CEDRON
Rattlesnake Bean
(SIMARUBA FERROGINEA)
Periodicity is the most marked attribute of this drug. Its specifically beneficial in tropical or in damp, warm, marshy countries. It has been observed healing in malarial affections, in particular neuralgia. Adapted to folks of a voluptuous disposition, excitable, frightened temperament. Has powers of antidoting snake-bites and stings of insects. Tincture of pure bean scraped on wound. Mania.
Head.–Pain from temple to temple across eyes. Pain over entire proper facet of face, coming on about 9 am.Crazy feeling from ache throughout forehead; worse, working on black. Roaring in ears produced with the aid of Cinchona. Whole physique looks numb with headache.
Eyes.–Shooting over left eye. Severe ache in eyeball, with radiating pains round eye, taking pictures into nose. Scalding lachrymation. Supra-orbital neuralgia periodic. Iritis, choroiditis.
Extremities.–Lancinating ache in joints; worse, toes and hands. Sudden ache in ball of proper thumb, extending up arm to shoulder. Pain in ball of proper foot, extending to knee. Shingles, with radiating pain. Dropsy of knee-joint.
Fever.–Chilliness closer to evening; then frontal headache extending into parietal region. Red eyes. Heat, with itching of eyes, tearing in limbs, numbness of limbs.
Relationship.–Antidote: Lach.
Compare: Ars; China.
Dose.–Tincture to 0.33 attenuation.