Lithium carbonicum
By Adolph von Lippe — Text Book of Materia Medica
Head
Pain over the eyes and tension, as if bound in the temples; diminished while eating, but returning soon after eating, and remains as a pressure in the temples until in the night, and only goes away after falling asleep.
Pains in a small spot in the right temple.
Pressure in the temples from without inwards, with a pressing pain in the middle of the chest.
Tension as if bound in the temples, with half vision.
Early on awaking, violent headache in vertex and temples (after sudden cessation of the menses), with nausea.
Heavy weight upon the vertex with pressure upon the left temple.
Headache worse when lying down; it pains everywhere; better when sitting; relieved by going out.
Looking at any thing makes the headache worse; can hardly keep the eyes open; they pain as if sore from morning till noon.
Trembling and throbbing in the head, the pains in the heart extend to the head.
Head seems too large.
Head externally sensitive.
Eyes
Stitches in the right eye.
Eyes pain as if sore.
Sensation of dryness and pain in the eyes after reading.
Sensation as if sand were in the eyes.
Pain over the eyes, with half vision.
The sunlight blinds him.
Uncertainty of vision and an entire invisibility of the right half of whatever she looked at (during second day of menstruation).
Ears
Earache, left side, from the throat, with prosopalgia.
Pain behind the left ear, in the bone, extending towards the neck.
Nose
Nose obstructed, above and in the forehead, in the morning and forenoon.
Blows his nose very much in the remains behind in the choana.
Dropping from the nose in the open air.
Nose swollen, red, especially on the right side, sore internally-shining crusts form in it; it is dry and as if inflamed (at the same time frequent urinating at night, disturbing the sleep).
Face
Pain in the right side of the face (afternoon) from the root of the tooth that has been sawn off, extending to the temple, followed next day by the same pain in the left side, passing from the throat to the left ear, causing earache and moderate brief pain in the left temple.
Throat
Sore throat extending into the ear.
Expectoration of mucus from the choana and out of the fauces in solid lumps, especially morning and forenoon.
Stomach and Abdomen
Gnawing in the stomach worse before a meal, it goes away while he eats.
Nausea and gnawing in the stomach.
Nausea, with fulness in the temples; with headache.
Acidity in the stomach.
Fulness in the pit of the stomach, cannot endure any pressure of the clothes.
Pressure in the hepatic region.
Stool and Anus
Diarrhœa after fruit.
Very offensive stools (daring the night).
Very stinking discharge of the flatus.
Violent, painful, dull stitch in the perineum near the anus, from above downwards, from within outwards.
Urinary Organs
Sensitive pain, sharp pressure, in the vesical regions, more on the right side, after urinating.
Tenesmus vesicæ and micturition (evening while walking).
Flashes of pain in the region of the bladder, inferiorly, more towards the right before passing water; pain extends into the spermatic cord after urinating.
Quick strong tenesmus.
Frequent and copious micturition (disturbing the sleep).
Turbid urine with mucous deposit.
Urine scanty and dark very acrid.
Dark, reddish-brown deposit.
On rising to urinate, a pressing in the region of the heart, which did not cease till after urination (morning).
Sexual Organs
Men. Erection after urination at night.
Burning in the urethra.
Women. Menses too late and too scanty.
Respiratory Organs
On inspiration the air feels so cold that it seems to be felt unpleasantly even in the lungs.
Pressure in the middle of the chest.
Constriction of the chest when walking (after breakfast), followed by expectoration of mucus.
Violent cough in the evening, while lying down, compelling to rise, without expectoration; the irritation to cough is in a little spot, posteriorly and inferiorly in the throat.
Rheumatic soreness in the region of the heart.
Sudden shock in the heart.
Throbbing; like a dull stitch in the region of the heart.
Pains in the heart after pains in the bladder.
Pains in the heart before and at the time of the commencement of the menses.
Trembling and fluttering of the heart (after mental agitation of a vexatious character).
Back
Stitch in the sacrum.
Pain in the sacrum, when standing, with confusion of the head.
Extremities
Upper. Burning stitch in the ball of the hand, in the left thumb.
Itching-throbbing, very sensitive pain in all the fingers, as if it were in and upon the bones, extending from the hands to the ends of the fingers, only during repose; it ceases upon pressure, when grasping, and during motion.
Soreness at the margin of the nail, with pain and redness.
Lower. Pain in the right hip, later in the left.
Rheumatic pains in the lower extremities.
Pain of the knees, above the knees, especially when going up stairs.
Prostrated feelings in the knee-joints, weakness of the knew, on going up stairs.
Rheumatic pains in the right foot on awaking at night, they pass away on rising.
Painfulness of the feet, ankles, metatarsus, all the toes, especially of the border of the foot and the sole, as if it were gouty.
Pain and weakness of the feet.
Burning in the great toe, especially around the corns.
Great soreness of the corns.
Itching of the sole of the (left) foot on the inner margin.
Pain in the little toes.
Generalities
Paralytic stiffness in all the limbs of the whole body as if beaten; stiff and sore over the whole body, in all the bones, joints and muscles.
Pressing, as if with a dull point, here and there, internally, as if it were wear the bone, most in the left side.
Burning stitch which goes from within outwards, and ends in an itching.
Contracting sensation, with shudder.
Sleep
Sleepiness early in the evening; late in the morning.
Sleep at night disturbed by urination.
Voluptuous dreams, tenesmus vesicæ, and erections, which subside after urination.
Fever
Shudder starting from the thorax.
Very copious perspiration.
Perspiration on the back of the hands.
Skin
Itching, at the anus, in the middle finger around the margin of the nail, on the side of the thigh, in the sole of the foot, in the palm of the hand.