EUPHRASIA.
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Violent
sticking in the hepatic region, extending to the back, at 6 P.M. (fourth
day), [19]. [190.] ►
Stitches in the hepatic region, which sometimes extend to the abdomen,
and sometimes to the right lung (third day), [19]. ►
Stitches in the spleen in the morning (fourth day), [21]. ► Umbilical.
► Griping in the umbilical region in
the afternoon (sixth day), [11]. ► Griping about the umbilicus in the
afternoon (fifth day), [11]. ► Griping about the umbilicus, with
qualmish nausea, transient, followed by rumbling in the intestines
(second day), [11]. ► General Abdomen. ► Rumbling in the bowels, with desire for
food, that was satisfied by a bit of bread, at 11 A.M. (sixth day), [11]. ►
Painless rumbling in the abdomen, as from hunger and emptiness (after
one hour and a half), [3]. ► Distress in the bowels (fifty-seventh
day), [12]. ►
Pains in the abdomen, frequently griping, with three soft stools and
rumbling in the intestines (first, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth
days), [13]. ►
Distension of the abdomen, as without flatulence, before dinner, [1], [8].
[200.] ►
Griping in the abdomen in short paroxysms (after three and four hours), [2]. ►
Awakened at night with griping and rumbling in the bowels, disappearing
after much flatus (seventeenth day), [15].
► Transient griping in the bowels (in
the morning he had had a difficult, unsatisfactory, and delayed stool),
(first day), [15]. ► A kind of oppression of the abdomen, a
burning, pressive pain, extending transversely across the abdomen,
during rest and motion (after five hours and a half), [3]. ► Colic,
lasting seven hours (after two hours), [2].
► Iliac Region. ► Sticking-drawing from the upper part of
the thigh into the groin, worse while sitting (after forty-eight hours),
[4]. ►
Sudden sticking-drawing pain along the left inguinal canal, extending
down into the testicle, on rising from sitting, lasting two or three
minutes (fourth day), [12].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
The hæmorrhoids began again to swell and become tense (on renewing the
proving), (seventeenth day), [15].
► The hæmorrhoids are smaller, but
painful in every position and on every motion (tenth day); next day,
they are still troublesome, with sticking and burning, but are decidedly
smaller and less painful, after a slight stool and towards evening
(eleventh day); still somewhat troublesome (twelfth day), [15]. ►
Burning and itching in the anus, in the afternoon, with the appearance
of two hæmorrhoids as large as beans (ninth day), [15]. [210.] ► Burning in the hæmorrhoids, from
afternoon till evening (perhaps the result of a small quantity of wine
and water), relieved by a cold sitz bath (seventh day), [10]. ►
Violent burning in the hæmorrhoids, lasting the whole afternoon,
gradually disappearing (fifth day), [11].
► Pressure in the anus while sitting,
[1]. ►
Painful crawling in the anus in the evening (fourth day), [17]. ►
Itching and burning of the hæmorrhoids at 6 P.M. (fourth day), [11]. ►
The itching of the hæmorrhoids becomes more boring-sticking, and only
disappears after an hour and a half, after going to bed, together with
return of the shortness of breath and the sobbing on assuming a
horizontal posture (fifth day), [16].
► Violent itching in the
hæmorrhoids, which had not yet disappeared (nineteenth day), [15].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa
three times (fifty-seventh day), [12].
► Stool formed and quite
satisfactory, in the morning and evening (very unusual), (first day);
this was repeated twice daily (third and fourth days), [15]. ► Stool
in the evening, in part pasty, though in the morning there had been an
evacuation of nodular fæces (sixth day), [15].
[220.] ►
Stool at first solid, then pasty (second day), [15]. ►
Constipation. ► *Constipation,
[18]. ►
No stool for two days (third and fourth days), [11]. ► Stool
delayed, hard, and scanty, [1]. ► Stool did not occur at the usual time,
and only in the evening, preceded by flatulence, with great urging; it
was thick, pasty, followed by sensation of warmth and slight burning in
the anus (third day); very scanty and hard, at an unusual time (fourth
day); delayed but normal (fifth day); at the usual time and normal
(sixth day), [15]. ► Stool later than usual in the evening,
nodular, hard, and unsatisfactory, followed after two hours by violent
itching in the anus, with an irresistible desire to scratch, lasting a
quarter of an hour (sixteenth day), [15].
► Stool scanty and dry, in spite of
large quantities of fruit (thirty-third day), [12]. ► Stool
scanty (thirteenth day); for the last three days has been very dry and
sluggish (eighteenth day), [12]. ► The stool becomes daily dryer, the
discharge more difficult (quite contrary to his habit; for many years he
was accustomed to have a daily copious stool after coffee), (nineteenth
day), [12]. ►
Increased secretion of urine; more was passed in the night than in all
the preceding eight days (eighth night), [15].
[230.] ►
The secretion of urine was somewhat increased during the proving, [14]. ►
Frequent secretion of urine (eighth night); frequent urging to urinate
(ninth and subsequent nights), [15].
► Profuse secretion of urine (after
60 drops), [17]. ► Frequent micturition (after
three-quarters of an hour), [3]. ► Frequent micturition and profuse urine,
in the evening (sixth day), [16]. ► Micturition three times during the first
three hours (very extraordinary), (first day), [19]. ►
Frequent emission of clear urine (after two hours), [4]. ► Unusual
amount of pale urine (second and third days), [9].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Cramplike drawing inwards of the genitals, together with pressure above
the pubis; in the evening, in bed, [4].
► Feeling of burning heat over the
whole glans penis (third day), [9].
[240.] ►
Several needlelike stitches on the tip of the glans penis (after one
hour and a half), [3]. ► Voluptuous, itching, needlelike stitches
on the glans penis, which is painful after scratching; while sitting
(after ten hours), [3]. ► The testicles are drawn up, with crawling
in them (after twelve hours), [4].
► Menstruation delayed four days,
without other symptoms; continued a shorter time than usual, and was
much more scanty, [19].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx. ►
No hoarseness in the evening, in spite of reading a long time; felt at
last, however, a pressure in the larynx, as if its calibre were
diminished (sixth day), [16]. ► *Irritation of the larynx, impelling him to
cough, followed by tensive pressure beneath the sternum
(first day), [15]. ► Voice. ►
*Voice somewhat hoarse, in the morning (tenth day), [15]. ►
Cough and Expectoration. ►
Cough only during the day, not at night, [1].
► Cough worse during the day, with
mucus in the chest, which cannot be loosened, [1]. ► *Sudden
violent cough, caused by tickling in the larynx, ceasing after a few
seconds (six hours after dose, sixteenth day), [15]. [250.] ►► *Profuse expectoration of mucus by
voluntary hawking, for several days, [3]. ►
Difficult respiration, even in the room, [1].
► *Deep inspiration is difficult, even
while sitting, [1]. ► Shortness of breathing (fourth day), [16]. ►
Shortness of breathing, immediately on getting into bed and assuming a
horizontal posture, whereby inspiration seemed to him to have a sobbing
character, and sound similar to, but much weaker than, the sobbing of a
child after crying (fourth day), [16].
► While coughing he has no breath,
almost as in hooping-cough, [1]. ► Constant waking from sensation of
suffocation, so that he was obliged to sit upright and cough, during the
midday sleep (apparently caused by mucus in the posterior nares), (third
day), [16].
CHEST.
►
Increased tension, especially in the left side of the chest; was unable
to sleep before midnight (first night), [15].
► Pressure upon the chest
(thirty-fifth day), [12]. ► Sticking in the left lung remained, but
was slight and transient (seventh day), [16].
[260.] ►
Sticking sensation in the lung, in the region of the right nipple, which
after it had disappeared was always renewed by deep inspiration, lasting
ten minutes, at 8 P.M. (third day), [16].
► Stitches in the left lung (after
30th dil.), [21]. ► Stitches in the right pectoral muscles
(eighth day), [19]. ► Sticking pulsation in the left lung, in
the region of the nipple (fourth day), [16].
► Front. ► *Pressive pain beneath the sternum, especially
in the forenoon, with transient stickings here and there in the chest
(ninth day), [16]. ► Some fine stitches beneath the sternum,
especially on inspiration (after ten hours), [4]. ► Sides.
► Stitches in the right side of the
chest (first day), [20].
HEART.
►
Violent pain in the heart and palpitation, in the afternoon (fourth
day), [21]. ►
Violent long-continued pain in the heart, with audible palpitation, in
the afternoon (first day), [21]. ► Sticking in the heart (third day), [20]. [270.]
► Some fine stitches beneath the
præcordial region, on inspiration and expiration, in the evening while
sitting (after fifteen hours), [3].
► Palpitation, on walking rapidly
(fifth day), [15].
BACK.
►
Cramplike pain in the back (after one hour), [2]. ►
Intermitting cramplike pain in the back, for half an hour (after one
hour), [2]. ►
Constant pressive pains in the back, while sitting and walking (after
fifty-four hours), [3]. ► Violent sticking pain along the whole
spine, gradually disappearing after moving about, in the morning on
waking (thirteenth day, and every succeeding morning for three or four
weeks), [13]. ► Rheumatic drawing from the uppermost
dorsal vertebra to the left clavicle; the place is painful to touch, in
the afternoon (first day), [19]. ► Stitches and burning pain in the left
scapula, pit of the stomach, liver, and diaphragm; in the latter place,
especially, renewed by deep inspiration (eighth day), [19]. ►
Distressing heaviness in the small of the back, on rising in the
morning; this developed into a pain as if sprained, so that an hour
after rising I could hardly stoop forward, and not at all bend to the
right side; even stretching of the body to the right side was not easily
possible on account of the increase of pain; this pain in the small of
the back gradually disappeared in the forenoon, extending into the left
hip, where it caused a similar sensation of heaviness and straining;
after dinner there was much less of this pain, and in the evening it had
entirely disappeared (third day), [9].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Weariness in the limbs, in the evening
(first day), [11]. [280.] ►
Weary lassitude in the limbs and generally almost febrile condition
(first day), [9]. ► Weakness of the limbs, in the evening
(sixth day), [11].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Sensation in the arms as if they had
fallen asleep, [1]. ► Dull pain in the right upper and forearm,
extending to the fingers, in the afternoon (sixth day), [11]. ► Shoulder.
► Sticking pain in the right
shoulder-joint, in the afternoon (sixth day), [11]. ► Arm.
► Stitches in the right upper arm
(first day), [20]. ► A benumbing stitch in the left upper arm
(after half an hour), [3]. ► Elbow. ►
Rheumatic drawing and sticking in the right elbow, wrist, and hand,
which latter is hotter than the left, with distended veins; the painful
sensation extends to the middle finger and thumb, then suddenly jumps to
the larynx, more to the left side, and then suddenly returns to the
hand, in the evening (first day), [19].
► Dull tearing in the elbow and
wrist-joints (after two hours), [4].
► Forearm. ► Pain in the right forearm and hand, as
from being asleep (after one hour and a half), [2]. [290.] ► Some dull stitches in the forepart of the
left forearm close to the wrist (after thirteen hours), [3]. ► Wrist.
► Paralyzed sensation in the right
wrist, extending to the elbow (third day), [12]. ► Pain
like a cramp in the wrists, lasting half an hour (after twenty-four
hours), [2]. ► Hand. ►
The hands fall asleep (first night), [20].
► Very piercing-pinching pain on the
back of the hand (after three hours), [2].
► Cramplike pain in the metacarpus, [2]. ►
Pain like a cramp, alternately violent and slight in the metacarpus,
lasting half an hour (after one hour), [2].
► Cramplike pressive pain in the left
hand, changing to cramplike pressing pain in the fingers, [2]. ► Fingers.
► Numbness of the thumb, index, and
middle finger of the right hand, and also of the parts affected by
writers’ cramp, immediately on going out (second day), [21]. ►
Numbness of the right index and middle fingers (third day), [19]. [300.]
► Numbness of the right index finger,
so that she lost her needle (first day), [19].
► Deadness of the fingers of the
right hand (first day), [20]. ► Pain, as from being asleep, in the
phalanges and finger-joints, more towards the outer side (after one hour
and a half), [2]. ► Pinching pain in the fingers of the left
hand for three or four minutes, while sitting, at 9 A.M. (fifty-seventh
day), [12]. ►
Pinching pain in the first (metacarpal) phalanx of the index finger
(after three hours), [2]. ► Cramplike pain in the fingers, especially
in the finger-joints of the left hand (after one hour and a half), [2].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Hip. ►
Stitches in the left hip-joint, while walking, [1]. ► Thigh.
► Pain in the adductor of the right
thigh, while walking and sitting, lasting the whole day (and for several
days), entirely corresponding with the pain she had had nine months
previously when she pushed with the foot something standing on the
ground (second day), [19]. ► Much pain in the right thigh and right
glutæi, a pain as if some one had applied burning tinder to the part
(seventh day), [19]. ► A mixture of sticking and burning in the
fascia lata of the left thigh (fourth day), [16]. [310.] ► Stitches in the right nates (twenty-sixth
day), [12]. ►
Violent needlelike stitch in the posterior portion of the thighs, only
when standing (after half an hour), [3].
► Violent needlelike stitches in the
anterior muscles of the right thigh, while standing (after half an
hour), [3]. ► Knee. ►
Weariness in the knees, as from a long walk (after four hours), [4]. ►
Painful tension in the tendons under the knee, while walking; they feel
too short, so that walking is difficult (after three hours), [3]. ►
Jerking sticking in the left knee, while walking, [1]. ► Leg.
► Pain drawing upward and downward in
the periosteum in front of the left tibia, while sitting (after two
hours and a half), [3]. ► Tension extending from the outer
malleolus, near the tendo Achillis, to the calf, while walking and
sitting, [1]. ► Cramplike pain in the calf, with feeling
of heaviness, on standing a long time (after two hours and a half), [4]. ►
Constant boring stitches in the tibiæ from below upward (after one hour
and a half), [3]. ► Ankle. [320.]
► Cracking in the external left
malleolus, while stepping, [3]. ► Foot. ►
Painless numbness of the left foot (not a falling asleep, with an
unpleasant sensation when the circulation returned), (first day), [19]. ►
Sticking pain in the ball of the right foot for three or four minutes,
frequently repeated, and becoming a slight burning while sitting, in the
afternoon (twenty-sixth day), [12].
► Extremely violent sticking in one
heel (which had been frozen four years previously) in the beginning of
the night, lasting an hour; (this heel had been serviceable as a
barometer, always giving indication of a change of weather, which,
however, was not the cause of this pain), (first day), [20]. ►
Violent lancinating stitches in the left os calcis, at 6 P.M., while
sitting, lasting four or five minutes (first day), [12]. ► Toes.
► Stitches in the left great toe,
while walking (twenty-sixth day), [12].
► Very transient but violent stitch
in the left great toe, in the evening (twelfth day), [15]. ►
Tickling crawling in the left toes; the place is painful after rubbing
(after two hours), [3].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► Indolent,
hypochondriac; external objects were no incentive, had no life for him, [1]. ►
Weariness, in the morning (third day), [20].
[330.] ►
Unusual weariness (third day), [15].
► Irresistible weariness obliges her
to lie down towards evening, with great heat of the hands and
accelerated pulse (as she thinks); the upper arms are as heavy as lead,
and the wrists feel as though they had been forcibly squeezed; in spite
of great weariness and partial sleep she heard everything, and on
closing the eyes large heads appear which make grimaces; she wakes with
chilliness over the whole body, especially the legs and knees;
afterwards pressure in the stomach, as if it were overloaded (third
day), [15]. ►
Very weary during the day, and he was unable to sleep at night lying in
bed before 2 o’clock, for three nights in succession, [1]. ►
Weakness, lasting into the night (fifth day). ►
Such great weakness of the whole body, especially of the lower limbs,
that he is obliged to make unusual exertion while walking, the whole day
(third day), [3]. ► Great uneasiness at night; with much
desire to urinate (first night), [20].
► Tossing here and there at night,
the bed seemed harder than usual and I could find no place to rest
(third night), [9]. ► Weak feeling, as after fasting (third
day), [11]. ►
General feeling of prostration, in the morning (second day), [20]. [340.]
► Pain in the adductors (eighth day),
[19]. ►
Pain in the right adductors (fifth day), [19].
► Stitches in various parts of the
body, especially in the adductors of the right thigh and last phalanx of
the finger which carries the thimble, and which she had violently
bruised a few weeks previously (second day), [20]. ► Some
stitches here and there in the body (from 6th dil.), [20]. ► Some
stitches in the muscles, with lachrymation and contractive feeling in
the right eye (from 30th dil.), [20].
► Some stitches constantly jumping
about in the hands, spine, arms, legs, and genitals (first day), [20]. ►
Bruised sensation in the morning (second day), [20]. ►
Symptoms of Euphrasia are especially removed by coffee, [21].
SKIN.
►
Papulous eruption containing pus, on the wings of the nose (after one
hour and a half), [3]. ► (Sticking in the condylomata, even while
sitting, worse when walking, with sore and burning pain when touched), [1]. [350.]
► Transient, itching stitches here
and there throughout the whole night; he tosses uneasily about the bed,
and cannot get warm enough, [4]. ► Frequent biting and itching over the
whole body as from flea-bites (nineteenth and following days), [12]. ►
Formication beneath the left scapula, lasting two minutes, but returning
after half an hour, in the afternoon (first day), [19]. ►
(Itching sensation in the condylomata), [1].
► Voluptuous itching on the margin of
the prepuce, obliging him to scratch; after scratching and on pressure
the place is painful (after two hours), [3].
► Voluptuous itching on the forepart
of the thigh, obliging him to scratch, after which the part is painful;
only while walking in the open air (after nine hours and a half), [3]. ►
Voluptuous itching on the right calf, obliging him to scratch, in the
evening while walking (after twelve hours), [3].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Yawning, at
first in short, afterwards in long attacks (first day), [9]. ► Yawning
several times, followed by nausea, which continues some minutes, soon
disappearing after a glass of fresh water (after two hours, first day), [11]. ►
Frequent yawning, at 5 P.M. (first day), [16].
[360.] ►
Frequent yawning and sleepiness; sleep only about 11 P.M. (sixth day), [11]. ►
Incessant yawning in the evening, without weariness (first day), [20]. ►
Unusual yawning while walking in the open air, [1]. ► Violent
yawning (first day), [12]. ► Spasmodic yawning; before she had
completely yawned a second yawning commenced, without any sensation of
weariness, with lachrymation of the eyes, bubbling in the ears and
pulsation internally in the throat (it seemed as though one could hear
the noise of it); after which she saw indistinctly with the left eye;
the whole lasted about ten minutes (second day), [19]. ►
Stretching and yawning, while sitting and reading, as if he had not
slept enough (which was not the case), (first day), [16]. ►
Sleepiness, which seems to begin in the eyes and lasted ten hours (after
half an hour), [2]. ► Sleepiness, early in the evening; I went
to bed earlier than usual and slept quietly (third day), [10]. ►
Sleepiness in the afternoon (fifth day), [10].
► Sleepiness, with activity, [2]. [370.]
► Sleepiness, without being able to
sleep, with much yawning, [2]. ► Great sleepiness during the day, though
he had slept throughout the previous night, [1]. ►
Overpowering sleepiness (in the afternoon), (fourth day); (at 8 P.M.),
(ninth day), [10]. ► Sleeplessness. ►
Late falling asleep (twentieth day), [15].
► Went to bed early, but was unable
to sleep till towards midnight; sleep was good till 5 A.M. (first
night), [11]. ► Was obliged to go to bed early on account
of sleepiness, but on lying down sleep disappeared until about 11 P.M.
(second night), [11]. ► Frequent waking at night from feverish
dreams, with sensation of chilliness, frequent urging to urinate, and
emission of large quantities of urine (tenth night), [15]. ► Frequent
waking as from fright, at night, [3]. ► For
three mornings in succession he awoke every moment after 3 A.M., then
fell into a stupid sleep about 6 A.M., without dreams; on waking from
this there was a pressure on the upper part of the chest, the head was
dizzy and heavy; he was nauseated and sweat broke out all over; vertigo
was increased by every slight motion, even to falling sideways; all the
limbs seemed weak and tremulous; on rising the upper part of the body
seemed much too heavy, as if the limbs were unable to carry it; the
attack gradually diminished till noon, with depressed mood, [1]. ►
Night sleep frequently interrupted, with confusion of the head in the
morning; eyes heavy as though he had not slept enough; this condition
disappeared after washing the whole body in cold water, to which he had
been accustomed for years (fourth day), [11].
[380.] ►
Uneasy sleep, with many dreams and frequent micturition (first night), [20]. ►
Unrefreshing sleep at night, with tossing about and frequent
micturition, which did not seem to correspond to the amount of water
taken (third night), [21]. ► Dreams. ►
Confused dreams (first night), [15].
► Frightful and uneasy dreams (eighth
night), [15]. ► Frightful dreams of fires and
conflagrations from lightning (second night), [3].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Much
chilliness in a warm room (second day), [20].
► Constant chilliness, [1]. ►
Internal chilliness, the whole forenoon, but in the afternoon (after 2
P.M.) violent chilliness in both arms, which were quite cold, [1]. ►
Febrile chilliness all over (after half an hour), [3]. ►
Coldness of the whole surface of the body, under the usual covering at
night (first night), [15]. ► Heat. ►
Sudden flushes of heat, with redness of the face and cold hands (without
thirst), (after quarter of an hour), [3].
[390.] ►
Slight febrile excitement, in the evening (ninth day), [15]. ► Sweat.
► Sweat at night during sleep,
disappearing on waking, two nights in succession, [1]. ► General
sweat three nights in succession, during sleep, of a strong odor, mostly
on the chest (chilliness on rising from bed), [1]. ►
Distressing dryness of the skin; perspires with great difficulty, even
after violent exercise (thirty-third day), [12].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), On waking, headache; on waking,
burning, etc., in margin of lids; lachrymation; feeling in cornea;
tongue coated; on waking, pain along spine. ►
(Forenoon), Burning of margin of
lids, etc.; burning, etc., in eyeball. ►
(Afternoon), Eructations. ► (Evening),
Dimness of vision; thirst. ► (Night), Uneasiness; sweat. ► (Walking in open
air), Pressure in eye; dimness of vision; pains in tooth. ► (After dinner),
Heaviness, etc., of head. ► (After eating), Gnawing in stomach. ► (Deep
inspiration), Stitches, etc., in scapula, etc. ► (Lying),
Headache. ► (In
room), Stitches in brain. ►
(Sitting), Drawing from thigh into
groin. ► (Standing),
Stitches in muscles of thigh. ► (Stooping), Pain in side of brain; sensation
in stomach. ► (Walking), Stitches in great toe; sticking in
condylomata. ► (Writing), Pain in eyes. ► Amelioration. ►
(Open air), frontal headache. ► (Coffee),
Removes the symptoms. ► (Cold sponge bath), Confusion of head, etc.;
fluent coryza. ► (Darkness), Pressure in eyes. ► (Eating),
All symptoms. ► (Riding), Emptiness of head. ► (Warm room),
Pains in tooth. ► (Water), Nausea.® 2000
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