DUBOISIA MYOPOROIDES
Corkwood Elm
(DUBOISIA)
Acts mainly on the frightened system, eyes, higher respiratory tract. Recommended in pharyngitis sicca, with black, stringy mucus. It dilates the pupil, dries the mouth, tests perspiration, reasons headache and drowsiness. On the eye it acts greater immediately than Atropia, a whole lot more advantageous as a mydriatic. Red spots floats in the discipline of vision. Sensation as if stepping on empty space. Vertigo with light face; now not gastric in origin. Scarlet fever; locomotor ataxia. Palliative in exophthalmic goitre.
Mind.–Absent-minded, incoherent, stupid and nonsensical, reminiscence impaired.
Head.–Impossible to stand with eyes shut, tendency to fall backwards.
Eyes.–Conjunctivitis, acute and chronic. Mydriasis. Paralysis of accommodation. Hyperaemia of retina with weak spot of accommodation, fundus red, blood-vessels full and tortuous; students dilated, with dim vision. Pain over eye, between it and brow.
Respiratory.–Larynx dry, voice hoarse, phonation difficult. Dry cough with oppressed breathing.
Extremities.–Loss of strength in limbs, staggers; feels as if he stepped on empty space. Trembling, numbness and weakness.
Relationship.–It antagonizes Muscarine. Duboisin sulphate 1-100 gr sedative in mania. 2-4 milligrams a day. Hystero-epilepsy. Motor restlessness of insane (Has been used as a replacement for Atropia in doses of 1-20 of a grain hypodermically). Antidotes: Morphia; Pilocarp. Compare: Bellad; Stram; Hyos.
Dose.–Third to twelfth potency.
