Sabina
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Savine. Coniferæ.
An evergreen shrub native of the south of Europe. The tincture is made from the young fresh tops of the branches.
Proved by Hahnemann, Gross, Fr. H., Herman, Hartmann, Stapf, etc. ; Archiv für Hom., vol. 5 ; Hering, Prak. Mittheilungen, 1827 ; Buchner, A. H. Z., vol. 20.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Toothache , Bœnninghausen, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 476 ; Hemorrhoids , Hartmann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 1003 ; Gleet , Gollman, Rück. Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 550 ; Condylomata, Exuberant granulations, Uterine displacements , Kurtz, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 635 ; Uterine affection , Lietzkau, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 356 ; Menorrhagia, Metrorrhagia, Abortion , Hartmann, Weber, Rau, Lobethal, Griessel, Nenning, Knorr, Genzke, Attomyr, Schrön, Emmrich, Sturm, Pleyel, Schüler, Tietze, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 325 ; Metrorrhagia , Löw, Battman, Huber, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 628 ; Hahnemann, B. J. H., vol. 12, p. 270 ; Huber, B. J. H., vol. 16, p. 303 ; Eidherr, B. J. H., vol. 27, p. 51 ; Terry, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 317 ; Ludlam, M. I., vol. 4, p. 278 ; Uterine hemorrhage , Burchfield, Med. Ad., vol. 20, p. 350 ; Menorrhagia , Patzak, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 253 ; Wesselhœft, Hom. Cl., vol. 4, p. 20 ; Cowperthwait, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 8, p. 11, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 177 ; Frost, H. M., Nov., 1874, p. 145, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 176 ; Waddell, Hom. Phys., vol. 8, p. 445 ; Dysmenorrhœa , Johnson, T. H. M. S. Pa., 1887, p. 328 ; Fanning, Hom. Rev., vol. 3, p. 30 ; Amenorrhœa , Watzke, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 55, from Oestr. Zft. f. Hom., vol. 2, p. 1 ; Amenorrhœa and anæmia , Madden, B. J. H., vol. 24, p. 301 ; Leucorrhœa , Wood, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 93 ; Boynton, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 412 ; Threatened abortion , Gibson, M. I., vol. 6, p. 141 ; Lindsay, Org., vol. 1, p. 472 ; Fleming, T. H. M. S. Pa., 1887, p. 282 ; Barretti, Riv., Om., 1874 ; (2 cases), Slocomb, Mass. Trans., vol. 4, p. 810 ; Premature rupture of the membranes , Streeter, M. I., vol. 4, p. 371 ; Dystocia , Adams, Med. Adv., Jan., 1890, p. 35 ; Retained placenta , Schrön, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 404 ; Eaton, Hom. Phys., vol. 9, p. 140 ; Arthritis , Hartmann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 546 ; Rheumatism , Wells, Hom. Rev., vol. 3, p. 259 ; Chronic rheumatism , Ægidi, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 3, p. 90.
MIND [1]
Music is intolerable to her.
Much irritability of temper, hysteria.
Hypochondriacal mood.
Great tiredness and laziness, with a feeling of deep-seated inward trouble, which makes him melancholy and sad.
Irritability of temper, with sour stomach and great anxiety ; hypochondriacal mood ; rheumatic subjects.
SENSORIUM [2]
Vertigo : especially in morning, fears she will fall ; everything turns black before her eyes ; suppressed menses ; with congestion to and heat in head ; when standing ; as if he would fall ; with obscuration of vision.
INNER HEAD [3]
Headache, especially in temporal eminences, as if parts were pressed asunder ; it comes suddenly, disappears gradually and recurs frequently.
Frontal headache, pressing down on eyes as if they would be pressed out ; < in morning on rising ; > in open air.
Transitory tensive pain in forehead, as if skin had grown fast, with tension in eyes.
Pressure and dulness in head, especially in forehead.
Sense of painful stricture over temples.
Circumscribed pain in each temporal region.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Lustreless eyes.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Buzzing in ears.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Dry coryza.
Epistaxis, preceded by dulness and pressure in forehead.
Redness of skin around alæ nasi, painful to touch.
UPPER FACE [8]
Flushes of heat in face, with chilliness all over and coldness of hands and feet.
Pale face ; eyes lustreless with blue rings around them.
Pimples on cheeks and forehead.
Black pores in face and on nose.
TEETH AND GUMS [10]
Drawing toothache caused by masticating.
Throbbing toothache, appearing toward evening and at night, < after eating and from warmth of bed ; sensation as if tooth would burst ; throbbing in all the bloodvessels ; belching ; profuse discharge of bright red blood from genitalia between periods.
Toothache after a gouty pain in great toe had been driven away by external applications.
Toothache evening and night.
Tearing pain in roots of molars.
Swelling of gums around broken teeth.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Bitter taste of food, of milk and coffee.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Offensive breath.
Dryness of mouth and œsophagus without thirst.
Dryness of mouth and throat ; the saliva is quite white, and becomes frothy while talking.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Dryness in throat with drawing pain.
Sensation of swelling in throat, as if he had to swallow over a foreign body.
Sensation of a lump in throat ; when trying to swallow, cannot ; can swallow food.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Constant desire for acids (especially lemonade) and roasted coffee.
Appetite poor.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Burning in stomach ; morning sickness.
Heartburn and sour eructations, especially when sitting bent, which position also aggravates other symptoms.
Paroxysms of nausea and qualmishness when she is in a crowd.
Frequent empty retching.
Vomiting : of bile ; of undigested food eaten day previous.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Stitches in pit of stomach, extending to back.
Frequent burning in pit of stomach, with drawing, twisting and gurgling in bowels, bearing down toward sexual organs.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Tympanitis ; bloatedness of abdomen ; rumbling in evening, in a warm room.
Writhing and pinching in abdomen, in umbilical region ; frequently recurring with increasing violence and a sensation as if vomiting would come on, without nausea.
Slight sensation of motion in abdomen, as if something were alive.
Quivering in abdomen, as if there were something alive in it, resembling foetal movements.
Labor-like pains in abdomen, down groins.
Soreness of abdominal muscles.
Pressing down toward genitals.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Diarrhœa : with pain extending from back through to pubes ; in rheumatic or gouty women ; with much flatulence.
Stools : of blood and mucus ; frequent urging, finally a liquid portion is discharged, followed by a hard portion.
Constipation : stools hard, difficult and painful ; pain from back to pubes.
Hemorrhoids with discharge of bright red blood, causing pain in back, from sacrum to pubes, biting sore pain in the varices, especially during morning stool.
Hemorrhoids with excessive discharge of bright red blood or blood mixed with mucus ; cutting, pressive pain low down in abdomen ; pressing, urging pain in sphincter ani ; constant urging to stool ; itching and burning in anus ; paroxysmal stitching pain in small of back.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Nephritis, with retention of urine, or discharge by drops, with burning ; ardor urinæ in rheumatic subjects.
Vesical irritability, depending on gouty diathesis.
Diminished discharge of red urine, with strangury.
Frequent violent urging to urinate, with profuse discharge.
Urine bloody and albuminous.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Sexual desire increased, with violent continuous erections.
Inflammatory gonorrhœa, with discharge of pus.
Rheumatic gonorrhœa.
Glans penis dark red, with burning soreness to touch ; painfulness of prepuce, cannot retract it ; attacks of pain in frenum præputii. θ Gleet.
Hard swelling on penis.
Sycotic excrescences, with burning soreness.
Fig-warts with intolerable itching and burning ; exuberant granulations.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Increased sexual desire almost amounting to nymphomania ; almost insatiable desire for an embrace.
Ovaritis, stitches in vagina, deep from before backward.
Inflammation of ovaries or uterus after abortion or premature labor.
Contractive pain in region of uterus.
Uterine pains running from back to groins.
Painful active congestions of uterus.
Acute metritis ; metritis hæmorrhagica.
Lateral and posterior displacements of uterus from general atony.
Remittent but fixed pain in uterus, at times stitching in character ; < during menstruation ; colic with the menses ; long-continued leucorrhœal discharge after menses ; pain during an embrace ; uterus enlarged or swollen (mother died of carcinoma uteri).
The os tincæ is open, the blood looks red, the discharge is profuse and paroxysmal, especially during motion. θ Threatened abortion.
Discharge of blood between periods, with sexual excitement.
Copious hemorrhages, accompanied by uterine colic ; contractive labor-like pains extending from back to pubes and great urging to urinate.
Pain or feeling of malaise, extending between sacrum and pubes and experienced in those points. θ Metrorrhagia.
Metrorrhagia : resulting from plethora ; clotted and fluid blood, pain extending from sacrum or lumbar region, to pubes ; with severe bearing down, extending from lower part of back around abdomen and down thighs, blood bright red, thin, liquid ; labor-like pains in lumbar and uterine region, discharge of large clots of blood, bright red, coming in gushes, particularly profuse on motion, os uteri being constantly open ; < by least motion, often > by walking ; produced by great irritability of organism, in patients who have menstruated very early in life and very freely, and have always had more or less tendency to miscarriage.
Without any apparent cause menses recurred three times during the month, each time very abundant and lasting three days ; the following month while carrying a heavy burden a stream of blood suddenly gushed from genitals, attended with violent hypogastric pains, weakness of head almost amounting to vertigo ; paleness of face ; eyes heavy, lustreless ; great thirst ; little appetite, loose stool ; urine red by admixture of blood ; drawing, bearing-down pains from fundus of uterus toward sacrum and along broad ligaments to each side, appearing periodically, accompanied at one time by a discharge of black fluid, at another, of coagulated blood ; when the pains are absent she has constant hemorrhage ; pains > by pressure ; least motion increases discharge ; hypogastrium distended ; has a doughy feeling, but only tender on firm pressure ; temperature of skin not elevated, that of extremities lowered ; pulse full, soft, quick ; sleep uneasy ; frequent shivering and mental anxiety. θ Metrorrhagia.
After miscarriage (two months ago) placenta remained fourteen days ; had a constant hemorrhage which could not be stopped ; a tampon relieved, but when removed hemorrhage returned ; had occasional labor-like pains which caused some strings and shreds to pass.
Protracted uterine hemorrhage arising from a loss of tone in vessels of uterus, whether from disease or weight and pressure of fetus in utero ; blood dark and clotted ; gouty subjects.
Menses : too profuse, too early ; last too long ; partly fluid, partly clotted and offensive ; flow in paroxysms ; with colic and labor-like pains ; pains from sacrum to pubes.
Low grade of asthenic fever, violent menorrhagia ; set in with great violence, discharge red, clotted, partly fluid, accompanied by a pain running from back through to pubes ; the noise of the piano seemed to set her distracted.
In poor health for two years, from living in a damp house in an ague neighborhood ; had chills several times ; menses profuse, with large coagulated, conical clots. θ Menorrhagia.
Girl, æt. 14, had menstruated for more than a year and always irregularly ; there was an almost incessant discharge of bright-red blood for four weeks, so that it was impossible to determine the actual periods of commencement of menstruation ; walking very much lessened the hemorrhage, but it returned again very soon. θ Menorrhagia.
Five months after delivery, very profuse discharge of blood, with pains in back and labor-like pressing toward pubes ; for six days constant dribbling interrupted by profuse gushes of blood with discharge of large masses of dark coagula accompanied by labor-like pains ; < from motion ; rapid prostration ; pale face ; vertigo ; chilliness ; uterus prolapsed, os pointing to left side while fundus lay on opposite side. θ Menorrhagia.
Menorrhagia during climacteric period in women who formerly aborted.
Dysmenorrhœa accompanied by violent headache ; menses generally delayed, lasting about seven days, scanty, coming for a few minutes at a time, then ceasing for six or eight hours, bright, clotted, without flow ; pain in hypogastrium going to back ; feeling of obstruction internally ; dragging pain in back and pain throughout lower extremities which seems deep seated ; easiest position is on flat of back with limbs extended ; pain < walking, > from warmth ; severe pain in head principally in anterior part and eyes, < stooping, walking, > from pressure ; nausea, at times vomiting ; feverishness ; cold hands and feet ; pulse 120 ; violent rapid pulsation felt throughout body, except in head ; no premonitory symptoms, pain coming about two hours after menses and ceasing on second day.
Dysmenorrhœa with violent pain extending from back through to pubes, rheumatic in origin.
Kate R., 16 years old, has not yet menstruated, suffered three years ago from intermittent fever, and since then complained of frontal headaches pressing down on eyes as if it would push them out ; < in morning when rising, > in fresh air ; cachectic features with blue rings around eyes, especially in morning, toothache most severe at night in bed, > walking about, < by eating ; paroxysms of nausea and qualmishness when in a crowd ; frequent burning in pit of stomach, drawing, twisting and gurgling in bowels, lasting for hours ; bearing down toward sexual organs ; shortness of breath ; palpitation at every motion, especially when ascending ; pressing pains in chest ; heaviness of lower extremities, with painfulness of thighs when walking ; drawing ; tearing pains in extremities, especially at night ; great lassitude and sleepiness. θ Chlorosis primaria amenorrhoeica.
Anna L., 17 years old, strong constitution, menstruated in her thirteenth year ; menses returned regularly until they became suppressed about 18 months ago from immoderate dancing ; complains since of severe vertigo, especially in morning and after exertion, so that she is afraid of falling, and everything turns black before her eyes ; pressing pains in forehead ; burning in ears, greenish-yellow corroding leucorrhœa ; shortness of breath, palpitation, sweats easily, painful lassitude ; leuco-phlegmatic expression ; cheeks and forehead covered with pimples ; constant desire for acids and roasted coffee. θ Chlorosis secundaria metastatica.
Yellowish, ichorous, fetid leucorrhœa, and painful discharges of fetid blood every two weeks ; at climaxis.
Leucorrhœa : of pudenda ; of consistence of starch ; copious, milky, causing itching ; ropy, glairy from cervical canal ; with drawing pains in broad of back through to pubes.
Corrosive leucorrhœa since commencement of first pregnancy, causing soreness and itching of thighs.
Stitches from below upward deep in vagina.
Condylomata which itch and burn.
Cysts in vulva, sensitive or with tearing pains during rest.
Stitches in left nipple.
Voluptuous itching in nipples.
PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION [24]
Promotes the expulsion of moles.
Tendency to abortion, especially at third month ; discharge of bright-red, partly clotted blood, < from any motion ; pain from sacrum to pubes.
Greatest anxiety ; constant fear that she will abort ; for last two days on slightest motion, discharge of blood, alternately bright red, fluid and dark or in clots ; labor-like pains from back to pubes ; external genitals hot to touch ; os uteri dilated half an inch. θ Threatened abortion.
During fifth month of pregnancy labor pains come on at regular intervals of about fifteen minutes, with a slight but unceasing flow of bright-red blood. θ Threatened abortion.
Profuse flow of blood from vagina ; os considerably dilated ; vagina filled with dark coagulated blood ; chilly ; nausea ; great thirst ; much prostration ; third month of pregnancy.
Hemorrhage of dark-red blood, at times fluid, at others clotted ; not the slightest pain in back or hypogastrium ; great prostration. θ Threatened abortion.
Miss Rose L., about 22 years old, a thin, delicate female of nervous temperament, forsaken and unhappy ; seven months pregnant ; morning sickness with loss of appetite and diarrhœa ; some blood has passed at intervals of two and three weeks ; profuse metrorrhagia and diarrhœa ; flooding much < by moving or going to chamber, when it flows profusely and is of an arterial color ; constant pain from sacral region to pubes ; child has not moved since two days ; face pale, she begins to feel faint ; os dilated and patulous (delivered two months later of a healthy child).
After a miscarriage violent hemorrhages, lasting each time eight to ten days ; during first five days profuse discharge of bright-red fluid blood, without pain.
Uterine hemorrhage of four weeks' duration after abortion.
Retained placenta after abortion ; free discharge of blood ; mouth of uterus closed ; patient very nervous.
Premature rupture of membranes and free escape of liquor amnii ; occurred forty days previous to labor, caused by overwork and followed by labor pains and discharge of blood.
On eighth day after labor, reappearance of blood, lochial discharge having already ceased ; on ninth day three attacks of hemorrhage, discharge profuse, containing a large number of clots, < on rising, causing loss of consciousness ; heat over whole body with sweat, face cold and pale.
Atony of uterus ; painless loss of dark-red blood immediately after delivery ; discharge of fluids and clots with each pain.
Retained placenta ; pain, or an uneasy, bad feeling, extending from sacrum to pubes ; a slight sensation of motion in abdomen ; intense after-pains, notwithstanding the retention, with discharge of fluid blood and clots in about equal proportion with every pain.
Retained placenta from atony of uterus.
After-pains with sensitiveness of abdomen.
Metritis after parturition.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
Crawling and tickling in larynx exciting cough and mucous expectoration.
Dry, hacking cough and tickling in trachea ; expectoration streaked with blood next day.
RESPIRATION [26]
Shortness of breath.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Intermittent stitches in clavicle.
Tensive pain with pressure in middle of sternum, neither increased by expectoration nor inspiration.
Pressing pains in chest.
Hæmoptysis.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Palpitation at every motion, especially when ascending.
Pulse unequal ; generally quick, strong and hard.
Violent beating of bloodvessels in whole body.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Constant pain in small of back, obliging him to bend the back inward.
Paralytic pain in small of back ; would like to stretch ; > bending backward.
Drawing pains in small of back, extending to pubic region.
Indescribable uneasiness in lumbar vertebræ ; dragging sensation from behind forward resembling weak labor pains.
Weariness in lumbar region.
Labor-like pains drawing down into groins.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Pain as if sprained, in right shoulder joint, even during rest.
Pressive pain in both upper arms, near elbow joint, from without inward, < on touch and motion.
Paralytic tearing along right upper arm as far as hand.
Stinging in both upper arms, from within outward, near elbow joints.
Aching pain in right radius, < from motion or touch.
Arthritic stiffness and swelling of wrist joint, with tearing and stinging, made almost insupportable when hand hangs down.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Rheumatism of metatarso-phalangeal joint of big toe, characterized by great swelling, bright shining red ; intense sensibility to touch and motion ; < at night ; high fever.
Heaviness of legs, with painfulness of thighs when walking.
Stinging pains in hip joints, in morning and when breathing.
Sensation of coldness in whole (r.) leg.
Ulcers on tibia, with a lardaceous base.
Swelling, redness and stitches in big toe. θ Gout.
The middle of anterior surface of his thighs feels bruised and painful.
Tearing pain with pressure in metacarpal bones of both feet.
Sharp stitches from within outward in heels.
Painful drawing in joints of right toes, < during a walk.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Drawing, tearing pains in extremities, especially at night.
A man æt. 42 ; haggard, emaciated, stooping gait, thin, grey hair, hollow eyes, skin of an ashy hue ; from time to time dry cough, with dyspnœa ; complains of weakness and decrepitude, no strength to work, little appetite, slow digestion, sleep restless and full of dreams, sticky sweat toward morning ; here and there through joints a gouty lamelike pain, now in shoulder and elbow joint, now in hip and knee ; pains < in a warm room and > in open air ; pains usually in one side of body, mostly right ; troublesome pulsation in different bloodvessels, especially when taking a deep breath, < in evening in bed, which he has to leave again, not being able to return until morning ; transitory, tensive pain in forehead, with sensation as if skin had grown fast, with tension in eyes ; redness of skin around alæ nasi, painful to touch ; dryness of mouth and œsophagus without thirst ; collection of white frothy mucus, filling corners of mouth when talking ; sensation of a body in throat, which he tries to swallow but cannot, it offers no impediment to swallowing of food ; heartburn and sour eructations, especially when sitting bent, which likewise aggravates the other symptoms ; > from sitting erect, from moving and stretching limbs, for which he has na involuntary desire ; rumbling and gurgling in abdomen, especially in evening, in warm room ; great tiredness and laziness, with a feeling of deep-seated inward trouble, which makes him melancholy and sad. θ Chronic rheumatism.
Great weakness and weariness of limbs, with tearing pains at night ; when very warm ; > in cold air.
Red and shining swelling of great toe, with excessive pains, < by least touch or motion ; heaviness of affected limbs ; fever < in evening ; wandering pains, burning, affecting one joint after another, especially big toe and hand ; > by cool applications ; changes her position often to get relief. θ Arthritis.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Rest : tearing pains in cysts ; pain in shoulder joint.
Lying on flat of back with limbs extended, easiest position during dysmenorrhœa.
Must lie down : heaviness of body.
Sitting bent : heartburn and sour eructations <.
Standing : vertigo.
Stooping : pain in head <.
When hand hangs down : tearing and stinging in wrist joint <.
Must bend the back inward : pain in small of back.
Elevating limbs : > pain in ulcers.
Rising : discharge of clots <.
Changes position often to get relief : arthritis.
Motion : profuse discharge from uterus ; palpitation ; always increases discharge ; palpitation ; pain in upper arms < ; pain in right radius < ; pain in big toe <.
Moving and stretching limbs : eructations and heartburn >.
Walking : metrorrhagia > ; lessened hemorrhage ; dysmenorrhœa < ; pain in head < ; painfulness of thighs ; drawing in toes <.
Ascending : palpitation <.
Lies on left side : during sleep.
NERVES [36]
Feels weary and weak in all her limbs with great despondency.
Heaviness and indolence of body, obliging him to lie down.
Great lassitude and heaviness.
Very tired and lazy.
Is very nervous and hysterical, and if she becomes pregnant is almost sure to abort about third month.
Nervousness so great that music becomes unbearable, it goes through bone and marrow.
SLEEP [37]
Sleeplessness and restlessness after midnight, with heat and profuse perspiration.
Lies on left side during sleep.
TIME [38]
Morning : vertigo < ; frontal headache < ; pain in varices during stool ; pain in hip joints ; toward, sticky sweat ; tenseness in ulcer <.
During day : great chilliness.
Toward evening : toothache.
Evening : rumbling in abdomen ; pulsation in different bloodvessels < in bed ; fever < ; chill with shivering ; tenseness in ulcer <.
Night : toothache ; pains in extremities < ; pain in great toe < ; drawing and tearing in extremities <.
After midnight : sleepless and restless.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Warmth of bed, toothache < ; pain (dysmenorrhœa) > ; pain in ulcer <.
Warm room : rumbling in abdomen ; rheumatic pains < ; gout <.
Open air : frontal headache > ; rheumatic pains > ; tenseness in ulcer >.
Cool applications : wandering pains in joints >.
Cool air : weariness and weakness of limbs > ; gout >.
FEVER [40]
Chill in evening with attacks of shivering.
Great chilliness during day.
Shivering with obscuration of sight, followed by sleepiness.
Burning heat of whole body, with great restlessness.
Flushes of heat in face, rest of body chilly, hands and feet cold.
Sweats easily ; sweat every night.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Paroxysms : discharge from uterus ; of nausea and qualmishness.
At intervals of fifteen minutes : labor pains.
Periodically : pains in uterus.
Every night : sweat.
Three times during month : menses.
Every two weeks : painful discharge of fetid blood.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Right : pain in shoulder joint ; tearing in upper arm ; aching in radius ; coldness in leg ; painful drawing in joints of toes.
Left : stitches in nipple ; lies on side during sleep.
From before backward : stitches in vagina.
From behind forward : dragging in lumbar vertebræ.
From below upward : stitches in vagina.
From within outward : stinging in upper arms ; stitches in heels.
From without inward : pressive pain in arms.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if she would fall ; as if parts of temporal eminence were pressed asunder ; as if eyes would be pressed out ; as if skin had grown fast on forehead ; as if tooth would burst ; as if he had to swallow over a foreign body ; as of a lump in throat ; as if vomiting would come on ; as if something were alive in abdomen ; r. shoulder joint as if sprained.
Pain : in temporal eminences ; from back through to pubes ; in frenum ; in uterus from back to groins ; throughout lower extremities ; from sacral region to pubes ; in small of back.
Violent pains : in hypogastric region ; from back to pubes.
Severe pain : in head and eyes.
Tearing pain : in roots of molars ; in cysts, in vulva ; in wrist joints ; in metacarpal bones of both feet ; in extremities.
Paralytic tearing : along upper arm as far as hand.
Throbbing pain : in teeth.
Stitches : in pit of stomach ; to back ; in vagina ; in left nipple ; in clavicle ; in big toe ; in heels.
Stitching pain : in small of back ; in uterus.
Cutting pressive pain : low down in abdomen.
Pinching : in abdomen.
Dragging pain : in back.
Pressing urging pain : in sphincter ani.
Pressing pain : in chest ; in forehead ; in upper arms.
Tensive pain : in forehead ; in middle of sternum ; in broad of back through to pubes ; in small of back ; in joints of right toes ; in extremities.
Contractive pain : in region of uterus.
Aching pain : in right radius.
Bearing-down pains : from fundus of uterus toward sacrum and along the broad ligaments to each side.
Drawing pain : in teeth ; in throat.
Labor-like pains : in abdomen down groins.
Paralytic pain : in small of back.
Lamelike pain : in joints.
Burning sore pain : in the varices ; in glans penis.
Circumscribed pain : in each temporal region.
Dragging sensation : in lumbar vertebræ.
Burning : in stomach ; in pit of stomach ; in anus ; of condylomata.
Stinging : in both upper arms ; in wrist joint ; in hip joints.
Soreness : of abdominal muscles ; of thighs.
Painfulness : of thighs.
Painful stricture : over temples.
Throbbing : in all bloodvessels.
Tension : in eyes.
Pressure : in head ; in forehead ; in metacarpal bones of both feet.
Pressing : on eyes ; toward genitals.
Heaviness : of lower extremities.
Dulness : in head ; in forehead.
Drawing, twisting and gurgling : in bowels.
Writhing : in abdomen.
Weariness : in lumbar region ; of limbs.
Weakness : of head ; of limbs.
Dryness : of mouth and œsophagus ; of throat.
Tickling : in larynx ; in trachea.
Crawling : in larynx.
Itching : in anus ; of pudenda ; of thighs ; of condylomata ; voluptuous, in nipples.
Coldness : of hands and feet ; in right leg.
TISSUES [44]
Drawing pains through long bones.
Red, shining swelling of affected parts.
Gout ; arthritic complaints ; tearing, stinging in joints after they become swollen ; < in heated room ; > in cool air or cool room ; arthritic nodes.
Chlorosis.
Throbbing in all the bloodvessels.
Hemorrhages.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Touch : skin around alæ nasi painful ; glans penis sore ; pains in upper arms < ; pain in right radius < ; intense sensibility of great toe.
Pressure : pains in uterus > ; hypogastrium tender ; pain in head >.
SKIN [46]
Black pores in skin, especially of face.
Fig-warts, with intolerable itching and burning ; exuberant granulations.
Deep ulcers ; prickling feeling of tenseness in ulcer ; < morning and evening, exertion, touch, warmth of bed ; > open air, cold, raising or elevating limbs.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Chronic ailments of women ; arthritic pains ; tendency to miscarriage.
Gouty diathesis.
Girl, æt. 12, came into puberty at the age of eleven ; dysmenorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 14, tall, thin, scrofulous, has menstruated for more than a year ; menorrhagia.
Girl, æt. 16, not yet menstruated, suffered three years ago from intermittents, since then complaining ; amenorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 17, strong constitution, menstruated in her thirteenth year ; suppressed 18 months ago from immoderate dancing ; amenorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 19, sanguine temperament, thin, weakly constitution, menstruated regularly since sixteenth year, seven years ago had hæmoptysis ; metrorrhagia.
Woman, æt. 21, delicate, nervous, always aborted at third month after slightest mental disturbance, hemorrhage being profuse ; threatened abortion.
Mrs. D., æt. 21, nervous temperament, suffering since her first pregnancy ; leucorrhœa.
Miss R. L., æt. 22, nervous temperament, thin, delicate, forsaken and unhappy, seven months pregnant ; threatened abortion.
Young lady, æt. 23, in good health ; menorrhagia.
XO., æt. 24, medium height, dark complexion, dark hair, nervous temperament, very fond of music, suffering for years ; dysmenorrhœa.
Woman, æt. 24 ; threatened abortion.
Miss P., æt. 25, ill two years ; amenorrhœa and anemia.
Woman, æt. 26, delivered two months ago, since then suffering ; uterine hemorrhages.
Mrs. J., æt. 27, mother of two children ; retained placenta after abortion.
Mrs. S., æt. 26, brunette, married ten years ; uterine hemorrhage.
Servant girl, æt. 30, tall, thin ; metrorrhagia.
Mrs. A., æt. 30, in poor health for two years, from living in a damp house in an ague neighborhood, having had chills several times ; menorrhagia.
Woman, æt. 30, on ninth day after second labor ; uterine hemorrhage.
Woman, æt. 30, strong, sanguine choleric temperament, aborted four times, now three months pregnant ; threatened abortion.
Woman, æt. 32, three months pregnant ; threatened abortion.
Mrs. N., æt. 38, nine months married ; dystocia.
Woman, æt. 40, sanguine temperament, passed through four pregnancies, waters each time escaping eight days before labor ; threatened abortion.
Man, æt. 42 ; chronic rheumatism.
Woman, well built, phlegmatic temperament, delivered five months ago, since then has not menstruated ; menorrhagia.
RELATIONS [48]
Antidoted by : Pulsat .
Compatible : Arsen., Bellad., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Spongia, Sulphur .
Complementary to : Thuja .
Compare : Arnica, Calc. ostr., Coccul., Crocus, Ipecac., Millef., Ruta, Secale, Trillium .