Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
644.62.14
644.62.14 Rhamnus humboldtiana, Karwinskia humboldtiana
Botany: Mexico.
Names: Tullidora, = little coyote, wild capuli, little black rod, cacachila.
Content: fatty acid, a yellow substance and a glucoside, which is the cause of the paralysis of the motor nerves.
Source: Luis de Legarreta.
Body
Nervous: !! paresis, paralysis, quadriplegia, ascending, progressive, flaccid, painless, acute, subacute, extensor muscles, limbs, thorax, diaphragm, lips, tongue, bulbar, larynx, left side; muscular dystrophy, amyotrophy, emaciation; exaggerated reflexes; complaints of sensitivity; Guillain Barre syndrome; polyneuropathy; poliomyelitis, acute, anterior, encephalomyelitis; encephalitis.
Head: headache, constant; heaviness.
Ears: buzzing.
Throat: difficult speech, articulation; paralysis diaphragm.
Lungs: dyspnoea, respiratory paralysis; bronchopneumonia, secondary; paralytic alveolitis, fatal asphyxia.
Heart: pulse slow.
Stomach: nausea, vomiting.
Abdomen: lack of intestinal activity, ileus, obstruction.
Rectum: diarrhoea.
Back: cramping pains.
Limbs: paralysis, progressive, flaccid, ascending, spinal; cramping pains in the arms and legs.
Skin: bedsores.