NATRUM MURIATICUM.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx and Bronchia. [1760.] ►
Dryness in the larynx, in the morning on waking, [1]. ► A
peculiar pressure on the posterior wall of the larynx and fauces,
extending along the Eustachian tube, and towards the tonsils (first
day), [29a]. ►
Frequently, when coughing, a sore sensation in the larynx and trachea, [1]. ►
A scraped, scratching sensation in the larynx, as after rancid heartburn
(after six hours), [1]. ► A scraping and scratching in the larynx;
the voice became rough (after twenty hours), [1]. ►
Tickling in the larynx, provoking dry cough, for an hour at 6 P.M., [24a]. ►
Tickling in the larynx, and short, dry cough, at 5 P.M., [24a]. ► A
hoarse, whistling sound in the bronchi on expiration, [1]. ► Voice.
► Voice rough, with stopped coryza
and some sneezing, [1]. ► Her voice, I am told, has completely
changed; it is now husky and monotonous, resembling that of a woman
addicted to ardent spirits, [56]. [1770.] ►
*Hoarseness in the morning, after a sound sleep, with much mucus in the throat, and cough, [1]. ►
*Great hoarseness, in the morning, [1]. ►
Excessive hoarseness (first days), [1].
► Cough and Expectoration. ► Irritation to cough, caused by empty swallowing,
[1]. ►
Irritation to cough, and oppression of the chest, from talking, [1]. ►
*Cough, in the morning, [1].
► *Cough, in the evening, after lying
down in bed, [1]. ► Cough, worse from 8 to 11 P.M., [1]. ►
Cough at night; with a scraping sensation in the chest in the morning, [31]. ►
Cough at night, with bruised pain in all the limbs, [1]. [1780.] ► Cough more violent at night than during
the day, [1]. ► *Cough, caused by tickling in the throat,
[1]. ►
Cough, caused by tickling in the pit of the stomach, with great dyspnœa,
[1]. ►
Cough, with vomiting of food, [1].
► Cough, with complete loss of breath,
day and night, [1]. ► Cough, with tickling in the chest (2d
trit.), [16]. ► Cough, with tickling in the chest (1st
and 2d trit.), [16]. ► Violent cough, almost to vomiting, though
not exhausting, for four weeks, [1].
► Raw, hoarse, hacking cough, [1]. ►
Dry, tickling cough and scraping, at night, [1]. [1790.] ► Frequent paroxysms of dry, tickling cough
(first day), [33b]. ► Hacking and dry tickling cough, at night,
not during the day), [1]. ► Dry, hacking cough, frequently recurring
at longer or shorter intervals during the day, [33]. ► Dry,
racking cough, at 10 P.M. (third day), [31a].
► Cough, with expectoration, day and
night, [1]. ► *Tickling cough, with hawking of mucus,
especially in the morning (after the proving), [28b]. ► Hacking
cough, with râles in the chest, and some expectoration of
mucus, [1]. ►
Cough, and tickling in the larynx, on waking, at 2 A.M.; he always
expectorated considerable frothy mucus; the inclination to cough was
increased by lying on the back; yawning alternated with the cough, [24a]. ►
Paroxysms of tickling cough, in the evening, with scraping in the
throat, lasting nearly a quarter of an hour, and ending with
expectoration of tenacious mucus, [33a].
► Paroxysm of tickling cough, towards
evening, ending with expectoration of salty mucus, [33a]. [1800.]
► Retching and choking cough, with
expectoration of bloody mucus, that seems to come from the dry tetter in
the larynx, [1]. ► Cough, with expectoration of blood, [1]. ►
Expectoration of an offensive taste, in the morning, with some cough,
and pain in the chest, as if it would be torn open, [1]. ►
Purulent expectoration, with cough, that almost always consists of only
one attack, [1]. ► Blood is expectorated and blown from the
nose, [1]. ►
(An attack of hæmoptysis, coming on after violent exertion, repeated
after nine days without any cause), [43].
[We do not consider this the effect of the drug, since the prover was a
sufferer, as a child, from repeated attacks of intermittent fever, and
afterwards congestion of the head, and frequent nosebleed, very much
inclined to catarrh and hoarsness, and the mucous membranes generally
were very irritable. -Watzke.] ►
Respiration. ► The breath
seems hot, [1]. ► The breath is foul, [56]. ► Offensive
breath, [1]. ► Frequent deep breathing, with pain in the
abdomen, [1]. [1810.] ►
*Shortness of breath (1st trit.), [16]. ► Her
breath became short, and chest tight, and as if a dry stick of wood were
down the throat, with cough, [53].
► Paroxysm of shortness of breath and
palpitation, though without anxiety, at night, [1]. ►
Sometimes, after eating, the breathing becomes much impeded; this is
accompanied by violent palpitation of the heart, [56]. ►
Oppression of the breath, with pain in the chest, [1]. ►
Difficulty of breathing, even when she kept quiet (twenty-third day), [25]. ►
*Difficulty of breathing, in the afternoon (thirty-second day), [25]. ►
Difficult respiration, especially between 5 and 7 P.M.; also whenever
she was quiet (seventeenth day), [25].
► Difficult breathing, on ascending
steps (twenty-first day), [25]. ► Difficulty of breathing and palpitation,
on going upstairs (thirty-first day), [25].
[1820.] ►
Difficult breathing; rapid breathing, on standing, still more on walking
(sixteenth day), [25]. ► Difficult breathing, while walking
(thirty-first day), [25]. ► Difficult breathing all day, aggravated
by walking (eighteenth day), [25].
► Difficult breathing, with trembling
of the hands and feet (twenty-first day), [25].
► Want of breath on lying down, in
the evening, [1]. ► The chest trouble became so severe, at
night, that she was obliged to rise from bed to get her breath (after
1st trit.), [18]. ► Violent pains at night (for example,
those caused by the boil on the back) take away the breath, even to
suffocation, and cause a kind of one-sided paralysis, so that the arm
and leg are powerless, [1]. ► *Dyspnœa, [1]. ►
Dyspnœa and short breath, on walking rapidly, [1]. ►
Dyspnœa, “almost indescribable,” during the rigors, [56]. [1830.]
► When laughing, while drinking, she
chokes herself, so that the drink regurgitates through the nose, and she
comes near suffocating, [1].
CHEST.
►
Objective. ► The bones of
the right chest are more prominent than natural, [1]. ► Mucus
in the chest that causes tightness, and is dislodged on walking in the
open air, [1]. ► Subjective. ►
Sensation of weakness in the chest, on walking in the open air (in the
sun), which obliged him to speak softly, [3].
► Disagreeable warmth in chest, in
the morning on waking, [1]. ► Fulness in the chest (seventh day), [11a]. ►
Tightness of the chest, when he lies down in bed, and also in the
afternoon, [1]. ► Tension in the chest, in the morning, [1]. ►
Feeling of tension in the chest, on stretching; painfully sore on
inspiration (eighth day), [5]. ► Tensive pain in the right pectoral
muscles, in the forenoon, so that he could not become erect on account
of the pain, but must walk bent forward; also, great pain on other
motions of the trunk, [1]. [1840.] ►
Tensive pain in the clavicle, extending up the cervical muscles, even
painful to touch, [1]. ► Spasmodic constriction of the chest, very
much impeding deep inspiration, [27].
► Pain, like a cutting cramp, through
the left chest to the scapula, [45].
► Pressure upon the chest (sixth
day), [22c]. ►
Pressure in the left chest (fifteenth day), [1]. ►
Pressure on the chest, at night, so violent towards morning, that she
was obliged to sit up to get her breath (after 2d trit.), [18]. ►
Pressure on the chest, as though the thorax were too tight, towards
morning (after 2d trit.), [18]. ► Very transient pressure in the left half
of the chest (fifth day), [31a]. ► Periodic pressure upon the chest, worse
at night, and towards morning associated with arrest of breathing, and
need to sit upright (after 2d trit.), [18].
► Attack of pressure and burrowing
beneath the right ribs, with drawing in the back, extending to the head,
preventing sleep at night, and with stitches in the head; all relieved
after continued talking, and on physical exertion, and also by rumbling
in the abdomen and emission of flatus, or after eating, [1]. [1850.] ► Dull pressure in the left half of the
thorax, disappearing after half an hour, while walking (after half an
hour), [31]. ►
Pressive pain in the chest, after standing or talking much, [1]. ►
Oppression of the chest, in the evening, [1].
► Oppression of the chest, in the
house; he was also so weak that he was obliged to go into the open air,
which relieved him, [1]. ► Oppression of the chest, with pressure in
the middle of the sternum, on motion, [3].
► Oppression of the chest, and
shortness of breath (twenty-seventh day), [28].
► Oppression of the chest, as if
constricted, with burning in the hands (eighth day), [1]. ► Painful
oppression of the chest, like a pressure, every day, on becoming erect,
after sitting bent over, [1]. ► Chest heavy and oppressed (fifth day), [29]. ►
When coughing, cutting pain in left chest, [1]. [1860.] ► Pain, as from a sprain, in the right
pectoralis major muscle, on motion (fourth day), [22c]. ►
Sticking pain transversely through the lungs, in frequent attacks, at
intervals of some hours, [1]. ► Constant sticking pain in the left chest,
in the evening, taking away the breath; disappearing in the open air, [1]. ►
Stitches in the middle of the chest (2d trit.), [16]. ►
Stitches at times, extending from deep in the chest towards the back
(especially on deep breathing), (fifth day), [29]. ► A
stitch through the pectoralis major muscle, extending to the
shoulder-joint (after 3d trit.), [22].
► Stitches in the upper part of the
left chest, loss of appetite, and headache, caused by a vexation; she
feels every step in the head; becomes very weak, and the feet become
heavy, [1]. ►
Transient stitch, from the left pectoralis major to the clavicle, in the
afternoon (tenth day), [22c]. ► Eighteen painful stitches beneath the
right clavicle, extending from below upward, at 4 A.M. (after 3d trit.),
[22]. ►
Some dull stitches in the right half of the chest, at 3 P.M., [31]. [1870.]
► Violent cutting stitches in the
chest, from without inwards, crossing each other five or six times in
rapid succession, with tightness of the breath, at 11 P.M. (fourth day),
[28c]. ►
A stitch, as from an electric spark, in the pectoralis major muscle,
followed, after an hour, by a similar stitch in the region of the right
nipple; afterwards, a sensation of tightness, as from a band about the
lower third of the chest, with difficult breathing (after 5th dil.), [22a]. ►
*Sore pain in the chest, [1].
► Sensitiveness of the external
chest, in the evening (first day), [30b].
► Pain, as if he had been beaten, in
the left lower ribs, aggravated when touched by the vest, and by every
pressure (twelfth day), [5]. ► Bruised pain in the left chest on bending
forward, and on breathing, not on touch, [1].
► Bruised pain, externally, in the
chest, [1]. ►
Constant scratching, in the middle of the chest, [1]. ►
Painless jerking in the left pectoralis major muscle (second day), [22b]. ►
Front. ► Cracking in the
sternum, on motion, [1]. [1880.] ►
Pain in the middle of the sternum, aggravated by deep breathing, [1]. ►
Simple pain, in short paroxysms, in the sternum, [1]. ►
Pressure on the forepart of the chest (sixth day), [5]. ►
Pressure on the sternum, in the afternoon, [33]. ►
Pressure in the middle of the sternum and in the back, below the left
shoulder, [33]. ► Pressive pain beneath the sternum (after
3d trit.), [22]. ► Violent pressive pain in the sternum,
with a sensation as if bruised, not aggravated by deep inspiration, but
by touch; relieved by motion, in the open air, at 3 P.M.; towards
evening, it disappeared, but returned the next forenoon, and only
disappeared in the evening, after three days (first day), [28c]. ►
Sticking in the thorax, from the ensiform cartilage to the back, in the
forenoon, worse in the afternoon (thirty-fourth day), [25]. ►
Sticking pain, as from needles, in the middle of the sternum, [1]. ►
Some stitches in the sternum, [1].
[1890.] ►
Stitches in the region of the sternum, on every breath (1st trit.), [16]. ►
Stitches, with tightness of breath, first in the sternum, then in the
hepatic region, [1]. ► Transient threadlike stitch behind the
sternum (after 26th dil.), [22]. ► Drawing stitches beneath the upper
portion of the sternum, in the afternoon (fourth day), [22c]. ►
Transient threadlike stitch beneath the sternum, extending along the
margin (after 6th trit.), [22]. ► A sharp, threadlike, piercing stitch, on
the right margin of the sternum, extending from below upward (third
day), [22b]. ►
Bruised pain in the sternum, [1]. ► Pain, as if beaten, in one spot, on the
sternum, [1]. ► Sides. ►
Frequent loud gurgling in the right side of the chest (first day), [22c]. ►
Loud rumbling and gurgling in the left side of the chest, near the
stomach (after 25th dil.), [22a]. [1900.] ► Pain in circumscribed spots in the right
side of the chest, at times (after ninth day), [22b]. ► The
chest, below the left arm, is painful on moving the arm, and on
breathing, [1]. ► Frequent painless twitchings in the
muscles of the left side of the chest, below the axilla (after three
hours), [22b]. ► Sticking in the right side, below the
last ribs, while yawning (twenty-first day), [25]. ►
Sticking in the right side of the chest for half an hour, returning
after half an hour, and then lasting over an hour (sixth day), [11a]. ►
Sticking in the left side, with tensive pain under the arm (fifth day), [1]. ►
Sticking pain in the right side, below the last ribs, on waking in the
morning, and lasting the whole forenoon, better after dinner; it
reappeared in the evening, on going out, disappeared on returning to the
house (thirteenth day), [25]. ► Sticking pain in the right side of the
chest, only while walking; so violent that he was obliged to press the
hand upon it to obtain relief, [1].
► Stitches in the right side of the
thorax, which oblige her to bend up, aggravated by walking; no pain on
deep breathing (thirty-fourth day), [25].
► Stitches in the right side of the
chest, with hoarseness, [1]. [1910.] ►
Stitches in the right side, with oppression (twelfth day), [1]. ►
Frequent stitches in the sides, [1].
► Violent stitch, extending outward,
in the left clavicle, along the side of the chest (fifth day), [22b]. ►
Dull stitches in the left side of the chest (fifth day), [5]. ► Pain,
like a bruise, in one spot in the left side of the chest, [1]. ► Jerking
beneath the right arm, extending down the side, [1]. ► Mammæ.
► Frequent pressure above the right
nipple, for four days (after 10 grains), [12].
► Stitches beneath the nipples (after
3d trit.), [22a]. ► Stitches beneath the left nipple (after
3d trit.), [22a]. ► Dull stitches beneath the right nipple,
also in the abdomen, to the right of the navel, [24a]. [1920.]
► Sensitiveness of the breasts (after
5 grains of crude), [18]. ► Sensitiveness of the breasts, so that the
slightest touch was painful (after 1st trit.), [18].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Cold
feeling about the heart, on exerting the mind, [1]. ►
Constant pain in the heart, especially at night, [1]. ► Great
pain as well as distension, at the præcordium, after eating or
drinking, [56]. ► Tension in the region of the heart (after
five hours), [22b]. ► *Sensation of violent constriction in the heart,
with intermitting pulse and feeling of oppression in the lower portion
of the chest, as if the lungs had not room to expand, lasting
a quarter of an hour (after 5th trit.), [22].
► Violent pressure below the heart as
if some one were pressing from the abdomen towards the heart, with
palpitation, which was less rapid than violent; this condition was
aggravated by lying on the left side, but relieved by turning to the
right; lasting till he fell asleep (sixth day), [5]. ►
Pressive pain in the region of the heart, in the morning, [1]. ►
Persistent stitches in a place corresponding to the point where the apex
of the heart beats; not affected by respiration, lasting five minutes,
in the afternoon, [10]. [1930.] ►
Painful stitches in the region of the heart, [10]. ►
Painful stitches in the region of the heart, lasting several minutes; an
hour after a moderate dinner, [10].
► *Painful stitches in the region of the
heart, after reading aloud for some time, [10]. ►
Violent stitches in the heart, [1].
► A violent stitch in the region of
the heart, while walking in the street in the evening, so violent that
he was frightened; he stood still, and instinctively pressed the hand
against the painful spot, [10]. ► Bruised sensation at the heart, in the
morning in bed (fourteenth day), [5].
► Jerking pain in the præcordial
region, [1]. ►
A jerking shock, as if coming from the heart, in the midday nap, [1]. ►
Heart’s Action. ► *Fluttering
motion of the heart, [1].
► *Palpitation (twenty-first
day), [25]. [1940.] ►
*Palpitation of the heart on going upstairs (twenty-third
day), [25]. ►
Palpitation on ascending stairs, during the last week (sixteenth day), [25]. ►
Palpitation on the slightest motion, [1].
► Palpitation, while standing, [1]. ►
Palpitation, with anxiety, every
day, [1]. ►
Palpitation, with pressure at the heart, as if the heart would be
pressed down; somewhat relieved by pressure of the hand (immediately),
(first day), [5]. ► Transient attack of palpitation (after 5
grains of crude), [18]. ► Violent palpitation, which woke him from
sleep (relieved by a glass of cold water), (twelfth day), [24]. ►
Violent palpitation of the heart accompanying the impeded breathing, [56]. ►
Frequent palpitation for as many air six, eight, or ten beats, [1]. [1950.]
► Anxious palpitation, without
anxious thoughts, for five minutes or even for whole hours, almost every
day (after seven days), [1]. ►► *Intermission in the beating of the heart,
during the midday rest, [1]. ► Pulse. ►
*Beating of the pulse in the whole body, even during rest, [1]. ►
Pulse accelerated all day, [33]. ► Pulse accelerated, small and weak (after
15th dil.), [22a]. ► The pulse seemed more rapid than usual
(seventeenth day), [25]. ► Pulse and respiration more rapid,
especially after drinking, [1]. ► Rapid pulse, with anxiety and oppression
of breath, after dinner, [1]. ► Rapid pulse and palpitation, after
dinner, [1]. ►
Pulse full, rapid (thirty-first day), [25];
while sitting upright, [1]. [1960.] ►
Pulse full, soft, 92 beats per minute (after about six months), [48]. ►►
*Some intermission in the pulse, [1]. ►
Intermission of the pulse after dinner, [1].
► *Pulse very rapid and intermittent
(thirty-second day), [25].® 2000
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