
Ailanthus glandulosa
Generalities
– It acts upon BLOOD; disorganizing it and producing conditions like low fevers; low types of eruptive diseases, and haemorrhagic diathesis.
– It affects the THROAT causing diphtheria and follicular tonsillitis.
– Streptococcus infection.
– The skin appears LIVID or purplish.
– Prostration is rapid.
– LIVIDITY, STUPOR, foetor and MALIGNANCY are marked conditions.
– Discharges are thin and acrid.
– Sepsis.
– Rash often returns annually.
– it is suited to nervous sensitive persons.
– Stout and robust, bilious temperment.
Worse
– Suppressions.
– Raising up or sitting up.
– Sight of food.
– Motions, walking.
Better
– Hot drinks, Lying on right side.
Mind
– Stupor; or stoic indifference, with sighing.
– Dullness, must read a subject several times or figures over and over again.
– All the antecedents are forgotten.
– Constant muttering delirium; with sleeplessness and restlessness.
– Raging delirium with brilliant eyes.
Head
– Ache in frontal, with dizziness and red hot face; can not sit up.
– Faint on rising up, or vertigo agg. lying.
Eyes
– Suffused and congested; starled look when roused.
– Pupils dilated.
– Photophobia.
Ears
– Pain in, while swallowing.
– Parotid glands tender and enlarged.
Nose
– Thin copious bloody ichorous nasal discharge.
– Nose dry.
– Itching and uneasy feeling around the nose.
Face
– Mahogany coloured; dark and swollen.
– Chronic speckled spotted face; a kind of acne.
– Lips swollen and cracked.
Mouth
– Teeth covered with sordes.
– Tongue; dry and brown; parched and cracked.
Throat
– Dry, foul fauces.
– Throat dark and swollen.
– Tonsils studded with many deep ulcers. (agg. left), with loose pultaceous discharge.
– Much swelling internal and external.
– Lacunar tonsilitis.
– Irritation and itching of posterior pharynx.
– Diphtheria.
Stomach
– Sudden violent vomitting when sitting up.
– Peculiar feeling of emptiness in.
Abdomen
– Diarrhoea, dysentery with great weakness.
– Stools, thin, watery offensive, passing involuntarily with urine.
– Tapeworm.
– Sense of insecurity, stool, urine etc.
Urinary
– Urine scanty, suppressed; passed unconscously.
Female
– Malignant puerperal fever.
Respiratory
– Breathing hurried, irregular.
– Dry hacking cough.
– Lungs sore and tired.
Heart
– Pulse rapid, small, weak.
Back and neck
– Neck tender and very much swollen.
Skin
– Eruptions in dark, sparse patches; appear slowly; disappear on pressure, but return slowly.
– Skin mottled.
– Large blisters filled with dark serum.
– Scarlatina maligna.
– Petechae.
– Crawling all over the body.
Sleep
– Drowsy, restless.
Fever
– Adynamic fever with weak heart.
– Cold sweat.
Related
– Arum-t; Bap; Lac-c.
Source: Phatak Materia Medica