Staphisagria

by Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Delphinium staphisagria, Linn.

Natural order , Ranunculaceæ.

Common names , Stavesacre; (G.), Läusesamen; (F.), Staphisaigre.

Preparation , Tincture of the seeds.

Authorities. (From Hahnemann, R. A. M. L.)

1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Cubitz; 3 , Franz; 4 , Gross; 5 , Gutmann; 6 , Hartmann; 7 , Haynel; 8 , Herrmann; 9 , Hornburg; 10 , Kummer; 11 , Langhammer; 12 , Stapf; 13 , Teuthorn.

MIND

  • Emotional.
  • He was joyous, enjoyed society, and was good-humored, 11 . [Curative reaction of the organism in a man of the opposite disposition. -Hahnemann.]
  • Good-humor; he was joyful and conversational, and was happy in his condition (after thirteen hours), 11 . [Curative reaction of the organism in a man of the opposite disposition. -Hahnemann.]
  • Earnest mood, quiet, busy with himself, speaks very little, 1.
  • Very lachrymose, 1.
  • Sadness, without ability to assign any reason, 5.
  • Sad; he fears the worst results from slight causes, and cannot quiet himself, 13.
  • Mind phlegmatic, depressed, sad, apathetic, indifferent to everything, without peevishness or without being weak, 5.
  • Her mind seemed dead and sad, though not with weeping, 1.
  • Morose; she frequently cries at nothing, 1. [10.]
  • She was full of grief all day; she grieved over her condition and wept; nothing in the world pleased her (after fifty hours), 1.
  • She will hear or know nothing from any one; she wraps up her face and weeps aloud without cause, 1.
  • Anxious and fearful, 1.
  • Great anxiety; he dreads the future, 8.
  • Violent internal anxiety, so that he could not remain in any place, but without complaints, 1.
  • Anxious thoughts and events in the past came to him as if the past were present before him, which caused anxiety and anxious perspiration, then it became black before his eyes; he did not know whether the images were real or illusory, then everything seemed different, and he lost all desire to live, 1.
  • (When walking rapidly, it seems as though some one were coming behind him, which causes anxiety and fear, and he is constantly obliged to look around), 1.
  • *Very peevish (in the morning); he wishes to throw from him everything which he takes in his hand, 1.
  • Fretful and sad, 12.
  • Fretful and peevish all day; does not know himself on account of despondency, and is extremely depressed (after thirty-seven hours), 1. [20.]
  • Fretful and restless all day, found red nowhere, 11.
  • Quiet fretfulness; he is vexed at everything which even does not concern him, 8.
  • Fretful and disinclined for mental work (after two hours), 5.*
  • Fretful and lachrymose, 12.
  • Every word vexes her; she cries even if one only speaks to her, 1.
  • Quarrelsome mood and yet lively, 13.
  • (Hypochondriac mood; everything seems indifferent to him; he would rather die), 1.
  • Alternations of mood, at first joyous, then anxious, at last quiet and contented, 11 . [The first mood is a transient reaction of the organism from one of fear and depression; afterwards, the primary action of the drug is again noticed in the anxiety, after which the reaction of the organism is again seen, and the quiet contented mood remains. -Hahnemann.]
  • Intellectual.
  • Dulness of mind, that keeps him from every work, 1.
  • Even attractive things made no impression upon him, 1. [30.]
  • Disinclination for earnest work, 5.*
  • He is mentally exhausted, has no desire to think, is not inclined to thought, and is indifferent to his surroundings, 5.
  • On attempting to grasp an idea, it vanishes, 1.
  • He does not know whether the things which are presented to him are from out of his memory, are real, or whether he is only dreaming of them, from 5 to 7 P.M., 1.
  • Thoughts disappear whenever he attempts to think or speaks of any subject, and if any one interrupts him or changes to another subject, he, for the moment, forgets, or cannot at all collect his thoughts, 4.
  • The thoughts disappear (memory disturbed by fantasies); whenever he reflects upon anything numerous and confused subjects crowd upon him, so that he cannot collect his thoughts, and forgets entirely of what he was thinking, 4.
  • Weakness of memory; a few minutes after reading anything, he can recollect it only dimly, and whenever he thinks of anything, the sense escapes him, and he is scarcely able to recall it after long reflection, 8.*

HEAD

  • Confusion and Vertigo.
  • Confusion of the head, as in coryza, 13.
  • The head is very confused, in the morning, with constrictive pressure in the vertex (after four days), 3.
  • Vertigo; he runs against a door in walking, 1. [40.]
  • Vertigo while lying in bed, in the evening, as if everything were turning around, 1.
  • Vertigo on stooping and suddenly turning the head; everything turned about in a half circle (only once), 1.
  • Vertigo, as if stupefied, in the house, not in the open air, 1.
  • Whirling vertigo, especially while sitting, relieved by walking about (after one hour), 2.
  • Whirling in the forehead and dulness in the head (after five hours), 12.
  • Dizziness (after eight hours and a half), 5.
  • General Head.
  • When bending the head forward, it falls forward almost involuntarily, while sitting (after ten hours), 3.
  • Dulness of the head, as if vertigo would occur, while standing and talking, lasting a long time, 7.
  • Dulness and heaviness of the head (after half an hour), 7.
  • The head is constantly dull and the spirits depressed, 10. [50.]
  • Dulness of the head only at intervals; at times the head was quite free and clear, 1.
  • Heaviness in the head (after seventy-two hours), 5.
  • Heaviness of the head and weakness of the cervical muscles; he is obliged to lean the head backward, or to one or the other side (after twelve hours), 7.
  • Heaviness lying upon the ethmoid bone in the head, above the root of the nose, like a compression on both sides, 3.
  • Heaviness of the head, relieved by resting it upon the hand (after one hour), 5.
  • Pressure in the brain, especially in the occiput, towards the bones of the skull, and a pressure as from too great accumulation of blood, in the evening, before going to bed, continuing after lying down (after thirty-nine hours), 7.
  • On motion, headache, as if the whole brain would fall out; even during rest, sensation as if the brain were pressed together, separated from the skull and lying loose therein, 1.
  • Headache alternately stupefying and boring, 1.
  • Aching, like a tingling, in the whole of the head (after five hours), 12.
  • Violent headache, as if the brain were torn to pieces, in the morning, immediately after washing, but it afterwards disappeared, with violent spasmodic yawning, 1. [60.]
  • Headache, as if the brain were compressed (mostly in the forehead), with paroxysms of roaring in the ears, which ceases much sooner than the headache, 4.*
  • Sticking headache all day (after seventeen days), 1.
  • Pain in the head, as if everything would come out at the forehead, on stooping (after five hours), 12.
  • Tearing and pulling from the head down through the cheeks into the teeth (after thirty-six hours), 12.
  • Tingling and sticking in the whole of the head, worse on stooping and when walking, in the evening, for several hours (after thirty-six hours), 12.
  • Forehead.
  • Dulness of the head, anteriorly in the middle of the forehead, in a small spot as large as the tip of the finger , like a stupefaction; on the street he does not know whether he is going to the right or left; he is obliged to be very careful, 1.*
  • Headache pressing outward and pressing asunder in the left half of the forehead (after half an hour), 6.
  • On shaking the head, there is a sensation in a small spot in the middle of the forehead as if there were something heavy like a ball of lead in the brain which would not loosen, 1.*
  • Dull pinching headache in the forehead, with stitches in the temples, relieved by walking about, but returning on sitting and standing (after four hours), 13.
  • Drawing pressure in the forehead from time to time, 7. [70.]
  • Pressure above the right eye, behind the brow, as from something hard, 3.
  • Pressive stupefying headache, especially in the forehead , worse on moving the head and on standing up, 11.*
  • Violent tearing pressure through the left half of the brain, especially violent in the forehead, gradually increasing and gradually diminishing (after fifty-four hours), 6.
  • Hard pressure in the right side of the forehead, 8.
  • Dull, painful, at times sticking, pressure from within outward, at first in the whole of the forehead, afterwards only in the left frontal eminence, which disappears during rest, but returns more violent on motion (after four hours), 7.
  • Drawing, cutting tearing in the side of the forehead, 11.
  • Tearing in the forehead, in the evening, while sitting; on stooping, a sticking in it, relieved by walking, 1.
  • Pressive sticking and drawing pain in the left side of the forehead (after two hours), 11.
  • A pressing-boring stitch, lasting for a minute, in the morning, from within outward, in the left half of the forehead, so violent that it awoke him twice (after twenty-two hours and a half), 6.*
  • Burning stitches on the frontal bone externally, 3. [80.]
  • Sudden stitches in the upper part of the forehead, so that he started up, 3.
  • Temples.
  • Hard pressure in the head, in the region of the right temporal bone and on the vertex, 3.
  • Pressive pain in the left temple internally and externally, as from pressing hard with the finger (after one hour and a half), 8.
  • Burning-pressive tearing in the right temple, close to the eye (after seven hours), 6.
  • Drawing-tearing sticking in the left temple, as if in the bone, pulsative and persistent (after forty hours); on the next day it returned at the same time, now in the left, now in the right temple, then in the left frontal eminence, less violent, continuing for several days, 7.
  • Stitches in the left temple, 1.
  • Sharp, burning, needlelike stitches in the left temple, 4.
  • Dull stitches in the right temple, internally and externally, as if the bones would be pressed out, aggravated by touch, 8.
  • Vertex and Parietals.
  • Headache in the vertex like a constriction from all sides and pressure, 3.
  • Sharp pressure on the vertex at times, 3. [90.]
  • A boring stitch from within outward in the vertex (after fifty-six hours), 5.
  • Some large dull stitches extending from the skull into the brain in the vicinity of the crown, together with external soreness in the spot, especially when touched, 1.
  • Sensation of soreness in the right parietal bone only when touched; he is unable to lie on the right side in the night on account of the pain (after eighty hours), 4.
  • Burning-pressive pain in the left parietal bone, just above the ear, extending inward (after two hours and a half), 6.
  • Burning-sticking pain in the left parietal bone, 8.
  • Occiput.
  • Feeling as if the occiput were compressed internally and externally, 8.
  • A heavy pressing-asunder pain in the occiput while walking in the open air (after half an hour), 6.
  • Rheumatic pressive drawing in the occiput, commencing at the articulation, on bending the head forward, 3.
  • Painful drawing on and beneath the occiput, persistent on every motion of the head (after ten minutes), 8.
  • Transient burning stitches in the occiput, on the first day extending from the right to the left side, on the following days from below upward, 2.
  • External Head. [100.]
  • The hair of the head falls out profusely, 1.
  • The hair can be pulled from the head with little effort, without pain (after four hours), 5.
  • An itching scurfy eruption on the scalp and also above and behind the ear, 1.*
  • Tearing in the head externally and in the teeth, 1.
  • Painful drawing in several places in the head externally, aggravated by touch, 8.
  • Itching on the scalp, 1.*
  • Great itching on the scalp, which was scurfy and moist, 1.*
  • Itching, like needle stitches, on the scalp, and fine papular eruption anteriorly towards the forehead, 3.
  • Fine burning needle stitches externally on the vertex, 3.*
  • Itching biting on the scalp, which was aggravated by rubbing, lasting several days, 7.* [110.]
  • Biting itching over the whole occiput, which obliges scratching, but is rather aggravated than relieved thereby (after fourteen hours), 7.
  • Biting itching on the upper part of the occiput, with sore pain, recurring in the same place about the same time, in the evening, 7.*

EYE

  • Objective.
  • The eyes lie excessively deep, with blue raised rings around them, as after great excesses, lasting four days, 12.
  • The right eye is much larger than usual (more widely opened), (after seventy-eight hours), 3.
  • Inflammation of the white of the eye, with pain, 1.
  • At night, dry matter collects upon the lashes and in the outer canthus; in the open air, the matter from the eyes also dries and causes tension, 1.
  • The eyes close at times, though he is not sleepy, 3.
  • Subjective.
  • Dryness of the eyes, lasting all day (after thirteen hours), 7.*
  • The eyes are dry, in the morning on waking , with pressure in them, so that she cannot open them without assistance, 1.*
  • The eyes are dry, in the evening, with pressure in them, 1.* [120.]
  • Burning pressive sensation about the left eye (after four hours), 6.
  • Pressure in the eye; she was frequently obliged to wink, 1.
  • When reading, the eyes soon begin to ache (especially in the afternoon); a biting and burning, and then they discharge some biting drops; he is obliged to avoid the light, because it makes them pain sooner, 1.
  • The eyes feel as if full of sleep, 1.
  • Coarse stitches in the eyes on exerting them, 3.
  • Orbit.
  • Pain in the upper wall of the right orbit, just behind the eye, pressing the eye downward, lasting a long time and frequently recurring (after ten days), 7.
  • Heavy pressure above the right orbit in the open air (after three hours and a half), 6.
  • Pressure above the right eye and a drawing upward, 3.
  • Lids.
  • The inner canthi are agglutinated, in the morning, 1.
  • Dry matter constantly collects in the inner canthus, which he is frequently obliged to remove, during the day, 1. [130.]
  • Pain, more biting than itching, in the left inner canthus, 1.
  • A not disagreeable burning in the right outer canthus, extending rather far back behind the eye towards the ear, and recurring by paroxysms (after one hour and a half), 12.
  • A biting-smarting pain in the inner canthi, 1 . [In a man who had never had any trouble with his eyes. -Hahnemann.]
  • A constrictive sensation in the upper lid, that forces out tears, 1.
  • Pain as if a hard substance were lying beneath the left upper lid (after thirteen hours), 5.*
  • Pressure in the upper lid all day, worse on closing the eye, 1.*
  • Hard pressure in the inner canthus of the right eye, 3.
  • Tearing pressure in the outer canthus and in the region of the lachrymal gland (after seventy-two hours), 3.
  • Violent sharp-cutting pain beneath the left upper lid (after seventy-five hours), 5.
  • A tensive stitch in the outer canthus of the right eye (after three hours and three-quarters), 5. [140.]
  • Itching on the margin of the upper lid in the open air , recurring after two hours in the other eye, relieved by rubbing (after three-quarters of an hour), 10.*
  • *Itching of the margins of the lids (after two hours), 1.
  • Violent itching in the inner canthus, most severe in the open air; is obliged to rub it, 1.
  • Lachrymation.
  • Biting water runs from the eyes, in the morning, 1.
  • Ball.
  • Pressive pain in the upper part of the right eyeball (after three hours and a half), 6.
  • Sticking thrusts in the eyeball, as if it would burst (after one hour and a half), 3.
  • Pupil.
  • Dilatation of the pupils, 1 ; (after twenty-six hours), 11 ; (first days), 12.
  • Pupils greatly dilated for many hours, 12.
  • Pupils contracted (after half, and one hour), 11.
  • The pupils are contracted (after half an hour), after which they are greatly dilated, 13.
  • Vision. [150.]
  • Dimness of vision, as if the eyes were full of water, with itching and fine sticking in the inner canthus, compelling him to rub them, 1.
  • The eyes are dim and so hot that the eyeglasses are dim, 1.
  • Vision dim for near and distant objects (after ten hours), 7.
  • Illusion of vision; on rising from a seat he seems to himself much larger than natural, and everything beneath him seems too low down (after twenty-six hours), 3.
  • When reading, it seems as if small black lightnings passed between the letters, and then whole lines vanished, 1.
  • While looking in the open air, black lightnings passed at times in front of the eyes, like a kind of flickering, 1.
  • She saw a flame of fire before the eyes when in bed in a dark night, 1.
  • While looking, a white veil seems to extend over the object and renders it invisible, 1.
  • A halo is seen about the candlelight, in the evening, 1.

EAR

  • External.
  • Pinching burning-pressive pain on the left concha posteriorly (after eight hours), 6.
  • Middle. [160.]
  • Sensation of coldness streaming into the right meatus auditorius like a cool breath, lasting several hours, 12.
  • (Drawing pain in the ear), 1.
  • A pinching and twinging in the left ear, 1.
  • Dull but deep stitches, within the ear, first the left then the right, 1.
  • A dull painful stitch, deep in the right ear, in the evening (after forty-eight hours), 10.
  • A stitch in the left ear (after thirty-one hours), 5.
  • A tensive stitch in the left ear (after eight hours and a half, and thirty-six hours), 5.
  • Hearing.
  • Ringing in the left ear (after four hours and a half), 10.
  • Ringing in one or the other ear, on moving the head, which disappears during rest (after two hours and three-quarters), 11.
  • At times slight reports in both ears, as if wind blew into them, without diminished hearing, 3.

NOSE. [170.]

  • Sneezing, with coryza, 1.
  • Frequent sneezing, without coryza (after two, and ten hours), 11.
  • Sudden violent coryza, with catarrhal voice, lasting a quarter of an hour, at 2 P.M., 1.
  • Violent coryza, without cough, 1.
  • Violent coryza; tickling in the nose and sneezing, with discharge at one time of profuse mild watery liquid, at another of thick mucus, afterwards of thick slimy substances, 12.
  • Violent fluent coryza; one nostril is stopped, the other is not, with frequent sneezing, lachrymation and cracked lips (after three, and four days), 10.
  • Coryza; at first discharge of only thick mucus, afterwards of thin water (after four days), 8.
  • (Stoppage of the nose, in the evening, so that she could get not air through it, made talking difficult), 1.
  • The nose is sore internally, with a scab deep internally, 1.
  • A sore pain on the cartilage in the septum of the left nostril, as if it would suppurate, when touched, 4. [180.]
  • Smarting pain in one nostril, as if it were very much ulcerated, 1.
  • Itching in the left nostril, which disappears on touch (after seventy-eight hours), 5.

FACE

  • He looks as hollow-eyed and haggard, and as sick and pinched in the face as after a night's watching, or as after a disagreeable mental shock, 12.
  • Face swollen, as from coryza, 12.
  • Throbbing and pressive pain in the whole of the face, extending from the teeth into the eye, lasting sixteen days, 1.
  • Very fine needlelike stitches in the face and other parts of the body, 3.
  • Cheek.
  • Swelling of the cheek over the lower jaw, 1.
  • Drawing in both malar bones, 8.
  • The left cheek is painful us if suppurating, while yawning, 3.
  • Pressive tearing in the left malar bone, affecting also the teeth (after one hour), 4. [190.]
  • Cutting drawing in the left malar bone (after twenty-two hours), 4.
  • Itching (biting) needlelike stitches, provoking scratching, in both cheeks, 4.
  • Sharp burning stitches in the left cheek, which provoke scratching, 4.
  • Dull stitch in the left malar bone (after twenty-two hours), 5.
  • A burning stitch in the right cheek-bone (after half an hour), 5.
  • Lip.
  • A sticking-burning vesicle on the margin of the red of the lower lip, on touch, 13.
  • Ulcer on the lip, with gnawing-drawing pains (after thirty-seven hours), 8.
  • An ulcer on the margin of the red of the lower lip, with a shiny look, with dull sticking-drawing pain, at times associated with a not disagreeable itching, which provokes scratching, and is followed by dull sticking (after six hours), 8.
  • Ulcer on the lip, discharge at first of pus, afterwards of only greenish water (after three days), 6.
  • A scurfy ulcer in the middle of the upper lip, 1. [200.]
  • A pimple covered with a scab, in the red of the upper lip, with a burning sensation, 1.
  • Burning for a minute, almost in the middle of the upper lip, on the outer margin, 12.
  • Sensation of fine cutting in the lip, as if it were cracked, 3.
  • Sharp pressive stitches, from within outward, in the upper lip, 4.
  • Chin.
  • Induration like a cartilage, as large as a hazelnut, as though the glands were swollen beneath the chin anteriorly by the symphysis, with a hard pressive pain, when swallowing, or when touched, or when rubbed by the neck-band (after twenty-six hours), 8.
  • A tensive sensation, as if a pimple would form, on the lower anterior part of the chin, below the margin of the lower jaw, 3.
  • Pain in the articulation of the jaw, when yawning, 1.
  • The right articulation of the lower jaw, in front of the ear, is apt to get out of joint when yawning, with sticking pain, 1.

MOUTH

  • Teeth.
  • The teeth soon become black, she is obliged to clean them twice a day, and still black streaks remain across them, 1.*
  • A tooth that had for a long time been a little decayed rapidly became hollow, within eight days, 3.* [210.]
  • A piece scales off from the posterior surface of an incisor (after twenty-eight hours), 8.*
  • Toothache caused by drawing air into the mouth, 1.*
  • Toothache on eating, the teeth are not firm but wabble about when touched; he cannot chew his food properly, for when chewing or pressing the teeth together, it seems as though the teeth were pressed deeper into the gum; therewith the gum is white (after fifty-six hours), 8.
  • Pain in a hollow tooth, always after eating, a biting drawing (but in the incisors a pressure), which is excessively aggravated in the open air, even while the mouth is closed, which gradually ceased in the house, for several days (after five days), 3.*
  • The hollow teeth are sensitive to the slightest touch, and if after eating the slightest food remains in the cavities, there is a violent pain, extending into the roots of the teeth, and the gum about the teeth becomes painfully sore, 6.*
  • Any cold drink seems to penetrate the teeth as if they were hollow, 12.*
  • A painful draft in the teeth, from time to time, followed by throbbing in the gum, 1.
  • The teeth begin to grumble, while chewing, 3.
  • A piercing drawing in a tooth itself, that becomes hollow, and in the corresponding one on the other side, in the morning, 1.*
  • Pressive-drawing toothache in the anterior teeth, as after Mercury, worse at night towards morning, 1. [220.]
  • Violent drawing toothache, with swelling of the cheek, pressive headache in the same side, and heat in the face, 1.
  • Drawing pain, only in a hollow tooth, in the morning (after seventy-two hours), 3.
  • Pressive-drawing toothache on the right side, caused by cold water, 3.
  • Tearing toothache, immediately after eating and chewing, as also after drinking anything cold , which disappears within half an hour, but immediately returns on chewing; drink that is not cool or liquid food do not cause pain; the pain is not caused by motion, but if it exists it is aggravated thereby, especially by motion in the open air, 3.*
  • Tearing, first in the roots of a hollow tooth, then extending forward into the crown, only immediately after eating and chewing, greatly aggravated in the open air; together with a pressure in the upper part of the crown of the painful teeth, extending towards their roots; when touched with the finger the other teeth also begin to pain (after nine days), 3.*
  • Tearing in all the roots of the teeth , with a feeling as if on edge when biting on them (after forty hours), 13.*
  • Violent tearing in the roots of the teeth , with drawing in the muscles of the face, now in one, now in the other side, 9.*
  • Tickling sticking in the back teeth of the right lower jaw (after a quarter of an hour), 4.*
  • Biting pain in the four lower front teeth, especially at night, 1.
  • Gum.
  • Swelling of the gum, with heat in the cheek, 1. [230.]
  • The inner surface of the gum is painful and swollen, and is even painful on swallowing, 1.
  • The gum bleeds when pressed upon and on cleaning the teeth, for many days, 1.*
  • The gum becomes eaten away, 1.
  • The gum becomes pale and white, 1.
  • A pimple on the gum, not of itself painful, but only when pressed with anything hard (after seventeen days), 1.
  • A vesicle changing to an ulcer, on the inner side of the gum, full of sticking-drawing pain, 1.
  • The gum of the upper and lower right teeth is spasmodically and painfully contracted, so that he cannot separate the teeth on account of pain, 9.
  • The gum is painful when touched, 1.
  • Painful drawing in the gum of the right incisor and canine teeth and in their roots, which extends into the muscles of the lower jaw (after twenty-six hours), 8.
  • Painful drawing in the gum of the last back teeth and in their roots, 8. [240.]
  • Tearing in the gum and roots of the lower back teeth, while eating (after seventy-two hours), 8.*
  • Tongue.
  • White-coated tongue (after twenty-seven hours), 11 ; (after forty-six hours), 12.
  • Dryness of the tongue, together with tough mucus in the posterior nares, which stops them, 3.
  • Sensation of dryness of the tongue; collection of sour water in the mouth, together with hard mucus stopping the choanæ, 3.
  • A sore pain on the anterior portion of the tongue, 1.
  • Stitches in the tip of the tongue, even when not touched, 1.
  • Sticking pain on the margin of the tongue, when pressed against the palate, as if a splinter were sticking into it, disappearing when eating, 1.
  • General Mouth.
  • Constant accumulation of mucus, without a bad taste in the mouth, 8.
  • A blister in the mouth, 1.
  • Raw and scraped, but very moist palate, 12. [250.]
  • Pressive smarting on the palate posteriorly only, when not swallowing (after four, and five hours), 3.
  • Burning scratching in the palate, when swallowing and when not, 8.
  • Stitches in the palate when it is dry, in the evening (after twelve hours), 3.
  • Stitches in the palate, extending into the brain, 1.
  • Saliva.
  • Salivation, 1.
  • The mouth is constantly full of water, as in great hunger, 12.
  • Accumulation of water in the mouth after eating, a kind of waterbrash, 3.
  • Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, 1.
  • Bloody saliva (immediately), 5.
  • Taste.
  • A qualmish insipid taste in the mouth, though food has a good taste, 1. [260.]
  • A disgusting bitter taste to food (after forty-six hours), 12.
  • Disgusting bitter taste in the mouth, 12.
  • Watery taste in the mouth, though food has a natural taste, 1.
  • Bread has a sour taste, 1.
  • Food has no taste, though he has an appetite, 1.
  • Bread has a sourish taste, 3.
  • Smoking tobacco has a biting taste, 1.

THROAT

  • Dryness of the throat, especially in the evening before falling asleep; sticking in the throat, on swallowing, 1.
  • Throat rough, as if painfully sore, when talking and swallowing, 1.*
  • (Drinking beer causes a scraping, disagreeable taste in the throat), 1. [270.]
  • Painful drawing, extending from the hyoid bone deep into the neck beneath the lower jaw, aggravated by touching the side of the neck (after forty-eight hours), 8.
  • Scraping sensation in the fauces behind the nares, as if one had drawn snuff through, 5.
  • Swelling of the tonsils and submaxillary glands, 1.
  • Swelling of the submaxillary gland, which prevents swallowing, for four hours (after three hours), 13.
  • The submaxillary glands are painful as if swollen and bruised, 1.
  • The submaxillary glands are painful to touch, and also pain by themselves, 1.

STOMACH

  • Appetite and Thirst.
  • Excessively ravenous hunger, even when the stomach was full of food, and when he ate again the food was relished, 1.
  • He is attacked with a violent sensation of hunger, with accumulation of water, a few hours after a large nourishing meal, 10.
  • An apparent sensation of hunger in the stomach, as if it were hanging relaxed, yet without appetite, 1.
  • Great desire for milk, 1. [280.]
  • Thirstlessness; he drinks less than usual, 8.
  • Eructations.
  • Eructation several times (after a quarter of an hour), 10.
  • Eructations tasting of the food, 12.
  • Eructations of tasteless liquid, after eating, 12.
  • Tasteless eructations; but neither air nor anything else comes up, 12.
  • A kind of eructation; a large amount of mucus comes into the mouth from the upper part of the throat (after half an hour), 1.
  • Scraping eructations that affect the larynx and cause cough (scraping heartburn), 1.
  • Frequent empty eructations, 12.
  • Hiccough.
  • Frequent hiccough, associated with nausea and stupefaction of the head (after three-quarters of an hour), 11.
  • Frequent hiccough , while smoking tobacco, as usual, 11. [290.]
  • Much hiccough, half an hour after supper, 1.
  • Hiccough, always after eating, 1.
  • Heartburn.
  • Heartburn, during his usual smoke, 1.
  • Nausea and Vomiting.
  • Nausea, in the mouth and pharynx, caused by eating, as if he would vomit (after nine hours), 11.
  • Nausea, even to vomiting, every morning, 1.
  • Qualmishness, 1.
  • He is qualmishness and unsettled in his stomach, for three days, 1.
  • Qualmishness, immediately; water collects in the mouth, with short isolated eructations as from an emetic which would not act, 12.
  • Qualmish sensation, in the morning (after one hour), 3.
  • Stomach.
  • Fulness in the pit of the stomach, and pressure and sticking in it, 1. [300.]
  • Pressure in the stomach as from a weight, in the morning in bed after waking, not relieved by any change of position (after six hours), 1.
  • Pressure like a soreness, above the pit of the stomach, with nausea, 4.
  • A pinching-pressive pain in the pit of the stomach, which only disappears on sitting and bending the body forward (after one hour), 6.
  • Tensive pain in the epigastric region (after thirteen hours), 12.
  • Burrowing pain in the stomach, 1.

ABDOMEN

  • Hypochondria.
  • A constriction in the hypochondriac region, oppressing the chest and impeding respiration, lasting three days (after two days), 10.
  • A tension transversely through the upper abdomen, in the hypochondria (such as hypochondriac complain of), causing anxiety and dyspnœa, in the morning in bed while fasting, 1.
  • Umbilicus and Sides.
  • Cutting in the umbilical region seeming to be external, in three paroxysms, in the evening in bed, 1.
  • A long-continued dull stitch in the region of the navel, aggravated by expiration and by pressure (after eight hours), 8.
  • Pinching stitches, sharp and rhythmical, to the left above the navel, 4. [310.]
  • Rumbling in the left side of the abdomen (after one hour), 7.
  • Drawing in the sides of the abdomen, extending downward, as if the menses would appear (after four days), 1.
  • Hard painful pressure in the right side beneath the umbilicus, 4.
  • Pinching stitch in the left side, in the abdominal viscera (after thirty-eight hours), 5.
  • General Abdomen.
  • Loud rumbling in the abdomen, 1.
  • Rumbling and colic, for many days, 1.
  • Rumbling in the abdomen after dinner, sounding like forming and bursting bubbles, 10.
  • Violent rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, without pain and without emission of flatus (after one hour and a half), 12.
  • Great emission of flatus, 5.
  • Hot flatus (after thirty-six hours), 4. [320.]
  • Emission of indescribably offensive flatus, 12.
  • Incarceration of flatus in the abdomen , the first eight hours, 1.
  • An excessive amount of offensive flatus, for many days, 10.
  • Much flatulence is caused , and much flatus of a bad odor is passed, for thirty-six hours, 1.
  • The abdomen feels compressed, causing tightness of breath, 1.
  • Griping pain, twisting about, here and there, in the whole abdomen (after two hours and a half), 8.
  • Griping transversely across the abdomen, and drawing in the sides, in the abdominal muscles, as if diarrhœa would occur, 3.
  • Griping in the upper abdomen, in the morning, as if diarrhœa would occur, though he could not go to stool, 3.
  • Griping in the intestines, with emission of flatus (after thirteen hours), 5.
  • Transient pressive pain beneath the last ribs, as from incarcerated flatus, 12. [330.]
  • Pressure, together with heaviness and tension, in the abdomen, 1.
  • A tensive painful pressure in the abdomen as if he had eaten too much, and then pressed upon the abdomen, with nausea, and accumulation of saliva in the mouth, 1.
  • Heaving sensation and intimations of diarrhœa, in the abdomen, 3.
  • Bruised pain in the abdomen (after forty-eight hours), 10.
  • Drawing pain transversely through the abdomen, 1.
  • Drawing pain in the abdomen, as from flatulence, 1.
  • Cutting colic in the morning before stool, 1.
  • Spasmodic cutting in the abdomen, with trembling of the knees; during the day, on the slightest motion, especially after urinating; in the evening cutting, even when not moving, which is relieved by bending up, 1.
  • Cutting in the intestines, especially always after eating and drinking, together with so great nausea that water collects in the mouth, with great weakness; after the pain there is great heat in the face, and the blood rushes to the head, even the veins on the hands swell up, 1.
  • Cutting in the abdomen, with violent urging to stool, followed by a very thin scanty discharge, with internal chilliness of the head; the evacuation was immediately followed by a kind of tenesmus, 4. [340.]
  • Cutting and digging in the upper and lower abdomen, with desire for stool, followed by a thin stool, though little was passed; after the evacuation, renewed desire and increased colic, though without evacuation in spite of every effort, a kind of tenesmus, which, together with the colic, was only relieved after he had risen from stool, 4.
  • Tensive stitch in the left abdominal muscles (after thirty-two hours), 5.
  • Violent drawing burning stitches, seeming to extend from the right abdominal ring, as if in the spermatic cord into right testicle (which, however, was not painful to touch), while sitting, standing, and walking, most violent while stooping (after thirty-three hours), 7.
  • A persistent stitchlike pain in the abdomen, beneath the right ribs, only when beginning to walk in the open air, 1.
  • Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
  • Rumbling in the lower abdomen and drawing in the intestinal canal, 8.
  • Bruised pain above the hips, in the loins, then extending to the navel, noticed on stooping, but also painful on touch (after eighteen hours), 10.
  • Painless swollen inguinal glands, which are most noticed when walking and standing, lasting many days (after thirty-six hours), 1.
  • Dull stitch in the left groin, aggravated by pressure, but disappearing on inspiration and expiration (after eighty-four hours), 5.

RECTUM AND ANUS

  • Constant pressive pain in the rectum, while sitting, 5.
  • A pressing pain deep in the rectum, for three-quarters of an hour after a hard stool, 1. [350.]
  • A smarting sore pain in the rectum, for a long time after a stool, 1.*
  • Violent itching in the anus, with pimples, 1.
  • Itching in the anus while sitting, when not at stool (after seven hours), 5.*
  • After an evacuation of stool, another ineffectual urging follows without any stool, in the rectum, 1.
  • He was frequently obliged to go to stool, without colic; always very scanty and very hard fæces were passed, with pain in the anus as if it would split, 1.

STOOL

  • Diarrhœa, in the morning, preceded by cutting pain and nausea; the last stool consisted only of mucus, 1 . [The following four symptoms seem to have been caused by too large a dose, which makes almost every drug act as a purge; for the primary action of this drug seems to be a pressive colic at stool, constipation, and either a very scanty, hard, or more seldom, a thin evacuation, which has also been noticed by other provers. Compare ss. 326, 327, 332, 368, 369, 370.]
  • Diarrhœa, with colic, the last part slimy (after forty-two and eighty-four hours), 1.
  • A thin stool passes unconsciously, with a sensation as if flatus would pass (after two hours), 1.
  • Diarrhœa-like stool mixed with flatus (after three hours), 1.
  • Several usual thin stools, several days in succession, 1. [360.]
  • In the morning, immediately after a hard stool, a very thin, copious, yellow one, 12.
  • Stool soft (after forty-nine hours), 5.
  • Stool soft, but difficult to evacuate, on account of constriction in the anus, as from hæmorrhoids, 3.
  • Difficult stool; first the evacuation of hard fæces followed by softer, with great distress and straining, as if the rectum were constricted, with continued but ineffectual effort, followed by tenesmus, 13.
  • A natural hard stool passed with flatus intermixed, 1.
  • Hard scanty stool, with burning-cutting pain in the abdomen (after ten hours), 7.
  • Hard, scanty, thin stool passed, with pressive pain in the anus (after twenty-six hours), 7.
  • Stool hard (first day); none (second day); hard again (third day); natural (fourth day), 10.
  • Constipation, for several days (first days), 1.
  • Stools twelve hours later than usual, and passed in small pieces (after fourteen, and fifteen hours), 7. [370.]
  • The stool was delayed a long time, on account of lack of peristaltic action of the large intestine, 3.

URINARY ORGANS

  • Kidneys and Bladder.
  • Itching needlelike stitches in the region of the kidneys, 4.
  • Pressure upon the bladder , on waking from sleep; she was obliged to urinate much, and still after an hour there was a renewed desire to urinate, with pressure, 1.
  • Urethra.
  • Discharge of prostatic fluid during the evacuation of a hard stool, 1.
  • Pain, as from a sprain, in the upper part of the urethra behind the pubis, immediately after micturition, 11.
  • A biting-burning crawling in the orifice of the urethra, when not urinating, 1.
  • A burning in the whole of the urethra for several days, with every micturition, 1.*
  • A burning far back in the urethra, while sitting, only when not urinating, 1.
  • A kind of burning in the middle of the urethra, when not urinating (after six hours), 10.
  • Cutting pain during micturition, still worse afterwards, 1.
  • Micturition and Urine. [380.]
  • Frequent urging to urinate, with much discharge (after six hours), 11.
  • Urging to urinate; scarcely a spoonful was passed, mostly of a dark-yellow red color, in a thin stream; at times dribbling of urine, always followed by a sensation as if the bladder were not yet empty, for some dribbling continued, 4.*
  • On coughing, the urine involuntarily spurted from her, 1.
  • The first four days the urine was passed every quarter of an hour in a small quantity; on the following days the usual amount was passed, was of a dark color, and always every hour, 4.
  • He was obliged to urinate frequently, but little was passed; on the second day an increased quantity, but less frequently, 8.
  • Micturition more frequent and scantier than in health (after seven days), 8.
  • More frequent micturition of very scanty, dark-colored urine for three days, 4.*
  • Frequent evacuation of watery urine at first, after a few days dark-yellow urine, 12.
  • Micturition frequent, but always scanty; about a cupful of dark urine (after twenty-four hours), 8.
  • Micturition copious and very frequent , for several days (after twenty-four, and forty hours), 1.* [390.]
  • Micturition, at night, with erection, at last only dribbling, with burning in the neck of the bladder, with ineffectual desire for stool; relieved by lying bent up, 13.
  • Urinating less frequently than during the first days, yet more frequently than in health, and more in quantity than during the first day (after three to seven days), 8.
  • Secretion of very little urine during the first days, 1 . [The urinary symptoms are similar to those of the stool, as may also be noticed in the observations of others. -Hahnemann.]
  • Urine red, frequent, 1.

SEXUAL ORGANS

  • Male.
  • A soft moist growth in the fossa, behind the corona glandis, and a similar one on the glans itself, in both of which itching is caused by the rubbing of the shirt, 1.
  • Moisture on the corona glandis, beneath the prepuce, 1.
  • Erections, without lascivious thoughts and without emission, the whole night, 11.
  • Excessive erections all night, without emission (after sixteen hours), 11.
  • Sticking pain in the right side of the glans penis, while standing and walking, 11.
  • Painless bubbling in the scrotum, 1. [400.]
  • Itching within the scrotum, which is only somewhat relieved by pressure and rubbing between the fingers, 1.
  • Pressive drawing (tearing) in the right testicle, as if forcibly compressed, 4.
  • Pressive pain in the left testicle while walking, as also after rubbing; still more violent when touched (after eight hours), 8.*
  • The primary action causes great sexual desire; in the secondary effect or reaction of the organism (after five or six days) there follows indifference and total lack of sexual desire, both in the sexual organs and in the emotions, 1.
  • An emission, at night, without dreams, 3.
  • An emission during the afternoon sleep, the like of which had not happened for thirty years, in an old man (after twelve hours), 1.
  • Emission three nights in succession, 1.
  • Emission five nights in succession, always with lascivious dreams, 1.
  • Female.
  • Painful sensitiveness of the female sexual organs; on sitting down it hurts, 1.*
  • A vesicle posteriorly within the right labia majora, with biting by itself, and a sore pain when touched (after nine days), 1. [410.]
  • A biting in the pudenda, even when not urinating, 1.
  • Spasmodic pain in the pudenda and vagina, 1.
  • Fine sticking itching in the vagina, 1.
  • The menses, that had ceased for a year, reappeared, with cutting colic and violent rumbling, at the time of the new moon, 1 . [Since this was only the primary action of the drug, the menses did not return on the following months. -Hahnemann.]

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

  • Sharp irritation to cough, in the larynx, but slight cough, immediately after eating (after four days), 3.
  • Constant inclination to hack on account of tenacious mucus in the larynx, which he cannot loosen by coughing, 4.
  • Voice.
  • Voice very weak on account of weakness in the vocal organs, though in other respects he is active, 3.
  • Cough and Expectoration.
  • Cough and coryza, for several weeks, 1.
  • Cough, caused by tickling irritation, only during the day, 1.
  • Violent cough after lying down, in the evening, and at noon, with tenacious expectoration, 1. [420.]
  • Cough, with yellow expectoration like husks, worse in the forenoon from 9 to 12, less early in the morning (after five days), 1.
  • Cough, with expectoration, always of 5 to 8 drops of blood, and always preceded by a scraping sensation in the chest, 1.
  • Cough, with expectoration of mucus, 1.
  • Sharp cough and accumulation of water in the mouth always soon after eating; it seems as though this water would violently force through the pharynx and causes a cutting in it (after twenty-six hours), 3.
  • Sharp cough, which threatens to tear open the larynx, as if caused by costal constriction of the trachea without special previous irritation (after four hours), 3.
  • Easy expectoration of much mucus by hacking, 10.
  • Respiration.
  • Dyspnœa towards the end of coition, 1.

CHEST

  • Tightly adherent mucus lies in the chest for the first six or eight hours and several mornings; afterwards, and during the day, easy expectoration of mucus from the chest, 1.
  • The chest feels weak; something lies firmly adherent in the trachea, that compels hawking, 1.
  • Oppression, like a constriction, in the chest, causing slow and very difficult inspiration; expiration relieves, together with anxiety and uneasiness, worse while sitting, better while walking, lasting five hours (after six hours), 2. [430.]
  • An oppression upon the chest, an uneasy sensation in the afternoon that drives him from place to place, and does not permit him to remain in any place, 1.
  • Uneasiness in the chest, 1.
  • A pressure in the chest, and a heaviness in it, while sitting, relieved while walking, 1.
  • Attempts to eructate cause a pressure and sticking, extending into the chest, 1.
  • The chest was painful externally, on touch, 1.
  • Pain in the pectoral muscles, as if beaten, in the morning on moving in bed, and during the day on crossing the arms; she felt nothing on touching the parts, or on breathing, 1.
  • A dull sticking-pressive pain in the cartilages of the last ribs on stooping, they are also painfully sore on touch, 1.
  • Painful stitches in the chest, making expiration difficult, 11.
  • Sticking cutting in the costal cartilages of the left side; it seems as though one had been cut, associated with stitches, 8.
  • Dull stitches in both sides of the costal muscles, while sitting, worse on leaning backward, and persistent during inspiration and expiration (after half an hour), 5. [440.]
  • Sticking itching between the costal cartilages, 8.
  • Front and Sides.
  • Constant pain in the middle of the sternum, as from a sore, worse on rising up and stretching out the body; also pain on touch, like a tension and pressure, so that at times it took away the breath, 1.
  • Pain behind the sternum, as if suppurating, when coughing, 1.
  • Pinching pressure below the sternum, just to the left of the ensiform cartilage, 4.
  • Sensation of soreness behind the sternum, 4.
  • Fine itching, sharp stitches, which provoke scratching in the upper part of the sternum, just beneath the pit of the throat, 4.
  • Pinching pressure beneath the right short ribs (after one hour and a quarter), 6.
  • Pressure in the left side of the chest, not affected by respiration, 1.
  • Sharp stitches, with intermissions for several seconds, and lasting longer than usual, in the region of the fourth costal cartilages of the right and left sides; they slowly penetrate from within outward, without affecting inspiration or expiration (after fourteen hours), 8.
  • Violent stitch in the right side of the chest while sitting, on bending the upper part of the body obliquely forward and to the right side, 7. [450.]
  • Sharp stitches, which begin in the most posterior portion of the right ribs and extend in a serpentine course to the cartilages, 8.
  • A dull stitch in the left side of the chest, recurring after a few minutes, 3.
  • Tensive stitches in the left side of the chest, while lying and on moving, worse during expiration than inspiration, most felt on ascending steps, and at last followed by a persistent stitch, which almost takes away the breath (after sixteen hours), 5.
  • A persistent dull boring stitch in the left side of the chest (after thirty-seven hours), 5.

HEART

  • He woke from the afternoon nap with most violent palpitation, 1.
  • A beating palpitation on slight motion, 1.
  • Palpitation while walking, and when listening to music, 1.

NECK AND BACK

  • Neck.
  • Stiffness of the nape of the neck, 1.
  • A pressure and tension in the muscles of the nape of the neck and left shoulder (after half an hour), 1.
  • A tense pain in the left side of the neck and occiput, only at night, which frequently wakes from sleep, and on account of which he can lie upon neither the right nor left side, 11. [460.]
  • Tensive pressure in the side of the neck, 3.
  • Rheumatic pain, like a drawing, in the nape of the neck and between the scapulæ, in the morning; she was unable to move the arms on rising from bed on account of pain, and could not turn the neck the whole forenoon, several mornings in succession, with weakness of the whole body, lasting till noon, 1.
  • Rheumatic painfulness, like a drawing pressure and stiffness, in the neck, at its union with the shoulder, on bending the neck forward, 3.
  • Pressive drawing on the right side of the neck, not affected by motion or touch (after thirty-two hours), 8.
  • A drawing pressive (rheumatic) pain in the side of the neck, on bending it forward, 3.
  • A pressing-down sensation in the nape of the neck, 3.
  • Paralytic drawing in the cervical joints, posteriorly in the spinous process of the first dorsal vertebra, 4.
  • Fine tearing in the muscles of the neck (after five minutes), 8.
  • Pain, as from a sticking with a knife, between the last cervical and first dorsal vertebræ, 3.
  • Jerklike stitches in the side of the neck, almost behind the ear, in the evening, 12. [470.]
  • A tensive stitch in the left cervical muscles, 5.
  • Itching in the nape of the neck, 1.
  • Back.
  • (Pain, like a beating and jerking, in the back at night, lasting from evening till 5 A.M., so that it took away his breath, with slumbering), 1.
  • Violent stitches, extending up the back (after seven days), 1.
  • Dorsal.
  • Burning pressive pain beneath the right scapula, close to the spine, with an acute sensation of heaviness in the right side of the chest (after two hours), 6.
  • Fine tearing in the head of the left scapula, aggravated by motion, 8.
  • A drawing pressure in the two first dorsal vertebræ, together with a smarting sensation (after one hour and three-quarters), 3.
  • Hard pressure in the left side of the dorsal muscles, near the spine (after four days), 8.
  • Lumbar.
  • A pressure, as if beaten, in the small of the back all night; the pain awoke her when it was worse, about 4 A.M.; on rising up it disappeared, 1.
  • Pain in the small of the back, causing less distress while walking than on rising from a seat, turning the body in bed, and on every motion sideways, lasting several days (after ten hours), 10.* [480.]
  • A pain in the small of the back, extending downward, worse while stooping than when standing erect, least felt while sitting, 1.
  • Pain in the small of the back, as if everything were broken to pieces, in the morning in bed; on rising from bed she could raise nothing from the ground till 8 or 9 o'clock, followed by hunger, afterwards colic and diarrhœa, which was at last slimy, 1.*
  • In the small of the back stitches and pain, as from a sprain, during rest, ceasing on walking, 1.*
  • Sacral.
  • Drawing stitches, at times jerking, in the sacrum, while sitting, 7.
  • A violent burning, externally, on the lower portion of the sacrum (after half an hour), 7.

EXTREMITIES

  • *All the joints are stiff, in the morning on rising from bed, especially the shoulders, and lumbar and hip joints, 1.
  • All the limbs are affected and everything is sore , the muscles on touch, the joints on motion, more in the forenoon than in the afternoon, 1.*
  • *The limbs, with the shoulder and , feel beaten and painful, as after a long walk, 3.
  • An internal trembling of the limbs if held long in one position, in the morning (after twenty-four hours), 3.
  • A drawing (?) pain in the joints of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers, back, knees, on moving them, less during rest, especially in the evening, 12. [490.]
  • Cramp in the fingers, and in various parts of the limbs, 4.
  • Sharp, deeply-piercing stitches at long intervals, in various parts of the limbs (after a quarter of an hour), 4.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Weakness and heaviness in both arms, as if lead were in them, after a nocturnal emission, 1.
  • Pressive drawing, here and there, in the upper limbs, aggravated by touch (after seven hours), 8.
  • A pressive drawing in the right arm, in the evening in bed, 1.
  • Pain in the bones of the arm, neither during rest nor when touched, but only during motion, 1.
  • Shoulder.
  • Pressive drawing in the shoulder-joints, in the morning in bed, and immediately after rising; worse on motion (after five days), 8.
  • Paralytic drawing in the shoulder-joint, at times also in the whole arm, when lying under the head in bed (after ninety hours), 4.
  • Pain as from a sprain, in the right shoulder, only on motion, 8.
  • Violent pressive pain in the left shoulder-joint, not relieved by any motion (after thirty-six hours), 6. [500.]
  • A pressing downward of the shoulder, as if a weight were lying upon it, while sitting, 3.
  • A dull pressive pain in the right axilla, 12.
  • A loose pressure upon the shoulder, which is painful to touch, as though the flesh were loose, while walking, 3.
  • A drawing sticking in the left shoulder-joint, especially on moving the arm toward the chest, 7.
  • A pressive stitch, from below upward, in the right shoulder (after four hours and a half), 5.
  • Dull sticking pains in the shoulder-joint, worse on touch and motion, 8.
  • Itching stitches in both axillæ (after five minutes), 4.
  • Itching needlelike stitches in the right axilla (after three minutes), 8.
  • Stitches in the left axilla, 5.
  • Arm.
  • Paralytic pressure in both upper and forearms, aggravated by motion and touch (after five days), 8. [510.]
  • Pressive drawing in the deltoid muscle, 3.
  • Hard pressure on the right upper arm, extending inward, aggravated by touch (after two hours), 8.
  • Paralytic pressive pain in the left upper arm, aggravated by touch (after seventy-two hours), 8.
  • Paralytic pressive pain in the left upper arm, aggravated by touch and motion; the arm is weakened (after thirty-six hours), 8.
  • Pain in the right humerus, an intolerable pressure in the periosteum, during rest and motion; the place was still more painful when touched (after thirty-six hours), 1.
  • Tearing pain in the left upper arm, in the deltoid, while sitting, disappearing on motion, 3.
  • Tearing pain in the muscles of the left upper arm, close to the elbow, 11.
  • Stitchlike tearing in the muscles of the right upper arm near the elbow, 11.
  • Elbow.
  • Paralytic weakness about the elbow (after two hours), 3.
  • A sensation near the bend in the elbow, more towards the forearm, as from an eruption, or as if it were irritated with a needle; a kind of grinding, somewhat burning; though nothing could be seen yet it was especially painful to touch, 12.
  • Forearm. [520.]
  • A pressive drawing like a pinching, on the outer side of the radius beneath the left elbow, 4.
  • Pressive drawing in the muscles of the forearm and on the back of the hand, 3.
  • Drawing-tearing pain in the forearm, especially on moving the arm and hand, 1.
  • Sticking tearing in the left forearm (after one hour), 10.
  • Jerking in the left forearm, during rest (after seventy-five hours), 5.
  • Slow dull stitches, like pressure, in the middle of the forearm, 4.
  • Wrist.
  • A drawing pressure transversely across the wrist, especially on motion, 3.
  • Cramplike pain about the right wrist, which disappears on stretching out the fingers, but returns on bending them up, and is then associated with a tearing stitch, which extends through the whole arm to the shoulder (after twenty-four hours and a half), 6.
  • Sticking tearing in the left wrist (after one hour), 10.
  • Hand.
  • Drawing pains through the bones on the back of the hand, especially on motion, 3. [530.]
  • Painful drawing in the phalanges of the right hand (after five hours), 8.
  • Sharp tingling stitches in the palm of the hand (after one hour), 4.
  • Tickling itching in the palm of the left hand, provoking scratching, 11.
  • Fingers.
  • When the fingers are outstretched free they have a convulsive movement up and down, 4.
  • Sensation as if a hard skin were drawn over the tips of the fingers of the left hand; there is little feeling in them, and the sensation of touch is suspended, 8.
  • Paralytic drawing pain in the first joints of the fingers at the union of the metacarpal bones, aggravated by motion, 8.
  • Painful drawing in the metacarpus of the right index finger, 8.
  • Hard pressure on the metacarpal bone of the left index finger, aggravated by touch and motion of the fingers (after four minutes), 8.
  • Intermittent pressive pain in the metacarpal bone of the left thumb, aggravated by touch, 8.
  • Persistent pressive pain in the metacarpal joint of the right middle finger, extending forward, persistent even during motion (after seventy-seven hours), 5. [540.]
  • Pressive cramplike pain in the ball of the right little finger, on moving the hand, 11.
  • Fine jerking tearing in the muscles of several fingers, especially in their tips, 8.
  • Fine jerking tearing in the muscles of the thumb, especially violent at the tip (after forty-five hours), 8.
  • Tearing pain in the muscles of the ball of the left thumb, which disappears on moving the thumb, 11.
  • Tensive stitches in the tip of the left thumb (after fifty-two hours), 5.
  • Pain like needle stitches, in the middle phalanx of the right index finger and in its articulation, persistent during motion (after fifty-four hours), 5.
  • Crawling in the fingers as if they would go to sleep (after four hours and a half), 7.
  • Deep burning-itching, sharp, needlelike stitches in the left thumb, which provokes scratching, 4.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Hip.
  • A pressive pain about the hip-joint, while walking and sitting, 1.
  • After sitting awhile the nates hurt, 1.* [550.]
  • Boring pain in the left gluteal muscles, while sitting (after twelve hours), 5.
  • A numb sensation in the left hip, extending to the abdomen, while standing, 1.
  • Sticking itching in the gluteal muscles, and in several places of the body, 8.
  • Weakness of the thighs and legs, for several days, especially in the knee-joints, was obliged to drag his feet; with sticking tearing in the calves and pains in the small of the back (after ten hours), 10.
  • Aching in the thighs, when walking (worse in the left thigh), which he was almost obliged to drag along (after fifty-one hours), 12.
  • A weary pain transversely across the thigh, and a feeling as if bruised, while lying; together with a sensation of a great tightness in the joints, with a trembling and uneasiness in them, so that he could not hold them still, 3.
  • Pain as from a sprain, in the middle of the left thigh, especially when walking (after eight hours), 8.
  • Tension in the large outer muscles of the thigh, while walking, 8.
  • Paralytic pain like a drawing, in the middle of the thigh anteriorly, during rest and motion, 4.
  • Bruised pain in all the muscles of the thigh, for two days, while walking rapidly, 1. [560.]
  • A sore pain on the upper and inner portion of the thigh, 1.
  • A coarse sticking, almost scraping sensation in the right thigh, internally above the knee-joint (after eight hours), 3.
  • Fine extremely painful piercing stitches on the inner portion of the left thigh just above the knee (after thirty-eight hours), 7.
  • Dull deeply-piercing stitches in the middle of the left thigh, towards the outer portion, 4.
  • Sharp burning sticking in the posterior surface of the left thigh, 4.
  • Fine itching stitches on the inner side of the thigh, which provoke scratching (after three hours), 4.
  • Knee.
  • Great weakness in the knee-joints, in the morning, immediately after rising, which obliges him to sit down, walking and standing are difficult (after twenty-four hours), 8.
  • On rising from a seat, a sensation in the hollows of the knees as if the legs would give way; a trembling, very irritable drawing up in the hollows of the knees, 3.
  • A pain in the right knee, lasting a minute (as from a sprain?), while walking and on moving the feet, 12.
  • Jerking above the right patella (after nine hours), 7. [570.]
  • A sensation of drawing up in the hollows of the knees comes on as soon as he lies down, a kind of excessively irritable and voluptuous uneasiness in them, so that he cannot remain lying but is obliged to rise, 2.
  • In the right knee-joint and in the heads of the muscles of the calves, paralytic drawing like a weakness, while walking, which continues after walking and even for a long time while sitting, before it gradually and entirely disappears, 4.
  • A drawing tearing beneath the left patella, not disappearing on motion (after fifty-four hours), 6.
  • Drawing stitches in the left knee-joint, while sitting; at times jerking in it, 7.
  • Drawing stitches in the right knee-joint, aggravated by motion, 8.
  • Stitchlike pain on the inner margin of the knee, 11.
  • A pressive sticking pain on the outer side of the knee, while stepping and when touched, 1.
  • Dull stitches in the knee-joint near the patella; on touch the stitches change to pressive pain, 8.
  • Dull stitches in the right knee-joint, immediately after rising in the morning, aggravated by motion (after five days), 8.
  • Burning stitches on the outer side beneath the left knee, at intervals, 4.
  • Leg. [580.]
  • Tearing pain in the muscles of one or the other leg, while standing and sitting (after a few minutes), 11.
  • A pressive drawing on the tibia, while sitting (after six hours), 3.
  • Boring stitch in the right tibia during rest (after half an hour, and thirty-five hours), 5.
  • Heaviness and tension in the calves, 1.
  • Cramp, especially in the upper and lower portions of the calves on waking from sleep, relieved neither by stretching up nor by bending up the leg; after the pain had diminished it was again aggravated, and became very acute on thinking of it (after six hours), 1.
  • An intolerable cramp in the calf and sole of the foot of the leg upon which he was lying woke him from the afternoon nap (after twenty-four hours), 1.
  • She could not fall asleep, in bed in the evening, on account of pain in the calves; she did not know where she should put her limbs, she was constantly obliged to move them from place to place in order to have some relief; the same sensation in the calves even when she rose in the night, and again on lying down in bed (after thirty-seven hours), 12.
  • Paralytic pressure in the muscles of the right calf, towards the outer part, aggravated by touch, 8.
  • Sticking tearing in and beneath the right calf and above the left heel (after one, and ten hours), 10.
  • An itching stitch in the right calf, persistent while standing and walking, disappearing on scratching (after seventy-eight hours), 5.
  • Ankle. [590.]
  • A drawing pressure transversely across the ankle, especially during motion, 3.
  • Sticking itching just above the right outer malleolus; it provokes scratching, but leaves no special sensation, 8.
  • Burning itching on the right inner malleolus (after four days), 8.
  • Foot.
  • Painless swelling of the backs of both feet, lasting a long time (after thirteen days), 1.
  • Pressive tearing in the left metatarsal bones close to the ankle (after five hours and a half), 6.
  • Constrictive sensation of heaviness in the left metatarsal bones close to the ankle (after three hours and a half), 6.
  • Pressive pain on the inner side of the sole of the left foot during rest (after twenty-nine hours), 5.
  • Crawling and prickling in the sole of the foot which rests over the other while sitting, as if asleep (after seventeen hours), 7.
  • Toe.
  • Swelling of the metatarsal bone of the right little toe, which was painful to touch, 1.
  • Pressive burning in the tip of the right great toe during rest (after four hours and a half), 5. [600.]
  • Sticking itching in the right great toe, 8.

GENERALITIES

  • He becomes pale, dizzy, and falls to the side as in a faint, in the forenoon, after rising from a seat; a similar attack occurs about the same time the following day, 1.
  • The whole body starts up, frequently for several nights, both the arms and legs, as if some one suddenly tickled them, a kind of spasmodic jerking, though painless; he was very hot though lightly covered, but without thirst and without sweat, 1.
  • Weakness of the whole body, especially of the knees, when walking, 5.*
  • Weariness and weakness of the body, in the morning (after four hours and a half), 7.*
  • In the morning in bed she is very weary without sleepiness, all the limbs are sore as if bruised, and as if there were no strength in them, for an hour, 1.*
  • Great weariness and inclination to sleep, in the afternoon while sitting (after three days), 7.
  • Great weariness, in the morning on waking, which, however, soon disappears, 1.
  • Great weariness and sleepiness, after eating, feels the need of lying down , soon falls asleep, wakes confused and heavy in the limbs, and dreads to walk; on continuing to walk, which is very irksome, especially on ascending a hill, he feels more active and lively, indeed is more vigorous after a long ramble, 12.*
  • Painfulness of the whole body as if bruised, with an excessively weak sensation , worse on motion, renewed and aggravated by walking after sitting (after forty hours), 12.* [610.]
  • Pain in all the bones, 1.*
  • General bruised sensation when walking , better when sitting and lying down; especially in the calves; an excessively weary pain as if beaten; she could scarcely drag along the feet, 12.*
  • Paralytic drawing in various parts of the body, especially in the joints, if the limbs are kept long in an unusual or uncomfortable position, 4.
  • Drawing-tearing pain, here and there, in the muscles of the whole body, while sitting (after eight and a half, and thirty-four hours), 7.*
  • Sharp itching stitches in various parts of the body, 4.

SKIN

  • Objective.
  • Papular eruption on the face, forehead, cheeks, and about the mouth and wrist, which caused a drawing itching, ceasing only for a short time on scratching and then returning as a sticking, 3.
  • Fine papular eruption on the face, forehead, cheeks, and near the corners of the mouth, which caused a sticking itching, and when touched a pain as if suppurating (after nine hours), 3.
  • Eruption of small (itching?) isolated pimples on the face, 1.
  • Pimples about the inflamed eye, 1.
  • A large but painless pimple surrounded by a white tip in the fossa behind the lobule of the ear, 1. [620.]
  • Itching pimples on the nape of the neck, 1.*
  • Some pimples on the neck, 1.
  • Rash on the chest; on becoming warm it was red and itching, 1.
  • A tetterlike eruption on the lower ribs consisting of small, thick, red pimples, with burning-itching fine sticking, as from nettles; after rubbing the spot was painful; together with creeping chill over the part and over the upper abdomen, 1.
  • Eruption of pimples as large as peas over the whole abdomen and thighs, which itch, and when scratched off are moist, but then have a burning pain, 1.*
  • Papular eruption on the elbow and towards the hand, 1.
  • On the forearm a red elevation, in the middle of which is a pustule, with burning pain during rest, still more painful, like a boil, when touched, 1.
  • On the hands a tetter, which itches, in the evening, and burns after scratching, 1.*
  • Tetter on the thighs and legs, 1.
  • A kind of gooseflesh, without chilliness, in both thighs and legs, especially numerous red and white pimples on them, with whitish pus at the tips, without the slightest sensation (after ten days), 7. [630.]
  • Pimples with burning-itching pain on the leg, 1.
  • The skin of an ulcerated leg becomes covered with a thin crust, from which yellow water exudes, with jerking and pricking pains, 1.
  • Itching on the leg, in the evening in bed; after rubbing flat ulcers appear with violent pain, 1.
  • Subjective.
  • Tearing jerking in an ulcer, 1.
  • Tearing and jerking about the ulcers during rest, in the morning and evening, which cease when walking, 1.
  • The papular eruption on the face sometimes causes a tensive sore pain; when touched it is as painful as if suppurating, 3.
  • Burning sensation, here and there, though always only in the limbs, never in other parts of the body, 6.
  • Violent burning pain in the ulcers, in the evening for an hour after lying down, so that he could not fall asleep, 1.
  • Burning-itching biting on the nates, as if rough woollen were drawn over the skin, in the evening in bed; disappearing on scratching and returning in another place, 13.
  • Crawling on the inner surfaces of the toes, which does not provoke scratching, it seems as if they had been asleep, 4. [640.]
  • Crawling on the thighs and legs (that had been swollen, hard, elastic, for many years), with a sensation as if the parts were internally hot, would burst, and were very heavy, 1.
  • Biting as from salt in an ulcer, 1.
  • Sticking burning here and there, in the skin, 7.
  • Stitches like fleabites on the hands, nape of the neck, head, lower limbs, etc. (after one hour and a half), 10.
  • Burning itching in the little toes, as if they had been frozen, in the evening; they are painful on touch, and the painful spots are red, for four days (after twelve hours), 10.
  • The tetter itches only at night, 1.
  • Itching over the head and whole body, especially in the morning; a creeping itching and crawling as from the creeping of an insect, which goes from place to place, 1.
  • Salty biting itching in an ulcer, 1.
  • Itching on the cheeks, 1.
  • Voluptuous itching about the scrotum, that constantly increases on rubbing until it becomes a superficial sore pain, while this disappears the itching still continues, and at last causes an emission (after five, six, and eight days), 1 . [Relieved by smelling Ambra. -Hahnemann.] [650.]
  • Itching on the right tibia above the outer malleolus, which does not disappear on rubbing (after two hours and a half), 5.
  • Itching on the tendo Achillis above the heel, 3.
  • A painful burning itching on the inner side of the two toes, just as if they had been frozen (after four hours), 1.
  • Itching burning in the right little toe, as if it had been frozen, in the evening; it is painful even on slight pressure, 7.

SLEEP

  • Sleepiness.
  • Violent yawning that forces tears from the eyes (after a quarter, and half an hour), 10.*
  • Frequent yawning as though he had not slept enough (after two hours), 11.
  • Great inclination to yawn and stretch ; she cannot stretch enough, 1.
  • Sleepiness in the afternoon, the eyes close, 8.
  • Great sleepiness in the afternoon, from 2 to 4, 1.
  • Sleepiness during the day; wherever he sat down he fell asleep, 1. [660.]
  • In the evening he cannot reach the bed before he falls asleep, and he also falls asleep as soon as he gets into bed, 1.
  • Sleeplessness.
  • He did not sleep the whole night, yet the eyes closed, 1.
  • He cannot fall asleep before midnight, on account of wakefulness; scarcely had he fallen asleep when he had vivid dreams of strife and quarrels, 11.
  • She was unable to fall asleep before 11 P.M., and then woke about 4 A.M., several nights, 1.
  • Night restless; every hour he was half awake, and if he got into a slumber did not sleep soundly nor really awaken, 1.
  • At night the child is very restless and calls its mother every moment, 1.
  • Restlessness, for several nights, he could lie on neither side; before midnight he was full of various thoughts, 13.
  • Uneasy sleep and tossing about, 5.
  • He fell asleep, but was awakened immediately by a dream, in which he struggled with an animal so that he started up greatly frightened (after thirty hours), 8.
  • He wakes towards morning as though he had slept enough, but falls asleep again immediately (after forty-six hours), 11. [670.]
  • He wakes at 2 A.M., and so from hour to hour, without cause, 1.
  • In the morning wide awake, afterwards sleepy, with chilly shivering in the back, 3.
  • Dreams.
  • Vivid disagreeable dreams, towards morning, 10.
  • Vivid unremembered dreams, at night, 11.
  • Very vivid connected dreams, 1.
  • Restless dreams, busy now with one, now with another subject, at one time he started up and woke, but could not perfectly collect himself, 8.
  • Anxious restless dreams, 5.
  • Dreams full of bitterness, 11.
  • Dreams of murder, 1 ; (second night), 7.
  • He dreamed as soon as he feel asleep; at one time he was fighting with some one, at another time he had anxious visions, when he woke, and then dreamed again, 4. [680.]
  • He dreamed of the business of the day, immediately on falling asleep, 1.
  • Amorous dream, at night with two emissions, 11.
  • Amorous dreams, with emissions, 5.*
  • Voluptuous dreams, without emission, 3.

FEVER

  • Chilliness.
  • Chilliness, without subsequent heat, in the morning in bed, 1.
  • Chilliness, followed by heat, in the morning in bed; she did not wish to rise, in the morning, 1.
  • He woke frequently at night with chilliness, could not fully collect his senses, 3.
  • The whole body is shaken by a chill, with warm forehead, hot cheeks, cold hands, without subsequent heat and without thirst (after one hour and a half), 11.
  • Shaking chill, in the evening before falling asleep, so violent that it shook him in the bed and he was unable to get warm (after twenty hours), 11.
  • Crouching up with shivering, with sleepiness and dryness of the mouth (after three hours), 3. [690.]
  • Shivering over the whole body, without thirst, and without immediate subsequent heat (after thirty hours), 8.
  • Shivering and sensation of chilliness while eating, without thirst, two hours before the heat, 8.
  • Internal shivering, with great thirst, without subsequent heat, about 3 P.M., for several days, 1.
  • Shivering the whole night, without thirst and without subsequent heat, 1.
  • Shivering, with gooseflesh, about 3 P.M., for several days, which ceased in the open air, and was without thirst, 1.
  • Evening fever, consisting of coldness, 1.
  • Chilliness in the back, even by a hot stove (after a quarter of an hour), 7.
  • Transient shivering chill running down the back, after eating, 12.
  • He could not get warm in the back and arms, though they were close to the stove; with frequent shivering over the back and arms, towards the nape of the neck over the head and face, in the morning after rising, 12.
  • Cold feet, only in the evening in bed, 13.
  • Heat. [700.]
  • Sensation of great heat, as if externally she were burning hot, with thirst (great orgasm of blood), without previous chill, 1.
  • Slight heat after the shivering, 1.
  • Some heat and some headache, in the open air towards evening, 1.
  • Heat about the head, with sweat on the forehead, in the morning in bed, 1.
  • At night, heat, especially about the forehead, so that she was unable to sleep after 3 o'clock, followed by shaking chill about 9 A.M., 1.
  • Sensation of heat, and heat in the face, without thirst, an hour after the chill, 8.
  • Sensation of warmth on the forehead, as from a constant warm breath against it, at times also a cold breath, with redness of the cheeks and external warmth of the body (after four days), 12.
  • A not disagreeable sensation of warmth over the back, three hours after eating, 12.
  • Heat creeps over the lower portion of the back paroxysmally with otherwise only warm body, without subsequent sweat, 12.
  • At night, sensation of great heat in the hands and feet, she was obliged to keep them uncovered, 1. [710.]
  • Sensation of heat rather than heat in the right hand, which was also redder than the other hand, with violent tearing in the middle joints of its four fingers, 7.
  • Sweat.
  • On waking at night, he is covered with warm perspiration, without thirst, on the abdomen, feet, and genitals, although moderately covered; but on uncovering he becomes so cold that the perspiration disappears, and he thinks he has taken cold (after seventy-two hours), 4.
  • Extraordinary perspiration, in the afternoon, with heat over the whole body, without thirst, although he sits very quietly, 3.
  • Profuse nightsweat (after ten days), 1.
  • Perspiration after midnight, for several nights, 1.
  • Nightsweat of a bad odor (after eight days), 1.
  • Sweat of the odor of bad eggs , towards midnight (after four, and six days), 1.*
  • Inclined to sweat, 1.

CONDITIONS

  • Aggravation.
  • ( Morning ), Peevish; confusion of head; on waking, headache; dryness of eyes; canthi agglutinated; nausea; in bed, tension through upper abdomen; mucus in chest; in bed, pain in pectoral muscles; pain in nape of neck; pain in small of back; stiffness of joints; weakness of knee-joints; on waking, weariness; tearing and jerking about ulcers; chilliness.
  • ( Forenoon ), 9 to 12, cough and expectoration.
  • ( Afternoon ), Sleepiness; 3 P.M., internal shivering.
  • ( Evening ), In bed, vertigo; pressure in brain; dryness of eyes; on falling asleep, sticking in throat; in bed, cutting in umbilical region; stitch on side of neck; drawing in joints of extremities; tearing and jerking about ulcers; cod feet.
  • ( Night ), Towards morning, toothache in anterior teeth; pain in four lower front teeth; emission; 4 A.M., pressure in small of back; itching of tetter; sweat.
  • ( Open air ), Pressure above right orbit; itching in canthus; pain in hollow tooth; tearing in roots of hollow teeth.
  • ( Bending forward ), Pain in neck.
  • ( Chewing ), Toothache.
  • ( Closing eyes ), Pressure in upper lid.
  • ( Coughing ), Pain behind sternum.
  • ( Eating ), Tearing in gum and lower back teeth.
  • ( After eating ), Eructations of tasteless liquid; hiccough; cough and accumulation of water in mouth.
  • ( After eating and drinking ), Cutting in intestines.
  • ( Expiration ), Stitch in region of navel stitch in left side of chest.
  • ( In the house ), Vertigo.
  • ( Leaning backward ), Pain in costal cartilages.
  • ( Lying down ), Pain across thigh; drawings in hollows of knees.
  • ( After micturition ), Cutting pain.
  • ( Motion ), Headache; pressure in forehead; cutting in abdomen; palpitation; tearing in head of left scapula; pain in bones of arms; drawing in shoulder-joints; pain in right shoulder; pressure in upper and forearm; pressure across wrist; pain through back of hand; pain in fingers; pressure on metacarpal bone of left index finger; stitch in knee-joint; pressure across ankle.
  • ( Motion in open air ), Toothache.
  • ( Motion sideways ), Pain in small of back.
  • ( Moving head ), Headache in fore head; drawing in occiput.
  • ( Music ), Palpitation.
  • ( Pressure ), Stitch in region of navel; stitch in left groin.
  • ( During rest ), Stitches in small of back.
  • ( Rubbing ), Biting on scalp.
  • ( Sitting ), Vertigo; pain in rectum; stitches in sacrum; stitches in side of chest; pressing downward in shoulder; pain in left upper arm; pain about hip-joint; tension in muscles of thighs.
  • ( Smoking ), Heartburn.
  • ( Standing ), Headache in forehead; dulness of head.
  • ( Stepping ), Pain in knee.
  • ( Stooping ), Vertigo; pain in head; sticking in head; sticking in forehead; stitch in right abdominal ring; pain in loins; oppression of chest; pain in cartilages of chest; pain in small of back.
  • ( Stretching out body ), Pain in sternum.
  • ( Stretching out finger ), Pain about right wrist.
  • ( Touch ), Stitches in temples; drawing in head; drawing from hyoid bone into neck; drawing in upper limbs; pain in shoulder; pressure in upper and forearm; pressure on metatarsal bone of left index finger; pressure on muscles of right calf.
  • ( Walking ), Tingling and sticking in head; palpitation; pressure on shoulder; pain about hip-joint; pain in thigh; weakness of thighs; pain in right knee; drawing in knee-joint; weakness of body; general bruised sensation.
  • ( Walking in open air ), Pressing asunder pain in occiput; stitchlike pain in abdomen.
  • Amelioration.
  • ( Eating ), Sticking in margin of tongue.
  • ( Inspiration and expiration ), Stitch in left groin.
  • ( Lying bent up ), Desire for stool.
  • ( Motion ), Pain in left upper arm.
  • ( Rest ), Ringing in ear.
  • ( Resting head on hand ), Heaviness of head.
  • ( Walking ), Vertigo; headache in forehead; oppression in chest.

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