Cubeba Officinalis cub.

Mucous membranes: URETHRA. Bladder. Vagina.

Night in bed.

Walking about.

Burning rawness. Violent inflammation, then acrid, yellow or green, offensive discharges. Catarrhs.

Veins of forehead distended. Gelatinous, cold stools; with grains like rice. Cramp or cutting-burning after urinating. Stringy gonorrhœa.

Related: Cist. Cop.

Cubebs (CUBEBA)

Mucous membranes generally, but especially that of the urinary tract, are chiefly affected by this remedy. Frequent urination of a nervous origin. Leucorrhœa in little girls.

Urethritis, with much mucus, especially in women. Cutting after urination, with constriction. Hæmaturia. Prostatitis, with thick yellow discharge. Cystitis.

Catarrh of nose and throat, with fetid odor and expectoration. Mucus trickles from posterior nares. Rawness of throat and hoarseness.

Compare: Cucurbita; Copaiva; Piper meth; Sandal.

Second and third attenuation.

This remedy, also fallen into disrepute from its empirical use in the old school, has an important place in the therapeutics of gonorrhœa, if after the first or inflammatory stage is passed under the usual remedies for that stage there still remains burning in the urethra after urination and the discharge remains thick, yellow or puslike. Notwithstanding Mercurius or Pulsatilla, we may find our remedy in Cubeba. I have made some fine cures myself in such cases. With Pulsatilla the discharge, while thick, or yellow, or green, is more likely to be bland, as it is on mucous membranes elsewhere. Mercury has a similar discharge, but all the symptoms are worse at night. When the discharge becomes thin (gleety) neither of these remedies are, appropriate.

Right here let us call attention to another remedy which ought to be mentioned in connection with the treatment of gonorrhœa.

Exaltation of temper and of the mental faculties.

Diarrhœa, with rumbling and cutting in the abdomen and burning in the rectum. Suppuration of the rectum. Burning and itching of the anus.

Foaming urine. Burning and itching in the fossa navicularis.

Discharge from the urethra of a dark-reddish color (gonorrhœa). Inflammation of the penis. Sensation of pressure and heaviness in the pelvis.

Sensation of heat in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.

Piper cubeba. Cubeba officinalis. Cubebs. N. O. Piperaceæ. Tincture of dried unripe fruit.

Albuminuria. Aphthæ. Croup. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Enuresis. Gleet Gonorrhœa. Hernia. Leucorrhœa in children. Orchitis. Prostatitis. Rheumatism. Roseola. Urticaria.

Cubeba corresponds to catarrh. It is an old-world remedy for gonorrhœa and gleet, but it affects the mucous membrane of the nose, air passages and intestines, as well as that of the urino-genital tract. It acts well in persons of bilious temperament with tendency to constipation. Some of its most characteristic symptoms are: Burning in throat with dryness, constant need to swallow saliva; burning in stomach; in abdomen; in rectum; in urethra; in fossa navicularis. Nash defines its place in gonorrhœa thus: "After the inflammatory stage is passed under the usual remedies for that stage, if there still remains burning in the urethra after micturition, and the discharge remains thick, yellow, or pus-like (with Puls . the discharge is bland ; with Merc . all symptoms are < at night). Thin (gleety) discharge does not correspond to any of the three." Prickling in soles of feet. There is a sensation of downward weight and pressure in region of femoral ring, < on walking, riding, or lifting. Stools and colic are < at night in bed; > getting up and walking about. Skin diseases concomitant with kidney affections. Urine foaming, albuminous, bloody. Acrid leucorrhœa in children.

Compare: Copaiva (with which it is compatible). Piper methyst. Piper nigrum and Matico (botanical). Capsic; Canth. (irritable bladder in females); Tereb.; Cannab. sat.; Iod. (membranous croup).

Exaltation of temper and of the mental faculties. — On violent agitations he was aroused for a moment; uttered some incoherent expression and sank back into a comatose sleep.

Eyes rolled upward, injected; pupils contracted to a pin-point.

Face red and swollen. — Veins of forehead and temples turgid. — Lips dark purple. — Lips puffed, dry and shining. — Extraordinary twist of mouth to one side every time he attempts to speak or smile.

Teeth slightly coated with brown sordes.

Mouth containing viscid frothy saliva. — Aphthæ of lips and gums. — Tongue furred and moist or very white.

Constant need to swallow saliva to relieve dryness and burning in throat and larynx.

Nausea and vomiting. — Burning pain in stomach.

Burning in abdomen. — Femoral hernia. — Colic.

Diarrhœa, with rumbling and cutting in the abdomen and burning in the rectum. — Suppuration of the rectum. — Burning and itching of the anus. — Stools: blackish, yellowish, fecal; bilious; yellow transparent mucus; mingled with whitish, shining particles like rice; bloody mucous (dysenteric); involuntary; < at night in bed; > from rising from bed and moving about.

Foaming urine. — Albuminous, bloody urine, with increased uroxanthine. — Burning and itching in the fossa navicularis. — Nocturnal enuresis.

Discharge from the urethra of a dark-reddish colour (gonnorrhœa). — Inflammation of the penis. — Sensation of pressure and heaviness in the pelvis. — Testicles swollen. — Thick, yellow-green discharge, with frequent obstruction of urethra. — Prostatitis.

Urethro-vaginitis, severe and of long standing, with acute pains and abundant discharge. — Leucorrhœa profuse, yellow, greenish, very acrid, very offensive; erythema of inner surfaces of thighs, pruritus vulvæ, intense desire for coitus; small burning pimples; womb swollen and painful; menses too early, preceded and followed by leucorrhœa, or in small quantity and consisting mostly of leucorrhœa. — Acrid leucorrhœa of children.

Respiration slow, short and gasping; hurried and noisy. — Chest feels full. — Sense of suffocation. — False membranes in larynx. — Voice harsh and wheezing. — Incessant bronchial cough; < evening, by heat, in open air; throat dry and parched; hurried, noisy respiration. — Harsh cough. — Barking, croupy cough.

Pulse very slow, moderately full, but extinguished by least pressure.

Sensation of heat in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. — Numbness of fingers and toes.

Skin warm, moist, clammy. — Feverish tingling heat over whole body. — A flush of red over whole body. — General eruption of roseolous papules without fever or itching, confluent on face, buttocks and upper limbs, more scant on lower. — Intense itching. — Severe urticaria febrilis.

Heat flushes on face soles of feet and palms of hands. — Fever with heat at pit of stomach. — Cold sweat in chest and back; burning in abdomen (in croup).

Cubebs. Piperaceæ.
The unripe berries of the Piper Cubeba, a climbing plant of Java and other portions of the East Indies.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Pressure and pain in region of femoral ring , E. M. Hale, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 496 ; Dysentery , Bachmeister, Organon, vol. 3, p. 357 ; Nocturnal enuresis , Battmann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 513 ; Gonorrhœa (six cases), Hirsch, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 83 ; Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 176 ; Gleet , Rosenberg, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 83 ; Urethro-vaginitis , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 176 ; Croup , Emil Tietze, H. M., vol. 2, p. 363.

Exaltation of temper and mental faculties, or weakness and loss of memory.
Uneasiness, anxiety, cannot remain in bed.

Sensation as if head was choked up ; with heaviness of head and danger of suffocation. θ Croup.
Contractive and pressive headache, with drowsiness, but without sleep.
Deep-seated headache ; dulness.

Fulness in eyes, turgid and watery.
Rheumatic or gonorrhœal ophthalmia.

Fulness of face which is occasionally florid and flushed, or red and pale by turns.

Lips puffed, dry and shining.
Extraordinary twist of mouth to one side every time he attempts to speak or smile.

Aphthæ of lips and gums.

Tongue furred and moist or very white.

Feeling of dryness of mouth, though moistened with an oily saliva, great thirst.

Constant need to swallow saliva to relieve dryness and burning in throat and larynx.
Throat dry and parched.

Increased appetite.
Desire for delicacies ; oranges ; acid fruits ; spirits ; brandy ; fresh bread ; onions ; almonds ; nuts.
Unquenchable thirst, with feeling of dryness of mouth, and burning in throat.

Disagreeable or acid eructations.
Nausea and vomiting.

Uneasiness, heat at pit of stomach, and fever.
Burning pain in stomach ; feeling of warmth in epigastric region.
Dyspepsia of long standing ; sourness after eating, and distress of stomach from food.

Abdomen distended and very sensitive.
Burning in abdomen. θ Croup.
Burning and pressure about navel.
Sensation of weight, pressure, and pain in region of femoral ring, similar to that which precedes occurrence of femoral hernia ; downward pressure and weight < after walking, riding, lifting, and especially before and during menstrual period.
Hernia femoralis.

Before stool : cutting pains in hypogastrium.
During stool : tenesmus ; cutting pain ; loud discharges of flatus.
Distressing diarrhœa, with headache and griping.
Stools : blackish, yellowish, fecal ; bilious ; yellow, transparent, mucous ; mingled with whitish, shining particles, looking like kernels of rice ; bloody mucus ; frequent (dysenteric) ; copious ; bilious and fecal ; involuntary ; < at night in bed ; > from rising from bed and moving about (colic).
Countenance fallen, indicating great suffering ; discharges every half hour of transparent slime mixed with blood ; before stool severe griping pains in bowels, with backache ; with stool, the same, and urging to urinate ; after stool, long-continued tenesmus, and relief of pains, except heavy dull pain in back and bowels ; tongue flabby, white, furred ; throat dry ; little thirst < ; from food or drink. θ Dysentery.
Stools of colorless, transparent slime, mixed with bright blood, and plentifully interspersed with shining, white bodies, the shape of rice kernels. θ Dysentery.
Diarrhœa, with rumbling and cutting in abdomen and burning in rectum.
Constipation ; hemorrhoids ; perineum tender.
Suppuration of rectum.
Burning and itching of anus.

Chronic cystitis ; cutting and constriction after micturition ; urine increased in quantity, deepened in color ; hæmaturia.
Urethritis (accompanied by vesical irritability) of females, especially of married women ; feeling of fulness in bladder with desire to urinate every ten or fifteen minutes, with smarting in urethra during micturition, which is very scanty, but a few drops passing at a time, and followed by vesical tenesmus ; filaments of ropy mucus escaping with first or last drops of urine.
Irritation of urinary passages ; cutting and constriction after micturition ; hæmaturia.
After micturition, sensation as if bladder still contained water.
Last drops of urine passed with pain.
Urine : foaming ; bloody ; smells of violets.
Nocturnal enuresis.
Burning and itching in fossa navicularis.

Sexual excitement.
Testicles swollen.
Inflammation of urethra.
Prostatitis.
Secretion of mucus from urethra greatly increased.
Discharge from urethra of a dark reddish color.
Inflammation of penis, pressure and heaviness.
Gonorrhœa, with profuse discharge and scalding pain whilst urinating ; pus very thick and glutinous ; excessive ardor urinæ and frequent desire to empty bladder.
Pale, copious, slimy discharge, causing soiled linen to become stiff ; sometimes, particularly after coitus, or use of spirituous liquors, sensation of warmth and slight burning in urethra on urinating. θ Gleet.
After six weeks, thick, yellow, pus-like discharge from urethra. θ Gonorrhœa.
After two months, profuse pus-like discharge, with painless urination, slight redness of meatus, no swelling of glans. θ Chronic gonorrhœa.
Thick, yellowish-green discharge, with frequent obstruction of urethra. θ Gonorrhœa.

Urethro-vaginitis, severe and of long standing, with acute pains and abundant discharge.
Leucorrhœa profuse, yellow, greenish, very acrid, and of a very offensive odor ; erythema at inner surface of thighs and pruritus of vulva, with intense desire for coition ; small, burning pimples ; womb swollen and painful, as if from a tumor ; menses too soon, often preceded and followed by leucorrhœa, or in small quantity, and consisting mostly of leucorrhœa.
Acrid leucorrhœa of children.

False membranes, thick and of a dark shade, principally in larynx ; respiration noisy and panting ; sensation as if throat was choked up, with heaviness of head ; danger of suffocation ; voice harsh and wheezing.

Respiration hurried and noisy.
Respiration impeded, difficult, with crepitant rales ; great fulness of chest ; dyspnœa and sense of suffocation.

Incessant bronchial cough ; < evening, by heat, and in open air ; throat dry and parched ; hurried and noisy respiration.
Harsh cough, which seems to tear and rupture the bronchi ; expectoration difficult and painful, or yellow-greenish, rusty, streaked with blood ; hæmoptysis, especially evenings.
Barking and croupy cough, with feeling as of a foreign body in larynx.
Cough with coryza and hoarseness, during and after cough cold sweat upon breast and back, burning in abdomen.

Burning and tearing pain in chest ; severe cough.
Pulmonary catarrh ; hæmoptysis, particularly in evenings. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.

Pulse full, frequent.
Soft, slow pulse, weak and small.
Pulse irregular, suspending two or three beats each minute, sometimes slow, at intervals hurried, not exceeding 84.

Acute, deep-seated pain in wrists, speedily followed by redness and swelling ; stiffness of wrist and thickening around joint.

Pricking sensation in soles of feet.

Sensation of heat in palms of hands and soles of feet.
Numbness of fingers and toes.

Stools and colic < at night in bed, > by getting up and moving about.
Walking, riding, lifting : downward pressure and weight in region of femoral ring <.

Great restlessness ; extreme weakness.
Convulsive movements, and partial paralysis.

Evening : bronchial cough < ; hæmoptysis <.
At night : stools < in bed ; enuresis.

Heat : bronchial cough <.
Open air : bronchial cough <.

Heat, flushes in face, soles of feet and palms of hands.
Increased heat with thirst.
Feverish, tingling and heat over whole surface of body.
Fever with heat at pit of stomach.
Cold sweat upon chest and back ; burning in abdomen. θ Croup.

Frequent : stools ; desire to empty bladder.
Constant : need of swallowing saliva ; bronchial cough.
Every ten or fifteen minutes : desire to urinate.
Every half hour : discharge of transparent slime mixed with blood.
Chronic : cystitis ; results of gonorrhœa.

As if head was choked up ; as if bladder still contained water, after micturition ; as if cough would tear and rupture bronchi ; as of a foreign body in larynx.
Pain : in region of femoral ring similar to that preceding occurrence of femoral hernia.
Cutting : in hypogastrium ; during stool ; in abdomen ; after micturition.
Tearing : in chest.
Burning : in throat and larynx ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; about navel ; in rectum ; of anus ; in fossa navicularis ; in urethra ; in pimples upon vulva ; in chest.
Constriction : after micturition.
Contractive : headache.
Griping : with diarrhœa ; in bowels before stool.
Scalding : while urinating.
Smarting : in urethra.
Pricking : in soles of feet.
Tingling : over whole surface of body.
Deep seated : headache ; acute pain in wrists.
Heavy dull pain in back and bowels, with dysentery.
Pressure : about navel ; in region of femoral ring ; with inflammation of penis.
Pressive : headache.
Weight : in region of femoral ring.
Heaviness : of head ; with inflammation of penis.
Fulness : in eyes ; of face ; in bladder ; of chest.
Uneasiness : at pit of stomach.
Dulness : of head.
Itching : of anus ; in fossa navicularis ; of vulva ; of skin.
Numbness : of fingers and toes.
Dryness : of mouth ; in throat and larynx.
Heat : at pit of stomach ; in palms and soles.
Warmth : in epigastric region ; in urethra.

Skin diseases with kidney affection ; catarrh of bladder and urethra ; paralysis of sensation, with affections of urinary organs.
Makes the urine albuminous and bloody, and increases the uroxanthine.
Emaciation.

A flush of red over whole body.
Intense itching.
General eruption of roseolous papules without fever or itching, confluent on face, buttocks and upper limbs, more scant on lower.
Severe urticaria febrilis.

Acts particularly well in persons of bilious temperament with tendency to constipation.
An apprentice, æt. 15, healthy, suffering for three months ; nocturnal enuresis.
Man, æt. 26, otherwise healthy ; gleet.
Man, æt. 28 ; gonorrhœa.
Ha., æt. 32, choleric temperament ; gonorrhœa.
Man, æt. 34, hemorrhoidal constitution ; gonorrhœa.

Compatible : copaiva (gonorrhœa, gastric urticaria), Oil of Sandal Wood (gonorrhœa).
Botanically related to : Piper meth., Matico, Piper nigrum .
Compare : Capsic., Canthar . (irritable bladder in females), Tereb., Cann. sat., Iod . (membranous croup).

A tincture is made from the dried berries of the Piper Cubeba, L.

A marked affinity for the urethra, bladder and vagina, where it produces violent inflammation. ▶ The mucous membranes of throat and air-passages are also involved, as well as the skin.

Copaiba, Canth.

Emaciation. ▶ Peculiar odor to evacuations, sweat and saliva. ▶ Face red and swollen, lips dark purple, saliva viscid, frothy, tongue dry, chapped in centre, brown sordes on teeth, veins of forehead and temples turgid eyes turned upward, injected, pupils contracted to a point clammy sweat pulse slow dispersed by least pressure, gasping, he was aroused for a moment by shaking, uttered an incoherent expression and sank back into a comatose sleep. ▶ Convulsion. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Partial paralysis.

Mind weak. ▶ Memory lost. ▶ Headache; deep-seated. ▶ Dullness of head.

Eyes turgid and watery. ▶ Full feeling in eyes. ▶ Coryza. ▶ Face swollen; and occasionally flushed. ▶ Face flushed. ▶ Lips puffed dry and shining. ▶ Lips twisted to one side on attempting to speak or smile.

Obstinate otorrhœa, offensive discharges. ▶ Nasal catarrh, with fetid odor, and catarrh of the throat, with greenish-yellow expectoration of fetid odor. ▶ In catarrh of the throat the mucus trickles from the nose into the throat is greenish-yellow, with rawness of throat and hoarseness (Compare Sinapis).

Dysentery, stools colorless, transparent, mingled with white particles like rice, with unquenchable thirst, distended, sensitive abdomen, agg. fruit, acids, etc.

Chronic inflammation of bladder, with cutting and constriction during micturition. ▶ Hæmorrhage from the bladder. ▶ Inflammation of bladder and urethra in women, necessity to urinate every ten or fifteen minutes, with smarting, tenesmus and ropy mucus.

Inflamed prostate, with thick yellow gonorrhœal discharge; especially useful in the chronic form, sometimes with swollen testicles. ▶ Leucorrhœa, profuse, acrid, offensive, yellow or green, with pruritus, intense sexual desire, uterus swollen and painful, etc. ▶ Acrid leucorrhœa in girls. ▶ Catarrhal leucorrhœa, offensive, yellow.

Dyspnœa, with deposit of a false membrane in the larynx and danger of suffocation; also useful in bronchitis, in which the cough seems to tear the bronchi, expectoration difficult, sometimes streaked with blood.

Tongue white. ▶ Tongue furred and moist. ▶ Appetite increased. ▶ Intense thirst; slight T., with burning in throat. ▶ Eructations, with warmth in epigastric region; acid E., with uneasiness, heat at pit of stomach and fever. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Vomiting. ▶ Gastric irritation. ▶ Disordered stomach. ▶ Burning pain in stomach. ▶ Burning in epigastric and umbilical regions, with pressure.

Flatulence. ▶ Griping, with diarrhœa. ▶ Colic. ▶ Burning in abdomen; in rectum. ▶ Hæmorrhoids. ▶ Diarrhœa; copious; distressing, with headache.

▶ Inflammation of urethra. ▶ Mucus from urethra much increased. ▶ Cutting after micturition, with constriction. ▶ Irritation of passages. ▶ Urine copious, dark. ▶ Urine frothy. ▶ Hæmaturia (Tereb.).

▶ Prostatitis (Cop., Elat.), the gland feels enlarged to finger in rectum, perineum, tender, last drops of urine passed with pain, after micturition sensation as if bladder still contained water. ▶ (Hernia femoralis.). ▶ Testicles swollen (Cop.). ▶ Excitement. ▶ No inclination for coition, with weakness of sexual organs.

Respiration hurried and difficult. ▶ Pulse rapid; and full; and small. ▶ Pulse intermittent and sometimes slow, sometimes rapid.

Numbness of fingers and toes. ▶ Acute deep-seated pain in wrist, then redness and swelling of them. ▶ Wrists stiff and thickened. ▶ Hands swollen and so stiff that the fingers could not be bent. ▶ Pricking in soles.

Eruption from head to foot, with fever. ▶ Urticaria (Cop.); febrilis. ▶ Redness, afterwards eruption from head to foot, which in some parts could not be distinguished from urticaria febrilis, while in others it appeared more like lichen in its papular stage, but with more inflammation around base of papule than is common in that disease. ▶ Itching.

Heat; with thirst; fever, with heat at pit of stomach; internal and external, with tingling over whole body; hot skin; heat at times in palms and soles; in hands and feet, with numbness of them; in flushes upon face, soles and palm.

A marked affinity for the urethra, bladder and vagina, where it produces violent inflammation.
The mucous membranes of throat and air passages are also involved, as well as the skin.

Clinical:
Obstinate otorrhœa, offensive discharges.
Nasal catarrh, with fetid odor and catarrh of the throat; with greenish-yellow expectoration of fetid odor.
In catarrh of the throat the mucus trickles from the nose into the throat; is greenish-yellow, with rawness of throat and hoarseness.

Clinical:
Dysentery; stools colorless, transparent, mingled with white particles like rice, with unquenchable thirst, distended, sensitive abdomen, aggravated by fruit, acids, etc.

Inflammation of urethra.
Mucus from urethra much increased.
Cutting after micturition, with constriction.
Irritation of passages.
Urine copious, dark.
Urine frothy.
Hæmaturia.

Clinical:
Chronic inflammation of bladder, with cutting and constriction during micturition.
Hæmorrhage from the bladder.
Inflammation of bladder and urethra in women; necessity to urinate every ten or fifteen minutes, with smarting, tenesmus and ropy mucus.

Prostatitis.

Clinical:
Inflamed prostate, with thick yellow gonorrhœal discharge; especially useful in the chronic form, sometimes with swollen testicles.
Leucorrhœa, profuse, acrid, offensive, yellow or green, with pruritis, intense sexual desire, uterus swollen and painful, etc.
Acrid leucorrhœa in girls.
Catarrhal leucorrhœa, offensive, yellow.

Clinical:
Dyspnœa, with deposit of a false membrane in the larynx and danger of suffocation; also useful in bronchitis, in which the cough seems to tear the bronchi; expectoration difficult, sometimes streaked with blood.

Eruption all over the body like urticaria, generally with fever and thirst.

Indicated in affections of the respiratory and urinary mucous membrane, as catarrh of nose and throat and discharge of greenish-yellow mucus from the nose into the throat.

Cough (bronchial), with sensation as if it would tear the bronchial tube, and difficult, at times blood-stained, expectoration.

Urethral inflammation, with irritation and copious, dark, frothy urine, with cutting pain and constriction during micturition. Smarting tenesmus; ropy urine.