Eucalyptus Globulus eucal.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

Mucous membranes. Blood. Muscles. Respiration.

Worse

Periodically. Night.

General

Aching, stiff and weary, as from taking cold. Grippe. Malaria. Migraine. Sticking, jerking pain at night. Profuse catarrhal discharges; acrid; foul. Rheumatic-hydrogenoid constitution. Exhausted, toxæmic and hæmorrhagic.

Particulars

Mental exhilaration. Burning eyes. Tinnitus. Tension across nose. Watery coryza. Pasty tongue. Throbbing in stomach. Weight in bowels. Slow digestion, with putrid gas. Diarrhœa; dysenteric; typhoid. Diuresis. Cough of influenza. Bronchial asthma. Bronchorrhœa; senile. Limbs prickle, then ache. Chill, then nausea and vomiting. Fever with aching. Vertigo in all stages. Old malarias.

Related

Related: Chin. Dul. Echin.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Blue Gum-tree

General

Eucalyptus is a powerful antiseptic and destructive to low forms of life, a stimulating expectorant and an efficient diaphoretic. Atonic dyspepsia, gastric and intestinal catarrh. A remedy with marked effects on catarrhal processes, malaria, and intestinal disturbance. Influenza. Fevers of a relapsing character. Produces diuresis and great increase of urea. Hæmorrhages internally and locally (Hamam). Typhoid. Symptoms of exhaustion and toxæmia. Conditions of the mucous surfaces of the air passages, genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract. A gastro-intestinal irritant with pain in stomach and upper intestines several hours after eating.

Head

Exhilaration. Desire for exercise. Dull congestive headache. Coryza; sore throat. Eyes smart and burn.

Nose

Stuffed-up sensation; thin, watery coryza; nose does not stop running; tightness across bridge. Chronic catarrhal, purulent and fetid discharge. Ethmoid and frontal sinus involved.

Throat

Relaxed, aphthous condition of mouth and throat. Excessive secretion of saliva. Burns, feels full. Constant sensation of phlegm in throat. Enlarged, ulcerated tonsils and inflamed throat (Use tincture locally).

Stomach

Slow digestion. Much fetid gas. Beating and goneness with pulsation in epigastric arteries. Spleen hard and contracted. Pain in epigastrium and upper abdomen ameliorated by food. Malignant disease of stomach with vomiting of blood and sour fluid.

Abdomen

Acute diarrhœa. Aching pains in bowels with feeling of impending diarrhœa. Dysentery, with rectal heat; tenesmus; hæmorrhage. Diarrhœa; stools thin, watery, preceded by sharp pains. Typhoid diarrhœa.

Urinary

Acute nephritis complicating influenza. Hæmaturia. Suppurative inflammation of kidneys. Urine contains pus and is deficient in urea. Bladder feels loss of expulsive force. Burning and tenesmus; catarrh of bladder; diuresis; urethral caruncle. Spasmodic stricture; gonorrhœa.

Respiratory

Asthma, with great dyspnœa and palpitation. Moist asthma. Expectoration white, thick mucus. Bronchitis in the aged. Bronchorrhœa (Bals. Peru). Profuse expectoration of offensive muco-pus. Irritative cough. Whooping-cough in rachitic children. Fetid form of bronchitis, bronchial dilatation and emphysema.

Female

Leucorrhœa, acrid, fetid. Ulcer around orifice of urethra.

Extremities

Rheumatic pains; worse at night, walking or carrying anything. Stiff, weary sensation. Pricking sensation, followed by painful aching. Nodular swellings over metacarpal and metatarsal joints.

Skin

Glandular enlargements and nodular swelling over joints. Foul and indolent ulcers. Herpetic eruptions.

Fever

Elevation of temperature. Continued and typhoid fevers. Scarlet fever (protective and curative). Discharges show a tendency to foulness, high temperature, accelerated but not strong pulse. Use the tincture.

Relationship

Compare: Oil of Eucalyptus.--(Produces remarkable bodily exhaustion, no desire for any motion, unable to do any real mental work, study, etc. The volatile oil possesses, in common with other terpenes, the property of converting water, in presence of air and sunlight, into hydrogen peroxide, or to convert oxygen into ozone, which is the explanation usually given of its deodorizing and antiseptic properties (Merrel). Locally, in catarrhal affections, especially when of a suppurating or putrid nature). Eucalyptus tereticoris (menstrual cough and prostration). Eucalyptol (depresses temperature of healthy body more than Quinine; acts on kidneys like Terebinth); Anacard; Hydrast; Kali sulph. Eucalyptus neutralizes ill effects of Strychnin. Angophora-Red Gum--(dysentery, pains, tenesmus; better lying flat on face; obstinate constipation). Eucalyptus rostrata; Kino.

Dose

Tincture in one to 20 drop doses, and lower potencies. Also Oil of Eucalyptus in five-drop doses.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Eucalyptus globulus. Blue Gum. Fever-tree. N. O. Myrtaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves. Essential oil, Eucalyptol.

Clinical

Aneurism. Aortitis. Asthma. Bladder, affections of. Bronchitis. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Dyspepsia. Dysuria. Fistulæ. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Intermittent fever. Kidney, diseases of. Quinine cachexia. Rheumatism. Spleen, affections of. Strychnine poisoning. Syphilis. Tumours. Typhoid. Urethra, stricture of. Urethral caruncle. Varicose ulcers. Worms.

Characteristics

The gum-tree is a native of Australia and is transplanted to marshy districts in mild climates on account of its capability of absorbing water and its alleged power of destroying malarial poisons. It has been familiarised to everybody during the influenza epidemic as a prophylactic and disinfectant. The provings show that it causes most of the ordinary influenzal symptoms. It is therefore homœopathic to the disorder. It produces coryza, headache of a dull, congestive character, sore-throat, indigestion, with excessive development of fetid gas, and fever. Slow digestion is the characteristic. The fever may be of the relapsing or intermittent type. It has also proved useful in convalescence from intermittents. It produces odorous sweat. C. E. Fischer has cured with it many cases of dysentery. Certain vascular conditions come within its sphere: a distinct beating in the stomach region, accompanying a sense of goneness; one prover referred this to the abdominal aorta. Vascular tumours of the female urethra have been cured by it; also glandular enlargements and nodular swellings over joints. It has cured a tumour, the size of a filbert, with stabbing pains below left nipple. Eucal . has been largely used for bronchitis and bronchial asthma. Dr. Arthur Dalzell ( H. W ., xxv. 106) relates two striking cases of bronchial asthma promptly relieved with five-drop doses of Oil of Eucalyptus given in a tablespoonful of water. The dose was given last thing at night. It also relieved the dyspnœa in a case of mitral insufficiency. Burning pains and sensations predominate; pricking, stabbing, sharp aching are common. Periodicity is marked. Most pains occur at night. It has an intoxicating effect and produces desire for exercise.

Relations

It compares with Ant. crud. in action on mucous membranes; Ant. t. in bronchial asthma and bronchorrhœa; Arsen. and Chi. in intermittents. Silica in fistulous ulcers; Tereb. in urinary symptoms. It follows: Ars. in relapsing fevers. A cup of coffee relieves the effects. Phytolacca removed tumour of right breast. Compare also the "Red Gum," Angophora lanceolata. It is said to be an antidote to Strychnine poisoning. (Monfrida Musmecin found a decoction of Eucalyptus leaves formed with a solution of a strychnine salt a flocculent precipitate devoid of bitter taste. Animals dosed with the two drugs together survived when the quantity of strychnine was such that given alone it would have been lethal. Even when the Eucalyptus decoction was given after strychnine convulsions had developed the symptoms became greatly modified.).

Mind

Exhilaration, desire to move about, feeling of increased buoyancy and strength. ─ Intoxication followed by depression.

Head

Full feeling in head; congestive headache; in plethoric subjects, followed by fever. ─ Headache in anæmic persons; relieves pain and causes sleep.

Eyes

Eyes hot, burning, smarting; catarrhal and Gonorrhœal ophthalmia. ─ Lids heavy.

Nose

Stiffness of nose; tightness across bridge as if profuse epistaxis would come on. ─ Stuffed-up sensation. ─ Coryza: thin, watery; chronic catarrh, purulent and fetid.

Face

Flushed, congested face.

Mouth

Relaxed aphthous condition. ─ Excessive secretion of saliva. ─ Slightly burning taste extending into throat and œsophagus with thirst.

Throat

Burning in throat; feeling of fulness and soreness on swallowing. ─ Constant sensation of phlegm in throat, with expectoration of slightly thick white frothy mucus, not profuse.

Stomach

Increased appetite; tormenting thirst. ─ Burning, strong-smelling eructations. ─ Burning in stomach. ─ Fulness, pressure, and weight, as if he had eaten too much. ─ Faintness and goneness; with a distinct sensation of beating synchronous with the pulse (abdominal aorta). ─ Slow digestion; eructations and bloating. ─ Difficult and painful digestion. ─ Spleen becomes hard, resistent, contracted.

Abdomen

Burning in epigastrium and umbilical regions. ─ Uncomfortable, uneasy feeling in umbilical region extending through bowels; skirmishing, aching pains in upper portions of bowels; sensation as if he would have diarrhœa. ─ Sharp aching in hypogastrium after dinner. ─ Gastro-intestinal derangements with sleeplessness and restlessness. ─ Condition of mucous membrane favouring worms. ─ Flatulent distension.

Stool and Rectum

Sharp aching in lower bowels; thin, watery yellow diarrhœa on rising in morning. ─ Chronic diarrhœa, mucous and bloody. ─ Dysentery, with heat in rectum, tenesmus, discharge of mucus, great prostration; hæmorrhages. ─ Typhoid diarrhœa. ─ Fetor of stools and flatus.

Urinary Organs

(Chronic desquamative nephritis; granular kidney; pyelonephritis; hydronephrosis.). ─ Catarrh of bladder; sensation as if it had lost its expulsive force. ─ Burning and tenesmus on urinating. ─ Spasmodic stricture. ─ Diuresis; incontinence; increased urea. ─ Urine smells of violets.

Male Sexual Organs

Increased sexual appetite. ─ Subacute and chronic gonorrhœa. ─ Recent chancres.

Female Sexual Organs

Vascular tumours of urethra. ─ Ulcer round orifice of urethra. ─ Leucorrhœa of acrid, fetid mucus. ─ Swellings in different parts of body; one below nipple in r. side, size of filbert, with stabbing, darting pains.

Respiratory Organs

Bronchitis in old and feeble persons. ─ Bronchorrhœa. ─ Breathing quickened. ─ Asthma in debilitated, anæmic subjects, with terrible dyspnœa, the heart sympathising strongly. ─ Moist asthma in bronchitic subjects; it relieves cough and aids in expulsion of thick mucus. ─ Expectoration: white, thick, frothy mucus.

Heart

Painful palpitation. ─ Palpitation of heart. ─ Sudden flushing of face with much flatulence in women at climacteric. ─ Strong beating of abdominal aorta. ─ Aneurisms pressing on vagus nerve.

Limbs

Many nodular swellings over metarcarpal and metatarsal joints. ─ In both upper and lower extremities pricking sensations were first noticed, followed by a painful aching in both arms and legs, together with a sense of fulness in the veins, and a stiff, weary sensation as if too weary to move.

Skin

Eruptions of an herpetic character, glandular enlargement, and development of foul and indolent ulcers.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Australian Fever or Gum Tree. Myrtaceæ.
A tree of great height, native to Australia, transplanted to marshy districts in mild climates on account of its capability for absorbing water and alleged power to destroy malarious poisons. The tincture is prepared from the fresh leaves.
Eucalyptol is the essential oil.
Experiments by Maurin, Hale, Faucett, Siegen and Ringer. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 228 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Dysuria , Bahrenburg, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 107, p. 59 ; Vascular tumors of female urethra (2 cases), Woodbury, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 376 ; Intermittent fever (310 cases reported cured), see N. A. J. H., vol. 21, p. 124 ; Use as a disinfectant , Pignedupritier, See Hale's Symptomatology, p. 287.

Mind

Mental exhilaration.
Irresistible desire to move about, with a feeling of buoyancy and increased strength.
Stimulation, intoxication ; excitement even unto fever.
Drunkenness, followed by mental depression and exhaustion.
Drowsy and dull.

Sensorium

Vertigo.

Inner head

Cerebral congestion, with much excitement.
General full feeling in head ; congestive headache.
Congestive headache, in plethoric subjects, followed by actual fever.
Dull frontal headache.
Nervous headache and other pains of head, which are not exactly periodic.
Headache in anemic persons ; relieves the pain and causes sleep.

Sight and eyes

Dimness of vision.
Eyes hot, burning, smarting.
Catarrhal and gonorrhœal ophthalmia.
Eyelids heavy.

Smell and nose

Stiffness of nose.
Stuffed up sensation in nose.
Considerable coryza ; cold in head.
Thin, watery coryza.
Chronic catarrh of nasal passages, even when purulent and fetid.

Upper face

Flushed face, congested appearance.

Inner mouth

Relaxed, aphthous condition.
Excessive secretion of saliva.

Palate and throat

Burning sensation, extending to pharynx and œsophagus, with thirst.
Feeling of fulness and soreness in throat on swallowing ; burning in throat.
Constant sensation of phlegm in throat, with expectoration of slightly thick white frothy mucus, not profuse.
Throat relaxed and pale.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Increased appetite ; tormenting thirst.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Burning, strong smelling eructations.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Hot burning sensation in stomach.
Fulness, pressure and weight in stomach ; as if he had eaten too much.
Faintness and goneness at stomach, accompanied by a distinct sensation of beating synchronous with heart.
Difficult and painful digestion.
Slow digestion ; eructations and bloating.
Atonic dyspepsia ; chronic, gastric and intestinal catarrh.

Hypochondria

Produces contraction of spleen, which, under its use, becomes more resistant and hard, its surface granulated and the whole organ diminished in size.

Abdomen and loins

Feeling of weight in epigastrium.
Burning in epigastric and umbilical regions, with tormenting thirst, vertigo, dimness of vision, sense of fulness in head, with dull frontal headache, and tightness across bridge of nose, as if profuse epistaxis would occur.
Uncomfortable pressure and fulness in umbilical region.
Uncomfortable, uneasy feeling in umbilical region, extending through bowels ; skirmishing, aching pains in upper portions of bowels ; sensation as if he would have diarrhœa.
Sharp, aching pain in hypogastric region after dinner.
Gastro-intestinal derangements ; sleeplessness and restlessness.

Stools and rectum

Sharp, aching pains in lower part of bowels, with thin, watery yellow diarrhœa, on rising in morning.
Violent purgation and hemorrhage from bowels.
Chronic diarrhœa, mucous and bloody.
Dysentery, with heat in rectum, tenesmus, discharge of mucus, great prostration ; hemorrhage from bowels.
Typhoid diarrhœa and dysentery.

Urinary organs

(OBS :) Chronic desquamative nephritis, granular degeneration of kidneys, pyelonephritis, and hydronephrosis.
Vesical catarrh.
Sensation as if the bladder had lost its expulsive force.
Suppressed urine.
Severe pain on urinating ; burning and tenesmus, with fever ; urine loaded with mucus.
Spasmodic stricture of urethra.
Diuresis, nocturnal and diurnal.
Incontinence of urine.
Urine smells of violets.
Greatly increased the elimination of urea.

Male sexual organs

Increased sexual appetite.
Gonorrhœa, subacute and chronic form.
Recent cases of syphilitic chancres.
Gonorrhœa syphilitica.

Female sexual organs

Vascular tumors of the urethra.
Ulcer around orifice of female urethra.
Leucorrhœa, of acrid, fetid mucus.
Swellings in different parts of the body ; one below nipple on right side, size of filbert, with stabbing darting pains.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Bronchitis in old and feeble persons.

Respiration

Breathing quickened.
(OBS :) Asthma, in debilitated anemic subjects, with terrible dyspnœa, the heart sympathizing strongly.
Asthma humidum in bronchitic patients ; relieves bronchial cough, and aids in expelling thick sputa.
Cardiac asthma ; allays the terrible dyspnœa.
Asthmatic neuralgic states from organic and mechanical causes, with orthopnea and nocturnal paroxysms.

Cough

Expectoration of white, thick, frothy mucus.

Inner chest and lungs

(OBS :) Chronic catarrhal affections of broncho-pulmonary mucous membrane, accompanied by free muco-purulent expectoration ; bronchorrhœa.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Painful palpitation.
(OBS :) At the climacteric, in women who suffer much from flatulence, palpitation of heart, and sudden flushings of face.
Strong beating of abdominal aorta synchronous with beating of heart.
Aneurisms involving pressure on vagus and its branches.
Pulse accelerated.

Limbs in general

Pricking sensation, followed by painful aching, in arms and legs, with sense of fulness in veins, and a stiff, weary sensation, as if too lazy to move.
Pains rheumatic, jerking, tearing, stitch-like, < at night.
Can neither walk nor carry anything without great pain.
Nodular swellings over metacarpal and metatarsal joints.

Rest. position. motion

Raising arm to mouth is painful.
Irresistible desire to move about.
Can neither walk nor carry anything without great pain.

Nerves

General excitement and desire for exercise.
Malaise ; faintness ; great prostration.
Intermittent neuralgia.

Sleep

Sleeplessness.

Time

Morning : on rising pains in bowels with watery diarrhœa.
By day : diuresis.
By night : diuresis ; asthmatic paroxysms ; pains in limbs.

Fever

Fall of temperature.
Fevers of a relapsing, obstinate and prolonged character, of a miasmatic origin, in which spleen becomes affected early in disease ; it is at first swollen and sensitive, then becomes more resistant, harder, bunchy on its surface ; vertigo is pronounced in all its stages ; dull congestive headache ; malaise ; rheumatic pains of a jerking, tearing, stitching character, < at night.
Tuberculous hectic fevers, with profuse, exhaustive sweats.
(OBS :) Is very serviceable in convalescence from intermittent and remittent fevers ; and in chronic malarial poisoning it has a high degree of utility.
Intermittent fever, quotidian tertian and double tertian.
Typhoid fevers.
Odorous sweat.

Attacks, periodicity

Paroxysms of asthmatics.
Nervous headache not exactly periodic.

Locality and direction

Right : swelling below nipples size of filbert.

Sensations

Feels as if he had taken cold.
Nose as if stuffed up ; weight in stomach as if he had eaten too much ; feels as if he would have diarrhœa ; as if bladder had lost its expulsive force ; as if too lazy to move.
Pains in head : painful palpitation.
Severe pain : on urinating.
Tearing pains : in limbs.
Stabbing darting pains : in swelling below nipple.
Jerking pains : in limbs.
Pricking : in arms and legs.
Sharp aching pains : in hypogastric region ; in lower part of bowels.
Painful aching : in arms and legs.
Skirmishing, aching pains : in upper portion of bowels.
Burning : of eyes ; in pharynx and œsophagus ; in throat ; in stomach ; in epigastrium ; in umbilical region.
Rheumatic pains : in limbs.
Dull frontal headache.
Dull feeling : in head ; in throat ; in stomach ; in umbilical region ; in veins of arms and legs.
Pressure : in stomach ; in umbilical region.
Heat : in rectum.
Nervous : headache.
Smarting : in eyes.
Soreness : of throat.
Tightness : across bridge of nose.
Weight : in stomach ; in epigastrium.
Faintness : in stomach.
Goneness : in stomach.

Tissues

Cord and medulla paralyzed.
(OBS :) It possesses decided anti-periodic powers.
Violent palpitation of heart ; blood pressure lessened.
Temperature greatly lowered ; asthenic fever.
Remittent fevers and ague.
Spleen contracted ; fatty degeneration.
(OBS :) Muscular weakness extreme, so that raising arm to mouth is painful ; sensations blunted, but mind absolutely unaffected.
(OBS :) Is a diuretic of rare virtue, showing notably restorative effects in low states of the system, as in typhoid fever, typhoid diarrhœa, and dysentery ; it relieves spasmodic strictures, vesical catarrh, and cures gonorrhœa.
Diuresis, with enormous increase of urea.
(OBS :) The condition of the mucous membrane which favors production of intestinal parasites is removed.
(OBS :) Is a powerful diaphoretic ; has been used with fine results in exhaustive night sweats, also for herpetic eruptions, glandular enlargements, and indolent ulcers.
Fistulous ulcers, discharging ichorous matter, of a fetid odor ; wounds and ulcers of a putrid septic character.
(OBS :) Externally, the tincture and distilled water are used as disinfectant applications, to foul-smelling and ill-conditioned ulcers and wounds.

Skin

Eruptions of a herpetic character, glandular enlargement, and development of foul and indolent ulcers.
Ulcers from a varix, of a year's duration.

Stage of life, constitution

Quinine cachexia.
Miss M., æt. 6, after recovery from attack of meningitis ; dysuria.

Relations

Compare : Ant. crud . (condition of mucous membranes favoring worms) ; Ant. tart . (bronchial asthma, bronchorrhœa) ; Arsen . (malarial fevers ; suits after Arsen. in relapsing fever) ; Cinchona (intermittent fevers) ; Silica (fistulous ulcers) ; Terebinth (urinary symptoms).

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

General

For many years this has been a popular remedy in Australia, Italy, Algiers, some places in Spain and Provence, France. The leaves possess a very penetrating odor, which is diffused to a great distance, and it appears to possess the power of antidoting marsh miasm and thus exercising a pre- ventive action. The Abbé Féles Charmatant, missionary priest to the African missions, Algiers, writes: "I will give you some facts about our Eucalyptus plantations at Maison-

Carrée, which is now become our Mother-House. This estate was, six years ago, an immense territory covered with brush, dwarf-palms, and rendered very unhealthy by the neighbor- hood of the stagnant waters of Harach. In 1869 and 1870, as fast as the brush was destroyed, we planted a considerable quantity of Eucalyptus in groups, or beside paths the whole length of our fields and gardens, and the result was most marvellous; for the intermittent fever, which often stopped our orphans in their agricultural labor, has gradually disap- peared, so that to-day this domain, formerly the most subject to fevers, is now one of the most healthy suburbs of Algiers."

Our pathogenesis of this remedy has not been sufficient to give us any definite indications for its use. It is used as a substitute for Quinine by the other school of practice.

Characteristic

Excessive salivation.

Mental exhilaration; irresistible desire to move about, sen- sation of buoyancy and increased strength. Congestive head- ache in the anæmic, > pain and induces sleep.

Vascular tumors of the urethra (Thuja).

Diuresis with enormous quantities of urea.

Type

Intermittent, quotidian, tertian, double tertian; remit- tent, continued, malarial, typhoid; all fevers tend to low types with subnormal temperature. Relapsing fevers of tuberculous subjects; the so-called La Grippe, sporadic influenza.

Fevers of a relapsing, obstinate and prolonged character, of a miasmatic origin, in which the spleen becomes affected early in the disease. It is at first swollen and sensitive, then becomes more resistant, harder, bunchy on its surface. Vertigo is pronounced in all its stages. There is a dull congestive headache; malaise; rheumatic pains of a jerking, tearing, stitching character, $<$ at night.

Sweat

Profuse, offensive, exhausting.

When convalescing from malarial fevers; chronic malarial affections; quinine cachexia.