Common names: Tomato, Love-apple.
Introduction
Lycopersicum esculentum, Millefolium
Natural order: Solanacea.
Preparation: Tincture of ripe fruit.
Mind
Peevish about trifles, increased by the weakness of memory. Thoughts disappear, worse when leaning the head upon anything; forgets everything he wishes to recollect.
Head
Heavy confusion of the head. Dulness of the head. Heaviness of the head, with weakness of the cervical muscles (after a quarter of an hour). Sensation as if the head were compressed or squeezed from both sides. Boring; therewith the skin of the forehead becomes painfully tense. Pressure beneath the frontal bone, as if the brain would be forced out, relieved by leaning the head against something, always in the evening and continuing awhile after going to bed. Boring in the left side of the occiput.
Nose
Stopped catarrh in the nose.
Face
Pressure in the right zygoma. A stitch in the left cheek. Stitches in the left zygoma.
Urinary Organs
Must rise at night to urinate.
Sexual Organs
Profuse Leucorrhoeal discharge (immediately). In some cases, what was thought to be too frequent menstruation, brought on by free use of canned tomatoes, and the flow would return whenever this food was eaten for a few meals.
Chest
Slight sticking beneath the left side of the sternum; without difficulty of respiration.
Back
They will cause a depressing backache, in lower dorsal and lumbar region, which will make any one feel gloomy and depressed.
Superior Extremities.
Sticking on the inner side of the left forearm.
Inferior Extremities.
Painful sticking behind the articulation of the left hip. Sticking above the external malleolus of the right foot, during rest and motion.
General symptoms
At night he lies upon the back, on account of a sensation of paralysis.
Sleep
Is unable to fall asleep in the evening, tosses about, every position is uncomfortable. Frequent waking and tossing about at night, the limbs when pressed feel paralyzed. Is wakened by an insignificant dream.
Conditions.
Aggravation.
(Evening), Relieved by leaning head against something, pressure beneath frontal bone. (Leaning head against anything), Disappearance of thought.