Eugenia Jambos
(Rose-apple)
- Eugenia produces a state of intoxication like alcohol.
- Everything appears beautiful and larger; excitement soon changing to depression.
Head: Headache as if a board were lying on right side.
Extremities: Nightly cramp in soles of feet. [Cupr.; Zing.] Skin cracks about toes.
Clinical usage by Boericke and J. H. Clarke
- Acne rosacea
- Acne, simple and indurated
- Catarrhal fever
- Comedones
- Constipation
- Coryza
- Cough
- Diarrhoea
- Diplopia
- Fissures between toes
- Hernia
- Hiccough
- Impotence
- Influenza
- Nausea, better smoking
- Otitis
- Pimples
- Skin recedes from the nails, forming pus
- Throat, sore
Characteristics by J. H. Clarke
- Like Eucalyptus, Eugenia causes a condition of drunkenness.
- It makes the prover very talkative but indolent.
- The most characteristic symptom of the proving is : “>> after urination.”
- Sudden great change in him after micturition.
- Everything seems more beautiful and bright, sky and trees more joyous and clear; but after a quarter of an hour everything became gloomy again.
- There are many symptoms relating to the eyes and vision: whirling in head while sitting; houses at a distance seem to turn bottom upwards.
- Darkness and double vision; on looking intently double vision disappears.
- Whirling before right eye as if it would become dark; eye becomes inflamed.
- It seems as though fire came out of eyes, and tears ran out in streams in evening and night.
- Agg. By sun; causes eyes to fill with water.
- Agg. By closing eyes; it makes the burning worse, prevents sleeping at night.
- Nausea >> by smoking
- Pain in small of back and calves
- Aching in sacrum and knees
- Sticking pain in back as if something were sticking in spine, >> by bending back
- Among the peculiar sensations are: Headache as if a heavy board were lying on right side.
- Sensation as of cramp in orifice of stomach; as if a ten-pound weight were hanging on rectum, and as if everything below would fall out.
- An old wound from a thrust became painful again
- Rheumatic pain wanders from place to place with catarrh
- Open air: much exhaustion, yawning whilst walking in morning
- Cold water does not >> burning in eyes
- Skin disease is agg. during catamenia
Relationship from Boericke and C. B. Knerr
Antidote: coffea; smoking tobacco antidotes nausea.
Similar: laur. and drugs contraining hydrocyanic acid; puls.
Aggravation: Right side; night.
Amelioration: Smoking (nausea).
Compare
Eugenia chekun – Myrtus chekan (chronic Bronchitis); Antim.; Berb. aquif.