- Clarke knew of one instance in which the slightest indulgence in tomatoes brings on an attack of goutArthritis with severe joint pain and swellingA disease in which defective metabolism of uric acid causes arthritis, especially in the smaller joints of the feet..
- Cooper comm ended the use of tomatoes in cases of obesity.
- Cooper gave Lycpr in a case of rodent ulcerOpen painful sore on skin or mucous membraneAn open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane. and caused sharp pain and temporary spread of the disease.
- CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge., worse out of doors (All-c., better out of doors).
- PolyuriaAbnormally excessive urinationThe production of abnormally large volumes of dilute urine, causing frequent urination., with great thirst.
- Dia betes.
- Marked action on deltoid and pectoral muscles, pain is better lifting arm upward and outward.
- Pains leave after influenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh..
- Right side principally affected, symptoms proceed from right to left.
- COMMENTS - Gross made a provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. of Ly- cpr., noting peevishness and loss of memory, sticking and pressing pains, a sense of paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body., pressing and boring pains in head, and stopped catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane..
- Some women cannot eat tomatoes without getting backache, leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection. or metrorrhagia.
- In Gross's proving, the headache was worse in evening, she was obliged to rise in the night to urinate.
- The mind symptoms were worse and the headache better by leaning the head against something.
- Dr.
- Herbert H.
- Roberts of Derby, Conn., published provings made by himself, two with the 3x and two with the 30x tinctures.
- “The original tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. was made from the thoroughly ripened fruit, great pains being taken to thoroughly macerate t he seeds as well as the pulp.” The rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. and con gestive symptoms were mostly produced by the 3x, the nervous symptoms mostly by the 30x.
- Roberts remarked that the natives of Mexico and California eat quantities of the ripe fruit to prevent rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
- The right deltoid was very markedly affected and should make Lycpr a companion to Sang, in shoulder pains.
- Headaches were intense and characteristic in some, great soreness remained after the pain had gone.
- Dark-complexioned people seem to be suited to its action from two cases recorded by Roberts.
- The first case concerned a widow, 50, dark complexion, large, stout, gray eyes.
- Sudden attack of grip.
- Very severe aching pains all over, up and down back, limbs, head.
- Beating, throbbing in head, beginning in occiput, spreading all over head, settling with great violence in temples.
- Excruciating pain back of eyes and in balls as if they would burst with the pressure.
- Light causes pain.
- DeliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations..
- Severe, deep, racking cough.
- Thirst for large quantities.
- Pupils contracted.
- Lycpr.
- 3x every hour cleared away the fever and acute symptoms by the following morning and rapidly cured the remaining cough.
- The second case was a man, 40, dark com plexion, black hair and eyes, tall, thick -set.
- Severe bursting, throbbing pain beginning in occiput and settling with great force in temporal and frontal regions, eyes painful, worse from light, pupils contracted.
- Temperature 104° F.
- Pulse full flowing.
- Lycpr.
- 3x every hour given in evening removed the h eadache before midnight.
- The next day, the right tonsil was swollen and inflamed, sore on swallowing, feeling of a lump there.
- Temperature 101°.
- He recovered rapidly
