NATRUM MURIATICUM.
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Eyes slightly
red and watery (fifth day), [5a]. ► Some redness of the white of the eye
(third day), [5a]. ►► *Redness of the white of the eyes, with
lachrymation (third and fourth days), [1]. [410.] ► *Redness and inflammation of the white of the
eye, with a feeling as if the balls
were too large, and compressed,
[1]. ►
*Inflammation of the eyes, and lachrymation, in every slight wind,
[1]. ►►
*Giving out of the eyes (second day), [5]. ►► *The
eyes give out on reading; with a
pressure in the right eye, extending into the head, disappearing on
walking about the room (ninth day), [5]. ►► *The
eyes give out on writing (twelfth day), [5]. ► Subjective.
► On blowing the nose, it seemed to
blow into the left eye, and, indeed, a spot on the upper lid, by the
inner canthus, seemed distended with air, and he thought, especially the
first time, that something had come out of the eye; afterwards the spot
remained painfully sore, especially to touch; in the afternoon (second
day), [5]. ►
Feeling of dryness, with pressure in the inner canthi, in the evening, [1]. ►
*Sensitive dry sensation in the eyes, as after weeping a long time,
while riding in a carriage (fourth day), [5]. ► Feeling
as though the left eye were smaller than the right (third day), [24b]. ►
*Pain as from a foreign body in the eyes, [1]. [420.] ► Left eye burns at 12.30 P.M.; both eyes
feel hot, in the evening (third day), [49].
► *Burning in the eyes, with increased
secretion of mucus; the lids are agglutinated in the morning, with great
sensitiveness to lamplight, [27].
► Burning in the right inner canthus,
provoking rubbing (twelfth day), [5].
► Burning pain in a small point in
the eye, [1]. ► *Violent burning in the eyes in the evening
(seventeenth day), [1]. ► (Dry burning in the eyes, in the evening,
when writing), (eighth day), [5]. ► Tension in the eyes, [1]. ► Boring
pain in the eye, [1]. ► Twitching on the lower margin of the
right eye (third day), [22b]. ► *Pressure in the eyes, [1]. [430.] ► Pressure in the eyes, especially the
right eye, in the evening (fourteenth day), [5]. ►
Pressure in the eye at twilight, [1].
► Pressure in the right eye, [1]; (second day), [5]; towards 11 P.M. (eighth day), [24]. ►►
*Pressure in the eye on looking intently at anything, [1]. ►
*Sticking in the right eye (seventh and fourteenth days), [4]. ►
Sticking in the canthi (after four hours), [1]. ► A
transient stitch in the left inner canthus, alternating with a similar
one on the crest of the right ilium (third day), [22b]. ► Fine
stitches, as from sand, in the left external canthus (after 3d trit.), [22a]. ►
Tearing in the canthi, with darkness before the eyes, [13]. ►
*Sensitiveness of the eyes, [32a].
[440.] ►
*Smarting pain in the eyes, [1].
►► *Sensation as if sand were in
the eye, in the morning, [1].
► Jerking in the eyes frequently
during the day, followed by violent itching, obliging rubbing, [1]. ►
Jerking in the left external canthus, especially in the evening (fourth
day), [1]. ► *Itching in the eye, [1]. ► *Itching in
the eyes, that obliges rubbing (fifteenth day), [5]. ►
Itching in the right external canthus (sixth day), [22c]. ►
Itching in the left external canthus (after half an hour), [1]. ►
*Itching in the inner canthi, and lachrymation, [1]. ►
Itching in the left inner canthus, obliging rubbing (after 8th dil.), [22]. [450.]
► *Violent itching of the left inner
canthus, [1]. ► Sticking itching in the left inner
canthus (seventh day), [22c]. ► Brow and Orbit. ►
Pressure above the eye and in the temple, with dulness of the head
(second day), [1]. ► Pressure as from a swelling above the
right eye, aggravated by raising the eyebrows, for a day and a half, [1]. ►
Pressive pain above the left eye, [1].
► *Slight pressive pain above the
eyebrows (after 24th dil.), [17].
► Sticking pain just above both
eyebrows (seventeenth day), [25]. ► Itching-sticking pain below the left eye
(after ten hours), [1]. ► Transient stitch in the right eyebrow,
extending horizontally through the brain (after 3d trit.), [22]. ►
Very tender in bone all round left
eye and left nasal bone, and tearing and shooting in bone over left eye; this lasted all day; pain
in orbit relieved by lying on left side, and by cold water, before
menses (after two hours), [52]. [460.] ►
The left outer margin of the orbit was painful to touch, as if bruised
(fourth day), [5]. ► Stitchlike itching on the orbital margin
of the left eye (towards the external canthus), in the evening (third
day), [22b]. ► Lids. ►
*Redness of the margins of the lids; in the morning the eyes were
agglutinated with scabs; this lasted a week (after the
crude), [20]. ► *A catarrhal affection of the margins of the
lids developed; they became red, with burning, especially in the evening
while reading; secreted mucus and were agglutinated in the morning on
waking, and covered with thick scabs (after 5th dil.), [17]. ►
Constant ulceration and great redness of the lower lid, [1]. ► A
pimple on the margin of the lower lid, not in the meibomian glands, [1]. ►
A large stye in the right inner canthus, [1].
► The eyes are agglutinated in the
morning, [1]. ► Agglutination of the eyes on waking in
the morning, and sticking and pressure in the left eye, but without
redness (sixth day), [11a]. ► Trembling of the upper and lower lids,
for several weeks, [1]. [470.] ►
Trembling and twitching of the left upper lid, after dinner
(twenty-eighth day), [25]. ► Jerking and twitching of the right upper
lid, in the morning (second day), [25].
► Violent twitching of the eyes, [1]. ►
Spasmodic closure of the lids, in the morning on rising, in
the twilight, and at night; even when she closed the eyes she felt the
contraction, [1]. ► Difficulty of opening the lids, though
completely awake, at night, [28b].
► *Irritability of the margins of the
lids, and their conjunctiva (sixth day), [22b]. ►
Heaviness of the upper lids (twenty-first day), [25]. ►
Heaviness of the lids, so that she could scarcely open the eyes
(sixteenth day), [25]. ► Sensation as though the right upper lid
would fall down (third day), [25].
► Sensation in the right lower lid,
as if the skin were somewhat rough (second day), [5]. [480.] ► The margins of the lids and the canthi
(especially the external) burn violently all day, and secrete much acrid
fluid; with pressive pain in the eyes, as if inflamed; on reading, he
sees as through a fog (after the crude), [17].
► Spasmodic drawing in the right
eyelid, with pressive pain when she wished to go to sleep, followed by
trembling of the upper lid, [1]. ► Pressive pain in the lids, [1]. ►
Soreness of the right lower lid, [1].
► Biting in the upper lids; they
seemed worst to touch, in the afternoon (eighteenth day), [11]. ► Lachrymal
Apparatus. ► *Lachrymation in
the open air, [1]. ► Burning lachrymation, with secretion of
mucus in the eyes, again increased (after 1 1/2 drachm), [17]. ► Acrid
lachrymation that makes the canthi red and sore, [1]. ► Biting
lachrymation in the morning, [1].
► Conjunctiva. ► The conjunctiva and margins of the lids
become red and burning (after 2d trit.), [18].
► Ball. [490.] ►
Jerking tearing in the left eyeball, in the evening (eleventh day), [28c]. ►
Vision. ► She became
farsighted, [1]. ► Short vision (fourth and ninth days), [1]. ►
*Eyes dim and weak (thirty-first day), [25]. ►
Dimness of the eyes, [1]. ► Dimness and darkness before the eyes,
[1]. ►
Dimness of vision, in the morning, [1].
► Vision dim, as if he should wipe
the eyes (after six hours), [1]. ► Vision dim, as if the eyes were covered
with mucus, [1]. ► Dimness of vision, as if he were looking
through a dim glass, while walking in the open air, [1]. [500.]
► The eyes do not become clear as
soon as usual, in the morning, [1].
► *Vision not so clear as usual; the eyes
seem misty all day (fourteenth day), [25]. ► Misty
before the eyes, [1]. ► Feeling of a mist before the eyes while
standing; not lasting long, but recurring three times in succession
(third day), [24b]. ► She cannot see distinctly at a distance;
it seems as though she was looking through rain, [1]. ► Feeling
as though a cloud were before the eyes, recurring three times in quick
succession (eighth day), [24]. ► When looking at white objects, everything
seems indistinct, as through feathers, [1].
► A thick cloud seemed to be before
the eyes from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. (fifteenth day), [25]. ►
Sensation as though a veil were drawn before the eyes in the afternoon;
she could scarcely see to knit (thirty-fifth day), [25]. ► *Objects
seem covered with a thin veil, [1].
[510.] ►
*On looking long at anything, especially on sewing, sudden darkness
before the eyes; she could see nothing till she directed the eyes to
another object, at 6 P.M., with sleepiness (nineteenth day), [25]. ►
Only half of an object is visible, the other half is dark, [1]. ►►
*Unsteadiness of vision; objects become confused on looking at them,
[1]. ►►
*Letters and stitches run together, so
that she cannot distinguish anything for five minutes, [1]. ►
Many points of light and shade before the eyes, [1]. ► Fiery
points before the eyes, when walking in the open air, [1]. ► *Small
fiery points before the eyes wherever she looks, [1]. ►
She sees fiery zigzags about everything, [1].
► On closing the eyes for the midday
nap, she saw many people, large cities, and large bodies of water pass
before her (thirty-first day), [25].
EAR.
►
External. ► Left concha
swollen and inflamed, with burning pain; after some days itching behind
the ear (twenty-ninth day), [5a]. [520.] ►
Swelling of the meatus auditorius, and discharge from the ear, [1]. ►
Swelling of the left external meatus auditorius, which was sensitive to
touch, [28b]. ► Discharge from the ear for several days,
[1]. ►
Heat, redness, and swelling of the left concha, with burning pain, [1]. ►
The ear, or lobule of the ear, hot for several days, [4]. ► A dull
pressure behind the right ear, on drinking rapidly, in the evening
(third day), [15]. ► A constant itching stitch in the lobule
of the right ear, [1]. ► Middle. ►
Fluttering, as from a butterfly, in the left ear, during dinner, [1]. ►
Distressing sensation of stoppage of both ears, in the afternoon (second
day), [32]. ►
Pain in the right ear, as if something were jerked out with a hook, at 6
A.M., lasting a quarter of an hour (twelfth day), [11]. [530.] ► Heat of the left (weak) ear, for several
evenings, [1]. ► Aching in and behind the left ear, [1]. ►
Earache at intervals, [1]. ► Drawing pain in the right ear (after 5th
dil.), [22a]. ► Dull drawing and sticking pain in the
ear, extending thence down the neck to the shoulder-joint, [1]. ►
Dull burrowing-sticking pain in the right ear, when swallowing and when
not, [1]. ►
Stitches in the ears, several times, while sitting still, in the
forenoon (fourth day), [5a]. ► Fine stitches in the right meatus (after
1st trit.), [22]. ► Drawing stitches in the right ear, [1]. ►
Fine crawling and bursting, as of small bubbles, in the right ear,
lasting an hour and a half (after 5th trit.), [22]. [540.] ► Itching within the right ear, [1]. ►
Hearing. ► Difficulty in
hearing (sixth, seventh, and seventeenth days), [1]. ► Dulness
of hearing (seventh day), [1]. ► Cracking in the left ear on swallowing
(after 3d trit.), [22a]. ► Cracking in the left ear, with a feeling
as if a tenacious liquid were flowing from it (after 1st trit.), [22]. ►
Painless cracking in the ear when chewing, [1]. ► Humming
in the ears, in the morning on waking, [1].
► Ringing in the ears towards 11
A.M., lasting all day, at times alternating with a sensation as though a
bubble of air were in the left ear (second day), [28]. ►
Ringing and noises in both ear, with a sensation, on rising, as though
he were falling, lasting about two hours; aggravated by a cup of coffee
(eighteenth day), [32]. ► Ringing in the ears, with dulness of the
head, lasting an hour (fifteenth day), [32].
[550.] ►
Sudden ringing in the right ear (after 8th dil.), [22]. ► A
shock, followed for a long time by ringing, in the left ear, [1]. ►
Roaring in the ears, [26]. ► Roaring and ringing in the ears (third
day), [28]. ►
Roaring in the ears, in the morning, in bed and while sitting, [1]. ►
Violent roaring in the ears, [27].
► Rushing in the left ear, while
lying in bed, lasting a minute (thirteenth day), [11]. ► Sudden
rushing through the ears, [1]. ► Singing in the left ear (immediately), [1]. ►
Ticking, as of a watch, in the left ear, lasting ten minutes, in the
evening (eleventh day), [11].
NOSE.
►
Objective. [560.] ► *Redness, swelling, and heat of left ala nasi,
which is also sore, especially when touched, at 11.30 A.M.,
reappearing in the evening (third day); on both alæ, lasting from 11
A.M. to 1 P.M., then decreasing, worse on left side, reappearing at 6.30
P.M. (fourth day); nose as before, worse on left side (fifth and sixth
days); left ala nasi worse in morning, right less affected than left,
lasting half an hour; since morning, felt only when near the fire; nose
has always been worse when near the fire (seventh day), [49]. ► The
tip of the nose became red, hot, and painful; afterwards a group of
vesicles as large as the head of a pin developed, became filled with
transparent lymph, and at last confluent and formed a scab (after 1st
trit.), [18]. ► *Left half of the nose swollen, inflamed, and
painful, as if the nostril had become contracted, with itching,
painfully sore when taken hold of (thirty-first day), [5a]. ►
*Inflammation and swelling of the left half of the nose, with itching
sore pain when touched, and a feeling as if the left nostril
were contracted (twenty-fourth day), [1].
► Twitching and muscular jerkings in
the left side of the root of the nose, [1].
► Frequent ineffectual attempts to
sneeze, [1]. ►
Sneezing (first day), [33b];
(second day), [5]. ► Frequent sneezing, [28b]; (sixteenth day), [28]; for several days, [1]. ►
Frequent sneezing, as though coryza would break out, [33]. ► Very
violent sneezing, at 10 P.M. (third day), [31a].
[570.] ►
Water drops unnoticed from the nose, [1].
► Much secretion of watery mucus, now
in the right, now in the left nostril, while riding in a carriage, on
exposing the nose to the open air, [24a].
► *Catarrh and tickling cough, as he had
taken cold, [1]. ► Has been free from catarrh all this time,
which is very unusual (tenth day), [49].
► Moderate coryza, with complete loss
of smell and taste, [1]. ► (Violent coryza obliged him to suspend
the proving for several days), [33].
► *Violent coryza, with sneezing, for
only one day, [1]. ► Fluent coryza, for several days
(fourteenth day), [5]. ► Fluent coryza; discharge of very thick
mucus from the nose (twelfth day), [5].
► Fluent coryza, which, after several
days, affected also the eyes, throat, and trachea, with dulness of the
head, great prostration, short dry cough, and a sensation of dryness and
soreness in the chest; it is remarkable that the secretion of the nose
ceased without being yellow or thick (after eleven days), [11a]. [580.]
► Profuse fluent coryza for three
days, followed by stopped coryza, [1].
► Excessive fluent coryza, with loss of
all smell and taste, [1].
► Violent fluent coryza, with, at
times, stoppage of the left nostril, [28b].
► Burning fluent coryza (2d trit.), [16]. ►
Stopped coryza, with stoppage of both nostrils, [1]. ►
Excessive stopped coryza, so that he could scarcely get his breath, [1]. ►
Nosebleed at night, [1]. ► Nosebleed on stooping, [1]. ► Very
frequent nosebleed, [1]. ► Violent nosebleed, [1]. [590.] ► Much clotted blood is blown from the nose,
[1]. ►
Subjective. ►
Insensibility and deadness within one nostril, [1]. ► *Stoppage
of the nose (first day), [33b].
► *He easily takes cold in the head; he
is constantly obliged to wrap it up; if he allows it to be uncovered
during the day, he has stoppage of the nose at night, [1]. ►
Sensation of stopped coryza, every morning, [4]. ► *Feeling of
dryness in the nose, [1].
► Burning in the nose (and eyes), [1]. ►
Boring in the nasal bones, in the root of the nose, and towards the
right cheek (fourteenth day), [5].
► Pressive pain at the root of the
nose, [28b]. ►
Acute stitches deep in the root of the nose, extending towards the right
frontal sinus (after 3d trit.), [22a].
[600.] ► A very acute stitch deep in the right
nostril, at 4 A.M. (after 3d trit.), [22].
► *Internal soreness of the nose,
[1]. ►
*Left wing of the nose painfully sore, swollen, and hot, the
sore pain aggravated by touch, towards evening (second day), [5]. ►
Feeling of soreness in the left nostril, with difficult passage of air
(after 3d trit.), [22a]. ► *Soreness and swelling inside the wing of the
nose, with many pimples upon it, [1]. ► Nose
painful, so that blowing it was difficult (second day), [5]. ►
Crawling in the nose (fourteenth day), [5].
► Crawling in the right nostril, with
pressure in the right eye, like that which often precedes sneezing; not
relieved even by blowing the nose (ninth day), [5]. ► Itching
in both nostrils all day (eighteenth day), [25]. ►
Itching in the right nostril, as if a worm were boring through it, [1].
FACE.
►
Objective. [610.] ► Confused look, [24a]. ► Had a
sickly look, [30c]. ► *The face shines as if greasy, [1]. ►
Face very flushed, on waking in the morning (eighth day), [51]. ► Face
red in patches, is usually pale, at 12.30 P.M. (third day), [49]. ►
The redness, burning, and itching of face have been all in patches, all
through the proving (tenth day), [49].
► *Yellow color of the face,
with much pain in the lower abdomen, [1].
► *Face earthy, [1]. ► Bad
earthy look (twelfth day), [5]. ► Pale, earthy expression (twelfth day), [25]. [620.]
► Pale look (eighteenth day), [25]. ►
Pale face and lips, [24a]. ► Swelling of the left side of the face and
of the lips, [1]. ► Visible jerking of the facial muscles, [1]. ►
Pain in the face, involving the whole left side, and especially the
region of the eye, nose, and temple, towards evening (first day), [29a]. ►
Cheeks. ►► *Redness of
the left cheek, daily, especially in the afternoon, [1]. ►
Very red cheeks in the open air, pale in the house (nineteenth day), [25]. ►
Drawing pain in the right cheek-bone, [1].
► Pressive pain in the bones of the
face (malar) and by the ear, [1]. ► A pressive and broken sensation in the
bones of the left cheek; this sensation extended to the left teeth, and
thence to all the teeth; it seemed as though he could not bring the
teeth together well (fourteenth day), [5].
[630.] ►
Tearing-sticking pain extending from the upper lip across the cheek into
the ear, [1]. ► Bruised pain in the zygoma, especially
when touched, [1]. ► A dull bruised pain on the right zygoma
and on the coccyx, causing a sensation, when touched, as though he had
fallen on the parts; in the former place it soon disappeared, but in the
latter it lasted all day (fifth day), [28].
► Gnawing sensation in the jaws,
teeth of the left side of the lower jaw, while smoking (eighth day), [31a]. ►
Sensation as though the flesh were scraped from the bone, or as though
the flesh were being torn from the bone, from below upward, from the
lower jaw above the zygoma to the temple of the right side, in the
afternoon, lasting ten minutes, and constantly becoming more violent
from 4 to 7 P.M. (twenty-eighth day), [25].
► Lips. ►
Pale lips, [24a]. ► *Swelling of the lower lip and tip of the
tongue, with violent burning on it, that wakes him at night, [1]. ►►
*Great swelling and some burning of the lower lip, followed by the
appearance of a large vesicle, that next day formed a scab and
desquamated (sixth day), [32].
► Lips dry, cracked, [1]. ► *A
deep painful fissure in the middle of the upper lip, [1]. [640.]
► Numbness and crawling in the lips,
especially in the evening, [1]. ► Burning and redness of the upper lip, [1]. ►
Sore feeling in the corner of the mouth, on opening it, [1]. ► Chin.
► *The hair of the beard falls out
profusely (second day); falling of the hair of the beard and
mons veneris (eighth day), [5]. ► Cramplike tension in the articulation of
the lower jaw (after 19th dil.), [22].
► A compression in the left
articulation of the jaw, worse on opening the mouth (eighth day), [5]. ►
Drawing pain in the lower jaw (tenth day), [1]. ►
Transient drawing pain in both sides of the lower jaw, [9]. ► Severe drawing pain in lower jaw, which is painful to the touch
(after four days); (smelling a vial containing Spt.
nitri. dulc. relieved her very promptly), [54]. ►
Tearing in the lower jaw, extending into the temple, and also into the
parotid and submaxillary glands, with boring and pinching at times in
the indurated glands, worse at night; was obliged to bind up the cheeks
in order to obtain relief, [1]. [650.] ►
The lower jaw is painful to touch, [1].
► Some stitches in the left maxillary
joint, at 4 A.M. (second day), [30b].
► Dull stitches in the maxillary
joints (fourteenth day), [5].® 2000
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