2 Cold feet. 2 Pain back of left knee. 2 Sharp shooting pain in legs. 1 Extremities cold. 3 Left hip and knee pains. 2 Pain in right thigh. 2 Pain in right leg.
7 General weakness of limbs. 1 Pain between shoulders, which extend to axilla and down the arms.
Pains and sickness of stomach better by lying down.
7 Exhausted, tired feeling. 5 Muscular weakness. 2 Felt as if I had been sick for a long time. 6 General aching all over, with exhaustion.
2 General languor, sleepy. 3 Sleep disturbed, wakes often. 5 Sleep full of dreams. 1 Dreams about exciting things all night. 2 Dreams of dead relations.
Worse after eating. Worse in evenings. Worse after physical or mental labor. Better at rest.
1 Chills up the back. 1 Cold flashes all over the back. 2 General chilliness with nausea.
3 Intense itching and burning of skin on neck. 1 Little papules on skin, with redness, feeling like nettles; this occurred on the fifth day of the proving. 1 Skin dry. 2 Small red pimples on neck and face.
2 After proving found a diminution of red corpuscles.
COMMON NAMES, Trailing Arbutus. Ground Laurel. Gravel Root.
PREPARATION.--The fresh leaves are pounded to a pulp and macerated in two parts by weight of alcohol.
(In the subjoined paper by Dr. E. M. Hale, _North American Journal of Homoeopathy_, 1869, the old doctrine of signatures seems to crop out again.)
The _Gravel Root_ has long had some reputation in urinary difficulties, and even in calculous affections. The common appellation of "Gravel root" shows that the popular belief points in the direction of its use.
I have never tested its virtues but in one instance, and its effects seemed to be so decided and curative that I deem the case worthy of publication.
A young man, aged twenty-three, applied for treatment of a long array of symptoms, some of which seemed to indicate _enlargement of the prostate_, and others a _vesical catarrh_.
The _quantity_ of urine was nearly normal.
The _quality_ was decidedly abnormal. It contained a large amount of mucus, the phosphates, some blood, and a little pus. It was dark red, colored blue litmus paper red (showing its acid condition).
The pain was similar to a vesical tenesmus, a pain in the region of the neck of the bladder and prostate gland. Pressure in the perineum was painful.