Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
644.55.09
644.55.09 Piscidia piscipula, Piscidia erythrina
Names: Camptosema pinnatum; Erythrina piscipula; Erythrina carthaginensis.
English: Jamaica Dog-wood; White Dogwood; Florida fish poison tree.
German: Piscidie, Hundeholzbaum.
Spanish: Chijol.
Content: rotenoids; isoflavones; tannins; beta-sisterol.
Mind
Excitability, nervous unrest.
Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending.
Industrious, mania for work.
Mania, madness, insanity, excitement, with sleeplessness.
General
Sensation: heat, burning.
Weather: > open air.
Sweat: profuse.
Desire: water; alcohol; alcoholism.
Sleep: sudden sleepy, deep, comatose; sleepless, insomnia, < worry, < nervous excitement.
Body
Fever.
Nervous: neuralgic, supraorbital; spasmodic, tetanic; convulsions, paralysis; delirium tremens; tic douloureux.
Eyes: contracts then dilates pupils; staring.
Mouth: saliva copious; toothache.
Lungs: cough, spasmodic, persistent, < night; pulmonary tuberculosis; whooping cough, bronchitis; dyspnoea.
Heart: pulse increased, then decreased.
Female: menses irregular; dysmenorrhoea; ovarian neuralgia, congestion uterus, ovaries; uterine displacement; labour pains erratic, disturbing.
Limbs: rheumatism.