Phaseolus nanus
Phaseolus vulgaris var. nanus · Plant · Fabaceae
Phaseolus nanus suits individuals with pronounced heart symptoms, especially fearful palpitations with weak pulse, combined with diabetic conditions and dropsical states. It is indicated where cardiac failure accompanies diabetes.
Key symptoms
- Fearful palpitation with feeling that death is approaching
- Sick feeling about the heart with weak pulse
- Headache chiefly in forehead or orbits from fullness of brain
- Breathing slow and sighing with rapid pulse
- Dropsical effusion into pleura or pericardium
- Diabetic urine
- Dilated pupils insensible to light
Worse (aggravation)
- Any movement
- Mental exertion
Dwarf-bean (PHASEOLUS)
Heart symptoms quite pronounce. Diabetes.
Head
Aches chiefly in forehead or orbits from fullness of brain; worse any movement or mental exertion.
Eyes
Pupils dilated, insensible to light. Eyeballs painful to touch.
Chest
Breathing slow and sighing. Pulse rapid. Palpitation. Sick feeling about heart, with weak pulse. Right ribs sore. Dropsical effusion into pleura or pericardium.
Urinary
Diabetic urine.
Heart
Fearful palpitation and feeling that death is approaching.
Relationship
Compare: Cratæg; Lach.
Dose
Sixth and higher. A decoction of the shells as a drink for diabetes, but look out for severe headache.
PHASEOLUS NANUS. Dwarf-bean. N. O. Trituration of the dried bean. Decoction of dried beans and pods.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Breast, tumour of. Diabetes. Dropsy. Hæmaturia. Headache. Heart, affections of; failure of; palpitation of. Hernia. Hydrothorax. Impotence. Pericarditis. Pleurisy. prostate, diseases of; hæmorrhage from. Wounds, punctured.
Characteristics
I have included under the heading, Phaseolus both P. nanus and P. vulgaris, as I cannot discern any difference in their action. The proving of P. vulg. is by Demeures. Some effects of eating mildewed beans in a child recorded by W. Dale are distinguished in the Schema by (D). A. M. Cushing proved P. nanus, but has only published the symptoms observed on the heart. These are distinguished by (C). Cured symptoms are bracketed. Some symptoms observed in patients taking the remedy are included in the Schema. The New Eng. Med. Gaz. (quoted by Lambert, H. W., xxxi. 125) published a translation of a pamphlet by Dr. Heinrich Ramm on the uses of "Bean …
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