THUJA.
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordia. ► Frequent
feeling of faintness at the heart, relieved by warmth, with nausea and a
peculiar pain, as if a number of threads were tied together in one spot,
as large as a half-dollar, about the heart, and were painfully stretched
with every respiration, [12]. ► Pressive anxiety rising to the heart like
a rush of blood into it; as this accumulation recedes from the heart
there remains a slight painful sensation at this point, from which it
disappears as after an unusual distension, [12]. ► The
heart is drawn downward toward the left side, as from a weight hanging
upon it, with whizzing in the head, [12].
► In the region of the heart a small
spot, sensitive to touch, with pain as if sore (fifth day), [57]. ►
Cramp in the heart; in the forenoon he is suddenly attacked
by a cramp which affects the whole hypochondriac region with tightness,
even to arrest of breath, causing anxiety, without any loss of breath,
with extremely painful surging, congestive squirming, warm sensation in
the middle of the distended and tense pit of the stomach, extending
through the spine, as if the circulation in the large bloodvessels were
stopped, with imperceptible, very irregularly intermitting, and
tremulous beating of the heart, and a similar pulse, with paroxysms of
anxiety and fear of an attack of apoplexy, obliging him to jump up
suddenly and to move about in a dizzy paralytic way; after lasting three
hours, disappearing gradually, with most violent, almost uninterrupted
eructations of air and much flatulence, though the congestive cramp at
the heart still continues the next day, but in the evening, while
sitting still, it was associated with violent pain in the back, and
after a restless night’s sleep, with much tossing about, there remained
a suppressed, irregular, intermittent pulse and action of the heart,
which only gradually improved (fifth month); since that time similar
paroxysms recur for a long time at shorter or longer intervals, mostly
in the evening, sometimes in the night, seldom lasting all day, allowing
one to lie only on the back at night, and always aggravated when he lies
on the side; with frequent and profuse micturition, and with a very
sunken, pale-gray expression of the face. During the thirteenth month
there occurs a somewhat different attack of “heart cramp;”
after an uneasy sleep an oppressive anxiety about the heart in the
morning, with a quite suppressed small pulse, intermittent and
irregular, for a long time, with a tremulous feeling within the heart,
imperceptible beating of the heart, obliging him frequently to gasp for
air, with a feeling as if he would suffocate, though he could take a
deep breath, with dizzy confusion frequently rising into the head,
obliging him to rise and walk about, with deep, pressive aching in the
pit of the stomach, which is distended, with enormous eructations of gas
from the stomach, the emission of which affords relief; all this
increases constantly during the forenoon, begins to diminish somewhat,
towards noon, and only ceases entirely in the evening with emission of
flatus and return of the normal pulse. The whole attack was repeated on
the fourth day, but was less severe, then again on the seventh day, in
the evening, always beginning with spasmodic accumulation of gas in the
stomach and intestines, arrest of the circulation, passing off with
eructations of gas and relief, [12].
► Pain in the region of the heart, [1]. ►
Constant pressive pain at the heart, with violent beating when lying on
the left side at night, [12]. [2170.] ►
Transient feeling of pressure in the heart (eighth day), [73]. ► Very
disagreeable pressing in the region of the heart, confined to a small
spot, in the evening (sixty-fourth day), [72].
► A transitory pressing and tension
in the heart, in the forenoon (sixty-fifth day), [72]. ►
Sensation of falling drops in the heart felt through the whole heart
into the chest, [12]. ► Twitching pains under the heart, [82]. ►
Tearing pains in the region of the heart, and from there into the left
scapula, in the open air (fifth day), [84].
► Sticking pains in the region of the
heart, [80]. ►
Sticking in the heart, with a hot, burning sensation in it, and then
throbbing in the heart, causing anxiety and depression of spirits, [12]. ►
Stitches in the cardiac region, [79].
► Sticking burrowing in the region of
the heart, [12]. ► Heart’s Action. [2180.] ►
Momentary palpitation of the heart (seventy-eighth day), [42]. ►
Palpitation on moving and stooping, [12].
► Palpitation, with want of air, so
that talking is difficult, [12]. ► Anxious palpitation, after smoking part
of a cigar (sixty-third day), [13].
► Palpitation in frequent paroxysms,
recurring at irregular intervals; it begins with uneasiness and whirling
in the whole body, followed by some beating in the chest, difficulty of
breathing, with paleness of the face, then throbbing of the heart, so
that she can neither sit nor lie, but is obliged to walk about, [12]. ►
Beating of the heart at night, and throbbing of the pulse in the
forehead, and twitching in the face, [12].
► *Visible palpitation, without anxiety,
[1]. ►
Violent beating of the heart in the morning when washing, disappearing
during the day, suddenly returning in the evening with great anxiety, so
that she did not know what to do, with heat and rush of blood to the
head, dark-red face, followed by shaking chill with cramp, the next
morning after which she still felt dizzy and confused (fourth month), [12]. ►
Paroxysmal loud pulsation in the heart, at times interrupted by a
violent extra sound, with intermittent pulse and with difficult
breathing, [12]. ► In no position of the body, whether
sitting or lying, could he feel the pulsation of his heart; after a
quarter of an hour he experienced a trembling of the heart, which
recurred for a quarter of an hour, with anxiety (seventh night), [57]. ►
Pulse. [2190.] ► Accelerated pulse (twentieth and
sixty-fourth days), [43]. ► Pulse 120, full and hard, in the evening
(twenty-second and twenty-third days); feverish pulse, with headache in
the evening (twenty-third day); pulse moderately accelerated, full and
hard (twenty-fifth day), [76]. ► Full, quick pulse during the access of
heat (thirty-fifth day), [46]. ► Pulse weak, fell below 60 (after four
days), [11].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Swelling of the
veins in the neck, extending downward from the ears, with pressure, [12]. ►
The thickness of the neck increases, and nodular glandular swellings
become very hard, [12]. ► The neck appears swelled, so that the
loose neckcloth is troublesome (twenty-second day), [73]. ► The
cervical vessels are distended and blue, [1].
► The skin of the nape of the neck is
fatty, [12]. ►
Creaking in the cervical vertebræ on making certain movements with his
head; this symptom had already been frequently observed without
particular attention being paid to it, but to-day it was troublesome in
a much greater degree (fifty-second day), [73].
[2200.] ► Painful stiffness
of the nape of the neck when moving the head, in the
afternoon (ninth day), [26]. ► Sensation of stiffness in the nape of the neck
and on the left side of the neck, extending into the ear, even during
rest, which in no way impedes movement of the neck (the
stiffness is not aggravated on moving the neck), (after two hours and a
quarter), [5]. ► Feeling of stiffness on the left side of
the nape of the neck, which had been already perceived during the first
days of the experiment, but had been attributed from the beginning, by
the prover, to an uncomfortable position in bed (tenth day), [56]. ►
Drawing tension in the nape of the neck
(more on the left side), recurring several times (eleventh day), [23]. ►
A painful tension in the right side of the nape and in the small of the
back (seventh day); slight tension in the left
side of the nape (eighth day), [31].
► Painful tension in the left side of
the neck, darting upward to the occiput and downward to the scapula, and
preventing her from turning her head (third day); the tension seemed to
remit somewhat (fourth day); the tension diminished, but did not
altogether cease on the days when she took no medicine; still
occasionally sensible, especially in the morning (fourth day);
diminished only very slowly, and then suddenly set in again, and first
completely vanished at the expiration of three months, [51]. ► As
soon as he awoke he felt an extremely disagreeable, painful sensation in
the nape of the neck, close to the
occiput, as if he had been lying on a hard
couch. In the course of the day this pain spread over the
whole right side of the back, as if the muscles in that part of the body
were sprained, and was felt
especially when bending the head forward, and raising the right arm; in
the evening the pain moved more into the region of the right shoulder
and neck (third day); on bending the head forward, a sensation, as if
the muscles were too short, and as
if the pain was caused by the tension of the muscles; the pain continued
the whole day, accompanied with whizzing
and buzzing in the right ear (fourth
day); shortly after taking the drug the pain in the nape of the neck,
shoulder and back was increased to such an extent that the raising of
the right arm and carrying the hand behind the head caused the most
exquisite pain. He was unable to bend the head forward or to turn it; in
order to accomplish this he had to move the whole upper part of the
body. The pain was a sort of tumultuous digging,
as if the muscles had been crushed, and as if a gathering were taking
place in the subcutaneous and intermuscular areolar tissue (fifth day);
painful drawing in the left posterior cervical
region, close to the occiput, alternating with a similar pain
in the right frontal eminence, at
11.30 (twelfth day), [32]. ► Pain in the left side of the neck, as
from a hard bed, or as if he had lain in an uncomfortable position, [1]. ►
Pain, as from a saddle across the nape of the neck, shoulders, and on
the spine, [12]. ► Pain in the nape of the neck (within two
hours), [71]. [2210.] ►
Sensation in the nape of the neck as if beaten to pieces (after three
hours), [3]. ►
Pressing and drawing pain, extending from below upward, in the right
side of the neck, even during rest (after two hours), [10]. ►
Drawing pain in the neck, with fulness in the head, in the afternoon
(sixteenth day), [27]. ► Drawing in the left side of the neck, in
the evening before going to sleep (fourth day); immediately after
getting up, and lasting till afternoon (fifth day), [65]. ►
Drawing in the left side of the neck, on waking in the morning (eighth
day), [66]. ►
Slight drawing in the nape, and
repeated sticking from the nape to the right ear and shoulder, in the
evening (sixteenth day), [72]. ► Sticking-tearing pain in the muscular
parts of the right side of the nape of the neck, in the evening,
extending as far as the scapula (continuing only a short time, but
returning several times with considerable violence), (first day), [33]. ►
A digging-tearing pain in the muscles of the right side of the nape of
the neck, extending momentarily as far as the right scapula, and being
relieved by contact, accompanied by roaring in the left ear, and
creaking when swallowing saliva, in the evening (fifth day), [33]. ►
Uneasiness, or alternations of slow pinching and relaxation in the
cervical muscles, nape of the neck, and in the chest, associated with a
kind of nausea, [1]. ► Slight tearing in the nape (after two
hours), [73]. [2220.] ►
A couple of transient tearings in the tendinous expansion, on the right
side of the neck (sixteenth day), [73].
► Tearing in the third cervical
vertebra, so that it is difficult to turn the head, [12]. ►
Tearing, extending from the neck into the ear, behind the ear into the
shoulders, arms, and hands, [12]. ► Violent tearing in the nape, which
extended into the shoulder, and there remained all day (twenty-fourth
day), [76]. ►
Throbbing in the arteries of the neck, with pressure in the throat,
hindering breathing, [12]. ► Burning-cutting pain in the nape of the
neck, extending down to the shoulders, [12].
► Sticking, cutting pains in the left
side of the neck, as far as the left ear, which soon disappeared again,
in the morning (thirty-fourth day), [44].
► Sticking pain in the forepart of
the neck, beneath the larynx (after nine hours), [10]. ►
Sticking in the nape, over the joint of the atlas, lasting half an hour,
in the evening (seventy-first day), [73].
► A pinching stitch in the right side
of the neck, disappearing on moving and turning it (after three hours
and a quarter), [3]. [2230.] ►
A short stitch in the cervical muscles on moving the neck, making him
start, [1]. ► Back. ►
The whole back is sore, with stiffness in the nape of the neck, [12]. ►
Sensation of stiffness in the spine, as after standing bent over for a
long time (after thirteen hours), [5].
► A sore bruised sensation in the
back, on both sides of the spine, in the region of the kidneys, [12]. ►
Sore feeling on the back (after four days), [1]. ► Pain in
the back, as from long stooping, in the evening, immediately after lying
down (after sixty-six hours), [8].
► Heaviness and tension in the back
(first day), [87]. ► Feeling as if bruised in the back (second
day), [83]. ►
Pressive pain in small spots, here and there in the back, while sitting,
[1]. ►
Pressure in the back and spasmodic drawing inward of the abdomen, below
the pit of the stomach, so that breathing was very difficult, together
with constriction of the larynx, and ineffectual desire for stool, with
great crawling in the anus, always after eating, [12]. [2240.]
► Deeply pressive pain in the back,
opposite the pit of the stomach, with a sensation as if the blood could
not pass through, [12]. ► Drawing pain in the back while sitting,
[1]. ►
A drawing along the vertebral column and in the calves, with
a feeling of weakness in the feet (first day), [28]. ► Boring
in a small spot in the back, [1]. ► Boring-tearing pain in the back,
extending into the left hip and obliging him to limp, [12]. ►
Cutting pain from the spine to the pit of the stomach, [80]. ► Sudden
lightning like shootings in the back, with stupefying pain in the head,
like intoxication, and faintlike weakness (after fourteen days), [12]. ►
Burning-sticking pain in the back, between the scapulæ, while sitting
(after thirteen hours), [10]. ► Violent sticklike pain in the left side
of the back, by the lumbar vertebræ, while walking, not affected by
sitting (after ten hours), [8]. ► Pressing stitches in the back (after
three hours), [10]. [2250.] ►
(A stitch in the back, extending outward through the chest), [1]. ►
A beating in the spine, as though a large vessel were pulsating, after
sitting (after six hours and three-quarters), [3]. ► Dorsal.
► Weakness in and between the
shoulders, so that the clothing is distressing, [12]. ►
Painful soreness in the middle of the back (third day), [87]. ►
Pressure in the back, beneath the scapulæ, associated with pressive
constrictive cramp in the stomach, [12].
► Pressing between the shoulders
(after second day), [71]. ► Feeling of dislocation in the middle of
the spine, increased by sudden bending the body to the right side, [79]. ►
Violent pressing between the shoulders on awaking (third day), [70]. ►
Drawing in both scapulæ, in the direction of the nape of the neck; in both legs, from the
knees to the malleoli; and at the same time in both forearms, from the
elbows to the wrist-joints; these symptoms appeared usually three to
four hours after taking the drug, and lasted ten to sixteen hours
(seventh to twelfth day), [28]. ► A constrictive feeling in the back,
between the scapulæ, which somewhat hindered respiration and also
motion of arms (fifteenth day), [74].
[2260.] ►
Drawing between the shoulders (seventy-second day), [72]. ► Pain,
like a bruise, beneath the scapula, for several hours, [1]. ►
Twitching in the muscles under the left scapula (first day), [83]. ►
Burning between the shoulders, [12].
► Boring in the back between the
shoulders, [12]. ► Tearing in the left scapula (after three
days), [1]. ►
Dull cutting under the left shoulderblade, [80]. ►
Cutting from the point of the left scapula through the chest to the edge
of the middle portion of the sternum (first day), [84]. ► Sharp
stitches between the scapulæ (after half an hour), [6]. ►
Sticking on the left scapula (within two hours), [71]. [2270.]
► Sticking between the shoulders, [12]. ►
Frequently flying stitches under the right shoulderblade (seventh day), [48]. ►
Lumbar. ► Weakness in the
small of the back, with pain in the coccyx, while sitting (fourth day), [14]. ►
Great debility in the small of the back and feet (sixteenth day), [26]. ►
Pain, as if beaten, in the small of the back, worse when stooping or
rising from a seat (after six months), [13].
► Pain, as if beaten, in the small of
the back, with great weakness, extending to the tip of the coccyx, [12]. ►
Pains in the small of the back (after five hours, third day), [68]; (within two hours), [71]. ► Pain
in the small of the back, like lumbago, lasting a long time, [12]. ►
Pain in the small of the back, extending obliquely to the right side, [12]. ►
The lumbar vertebræ are somewhat painful when leaning forward in
sitting (forty-eighth day), [72]. [2280.] ►
Painful aching in the small of the back, even to weeping, so that she
felt every step and every loud word, and as soon as the pain mounted to
the next to the last dorsal vertebra she was attacked with faintness and
everything became white, but she was unable to move, till she suddenly
started up and was obliged to stretch, with anxiety and difficult
breathing, during profuse menstruation (seventh month), [12]. ► Sudden
cramplike pain in the small of the back if he moves his feet after
standing a long time at one spot; he threatens to fall down (after six
days), [11]. ►
Pressive aching transversely across the back between the hips, [12]. ►
Pressing in the small of the back (third day), [68]. ►
Pressive sensation of heaviness extending down from the back to the
malleoli, making it difficult to walk, [12].
► Pressing pain in the small of the
back on stooping, [3]. ► Dull pressive pain, like a bruised
sensation, in the small of the back and lumbar region, in the morning
after rising from bed, aggravated while standing and on turning the
body, relieved while walking (after fifteen days), [1]. ►
Drawing-pressing pain in the left lumbar region (after half an hour), [10]. ►
Drawing in the small of the back, [1]. ► Drawing
in the small of the back (aggravated while seated), (eighteenth day), [76]. [2290.]
► Drawing in the lumbar muscles while
walking, at noon (forty-seventh day); drawing again in the loins, at
noon (forty-eighth day); drawing from the loins towards the nates, in
the morning on rising (fiftieth day); slight drawing in the small of the
back, at noon (seventy-sixth day), [72].
► Tensive pain in the small of the
back, [1]. ►
Burning in the lower portion of the back increasing to a sensation as if
pierced with fine needles, frequently associated with a sensation in the
thighs while walking, as if all the tendons from the small of the back
to the knee were too short (fourth month), [12]. ►
Sensation of burning heat in the lumbar region (after one hour), [10]. ►
Burning pains ascending from the ischii through the whole spinal column
to the shoulders, [12]. ► Sensation of formication in paroxysms
commencing in the small of the back, [12].
► Pains in the lower half of the
spinal column and in the sacrum, continuing and aggravated by bending
the body (twenty-fourth day), [77].
► Very violent cutting in both loins
when walking (second day), [84]. ► Frequent attacks of a painless twitching
in the back, towards the left loin, like a muscular twitch, at 2 P.M.
(twelfth day), [32]. ► While standing and leaning sideways he
feels a dull sticking pain, as with a dull needle, over the hips, in the
lumbar region, close to the spine (after a quarter of an hour), [5]. ►
Sacral. [2300.]
► Spasmodic drawing from the coccyx
into the genitals, preventing the discharge of urine, [12]. ► *Painful
drawing in the sacrum, coccyx, and thighs while sitting, which, after
sitting a long time, prevents his standing erect (after four
hours), [11]. ► Violent drawing and pressing in the
sacral region for two hours in the forenoon (seventh day), [56]. ►
Uncommonly violent stitch between the coccyx
and anus, at 7 P.M., when walking
(ninth day), [71]. ► Sticking pain on the left side, from the
sacrum to the left testicle (fifth day), [84].
► A jerklike burning sticking in the
right side, close to the sacrum, entirely removed by violent rubbing
(after three hours and three-quarters), [5].
► Pressing stitches from the sacral
bones into the side of the pelvis (after seven hours), [10]. ► A
burning rubbing on the coccyx, more while sitting than walking, with a
constant feeling of coldness in the right foot, mostly in the sole,
lasting eight days, followed by general weakness (second month), [12]. ►
Violent itching in the lower part of the sacral region (sixteenth day), [67]. ►
Annoyed by an itching-burning pain in the hollow below the os coccygis,
soon after waking, and lasting all day; it recurred after the dose in
the evening (third and seventh days), [49].
EXTREMITIES. [2310.] ► *The
nails of the fingers and toes become wavy and dry, so that they partly
crumble, alternating from time to time with a healthy growth
until the latter becomes permanent, [12].
► *Numerous hang-nails (after
fifteen months), [13]. ► (The paralyzed right arm and foot felt
more vigorous and muscular, with generally increased vigor), [12]. ►
General uneasiness and stretching of the limbs, soon after the dose
(twenty-fourth day), [72]. ► Jerking of the limbs before falling
asleep and during rest, [12]. ► *Trembles in hand and foot
(twenty-fourth day), [76]. ► Stiffness and heaviness of all the limbs,
[11]. ►
Great weakness in all the limbs, in the afternoon while sitting (after
thirteen hours), [8]. ► The shoulders and thighs are very weary;
these parts seem bruised, as after great fatigue, [1]. ►
Debility of the limbs, as from weariness (twentieth day), [43]. [2320.]
► Cracking in the joints of the
elbows, knees, and ankles when stretching out the limbs, [1]. ►
Heaviness of the limbs (fourth day), [14].
► Falling asleep of the upper and
lower extremities, at night on waking, [1].
► Falling asleep and feeling of
paralysis wandering about the limbs, [12].
► Burning and swelling of all joints,
[12]. ►
Every day feels a pain as if bruised, at times in the shoulders, at times in the thighs
(forty-fourth day), [42]. ► Feeling in the extremities as though
bruised (forty-first day), [73]. ► Occasional drawing in the limbs (after
twelve days), [49]. ► Extremely painful drawing aching of the
articular extremities of all the bones, with a sensation of swelling,
without swelling and without change in the color of the skin, with loss
of appetite, bitter taste, and emaciation, lasting three months, with
cessation of the previous tuberculous cough, [12]. ►
Drawing tearing in the hands and feet, [12].
► Sudden drawing in the limbs
(eleventh day); drawing in the limbs (twelfth day); drawing, now here,
now there, in the extremities (fourteenth day); drawing in the
extremities, especially on the inner surface of the upper part of the
left thigh and forearm (only while at rest), (fifteenth day); drawing in
different parts of the extremities, not lasting long, but frequently
quite troublesome (sixteenth day), [66].
[2330.] ►
Drawing in both hands and feet, afterwards only in the
forearm as far as the wrist-joints (first day), [29]. ►
Drawing in the joints of the hands and feet (tenth day), [73]. ► Short
accesses of drawing in the right arm and leg, at 10 A.M. (fifty-eighth
day), [73]. ►
Tension in the extensor muscles of the extremities and trunk, now here,
now there; subsequently heat, in the evening (twentieth day), [72]. ►
Drawing and sensation of weariness, with apparent dulness of feeling,
in the limbs, especially in the upper and in the forearm, near the
wrist, in the evening (twenty-first day), [72].
► Drawing in the limbs, particularly
in the right forearm, aggravated by movement of the limb (fifty-seventh
day), [72]. ►
Drawing pains in the arms and feet, and especially in the small of the
back (sixth night); frequent accesses of drawing pains in different
parts of the body annoyed him (seventh day); drawing and tearing pains
in the hands and feet, afterwards in the epigastrium, hypochondria, on
the chest, but worst in the small of the back, ending in slight
perspiration (seventh night); drawing pains in the hands and feet, in
the sacral region, and between the shoulders, daily, for six weeks, [57]. ►
Drawing from the right wrist joint as far as the tips of the
fingers, and from the right calf as far as the malleoli, with the
sensation as if that foot were lame; afterwards a drawing sticking in
the right upper arm as far as the elbow joint, and in the right thigh as
far as the knee (seventh to twelfth day); drawing in the left calf,
afterwards in the right forearm from the elbow as far as the wrist-joint
(sixteenth and seventeenth days); the same drawing and sticking in
various parts of the limbs (twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and
twenty-ninth days), [28]. ► Pains, at one time drawing, at another
tearing, were repeatedly felt, especially in the extremities, for the
most part while at rest, but in the right tibia also while walking, so
as to make me limp (after twenty-six days), [48]. ► At
times drawing pains in the hands and feet, which still continued even
after eight days, growing, however, weaker and weaker (after thirty-five
days), [48]. [2340.] ►
Tearing pressing in the upper part of the right thigh and right arm,
which greatly resembled the effects of Bryonia, with this difference,
that the pain produced by Thuja seized the middle of the affected
member, was confined to a small spot, and was mostly in the muscles,
while that produced by Bryonia seemed to prefer the joints and tendons
(first day), [56]. ► Tearing in the left upper arm, afterwards
in the left leg (sixteenth and seventeenth days), [28]. ►
Tearing through the long bones of the upper and lower extremities, even
under the heels, [12]. ► Tearing and sticking pain in all the
joints, [82]. ► Sticking and tearing in the ankles, with
swelling of them, and in the soles of the feet, and digging and sticking
as from needles in them, and as if they were all sore, worse in the
morning, so that she could step only with difficulty, with constant pain
in the small of the back, then the back between the shoulders becomes
affected, and the hands, together with the fingers, pain most violently.
At times the pains leave the limbs, and then the abdomen becomes
painful, with diarrhœa, always preceded by griping in the intestines
and shivering, with heat and thirst, vertigo, and jerking in the limbs
and abdomen, with scraping in the throat, and a pungent salt taste to
the mucus, and a sour taste in the mouth after eating, together with
profuse sour-smelling sweat (sixth month), [12]. ►
Sticking in the external malleolus, hip-joint, metacarpal bone of the
middle finger, on the inner edge of the foot, in the heel, [80]. ►
Stitches in the sole and in the palm, [82].
► Sticking in the shoulders and in
the right knee (second day), [70].® 2000
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