ASAFŒTIDA.
STOOL AND ANUS.
► Tenesmus,
[3]. ► *Pain in the
perineum, as though something dull pressed out there (first day), [1]. ► Constant dysenteric
feeling, as if a stool would take place, [3]. ► Persistent but fruitless urging to stool, [3]. ► Fruitless urging to stool, [3]. [250.] ► Frequent urging to stool, [3].
► More frequent stools than usual in twenty-four hours, [1]. ► Causes diarrhœa, [2]. ► Watery stools, [3]. ► Mushy stools, with
much flatulence, without pain, but with feeling of fulness and heaviness in the abdomen, [3]. ► Small, partly
hard, partly mushy stools, [3]. ► *Profuse, thick, papescent, brown, and very offensive stool,
[3]. ► Very solid,
dark-brown, nauseously offensive stool, [3]. ► Hard, dark, offensive stool, [3].
► Fluid stools, with violent pressing down on the rectum,
[3]. [260.] ► Thick, papescent stools, light yellow, [3]. ► *Symptoms relieved after a
blackish-brown, very thick, papescent, and exceedingly offensive stool, [3]. ► Watery stools,
without bellyache, but with profuse discharge of flatulence, which did not remove the great
distension of the abdomen, [3]. ►
Diarrhœa, with pains in the bowels (two and a half hours), [1].
► Diarrhœa, two to three times daily, with bellyache,
for three days. Diarrhœa, three to four times daily, for four days in succession, with
bellyache, [1]. ►
Flatulence with diarrhœa (five hours), [1]. ► Two stools without pain, but some rumbling, and leaving
heaviness and distension of the abdomen behind, [3]. ► Constipation, [3]. ► Constipation with almost constant tenesmus, [3]. ► Constipation for two days,
then a difficult hard stool, [3]. [270.] ► Constipation and much
tenesmus, with distension of the abdomen, [3].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Repeated
stitches in the urethra, [4]. ►
Severe slight stitches in the urethra, [4]. ► Stitching and burning in the urethra, but not when urinating,
[4]. ► The urine is
smaller in quantity and darker, [4]. ► The urine smells strongly of the drug, [4]. ► Urine acrid and pungent,
though lighter colored, [3]. ►
Urine brownish-yellow, [3]. ►
Urine brownish-yellow ammoniacal, but without sediment, [3].
► Urine dark, and ammoniacal, [3]. [280.] ►
Easy discharge of dark-brown urine, which deposited no sediment, but which smelled very
strong and pungent, [3].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Peculiar
pressing toward the genital organs, with pains in, and tenderness of, the testicles, [3]. ► Drawing in the
glans penis while urinating, [3]. ► The drawing pain in the glans penis alternately disappeared
and returned, [3]. ►
Pointed stitches close to the penis in the mons veneris (second hour), [1]. ► Needle-like stitches,
externally, on the penis (sixtieth hour), [1]. ► Swelling of the scrotum, [5].
► Increase of sexual inclination for several hours, [3]. ► *Swelling of the
female genitals (so great, that antiphlogistic remedies had to be used), [5]. ► Nymphomania in a
plethoric woman (from large doses), [6]. [290.] ► Violent laborlike
pains in the region of the uterus, intermitting, [3]. ► Menses ten days too soon, scanty for three days, then became
natural, [3].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
► So
smothered in the air-passages that he must hack repeatedly; the tone of the hacking cough is
not clear, but hoarse (from smelling the strong tincture), [1].
► Dry irritative cough, excited by tickling in the
larynx, [3]. ►
Frequent cough, with slimy expectoration, [3]. ► Slightly quickened respiration, [3]. ► Quickness of breathing,
interrupted by coughing and yawning, [3].
CHEST.
► The breasts
swelled as large as if she were in the last month of pregnancy, and a milky discharge
escaped from them, [5]. ►
In the region of the short ribs, right around across the back, a jerklike constriction, [1]. ►► *Spasmodic
tightness of the chest, as if the lungs could not be fully expanded, [3]. [300.] ► Spasmodic contraction of the chest, so severe that the pulse
became small, contracted, irregular, and slow-60 or 65, [3].
► *Oppressive aching feeling in the chest, relieved by mucous
expectoration, [3]. ►
Severe pressure in some dorsal vertebræ, [4]. ► Drawing pressive pain, with contraction of the chest (half an
hour), [1]. ►
Pressure here and there in the thorax and in the muscles of the back, [4]. ► Pressure on the chest, with
constriction of the throat (sixty-third hour), [1]. ► Pressive pain in the left intercostal muscles, from within
outward (thirty-seventh hour), [1]. ► *Pressure in the left intercostal muscles, from within outward,
which is worse during inspiration and expiration (fifth hour), [1]. ► Decided oppression of the
chest, [3]. ►
Slight oppression of the chest, [3]. [310.] ► Spasmodic oppression
of the chest, [3]. ►
*The oppression of the chest increased to an agonizing degree, preventing respiration, and
driving the patient about in a restless manner, [3].
► Great oppression of the chest, with pressure and
throbbing in it, when lying, soon after a meal (second day), [1].
► Burrowing sticking, from the diaphragm out to the left
ribs, continues on inspiration and expiration (sixty-seventh hour), [1]. ► Penetrating stitches in the
chest after hawking, when standing and sitting (sixty-fourth hour), [1]. ► Needle stitches in all the
intercostal muscles, when sitting, [1]. ► Stitches and pressure in the chest, when lying, with very
difficult sighing, sobbing inspiration; on pressing with the hand on the chest, or on
sitting up, it disappears (second day), [1]. ► Weak movements in the left intercostal muscles (four and a
half hours), [1]. ►
When stooping, severe pain back in the region of the left short ribs, [4]. ► Burning drawing in the
right intercostal muscles (sixty-first hour), [1]. [320.] ► Pressive sticking in
the right cavity of the thorax, then fine stitches, with pressive pain, in the ribs near the
spine (fifth hour), [1]. ►
Pressure under the left front edges of the ribs, [4]. ► Pressure in the thorax, to the right side, extending outward
(sixty-ninth hour), [1]. ►
Lasting pressure behind, in the region of the left short ribs, [4]. ► *Pressive pain in the right
side of the chest, from within outward (twenty-sixth hour), [1]. ► Pressure in front, below
the edge of the left ribs, [4]. ►
Oppression of chest, especially on left side, [3]. ► Drawing-sticking pain in the left side of the chest (four and
a half hours), [1]. ►
A pressive sticking pain on the lower ribs of the right side, which extends into the abdomen
to the flank of the same side (half an hour), [1]. ► Stitch in the right ribs (sixth hour), [1]. [330.] ►
Tensive stitches in the left intercostal muscles (fifty-eighth hour), [1]. ► Dull stitches in the left
ribs (sixty-third hour), [1]. ►
Pinching sharp stitches in the right inner side of the ribs (twenty-seventh hour), [1]. ► Boring stitches in
the left cavity of the thorax, from within outward, continuing the same during inspiration
and expiration, [1]. ►
Boring dull stitches in the left side, extending outward to the ribs, continuing during
inspiration and expiration (forty-seventh hour), [1]. ► Stitches in the region of the diaphragm, on the right side
(twenty-fourth hour), [1]. ►
After a meal, stitches in the region of the last true ribs, right side, and oppression of
the chest, [1]. ►
Pressure in the sternum, [4]. ►
Pressure in the sternum and on the right side of it, [4].
► On bending the thorax forward, a pressure on the lower
part of the sternum (first day), [1]. [340.] ► Even on compressing
the abdomen, pressure on the lower part of the sternum, and nausea, with fulness at the pit
of stomach (second day), [1]. ►
Pressive pain in the middle of the sternum, with a kind of nausea rising up from the chest
(thirty-fourth hour), [1]. ►
Dull pressure in the sternum; passes off on inspiring and expiring, but returns on writing
(three-quarters of an hour), [1]. ► Pressive stitches in the sternum, from within outward
(thirty-second hour), [1]. ►
Fleeting but very painful stitches under the breast-bone, with aching and burning in the
chest, and frequent inclination to cough, [3]. ► Pressive throbbing in the thorax, extending to the fauces, on
standing and sitting (sixty-fourth hour), [1].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Congestion and distension of the heart, attended with smallness of the pulse, and followed
by loose stool, [3]. ►
*Slight palpitation of the heart, more like a tremor, several times, when sitting,
[4]. ► Aching pain
in the region of the heart, as if from overfilling, [3].
► Quickness of the pulse, [3].
[350.] ► Fulness and
quickness of the pulse, [3]. ►
Pulse small and frequent, [3]. ► *The beating of the heart and pulse became somewhat small, quick,
and irregular, [3]. ►
Pulse small and rather slow, [3].
NECK AND BACK.
► Twitching
in the muscles of the right side of the neck (twenty-third hour), [1]. ► Clucking in the muscles of
the left scapula (forty-second hour), [1]. ► Drawing pain in the muscles of the neck, right side, [4]. ► Drawing down along
the left side of the neck, on motion (second day), [1].
► Pressure in the right side of the neck (second hour), [1]. ► Attacks of pain in
the back, especially below the scapula (sixth hour), [1].
[360.] ► Pain in the
back, especially in the right scapula (twenty-ninth hour), [1].
► Repeated transient drawings in the left scapula, [1]. ► Pressive pain in
the right scapula (two and a half hours), [1]. ► Cutting pain below the right scapula (fifty-fourth hour), [1]. ► Dull stitches
externally in the left scapula (twenty-fourth hour), [1].
► *Fine burning stitches in and behind the right scapula,
extending toward the ribs (second and third hour), [1].
► Under the left shoulder-blade, when stooping, severe
stitches, [4]. ►
Itching on the right scapula (forty-second hour), [1].
► Twitching in the muscles of the lower half of the back,
when sitting, [1]. ►
*Cannot work on account of the backache (thirtieth hour), [1]. [370.] ►
Pain in the right side of the back (sixth hour), [1]. ► Perceptible sensation of heat along the back, [4]. ► Burning in the vertebræ,
more on the left side, [1]. ►
Severe pressure in some of the costal vertebræ, [4]. ► Pressing pains, sometimes very severe, on both sides of the
spinal column, in the region of the short ribs, repeating several times, and sometimes
aggravated by the motion of the trunk, [4]. ► Stitch in the latissimus dorsi, near the upper arm (first
day), [1]. ►
Tensive stitch in the dorsal muscles of the left side, from below upward (twenty-fourth
hour), [1]. ►
Transient stitches in the right side of the back (forty-ninth hour), [1]. ► Crawling in the skin of the
back, [4]. ►
Drawing pressive pain along the four to five last dorsal and the first lumbar vertebræ, as
if it were internal along the bodies of the vertebræ themselves (first day), [1]. [380.] ►
Continual dull pressure in the lumbar region, [4]. ► Pressive pain in the small of the back, especially on bending
the upper part of the body forward and backward (first day), [1].
► Tearing pain in the small of the back, when sitting, [1]. ► Tensive sticking
in the left loin, continuing during inspiration and expiration disappearing on walking
(twenty-sixth hour), [1]. ►
Boring sticking in the left loin, from within outward, disappears on inspiration and
expiration (forty-first hour), [1]. ► Burrowing pressive sticking in the left loin, from within
outward, toward the ribs, with anxiety (forty-fifth hour), [1].
► Fine stitches, as with needles, around the left loin
(twenty-sixth hour), [1]. ►
Fine stitches, from the right loin toward the ribs (fifth hour), [1]. ► Stitch extending along the
sacrum to the anus (first day), [1].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
In many places on the limbs, rapidly passing cramplike drawings, like a twitching, [1]. [390.] ► Bruised feeling in the extremities, especially in the knees,
when sitting, [4]. ►
Rheumatic pains in the arms and legs, especially in the joints and shoulder-blades, but
shifting locally from time to time, [3]. ► Drawing and stitching in the calves, in the muscles of the
arms, here and there, more in the flexors, [4]. ► Pressure on the joint of the right great toe, above the right
carpus, and on the back of the right hand, [4]. ► Shortly after waking up, tearing in the right shoulder, and
several times in the left tibia; after rising, in the joint of the left foot, in the toes,
and in the finger-joints, [4]. ►
Severe bruised feeling in the muscles of the upper arm, in the joints of the hands and feet,
and severely in paroxysms in some places, [4].
UPPER EXTREMITIES.
►
Twitching in the left shoulder-joint, toward the outer side (ninth hour), [1]. ► Twitching in the left
shoulder (first hour), [1]. ►
Twitching in the deltoid muscle (second hour), [1]. ► Twitching in the deltoid muscle (fourth hour), [1]. [400.] ►
Drawing in the muscles of the left shoulder-blade, [4].
► Paralytic drawing pain along the left shoulder and down
the upper arm, in rest (second day), [1]. ► Pressing pains in the shoulder-joints, [4]. ► Frequent pressure in the
shoulders, more in the right, [4]. ► Below the right axilla toward the front an intermitting
severe inward pressure, without oppression of respiration, [1].
► Beneath the left axilla a transient inward pressure, [1]. ► A pressive pain at
the scapular end of the clavicle when sitting (first day), [1].
► Dull stitches in the left shoulder (first hour), [1]. ► Stitches in the
left shoulder-joint from within outward (twenty-sixth hour), [1].
► Below the left axilla some fine superficial but
sensitive needle stitches, [1]. [410.] ► Fine tensive stitches
in the shoulder-joint extending inward (second hour), [1].
► Bruised sensation in the shoulder and elbow-joints, [4]. ► Twitching in the left
upper arm-joint, extending inward (forty-eighth hour), [1]. ► Twitching in the muscles on
the outer side of the left upper arm (fourth hour), [1].
► A drawing pain around the head of the humerus, on
holding the arm still, with a kind of trembling over irritability (as after great fatigue)
in the muscles themselves, so that he must constantly move them (first day), [1]. ► Tensive drawing in the left
upper arm on the inner side (third hour), [1]. ► Pressing in the muscles of the right upper arm, [4]. ► Pressure on the
muscles of the right arm, [4]. ►
Intermittent cramplike pressure in the left upper arm not far from the shoulder, [1]. ► Burning stitch on
the outer side of the right upper arm (forty-eighth hour), [1].
[420.] ► Tensive
stitches in the right upper arm from the upper part outward toward the inner side,
immediately, [1]. ►
Boring stitches in the inner surface of the right upper arm, which do not disappear on
motion (forty-third hour), [1]. ►
Pressive sticking in the right upper arm, on its inner surface from within outward
(sixty-eighth hour), [1]. ►
Sticking pain on the inner side of the left upper arm (twenty-sixth hour), [1]. ► Twitching sensation in the
inner muscles of the left upper arm (thirty-fourth hour), [1].
► Burning on the outer side of the right elbow-joint
(seventh hour), [1]. ►
Fine stitch in the elbows (twenty-sixth and sixty-fourth hour), [1]. ► A fine, long stitch
extending into the bend of the elbow (sixty-fourth hour), [1].
► A cramplike twitching extends down the right forearm,
with the feeling as if the hand would stiffen, [1]. ► In slow intermissions, cramplike drawing streaming up along
the inner surface of the left forearm, [1]. [430.] ► Pressure on the
outside of the left forearm (second hour), [1]. ► Boring pressure on the inner side of the left forearm from
within outward (first hour), [1]. ► On moving the finger, tearing pains along up the forearm, [1]. ► Tearing pains up
along the forearm, on bending the fingers (first day), [1].
► Dull sticking on the inside of the right forearm, [1]. ► Tearing stitches
followed by burning extend up the right forearm, during rest (second day), [1]. ► Stitches on the skin of the
right forearm, [4]. ►
Pain as if beaten in the bones of the wrist, in rest (second day), [1]. ► A scraping sensation on the
inner (ulnar) condyle at the wrist, [1]. ► The hands soon get icy cold, the coldness of the back
increases and keeps on, with slow pulse, [4]. [440.] ► Pressure on the
joints of the hands, [4]. ►
In bed, repeatedly, severe pressing in the joints of the right hand and in the right temple,
and these appeared at 6 A.M., exactly on awaking, and with pressing in the neck, [4]. ► A dull pain in the
palm of the right hand as from a pressive body, with the sensation as if the hand would
stiffen, [1]. ►
Pressive sticking on the back of the right hand (eighth hour), [1]. ► Cramplike sensitive twitching
in the metacarpal bones of the left thumb, [1].
► Frequent pains in the joint of the left thumb, [4]. ► A numblike pain on
the metacarpal bone of the left middle finger, as if an oppressive body lay on it, [1]. ► A transient
cramplike pain in the right thumb, with unhindered motion of it; immediately afterward, also
in the left thumb, [1]. ►
Severe aching, from time to time, in the external condyle of the wrist-side of the thumb, [1]. ► Cramplike aching
in the flesh between the metacarpal bones of the left thumb and index finger, [1]. [450.] ►
Pointed sticking burning at the tip of the left index finger (sixty-third hour), [1]. ► Drawing pain in
the joints of all the fingers, [4]. ► Drawing in the joints of the fingers, on the dorsum of the
hands and feet, [4]. ►
Pressure at the root of the middle and index finger of the right hand, continuing on various
motions (eighth hour), [1]. ►
Pressive pain from the right wrist, extending into the right index finger (twenty-ninth
hour), [1]. ►
Pressing pain in the joints of the left thumb, [4]. ► Pressure on the inner side of the thumb (ninth hour), [1]. ► Severe pressing in
the joints of the left thumb, and later in the joints of the other fingers, [4]. ► On lying and in rest,
drawing pressure on the back of the finger, and jerks from the forearm to the elbow (second
day), [1]. ►
Stitches in the finger-joints, [4]. [460.] ► Dull stitch from the
thumb outward toward the back of the hand (forty-fifth hour), [1].
► Frequent stitches in paroxysms in the joints of the
small finger, worse on motion of the joint, [4].® 2000
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