Rattlesnake Bean (SIMARUBA FERROGINEA)
- Periodicity is the most marked characteristic of this drug.
- Its particularly useful in tropical or in damp, warm, marshy countries.
- It has been found curative in malarial affections, especially neuralgia.
- Adapted to persons of a voluptuous disposition, excitable, nervous 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 whole right side of face, coming on about 9 am.
- Crazy feeling from pain across forehead; worse, working on blackness.
- Roaring in ears produced by Cinchona.
- Whole body seems numb with headache.
Eyes
- Shooting over left eye.
- Severe pain in eyeball, with radiating pains around eye, shooting into nose.
- Scalding lachrymation.
- Supra-orbital neuralgia periodic.
- Iritis, choroiditis.
Extremities
- Lancinating pain in joints; worse, feet and hands.
- Sudden pain in ball of right thumb, extending up arm to shoulder.
- Pain in ball of right foot, extending to knee.
- Shingles, with radiating pain.
- Dropsy of knee-joint.
Fever
- Chilliness towards 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 third attenuation.
