====== CUBEBA OFFICINALIS ====== {{anchor:s1}}Cubeba. {{anchor:s2}}(Cubeba Officinalis.) {{anchor:s3}}Cubebs. {{anchor:s4}}Piperaceae. {{anchor:s5}}The unripe berries of the Piper Cubeba, a climbing plant of Java and other portions of the East Indies. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s7}}- Pressure and pain in region of femoral ring, E. M. Hale, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 496; Dysentery, Bachmeister, Organon, vol. 3, p. 357; Nocturnal enuresis, Battmann, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 513; Gonorrhea (six cases), Hirsch, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 83; Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 176; Gleet, Rosenberg, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 83; Urethro-vaginitis, Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 176; Croup, Emil Tietze, H. M., vol. 2, p. 363. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s9}}Exaltation of temper and mental faculties, or weakness and loss of memory.\\ {{anchor:s10}}Uneasiness, anxiety, cannot remain in bed. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s12}}Sensation as if head was choked up; with heaviness of head and danger of suffocation. {{anchor:s13}}~ Croup.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Contractive and pressive headache, with drowsiness, but without sleep.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Deep-seated headache; dullness. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s17}}Fullness in eyes, turgid and watery.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Rheumatic or gonorrheal ophthalmia. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s20}}Fullness of face which is occasionally florid and flushed, or red and pale by turns. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s22}}Lips puffed, dry and shining.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Extraordinary twist of mouth to one side every time he attempts to speak or smile. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s25}}Aphthae of lips and gums. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s27}}Tongue furred and moist or very white. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s29}}Feeling of dryness of mouth, though moistened with an oily saliva, great thirst. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s31}}Constant need to swallow saliva to relieve dryness and burning in throat and larynx.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Throat dry and parched. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s35}}Increased appetite.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Desire for delicacies; oranges; acid fruits; spirits; brandy; fresh bread; onions; almonds; nuts.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Unquenchable thirst, with feeling of dryness of mouth, and burning in throat. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s39}}Disagreeable or acid eructations.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Nausea and vomiting. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s42}}Uneasiness, heat at pit of stomach, and fever.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Burning pain in stomach; feeling of warmth in epigastric region.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Dyspepsia of long standing; sourness after eating, and distress of stomach from food. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s46}}Abdomen distended and very sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Burning in abdomen. {{anchor:s48}}~ Croup.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Burning and pressure about navel.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Sensation of weight, pressure, and pain in region of femoral ring, similar to that which precedes occurrence of femoral hernia; downward pressure and weight agg. after walking, riding, lifting, and especially before and during menstrual period.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Hernia femoralis. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s53}}Before stool: cutting pains in hypogastrium.\\ {{anchor:s54}}During stool: tenesmus; cutting pain; loud discharges of flatus.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Distressing diarrhea, with headache and griping.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Stools: blackish, yellowish, fecal; bilious; yellow, transparent, mucous; mingled with whitish, shining particles, looking like kernels of rice; bloody mucus; frequent (dysenteric); copious; bilious and fecal; involuntary; agg. at night in bed; amel. from rising from bed and moving about (colic).\\ {{anchor:s57}}Countenance fallen, indicating great suffering; discharges every half hour of transparent slime mixed with blood; before stool severe griping pains in bowels, with backache; with stool, the same, and urging to urinate; after stool, long-continued tenesmus, and relief of pains, except heavy dull pain in back and bowels; tongue flabby, white, furred; throat dry; little thirst agg.; from food or drink. {{anchor:s58}}~ Dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Stools of colorless, transparent slime, mixed with bright blood, and plentifully interspersed with shining, white bodies, the shape of rice kernels. {{anchor:s60}}~ Dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Diarrhea, with rumbling and cutting in abdomen and burning in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Constipation; hemorrhoids; perineum tender.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Suppuration of rectum.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Burning and itching of anus. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Chronic cystitis; cutting and constriction after micturition; urine increased in quantity, deepened in color; haematuria.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Urethritis (accompanied by vesical irritability) of females, especially of married women; feeling of fullness in bladder with desire to urinate every ten or fifteen minutes, with smarting in urethra during micturition, which is very scanty, but a few drops passing at a time, and followed by vesical tenesmus; filaments of ropy mucus escaping with first or last drops of urine.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Irritation of urinary passages; cutting and constriction after micturition; haematuria.\\ {{anchor:s69}}After micturition, sensation as if bladder still contained water.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Last drops of urine passed with pain.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Urine: foaming; bloody; smells of violets.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Nocturnal enuresis.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Burning and itching in fossa navicularis. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Sexual excitement.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Testicles swollen.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Inflammation of urethra.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Prostatitis.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Secretion of mucus from urethra greatly increased.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Discharge from urethra of a dark reddish color.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Inflammation of penis, pressure and heaviness.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Gonorrhea, with profuse discharge and scalding pain whilst urinating; pus very thick and glutinous; excessive ardor urinae and frequent desire to empty bladder.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Pale, copious, slimy discharge, causing soiled linen to become stiff; sometimes, particularly after coitus, or use of spirituous liquors, sensation of warmth and slight burning in urethra on urinating. {{anchor:s84}}~ Gleet.\\ {{anchor:s85}}After six weeks, thick, yellow, pus-like discharge from urethra. {{anchor:s86}}~ Gonorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s87}}After two months, profuse pus-like discharge, with painless urination, slight redness of meatus, no swelling of glans. {{anchor:s88}}~ Chronic gonorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Thick, yellowish-green discharge, with frequent obstruction of urethra. {{anchor:s90}}~ Gonorrhea. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s92}}Urethro-vaginitis, severe and of long standing, with acute pains and abundant discharge.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Leucorrhea profuse, yellow, greenish, very acrid, and of a very offensive odor; erythema at inner surface of thighs and pruritus of vulva, with intense desire for coition; small, burning pimples; womb swollen and painful, as if from a tumor; menses too soon, often preceded and followed by leucorrhea, or in small quantity, and consisting mostly of leucorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Acrid leucorrhea of children. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s97}}False membranes, thick and of a dark shade, principally in larynx; respiration noisy and panting; sensation as if throat was choked up, with heaviness of head; danger of suffocation; voice harsh and wheezing. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s99}}Respiration hurried and noisy.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Respiration impeded, difficult, with crepitant rales; great fullness of chest; dyspnea and sense of suffocation. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s102}}Incessant bronchial cough; agg. evening, by heat, and in open air; throat dry and parched; hurried and noisy respiration.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Harsh cough, which seems to tear and rupture the bronchi; expectoration difficult and painful, or yellow-greenish, rusty, streaked with blood; haemoptysis, especially evenings.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Barking and croupy cough, with feeling as of a foreign body in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Cough with coryza and hoarseness, during and after cough cold sweat upon breast and back, burning in abdomen. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s107}}Burning and tearing pain in chest; severe cough.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Pulmonary catarrh; haemoptysis, particularly in evenings. {{anchor:s109}}~ Phthisis pulmonalis. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s111}}Pulse full, frequent.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Soft, slow pulse, weak and small.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Pulse irregular, suspending two or three beats each minute, sometimes slow, at intervals hurried, not exceeding 84. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s115}}Acute, deep-seated pain in wrists, speedily followed by redness and swelling; stiffness of wrist and thickening around joint. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s117}}Pricking sensation in soles of feet. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s119}}Sensation of heat in palms of hands and soles of feet.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Numbness of fingers and toes. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s124}}Stools and colic agg. at night in bed, amel. by getting up and moving about.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Walking, riding, lifting: downward pressure and weight in region of femoral ring agg. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s127}}Great restlessness; extreme weakness.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Convulsive movements, and partial paralysis. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s130}}Evening: bronchial cough agg.; haemoptysis agg.\\ {{anchor:s131}}At night: stools agg. in bed; enuresis. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s133}}Heat: bronchial cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Open air: bronchial cough agg. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s136}}Heat, flushes in face, soles of feet and palms of hands.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Increased heat with thirst.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Feverish, tingling and heat over whole surface of body.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Fever with heat at pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Cold sweat upon chest and back; burning in abdomen. {{anchor:s141}}~ Croup. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s143}}Frequent: stools; desire to empty bladder.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Constant: need of swallowing saliva; bronchial cough.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Every ten or fifteen minutes: desire to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Every half hour: discharge of transparent slime mixed with blood.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Chronic: cystitis; results of gonorrhea. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s149}}As if head was choked up; as if bladder still contained water, after micturition; as if cough would tear and rupture bronchi; as of a foreign body in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Pain: in region of femoral ring similar to that preceding occurrence of femoral hernia.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Cutting: in hypogastrium; during stool; in abdomen; after micturition.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Tearing: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Burning: in throat and larynx; in stomach; in abdomen; about navel; in rectum; of anus; in fossa navicularis; in urethra; in pimples upon vulva; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Constriction: after micturition.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Contractive: headache.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Griping: with diarrhea; in bowels before stool.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Scalding: while urinating.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Smarting: in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Pricking: in soles of feet.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Tingling: over whole surface of body.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Deep seated: headache; acute pain in wrists.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Heavy dull pain in back and bowels, with dysentery.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Pressure: about navel; in region of femoral ring; with inflammation of penis.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Pressive: headache.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Weight: in region of femoral ring.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Heaviness: of head; with inflammation of penis.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Fullness: in eyes; of face; in bladder; of chest.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Uneasiness: at pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Dullness: of head.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Itching: of anus; in fossa navicularis; of vulva; of skin.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Numbness: of fingers and toes.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Dryness: of mouth; in throat and larynx.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Heat: at pit of stomach; in palms and soles.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Warmth: in epigastric region; in urethra. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s176}}Skin diseases with kidney affection; catarrh of bladder and urethra; paralysis of sensation, with affections of urinary organs.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Makes the urine albuminous and bloody, and increases the uroxanthine.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Emaciation. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s180}}A flush of red over whole body.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Intense itching.\\ {{anchor:s182}}General eruption of roseolous papules without fever or itching, confluent on face, buttocks and upper limbs, more scant on lower.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Severe urticaria febrilis. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s185}}Acts particularly well in persons of bilious temperament with tendency to constipation.\\ {{anchor:s186}}An apprentice, aet. 15, healthy, suffering for three months; nocturnal enuresis.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Man, aet. 26, otherwise healthy; gleet.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Man, aet. 28; gonorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Ha., aet. 32, choleric temperament; gonorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Man, aet. 34, hemorrhoidal constitution; gonorrhea. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s192}}Compatible: copaiva (gonorrhea, gastric urticaria), Oil of Sandal Wood (gonorrhea).\\ {{anchor:s193}}Botanically related to: Piper meth., Matico, Piper nigrum.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Compare: Capsic., Canthar. (irritable bladder in females), Tereb., Cann. sat., Iod. (membranous croup). ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r412|Cubeba officinalis]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r412|Cubeba officinalis]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1884 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}