Populus Candicans pop-c.

Balm of Gilead

Seems to have a remarkable power over acute colds, especially when accompanied by a deep, hoarse voice, or even aphonia. General insensibility of surface (worse, back and abdomen); rubbing and pounding borne without pain, and is grateful on account of warmth produced. Finger-ends thickened, horny; insensible to pinching and pricking. Instantaneous voice-producer (Coca).

Discusses her symptoms with every one. Hot head with cold extremities. Cold-sores on lips (Nat mur). Tongue feels thick and numb. Burning irritation of eyes, nose, mouth, throat, and air passages.

Acute hoarseness. Throat and nostrils burn. Sits bent forward with dry cough. Pharynx and larynx feel dry, and the voice weak and toneless. Rawness and soreness of chest and throat. Cough of children caused by naso-pharyngeal catarrh; mucus drops from posterior nares.

Tincture.

A tincture is made of the fresh buds, which is spring are covered with a resinous gum.

Emaciation. ▶ Rheumatic and gouty pains in muscles to ends of fingers and toes. ▶ Bruised, sore, swollen, inflamed, with burning pain; B. feeling the next day after a fitful, restless, dreamy sleep. ▶ Whole body feels swollen, bruised, lame, sore and painful, exhausted as in dry, sultry weather, movements heavy, labored, clumsy, stinging, restless irritation as if an eruptive fever would come to the surface, feeling as if sweat would break out. ▶ Burning irritation of eyes, nose, skin, mucous membrane of mouth, throat and air-passages and oppression of respiration and circulation. ▶ Catarrhal feverish state of mucous surfaces. ▶ Pulmonic, cardiac and capillary circulation oppressed, feels as if death must result, as if there must be fatal organic lesions. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Stiffness of muscles, tendons, ligaments, with lameness and with dry feeling in cartilages, as if lame. ▶ Insensibility of surface, agg. back and abdomen, so that rubbing and pounding were borne without pain and insisted upon for the sake of warmth. ▶ Aggravation morning; A. before menses.

Hopeless foreboding, agg. sleep. ▶ Fear and anguish. ▶ Feels unable to do anything, but as though something must be done, as if the will were paralyzed as to power, with the sense of suffering increased, no rest anywhere, mind anxious, restless, oppressed and all functions seem spellbound, as if they must act and cannot, cannot bear to see or be with any one, but restless, unhappy, fearful and foreboding when alone, as if mind and body must be in action and yet withheld from action by oppression and obstruction.

Confusion in head, with expansive fulness, all parts feel lame, swollen, inflamed, thickened, painful, burning, throbbing in head and brain, agg. cerebellum and cerebro-spinal axis, dullness of the senses as from congestion. ▶ Boring through left temple. ▶ Weight on vertex. ▶ Sensation as if left eye were twisted during the headache.

Face yellow. ▶ Tongue white, dry; T. feels thick and numb; T. and mouth feel burnt and dry, but are moist, wants drank, but can take only a little and feels worse after food and drink, as if mouth and stomach were burnt, cold, warm, hot, sour, bitter and sweet things are repulsive, nothing is relished. ▶ Speech thick. ▶ Taste bitter; T. sweet in morning.

Appetite lost, loathes meat. ▶ Nausea, with sinking in epigastrium. ▶ Vomits bile. ▶ Wears her clothes loose. ▶ Flatulent colic doubling the body forward. ▶ Pain in right hypochondrium, with enlargement.

Stools watery, green, alternating with constipation. ▶ Constipation, bowels feel hot and dry. ▶ Urine strong, high-colored, hot, scanty; U. increased, variously colored, red, dark, light, phosphates abundant. ▶ Menses scanty, usually delaying, afterwards absent, then abundant, early, with dysmenorrhœa, amel. hot clothes.

Dry cough when tired. ▶ Suffocation. ▶ Breathing dry, asthmatic, with dyspnœa, sits bent forward, agg. lifting arms. ▶ Pain in heart, stitches. ▶ Heart's sound irregular, usually muffled, with a systolic murmur, agg. before menses. ▶ Palpitation when rising or lying on left side, with vertigo. ▶ Pulse rarely exceeded 60.

Numbness in back radiating for spine. ▶ Burning weariness in small of back. ▶ Finger-ends thickened, horny, insensible to pinching and pricking.

Harsh, generally dry and cold, with burning stinging below the surface, as if eruption would appear, rarely blotches and fine papules. ▶ Burning prickling on face, chest and hands, the parts became dark red and swollen, and there were blisters as large as walnuts, hanging down like bags of water, with water, acrid, sticky oozing, external heat like coals of fire on skin, at times internal heat, with cold skin, amel. hot applications, the eruption returned each year with fear and expectation of death, loquacity, discussing repeatedly her symptoms, vertigo from lifting head.

Sleepless after midnight, with restless, agg. from early morning till noon. ▶ Dreams frightful, vivid; D. fearful, after fitful sleep.

Sudden coldness of extremities, with numbness of them and heat of head. ▶ Fever and unrest; F., with congestion of brain, fulness, heaviness, dullness, soreness, with expansive pressure, as if swollen, deadening heat in head as if scorched by the sun, vertigo, oppression of vital forces and circulation as if overheated, fatigue, faintness and burning, throbbing oppression. ▶ Dry heat. ▶ Heat of cerebellum and neck, with feeling as if the capillary circulation were congested and oppressed. ▶ Sweat on head and neck.