EUPION.
On distilling wood-tar a volatile oil is obtained,
which separates into a lighter and heavier oil; the heavier oil is Kreasote, the lighter Eupion.
Formula
, C5H12.
Preparation
, ?
Authority.
Symptoms, by Dr. Wahle, from
“self, sons, daughters, from Dr. Bertoldi, and others, in
Rome,” Int. Hom. Press, v, p. 91. (Communicated by Dr. Held.)
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Cheerful,
joyous disposition, unusual to her, for two days in succession;
confusion of the head, with dull drawing pains in the forehead and the
anterior parts of the temples. ► She
is very irritable, and angers easily. ►
She is very angry; she could cry for rage, and doses not know why. ► Intellectual. ►
Great shortness of memory; ideas forsake her easily.
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head, ameliorated by compression. ►
Vertigo, everything becomes black before the eyes. ►
Everything turns around with her when she sits up in bed. ► General Head. ►
Dulness of the head, as if it was too full. ►
Heaviness of the head (after four days). [10.]
► In the morning, heaviness and
confusion of the head (after twenty-four hours). ►
Headache; sensation as if the head was too full, or as if the brain was
tumefied (after three hours). ►
Headache, drawing, with painful pulsations in the forehead, so that she
had to lie down; headache as after becoming drunk from beer (after a
quarter of an hour). ► Pressive and
squeezing headache (after one hour and a quarter). ►
Several very painful stitches inside of the head (after half an hour). ► Pain, as if the head was ulcerated
inside, with pulsation and beating in it. ►
Headache, with vertigo and whirling; pulsations and jerkings in the
head; it totters back and forth when walking; and rest brings relief. ► During menstruation, jerking headache. ► Forehead. ►
On the left superior part of the forehead a pain as if a cyst would form
(after two hours). ► A contracting
pain, pressing out in the forehead (after forty-five minutes). [20.] ►
Burrowing pains in the forehead, with pressing down of the upper
eyelids, and moisture in the eyes as from tears; the pains extend to the
maxilla, and to the left corner of the mouth; the anterior portion of
the left temple is sore to the touch (after eleven hours). ► A quiet, burrowing pain in the forehead,
with sensation of warmth in the eyes (beginning after fifteen hours, and
continuing for twenty-four hours). ►
Drawing frontal pains (after one hour). ►
A sticking pressure on several spots of the forehead (after four hours).
► Pressing pains, as if everything
would be squeezed out of the forehead (after forty-five minutes). ► Dull pressive pain in the right side of
the forehead from within outward (after two hours). ► Temples. ►
Drawing pains in both temples; a sensation of continual pulling from one
side to the other, felt more during rest, with a sensation as if the
head was continually shaking from one side to the other. ► Some stitches in the left temple (after
four days). ► Vertex. ► Great heat at the vertex, with the
sensation as if her hairs were pulled, with disagreeable headache, on
the right temple or on the left one, or on both simultaneously;
lachrymation and drawing on the muscles of the neck. ► Some stitches in the middle of the
vertex, which invade the whole head, causing great lassitude, so that
she has to lie down; great somnolence, and the eyes close involuntarily;
after resting some time, she started up on account of painful stitches
in the right hip-joint, which cause drawing pains in the thighs; the
stitches radiate upwards along the right side, traverse the right
shoulder down to the middle of the arm, where they again become severe,
then to the left arm, after which the arms fall down perfectly
powerless; the stitches radiate also from the articulation of the hip
across the external abdominal walls to the genital organs, where they
also produce a very painful sensation, as if everything were squeezed
together, at the same time heat in the cheeks, without thirst, for five
hours (after four days). ► Parietals.
[30.] ►
Sticking pains beneath the left parietal bone. ►
Sticking pains on the left side of the head. ►
Painful stitches on the right side of the head, near the sutura
sagittalis. ► Occiput. ► A clawing pain in the left side of the
occiput. ► Sticking, drawing pains in
occiput, drawing along the left cervical muscles down to the back of the
chest; she also feels these sticking pains in the middle of the chest
with every breath, for three hours in the afternoon; when they
disappeared she had pains in the front upper teeth, as if they would
fall out, and in which pressing the teeth together caused a sensation of
looseness, lasting sixteen hours; she feels after that a sticking in the
middle of the left shoulder-blade, aggravated by every inspiration, and
also sticking in both temples, recurring at intervals (after four
hours). ► Three stitches in quick
succession on the right side of the occiput, in the morning, in bed
(after fifteen hours). ► External Head.
► Some painful spots on the head, as
if small furuncles would form (after one hour and a half).
EYE.
►
Eyes weak, as if she had cried, and when lying down her head aches. ► Sensation in the eyes as if something
hung down from above over them, so that she had continually to wipe
them. ► Pressure in the eyes, as if
the globes would be pushed out. [40.]
► Burning, pressive pains in the eye,
with copious lachrymation. ► Several
successive stitches on the external margin of the left eye (after half
an hour). ► Brow. ► Painful pressure above the arch of the
right eyebrow, extending hence to a part of the brain and descending
into the teeth of the superior maxilla of the same side (after three
hours and a half). ► Lids. ► Œdematous swelling of the right upper
eyelid in the morning when waking (after sixty-eight hours); the œdema
increases during a walk in the fresh air; the lower eyelid also swells
up, and then the left one (Graphites 6 brought quick amelioration and a
cure after thirty-six hours). ►
Twitching of the right eyelid; the eye becomes smaller; the upper lid is
drawn down and can only be raised with great exertion; at the same time
tensive stiffness in it, with profuse lachrymation; daylight increases
the lachrymation, whereas candlelight does not affect it; all objects
appear pale; commences in the afternoon and lasts thirty-six hours. ► Twitching of the external canthus of the
left eye. ► Frequent twitching of the
right upper eyelid. ► Itching under
the upper and lower eyelid of the right eye, so that she can hardly stop
rubbing; in the morning (after three days). ►
Lachrymal Apparatus. ►
Lachrymation, more in the fresh air than in the room. ► The eyes water and are dim, with frequent
yawning (after four days). ► Vision.
[50.] ►
Like a veil before the eyes. ►
Everything appears pale, as if she had a thin veil before her eyes
(after five days).
EAR.
►
Pressing in the ears, as if the wind was blown with force and for a long
time into them, whereby the external parts are equally affected (after
three hours). ► Painful pressing in
the right ear. ► Shooting and tearing
in the left ear, extending to the external temporal region (after second
day).
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► The left
nostril is cracked, and the crack bleeds. ►
Sneezing; each time the blows his nose the sneezing reappears. ► Mornings, sneezing, with fluent coryza,
for several days. ► Frequent
sneezing, eight to ten times in succession, with transient titillation
in the upper part of the nose, in the evening. ►
Bleeding from the left nostril; the blood looks bright red, thin, and
fluid (after four hours). [60.] ► Bleeding from the left nostril reappears
with greater force at 6 P.M. [He suffered several days every morning,
after having coughed several times during the night, from bleeding of
the right nostril; the blood was bright red and thin. Belladonna, which
corresponded to the cough from a slight laryngeal inflammation, did
nothing. Eupion 6, a dose in the evening when retiring, and another dose
in the morning, removed the whole quickly, and Belladonna then acted
well on the cough. -Dr. HELD.] ►
Bleeding from the right nostril when blowing the nose. ► After the menstrual flow had intermitted
for six hours, epistaxis from the right nostril on stooping, preceded by
vertigo and dimness before the eyes; in the afternoon. ► Subjective. ►
A sensation of soreness in the upper inner nose on drawing air through
the nostrils in the evening (after twelve hours).
FACE.
►
Cheek. ► On lower portion
of inner side of right cheek a painless hard nodule of the size of a
pea. ► Lip. ► The upper lip is fissured and painful, as
if raw. ► The lip and throat are
always dry, yet she has no thirst. ►
The lips are painful as if sore; they are dry. ►
Chin. ► Painful drawing on
the left under jaw, continuing several minutes (after four hours).
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► The teeth stick
together when the jaws are closed. [70.]
► In the morning, sensation as if the
teeth were imbedded deeply in some soft matter, without pain; as soon as
she takes something in her mouth this sensation disappears, for several
days. ► The teeth on both sides are
painful, as if they were loose, which is not the case. ► The teeth of the right upper jaw pain, as
if loose, the gum swollen and scorbutic; hop soup aggravates the pains. ► Toothache; a kind of numbness in the
upper and lower left carious molars; it appears immediately when lying
down, and disappears when she rises and moves about in her room (after
ten days). ► Toothache, a kind of
grumbling in the front teeth; a sensation as if the gums were swollen,
and the teeth, which are firm, would drop out (after thirty-six hours). ► In the morning, an hour after rising,
tearing in all the teeth, and pinching, as with nails, on the external
parts of the cheeks; the teeth on the left side are more painful than on
the right side; the tearing extends to the temple, with swelling of the
cheek and upper lid, great chilliness and intercurrent heat (after
twenty-four hours). ► The drawing
pains in the head attack also the teeth of the upper right maxilla
(after three days). ► Sticking pains
in the left posterior molars; they feel spongy and loose (after some
days). ► Tearing in the left upper
teeth, extending to that side of the nose and to the forehead; the left
cheek and nose are red and swollen, with general chilliness, without
subsequent heat; during washing (after twenty-four hours). ► Ulcerative toothache, as if there were an
ulcer beneath them, preventing her from eating. ►
Gums. [80.] ► The gum between two hollow teeth is
tumefied, painful, as if inflamed. ►
A painful jerking-drawing in the gum of the left superior maxilla (after
two hours). ► A sore pain in the gum
of the upper right maxilla, only when touched. ►
The gum is painful, as if excoriated by the contact of food or drink. ► Tongue. ►
The whole tongue looks red, and covered with raised nodules, like
herring-roe. ► Tongue red at the tip,
covered with small red papillæ; the tip dry; the back covered with a
thin, dirty-white coating. ► Dry
tongue and throat, but without thirst, especially felt during
inspiration, for several hours. ►
Tongue and palate pain, as if sore. ►
The anterior part of the tongue rough like a grater. ► General Mouth. ►
Dryness of the mouth at night, without thirst. [90.]
► Insensible feeling in the mouth, as
if scalded by fat. ► Pappy and sticky
in the mouth early in the morning, although he had not eaten any supper
(after sixty-eight hours). ► The hard
palate pains, as if sore, or as if the parts were raw, with dryness of
the mouth and lips (after three days). ►
Taste. ► Sour taste in the
mouth after eating, lasting several days. ►
Putrid taste in the mouth; the tongue coated with a white mucus, and
thirst.
THROAT.
►
In the morning, much white, bad-tasting mucus in the throat,
expectorated after slight paroxysms of cough. ►
Sensation of mucus in the throat, without being able to expectorate. ► Sensation of dryness on the uvula,
without thirst.
STOMACH.
►
Thirst. ► Increased
thirst. ► Eructation. ► Eructations after sardines taken a few
hours before, and great appetite. [100.]
► Eructations and vomituritions and
throwing up of food, in the evening (after eleven hours). ► Immediately after taking the drug,
frequent empty eructations, tasting like Eupion, for five hours. ► Sweet-sour eructations in the evening in
bed (after eleven hours). ►
Eructations tasting of the food, and sensation as if the breath were
retained in the pit of the stomach. ►
At night, nausea until 3 A.M., followed by sleep and dreaming; she
awakes frightened, but falls back into her dreams again; for several
nights. ► Nausea, on becoming erect,
with much thirst and very copious menstruation and trembling through all
the limbs; lancinating pains under the right breast, aggravated by
breathing (third day of the menses). ►
Nausea, with eructations and taste of the drug, the whole day. ► Vomiturition, emanating from the lower
part of the abdomen. ► Twice in
succession, dark-green, tasteless vomiting of mucus, followed by
trembling of all extremities (after two drops of 1st cent.). ► Stomach. ►
Bloatedness and sensation of fulness in the stomach, with internal
chilliness in the evening (after twelve hours). [110.]
► A bruised pain transversely across
the stomach, beginning in the evening between 9 and 10, continuing up to
11, when she falls asleep, and only awakes at 4 A.M., copiously
perspiring, and her menses setting in five days too soon.
ABDOMEN.
►
Several consecutive stitches around the umbilicus. ►
Gurgling in the intestines, without any other trouble. ► Frequent borborygmi. ► Flatulency; after passing flatus the
pains cease. She cannot walk straight on account of inflammatory pains
in the abdomen; the pains are aggravated by coughing, sneezing, or
blowing the nose, even though she puts one foot over the other. ► In the muscles of the left side of the
abdomen, from the pelvic bones obliquely downwards, a painful tension,
similar to what she formerly felt during pregnancy. ► Contracting pains in abdomen, so that she
has to bend over, which gives relief; one day before menstruation. ► On the left side of the abdomen, a
pinching pain, as if a small part were pinched with a nail (after one
hour). ► On the right side of the
abdomen, a dumb aching pain, with sensation of ulcerating when touching
the spot with her hand. [120.] ► Pressing pain deep in the abdomen,
continuing for over a week. ► Cutting
pains in the intestines, ceasing after passing flatus (after fourteen
hours). ► Cutting pains in abdomen
during menstruation; when the pains cease the discharge is always very
copious; the blood looks red, and is very thin. ►
A twisting pain in the abdomen, continuing five minutes, and recurring
every quarter of an hour, only ameliorated by crouching down (after a
few days). ► A very painful twisting
and griping (cramps) in abdomen, relieved by crouching down, followed by
chill and nausea, finally vomiting of dark-green mucus; she became warm,
followed by two stools; after evacuation upwards and downwards the
abdominal cramps decrease, but a still pain and malaise remain for a
long time, continuing an hour and a half before breakfast. ► Colic, with sensation as if diarrhœa
would follow (after five hours). ►
Colic, frequently intermitting and recurring; after continuing three
hours, copious white discharge from the vagina, continuing for several
hours, but the colic ceased and did not return (after thirty-two hours).
► The abdomen pains during motion, as
if ulcerated and inflamed (after several days). ►
A painful movement in the right side of the abdomen, as from confined
flatus (after a quarter of an hour). ►
Iliac Regions. ► In the
left side of the abdomen, immediately over the crista ilii, when
walking, raising the arm, or coughing, a severe pain, nearly taking her
breath away; she feels nothing when at rest; after a few hours the pains
move low down into the abdomen, and then pass off. [130.] ►
Stitches on the left anterior crest of the ilium when walking (after two
hours). ► In left inguinal region a
squeezing, pressing pain, when quiet (after four hours).
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Spasmodic pains a few inches up in the rectum, radiating upwards and
downwards, extending downwards into the labia, with such severity that
she cannot sit down; they pass off during the night, but return in the
morning as soon as she gets up; she has to lie down at 10 P.M. of the
third day; after sleeping for an hour, she awakes free from the pains,
but complains of severe backache with nausea, and the abdominal muscles
pain on touch as if ulcerated, which continues for several days. ► A spasmodic, periodically returning pain
an inch up in the rectum, extending to the vagina, and producing there
also a spasmodic contracting pain. ►
Drawing and tearing in the rectum, aggravated during stool, which is
natural. ► After a natural stool,
itching in the rectum (after twenty-four hours). ►
Inclination to stool, with great straining, but she passes nothing
(second day). ► Tenesmus; only a few
tablespoonfuls of blood are passed per anum, when the tenesmus ceases. ► In the morning frequent tenesmus, but no
stool follows, only each time about a cupful of blood is discharged,
which weakness her greatly.
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Three to four
times daily, bloody stools. [140.] ► Four times daily, hard and dry stools,
with great straining each time. ►
Bloody stools. ► Dark blood in the
painless stools. ► Constipation.
► Stool hard; she has to strain a
great deal. ► Stool every three to
four days, with great straining and prolapsus uteri. ► No stool for three days.
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► Frequent
inclination to urinate, but she passes only a little; worse when
standing than when sitting. ►
Micturition. ► Frequent
and copious micturition, the urine of a lemon color in several persons. ► Copious micturition. ► Urine. ►
Urine chestnut-brown, a few days before the menses. [150.] ►
Hot urine, passed without pain.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
During urination, a sore pain between the labia. ►
A burning, stinging, itching, and swelling between the labia,
momentarily relieved by rubbing, afterwards the burning becomes more
severe; after washing with cold water the external genitals feel stiff
and numb, with sensation of rawness and soreness (compare 109, 110, 135,
232; these are curative effects). ►
Pruritus pudendi is worse in the evening, with pain in the sternum, as
if it were raw; when she touches it or turns over in bed she can hardly
bear the pain. ► Painless, soft
discharge through the vagina. ►
During her backache, some blood passed the vagina, although she had her
courses only two weeks ago. ►
Leucorrhœa, eight days after her courses, coloring the linen yellow,
and forming stains of the size of a six pence on her chemise, with great
lassitude, emaciation of the whole body, stitching pains in the soles of
her feet when walking, and trembling all over the whole body, felt only
during rest (as if the whole body consisted of jelly), continuing
several days (after fourteen days). ►
Leucorrhœa in connection with backache; when this ceases, the discharge
gushes out abruptly, with stitching pains in the forehead (after four
days). days). ► Copious leucorrhœa;
it runs from her (after ten hours); continues for twelve hours; remits
in the evening; returns again after twenty-four hours in the morning,
and only continues for a few hours. ►
Menses a few days too soon, without the leucorrhœa which usually
precedes them a few days. [160.] ► Menses set in four days too soon and too
copious; it is rather a flooding (it was just the contrary before,
slight on the first day and copious on the second and third days); at
the same time, bruised sensation in the chest; when breathing, stitches
in the middle of the chest and in the heart, which also take away her
breath; on the third day the pains decrease. ►
Copious menstrual discharge on the third day, with severe backache,
painless pulsating in the head, pressing towards the forehead, with a
sensation as if the head were too full. ►
Copious and thin fluid menstrual discharge. ►
During menstruation, deep in the abdomen a painful twisting, extending
to the rectum, intermitting and returning; as soon as the pains cease,
the flooding sets in again (second day). ►
Menses stopped for twenty-four hours; returned and kept on for two hours
and a quarter, with the sensation as if the whole upper part of her body
were wabbling from the short ribs to the head; she has slightly the same
soaring sensation in her feet. ► On
the third day her courses cease, and she suffers from severe headache
and chilliness; on the fourth day the flow returns copiously for a few
hours, and the headache and chilliness cease. ►
The menses nearly cease on the third day; on the fourth day, at 9 A.M.,
she has nausea with salivation; she is very irritable, has no
inclination to speak; this continues for ten minutes, then her courses
appear again copiously for a few hours, and then all her troubles cease.
► Scanty menses, the drawing
abdominal pains towards the genital organs which she usually had did not
appear. ► A young woman who had not
menstruated for nineteen weeks, took Eupion 9th; after twenty-four hours
severe cutting abdominal pains emanating from the sacrum, as if
something would press out of the genital parts; they passed over, and
returned at intervals; after twenty-four hours she was well again, and
the following night her courses appeared without any trouble.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx and Bronchi. ► A sensation below the larynx as if
something was sticking there, with short, dry, hacking cough. [170.] ► A
spot of the size of a bean, on the internal right side of the larynx,
pains like a sore, or as if water dropped continually on a sore place
(smarting), of fifteen years’ standing, in a man of fifty-four years,
cured. ► Crawling sensation in the
upper bronchi, causing a dry cough (after two hours and a half). ► Titillation on the right side of the
larynx, causing a continual cough; after three or four paroxysms of
cough, which causes shortness of breath, he expectorates tasteless white
mucus, and the dyspnœa ceases. ► Cough
and Expectoration. ►
Rough, scraping, metallic, dry cough, as if he had eaten rancid fat and
taken brandy afterwards (after three hours). ►
Hard, suffocating, dry cough, with stitching pains in the left chest,
which returned regularly every winter. ►
Cough partly dry, partly loose, with yellow, greenish, sometimes
foul-tasting expectoration, day and night; great lassitude and thirst. ► Cough the whole day, with titillation in
the chest and gray, yellow, thick expectoration, tasting like rotten
eggs. ► She has to cough a long
while, with tearing pains in the chest, before she expectorates
anything; warm drinks ameliorate, but there are shortness of breath and
great weakness. ► He has to sit up
when coughing, with breaking out of perspiration.
CHEST.
►
Feeling of heaviness in the chest, when breathing (after four days). ► She feels full in the chest and has to
breathe deeply to get air enough, in the evening. [180.] ►
Sensation in the chest as if everything were too tight; she cannot bear
the pressure of her clothing; violent beating in the region of the heart
and anguish, when resting as well as when moving about, the whole
afternoon. ► Oppression in the middle
of the chest, when stooping, as if it were too tight, for several hours;
the mammæ increase in size, with pressive pains in them, as if
something painful were drawn through them, with oppression of the chest,
so that she had to inspire deeply, and rest twice on going up stairs, on
account of shortness of breath. ►
During a corroding pain in the right labium, a sense of oppression in
the lower part of the chest, with sensation of soreness; most severe
towards evening. ► A transient stitch
in the left lower chest, preventing breathing. ►
Transient stitch in the centre of the left chest, with consecutive dry
cough (after a quarter of an hour). ►
Some severe stitches in the left posterior upper chest, when writing
(after five hours). ► When taking a
deep inspiration and stretching the body, stitching pains in the middle
of the chest; when breathing easily, it feels like the pain of an
inflamed part. ► Drawing-stitching
pains in the chest; the whole chest was affected, with heaviness of
breathing, lasting several hours. ►
Pains in the chest; the whole chest pains as if ulcerated, aggravated by
breathing; they begin in the afternoon, and continue until she goes to
bed and falls asleep; in the morning, when awaking, the pains were gone,
but the neck was stiff and painful; the pains went downwards between the
shoulders. ► Front. ► Pains in the chest, as if the centre of
the sternum were pressed in, when at rest (after five minutes). [190.] ►
Continual stitches at the inferior part of the sternum, without any
influence on breathing. ► Sides.
► Stitching under the left arm, when
at rest. ► Stitches in the left side,
in the region of the upper second false rib, aggravated by inspiration
(after seven days). ► Three
consecutive stitches in the left side below the short ribs, towards the
heart. ► Mammæ. ► Stitches under the right mamma, in the
skin (after five hours and a half). ►
Sticking pains under the right mamma, aggravated by lying, breathing, or
walking, beginning at 7 P.M., and lasting till midnight, followed by
stitches close under the heart, with malaise and hot rising from the
stomach, as if she would vomit, but she did not; at 1 o’clock
waterbrash; then she fell asleep, and slept till after 5, when she
awoke, bathed in perspiration.
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Palpitation of the heart, with slow pulse; she believes the beat of her
heart must be heard far off, with some oppression of the chest. ► Four hours before the menses appear,
severe palpitations, ceasing when the discharge begins.
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► A node on the
muscles of the neck, left side, two inches below the processus
mastoideus, of the size of a hen’s egg, burning and pulsating, and
preventing her from turning the neck. ►
Back. ► One day before
menstruation, backache, relieved by bending backwards, but continuing
during the whole first day (which was never the case before). ► The backache commences in the morning,
and lasts the whole day (after three days). [200.]
► The backache commences at noon, and
continues till evening, when copious leucorrhœa with lassitude sets in,
and continues (after twenty-four hours). ►
Severe backache during menstruation, so that she has to lean and support
herself against something, which gives relief. ►
She has to sit or lie down frequently, on account of severe backache. ► Drawing pains in the back, aggravated by
motion, but continuing the same when standing, sitting, or lying (after
nine days). ► Dorsal. ► A tensive sensation of stiffness between
the shoulders (after one hour). ►
Drawing between the shoulders, with horripilations. ► Lumbar. ►
Pains in the small of the back at noon, on the first day of her menses,
worse on the right side than on the left, so that she can hardly move,
with sensation of heat on the forehead. ►
Pressing heaviness in the lumbar vertebræ, in the forenoon. ► Sacral. ►
The pains in the back extend to the pelvis, and when she stoops she can
hardly get up again; the sacrum pains as if it were broken.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Lassitude in all the limbs; she could
rest all the time. [210.] ► Great lassitude in all extremities, and
frequent yawning, with sleepiness (soon after taking the drug in the
forenoon). ► Sensation in the
extremities as if some disease would set in there. ►
She cannot sleep the whole night on account of tearing in the
extremities and restlessness in the legs.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Objective. ►
Trembling of the right arm; she is unable to hold it firmly. ► Subjective. ►
A paretic pain in the right arm, so that she has to cease sewing. ► Crampy pains in the muscles of the right
arm, as if several muscular fasciculi were squeezed (after two hours). ► Shoulder. ►
A stitching pain in the left posterior axilla, increased by breathing. ► Arm. ►
From the upper, inner, right side of the arm, down to the elbow, a pain
as if the muscles were beaten off from the bones; she can hardly move
the arm. ► In the right deltoid
muscles several consecutive stitches, so that she loses all power in her
arm (after sixty hours). ►
Drawing-tearing pain in the right humerus and below the elbow-joints,
mornings. ► Forearm. [220.] ►
Stitching pains begin on the forearm close to the elbow, pass around it
and spread over all the fingers (after sixty hours). ► On the inner upper side of the left
forearm several consecutive stitches, radiating to the fingers (after
two days). ► A drawing-stitching goes
from the fingers up to the elbow, and causes a peculiar stitching in the
centre of the forearm. ► Hand.
► The hands go to sleep easily. ► In the centre of the palm of the right
hand a severe stitch, radiating to the elbow, and leaving a sensation of
numbness for five minutes in the ring and little fingers. ► In the joint of the right hand,
twitching, periodically returning pains of luxation (after four hours). ► Fingers. ►
Several stitches along the surface of the right index finger. ► In the joints of the middle finger of the
right hand an acute beating pain, with the sensation as if the heads of
the bones were too large and had not room enough in their articular
muscles (after half an hour).
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Stitching-tearing pains, beginning in the
small of the back, through the legs and thighs to the toes, extending
also to the abdomen, like a pressure downwards, as if she were in labor,
with frequent but fruitless inclination to stool (after twenty-four
hours); after four hours of pain her menses set in very copiously, when
the backache ceased, but the pains in the thighs continued till she went
to bed; during that time she had tearing pains in the left side of the
face. ► Thigh. ► Heaviness in the thighs; she cannot raise
them well during motion, and at rest the sensation is one of pressure. [230.] ► A
nervous pain in the left thigh, when awake (after three hours). ► In both thighs a tensive pain, as if the
skin and muscles were too short, so that she can hardly go up stairs,
and when she rises from a chair she has to walk lame for a little while,
till she becomes used to motion. ►
From the upper end of the right hip a painful drawing to the middle of
the thigh, where it ends with a painful stitch (after thirty-six hours).
► On the posterior side of the thigh
(from the neck of the femur to the hollow of the knee-joint), a painful
sensation as if the muscles were torn from the bones; especially felt
when ascending, stooping, or sitting, aggravated by the least touch,
with the sensation as if the bone were affected. ► Knee. ►
A paretic pain of luxation in the right knee-joint when going down
stairs (after three hours). ► Acute,
very severe stitches, either in the knee-joints or in the joints of the
foot, sometimes simultaneously in several joints, with sensation of
internal heat, as if fever would set in (after fifty-two hours). ► Twitching pains in the left knee,
radiating to the hollow of the knee (after two hours). ► Leg. ►
A sensation of warmth in the left anterior leg, as from the vapor of hot
water (after five minutes). ► Burning
pains in the calves, as if she had taken very long walks (after three
hours), in the evening till she goes to bed; when she awoke in the
morning she felt nothing in the calves; but she had the same sensation
in her thighs, preventing her from taking a long step or from standing;
it feels as if the sinews in the thighs were too short; for twelve
hours. ► A tensive pain from the
joints of the foot to the knee (after two hours). [240.] ►
On account of severe cramps in the calves, she has to get out of bed
three or four times at night, and walk about from fifteen to thirty
minutes; the toes are drawn up at the same time. [A person who suffered
for many years from these cramps was cured in a few days by a few doses
of Eupion, [30].] ► Drawing pain in the right calf; the
muscles are painfully contracted as from a spasm (after five hours). ► Tearing-drawing pains from the knees to
the feet, most severe in the feet. ►
In the right leg, from the external malleolus upwards, a stitching,
pulling pain when at rest (after one hour). ►
In the morning, stitching, burning, and twitching, beginning in the
calves and going to the toes, most severe in the heel; in the evening
the pains lessen in the calves, but stitches continue to shoot back and
forth in the heels the pains gradually cease after an hour. ► Foot. ►
In the joint of the right foot a pain as from luxation, continuing for
some minutes when at rest (after four minutes). ►
The soles of the feet feel numb as if she walked on needles; the pains
in the calves cease on pressure. ► On
the first day of her menses, several consecutive, very painful stitches
in the middle of the sole of her foot, drawing her toes downwards; after
half an hour the contractions of the soles and toes cease, but they are
followed for a whole hour by severe abdominal colic, so that she has to
crouch down, followed by great lassitude and sleep. ► Drawing-stitching in the right heel,
running upwards to the calf, in the afternoon till bedtime (after seven
days).
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► Lassitude of
the whole body, as if she had walked a long distance, sitting down feels
pleasant, commencing in the morning and lasting all day. [250.] ►
Feeble and tired all over, as from bruises (after a few days). ► In the evening, in bed, a great internal
restlessness through the whole body; every particle trembles, and is in
a vibratory motion. ► Subjective.
► In the morning she feels well and
easy all over; she hardly feels her body. ►
The whole upper part of the body, especially the arms, pain as if tired.
► Drawing pains, either in the
fingers, or in the left posterior apex of the scapula, or in the left
shoulder and left elbow-joint, or in the left leg; they continued
twenty-four hours (after two hours). ►
An electric stitch shot through the whole body, so that she became
frightened and could not understand where it came from, while sitting
(after sixth day). ► Tearing and
stitching in all the muscles of the whole body, worse in the muscles of
the arms and thighs, with great sleepiness and hot flashes; in bed, a
great deal of the heat in the lower extremities, and many painful
glandular swellings in the inguinal region (after several days). ► She feels pulsations all over her body
while sitting quietly (after forty-five hours). ►
When turning the upper part of the body from right to left, it became
black before her eyes, and she could see hardly anything; what she heard
seemed to come from a distance, lasting five minutes; she also seemed to
feel a kind of spasm through her whole body, and when she became fully
conscious, the right cheek was cold; she felt coldness in her mouth,
especially the right tip of the tongue felt cold, as well as the whole
right side of the body, all of which passed off gradually (after eight
hours).
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► On the left
forearm a small nodule of the size of a white bean, which gradually
grows to the size of a hen’s egg, becomes red, hot, and inflamed, as if
it would break, but this does not happen; the node moves up to the
elbow-joint, where it finally disappears. [260.]
► A yellow streak, as from Nitric
acid, on the back of the left index finger. ►
Subjective. ►
Itching-biting in the skin of the whole body, as from fleas, relieved by
scratching, but returning, in the forenoon. ►
The itching of the genitals penetrates the whole body; at night she
cannot remain in bed, and must get up; worse when lying or sitting than
during motion. ► Itching-biting on
the external genitals, as if the urine were acrid, continuing several
hours (after one hour and a half). ►
Itching, beginning on the back of the right hand and spreading to
different parts of the body, especially on the upper eyelids and
forehead, where the hair begins, commencing a quarter of an hour after
taking the drug and continuing the whole day. ►
Repeated itching on the female sexual parts, frequently ceasing and
returning the whole day. ► Frequent
itching in the centre of the lumbar vertebræ, so that she has to
scratch (after thirty hours).
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Frequent
yawning, with internal shiverings, as if fever would set in. ► Much yawning, with chilliness. ► Great sleepiness towards noon. ► Sleeplessness. [270.] ►
In the first two nights of her courses, sleeplessness without cause. ► Restless sleep at night; she threw
herself about in bed the whole night, and does not know why (after sixty
hours). ► Dreams. ► She dreams of disgusting things; naked
men and old women are around her. ►
Anxious dream, her child seemed to have fallen into the water, which
made her very anxious. ► Anxious
dreams; she passes a bridge with her child, and is in danger of falling
into the water with it; a man comes and leads her over the bridge; when
she awakes in the morning, she is bathed in perspiration. ► Anxious dreams the whole night; she
awakes from a dream, and when she falls asleep, she dreams the same
frightful thing again (the whole night). ►
The whole night anxious dreams; she falls from one dream into another,
and still has sleep enough in the morning. ►
She dreams of falling into an abyss, and feels anxious about it. ► Screams out in her sleep, with anxious
dreams, and when she awakes, her throat feels perfectly dry, and she has
to moisten it. ► In her dreams three
oxen run after her, so that she awakes with severe palpitations. [280.] ►
He dreams, two nights in succession, that he suffers from a chronic,
dry, fatiguing, consumptive cough, which he cured in twenty-four hours
with one dose of Eupion.
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Chilliness,
with headache; fulness in forehead, and a drawing pain towards the
temples (after four hours). ► At 4
P.M. chilliness over the whole body, with tearing in the head and
stitches in both temples, jumping hither and thirther, so that she has
to lie down; after a quarter of an hour’s rest, and having taken some
warm drink, chilliness and stitches ceased, without being followed by
heat or thirst. ► The whole day
chilliness, worse in the morning than in the afternoon, with stitching
pains in the head and chest. ► Inward
chilliness, with headache, more on the right side, and with thirst
(after four hours). ► Shaking chill,
without subsequent heat or thirst, with foul taste in the mouth. ► Shivering the whole afternoon, without
consequent heat; at night many confused dreams, with throwing herself
about in bed; when she awakes, she does not recollect her dreams, but
has some headache. ► Heat. ► Towards noon (five hours after taking the
drug), dry heat, without chill, and drawing pains in the small of the
back; the heat continued for five hours, but the pains in the back for
twenty-four hours, and were worse at night than in the daytime; she
could scarcely lie on account of them; the pains in the back intermitted
for twenty-four hours, and returned again at 4 A.M., in bed, in
connection with a periodically returning pulling pain around the navel;
no stool for twenty-four hours at that time, but regular the next time;
during the pain in the back she had, every twenty-four hours,
inclination to urinate, with pressing on the bladder, and passed
copiously a pale urine. ► Dry heat in
bed, at 9 P.M., without thirst, with continual headache, with which she
falls asleep, but wakes up with the same headache. ►
Burning heat in the face, toward evening, for several days. [290.] ►
When standing, hot flashes in the face, with anxious sweat, so that she
is obliged to sit down. ► Sweat.
► Perspiration of a foul odor, even
at the slightest motion. ► At 3.30
A.M. she is perspiring, and awakes with nausea and inclination to vomit,
but she only throws up clear water; after rising, the nausea continues
until she has taken something warm; she feels very weak at the same
time, would like to go to bed again (after two days). ► When awaking, at 5 A.M., she was in a
perspiration, which is unusual with her. ►
Copious nightsweat towards morning.
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Heaviness, etc., of head; in bed,
stitches in occiput; itching under eyelids; sneezing, etc.; sensation in
teeth; an hour after rising, tearing in teeth, etc.; pappy mouth; mucus
in throat; pain in humerus, etc.; chilliness. ►
(Afternoon), Towards evening, heat
in face. ► (Evening),
Sneezing, etc.; pruritus pudendi; in bed, restlessness. ► (Night),
Up to 3 P.M., nausea, etc.; towards morning, sweat. ► (Fresh air),
Œdema of eyelids; lachrymation. ► (Ascending), Sensation in thigh. ► (Blowing nose),
Pains in abdomen. ► (Breathing), Pains under breast; pains in
chest; pains under mamma. ► (Coughing), Pains in abdomen. ► (After eating),
Sour taste. ► (On becoming erect), Nausea, etc. ► (Hot soup),
Toothache. ► (Inspiration), Sticking in shoulder-blade;
stitches in side. ► (Light of day), Lachrymation. ► (Lying),
Toothache, pains under mamma; itching. ►
(During menstruation), Jerking
headache. ► (Motion),
Pains in back. ► (Rest), Pains in temples; pains in inguinal
region; stitching under arm; trembling of body. ►
(Sitting), Sensation in thigh;
itching. ► (Sitting
up in bed), Vertigo. ► (Sneezing), Pains in abdomen. ► (Standing),
Inclination to urinate; hot flashes in face, etc. ►
(During stool), Tearing in rectum. ► (Stooping),
Oppression in chest; sensation in thigh. ►
(Walking), Stitches on chest of
ilium; pains under mamma. ► (Washing), Tearing in teeth, etc. ► (Writing),
Stitches in chest. ► Amelioration.
► (Bending
backward), Backache. ► (Bending over), Pains in abdomen. ► (Compression),
Confusion of head. ► (Leaning against
something), Backache. ► (Pressure), Pains in calves. ► (Rest),
Headache, etc.; pains in abdomen.® 2000
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