Hypericum perforatum
By Adolph von Lippe — Text Book of Materia Medica
Head
Great heaviness in the head.
Pulsation, heat and burning in the vertex (afternoon).
Sensation in the forehead as; if touched by an icy cold hand.
Sensation as if the head became elongate.
Eyes
Stitches in the right eye.
Ears
Shooting through the ear.
Face
The face feels hot, bloated.
Tension in the cheek.
Mouth and Throat
Dryness of the lips and mouth.
Dry, burning heat in the mouth.
Tongue, white or coated foul; yellow.
Thirst with feeling of heat in the mouth; violent thirst.
Stomach and Abdomen
Eructation on drinking water.
Pressure at the stomach on eating but little.
Sticking in the stomach; right hypochondrium.
Tympanitic distention of the abdomen; relieved by a stool.
Stool and Anus
Constipation; violent tenesmus, with discharge of a hard little ball; with nausea.
Urinary Organs
Nightly urging to urinate, with vertigo.
Desire to urinate, with violent tearing in the genital organs.
Sexual Organs
Women. Menses, too late.
Tension in the region of the uterus, as from a tight bandage.
Leucorrhœa.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness.
Stitches in the chest, below the breasts.
Pressure and burning in the chest.
Back
Aching pain and sensation of lameness in the small of the back.
Stitches in the small of the back.
Extremities
Upper. Stitches; on the top of the shoulder at every inspiration.
Tension in both arms and in the hands.
Lower. Sensation as; if the left foot was strained or dislocated.
The feet feel pithy, as if pricked with needles.
Sleep
Constant drowsiness.
Generalities
Sensation of lameness of the left arm and right foot.
Feeling of weakness; and trembling of all the limbs.
Fever
Pulse hard, accelerated.
Shuddering over the whole body, with desire to urinate.
Heat, with delirium; wild, staring look; hot head; throbbing of the carotids; bright-red, bloated face; moist hair on the head; burning heat of the skin; great oppression and anguish.
Skin
Smarting eruption, like nettle-rash, on the hands.
Mechanical injuries; wounds by nails or splinters in the feet, needles under the nails, squeezing, hammering; of the toes and fingers, especially the tips a of the fingers; when the nerves have been lacerated, wounded, torn, with excruciating pains; it prevents lock-jaw from wounds in the soles of the feet, or of the fingers and palms of the hands.
Conditions
Sensitiveness to cold.
Violent excruciating from laceration of the nerves are readily subdued by the internal administration alone.