A feeling as of electric shocks in all the joints.
When sitting down, a feeling as if the whole body were swaying to and fro.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon great fatigue with profuse cold sweat and somnolence for two hours.
Pulse weak and thready and increased in frequency.
Continued yawning, although the joints of the jaw are painful.
She would like to sleep all the time, day and night.
She cannot keep awake and goes to sleep in her chair; her feet go to sleep.
After having passed the night rolling around in bed without waking and passing from one dream to another, she wakes at 5 o'clock, the bed clothing thrown aside and without her night cap, a thing which had never happened to her before.
COMMON NAME, "Bitter broom." Escoba amaya.
PREPARATION.--The dry plant is macerated in five parts by weight of alcohol.
(Dr. Edward Fornias contributed to the _Homoeopathic Recorder_, 1886, two papers on this remedy. The first gave the results of physiological experiments; the second is a résumé of those results, including the proving by Dr. B. H. B. Sleght, as follows:)
_Résumé of Symptoms._--If we boil down the matter, extracting only the symptoms and changes observed during the above experiments with _Parthenina_, we have the following: _Heaviness and dulness of head, tendency to vertigo, malaise, apathy, lassitude, profuse and very fluid salivation, sensation of heat and weight in the stomach, increased appetite, gastric intolerance, nausea and vomiting. Increased stupor, desire to be quiet, refusal of food, and indifference. Excitation of the heart beats, or slow beating of the heart; depressed circulation, or general functional activity; pulse accelerated, or slow, weak, soft, compressible, without dicrotism; progressive slowing of the pulse, followed by syncope, cardiac paralysis_ (and death). _Accelerated, or slow, irregular breathing_ (_Cheyne-Stokes_); _rise and fall of temperature, tremors, shivering, diminished perspiration; dilation of the pupils; convulsions_ (clonic and tonic); _muscular relaxation, anæsthesia and increased urine and saliva. _The kidneys were found enlarged and congested, with evident signs of sanguineous stasis. The process of coagulation of the blood was retarded. The red corpuscles increased in volume. There was a fall of the blood-pressure, and vascular dilatation_ (of reflex origin). _The heart was found arrested in diastole, and the brain anæmic. A marked diminution of reflex action in the hips and extinction of the voluntary movements_, were noticed. Also a transient excitement of the voluntary movements. And finally the sensibility and the muscular contractility were diminished._