Regional Index of Symptoms
Intestinal Tract.
Colic.
Alum –
Colic worse from eating potatoes.
Carbo-v –
From flatulency.
Cham –
Brought on by anger.
China –
Periodical; better from bending double, from eating at
night.
Coloc –
Violent; bends double; intense squeezing pain through
abdomen; intestines sore and bruised; better from emission of flatus and from pressure upon
hard surface.
Ipec –
As if intestines were gripped by a hand and sharply
squeezed.
Jalapa –
Pinching, griping, flatulent.
Plum –
Agonizing; radiating from navel; retraction of abdomen.
Pod –
Severe, with retraction of abdomen. Colic of infants.
Rheum –
When uncovering.
Stan –
Better from hard pressure.
Ver-alb –
Frightful colic, radiating into abdomen and shoulders,
with vomiting, coldness and collapse.
Stools.
Alum –
Straining with soft stools and when urinating.
Bapt –
Foul, as are all secretions.
Bar-carb –
Hard, knotty.
Bis –
Of cadaverous odor.
Caust –
Tough, greasy; better expelled when standing.
Chel –
Small, round, hard, black balls, like sheep’s dung.
Dig –
Soft, white, like chalk.
Ferr –
Slimy, containing ascarides; hard black balls;
undigested, painless.
Grap –
Hard, knotty, threads of mucus.
Hell –
Like jelly; involuntary.
Hep –
Sour, white, clay-colored, fetid, sluggish.
Iod –
At stool, uterine haemorrhage.
Kali-carb –
Large, difficult, with stitching in rectum before
stool.
Lept –
Mushy; black as tar; with faint stomach and distress in
liver.
Mur-ac –
Involuntary when he attempts to urinate.
Nat-mur –
Crumbling.
Opium –
No desire for stool; stool recedes.
Plat –
Like soft clay; passed with difficulty; it adheres.
Plum –
Like excrement of sheep.
Rheum –
First part soft, then hard; with colic.
Sil –
Difficult expulsion of soft stool.
Stan –
Thin, papescent, with creeping chills; worm-like; mucous
threads.
Constipation.
Alum –
With rectum sore and bleeding; stools hard, knotty,
covered with mucous; stools accumulate in rectum.
Amm-mur –
Hard, crumbling stool, covered with mucous; smarting
and soreness in rectum.
Anac –
Sense of plug in rectum, preventing stool.
Bar-carb –
Constipation of hard, knotty stools.
Bry –
Large, hard stools, dry, as if burnt.
Calc –
Constipation of large hard stools; for first hard, then
pasty, then fluid.
Chel –
Stool of small, round, black balls; constipation and
diarrhoea alternate.
Grap –
Large, knotty; united by threads of mucus.
Hydras –
With gastric faintness, debility, heavy pain in rectum.
Lach –
Like excrements of sheep; difficult.
Lyc –
Hard, lumpy; after stool, sense of incompletion; difficult
from pain and constriction at anus.
Nat-mur –
Difficult from anal constriction and soreness; stools
crumbling.
Nux-vom –
Constipation from inefficient peristalsis; cannot get
done; alternating with diarrhoea.
Opium –
Hard, black balls.
Phos –
Long slender, ribbon-like stools.
Plum –
Constipation of small hard stools, like excrements of
sheep.
Sep –
Hard, knotty, in balls; difficult, with pain in rectum;
sense of ball in anus; not relieved by stool.
Sul –
Constipation of dry, hard, knotty stools; painful;
alternating with diarrhoea; ineffectual urging before and after stool, followed by aching and
sticking pain in rectum.
Diarrhśa.
Acon –
Green, like spinach.
Aeth –
Thin, yellow, greenish; contains masses of curdled milk.
Ailan –
Watery, offensive.
Aloe –
Watery, jelly-like, windy; griping before and during
stool; in the morning, early; pain better after stool; great weakness.
Amm-mur –
Green, mucous.
Ant-crud –
Watery, slimy, windy; mixed with hard lumps.
Apis –
Yellow, green; in the morning; abdominal soreness.
Arg-nit –
Diarrhoea as soon as he drinks or eats sweets; green
like spinach; in flakes.
Arn –
Offensive, putrid, bloody, brown; must lie down, so
exhausted after diarrhoea.
Ars –
Dark, brown, cadaverous; like carrion; with restlessness,
anguish and great exhaustion.
Bapt –
Dark, foul, bloody.
Bell –
Green, thin; lumps like chalk.
Berb –
Painless, clay-colored.
Borax –
Soft, light yellow, slimy, pappy; green in children.
Calc –
Pale, watery, sour; of undigested food.
Camph –
Choleraic, with anguish, coldness, cramps, thready
pulse.
Canth –
Mucous, like scrapings; bloody; followed by shivering
and tenesmus.
Carbo-v –
Cadaverous; involuntary; burning in rectum; sense of
weakness.
Chel –
Slimy, yellow, watery, grayish.
China –
Watery, soft, painless; putrid, windy, dehabilitating.
Colch –
Scanty, jelly-like stools; painful; with distended
abdomen; urging and pain in anus; stools contain scrapings.
Coloc –
Bloody, slimy; worse from food and drink.
Crot –
Sudden, expulsive, with a gush; immediately after
nursing; with great prostration.
Cuprum –
With much griping and vomiting; green.
Dulc –
Diarrhoea alternating with rheumatism; from taking cold
in damp weather or place; watery; greenish mucous.
Eup-per –
Green, watery, bilious.
Gels –
Watery, painless, from fright.
Hell –
Like jelly; involuntary.
Hep –
Diarrhoea of children; child smells sour.
Hyos –
Involuntary.
Ipec –
Green, frothy; with nausea and colic, especially about
navel; of teething children; from eating green fruit.
Iris –
Watery, bilious, with burning at anus.
Jalapa –
Thin, watery.
Jatropha –
Sudden, profuse; noise like water poured out of
bunghole of barrel.
Kali-bich –
Jelly-like, brown, frothy; sensation of plug in
anus.
Kreos –
Undigested, putrid, dark brown.
Lach –
Dark, like burnt straw; of cadaverous odor.
Lyc –
Thin, yellow; flatulent.
Mag-carb –
Like green scum on frog-pond; diarrhoea of undigested
milk; contains masses like tallow.
Merc –
Green, slimy, bloody; colic; cannot get done; worse at
night.
Merc-cor –
Green, yellow, slimy, bloody; colic, tenesmus during
and
after stool, almost continuous, followed by burning in rectum and anus;
chilliness between stools.
Mur-ac –
Mushy; with offensive flatus and pain in rectum.
Phos –
Watery; with bits of tallow; gushing as from a hydrant.
Phos-ac –
Painless, watery, not exhausting.
Pod –
Watery, gushing, foul, painless; drives him out of bed in
a. m.; morning stool; followed by sense of great exhaustion and emptiness; copious, large
stools which do not weaken him; stool with griping colic and heat and pain in anus.
Puls –
No two stools alike.
Rheum –
Pasty, fermented, green, like chopped egg; sour;
shivering after stool and constrictive colic; colic from uncovering.
Rhus –
Slimy, frothy, bloody, painless; involuntary; of
cadaverous odor.
Rumex –
Watery, brown, driving him out of bed; with provoking
dry cough.
Sec –
Profuse, watery, dark, putrid; painless, but very
exhausting; comes from a gush; involuntary; anus wide open.
Sul –
Painless; drives him out of bed; prolapsus ani; piles.
Sul-ac –
Very fetid; of yellow mucus, like chopped egg; body
smells sour.
Thuj –
Chronic diarrhoea; watery, gushing, greasy, gurgling.
Ver-alb –
Watery, gushing, profuse, flaky; with profuse
vomiting; weakness and emptiness in bowels; great exhaustion.
Rectum.
Aesculus –
Itching, dryness, fulness; haemorrhoids.
Aloe –
Burning in rectum and anus.
Alum –
Inactive; stools accumulate in rectum from lack of desire
to empty it; soreness and bleeding from rectum.
Ars –
Burning in rectum.
Calc –
Aching, burning, jerking in rectum.
Hydras –
Long-lasting pain in rectum with constipation and
gastric derangements; haemorrhoids.
Ign –
Haemorrhoids with stitching pain from anus into rectum.
Kali-carb –
Large haemorrhoids, with sticking pain in them from
coughing.
Lilium –
Constant pressure in rectum.
Merc-cor –
Burning in rectum and anus after stool, intense
tenesmus.
Mur-ac –
Excessive soreness; prolapse while urinating;
haemorrhoids, blue, hot, and so sore cannot bear pressure of the sheet.
Nux-vom –
Constant uneasiness in rectum.
Nit-ac –
Sticking pain in rectum at stool; soreness after stool.
Sep –
Pain in rectum with stool; pain lasts a long time.
Sul –
Aching, itching pain in rectum, with constipation.
Anus.
Aloe –
Loss of control; sense of insecurity even when passing
flatus; must hurry to stool.
Ars –
Burning pain in anus.
Cina –
Intolerable itching, better from cold water.
Grap –
Cracks at the anus.
Ign –
Constriction of sphincter ani, worse from sitting down.
Kali-bich –
Sensation of plug in anus.
Lach –
Constriction at anus; drawing and hammering in anus.
Lyc –
Pain and constriction at anus during stool.
Mur-ac –
Soreness, crawling, burning, stinging pain in anus.
Nat-mur –
Fissures and constriction at anus.
Phos –
Wide open; liquid oozes from anus; loss of control.
Plum –
Spasmodic contraction of sphincter ani.
Pod –
Prolapsus before, during and after stool.
Sec –
Wide open.
Sep –
Sense of weight or of a ball in anus, not better from
stool.
Sul –
Redness and itching of anus; prolapse.
Abdomen (and Liver).
Acon –
Coldness in abdomen as from a stone.
Aloe –
Heavy, full, bloated; colic from flatulency, better from
escape of hot flatus.
Amm-mur –
Chronic congestion of the liver.
Apoc –
Dropsy with great thirst.
Ars –
Cutting, colicky pain in abdomen, with sense of coldness.
Bar-carb –
Hardness and distension of abdomen with colic.
Bell –
Hot, distended; feeling as if internal parts were
clutched by a firm hand; cutting pain; can’t stand jar, touch, pressure.
Bis –
Intestinal flatus of cadaverous odor.
Bry –
Tenderness, worse from motion.
Calc –
Distended with incarcerated flatulence and cutting pain;
of drum- like hardness; region of stomach looks as though caved in.
Chel –
Jaundice and pain in right shoulder; gall-stones.
Cina –
Hot and sore above navel; colicky pain, better from
pressure.
China –
Distressing flatulence, not better from eructations;
gall-stone colic.
Colch – Drum-
like distension of abdomen, with gastric
indigestion.
Crocus –
Sensation of ball rolling around in abdomen.
Crot –
Swollen; very sensitive to pressure and touch.
Cuprum –
Child lies on abdomen and spasmodically thrusts the
breech up.
Dig –
Dropsy.
Dulc –
Cutting pain about navel after taking cold.
Eup-per –
Soreness in the liver.
Hell –
Gurgling in abdomen as though full of water.
Hyos –
Tympanitis.
Jalapa –
Intestinal flatulency with pinching and griping.
Lach –
Intolerance of pressure about abdomen.
Lept –
Aching distress in liver.
Lyc –
Excessive flatulency, with loud rumbling; not better from
belching.
Mag-phos –
Colic with great flatulency; belching without relief;
doubles up; loosens his clothing; better from warmth and rubbing.
Mosch –
Great distension from flatulency.
Nux-vom –
Tightness around hypochondria, interfering with
breathing.
Plum –
As hard as a board.
Sec –
Intense pain in stomach and abdomen, with vomiting.
Tereb –
Enormously distended.
Ver-alb –
Cutting pain in abdomen as from knives; intense;
abdomen swollen; sensitive.
Respiratory Organs.
Larynx.
All-cepa –
Tickling in larynx with hacking cough from inspiring
cold air.
Amm-mur –
Hoarseness and burning in larynx.
Arg-met –
Rawness and soreness in upper larynx when coughing;
viscid, jelly-like mucus in the morning.
Bell –
Pain and soreness in larynx.
Canth –
Spasmodic constriction of larynx, excited by touch.
Copaiva –
Dryness and excoriating pain in larynx during cough.
Corallium –
Sensation of cold air streaming through the larynx
on deep inspiration, exciting cough.
Iod –
Painful, raw; difficult inspiration.
Phos –
Dry; sore; cannot talk.
Rumex –
Great sensitiveness of larynx and trachea; tickling,
provoking cough.
Spong –
Sensitiveness of larynx to touch; tickling, provoking
cough; sensation of plug in larynx, preventing breathing.
Chest.
Acon –
Sense of heat in chest.
Amm-carb –
Oppressed breathing, worse from exertion and warm
room.
Amm-mur –
Burning pain in small spots in the chest.
Apis –
Irritation in supra-sternal fossa, provoking cough; great
dyspnoea, as though every breath would be the last.
Arg-met –
Weakness of left chest; raw spot over supra-sternal
fossa.
Ars –
Excessive dyspnoea, must sit up; fear of death.
Asaf –
Great oppression in chest, better from belching gas.
Aurum –
Asthma; anxious feeling about heart; cannot stay
anywhere.
Brom –
Oppression; difficult, painful breathing.
Bry –
Stitching pain in chest; feels as if it would fly to
pieces.
Calc –
Very sensitive to pressure and touch.
Cann-sat –
Can only breath while standing up.
Carbo-v –
Rawness in chest; asthma.
Chel –
Rapid, short breathing, with pain on inspiring; right
side.
China –
Rattling in chest; suffocative catarrh; hacking after
eating.
Cuprum –
Violent asthma, coming and going suddenly.
Dig –
Difficult, irregular, sighing breathing; great dyspnoea.
Dros –
Asthma, worse from talking.
Ipec –
Distressing dyspnoea; acts as though choking to death;
fine bubbling rales in chest; ends in vomiting and relief.
Kali-carb –
Wheezing.
Kali-iod –
Colds begin in the head and travel down into the
chest.
Lobel –
Constriction, dyspnoea, better from walking.
Mosch –
Oppressive breathing; asthma; paralysis of lungs.
Phos –
Tightness and soreness in upper chest.
Puls –
Ulcerative pain in middle of thorax.
Ranun –
Sever, sticking, bruised pain in lower ribs and out
parts of chest, with difficult breathing and deep soreness.
Stan –
Great weakness of chest; oppressive breathing.
Sul –
Chest feels heavy; can’t breathe; must have windows open.
Ver-vir –
Suffocating difficulty of breathing.
Cough.
Acon –
With taste of blood; dry, croupy, from going into cold
room.
All-cepa –
Violent, croupy, as if larynx would tear.
Amm-carb –
Of elderly people; rattling, loose, but does not
raise easily. Night cough; worse from 3 to 4 a. m.; as from dust in throat.
Amm-mur –
Dry, hacking, loose; in the p. m.; raises mucous
freely.
Ant-crud –
From tickling in chest; from going into a warm room.
Ant-tart –
Loose, rattling; excited by eating and fits of anger;
vomiting of mucus, with relief.
Apis –
Severe, concussive; jars the head badly.
Arg-met –
Excited by laughing.
Bell –
Dry, tickling, barking, convulsive; pain and soreness in
larynx.
Brom –
Spasmodic; from inhaling cold air; rattling in chest
without choking.
Bry –
Dry, tickling in throat and epigastrium, with desire to
expand chest; worse from going into warm room; with gagging and vomiting of food.
Calc –
At midnight; with oppression; sub-clavicular soreness.
Tight at night, loose in the morning.
Caps –
Hard, explosive; seems head and chest would fly to
pieces; pain in distant parts when coughing.
Carbo-v –
With burning in chest.
Caust –
With soreness and rawness in chest; better from drinking
cold water; with involuntary escape of urine.
Cham –
Dry, hacking, from tickling; one cheek red, the other
pale; with stitching under false ribs.
Chel –
Loose, rattling, long-lasting.
Con –
From dry spot in larynx, with itching of throat and chest.
Copaiva –
Burning dry cough; with hoarseness and pain in larynx;
in evening.
Corallium –
Attacks follow each other rapidly; exceedingly
violent; face purple; great exhaustion; vomiting of mucus.
Cubeba –
So violent, it seems as though bronchial tube would
tear.
Cuprum –
Spasmodic, suffocative; with twitching; blue face.
Dros –
Tickling in throat as from crumb of bread; crawling;
sense of constriction, cough like whooping cough; deep, hoarse, with strangling and vomiting
of slime.
Dulc –
Loose, spasmodic, with tickling; after long effort raises
phelgm; cough with pain in epigastrium which interferes with ability to cough; must press his
hand on pit of stomach or hold side in order to cough.
Euph –
In morning and during day, never at night; coryza.
Ferr –
Dry; after meals; dyspnoea and fullness in chest.
Hep –
Strangling, retching, violent; from uncovering; ends in
vomiting.
Hyos –
Dry, spasmodic, from tickling; at night.
Ign –
Violent; from tickling as of a feather, growing worse the
more he coughs; stopped by effort of will.
Iod –
From tickling behind sternum or low in chest, dry, hoarse,
with wheezing and sawing respiration.
Ipec –
Constant, severe; sounds loose, but no expectoration;
distressing dyspnoea, ends in vomiting haemoptysis from slight exertion.
Kali-bich –
Harsh.
Kali-carb –
Dry, hard, with stitching pain; awakens him at 3 or
4 a. m.
Kali-iod –
Violent, worse in the morning.
Kreos –
With feeling as if sternum were crushed in.
Lyc –
Deep, hollow, with rattling mucus.
Merc –
Dry, harsh, racking, at night.
Nux-vom –
Dry, hacking.
Phos –
Dry, hollow, spasmodic, with tightness in chest; jars the
whole body; from use of voice; from going from warm to cold air.
Puls –
Dry at night, loose in the morning.
Rhus –
Short, painful; feeling as though cold air were passing
through trachea; teasing; dry; from midnight till morning.
Rumex –
Dry, teasing, incessant; worse using voice, inhaling
cold air; at night; tickling behind sternum, in throat; better from covering up face.
Samb –
Violent, dry, suffocative; with hoarseness and rattling
of mucus in throat; great difficulty of breathing; jumps out of sound sleep, almost
strangling.
Sang –
Dry, harsh, whistling; tickling in throat pit, beneath
sternum; hoarse.
Sil –
Hard cough when lying down.
Spong –
Dry, barking, croupy, sibilant; awakens him out of sound
sleep; loose, wheezing asthmatic, suffocative, with copious raising.
Stan –
Deep, hoarse, hollow, violent, concussive; excited by use
of voice; weakness in chest and throat.
Sul –
Morning cough.
Ver-vir –
Tickling, spasmodic.
Expectoration
.
Amm-carb –
Expectoration of mucus, with specks of blood in it.
Arg-met –
Jelly-like mucus in the morning; easy expectoration of
substance like boiled starch.
Ars –
Expectoration of transparent, viscid mucous.
Bry –
Expectoration rust-colored, tough, like lumps of jelly.
Calc –
Copious, yellow, bloody; during day only.
Carbo-v –
Fetid, thick, greenish; before menstruating.
Caust –
Scanty; must be swallowed.
Cham –
Scanty, tough, slimy; of bitter taste.
Copaiva –
Profuse, purulent.
Cubeba –
Difficult; at times blood-stained.
Ferr –
Bloody, green, purulent; in the morning.
Kali-bich –
Yellow, stringy.
Kali-carb –
Must be swallowed.
Kali-iod –
Greenish; like soap suds.
Lyc –
Copious, mucous, purulent, gray, salty.
Mag-carb –
Little lumps, no larger than pea, very offensive.
Merc –
Heavy, acrid, yellow; mixed with blood; putrid, salty.
Nit-ac –
Constant hawking of mucus.
Phos –
Frothy, bloody, rust-colored; purulent, white, tough;
salty, sweet.
Puls –
Bland and thick.
Sang –
Tough, offensive, rust-colored.
Sil –
Expectoration of thick, yellow lumps; copious
expectoration of foul, muco-purulent matter.
Spong –
Yellow, tenacious, salty.
Stan –
Copious, salty or sweetish.
Sul –
Greenish, purulent, sweetish.
Breathing.
Ant-tart –
Sawing respiration.
Apoc –
Difficulty of breathing from oppression in region of
stomach.
Arg-nit –
Great longing for fresh air.
Calc –
Gets breathless from slight exertion, especially going
upstairs; must sit down to rest.
Carbo-v –
Wants to be fanned constantly; breath cold.
Ign –
Deep, involuntary sighing.
Ranun –
Difficult, painful; from soreness in lower ribs.
Sec –
Anxious, sighing, in almost inaudible voice.
Ver-vir –
Suffocative.
Voice.
Arg-met –
Hoarseness and loss of voice in professional singers.
Arg-nit –
Singing in a high note starts a cough; chronic
hoarseness.
Arum –
Uncertain; hoarse.
Brom –
Very hoarse.
Carbo-v –
Hoarseness in the evening.
Caust –
Sudden loss of voice from paralysis in laryngeal
muscles.
Dros –
Harsh; deep-pitched.
Kali-bich –
Hoarse toward evening.
Phos –
Hoarseness from protracted loud speaking; aphonia.
Puls –
Hoarseness coming and going without apparent cause.
Sec –
Almost inaudible; with sighing respiration.
Spig –
His voice sounds like a bell to him; the jar hurts his
head.