TRADESCANTIA DIURETICA. (Mart.)
TRAD. TRADESCANTIA COMMELINA (WELL.) PORTUG.: TRAPŒRAVA.
This herbaceous plant is pretty common in Brazil. Its ramose and cylindrical stems are erect or a little inclined; the leaves are alternate, sheathed, somewhat lanceolate, and constituting at the extremity of the branches tufts whence arise long pedicles each of which carries from four to six flowers; perianth double, three-leaved, the outer one having sharp, herbaceous divisions, and the inner one being petaloïd and blue-colored. Stamens six fertile; a free tri-locular ovary, surmounted by a simple style. We employ the leaves.
First day.—1. Vertigo. Pain in the left side of the chest. The breathing is embarrassed as when one is affected with catarrh.
Second day.—Yellowish, copious urine, depositing at the bottom of the vessel an ash-colored, copious sediment. 5. The urine has an acrid smell. Inflammation of the scrotum which is painful and very red. Difficult breathing, sighing as from want of air. The symptoms continue from the third to the fifteenth day. The breathing is very painful. 10. The inflammation of the scrotum decreases since the twelfth day. Whitish discharge from the urethra. Pain when urinating. Thin stream of urine. Diarrhœa. The testicles return by the inguinal ring.
MURURE LEITE.
MUR. L.
This rosin is used as an anti-syphilitic.
1. Blennhorrhœal discharge. Ulcers on the legs. Yellow and fetid urine. Cracking sensation in the tibia. 5. Profuse flow of saliva. Small painless pimple which terminates in suppuration, with smarting. Spot at the instep, painful in the middle and insensible all round the circumference. Numbness of the left arm. Numbness of the limbs. 10. Sciatica. Swelling of the face as in the elephantiasis of the Greeks. Pain in a former cicatrix on the left side of the tongue. Cold hands. Heaviness of the head. 15. Pains in the head, recurring on the third and fourth day. Pain in the left ear, on the first day. Stool easier. Heat in the eyes. Sore eyes. 20. Drowsy day and night. Constant restlessness during sleep. Exaltation of ideas. Loathing of food, loss of appetite. Pain at the left shoulder, hindering breathing when walking. 25. Pustules on the penis. Eruption on the legs. Toothache for four days. Pimples on the occiput, on the fourteenth day. Vomiting, on the sixteenth day. 30. Urging to stool, with soft fæces. Little appetite. Severe pain in the thighs. Prickings in the tongue. Heaviness of the head.