they continued for one hour, and then diminished towards evening (third day), 1.
• Bearing down with inclination to stool, but without an evacuation (first, second, and third days), 1.
• Slight bearing down, and frequent desire for an evacuation, 2.

STOOL

• The mucous lining of the bowels became irritable, and evacuations exhibited a tendency to diarrhœa, with bearing down and greater rapidity of action than usual in health, 2. [10.]
• Evacuations hard, with sensation of turgescence of the mucous lining of the bowels, 2.
• Hard, dry evacuation, with a small quantity of blood at its termination (fourth day); following this for four or five days the bowels were obstinately constipated, the latter terminating in sickness and diarrhœa, with extreme giddiness and general debility, relieved by Ipecacuanha, 1.