FERRUM.
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► The tooth back of
right eyetooth feels longer than the other, and very sore, for eight
days, [12]. [190.] ►
*Toothache, all the morning, [12].
► Gums. ►
All the gums discolored, [22]. ► (Swelling of gums and cheeks), [1]. ►
Tongue. ► Tongue red at
the tip, and thickly coated; white on the anterior portion,
yellowish-white on the back, [22].
► Tongue thickly coated
yellowish-gray (thirteenth day), [13].
► Tongue with a white coat, mouth
dry, taste bad, [12]. ► Tongue slightly white during the last
part of the proving, [16]. ► At the back and in the centre of the
tongue a constant painfulness, like fine uninterrupted stitches,
aggravated by the contact of food and drink; when not eating and
drinking the part feels as if it had been burnt and were numb, [1]. ►
Tongue more natural after eating, [12].
► General Mouth. ► Mouth dry in the morning, [12]. [200.] ► When he has slept for an hour before
midnight, a heat comes up as if from his abdomen; the mouth becomes dry,
and a bad vapor and putrid taste rise up into his mouth, [1]. ► Taste.
► Bad disagreeable taste, [12]. ►
Taste not good on rising, [12]. ► Pasty taste (third day), [19]. ►
Sometimes and earthy taste in mouth, [1].
► Slimy taste in the mouth, with
white-coated tongue, without loss of appetite (thirty-eighth day), [14]. ►
Sweetish taste in mouth, as from blood, [8].
[With Ss. 502 and 485. -Hughes.] ►
(In the morning, sourish taste in the mouth), [1]. ► In the
afternoon a putrid taste rises into his mouth that takes away all his
appetite, [1]. ► Constant taste of iron in the mouth,
masking all other flavors, [22]. [210.] ►
Taste like rotten eggs, [12]. ► Drinking cold water improves the taste,
in the morning, [12]. ► *All solid foods taste dry, as if they contained
neither juice nor strength; they have, to be sure, their
natural taste, but nothing is agreeable; he likes warm liquid food best,
[1]. ►
Everything she eats tastes bitter, [1].
THROAT.
►
Rising of phlegm, [22]. ► (Sometimes a sensation like a plug in the
throat; not when swallowing, but when swallowing), [1]. ► A
sensation as of a lump in left side of throat, below tonsil; painful
during empty deglutition, but not when eating or drinking, [12]. ►
*Feeling of constriction in throat, [1]. ► Choking
in the throat, [12]. ► Burning in the throat, with eructations
of an acrid gas, [12]. [220.] ►
On swallowing, aching pain in throat, with head in fauces; he cervical
muscles are stiff and painful on movement, [1]. ► Sore
throat, not painful when eating, [12].
► Sore throat, with dulness and
heaviness all day, [12]. ► (Raw and sore throat, with hoarseness), [1]. ►
Fauces and Œsophagus. ►
Violent constriction of the fauces (after every dose of the Iron and
water), [16]. ► Sensation extending through the
œsophagus from the stomach, [12].
► (On coughing, and aching, with sore
sensation in the œsophagus, as when a blister bursts and leaves a sore
place), [1]. ► External Throat. ► Chronic glandular swelling on the neck, [1].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Increase of
appetite (first days), [15]. ► Appetite still vigorous; after every
light meal pressure in the stomach (ninth day), [13]. [230.] ► *Unusually great appetite (fifth
day), [13]. ►
Very greatly increased appetite, with good digestion during the whole
proving, [17]. ► *Appetite so voracious that double the amount of
an ordinary meal in the evening was hardly sufficient (while
taking the Iron), [14]. ► Sensation of great hunger (second day), [20]. ►
Sensation of great hunger, so that she was obliged to eat at an unusual
time; she had, however, lost the sense of satisfaction, for in spite of
eating several times a day, and not a very small quantity each time, she
was unable to appease her hunger (first and second days), [21]. ► Appetite
much diminished, [12];
(thirteenth day), [13]. ► Little appetite (third day), [19]. ►
Little appetite, especially for meat; she felt so full, [1]. ► Little
appetite with a clean tongue (eleventh day), [13]. ►
Complains of loss of appetite, [12].
[240.] ►
*He has no appetite, for he always feels full; but drinks
taste good, and are taken with relish, [1].
►► *Anorexia; extreme dislike to
all food; everything tasted of Iron, [22]. ► *Anorexia,
without bad taste or thirst, [1].
► Even when she has appetite, she can
eat but little; she is immediately full, and the food oppresses her, [1]. ►
*He can eat only bread and butter; meat disagrees with him, [1]. ►
Thirst. ► Thirst in the
evening after chills and fever have vanished, [12]. ► Thirst
in the evening, followed by heat, with perspiration, [12]. ► Thirst
after chill (3 P.M.), before heat, [12].
► After dinner he has thirst; he
knows not for what, [1]. ► Excessive thirst after day sleep, [12]. [250.]
► In the evening unquenchable thirst
for an hour, [12]. ► Adipsia, [22].
► Complete absence of thirst, [1]. ►
Eructations. ►
Eructations, without relief of abdominal feelings, [12]. ►
Frequent eructations, [22]. ► Constant eructation, as soon as she has eaten
anything, [1]. ► Acrid eructations, [12]. ►
Eructations, acrid and burning, [13].
► Foul eructations, [12]. ► *He eats
with proper appetite and taste at noon, but after eating there comes in
jerks eructation and regurgitation of foot, without nausea or
inclination to vomit, [1].
[260.] ►
Heartburn, [22]. ► After sourish beer (in the evening),
Heartburn, [1]. ► Considerable heartburn, with painful
sensation in left orbit, [12]. ► When rising, nausea, without vomiting, [12]. ►
Nausea, continuing throughout the forenoon, [12]. ► Nausea
at 8 P.M., with flushes over the whole body, as if perspiration would
break out, [12]. ► Nausea before or after eating, [12]. ►
*Nausea after food, [12].
► Nausea slightly increased after
food, [12]. ►
Whilst walking nauseated and sick; it seems as though the head would
constantly incline to the right side, [1].
[270.] ►
Nausea, with vertigo, [12],
[22]. ►
Great nausea in the throat, as if vomiting must ensue; it ends with
eructation, [3]. ► Sickness of stomach, with diarrhœa at
night, [12]. ►
She is always qualmish and nauseated, [1].
► When she eats anything she has
heaving like the nausea of disgust, [1].
► Inclination to vomit, for three
hours, [1]. ►
Felt at times as if he would vomit, but without nausea or qualmishness, [12]. ►
Vomiting, having a taste of Iron, immediately on eating, or else of
clear, frothy water, [22]. ► On taking acids and beer she vomits much,
[1]. ►►
*Vomiting of food immediately after midnight, followed by aversion to food and dread of open air
(after six hours), [1]. [280.] ►
*Vomiting of food only immediately after eating, for eight
days, [1]. ► *As soon as she eats anything it is thrown up
again, [1]. ► She vomits evening morning, and after
eating, only mucus and water (no food); a sort of waterbrash; the water
runs out of her mouth, and her throat feels drawn together, [1]. ►
Everything she vomits is sour and acrid, [1].
► The vomiting is worst before
midnight, when she is lying, and especially when lying on the side, [1]. ►
Stomach. ► *Distension of
epigastric region, [10].
► Region of stomach and abdomen
distended (after taking powdered Iron), [12].
► Indigestion, with heat of stomach, [12]. ►
Feeling as if something rose in the stomach, [12]. ► A
feeling in stomach as from a hard body, or as from undigested food,
followed in about two hours by burning and acrid eructation, [12]. [290.]
► Occasional uneasiness at the left
extremity of the stomach, not amounting to pain, [12]. ►
Discomfort in the stomach, with bitter eructations, smelling like foul
eggs, mostly disappearing after dinner (after ten minutes), [20]. ►
Great discomfort, immediately after every meal (thirty-eighth day), [14]. ►
Pain in pit of stomach, [12]. ► Sensation of warmth and fulness in the
epigastric region (immediately after four drops), (first day), [13]. ►
Constant sensation of warmth in the epigastric region, which is not
painful to pressure (eleventh day), [13].
► After eating, heat in stomach, [12]. ►
Heat and burning in the stomach, with momentary cramplike pain in
splenic region, [12]. ► During physical exertion, heat from the
pit of the stomach upwards, like apprehension; she must lie down, [1]. ►
(Burning in stomach), [1]. [300.] ►
After eructations, decreased burning in stomach, [12]. ► He
feels full, [1]. ► After walking he felt full, as if he
would eructate; this goes off water eating, [1]. ►
Sensation of fulness and warmth in the stomach (ten minutes after 10
drops, first day), [14]. ► Tension and warmth in the epigastric
region came on soon after the first dose, increased on the second day,
diminished on the third, and disappeared on the fourth; returned on the
ninth and increased to a distressing sensation of pressure and
heaviness, which seemed to start from the epigastric region and extend
over the whole abdomen, becoming a griping; especially severe in the
morning and evening, and at times associated with an inclination to
vomit; this whole condition reached its greatest severity on the twelfth
day, but afterwards gradually diminished in spit of increasing doses,
till there was only a sensation of slight tension in the epigastric
region, [17]. ► In the morning in bed (about six o’clock)
painful contraction of everything at the pit of the stomach, followed by
a kind of spasmodic cough with mucous expectoration, [1]. ► Cramplike
stomachache, [1]. ► Severe cramplike and pressive pain in the
stomach, [22]. ► Spasm in stomach, [7]. ►
Stomachache from eating meat, [1].
[310.] ►
After eating and drinking, violent stomachache, [1]. ► An
unpleasant drawing in the epigastric region (twelfth day), [12]. ►
*Whenever she eats she has pressure, [1]. ► *Pressure
in the stomach, after every meal (tenth and eleventh days), [13]. ►
Slight pressure in the epigastric region, at 2 P.M. (second day), [19]. ►
Heavy pressure in the pit of stomach, [12].
► Violent pressure in the stomach and
extraordinary tension, [11]. [From
a few grains of Iron filings. -Hahnemann.] ►
Violent pressure in the stomach and unusual tension (after a few grains
of Iron filings), [12]. ► Pressing and very intense pain in
stomach, [12]. ► Pressive, very acute pain in stomach, [10]. [From the finest pulverized Iron.
-Hahnemann.] [320.] ► Pain in pit of stomach on touching it, [1]. ►
Palpitating sensation in stomach, extending through the œsophagus, as
if a nerve was quivering, giving occasionally a sensation of
suffocation, as if a valve rose in the throat, with headache, after
menses, [12]. ► All sensations in stomach are experienced
at the cardiac extremity and in the splenic region, [12].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Feeling of
fulness in both hypochondria (fourth day), [19]. ►
Pressure in the right hypochondrium, [22].
► Shooting pain in left
hypochondrium, [12]. ► Pain in liver and chest, [12]. ►
Cramplike sensation in splenic region, [12].
► A slight dull pain and heavy
feeling in the splenic region, [12].
► General Abdomen. ► Distension of abdomen, [10]. [330.] ► Hard distended abdomen, [1]. ► Quiet
distended abdomen, without flatulent symptoms, [1]. ►
Extension, or a swelling of abdomen, [12].
► Abdomen somewhat tympanitic, [22]. ►
Movement in bowels, as if diarrhœa would ensue, but stool natural, [12]. ►
Rumbling of bowels, with headache, [12].
► All day rumbling of the bowels,
with pain in small of back and kidneys and a slight soreness in the
urethra when urinating, [12]. ► In the evening rumbling in the bowels,
and feeling of soreness in them, with sensation as if they were about to
be moved, [12]. ► Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen at
1.30 A.M. (first night), [19]. ► Rumbling and gurgling in the whole
abdomen, as if diarrhœa would come on; there was however the regular
daily stool (second day), [19]. [340.] ►
Rumbling and gurgling in the transverse colon, especially in the cæcum
(fourth day), [19]. ► Awakened from an uninterrupted sleep of
five hours by rumbling and griping in the abdomen, which is full and
tense; violent attack of colic for ten or fifteen minutes, always
relieved by emission of flatulence; very greatly relieved after a
copious evacuation of the bowels, so that the colic was only distressing
while sitting up (thirty-eighth day), [14].
► Great rumbling in abdomen day and
night, [1]. ►
A flatulent condition of bowels all day, extending through the whole
abdomen; no perceptible change in a warm room, in the open air, while
riding, or sitting quiet, [12]. ► Flatus in right side of abdomen, while
riding in a carriage; soon passing off, [12].
► A quantity of flatus is discharged,
[6]. ►
Very noisy flatulence, [22]. ► Frequent emission of offensive
flatulence, after rising in the morning (fourth day), [19]. ►
Feeling of increased warmth in the abdomen, especially in the epigastric
region, with pressure, tension, and griping in the abdomen, which
speedily disappeared, or did not appear at all if he took a walk
immediately after taking the drug, [16].
► Marked discomfort in the abdomen,
increasing to a sick feeling, together with bitter foul eructations and
griping in the abdomen, followed by copious, for the most part liquid
stool, [21]. [350.] ► A
severe pain all over the bowels (at 2 1/2 A.M.); had scarcely time to go
to stool; had a free and loose passage, with griping, cutting pain and
severe straining; straining lasted some time; at same time felt sick at
stomach, and a disagreeable taste in mouth, relieved by drinking cold
water; at 6 A.M., another loose, brownish-yellow stool, with colic pains
before and straining during the passage, [12].
► Pain like iron pain in left side of
abdomen, not very severe, but nearly constant, [12]. ► Great
sensation of fulness in abdomen for several days (ninth and tenth day), [12]. ►
Very disagreeable tension and fulness in the abdomen the whole day
(thirty-eighth day), [14]. ► Violent contractive pains in abdomen and
back, [8]. ►
Acute griping and rumbling in the abdomen, with a pasty taste in the
mouth, dryness in the fauces, and some nausea, the abdomen not painful
to touch; disappearing in a few hours and after a copious evacuation of
the bowels (thirty-sixth day), [14].
► A sharp aching pain in upper
portion of abdomen and pit of stomach, for an hour, [12]. ►
Paroxysmal drawing pains throughout the whole abdomen (thirteenth day);
worse (seventeenth day), [13]. ► A pressure in abdomen, just below the
stomach, as soon as she eats or drinks anything, [1]. ► An
extremely distressing pressive sensation in the abdomen, especially in
the epigastric region, increasing to a pain on
touch, usually disappearing within and hour after a dose,
returning after every new dose, especially severe in the evening; in
spite of an undisturbed sleep the next night and increased appetite the
next day, the pain increased until it was prevented by a walk
immediately after taking the drug, or at least it was essentially
diminished though each dose was increased; but whenever to walk was
omitted, either intentionally or accidentally, the distress returned in
all its severity (seventh day), [15].
[360.] ►
Especially when walking, painful weight of the bowels, as if they would
fall down, [1]. ► Sharp pains in abdomen, [12]. ► Sharp
pains in abdomen, bearing down in uterus, with aching below it, [12]. ►
Some stitches in abdomen, [1]. ► Colicky pains (immediately), [8]. ►
Colicky pains, followed by diarrhœa, after midnight, [20]. ► Almost
constant, distressing colicky pain, varying in severity, scarcely
influenced by motion, during the first four days after the proving,
aggravated by eating and somewhat relieved by stool; it always appeared
after rising in the morning, even after an undisturbed night’s rest;
abdomen not distended nor sensitive to touch, [16]. ►
Attacks of colic awaking him from sound sleep, relieved after passage of
much flatulence and after profuse stool, but recurring after every dose
(thirty-seventh day), [14]. ► Flatulent colic at night; much flatulence
is generated in his abdomen, which causes pain, although much escapes, [1]. ►
Fine shooting colic, [1]. [370.] ►
Slight soreness all over the bowels, with rumbling, [12]. ► *(On
feeling the abdomen and on coughing, the bowels are sore as if beaten,
or as if they had been acted upon by purgatives), (after six
hours), [1]. ► Hypogastrium. ►
Much flatus in lower abdomen, and in its left side slightly
incarcerated; a large amount escaped per mouth and anus, without sound
or smell, with very little relief, [12].
► Pain in the hypogastrium, [22]. ►
In the morning labor-like pains in abdomen, as if the catamenia would
come on (after twelve hours), [1].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Objective. ► Protrusion of
large hæmorrhoids from the anus, [1].
► Violent hæmorrhoidal flux, [8]. ►
Contractive spasm in rectum, for some minutes, [1]. ► Subjective.
► Tearing in rectum, [1]. ► Itching
and gnawing in rectum, and ascarides are passed in the slimy stool, [1]. [380.]
► The ascarides seem to increase by its
use; he cannot sleep at night on account of the itching in
the rectum; the worms creep at night out of his anus, [1]. [From drinking Pyrmont water. -Hahnemann.] ► Pressing-tearing through anus, with hard
stool, [12]. ►
Urgent desire for stool, followed by a frothy stool, accompanied by much
loud flatulence, at 9.30 A.M.; after which and before 4 P.M., there were
three watery almost odorless stools, always followed for six minutes by
griping in the pit of the stomach, but by relief of the feeling of
fulness in the hypochondria (fourth day), [19].
► Frequent urging to stool, with
burning in anus, and pain in back on moving, [1]. ►
Straining at stool, all day, [12].
► Severe straining with stool, and
after, [12].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa,
with nervous spasmodic pain in abdomen, back, and anus, [8]. ► *Frequent
diarrhœa, [1]. ► Frequent diarrhœa; stools watery, with
or without tenesmus, and preceded or not by pain, but always with much flatulence and more frequent after
taking food or water, [22].
► Violent diarrhœa, [6]. [390.] ► Very profuse watery diarrhœa, with
cutting pains in the abdomen, lasting one day, [23]. ► Strong
purging, [8]. ► Frequent diarrhœic stools, [8]. ►
Stool changed to greenish and black on the third day, at the same time
it became harder, indeed very hard; but after a dose of 26 drops and
more it gradually became softer, so that during the last days of the
proving there were copious pasty stools, [16].
► Constipation was at no time
included; during the first proving there was daily a copious and only at
times a partly hard evacuation, for the most part delayed for two or
three hours; the normal brown color changed on the second day to a
greenish and greenish-black, [14a].
► *Diarrhœic stool, [2]. ►
Yellow stool, [12]. ► *At 8 A.M., a very sudden discharge from bowels,
watery, without pain or smell, [12].
► Fæces consisting mostly of small
hard pieces, evacuated with much straining, at first brown, then
greenish and greenish-black; only one in the day was there a copious
soft evacuation (third day), [14a].
► Stool without smell, [12]. [400.] ► At every stool mucus and sometimes blood
is passed, [1]. ► Constipation. ► *Constipation; the stool before the
proving was regular every twenty-four hours, but after the second day of
the proving it occurred only every two or three days, with frequent
urging to stool; fæces after the fifth day always dry, more or less
dark-green; three days after the last dose they became again pasty and
brown as usual, [15]. ► Constipation and hæmorrhoids, which
cause a painful pressure when he goes to stool, [1]. ► Bowels
rather constipated (thirteenth day), [12].
► Obstinate constipation, [8]. ►
Excessive constipation of bowels for three months; during that time
never had a natural evacuation; after that period bowels returned to
their natural condition, [12]. ► Stool before taking dark, usually twice a
day, soft and pasty; during the proving et frequently omitted, once,
indeed, for three days; the evacuation was formed, and even after three
days greenish, then becoming dark green, and at last quite black; three
days after the proving it again became brown and soft, as formerly, [13]. ►
Stools harder and delayed, very unusual; (from fifth to ninth day), [12]. ►
Scanty stool for several days, [12].
► A small, rather hard stool, with
pressing and tearing through anus, [12].
[410.] ►
Only a very small stool, though had much pressure and straining, as if
the bowels would be moved freely, [12].
► A very small stool, rather harder
than usual, [12]. ► Bowels would not moved (third day), very
unusual, [12]. ► No passage, although the bowels felt as
if they would be freely opened, [12].
► Stool omitted (third day), [19]. ►
No stool (twelfth and thirteenth days); hard stool (sixteenth day); soft
stool (seventeenth day); hard (eighteenth day); copious and soft
(nineteenth day), [13].® 2000
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