Materia Medica
Myrica
Bayberry
Marked action on the liver, with jaundice. Persistent sleeplessness.
Mind
Despondent, irritable, indifferent.
Head
Scalp feels tighit. Headache, with drowsi- liess; yellow sclerotic; aching in eyeballs. Pressure in vertex and forehead. Pain and stiffness in nape of neck.
Face
Yellow. Itching and stinging. Creeping sen- sation.
Mouth
Tongue furred, with bad taste in mouth, and nausea. Tenacivus, thick, nauseous secretion. Ten- der, spongy, and bleeding gums. [Merc.]
Throat
Constricted and rough feeling, with a con- stant desire to swallow. Stringy mucus; detached with difficulty. 517
Stomach
Taste bitter and nauseous, with offensive breath. Complete loss of appetite, but with a feeling of fullness in the stomach after a heart meal. Strong desire for acids. Weak, sinking feeling in the epi- gastrium, approaching nausea; increased after eating; relieved by rapid walking.
Abdomen
Dull pain in the region of the liver. Complete jaundice. with bronze-yellow skin ; loss of ap- petite. Fullness in the stomach and abdomen. Scanty, yellow, frothy urine.
Stool
Constant discharge of flatus when walking. Urging to stool, with no other results than the expul- sion of a great amount of flatus. Loose, light-colored stool; ash-colored and destitute cf bile.
Urinary
Dark, frothy, scanty, high-colored, biliary.
Extremities
Pain under shoulder-blades and back of rec, in all muscles, in hollow of right foot. Yel- low and itching. Jaundice.
Sleep
Disturbed, bad dreams and frequent wak- ing; insomnia.
Relationships
Compare: Ptcl.; Cornus cir.; Chelid.; Lept.; Fagop. Antidote: Digit. (jaundice).
Dose
Tincture, to third potency.