Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
RUMEX CRISPUS.
[Rumex]
Yellow Dock. Joslin. Polygonaceæ.[1] * [3]
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* [45] * [46]► Low-spirited : with serious expression of face ;
with suicidal mood.
► Irritable.
► Disinclined to mental exertion.
► Headache after waking in morning, preceded by a
disagreeable dream.
► Dull pains : on right side ; in occiput ; in
forehead.
► Darting pain, or sharp piercing in left side of head.
► Pain in eyes, as from dryness ; lids inflamed,
worse in the evening.
► Ringing in the ears.
► Itching deep in ears.
► Epistaxis, violent sneezing and painful irritation of
nostrils.
► Nose obstructed ; dry sensation, even in posterior nares.
► Fluent coryza., with sneezing ; worse evening and night.
► Yellow mucus, discharged through posterior nares.
► Heat of face, redness worse evenings ; dull
headache.
► Bitter taste (morning).
► Dry tongue and mouth : tongue feels as if burned.
► Tongue coated white, yellowish-brown or reddish-brown.
► Sudden change of voice at different times, or at same time on each
day ; or with the cough.
► Excoriated feeling in throat, with secretion of mucus
in upper part of throat.
► Sensation of a lump in throat, not relieved by hawking or
swallowing, it descends on deglutition, but immediately returns.
► Aching in larynx, with collection of tough mucus in fauces.
► After meals : flatulency ; heaviness in
stomach or epigastrium ; aching in left breast ; pressure and
distention in stomach.
► Nausea at night, before diarrhœa.
► Shooting from pit of stomach to chest ; sharp in
left chest ; slight nausea ; dull aching in forehead.
► Aching and shooting in pit of stomach, and above it, on each side
of sternum.
► Sensation of fulness and pressure in pit of stomach, up into
throat.
► Tight, suffocative, heavy ache in epigastrium, through to back ;
clothes seem too tight ; weak feeling in epigastrium, all worse when
talking ; frequently task’s long breath.
► Pain in hypochondrium from coughing., rapid walking or
deep inspiration.
► Griping near navel, partially relieved by discharge of
offensive flatus flatulent colic soon after a meal.
► Pain occurring, or worse during deep inspiration.
► Sensation of hardness and fullness in the abdomen, with rumbling.
► Stools : painless, offensive, profuse ; brown
or black, thin or watery ; preceded by pain in abdomen ; before
stool, sudden urging, driving him out of bed in morning.
► Morning diarrhœa, with cough from tickling in throat-pit.
► Feces hard, tough, brown ; costive.
► Itching at anus, with discharge of offensive flatus.
► Sensation as from pressure of a stick in rectum.
► Sudden urging.
► Involuntary micturition, with cough.
► Copious, colorless urine, in afternoon.
► Tenacious mucus in throat or larynx, constant desire to
hawk.
► Hoarseness, worse evenings ; voice uncertain.
► Frequent feeling as if she could not get another
breath.
► Suffocating feeling even down to epigastrium, as if tough phlegm
must work up, with the cough ; despair, even to suicidal feeling ;
prostrate, tearful, after attack.
► Hoarse barking cough ; in attacks, every night at
11 P.M., and at 2 and 5 A.M.(children).
► Cough, with pain behind mid-sternum.
► Dry, incessant ; fatiguing cough, caused by tickling in the
throat-pit extending to behind sternum and to stomach.
► Soreness in larynx and behind sternum ; rawness under
clavicles ; pain in stomach ; stitches in left lung.
► Cough worse from changing rooms, evening after lying down ;
touching and pressing trachea or throat-pit, from the slightest inhalation
of cool air, he covers his head with bedclothes, to make the air warmer.
► Hawking with burning soreness in larynx ; later in left
bronchus, renewed by strong exhalation and scrapping.
► Aching over anterior portion of both lungs.
► Burning-sticking or burning-stinging pain in left chest near heart ;
worse from deep breathing and lying down in bed at night. θ
Rheumatism.
► Burning, shooting pain in right chest.
► Sharp pain near left axilla.
► Soreness behind stomach when breathing.
► Heart feels as if it suddenly stopped beating, followed
by a heavy throbbing through the chest.
► Burning in region of heart ; stinging ; worse when lying
down and breathing deeply.
► Aching in heart, with throbbing of carotids and through body,
shaking the bed ; dyspnœa ; worse when lying, had to sit up ;
face red, puffed, worse about eyes, which were red, lustreless.
► Pulse accelerated, mostly when going up stairs.
► Pressing-aching in back, at lower border of scapula.
► Sore or burning pain near sacro-iliac symphysis.
► Pains in shoulder down to elbow ; arms feel
strained.
► Hands cold, when coughing.
► Stitching in back of right hip ; limping walk.
► Legs ache.
► Stitch-like pain in knee-joint, when standing.
► Legs covered with small, red pimples.
► Feet cold.
► Feet sensitive.
► Stinging in corns.
► Walking : 18. Ascending stairs :
29. Lying down : 27, 28,
29. Standing : 33. Must sit up :
29.
► Great debility ; averse to work ; indifferent
about his surroundings.
► Unquiet sleep, dreams of danger and trouble.
► Wakes early, with headache.
► Morning : 3, 11,
20. Afternoon : 21. Evening :
5, 7, 8, 25,
27. Night : 7, 16,
27, 28. 11 P.M. : 27.
2 and 5 A.M. : 27.
► Generally worse : from cool change of weather ;
when riding in cold wind ; in cold, damp, raw weather.
► Covering head : 27. Uncovering : 46.
Cool air : 27, 46. Changing rooms :
27.
► Chilly, worse on back ; colic, nausea, stitches
near middle of chest.
► Sensation of heat, followed by that of cold, without shivering.
► Flushes of heat worse on cheeks.
► Sweat on waking from a sound sleep.
► Right : 3, 28, 33.
Left : 3, 15, 17,
27, 28, 29.
► Itching in various parts., worse on lower limbs while
undressing.
► Stinging-itching, or prickling-itching of skin.
► Vesicular eruption, itching when uncovered and exposed to cool
air.
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