{"id":16416,"remedy_name":"Taxus Baccata","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Tax. is for pustular diseases of skin and night-sweats. Gout and chronic rheumatism. Pains \nin the knees, elbows and back. Slight tremor over whole frame. Trembling. Convulsions. Fainting and collapse. \nRelaxation of muscles. Cancer, chemotherapy effects.","modalities":"Worse by pressure, by application of liquids. Worse before and after each meal. Worse after sex. \nCoughing causes headache. Deep breathing causes cough. Rubbing imp roves the itching of eyelids.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Impatience, which unfits the patient for mental application. Delirium. Stupor. Impatience, which unfits the patient for mental application. Delirium. Stupor.","Head":"Supra-orbital and temporal pain on right side with lachrymation. Supra-orbital and temporal pain on right side with lachrymation.","Eyes":"Pupils widely dilated. Drawing with lachrymation and pressure. Lachryma tion of left eye. Itching of \nexternal angle of left eye. Burning itching in eyelids. Vision dim.","Ears":"Polyps in the ears.","Face":"Puffy and pale. Looks ill. Face livid, convulsed. Lips are purplish, livid, black brown, especially upper. \nFrothing at mouth.","Mouth":"Sensation of coldness in teeth. Mouth dry. Burning pricking on tongue. Tongue excoriated, moist, \ntremulous. Saliva hot, acrid. Saliva increased, extremely viscid, acrid. Bitter taste like that \nTaxus baccata of Cinchona. \nNose - A round spot of a reddish-brown color, on the end of the nose with desquamation of skin.","Chest":"Oppression, when stomach is either too full  or too empty or else with pain below xiphoid cartilage. \nSharp pain in left side. Chest full and hot. Lungs engorged. Irregular action of heart. Pulse rapid, slow, feeble, small, wiry, almost imperceptible. Violent and fatiguing cough. Short cough after every meal, excited by full inspirations with oppression.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Feeling of emptiness,  must eat frequently. Violent hunger, soon after breakfast with general \nuneasiness and weakness in region of stomach. Aching, burning and pinching in region of stomach. Pain in \npit of stomach and region of navel. After eating, cough. Feeling of pins and needles at pit of stomach. Nausea \n \n \nwith accumulation of saliva. Retching. Vomiting ending in death. Vomit, tenacious, containing bile. \nTemperature - Perspiration from least ex ertion with great prostration of strength. Profuse night -sweats. \nCommencing with shivering followed by dry heat of hands and feet. Offensive viscid sweats with itching and \nredness. \nCOMMENTS - The symptoms of the Tax. pathogenesis are made up of poisonings by leaves and berries and \nalso of provings by Gastier. Fainting is a very prominen t feature with Tax. And, in the fatal cases there are \nconvulsions, collapse and syncope. \nDeath from yew poisoning, said Cooper, is remarkably painless. \u201cEmpty feeling\u201d in the stomach was prominent \nand it was noted that the digestion was very rapid. \u201cMust eat frequently.\u201d Gastric catarrh is set up with vomiting \nof tenacious mucus. Increased saliva, viscid.  Pustular skin affection. Large, flat, strongly itching pustules. \nViscid sweat. Shooting pains in the toes. Gout. Irritation in the kidneys and bladder. Disturbed heart. Tax. has \nbeen recommended as a substitute for Dig., being considered superior to the latter in having no cumulative \neffect. \nOn the suggestion of Cooper, Clarke once gave a single dose of Tax. tincture in a case of ear polyps (bright \nred) with catarrh in a youth with the result that the polyps shriveled up to one-third of its former size. Tension in abdomen, as if the stomach were overloaded. Squeezing and tension across abdomen. \nAching in umbilical region. Borborygmi. Violent hunger. Frequent want to eat with activity of digestive functions. \nKidneys - Cutting pain at base of kidneys which allows him neither to sit still nor stand up and even prevents \nturning in bed. Urinary tenesmus. Frequent want to urinate with difficult emission in a fine stream. Strangury, \nurine red.","Urinary & Genital":"Flow of semen without erection or sexual pleasure for several successive nights. Great excitement \nduring sex. After sex, weakness and great oppression. Uterine cancer and tumors.","Extremities":"Numbness of limbs and paralysis after several sweats. Sharp, transient, wandering pains. Contusive \nand incisive pain, which hinders walking. Abscess at right knee. Violent pinching in left calf. Tingling crawling \nsensation in whole left foot. Lancinations in hand. Burning dry ness of palms of han ds. Dull pain in joints of \nfingers. Rheumatic pain in fingers.","Neck & Back":"Drawing pain in muscles of neck (left). Constant pain in back. Sa cral pains, which allow no rest either \nin a standing or sitting posture and which compel the patient to remain in bed. Incisive pain in sacrum. Pain in \nshoulder blade, which subsequently removes to loins.","Skin":"Large, flat, itching pustules. Badly smelling and offensive night -sweats. Peculiarly offensive sweat with \neruption of vesicles. Podagra. Erysipelas. All hairy parts become denuded. Black jaundice. Skin red. Body \ncovered with pustules. Miliary eruption. Eruption of large pimples. Dry tetter causing much itching.","Sleep":"Sleeplessness during whole night, yawning without inclination to sleep."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}