Cedron cedr.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Nerves. Blood.

Worse

Periodically; at same hour. After sleep.

General

EXACT PERIODICITY. Orbital neuralgia (r). Brow ague. Eyes burn like fire. Numbness. Excitement before chill. Malaria.

Related

Related: Aran.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Intermittents; periodicity, clock-like in its regularity, especially when originating in damp, warm, marshy climates, or in tropical countries, and obstinately recurring.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Rattlesnake Bean (SIMARUBA FERROGINEA)

General

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 black. 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.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Clock-like periodicity of complaints, in low, deep, marshy districts.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Simaba cedron. N. O. Simarubaceæ. Tincture of seeds.

Clinical

Brow ague. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Ciliary neuralgia. Chorea. Coitus, complaints after. Epilepsy, menstrual. Glaucoma. Gout. Hydrophobia. Hysteria. Intermittent fever . Neuralgia . Neuritis. Rheumatism. Snake-bites. Toothache.

Characteristics

Petroz and Teste introduced Cedr . into homœopathic practice, having received the seed from Panama, with an account of its powers of entrusting snake-bite when chewed immediately after being bitten; and also of its traditional reputation in intermittent fevers. Hellert was bitten by a coral snake. "During the few seconds which it took him to take the antidote out of the little bag which he wore suspended round his neck, he was siezed with violent pains at the heart and throat; but he had scarcely chewed and swallowed a small portion of Cedron , of the size of a small bean, when the pain ceased as by magic. An oppression and general prostration remained. He chewed another portion of the same fruit, and applied it to the wound externally, and in another quarter of an hour all he felt was a slight colic, which disappeared after eating a little. This colic was followed almost immediately by a copious evacuation of a substance that looked like curdled milk, white, with a slightly yellowish tint" (Teste). Other cases were reported. The great characteristic of Cedron is a clock-like periodicity in the recurrence of the symptoms; accurately periodic neuralgias; intermittent fever commencing the same hour every day or every other day. In fever there is: Red face in hot stage; thirst with desire for warm drinks. Profuse perspiration. "Excitement before chill" is peculiar to Cedr . Fevers of low, marshy regions in warm seasons and tropical countries. General debility, languor, and fainting. Malaise. Trembling. Complaints after coition (chorea in women; neuralgia in men). Epileptiform convulsions during catamenia. Swollen sensations; numbness of whole body. Adapted to persons of a voluptuous disposition, and of an excitable nervous temperament; especially to females. < After sleep; lying down; night; (objects appear red at night, yellow by day); in open air; before a storm; chills in persons returned from tropical climates. > Standing erect.

Halbert relates a case of malarial fever in a soldier. Chills and fever were clock-like in regularity of recurrence. Liver and spleen were much enlarged. Anæmia was extreme; and there was this additional peculiarity: intermittent gastralgia occurring with the febrile crises. In conjunction with these conditions there was a manifestation of choreic symptoms, involving face and shoulders mostly, the twitchings being troublesome in the interfebrile state; often there were debilitating hysterical spasms; the heart became irritable and sometimes irregular. After other remedies had failed to make any impression, Cedr . cured in three weeks, the improvement setting in immediately . Rapidity of action appears to be a characteristic as with Bell . The great predominance of nervous symptoms will be evident in the symptoms of Cedr ., also the strong sexual excitement it causes. Numbness; enlarged sensation; malaise; sensation as if paralysed. A large number of symptoms appear on l. side, but r. side of head, face, r. elbow, and r. deltoid are affected.

Relations

Compare: Chi., Ars., Aran. d., Bell., Cedr. removes roaring in ears of Chi. Bell. removes "Objects appear red at night, and yellowish by day" of Cedr.; Ars. and Sabad. (complaints return same hour every day); Aran. (ague ─ Aran., chill predominates). Teste includes Cedr. in the Bell. group, with Agar., Lach., Stram., Op., Ruta, Can. i., Hyo., &c. (action on brain; red, hot, face; febrile excitement). Ced. is antidote to: Lach. Is antidoted by: Lach., Bell.

Mind

Nervous excitement, followed by depression. ─ Restlessness, as driven from place to place; urine dark yellow, increased quantities. ─ Lectophobia. ─ Body heavy, mind depressed. ─ Mental symptoms < at night.

Head

Slight dizziness 11 a.m. ─ On rising from bed, dizzy, could not see to light a candle, and could not tell when it was lighted. ─ Intense frontal headache; sharp pains from above eyes to temples and occiput, < before a storm. ─ Pain across eyes from temple to temple. ─ Sick headache every other day 11 o'clock. ─ Bending the head backwards, with pressure on occiput and parietal regions as if they were going to burst. ─ Headache: < during night; < in open air. ─ Head feels as if swollen.

Eyes

Severe shooting pains over l. eye. ─ Tic-like pain over l. eye, only after coitus. ─ Objects seem red at night, yellow by day (Bell. cured). ─ Vision dim. ─ Flashes of light before eyes. ─ Loss of sight with dizziness.

Ears

Tinnitus. ─ Hardness of hearing at night.

Nose

Point of nose cold; with chilliness and yawning, 9 a.m. Secretion profuse. ─ Glassy-looking mucus; or thin, clear, acrid.

Face

Animated red face. ─ Flying heat of face alternating with chills. ─ Prosopalgia (r.), wandering pains, spasmodic distortion of muscles. ─ Tumid face, pupils much dilated. ─ Lips cold, bluish, dry; during menses.

Teeth

Toothache every night during catamenia; bleeding gums. ─ Sudden toothache in l. upper molars; on inspiration, sensation as if cold air touched the teeth.

Mouth

Prickling itching of tongue. ─ Painful pricking of tongue with sensation of heat (during catamenia). ─ Feels paralysed. ─ Difficulty of speech. ─ Stammering after coitus (woman). ─ During catamenia: mouth and tongue dry; breath fetid. ─ After catamenia: profuse ptyalism.

Throat

Burning and constriction; difficult swallowing. ─ Prickling and tingling in throat and fauces, extending some way down œsophagus. ─ Pain on small spot next root of tongue, as of a foreign body, < from pressure.

Appetite

Longing for cold drinks in some, for warm in others. ─ Great thirst during menses. ─ Loss of appetite.

Stomach

Sensation as of a stone on stomach. ─ Nausea, with distension of stomach.

Abdomen

Abdomen hard and distended. ─ Stitches in spleen and liver. ─ Flatulence, colic, and cramp. ─ Borborygmi (l. side).

Stool and Anus

Involuntary stool (in choreic attack). ─ Ineffectual urging.

Urinary Organs

Pain in kidneys. ─ Burning along ureter and in urethra. ─ Feeling as if a drop of urine in urethra, or a constant dripping from it.

Male Sexual Organs

After coitus pain over l. eye. ─ Gonorrhœa-like discharge, lasting three days. ─ Gleet with formication over whole body. ─ Desire with firm erections; all night; on waking.

Female Sexual Organs

Many symptoms appear after coitus, and during the catamenia. ─ Leucorrhœa in place of catamenia. ─ Profuse ptyalism and leucorrhœa after catamenia. ─ Genital excitement at daybreak, with discharge like leucorrhœa, and swollen mammæ, with some pain. ─ Menstrual epilepsy. ─ Puerperal eclampsia.

Respiratory Organs

Larynx constricted and tender. ─ Intermittent laryngitis. ─ Difficult respiration, with partial loss of voice, recurring at different intervals. ─ Suffocative fits recurring regularly every day ten to twelve o'clock. ─ Suffocating fits; < after coitus; < after sleep; > by eating. ─ Troublesome cough every morning at six, lasting two hours. ─ Respiration much affected after coitus. ─ Breath cold.

Chest

Oppression. ─ Sharp, darting-cutting pains under floating ribs and scapula (r.).

Heart

Palpitation and hurried breathing; with headache. ─ Action irregular. ─ Pulse quick and full, with animated red face. ─ Pulse uncountable.

Neck and Back

Stiff neck, pains all along spine. ─ Pain in neck and loins on rising in morning. ─ Pain under scapula and in pelvis.

Upper Limbs

Pain at insertion of r. deltoid and rheumatic pain in r. side. ─ Sharp cutting pain in both elbows. ─ Numb, dead feeling in r. hand and forearm.

Lower Limbs

Numb, dead feeling in legs; they feel enlarged. ─ Lancinating pains in joints. ─ Cramps; contracting pains; bruised sensations. ─ Twitching in tendons; of tendo Achillis. ─ Icy coldness of extremities.

Sleep

Yawning and stretching. ─ Drowsy; sometimes very profound sleep. ─ Restless; frequent waking. ─ < After sleep. ─ Dreamed (he seldom dreamed) of pleasant social interviews with female acquaintances. ─ Dreamed of a quarrelling with a dead sister and other dead friends; cried, about it and awoke with a nightmare, with sensation of a stone in the stomach.

Fever

Chilliness and yawning; point of nose cold. ─ Prodrome: For 20 to 40 minutes mental excitement; exaltation of vital energy; florid, animated countenance; sensation of general heat. ─ Chill 4 a.m., followed by sweat; at 4 p.m., after washing in cold water, chill alone. ─ Shivering and chill, followed by profuse perspiration every evening. ─ Chill, with congestion to head; hands, feet, and nose remain icy cold. ─ Regular paroxysms of fever, coming at same hour, commencing every day 6 p.m. by chills in back and limbs, or cold feet and hands. ─ Hot stage: dryness; heaviness of head; redness of face; burning heat in hands; pulse full and accelerated; thirst, with desire for warm drinks. ─ Profuse perspiration. ─ During sweat: coldness and heat, and heat and coldness irregularly, intermingle. ─ Bluish-red face; forearm to elbow and hands and feet cold; sweat beneath axilla and on chest. ─ Quotidian or tertian fever with marked regularity.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Nervous excitement, followed by depression.
Restless, is driven from place to place ; urine dark yellow and increased in quantity.
After delirium tremens, trembling of whole body.
Nervous depression after coitus.
Lectrophobia.
Body is heavy, mind depressed. θ Intermittent.
Mental symptoms < at night.

Sensorium

Dulness of senses.
Vertigo. θ Menstrual epilepsy.
Giddiness, with falling down in convulsions. θ Epileptiform eclampsia.

Inner head

Shooting pain in orbital region.
Headache, especially deep in orbits, obliging him to shut eyes, and extending to occiput.
Intense pain in forehead. θ Epileptiform eclampsia.
Pressing frontal headache, with sharp pains from above eyes to temples and occiput, < before a storm. θ Choroiditis.
Throbbing pain in head, commencing in temples, extending around to forehead.
From temple to temple, pain across eyes.
Pressure at right temple, dull pain in right side of head, disappears towards noon.
Pressive headache, at noon.
Pressure on top of head.
Sharp pain in occiput. head felt as if swollen .
Distensive headache, < during night.
Sick headache every other day at 11 o'clock.
Congestion to head. θ Chill.
Attacks of headache recur with clock-like periodicity.
Headache < in open air and on rising.

Sight and eyes

Dimness of vision.
Objects seem red at night and yellowish during day.
Dilated pupils, with tumid face.
Flashes of light before eyes.
A peculiar, unsteady, glistening appearance of eyes, and intolerance of light.
Dull appearance of eyes.
Eyes ejected and sore to touch.
Alternate dryness and smarting of eyes with moisture, < when closing them.
Smarting and burning, with lachrymation.
Acrid tears which seemed to scald cheeks.
A tic-like pain over left eye, for more than thirteen years, which never came except after coitus.
Severe shooting pain over left eye.
Severe ciliary neuralgia, distinctly periodical. θ Glaucoma. θ Iritis.
θ Choroiditis.
Pain across eyes, from temple to temple.
Neuralgic affections < evening and when lying down.
Deep sunken eyes, during catamenia.
Spasmodic twitching of upper lid.
Burning sensation in upper lid.

Hearing and ears

Tinnitus. θ Menstrual epilepsy.
Deafness, at night. θ Intermittent.

Smell and nose

Profuse discharge of thin, clear, acrid or glassy-looking mucus.
Point of nose cold, with chilliness and yawning, at 9 P. M.

Upper face

Animated red face. θ Intermittent fever.
Yellow face and skin.
Face pale, during catamenia.
Tumid face, with pupils much dilated. θ Epileptiform eclampsia.
Prosopalgia, more frequently in women than in men, generally on right side, recurring in regular paroxysms of indefinite duration, with spasmodic distortion of muscles corresponding to affected region.
Unbearable neuralgic pains, wandering from place to place, but emanating from a carious tooth ; pressing or tearing pain, with occasional shooting.
Chronic intermittent prosopalgia, always coming on at 7 or 8 P. M., and lasting from two to four hours.
Facial neuralgia, returning with clock-like periodicity.
Flying heat in face, alternating with chills. θ Prosopalgia.
Facial neuralgia, arising from malarial influences.

Lower face

Lips cold, bluish and dry, during catamenia.

Teeth and gums

(In sick :) Sudden toothache in left upper molars ; on inspiration, sensation as if cold touched teeth.
Odontalgia every night, during catamenia.
Bleeding of gums during catamenia.

Taste, speech, tongue

Difficulty of speech, during catamenia.
Stammering speech after coitus, in a woman. θ Choreic attack.
Prickling itching of tongue.
Painful pricking of tongue, with sensation of heat. θ During catamenia.
Tongue felt paralyzed at times, during catamenia.

Inner mouth

Mouth dry, great thirst for cold water.
Mouth and tongue very dry, during catamenia.
Profuse ptyalism after catamenia.
Burning and smarting in mouth.
Tingling sensation in mouth as from shock of a galvanic battery.
Fetid breath during catamenia.

Palate and throat

(In sick :) Pain on small spot in left side of throat, next root of tongue, as of a foreign body, < from pressure.
Enlargement of tonsils, with redness of velum palati, and constant need of swallowing. See 26 .
Burning in fauces, throat and stomach.
Constriction of throat ; difficulty of swallowing.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Longing for cold in some, and for warm drinks in others.
Great thirst during catamenia.

Eating and drinking

After meals : white, frothy, papescent evacuations, with colic and wind.
Improved by eating : suffocative fits. See 26 .

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Slight nausea.
Nausea, with distension of stomach.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sensation as of a stone on stomach.
(OBS :) Gastric affections ; spasm of stomach and bowels.

Hypochondria

Stitches in spleen and liver.

Abdomen and loins

Abdomen hard and distended.
Flatulence, colic and cramps.

Stools and rectum

Semi-liquid, whitish feces, somewhat like starch ; white, frothy and papescent evacuations immediately after meals, accompanied by slight colic and discharge of feces. θ Choreic
attack.
Excessive tenesmus.
(OBS :) Cholera morbus.

Urinary organs

A great deal of pain in kidneys.
Burning along ureters and in urethra.
Profuse secretion of urine.
Frequent ineffectual urging to urinate.
Involuntary discharge of urine. θ Choreic attack.
Discharge of inodorous urine, as clear as water, on recurring consciousness. θ Epileptiform convulsions.
Urine very high colored.
Urine throws down a bran-like sediment.

Male sexual organs

After coitus, pain over left eye.
Gonorrhœa-like discharge, lasting three days.
Thin, gleety discharge, day and night, with formication over body.
Feeling as if a drop of urine were in urethra, or a constant dropping from it.

Female sexual organs

Post coitum, irregular and uncontrollable movements of left upper and lower extremities, and of some portions of face, manifested by grimaces and contortions of different kinds ; these symptoms lasted from fifteen to twenty minutes ; could not speak
without stammering, and respiration was very much affected ; involuntary discharge of urine and feces at times during attack.
Choreic attack.
During catamenia : mouth and tongue very dry ; difficulty of speech ; great thirst ; painful prickling of tongue, with sensation of heat ; felt at times as if tongue was paralyzed ; face pale ; deep sunken eyes ; odontalgia every night ; fetid
breath ; lips cold, bluish, dry ; now and then slight bleeding of gums.
After catamenia profuse ptyalism and leucorrhœal flow.
Leucorrhœa regularly every mouth, five or six days previous to catamenia, with pain in uterus and swelling of vulva.
Leucorrhœal discharge appearing in place of catamenia.
Menstrual epilepsy (epileptoid convulsions), precursory symptoms of which were manifested precisely the same day that catamenia commenced ; vertigo, tinnitus aurium, and irregularity in action of heart ; then aura epileptica, followed with loss of consciousness and
falling ; a distressing cry now and then, alternated with risus sardonicus, and slight foaming at mouth, during attack.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Tendency to miscarriage, repeating itself at same epoch ;
Epileptiform eclampsia, in a primipara, in seventh month of pregnancy. See 36 .

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Larynx constricted and tender ; difficulty of swallowing ; difficult respiration, with partial loss of voice, recurring at intervals.
Feeling of suffocation in throat.
Chronic intermittent laryngitis ; attack comes on every evening, with shivering chills, lasts about two hours, terminates with a profuse perspiration.

Respiration

Respiration very much affected after coitus, in a woman. θ Choreic attack.
Hurried respiration and feeling of suffocation in throat.
Suffocating fits regularly every morning from 10 to 12 o'clock ; there are sensations of choking or stifling ; difficulty of breathing, obliging her to stand in an erect position ; enlargement of tonsils during attack, with redness of velum palati, and constant need of
swallowing ; < after sleeping, > by eating.
Breath cold.

Cough

Troublesome cough, coming on regularly every morning at about 6 o'clock, and lasting from two to three hours.
Cough dry with oppressed and rattling breathing, > by free expectoration of viscous frothy sputa, at times streaked with blood.

Inner chest and lungs

Oppression of chest ; frequent inclination to sigh and draw a deep breath.
Sharp darting cutting pains under ribs.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Irregular action of heart. θ Menstrual epilepsy.
Quick and full pulse, with animated red face. θ Intermittent fever.
Irregular pulse, with palpitation. θ Epileptiform eclampsia.
Rapid intermittent pulse, impossible to count strokes ; also, palpitation of heart, rapid and intermittent.

Neck and back

Stiff neck ; pain all along spine. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.

Upper limbs

Pain at insertion of right deltoid, and rheumatic pain in right side.

Lower limbs

Numb, dead feeling in legs ; they feel enlarged.

Limbs in general

Transient pain in joints, principally in right elbow, which perspire.
Tearing and twitching pains in limbs.
Cramps, followed by contracting and tearing pains in extremities.
Cold sensation in hands or feet.
Icy coldness of extremities.

Rest. position. motion

Gout.
Lying down : < neuralgic affection, in evening.
Has to stand in an erect position ; suffocative attacks.

Nerves

General debility, languor and fainting.
Chronic intermittent neuralgia, recurring in paroxysms with great regularity.
Trembling of whole body. θ After delirium tremens.
Choreic attack, after coitus, in a woman.
Epileptiform eclampsia : attacks came on regularly twice a day, morning and evening, at same hours ; intense pain in forehead ; tumid face, with pupils much dilated ; giddiness, resulting in her falling down in most distressing convulsions ; insensibility, closed
teeth, and frothy secretions from mouth ; difficult respiration, irregular pulse, and palpitation ; the whole lasting for six or eight minutes ; on recovering consciousness, felt very weak, and discharged a large quantity of inodorous urine, as clear as pure water (primipara,
in seventh mouth of utero-gestation.) θ Hysteria.
Epileptiform convulsions during catamenial period.
Entire body feels numb.

Sleep

Yawning.
Worse after sleeping : suffocative fits. See 26 .

Time

Night : mental symptoms < ; distensive headache < ; objects seem red ; deafness.
At 4 A. M. : chill, followed by sweat.
At 6 A. M. : troublesome cough ; regular paroxysm of fever.
At 11 A. M. : sick headache, every other day.
From 10 to 12 : suffocating fits, daily.
Towards noon : pressing pain in right temple >.
Noon : pressive headache.
At 4 P. M. : chill after washing in cold water.
At 7 or 8 P. M. : chronic intermittent prosopalgia.
At 9 P. M. : point of nose cold, with chilliness and yawning.
Evening : neuralgia affection ; epileptiform eclampsia.
Day : objects appear yellow.

Temperature and weather

Temperature and Weather
Warm drinks : longing for.
Cold drinks : longing for.
Open air : < headache.
Chills and fever in persons returned from tropical countries.
Worse before a storm : neuralgic pains. θ Choroiditis.

Fever

Chilliness and yawning : point of nose cold.
Chill at 4 A. M., followed by sweat ; at 4 P. M., after washing in cold water, chill alone.
Shivering and chill, followed by profuse perspiration, every evening. θ Chronic laryngitis.
Chill, with congestion to head ; hands, feet and nose remain icy cold.
Chill, severe enough to shake whole body, renewed by every motion, lasting one to two hours ; hands, feet and nose cold.
Regular paroxysm of fever, coming at same hour, commencing every day at 6 P. M., by chills in back and limbs, or cold feet and hands.
Heat over entire body.
Hot stage : dryness ; heaviness of head ; redness of face ; burning heat in hands, pulse full and accelerated, thirst, with desire for warm drinks.
Profuse perspiration.
During sweat, coldness and heat and heat and coldness irregularly intermingled.
Bluish-red face ; forearm to elbow, and hands and feet cold ; sweat beneath axilla and on chest ; a child.
Quotidian and tertian fever with marked periodicity.
Miasmatic fevers of low marshy regions in warm seasons and tropical countries ; chill returns with clock-like regularity.

Attacks, periodicity

Clock-like periodicity : headache ; chill.
Attacks occur with unerring periodicity to the hour. θ Prosopalgia. θ Neuralgia.
θ Intermittent.
At same epoch of pregnancy : tendency to miscarriage.

Locality and direction

Left : eye, a tic-like pain ; shooting pain over eye ; toothache ; pain in throat ; pain in eye after coitus ; upper and lower extremities, uncontrollable movements.
Right : temple, pressure ; side of head, pains ; face, prosopalgia ; pain in deltoid ; transient pain in elbow.

Sensations

As if swollen, head ; as if cold air touched teeth ; as if paralyzed, tongue ; as from shock of galvanic battery, in mouth ; as of a stone on stomach ; as if a drop of urine was in urethra, or dropping from it ; as if enlarged, legs.
Intense pain : in forehead.
Stitches : in spleen and liver.
Darting cutting : under ribs.
Shooting : pain in orbital region ; over left eye ; toothache.
Tic-like pain : over left eye.
Prickling itching : of tongue.
Tearing : toothache ; in limbs ; in extremities.
Smarting : in eyes ; in mouth.
Burning : in eyes ; in upper eyelid ; in mouth ; in fauces, throat and stomach ; along urethra ; heat, in hands.
Pressure : right temple and head ; on top of head.
Pressing : frontal headache ; toothache.
Rheumatic pain : in right side.
Contused feeling.
Twitching : in limbs.
Sharp pain : in occiput ; from above eyes to temples and occiput.
Tingling : in mouth.
Formication : over body, with gleet.
Numbness : in legs.
Throbbing pain : in head.
Undefined pain : in kidneys ; along spine ; at insertion of r. deltoid.
Heaviness : of head.
Suffocative feeling : in throat.
Cramps : in extremities.
Heat : in tongue.
Flying heat : of face.
Heat and cold : irregularly intermingled.
Dryness : of head ; of eyes.

Tissues

Affects cerebro-spinal system ; kidneys and bowels.
Counteracts bites of venomous serpents and stings of poisonous insects.
Marked debility, apparently due to action on brain and nervous system.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : < pain in throat.
Touch : eyes sore to.

Stage of life, constitution

Adapted to persons of a voluptuous disposition and of an excitable, nervous temperament ; more especially to females.
A child ; cyanosis.
Women more frequently affected with prosopalgia than men.
A woman, neuralgic headache ; chronic choroiditis.
Primipara, in seventh month of pregnancy ; epileptiform eclampsia.

Relations

The debility of Cedron in intermittent fever appears to be due to action on brain and nervous system, not to the effect of profuse perspiration, as in Cinchona .
Given against bites of venomous serpents and stings of poisonous insects.
Compare Cinchona and Arsen .
Cedron removes roaring in ears, produced by Cinchona .
Bellad . removes "objects appear red at night and yellowish by day."

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Especially adapted to women; persons of nervous, excitable temperament, of a voluptuous disposition.

Nervous depression, and choreic attacks after coitus, more pronounced in women (debility after, more marked in male).

Sick headache every other day at 11 A. M. (Every day, Nat.)

Pains; tearing and twitching in limbs.

Menses: during, mouth and tongue very dry; great thirst; epilepsy, premonitory symptoms appear precisely same day that flow begins. Convulsions occur regularly at every menstrual period.

Before: leucorrhœa every month regularly, five or six days previous to catamenia (Kali c.); leucorrhœa instead of the menses (Coc.).

After: profuse ptyalism.

Removes roaring in ears, produced by Quinine.

Aggravation

Movement renews chill; before a storm.

Amelioration

Warm drinks; warm room.

Type

Quotidian; tertian; tropical miasmatic; periodicity marked; attacks occur with clock-like regularity (Aran.). Intermittent headache, neuralgia, prosopalgia. At same period of pregnancy, tendency to miscarry.

Time

Evening at 6 or 6:30 P. M.; 4 A. M. and 4 P. M. (3 A. M., Thuja); 3 P. M. till evening (Apis).

Prodrome

At noon, preceding feverish paroxysm, depressed spirits, dullness of senses, and pressive headache. For 20 to 40 minutes mental excitement; exaltation of vital energy; florid, animated face and a sensation of general heat.

Chill

With thirst. Regular paroxysms, commencing by chills in the back and limbs, coldness in the feet and hands. Chill severe; shakes the whole body. Mouth dry, great thirst for cold water. General coldness, shivering in the back, ice-cold feet, burning hands, sensation in the eyes as after much weeping. Shivering all over at 3 A. M., with malaise and inclination to lie down (Thuja); shiverings are renewed by every movement (Nux, Cinch.); coldness of the hands, feet and nose; flushes of heat in the face; toward 6 P. M. face constantly hot, with smarting in the eyes, especially when closing them. Chilliness of the back and legs; unusual paleness of the hands, red face, heaviness of the head; chilliness followed by severe frontal headache, red eyes, and itching of the eyelids internally and externally, icy-coldness of the hands and of the tip of the nose, rest of the face hot and burning hot. During chill, hands, feet and nose cold, with congestion of the head, palpitation and hurried respiration. Cramps and painful feeling, with tearing, twitching pains in upper extremities, feet and hands icy-cold. Chills and shivering of whole body. Chill predominates (Petr.).

Heat

With thirst for warm drinks (Cas., Chel., Sab.). "Cannot drink anything but hot drinks during fever." Dry heat during the night; dry heat of entire body; animated face and profuse perspiration; chattering of the teeth and shaking of the whole body; great desire and longing for warm drinks (rarely wants cold drinks), and emission of large quantities of pale urine. Desire to sleep as heat passes off (Apis). "Numb, dead feeling in the legs; they feel enlarged. Entire body feels numb" (hands and feet feel dead, Cimex—fingers feel dead, Sep.).

Sweat

With thirst. Dry heat, followed by profuse perspira-tion (Cinch.), preceded by cramps, these followed by contract-ing, tearing pains in upper and lower extremities, with a cold sensation in the hands and feet; mouth dry, great thirst and desire for cold water; chills and shivering, sometimes very strong shivering of the whole body; palpitation and hurried respiration; urine scanty and high colored.

Tongue

Coated yellow even to the tip, on rising in the morning. At 5 P. M. intolerable pricking-itching of the tongue, she had to keep rubbing it against the palate. At 5:30 P. M. pricking of the tongue, half an hour later chilliness, with heat of the face, pale hands; feet and tip of the nose cold. Pricking of tongue early in the morning; goes off after eating.

Pulse

Weak and depressed during chill, quick and full, with animated red face, in heat.

Apyrexia

Lasted from 15 to 17 hours, after which, and in about the same time as previous day, the paroxysm was repeated; restless; very nervous; cold and pale; weakness, yet return of appetite; transient pains are felt in the joints, principally in right elbow, which seems to perspire; general malaise; great debility; body heavy; mind depressed. Roaring in ears, deafness at night.

The debility is almost as marked as in Cinchona, but appears to be due more to the action of the brain and nervous system than to the effect of the profuse perspiration which is so charac-teristic of the latter. Said to be adapted to the intermittent fevers, occurring in low, marshy regions, particularly in warm seasons and in tropical countries. Ought to be the first remedy thought of in "Panama" fever.

The chill or chilliness predominates, but no stage of the paroxysm is "clear cut" or well marked, as in Cinchona, Eupatorium and some other remedies. With the chill there is chilliness and heat, or hot flushes, or hot hands, or red face and congestion of the head, particularly of the meninges. During heat, shivering, shaking, cold hands and nose. During sweat, coldness and heat, and heat and sweat irregularly intermingled.

Were it not for "its clock-like periodicity" Cedron would be much better adapted to remittent than intermittent fevers, if we were treating a name alone. Has been used with more success in Southern States and tropical climates than in higher latitudes, where it has fallen into disuse of late years from frequent failures, though apparently indicated.

Analysis

Clock-like regularity of paroxysm (Aran.).

Craves warm drinks.

Profuse perspiration.

Miasmatic fevers of the low marshy regions in tropical coun- tries. "Panama" or fevers of the Isthmus; in persons from tropical countries.