Angustura


Angustura homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

Galipea cusparia, St. Hil. (Bonplandia trifoliata, Willd.; Angustura vera).

Natural order: Rutaceae.

Preparation: Trituration and tincture of the bark.

Mind

Greatly excited and extravagant spirits, with drawing in the limbs, as if the tendons were tense, in the afternoon (after two days).

Anxiety.

Lachrymose and irritable.

Marked ill-humor; everything vexes her.

He is easily frightened, and starts.

Pusillanimity.

He has not confidence enough in himself to undertake and perform voluntary motions.

Prone to anger; every trifle irritates.

Ill-humor and peevishness (after twenty-four hours).

Discouragement; dissatisfaction with his situation; he does not bear a joke; slight offences fill him with bitterness (after twelve hours).

Liveliness and activity of mind.

He feels cheerful and lively when performing no intellectual labor, but becomes dizzy when reading; he then falls asleep immediately.

Lively mood when walking in the open air (immediately).

In afternoon, great animation and facility of intellect; he comprehends everything much more easily than on the first day, and more easily than formerly, but he feels unable to dwell upon his subject, owing to some internal uneasiness, such as is experienced by those who anticipate some great pleasure, or also owing to all sorts of plans crowding upon his mind (after thirty- five hours).

For the first three afternoons the body feels warm; on the third afternoon, extreme liveliness and quick memory; however, he is not able to think of anything attentively, being prevented by the intrusion upon his mind of a rather agreeable projects which he almost believes to be real and feasible, and which exclusively absorbs all his attention; it is a sort of vivid, waking dream (after four days).

Lively mood; he is confident he can achieve everything with vigor (after forty-eight hours).

Great absence of mind; when occupied with something serious, his attention is constantly arrested by other things (after forty-five hours).

Sometimes he is lost in reverie, and even complete absence of thought; he easily falls asleep when reading.

Uncomfortable early in the morning; frequent yawning and want of disposition for any kind of work (after four days).

Head.

Suddenly, great confusion of the head, as from a skin drawn over the brain, half an hour (after a quarter of an hour).

Confusion and dulness of the head, as after intoxication.

Confusion and sense of contraction of the head, when walking rapidly.

Confusion of the head; pullings in the forehead.

Vertigo.

Periodical vertigo.

Vertigo in the open air (after twenty hours).

Vertigo from the occiput when sitting; throbbing in right temple.

He is attacked with a feeling of vertigo when crossing a running water or walking by the side of a ditch full of water; he fears he will sink down.

Dizziness.

Swaying of the head.

Head drawn first to the right side, then to the left.

In the open air, she was attacked with a little headache and heat (towards evening).

Headache occurred only when there was heat in the face.

Fullness in the forehead.

Headache always occurred towards evening, when it became dark, and continued until the moment he fell asleep.

Heaviness in the head when sitting.

Heat around the head, with sweat upon the forehead, early, when in bed.

Heat rising to the head.

Cramp-like headache.

Frequent pressure in the head (immediately).

Pressure in the head (and toes), (immediately).

Headache, as if everything in the brain were moving about, with oppressive and boring pain, especially in the temples; when laying the forehead upon the table he feels, in the first moments, nothing except some tension; soon, however, the pains return less violent, and assume their original violence as soon as the head is raised (after twelve hours).

Early, after rising, great heaviness, in the forehead, without any confusion (after three days).

Sometimes, very severe boring in the forehead and sides of the head (third day).

Drawing in the forehead (after nine and a half hours).

Pressure in the forehead.

Pressure in forehead (immediately).

Pressure in the forehead (after one and a half hours).

Headache; pressure in the forehead, over both eyes, as if the contents would come out, both at rest and in motion.

Very severe, frequent pressing pains in forehead, with the sensation of heaviness (after four hours).

Pressive headache in the forehead, towards evening, with great heat in the face.

The brain in the forehead feels bruised; increased by stooping, and diminished in the open air (immediately).

Severe repeated pains in forehead and temples (after four hours).

Drawing in the forehead and pressure in the temples (immediately).

Continual itching stitches in the forehead and temple, externally, which do not go off by rubbing.

The temporal muscles feel dead, numb, as if something were pressing out there.

Tensive pain in the temporal muscles, when opening the jaws.

Boring headache in the temples.

Drawing and oppressive pain in the temporal region.

Pressure in the temples (immediately).

Pressure in the temples (after one hour).

Pressure on the temples, as from a plug, several times (after one hour).

Tearing headache, rather externally, extending from the vertex over the temples (after twenty-four hours).

A stitch, as from electricity, starting from the temples upwards and downwards.

Intermittent prickings in the right temporal region, more externally (after four hours).

Roaring in the temples and sides of the head (immediately).

Boring and pressure in vertex (soon after taking).

In the evening, drawing and oppressive headache on the right side of the head, with pressure on the lower jaw (after sixteen hours).

Drawing on the sides of the head, then several times drawing in the legs and feet (early in morning).

Pressure on both sides of the head (soon after taking).

Pressure on the sides of the head (immediately).

Twitching at a small place under the skin of the right parietal bone; when pressing upon the part, it pains as if it were bruised (after one hour).

Headache; pressure in the occiput in the afternoon.

Pressure in the left hemisphere when stooping; relieved on raising the head again (immediately).

Drawing at the sides of the occiput (immediately).

Eyes.

The eyes are red, and burn; in the morning they are agglutinated.

Violent burning in the inner half of the eyes themselves, and in the internal corners; afternoons and evenings.

Tension first in one, then in the other eye; it seems from behind forwards, early in the morning (after forty-eight hours).

Pressure in both eyes, as if a bright light were irritating them, and as if they became weary.

A few stitches over the eyes.

Eyes feel as if there was sand in them.

Pressure on the right eye and the orbit, in the evening (after fourteen hours).

Severe pressure above the right eye and deep in the right orbit (after one and a half hours).

Slight twitchings between the eyebrows while reading.

Feeling of dryness under the upper eyelids.

Sore pain in the eyelids.

Stitches in the right eyelids (after eight hours).

Itching stitches in the upper eyelid, which cannot be removed by rubbing (after one hour).

Dilatation of the pupils (after thirteen hours).

Contraction of the pupils (after three and a half hours).

He sees much farther and more sharply than usual.

Farsightedness; he saw distinctly objects at a distance; whereas he generally was short-sighted (after two and a half hours).

Early, on rising, dimness before the eyes, as if the cornea were obscured (after twenty-four hours).

There seems to be a light vapor before the eyes, which soon passes off.

Ears.

Tearing in a boil over the right mastoid process (after a quarter of an hour).

Heat of the ears and both cheeks.

Pinching in the external ear.

Heat in the lobules.

Sensation as if something were before the ear, and as if something were inserted in it.

Throbbing pain behind the ears, on the side of the neck, as if the carotid were beating.

Burning in the internal ear, in the region of the tympanum.

Several transient drawings, now in the right, now in the left ear.

Stitches in the ears (after one hours).

Stitches deep in the right ear (after one and a half hours).

Very painful tearing twitchings in the right internal ear; they gradually become drawings (after one hour).

Tearing twitchings before the left ear (after one hour).

Stitches in the meatus auditorius externus.

Hearing is much more acute than usual (after five and a half hours), (curative reaction).

Ringing in the right ear (after thirty-three hours).

Nose.

Sensation of a corrosive soreness deep in the nose (immediately).

Face.

Internal and external heat of the face, immediately after supper.

Drawing in the facial muscles (after one and a half hours).

Drawing in the muscles of the face (after one hour).

Drawing in the muscles of the face, right side (immediately).

Stitches in the right facial muscles (after one and a half hours).

Prickling in the facial muscles (after one and a half hours).

Feeling of heat in both cheeks, without any external perceptible warmth.

In the evening, hot feeling in the cheeks, which, however, do not feel warm when touched (after twelve hours).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.