alphabetical index of plant families and groups - Sunrise Versand
alphabetical index of plant families and groups - Sunrise Versand
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seven years ago <strong>and</strong> I have since cured this kind <strong>of</strong> cough with Aralia whenever<br />
I have come across it <strong>and</strong> at a rough guess I should say that would be thirty or<br />
forty times.’ [Compton Burnett 1896]<br />
MATERIA MEDICA ARALIA RACEMOSA Aral.<br />
Sources<br />
1 Self-experimentation Jones [USA], tincture; 1870.<br />
2 Clinical observations, including eclectic indications, in Hale.<br />
Mind<br />
� Constant dread <strong>of</strong> disease [right lung], unable to shake <strong>of</strong>f fear. 1<br />
Generals<br />
� Drenching perspiration at night. 1<br />
Locals<br />
� Leucorrhoea, & pressing down pains in uterus. Leucorrhoea, acrid <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong>fen-<br />
sive. 2<br />
� Seized with a fit <strong>of</strong> asthma as soon as he lies down in bed, upon back. 1<br />
� Dry wheezing respiration, sense <strong>of</strong> impending suffocation, <strong>and</strong> rapidly increasing<br />
dyspnoea. 1<br />
� Wheezing so laboured as to make the whole bed vibrate. ‘Could not possibly<br />
lie down; felt that I would suffocate if I did not sit up.’ 1<br />
� Discomfort <strong>and</strong> oppression in right lung when lying on right side <strong>and</strong> in left<br />
lung when lying on left side, with entire relief in opposite lung. 1<br />
� Raw, burning, sore feeling behind whole length <strong>of</strong> sternum <strong>and</strong> in each lung,<br />
most intense behind sternum, on making a forcible expiration. 1<br />
Hay Asthma<br />
‘Dr. Jones relates a case <strong>of</strong> hay asthma, cured by Aralia, in which the characteristic<br />
symptoms were:<br />
Yearly attacks <strong>of</strong> suffocative catarrh, with “extreme sensitiveness to a draught,<br />
the least current <strong>of</strong> air causing sneezing, with copious watery, acrid discharge<br />
from nostrils <strong>and</strong> posterior nares, <strong>of</strong> a salty, acrid taste, excoriating all the<br />
passages.” Waking at midnight, with suffocative breathing, inability to lie down,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the copious discharge above mentioned. Relief <strong>of</strong> the asthma by bending<br />
forward, elbows on knees. Inspiration more difficult than expiration. When the<br />
coryza ceased, the trouble went to the lungs, with dry, wheezing cough, ejecting<br />
yellow, thread-like pieces <strong>of</strong> tough mucus. Aralia, 10 drops, three times a day;<br />
cured in three days.’ [cited in Hale, Vol. II]<br />
© Saltire Books Ltd<br />
Aralia spinosa<br />
Aralia spinosa L. Devil’s walking-stick; angelica-tree.<br />
Family ARALIACEAE 497