Lachnanthes tinctoria
By Adolph von Lippe — Text Book of Materia Medica
Mind and Disposition
Restlessness, tosses about (during perspiration).
Great loquacity; afterwards, stupid and irritable.
Ill-humored and sleepy.
Great hilarity (evening).
Delirium, with circumscribed red cheeks (1 to 2 A.M.).
Head
Giddiness in the head, with sensation of heat in the chest and around the heart, and perspiration.
Giddiness, with icy coldness of the forehead.
Dull headache and pressing in the forehead.
Head feels heavy.
Sensation as if the vertex were enlarged and were driven upward.
Headache pressing the eyes outward.
The head feels enlarged, and as if split open with a wedge from the outside to within; the body is icy cold; she cannot get warm also for a long time under a feather bed; the whole face becomes yellow; she has to whine with the headache; the head burns like fire, with much thirst; during the cold sensation the skin is moist and clammy.
Painful tearing in the forehead in the open air.
Tearing in the (right) temple, extending to the cheek.
Pricking headache (in the evening).
Sensation as if the head were standing on end; worse in the occiput.
Tearing in the vertex.
The scalp is very painful to the touch.
On the forehead elevated red pimples.
Wrinkles on the forehead, with longitudinal ridges from the interior corner of the eyebrows upwards.
Eyes
Obscuration of sight; could not see in the evening; as if a cloud were before the eyes.
Pressing in the eyes as from dust; with secretion of white mucus.
Secretion of white mucus from the eyes (from the canthi).
Twitching of the right canthus.
Sensation of twitching in the upper eyelids, worse when closing them.
In the morning, violent lachrymation and burning of the eyes, with sensation of dryness.
The eyes feel heavy, as if they could not be kept open.
Eyes dry.
Eyes feel cold.
The eyebrows and upper eyelids are drawn upwards; he has his looks fixed.
Ears
Singing in the ear when walking in the open air.
Tearing in the ears.
Crawling and itching in the ears.
Almost complete deafness (during fever).
Nose
The nose bleeds; profusely; the blood is pale.
Face
Face swollen, with redness and blueness under the eyes.
Pale, sickly countenance; face and lips light blue; eyes dull, feel thick and cold.
Circumscribed redness of the face (1 to 8 A.M.), with violent delirium and brilliant eyes.
Redness of the face; yellow face.
Sensation as if something were crawling over the face.
Mouth and Throat
Pain in all the teeth when drinking coffee or eating soup (from warm things).
All the teeth feel loose and too long; worse in bed.
Saliva of tough mucus.
Swelling and tension of the lips.
Lips red.
Sensation as if the mouth were sore and thick.
Great dryness in the throat, especially on awaking during the night, with much coughing.
Sore throat, with short cough.
When swallowing, itching (in a small spot) in the throat left side.
Stomach and Abdomen
Much thirst.
Hiccough in bed.
Sensation of qualmishness above the navel, when walking in the open air.
In the pit of the stomach, beating as from a pulse, as if a hammer were beating on an ulcerated spot.
Fulness in the pit of the stomach.
Rolling of wind in the abdomen (left side), hears it but does not feel it.
Fermentation and rumbling in the abdomen, and discharge of flatulency.
Sensation of heat through the abdomen.
Stool and Anus
Frequent unsuccessful desire to evacuate.
With the evacuation, discharge of much flatulence.
Continuous stitch in the rectum.
Urinary Organs
Pressure on the bladder while urinating.
Sexual Organs
Men. Violent burning in the left half of the scrotum, drawing towards the right side.
Tingling and itching of the scrotum.
Perspiration and itching of the scrotum and penis.
Women. Catamenia too early, blood viscid, mixed with mucus.
During the catamenia, sensation of distention of the abdomen; it feels as if it were boiling.
Menstrual blood profuse, bright red.
Respiratory Organs and Heart
Burning in the right side of the larynx.
Hoarseness (forenoon).
Cough dry, as if it came from the larynx; expectoration is streaked with blood, with severe pain in the chest (Pneumonia).
Sensation of fulness in the chest; is compelled to inhale deeply.
Stitches in the (left side of the) chest.
Stitches like knives in the right side of the chest.
Cough worse in bed and after sleeping.
Bubbling and boiling in the chest and the region of the heart; it rises to the head and he becomes giddy; he breaks out in a perspiration.
Sensation of heat in the region of the heart.
Stitches in the heart, with anxiety.
Frequent violent pulsations of the heart, -each beat is double, one hard and full, the other soft and small.
Trembling of the heart, with great debility.
Feels; hot and oppressed in the chest, with mild perspiration all over.
Back
Stiffness and pain in the neck extending over the whole head down to the nose, and sensation as if the nostrils were pinched together.
Sensation of spraining in the neck when turning or moving the head backward.
Stiff neck; the head is drawn to one side (after Diphtheria, scarlet fever).
Sensation as if a piece of ice were lying on the back, between the shoulders, followed by a chill, with goose-flesh all over.
Sensation between the shoulder blades as if wet with cold perspiration, the skin being dry and cool.
Burning in the region of the left kidney, extending towards the right side.
Burning in the spine above the sacrum.
Burning in the sacrum.
Burning on the right shoulder-blade.
Extremities
Upper. Tearing from the shoulder, extending to the finger-joints.
The thumb and index-finger feel as if sprained.
Tearing in the elbow-joints.
Tearing in the knuckles of the middle fingers of the right hand.
Burning of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
Lower. Tearing in the right ischium.
Small pimples around the left gluteus muscle, which discharge a watery fluid when scratched open.
Burning stinging in, above or below the left knee-pain.
Tearing in the left knee.
Tingling in both lower limbs and feet, worse in the heat.
Burning in the feet (soles of the feet).
Cramps in the feet (during the night).
Sleep
Sleepiness, with yawning, the eyes feel so heavy that she cannot keep them open.
After waking and stretching a shock followed by chilliness and goose-flesh all over.
Fever
Continuous chilliness.
Sensation as if a piece of ice were lying on the back between the shoulders; then a shock, followed by coldness over the whole body with goose-flesh; these attacks recur on moving and go off after going to bed.
Feels hot, but the chills run all over her before the heat can develop itself.
Icy coldness of the body.
Flashes of heat, alternating with chilliness.
Evening fever, worse from 6 P.M. to midnight.
Fever with violent delirium, circumscribed redness of the cheeks and brilliant eyes (worse from 1 to 2 A.M.).
Fever with somnolency.
Perspiration after restless sleep (A.M.).
The skin is cold, damp and clammy during the coldness.
Icy cold perspiration, principally on the forehead.
Skin
Sensation in the skin as if an eruption would appear.
The red pimples on the forehead suppurate.
Itching and burning in the skin all night; worse after scratching.
Conditions
Sensation of great weakness, as if from loss of fluids.
Most symptoms are aggravated while lying down and are relieved by walking about.
Aggravation of most symptoms in the afternoon, and the fever is worse from 1 to 2 A.M.