Pyrus americana
Sorbus americana · Plant · Rosaceae
Suited to nervous, hypochondriac individuals, particularly women, who are prone to hysteria and clairvoyant mental states. The constitutional picture includes intense chilliness, sensitivity to cold and motion, and symptoms that appear to move in meandering lines through the body.
Key symptoms
- Sensation as if full of cold water, extending up oesophagus under sternum
- Clairvoyant state — feels she can see outside herself and read character
- Intense neuralgic and rheumatic pains especially in toes and knees
- Sensation of prolapse of the womb or bladder
- Spasmodic breathing and hoarseness with loss of voice
- Rectum feels shrunken and dried up
- Left leg feels drawn up and would never straighten again
- Unendurable aching pain in bones of the toes
Worse (aggravation)
- Moving about increases pain and chilliness
- Exposure to cold
- Cold air striking the body
Better (amelioration)
- Warmth (heart symptoms relieved by Camphor)
Mountain Ash (American). (Swamps and mountain woods from Maine to Pennsylvania.) N. O. Rosaceæ. Tincture of fresh bark.
Clinical
Bladder, irritation of; prolapse of. Chills. Clairvoyance. Dyspepsia. Gout. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Rectum, constriction of. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Tongue, paralysis of. Uterus, prolapse of.
Characteristics
P. amer., the American Mountain Ash (the British is P. aucuparia), was proved by Gatchell on himself, a married woman, and two lads. Gatchell's only symptom was "irritation of the eyes." Another prover had a similar symptom. By far the greatest number were induced in the woman; though hers were largely confirmed by those of the boys. Neuralgic, rheumatic, and gouty symptoms were very severe. The emotional balance was disturbed and a kind of clairvoyance induced. Labour-like or spasmodic pains were frequent─in uterus; in bladder like prolapse; constrictive at base of lungs and round waist; like spasm of heart; as if left leg drawn up. Peculiar Sensations are: As if full …
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