Haematoxylon campechianum
Haematoxylum campechianum · Plant · Fabaceae
The characteristic and pervading symptom is a sense of constriction, most notably experienced as a bar lying across the chest, with cardiac oppression and angina-like pains. The patient experiences constriction in multiple areas including the head, chest, and epigastrium. Painful menstrual complaints with leucorrhoea accompany the cardiac and digestive symptoms.
Key symptoms
- Sensation of a bar lying across the chest with constriction
- Constriction extending from chest to epigastrium
- Angina pectoris with convulsive pain in heart region and oppression
- Great soreness and palpitation in region of heart
- Head feels constricted, heavy, and hot with heavy eyelids
- Painful digging from abdomen to throat causing cardiac oppression
- Colic with tympanitis, borborygmi, and diarrhoea
- Weak, painful bearing-down sensation at menstrual period
Worse (aggravation)
- Night aggravates headache and symptoms generally
- Stooping aggravates headache with nausea
- Pressure and touch worsen chest and abdominal symptoms
Better (amelioration)
- Open air improves visual symptoms
Logwood (HAEMATOXYLON)
Sense of constriction is characteristic. Sensation as if a bar lay across chest. Angina pectoris.
Head
Feels constricted; heavy, hot. Eyelids heavy.
Stomach
Painful digging from abdomen to throat, causing pain in region of heart with oppression. Colic, tympanitis. Borborygmi and diarrhœa. Swollen, painful.
Chest
Constriction, extending to epigastrium. Sensation of a bar across chest. Convulsive pain in heart region with oppression. Great soreness in region of heart. Palpitation.
Female
Pain in hypogastrium, attended with slimy, whitish leucorrhœa. Weak feeling, with painful bearing down sensation at menstrual period.
Relationship
Compare: Cactus; Colocy; Naja.
Dose
Third potency.
Hæmatoxylon campechianum. Logwood. (Central America.) N. O. Leguminosæ Cæsalpiniæ. Tincture of the heart-wood.
Clinical
Angina pectoris. Colic. Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Headache. Indigestion. Ptosis. Throat, sore.
Characteristics
Logwood is the well-known dye of commerce. The tincture was proved by Jouve in 1839, and some very distinctive symptoms were produced. Constriction appears in many parts, culminating in the stomach and abdomen in colic and in the chest in symptoms very like many cases of angina pectoris. This is the most characteristic of all the symptoms of Hæm.: Sensation as if a bar lay transversely across from region of heart to right side, with acute pain in left upper portion of chest." This bar sensation has been frequently removed by Hæm.; and in a case of zona with agonising pain as if a bar lay across the chest, arresting the breathing, Hæm. did signal service for me. Disordered digestion accompanies and complicates most other conditions. Chilliness predominates, but the symptoms are > in open air. < At night; on stooping; by pressure; by touch. There is much general sensitiveness.
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