Platinum. (Platinum Metallicum.)

Platinum. An Element.

Introduced by Stapf.

Proved by Hahnemann and Gross (Hahnemann's Chronische Krankheiten), and by Musits, Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 7, p. 574 .

CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.

• Melancholia , Hirsch, A. H. Z., vol. 95, p. 57 ; Times Ret., vol. 77, p. 56 ; Gross, B. J. H., vol. 18, p. 247, from Hom. V. J. S., vol. 9, pt. 4 ; Mental disturbance , Müller, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 40 ; Gerson Hermel, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 9 ; Dulac, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 45 ; Sorge, Hah. Mo., vol. 11, p. 233 ; Stiles, Hah., Mo., vol. 23, p. 816 ; Headache , Seidel, Black, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 192 ; Baylies, Hom. Phys., vol. 8, p. 41 ; Nervous headache , Black, B. J. H., vol. 5, p. 432 ; Otalgia , Hrg., Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 378 ; Oversensitiveness of smell , Sorge, Hah. Mo., vol. 11, p. 233 ; Prosopalgia , Ker, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 430 ; (2 cases) Gerson, B. J. H., vol. 20, p. 420 ; Toothache , Bœnninghausen, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 471 ; Swelling of liver and spleen and pain in rectum , Sorge, Hah. Mo., vol. 11, p. 232 ; Colic , Beyer, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 369 ; Constipation with mental symptoms , N. N., Analyt. Therap., vol. 1, p. 169 ; Onanism , Fischer, Deventer, Hah. Mo., vol. 11, p. 233 ; Nymphomania , Stapf, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 62 ; Ovarian tumor (3 cases), Jackson, N. A. J. H., vol. 22, p. 90 ; Oöphoritis, abortion , Trager, Walz, Hah. Mo., vol. 11, p. 233 ; Chronic ovaritis and leucorrhœa , Hempel, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 235 ; Suspected ovarian disease with sterility , Smith, B. J. H., vol. 25, p. 156 ; Uterine displacement , Lippe, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 635 ; Uterine affection , Œhme, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 640 ; Metrorrhagia , Hrg., Hartmann, Stapf, Kammer, Liedbeck, Elwart, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 319 ; Hesse, A. H. Z., vol. 3, p. 44 ; Hempel, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 235 ; Stapf, Lobethal, Knorr, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 243 ; Itching in uterus , Hempel, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 235 ; Dysmenorrhœa , Widemann, Schrön, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 244 ; Hirschel, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 127, from H. Kl., 1870, p. 37, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 159 ; Suppression of menses and mania , Sorge, Hah. Mo., vol. 11, p. 232 ; Suppression of menses and spasms , Hah., N. A. J. H., vol. 12, p. 548 ; Menstrual disturbance , Hirsch, B. J. H. vol. 36, p. 102 ; Gain, Times Ret., 1877, p. 109 ; Pain in genital organs , Martin, T. H. M. S. Pa., 1880, p. 242 ; Sensitiveness of vulva and vagina during labor , Biegler, Organon, vol. 3, p. 216 ; Pruritus vaginæ , Goeze, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 159 ; Pruritus of vulva , Goeze, A. H. Z., vol. 91, p. 77 ; Times Ret., 1875, p. 98 ; Threatened abortion , Dietz, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 321 ; Retarded labor , Swift, Hom. Phys., vol. 4, p. 61 ; Puerperal convulsions , Hirsch, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 587 ; Puerperal fever , Lobeth, Hartmann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 452 ; Excessive lochial discharge , Rinehart, T. H. M. S. Pa., 1885, p. 188 ; Paralyzed feeling of arms , Goldsbrough, A. H. Z., vol. 111, p. 45, from Hom. Rev., Feb. 1885 ; Neuralgia and menorrhagia , Hughes, B. J. H., vol. 22, p. 229 ; Hysteria , Gerson, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 612 ; Spasms , Meyberger, Times Ret., 1876, p. 132, from H. K., vol. 21, p. 61 ; Eclampsia , Hartmann, Kammerer, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 587.

MIND [1]

Sensitive mood.

Inclination to embrace everybody.

Attacks of cheerfulness ; increased feeling of strength.

Very absent-minded and forgetful.

Great indifference.

Ill-humor in morning.

Morose and discontented.

Arrogant, reserved, absent-minded.

Pride and overestimation of one's self ; looking down with haughtiness on others.

Cold, haughty, too well satisfied with one's self, and not at all anxious about the future.

Contemptuous, pitiful, looking down upon people usually venerated, with a kind of casting them off, in paroxysms against her will.

Dislikes her children ; calls them too little. θ Induration of os tincæ.

Any serious thought is terrifying.

Anxiety with trembling of hands and flushes of heat over whole body.

Deathly anxiety, as if her senses would vanish, with trembling of all the limbs, oppression of breath and violent palpitation.

Very peevish and easily excited ; he could have beaten any one without provocation.

After anger alternate laughing and weeping, with great anguish and fear of death.

Trifling things produce profound vexation ; remains a long time in the sulks.

Anxiety, weeping and palpitation, with numb feeling in malar bones, as if the parts were between screws.

Everything seems strange and horrible to her.

She thinks all persons are demons.

Past events trouble her.

Satiety of life, with taciturnity and fear of death.

Much anguish ; she feels as if she would lose her senses and die soon.

Out of sorts with the whole world ; everything seems too narrow ; weeping mood.

Silence, with involuntary weeping.

Sits alone, sad and morose, without talking ; followed by inconsolable weeping, especially when spoken to.

Thinks she is left entirely to herself and stands alone in the world.

Very restless disposition, so that she could not remain anywhere, with sadness ; the most joyful things distressed her ; thought she had no place in the world ; life was wearisome, but had great dread of death, which she believed near at hand.

Weeping mood and sadness ; < in house ; > in open air.

Low-spirited ; inclined to shed tears ; < in evening ; weeps with the pains.

Weeping mood and crying after being mildly reproached.

Mood changing ; cheerful or depressed.

Physical symptoms disappear and mental symptoms appear, and vice versa.

Precordial anguish with palpitation and fear of death and of imaginary forms, ghosts.

While suffering from a slight erysipelas faciei, took leave of her children, exhorted her husband to join church, wanted people to join her in prayer, felt happy to join her Redeemer.

Irritable, easily angered, sometimes quite violent, at same time great bodily activity ; at other times very melancholy and lachrymose, with indifference ; depressed condition of physical powers ; she would lie on sofa, would hardly speak, anxiousness and fear of approaching death ; menses much too frequent, with copious leucorrhœa between periods, consisting of clear mucus ; menstrual flow intermingled with clots which were discharged with preceding pain in belly and a certain feeling of bearing down ; aversion to coition and yet dreams of intense lasciviousness, terminating an emission of profuse sticky fluid ; bowels constipated or diarrheic. θ Melancholia.

Illusions of fantasy on entering the house after walking an hour, as if everything about her were very small and all persons mentally and physically inferior, but she herself physically large and superior ; the room seemed gloomy and unpleasant, with apprehensive and fretful mood.

It seems to her as if she does not belong to her own family ; after a short absence everything seems entirely changed.

Disturbed state of mind ; religious, with taciturnity, haughtiness, voluptuousness and cruelty.

Delirium, with fear of men ; often changing, with overestimation of oneself.

Mania : with great pride ; fault-finding ; unchaste talk ; trembling and clonic spasms ; caused by fright and anger.

Involuntary disposition to whistle or sing ; canine hunger ; eats greedily.

Talks almost continually about fanciful things or such as have really occurred ; of faithless love ; of her teacher and school days ; laughs, sings, dances, weeps, makes grimaces, and gesticulates ; clings obstinately to her ideas, without, however, growing angry about it ; face distorted ; eyes fixed ; no desire to eat or drink ; things offered her are hastily dispatched.

Forgetful, absent-minded ; listens often attentively to conversation, and at the end knows nothing about it ; melancholy with great fear of death ; imagines himself superior to his wife ; griping in umbilical region, particularly towards evening, as if he had drunk unfermented beer ; although there are frequent urging and pressure in rectum, stool does not occur daily, is difficult and discharged in pieces, with much pressure of abdominal muscles.

Melancholia in a woman æt. 60 ; twelve years ago, after catamenia had been absent for months, there occurred a permanent leucorrhœa, of very fetid odor ; one morning did not quit her bedroom as usual and never left it for twelve years ; spent her time seated on bed, in deep meditation or praying aloud ; complaining, weeping and howling ; rejected all cooked food and took no notice of anything about her ; only at night got out of bed and ran about room without apparent object ; suffers unspeakable pangs of conscience in consequence of a faux pas when thirty-two years old ; says she has brought disgrace upon her family, and that she has incurred the penalty of damnation ; in order to do penance gave away whatever she could lay her hands upon, so that she had to be constantly watched ; after her confessor asserted that she could not hope for pardon or heaven, she seemed in absolute despair ; bemoaned her misery throughout the night, wringing her hands and beseeching that she might be delivered from the hell of her conscience ; twice attempted self-destruction ; in spite of her tendency to suicide, dreaded death and disliked any conversation pertaining thereto ; wished to live and do penance in order to mitigate her eternal punishment.

Mental disturbance after fright, grief or vexation.

Mental depression from onanism.

Affections from pride.

Puerperal mania of a violent type ; she would dance, sing, talk rapidly and continuously, when awake ; everything was removed from the room in which she was confined (except her piano, of which she was fond), because she would destroy everything she could lay hands upon ; she would play for hours at a time upon her piano, sometimes beautifully, and at other times would bang and pound without any attempt at harmony ; assumed or seemed to feel herself a person of great superiority ; when her violent paroxysms were off, more moderate, she complained of pain in back.

SENSORIUM [2]

Vertigo : passing attacks in quick succession in evening when standing, as if he would lose his senses ; violent, she dare not move her eyes ; more in daytimes than at night, generally attended with palpitation of heart ; followed by headache ; vertigo, as if torn and pulled into threads, especially on sitting down or going down stairs.

INNER HEAD [3]

Numb sensation in forehead, as if constricted ; in a warm, crowded room, soon increasing to a violent, dull, burrowing compression, with fretful impatience and heat in upper part of body, especially in head, as if anxious sweat would break out.

Tensive numb sensation in whole forehead, as after a blow, extending to nasal bone.

Cramplike drawing constriction in head from time to time, especially about forehead ; commencing slight, increasing till violent, and ending slight.

Cramplike pain in forehead, as if screwed in.

Headache with leucorrhœa ; nervous, tensive, cramping pains, affecting forehead and orbital regions.

Squeezing, constricting pain ; as if a board were pressed against forehead.

Pressing pain in forehead, from without inward, gradually increasing and decreasing ; flushes of heat with burning in face, interrupted by chilliness ; ill-humor, aversion to food on account of feeling low-spirited ; pressing downward during menses and discharges of dark clotted blood ; says uterus "feels hard", i. e., subjectively ; cramp, pain in legs, > by heat ; sleeps with arms over head, knees drawn up ; shortness of breath, as if chest were constricted ; palpitation.

Sensation as of water in forehead.

Cramplike pain in right temple in afternoon.

Crawling like formication on right temple ; afterwards extending down along lower jaw, with a feeling of coldness in it.

Pressive cramplike pain in left temple, beginning gently ; increasing and decreasing.

Tense numb sensation in zygomata and mastoid processes as if head were screwed together.

Cramplike tension in temples, as if screwed in.

Sudden spasmodic contractive shocks through head, from right to left temple ; followed by a numb sensation, as if too tightly bound, with tremulousness of both sides of head.

Pain begins behind ear, affects side of face, lips, forehead and crown of head ; pain is severe, dull ; < from light and touch ; ushered in by cold feet ; commences on waking, gradually increases and about noon becomes sharp ; continues so for two or three hours and about six in the evening goes off ; tongue apt to get red and dry ; weight in stomach ; tendency to constipation ; appetite indifferent ; dislike to animal food during menses, which are regular and natural, pains in head and face disappear. θ Nervous headache.

Numb pain on top of vertex, as if scalp would be contracted, and as if a heavy weight were lying upon it.

Headache, as if tense.

Feeling, as if head were enlarged.

Headache gradually increasing till very severe, and then decreasing as gradually.

Sensation of numbness in head and externally on vertex, preceded by a sensation of contraction of brain and scalp ; < in evening and while sitting ; > from motion and in open air.

Neuralgic headaches in sensitive or hysterical persons ; cramplike pressing inward, with hot and red face and roaring in head ; pains gradually increase and as gradually decrease.

Numb feeling in brain.

Hysteric migraine, with uterine derangements ; great languor ; trembling sensation through whole body ; qualmishness ; eructations in morning and after breakfast.

Headache from anger or chagrin ; from uterine disease, with many hysterical symptoms.

OUTER HEAD [4]

Formication in right temple, extending to lower jaw, with sensation of coldness in that spot ; < in evening and when at rest ; > from rubbing.

SIGHT AND EYES [5]

Scintillations before eyes ; headache.

Objects appear smaller than they really are.

Spasms of eyelids, in hysteria.

Painful crampings and compression around orbital region, particularly supraorbital, globe of eye sometimes participating and feeling sore.

Sore biting, as if denuded on upper margin of orbit.

Intermitting cramplike pain near outer margin of right orbit.

Wavelike benumbing pressure above right orbit.

Sensation of coldness in eyes.

Spasmodic trembling and twitching of eyelids.

HEARING AND EARS [6]

Nervous deafness ; great variety of noises in ear ; reports in right ear like distant thunder.

Ringing, rolling or rumbling sound in ears.

Otalgia, with cramp pain, often with rumbling in ears.

Sensation of coldness in ears, with sensation of numbness extending to cheeks and lips.

SMELL AND NOSE [7]

Oversensitiveness of smell.

Catarrhal obstruction of nose.

Fluent coryza in open air stopped up in house.

Epistaxis with dark, coagulated blood.

Numbness and cramp pain in nose.

Violent crampy pain at root of nose, with heat and red face.

Corrosive sensation on nose as from something acrid.

UPPER FACE [8]

Face pale, sunken ; frequent changing of color ; red and burning hot, with violent thirst, < towards evening.

Face feels cold and numb.

Sensation of coldness, crawling and numbness in whole r. side of face.

Creeping pains with coldness and numbness, especially r. side ; < at night and during rest. θ Prosopalgia.

Sharp neuralgic pain in left malar bone.

Painful cramplike sensation of numbness in left malar bone.

Cramp pain, steady compression, numb feeling and boring in malar bones.

Tearing, boring pain in right side of face, near canthus of eye, and extending along nasal branch of trifacial nerve ; profuse lachrymation and swelling of face ; attack generally comes on at night.

Prosopalgia affecting pes anserinus ; paroxysms in forenoon ; pains pinching, boring, burning ; facial muscles horribly distorted ; trismus ; face hot, dark red ; great lachrymation and ptyalism ; convulsions of upper extremities and pectoral muscles ; loud crying, insane tossing about and striking out on all sides ; last six to eight hours, paroxysms in several short remissions, during which patient sat wrapped up in herself, menses profuse ; uterine spasms, headache, palpitation of heart, variable humor and megrims.

Boring pain, cramplike ; painful feeling of numbness in malar bones and mastoid processes and chin as if parts were between screws, with anxiety, weeping and palpitation of heart ; menses profuse. θ Neuralgia.

LOWER FACE [9]

Purple, netlike appearance on chin.

TEETH AND GUMS [10]

Numb pain in left lower teeth, in morning after rising.

Pulsating digging through whole right jaw, < towards evening and at rest ; followed by numbness ; pains come and go gradually.

TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]

Crawling on tongue.

Sensation as if tongue were scalded.

Sweet taste on tip of tongue.

INNER MOUTH [12]

Rhagades in gums.

Sensation of coldness, especially in mouth.

PALATE AND THROAT [13]

Cramplike drawing in throat, as if it were constricted.

Hawking of mucus with scraping in throat.

Sensation as if palate were elongated.

Rising in throat.

APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]

Loss of appetite on account of depressed mood.

Ravenous appetite and hasty eating, detests everything around him.

Thirstlessness ; or thirst during heat.

EATING AND DRINKING [15]

Feels < on an empty stomach.

HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]

Eructations empty, mornings.

Continuous nausea, with great weakness, anxiety and trembling sensation through whole body.

SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]

Fermentation in epigastric region.

Pressure in stomach, especially after meals.

Sensation of constriction in pit of stomach and in abdomen.

Burning in pit of stomach, extending into abdomen.

Griping in region of pit of stomach, immediately followed by pressure downward towards lower abdomen, like a sensation of flatulence.

Much fermentation in stomach, flatulence and constipation.

Jactitation of muscles in region of stomach.

ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]

Sensation as if whole abdomen were tightly constricted.

Loss of appetite ; pain in limbs ; constipation ; stool resembling sheep's dung ; severe pain in umbilical region, extending to small of back, dull boring in character, < in paroxysms, with great anxiety, deeply sunken eyes and distortion of face ; during paroxysm he screams and tosses about in bed in order to find relief by turning in all possible positions ; abdomen retracted ; hand pressed gently over umbilicus affords relief ; tongue clean ; tenesmus during urination ; lassitude ; sleeplessness.

Painter's colic ; pain in umbilical region, extending through into back ; patient screams and tries to relieve pain by trying all possible positions.

Pressing and bearing down in abdomen, extending into pelvis.

Pressure in lower abdomen, with ill-humor, during profuse menses.

Painful drawing in both groins, as if menses would come on.

Obstinate incarceration of flatus.

Torpor of intestinal canal, with flatulence and constipation.

STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]

Frequent emission of odorless flatus.

Stools : half-digested, papescent ; hard, as if burnt ; scanty, difficult ; glutinous, adherent ; adhere to rectum and anus like soft clay.

Frequent urging with scanty stool, that is passed only in pieces, after great pressure, with a painful sensation of weakness and a tight sensation in abdominal muscles.

Stool retarded ; feces scanty, hard, evacuated with difficulty and almost dry, requiring great effort of abdominal muscles, and followed by great weakness in abdomen, with sharp stitches in rectum.

Constipation from inertia of bowels ; frequent unsuccessful urging to stool ; stools when passed seem to be like putty or glue and adhere tenaciously to anus.

Constipation : after lead poisoning ; while traveling ; frequent urging, with expulsion of only small portions, with great straining ; obstinate cases after failure of Nux vom. ; evacuations only after violent efforts, necessitating manual assistance and composed of small black, hard masses ; chronic, depending upon neurosis, with spasmodic constriction, producing displacement of uterus ; in lying-in women ; in sedentary subjects with co-existing menstrual troubles ; of emigrants ; of pregnancy.

Before stool : frequent and ineffectual desire ; prolonged efforts ; violent pressure in rectum ; violent shooting in rectum compelling an outcry ; slight tenesmus.

During stool : cutting pains, burning and protrusion of hemorrhoids ; burning in rectum.

After stool : sensation of great weakness in abdomen and chilliness ; slight tenesmus and tingling in anus ; shooting pains in anus with spasmodic contractions in thighs ; violent itching in anus ; chilliness about head, breast and arms.

Old swellings of liver and spleen ; complains of nervous pains, especially of a pushing pain in rectum, which sometimes becomes excruciating ; has lost all courage and fears she will die of cancer of rectum, although examination of rectum and sexual organs reveals nothing abnormal.

Itching, tingling and tenesmus at anus, especially in evening.

Crawling tenesmus in anus as in diarrhœa, every evening before going to sleep.

Tapeworm, other symptoms agreeing.

URINARY ORGANS [21]

Frequent micturition, with slow flow of urine.

Urine : pale, watery ; red, with white clouds ; turbid, depositing a red sediment.

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]

Satyriasis.

Sexual desire excessive, with violent erections, especially at night.

Too frequent pollutions ; epilepsy arising from onanism.

Morbid excitement inducing onanism, especially if prepubic ; child has a melancholy and sheepish look ; epileptiform spasms ; hollow eyes ; yellow skin ; face pale and sunken ; consciousness not often ; limbs usually drawn up and spread apart.

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]

Nymphomania, < in the lying-in ; tingling or titillation from genitals up into abdomen.

Voluptuous crawling in genitals and abdomen, with anxious oppression and palpitation, followed by painless pressure downward in genitals, with exhaustion and stitches in sinciput ; sympathetic with ovarian and uterine troubles, especially in barren women, driving to despair.

Excessive sexual desire, particularly in virgins ; premature or excessive development of sexual instinct.

Erotomania of a hysterical girl ; insatiable desire ; hyper-irritation ; itching in uterus ; restlessness and sleeplessness ; either moroseness or excessive hilarity ; cries very easily ; menses profuse, lasting six to eight days.

Sudden sexual passion in a woman of 40, of very phlegmatic temperament and without the least sexual inclination ; terrible sexual excitement, so that her whole nature seemed changed ; wanted only to satisfy this passion, which seemed to stifle everything else ; although fulfilling her marital duties, was insatiable ; in her dreams saw only voluptuous pictures, and awake spoke of nothing else ; unusual voluptuous itching in uterine region.

Genitals excessively sensitive ; cannot bear to be touched ; will go into spasms from an examination ; will almost faint during intercourse.

Pain in left ovarian region ; feeling of internal soreness, as if caused by a partially healed wound ; sterility of twelve years' standing.

Pinching, pressing down in ovarian region or groins or in pudenda, or alternating between the two ; paroxysmal burning pains in ovary ; attended with stitches in forehead and excessive sexual excitement ; suppuration after pus has been discharged under influence of Laches. θ Disease of ovaries.

Young lady, æt. 20 ; when twelve years old was attacked with leucorrhœa, which continued ever since ; discharge uninterrupted day and night, like the white of an egg ; otherwise inoffensive but debilitating ; began to menstruate at fourteen ; no pain ; at age of fifteen was seized with violent dragging, tearing pain and soreness in region of left ovary, the dragging extending through small of back ; pain < at times of menses, otherwise as permanent as the leucorrhœa ; menses blackish, in clots ; flow lasted from eight to ten days ; violent compressive pain in temples and sense of weight upon chest, as if it would be crushed by a mass of lead ; soreness in region of ovary gradually extended over whole left side ; especially violent in small of back ; two or three times a day, violent shootings from side along lower portion of left mamma, with nausea and giddiness ; for last three years has not been able to rest on left side, partly on account of soreness and partly on account of those shootings, which came on as soon as she attempted to lie on that side ; pain dull, heavy, gnawing ; when rising from bed felt weary and broken down, eyes surrounded with blue circles : spirits drooping ; avoided society ; extremely melancholy. θ Chronic ovaritis and leucorrhœa.

Ovaries inflamed, with burning pain in paroxysms ; stitches in forehead.

Ovaritis during climaxis, with menorrhagia ; and hot flushes ; chronic ovaritis.

Ovarian tumors and cysts.

Chronic gonorrhœa, with ovarian pain.

Dreadful and excessive itching in uterus in a woman affected with spinal irritation.

Frequent uterine spasms, sometimes so severe as to confine her to bed for several months ; hard tumor, like a ball, nearly painless on pressure in right side of abdomen.

Tensive drawing pains in ovaries and uterus after coition, lasting several hours. θ Uterine affection.

Indurations of uterus, with excessive sensitiveness.

Painful sensitiveness and continual pressure in region of mons veneris and genital organs ; body, except face, feels cold. θ Prolapsus uteri.

Induration of uterus ; ulceration with coexisting ovarian irritation.

Indurated and prolapsed uterus, with continual pressure in groins and back ; parts painfully sensitive to touch ; sensitiveness, even vaginismus during coition.

Heaviness and pressure in genital organs, < during and after walking, particularly after going up-stairs ; copious painless leucorrhœa ; constipation. θ Uterine displacement.

Polypus uteri ; scirrhus.

Hemorrhages in clots, with uterine cancer, fibroids, etc.

Metrorrhagia : body feels as if growing large ; genitals very sensitive ; nymphomania ; discharge of thick, black blood ; discharge occurred every fifteen minutes, finally every five ; sensation as if body were growing larger and longer, particularly lower limbs ; rigor of right arm ; globus hystericus ; violent pressure upon chest ; compressive pain in both temples, so violent that she would take her life if not prevented by force ; < during menstrual period.

Blood flows in black clots and fluid, or in one grumous mass, thick, black and tarry ; feeling of horror at what may happen ; horror at thought of death, etc. θ Uterine hemorrhage.

After an abortion with profuse hemorrhage ; menses every fourteen days, too copious and too long-lasting ; discharge at first coagulated and dark, later more fluid and brighter and of offensive odor ; flatulency ; stool only after an injection ; blood does not cease to flow entirely between the periods, so that she has been confined to bed eight weeks. θ Metrorrhagia.

Frequent sensation as if menses would appear.

Discharge of much clotted blood during first day of menses.

Menses : too early, too profuse and too short-lasting ; flow dark, clotted ; thick, tough, stinking ; preceded by cramps ; too late and profuse ; much bearing down ; desire for stool, with backache ; during flow pinching in abdomen ; excruciating pains in uterus ; twitchings with screams ; melancholy ; strong sexual desire ; too early ; scanty, with diarrhœa ; chilliness and sensitiveness of vulva ; much prostration ; twitchings with screams ; haughty disposition ; pulling pain in groins.

Menorrhagia of older women, associated with melancholy.

Chronic menstrual disorders ; menses every fourteen days and excessive in quantity.

Amenorrhœa : with painful pressure, as if menses would appear ; pain in small of back ; in emigrants ; with extreme anguish and fear of dying ; from catching cold ; religious mania, constant restlessness, sleeplessness.

Complained of pain in stomach, which extended up into breast ; suffers when passing water, and has burning in privates ; it hurts her to sit down.

Vagina sensitive and tender.

Spasms and constriction of vagina.

Pruritus vulvæ ; voluptuous tingling, with anxiety and palpitation of heart.

Vulva painfully sensitive during coitus.

Painful sensitiveness with inward coldness of vulva.

Mons veneris cold and excessively sensitive to touch, cannot bear napkins usually applied.

Leucorrhœa : like white of egg, only by day, without sensation, after urination and after rising from a seat.

PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION [24]

Nymphomania, in lying-in women, with voluptuous tingling from genitals into abdomen.

Melancholia during pregnancy, with occasional uterine hemorrhage and cramps.

Threatened abortion, especially in women who have had children.

Profuse, exhausting hemorrhage after abortion ; discharge black, clotted.

During labor : contractions interrupted by sensitiveness of vagina and external parts ; labor-pains spasmodic, painful but ineffectual ; pains reach a certain point, then cease, great suffering on examination, great tenderness of os, walls of vagina and vulva ; spasms ; alternate convulsive actions and opisthotonos.

Eclampsia after parturition ; profuse hemorrhage ; yawning ; convulsions.

Convulsions fourteen hours after an ordinary confinement, recurring thirteen times in twenty-four hours, senseless to sopor.

After labor so sensitive she cannot bear touch of napkin.

Lochial discharge so copious as to cause fear of fatal termination unless speedily relieved ; genitals so sensitive that she shrank from least touch.

Puerperal fever ; acute pain in lower abdomen ; congestions to head ; wild, vivid illusions ; anxiety and fear of death ; sexual excitation ; nymphomania ; copious discharge of coagulated blood ; painful pressure in genitals ; severe pains in small of back with internal chilliness ; pressure in forehead < from motion ; anxiety, with burning heat in face and great thirst ; restlessness ; fear of death.

VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]

Loss of voice.

Hysterical of reflex aphonia, associated with uterine troubles.

Stuttering, her voice sounds as if she had something in her mouth, as if posterior organs of speech were covered and clumsy.

Spasm of glottis.

RESPIRATION [26]

Difficult, anxious respiration.

Shortness of breath as if chest were constricted.

Deep breathing from sensation as of weight on chest.

Sudden arrest of breathing when walking against wind.

COUGH [27]

Hysterical dry cough, from stifling beneath upper fourth of sternum.

Chronic cough dependent on uterine diseases with mental disturbance.

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]

Weakness in chest, as if respiration failed her ; breathed deeply, but could not breathe deeply enough ; prevented by weakness of respiratory organs.

Dull shocks of pressure in left half of chest.

Cramplike pain in left chest, gradually decreasing and increasing in intensity.

HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]

Incipient state of endo-and pericarditis in consequence of articular rheumatism ; intense anxiety and great palpitation of heart ; rise of temperature ; pulse thready, cannot be counted ; momentarily expectant of death ; constant severe pressure on chest ; sleeplessness of eleven days' duration.

Palpitation after mental exertion, accompanied by anxiety and weeping.

Pulse regular, but small and weak, sometimes tremulous.

NECK AND BACK [31]

Tense numb sensation in nape close to occiput, as if tightly bound ; cramp in posterior muscles of neck ; tensive numb feeling, close to occiput, as if tied together.

Nape of neck weak ; head inclines forward.

Pains in back and small of back, as if bruised or broken ; < from pressure or bending backward.

Pressing from small of back upon pelvic organs.

Pain in small of back, going to groins and down limbs.

Numbness in sacrum and coccyx.

Sensation of numbness in coccyx as after a blow, while sitting.

UPPER LIMBS [32]

Cramplike pains close to shoulder, as if everything in chest were tightly constricted.

Weak, relaxed feeling in both arms, as after holding a heavy weight, > from motion of arms.

Sensation as if paralyzed in arms and hands during sleep ; on awaking normal sensibility is restored, but arms are very painful ; same symptoms occur at intervals during day, but last only a short time and can be produced by pressure upon parts where nerves are easily reached ; menses profuse, lasting eight days.

Paralyzed sensation in left arm.

Sore burning at elbow, as if scraped.

Sensitive numb sensation and trembling of right thumb, as if bruised.

Numbness of little finger.

LOWER LIMBS [33]

Tightness of thighs, as if too tightly wrapped, with a feeling of weakness in them.

Sensation of great weakness in and about knee joints.

Weakness of thighs and knees, as if beaten.

Pain as after a severe blow, in left knee.

Tremulous restlessness in legs, with numb and torpid feeling when sitting ; < evenings.

Numb and weary sensation in feet, as after fatigue from standing, only while sitting.

Cold feet.

Pain in great toe, as if too tightly enveloped.

LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]

Feeling of lassitude in limbs.

Tension in limbs, as if tightly wrapped.

Cramplike pains ; numbness in limbs and joints.

Spasmodic jerking and drawing pains in limbs and joints.

Contortions of limbs.

Ulcers on fingers and toes.

REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]

Rest : formication in right temple < ; creeping pains < ; digging in jaw < ; paralytic weakness < ; restlessness and "fidgets" <.

Lies on back : thighs drawn up ; legs uncovered.

Limbs usually drawn up and spread apart ; spasms.

Sitting : numbness, constriction of head < ; painful burning in privates ; numbness in coccyx ; tremulous restlessness in legs ; numb, weary sensation in feet ; weakness ; hysteric rheumatism <.

After rising from a seat : leucorrhœa.

Standing : hysteric rheumatism <.

Bending backward : pain in back <.

Motion : numbness and constriction of head > ; pressure in forehead < ; of arms, weak feeling >.

Turning head : pain in head and nape.

Turns in all possible positions to relieve colic.

Walking : on entering house ; illusions of fantasy ; pressure in genital organs < during and after ; against wind, sudden arrest of breathing ; hysteric rheumatism >.

Going up-stairs ; pressure in genitals <.

NERVES [36]

Weary, relaxed, prostrated.

Paralytic weakness, < at rest ; numbness, stiffness and coldness.

Weakness, especially while sitting ; feet seemed tired out ; full of tremulous restlessness.

Tremulous sensation at times through whole body.

Painful tremulousness of whole body, with throbbing in veins.

Great numbness.

Painful numb sensation as from a blow, here and there, especially on head, always in small spots.

Feeling of numbness and rigidity here and there.

Transient, cramplike drawing here and there.

Parts affected by cramplike pain are painful to pressure, as if bruised.

Neuralgic pains varied and shifting.

Uneasy, general restlessness and "fidgets" in limbs, < at rest.

Weak hysterical women sigh much ; lungs feel so weak they cannot take a full breath.

Palpitation and trembling of heart ; labor-like pains in uterine region ; lower lumbar vertebræ sensitive to pressure. θ Hysteria.

Spasmodic affections of hysterical women and children ; tetanic spasms, with wild shrieks, alternating with catalepsy ; twitches of single muscles, trembling, shivering ; < at dawn.

Spasms : from sexual erethism ; alternating with dyspnœa to suffocation ; preceded or followed by constriction of œsophagus and respiratory embarrassment ; tonic, without loss of consciousness ; face pale, sunken ; child after spell lies on its back, kicks off clothes, and draws up knees and spreads them apart.

Spasmodic rigidity of limbs without loss of consciousness, with spasmodic yawning, followed by locking of jaws ; loss of speech ; distortion of eyes ; involuntary twitching of corners of mouth and of eyelids ; during intervals restless sleep, in which child lies upon back, with legs flexed, knees separated and drawn towards abdomen ; constantly kicks covering off legs ; face pale, sunken ; eclampsia with anemia.

Vertigo and stupefaction, with a feeling of emptiness ; redness and turgescence of face, with spasmodic twitchings of facial muscles ; protrusion of eyes, which look glassy and react weakly to light ; tongue blue, thick, with heavy motion, so that she could hardly be under-stood ; tonic spasms in joints of hands, elbow and ankle, with a feeling as if extremities were going to sleep ; consciousness undisturbed ; menses suppressed two months.

Spasms followed by an adynamic condition in which she would lie motionless upon back for days unable to speak, partly on account of trismus and partly on account of aphonia ; consciousness unimpaired ; this condition alternated at times with constriction of chest ; twitching of eyelids ; eyes distorted, rolled upward, so that only whites are visible ; roaring in head like the noises of a mill ; short, dry cough ; difficult, anxious, deep respiration ; tension, pressure and stitches in both sides of chest, so that she cannot lie upon sides ; stiffness of nape of neck and pain on turning head ; pain in abdomen ; constipation ; stool only after much exertion ; pressure in stomach after eating ; aversion to meat ; at times rigid extension of arms, fingers and feet ; paroxysms at daybreak ; pulse soft, small.

Spasms alternate between convulsive actions and opisthotonos ; full consciousness.

Catalepsy during menstruation.

Clonic and tonic spasms, with convulsive laughter.

SLEEP [37]

Great inclination to violent, almost spasmodic yawning.

Sleeplessness from extreme nervous excitability.

Intense nervous wakefulness.

Awakes at night and has difficulty in collecting his senses.

During sleep lies on back, arms over head, thigh drawn up, legs uncovered.

Dreams : amorous, with debility, in both sexes ; of fire, wants to go, but cannot get there.

TIME [38]

Morning : ill-humor ; eructations ; pain in teeth.

Dawn : spasmodic affections.

Waking : headache commences, gradually increases, becomes sharp about noon, continues so for two or three hours and at six in evening goes off.

Forenoon : paroxysms of prosopalgia.

During day : paralyzed feeling in arms and hands.

Afternoon : cramplike pain in temple.

Evening : weeping mood < ; griping in umbilical region < ; numbness of head < ; formication in right temple < ; changing of color of face, with thirst < ; digging in right jaw < ; tingling and tenesmus in anus ; tremulous, restlessness in legs < ; chill with trembling ; ephemeral fevers <.

Night : creeping pains < ; pains in face < ; great desire with violent erections < ; cannot collect his senses ; hysteric rheumatism >.

TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]

Open air : weeping mood > ; numbness and constriction of head > ; fluent coryza ; shaking chill, going from room.

In house : weeping mood < ; on entering illusions of fantasy ; stopped up (coryza).

In warm room : numb sensation in forehead.

Heat : > cramp pains in legs ; > irritability and chilliness.

FEVER [40]

Sensation of coldness, crawling and numbness in whole right side of face.

Internal chilliness and external coldness.

Chill in evening, with trembling and tremulous feeling through whole body.

Shaking chill when going from room into open, even warm air.

Chilliness predominates, with irritability, which ceases during heat.

Flushes of heat interrupted by chilliness.

Heat with sensation of burning in face, without any visible change of color of face.

Great heat in face.

Burning heat in face, with glowing redness.

Heat gradually increasing and in like manner decreasing.

Sweat only during sleep, ceases on waking.

Ephemeral fevers, especially evenings.

Yellow fever : intense nervous wakefulness, black, menstrual blood amounting to hemorrhage or in cases of pregnancy.

ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]

Paroxysms : six to eight hours, prosopalgia ; with several short remissions ; of burning pain in ovaries.

Alternate : laughing and weeping ; tetanic spasms and catalepsy ; spasms and dyspnœa.

Every fifteen minutes, then every five minutes : discharge, metrorrhagia.

For several hours after coitus : pains in ovaries and uterus.

Thirteen times in twenty-four hours : convulsions.

Two or three times a day : violent shooting from side along left mamma.

Every evening : crawling tenesmus in anus.

Eleven days : sleepless.

Every fourteen days : menses.

For three years : has not been able to rest on left side.

LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]

Right : cramplike pain in temple ; formication in temple ; intermitting cramplike pain near outer margin of orbit ; pressure above orbit ; reports in ear ; coldness, crawling and numbness in side of face ; creeping pains < side ; tearing, boring pain in side of face ; pulsating, digging through jaw ; rigor of arm ; numbness and trembling of thumb.

Left : pressive cramplike pain in temple ; neuralgic pain in malar bone ; numbness in malar bones ; numb pain in lower teeth ; pain in ovarian region ; soreness in region of ovary extending over whole side ; cannot rest on side ; dull shocks of pressure in half of chest ; cramplike pain in chest ; paralyzed sensation in arm ; pain in knee.

From right to left : sudden constrictive shocks in temples.

SENSATIONS [43]

As if her senses would vanish ; as if parts of malar bones were between screws ; as if everything about her were very small ; as if she did not belong to her own family ; as if he had drunk fermented beer ; vertigo, as if torn and pulled into threads ; forehead as if constricted ; as if anxious sweat would break out ; forehead as if screwed in ; as if a board were pressed against forehead ; as if chest were constricted ; sensation of water in forehead ; as if head were screwed together ; as if screwed in ; as if temples were too tightly bound ; as if scalp would be contracted ; as if a heavy weight were lying upon scalp ; as if head were enlarged ; as if tongue were scalded ; as if throat were constricted ; as if palate were elongated ; as if whole of abdomen were tightly constricted ; as if menses would come ; as if chest would be crushed by a mass of lead ; body as if growing larger and longer ; as if menses would appear ; voice sounds as if she had something in her mouth ; as if posterior organs of speech were covered and clumsy ; as if respiration failed her ; as if nape of neck were tightly bound ; back and small of back as if broken ; numbness of coccyx as from a blow ; pain as if everything were tightly constricted in chest ; weakness in arms as after holding a heavy weight ; arms and hands as if paralyzed ; elbow as if scraped ; right thumb as if bruised ; thighs as if too tightly wrapped ; thighs and knees as if beaten ; left knee as after a blow ; great toes as if too tightly enveloped ; limbs as if tightly wrapped ; as if extremities were going to sleep.

Pain : behind ears, side of face, lips, forehead, crown of head ; in limbs ; in umbilical region ; in left ovarian region ; in stomach, extending into breast ; in back and small of back ; in small of back going to groins and small of back ; in left knee ; in great toe.

Excruciating pains : in uterus.

Acute pain : in lower abdomen.

Severe pain : in umbilical region.

Sharp stitches : in rectum ; in sinciput ; in forehead ; in both sides of chest.

Shooting : in rectum ; in anus ; from side along lower portion of left mamma.

Pinching pressing down : in ovarian region or groins or in pudenda.

Pinching : in abdomen.

Violent compressive pain : in temples.

Griping : in umbilical region.

Constricting pain : in forehead.

Boring : in malar bones.

Dragging, tearing pain : in region of left ovary.

Tearing, boring pain : in right side of face.

Pulsating digging : through whole right jaw.

Spasmodic drawing jerking pains : in limbs and joints.

Pushing pain : in rectum.

Pulling pain : in groins.

Tensive drawing pain : in ovaries and uterus.

Pressing pain : in forehead ; in abdomen.

Neuralgic pain : in left malar bone.

Cramp pain : in legs ; in ears ; in nose ; at root of nose ; in malar bone ; in posterior muscles of neck.

Cramplike pain : in forehead ; in right temple ; in left temple ; near outer margin of right orbit ; in ears ; in left chest ; close to shoulder.

Cramplike drawing constriction : in head ; in temples ; in throat ; here and there.

Cramplike pressing inward : in head.

Cramplike sensation of numbness : in left malar bones.

Sudden spasmodic contractive shocks : through head.

Painful drawing : in both groins.

Creeping pains : in face.

Bearing down : in abdomen.

Numb pain : on top of vertex ; in left lower teeth.

Sore biting : on upper margin of orbit.

Sore burning : at elbow.

Burning : in face.

Burning : in pit of stomach ; in rectum ; in ovary ; pain in ovaries ; in privates.

Soreness : internal ; in region of left ovary ; in small of back.

Corrosive sensation : on nose.

Heat : in upper part of body.

Scraping : in throat.

Painful sensitiveness : in mons veneris ; of genitals ; of vulva.

Tenderness : of os uteri ; walls of vagina and vulva.

Weight : in stomach ; upon chest.

Heaviness : in genital organs.

Pressure : in stomach ; towards lower abdomen ; in rectum ; in region of mons veneris and genital organs ; in groins and back ; upon chest ; shocks of, in left half of chest ; in both sides of chest.

Wavelike benumbing pressure : above right orbit.

Contraction : of brain and scalp.

Constriction : in pit of stomach and in abdomen ; of vagina.

Tension : in limb.

Tight sensation : in abdominal muscles and thighs.

Numb feeling : in malar bones ; in forehead ; in zygomata and mastoid processes ; in temples ; in head ; in brain ; in nose ; in right side of face ; in nape, close to occiput ; in coccyx and sacrum ; in right thumb ; in little finger ; in legs ; in feet ; here and there.

Torpid feeling : in legs.

Tingling : in anus ; from genitals up into abdomen.

Trembling sensation : through whole body ; in legs.

Weakness : in abdomen ; in chest ; in respiratory organs ; of nape of neck ; in arms ; in thighs ; in and about knee joints ; of lungs.

Weary sensation : in feet ; in limbs.

Restlessness : in legs.

General restlessness.

Paralyzed sensation : in both arms.

Stifling : beneath upper fourth of sternum.

Crawling : in right temple ; in right side of face ; on tongue ; tenesmus in anus ; in genitals and abdomen.

Formication : in right temple.

Chilliness : about head, breast and arms ; of vulva.

Coldness : in temple ; of feet ; in eyes ; in right side of face ; in mouth ; of vulva ; of mons veneris.

Itching : in anus : in uterus ; in uterine region.

TISSUES [44]

Chlorosis.

Hemorrhage ; blood flows in thick clots, fluid, or in one grumous mass, thick, black and tarry ; feeling of horror at what may happen, thoughts of death, etc. ; sensation of growing larger in every direction.

Hysteric rheumatism, < sitting or standing, > walking ; greatly aggravated at night.

TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]

Touch : headache < ; on genitals unbearable ; groins and back painfully sensitive ; mons veneris very sensitive.

Rubbing : formication in right temple >.

Pressure : on right side of abdomen, tumor nearly painless ; pain in back < ; upon parts where nerves are easily reached produces paralyzed feeling ; lower lumbar vertebræ sensitive.

SKIN [46]

Great paleness of skin.

Sensation of soreness, tingling, smarting and itching or pricking stinging, burning, with inclination to scratch on different parts of body.

Pain as if excoriated.

Tingling, gnawing pains ; shooting.

Sore, biting and smarting.

Fine capillary network like marble.

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]

Women with dark hair, thin, of a sanguine or bilious temperament, and who suffer from too frequent and too profuse menstruation, and whose sexual organs are exceedingly sensitive.

Suits hysterical and hemorrhoidal patients and, perhaps, such as suffer from gout or worms, especially those of mournful mind, or alternately sad and gay, who cry easily, are pale, easily fatigued, suffer from wandering pains, are inclined to spasms.

Girl, æt. about 18, delicate phlegmatic appearance, had a mild bilious fever, lasting ten days, since then suffering from dyspepsia, and gradually the neuralgic affection showed itself ; nervous headaches.

Girl, æt. 19, weak, four years ago had an eruption on head, and ague, suffering three years ; mental affection.

Miss P., æt. 19, menses set in regularly when 17 ; dysmenorrhœa.

Girl, æt. 19, perfectly developed, worked four years in a match factory, but enjoyed her usual good health, menses usually regular, suppressed last two months ; spasms.

Woman, æt. 20, suffering two years, particularly after an attack of typhoid fever ; prosopalgia.

Man, æt. 20, manufacturing lead paint ; colic.

Lady, æt. 20, suffering since twelve years old ; leucorrhœa and ovaritis.

Girl, æt. 20, suffering ten months ; eclampsia.

Emily N., æt. 23 ; neuralgia and menorrhagia.

Girl, æt. 25, irritable and very sensitive, hysterical ; erotomania.

Woman, æt. 27, sanguine phlegmatic temperament, has aborted three times, now ten weeks pregnant ; threatened abortion.

Primipara, æt. 27 ; convulsions.

Woman, æt. 28 ; uterine displacement.

Woman, æt. 29, married three months ; metrorrhagia.

Woman, æt. 30, menses usually very profuse ; suppression of menses and mania after catching cold.

Woman, æt. 30, eight years ago gave birth to child, since then aborted six times, has suffered for years from leucorrhœa, which yielded a few months ago to Calc. and Sulph. ; uterine affection.

Woman, æt. 32, married twelve years, under old school treatment was cured of hypertrophy and ulceration of cervix ; suspected ovarian disease and sterility.

Woman, æt. 33, mother of three children, youngest eight years old, has had several miscarriages, complaining for two or three months, health otherwise good ; paralyzed sensation in arms.

Woman, æt. 35, dark hair, well built, pale face, has passed through many labors, and later has had several abortions, last one being accompanied by profuse hemorrhage, since then suffering ; metrorrhagia.

Woman, æt. 38, cachectic appearance, suffering two years ; dysmenorrhœa.

Woman, æt. 40 ; melancholia.

Woman, æt. 40, very phlegmatic temperament and without the least sexual inclination, mother of several children, usually enjoying very good health ; sudden sexual excitement.

Lady, æt. 40, thin, in former years frequently treated for nervous and uterine symptoms of various sorts and always successfully ; menstrual disturbance.

Woman æt. 40, married twenty years, childless ; uterine spasms.

Woman, æt. 40, menses regular ; metrorrhagia.

Woman, æt. 60, single, daughter of wealthy parents, grew up with hysteria, atony of uterine system and torpor of vegetative sphere, was always cold and suffered from pains and nervous attacks, when 32 became enceinte, suffering twelve years ; melancholia.

Mrs. Z., about 60, thin ; swellings of liver and spleen and pain in rectum.

Primipara, labor protracted and delivery accomplished with forceps, considerable post-partum hemorrhage ; excessive lochial discharge.

Two childless married women ; prosopalgia.

RELATIONS [48]

Antidoted by : Pulsat., Spir. nitr. dulc.

It antidotes : lead-poisoning.

Compatible : Bell., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Veratr.

Compare : Aurum, Asaf., Bellad., Crocus, Ignat., Lycop., Plumb., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sabad., Sepia, Sulphur.