Duboisia myoporoides

Duboisia myoporoides
(corkwood elm)
* Acts chiefly on the nervous system, eyes, upper respiratory tract.
* Recommended in pharyngitis sicca, with black, stringy mucus.
* It dilates the pupil, dries the mouth, checks perspiration, causes headache and drowsiness.
* On the eye it acts more promptly than Atropia, much stronger as a mydriatic.
* Red spots floats in the field of vision.
* Sensation as if stepping on empty space.
* Vertigo with pale face; not gastric in origin.
* Scarlet fever; locomotor ataxia.
* Palliative in exophthalmic goitre.
Mind
- Absent-minded, incoherent, silly and nonsensical, memory impaired.
Head
- Impossible to stand with eyes shut, tendency to fall backwards.
Eyes
- Conjunctivitis, acute and chronic.
- Mydriasis.
- Paralysis of accommodation.
- Hyperaemia of retina with weakness of accommodation, fundus red, blood-vessels full and
tortuous; pupils dilated, with dim vision.
- Pain over eye, between it and brow.
Respiratory
- Larynx dry, voice hoarse, phonation difficult.
- Dry cough with oppressed breathing.
Extremities
- Loss of power in limbs, staggers; feels as if hestepped on empty space.
- Trembling, numbness and weakness.
Relationship
- It antagonizes Muscarine. Duboisin sulphate 1-100 gr. sedative in mania.
- 2-4 milligrams a day.
- Hystero-epilepsy.
- Motor restlessness of insane. (Has been used as a substitute for Atropia in doses of 1-20 of a
grain hypodermically.)
- Antidotes : Morphia; Pilocarp.
- Compare : Bellad.; Stram.; Hyos.
Dose
- Third to twelfth potency.