Euonyminum
Euonymin · Plant · Celastraceae
Euonyminum is suited to patients with profound liver torpor, constipation, and dropsical conditions associated with albuminuria. It is especially indicated in Bright's disease with anasarca, drowsiness, and scanty albuminous urine.
Key symptoms
- Drastic catharsis with death-like nausea, excessive tormina, and cold sweats
- Profuse violent diarrhoea with much flatus
- Torpid liver with constipation and indigestion
- Albuminuria with dropsy, especially in pregnancy
- Bright's disease with anasarca, sallow face, and yellow sclerae
- Drowsiness — sleeping most of the day and night
- Pulse full and slow, 50 to 60
A concentrated extract, so-called active principle, from the bark of Euonymus Americana, E. atropurpurea and other American species of Euonymus.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Bright's disease. Cholera. Diarrhœa. Dropsy. Dysentery. Gall-stones. Indigestion. Liver, affections of.
Characteristics
Euonymin is largely used by eclectics in cases of constipation, indigestion, and torpid liver. It has not been proved, but Hale quotes from Coe the following account of its effects: "In very large doses, it proves a drastic cathartic, its operation being attended with a death-like nausea, excessive tormina and cold sweats. The dejections from the bowels are profuse, violent, and accompanied by much flatus." This clearly outlines the sphere of the remedy, which does not seem to differ much from that of the Euonymus Europæa. Lutze records (Med. Adv., xxiv. 227) a case of albuminuria of pregnancy with dropsy cured with the 1x; and also a case of albuminuria and dropsy in a young man of seventeen. This patient had had eczema, …
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