PANACEA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
This drug was obtained from an unknown but common tree in Brazil.
Brazilian names , Azougue dos pobres (Mercury of the poor); Cabedula; Erva carnevra.
Authority.
Mure, Pathogénésie Brésil.
MIND
- Desire for solitude (second day).
- Dissatisfied with herself; everything wearies her (third day).
HEAD
- Vertigo, which increases the headache, at 6 A.M. (second day).
- Dizziness; she bends backward as if she would fall over, at 7.30 P.M. (second day).
- Violent headache, worse when bending over to the left, at 6 A.M. (second day).
- Headache, which increases her dissatisfaction (third day).
- Heaviness of the head (second day).
- Pain as if a rusty saw were drawn rapidly across above the orbits (second day).
- Heaviness over the forehead, worse when drowsy, at 10 P.M. (first day). [10.]
- Pain in the forehead and temples (second day).
- Pain as if the temples were squeezed in a vice (second day).
- Pressive pain in the vertex, with dizziness; this pain shifts to the left eye, followed by a sensation as if a rocket rushed out of it, at 7.30 A.M. (third day).
MOUTH
- Pain in a decayed tooth, as if a penknife were thrust in it, at 7 A.M. (third day).
- Great heat in the tongue, with a sensation as if small drops of ice-water fell upon it, at 9 A.M. (second day).
- Very bitter mouth, on rising, at 5 A.M. (second day).
STOMACH
- Hunger, causing a burning in the stomach (second day).
- Hunger, with aversion to food (second day).
- Nausea (second day).
- Empty feeling in the stomach, with desire to eat (second day). [20.]
- Suffocative feeling, as from a ball, in the pit of the stomach; she cannot hook her dress (second day).
ABDOMEN
- Pain as from a knife-stab, at the navel, going around the abdomen, and ending at the loins (second day).
- Pain, as from knife-stabs, in the flanks and navel (third day).
RESPIRATORY ORGANS AND CHEST
- Sense of strangulation, at 9 A.M. (third day).
- Tearing, increasing from the chest to the œsophagus, at 7 A.M. (second day).
- Pain rising up in the chest, with pulling (second day).
BACK
- Bruised pain in the loins, as from blows with a stick, at 6 A.M. (second day).
EXTREMITIES
- Pain, as from a blow with a hammer, on the left shoulder (second day).
- Pain at the shoulder-blade, when inclining the head to the left side (second day).
- Pain from the right wrist to the elbow (second day). [30.]
- Great trembling of the right hand (third day).
- Numbness of the left hand; it cannot be moved, at 6 A.M. (third day).
- Cramp from the index finger to the elbow (second day).
- She cannot kneel for any length of time (second day).
- The knees give way, at 4 P.M. (second day).
- Cramps in the feet, extending into the bends of the knees (second day).
- Sensation as if the toe-nails were plucked out (second day).
GENERALITIES
- Weariness as after a long journey, at 8 P.M. (second day).
- Syncope (second day).
SLEEP
- Spasmodic yawning, which stops suddenly (second day). [40.]
- Drowsiness (second day).
- Great drowsiness, with heaviness of the eyes, at noon (second day).
FEVER
- Chill, on going into the open air, at 7 P.M. (second day).
- Chilliness all over (third day).
- Great heat, followed by considerable coldness, at 10.30 P.M. (first day)
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), 6 A.M., vertigo; headache; 7.30 A.M., pain in vertex; 7 A.M., pain in decayed tooth; on rising, 5 A.M., bitter mouth; 9 A.M., heat in tongue; sense of strangulation; 7 A.M., tearing from chest to œsophagus; 6 A.M., pain in loins; numbness of left hand.
- ( Noon ), Drowsiness, with heaviness of eyes.
- ( Evening ), 7.30 P.M., dizziness; 10 P.M., heaviness over forehead; 8 P.M., weariness; 7 P.M., on going out chill; 10.30 P.M., heat, followed by coldness.
- ( Bending to left ), Headache.
- ( Bending head to left side ), Pain at shoulder-blade.
- ( When drowsy ), Heaviness over forehead.