THEA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Thea chinensis.
Natural order , Camelliaceæ.
Common name , Tea.
Preparation , Tincture or trituration of the leaves.
Authorities.
1 , Practische Mittheilungen, 1827, p. 30 (Journ. de la Soc. Gall. Roth, Mat. Méd. Pure, vol. 1, p. 511), Madame N., T. Chin.; 2 , E. Percival, Dublin Hosp. Rep., 1818, p. 220, a man, unaccustomed to drinking tea, took some very strong green tea three times in one day; 3 , Dr. Harvey, ibid., a man who was up all night and drank much strong tea; 4 , Gunther, Buchner's Repertorium, vol. 9, ser. 2 (Journ. de la Soc. Gall. Roth, Mat. Méd. Pure, vol. 1); 5 to 13 , John Cole, Lancet, 1832-3 (2), p. 274)
5 , effects of excessive tea-drinking on a woman æt. thirty-five years; 6 , Mrs. R., just recovering from an attack of catarrhal fever, drank more than the usual quantity of strong black tea; 7 , a woman, æt. thirty years, drank tea excessively; 8 , Miss P. A., æt. thirty years, was accustomed to drink much strong green tea; 9 , a woman, æt. twenty-five years, drank tea night and morning; 10 , Mr. M., an excessive tea-drinker, who had been subject to fainting fits, drank a large quantity of strong green tea after having 12 ounces of blood taken away; 11 , Mrs. T., æt. thirty-five years, an excessive tea-drinker; 12 , Mrs. S., æt. twenty years, drank a large quantity of black tea; 13 , effects on a lady, a devoted slave to the teapot; 14 , Kremers, Casper's Woch., 1833 (Frank's Mag., 1, 290), a man took an infusion of 3 ounces of very strong black tea within three hours; 15 , Z. für H. Kl., 4, 65; 16 , same, effects of 2 to 10 grains of pure Thein; 17 , Dr. A. Teste, Journ. de la Soc. Gall., ser. 1, vol. 2, 1851, p. 234, T. Sinen.; 18 , Dr. Bücker, Archiv. des Ver. für gem. Arbiet, band 1, heft 2, p. 213 (Brit. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1853 (2), p. 426), he determined the exact amount of food and water (each of known composition) taken, the amount of exercise, the exact amount of urine and its constituents, and of fæces, and of expired carbonic acid; the amount of perspiration was calculated; these experiments were continued for seven days; in the second series the experiment was conducted in the same manner, only cold tea was substituted for water; 19 , G. G. Sigmond, M.D., Lancet, 1838-9 (2), p. 782, common effects of tea-drinking; , same, Brit. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1840 (1), p. 135, effects of green tea on some persons; , Dr. Moleschott, De l'Alimentation et du Rgime, 1858, p. 169 (Marvaud, Les Aliments d'Épargne, 1874, p. 324), general effects; , Henry S. Purdon, Med. Circular, vol. 26, 1865, 65, effects of excessive tea-drinking observed in women in Belfast Charitable Institution; , Medicus, Month. Hom. Rev., vol. 11, 1867, drank black tea as strong as possible, without sugar or cream, generally a cup before rising, a pint at breakfast, and a pint and a half between 10 and 11 P.M.; symptoms disappeared after discontinuing the use of tea, but always returned after resuming; , H. M., Month. Hom. Rev., vol. 11, 1867, p. 510, effects of habitual use of black tea (with green tea all is intensified). ( to , C. Wesselhœft, M.D., New Eng. Med. Gaz., vol. 2, 1857, p. 169.); , a lady over forty years of age, drank tea, often three times a day, and for a few weeks lived almost entirely on it; , a lady, over fifty years of age, just recovered from acute bronchitis, the cough and pulmonary symptoms had disappeared, had drank for years two cups of hot strong tea three times a day; , a young lady, æt. twenty-two years, had lived almost exclusively on strong hot tea for eleven years; , an Irish cook, æt. thirty-three years, had drunk it three times daily for years instead of taking proper meals; , R. R. Gregg, H. Quart., vol. 2 (Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 32). ( to , Wibmer, Wirkung der Arzneimittel.)
30 , Lettsom's Nat. History, effects on a woman; 31 , same, effects of 30 grains of tea in powder three or four times a day; 32 , Whytt, took a cup of strong tea on an empty stomach before breakfast; 33 , Murray, feeling rather weak, took a cup of strong tea; 34 , Tode, a child drank a cup of strong tea; 35 , Erdmann, Hufeland's Journ., vol. 64, effects of continued use; 36 , Newnham, a cup of strong green tea relieved at once tormenting hemicrania with throbbing in arteries; 37 , same, experimented on three other persons, each of whom took a third of an infusion of 1 ounce of best green tea digested for twenty minutes, in a pint of boiling water; 38 , E. I. Dixon, Practitioner, vol. 9, 1872, p. 265, a middle-aged woman subsisted mostly on bread and butter and hot tea, generally drinking a pint and a half or more of latter daily; 39 , J. Adams, U. S. Med. Invest., new ser., vol. 6; 40 , U. V. Miller, North Am. Journ., new ser., 4, 1873, p. 87, effects on C. T., æt. twenty-seven years, of drinking two cups of green tea at one meal; 41 , Marraud, Les Aliments d'Épargne, 1874, p. 324, general effects; 42 , S. Swan, New York Journ. of Hom., vol. 2, 1874, p. 202, from various provings of Thea sinen., symptoms with (Oo.), produced by Oolong tea.
MIND
- Delirium, 16.
- Symptoms of delirium, 18.
- Delirium with great ecstasy; the patient laughed incessantly, talked constantly in rhyme, showed us that he felt extraordinarily well, 14.
- Sensation as if impelled by some uncontrollable power to commit suicide, to jump out of the window, to put her baby in the boiler with the clothes, to cut its throat while cutting bread, to throw it downstairs (in a woman who kept a pot of tea boiling on the stove and drank several bowlfuls every day; cured with Thea cm., Fincke), 42.
- Temporary exaltation of mind; has greater confidence in himself (after Thein, 14 grains), 42.
- An exciting, and subsequently a debilitating, influence upon the nervous system in general and the lumbar portion of the spinal marrow, 39.
- At first a genial cordiality, a brilliancy of intellect, with conversation fluent, interesting, and sparking with wit; then the opposite state supervenes, with great irritability and sensitiveness, so that there is a disposition to quarrel at the most harmless speech or act (Oo.), 42.
- Feeling of great ease, 42.
- Great nervous excitability, with clearness of the intellectual faculties, 42. [10.]
- A most uncomfortable state of nervousness and want of confidence, relieved by beer (after an hour or so), 24.
- The sound of the "night bell" made me terribly nervous, 23.
- Taciturn and peevish, 42.
- Morose, taciturn; he is unwilling to utter a word, 1.
- Gloomy, heavy, and dizzy in the forehead, 42.
- Weeps easily, 27.
- Feeling of anxiety and trembling, 37.
- Uneasy state of mind, characterized by Lehmann as mental anguish (after Thein, 12 grains), 42.
- The mind is in an excessively uncomfortable and anxious state, which admits not the slightest rest, whether seated, lying, or reading (after Thein, 12 grains), 42.
- Appeared to be actuated by the greatest terror, and said: "I have called upon you to request you would let me in and allow me to die in your house," 3. [20.]
- Nocturnal fright; sinister thoughts; invincible propensity to analyze his life, to look at it on the dark side, and to resolve it into its most hopeless realities, .
HEAD
- Vertigo.
- Vertigo, 32.
- Great vertigo, with darkness before the eyes (in a tea-drinker, cured with Thea 1, 200), 42.
- Intoxication, 33.
- Giddiness, 19.
- When walking in the open air, she suddenly feels giddy, as if about to lose consciousness (in the evening), 1.
- General Head.
- Determination of blood to the head, with sensation of fulness, especially in the forehead over the eyes, 40.
- Congestion of brain, 18. [40.]
- Headache, 16.
- Excessively disagreeable headache, with throbbing of the carotids, 42.
- Violent pain in the head, 19.
- A prolific cause of sick headache, 29.
- Sick headache occurring every week, so violent that nothing afforded relief; great soreness of the head, and weakness when the acute pain subsided, 42.
- Has either headache or backache, 27.
- For more than three years, she was subject to sick-headache; these came on chiefly at the catamenial period, and also frequently in the intervals; the pain seems to begin in the left ovary and stomach, whence it seems to pass to the head, 28.
- Neuralgic pain commencing in the nape of the neck, and on both sides of the base of cerebellum, comparatively like a cold flat-iron introduced between the skin and skull, thence passing up over the whole cranium, descending over the forehead down to the eyes, with excruciating suffering, 42.
- Frequent headaches, 26.
- Severe headache in the morning and in the evening, often with nausea, 25.
- Forehead. [50.]
- Heaviness and compression in the forehead, principally when walking, 42.
- Heaviness, vertigo in the forehead, especially when walking, 1.
- Intense pain in forehead, 42.
- Temples.
- Pains through the temples, throbbing, shooting, extending down to the nose. Attacks attended with great acuteness of the olfactory organs, .
EYE
- Bright eye, 27.
- Eyes unusually bright, with dilated pupils, 26. [60.]
- Eyes glittering, 25.
- Dryness of the eyes from much mental exercise during a sleepless night, followed by neuralgia of the eyes (Oo), 42.
- After awhile the eyes became dry, and resulted in neuralgia of the eyes (Thein, 12 grs.), 42.
- Pupils dilated, 25, 27, 28.
- Dimness of sight, 19.
- Darkness before the eyes, with vertigo, 42.
- Flashing, fiery lines darting from the eyes, and radiating outward from the axis of vision, 40.
- Sparks before the eyes, 16.
EAR
- Neuralgic pains in the cartilage of the ears, with icy coldness of the parts, seeming almost impossible to restore warmth to them (Oo.). The pains extend to the molar teeth and cheek-bones (Oo.), 42.
- Roaring in the ears, 16. [70.]
- Hallucinations of the sense of hearing. For five nights in succession he thought he heard the door-bell very distinctly. This hallucination, which was renewed at different hours, followed me even into my sleep, and awakened me frequently with a start, 17.
NOSE
- Generally has nosebleed before the menses set in, 27.
- Soreness of the internal edge of the nose (Oo.), 42.
- Constant desire to pick the nose (Oo.), 42.
- Great dryness in nose (Oo.), 42.
- Sensation at root of nose, as if epistaxis would occur, 40.
FACE
- Wild and distressed expression of countenance, 6.
- Pale face, 19.
- Face pale, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks, 26.
- Face flushed, 6, 12, 27. [80.]
- Cheeks flushed, 25.
- Cheeks easily flushed, 28.
MOUTH
- The teeth are frequently diseased, 22.
- Tongue clean and somewhat pale, 38.
- Tongue red, with white slime (Oo.), 42.
- Tongue suffers from stings like blisters; red spots and white blisters on the top of the tongue; exceedingly painful, as if scalded with boiling hot liquid (Oo.), 42.
- Intolerably offensive breath on waking in the morning, 1.
- Sensation of scraping at the soft palate, 1.
- The whole buccal cavity feels dry and sensitive (Oo.), 42.
- A great deal of saliva in the mouth, during the first hours, with sensation of hunger. Six hours after, unpleasant dryness of the mouth, scanty, viscid saliva, with feeling of satiety, although he had eaten very little, with a little thirst. After drinking, the mouth is filled with viscid saliva, 1. [90.]
- Bitter taste in mouth, 42.
THROAT
- Diphtheritic sore throat, 42.
- Painless swelling of the mucous membrane of the pharynx, 17.
- Uneasy feeling in the pharynx, as if it was obstructed by a foreign body, 17.
STOMACH
- Appetite and Thirst.
- The appetite is not so good. Sometimes I feel as if very hungry, but a little satisfies me, and a feeling of satiety quickly succeeds (sixth day), 17.
- Appetite returns two hours earlier than common. There is an empty feeling in the stomach, and a sort of faintness at the habitual dinner hour, although he had eaten as hearty a breakfast as usual, 17.
- He lost his appetite for dinner if he drank a cup of tea previous to his meal, 30.
- Bad appetite, 22.
- Complete loss of appetite for many days, 25.
- Loathing of food until noon; then she eats, but very sparingly, 1. [100.]
- She is thirsty, but cannot bear cold water, every mouthful affects her head like a shock, 23.
- Extreme thirst, or rather craving for acids, especially for lemons, 25.
- She often felt a loathing against tea, but still could not resist it, 25.
- No thirst, but craving for acids, 27.
- Dislikes cold water, 26.
- She never feels thirsty, and never drinks cold water, 27.
- Heartburn.
- Occasionally a slight degree of heartburn, 38.
- Pyrosis, 22.
- Nausea and Vomiting.
- Distressing nausea, 19.
- Slight nausea, lasting two hours, 23. [110.]
- Nausea and vomiting after eating; cured, 42.
- Vomiting of bile occurs, but never of food, when the pain has reached its height, 26.
- Exertion produces vomiting during the headache, 26.
- Generally vomited the meal which she had lately taken, 5.
- Disposition to vomit; a double dose increases this inclination, the sick feeling, and the disagreeable feeling in the stomach, 31.
- Stomach.
- Digestion is sensibly accelerated, without noticeable disturbance, 17.
- Sensation in the pit of the stomach as if one would vomit, .
ABDOMEN
- After luncheon, painful stitch below the ribs, extending from the right towards the left side, and returning in paroxysms, 1.
- Relaxation of the fibres of the abdominal intestines, 4.
- Transient borborygmi in the abdomen, and especially in the epigastric region, 1.
- Liability to hernia, 4.
RECTUM
- Tumefaction of the inferior extremity of the rectum, with a very slight itching, 1.
STOOL
- Chronic relaxation of the bowels; aggravated by beer, relieved by port wine, 24.
- Relaxation of the bowels, profound constipation (Japan tea), 42.
- Three or four stools daily, of natural consistence, but formed very thin, 17. [140.]
- In the daytime, two stools instead of one, 17.
- Three natural stools during the day (second day), 17.
- The stools have become very irregular, in part hard and dry, the rest scarcely formed (sixth day), 17.
- Stools irregular and costive, 25.
- Costiveness, 22.
- Constipation in some, 35.
- Excessive constipation, 28.
URINARY ORGANS
- Very marked increase of urea, 16.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Erections, 16.
- Unnatural excitement of the sexual organs, 39. [150.]
- Soreness and tenderness of the right ovary, 28.
- Menses appear only once in seven weeks, are scanty and accompanied by severe uterine cramplike, bearing-down pains, from beginning to end of menstrual period. It is not quite evident that these symptoms arose in consequence of the tea, but were undoubtedly aggravated by it, 27.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- All the signs of an œdematous swelling, perhaps general but more probably partial, of the mucous lining of the respiratory and digestive tracts, phenomena evidently analogous to those which were brought out on the skin, and which are, relatively to my constitution, the symptoms characteristic of Tea, 17.
- Scraping in the larynx (sixth to twelfth day), 17.
- Voice.
- Hoarseness, amounting almost to aphonia (sixth to twelfth day), 17.
- Cough and Expectoration.
- Dry cough during one day, 17.
- Severe cough and bloody expectoration, 13.
- Respiration.
- Respiration is greatly increased, the respirations being increased in frequency and amplitude, 41.
- Respiration irregular and oppressed, 2.
- Gasping for breath, 2. [160.]
- Unable to go upstairs, without experiencing great breathlessness and palpitation of the heat, 8.
- Great breathlessness on the least attempt at walking, 9.
- Sensation of suffocation, 19.
- Slight fits of apparent asphyxia recurred every five or six minutes, 2.
- Frequent paroxysms of asphyxia, like nightmare, with violent spasmodic pain in the præcordial region, with intermittent, irregular, at times suppressed respiration, 15.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEST
- Oppression of the chest, 16.
- Oppression of the chest and heart, 37.
- Sense of constriction of the chest, 19.
- Great fulness about the clavicles, with a feeling of suffocation, 9.
- Fluttering in the left side, with a sense of fulness about the clavicles, 5. [170.]
- Tightness across the upper part of the chest, which obliges her to sit upright in bed, 8.
TRACINGS FROM MARVAUD, LES ALIMENTS D'ÉPARGNE.
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Man, Pulse normal.
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Same, 10 minutes after 60 gr. of infusion.
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Same, 15 minutes after 60 gr. of infusion.
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Same, 20 minutes after 60 gr. of infusion.
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Same, 15 minutes after 60 gr. of infusion.
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Man, Pulse normal.
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Man, 15 minutes after 60 gr. of an infusion of 15 gr. of Thea to 200 gr. of water.
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Man, Pulse normal.
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Same, 15 minutes after above infusion.
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Man, Pulse normal.
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Man, 15 minutes after above infusion.
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Man, Pulse normal.
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Man, 15 minutes after above infusion.
HEART AND PULSE
- Præcordium.
- Anxiety in the præcordium, 15.
- Oppression of the heart and chest, 37.
- Feeling of anxious oppression about the heart, 42.
- Strong infusions sometimes produce a painful oppression and sensation of anguish in the region of the heart, 41.
- Acute pain, as from a spasm in the region of the heart; and in spite of all his efforts he felt as if were continually falling into deliquium, 2.
- A certain uneasiness of the heart, general trembling and debility, making him feel somewhat sick the next day, 42.
- Unusual and distressing sensation about the præcordia, as if he were continually on the verge of fainting, 2.
- Heart's Action.
- Heart sometimes palpitated, and at other times seemed motionless, 2.
- Palpitation, 16, 18, 19. [180.]
- Palpitation of the heart at night, with inability to lie on the left side, 23.
- Palpitation of the heart and oppression in the præcordia; these symptoms, however, soon subsided. If taking tea at supper, he generally experienced a slight feeling of anxiety in the præcordial region, and a sleepless night; but if his brain was more lively than ordinarily excited by a lively conversation, or by continued thinking, the anxiety disappeared, and he had a refreshing sleep, 36.
- Palpitations of the heart; on examination, I generally find dilatation, with thinning of the heart, 22.
- Violent palpitation, and considerable pain in the region of the heart, 9.
- Sibilant râle from time to time, 17.
- In the worst instances that are on record, the fluttering of the heart has been succeeded by a momentary suspension of its action, and long-continued swoonings, 19.
- Pulse.
- Pulse very rapid, irregular, often intermittent, 16.
- Pulse quick, small, and feeble, 8.
- Pulse quicker and stronger than it had been in the course of her illness, 6.
- Hurried pulse, 32. [190.]
EXTREMITIES
- Symptoms of paralysis; the extremities becoming numb, and partial loss of the use of the legs, 42.
- Joints of the hands and feet tender, and sensitive of touching them (Oo.), 42.
- Nervous excitability in wrists, feet, and hands (Oo.), 42.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Could not sleep at night for a violent pain on the inside of her arms, above the elbow, which awoke her after she had been asleep about half an hour, 8.
- The hand trembled so violently, that is was impossible to write with any regularity, nor could it be restrained for more than a few seconds; (after Thein, 12 grs.), 42.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Sensation on the under side of either or both thighs as if the circulation had ceased, causing great nervousness, and a desire to kick out the leg with force to restore sensibility (Oo.), 42.
- Pain in the sciatic nerve (Oo), 42.
- Neuralgic pains in the outer hamstrings (tendon of the biceps) of either leg (Oo.), 42.
- Inability to lift the legs affected, sometimes the right, at others the left (Oo.), 42. [210.]
- Restlessness of the feet, cannot keep them quiet in the evening (Oo.), 42.
- Sensation as if the weight of a sheet even would crush the toes (Oo.), 42.
GENERALITIES
In twenty-four hours, 18. (grams).
First series.
1260 grams of water being taken.
Second series.
1260 grams of tea being taken.
A
Exercise.
84.14 minutes.
87 minutes.
B
Excretions: Loss of weight, Quantity of fæces, Calculated perspiration, Urine, Water, Solids, Urea, Uric acid, Ammonia, Muriate of am., Oxalic acid, Potash, Sulph. acid, Sulph. of potash, Chloride of potassium, Chlorine, Chloride of sodium, Phosph. acid, Phosphate of soda, Phosphate of lime, Phosphate of magnesia, Salts by incineration, Volatile salts and extractives, 590.000 178.300 1349.900 2621.143 2543.519 77.624 25.194 0.356 0.421 1.250 0.092 4.466 2.841 6.187 1.774 11.475 16.156 2.923 5.483 0.724 0.756 28.663 13.309 203.000 96.000 1335.700 2550.000 2474.016 75.984 34.221 0.231 0.660 1.959 0.088 5.274 2.815 6.132 3.113 10.687 13.043 2.926 5.488 0.772 0.717 27.229 14.304
C
Food - total weight, Water, Solids, 3610.500 2938.840 671.660 3617.000 3957.870 659.130
- Lying on a sofa, his lips and countenance bloodless, his skin bathed with a cold, clammy moisture, and his pulse so slow and feeble as scarcely to be felt, 10.
- She is lean and pale, 28.
- An enormous tumor, almost as large as the first of an adult, is developed in the lumbar region. This tumor, quite circumscribed, is almost indolent, even to pressure. It is movable, and appears formed in the thickness of the derma. The skin which covers it is of a lively pink. The tension of the integuments is felt even to the hips, and is accompanied by a constant itching. After twenty-four hours passed without taking the medicine, this tumor was almost reduced (eighth day); a similar tumor, a little less prominent, but larger, manifests itself on the external and superior portion of the right thigh (eleventh day); a third tumor on the palmar aspects of the right wrist. The mobility of the skin, in this region, permits me to state positively that the ganglionic engorgement exists in the thickness of the former. During twenty-four hours the hand is completely engorged, so much so as to disable me from writing (twelfth day); finally, the same symptom shows itself simultaneously on the scrotum, the penis, and the prepuce, in such a manner as to resemble at once an enormous hydrocele and a phimosis. The parts affected are, moreover, absolutely indolent. These tumefactions, like the others, require two days for their resolution (thirteenth day), 17.
- Trembling of the whole body, 25.
- Little isolated twitchings, exactly resembling the sensation caused by electric sparks, in different parts of the body, especially in the forearms, the hands, and the finger-joints (after three days), 17.
- Epilepsy, 34.
- Epilepsy in a child from swallowing a concentrated infusion, 1. [220.]
- Convulsions; the muscles of the limbs were principally affected, 12.
- Great agitation, 2.
- Oppression, slight nausea, general tremor, palpitation and oppression of the heart, with feeling of debility, as if the knees would not support the body, 42.
- Vascular excitement and sleeplessness in some, 35.
- Languor, 33.
- Debility, 31.
- Great debility, 32.
- Feeling weak and exhausted, 38.
- Weakness and pain in the small of the back, 39.
SKIN
- Great dryness of the skin, as if the pores were obstructed (Oo.), 42.
- The skin on the ends of the fingers peels up, from excessive dryness (Oo.), 42.
- Eruption of red pimples, indolent or very slightly painful, extending, sometimes in clusters, sometimes singly, over the neck, the shoulders, and especially the thighs. Some of these pimples are the size of large peas. They are easily broken, bleeding a little, and drying up very soon (after three days), 17.
- Itching of different parts of the body, more especially the anterior surface of the thighs (after two hours), 17.
- The itching of the thighs extends to the legs, and manifests itself, especially at the ankles and instep (second day), 17. [250.]
- Sensation of crawling and pricking under the skin in various parts of the body, and the extremities, with desire to scratch, and causing extreme irritability (Oo.), 42.
SLEEP
- Sleepiness in the daytime (sixth day), 17.
- Disposition to sleep, 31.
- Sits up late at night because she cannot sleep, and often lies awake until morning, 27.
- A quiet refreshing sleep followed the excitement caused by animated conversation, and intense thinking, 42.
- Sleeplessness, 16.
- Sleeplessness from 10 P.M. till 2 A.M., the mind meanwhile in a state of irritation and persistent thinking, in spite of all attempts at forgetfulness, 42.
- Sleeplessness, with dryness and heat of the skin, and continued tossing, 42.
- Wakefulness and entire inability to sleep; afterwards the eyes become dry, and results in neuralgia of the eyes (Oo.), 42.
- Loss of sleep, 18. [260.]
- Sleeplessness or frequent starting from sleep, 15.
- A cup of tea taken before retiring kept him awake for a few hours, 30.
- Sleepless nights, relieved by beer, 24.
- The nights are restless; almost complete sleeplessness (sixth day), 17.
- At night, tardy slumbers, with anxiety in the limbs, slight acceleration of the beats of the heart, sweat on the præcordial region, dry heat of other parts of the body, 17.
- She sleeps very little, and often lies awake all night, 25.
- Troubled slumber, waking at intervals, 2.
- Awoke suddenly, as from a struggle of incubus, 2.
- The ordinary effect of green tea taken late at night is incubus or nightmare in its most formidable shape; and many persons who, after a hearty dinner, have taken green tea, wake in the midst of the night in a state of the most fearful agitation and excitement; the head is oppressed, a sensation of approaching death is felt, or sometimes the person seems to be dragged from the lowest abyss of darkness back to the world, from which, during his paroxysm, he had felt gradually to sink, 20.
- Horrible dreams. I murdered, in cold blood, young boys and young girls. These crimes caused in me no horror, nor even any emotion, and even after waking I found pleasure for a long time in the hideous remembrance of this dream, 17.
FEVER. [270.]
- Intense coldness passing over the whole head (Oo.), 42.
- Decrease of temperature, 31.
- Skin cold, 19.
- Hands and feet as cold as marble, and bedewed with a clammy perspiration, 19.
- Almost immediate increase of general heat, 17.
- Excessive internal heat, with flushes of heat upon the surface, coming and going quickly, 25.
- Disposition to perspire, 31.
- Bedewed with chilly moisture, 2.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Nausea.
- ( Afternoon ), Feels worse.
- ( Evening ), Nausea.
- ( Night ), Hallucinations of hearing; palpitation of heart.
- ( Beer ), Relaxation of bowels.
- ( Exertion ), Vomiting.
- ( After luncheon ), Stitch below ribs.
- ( After meals ), Weakness.
- ( Walking ), Breathlessness.
- ( During walk in open air ), Vertigo.
- Amelioration.
- ( Beer ), Nausea; irregularity of pulse; weakness; sleeplessness.
- ( Pressure of hand ), Pain in occiput.
- ( Warm bath ), Pain in occiput.
- ( Port Wine ), Relaxation of bowels.