SEPIA.
GENERALITIES.
►
Swelling of the whole body, face, abdomen, legs, and the arms down to
the wrist-joint, without thirst, but with great shortness of breath,
lasting three weeks, fever every two or three days, chills and heat
alternating, coming on at irregular hours, even at night, the heat
accompanied with sweat all over (after forty-eight hours), [1]. [1880.]
► Attack of sensation as of an
icy-cold hand between the scapulæ, then coldness over the whole body,
then spasm of chest as if suffocating, lasting several minutes, then
clonic convulsions of right lower limb with jerking of it, and jerking
of the right arm when the leg is held quiet; lastly there remains a
trembling of the lower limb, continuing the whole day (after ten days), [1]. ►
Woke with hands clasped, lying on right side; right hand felt numb,
possibly from lying on it (eighth day), [15].
► I noticed a peculiar quite
unpleasant exhalation from the body after getting warm in bed
(twenty-seventh day), [38]. ► During a week, spasms as from nervous
weakness, lasting a day at a time, pulse somewhat weak, then again
spasmodic, [1]. ► Tremulous shaking motion of the whole
body, [1]. ►
Anxious trembling, with cold sweat on the forehead, [1]. ► *Frequent
trembling of the whole body (after ten days), [1]. ► *Extreme
nervous restlessness, [8].
► He must rise at night and walk
about for half an hour, [1]. ► Restlessness will not permit her to
sleep, [1]. [1890.] ►
Great excitement of the whole body, [1].
► *Uneasiness in the whole body
(after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Attack of drawing pressive pain in the
region of navel, followed by discharge of mucus from the rectum, with
violent urging and stitches; soon afterwards congestion of blood to
chest, with anxiety and restlessness, which after dinner turned to a
sort of fever, with alternating internal heat and a chilliness, with
sweat on the head from 1 to 4 P.M., then headache, which left a pain in
nape of neck; the following day the same condition returned, [1]. ►►
*Great faintness, with heat and then coldness, [8]. ► About
midnight, a sort fainting fit, lasting for one-fourth hour, accompanied
by profuse sweat, with consciousness, but without the ability to talk or
to move a finger; in the midst of the paroxysm, he had a sort of dream
in which he was fighting with a ghost; he had scarcely recovered from
this faint before he fell into a second, with a dream of being lost in a
forest, [1]. ►
Faintness in the morning when rising from bed, as if he would sink, with
loss of thought; then chilliness with gooseflesh and yawning for one
hour, tongue very pale, pulse weak and slow, [1]. ►
Fainting fit, in the forenoon (after twenty-three days), [1]. ►
Fainting during a slow ride, [1]. ►► *Very faint all day (after
seven days), [16]. ► Feels very faint when walking out of
doors, in the evening, for five days (three days after last dose), [16]. [1900.] ►
An increase of strength, [41]. ► A few hours after having arisen quite
well, felt so prostrated and indisposed, that he would rather go to
sleep than attend to business, [1].
► So exhausted from a half hour’s
walk, that he became sick at the stomach and could not breathe; the
air-passage seemed drawn together as far down as the pit of the stomach,
[1]. ►►
*Great exhaustion in the morning during menses, [1]. ►
*Great exhaustion and indolence, [7a]. ►
Laziness after a meal, [1]. ► After emission, indolent, languid,
sensitive to damp air, with turbid urine, vertigo, and constipation, [1]. ►
In the afternoon after a meal, indolent and sleepy, [1]. ►
Indolence of both body and mind, with difficult breathing (after eight
days), [1]. ►► *Feeling of prostration (after
one hour, second and third days), [42].
[1910.] ►
*General languid feeling of the whole body (fifth day), [35]. ►
Remained languid for five days (after three days), [23]. ►
Languid dull feeling, at 8 P.M. (twentieth day), [20]. ►
Lassitude, at 9 A.M. (twenty-third day), [20].
► Great weariness in bed, with early
waking, yet cannot sleep again, [1].
► *Feels weary and trembles all over,
[9]. ►
Very heavy and drowsy, [9]. ► Heaviness (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
*Very tired in the morning, when rising from bed, [1]. ►
She became tired and had to lie down, in the forenoon (after two hours),
[1]. [1920.]
► Feel very tired this morning
(third, fifth, and sixth days); beginning to feel tired and listless, at
8 A.M. (thirteenth day); feel very sick; have a heavy cold, never had
such before; lungs very sore; harsh distressing cough, worse from going
from cold air to warm room, and vice versâ
(twenty-first day); very languid all day (twenty-seventh day); feel very
stupid (eighty-seventh day); feeling very tired I took a dose of Nux
vomica, after which I found all my symptoms returning, pustules on the
conjunctiva, throat, and tongue, also the loss of memory (one hundred
and ninth day); much better (one hundred and tenth day); entirely
relieved (one hundred and eleventh day), [21].
► Felt tired and weak about breakfast
time (twenty-fifth day), [20]. ► *Tired feeling, in the morning (tenth
day), [35]. ►
Towards evening, a heavy stupid feeling (first, second and third days), [22]. ►
Speaking caused fatigue, if continued for any time (twelfth to
twenty-third day), [38]. ► Averse to motion, with desire to stretch,
and very sleepy, on waking at 6 A.M.; dulness all day and aversion to
motion (twenty-second day), [20]. ► Tired feeling, at 9.45 P.M. (second day),
[40a]. ►
*Unaccountable feeling of weariness (third day), [40a]. ►
*Tired feeling all over, which lasted all day (first and
third days), [42]. ►► *Feel weak (fourth day), [37]. [1930.]
► *In the morning when waking, weak
feeling, as from nausea, [2].
► Soon tired, for five days (third
day after last dose), [16]. ► *Everything seems an exertion (after
three hours and a half, second day), [42].
►► *Great weakness
(after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► *So weak that she thought she would faint
(after seven days), [1]. ► Very weak in the morning, with uneasiness
in the abdomen, [1]. ► Great weakness, at 7 P.M., [1]. ► Very
weak and short-breathed, as in continued fever, [1]. ► *The least
exercise fatigues, even going upstairs (after seven days), [16]. ►
A weak feeling all over (ninth day); quite weak (tenth day); wakened
weary (twentieth morning); after sleeping, afternoon, no disposition to
move or talk, but to sit quietly and wonder what is the matter
(twenty-third day); with fulness in the temple (twenty-ninth day), [20]. [1940.]
► Feels dull and drowsy, [28a]. ►
General improvement, [43]. ► During the menses she was obliged to
remain in bed for two days, on account of an uneasiness in the body,
drawing pain in lower limbs and in abdomen, with rumbling; on the second
day, palpitation of the heart, for several hours in the forenoon,
accompanied with dyspnœa (after nine days), [1]. ► A
general good-for-nothing feeling (fourth day), [44]. ► Feel
sick all over (twelfth day), [21].
► Sick all day in my room (second,
third, and ninth days), [20]. ► She becomes paralyzed from vexation, [1]. ►
*Much ebullition of blood in the whole body, at night, producing
restless sleep, [1]. ► *Orgasm of blood, with congestion of blood to
head and chest (after sixteen days), [1]. ► Orgasm
of blood in body, three days in succession (after twenty-seven days), [1]. [1950.]
► *She feels the pulse beating through
the body, particularly in the whole left chest, [1]. ►
Sensation as if the heart filled all the cavities of the body, with
labored muffled beating (twentieth day), [20].
► Felt as if the veins were full and
ready to burst, and as if she could not move, at 4 A.M.; took a dose of
Aconite 3d, and in a few minutes went to sleep again (first night), [23]. ►
She feels the beating of pulse in the head and all the limbs, day and
night, but more at night, [1]. ► Numb feeling in the nerves, also in the
tongue, with dulness of the head and absence of thought, in the evening,
[3]. ►
Two days before the menses shuddering again and again over the whole
body the entire day, [1]. ► She feels as if she could easily injure
herself, strain herself, sprain a joint, etc., [1]. ► All
parts of the body on which she lies or sits are painful, [1]. ► A
peculiar wavelike sensation extending through the body; a wavelike
motion down the arms and legs to near the extremities; then a sudden
interruption of wave and an expansion, with sharp rheumatic pain,
lasting but a minute and then subsiding (after four doses), [28]. ►
The pains are renewed and increased during and immediately after a meal,
[1]. [1960.]
► Wandering pains continue and seem
to increase; particularly drawing and expanding pain in the side of the
neck, [28a]. ►
A lame sore feeling all day (third day), [22].
► Pains in various parts of the body
(second day), [28]. ► All the pains came suddenly, leaving more
gradually but very soon, except the pain in the face and shoulder, [27]. ►
Burning pains in different parts of the body, especially in the lower
part of the left hypochondriac region, [29].
► Much pain when walking, on account
of excoriation from the leucorrhœa, [1].
► Body very sore, [19]. ►
Drawing all over, even in the bones of the arm, [1]. ► Jerking
and stitching, here and there, in the body (after five days), [1]. ►
Jerking sensation, here and there, in the body, also in the head, right
and left sides, [1]. [1970.] ►
Every time I took the medicine I felt as though I had taken a heavy
cold, [22]. ►
Took no medicine, as I was feeling too unwell; it was hard work to keep
around (ninth day), [22]. ► Paralytic stitches, here and there; after
each stitch there remained an immobility of the part, lasting several
minutes, [1]. ► *Very sensitive to cold (fifth day), [36]. ►
*Sensitiveness to cold air, [2].
► Cold air is disagreeable to him, [1]. ►
Very sensitive to cold north wind, [1].
► Easily affected by cold, after
drinking a glass of water excessive chilliness and watery slimy
diarrhœa, lasting until going to sleep, [1].
► The complaints are considerably
worse, evenings and nights, than during the day, [1]. ►
Symptoms distinct and more severe on the left side (eighth day), [38]. [1980.]
► Old symptoms reappear, towards
evening (ninth day), [38]. ► Symptoms still return, especially marked
about 12 to 1 P.M., and 4 to 6 P.M. (forty-second day), [38]. ► Felt
worse after sleep this afternoon; great vascular excitement, and felt
sore and lame all over; did not wish to move (seventh day), [20]. ►
All the symptoms are greatly aggravated on lying; I must get up and walk
about slowly; relieved after supper in all respects (twenty-second day),
[20]. ►
The complaints disappear during violent exercise, such as walking in the
open air, fencing, etc. (horseback riding excepted), and appear most
frequently and severely when sitting quiet, forenoon and evening, [2]. ►
She felt best when at rest and while lying, [1]. ► Local
application of warmth relieves the pains, [1].
► Feel better when out of doors
(third day), [37]. ► The distress was all relieved on eating
supper (ninth day), [20]. ► Supper relieved all the symptoms except
dryness of the throat; sick all day until supper (twenty-fourth day), [20]. [1990.]
► Rhus relieved, [19]. ► For
four months after the proving, the Sepia symptoms returned whenever a
dose of Nux vomica was taken, [20].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► The epidermis
peels off in large and small, mostly roundish spots, particularly on the
hands and fingers, without pain (after a few days), [1]. ► The
skin of the palm of the hand peels off, [1].
► Long-lasting scurf on the chin, [1]. ►
Eruption on the head, back, and shoulder; it itched badly during the
evening and all night (fifth and sixth days), [22]. ► *Eruption
on the face, a red roughness of the skin, [1]. ► *Painful
eruption on the tip of the nose, [1]. ►
Eruption in the corner of the mouth, with pain from touch, [1]. ►
Eruption, large and scurfy, in the vermilion border of both lips (after
a journey in the cold), [1]. [2000.] ► Eruption on pubes increased (fourth day).
► It had almost entirely disappeared,
[39a]. ►
The sore spot swells and becomes hot, accompanies by burning pains, [1]. ►
Since taking the medicine, any break of the skin or a burn makes a sore
which lasts a long time, an unusual thing, as my skin generally heals
quickly (twelfth day), [22]. ► A cicatrix on the tip of the index finger
commences to bleed spontaneously, [1].
► Eruptions, Dry. ► A wart seems to be forming on the outer
side of the hand, [1]. ►► *Herpetic eruption on the lips,
[1]. ►
*Herpes around the mouth, [1].
► *Herpetic blotches around the mouth,
[1]. ►
Lentil-sized, red, insensible nodules, here and there, in the hands,
which ooze on prickling, [5]. ► After being stung by a bee, redness and
itching red rash over the whole body, inflamed eyes, and drops of sweat
on the face, all coming on in a few minutes, [1]. [2010.] ► *Red herpetic spots on both sides of the neck
with much itching, [1].
► Wine-red spots on the neck and
under the chin, without sensation, [5].
► *Yellowish-brown spots about the neck,
that scale off on rubbing, [7].
► *Red spots on the glans, [1]. ►
*Reddish herpetic spots above the hips, [1]. ►
*Lentil-sized brown spots on the elbows, surrounded with an
herpetic-looking skin, [1].
► *A roundish bright-red spot on ball of
right hand, with violent itching, not relieved by scratching, evening,
[2]. ►
*Fine rash over her body, particularly about the bends of the elbows and
knees; this was attended by prickling, tingling, and itching; while in a
warm room it remained out, and she felt well; if she passed into a cold
room, the eruption would disappear, and she would then have the most
severe rheumatic pains in and about these joints (nineteenth
day); it had extended over the arms to the axillæ, and over the lower
extremities to the groins; when warmly dressed, and in a warm room, she
felt well; when exposed to cold or severe weather, the eruption and the
rheumatic condition returned (fifty-third day). When the eruption makes
its appearance, it is attended with profuse sweat, which usually lasts
two or three days, [23]. ► A kind of red rash came out all over the
body, the face was first affected, then the trunk, and lastly the
extremities; it was accompanied by high fever, pulse 120, [10]. ►
Several pimples on cheeks and wrists, which are very sore, and of a
pustular character at first, then resemble chicken-pox (sixth day);
pimples still on cheeks (for ten weeks); pimples on cheeks just before
and during menstruation (for three months); the pimples were attended by
burning and soreness; when opened; pus and blood were discharged, and a
small pit was left at the seat of the pimple, [24]. [2020.]
► Pimple near the nose resembling a
blood blister, [1]. ► Pimple near the right nostril, which
afterwards formed a large scab, [1].
► Pimples in the face, which itch
somewhat, [1]. ► Pimples on the right cheek, [1]. ►
Pimply eruption in the centre of the vermilion border of the upper lip
(fourth day), [1]. ► *Moist pimply eruption at the margin of the
vermilion border of the upper lip, [2]. ► *Itching
pimples on the chin, [1].
► Pimples on the chin with ulcerative
pain, when touched, [1]. ► Itching and itching pimples on the
joints, particularly on the bends of the elbows, popliteal space, and
ankles, worse evening and morning than during the day (after a few
hours), [1]. ►
Many itching pimples on the legs, [1].
[2030.] ►
Pointed pimples on the calves, extending up to the knees; they itch, and
where the clothes touch, cause a sticking, [1]. ► Pimples
on the dorsum of foot, itching severely, causing scratching until blood
comes, [1]. ► Eruptions, Moist and Pustular. ► Since the thirty-second day I have had a
vesicular eruption on the scalp, chest, back of the shoulders, and also
on the calves of the legs, and on the knee-joints; a few of the vesicles
became pustules, and when squeezed yielded a tough sticky matter; but
pressure was painful and made them look angry; those on the scalp
itched; brushing the hair was agreeable, but combing or scratching made
the pustules sore; the brush brings off more scales than usual; the skin
of the nose is also peeling (forty-fourth day), [38]. ► A few
vesicles appear on the upper lip, right side, sore to the touch
(twenty-sixth day), [38]. ► Much purulent eruption on the outer ear, [1]. ►
Itching blisters and blotches on the face, hands, and feet, [1]. ►
Large blisters on the right thumb, with itching, [1]. ►
Blisters form easily on the heel, when walking, [1]. ► Painful
ulcer on internal surface of lower lip; pain ameliorated by cold water, [1]. ►
A very painful pustule in the middle of the lower lip, [1]. [2040.] ► Large blood-boil on the left side of the
neck, below the inferior maxillary, with stinging pain, [1]. ►
Pustules in the right groin and between coccyx and anus; they feel hard
like shot (sixty-first day); pustules in groin very painful; quite a
number along the posterior border and inferior angle of the left scapula
(sixty-second day); pustules forming on the crista ilii from the spine
to the middle of each bone (sixty-third day); pustules very painful,
which make me irritable (sixty-fourth day); pustules indistinct on my
body (sixth-fifth day), [21]. ► A large blister on each upper arm with
violent itching, [1]. ► Panaritium on left index finger with
severe beating and stitching in it (after twenty-three days), [1]. ►
Hard and inflamed boil on right nates, [9].
► Boils on the thigh (after seventeen
days), [1]. ► Subjective. ►
The skin of the whole body is painfully sensitive to the slightest
knock, [1]. ►
Skin seems tender; the least scratch heals slowly (twenty-fourth day), [20]. ►
Tension and contraction in the skin of the face, particularly the
forehead, [1]. ► The skin of the whole body pains as if
sore, [1]. [2050.] ►
Pricking in the skin, in the evening after he gets warm in bed, [1]. ►
Burning on the skin of the arm on the outside just below the
shoulder-joint, as from a blister, [2].
► Burning and stitching in the ulcer,
particularly at night, [1]. ► The itching changes to burning, [1]. ►
Prickling at the point of eruption before the pimples first appeared, [24]. ►
Drawing and tearing in a part of the skin which had once been injured, [1]. ►
*Itching in various parts of the body, relieved by scratching, after
which there is a pinkish color (after two days), [28]. ►
Intense itching of the skin, [10].
► *Itching in the ulcer, [1]. ►
*Itching in the face, on the arms, hands, back, hips, abdomen, and pubes
(after two, twenty, twenty-three, and twenty-eight days), [1]. [2060.] ► Itching in the whole face, [1]. ► Itching
in the upper part of the cheeks, and after rubbing it, a burning
smarting, [1]. ► *Itching on the tip of the nose, [1]. ►
Severe itching in the nape of the neck, [1].
► Itching on the chest (after four
days), [1]. ►
Itching on the upper part of the sternum, [1].
► *Itching of the nipples, that at times
bleed and seem about to suppurate, [7]. ► *Itching on
the left nipple; it bleeds occasionally, and seems as if it would
ulcerate, [1]. ► Severe itching on the right side of the
pubis, worse at night on going to bed; becoming moist after scratching,
and forming a thin scale, easily pulled off (after a week); this
eruption has nearly disappeared (after eighteen days), [39]. ►
Itching in the axillæ, [1]. [2070.] ►►
*Itching on the bends of the elbows, [1]. ► *Itching
acridity on the posterior part of each elbow, [3]. ► Severe
itching on the tibiæ, [1]. ► Itching on the outer side of the sole of
left foot, [2]. ► Itching of the toes, [1].® 2000
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