Introduction
Oleo-resin of Copaifera multijuga, Hayne, Nat. Ord., Leguminosae.
Provings
1. HAHNEMANN (from a solution of the balsam in spirit; no other information given). Continual micturition. scanty urine, passed guttatim. Burning in urethra between acts of micturition. Throbbing pain in urethra unconnected with micturition, urethral orifice open, swollen, inflamed. Pain at urethral orifice, as from a wound. Purulent blenorrhagia. Fever recurring for several day; in forenoon, rigor and coldness, in afternoon general heat, with thirst for water. Whitish diarrhoea, chiefly in morning between rigors; with cutting pains in belly, compelling bending forwards, before and between stools, preceded by constrictive pain as if in medullary cavity of femur. Between febrile rigors also pain in dorsum of foot, while at rest after movement. involuntary diarrhoea. Metrorrhagia. (Fragmenta de Viribus.)
2. TESTE. – “This pathogenesis is the result of two distinct experiments, instituted at two years’ interval on myself and seven or eight persons besides, of both sexes. Each experiment lasted several weeks. The drug was taken in drop-doses of the 6th, by myself and some of my fellow-provers morning and evening by others more irregularly. ”
2 a. Mind, &c. – Depression with anxious sadness; in morning, immediately after waking, deep sadness, passing off during exercise, but returning in evening; excessive sensitiveness of whole nervous system, so that least noise causes starting and irritates; attack weeping (in a young girl, on hearing sound of piano); periodical attacks of sadness and tears, p. m., with cold extremities and flushes of heat in face; quarrelsome, icicle, gloomy, intolerable temper for a week, with vascular excitement, heat of head, and trembling of hands on meeting with least contrariety; absurd recriminations about triflings that had happened a long time ago; dislike to society; insurmountable aversion to one’s usual occupations. Complete inability to perform any mental labour; head is empty and ideas are confused; dull pain at forehead when struggling against this irritability; deficient; memory, causing impatience and gloomy depression of spirits; anxiety about health.
2 b. Head. – Passing attacks of vertigo; headache in morning; every step he takes jars his head for 1/2 hours but feeling then goes off though he continues walking; pulsative, deep-seated stitches at occiput; dull pain at occiput; lancinating pressure, proceeding from right occipital protuberance; stitches at left occipital protuberance, with occasional shocks in whole head, only in morning; left hemicrania, with boring pain, sense of coldness in affected part, weeping and constant moaning, for 3 days (in man of 22, disposed to hypochondria, after 3 doses); pressure at forehead; heaviness of head and especially of occipital region, – relieved by external pressure; pulsative stitches at vertex, not synchronous with pulse; stitches in temples and behind ears; tearing pain in temporal regions, especially left, relieved by gentle pressure; bruised pain in right temple, evening and night becoming intolerable when affected part is pressed against pillow; sudden stitches in both temples, while washing face with cold water; sensitiveness of scalp and even of hair; falling of hair.
2 c. Eyes. – Formication in canthi, evening; redness of left eye; passing obscuration of sight; black points varying before eyes; objects look paler with left than with right eye; contraction of pupils; sensitiveness of eyes to light; involuntary contraction of orbicularis, morning as in right upper lid, several times in day, with slight pressive pain in eyes; agglutination of lids in morning.
2 d. Ears-after 3 days stitches in left ear all night obliging patient to cry out, followed some day later by discharge of a little purulent matter from meatus; buzzing or humming in ears; formication in ears; excessive sensitiveness of hearing, especially to sharp sounds.
2 e. Face. – Pale and sickly look; bloating; heat in morning on waking; transient tearing in left cheek.
2 f. Mouth and Throat. – Sensitiveness without appreciable swelling of parotid, but bruised pain and evident swelling of submaxillary glands; teeth on edge, or feeling elongated; gnawing and throbbing in carious tooth, worse from cold; sense of coldness in teeth; teeth seem less firm in their sockets; dryness of mouth, especially at night and in morning; flow of saliva in evening, at night and in morning; every now and then sudden profuse flow of sweetish saliva; foul breath in morning; tongue has whitish coating, greenish at base; redness with smarting of sides and tip of tongue; excoriative pain in gums, palate, and pharynx; tenacious phlegm in mouth and throat, which is constantly reproduced; sense as of a foreign body in pharynx; swelling of both tonsils (especially right); troublesome pressure in pharynx; constriction of throat; bitter taste in mouth.
2 g. Stomach. – Thirst and diminished appetite; excessive hunger for first 2 days, then loss of appetite; unwonted hunger in evening when on point of retiring; a kind of fainting at stomach, without any real appetite; every article of food seems too salt; rush of blood to head and face during or after meal; hiccough or eructations after eating; sour or foul eructations; flashes of heat in face, heat and sweat in palms with anxiety and general malaise after eating; beating at pit of stomach, followed by palpitation and clouding of head on leaving table after eating; pressure at pit of stomach, even before breakfast; burning pain at stomach; paroxysmal stitches in stomach; spasms at stomach; nausea in morning.
2 h. Abdomen. – Pressive pain in region of liver which becomes pulsative from time to time; whole epigastric region is tense and painful to touch; stitches in hypochondria; noisy borborygmi; pinching coldness in abdomen; swelling; beating or pressure as from stone in hypogastrium; very fetid flatus.
2 i. Rectum and Stool. – Violent cutting pains followed by two diarrhoeic stools, immediately after cup of cafe au lait; pressure on rectum, causing constant urging to stool; several soft stools every day, especially in morning, followed by general prostration; diarrhoea in morning; violent diarrhoea, 15 stools in night, with spasms at stomach, coldness of extremities and cramps in calves; whitish faecal stools of sour smell, with discharge of ascarides; stools at first dry and formed, later diarrhoeic; stools like sheep’s dung; insufficient stools, no stools for 5 days; stitches or spasms in rectum; burning itching at anus; constant oozing from anus of serous of even purulent liquid.
2 j. Urinary organs- Pressure or dull pain in bladder; frequent unsuccessful urging to micturate; unpleasant itching at tip of glans.
2 k. Genital Organs. – Constant sexual excitement during whole time or proving; mucous discharge from urethra; profuse milky discharge, which, however, stops of itself after 3 day though drug is continued; dull, heavy pain in testicles; swelling of left testicle, which is very sensitive to touch; same in inguinal glands. Constant pressure on uterus, as if prolapsus would set in; pulling pains in suspensory ligaments of uterus; deep stitches in vagina and neck of womb; spasms of uterus; beatings in right ovarian region when standing; milky leucorrhoea; acrid leucorrhoea, excoriating vulva; heat and red spots on vulva; itching at vulva; menses too early by 3,7, or 10 day; menses appear on regular day, but are pale and much less abundant than usual; menses reappear after ceasing for several day. During menses, – sadness in morning, depression, pains in loins; great nervousness; tightness at larynx, hoarseness in morning, dry cough morning and night; stomach-ache; rheumatic
pain in left hip and knee, and uterine spasm; cold feet and knees.
2 l. Respiratory organs. – Stuffing of nose for 2 days, only in morning; frequent sneezing; fluent coryza with headache, pressive pain at root of nose, and itching in eyes; dryness and roughness in larynx; hoarseness in morning; excoriative pain in larynx, especially in attempting to emit higher notes of voice; cough excited by tickling in larynx, trachea, and bronchi; dry cough morning and evening; rough cough with difficult expectoration of greenish mucus; cough with profuse whitish expectoration, sometimes saltish, sometimes flat and nauseous; heat in chest; stitches in right chest; acute stitches in left axilla, penetrating into chest; sense of fullness at chest, compelling frequent sighing; laboured breathing while digging in garden; pressure at sternum; stitches between shoulders impeding breathing.
2 m. Circulatory Organs. – Palpitation, during work; pulsation here and there.
2 n. Back and limbs. – Rheumatic pain at nape and left neck; dull pain like spasms in lumbar region; stiffness in back, disappearing when walking; burning pain in dorsal spine; axillary glands sensitive to contact; stitches in left scapula; acute pain in left shoulder-joint; numbness of arm on which one is lying at night; pulling in forearms; stiffness in fingers; cold hands; trembling of hands; crampy pains in both hips, worse in right; bruised pain in right hip while lying on it; bruised pain in right thigh when walking, and when touching it; dull pain in knees; cracking in knees when stretching legs; numbness of legs when sitting; pain as if sprained in feet, very troublesome when first commencing to walk, but which walking causes to disappear; swelling of feet; icy coldness of feet from morning till noon; twitching of limbs during rest; intolerable uneasiness in lower limbs; pulling in all muscles, especially in evening and at night; trembling of extremities.
Hughes was a great writer and a scholar. He actively cooperated with Dr. T.F. Allen to compile his 'Encyclopedia' and rendered immeasurable aid to Dr. Dudgeon in translating Hahnemann's 'Materia Medica Pura' into English. In 1889 he was appointed an Editor of the 'British Homoeopathic Journal' and continued in that capacity until his demise. In 1876, Dr. Hughes was appointed as the Permanent Secretary of the Organization of the International Congress of Homoeopathy Physicians in Philadelphia. He also presided over the International Congress in London.