GINSENG.
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. [200.] ► Sticking in the fossa navicularis of the
penis (eleventh day), [2]. ► Voluptuous tickling in the end of the
urethra, with erections (fifth day), [2].
► Voluptuous tickling in the
navicular fossa of the penis (after one hour), [2]. ►
Itching, pruritus, and burning pain in the urethra, with frequent urging
to urinate, [1]. ► Frequent desire to urinate, with
smarting, [1]. ► Micturition. ►
Urine abundant and clear, [1]. ► Urine less than usual (third day), [2]. ►
Little urine (first day), [2]. ► Very little urine, normal, although the
food had been liquid (first day), [2].
► Urine scanty (first, third, and
seventh days), [2]. [210.] ►
Urine scanty and dark-colored (first day), [2]. ► Urine
very scanty (first night and second morning), [2]. ► Urine
very scanty, clear, passed in a very thin stream; the bladder did not
quite empty itself; only by pressing is a thin stream produced (eleventh
day), [2]. ►
Urine very scanty and darker-colored than usual (first day), [2]. ►
Urine. ► Yellowish urine,
depositing a red lateritious sediment, [1].
► Lemon-colored urine, depositing,
when standing, a reddish sediment, [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Strong excitement of the genital organs, [1].
► Erections, while sitting at an
interesting lecture (first day), [2].
► Nocturnal erections, without
pollutions, [1]. ► Painful erections, while sitting at
engrossing business (second day), [2].
[220.] ►
Pressure in the testicles (after one hour), [2].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Voice. ►
Voice rough and hoarse, seems deeper than usual (fifth day), [2]. ►
Voice very rough (after three hours and eleven days), [2]. ► Cough.
► Dry cough, also in the afternoon
(eleventh day), [2]. ► Dry cough in single paroxysms (eleventh
day), [2]. ► Respiration. ►
Short anxious respiration, [1]. ► Respiration slow, but deep and with
exertion (fifth day), [2]. ► Deep respiration, now and then (first
day), [2]. ►
Frequent deep inspiration and tightness of the chest, as if he could not
get enough air, with anxious feeling and heaviness of the limbs (after
half a hour), [2]. ► Frequently deep labored inspiration,
while sitting (second day), [2]. [230.] ►
Respiration intermingled with deep labored inspirations (eleventh day), [2]. ►
Oppressed respiration (after one hour), [2].
► The oppression of breathing is
worse while sitting than while walking (after two hours), [2]. ►
Difficult inspiration, with dull stitch deep in the right lung (after
one hours), [2]. ► The dryness of the mouth gradually
commences again (the coldness has ceased), and the difficulty of
breathing becomes greater; while walking the breathing is less
restricted than when sitting; it is accomplished with decided exertion
(seventh day), [2]. ► Dyspnœa, soon, [3].
CHEST.
►
Violent contractive pain transversely across the lower portion of the
thorax, in the evening (eleventh day), [2].
► Constriction of the chest, with
anxiety, [1]. ► Tightness of the chest, with deep
inspirations (third and eleventh days), [2].
► Feeling of something tightened
about the chest (after one hour), [2].
[240.] ►
Feeling of tightness on the chest, in the præcordial region, as if
something were lying upon it, with deep labored inspirations, constant
(after three-quarters of an hour), [2].
► Pressure upon the chest and
difficult respiration (seventh day), [2].
► Pressure and constriction of the
chest, with great difficulty of breathing, [1]. ►
Oppression of the chest and deep breathing (fifth day), [2]. ► Great
inclination to walk; while sitting the oppression of the chest is worse
(eleventh day), [2]. ► A quick succession of stitches in the
right side, which take away the breath, [1].
► Suddenly two violent stitches
beneath the left ribs, so that he involuntarily holds his breath (after
one hour), [2]. ► Tearing pain in the anterior wall of the
chest (eleventh day), [2].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Pain at the
left side of the cardiac region, [1].
► Severe pain in the præcordial
region, lasting some minutes, [1].
[250.] ►
Pain at the left side near the heart, preceded by a shivering, which
extends to the elbow, [1]. ► Tight sensation in te region of the heart
on taking a deep breath, with oppression that obliges him to walk about,
whereby he is relieved (third day), [2].
► Lancinating pain, as from a
dagger-stroke, in the præcordial region, [1].
► Painful stitches here and there
over the left side, in the region of the heart, [1]. ► Heart’s
Action. ► Heart’s action
stronger and irregular, partly while walking, partly while sitting, for
a short time (first day), [2]. ► Some violent beats of the heart while
sitting, followed by a sensation of floundering of the heart, with
rapid, small, indistinct pulse (first day), [2]. ► Some
sudden violent beatings of the heart while sitting, with anxious
oppression in the præcordial region, at 4 P.M.; repeated several times
afterwards (first day); during the next days this sensation was
repeated, at times while lying, at times while sitting, together with
constriction of the chest, [2]. ► Frequent palpitation of the heart, which
lasted a long time (first day), [3].
► Beating of the heart not
perceptible to the hand, but there is a peculiar feeling of oppression
in the præcordial region (first day), [2].
► Pulse. ►
Pulse quicker and fuller, [4]. [260.] ►
The pulse became rapid, small, and soft after a short paroxysm of
coughing (eleventh day), [2]. ► Pulse slow, full, and regular (60),
(seventh day), [2]. ► Pulse 100 in the morning, afterwards
slower (third day), [2]. ► Pulse 100 and more while sitting, also
with some slow beats (eleventh day), [2].
► Pulse 90 at 7 P.M.; after half an
hour, 75 (fifth day), [2]. ► Pulse 90, increased by the slightest
cause (eleventh day), [2]. ► Pulse 80 and small (after half an hour);
55 to 60 (after one hour); 60 (after one hour and quarter); 95 (after
one hour and a half); 100 while sitting, small and weak (after two
hours); 90 (after two hours and three-quarters); 88 while sitting (after
three hours), [2]. ► Pulse 70 to 80, frequently very small and
rapid, then slow and full rising, after half an hour, to 100, then again
becoming slow; increased after an hour and a half (second day), [2]. ►
Pulse 65 (before taking); 84 (after fifteen minutes); 70 (after
three-quarters of a hour); 60 (after one hour), [2]. ► Rapid,
irregular pulse in the afternoon (first day), [4]. [270.] ► Pulse rapid, irregular, even when
standing; while walking in the room, it was not more rapid (second day),
[2]. ►
Pulse 80 at 3 P.M., somewhat irregular, more rapid while sitting erect;
much slower by fuller and larger when sitting bent forward (first day), [2]. ►
Pulse very irregular (after one hour), [2].
► Pulse very irregular, sometimes 9
while sitting (eleventh day), [2].
► Pulse very irregular in frequency,
sometimes 90 when seated (Roth). ►
Pulse 90, soon rising to 100, and afterwards to 110; very jerky (first
day), [2]. ►
The pulse was jerky; at times, some beats seem like a trembling in quick
succession, that is also felt in the chest, but indistinctly (after two
hours), [2]. ►
Fluttering pulse (after three-quarters of an hour), [2]. ►
Frequently the pulse could not be felt, but it was an undulation, until
after awhile some very small soft beats could be distinguished, without
any sensation in the chest (second day), [2].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Frequent cracking
in the upper cervical vertebræ on moving the head (seventh day), [2]. [280.]
► Heaviness in the nape of the neck, [1]. ►
Stiffness, with heaviness in the nape of the neck and occiput (eleventh
day), [2]. ►
Drawings in the cervical muscles, in the left shoulder (eleventh day), [2]. ►
Drawing in the left cervical muscles (third day), [2]. ►
Pulsation in the vessels of the right side of the neck (after two
hours), [2]. ► Back. ►
Painful lassitude along the back, with bruised feeling down to the
sacrum; constantly repeated, [1]. ► Weakness, alternately in back, knees, and
arms, as after great exertion (after a quarter of an hour), [2]. ►
Stiffness in the back, [1]. ► Painful stiffness of the back (seventh
day), [2]. ►
Stitch in the back, [1]. ► Dorsal. [290.]
► Pressure in the spine, in the
dorsal vertebræ (eleventh day), [2].
► Lancinating pain between the
scapulæ, in the shoulders and along the spine, as far as the sacrum,
especially when straightening himself up, with difficult breathing, [1]. ►
Pricking pain between the scapulæ, extending to the left shoulder, [1]. ►
Lumbar. ► Pains in the
left lumbar muscles, worse when bending or turning (second day), [2]. ►
Deep lancinations around the loins, [1].
► Sacral. ► Bruised pain in the sacrum, [1].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Objective. ►
Much cracking in the joints on moving (second and eleventh days), [2]. ►
A peculiar lightness and vigor in the limbs in spite of much walking
(first day), [2]. ► A peculiar lightness and flexibility of
the limbs in the morning, in spit of a bad night (second day), [3]. ►
Painful lassitude of the upper and lower limbs, [1]. [300.] ► Weakness of the limbs (third day), [2]. ►
Great weakness of the extremities (after one hour), [2]. ► Subjective.
► Sensation of weakness of some of
the extremities, especially of the left (fifth day), [2]. ► Drawing
in the arms and limbs, as if beaten (after two hours), [2]. ► Drawing
in the left calf and on the side of the right index finger (second day),
[2]. ►
Bruised pain alternating in different parts of the extremities (seventh
day), [2]. ►
Bruised and weary sensation in the extremities in the afternoon, while
walking (first day), [4]. ► Very transient bruised pains in various
muscles of the upper and lower extremities (first day), [2]. ► A
pressing bruised sensations alternating in the knee, ankle, and elbow of
the left side while sitting (second day), [2].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Weakness of the arms, with painful
drawing in the muscles of the upper arm (eleventh day), [2]. ► Shoulder.
[310.] ►
Decided sensation of weakness in the shoulders and upper arms, so that
all movements are difficult (seventh day), [2]. ► Pain in
the shoulders, with cracking in them (third day), [2]. ►
Pressure in the shoulder-joint a few time (twelfth day), [2]. ► Arm.
► Pressure in the left upper arm and
joint of the lower jaw (eleventh day), [2].
► Elbow. ►
Peculiar sensation of coldness and crawling in the right elbow and
parietal eminence (eleventh day), [2].
► Forearm. ► Constriction in the flesh of the lower
portion of the left arm (first day), [2].
► Violent compressing pain in the
muscles of the lower portion of the left forearm, as if a hoop were
tight about them (second day), [2].
► Hand. ►
Objects are held with uncertainty, so that they easily fall from the
hands, with a certain hastiness in all his movements (after four hours),
[2]. ►
On closing the hands, a sensation as if they were swollen and the skin
tight (first day), [2]. ► Sticking in the left hand, and loss of
sensation in the finger (first day), [4].
► Fingers. [320.] ►
Contraction in the fingers of the right hand and stiffness of their
joints, [1]. ►
Skin of the fingers agreeably warm, they feel fine and soft (first day),
[2].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Objective. ►
Retraction of the muscles of the right leg, with bruised pain in the
hip-joint, [1]. ► Great weakness of the right leg (after
one hour), [2]. ► Unsteady gait and commencing vertigo in
the open air (seventh day), [2]. ► Gait unsteady and tottering (after two
hours), [2]. ►
Gait uncertain, tottering, with the knees somewhat bent, the legs spread
apart (first day), [2]. ► Difficulty of ascending steps with
weakness, so that he does not know how he shall drag himself up the last
step (first day), [3]. ► Great difficulty in walking, with
limping, [1]. ► Subjective. ►
Sensation as though the gait were tottering, in the open air (after four
hours), [2]. [330.] ► A
sensation as though the gait were uncertain and tottering, repeated
every time on going into the open air, and sometimes real staggering in
the street, so that people were surprised, especially noticed on
descending steps (first day), [2].
► Heaviness of the lower limbs, [1]. ►
Cramp-pain on the right side, from the hip-joint to the tips of the
toes, [1]. ► Hip. ►
Violent cutting pain in the right hip, extending into the abdomen, and
forcing him to bend over for two or three minutes, [1]. ► Bruised
pain in the hips (eleventh day), [2].
► Thigh. ►
Pain and transient stiffness in the left thigh, from the groin to the
knee, [1]. ►
Pressure in the muscles of the left thigh (third day), [2]. ►
Pressive pain in the muscles of the interior and middle portions of both
thighs while sitting (first day), [2].
► Knee. ►
Cracking in the right knee-joint, on moving it and while sitting (first
day), [3]. ►
Pain in the outer side of the right knee, [1].
[340.] ►
Pressure in the right knee (eleventh day), [2]. ►
Cramplike sensation in the right calf (first day), [3]. ► Drawing
in the right calf (eleventh day), [2].
► Pressive drawing in the calves
(first day), [2]. ► Pressure in the right calf (second day), [2]. ►
Sticking in the right tibia, then in the left, with walking and sitting
(third day), [2]. ► Tearing in the muscles here and there in
the left lower leg (first day), [2].
► Tearing pain in the left tibia
(first day), [2]. ► Constant tearing on the surface of the
left leg, between the tibia and fibula (first day), [9]. ► Ankle.
► Tensive pain above and behind the
left malleolus, extending down to the sole of the foot, while walking;
worse while walking rapidly, so that he limped, but the pain is only at
the instant when the left foot leaves the ground and the tension is
brought upon the tendo Achillis; it disappears when walking slowly
(fifth day), [2]. [350.] ►
Very transient pressure in the ankles and knees, which soon returns and
alternates with drawing in the calves and right joint of the lower jaw,
mostly when walking (after half an hour), [4].
► Lancinating, tearing pain in the
right ankle-joint, [1]. ► Foot. ►
Weakness of the feet (first day), [3].
► Drawing, with sensation of
coldness, extending upward from the back of both feet, momentarily while
sitting (second day), [2]. ► Feeling of internal trembling in the tips
of the left toes (after half an hour), [2].
► Painful pressure in the right great
toe, in the muscles of the forepart and middle of both thighs (after ten
minutes), [2]. ► A peculiar weak pressing in the toes of
the right side (first day), [2]. ► Sharp pain in the left great toe, long
affected with a sort of gouty swelling, which has disappeared, [1]. ►
Lancinations alternately in both great toes, [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► Strength
increased so as to bear labor better, [5].
[360.] ►
All feeling of fatigue removed, in an hour after taking, when so
fatigued and wearied as to be scarce able to sit on horse-back, [5]. ►
Indolence, rather than weakness (first day), [3]. ►
Depression of strength; lassitude in the limbs, [1]. ► Great
weakness after a short walk (eleventh day), [2]. ► Great
weakness, and heaviness in forehead, on coming into the house (first
day), [2]. ►
Constant great weakness (first day), [3].
► Very great exhaustion, especially
in the limbs (after one hour), [2].
► Internal uneasiness obliges him to
walk (after half an hour and third day), [2].
► Sensitiveness to daylight (after
one hour), [2]. ► Sensitiveness to cold; he easily incurs
attacks of painful lassitude, [1].
► Subjective. [370.] ► A
peculiar pervading joyous sensation of vigor and elasticity, especially
in the upper extremities (second day), [4].
► The feeling of weakness entirely
disappears and gives place to an agreeable sensation of lightness and
clearness of mind (after two hours), [2].
► A sensation of special lightness
when walking, with the same sense of power in the limbs (later action),
(first day), [2]. ► While sitting, as sensation as if the
body fell backward (eleventh day), [2].
► Feeling of great weakness;
disinclined to every exertion (after one hour and three-quarters), [2]. ►
Feeling of great weakness, especially in the limbs, with pressing pain
in various muscles (seventh day), [2].
► A sudden general sensation of great
weakness, with creeping coldness, flushes of heat, and cool
perspiration, with longing to expose the body to the cold air, and to
have something strengthening, at 7 P.M. (first day), [2]. ►
Peculiar sensation of weakness, and feeling of internal trembling in the
limbs (soon), [2]. ► General heaviness (first day), [2]. ►
General malaise, [1]. [380.] ►
Malaise and yawning, [1]. ► Malaise, drowsiness, internal coldness,
external heat, formication in all the fingers, yawning, stretching,
shivering, trembling, thirst, dryness of the mouth, drawing in the
stomach, weakness of the thighs and legs, as when convalescing from
sickness, [1]. ► The symptoms have a tendency to affect
the right side of the body, [1].
SKIN.
►
Cutaneous veins very small (eleventh day), [2]. ►
Eruption of itching pimples on the neck and chest, [1]. ►
Prickling in the calves (after one hour), [2].
► Formication at night, along the
thigh and right leg, as far as the great toe, which becomes the seat of
very painful lancinations for an hour, [1].
► Formication along the right thigh
and leg to the foot, accompanied with stiffness, [1]. ► Itching
under the right foot, [1].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Much
yawning, though he had slept all the morning (fifth day), [2]. [390.] ► Great sleepiness, [1]. ► Very
great inclination to sleep (second day), [4].
► Drowsiness; invincible propensity
to sleep, [1]. ► Deep, prolonged, quiet sleep towards
morning, [1]. ► He awakes with difficulty, or else with a
start, [1]. ► Dreams. ►
Many dreams at night, with frequent waking, mostly with headache (first
night), [3]. ►
Pleasant, voluptuous, very vivid dreams, constantly repeated every time
he takes the drug, [1]. ► The dreams are not exciting, although
they are clearly remembered, [1].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Coldness and
trembling, with numbness of the hands and coldness of the fingers, which
become white, benumbed, and prickly, so that they cannot be got warm
again for three-quarters of an hour, [1].
► He cannot get warm after returning
from a walk, [1]. [400.] ►
Chilliness through the back (after three-quarters of an hour), [2]. ►
Chilliness over the back, with warm extremities (fifth day), [2]. ►
Frequent chilliness through the back, extending into the arms, with cold
skin and bluish nails, great weakness of the right limb, oppressed
respiration, with pulse at 60, while walking and sitting; pupils
contracted, and sensitive to daylight (after one hour), [2]. ► Much
chilliness through the back (third day), [2].
► Coldness pierces into the interior
of the occiput (after one hour), [2].
► Some coldness through the back
(soon), [2]. ►
Great coldness in the back, extending into the limbs, which were also
icy cold externally and felt bruised (after half a hour), [2]. ►
Sensation of great coldness in the back, extending into the bones of the
back, with cold hands and blue nails, repeatedly (seventh day), [2]. ►
Violent coldness within the spine; there is also a feeling of coldness
in the extremities and head, with great weakness of the extremities and
pressure in the testicles and elbows, with frequent deep breathing,
oppression of the chest, and prickling in the calves (pulse 55 to 60);
better while walking (after one hour), [2].
► Heat. ►
The skin is warm, and seems to the fingers soft and fine (after two
hours), [2]. [410.] ► A
small glass of Malaga wine caused remarkable heat of the whole body,
especially of the back, with distended veins (third day), [2]. ► Violent
burning heat in the tips of the fingers (fifth day), [2].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Night), Formication along thigh, etc. ► (In open air),
Vertigo; objects swim before eyes; dryness of lips, etc.; unsteady gait,
etc. ► (Bending
or turning), Pains in lumbar muscles. ►
(Descending stairs), Vertigo;
sensation of uncertain gait. ► (After dinner), Heavy head. ► (On exerting
mind), Drawing in occiput. ►
(Sitting), Sensation in occiput;
oppression of breath; sensation in knees, etc.; pain in muscles of
thighs; drawing, etc., from back of feet. ►
(When straightening up), Pain
between scapulæ, etc. ► (Talking), Dryness of lips, etc.; scraping in
fauces. ► (Walking),
Pressure in ankles, etc. ► (Walking rapidly), Pain in left malleolus. ► (Wine),
Heat of body. ► Amelioration. ► (Eating),
Dryness of mouth. ► (Walking), Oppression in region of heart;
coldness within spine, etc. ► (Walking slowly), Pain about malleolus.® 2000
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