PSORINUM.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
The sero-purulent matter contained in the Scabies vesicle was used for Hahnemann's provings (No.
1 ).
The product of "Psora sicca" (epidermoid efflorescence of Pityriasis) was used for the provings by Dr. Gross (Nos.
2 to 5 ).
Preparation , Triturations.
Authorities.
1 , Hahnemann's provings by "S---" and "R---," with the 30th potency, once repeated doses, Archiv. f. Hom., 13, 3, 163; 2 , Gross, Archiv. f. Hom., 15, 3, 177; 3 , Ilke, ibid.; 4 , Kretschmar, ibid.; 5 , Liedbeck, ibid.; 6 , Usher, "The Organon," 1, p. 104, effects of 6th dil, given to a woman for intense sleepiness in forenoon, of some years' duration; 7 , same, effects of continuing to take the "C. M." Swan, after the cough, for which it had been prescribed, had been relieved.
MIND
- Excitable before falling asleep, 1.
- Very sentimental, 1.
- Cheerful, lively, enjoys everything (sixth day), 1.
- Suddenly very lively, at other times depressed; thus it changed several times during the day, 1.
- He pictures the future in the brightest colors, 1.
- In good humor; he works with pleasure (second morning), 1.
- In great humor and full of fun, 1.
- Anxiety, full of forebodings, very restless, with trembling of the hands, 1.
- Unusual anxiety when riding in a carriage (first day), 1. [10.]
- *He is anxious, full of fear, and melancholic, 2.
- Anxious oppression, palpitation, 1.
- Sometimes very melancholy, and then excessively frolicsome, 1.
- She is so downhearted that she could commit suicide, then is full of phantasms, 1.*
- Very melancholy and despairing ; he wishes to die in spit of his good luck, 1.*
- Melancholy and sorrowful, 1.*
- *Very depressed (seventh day), 1.
- Despairing mood; he fears to fail in business, 1.*
- His ideas are sad and joyless, 1.*
- Extremely ill-humored, 4.* [20.]
- Very irritable; quarrels about trifles, 1.
- Very irritable, and wants to talk all the time, 1.
- She is very irritable, easily angered; thinks always of dying, 1.*
- Very irritable and quarrelsome, in the morning, 1.
- He is very irritable, although he conquers his ill-humor; only disagreeable things affect him, agreeable impressions he passes by without noticing them (from smelling 28th potency), 5.
HEAD
- Vertigo.
- Vertigo , everything turns around with him (eighth day), 1.*
- Vertigo and former sparks before the eyes reappear, 2. [40.]
- Vertigo in the morning, 1.
- Much dizziness in the head, 2.
- General Head.
- When he woke at night his head felt cloudy, as if he had been intoxicated during the evening; befogged, stupid, he tumbles about, 1.
- Sensation of heaviness in the head (mornings), 1.
- Great dulness of the head, so that he fears and inflammation of the brain; nosebleed relieves, 2.*
- Dull headache, with eructations, 2.
- Weakness of the head, 2.
- Severe headache, as if a stick were pressing into her head, with great weakness. She has to lie down about 1 P.M., and soon falls asleep. She perspires freely during the night, which greatly relieves her (second to third day), 1.
- Headache tearing, 1.
- Headache, as if everything would protrude through the forehead (second day, toward evening), 1. [50.]
- Headache (evening, second day), 1.*
- Headache, coldness, dryness of mouth and lips, 1.
- Spasmodically contracting headache (eighth day), 1.
- Pressing headache, with otorrhœa (seventh and eighth days), 1.
- Pressing headache, especially unilateral (in a herpetic patient), 3.*
- Frequent intermittent headache (from 9 drops of the 29th potency), 5.
- Pain in the head; an excruciating tearing, from which, in a similar manner, he formerly suffered, and then always for two days, is this time combined with a high fever and general arthritic pains, 4.
- Pains all through the head, as if a hammer were beating in the head, 1.*
- Thrusts in the head (fifth day), 1.
- A severe stitch in the sinews of the head, when turning the neck on the left side, . [60.]
EYE
- Objective.
- Deep, broad, blue rings around the eyes, 1.
- Glassy eyes; agglutination of the eyes, in the morning; pressing pains in the eyes, 1.
- Inflammation of the right eye, from December 18th to 30th, 1. [90.]
- Ophthalmia, with pressing pains, as if sand were in the eyes; lachrymation during the night, 1.
- Soreness of the eyes and burning, she has to close them constantly, 1.
- Subjective.
- The eyes feel tired in the evening, as after reading much by candlelight (first day, evening), 1.
- Pressure in the right eye, worse when touching it, 1.
- Pressure as of a foreign body in the right eye, as soon as it is closed; when the eye is opened the pain is gone (evening), 1.
- Pressing pains in the eyes, 1.
- Burning, pressing pains in the eyes, when looking sharply at something, and in the evening by candlelight (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- Burning pains in the eyes, as if sand were thrown into the eyes, 1.
- Eyes as if full of sand, 1.
- Biting pain in the eyes, 1. [100.]
- Pressing stitches in the left eye, 1.
- Stitches in the left eye, 1.
- Stitches in the eye (fifth hour), 1.
- Fine stitching pain in the region of the eye, below the orbits, as if she had sand in the eyes (four hours), 1.
- Lid.
- The eyes become gummy, 1.*
- Heat and itching in the inner canthi (from 49 drops of 29th potency), 5.
- Itching in the canthi, 1.
- Itching of the right eyelid (sixth hour), 1.
- Itching of the left lower eyelid from one side to the other, 1.
- Lachrymal Apparatus.
- Towards evening, lachrymation, 1.
- Toward evening, lachrymation, . [110.]
EAR
- Objective.
- *Discharge of fetid pus from the ear (seventh hour), 1.
- Discharge of fetid pus from the left ear, 1.*
- Otorrhœa, with headache (eighth day), 1.* [120.]
- Discharge of reddish cerumen from the left ear, 1.
- Subjective.
- A long-continued, very painful stitch in the lobe of the left ear (evening), 1.
- Single intermitting tearing through the left external meatus auditorius, sometimes also through the right, as from the temporal muscles to the styloid process, for several days (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- His ears feel as if stuffed with cotton, for several forenoons (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- Sensation in the left ear, as if the breath did not come from the respiratory organs, but from the ear, 1.
- Sensation as if something suddenly bursts in the ears, when eating or swallowing saliva, 1.
- Earache in right ear (seventh day, morning), 1.
- Biting pains in left ear, 1.
- Pain as from an ulcer in left ear; at the same time on the right ear a pimple, having the appearance of the healthy skin, but split in four parts by a cross, like a wart; in the centre a deep small indentation, 1.
- Stitching pain in the right ear, preceded by coldness, 1. [130.]
- Stitching pains in the ears, 1.
- After the buzzing, stitches in the left ear, 1.
- Stitches towards noon in the ears, 1.
- Stitches in the meatus auditorius internus, momentarily relieved by boring with the finger in the ear, then aggravated. Stitches frequently return, especially in the evening, during rest, 1.
- Itching in the right ear, 1.
- Hearing.
- Dull ringing in the left ear (first day, evening), 1.
- Ringing either in the left or right ear, with buzzing in the head, so that she hardly hears anything; behind the ears, in the region of the sterno-cleido-mastoideus, a tormenting sore pain; sometimes for a moment a sensation of burning heat extending to the vertex; worse towards the evening, when she feels as if somebody pulls her up by the hair, .
NOSE
- Objective. [140.]
- Severe sneezing after boring pains in the right nostril, 1.
- Frequent sneezing, without coryza, 1.
- Sometimes severe sneezing (second day), 1.
- *The septum narium inflamed, with white suppurating pustules (seventh day), 1.
- Tough nasal mucus ; he can hardly do a minute without his handkerchief, and still he has no coryza. It feels as if he had a plug high up in the nose, which nauseates him, relieved by stooping, 1.
- The nose is not stuffed, but sometimes, especially when stooping, a clear watery fluid pours from the nose, especially from the left nostril, 2.
- Fluent coryza, after burning in the nose, 1.
- Severe coryza fro several hours, and frequently repeated, 1.
- Fluent coryza, 1.
- Fluent coryza, without obstruction of the nostrils; a few drops of water frequently escape from the nostrils (from 10 drops of 30th), 3. [150.]
- Fluent coryza from left nostril (sixteen hours after 30th), 3.
- (An old coryza, passed off after a few days), (from smelling 28th potency), 5.
- The dry coryza increases steadily (from 49 drops of 29th), 5.
- Dry coryza, with obstruction of the nose, 1.
- Dry coryza (for three months), 1.
- Catarrh, with cough and expectoration of yellowish-green mucus, 1.
- Subjective.
- Sensitiveness when breathing air through the nostrils, which are nearly dry (eighth day), 1.
- The nose stopped, 1.
- Drawing in the nose up to the frontal sinuses, with pains in the eyes, as if coryza would set in, afterwards some fluid discharged from the nose (after on hour), 4.
- In the left nostril pain as of pricks with needles, when boring in it with the finger (eighth day), 1. [160.]
- Boring stitches in the right nostril, followed by severe sneezing (third day), 1.
- The burning ceases for a little while after the discharge of mucus (fourth day), .
FACE
- Swelling of the face and eyes, 2.
- Pale face (third day); the zygoma is painful to touch, as if the bone were suppurating (third evening), 1.*
- Facial pain diminished, 1.
- Burning in the face, followed by vesicles, 1.
- Lip.
- *Swelled upper lip, 2. [170.]
- Lips brown and black, dry (fifth evening), 1.*
- *Lips dry, 1.
- On the inner surface of the lower lip a clear vesicle, 1.
- A vesicle frequently appears on the inner surface of the lower lip; it burns and pains, 1.
- Lips painful and seem swollen, 1.*
- Burning of the lips, 1.*
- Stitching pains in the lower jaw, 1.
- Painful itching of the right half of the upper lip, as if swollen, 1.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- At night he gnashes his teeth so severely that it awakens him (after three doses of 30th), 2.
- Suddenly, and without cause blood escapes from the hollow back tooth (from 10 drops of 30th), 3. [180.]
- The teeth seem on edge when smoking (first day, afternoon), 1.
- Especially the front teeth feel so loose that he fears their falling out ; the pains is increased by touching them, 1.*
- Teeth, which are usually loose, feel firm in their sockets (second day), 1.
- Tearing in the teeth, 1.
- Stitching pains in the teeth, from one side to the other, extending to the head, followed by burning pain in the right cheek, which is also somewhat swollen, 1.
- At dinner a severe stitch in a carious upper right tooth, as if the tooth would be pulled, followed by steady grumbling and hammering pain in all the teeth of the right side, only in daytime; ameliorated by the fresh air, 1.
- When touching the teeth, in order to remove something when had lodged between them, a stitch as from needles, 1.
- Intermitting tearing toothache in the molars of the left side, sometimes only a slight soreness, alternating with the headache (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- Gums.
- The gums inflame and swell up at a posterior hollow molar, with a crawling pain, aggravated by touch (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- The gums on the right side only are ulcerated after the long-lasting toothache is entirely gone, 1.*
- Tongue. [190.]
- Intensely ulcerated tongue and gums, with sore throat, 6.
- Coated tongue, 2.
- Nearly always a white coating on the tongue, 1.*
- The tongue covered with a yellowish-white coating, 1.*
- *The tongue dry (fourth day), 1.
THROAT
- His throat became covered with spots the size of an ordinary pilule, and larger, covered with a cheesy-looking creamy top, a pink circle round the base, and some of them looked as if mortification were setting in; they turned black, but there was no fetor; the throat symptoms were worse from hawking up, worse from gargling with cold water, and always better from his beer. It think it began on the left side, and was confined mostly to that side, perhaps extending a little to the right velum, 7.
- A tough mucus is secreted through the choanæ, adhering to the soft palate, and causing hawking; it taste like old cheese (from 10 drops of 30t h), 3.
- Secretion of thick mucus from the choanæ into the mouth, 2.
- Severe angina; on the right side an ulcer, with a sore pain deep inside, and burning in the fauces, 1.*
- Dryness; a scraping sensation in the throat (fourth day, morning), 1.*
- Some dryness of the throat and oppression of the chest, immediately after taking the medicine, 4.
- Sore throat; cannot swallow, 1. [220.]
- Sore throat; everything she takes burns, e. g ., soup; but she can take cold food without difficulty (seventh day), 1.
- Sore throat, she swallows only with difficulty, 1.
- Scraping sensation in throat, as if he would become hoarse (observed on a herpetic patient), 3.
- Scratching in the throat, with suffocation, causing a dry cough (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- Titillation in the throat, causing cough (sixth and seventh days, morning), 1.
- Titillation in the throat (mornings), 1.
- Tickling sensation in the throat, followed by empty retching (morning), 1.
- Burning in the throat, 1.
- Burning in the throat (fifth day), 1.
- Burning in the throat, constantly extending farther downwards, 1. [230.]
- Painful sensation in the throat when swallowing saliva; difficult deglutition, 1.
- Pressing pain in the throat; she swallows with difficulty; pains go and come, 1.
- Pain in throat, as if it were swollen, 1.
STOMACH
- Appetite.
- Unusually great hunger after a walk (third day, evening), 1. [240.]
- *Great hunger, 1.
- In the afternoon, hunger and thirst for beer (first day), 1.
- Desire for breakfast (after two hours), 1.
- A good appetite, and still greater thirst, 1.
- Hunger, in the evening (sixth day), 1.
- Hunger, without appetite, 1.*
- Great desire to smoke, but when not smoking the appetite for it ceased (first evening), 1.
- After breakfast aversion to smoke, but when he begins, smoking is relished (first day, morning), 1.
- Although he has a good appetite, he is easily satiated, 1.
- *Diminished appetite, 1. [250.]
- Perfect disgust for pork, 1.
- Thirst.
- No appetite to eat, but he wants continually to drink, 1.
- Great thirst; dryness and burning in the mouth, 1.
- Excessive thirst (fourth day), 1.
- Great thirst during dinner, 1.
- Thirst, coldness, dryness in mouth and lips, for four days, 1.
- Thirst for beer, 1.
- Eructations.
- Sour eructations, 1.
- Rancid eructations (evening), 1.
- *Eructations tasting like rotten eggs (second day), 1. [260.]
- Eructations, with dull headache, 2.
- Hiccough and Heartburn.
- Hiccough, 1.
- Hiccough, after eating, 1.
- Hiccough, soon after eating, when smoking his pipe, 1.
- After drinking water, pyrosis, 1.
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Stitches in the region of the spleen , passing off when standing still, but are renewed when walking; after awhile they are even felt during rest, 1.*
- Stitches in the region of the spleen, 1.*
- Stitches in the hepatic region, 1.
- Umbilicus and Sides.
- Cutting in the abdomen, in the umbilical region, 1.
- Stitches to the left of the umbilicus, very frequently during rest, 1.
- Stitches in the right side of the abdomen, 1.
- Severe stitches under the last rib, left side (from February to May the stitches continued in the abdomen), 1.
- Stitches in the sides, 1.
- General Abdomen. [290.]
- Bloatedness of the abdomen after eating frozen things, 1.
- Abdomen unusually bloated after eating, 1.
- Bloated abdomen, 1.*
- Passage of foul-smelling flatus, 3.
- No flatulency whatever up to the middle of February, 1.
- Gurgling and roaring in abdomen (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- Rumbling in the abdomen (sixth day, morning), 1.
- Gurgling in the small intestines (one hour after 30th), 3.
- Colic, 1.
- Colic, towards evening, immediately removed by eating, 1. [300.]
- Twisting in abdomen, so that he has to run for the closet; after the stool feels better; early in the morning, 1.
- Griping all over abdomen, especially in the pubic region, in females, 1.
- Griping in abdomen while riding, 1.
- Intestinal cramps early in the morning in bed, 1.
- Cutting pains in the intestines, relieved by the passage of offensive flatus, 1.
- Cutting pains in the intestines, as when taking a purge (third day), .
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Hæmorrhoidal troubles in stormy weather, 2.
- Burning nodes at the anus, 2.
- Unpleasant burning in the rectum , high up, 2.*
- Spasmodic pain in the rectum, 3.
- Sensation in the rectum as if chafed, during a ride (fourth to sixth day), 1.
- Itching in the anus (fourth day), 1. [320.]
- Sometimes fruitless efforts to stool; he thinks he cannot hold it any longer, and after getting ready no stool passes, 1.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa.
- Green bilious diarrhœa, mixed with mucus, 2.*
- Stool during night involuntary, he hardly can reach the closet, and at the same time violent emission of a large quantity of flatus; the stool was of normal consistency, and passed in small balls (sixth night), 1.
- Four or five stools a day, preceded by colic, 1.
- Four diarrhœic stools, without pain (second day), 1.
- Diarrhœa, preceded by colic (first day, early), 1.*
- The intestinal secretion is more copious and never so consistent as usual, for two days (from 49 drops of 29th), 3.
- Two stools in the forenoon; no more during the day, 1.
- Soft stool, passed with difficulty, 3.*
- *Stool dark-brown, very fluid, and foul-smelling, 1. [330.]
- (He passes, as formerly, bloody mucus with the stool), 1.
- Stool irregular, either costive or mushy (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- Sometimes a stool shoots away as from a syringe, another time it is mushy, sometimes even of normal consistency (first and fourth days), 1.
- Constipation.
- Obstinate constipation, 2.*
- Tendency to constipation, 2.
- Stools are stopped (first day), 1.
URINARY ORGANS
- Discharge of prostatic fluid before urinating (sixth day), 1.
- Stitches in the urethra, from the orifice inwardly (second day), 1.
- Burning and cutting during micturition, 1.
- Tenesmus urinæ, very painful, and when he thinks he is done a few drops will yet be discharged, 1. [340.]
- Some urine still flows from the urethra after micturition, although he tries to hold it back, 1.
- Has to get up frequently at night to urinate, 2.
- *The urine has a red sediment and a pellicle of fat, 2.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- The sexual organs relaxed (sixth day), 1.
- At the beginning of urinating, a burning pain at the tip of the penis, 1.
- Frequently a tightness and drawing in the penis, 1.
- *Absence of erections, 3.
- Absence of erections, even with lascivious thoughts, for about two weeks, followed for four days by morning erections and pollutions, with satyriasis, and finally the usual state (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- The glans inflamed, with an ulcer on it, the testes swollen and heavy, 1.*
- Drawing in the testicles, but more steady in the small of the back, for several days, 2. [350.]
- Indifference to sexual affairs, relaxation of the genitals, and no desire for coition, 1.
- Perfect aversion to the coitus , nearly through the whole proving, 1.*
- Impotence, 2.
- Perfect impotence, for four weeks (in a very robust, sexually vigorous man), 1.
- No semen is discharged during coition, 1.
- Female.
- Menses eight days too late, 1.
- Menses too late and scanty, 1.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Larynx and Trachea.
- Suffocation and crawling sensation in the larynx, producing a paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough , when sitting with the body bent backwards; at the same time a sensation of contraction and of heaviness in the entire thorax, and pressing pain in the upper part of the sternum (sixteen hours after 6 drops of 30th), 3.*
- Tickling in the trachea, and frequent cough, 1.
- Voice.
- Hoarseness, 1.* [360.]
- Hoarseness in the chest and throat, 1.
- Cough and Expectoration.
- Cough with sensation of weakness in the chest, 1.*
- Cough so that he could not remain in bed, for four nights, nor sleep for an hour; felt weak and dizzy, 2.
- Cough, sometimes with expectoration of mucus, mixed with streaks of blood, 2.
- In the morning, cough with copious expectoration (from 49 drops of 29th), 5.
- Continued cough, with expectoration from the chest of much saliva, and vomiting of acid mucus, 1.
- Cough, in the evening, with pains in the chest and throat, passing off when she is quiet; talking produces cough, 1.*
- Irritation to cough, with a sensation of coldness, 1.
- Dry hard cough, caused by tickling in the trachea, 1.*
- Dry cough, with sensation of heaviness on the chest, 1.* [370.]
- Dry cough, with nausea and retching, with tickling in the throat, the whole day (seventh day, early), 1.
- Dry cough, with soreness under the sternum (second day), 1.*
- *Cough with expectoration of green mucus, nearly like mater; especially in the morning when waking up, and in the evening when lying down, with nausea. It sticks firmly, and he can expectorate only with difficulty, 1.
CHEST. [380.]
- Oppression in the chest, 1.*
- Dull feeling in the chest, with excruciating pains in the back, 1.
- Excruciating pains in the chest . He feels as if a heavy load were on the chest and presses it down, for three days, with want of breath, intolerably increased by inclining the head forwards, when stooping, 1.*
- When in bed he has to remove the arms from the chest as far as possible, otherwise they increase the pain, 1.
- Pressing pains in the chest, always only for a short time (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- Pressure on the chest, 2.*
- Pressing pains in the chest, always in small spots (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- Stitches in the chest, even when not breathing, 1.
- When coughing, stitches in the chest, 1.
- Feels contracted in the chest, and somewhat dry in the throat, immediately after taking the medicine, 4. [390.]
- When lifting it feels as if everything were torn in the chest, 1.
- Cutting as of knives, in the chest ; the throat feels as if burnt; eructations, followed by emission of much flatus, with good appetite, in the evening, 1.*
- Front and Sides.
- When coughing, pain in the chest, under the sternum, as if something would be torn away from under the sternum, extending to the throat (seventh day), 1.
- Ulcerative pain in the chest under the sternum, 1.*
- When taking a deep breath, stitches in the sternum; when touching it, a pressing and bruised pain, 1.
- Dull boring pain in the right side of the chest, with oppressed breathing (sixth day), 1.
- Twitching through the anterior left side of the chest, 1.
- Stitches in the left chest, 1.
- When breathing, stitches in the right side of the chest , several times, 1.
- Stitching pressing under the left false ribs, . [400.]
HEART
- Palpitations (fifth day), 1.
NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- The glands of the neck are swollen on both sides, painful to the touch, as if they were bruised; the pain extends to the head (seventh day), 1.*
- Boring and stiffness in the nape of the neck (sixth and seventh days), 1.
- Drawing pain in the neck, extending to the shoulder, after waking up, 1.
- Tensive pain in the nape of the neck, after waking up, as if he had lain in an uncomfortable position (second day), 1.
- Extremely severe pain in the nape of the neck, only in the house; it passes off immediately in the fresh air, but returns quickly in the house. By supporting the head with his hands, it feels as if it had no body, as if he could pass though it with his hands (a whole afternoon), 1.
- Pain in the muscles of the right side of the neck, in their upper sinewy part, as if there was suddenly too much tension (strain?), when turning the head to the right side, or backward and sideways; relieved by external pressure, 3.
- Stitching pains in the neck, and pustules of the size and form of lentils, 1.
- Tearing in the nape of the neck, 1.
- Back. [410.]
- Excessive backache, 1.*
- Backache, a kind of sticking pressure, 1.
- Boring in the vertebræ; colic, as from rheum (mornings), 1.
- The back feels bruised; he cannot straighten out (first evening), 1.
- When breathing, frequent stitches from the back towards the chest, 1.*
- Dorsal.
- Boring pains in the dorsal vertebræ (sixth day), 1.
- Between the second and third dorsal vertebra a dull pressure (first day, afternoon), 1.
- A constant tearing in and between the shoulder-blades, down the sides, as if rheumatic (sixth and seventh days), 1.
- Tearing in the shoulder-blades (fifth day), 1.
- Stitches between the shoulders (mornings), 1.
- Lumbar. [420.]
EXTREMITIES
- Stretching of the extremities, without thirst or any other complaint, 1.
- Weakness in all the joints, as if they would not hold together, 1.*
- Tearing-wandering pains in the extremities, especially affecting the tibiæ and soles of the feet, but also the finger-joints, at times also the right patella, relieved by motion (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Shoulder and Arm.
- Tearing in the left shoulder, afternoon and evening, when resting, 1.
- Sensation as if the left arm was asleep, and numbness in the three fingers and half of the hand, mornings, for an hour (one hour and a half after 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- The left arm feels asleep, with crawling in the fingers, in the morning in bed (half an hour after 30th), 3.
- Tearing in the arm, 1.
- Intermittent stitches in the left arm, 1.
- Spasmodic pains in the bones of the whole left arm, evening when at rest, 1.
- Elbow. [440.]
- Tearing in the right elbow (first day, evening), 1.
- Tearing in elbow, 1.
- Hand and Fingers.
- Trembling of hands (sixth day), 1.*
- Trembling of the hands and feet (fourth day), 1.*
- At intervals a tearing pain in the joints of the fingers, and in the humerus, knee, toes, lasting a short time, but frequently repeated, relieved by motion, 3.
- Stitches in the left index finger, 1.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Knee and Leg.
- Tearing in the left knee and shoulder, 1.
- Sensation in the right leg, as if it would go to sleep (eight hours after 6 drops of 30th), 3.
- The leg on which he lies in bed feel too weak to endure the pressure of the other; he has to change his position continually, till he falls asleep (for six days), 1.
- Pains in the legs, especially in the tibiæ and soles, as after too much exercise in walking, with a peculiar restlessness in the legs, so that he frequently changes position, passing off after rising , for several mornings while in bed (eight hours after 30th), 3.* [450.]
- Bruised sensation in the tibiæ and soles of the feet, as after a tiresome journey on foot, for several mornings in bed (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- Ankle.
- (A great swelling around the ankles passes off), 2.
- In the morning, with every step, a stitching pain in the right ankle, also as if he had strained a sinew, 1.
- Foot and Toes.
- Trembling of feet, 1.
- Inclination when walking to turn the left foot inwards, with sensation as if he had really turned it the wrong way, so that he looks at it in order to convince himself of the contrary (for five days), 1.
- Gouty pains in the whole left foot, 1.
- The pains and itching of the feet increased during rest, 1.
- Cramp or spasm in single toes, especially in the great toe of the left foot, when stretching it out or taking off boots, 3.
GENERALITIES
- He looks pale, exhausted, and thinner than usual ; all his clothing is too large for him (fourteen days after 49 drops of 29th), 5.*
- Hot tremblings over the whole body, with great rush of business, 1. [460.]
- Weakness and tired sensation towards evening; feels better as soon as he goes to bed, 1.
- Malaise; he feels tired out, 1.*
- A very little labor exhausts his strength, 1.*
- He feels exhausted after riding in a wagon, 1.*
- Great heaviness of the whole body, as if he would be attacked with an intermittent fever, 2.
- Stormy weather makes him sick, and causes hæmorrhoidal troubles, 2.
- Stormy weather affects him ; he feels already a restlessness in his blood a few days beforehand, 2.*
- When the sun shines upon her, a sensation as if it pushes her down; she has to rest a little while in the shade in order to walk on (fourth day), 1.
- (After putting on too light clothing in the spring, he suffers from his old rheumatic pains in the neck, head, shoulders, back, stomach, etc., with constant eructations, irregular stools, twitching in the left eye), 2.
- Cannot sleep on the habitual right side, but sleeps on the left (for ten days), 1. [470.]
- Amelioration in the fresh air; much mucus in the mouth of a nauseous taste. (September 10th till last days of October), 1.
- Feels best when lying down, 1.
- She feels a great deal better in the morning, 1.
SKIN
- Eruptions, Dry.
- Unusual roughness of the knuckles, extending up to the metacarpus externally (for five days), 1.
- On the fingers of the left hand, several small warts of the size of a pin's head, slightly raised above the skin, smooth, as if they were pared off (fourteen days after 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- It reproduced a large quantity of small warts, which he had years ago on the left hand (observed on a herpetic patient), 3.
- Red miliaria on the neck, beginning with a stitching pain. Pimples on the neck and mammæ, 1.
- A coarse miliary eruption over the left eyebrow and cheek, which soon passes off (third day), 1.
- Eruptions causing an itching-stinging pain, burning after scratching, and feeling sore (observed on a herpetic patient), 3.
- Many painless nodules in the face, on the neck and lower extremities, for a long time, 1. [480.]
- Small burning pimples below the eyes, like heat rash, 1.
- Red pimples on the margins of the upper lids, like fresh hordeola; sensation as if something were moving before the eyes, as if one was playing with his fingers before them, 1.
- On the border of both upper eyelids a pimple like a hordeolum (fifth day), 1.
- A small pimple on the upper lip, 1.
- A small pimple on the neck, with a small tip of the size of the head of a pin, with a black point in the centre, very painful when scratched (mornings), 1.
- Itching on the right carpus, with red spots, like fleabites, which itch and then pass off, 1.
- Eruptions, Moist.
- It always aggravates herpes and produces troublesome colic, or stinging itching, 2.
- Eruptions, consisting of vesicles filled with lymph, painful to the touch, at various places on the body ; some form papules and itch severely (after 10 drops of 30th), 3.*
- On the face, hand, and back, also on the legs, an itchlike eruption appears, and the eyes agglutinate so that they cannot be opened, 2.*
- Eruption of small vesicles, quickly filling with a yellows lymph, painful like sores to the touch, during up after a few days, on the forehead and several places of the face, also behind the right ear (after 10 drops of 30th), .* [490.]
SLEEP
- Sleepiness.
- Much yawning, at noon and in the evening, 1.
- Frequent yawning, in the evening, 1.
- Frequent yawning and early sleepiness, in the evening, 1.
- Gaping, the first hour; shiverings, with pale blue rings; with tearing and spasmodic pains in the umbilical region (seventh day, noon), 1.
- Sleep unusually sound at night, several nights (after sixth day), 1.
- Very sleepy , in daytime (sixth day), 1.*
- She sleeps as soon as she sits down, 1.
- Sleepy all the time, 1.
- For several days he becomes sleepy very early, 1.
- Sleeplessness. [520.]
- Restless sleep on account of disquieting dreams, 1.
- Restless, unrefreshing sleep, 1.
- Sleep restless but refreshing, 1.
- Very restless sleep, for several nights, 1.
- Cannot fall asleep, in the evening (for five weeks), 1.
- Dreams.
- He dreams of his business and of his plans, 1.
- Anxious dreams of robbers, travels, and dangers (mornings), 1.*
- Very uneasy, earnest dreams, 1.
- He dreams that he is on the closet, and thus nearly soils his bed (fifth day), 1.
- Many connected dreams which are remembered; the body is in the same position when waking up as in the evening when falling asleep (curative action), 1.
FEVER
- Chilliness. [530.]
- Several times chilliness, especially in the evening, with hot flashes, great weakness, debility, sleepiness, 1.
- Creeping chills, 1.
- Horripilations, several times a day (sixth day), 1.
- Sensation of coldness, for several days, 1.
- Towards noon, internal coldness, with shivering and horripilation, 4.
- Several times during the day, sensation of coldness, 1.
- Internal shivering in the afternoon, and creeping chills, 1.
- Feet icy cold, from evening till morning, for several nights (from 10 drops of 30th), 3.
- Heat.
- At the meals, and in the evening frequently, a sudden heat over the whole body, with trickling perspiration all over the face , whereas others complain of coldness. Frequent thirst, dryness, and burning in the mouth, 1.
- Heat, sweat, thirst, during the chill and heat, 1. [540.]
- Heat in the evening as if she would lose her senses; is delirious, very thirsty, perspires during the night, then feels well, 1.
- Heat and sweat, in the evening, when riding in a carriage (sixth day), 1.
- Heat, in the afternoon, 1.
- Heat and itching of the right ear (from 49 drops of 29th potency), 5.
- Sweat.
- *He perspires freely when walking, 1.
- *When taking a walk, profuse sweat with consequent debility, and taking cold easily, 2.
- Perspiration on the face, 1.
- Copious perspiration on perinæum, when moving about, 1.
- Copious sweat on the palms, at night, 1.
- Sweat in the palms and face, 1. [550.]
- Sweat on the palms of the hands, 1.*
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Irritable and quarrelsome; vertigo; on rising, frontal headache; headache over whole forehead; pressive pinching pain in forehead; agglutination of the eyes; bread and butter tastes like cat's urine; butter taste; at 10 o'clock, vomiting of sweet mucus; nausea; before eating, sour vomiting; in bed, early, intestinal cramps; cough; when getting up; cough with expectoration of greenish mucus; sensation as if the left arm was asleep, with numbness of fingers and hands; crawling in fingers; in bed, pains in legs; bruised sensation in tibiæ and soles of feet; with every step, pain in ankle.
- ( Forenoon ), Ears stuffed.
- ( Towards noon ), Stitches in the ears.
- ( Noon ), Yawning.
- ( Afternoon ), Hunger and thirst for beer; internal shivering; heat.
- ( Towards evening ), Lachrymation; colic; weakness and tired sensation.
- ( Evening ), Headache over forehead; pressive pinching pain in forehead; eyes feel tired; by candlelight, pains in eyes; sore pain behind ears; hunger; vomiting of sweet mucus; cough; when lying down, cough with expectoration of green mucus; dyspnœa; eructations; emission of flatus, etc.; when at rest, pain in bones of whole left arm; yawning; chilliness; sudden heat over the whole body, with tickling perspiration.
- ( Night ), Lachrymation; gnashing of teeth; feet icy cold; sweat on palms.
- ( Fresh air ), Want of breath.
- ( Walking in fresh air ), Pressive pinching pain in forehead; dazzling of the eyes.
- ( Before falling asleep ), Excitable.
- ( When awaking ), Whistling respiration.
- ( When breathing ), Stitches in right side of chest; stitches from back towards chest.
- ( During chill and heat ), Heat, sweat, and thirst.
- ( After chill ), Great thirst, then heat in mouth.
- ( When coughing ), Stitches in chest; pain in chest.
- ( During dinner ), Thirst.