Mucuna pruriens
German: Kuhkrätze.
English: Cow-itch, Cowhage.
Synonyms: Dolichos pruriens, Mucuna pruriens, Stizolobium pruriens.
Family: Fabaceae, papillonidae.
Sources: Kraft; Boericke; Clarke; Phatak.
Planets: Jupiter.
Mind
Intense restlessness, unable to sit still a minute.
Exalted nervous sensibility, as in dentition.
General
Type: psoric.
Location: right.
Time: < night.
Physical: > < cold water.
Sleep: less < itch.
Body
General: allergic.
Eye: pain right, yellow; lids eruption.
Ears: pain, sudden, darting, right extending left.
Face: yellow; circumscribed redness of one cheek; prickling itching; pain in right maxilla.
Mouth: swelling of lips; gums pain, sore, tender, intensely sensitive, itch, prevents sleep, < dentition, > rubbed; strong taste of blood, with cough; teeth dull aching in a carious tooth, right side.
Throat: pain, below right angle of jaw, as if splinter were imbedded vertically < swallowing; pain, right, a subdued, contraction sensation, went to left side; slight fullness just behind posterior palatine arch; rough; sudden sensation of a choking lump in throat.
intolerance of anything tight round neck or body
Lungs: coughs < lying, < night, + wheezing and dyspnea.
Chest: pains, apices of both lungs.
Stomach: eructation, noisy, flatulent; vomits bile.
Abdomen: pain, right lumbar region, bruised, below umbilicus; bruised pain left inguinal region; distention, rattling; colic, << feet wet; liver swelling, pain left lobe; pains in spleen with gravel; worms, thread worms; bloated, swollen.
Rectum: white stools; hemorrhoids with burning sensation; constipation < teething or pregnancy; tenesmus with looseness of bowels.; pain in anus with stool.
Urinary: bedwetting; gravel, small stones; ischuria with or without gravel.
Back: pain under left scapula continuing until herpes zoster broke out; pain on the top of right shoulder.
Limbs: pain, right arm and shoulder; aching; aching soreness in last phalanx of right middle finger; pain at root of nail of right index finger.
Skin: itching, intense, desperate, no eruption, < scratching, < cold water, < warmth, < constipation, < pregnancy, < old age; burning < cold water; jaundice spots; dry, tettery eruptions on arms and legs, resembling herpes zoster, followed by neuralgia; eeruption, left axilla, spreading in rings forward to sternum and back to spine with much burning and smarting.