Anantherum

Andropogon muricatus, Rets. (anantherum muricatum.)

Common names , Vetiver or Viti-vayr.

Nat. order , Gramineæ.

Authority.

Houat (Nouvelles Données, 2d series, p. 119).

MIND

• Gay humor, with disposition to laugh and sing.
• Sadness and restlessness, with fear of death and of the future.
• Sheds tears easily.
• Hypochondria, with dread of society; he seeks solitude and obscurity; does not want to see or hear anything.
• Restless, suspicious, and very irritable character, or apathetic and as if besotted.
• Disposition to anger, with desire to strike and destroy.
• Quarrelsome and contrary humor, but after being angry he often regrets what he has done.
• Ungovernable jealousy, everything causes jealousy.
• Foolish joy and absurd complacency. [10.]
• Frequent changes in his mood and turn of thought, even to idiotism.
• A besotted condition, like drunkenness, in which he forgets even to eat and drink.
• A great deal of self-esteem; great satisfaction with himself and his labor; internal complacency, with smiles.
• I constantly inclined to weep, even about lively things, with reveries and hallucinations.
• Ardent desire to travel.
• Blunted intellect and loss of memory.
• Feverish haste in all his actions.
• Persistent fear of death during all his sufferings.
• Monomania, as for rowing about in a boat, dressing or walking out in a grotesque manner, always frequenting the same places and doing the same things.
• Frequent delirium, idiocy, mental alienation.

HEAD. [20.]

• Heat of the head, with vertigo.
• Vertigo, with debility and stupidity of the head.
• Head excessively heavy, with burning and pulsative pains.
• Vertigo and dulness, with cerebral congestion, red face, and tendency to fall backwards.
• Vertigo and dulness, with burning-stitching pains in the head, and sensation as if it was crushed.
• Vertigo, with feeling of drunkenness and staggering gait.
• Vertigo, with confusion of sight and great heaviness of the head.
• Vertigo, with debility in the back and lower extremities, and inability to remain upright.
• Vertigo, with heat and heaviness of the head, perturbation of ideas and senses.
• Vertigo, in all positions, aggravated especially by motion and strong air. [30.]
• Heaviness and weakness of the head, with pressure in the sinciput.
• Sensation as if something turned round in the head, with pains in the stomach, great appetite, colic, venereal desire; chills and shaking, not with standing the great heat; depression or very great cheerfulness (very persistent symptom).
• Great heat of the head, with desire to bathe it with cold water.
• Sensation as if he had water in the head, especially in walking, with confusion of the cerebral faculties and great headache.
• Burning, lancinating, pulsating headache, principally on the right side, in the forehead and temple, with nausea, vomiting, and great heaviness of the eyes.
• Head excessively weak and heavy, so that he cannot keep it up, and lets it drop on one side or the other.
• Sensation as if the brain were laid bare, and currents of cold air passed over it.
• Sensation as if heavy objects and balls moved about in the head, especially at night and when he lies on the right side.
• Cramps and cold chill in the head, with confusion of ideas.
• Pressing and lancinating headache, accompanied by pains, as from hammering in the head. [40.]
• Vertigo, with contraction and digging in the inner canthi of the eyes, extending into the brain.
• Sensation as if the head had struck against a stone and been crushed.
• Neuralgic pains in the temples, with sensation as if there were iron points there.
• Lancinating, cramplike, and dilating pains in the temples, with desire to compress them forcibly.
• Pulsative and lancinating pains in the brain, as if it were pricked every moment.
• Pains which pierce the brain like steel arrows, from the forehead to the nape of the neck.
• Desire to lean the head against something hard and cold.
• Pressure on the top of the head, with sensation as if the skull were crushed.
• Pains as if the brain were bruised and wounded.

EYES

• Heat and burning in the eyes.
• Pressure and painful stitches in the eyes.
• The eyes enlarged, red, inflamed, with frequent dimness of vision and appearance of sparks, as if they were smartly struck or compressed.
• Very great photophobia; light produces a kind of itching in the eyes. [70.]
• Swelling and pains as if an abscess would form in the right eye.
• Spasmodic contraction of the eyes, which remain turned upwards.
• Sensation of roughness and excoriation of the eyes, especially when moving the eyelids.
• Yellowness of the sclerotica.
• Pupils strongly dilated; he has to wink with his eyes in order to distinguish objects.
• Congestion of blood to the eyes, with tickling, pricking, and pains as from rheumatism in the eyeballs.
• The slightest local application aggravates the pains in the eyes.
• Inflammation and swelling of the eyelids.
• Ulceration of the margin of the eyelids, with inability to separate them.
• The eyelids are inverted, and as if scarified. [80.]
• Abundant secretion of mucus, and considerable lachrymation, especially in the open air.
• Trembling of the lids.
• Swelling and ulceration of the lachrymal glands.
• Amaurotic weakness of the eyes.
• Neuralgic and rheumatic pains in the orbits, with sensation as if the frontal bone were fractured.
• Intense and burning pains in the eyes, with spasms and alteration of their axis.
• Dull, dim, wild, wandering eyes, without expression.
• Very prominent or deeply sunken eyes.
• Contracted pupils.
• Objects appear dark and vacillating, red or covered by a grayish cloud. [90.]
• The images of objects are retained before the vision in an inconvenient and unpleasant manner.
• Black points, muscæ volitantes, and fiery circles before the eyes.
• Everything seems excessively bright and shining.
• Candlelight appears diffused, and the letters run together in reading.
• Dimness of vision, as if from watery vapors before the eyes.
• Inclination to wink, and to pass the hand frequently over the eyes, as if to remove a veil from before them.
• Sensation of a great weight on the eyelids, which keeps them closed.
• Pressure on the eyes as if one were going to sleep, or even into a swoon.
• Spasmodic motions of the pupil, which obscure the sight at intervals.

NOSE

• Heaviness and stoppage of the nose. [100.]
• Stitches in the nose, with a crushing sensation at its root.
• The air which passes through the nostrils seems icy cold.
• Great dryness and heat in the nose, with frequent and very painful sneezing.
• Ulcers in the nostrils, with epistaxis.
• Very frequent epistaxis.
• Fluent coryza, with pressive pains in the head and root of the nose; burning in the nostrils; lachrymation and sneezing, as if he had snuffed up pepper or tobacco.
• Abundant discharge from the nose of purulent, greenish, and very smelling matter.
• Stitches and pulsations in the root of the nose, with nasal hemorrhage.
• Dry or fluent coryza, with cerebral torpor, intoxication, headache, and sensation as if the head were full of water.
• Nasal catarrh, with bronchitis. [110.]
• The nose is enlarged and red.
• Insupportable tickling in the nose, with violent sneezing as soon as he inhales a little cold air.
• Inflammation and swelling of the nasal bones, with hammering pains.
• Boils and small tumors, like lupia, on the tip of the nose.
• Nose cold, pale, and pointed, or large and inflamed, with many small bloodvessels visible on its surface.

EARS

• Heat in the interior of the ears, with pulsation and sensation as if there were abscesses in them.
• Severe digging stitches in the ears, with discharge of yellowish, purulent matter.
• Very copious secretion of cerumen.
• Heat, and smarting in the lobes of the ears.
• Fissures in the lobes of the ears. [120.]
• Burning, crusty eruption, with inability to lie on them.
• Attacks of deafness, especially in the evening and in damp weather.
• Paralytic hardness of hearing.
• After listening for a few moments, the hearing becomes fatigued, and the words are confused and indistinct.
• Noises, murmurs, and hissing in the ears.
• He hears frequently a noise as of waves beating against the shore, with a deafening sound, which prevents him from hearing a word.
• Sensation as if he had dirt in his ears, or a spongy substance which swells up.

FACE

• Face yellowish, or red, enlarged, inflamed, and congested.
• Face pale, transparent, and white as wax.
• Face gray, cold, and frozen-looking, and paralyzed. [130.]
• Face emaciated, bluish, cyanotic, contracted, shrunken, with hollow eyes.
• Face discolored like that of a drowned person.
• Deep, red face, with cerebral congestion, vertigo, and stupefaction.
• Itching and burning in the cheeks, with sensation as if they were excoriated.
• Ulcers and scabs on the face.
• Red spots on the face, as if it had been painted with vermilion.
• Small pimples in the face, which frequently sting as from needle-pricks.
• Intense scaly herpes, with falling off of the eyebrows and beard.
• Erysipelatous swelling of the face, with closed-up eyes; fever, delirium, desire to expose himself to the air, and even to throw himself out of window, as from the effects of a sunstroke.
• Yellowish pimples and pustulous herpes on the face.
• Puffy face, with tense and easily ulcerated skin. [140.]
• Subcutaneous red spots, as in small-pox.
• Red lumps in the face, as from congestion of blood.
• Boils and abscesses on the face.
• Sensation as if the face had been stung by insects.
• Strongly marked red or yellow spots on the face.
• The skin of the face is painful and as if excoriated, after shaving.
• Swelling of the cheek, with abscesses on the gums.
• Burning, pulsative, lancinating pains in the face.
• Facial neuralgia from the eyebrows to the chin, with distorted features and grimaces.
• Convulsive movements as from tic douloureux , or trismus, with pains in the lips and chin. [150.]
• Spasmodic movements of the facial muscles, with involuntary grimaces, especially on the left side.
• Itching and burning miliary and urticarious eruptions on the face.
• Painful swelling, like an abscess, on the right maxillary sinus.
• Painful shocks in different parts on the face.
• Pain in the facial bones, with sensation as if they were crushed and dislocated.
• Ulcers and scabs under the nose and on the chin.
• The jaws are spasmodically clenched.
• Convulsive agitation of the facial muscles, with difficult biting and mastication.
• Great weakness of the facial bones and teeth, as if the least effort would fracture them.
• Sensation as if the lips were constantly full of oil. [160.]
• Lips enlarged and inflamed.
• Lips covered with phlyctenæ, which are constantly renewed.

MOUTH

• Lancinating, digging, and drawing pains in the teeth, with sensation as if they were forcibly separated from each other, or pulled at with pincers and torn out.
• Constant inclination to clench the teeth.
• Sensation of cold in the teeth, with heat in the gums and the whole mouth.
• Burning in the teeth, gums, and lips, as if they were calcined.
• Sensation of uneasiness and pain in the region of the last molars, as if new ones were coming through. [170.]
• Pain in the hollow teeth, especially at night, in cool air, and when eating, with very bad smell from the mouth.
• The gums swollen, inflamed, burning, and as if scorbutic.
• Severe pains in the teeth, they crumble and break.
• The teeth feel as if longer and sharper.
• Decay of the teeth, with cramps in the whole jaw, especially after exposure to a current of air.
• Gnashing and grinding of the teeth, with acute, lancinating strokes in their roots.
• Toothache, with sensation as if the jaws were broken.
• Toothache, aggravated especially in the afternoon, evening, and night, also by taking anything cold, by the least contact, and by changes of weather.
• Wine, and especially coffee, aggravate the toothache for awhile.
• The teeth are loose and readily fall out. [180.]
• Pulsative, lancinating, and distensive pains in the gums.
• Gum-boils, with swelling of the cheeks and submaxillary glands.
• Mouth burning and inflamed, as if erysipelatous and excoriated.
• Ulcers like aphthæ or thrush, in different parts of the mouth.
• Exfoliation of the mucous membrane of the buccal cavity.
• Inflamed palate, with very painful nodosities.
• Itching of the palate, and small burning pimples there.
• Fetid breath.
• Flow of thick and viscid saliva, with bitter mouth.
• Frothy slavering at the mouth, with constant desire to spit. [190.]
• Very painful pimples on the tongue, with itching and burning.
• Tongue inflamed, and enormously swollen, with great difficulty in speaking.
• Severe pains at the root of the tongue, as if it were cut off.
• Swelling of the salivary and submaxillary glands.
• The tongue fissured, lacerated, and as if cut on its edges, with copious salivation and debility, as if from the effects of mercury.
• Grayish, yellowish, bloody or brickdust coating on the tongue.
• Difficult speech, stammering.

THROAT

• Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of fulness and obstruction, as if it were plugged.
• Burning in the throat, as if it were full of mustard, with violent and convulsive cough.
• Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils. [200.]
• Frequent and stubborn abscesses on the tonsils.
• Angina with almost impossible deglutition.
• Raw pains, tumors, and a great deal of tenacious mucus in the throat, with great difficulty in swallowing even the saliva.
• Debility and attacks of constriction of the throat, with danger of suffocation.
• Burning and stitches in the throat, with constant feeling of strangulation.
• Sensation as if he had a burning stick in the throat, reaching down into the stomach.
• Liquids pass frequently into the larynx and through the nasal fossæ, with violent, jerking cough.
• Considerable accumulation of mucus in the throat, with granulations, and grayish ulcers like false membranes.
• Inability to drink, in spite of great thirst, on account of spasms in the throat, which contracts and feels tight as soon as he hears anything said about water, or sees shining objects.
• Sensation, sometimes of burning heat, sometimes of icy coldness in the œsophagus. [210.]
• Tickling sensation, as if some live thing were moving about in œsophagus, with fits of suffocating cough.
• Ulcerated spots on the throat, aggravated by cold.

TASTE AND APPETITE

• Bitter or bloody taste in the mouth.
• Taste bitter, acid, and sometimes sweetish, extending into the stomach, with epigastric burning and hunger at the same time.
• Bitter, bilious taste.
• Flat taste of the food; it also seems frequently too salt, or overseasoned.
• Morbid hunger in the afternoon, evening, and even at night, when he wakes up to eat.
• Hunger even after eating; he thinks of nothing else.
• He likes everything, except what is insipid, watery or sweet; prefers salted or highly seasoned food.
• Hunger, as if he had fasted a long time, with empty feeling, burning, and sensation, as if he had a tape-worm. [220.]
• Hunger, with excessive weakness which seems to come from the stomach.
• Burning, stitches, and roughness in the œsophagus.
• Intense hunger, still he cannot eat.
• Hunger, with sensation of fulness in the stomach; even the little he eats causes clenching of the teeth and contraction of the throat.
• Contraction of the stomach and chest, so that he can take nothing and almost suffocates.
• Burning, unquenchable thirst.
• Desire for cold water, strong liquors, cider, and sour drinks.
• Love of strong odors; desire for garlic, laurel, sweet basil, and all sorts of spices; he even longs for aromatic drinks.
• Anorexia; excessive repugnance to all food.

STOMACH

• The stomach feels full and as if ulcerated. [230.]
• Very frequent empty eructations, especially after eating or drinking.
• Obstinate and painful eructation, especially after eating vegetables.
• Regurgitations, with taste of the food or of saffron, and sometimes acid or ammoniacal.
• Obstinate, convulsive hiccough.
• Burning in the stomach, as if it were on fire.
• Excessive and almost continual secretion of phlegm.
• Much secretion of phlegm, especially when waking in the morning, before eating, when walking, and sometimes at night.
• Much phlegm is formed, with nausea, insipidity, or acidity, and heat in the stomach.
• Incessant nausea and inclination to vomit.
• Vomiting of the food and of bile, with hunger even after eating. [240.]
• Vomiting of food, and often of blood, after meals.
• Vomiting of acrid, burning matter, followed by bile and blood.
• Vomiting with horrible pains in the stomach.
• Watery, acid, or insipid, and sweetish vomiting, with burning and stitches in the stomach.
• Vomiting of pure blood, as if from the rupture of a bloodvessel in the stomach.
• Vomiting bilious and black.
• Vomiting mixed with bile, blood, or water.
• Watery vomiting, with whitish particles in it, and most foul eructations; stitches and cramps in the stomach and extremities; urging to stool, and very liquid diarrhœa; painful icy coldness over the whole body; excessive thirst pressure and constriction in the epigastrium; spasms; agitation; cold perspiration, especially on the head; a state like intoxication, prostration and emaciation.
• Vomiting, with constant dread of death.
• It seems as if the whole force of the organism was concentrated in the stomach to produce an infinity of suffering. [250.]
• Sensation of fulness and constriction on the stomach, with total want of appetite, bitter and salty taste.
• Contracted and burning stomach, with desire to vomit.
• Sensation as of worm moving about in the œsophagus and stomach.
• Continual contractions and cramps in the stomach.
• Food passes through his bowels undigested, almost as soon as eaten.
• Bad digestion, with painful movements of the ingest in the stomach, without power to expel them; great headache; desire to vomit; twisting in the stomach, and feeling of intoxication.
• Sensation as of tumors, holes, or sharp pebbles in his stomach.
• Extreme debility coming from the stomach, and which can in no way be relieved.
• Stomach painful as if full of ulcers.
• Painful, impossible digestion; he vomits food just as it was when taken several days before. [260.]

ABDOMEN

• Sensation of heat and of congestion of the liver.
• Cramps in the hepatic region, with sensation as if it were full of painful tuberosities.
• Pulsative, burning, and digging pains in the region of the liver.
• Sensation as if the liver were pinched and scraped in different places, with copious secretion of bile.
• Inflammation and swelling of the liver, as if caused by abscesses, with œdematous swelling of the belly, and even of the whole body; prostration; inability to move without groaning; stool hard, difficult, blackish, brownish, or grayish; skin deep-yellow.
• Vomiting of bile as if it came directly from the liver. [290.]
• Sensation of hard lumps, as if there were concretions in the liver.
• Burning, pulsating, and lancinating pains in the region of the spleen.
• Sensation as if there were foreign bodies in the spleen, and as if the passage of the blood would tear it.
• Cramps, lancination, and digging in the region of the spleen, with loss of respiration.
• Spleen as if ulcerated and hypertrophied.
• Burning in the whole abdomen, as if he had erysipelas.
• Inflammation and swelling of the abdomen, which is very painful.
• Abdomen inflated, tense, and hard, with tympanitic sound on percussion.
• Colics, cramps, and tearing pains in the abdomen, with sensation as if there were a red-hot iron in it.
• Colic, with much flatulence as soon as he walks. [300.]
• Colic, with cramps in the limbs, icy coldness, and choleraic diarrhœa.
• Sensation as if the bowels were excoriated or pulled out.
• Lancinating and crampy pains in the abdomen, spreading into the hypochondria and kidneys.
• Colic and pains in the bowels, as if they were gnawed by animals; he twists about, and knows not what position to take for relief.
• Sensation as if he had a tumor in the transverse colon, and thousands of pimples all over the intestinal tube, with inflammation of all the glands and serous membranes of the abdomen.
• Burning and cramps in the abdomen, with alternating coldness and heat.
• Twisting and tearing pains in the bowels, as in iliac passion , with nausea and vomiting.
• Tumors, like hernia, or like buboes in the groin.

STOOL AND ANUS

• Very long-lasting constipation, followed by dry, brown, bulky stools, then diarrhœa.
• Obstinate constipation, with fever, heat, thirst, sweat, and debility. [310.]
• Stools difficult, large and hard.
• Hard, knotty stools, like sheep-dung, passed with difficulty, even after the use of injections.
• Violent colic, with sinking in of the abdomen, and pains, which oblige him to twist and bend double.
• Abdomen tense and hard, without being swollen.
• Repeated mucous and bloody stools, with colic, burning in the bowels and anus, tenesmus, and great weakness.
• Diarrhœic stools, with cramps and pains in the back, chest, stomach, and abdomen, dulness of the head, with sensation of drunkenness and prostration.
• Brownish-yellow diarrhœic stools, of a very bad smell.
• Whitish, choleraic stools, with cramps, general coldness, painful pressure, and constriction at the epigastrium, colic and burning in the abdomen, unquenchable thirst, with frequent inability to drink on account of spasms of the throat and stomach; vertigo, burning in the head, weakness in thinking, great prostration, emaciation, and suppression of urine.
• Tænia, lumbrici, and especially ascarides are discharged with the stool.
• Stools containing only blood, with frightful colic, and extreme weakness. [320.]
• Pains as if he had any quantity of iron points in the bowels.
• Involuntary stools.
• Burning in rectum and anus during stool.
• Flowing hæmorrhoids, with dark blood, and steady, burning pains in the rectum.
• Large, inflamed hæmorrhoidal tumors.
• Hæmorrhoidal tumors, as if from abscesses; they ulcerate and suppurate.
• Tumors, like mushrooms, at the anus.
• Anus prolapsed and very painful, even when not at stool.
• Intolerable itching at the anus.
• Constipation as from inertia of the bowels, retraction, and paralysis of the rectum. [330.]
• Ears and nose cold during the vomiting and diarrhœa.

URINARY ORGANS

• Constant urging to urinate, with stitches and crushing pains in the kidneys.
• Frequent emission of urine, which is turbid, or soon becomes so.
• Sensation of numbness and obstruction in the kidneys.
• Sensation as if the kidneys and bladder were always full and swollen.
• Pressive and burning pains in the bladder, with urging to urinate every minute; the bladder cannot hold the smallest quantity of urine.
• Difficult, painful, intermittent urination; it stops, and begins again the next moment.
• Urine, for the most part, frequent, copious, and turbid.
• Fulness and distension of the bladder, with inability to urinate.
• Urine turbid, thick, and full of mucus, as in catarrh of the bladder. [340.]
• Retention of urine, with retraction of the urethral canal.
• Urine brownish, or yellowish and bloody.
• Very frequent urging to urinate, with burning urine, which is discharged guttatim.
• Urine with yellowish, grayish, or dark sediment.
• Frequent, ineffectual urging to urinate, with lancinating and spasmodic pains in the kidneys and bladder, and great fulness of the latter.
• Discharge of coarse gravel with the urine.
• Clear urine, with chalky sediment, and looking like milk when shaken up.
• Cramps in the kidneys, with frequent urination, or complete suppression.
• Clear, abundant urine, day and night, with debility, great thirst, dryness of the mouth; stools hard, gray, or dark-colored, with many other symptoms, chiefly of the liver and stomach.
• Hemorrhage from the urethra. [350.]
• Ardor urinæ.
• Urine with iridescent pellicles.
• Urine thick, red, and very sedimentous.
• Incontinence of urine, with involuntary urination when walking, and even at night in bed, during sleep, as if caused by paralysis of the neck of the bladder.
• Tenesmus vesicæ, with ischuria, spasms of the kidneys and extremities, and burning in the urethra, which seems retracted.
• Ulceration, or sores like chancres, in the urethra.
• Sensation as if the urethral canal was obstructed by tumors and excrescences.
• An ulcer, like a syphilitic ulcer, in the meatus urinarius.
• Thick yellow or green mucus flows from the urethra, with priapism, burning and tearing pains in the urethra, inflammation and swelling of the penis and inguinal glands.

GENITAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Excoriations on the prepuce and meatus urinarius. [360.]
• Secretion of a thick substance, of very strong odor, between the glans and prepuce, which are swollen.
• Burning, stitching, and pinching in the penis.
• Syphilitic-looking pimples on the penis, with intense pains, traversing it from one part to another.
• Ulcers and pustulous herpes-like acne rosacea on the penis.
• The penis excoriates easily during coitus, and even an erection.
• An indurated ulcer, like a chancre, on the penis.
• Scabby herpes on the pubis.
• Inflammation and swelling of the testicles.
• Swelling of the scrotum, as if caused by an accumulation of serum.
• Sensation of hard tumors in the testicles and spermatic cords, with severe pains in these parts. [370.]
• Tumors like buboes or hernia in the groins.
• Burning lancination and deepseated pains in the scrotum and anus.
• Furfuraceous herpes, with great itching in the scrotum.
• Redness and painful excoriation between the thighs.
• Great increase of the venereal appetite.
• The venereal appetite is increased by every attempt to satisfy it, until it drives him to onanism and madness.
• During coitus, all his sufferings cease, only to reappear afterwards with increased severity.
• Venereal desire, with attacks of impotence.
• Total absence of venereal desire.
• Difficult ejaculation, very long-lasting, or incomplete. [380.]
• Frequent seminal and prostatic losses.
• Nocturnal pollutions, without dreams or consciousness.
• Female.
• Burning pains as if there were a chafing-dish in the region of the ovaries.
• Sensation of swelling in the ovaries as if they were stretched, and every instant pinched.
• Burning, crampy, pinching, and gnawing pains in the womb, with great debility and general prostration.
• Lancinating and distensive pains in the womb.
• Engorgement of the uterus.
• Hard tumors, like scirrhus, on the neck of the womb.
• Burning pains in the uterus extending into the kidneys, with general weakness.
• Pains in the uterus, as if it were twisted and compressed. [390.]
• Stitches passing like strokes of lightning into the womb.
• Pressure on the uterus, with feeling as if it escapes from the pelvic cavity.
• Prolapsus and displacement of the uterus.
• Sterility, as from atrophy of the ovaries.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS. [420.]

• Scratching in the larynx, with great accumulation of mucus, rough voice and rattling breathing.
• Heat in the larynx, with sensation as if it were ulcerated and cut.
• Sensation as if there were corrosive acid in the larynx.
• Desire to cough every minute, in order to breathe.
• Voice altered, bass, nasal.
• Voice stopped, as if from want of respiration.
• Hoarseness and frequent aphony, with symptoms of tuberculous or granular laryngitis.
• Very prominent swelling of the laryngeal cartilages.
• Raw pain in the larynx, with severe, tearing, scraping cough, with purulent and bloody expectoration.
• Short, dry, and frequent cough. [430.]
• Violent cough, sensibly felt in the back, chest, and abdomen, with deepseated pains in the head.
• Obstinate, paroxysmal, shaking cough, with scratching, burning, a great deal of phlegm in the larynx, and aphony.
• Cough, especially in the evening and during the night.
• Hard, noisy cough, as if the lungs would be torn.
• Paroxysms of cough, often lasting half an hour, not allowing him time to breathe, and ending with copious mucous expectoration.
• Hoarse cough, as if the chest would be shattered, with expectoration of blood, palpitations, and fainting fits.
• Short cough and tussiculation, with heaviness and stitches in various parts of the chest, and oppression.
• Burning and raw feeling in the whole chest and larynx, with severe dry cough and bloody expectoration.
• Paroxysmal cough, with vomiting of food and bile; humming and ringing in the ears.
• Cough, especially at night when lying down, and even during sleep, with scratching, and accumulation of much mucus in the larynx. [440.]
• Rough, sibilant cough, with obstruction in the larynx, as from false membranes.
• Spasmodic cough, like hooping-cough, with vomiting and involuntary urination.
• Sensation during the cough, as if a very rough cord were drawn through the bronchi.
• Cough generally dry and painful, and aggravated by heat.
• Cough, with congestion of blood, stitches and tearing pains in the chest, and spasmodic movements of the limbs.
• Cough, with fever, shiverings, and coldness; copious sweat of a putrid smell, especially in the evening and at night.
• Great debility before and especially after the cough.
• Expectoration of blood, with stitching pains in the chest, especially in the left side and in the region of the heart, accompanied by severe, suffocating cough.
• Expectoration of mucus, mixed with blackish and rusty-looking blood.
• Hæmoptysis of coagulated blood. [450.]

HEART

• Burning and sensation of weight in the heart, with sadness, anguish, and fear of death.
• Stitches and formication in the heart, with great anxiety.
• Lancinations, cramps, and weakness of the heart, which seems too full, of blood and unable to beat, with oppression; pulse slow and full, then accelerated, hard, and dicrotic. [470.]
• Sensation as if the blood-vessels of the heart and larynx were contracted.
• Violent palpitations, with suffocative attacks from the least emotion.
• Stitches and cramps in the heart, with sensation as if its apex were pinched very hard.
• Trembling of the heart, with sensation as if it shook.
• Sensation as if the great vessels of the heart were distended in various parts.
• Heavy and painful heart.
• Heart seems paralyzed, as if it could not beat any more, with deathlike weakness.

SKIN

• Heat and moisture of the skin, with redness and itching.
• Excessive itching all over, especially in the evening, and at night in bed.
• Pruritus, with stinging and heat of the skin. [480.]
• The skin is very tender, it breaks, ulcerates, and suppurates readily.
• Burning heat of the skin, with stitches, prinking, and miliary eruption.
• Sensation as if he wore a hair shirt, which pricked him everywhere.
• Blotches and swellings on various parts of the body, as if he had been beaten.
• A great many pimples form on the pores of the skin, with little stitches like pin-pricks, and leave scabs, chiefly on the face and thighs, with burning, chills and fever.
• Many boils and abscesses on different parts of the body.
• The skin is scarlet, and always burning.
• Sensation on the skin as if he had been scratched.
• Red pimples, like miliaria or urticaria, with itching and obstinate burning.
• Miliary eruption, appearing one day and vanishing the next. [490.]
• Itching and eruption like compact and small scabies, or like lichen agrius.
• Pustular eruption, resembling confluent small-pox.
• Eruptions simulating scarlatina and measles.
• Skin icy cold, pale or blue.
• Skin flaccid and without elasticity.
• Calor mordax, with disagreeable dryness of the skin.
• Herpes, with excoriation and scales, which are constantly renewed.
• Frequent shuddering of the skin, with great general debility.
• The skin is often cold, red, blue, livid, or very pale, with general coldness and cold sweat.
• Erysipelatous swelling on different parts of the body. [500.]
• Large boils on face and neck, and all fleshy parts.
• Elevations and painful swellings on several parts of the body, as if from the bites of venomous insects.
• Formication on the skin, with sensation of torpor and loss of sensibility.
• Pains as if the skin were torn by the nails.
• Deep-yellow complexion, and black circles around the eyes.
• Large, painful boils, which spread and become erysipelatous.
• The least prick becomes a sore, and forms a suppurating swelling.
• Bluish, scorbutic-looking blotches over the body.

GENERALITIES

• Nervous irritation, with great restlessness, although every movement is difficult and painful.
• General tremor. [510.]
• Pains generally acute, lancinating, crampy, with extreme weariness in different parts of the body.
• Burning, lancinating, tearing, rheumatic, and gouty pains, principally aggravated in the evening and at night, by change of position, wind, cold air and moisture, and strong heat.
• Coffee aggravates the pains, but afterwards relieves them.
• Strong liquors aggravate, aromatic liquors ameliorate, the pains.
• Congestion and ebullition of blood in the head.
• Malaise and debility, with constant restlessness.
• Attacks of debility, as if he would lose consciousness.
• Frequent faintings, especially after eating or drinking.
• Cramps and spasms of various kinds.
• Tetanus, drawing the head backwards, often with nausea and vomiting. [520.]
• Eclamptic convulsions, and involuntary movements of the limbs as in chorea.
• Epileptic convulsions, commencing with sadness, restlessness, hiccough, contraction of the diaphragm, burning in the stomach, congestion of blood to the head; then loss of consciousness, falling down, violent movements of the limbs, bloody frothing at the mouth, seminal losses, involuntary stools and urination.
• Great bodily and mental debility, with melancholy, accompanied with suicidal ideas, and copious sweat at the least movement.
• Disposition to chilliness, with great sensitiveness to cold.
• Cold sensation in one part, though it shows the same temperature as the rest of the body.
• Extreme prostration, with desire to sit and to lie down; he cannot find relief in any posture.
• Frequent sensation of contraction and tightness throughout the organism.
• Nervous perturbation, with disturbance of the circulation; the bile seems in constant revolution, and the blood hot and congested.
• Spasmodic attacks, with contractions of the limbs, of the eyes and features.
• Fits of extreme weariness and debility, as if every visceral organ were atrophied and paralyzed. [530.]
• Difficulty in defining and expressing his sufferings, so great and numerous are they, and so much is he enervated.
• Attacks of stupor and faintness, followed by a paralytic sensation of the right side of the body, tongue, and upper and lower extremities.
• Semi-lateral pains in the head, eyes, and ears.
• Inflammation and suppuration of the glands.
• Induration of the submaxillary and cervical glands, with difficult speech.
• While walking, general heat, with cold ears, which become hot when the body becomes cold.

BACK

• Stiffness of the nape of the neck. [540.]
• Contraction of the trunk, with sensation as if the back became crooked.
• Bruised pains in the vertebræ and kidneys.
• Painful stiffness, with weakness of the whole spinal column.
• Rheumatic pains in the back and between the shoulders.
• Stiffness in the back and kidneys, with crampy and tearing pains, excited by the least movement.
• Sensation as if stabbed between the ribs.
• Paralytic weakness of the vertebral column and extremities.
• Pain as if the scapulæ were broken.
• Drawing, lancinating, and crampy pains in the articulations of the shoulders, and between the scapulæ, especially when moving the arms.
• Sensation of weakness in the kidneys, with inclination to remain constantly lying down. [550.]
• Weakness of the kidneys, extending into the back.
• Pains of extreme weariness in the kidneys and entire sacrum, with great weakness and inability to keep up.
• Twisting, stabbing pains in the kidneys.
• Sensation of formication and numbness in the kidneys.
• Lumbago, with very great debility.
• Sensation as if a nail had been driven into the kidneys.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Sensation as if his arms were kept stretched out stiff by bars of iron inside them.
• Burning and lancinating pains in the arms.
• Red swelling of the articulations of the arms, with burning and tearing pains as in rheumatism.
• Contusive pains in the arms. [560.]
• Convulsive motions of the upper extremities, especially in the forearms.
• Red and violet spots on the arms, as if he had been beaten.
• Erysipelatous swelling of the arms.
• Excoriated places on the arms, as if caused by burns.
• Abscesses and ulcers on the arms and hands, penetrating to the bones.
• Infiltration of the arms, especially morning and afternoon.
• Paralytic weakness of the arms.
• Eruptions like itch or lichen on the arms and hands.
• The hands are icy cold and go to sleep.
• Ulcers and fissures on the hands. [570.]
• Cutting sensation along the fingers, and if they were dislocated or broken.
• Swelling of the finger-joints, with rheumatic and gouty pains.
• Tophi in the finger-joints, which move with great difficulty.
• The fingers deformed and contracted.
• Burning, pulsative pains, and pains as from whitlow, on the fingers.
• Diseased and distorted nails.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• Painful feeling of extreme weariness in the hips, with inability to move after sitting still some time.
• Stiffness, with lancinating and crampy pains in the sacrum and iliac bone.
• Obstinate stiffness, extending from the hip to the knee.
• Paralytic weakness and palsy of the legs, with complete insensibility. [580.]
• Sciatic and rheumatic pains in the legs, making him cry out, and aggravated chiefly by cold.
• Burning pains in the thighs and knees.
• Erysipelatous swelling of the legs.
• Crampy pains and acute drawings in the legs and at the instep.
• Boils and inflamed red pimples on different parts of the legs.
• Rheumatic and gouty pains in the legs and feet, especially in the heels.
• Feet swollen, red, burning, he cannot bear anything on them.
• Ulcer on the outside of the right thigh, as coming from an abscess, penetrating deeply and suppurating copiously.
• Very painful boils on the legs.
• Varicose swelling of the legs. [590.]
• When walking, acute contractions in the extremities of the toes and under the nails, with bleeding fissures in the feet.
• Lancinating pains in the corns, which inflame.
• Blisters and ulcers on the soles of the feet.
• The nails grow awry, and hurt the toes.
• Cold feet.
• Very bad-smelling perspiration of the feet.

SLEEP

• Constant drowsiness, with inclination to go to bed.
• The eyes close involuntarily, when night comes, and he goes to sleep wherever he may be.
• Goes to sleep early and awakes towards midnight, with inability to go to sleep again.
• Restless sleep, with cries, starting up, movements of the limbs, and anxious dreams. [600.]
• Comatose sleep, with continual disturbing dreams and snoring.
• Prolonged sleep in the morning, with inclination to lie abed late.
• Sleep with frequent dreams, alternate coldness and heat, and burning of the whole body, intense thirst and fright.
• Unrefreshing sleep; on awaking he feels tired, as if he had no slept at all.
• Sleeplessness from excessive nervous excitement.
• Sleeplessness for many nights, with fatigue, painful weariness, and debility.
• Sad dreams, or dreams of the day's business.
• Disagreeable and frightful dreams.
• Dreams of epidemic, contagious diseases, and especially of hydrophobia.
• Dreams of journeys, of sumptuous living, of pleasures and enjoyments. [610.]
• Dreams of falling from a frightful height, with agitated waking, rush of blood to the head, and palpitation of the heart.
• Dreams of being in company and taking part in a joyous festival.
• Dreams of disputes and quarrels.
• Anxious dreams which he cannot define.
• Chilliness and shiverings, on the head and in the back.
• Coldness and shiverings followed by burning heat with headache.
• Excessive general coldness, with trembling, spasms, and cramps, hunger, and great thirst.
• Calor mordax, and excessive dryness of the skin, with hunger, and thirst, congestion of blood to the head, the pulse quick and hard, headache and delirium.
• Almost constant alternations of coldness and heat.
• Coldness and shiverings, with cold sweats, chattering of the teeth, colic and cramps in the stomach and extremities. [620.]
• During the fever, repugnance to all sweetened bitter drinks; desire for strong drinks; water always tastes bad; vertigo, delirium, fear of falling, of slipping, and he keeps slipping down to the foot of the bed; anger, even with nervous seizures; perverted intellect, and loss of consciousness.
• Fever, with coldness and shiverings and aggravation of all the pains.
• External coldness and shivering with internal heat, especially in the chest.
• Fever with typhoid character and great constipation.
• Aggravation of the fever in the evening and at night.
• Intense chilliness.
• Pulse generally accelerated and rebounding; or slow, small, and imperceptible; or irregular and intermitting.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), On waking, secretion of phlegm.
• ( Afternoon ), Headache; toothache; morbid hunger; itching, etc., in vulva.
• ( Evening ), Headache; attacks of deafness; toothache; morbid hunger; pain in stomach; cough; cough, with fever, etc.; itching; burning, etc., pains; fever.
• ( Night ), Sensation as of objects moving in head, etc.; pains in hollow teeth; toothache; morbid hunger; secretion of phlegm; pains in stomach; in bed, itching in vulva; cough when lying down; cough, with fever, etc.; itching all over; burning, etc.; pain; fever.
• ( Open air ), Secretion of mucus, etc.
• ( Strong air ), Vertigo.
• ( Draught of air ), Pains in teeth, etc.
• ( Local application ), Pains in eyes.
• ( Coffee ), Toothache for awhile; aggravates at first.
• ( After coitus ), All sufferings.
• ( Cold ), Ulcerated spots on throat; pain legs.
• ( Cold air ), Pains in hollow teeth; burning, etc., pains.
• ( Taking anything cold ), Toothache.
• ( Least contact ), Toothache.
• ( Before cough ), Great debility.
• ( During cough ), Sensation as of cord drawn through larynx.
• ( After cough ), Great debility.
• ( Damp weather ), Attacks of deafness.
• ( Drinking ), Empty eructations; fainting.
• ( Before eating ), Secretion of phlegm.
• ( Eating ), Pains in hollow teeth; empty eructations; pains in stomach; fainting.
• ( Emotion ), Suffocative attacks.
• ( During fever ), Repugnance to sweet drinks, etc.