Rhododendron
by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Rhododendron chrysanthemum, L.
Natural order , Ericaceæ.
Common names , Siberian R.; Sibirischen Schneerose.
Preparation , Tincture of the leaves.
Authorities. (Nos.
1 to 24 , from Seidel's collection, Archiv fur Hom., 10, 3, 139).
1 , Whale, took 5 to 30 drops of the tincture; 2 , Henke, took tincture, 6 drops; 2 a , same, 12 drops; 2 b , same; 2 c , same, 24 drops in morning, 12 drops in evening; 2 d , same, two doses of 6th dil.; 2 e , same, 20 drops of 6th dil.; 3 , Herzog, 10 drops of tincture; 3 a , same, 15 drops; 3 b , same, 20 drops; 3 c , same, 30 drops; 3 d , same, 50 drops; 3 e , 1 drop of 3d dil.; 4 , Helbig, 20 to 60 drops of tincture; 5 , Seidel, took 10 drops of tincture, in morning; 5 a , same, took 20 drops; 5 b , same, 20 drops; 6 , "O," 10 drops of tincture, in morning; 6 a , same, 20 drops of tincture; 7 , "A," 10 drops of tincture, in evening; 8 , "Sch.," 24 drops of tincture, in the morning; 9 , Arnemann, parkt. Arzeinm., 1819, p. 494; 10 , Edinburgh Dispens., 1797; 11 , Guthrie, Edinb. Comment., v. 4, 471, effects of infusion in patients; 12 , Home, Chem. Versuche, p. 157; 13 , Hope, in Cullen's Mat. Med.; 14 , Kölpin, prakt. Bewerk. ueber d. gebr. d. Sibir. Schneerose, in Gichtkn, Berlin, 1779; 15 , Loeske, Mat. Med.; 16 , Metternich, ueber Schneerose in Gicht, Mainz, 1810; 17 , Murray, App. Med., p. 75; 18 , Plank's Chir. Pharm., Wien, 1786, p. 190; 19 , Prakt. Mitthl, 2, 1827; 20 , Richter, Arznm., II, p. 803; 21 , Ritter, in Hufeland's Journal, xx, 3, 129; 22 , Schwartze, pharm. Tabellen, Leipzig, 1833; 23 , Stark, Handbuch, 2, 88; 24 , Voigtel, Arznm., 1817; 25 , Cattell, Br. J. of Hom., 11, 342, from Pallas, Pharmacologie, and Stephenson, Med. Bot.; 26 , Lembke, N. Z. f. Hom. Kl., 4, 197, took tincture, 10 to 100 drops; 27 , Berridge, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1871, p. 57, a man took one dose of the 200th dil., Lehrmann.
MIND
- Delirium; he staggers; tosses his head about and reels; after a short time falls asleep upon his knees; in vain he attempts to rise, but is overcome with sleep for an hour and a quarter, during which he starts continually and appears terrified, but awakes cheerful, 25.
- A sort of delirium, 10.
- Mental derangement, 22.
- Frightful visions, 22.
- Gloomy mood, indifferent, 2c.
- Fits of anxiety, 14, 24.
- He is peevish, without any apparent cause, 2c.
- Indifferent phlegmatic mood; he is neither affected by pleasant or unpleasant impressions, 5a, 5b.
- Aversion to everything, especially to earnest occupations, 4. [10.]
- *While talking he easily forgets what he was talking about; he does not recollect what he had been talking about, till he has thought awhile, 1.
- Forgetfulness and sudden disappearance of all thoughts, he omits words in writing, 3a.
- Stupefaction, 19, 20.
- Loss of sense, 20, 24.
- Obscuration of the senses, 20.
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo.
- The head feels wild and confused (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
- The whole head feels wild and confused, with pressure in the forepart of the head (after one hour and a half), 5.
- The head feels wild and confused, with drowsiness (tenth day), 3b.
- The head feels as if he had been revelling the whole night (after twenty-four hours), 1.
- Reeling sensation in the head, as if intoxicated (immediately), 3. [20.]
- At night he was affected by a sort of reeling, 4 . [20, 323, 481, 518 are primary symptoms of Rhod., which Dr. Helbig has observed in patients.]
- Reeling sensation in the head; his brain feels as if surrounded with a fog, 1.
- Makes the head feel wild and confused, 14.
- Intoxication, 20, 22.
- A sort of intoxication and loss of sense, 14.
- The head is easily obscured, 17.
- Obscuration of the head, and want of attention, 1.
- Affects the head like brandy, 11.
- Vertigo, 20, 24.
- Vertigo when sitting (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
- Vertigo and sleep, 12.
- Vertigo to and fro, such as is occasioned by strong tobacco, 19.
- Vertigo, as if the head would fall backward more and more, with anguish, when lying in bed (soon), 7. [30.]
- Turn of vertigo (second day), 4.
- Whirling vertigo when lying in bed; decreasing after a few minutes, and on the second evening, 7.
- Giddy vertiginous sensation when writing, disappearing by motion in the open air (second day), 3a.
- Dizziness and dulness in the forehead, 3a, 3b.
- Giddiness, 22, 24.
- General Head.
- The head feels heavy and dull, 1.
- Dulness of the head , immediately after rising (after a few minutes), 8 ; (first day), 5b ; (second day), 3a. [40.]
- Dulness of the head, with drawing in the eyes, increased in the open air (first day), 7.
- Dulness and heaviness of the sinciput, immediately after rising (fifth day), 3d, 3e.
- The head feels dull and wild, as after an intoxication (first day), 3.
- Early in the morning, when waking, the head feels dull, the nose is obstructed, and he has a humming in his ears (sixth day), 3c.
- Dull headache in the evening (after eleven hours), 3a.
- Excessive headache, as if the whole of the brain were oppressed with a weight of lead, early in the morning (third day), 5a.
- Early in the morning, when in bed, he is attacked with a headache which almost deprives him of his senses, decreasing after rising (third day), 5 . [45, 46, 65, were observed the day after a glass of wine. See S. 58, 62.]*
- Headache, with sensation as if everything in the head would fall out of the forehead, 1.
- Headache, towards evening, 1.
- Headache, as if a catarrh were about to set in (fifth and sixth days), 8. [50.]
- The whole of the brain is painful, as if it were pressed too hard against the skull, 1.
- Racking sensation in the head, when walking, as if the brain were shaken from all sides, especially from above, 1.
- Affects the head, and causes headache, 12.
- Beating headache (second day), 3c.
- Burning stitch through the head (first day), 4.
- Forehead.
- Dulness of the head, especially of the frontal region, with aching pain in the left temporal region; the pain and dulness are alleviated for a short time by laying the head upon the table; both disappear by exercise in the open air, 2.
- Aching pain in the left frontal region (after one hour), 3c.
- Aching pain in the forehead (eighth day), 3c.
- Aching pain in the left half of the forehead, spreading towards the left temporal region, continuous, increased by the use of wine (after half an hour), 2d, 2e . [See note to 46.]*
- Tension in the left portion of the frontal bone, 19. [60.]
- Tension, with pressure in the front part of the forehead, 19.
- Painful pressure in the left frontal bone, as if with the thumb, 19.
- Fine drawing tearing close to the os frontis; it feels like a forcing and pressure, and is increased by drinking wine; continued after half an hour, 2d, 2e . [See note to 46.]
- Violent drawing-tearing pain in the forehead, in the direction of the temples and eyes, especially when moving about in the house (first day), 5.
- Violent drawing in the left part of the os frontis, followed immediately by a cold transient shuddering across the face, 19.
- (Dull drawing pain over the left eye), (fifth and sixth days), 5 . [See note to 46.]
- Stitching headache, particularly in the neighborhood of the forehead (fifth and sixth days), 8.
- Intense pain in the region of the right frontal bone, pressing from within outward, 1.
- Beating pain in the forehead, with pressure as if everything in the head would come out there, going off by rest (after twelve hours), 1.
- Beating sensation in the left frontal region (second day), 3a.
- Temples. [70.]
- Aching pains in the left temple, 1.
- Aching-drawing pain under the left temporal bone, 1.
- Hard painful pressure in the left temporal region, as if seated in the bone, 4.
- Painful pressure in the left temple, from without inward (third day), 4.
- Pressure in the temporal bones, 19.
- Pain under the left temporal bone, pressing from within outward, 1.
- Drawing pain under the right temporal bone, pressing from within outward, 1.
- Tearing-boring pain in the left temporal region, 2a, 2b.
- Slight cold crawling above the temporal region, 19.
- A few short, violent stitches in the left temporal region (after ten minutes), 2.
- Vertex and Parietals. [80.]
- Aching pain in the vertex (tenth day), 3c.
- The vertex is painful when touched, as from suppuration, 2b.
- Dulness of the sinciput; when moving the head, a pain is experienced in the forehead, 4.
- Aching sore pain in the right hemisphere of the brain and cerebellum, when sitting, 1.
- Aching sore pain in the left hemisphere of the brain, when lying down, disappearing on sitting up, 5.
- Shootings in the left half of the head (third day), 3d.
- Transient dull stitching pains in the left half of the head (after five hours), 8.
- Beating pain in the right half of the head (eighth day), 3c.
- Tearing pain in the right half of the head (fifth day), 3b.
- Occiput.
- Dull pain in the occiput, early in the morning (second day), 5. [90.]
- Aching pain deep in the right side of the occiput, with paroxysmal drawing from below upward (first, second, and third days), 5b.
- Dull pressure deep in the occiput, in the evening (first and second days), 5b.
- Violent pain in the right half of the occiput, as if a foreign body had been forced in that part (tenth day), 5a.
- Contusive pain in a small place externally on the right side of the occiput, with alternate drawing in the direction of the ear, 7.
- External Head.
- Several painful pustules on the forehead (eighth day), 3d.
- Pustules on the forehead, 4.
- The scalp is painful to touch, 2.
- Pinching pain in the skin of the forehead, over the right eyebrow, 1.
- Transient biting in various parts of the head (second and third days), 4.
- Violent itching of the hairy scalp (first day), 5. [100.]
- Itching of the hairy scalp, as if occasioned by vermin, for several evenings, 2e.
- Itching pinching sensation in the skin of the right eyebrow, 1.
- Itching of the hairy scalp, obliging one to scratch; scratching changes the itching to a burning, the first evenings, but decreasing from day to day, 5d.
EYE
- When reading and writing the eyes feel somewhat weak (first hours), 5a.
- Burning in the eyes when looking intently at an object, 2a.
- Burning in the eyes when looking at the daylight, shortly before rising from bed, 2b.
- Dry burning in the eyes (sixth day), 5 . [106, 146, 304, 365, 371, 643, were observed from ten drops of tincture, in a girl of twenty years, whose menses had been suppressed for six months, and who was suffering with tightness of the chest, heaviness, and drawing in the limbs in consequence; she recovered perfectly a few weeks after taking the Rhododendron.]
- Slight burning and pressure in the eyes (first day), 5a.
- The right eye is affected with a burning pain, and the sight seems to be dim, in the evening when reading, 2.
- Periodical burning in the eyes without inflammation, early in the morning (first day), 7. [110.]
- Burning and feeling of dryness in the eyes, especially in the evening (fifth day), 2e.
- Burning pain in the eyes; when reading or writing he has a feeling of heat in his eyes, 2b, 5a.*
- Periodical smarting pain in the right eye, 5.
- Shooting pain in right eye from centre to inner corner (sixth day), 27.
- Itching of the eyes, 17, 22.
- Orbit.
- Sticking pain, with pressure around the margin of the left orbit, with spasmodic contraction of the left eyelids, 2.
- Lids.
- Suppuration of the eyelids, at night (first nights), 5a, 5b.
- Swollen eyelids, which become easily red (first day), 5a.
- Moisture of the eyes, and agglutination of the lids, 2b.
- Twitching of the right upper eyelid (after nine hours), 3b. [120.]
- Frequent twitching of the left upper eyelid, for some time, 4.
- Painful pressure in the right internal canthus, as of a grain of sand, 1.
- Burning and pressure in the inner canthi, early in the morning, with increased secretion of mucus in them (second day), 5a.
- Lachrymal Apparatus.
- Lachrymation, 14, 17.
- (Lachrymation in the open raw air), 2e.
- Ball.
- Sticking pain in the right eyeball, as with a red-hot needle, darting from within outward, 1.
- Pupil.
- Dilatation of the pupil, 1.
- The right pupil is very much dilated, the left contracted, with pressure in the left eyeball (first day), 5.
- Right pupil smaller than left (seventh day), 27.
- Vision.
- Sensation as of a gauze before the eyes (second day), 3a.
EAR. [130.]
- Tickling in the left external meatus auditorius, changing into a pain on boring with the finger, for hours, 2c, 2e.
- Violent pain in the right outer ear, commencing in the morning, and continuing nearly all day (second day), 5.*
- Pain in the right ear, as if the ear were being pressed asunder (after nine hours), 1.
- Periodical boring or drawing pain in and around the ears (first days), 5b.
- Darting pain in the left ear and in the left temporal region (seventh day), 3c.
- *Tearing sensation in and about the right ear (after two hours), 3a.
- Stitches in the right ear, slow and pressing, from within outwards, 1.
- Transient stitches in the left ear (thirteenth day), 5.
- Beating sensation in the left ear (thirteenth day), 3c.
- Sensation in the left ear, as if a worm were creeping in it (second day), 3a.
- Hearing. [140.]
- Buzzing in the left ear, all the forenoon, which is most distinct when whistling, 1.
- *Constant buzzing in the ears, and a sensation as if water were rushing into them; loud sounds re-echo for a long time (fourth and sixth days), 3e.
- *Humming and ringing before the ears (soon after taking the drug, and on the second evening while lying in bed), 7.
NOSE
- Continued violent sneezing, with heat in the face, early in the morning when rising (ninth and tenth days), 3c.
- Several times sneezing, and an increased discharge of thin mucus from the nose, in the forenoon (first day), 5a.
- Moderate bleeding from the left nostril (after half an hour), 8.
- Violent fluent coryza, with headache and roughness of the throat (eighth and ninth days), 5 . [See note to symptoms 106.]
- Fluent coryza, with diminution of smell and taste (eighth day); continuing for a fortnight, 3b.
- Fluent coryza, alternating with obstruction of one nostril (fourth day), 2e.
- Increased secretion of mucus in the nose, as if a catarrh would set in (first day), 7. [150.]
- Increased secretion of mucus in the nose in the open air (first days), 5a, 5b.
- Increase of nasal mucus while one or the other nostril was stopped near the root of the nose (third and fourth days), 7.
- Dry coryza, with frequent sneezing (eighth day), 3c.
- Stoppage of the nose, early in the morning (first days), 5b.
- Stoppage of the left half of the nose, near the root, worse in the morning before rising; during the day the stoppage of the left nostril alternates with that of the right, but the nose was never stopped entirely; less in the open air ; continued (immediately), 2d.*
- Stoppage of the left nostril, 5a, 5b.
- Stoppage of the left nostril, early in the morning; several mornings in succession, 3c.
- The left nostril was stopped near the root, with sore pain, accompanied with a sensation of accumulation of mucus, in the open air, 2, 2a, 2b, 2c.*
- Troublesome dryness of the nose (after eight hours), 5.
- Itching and creeping in the nose, 14.
- Smell. [160.]
- The smell and taste are altered; all things smell and taste alike (sixth day), 3c.
FACE
- Drawing from the left half of the face into the left eye, leaving a pressure behind in the eye (after half an hour), 5.
- Prickling biting in the cheek, for several days, coming suddenly and passing off soon, 4.
- Considerable dryness of the lips (after half an hour), 6, 6a.
- Dry and burning lips, 2a, 2b.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Toothache; the approach of a thunderstorm or of cloudy windy weather, is always preceded by a pain, which partakes of the character of drawing aching (and cutting) ; the thunderstorm set in in one or two, the cloudy and rainy weather several hours after the toothache; the pain commenced in the ear, at least was in connection with a pain in the ear, 4.*
- The whole night he had a pain in the left lower jaw and teeth, accompanied with otalgia; the right side of the head was affected in a similar manner, but less violently; pressure seemed now to relieve, now to increase the pain; the warmth of the bed had no influence on the pain, 4.
- Occasional grumbling and tearing in the four first anterior molar teeth, for a short time; now in the upper, now in the lower jaw; now on the right, now on the left side, 2, 2a, 2b, 2c.*
- Violent drawing pain in the teeth of the right lower jaw, disappearing by eating (fourth day), 7.
- Drawing in the left molar teeth, recurring (first day and afterwards several times), 5b. [170.]
- Drawing and pricking pain in one of the left molar teeth; it does not bear touch (second day), 4.
- A (tearing) sharp aching pain in the upper molar teeth, increased by warm food, and by staying in a warm room, towards evening (first day), 4.
- Tearing in a hollow tooth, 5 . [172, 223, 363, are primary symptoms observed in a female patient.]
- *Transient pain in single teeth, recurring especially in damp weather, and before a storm, 5a, 5b.
- Dull stitching in the hollow tooth of the left upper jaw, 1.
- Prickling and biting in the front teeth, 4.
- Gum.
- Aching pain, as if swollen and sore, between the gums of the right lower jaw and the cheeks (second day), 4.
- Continuous, not very troublesome itching of the gums, obliging one to rub them frequently (third and fourth days), 7.
- Tongue.
- The tongue has a greenish coating, with bitter taste in the mouth, 1.
- On one side of the root of the tongue and gums, he has a painful, somewhat swollen spot, 4. [180.]
- Burning on the tongue during an inspiration, 2a, 2b.
- Prickling sensation on the tongue (after half an hour), 6.
- General Mouth.
- Small vesicles on the inner surface of the lower lip, and the lower surface of the tongue, occasioning a biting pain when eating (third day), 7.
- Great dryness of the whole buccal cavity (after half an hour), 6, 6a.
- Dryness of the mouth, 20, 22, 24.
- Burning and a feeling of heat in the posterior part of the mouth, as if catarrh would set in (after thirty hours), 2d.
- Contractive sensation along the left Stenonian duct (second day), 2a, 2b.
- Saliva.
- Accumulation of saliva in the mouth (after two hours), 3.
- The saliva is somewhat increased, and has a sourish taste, early in the morning (first days), 5a, 5b.
- Much saliva in the mouth, 19.
- Taste. [190.]
- Altered taste; all things taste alike (first days), 3a, 3b, 3c.
- Continually sourish, saltish taste in the mouth; he experiences nausea when swallowing the saliva, early in the morning (first and second days), 7.
- Flat bitter taste (after one hour), 6.
- Putrid bitter taste on the posterior part of the tongue (after twenty-four hours), 1.
- Putrid taste in the mouth, early in the morning (after twenty-four hours), 1.
- Taste of straw in the mouth, all day, 1.
- Sourish taste in the mouth, 1.
THROAT
- Roughness in his throat, early in the morning, 4.
- Scraping sensation in the throat; sensation as if tenacious mucus were adhering to the trachea, which he is unable to cough up, during a walk, 1.
- Burning in the throat and palate, after eating bread, in the forenoon (first and third days), 2b. [200.]
- Simple pain in the posterior surface of the throat, during the deglutition of food, in the evening (first day), 3a.
- Tickling in the throat excites a cough, 1.
- Uvula and Fauces.
- Stitches in the uvula (after one hour), 6a.
- It contracts the fauces and has a burning taste, 18.
- Scraping and scratching sensation in the fauces; sensation as if those parts were lined with mucus, 2, 2a, 2b.
- Burning in the fauces, with constrictive feeling in those parts, 20.
- Burning and constriction of the fauces, 17, 22, 24 , etc.
- External Throat.
- Drawing stitches, they seem to extend from the left submaxillary gland towards the cheek (third day), 4.
STOMACH
- Appetite and Thirst.
- The appetite was good, but speedily satisfied (second, third, and fourth days), 2d, 2e.
- He is easily satisfied, and feels very weak after satiety, 4. [210.]
- Loss of appetite, 5 . [See note to symptom 172.]
- Thirst, 11, 14, 22, 24 , etc.
- The thirst is somewhat increased, 5.
- Troublesome thirst, 9, 19.
- Eructations.
- Tasteless eructations, 19.
- Some eructations (after a few minutes), 8.
- Rising of oppressive wind, after dinner, causing a burning through the whole chest, which extended as far as the dorsal vertebræ, 1.
- Uprising of a rancid fluid, occasioning a scratching sensation in the throat, 2d.
- Uprisings of a small quantity of a bitter-tasting liquid, 5b.
- Empty eructations, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2e.
- Nausea and Vomiting. [220.]
- Nausea, 12, 17, 24, 25.
- Considerable continuous nausea, with inclination to vomit (soon), 7.
- Nausea, as if one had taken an emetic, with indication for stool, 1.
- It occasions nausea and slight vomiting, 15.
- Nausea, accumulation of water in the mouth, and inclination to vomit, 4.
- Nausea when stooping, diminished by an eructation (soon), 3a.
- Nausea, with pressure in the pit and region of the stomach (after twenty-four hours), 3e.
- Nausea, with accumulation of water in the mouth (after half an hour), 3c.
- Vomiting of a green bitter substance, 17.
- Vomiting after taking anything fluid, especially cold water, which weakens the effects of the drug, 11. [230.]
- Vomiting from large doses, 14, 16, 24.
- Stomach.
- Superficial pain, here and there, in the pit of the stomach and the region of the short ribs, especially on the left side; the pain is now a fine, now a dull stitching, accompanied with pressure (third and fourth days), 5b.
- Continuous aching pain deep in the pit of the stomach, accompanied with alternate drawing and dull stitching along the union of the short ribs, frequently increasing to oppression of breathing, anxiety and heat in the face, especially in the afternoon, when standing (third, fourth, and fifth days), 3b.
- Aching pain in the pit of the stomach, when stooping and when pressing inward, 3b.
- Continual aching pain in the pit of the stomach, before, during, and after dinner (after one hour), 3b.
- Aching pain in the pit of the stomach, at night in bed (first night), 3a.
- Aching-clawing pain in the pit of the stomach, sometimes spreading into both hypochondria and impeding respiration (second day), 5b.
- Paroxysmal drawing-aching pain in the epigastrium, with nausea (third day), 7.
- An unusual gnawing sensation (sensation of hunger) in the region of the stomach, before a meal (first day), 5.
- Slight pressure in the pit of the stomach (first day), 3. [240.]
- Troublesome pressure in the region of the pit of the stomach (first days), 3a, 3b, 3c.
- Sharp pressure in the pit of the stomach, an hour after dinner (first day), 5b.
- Pressure and cramplike drawing deep in the pit of the stomach, an hour after dinner (second day), 5b.
- *Contractive pressure in the pit of the stomach, with tightness of breathing; several evenings during a walk, 2c.
- Pressure at the stomach, after drinking cold water (eighth day), 3c.
- Pressure in the epigastrium, after dinner (third day), 5a.
- Pinching in the pit of the stomach, 3c.
- Pinching pain, after supper, transversely across the epigastrium (sixth day), 5.
- Cutting, afterwards aching pain in the epigastrium, after a meal (after two hours), 3a.
- Pain in the stomach, 16. [250.]
- Unpleasant creeping sensation in the region of the stomach (after one hour), 3.
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Pain in the hypochondria, as if wind became incarcerated in those parts, 2, 2a.
- Sticking pain in the right hypochondrium, in the evening (after twelve hours), 3b.
- Seated pain in the left hypochondrium, with tension, when stooping (first and second days), 5b.
- Umbilicus and Sides.
- Pinching in the umbilical region, after a meal, 1b.
- Pinching pains in the right side of the abdomen (after one hour), 1.
- Violent stitches in the left side, in the region of the spleen, arresting the breathing, in the evening, during rest, 1.
- General Abdomen.
- Tense abdomen, as if distended by flatus, with emission of flatus, which produces transient relief, 2b.
- Painful distension of the abdomen, 2c.
- Copious flatus occasions various pains in the abdomen, now in one, now in another part; they are relieved or removed entirely by emission of fetid flatus (first days), 5b. [260.]
- Incarceration of flatus, early in the morning, fasting (second and third days), 5b.
- Rumbling in the abdomen after eating and drinking, followed by a painless diarrhœa, 1.
- Constant rumbling in the abdomen, 1.
- Rumbling in the abdomen (after half an hour), 6a.
- Grumbling in the abdomen (soon), 3d.
- Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, 2a, 2c.
- Feeling of fulness, heaviness, and distension in the abdomen, especially early in the morning in bed and in the evening, with rumbling in the bowels, much empty eructation, and emission of fetid flatus, continuing for some time (after ten minutes), 2d, 2e.
- The usual breakfast causes a disagreeable fulness in the abdomen, relieved by eructations (after half an hour), 5a.
- Sensation of fulness and bloatedness in the abdomen, without actual distension, relieved by rising of air and emission of flatus, 2.
- Pinching colic, 1. [270.]
- Uncomfortable feeling after a meal, 3a.
- Weight and lassitude in the abdomen, not as from food, 19.
- Slight digging sensation, with a feeling of fulness, in the abdomen (soon), 5.
- Occasional pinching in the abdomen, as of flatulence (third day), 5a.
- Stool is succeeded by a feeling of emptiness, followed by pinching in the abdomen (second day), 5a.
- Pinching in the abdomen, followed by loose stool (after half an hour), 1.
- Drawing pain in the right abdominal ring, also in the left, but feebler, with tension in the ring, when walking (fifth day), 5b.
- The abdominal integuments are painful, as if he had received several blows upon them, 1.
- Single piercing stitches in the abdomen, 2.
- Intermittent stitching above the crest of the left ilium, from without inwards, 1. [280.]
- Drawing from the left groin into the left thigh (first and second days), 3a.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Spasmodic pain in the rectum, as if flatus had become incarcerated (after ten hours), 1.
- Sticking pain in the rectum, extending as far as under the ribs (after ten hours), 1.
- Violent drawing from the rectum to the genital organs (second day), 7.
- Crawling in the anus, as of ascarides, 1.
- Biting pain in the anus, accompanied with oozing out of a small quantity of liquid (fourth day), 5b.
- Beating pain in the anus (first day), 3a ; (fifth day), 3b.
- The erections are preceded by a creeping sensation from the perinæum as far as the penis, 5b.
- Tenesmus, with papescent stool, for some days, 6, 6a.
- Rather strong urging for stool; the evacuation hard and expelled with difficulty, 4. [290.]
- Sudden desire for stool, but only some flatus is emitted after pressing (third and fourth days), 5a, 5b.
- Desire for stool, as if diarrhœa would set in, nevertheless the natural stool is passed with much pressing (first day), 5b.
- Frequent desire for stool, followed by a natural evacuation, accompanied with much pressing; it takes place in the evening instead of in the morning (third day), 5a.
- No evacuation, although he experiences a desire for stool several times through the day (fourth day), 5a.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa.
- Diarrhœa (after thirty-six hours), 7, 14, 17, 24 , etc.
- The disposition to diarrhœa returns in damp weather (third day), 4.
- Diarrhœa directly after a meal, 1.
- Occasional feeling of looseness, as if diarrhœa would set in (after ten minutes), 2d.
- Diarrhœa, as soon as he rises from bed, in the morning, 1.
- Occasional diarrhœa, 22. [300.]
- Fruit occasions diarrhœa and a feeling of weakness in the stomach; while walking he heels nauseated; he has to remain seated, and experiences a feeling of qualmishness at the stomach, 4.
- Diarrhœa, a sort of lienteria; food passed undigested, 1.
- Diarrhœa, which does not cause weakness, 1.
- Food and drink cause diarrhœa, without colic, 1.
- Diarrhœa; stool spirts out as if constantly accompanied with flatus, 1.
- Two loose stools a day, evacuated with difficulty, 3b.
- Loose stool, but sluggish, evacuated only after pressing, 2b.
- Loose stool, expelled with pressing, 2, 5 . [Primary effect; hard sluggish stool is a secondary effect.]
- Loose and yellowish stool, but sluggish, expelled with much pressing, and insufficient; sensation as if some fæces remained behind, 2d, 2e.
- Loose stool, with much pressing (third day), 7. [310.]
- The loose stool is passed with difficulty (second day), 3.
- Stools always look fermented, 1.
- Brown papescent stool, 1.
- Several papescent stools in one day, the prover being generally costive (fourth day), 3c.
- Papescent stool at regular periods, the latter portion of the stool being somewhat loose and leaving a smarting sensation in the rectum, 1.
- Frequent ineffectual desire for stool, succeeded by papescent stool (first and second days), 5a.
- Stool copious, black, fetid, 25.
- The fæces are not very hard, but expelled with great difficulty, and with a sensation in the anus as if its contractile power were diminished, for several days, 5a, 5b.
- Constipation.
- Great costiveness (fourth day), 7.
- Costiveness (third day), 3d. [320.]
- Retention of stool, 2c.
- Delaying stool (first day), 3d.
URINARY ORGANS
- Urethra.
- Short, but intense pain in the orifice of the urethra, when not urinating, 19.
- Pain in the urethra, as if suppurated and engorged with blood, 2 . [See note to symptom 20.]
- Burning in the urethra before and during micturition, 3b.
- A sudden intense pricking sensation in the orifice of the urethra, in the evening (second day), 8.
- Some transient stitches in the urethra after micturition (first day), 3d.
- Micturition and Urine.
- Desire to urinate, with drawing in the region of the bladder and the groins, in the forenoon (second day), 5b.
- Frequent desire to urinate, 6, 6a.
- (A few drops dribble after urinating, occasioning a burning pain in the urethra and a shuddering through the whole body), (second day), 2d. [330.]
- Both urine and stool are sometimes discharged in larger quantities, 12.
- Copious urine, 17.
- Increased urine, 17.
- Increased secretion of urine (fourth to sixth day), 5.
- The somewhat increased pale urine has an offensive acrid odor (second and third days), 5, 5a, 5b.
- The secretion of urine too little, 1.
- Brown-red urine, having an offensive smell (second and third days), 5d, 5e.
- The urine became cloudy after awhile, 1.
- Hot urine, 1.
- The urine is clear, with a greenish tinge, 1.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Burning sore pain between the genital organs and thighs, especially when walking (the first days), 5a, 5b. [340.]
- Beating pain in the glans, in the evening (first day), 5a.
- Pinching-jerking pain in the glans both during rest and motion (after four hours), 1.
- Occasional twitching in the orifice of the urethra when not urinating, 5a, 5b.
- Itching crawling behind the prepuce, 1.
- The scrotum shrinks easily, especially when walking or standing, for many days, 5, 5a, 5b.
- The scrotum shrinks when the air becomes in the least cool, for many days, 5, 5a, 5b.
- The testes are somewhat drawn up, swollen, and painful , for many days, 5, 5a, 5b.*
- The swelling of the testicles, which had been painless heretofore, enlarged to the size of a hen's egg, especially the left testicle, with stitching and tearing pains in both testicles, which were short but violent (a homœopathic aggravation), (second day), 3d.*
- (The swelling of the testicles, which had existed for years, decreases more and more until the testes have acquired their natural size), (curative effect), (after fourteen days), 3a.
- *The testes, especially the epididymis, are intensely painful to the touch, for many days, 5, 5a, 5b. [350.]
- *Contusive pain in the testes, with alternate drawing, worse now in one, now in the other testicle , for many days, 5, 5a, 5b.
- Contusive pain in the testes , which are drawn up, when walking (first days), 5a, 5b.*
- Violent sticking in the right testicle, as if it were contused violently, in the evening, while sitting; the pain disappeared when walking, but returned immediately upon sitting down, 2b.*
- Sticking pain in the right testis, 2c.*
- *Violent painful drawing in the hard, somewhat swollen testes, extending as far as the abdomen and thigh, especially on the right side (fifth to eighth day), 5b.
- Drawing-sticking pain in the right testicle and spermatic cord, disappearing by motion; sometimes the pain was pricking, commencing in the right testicle and spreading in a zigzag manner along the perinæum towards the anus, lasting some seconds, and so violent that it arrested breathing (sixth day), 2c.*
- Crawling pain in the testes, continuing (after four days), 5 . [This symptom has been observed in a young man who suffered with excessive nightly emissions, but whose health was otherwise good, after taking one-tenth of a grain of powder triturated in the usual manner.]
- Increase of the sexual desire, the erections coming on very easily (later action), 5a, 5b.
- Aversion to coition and want of erection (first days), 5a, 5b.
- Want of the usual morning erections, continuing for many days, 2e. [360.]
- After coition he had lascivious dreams, with an emission and long continued erections (fourteenth day), 5b.
- Emission while in a sound sleep, in the middle of the night, with subsequent erections (first night), 5a.
- Profuse emission, with amorous dreams (fifth night), 5b.
- Female.
- The menses occurred several days too early, 5 . [See note to 172.]
- The menses, which had been suppressed for six months, appear, accompanied with febrile excitement and continued headache (fourth night), 5.
- The menses, which had been suppressed for six months, reappear again for two days, with intermissions (fourth and fifth days), 5 . [See note to 106.]
- The menses, which had ceased two days ago, reappear for a short time (first day), 7.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Great dryness in the trachea, early in the morning (second day), 5.
- Cough and Expectoration.
- Fatiguing dry cough, morning and night (twelfth day), 3c.
- Rather dry cough, owing to roughness in the throat, early in the morning, 4. [370.]
- Dry cough early in the morning, 1.
- (Dry cough, with increased tightness of the chest and roughness in the throat), (seventh day), 5 . [See note to 106.]
- Several attacks of dry cough, excited by tickling in the trachea (first day), 3a.*
- Scraping dry cough, in the evening (after twelve hours), 3a.
- Scraping cough, accompanied with expectoration of mucus, disturbing sleep, continuing for several days, 3b, 3c.
- (In diseases of the chest the cough and expectoration of mucus become easier), 17.
- He hawks up a quantity of white and tenacious mucus, 1.
- Respiration.
- The respiration is accelerated by an anxious undulating sensation arising from the abdomen, 5.
- Suppressed breathing; suffocative sensation, 17.
CHEST
- Violent congestions to the chest, returning for two days, with more or less violence (after three hours), 6a. [380.]
- Oppression of the chest, caused by a tensive feeling in the pectoral muscles, in the evening (first day), 5a.
- Oppression of the chest, as if the sternum were pressed upon, 2b.
- Oppression of the chest, as if the chest were constricted, more externally, 2.
- Oppression of the chest, 1, 5a, 5b, 2a, 22.
- Oppression of the chest, and pain in the chest when stooping, or when sitting bent, 2c.
- Oppression of the chest during sleep, a sort of nightmare, 4.
- Oppressive burning pain in the chest, below the ribs, with anxiety, not impeding respiration (after forty-four hours), 1.
- A very transient dull pain extending from the chest to the left hypochondrium, almost like splenetic stitches, when walking fast (first day), 4.*
- Extremely violent aching pain deep in the chest, arresting the breathing, in the afternoon (first days), 3b.
- Aching pain in the chest, with tightness of breathing (third day), 1. [390.]
- Constriction of the chest, 14.
- Contractive pain in the chest, 4.
- Pressing and drawing pain under the short ribs, early in the morning, with a feeling of fulness in the pit of the stomach and oppression of breathing (first day), 5b.
- Periodical clawing pain under the short ribs (first and second days), 5a.
- Pinching pain transversely through the chest (fifth and sixth days), 5.
- Periodical pinching pain in the outer chest, especially in the house, during motion (first day), 5.
- Scraping rough feeling in the chest, with heaviness; this obliges him to hawk frequently (first day), 5.
- Pain in the muscles of the chest, increased by touch (first day), 4.
- The whole of the thorax feels sprained and bruised (first days), 3b.
- (A kind of undulating sensation in the chest), 4.
- Front and Sides. [400.]
- Fine tearing pain in the region of the lower extremity of the sternum, 2a.
- Sticking pain in the middle of the left chest; he feels the pain as far as under the left scapula, and it is increased by motion, 1.
- Pain in the middle of left chest, which resembles cuttings with a knife, increased by turning the upper part of the body, from the left to the right side, 1.
- Painful sticking in the left side, below the ribs, the stitches extending in the direction of the dorsal vertebræ, during rest, 1.
- Shocks in the side, across the lower part of the spinal column, or rather single continuous pressure, as with a dull point, 19.
- When bending to the right side and backward, he feels as if some one plunged a knife through the left chest and out at the back, 1.
- Beating paralytic pains along the left clavicle, 1.
HEART AND PULSE
- The beat of the heart is stronger and more perceptible, 1.
- Warm undulations at the heart (third day), 4.
- Pulse reduced to 38 beats, 25. [410.]
- Diminishes the number of pulsations, 12.
- Immediately after taking the drug the pulse becomes feeble, small, and slow, 14.
- Slow pulse, 19.
NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- Stiffness of the nape of the neck, early in the morning, when in bed (first, second, and third days), 5b.*
- Rheumatic pain, with stiffness in the nape of the neck, early in the morning, after rising (third and fourth days), 3a, 5b.*
- Painful sensation as if the outer neck were swelling (after six hours), 5b.
- Tensive pain in the left cervical muscles, even during rest, 19.
- Tensive rheumatic pain in the right outer side of the neck, with drawing, extending as far as behind the ear (fourth day), 5a.
- (Tensive pain in the outer cervical muscles, at noon), 4.
- Drawing pain in the right side of the neck, towards the shoulder (sixth day), 3c. [420.]
- Pain in the nape of the neck, as if it had become rigid, 3a.
- Pain in the posterior cervical muscles (first day), 4.
- Back.
- Violent aching-drawing pain in the right side of the back, more in the scapula, waking him from the morning sleep, and only going off gradually by turning to the other side (after thirty-six hours), 1.
- Pain in the back, shoulders, and arms, early in the morning, when in bed, digging, drawing, disturbing sleep, accompanied with a bruised pain of the whole body (second, third, and fourth days), 3b.
- Rheumatic pain between the scapulæ, hindering motion (after eight hours), 5b.
- Rheumatic drawing pain in the left scapula (second day), 5a.
- Pain, as from taking cold after a sprain, in the left scapula, early in the morning when turning over in bed, 1.
- Lumbar.
- Aching pain in the small of the back and back, 1.
- Aching pain in the small of the back (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
- Aching pain in the left lumbar region, 19. [430.]
- Aching pain in the small of the back, with anxiety, while sitting, disappearing on motion, 1.
- Aching pain in the left side of the lumbar vertebræ, during rest, 1.
- Pain in the small of the back, as if sprained, 5a, 5b.
- Pain in the small of the back, resembling a fine drawing tearing, as if on the bone (after twenty minutes), 2d, 2e.
- The small of the back is painful when sitting, as if the back had been bent too long, and as if one had been lying upon it too long, 1.
- Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised, increased by rest, especially violent in rainy weather (first day), 4.*
- Pain in the small of the back, 2a, 2b.
- Pain in the small of the back, becoming intolerable by stooping, 2b, 2c.
- Pain in the small of the back, while sitting, 5.
- Shuddering sensation in the region of the lumbar vertebræ, while sitting, 1.
EXTREMITIES. [440.]
- The joints affected by gout become red, swollen, and painful, 21.
- Tremulousness of the limbs, at night, 1.
- Increase of the pains in the limbs, 17.
- The pains in the limbs seem to be seated in the bones or periosteum; they are mostly confined to small spots, and reappear on changes of weather, 5.*
- The pains in the limbs are especially felt in the forearm and leg down to the fingers and toes; they soon pass off, and resemble a cramplike drawing, 4.*
- Pressive pain in the joints of the left limb, worse on motion (after 50 drops), 26.
- Erratic tearing pains in the limbs (seventh day), 3b.
- Creeping sensation in the limbs, causing an uneasiness, especially in the arms while at rest, which obliges him to move them (first day), and afterwards, at different periods, returning, especially in rough weather, 5b.
- Prickling in the right foot and hand when walking, as when the parts go to sleep (after two hours and a half), 5.
- Insensibility of the limbs, 17. [450.]
- Insensibility and paralysis of the limbs, 20.
- The limbs go to sleep easily (first days), 5, 5a, 5b.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Heaviness and tremulous paralytic weakness of the right arm, when at rest, diminished by motion (fourth day), 5a.
- Feeling of heaviness and weakness in the left arm, as after an excessive effort, disappearing by moving the arm, 2.
- Considerable feeling of weakness in the right arm, with prickling in the tips of the fingers (after eight hours), 6a.
- Sensation in the left arm, as if the blood ceased to circulate, with weakness and heaviness in the arm, especially when at rest (second day), 5a.
- Drawing-digging pain in the joints of the upper limbs, especially the left, when at rest (first and second days), 5a.
- Fine drawing and jerking in the right arm and in the left hand (after four hours), 3c.
- Drawing pain in the whole of the right arm, especially when at rest; in rough weather (seventeenth and eighteenth days), 7.
- Spasmodic contractive pain in the left arm, with a paralytic feeling in the same, to such an extent that it can be lifted only with great trouble (after three hours), 5. [460.]
- Sticking in the right arm (second day), 3c.
- Transient, dull, stitching pains in the whole of the left arm (after five hours), 8.
- Pain as if the right arm were dislocated, so that it is very difficult for him to hold anything in his hand, continuing the whole day (fifth day), 2.
- Fine tearing, as if in the periosteum of the right arm and elbow-joint, and only when at rest, 2b, 2c.
- Shoulder.
- Dull pain in the left shoulder-joint, continuing the whole day (after half an hour), 8.
- Paralytic rheumatic pain in the right shoulder, upon which he rests, sometimes extending below the elbow, and going off by turning to the other side (after nineteen hours), 1.*
- Boring-beating pain in the right shoulder-joint (seventh day), 6a.
- Violent tearing-boring pain in the left shoulder-joint ; with falling asleep of the arm, and with a prickling sensation in the tips of the fingers, after twenty-seven hours, returning for several days, 6a.*
- Violent tearing in the right shoulder, for several evenings, while in bed, and disturbing the night's sleep, 3c.
- Tearing pain in the shoulder, early in the morning, when in bed (third and fourth days), 5b. [470.]
- Violently beating and drawing pain in the right shoulder-joint (fifth day), 5b.
- Arm.
- Pain in the muscles of the upper arm, as after an excessive exertion (first day), 2e.
- Violent aching pain, as if seated in the periosteum, on the inner side of the left upper arm, 1.
- Drawing in the upper arms (first day), 3b.
- Drawing pain along the right upper arm, 1.
- Drawing in the muscles of the left upper arm, the whole arm feels weak (second day), 5a.
- Drawing pain along the left upper arm (after one hour and a half), 5.
- Sharp stitches coming deep out of the left upper arm (fifth day), 5b.
- Pulsation in the upper arm (sixth day), 5.
- Elbow.
- Drawing in the right elbow-joint (first day), 5b. [480.]
- Drawing pain in the left elbow (after nine hours), 5a.
- Tearing in different parts, especially in the left elbow and also in the affected limbs, 4 . [See note to symptom 20.]
- Fine tearing close to the bone, commencing in the right elbow-joint, and extending upward and downward on the posterior surface of the arm (third day), 2e.
- Pinching pain in the tip of the elbow, 1.
- Forearm.
- Sensation in the forearm as if the blood ceased to circulate, the veins of the hands being very much distended, a pleasant warmth spreading through the hands, and a pricking sensation being experienced in single fingers, as if they had gone to sleep, especially during rest (fourth day), 5a ; at different periods, 5b.
- Weak and paralytic feeling in the left forearm (second day), 3.
- Tearing in the left forearm, at night , when in bed (fourth day), 3a.*
- Tearing in the right forearm (second day), 3a.*
- Darting pain in the left forearm (sixth day), 3b.
- Wrist.
- Painful weariness in the left wrist-joint, felt only during rest, 1. [490.]
- Pain as if sprained, in the left wrist-joint, 1.
- Pain as if sprained, first in the right, afterwards in the left wrist-joint, when moving it, 1.
- Pain in the wrist-joints as if sprained, during and after motion, 5b.
- Pain in the left wrist-joint, moving towards the hand, with difficulty of motion, continuous (tenth day), 5a.
- Digging-drawing pain in the wrist-joints, with increased warmth in the hands, 5a.
- Considerable digging and drawing in the wrist-joints, especially when at rest (first day); and afterwards at different periods, during rough weather, 5b.
- Pain, as if sprained in the right wrist-joints, impeding motion, increased when at rest; in rough weather, 7.*
- Pain in the wrist-joints, as if sprained, with increase of warmth, 5b.
- Intensely painful drawing and digging in the left wrist-joint, in the evening when at rest (first day), 5a.*
- Drawing pain in the left wrist-joint, and in the right leg (after eight hours), 5c. [500.]
- Violent tearing pain in the left wrist-joint, when walking in the open air (fifth day), 3b.
- Clawing pain in the right wrist-joint, as if sprained, 1.
- Shooting stitches in the right wrist-joint, in the evening (second day), 3a.
- Hand.
- Puffiness of the hands (after two hours), 3.
- Tremor of the hands during rest and motion, 19.
- Sensation of loss of strength, and heaviness in the hands, accompanied with frequent drawing in isolated small places of the bones of the hand (first day), 5b.
- Drawing pain in single carpal and phalangeal bones (first day), 5a.
- Paroxysmal twitching and tearing in the outer side of the right hand, in the direction of the little finger, in the evening hours (second day), 3.
- Violent tearing pain in the right hand, especially in the thumb and index finger, in the evening (eighth day), 3d.
- Paroxysmal tearing in the right hand, in the evening (eleventh day), 3c. [510.]
- Burning stitch in the right hand (first day), 4.
- Fingers.
- Aching sensation in the metacarpal bone of the left index finger (after half an hour), 8.
- Painful sensation in a small spot of the metacarpal bones, as if a bursa would form, 1.
- Drawing paralytic pain, now in one, now in the other finger; now in the metacarpal, now in the forearm, 1.
- Continuous darting pain in the fingers of the left hand, especially in the little finger (fifth day), 3b.
- Darting pain in the left phalangeal bones, 1.
- Continuous digging pain in the second joint of the right index finger, with a feeling of tension in the joint, when moving it; in the afternoon, in rough weather (seventeenth day), 5b.
- Violent pain in the middle joint of the little finger of the left hand, impeding its motion, 2c.
- Pain under the nail of the right index finger, as if he had received a violent blow on that part, continuing the whole day, 4 . [See note to symptom 20.]
- Jerking in the left index finger, in the evening hours (second day), 3. [520.]
- Fine sharp stitches in the index finger of the left hand, in the evening when in bed (fourth day), 3d.
- Numb feeling, afterwards formication in the little finger of the right hand (seventh day), 5b.
- Pain, as if sprained in the joints of the left thumb, continuing for several days, 1.
- Paralytic pain in the left thumb, 1.
- Formication in the right thumb, also during motion, continuing (fifth day), 5b.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Tottering gait, as if he had been sick a long while (after half an hour), 1.
- Weakness and heaviness in the whole of the right lower limb (fourth day), 5a.
- Uneasiness in the lower limbs, obliging him to turn from side to side, all night, 1.
- The lower limbs refuse to hold out and to remain steady; he feels all the time as if he ought to sit down (first day), 4.
- Very transient pains in the lower limbs (also in the fingers), rather dull, a hard pressure from above downward (first and second days), 4. [530.]
- Occasional contusive pain in some of the muscles of the lower limbs, when sitting in the evening (third day), 5a.
- Hip.
- Digging pain in the right hip, when lying upon it, in the evening (second day), 3a.
- Pain, as if sprained, in the right hip-joint, when walking (fourth day), 5a.
- Pain in the right hip-joint, as if sprained, when walking, 1.
- Pain in the right hip, as if sprained, 5b.
- Thigh.
- Heaviness in the thighs when commencing to walk, relieved by continued walking (first day), 5b.
- (Heaviness in the thighs), (first day), 7.
- Weariness of the muscles of the right thigh, when walking, 2c.
- Early in the morning, after rising, his thighs and legs do not feel refreshed, especially the left; he feels as if he had taken a long journey the day before, 1.
- Feeling of burning soreness between the thighs and the perinæum (first day), 5b. [540.]
- Sore feeling of the thighs near the genital organs (second and third days), 5a, 5b.
- Tensive pain in the inner surface of the right thigh (first day), 5b.
- Acute drawing in the right thigh (after five hours), 5a.
- Tearing stitches in the outer side of the left thigh, when at rest, 1.
- Some painful stitches in the region of the neck of the left femur, both during rest and motion, 1.
- Knee.
- The knees threaten to give way while going down stairs, 1.
- The knees threaten to give way after the siesta; at the same time he is indifferent and low-spirited, 1.
- Pain in the right knee-joint, as if the part were sore internally, or as if he had received a blow on the inner surface of the knee-pan (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
- Tensive pain, as if sprained, in the right knee, when bending it; during rough weather (sixteenth to eighteenth day), 5b.
- Drawing in the hollows of the knees, when walking (first day), 5b. [550.]
- Drawing, afterwards tearing pains in the right knee-joint, continuing for several hours, at night in bed (first day), 3a.
- Drawing in the knees, when at rest (first day), 5b.
- Fine tearing, deep in the knee-joints, apparently close to the bone, in rest and when bending the knee, 2a, 2b, 2c.
- Fine tearing in the region of the right knee, disappearing during motion (fourth day), 2e.
- Jerking sensation in the right knee (third day), 3b.
- Leg.
- Œdematous swelling of the legs and feet, increasing considerably when performing an unusual exertion, especially of the right leg (eighth day); continuing for several weeks, 1.
- Painful weariness in the tibiæ, as if he had taken a long journey the day previous, 1.
- Uneasiness in the left leg, as if he had walked a good deal and had tired himself out, in the evening, 1.
- Rigid feeling in the left leg, accompanied with a slight crawling (after two hours), 5a.
- Drawing along the anterior surface of the legs (fifth day), 5b. [560.]
- Tearing drawing in the right leg (eleventh day), 3e.
- Fine tearing in the left tibia, commencing in the knee, as if in the periosteum (fifth day), 2e.
- Tearing pains in the right tibia (eighth day), 3c.
- Boring-beating pain in the right tibia (seventh day), 6a.
- Pain in the tendo Achillis, when stepping, 4.
- Acute drawing pains deep in the malleolus externus, extending along the leg, especially when at rest; in rough weather (eighteenth day), 7.
- Sharp clawing pains in the tarsal joints, 4.
- Foot.
- Tearing in the right foot, especially in the outer malleolus (sixth day), 3b.
- Tingling in the left foot as if it had gone to sleep (first day), 3b.
- Troublesome tingling in the feet, especially in the balls and heels (second day), 5a. [570.]
- Pains in the toes, balls, and hollow of the feet, as of chronic chilblains, 2e.
- Small painful spot in the sole of the right foot, as from a corn, 1.
- Dull pain in the right heel (fourth day), 3b.
- A sudden stitch darts through the left heel (after two hours and a half), 5.
- Toes.
- The outer border of the right great toe is excessively painful, during rest, 2b.
- Pressure in the joints of the left great toe, several times repeated, 26.
- Stitching pain in the corn, at night when in bed (seventh day), 2e.
- Shooting stitches through the corns, 5b.
GENERALITIES
- Twitchings, 13.
- (General weakness), 4. [580.]
- Disagreeable general feeling of weakness, 2c.
- Great weariness and bruised feeling of the whole body (first day), 5, 5a, 5b.
- A short walk fatigues him much, and makes all his limbs feel bruised, 2c.
- Painful sensitiveness in windy and cold weather , for several days, 4.*
- Insensibility of the affected parts, 22.
- Sensation in the whole body, as if he had strained every part, 1.
- Slight drawing and jerking sensation in the whole body, now here, now there, but especially in the joints, returning at indefinite periods, and continuing upwards of a fortnight, 3b.
- Drawing, as if in the marrow, increasing in bad weather, 4.
- Disagreeable sensation in the affected parts, accompanied with a sensation as if a worm were creeping through them, 11.
- Creeping sensation in the affected parts, 14. [590.]
- Disagreeable sensation in the affected parts, 9.
- Uneasy creeping sensation in the diseased parts, 25.
- Tingling in the gouty parts, and abatement of the pain, 25.
- He feels most comfortable in bed, with his limbs drawn up, 1.
- *Almost all the symptoms reappear with rough weather, 5a, 5b.
SKIN
- Eruptions.
- Eruptions, 17, 22.
- A bright-red spot on the nose, sensitive to the touch, and lasting for several days, 4.
- Several dark-red spots on the inner side of the right thigh, occasioning a sore pain, when walking (fourth and fifth days), 5.
- Small red blotches on the inner surface of the thighs, 5b.
- Pimples on the left side over the outer part of the eyebrow and under the right corner of the mouth; painful when touched, 2b. [600.]
- Painless eruption of pimples around the left corner of the mouth (eighth day), 3b.
- Several large pustules on the back and shoulders (twelfth day), 5a.
- Several painless pustules on the right forearm (eighth day), 3c.
- Sensations.
- Pinching in the skin of the dorsum of the nose, 1.
- Burning and prickling under the right eye in the cheek (first day, and returning occasionally for many months), 4.
- Prickling in the skin, here and there, 4.
- Unceasing creeping in the affected parts, 14.
- Burning formication, pricking in the limbs, 17.
- Formication in those limbs which had been affected with gout, (after a few minutes), 21.
- Sudden formication in single fingers or other places of the hands and feet, 5b. [610.]
- Formication in the left leg (after three hours), 3a ; (after ten hours), 3b.
- Itching and gnawing in different parts of the body, for several evenings when going to sleep, 2e.
- Itching of the skin, 22.
- Itching and pains of all sorts, in the body, 24.
- Transient itching in the region behind the left ear, extending down to the nape of the neck, 19.
- Itching of the nose, 17, 22.
- Itching and increase of sweat about the scrotum (first days), 5, 5a, 5b.*
- He is roused from his nightly sleep by a continuous painful itching between the index and middle fingers of the left hand; in rough weather (seventeenth day), 5b.
- Itching sensation in the fingers of the left hand, obliging him to scratch; this is followed by burning, which goes off again by washing the part with cold water (seventh day), 3c.
- Itching, obliging to scratch, of the middle and ring finger of the left hand, with erysipelatous redness of those parts (seventh day, and afterwards), 2. [620.]
- Itching of the inner surface of the thighs, 5b.
SLEEP
- Sleepiness.
- Frequent yawning, without weariness, 2a, 2c.
- Great drowsiness in daytime, and deep night sleep in the first days, afterwards the reverse of these symptoms takes place, 5 . [Occurring after the exhibition of Rhod., in a woman suffering from rheumatic pains.]
- Great drowsiness in daytime (first and second days), 7.
- Great drowsiness, with burning in the eyes, in the afternoon (first and second days), 5b.
- Drowsiness in the afternoon, which he is scarcely able to conquer, 3c.
- Drowsiness, 24.
- Drowsy the whole day (first day), 3.
- On lying down in the evening, he falls into a deep sleep, immediately, 5a, 5b.
- Deep calm sleep, the first hours; towards morning he wakes frequently and tosses about (second and third days), 5b. [630.]
- Contrary to his habit he lies on his back, the feet crossed, 5, 5a.
- In the morning, when in bed, all his limbs are affected, he stretches himself all the time, and throws himself from side to side, 1.
- Sleeplessness.
- Restless sleep, 22.
- Restless sleep, disturbed with dreams (first night), 3a, 3b, 3c.
- Early in the morning he wakes at a certain time, for several mornings in succession, as if he were called, and is afterwards unable to fall asleep again, 1.
- Wakes up early in the morning, after which his sleep is restless, 5b.
- Dreams.
- Sleep full of dreams; feels more weary when rising than he did when lying down (third day), 3e.
- Lascivious dreams, with a copious emission of semen (ninth day), 3e.
- Vivid, lascivious dreams, towards morning (second and third nights), 2e.
- Anxious dreams, he dreams about fire (twelfth night), 3c. [640.]
- He dreams about fire, remaining indifferent, 1.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Chilliness of the whole body, especially early in the morning, when in bed, 1.
- He feels chilly the whole day; the least current of air makes him feel chilly, 1.
- Alternations of chilliness and heat, headache, drawing in the limbs, and appearance of the menses, which had been suppressed for the last six months (fourth day), 5 . [See note to symptom 106.]
- Coldness of the three middle fingers of the right hand, 2c.
- Feeling of coldness, with goose-skin, in small portions of the lower limbs, 5a, 5b.
- Feeling of coldness and rigidity in the thighs, when rising from his seat, in the evening (first day), 5b.
- A feeling of coldness is experienced along the thigh, commencing at the left knee, the hands being warm, forenoon (second day), 5.
- Cold undulating sensation above the knee, extending as far as the top of the knee, 19.
- Icy-cold feet in a warm room, especially in the evening; they cannot be warmed in the bed, and frequently disturb sleep (third to sixth day), 2c, 2e. [650.]
- Cold feet (first day), 3b.
- Heat.
- Paroxysm of fever, at 6 o'clock in the evening; great heat about the head, with cold feet and absence of thirst; intolerable headache, with pressure from within outward, burning in the eyes, dryness in the nose, and a burning hot sensation in the nose, when taking an inspiration; feeling of debility and a bruised pain in all the limbs, and weariness of mind; restless, almost sleepless night, owing to vivid dreams and dry heat of the body; towards morning he slumbered some; during his slumber a general sweat broke out, which alleviated his sufferings; he had never passed such a night in his life; this paroxysm of fever returned the two following evenings, but in a less degree, 2.
- Febrile heat, with violent thirst, 14.
- Excites heat, 11.
- Febrile excitement, 20.
- General feeling of warmth, and a slight sweat over the whole body (after one hour), 6, 6a.
- Pleasant feeling of warmth spread over the whole body (in a few minutes), 3.
- He experiences a feeling of warmth and anxiety in the upper part of his body, as soon as he enters the room, coming from the open air, 1.
- Warmth in the face and on the body, down to the thighs, 19.
- Paroxysmal burning heat in the face; evening (first day), 3. [660.]
- The hands, especially the tips of the fingers, feel hot, accompanied with visible sweat (after half an hour), 5.
- Increased feeling of warmth of the hands, generally cold (after three hours), 3b.
- Frequent increase of warmth of the hands, even in cold air (first days), 3, 3a, 3b.
- Sweat.
- Sweat, 14, 24.
- Profuse sweat (first night), 8, 12.
- Enormous sweat, 23.
- Profuse fetid sweat, 17, 22.
- Profuse sweat and moist skin, during the day, 21.
- Sweat, frequently accompanied with itching and formication in the skin; the sweat is said to smell of spice frequently, 20 . [Formication is characteristic.]
- When walking in the open air he sweats easily, and feels tired (fourth and fifth days), 5a. [670.]
- Fetid, increased sweat in the axillæ (the first hours), 5a.
- Sweat of the lower limbs, in bed, towards morning (second day), 3a.
- Slight perspiration on the lower extremities, early in the morning, while in bed (first day), 5b.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), When waking, dulness of head, etc.; headache; pain in occiput; burning in eyes; burning and pressure in canthus and secretion of mucus; when rising, sneezing; stoppage of the nose; saliva increased, and has a sourish taste; when swallowing saliva, nausea; putrid taste mouth; roughness in throat; incarceration of flatus; in bed, fulness, heaviness, etc., in abdomen; dryness in trachea; cough; pain under shot ribs; in bed, pain and stiffness in nape of neck; pain in back, shoulders, and arms; on turning over in bed, pain in left scapula; in bed, tearing pain in shoulder; early, waking; in bed, chilliness; sweat on extremities.
- ( Forenoon ), Buzzing in left ear; after eating bread, burning in throat.
- ( Afternoon ), When standing, pain in pit of stomach; pain in chest; on moving part, pain in joint of right index finger.
- ( Evening ), Headache; pressure in occiput; itching of hairy scalp; burning in eyes; during deglutition of food, pain in throat; during a walk, pressure in pit of stomach; pain in right hypochondrium; during rest, stitches in left side; pricking in orifice of urethra; pain in glans; when sitting, sticking in right testicle; oppression of chest; in bed, tearing in right wrist-joint; tearing in right hand; jerking in left index finger; stitches in index finger; when sitting, pain in muscles of lower limbs; on lying upon part, pain in right hip; uneasiness in left leg; on going to sleep, itching and gnawing in different parts of the body; when rising from seat, coldness and rigidity in thighs; cold feet; 6 o'clock, paroxysm of fever.
- ( Night ), Reeling; suppuration of eyelids; pain in left lower jaw and teeth; in bed, pain in pit of stomach; when in sound sleep, emission; cough; tremulousness of the limbs; in bed, tearing in left forearm; in bed, pain in right knee-joint; in bed, stitching pain in corns.
- ( Open air ), Dulness of the head, with drawing in the eyes; lachrymation; secretion of mucus in the nose.
- ( In cool air ), Scrotum shrinks.
- ( Before approach of thunderstorm or cloudy weather ), Toothache.
- ( Bending body to right or backward ), Sensation from left chest to back.
- ( Bending part ), Pain in right knee; tearing in knee-joints.
- ( Usual breakfast ), Fulness in abdomen.
- ( Changes in weather ), Pains in limbs.
- ( After dinner ), Rising of oppressive wind; pressure in pit of stomach; pressure in epigastrium.
- ( After drinking cold water ), Pressure at stomach.
- ( After drinking ), Rumbling in abdomen.
- ( Large doses ), Vomiting.
- ( After eating ), Rumbling in abdomen.
- ( Entering room from open air ), Warmth and anxiety in upper part of body.
- ( After an excessive effort ), Heaviness and weakness in left forearm.
- ( Food and drink ), Diarrhœa.
- ( Fluids ), Vomiting.
- ( Fruit ), Diarrhœa.
- ( During an inspiration ), Burning on the tongue.
- ( When looking at daylight ), Before rising from bed, burning in eyes.
- ( Looking intently at an object ), Burning in eyes.
- ( When lying in bed ), Vertigo; pain in left hemisphere of brain.
- ( After a meal ), Cutting pains in epigastrium; pinching in umbilical region; uncomfortable feeling.
- ( Before and during micturition ), Burning in urethra.
- ( After micturition ), Stitches in the urethra.
- ( Motion ), Pain in outer chest; pain in middle of left chest; pain in joint of left thumb.
- ( During and after motion ), Pain in wrist-joint.
- ( Moving about in house ), Pain in forehead.
- ( Moving head ), Pain in forehead.
- ( Moving wrist ), Pain in wrist-joint.
- ( Pressing inward ), Pain in pit of stomach.
- ( When reading ), Weakness of eyes; heat in eyes.
- ( During rest ), Stitches in left side; pain in small of back; pain in left side of lumbar vertebræ; heaviness and weakness of right arm; sensation in left arm; pain in joint of upper arm; weariness in left wrist-joint; pain in right wrist-joint; stitches in outer side of left thigh; drawing in knees; tearing in knee-joints; pain in malleolus externus; pain in great toe.
- ( After rising ), Dulness of head.
- ( While sitting ), Vertigo; pain in right hemisphere of brain and cerebrum; pain in small of back; shuddering sensation in region of lumbar vertebra.
- ( Sitting bent ), Oppression of chest.
- ( During sleep ), Oppression of chest.
- ( When standing ), Scrotum shrinks.
- ( Staying in a warm room ), Pain in molar teeth.
- ( When stepping ), Pain in tendo Achillis.
- ( Stooping ), Nausea; pain in pit of stomach; pain in left hypochondrium; oppression of chest; pain in small of back.
- ( Touch ), Pain in muscles of chest.
- ( Turning body from left to right side ), Pain in left chest.
- ( When not urinating ), Pain in orifice of urethra; twitching in orifice of glans.
- ( When commencing to walk ), Heaviness in thighs.
- ( Walking in open air ), Tearing in left wrist-joint; sweat.
- ( When walking ), Reeling sensation in head; scraping in throat; pain in abdominal rings; sore pain between genital organs and thighs; testes drawn up; pain from chest to left hypochondrium; prickling in right foot and hand; fatigue; bruised feeling in limbs; pain in right hip-joint; weariness of muscles of right thigh.
- ( Warm food ), Pain in upper molar teeth.
- ( In damp weather ), Pain in single teeth; diarrhœa.
- ( In rough weather ), Drawing in marrow; reappearance of symptoms; painful sensitiveness.
- ( When whistling ), Buzzing in left ear.
- ( Wine ), Aching pain in forehead; drawing tearing in forehead.
- ( When writing ), Vertigo; weakness of eyes; heat in eyes.
- Amelioration.
- ( Open air ), Stoppage of nose.
- ( Eating ), Pain in teeth of right lower jaw.
- ( Emission of flatus ), Pains in abdomen; fulness in abdomen.
- ( Eructations ), Nausea; fulness in abdomen.
- ( Motion in open air ), Vertigo; dulness of head and aching in left temporal region.
- ( Motion ), Pain in right testicle; pain in small of back; heaviness and weakness of right arm; tearing in region of right knee.
- ( Moving arm ), Heaviness and weakness in left arm.
- ( Rest ), Beating pain in forehead.
- ( On sitting up ), Pain in left hemisphere of brain.
- ( Walking ), Sticking in right testicle.
- ( Continued walking ), Heaviness in thighs.
- ( Washing with cold water ), Burning in fingers of left hand.