HED. DESMODIUM. PORTUG.: AMOR DO CAMPO. BARBA DE BOI. CARAPICHO. ENGL.:
BURDOCK.
[Illustration]
The brownish and ligneous stem of this plant is about three feet high;
it is ramose, pubescent, especially above. Leaves alternate, pennate,
trifoliate; folioles oval and slightly tomentose, on a hairy, bistipulate
petiole. The flowers which are small and seated on filiform, unifloral
peduncles, form loose, terminal spikes. Fruit oval, hairy, on bent
peduncles, and attaching itself very intimately to clothes and to the
hairy skin of animals, on which account the Brazilians call it barba de
boi.
1. Painful tearing from the loins to the navel. This pain is less on the
second day. Sudden appearance of a yellowish discharge from the urethra.
No sleep for several nights. 5. Itching of the penis. Pain and pricking
at the eyes. The fingers contract with pain. Redness and smarting at
the penis. Diarrhœa. 10. Profuse urination. Pain in the upper and lower
limbs. Smarting in the eye, with lachrymation. Redness of the sclerotica.
Fever and rheumatic pains. 15. Constipation. Painful swelling of the
penis, with erysipelatous inflammation. Thin stream of the urine, in
consequence of the glans being swollen.