Angustura Vera
(Cusparia febrifuga)
Pharmacy - ang. Angustura vera. Cusparia febrifuga. Galipea cusparia. GaJipea offici-nalis. Bonplandia trifoliata. N. O. Rutacae. Bonplandia trifoliata from Angustura, South America. Trituration and tincture of the bark. Historical dose: Trituration, tincture, and all potencies.
Clinical
Anxiety. Belching. Bone pains. Chills. DJjfee addiction. Decay of tissues. Diarrhea. Dyspepsia. Headache. Hemorrhoids. Injuries. Intermittent fevers. Knee pain. Myopia. Palpitations. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Spavin in horses. Tetanus. Toothache. Trismus neonatorum. Ulcers. Varicose veins. Vertigo. Whooping cough.
Homeopathic
The effects of Ang. are closely allied to those of Nux-v., Ruta, and Mere. Clarke has verified the power of Ang. over long bones in a case of acute periostitis of the tibia in a scrofulous boy. The 5x trituration speedily arrested inflammation after the failure of Mere. Decay of bones, particularly if the patient has a longing for coffee and has a very touchy, sensitive mind.
Principal action is on spinal motor nerves and mucous membranes. Over-sensitive and excitable. The slightest offense, a mere trifle, irritates (Nux-v.). Timidity and weakness (Sil.). Characteristic strong craving for coffee.
Decay of tissue. Decay with crumbling off of pieces of bone. Decay of long bones. Ulcers very painful, penetrate to marrow. Tearing in the bones, worse at rest, better with cold applications, better with extension, worse with exertion and pressure. Exostosis of lower jaw. Rheumatic and paralytic complaints with great difficulty in walking. Crackling in all joints. Drawing, tension, stiffness of muscles and joints, bruised, sore feeling as after a blow.
Constricting sensation in varicose veins. Spinal marrow and extensor muscles are principally affected. Paralysis. Tetanus. Drawing of head from right side, later to left. Heat in forehead at night. Near-sighted.
Mind
Greatly excited and extravagant spirits. Oversensitive. Sudden attacks of anxiety at night. Anxiety while lying in bed. Anxiety as if she never would get awake again. Easily frightened and starts. Pusillanimity. He has not confidence enough in himself to undertake and perform voluntary motions.
Marked ill humor, everything vexes her. Lachrymose and irritable. Great gloom. Disheartened. Offended easily. Prone to anger, every trifle irritates. Filled with bitterness, will stand no joking, irritation at least of offense. Absence of mind, wants now this, then that thing.
Abdomen
Pain from navel into sternum. Loud rumbling in the abdomen. Emission of stinking flatulence.
Back
Itching along back. Twitching and jerking along back. Pain in cervical vertebrae. Drawing in the neck. Cutting pain from point of right scapula to breast, near nipple (Che!). Pain in spine, at nape of neck and sacrum, worse on pressure. Bends backwards.
Constitutions
Syphilitic constitutions.
Ears
Heat of the head and both cheeks. Pinching in the external ear. Heat in the lobes. Sensation as if something were before the ear and as if something were inserted in it. Throbbing pain behind the ears, on the side of the neck, as if the carotid were beating.
Eyes
The eyes are red and burn, agglutinated in the morning. Violent burning in the inner half of the eyes. Pressure in both eyes, as if a bright light were irritating them and they became weary. A few stitches over the eyes. Eyes feel as if there was sand in them.
Food
Aversion to solid food, desires nothing but warm drink. Thirst without desire to drink. Irresistible desire to drink coffee.
Aversion to meat, especially pork. Thirst for cold water, could not drink enough during the evening. Wants now one thing, now another, which are refused when offered. He cannot get satisfied without having much appetite.
Head
Oversensitive. Headache with heat of face. Acute pain in cheeks. Drawing in facial muscles. Pain in temporal muscles, worse when opening the jaws. Pain in articulation of jaw in masseter muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much. Cramp pain on the zygomatic arch.
Limbs
Stiffness and tension of muscles and joints. Pain in limbs on walking. Arms tired and heavy. Decay of long bones. Coldness of fingers. Knee pain. Cracking in joints.
Lungs
Cough, as if something weighed on his lungs. Frequent short cough, followed by one hiccough. Expectoration of sour, salty water.
Modalities
Toothache is better with application of cold fingers. Palpitations, worse sitting bent and better sitting up. Pain in cervical vertebrae, worse moving arms. Loose cough is worse at 3 p.m. Worse from exertion. Worse stooping. Worse moving or lifting arms. Worse drinking warm milk. Worse cold application. Worse extension. Worse lying on left side.
Mouth
Great dryness of mouth and lips without any thirst. Much saliva flows from the mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth after the usual smoking.
Nose
Sensation of a corrosive soreness deep in the nose.
Rectum
Diarrhea and colic. Tenesmus with soft stool. Chronic diarrhea with debility and loss of flesh. Burning in anus. Frequent urging in the rectum, as if diarrhea would come on immediately.
Hemorrhoids remain protruded, even during the night.
Skin
Decay, very painful ulcers which affect the bone.
Sleep
Restlessness at night. Uneasy sleep, wakes without cause and cannot get to sleep again. Vivid dreams, partly disagreeable, partly anxious. Anxious, distressing dreams, causing her to weep much.
Stomach
Belchings of water. Many empty belchings after a meal. Bilious belchings. Belching with cough (Ambr.). Frequent hiccough. Sense of nausea in the stomach. Nausea with water brash. Nausea, especially during a meal. Empty feeling in stomach. Cutting, tearing in the pit increased moving the trunk after dinner. Cramp-like, pinching pain below the pit of the stomach. Atonic dyspepsia.
Temperature
Chills all over with nausea. At 3 p.m., shivering with goose flesh, abating in the open air without thirst, for several days in succession.
Throat
Frequent roughness in the throat, he must hack without being able to expectorate anything. Roughness and dryness in the back part of the palate and fauces without any thirst.
Vertigo
Periodical vertigo. Vertigo in the open air. Vertigo from the occiput when sitting, throbbing in right temple.
Comments
Trismus neonatorum, where much mercury had been given. Drawing in upper right molar tooth better with application of cold finger. Thirst, constant desire to drink. Irresistible desire to drink coffee.
Hiccough after cough. Belching with cough (Ambr.). Dry, hacking cough from scratching in throat or irritation behind sternum. Irritation behind sternum through to back. Every evacuation followed by shivering, crawling sensation over face. Tenesmus with soft stool. Hemorrhoids protrude with tingling of tip of glans penis (when walking in open air). Violent itching on scrotum.
Relations
Antidoted by: Coffea (not Camph.). Bry. - Bellyache after milk, Chel. - sharp, cutting pain from just beneath right scapula to chest. Ang. is like Ruta in its action on bones and as an antidote to Mercury, also like False Angustura. Compare: (1) Nux-v., Ruta, Mere. (2) Brucea Bark or Angustura falsa. (3) Bell. - worse at 3 p.m. (4) All-c., Cham., Coff. - toothache better by cold. (5) Cic., Ign., Nux-v. - tetanus. (6) Mere., Phos., Sil. - decay of jaw. (7) Aesc., Aloe. - hemorrhoids and backache. (8) Hyper., Led. - punctured wounds. (9) Ran-b. - pain in pectoral muscles.
References
Allen. Boericke. Clarke.