NATRUM SULFURICUM.
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Great
appetite, without thirst (first and fifth days), [1]. [210.] ► A want of appetite; she is often obliged
to yawn, and is thirsty (second morning), [2].
► Voracious hunger, [2]. ►
Immediately after taking the medicine, feeling in stomach as in
voracious hunger, with boring pain; disappears after breakfast, [2]. ►
Hunger, but no appetite; while eating she feels disgusted, [2]. ►
Fasting sensation in the stomach, with griping; wandering about of
flatus, [2]. ►
The first day, seems to have more appetite than usual; afterwards
appetite and hunger are wanting altogether (ninth and tenth days), [2]. ►
Thirst. ► Forenoon,
thirst, with remission of headache; afternoon, heat, without thirst, [2]. ►
Thirst in the evening, without any especial cause, [2]. ►
After a renewed dose, generally thirst in the evening, which ceased at
night, [2]. ►
Thirst at night, and also the following morning before rising, [2]. [220.]
► During the night, chill, thirst;
ceases in the morning (ninth day), [2].
► *Great thirst in the evening
(fifth day), [1]. ► *Great thirst in the evening after
violent exercise (first day), [1].
► *Thirst for something very cold
for three days, and dryness in the mouth all the ninth day, [2]. ►
Particular want of thirst the first days of the proving, [2]. ► Eructations
and Hiccough. ► Eructation
of a disagreeable taste and smell, [1].
► With the nocturnal headache, and
also during the day, sour water often collects in her mouth, which makes
her want to spit constantly, with nausea, [2].
► Constant rising in throat of sour
water (third day), [2]. ► Hiccough, lasting a long time, and which
could not be stopped, after eating bread and butter, afternoon, [2]. ►
A debilitating hiccough, lasting a quarter of an hour, towards evening,
in the room, [2]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. [230.] ►
Nausea, as if to vomit, with waterbrash, for five minutes, when walking
in the afternoon, [2]. ► Nausea in the stomach, with sticking pain
in the eyes, [2]. ► Slight nausea, with almost a beating pain
in the stomach, [2]. ► Qualmish nausea for an hour and a half, with sticking pain in the right flank, when
resting or in motion (first forenoon), [2].
► Qualmishness in the stomach before
meals (second day), [1]. ► Vomiting very sour mucus, 6 P.M.,
preceded by vertigo, [2]. ► When going downstairs in the forenoon,
nausea, then vomiting of salty, sour water, without relief, [2]. ►
Stomach. ► Trembling in
the pit of the stomach and pressure, with want of breath; feels faint
while sitting for five minutes; afterwards, also, when walking, [2]. ►
In the evening, in bed, feeling of great fulness in stomach up into
chest, with difficulty in breathing, without any cause; she falls asleep
at last, and feels nothing of it next morning, during catamenia, [2]. ►
A penetrating pain in the stomach, as if something were boring through
it, for a quarter of an hour, in the morning after rising, returning
after two hours, preceded by some nausea and diarrhœa (first day), [2]. [240.]
► An almost beating pain in the
stomach, with slight nausea (second day), [2].
► While riding in a carriage, much
rolling and grumbling in the stomach and abdomen, afternoon, [2]. ►
Burning and pinching pain in the stomach in the morning after rising;
disappears after breakfast, [2]. ► Pressure in the epigastric region while
sitting (second day), [3b].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► *Tension and
sticking pain under the short ribs on the right side, when walking out
of doors, [2]. ► In the left hypochondrium, and left side
of chest, sticking pain, as of a dull instrument, while sitting, in the
forenoon, followed by sticking in right side of chest, but less violent
(fifth day), [1]. ► Sticking and pulsating pain under the
last short ribs, in the region of the liver, when walking in the morning
(second day), [2]. ► Continuous sticking pain in the left
hypochondrium, when walking outdoors (eighth day), [1]. ► Dull
stitches in the left hypochondrium, [1].
► *When taking a deep breath, a sharp
violent stitch in right side of abdomen, as if in the liver, as if it
would burst open there, while sitting; unchanged by pressure, at 4 P.M.,
[2]. [250.]
► *Great sensitiveness in the region of
the liver when walking; very painful when touched, for five minutes, at
1.30 P.M., [2]. ► Umbilical and Sides. ► Bellyache around the umbilicus, while
sitting at his desk (fourth day), [1].
► *Tearing pain around the umbilicus,
with flatulence, before breakfast;
after breakfast it was better, but an hour later it returned, only less
violent (fourth day), [1]. ► Flatulent colic above umbilicus; flatus
will not pass, evening (first day), [1].
► He was awakened during the night by
violent pain in the right flank, with a sensation as if a soft body were
lying there inside, for half an hour, after midnight and several times, [2]. ►
Pain in the right flank, as if puffed up, distended (no matter what she
eats) up into the stomach, when sitting in the evening, and also next
morning, [2]. ► Violent pinching pain around the
umbilicus, for three minutes, extending into the groin, while sitting,
with urging to urinate; the urine was so burning that it was retained,
with pain in the small of the back, [2].
► Sticking pain, and as if drawn
together, in the left flank, when resting or in motion, also at night, [2]. ►
Dull sticking pain and pulsating in right side of abdomen, for a quarter
of an hour, while walking in the afternoon, [2]. ► Sharp
sticking pain in the left flank, which extended into the armpit, when
moving, at 5.30 P.M.; when resting, it gradually disappeared in
three-quarters of an hour, [2]. ► General Abdomen. [260.] ►
*Collection of flatus in abdomen, with pain, without evacuation of it
(fifth day), [1]. ► *Rolling in the abdomen (after four
hours and the ninth day), [1]. ► Soon after taking the medicine, *grumbling and rolling around in the whole abdomen, with
sudden pinches, as after a purgative, then diarrhœa; the
same in the afternoon, [2]. ► Grumbling and fermenting in the abdomen,
after meals (first day), [1]. ► *Loud grumbling in upper part of abdomen,
followed by emission of very fetid flatus, evening, [2]. ►
In the afternoon emission of much wind, with a loud sound, but hard to
pass (third day), [1]. ► Emission of fetid flatus after dinner
(second day); in the morning (sixth day), [1].
► *Incarceration of flatus in the
abdomen, with much pain, which is relieved by emission of flatus,
[1]. ►
Incarceration of flatus towards evening; at the same time saliva
collects in the mouth, with inclination to vomit, and eructations of a
disagreeable taste and smell (fifth day), [1].
► *The flatus rolls about in the belly,
and becomes incarcerated here and there, [2]. [270.] ► Feeling in abdomen as from a purgative,
with profuse emission of odorless flatus, [2].
► Burning sensation in the abdomen,
changing about from place to place, very fleeting, in the evening, [2]. ►
Constant feeling of fulness in the abdomen as long as the diarrhœa
continues, with emission of much flatus, [2].
► Painful contraction in the abdomen,
extending up into the chest, so that it oppressed her breath, then
diarrhœa, [2]. ► Pinching pain in the abdomen, with a
feeling as though the intestines were being stretched, intermitting and
returning, [2]. ► Frequent pinching in the abdomen from
both sides towards the front, [2].
► Sometimes here, and then there,
short pinching pain in abdomen (first day), [2]. ► At 5
A.M. she is awakened by bellyache, urging to stool after which it ceases
(second day), [2]. ► *Bellyache in the morning before breakfast
(fifth day), [1]. ► Bellyache, without distension, all day;
in the afternoon he passed wind several times, but with difficulty,
which relieved him each time (third day), [1].
[280.] ►
Bellyache, and pain in small of back, as if bruised, awakens
her at 2 A.M., and is so violent that she can only get a little relief
when lying on the side; she could not get asleep again on account of the
pain, which continued some time after getting up (after ten days), [2]. ►
Bellyache, as often precedes purging (fifth day), [2]. ► Digging
sensation, as from flatus, with pinching pain around the umbilicus
towards noon, which increased until 4 P.M., until the flatus began to
pass (first day), [2]. ► *Flatulent colic; the flatus collected and
passed with difficulty; it caused bellyache; each time after emission of
flatus he felt relieved (fifth day), [1]. ►
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ►
Low down in the abdomen painful digging, 9 P.M.; disappears in bed, with
chill, followed by thirst, during catamenia, [2]. ► Feeling
of great fulness and tension in the right groin, as if it would burst,
with intermitting pinching pain here and there in the belly, when
resting or in motion, [2]. ► Violent pinching in the abdomen into the
grains, afterwards diarrhœa, on the third day, four times, [2]. ►
Sticking pain in both groins deep internally, with urging to urinate, [2]. ►
In the morning sticking pain in the groin, which extends into the small
of the back, as if caused by flatus, or as if a hard stool would follow,
but it is followed by diarrhœa, [2].
► Stitches in both groins, in the
afternoon, while walking in the open air, (first day), [2].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
[290.]
► Itching in the anus (first day), [1]. ►
Constant urging to stool, which, however, she can resist (second
forenoon), [2].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Seems to
promote stool in its primary effect, and to retard it in the secondary
effect; the first doses cause soft stools, the later doses more solid
ones, [2]. ►
A renewed dose, after a long interval, causes diarrhœa, [2]. ► The
first day after a renewed dose, diarrhœa; the second day, regular; the
third, none at all; the fourth and fifth, regular; the sixth and seventh
days, each time, two soft stools, preceded by pinching pain in the
abdomen, [2]. ► Diarrhœa, after pain in the groin and
abdomen, [2]. ► An hour and a half after a renewed dose,
slight pinching pain followed by diarrhœa; the second time, in the
evening, it was slight, and the third time, 9 P.M., very soft, [2]. ►
Diarrhœa, yellow, fluid, in the morning after rising (second day), [2]. ►
Diarrhœa, after farinaceous food; notwithstanding she had already had
regular stool, in the afternoon and evening it was repeated, [2]. ►
Diarrhœa, preceded by a drawing together in the belly, up into the
chest, [2]. [300.] ►
Two and three stools, once semifluid with tenesmus in the anus, during
catamenia, [2]. ► The first day, three usual, but softer
stools, with flatulency; four soft stools after a renewed dose (first
day); a second stool the first forenoon, and contrary to his habit, [2]. [Diarrhœa worse in the morning,
preceded by flatulent colic; stools, thin yellow water, mixed with small
lumps of fæces, and coming away with a gush; with each stool, violent
discharge of flatus. [°] -Lippe.]
► After six days, renewed pinching
pain in the abdomen, and at first hard stool, with blood and scum, then
the same day soft stool, four times, [2].
► A second soft stool, at 3 P.M.
(thirty-fourth day), [3a]. ► The second soft stool in the evening
(third day), [3]. ► A second soft stool, at 11 P.M.
(thirty-second day), [3a]. ► Immediately after a renewed dose, regular
stool, notwithstanding he had had one before taking the drug, [2]. ►
First day, in the morning, regular stool, with burning in the anus
during and after the stool; another in the afternoon, without the
burning, [2]. ► *Knotty stool, with smarting pain in
the anus, during and after the passage of the stool (after a quarter of
an hour), [2]. ► Two stools, the first hard and difficult,
the second soft (fifth day), [1]. [310.] ►
After each dose, painless motion in the belly, and first, hard, then
soft stool, [2]. ► The whole first day, stool once, hard;
the second morning also, but soon followed by a soft stool, [2]. ►
Soft stool at a very unusual time, 6 A.M. (thirty-second day), [3a]. ►
Stool as usual; at the same time, frequent emission of flatus, and the
urine seems increased (first days), [2].
► Not very hard, regular stool,
which, however, obliged her to strain and press very hard (third day), [2]. ►
The stool was hard, the first time, soon after taking a dose, [2]. ►
Hard stool, with much straining (eighth day), [2]. ► In the
evening, very hard stool; he had to strain very hard (sixth day), [1]. ►
Two successive days very hard stool, streaked with blood, [2]. ►
Constipation. ► After
renewed doses the first days, constipation; sometimes hard fæces, even
with some blood, and sometimes first hard or regular, then, soft, or
like diarrhœa, but generally, first diarrhœa, and later, hard stool, [2]. [320.]
► No stool the first day, but
frequent very fetid flatus, [2]. ► The first day after taking the second
dose no stool, but the second morning, regular stool, [2]. ► No
stool the first day, but very early the second morning, [2]. ► The
first day no stool, the second it was regular, and the third day, early
in the morning, hard stool, with blood, [2].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► *The urine burns
during micturition and is much less in quantity (after eight
days), [2]. ►
After passing urine, burning in the urethra (fifth day), [1]. ► Great
burning in the urethra when passing urine (second day), [1]. ► Cutting
at the orifice of the urethra, while urinating (third day), [3a]. ►
Cutting in the orifice of the urethra, while urinating, and continuing
even afterwards (seventh day), [3a].
► Violent cutting in the forepart of
the urethra, while urinating (thirty-first day), [3a]. [330.] ► Frequent stitches in the meatus urinarius
(first day), [3a]. ► Micturition. ►
Urging to urinate, with sticking pain in both groins, [2]. ► The
urine was passed more seldom, and was more scanty than the first day,
but after twelve days with burning in the orifice of the urethra, [2]. ►
Urine. ► Urine increased,
so that she had to get up several times during the night, [2]. ► Urine
increased in quantity and passed more frequently than usual, the urine
also seemed darker (seventh day), [3].
► Urine seems greatly increased
(first day), [2]. ► More urine than usual, with burning sensation
when passing it; at night, burning sensation when passing
urine increased; is obliged to rise twice during the night on that
account (first day), [2]. ► Soon after taking the drug, less urine;
but after two hours more, [2]. ► Urine rather profuse, with a brick-red
sediment (first days), [1]. ► The urine of the evening left a
yellow-red sediment, (second day), [1].
[340.] ►
Urine of the morning has a whitish-yellow sediment (fourth day), [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Erection, with
desire, in the morning (second day), [1].
► Itching on the glans; obliged to
scratch (sixth day), [1]. ► Excited sexual desire, in the evening
(first day), [1]. ► Female. ►
Some leucorrhœa, [2]. ► Sticking pain in the vulva and vagina, in
the afternoon, while sitting, [2].
► Catamenia three days too late; more
than usual, and with bellyache, which she did not generally have, [2]. ►
Catamenia sixteen days too late, which bellyache, and costiveness, or
hard stool, [2]. ► Menstruation almost at the usual time;
more profuse on the second day, otherwise normal, [2]. ►
Catamenia flows much when walking, in the afternoon, [2]. [350.] ► Catamenia flows more again, and is more
fluid for a day, before the end of the period, [2]. ►
Catamenia, very little, without complaints, and at the regular time, [2]. ►
Catamenia every forenoon, for five days; lumps of coagulated blood, [2]. ►
During catamenia, in the morning in bed, pinching pain; and when moving,
walking, in the forenoon, several times, passing coagulated dark blood,
from the vagina, at long intervals, [2].
► On the third day of the catamenia
in the morning, white bloody mucus instead of blood, [2]. ► The
menstrual blood is acrid, makes the thighs sore, and only flows much the
first two days, [2].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Cough and Expectoration. ► Cough and want of breath, with sticking
pain in left side of chest, [2]. ► Generally dry cough, particularly in the
morning after rising, [2]. ► Tickling in the larynx, with dry cough,
night and morning (seventeenth day), [2a].
[Several acquaintances are suffering from the same cough, and I am also
treating a hooping-cough. -LEMBKE.] ►
Dry cough, with soreness in the chest and rough feeling in the throat,
particularly at night; she had to sit up and hold her chest with both
hands to get relief, [2]. [360.] ►
Frequent scraping in the larynx, and completely dry cough (eighteenth
day), [3a]. ►
Dry cough (twenty-third day), [3a].
► Dry cough, with tickling in the
trachea, for half an hour, [2]. ► Tickling in the throat, provoking a loose
cough, in the morning (fifth day), [2].
► *Frequent cough, with some
expectoration; if he coughs while standing, he feels a sharp stitch in
the left side of chest, with shortness of breath, [2]. ►
After heavy, anxious dreams, much expectoration of mucus (fourth day), [1]. ►
Respiration. ► Short
breath, with sticking pain in left side of chest, [2]. ► *Short
breath when walking, which is gradually relieved by rest;
later, the want of breath continues, even while sitting, [2]. ►
Oppressed breathing, from constriction in the abdomen, extending to the
chest, [2]. ►
Difficult breathing, with sensation of fulness in the stomach, extending
up into the chest, [2]. [370.] ►
Want of breath, with pressure and trembling sensation in pit of stomach,
[2].
CHEST.
►
Wandering pains in the left wall of the chest, especially below the left
nipple, not affecting respiration (fifth day), [3a]. ►
Drawing and pressure beneath the left ribs, anteriorly (second day), [3b]. ►
Drawing and pressure in the pectoral muscles (second day), [3b]. ►
*A pressure on the chest, as of a heavy load, [2]. ► *Oppression
of the chest, [1]. ► *Oppression of the chest, in the morning
on awaking (fifth day), [1]. ► Cutting pains beneath the right ribs,
anteriorly, while sitting (fifteenth day), [3]. ►
Sticking in the region of the left short ribs, while sitting (also
noticed previously while walking), (fifth day), [3]. ►
Stitches below the left ribs, anteriorly (ninth and eleventh days), [3a]. [380.]
► Stitches in the right pectoral
muscles, aggravated by inspiration (seventeenth day), [3a]. ►
Several stitches beneath the left ribs, anteriorly (fourth day), [3]. ►
Violent stitches below the left ribs, anteriorly, aggravated by
inspiration and pressure; occurring, and also disappearing, while
walking (tenth day), [3a]. ► An internal trembling or quaking in the
chest, makes her irritable, [2]. ► Front. ►
Pressure in the chest, between the nipples (tenth day), [3a]. ►
Pressure between the sternum and right nipple, while sitting, aggravated
by pressure and inspiration (eighth day), [3a].
► Sides. ► *Pressure in the left side, near the lumbar
region, aggravated by motion of the body, and by pressing upon it
(thirtieth day), [3a]. ► Sticking pain in the left side of the
chest, with cough and want of breath when moving about, 1 P.M., relieved
during rest, [2]. ► Sticking pain in the left side of the
chest, when stooping toward that side; but when she stoops towards the
right side, the pain is there, this continues all the first day, [2]. ►
Sticking pain in right side of chest, directly above the nipple, 5.30
P.M. while sitting, [2]. [390.] ►
Sticking pain in left side of chest, with irritation to cough, but the
pain is so violent that he cannot possibly cough, [2]. ► Violent
sticking pain in left side of chest, while coughing when standing, [2]. ►
Piercing pain, as of a spindle, in left side of chest, when walking
fast, towards evening (third day), [1].
► While yawning, a stitch in the left
side of the chest (sixth day), [1].
► *A stitch in the left side of chest,
as from a dull instrument, after meals (second day), [1]. ► Several
times, while standing, stitches in the left side of the chest (after ten
days), [2]. ►
A persistent stitch in the left side of the chest, extending up into the
ribs, after profuse emission of flatus, while sitting, [2]. ► After
emission of much flatus, a continuous stitch in the left side of the
chest, which extended along the ribs, while sitting, [2]. ► Violent
stitches in the left side, below the ribs, anteriorly (eighth day), [3a]. ►
A very fine stitch in the left side of the chest, twice in succession,
on inspiration (first day), [2]. ► Mammæ. [400.]
► Itching pain in the region of the
left nipple, not aggravated by respiration (tenth day), [3a]. ► Acute
stitches in the region of the left nipple, without cough or difficulty
of breathing, while sitting (tenth day), [3].
► Near the left nipple, a piercing,
penetrating stitch, while sitting; soon after a renewed dose, [2].® 2000
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