POLYPORUS PINICOLA.

Polyporus pinicola, Fries.

Natural order , Fungi.

Common name , Pine agaric.

Preparation , tincture of the fresh plant.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Burt, Am. Hom. Obs., 1868, p. 268, took 1/2 ounce of 2d dec. dil. first and third days; 1 ounce, fourth day; 20 drops tincture, fifth day; 1/2 a drachm, morning, and 1 1/2 drachms at 3 P.M., and half of the extract of 1 1/2 ounce, sixth day; the other half of extract and half an ounce of tincture, seventh day; 1 a , same, 100 drops 2d dec. dil., first, second, and third days; 50 drops of 1st dil., fourth day; 100 drops, fifth day; 150 drops, sixth day; 1 b , same, subsequent proving, 50 drops of tincture, first day; 100 drops, second day; 200 drops morning and 1/4 ounce evening, third day; 2 , R. Fuller, Hahn. Month., 1870, p. 68, effects in a woman of taking three times a day a preparation of 1 or 2 ounces of the fungus in a pint of whisky; 3 , same experiment on self, took 30 drops of tincture first day, 40 drops, second day.

MIND

• Great despondency, with the pains, for ten days, 1.
• Spells of great depression of spirits (eleventh day), 1b.
• Very gloomy all day (second day), 1a.

HEAD

• For two hours after the third dose had severe congestion of the head and face; vertigo when walking; face greatly flushed, with a prickling sensation all over it (sixth day), 1.
• Vertigo when walking (seventh day), 1.
• Light feeling of the head, with dull pains in it (fifth and sixth day), 1a.
• Light feeling of the head, with dull pains in the forehead; worse on moving (third day), 1a.
• All day have had a fulness of the head, with a hot feeling in the face and eyes (fourth and fifth days), 1.
• Fulness of the head, with face hot and flushed (after second dose, sixth day), 1. [10.]
• Head ached (after one hour), 3.*
• 9 P.M., dull headache, with frequent eructations of sour air (first and second days), 1b.
• Dull headache (after one hour), 1.
• Heavy, dull headache, 2.
• Severe headache all day, aggravated by reading or walking (third day), 1a.
• Severe headache and soreness over the eyes (after two hours, second day), 3.
• Forehead and Temples.
• Dull frontal headache (half an hour after doses, third day), 1b.
• *Deep frontal headache (fourth day), 1b.
• Severe frontal headache, while in bed (sixth morning), 1.
• Frequent neuralgic pains in the temples (third day), 1 ; (second day), 1a. [20.]
• Neuralgic pains in the temples (fifth day), 1.
• For four hours had frequent sharp pains in the temples, with dull frontal headache (after one hour), 1b.
• Frequent cutting pains in the temple, in the afternoon (first, fifth, and sixth days), 1a.

EYE

• Smarting of the eyes (after one hour), 1.
• For two hours smarting of the eyes (third day), 1.
• Severe smarting of the eyes (sixth morning), 1.
• Eyes smart constantly (after third dose, sixth day), 1.
• Eyelids agglutinated (sixth and seventh mornings), 1.
• Dull pains in the eyeballs (third day), 1b.

NOSE

• For the last four days the nostrils are constantly filled with a thick yellow mucus (eleventh day), 1.

FACE. [30.]

• Face congested (seventh day), 1.
• Severe aching distress in the right malar bone, with neuralgic pains in the temple (after one hour), 1.

MOUTH

• Tongue.
• Tongue coated white, in the morning (seventh day), 1.
• *Tongue coated white (eighth day), 1 ; (third day), 1a.
• *Tongue coated yellow (fourth, fifth, and sixth days), 1a ; (second, fourth, and eleventh days), 1b.
• Tongue coated thickly yellow (third days), 1b.
• Taste.
• Sweet, flat taste (eighth day), 1 ; (fifth and sixth days), 1a.
• Sweet, flat taste in the mouth, in the morning (seventh day), 1.
• Flat, rough taste in the mouth (fifth day), 1.
• Slimy, coppery taste in mouth (second and third days), 1b. [40.]
• Bitter taste (fourth day), 1b.
• Flat, bitter taste (eleventh day), 1b.

THROAT

• Throat troubled me greatly all night (seventh night), 1.
• Throat feeling very sore, with dryness of the fauces and frequent inclination to swallow (ninth day), 1.
• Very sore throat, with frequent inclination to swallow (after second dose, third day), 1b.
• Tonsils.
• Tonsils are congested; frequent efforts to swallow, that are quite painful, in the morning (seventh day), 1.
• Tonsils congested slightly (eighth day), 1.
• Tonsils and fauces feeling very sore and stiff, with great dryness and frequent inclination to swallow, for two hours in the morning, and then in the evening (tenth day), 1.
• Tonsils very much congested and enlarged; the soft palate and fauces are also greatly congested (eleventh day), 1.
• Fauces.
• Great dryness of the fauces, lasting all day, with constant inclination to swallow (after one hour), 1. [50.]
• Great dryness of the fauces, for the first half hour, in the morning, then all passed away (second day), 1.
• Great dryness of the fauces (after third dose, sixth day), 1.
• Pressing distress in the fauces (after second dose, sixth day), 1.
• Distress in the fauces, with frequent inclination to swallow (after third dose, sixth day), 1.
• Deglutition quite painful (eleventh day), 1.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Could eat no supper (second day), 3.
• Eructations.
• Frequent eructations of sour air, with dull headache, at 9 P.M. (first and second days), 1b.
• Nausea.
• *Constant nausea for the first half hour (after second dose, sixth day), 1.
• Sickness at the stomach (second day), 3.
• Stomach.
• Burning in the stomach, with a dragging sensation in the right hypochondrium (first, second, fifth, and sixth days), 1a. [60.]
• Burning distress in the epigastrium, with dragging pains in the right hypochondrium (first and second days), 1b.
• Distress in epigastrium (fifth day, and after first dose, sixth day), 1.
• Frequent pains in the epigastrium, with rumbling in the bowels (after second dose, sixth day), 1.
• By spells great distress in the epigastrium (after third dose, sixth day), 1.
• Dull aching distress in the epigastrium, in the morning (seventh day), 1.
• There is a constant very severe distress in the lower part of the epigastrium that produces great faintness; if I press on it or walk, it is greatly aggravated. This awful distress lasted until noon, when it became quite easy (eighth day), 1.
• Severe pains in the epigastrium all the morning (eleventh day), 1.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Dull pains in the right hypochondrium (fourth and fifth days), 1 ; (fourth day), 1b.
• Dragging sensation in the right hypochondrium, with burning in the stomach (first, second, fifth, and sixth days), 1a.
• Dragging pain in the liver followed stool (fifth day), 1a. [70.]
• Dragging pain in the right hypochondrium, with burning distress in the epigastrium (first and second days), 1b.
• Frequent drawing pains in the right hypochondrium (first day), 1 ; (first, second, fifth, and sixth days), 1a.
• Drawing pains in the right hypochondrium (after second dose, sixth day), 1.
• Dull, drawing pains in the liver (first and second days), 1b.
• The aching distress in the liver was much more severe; extended over the whole dorsal region (second day), 1b.
• Dull, heavy, drawing, aching pains in the whole liver and spleen (third day), 1b.
• Burning, aching pains in the liver (fourth day), 1b.
• Walking produces sharp pains in the liver (after second dose, third day), 1b.
• Severe pulling pains in the liver follow stool (first and second days), 1b.
• Severe drawing pains in the left hypochondrium (fifth day), 1. [80.]
• Hard, drawing pains in the region of the spleen and left epigastrium, all day (fourth day), 1a.
• All the forenoon have had frequent drawing pains in the region of the spleen (first, second, fifth, and sixth days), 1a.
• Frequent sharp pains in the region of the spleen (first and second days), 1b.
• Frequent sharp pains in the region of the spleen (third day), 1a.
• Sharp pains in the region of the spleen (fourth and fifth days), 1.
• Umbilicus.
• Distress in the umbilicus, with frequent drawing pains in the same region (first day), 1a.
• Frequent pain and distress in the umbilical and hypochondriac regions, all day (third day), 1.
• Sharp colicky pains in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, all the evening, every five minutes (first and second days), .

STOOL

• Loose stool at 8 P.M. (after nine hours, third day); loose stool (fourth day), 1.
• Hard, lumpy stool (fifth day), 1.
• Hard, dry, lumpy stool (after third dose, sixth day), 1.
• Stool, first part dry and lumpy, last part mushy, followed the distress in the hypogastric region (seventh day), 1. [110.]
• Stool that ran from my bowels a stream of a deep yellow color; the last part was frothy and mixed with bile (after six hours, seventh day), 1.
• No stool (eighth day), 1.
• Stool at 8 A.M., first pat natural, last part mushy and exceedingly yellow (ninth day), 1.
• No stool (third day); lumpy stool at 7 A.M. (fourth day); stool, first part dry and lumpy, lat. part mushy, very yellow, and mixed with bile (fifth day); no stool (sixth day); hard, lumpy stool, mixed with mucus and bile (seventh day); was costive for three days, 1a.
• Light-colored papescent stool (first and second days), 1b.
• Papescent, light-colored stool, with great relief of all the pains, at 7 A.M.; profuse papescent stool at noon (second day), 1b.
• Soft papescent, very light-colored stool (fourth day), 1b.
• *Bowels have been very costive; stools of a dark color, and in hard, dry lumps (tenth day), 1b.
• The stools are so hard that it has brought on a slight attack of piles, which pain me all the time, with slight prolapsus ani (eleventh day), 1b.

URINARY ORGANS

• Urine scanty and high-colored, for the last two days (ninth day), 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS. [120.]

• Pressing sensation in larynx, with dryness of fauces (after ten minutes), 1.

HEART AND PULSE

• Burning distress in the præcordial region (first day), 1a.
• A full inspiration produces sharp pains in the region of the heart (first day), 1a.
• Pulse 84, soft and feeble (after second dose, sixth day), 1.

BACK

• Back very stiff (fourth day), 1b.
• *Back ached all day (third day), 1a.
• Dull aching pains in the back and hips (third day), 1a.
• Felt very badly, with aching and sore sensations along the spinal column (after two hours, second day), 3.
• *Pain in the back, 2.
• Dull, aching pains in the dorsal and lumbar regions (third day), 1b. [130.]
• Dull backache (first and second days), 1b.
• Dull pains in the small of the back (first and second days, 1b.
• Dull pains in the lumbar region (after third dose, sixth day), 1.
• Dull pains in lumbar and dorsal regions (seventh day), 1.
• Violent, dull, aching distress in the lumbar region, all day (eighth day), 1.

EXTREMITIES

• Fingers, knees, ankles, and feet have constant rheumatic pains in them of a drawing, aching character (after third dose, sixth day), 1.
• Severe stitching-drawing pains in the elbows, fingers, knees, ankles, and toes (after second dose, sixth day), 1.
• Had such severe pains in the wrists and left knee that I could not sleep (seventh night), 1.
• Severe drawing pains in the elbows, wrists, fingers, knees, ankles, feet, and toes (third day), 1b.
• All day have had drawing pains in the wrists, knees, ankles and feet, with deep, dull, aching pains in the tibial bones (fourth day), 1b. [140.]
• Drawing pains in the wrist and left knee and ankle-joint; walking makes the pain in the ankle of a sharp cutting character (first day), 1a.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Drawing pains in the left forearm and fingers, all the afternoon (first and second days), 1b.
• Severe drawing pains in the elbows and flexor muscles of both arms (fourth and fifth days), 1.
• Wrists ached all day (third day), 1a.
• Dull pains in the wrists (third day), 1a.
• Fingers ache and are quite stiff (fourth and fifth days), 1.
• Fingers feel quite stiff, with frequent stitching pains in the joints (fourth and fifth days), 1.
• Stiffness of the fingers, with sharp pains in them when closing them (fifth day), 1.
• Fingers stiff (second and seventh days); quite stiff (sixth day), 1.
• Fingers are very stiff (after second dose, third day), 1b.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES. [150.]

• Hips ached all day (third day), 1a.
• Severe drawing pains in the inside of the right thigh (after second dose, sixth day), 1.
• Dull drawing pain in the knees and ankles (second day), 1b.
• Hard, drawing pains in the knees and ankles all night, which made me very restless (second night), 1b.
• Sharp pains in the right tibia (after one hour), 1.
• Great weakness and pain in my ankles and feet (third day), 1.
• Dull pains in the ankles (seventh day), 1.
• Ankles and feet ached severely (first day), 1.
• Aching distress in the ankles, feet, and toes, with sharp pains in the toes (fourth and fifth days), 1.
• My ankles, feet, and toes ache and pain me so severely I cannot walk without great difficulty (third day), 1b. [160.]
• The soles of my feet and heels feel as if they had been pounded; cannot bear to have my boots on (third day), 1b.
• My feet are feeling as if they had been pounded (fourth day), 1b.

GENERALITIES

• *Felt weary (after one hour), 3.
• *Very languid (seventh evening), 1 ; (fifth and sixth days), 1a ; (third day), 1b.
• Languid all day (second day), 1.
• *Great lassitude (fourth and fifth days, after third dose, sixth day, ninth and eleventh days), 1.
• Great lassitude; could with difficulty get about (third day); great lassitude (fourth day), 1.
• Very languid all day yesterday and this morning (eleventh day), 1.
• Peculiar sensation as though I would like to get away out of sight and lie down (after one hour), 3.
• Felt somewhat sore and lame, in the morning (second day), 3. [170.]
• Felt as if I had had a spell of sickness (third day), 3.
• Rheumatic pains in every part of the body, excepting the back (after second dose, sixth day), 1.
• Those rheumatic symptoms have all continued since the fourth day; the last three days it has rained most of the time; the dampness of the air has aggravated the symptoms most wonderfully, especially nights; pains in shin-bones, very hard to endure (eleventh day); rheumatic symptoms lasted eight weeks, 1b.
• All the pains aggravated by motion (third day), 1b.
• For ten days, every day about 10 A.M., my head would commence at ache, with severe aching pains in the back, but more especially in the legs; would gradually increase until 3 P.M., when the pains in the legs were so severe I had to lie down to get relief; with this there was great despondency and weakness; from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M. it would gradually pass away, and all the evening I would feel perfectly well. The effects in the legs did not entirely leave until four weeks subsequent to taking the medicine, 1.

SLEEP

• Disposition to yawn and stretch (third day), 1a.
• Sleepy all the evening (sixth day), 1.
• Slept good until 3 A.M.; very restless after that (second night), 1a.
• Had a restless night, my ankles and feet pained me so severely (third night), 1b.
• Sleep disturbed and restless (second day), 3. [180.]
• *Restless night (seventh night), 1.

FEVER

• *Paroxysms of chilliness, and cold, shivering sensations, followed by feverishness (which was reduced by hot baths and Aconite, 2c ), (after two hours, second day), 3.
• Chills and a shivering sensation, 2.
• Feel very cold (third day), 1a.
• Face hot and flushed (second day), 1a.
• Hands hot and dry (fourth day), 1b.
• Palms of the hands hot and dry (second day), 1a.
• Slight perspiration (first and second nights), 1.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), In bed, frontal headache; tongue coated white; sweet, flat taste; tonsils congested; dryness of fauces; distress in epigastrium.
• ( Forenoon ), Pains in region of spleen; 10 A.M. to 3 P.M., the symptoms.
• ( Afternoon ), Pain in temples; pain in left forearm and fingers.
• ( Evening ), 9 P.M., dull headache; tonsils congested; eructations of sour air; pains in umbilical region.
• ( Dampness ), Rheumatic symptoms.
• ( Full inspiration ), Pain in region of heart.
• ( Motion ), Light feeling in head; pain in forehead; pains.
• ( Pressure on epigastrium ), Distress.
• ( Reading ), Headache.
• ( After stool ), Pains in liver; pains in bowels.
• ( Walking ), Pains in liver; pains in bowels; cutting pain in ankle.