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Illusions of hearing – Ears – Chapter 6 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

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CHAPTER 6
EARS.

Auditory
nerve
* Ears * Eustachian
tubes
* Hearing * Illusions
of hearing * Membrana
tympani
* Tympanic cavity

Illusions of hearing.


Illusions of hearing

(undefined) :-
# Atrop-s.,
Carb-v., Coff.,
Crot-h.,
Elaps., Eup-pur., Merc., Stram.,
Sulph.

Boiling :-

Water, like :-

Cann-i.,
Dig.

Oil, like :-

Thuj.


Bubble bursting :-

Nat-c.

Buzzing :-

All-c.,
Am-c., Anis., ARG-N.,
Bar-c., Calc.,
Camph.,
Cann-i.,
# Carb-ac., Carb-v.,
Cast., Caust.,
CHIN-S.,
Chlf., Con.,
Dulc., Eup-per., Form., Ham.,
Hydr-ac.,
Hyos., Iod.,
Mag-c.,
Merc.,
Nat-m., Nit-ac.,
Nux-m.,
Nux-v., Op.,
Plb.,
Sabin.

Apoplexy, in :-

NUX-V.

Awaking, on

(after
heat of intermittent) :-
Ars.

Bee, like a :-

Rhod.

Swarm of, left, in,
with deafness :-

Coff.

Bright’s, in
disease :-

Ars.

Chill, with :-

Glon.

Constant :-

Elaps.,
Phos.

Deafness, in :-

Am-c.,
Kreos.,
Psor.

Dinner, after
eating :-

Agar.

Fever :-

Intermittent,
in :-

Ars.

In puerperal :-

Cimic.


Headache, with :-

Dios.

Head :-

From rush of blood
to :-

Ferr-p.

With piercing
in :-

Sulph.

Heart palpitation,
in :-

Arg-m.

Hysteria, in :-

Aur.

Left, in, with
sensitiveness :-

Aur-m.

Legs, with lameness of,
worse in morning :-

Sil.

Fly, as if a, were
enclosed :-

Elaps.

Meningitis, in,
infantum, sequel :-

Arn.

Night, worse at, and
when still :-

DULC.

Obstruction, with, of
nose :-

Lach.

Otitis, in :-

Cact.

Outside, as if :-

Alumn.

Right, in, ear :-

Lyss.,
Sulph.

With neuralgia :-

Sul-ac.

Cannot sleep at
night :-

Euphor.

Worse in :-

Mur-ac.

Stool, after :-

Calc-p.

Sunstroke, in :-

Verat-v.

Swallowing,
worse :-

Rhod.

Sweat, with,
intermittent :-

ARS.

Vertigo, with :-

Bell.,
CHIN-S.,
Cic., Glon.

Vertigo, with, in
typhoid :-

Cic.

Veta, in :-

Coca.

Work, with inability
to, read or think

(ozæna) :-
Nat-m.

Chirping :-

Bry.,
Caust.

Clucking :-

Bar-c.,
Cadm-s., Elaps.,
Graph.

Conversation, sure he
hears people in, but on carefully watching finds that sounds have
reference to arterial pulsation, but where cannot discover :-

Med.

Cracking

(See Crackling.) :-
Graph., Lach., PETR.

Deafness, with :-

Psor.

Caused by affection
of Eustachian tubes :-

PETR.

Eating :-

After,
breakfast :-

Zinc.

When, in
evening :-

Graph.

Left, in, with
headache :-

Form.

Jaw, on moving, only in
morning, while lying in bed :-

Graph.

Left, in :-

Com.,
Form.

Loud, during
night :-

Mur-ac.

Nose, when
blowing :-

Hep.

Painful :-

When
masticating :-

Nat-m.

Now and then, in
right

(conjunctivitis
and leucoma) :-
Kali-c.

Sneezing, when :-

Bar-c.,
Graph.

Swallowing, when, or
walking fast :-

Bar-c.

Swallowing, when, with
earache :-

Kali-m.


Crackling

(See Cracking.) :-
Bar-c., Elaps.

Like winding a watch,
in left :-

Ambr.

Like burning of birch
bark, very much worse upon swallowing :-

Eup-pur.

Left, worse in :-

Bor.,
Coc-c.

Right, in, with
sensation as if external auditory passage were closed :-

Coc-c.

Swallowing, on :-

Elaps.

Swallowing, on, or
chewing :-

Alumn.


Crash, a, as from
breaking a pane of glass, on falling asleep :-

Zinc.

Creaking :-

As from a wooden screw,
at each attempt to swallow :-

Agar.

Left, in, when
swallowing saliva :-

Thuj.


Croaking, when
walking :-

Mang.

Dancing :-

Stram.

Detonations :-

(See
Reports.)

Double, the sound is,
when whistling, or when 2 persons whistle 3rds :-

Med.

Drumming :-

Cupr-a.,
Dros., Lach.

Distant, in ear on
which he lies, in morning, disappears on rising :-

Cupr.

Dull, in left, as if
over subterranean vault :-

Bor.


Ears, as if he heard
with, not his own :-

Psor.

Far, sounds seem,
off :-

All-c.,
Lac-c.

As if tones came from
another world :-

CARB-AN.

Finger, noise as of the
breaking of a, nail at every step in walking :-

Con.

Flapping, as of
wings :-

Jac-c.

Fluttering :-

Berb.

Before left, as from a
large bird :-

Ant-t.

Right, in :-

Mag-c.


Guns, as if a battery
of, were discharged at night :-

Spong.

Heart, as if coming
from the, noise in left, every evening while reading, sometimes
falling asleep, better during sleep :-

Glon.

Pulsating sound :-

Spong.


Hell, has the sounds
of, constantly in ears :-

Plb.

Horn, sound like
blowing a, after cracking in head :-

Kalm.

Hissing :-

Calc.,
Graph., Nux-v.

Deafness, in :-

Dig.,
Dros., Sulph.

Hand, when passing,
over ear, when talking, or forcing inspiring through nose :-

Teucr.

Heart, synchronous with
beats of :-

Benz-ac.

Mastoid, seemingly in,
cells :-

Med.

Nervous, with,
affections :-

Valer.


Humming

(See Head
Humming
, Chapter 3 :
Inner Head
.) :-
Acon.,
Alumn.,
Am-c., Anac., Bell.,
Bry., Canth.,
# Carb-ac.,
Caust., CHIN.,
Chin-s., Con.,
Cycl.,
Daph.,
Dros.,
Ferr., Graph.,
Jal.,
LYC.,
Mur-ac.,
Nat-m.,
Nit-ac.,
Nux-v., Op.,
Phos., Rhod.,
Sec., Verat-v.

Air, better in open,
worse on entering room :-

Ars.

Ataxia, in
locomotor :-

Arg-n.

Bees, as of, in
left :-

Chin-b.

Congestion,
with :-

Sang.

Deafness, with :-

Psor.,
Sulph.

Deafness, followed
by :-

Sep.

Deafness, with
rheumatic, consequent upon a chill :-

Petr.

Head, on moving, or
body :-

Puls.

Hearing, causing
impairment of, worse stooping :-

Croc.

Hysteria, in :-

Aur.

Left, in :-

Cob.

Lying down, on :-

All-c.

Meningitis, after,
infantum :-

Arn.

Menses, before :-

Kreos.

Right, in :-

Am-m.

Sea, like a,
chill :-

Ter.

Valvular, in, heart
disease :-

Chel.

Veta, in :-

Coca.

Landslide, sudden
sounds as of a far-off :-

Chin-b.

Left, sounds seem to
come from, side when they really come from right :-

Nat-c.

Loud sounds, followed
by deafness :-

Sep.

Murmuring :-

Bell.

Sleep, after :-

Act-sp.


Music,
hears

(See Delusion
Hearing
, Chapter 1 :
Mind and Disposition
.) :-
Cann-i.,
Sal-ac.,
Stram.

With frightful
delirium :-

Plb.

As though a melody were
ground upon an organ in head and after a few turns were snapped
off :-

Merc.

Noises
undefined :-

(See
Tinnitus.)

Piping, worse in
left :-

Bor.

Rain :-

Sounds as of a gentle,
worse towards evening :-

Rhod.

Noise as of, in
vertigo :-

Coff-t.


Reports :-

Aster., Bar-c.,
Calc.,
Eup-pur.,
Staph.

Right, as of a cannon
in :-

Chin-b.

With discharge of a
few drops of blood :-

Mosch.


Right, in :-

When
swallowing :-

Cic.

As of distant
artillery, in afternoon and evening

(pertussis) :-
Bad.

Like distant
thunder :-

Plat.


Ringing :-

ACON.,
Agn.,
Ant-c., Ars.,
Atrop-s., Bar-c.,
BELL.,
Bry., CACT.,
Calc., Camph.,
Cann-i.,
Cann-s., Canth.,
Carb-v.,
Carbn-s.,
Cham., Chlf.,
Con., Corn.,
Cycl., Euphr.,
Ferr.,
Fl-ac., Form., Glon., Graph., Ham., Hell., Ip.,
Kali-c.,
Led.,
Mag-c.,
Merc., Nat-m.,
Nux-m., Nux-v.,
Phos.,
Plat., Polyg.,
Psor., Ptel.,
Puls., Rhod.,
Rumx., Sil.,
Sulph.,
Verat.,
Viol-o.,
Zinc.

Angina, in :-

Dig.

Anthrax, in :-

Anthraci.

Bells, as of :-

Cit-v.,
Clem., Led.,
Nat-s., PETR.

Like, constant clear,
sound :-

Petr.

Sound as of
large :-

Alumn.

Noise as of
little :-

Arund.

As of, in left :-

Chin-b.

As of, in spinal
irritation :-

Chin-s.

Noise like that
following tolling of a, interrupted by cracking sound :-

Rhod.

Like, whistling, or
running of trains, 1st left, then right, worse by lying on right
side :-

Merc.


Chill, during :-

Chin.

Coitus, after, and
roaring :-

Dig.

Confused, in
left :-

Ery-a.

Day, worse as,
advances, so that he can scarcely hear in evening, after catching
cold :-

Rhod.

Deafness, with :-

Aur-m.,
CHEN-A.,
Psor.

In erysipelas :-

Rhus-t.


Disagreeable,
constant :-

Fl-ac.

Distant, with sensation
as if ear were stopped :-

Spig.

Dull :-

Spong.

Dinner, after, and late
in evening :-

Cinnb.

Dinner, better after,
and from wine, worse from coffee :-

Arg-n.

Epileptic, before,
attack :-

HYOS.

Eyes, after using,
right, in

(hyperæmia
of retina) :- Puls.

Fever, typhoid,
in :-

Cocc.

Fine, in right, when
blowing nose, squeaking as if air were forced through mucus :-

Teucr.

Forehead, with pain in,
and eyes :-

Cact.

Headache, with :-

Dios.

In temples :-

CHIN.

Head, after arthritic
affection of, with deafness :-

Rhod.

Falls, and roaring till
he, asleep

(after
a blow on head) :-
Nat-m.

Congestion, with,
to :-

Sang.

Moving, on :-

Staph.

In nervous :-

Naja.

Stitches, with, in one
side of, generally in one temple or in back part :-

Puls.

Hearing, hardness, with
buzzing :-

Ferr-p.,
Psor.

Heart, in,
disease :-

Dig.

Hemicrania, in :-

Chin-ar.

Hæmorrhage, in
post-partum :-

Cham.

Left, in :-

Coc-c.,
Gamb., Myric.,
Nux-v., Par.,
Stann.

When walking :-

Chel.

Worse :-

Bor., CHIN-S.


Low, with
headache :-

Coca.

Meningitis, in :-

Arg-n.,
Glon.

Menses :-

Before :-

Ferr.

During :-

FERR.,
Verat.


Menorrhagia, in :-

Ferr-s.

Nervous, with,
affections :-

Valer.

Nose, when
blowing :-

Carb-an.

Palpitation,
with :-

Phos.

Paralysis, with :-

Sil.

Pain, with, in rectum
during stool :-

Lyc.

Rest, went off when at,
but reappeared when she moved :-

Nux-v.

Right, in :-

Æsc.,
Brom., Osm.,
Spong.

With dull
headache :-

Erig.

At night :-

Zinc.

Particularly :-

Ferr., Xan.


Sleep, followed
by :-

Anis.

Suffocating, caused by,
weight in stomach after eating

(catarrhal
ophthalmia) :- Sulph.

Toothache, with

(gastritis) :-
Cocc.

Vertigo, in :-

Coff-t.

Vertigo, with slight,
also pressure about head :-

Myric.

Wind, with feeling of
cold, especially in left ear :-

Vinc.


Roaring

(See Head
roaring
, Chapter 3 :
Inner Head
.) :-
Acon.,
Agn.,
All-c., Alumn., Anac., Ant-c., Ant-t., Bell.,
Berb.,
Bry., Cahin., Camph.,
Canth., Caust., CHIN.,
Chlf., Colch.,
Con., Cycl.,
Daph.,
Dros.,
Elaps.,
Euphor.,
Ferr-i.,
Gels., Graph., Hell.,
Iber.,
Kali-c., Laur.,
LYC.,
Merc., Nat-m.,
Nit-ac., Nux-v.,
Op.,
Puls.,
Rhod.,
Sil.,
Sulph.,
Ther.

Afternoon, in :-

Ambr.

Air, better in
open :-

Cic.,
Puls.

Alive, as if something,
were in them

(chronic
headache) :- Sil.

Cataract, in :-

Sec.

Cerebral congestion,
in :-

Aur.,
Ferr-p., Op.,
Sulph., Verat-v.

Chill, after :-

Cahin.

Cholera, in, 4th
day :-

Ph-ac.

Cold, after taking, in
a draught of air and becoming heated :-

Kali-c.

Colic, in
flatulent :-

Lyc.

Constant :-

Petr.

Coryza, with :-

ACON.

Day, worse as,
advances, so that he can scarcely hear, in evening, after catching
cold :-

Rhod.

Deafness :-

In :-

Ammc., Aur-m.,
Nux-v., PH-AC.

With, caused by
affection of Eustachian tubes :-

PETR.

With sudden :-

Nicc.


Eating, after :-

Cinnb.

Evening, begins in,
lasts through night and disturbs sleep :-

Coc-c.

Fainting spells, with

(diabetes) :-
Uran-n.

Fall, with inclination
to :-

Calc.

Fever, typhoid,
in :-

Cocc.,
Lyc.

Forehead, constant,
with pressing stitching pain in, extending over whole head,
particularly in vertex and occiput, with heaviness and confusion of
head

(rheumatism) :-
Lyc.

Frequent, during
day :-

Calad.

Head :-

After arthritic
affection of

(dysecoia) :-
Rhod.

With congestion to, in
young people :-

# Graph.


Hearing :-

With
difficult :-

Sal-ac.

Causing impairment
of, worse when stooping :-

Croc.

Head, with heaviness
of :-

Phos.

Hemicrania, in :-

Chen-a.

Hour in right, for an,
worse lying on left side, better lying on right, with
headache :-

Phos.

Pouring, like water,
over a dam :-

Bry.

Hysteria, in :-

Coc-c.,
Lyc., Nux-v.

Left, in :-

As after severe
cold :-

All-c.

With caries of left
molar teeth

(chronic
otitis media) :-
Nat-c.

On rising in
afternoon :-

Lac-ac.

Worse :-

Bor.

Especially :-

Coloc.

Machinery, as
from :-

Hydr.

Measles, after
suppression of :-

Sulph.

Meningitis, in
cerebro-spinal :-

Hydr-ac.

Menses :-

During :-

Petr.

At time for return of

(climaxis) :-
Phys.


Mental confusion,
with :-

Bapt.

Nausea, with :-

Calc.

Nervous :-

Kali-p.

Night, at :-

Euphor.,
Graph.

Synchronous with
pulse :-

Kali-br.

Pain, with, in right,
in paroxysms :-

Stront-c.

Palpitation,
with :-

Iber.

Paroxysms :-

In, with headache as
if brain were compressed, mostly in forehead :-

Staph.

Of pain, with
each :-

Ars.

Pertussis, in :-

Caust.

Pulsating :-

Merc.

In ear upon which she
lies :-

Spong.


Right, in :-

Am-m.

Like the sea, at each
inspiration :-

Bar-c.

Thunderous, with
deafness :-

Tell.

Tornado, in left, like
distant :-

Asar.

Vertigo, with :-

Bell.,
Carb-v., Op.,
Psor.

On rising :-

PHOS.

Violent :-

Zinc.

Vomiting, with
bilious :-

Crot-h.

Water, as from
rushing :-

CHAM.

Wind, as of :-

PETR.

Distant storm
of :-

Chel.

Work, with inability
to, read or think

(ozæna) :-
Nat-m.

Rolling :-

Graph.,
Plat.

Rumbling :-

Plat.

Otalgia, with :-

Plat.

Noise, like, of cars or
striking of clocks :-

Chlf.

Left, in, as of
thunder, with impairment of hearing :-

Elaps.

Rushing :-

Arn.,
Coloc., Gels.,
Graph., Hyos., Lach.,
Lil-t.,
LYC.,
Mang.,
Viol-o.

Hysteria, in :-

Aur.

Menses, before :-

Bor.

Menses, during :-

Kreos.

Pulse, isochronous
with, with deafness :-

PULS.

Rustling :-

Straw, as of, when jaws
are moved :-

Carb-v.

Rustling, like
distant :-

Brom.


Shrieking noise when
blowing nose :-

Stann.

Shrill sound :-

Bell ringing out of
tune, singing like a :-

Petr.

Blowing nose,
on :-

Ph-ac.


Simmering, better
resting head on table :-

Ferr.

Singing :-

Arg-m.,
Cact.,
Calc.,
Calc-s., Camph.,
Caust.,
Chlf.,
Chlor., Cimic., Con.,
Fl-ac., Hyos.,
Kali-c.,
Kali-i.,
Sec.

Awaking, on

(after
heat of intermittent) :-
Ars.

Cracking sound, with,
in left :-

Ery-a.

Deafness, with :-

Nux-v.,
Psor.

Debility, with :-

CHIN.

Drowsiness,
with :-

Calc-p.

Earache, with :-

Sang.

Fever, in
intermittent :-

Ars.

Giddiness, with :-

Stram.

Head, better resting,
on table :-

Ferr.

Left, and snapping
in :-

Lac-ac.

Menses, after :-

Chin.,
Ferr.

Menses, during :-

Petr.

Nervous people :-

Coff.

Periodical, during
dreamy spells, ceasing when coming to himself :-

Cann-i.

Right, in :-

Asar.,
Calc-p., Nat-c.

Right, in, when walking
in open air :-

Lachn.

Tea kettle, like
a :-

Lach.

Tea kettle, like a, in
left

(pruritus
vulvæ) :- Tarent.

Vertigo, with :-

Camph.,
Sang.

Water, as from
boiling :-

LYC.

Smacking, as if opened
and closed while it contained a thick paste :-

Bor.

Snapping :-

Hep.

Eructation, after
every, as if air penetrated Eustachian tube :-

Graph.

Head, on turning

(deafness) :-
Caust.

Pulsations, corresponds
to, of temporal artery :-

Ars-s-r.

Sparks, as of, from an
electric machine :-

Calc.

Squeaking :-

Eup-pur.

Surging :-

Sarr.

Right, in, worse from
excitement, or moving :-

Sulph.


Striking, sensation as
of, of a clock :-

Ter.

Thundering :-

Calc.,
Graph., Lach.

Ticking as of a distant
watch :-

Chin.

Tinkling :-

Caust.,
Hippoz.

Head, on moving, or
body :-

Puls.

Tinnitus :-

All-c., Bell.,
Bism., Caust.,
Cedr., Chin.,
Coc-c., Iod.,
Kali-br.,
Lac-c.,
Merc., Nat-s.,
Phos.,
Plat.,
Plb., Puls.

Catarrh, from, of inner
ear :-

Hydr.

Deafness, with :-

Bor.,
Petr.,
Sal-ac.

Deafness, with,
disappearing on blowing nose and coughing :-

Sil.

Epilepsy, in
menstrual :-

Cedr.

Fever, in
hectic :-

Phos.

Fever, in
yellow :-

Sulph.

Headache, with, after a
cold drink :-

Kali-c.

Head, caused by rush of
blood to :-

Arn.

Heart, in
dilated :-

Tab.

Hyperæmia, dependent
upon :-

Sal-ac.

Meniere’s disease,
in :-

Kalm.,
Sal-ac.

Ideas, with tumult
of :-

Camph.

Nervous exhaustion,
from :-

Kali-p.

Night, in the :-

Lyss.

Night, continuous
during :-

Zinc.

Right, worse in :-

Rhod.

Sitting up, when,
synchronous with heartbeats :-

Nux-v.

Swallowing, when
blowing nose or :-

Calc.

Whooping cough,
in :-

All-c.

Vessels, with injection
of, along handle of malleus :-

# Chin-s.


Twittering :-

Calad.

Trumpet, sound as the
blowing of a, in left, at night :-

# Chin-b.

Vertigo, with :-

Eup-pur.

Voices, hears

(See
Delusion Hearing,
Chapter 1 : Mind
and Disposition
.) :-
Phos., Stram.

Confused, worse
swallowing, or walking in open air :-

Benz-ac.

Persons, of absent, at
night :-

Cham.

Water :-

Dropping, as if, from a
height into a long, narrow vessel, while lying down :-

Nat-p.

Running, like :-

Cact.

Rushing, like :-

Aster.,
Petr.

Rushing, like, of, with
deafness :-

Cocc.

Rushing, like, after 4
P.M. :-

Puls.

Rushing, like, in
left :-

Lyss.

Tearing pains, as of
murmuring, with, at night :-

Petr.

Waterfall, like
a :-

Ther.


Whirring like a
mill :-

Nux-v.

Whispering :-

(See
Delusion Hearing,
Chapter 1 : Mind
and Disposition
.)

Whistling :-

Alumn.,
Cur., Elaps., Nux-v.

Afternoon, in :-

Ambr.

Right, in, at
night :-

Chin-b.

Wind, with feeling of
cold, especially in left ear :-

Vinc.


Whizzing :-

Caust.,
Cupr-a., Hep., Kali-c.,
Led.,
LYC.,
Mang., Mur-ac.,
Sulph.

Deafness, with, caused
by affection of Eustachian tubes :-

Mang.,
PETR.

Dull :-

Zinc.

Insects, as
from :-

Lach.

Left, in :-

Arg-n.

Right, in :-

Mag-c.,
Zinc.


Wind :-

Sound of, after 4
P.M. :-

Puls.

Strong wind, rushing,
as from a, or as from wings of a bird :-

Mosch.

Storm, noises as from
a :-

Led.

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