Derris pinnata
Pongamia pinnata · Plant · Fabaceae
Derris Pinnata suits individuals with peculiar mental disturbances including suicidal impulses, fear of harming others, and alternating weeping and singing with a great flow of ideas. Neuralgic and tic-like pains with exalted senses of smell are characteristic. Many symptoms come on at night.
Key symptoms
- Walks as if stepping on down, levitation sensation
- Afraid of killing someone with a knife
- Both painful and convulsive tic
- Exalted sense of smell, perceives celestial or intolerable odours
- Electric shocks and cramps
- Fear of falling when turning head to either side
- Sensation as if needles and nails driven into head at evening
- Loss of memory
Worse (aggravation)
- From touch
- Night aggravates diarrhea and many symptoms
- Evening aggravates head pains
Better (amelioration)
- Heat relieves toothache
N. O. Leguminosæ. (Cochin China.) Tincture of plant.
Clinical
Asthma. Blepharospasm. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Eyes, inflammation of. Locomotor ataxy. Mania. Ozæna. Smell, sense of, affected. Tic-douloureux.
Characteristics
Dr. X. Roussel is the authority for this plant, and some of the symptoms are of a very peculiar nature. "He walks as if stepping on down." "He is afraid of killing some one with a knife." Both kinds of tic are noted─painful and convulsive. Sense of smell is exalted. "He perceives celestial odours;" also "intolerable smells, after frequent sneezing." Viscid urine, and viscid saliva. Electric shocks and cramps. Heat > toothache. Many symptoms, including diarrhœa, come on at night. < From touch.
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