NATRUM CARBONICUM.
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► *Nose red, with
white pimples upon it, [1].
[210.] ►
*Ulceration high up within the nostrils, [1]. ►
Frequent sneezing, without coryza (after thirteen hours), [4]. ►
Frequent persistent sneezing, in the morning (eleventh day), [7]. ►
Forcible sneezing once, with rush of blood into the head, so that he saw
white stars before the eyes (fourth day), [7].
►► *Much nasal mucus passes through
the mouth (fifth day), [1].
► *Yellow offensive discharge from the
nose (seventh and eighth days), [7]. ► *Thick
green mucus is blown from the nose (twenty-second day), [8]. ►
Frequent intermitting coryza, with burning in the eyes (the whole
twelfth day), [7]. ► Fluent coryza in the forenoon,
disappearing in the afternoon (thirteenth day), [7]. ►
Profuse, fluent coryza, with chilliness over the whole body, cold hands
and cheeks, and hoarseness, without thirst, [4]. [220.] ► *Very profuse coryza (tenth day), [1]. ►
Extremely profuse, fluent coryza (after eleventh days), [1]. ► *Coryza,
with discharge of thin mucus, and frequent sneezing (second
day), [7]. ► *Stopped catarrh (after six days), [1]. ►
Profuse stopped catarrh, especially after dinner, and frequent sneezing,
[1]. ►
*Coryza, with stoppage of the nose; she thought she would
suffocate at night for want of air, and was obliged to keep her mouth
constantly open (tenth and eleventh days), [7]. ► Coryza,
at one time fluent, at another stopped (fifth day), [7]. ► *Bleeding
of the nose (after twelve days), [1]. ► Blowing
of blood from the nose, in the morning, [1].
► Subjective. ► The nose seems stopped for half an hour
(first day), [7]. [230.] ►
*Stoppage of the nose, with hard offensive pieces, that come from one
nostril (after fourteen days), [1].
► Stoppage of the nose when talking, [1]. ►
Dryness of the nose, [1]. ► Drawing pain in the outer right side of
the nose, relieved by rubbing (first day), [7]. ►
Sensation as though a hard substance were sticking in the upper part of
the left nostril, which does not disappear on blowing the nose, lasting
two days (after four days), [7]. ► Constant tickling in the nose, not
relieved by scratching (twelfth day), [7].
► Smell. ►
Smell more acute (secondary action?), [1].
FACE.
►
Redness of the face, with warm forehead; without sensation of internal
heat (after two hours), [7]. ► Alternating redness and paleness of the
face, at 3 P.M. (seventh day), [7].
► Face yellow, [1]. [240.] ► Earthy, wan complexion, [10]. ► *Paleness
of the face, blue rings around the eyes, swollen lids (after
twenty-four days), [1]. ► She looks very pale, as after severe
illness (seventh day), [7]. ► *Face puffy, [1]. ► Slight
puffiness of the face, [10]. ► Pressive pains in the bones of the face,
aggravated by walking in the open air, [1].
► Cheeks. ► *Swelling of both cheeks, with glowing redness,
[1]. ►
Violent drawing in the cheek-bone, [1].
► Pressive pain in both cheek-bones, [1]. ►
Acute needle-like stitch in the upper part of the left cheek, at 3 P.M.
(first day), [7]. [250.] ►
Tearing in the right zygoma, returning after rubbing (first day), [7]. ►
Tearing in the left zygoma, extending up into the head, with sticking
pain in the forehead, at 4 P.M. (second day), [7]. ► Violent
tearing in the right zygoma, as if the bone would be torn out, with
sensitiveness to touch, at 3 P.M. (first day), [7]. ► Lips.
► Twitching of the upper lip (after
eighteen days), [1]. ► Twitching of the right side of the upper
lip, frequently returning, in the afternoon (sixth day), [7]. ► Burning
in a small spot on the upper lip and right corner of the mouth, as from
a vesicle, [7]. ► Chin. ►
Rheumatic pain in the jaws, [1]. ► Frequent intermitting tearing in the left
lower jaw, in the afternoon (fourth day), [7].
► Bruised pain at the angle of the
left lower jaw, disappearing on pressure, after dinner (third day), [7]. ►
Beating in the right side of the lower jaw, extending from the middle
toward the chin, after breakfast (first day), [7]. [260.] ► Twitching in the left side of the lower
jaw, at 1 1/2 P.M. (first day), [7].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Looseness of the
teeth, [1]. ►
Sensation as if cold air were coming out of the right upper carious
teeth, after dinner (first day), [7].
► Toothache, with swelling of the
gum, and violent fever; for three days (after second day), [1]. ►
Burrowing toothache, immediately after a breakfast of bread and butter;
the right cheek was swollen, and if he touched it, especially if he
pressed upon the upper jaw, the pain was very much aggravated; smelling
saturated solution of camphor afforded no marked relief (twenty-eighth
day), [8]. ►
Burrowing and boring in a hollow tooth, ceasing only on falling asleep
(twelfth day), [8]. ► A violent boring-burrowing toothache in a
hollow tooth woke him at 4 A.M., aggravated by touch of the tongue,
ceasing after half an hour, when he fell asleep; it returned after
breakfast, when he ate honey, also after eating sweets at dinner, and
lasting very violent till 4 P.M., and then less till 7 P.M.; during this
time he was in the open air, in cold, rainy weather; the pain ceased
during supper; mesmerizing and smoking tobacco afforded no relief
(twenty-sixth day), [8]. ► Drawing boring in the hollow teeth, [1]. ►
Dull drawing pressive pains in a hollow tooth, after taking cold (eighth
day), [8]. ►
Toothache, as if the teeth would be pulled out, day and night, somewhat
relieved by warmth; with bleeding of the gum on slightest touch; this is
associated with coldness of the body, lasting all day, together with
thirst, and lasting two weeks, only gradually diminishing (after sixteen
days), [8]. [270.] ►
Pressive pain in a tooth while half asleep, and on waking, [1]. ►
Pressive toothache after lying down, for several evenings, [1]. ►
Dull pressure and boring in a hollow tooth, in the afternoon (fourth
day), [8]. ►
Dull sticking in a hollow tooth after dinner, disappearing on smoking;
on eating pears the toothache returns; also in the evening a burrowing
toothache while walking, that after supper becomes pulsating, and only
ceases on falling asleep (eighteenth day), [8]. ► Sudden
stitch in a sound tooth (twenty-third day), [8]. ► Tearing
toothache only a night, after 9 P.M., not during the day, [1]. ►
Toothache (tearing?), lasting all night, followed by swelling of the
lower lip and cessation of the pain (after fourteen hours), [1]. ►
Tearing in the tips of the left lower teeth, afterwards under the chin,
and afterwards again in a lower tooth, at 11 A.M. (first day), [7]. ►
Jerking tearing in the left lower teeth, in the evening (fourth day), [7]. ►
*Sensitiveness of the teeth, as if scorbutic, and as from bog
water (moorwasser), (after three days), [1].
[280.] ►
Extreme sensitiveness of the lower teeth, for two days (after
twenty-four days), [7]. ► Jerkings in the teeth while eating, [1]. ►
Frequent jerking in the right lower teeth, and great sensitiveness of
the tips of the teeth, in the afternoon (first day), [7]. ► Tearing
and jerking in a left eye-tooth, in the evening, disappearing after
lying down (eleventh day), [7]. ► Looseness of a left upper back tooth,
without pain, in the evening; after two days it became tight again
(after six days), [7]. ► A fine transient boring in the left lower
anterior molars, at 10 A.M. (first day), [7].
► Tearing in the left upper back
teeth, lasting half and hour (third day), [7].
► Some tearings in the right lower
anterior molars and in their gum, in the forenoon (first day), [7]. ►
Tearing and jerking in the last left lower molars, as if coming out of
the teeth, day and night, especially after dinner (twenty-fifth day), [7]. ►
Transient tearing in the left lower anterior molars, on walking in the
open air, at 10 A.M. (nineteenth day), [7].
[290.] ►
Painful tearing in the last left upper molars, in the afternoon (fourth
day), [7]. ►
Jerking tearing in the right lower back teeth, in the forenoon
(twenty-first day), [7]. ► Cold crawling ran through the right upper
back teeth, momentarily, at noon (third day), [7]. ► Gums.
► Gum loose (after twenty-three
days), [1]. ►
The gum on the inner side of the anterior lower teeth seems, to the
touch of the tongue, as rough as a file, at 3 P.M. (second day), [7]. ►
Bleeding of the gum (after a few hours), [1].
► The lower gum of the left side is
painful, as if ulcerated, for two days (after twenty-four days), [7]. ►
Tongue. ► Tongue pale, [1]. ►
*Pimples on the tip of the tongue (after a few hours), [1]. ►
Small pimples on the left side of the tongue with sticking pain, [1]. [300.] ► A
papular eruption beneath the tongue, painful to touch, [1]. ► A
tensive blister on the right margin of the tongue, of short duration, at
5.30 P.M. (first day), [7]. ► A pustule near the frænum linguæ, [1]. ►
Biting on the tip of the tongue, as from salt water, [1]. ► *Burning
about the whole tip of the tongue, as if it were full of cracks,
at 2 P.M. (second day), [7]. ► Sore pain in the tip of the tongue when
touched with the teeth, [8]. ► General Mouth. ►
Musty odor from the mouth, [1]. ► A large blister on the inner side of the
left cheek, that after pressure exudes water, and disappears after
twenty-four hours (after nineteen days), [7].
► *Several superficial ulcerated spots in
the mouth, with burning pain when touched, [1]. ► Dryness of
the mouth and tongue, that calls for drink, [1]. [310.] ► *Constant dryness of the mouth and lips, which
she was constantly obliged to lick, as if caused by the heat of the
breath (after seven days), [1].
► Heat and dryness of the mouth, with
great thirst, for some hours every morning after rising, [6]. ►
Painful, sore sensation on the inner side of the cheek, when chewing, [1]. ►
Saliva. ► Profuse
accumulation of tasteless, watery saliva (nearly the whole three days), [7]. ►
Gluey saliva, for several days, [1].
► Saliva salty, with biting on the
tip of the tongue (after five days), [1].
► Profuse tasteless water collects in
the mouth, for an hour, at 1 P.M. (twelfth day), [7]. ►
Collection of sour-tasting water in the mouth, in the forenoon (eleventh
day), [7]. ►
Insipid mucus in the mouth, [1]. ► Taste. ►
Increased acuteness of taste (secondary action?), [1]. [320.] ► Flat, slimy taste on waking, with
bitterness in the mouth, and white-coated tongue (fifth day), [8]. ►
Very bad taste in the mouth, on waking in the morning, and a sensation
as if burnt, that disappeared after eating soup (ninth day), [7]. ►
He woke at 4 A.M. with a nauseous taste in the mouth, and violent
erections (thirtieth day), [8]. ► Sweet taste in the mouth (eighth day), [1]. ►
Bitter taste in the mouth, in the afternoon (after thirteen days), [1]. ►
A bitter taste frequently comes low down in the throat, like a vapor, [1]. ►
Sudden bitter taste in the mouth, and then uprisings of bitter water, so
that he spat constantly (after half an hour), [7]. ► Bitter,
flat taste in the mouth, in the morning (first day), [8]. ► Bitter,
slimy taste in the mouth, in the morning, disappearing after rising and
eating (ninth day), [7]. ► Rancid, bitter taste to all food,
disappearing after eating, [4]. [330.] ►
Sour taste in the mouth (after three days), [1]. ► Sour taste
in the mouth, and thickly coated tongue, [1]. ► Sourish
taste in the mouth, in the morning after waking (fifth day), [7]. ►
Metallic taste in the mouth, in the afternoon (after fourteen
days), [1]. ►
Taste of blood in the mouth, on exhaling, [1].
► Taste as of an old tobacco-pipe, at
4 P.M., after spitting a watery saliva; it lasted a long time, and
afterwards seemed to cause a biting on the tongue (third day), [7]. ►
Sudden purulent taste in throat, as from an internal ulcer (tenth day), [7]. ►
The dinner tastes bitter, though she eats with tolerable
appetite (third day), [7]. ► Speech. ►
Speech was irksome, [1]. ► *Tongue not facile; speech difficult,
[1]. [340.]
► Lisping with the tongue, for
several days, [1].
THROAT.
►
Objective. ► Inflammation
of the throat, with swelling of the right tonsil; sticking and retching
on swallowing, as from a swelling, mostly on the left side, where the
tonsil was not swollen, morning and night (eleventh day), [7]. ► A piece
of mucus collects in the throat at night, and wakes him in the morning
by tickling and irritation, but he easily raises it; after a short time
a second piece collects, and irritation, but he easily raises it; after
a short time a second piece collects, and also is easily raised; the
rawness in the chest, however, remains, and gradually disappears, after
rising from bed (twenty-second day), [8].
► A piece of mucus sticks fast in the
throat, and causes scraping, and is not loosened by hawking
(twenty-second day), [8]. ► Easy hawking of mucus, in the morning
(eighteenth day), [8]. ►► *Violent hawking up of thick mucus that
constantly collects again (thirteenth day), [7]. ► Subjective.
► Dry throat; he hawks very much,
without raising any mucus (twenty-seventh day), [8]. ► Dryness
of the throat and tongue, without thirst, at night, [1]. ► On
running rapidly, a sensation as if something were rising into the
throat, [1]. ►
Pain in the left side of the throat, on yawning (second day), [1]. [350.]
► Sticking in the throat while
yawning and swallowing, at 6 P.M. (tenth day), [7]. ►
Sticking in the throat, with much ecptysis, [1]. ►
Sticking and rawness in the throat, with dry cough (fifth day), [7]. ►
Some sticking in the throat, as from mucus, which she attempts to raise
by hawking, at 4 P.M. (tenth day), [7].
► Some short stitches in the right
side of the throat, in the afternoon, in the open air (twelfth day), [7]. ►
Violent dull stitches in the left side of the throat, with redness, in
the morning after waking; only on swallowing (ninth day), [7]. ► Sharp
stitches in the throat, when swallowing and when not, lasting a quarter
of an hour, in the afternoon (fourth day), [7]. ► A
pressing kind of sore throat, after stooping; she swallows with
difficulty, on account of the sore pain; several days afterwards, a
sensation as if something were sticking in the throat, [1]. ► Rawness
in the throat (nearly the whole third day), [7]. ► Rawness
and dryness in the throat, as if hoarse; was frequently obliged to hawk
in order to relieve it (after one hour), [7].
[360.] ►
Raw, scraped throat for several days, especially in the evening
(twentieth day), [8]. ► Raw, scraping scratching in the throat,
relieved by eating (twenty-first day), [8].
► Scraping and rawness in the throat,
when swallowing and when not, felt even in the brain, [1]. ►
Rancidity in the throat, for a long time, at 6 P.M. (fifth day), [7]. ►
Disagreeable rancid feeling in the throat (the whole eleventh day), [7]. ►
Tickling in the throat, with stitches, especially on swallowing, in the
afternoon, lasting till evening (first day), [7]. ► A
scraping dry sensation in the fauces, by the posterior nares, especially
in the open air, [1]. ► Pressure in the œsophagus, [1]. ►
Swallowing. ► On
swallowing, the morsel descends only by pressing with the mouth, [1]. ►
External Throat. ► Glandular
swellings in the throat, [1].
[370.] ►
*Swelling of the submaxillary glands, [1]. ► The
goitre increases, [1]. ► A swelling as large as a pea, constantly
increasing in size, and very painful to touch, on the left side of the
neck, wherewith she was hot; her voice gave out while speaking; the
whole throat seemed raw as far down as into the chest; the scraping in
the throat was aggravated by coughing; at the same time she had pressure
on the vertex, so that she could not press upon it; for five days (after
eleven days), [8]. ► Violent pressure in the goitre, [1]. ►
Sticking pain in the parotid gland, which is also painful to touch, [1]. ►
Very fine sticking at the thyroid gland, anteriorly and externally, in
the forenoon (seventeenth day), [7].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Great appetite
morning, noon, and evening (first day), [8].
► More hunger than usual, [7]. ►
Much more hunger and appetite for breakfast than usual (first day), [8]. ►
Hunger for breakfast, but he had scarcely satisfied himself, when there
was a pressure in the stomach, and he became ill-humored (twenty-sixth
day), [8]. [380.] ►
He became hungry towards noon, contrary to habit, though he had eaten a
good breakfast; was obliged to eat a piece of bread and butter, when the
weak sensation disappeared (third and fourth days), [8]. ►
Increased sensation of hunger in the afternoon, when it was quite
unusual (first day), [7]. ► *Incessant hunger (after fifteen days), [7]. ►
Excessive hunger in the forenoon, little at noon, [1]. ►
Ravenous hunger in the afternoon (seventh day), [7]. ►
Disposed to nibble; as soon as he sees anything eatable, he wishes to
taste it (third day), [8]. ► After dinner great desire for a pipe of
tobacco, which had not tasted so good for a long time (fifth day), [8]. ►
She has appetite and hunger, but is soon satisfied, [7]. ►
Appetite for dinner not as good as usual; meat not at all relished;
bread tastes best (first day), [7].
► She has very little appetite,
though the stomach seems empty (seventh day), [7]. [390.] ► Neither hunger nor appetite at noon and
in the evening (sixth day), [8]. ► Anorexia, [10].
► She relishes no food, and hence
eats nothing, [1]. ► Aversion to meat and fat food (second
day), [1]. ►
Aversion to milk, ordinarily her favorite diet (first days), [7]. ►
Thirst. ► Thirst even in
the morning (seventh day), [7]. ► *Thirst in the afternoon (sixth and
tenth days); in evening, after going to sleep (seventh and eleventh
days), [7]; after walking (second
day), [1]. ► *Much thirst, [1]; in forenoon (twenty-third days), [8]. ►
Great thirst, only while eating, [1].
► Excessive thirst (the whole first
day), [6]. [400.] ► Excessive thirst towards noon, also
continuing in the afternoon (sixth day), [7].
► Violent thirst for cold water a few
hours after dinner, [4]. ► Eructations and Hiccough. ► Many eructations, with excessive vertigo,
while eating (after sixteen days), [1].
► *Frequent eructations (after
a few days), [1]. ► Frequent eructations in the forenoon
(eleventh day), [7]. ► Constant eructations, and emission of
much flatus, [1]. ► *Empty eructations (third day), [8]. ►
Empty eructations, followed by heat in pharynx, at 2 P.M. (first day), [7]. ►
Eructations tasting of food, after every meal, [1]. ► Bitter
eructations, which he tasted for a long time, in the forenoon (second
day), [7]. [410.] ►►
*Sour eructations, [1].
► *Frequent sour eructations in the
afternoon (eleventh day), [7].
► Frequent bilious eructations that
penetrated into the nose, in the afternoon (third day), [7]. ►
Uprisings of water of a sweetish taste, but only as far as the throat,
so that he was constantly obliged to swallow it again, at 3 P.M. (second
day), [7]. ►
Hiccough every afternoon after eating, [1].
► Frequent hiccough, [4]. ►
Violent hiccough during dinner, making the stomach sore (third day), [7]. ►
Such violent hiccough at 6 P.M., that it caused bitter uprising from the
stomach for half an hour (third day), [7].
► Hiccough so violent and long
continued that everything became sore, in the evening (fourth day), [7]. ►
*Waterbrash (after fifteen days), [1]. [420.] ► Scraping heartburn, after fat food (after
three days), [1]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea in the stomach, with a sensation
of fasting, that disappeared after soup, in the morning, (sixth day), [7]. ►
Nausea, aversion, and qualmishness in the morning, with crawling and
twisting about in the stomach, accumulation of water in the mouth, and
eructations; did not disappear after soup in the morning, but lasted
till noon (eleventh day), [7]. ► Nausea in the stomach, with uprisings of
water in the mouth, nearly all day, [7].
► Nausea, with shuddering, and a
feeling of fulness in the stomach, [7].
► Constant nausea, with yawning, the
whole forenoon (first day), [7]. ► Great nausea in the stomach, though
without inclination to vomit, disappearing after eating, in the forenoon
(fifteenth day), [7]. ► Qualmishness in the stomach, with tension
in the hypochondria, after fruit (tenth day), [8]. ►
Qualmishness and nausea in the stomach, as if he had taken cold,
followed by warmth in the pit of the stomach (immediately), [8]. ►
Extreme inclination to vomit, with nausea, heat of the face, excessive
hawking of mucus, and efforts to vomit till actual vomiting of frothy
tasteless mucus resulted; better towards evening, on eating (sixth and
seventh days), [8]. [430.] ►
*Violent retching in the morning, without actual vomiting, [8]. ►
Vomiting of offensive sour liquid, like muddy water (while coughing), [1]. ►
Stomach. ► *The stomach is
weak, and easily disordered, [1].
► A stoppage from below upward after
eating, as if digestion could not go on from above downward, lasting
three or four hours, followed by relaxation of the hands and feet, [1]. ►
Disagreeable feeling of fasting in the stomach, in the forenoon (fourth
day), [7]. ►
Feeling of a disordered stomach, that disappears after eating warm soup,
but returns (first day), [7]. ► Pain in the stomach, after milk soup
(fourth day), [7]. ► Pain in the stomach, with sensitiveness,
even to external pressure, and accumulation of water in the mouth;
relieved by eating bread, at 4 P.M. (first day), [7]. ► Fulness
in the stomach, in the evening, and no desire for food (ninth day), [8]. ►
Feeling of fulness in the stomach, and as if something were rising up,
at 4 A.M., in bed (second day), [7].
[440.] ►
The stomach feels swollen and is sensitive (eleventh day), [7]. ►
Unpleasant tension just above the pit of the stomach (seventeenth day), [7]. ►
Painful contraction about the stomach in the evening, extending
afterwards also to both hypochondria, so that she was obliged to bend
up; relieved by stretching up and by walking, aggravated by stooping and
sitting; in the evening lasting in bed till the next morning, though
less severe, together with a jerking in the right side, below the
stomach, as if a worm were turning about (tenth day), [7]. ►
Internal pain like a griping about the stomach, extending toward the
left side, at 1 P.M. (first day), [7].
► Griping in the stomach after the
morning drink, [1]. ► Griping and beating in the epigastric
region, as from a worm, at 2.30 A.M. (tenth day), [7]. ► Pain
like a pressure and retching about the epigastric region in the morning,
lasting two hours, and then disappearing on moving about, [7]. ►
Pressure and rumbling in the stomach, disappearing after eructations, in
the forenoon (third day), [7]. ► Pressure in the stomach, as from a stone,
at 3 P.M. (eleventh day), [7]. ► Pressure and griping in the stomach,
while walking, with tremulousness, [1].
[450.] ►
*Violent pressure in the stomach, after dinner and breakfast, for
several days (after eighteen days), [1]. ► Lies
like a heavy lump in the stomach, after dinner, [1]. ► Feeling
as if a hard substance were extending from the præcordial region to the
pit of the stomach, and a constriction in the stomach, after dinner
(third day), [7]. ► Pain in the stomach, like a cutting,
towards the small of the back, in the forenoon (first day), [7]. ►
Cutting in the epigastric region while walking, then extending towards
the navel, with a feeling as if a stool would occur, at 4 P.M. (sixth
day), [7]. ►
Cutting and drawing internally and externally in the stomach (the whole
twenty-second day), [7]. ► Very painful sticking and feeling of
retraction in the epigastric region, in a broad streak extending across
to the right side, lasting a long time, in the afternoon (first day), [7]. ►
Very sharp painful stitch deep in the left side of the stomach, followed
by burning, at 3.30 P.M. (first day), [7].
► A violent stitch, as with a knife,
in the epigastric region before dinner, afterwards a similar one beneath
the left breast on inspiration (first day), [7]. ► When
talking, the pit of the stomach was very sore, and the saliva was
frothy, as if beaten up, [1]. [460.] ►
Great external sensitiveness of the epigastric region to touch, in the
forenoon (tenth day), [7]. ► *The stomach was painful to touch
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