Upas tieut
Strychnos tieute (Upas tieute) · Plant · Loganiaceae
A left-sided remedy suited to those with sensitiveness and irritability. Produces tonic spasms and tetanus-like symptoms. Suited to cases of sexual excess or nervous exhaustion.
Key symptoms
- Dull headache deep in brain
- Pain in eyes and orbits with conjunctivitis
- Dull sunken eyes with styes
- Pain in mouth as from splinter
- Burning on the tongue
- Herpes on lips
- Dull backache as after coitus
- Lancinating pain in right lung toward liver
- Violent palpitation with chest heaviness
- Inflamed hangnails with itching at nail roots
Worse (aggravation)
- Touch, especially pain in left iliac fossa
- Pressure in throat
- Motion and walking
- Afternoon and evening
- Morning
Better (amelioration)
- After rising
- Evening after dinner
- In open air, especially headache
Upas-tree-Strychnos Tiente (UPAS TIENTE)
Produces tonic spasms, tetanus, and asphyxia.
Head
Disinclined for mental work. Irritable. Dull headache deep in brain.
Eyes
Pain in eyes and orbits, with conjunctivitis. Dull sunken eyes. Styes.
Mouth
Herpes on lips. Burning on the tongue. Pain in mouth, as from a splinter (Nit ac).
Male
Desire increased, with loss of power. Dull backache, as after excessive coitus.
Chest
Lancinating pain throughout right lung toward the liver, stopping breathing. Violent palpitation; sensation of heaviness in stomach.
Skin
Numb hands and feet. Hangnails inflamed; itching and redness of roots of nails.
Relationship
Compare: Upas antiaris-resinous exudation of Antiarus toxicaria, (a deadly poison to the muscular system. It suspends both voluntary muscular action and that of the heart without causing convulsions. Used in Java as an arrow poison (Merrell). Differs in producing clonic spasms, violent vomiting, diarrhœa, great prostration). Oxal ac. Upas when Bryonia fails (typhoid).
Antidote: Curare.
Dose
Third to sixth potency.
Strychnos tieuté. N. O. Loganiaceæ. Tincture of the inspissated juice obtained from the root and bark.
Clinical
Amaurosis. Blepharo-conjunctivitis. Convulsions. Coryza. Hang-nails. Headache. Heart, palpitation of. Heels, pains in. Liver, affections of. Nails, affections of. Ptosis. Sciatica. Sexual excess. Spine, pains in. Tendo Achillis, pain in. Tetanus.
Characteristics
The Upas of homœopathy is obtained from a Strychnos and must not be confounded with Antiaris toxicaria, the concocted juice of which forms the "Upas antiar" poison of the Javanese. S. tieuté is a climbing shrub. Pitet made a courageous proving of it, carrying it to the length of producing tetanic symptoms. A large proportion of the symptoms occurred in the head and eyes. A remarkable headache was this: "Superficial drawing pain traverses left temple from before backward, and ceases at outer angle of orbit; the part is hot and painful to touch." The pains generally are pressive and lancinating. In the eyes there is pressure and feeling …
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