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Coriaria Ruscifolia
6XCoriaCoriaria Ruscifolia · South American Coriaria · "The Convulsant Coriaria"
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🎯 It acts primarily as a powerful intoxicant and stimulant to the nervous system, causing mania and subsequent memory loss.
📖 Clarke writes:
Toot-berry Tupa-kihi or Tutu (New Zealand). N. O. Coriarieae (between Anacardiaceae and Rutaceae). Tincture or trituration of the berries.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Produces intoxication very like that of alcohol
•Great muscular activity as in acute mania
•Requires several persons to hold a person when under the influence of the drug
•Complete loss of memory, which ensues after coming out of the acute stage of the poisoning
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Disagreeable, irritating sensation in throat, extending to stomach
•Pain across region of stomach
•Nausea (in five minutes)
•Vomiting, continuing more or less for two hours
•Very unpleasant sensations continued for two hours more
•Great flushing of the face, with all but intolerable heat
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Complete loss of memory following the acute stage of poisoning.
Clarke
Intoxication state very similar to that of alcohol.
Clarke
Great muscular activity and mania requiring physical restraint.
Clarke
Intense flushing of the face with intolerable heat.
Clarke
Violent vomiting occurring shortly after ingestion.
Clarke
Disagreeable, irritating sensation in the throat extending to the stomach.
Clarke
Pain across the region of the stomach.
Clarke
Nausea appearing within five minutes of ingestion.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for acute delirium, mania, and states of intoxication where the patient is violent or exhibits grotesque behavior, followed by memory loss and stupor.
Emotional.
Sometimes there are symptoms like those of brain fever, [1] .
The symptoms differed greatly in different individuals. Some became excited or violent
- •they laughed or they raved outrageously, or their conduct was simply grotesque in the extreme ;
- •the results, indeed, closely resembled those producible by "laughing gas." Others appeared as if under the influence of alcoholic stimulants, [1] ..
Occasionally the delirium resembles that of alcoholic intoxication, or delirium tremens
- •at other times it rather approximates that of acute mania, being marked by great muscular excitement, the patient requiring restraint of the most powerful kind, in some instances the assistance of several strong men, for several hours, [1] ..
It is called "Tupa-kihi" by the New Zealanders, because persons under its influence resemble in their actions "drunken Europeans," [7] .
During the night he was seized with delirium , accompanied by great muscular excitement, resembling that of acute mania, necessitating the assistance of several men to restrain him, [4] .
Felt as if he had been newly born into the world, and was overwhelmed with wonder at the novelty of all his surroundings (third day), [2] .
Intellectual.
One of the characteristics of the convalescent stage is loss of memory, with or without a vertiginous condition, [1] .
On emerging from the comatose condition, loss of memory was the chief or only peculiarity observable. For about half a day he remained in a semi-stupid state, not able to remember where he was or what he had been doing for the previous forty-eight hours, or how he had come there (third day), [2] .
When convalescing from the stupor, resembled a person emerging from a brain fever. Was utterly oblivious of the particulars of his illness, denying even that he had eaten the berries, [3] . [10.]
The next day he was pretty well, but had entirely lost his memory of all recent occurrences. He could not tell me even to what detachment of the regiment he belonged, or at what post he had been stationed. This loss of memory seems to be a characteristic effect of this plant, [8] .
Total loss of consciousness, [8] .
When he attempted to get out of bed, at about 6 A.M., he got on his clothes partly, but suddenly lost all consciousness till about 11 A.M. (second day). He was conscious for a minute or two, but almost immediately relapsed into stupor, which continued for about twenty-four hours, [2] .
Stupor, [1] .
State of stupor continuing all the next day, following the convulsions, [3] .
Coma, with or without convulsions or delirium, [1] .
📚 Sources & References
✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM
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