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Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homœopathic Therapeutics.

By T. F. Allen.
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Ammonium Muriaticum.

Sal Ammoniac, N H4 Cl, is
dissolved in water for use.


General Action :- ►

It causes
profuse secretions from mucous membranes, especially of the air passages,
and when decomposed in the blood acts as a heart-stimulant (See Caustic
Ammonia
).

Relations :- ►

Ammon.
Caust., Kali, Alumina, Mur. Ac
.

Generalities :- ►

Loss of fat.
► Stitches in left side of abdomen, then in right side of chest,
then in right scapula, then in small of back, with chilliness and
sleepiness during the day. ► Pressive burning and stinging now here,
now there, in forenoon. ► Painful twitching, or jerking tearing now
here, now there, the pain most severely beats, as if it would suppurate, 6
to 10 P.M., on sitting, amel. lying in bed. ►
Pain and bruised feeling in all bones, when slumbering or sitting still.
► Bruised pain in morning after rising, agg. during motion,
especially in back, with tearing in shoulders and nape. ► Contracted
feeling in whole body, in morning, so that walking was difficult, amel.
long walking. ► Orgasm of blood ; with anxiety. ► Sudden
faintness after dinner, when taking exercise in open air, with weakness.
► Weakness mornings. ► Weakness, inactivity, general
depression (in fever). ► Weakness, with constriction of throat and
difficult respiration. ► Amelioration in open air. ► Coffee
restricts the action of the drug.


Clinical :- ►

The
mucous secretions are generally increased ; free in the air
passages ; cover the stool ; profuse leucorrhœas ; free
discharge from nose, etc.


Mind :- ►

Excitement when talking
on an important subject. ► Anxiety, sometimes with weeping ;
anxiety, with melancholy. ► Irritable, peevish and easily
frightened ; irritable and peevish in forenoon, amel. after
dinner ; peevish in morning, and confused, as if she had not slept
enough. ► Ill-humored in evening, absorbed in her thoughts and can
scarcely be induced to speak. ► Antipathy to certain persons.
► Timidity. ► Seriousness.

Head :- ►

Stitches, in the house,
especially in left side, with pressure. ► Aching. ► Confusion
as after intoxication. ► Heaviness ; after rising. ►
Vertigo, with fulness and heaviness ;
V. in morning, amel. open air, with confusion ; V. as if she would
fall to one side, agg. motion, amel. open air (Kali
c
.).

Forehead :- ►

Sudden fine
stitches in left in afternoon. ► Tearing when sitting. ►
Boring. ► Aching ; throbbing aching in evening, agg. touch,
with weakness, so that he can scarcely walk, and chills on going to bed.
► Pressure in morning, after an uneasy night, with heat there ;
pressure downward towards root of nose, morning after rising, with
sensation as if the brain were torn. ► Heaviness in front of ;
H., with internal heat and sweat.

Temples :- ►

Stitches in left in
forenoon. ► Tearing in right, extending into side of face ;
fine tearing upward in right bone during menses ; sudden tearing
upward in right in forenoon. ► Burning pain in left, and sometimes
stitches. ► Painful twitches upward in left.

Vertex :- ►

Stitches on stooping
from 3 to 6 P.M. ; stitches in morning, with
sensation as if head were bursting. ► Pain as if head were broken in
two.

Side :- ►

Fine stitches in left,
in forenoon. ► Tearing in upper part of right, while sitting.

Occiput :- ►

Compression as from
a vise, then in sides of head, with ill humor. ► Pinching in a spot
on left side in forenoon.

Scalp :- ►

Itching. ►
Itching pimples on right side of occiput in evening, amel. at night.

Eyes :- ►

Pain. ► Sensation
as if a body were rising in left, forenoons, preventing vision. ►
Burning in morning after rising, if she looks at the light ; in
evening, and closing as from sleep, amel. by light ; at night, with
lachrymation ; or right continuing long in open air. ►
Twitching of left, amel. long rubbing. ► Lachrymation morning after
rising. ► Tearing in balls. ► Twitching in left ball, amel.
rubbing.

Lids :- ►

Agglutination in
morning on waking, with burning in canthi after washing. ► Twitching
of lower, agg. left. ► Tearing in external canthus. ► Burning
in canthi ; morning, agg. looking at the light, amel. washing.

►

Vesicle in white. ► Redness of
white, with itching of eyes. ► Tearing in upper border of right in
afternoon, while sitting, first agg. then amel. by pressure. ►
Hammering over margin of right orbit in morning, or sensation as if a
large body were pushing there. ► Vision misty in morning, amel.
washing ; she distinguishes nothing in the open air, even in the
sunlight, sees better in the house. ► Yellow spots when sewing and
when looking out the window into the garden. ► Eyes weak, glassy,
watery.

Ears :- ►

Fine stitches in left
in afternoon in open air ; stitches inward in right when walking in
open air, then burning extending outward from left, outward from right,
also as with an awl ; fine, outward in left when walking in open air.
► Boring and stitching outward from right. ► Boring twitching
in right. ► Clawing and tearing in right. ► Twisting in left
and behind it ; where there is a moist herpes. ► Burrowing and
turmoil in right on which he lay at night, as if something would come out.
► Tickling in right. ► Itching in both, with discharge of
liquid wax. ► Grumbling and thundering noise in right when sitting
and at night, with pulsations.

Nose :- ►

External swelling of
left side, then discharge of bloody crusts. ► Mucous membrane of
nose and lips destroyed. ► Sore on the inside and around margins of
nostrils. ► Ulcerative pain in left nostril, agg. touch. ►
Obstruction at night, with pain at right nasal fossa ; left nostril
stopped by mucus, amel. blowing. ► Itching in nose, with desire to
blow it, sensation as if a large, rough body were sticking high up, and
obstruction. ► Sensation in upper part as before a cold. ►
Sneezing frequently
 ; without a cold, rousing from sleep,
with crawling in throat, causing cough
and salivation.

►

► Clear
water running from nose and corroding lips
. ► Coryza,
with eruptions in nostrils ; C., with obstruction of nose and loss of
smell ; with obstructed ; feeling and difficult discharge of
much mucus ; dry, but clear water runs out of nose ; at one
nostril, out of which runs thick, yellow matter, with tearing in
cheek-bone and teeth of left side. ► Brown blood with the mucus on
blowing. ► Bleeding, morning on washing face ; B. from left
nostril, with relief of the itching. ► Bloody froth from nose and
mouth.


Clinical :- ►

Coryza,
with acrid, watery discharge, ulcerative pain in nostril, nose very sore
to touch. ► Discharge scalding hot, also
with cold feeling between shoulders
. ►
Loss of smell.


Face :- ►

Pallor. ►
Distortion, expression of anxiety. ► Swelling of cheek, with
enlargement of a gland below right angle of jaw, with throbbing and
lancinating pain. ► Tearing in bones of right side, evening while
sitting ; in left malar-bone ; in right malar-bone in forenoon,
extending into temples ; in cheeks in evening, alternating with
tearing in sides of neck. ► Twitching pains in a spot in right upper
part, in forenoon, amel. during touch. ► Tearing stitches in right
side of chin. ► Tearing in left lower jaw, then in upper incisors.
► Drawing in lower jaw. ► Lips chapped ; dry, wrinkled
and chapped, she had to moisten them constantly with the tongue ;
itching pimples around upper ; blisters on upper, becoming inflamed
and ulcerated ; excoriated spot in right side of upper with burning
soreness ; contracted, with greasy feeling ; burning ;
burning stinging of upper.

Mouth :- ►

Teeth, tearing ;
in all at 8 P.M., amel. in bed ; in upper,
evening in bed, right, then left, in a decayed root of left upper, in
afternoon when sitting, amel. pressure. ► Stinging in upper
incisors. ► Swelling of gums of lower back teeth, with stitches
extending to left temple. ► Tongue white ; coated more than
usual on rising ; coated white ; white mucous coat in spots on
tongue and mouth, like a false membrane ; vesicles
at tip, with burning pain ; burning vesicles at tip
.
► Could scarcely speak and complained of burning pain in throat and
chest. ► Taste bitter, also in morning, amel. after eating, with
frequent bitter eructations ; bitter, during the anxiety, with
nauseating bitter eructations ; sourish, also morning on
waking ; pappy, morning after rising ; disagreeable, with
salivation.

Throat :- ►

Swelling, external
and internal, with pressive pain when swallowing, and drawing and stinging
pain in the swollen submaxillary glands. ► Stinging ; when
yawning. ► Stinging raw sensation. ► Soreness, with rawness.
► Burning pain throat and chest ; with difficulty in speaking.
► Constriction, with difficult respiration. ► Roughness, amel.
after dinner. ► Dryness. ► Itching, then expectoration of
blood. ► Throbbing in tonsils,
as if in an artery, with uneasiness and anxiety. ► Constant hawking
from tickling in throat, without much expectoration. ► Hawking up
mucus in morning. ► Hawking with expectoration of small pieces of
mucus. ► Mucus difficult to hawk up. ► Mucus which he can
neither swallow nor hawk up. ► Swallowing almost impossible.


Clinical :- ►

Swelling of tonsils so that he can scarcely swallow, after taking cold.


Stomach :- ►

Appetite capricious,
sometimes lost, sometimes ravenous, with constipation or diarrhœa ;
want of ; want of, in evening, with frequent yawning ; none, yet
he takes his usual food. ► Thirst ; evening ; before the
chill, before 5 P.M. ; satisfied only with
lemonade ; unquenchable, afternoons ; absence of.

►

Eructations of air ; of food ;
oppressive, tasting of ingesta ; bitter ; bitter in forenoon,
with taste of food ; of bitter, sour water in afternoon, the taste of
which remained till she ate again. ► Hiccough ; after
dinner ; frequent H. or bitter eructations, with the hiccough
stitches in left breast.

►

► Nausea
in attacks 
; N. in forenoon on walking in open air ;
after dinner, amel. eructations and in open air ; after every dinner
and supper, with waterbrash and horripilation ; with oppression at
stomach, yet inclination to eat.

►

Stinging at pit at 8 A.M.,
extending into right axilla and muscles of right upper arm, with burning.
► Heat in morning. ► Burning in afternoon, with pressure,
becoming a stinging ; burning towards pharynx, like heartburn. ►
Gnawing
, or grinding, as from worms. ► Grinding in
morning, amel. after breakfast, with writhing. ► Pressure, with
nausea. ► Sensation as if everything would turn around in forenoon
on walking in open air, amel. by eructations, renewed while sitting, with
necessity to go into the open air, where it disappeared, with disposition
to waterbrash, nausea and vomiting. ► Emptiness or hunger ; E.
without desire for food ; E., yet he can hardly persuade himself to
eat. ► Sensation of fasting, yet it feels full, agg. after
breakfast. ► Fulness in afternoon, with oppression. ► Drawing.

Abdomen :- ►

Inflation in morning
during and after a purge ; in evening before menses, amel. emission
of flatus ; in evening, amel. by two stools, with tension of stomach.
► Rumbling ; in afternoon ; morning on waking, from
fermentation in sides, extending to chest. ► Growling and noises,
with emission of much flatus. ► Frequent emission of flatus ;
loud emission ; of offensive flatus, without sensation of flatus.

►

Cutting from 2 to 4 A.M. ;
at 7 P.M., extending to groins and small of back,
amel. stool. ► Gripings, with motions ; G. here and there in
afternoon, without sensation of flatus. ► Pinching at every
inspiration ; P. before a loose stool ; P. in abdomen and groins
morning after rising, as before menses. ►
Colic
. ► Pain after diarrhœa ; P. amel. stools.
► Soreness internally after morning diarrhœa, with pain as if
beaten ; sensation as if the intestines were turning around at 10.45 P.M.
► Painful pressure as with a hand in left side. ► Weight,
amel. sleep, with anxiety. ► Oppression. ► Fulness. ►
Pressive tension in left side near ring, as if something were pressing
out. ► Drawing in side.

►

Burning pain in a spot in upper. ►
Splenetic stitches even when sitting. ► Stitches in left
hypochondriac region when spinning. ► Stitches in region of right
ribs in afternoon when walking, with burning. ► Pinching in
hypochondria.

Umbilicus :- ►

Running
around ; then soft stool, with urging. ► Cutting around, in
evening, with shooting. ► Gripping below, at 6 P.M.
► Grinding near, after dinner. ► Pinching to left of, while
standing, agg. stooping ; around, at 7 P.M.,
then two stools. ► Pain around, in afternoon, with five half-liquid
stools ; pain below, at 4 P.M.,
then usual stool, with stinging in anus. ► Discomfort below and to
left of navel.

►

Pinching in lower, with griping and
dyspnœa. ► Intermittent gripping in lower, in forenoon. ►
Pain in lower, with soft stool. ► Stitches over left hip when
sitting, and when stooping while standing.

Groin :- ►

Sense of distention of
left, becoming painful on sitting ; D. of right, with a tensive
sensation and grinding. ► Stitches in right when sitting, coming out
behind hip. ► Tearing when walking, with tensive pain. ►
Ulcerative pain in right when walking. ► Cutting after 8 P.M.,
as far as small of back, with stitches and urging to urinate. ►
Gripings in evening, afterwards extending to navel, amel. by a purge.
► Pain in right, often extending to hip and small of back. ►
Sprained pain in left obliging him to walk crooked. ► Burning in
right flank in afternoon when sitting.


Clinical :- ►

Chronic
congestion of the liver, with depression of spirits, stools coated with
mucus.


Rectum and Anus :- ►

►
Itching soreness of rectum with pustules by the side of it. ►
Burning in rectum during and after soft stools
(Mur.
ac
.). ► Burning in anus during
soft stool
(Mur. ac.).
► Itching in anus, amel. after nosebleed, with pressure. ►
Hæmorrhoidal flux produced or increased. ►
Tearing in perineum
when walking. ►
Stinging tearing in perineum
in evening.

Stool :- ►

►
Contained glassy, tough mucus
. ►
Covered with mucus
. ► Green
slimy diarrhœa
mornings. ► Diarrhœa in morning ;
after every meal, with pain in abdomen, back, small of back and in limbs. ►
Soft
 ; at an unusual time ; and
frequent
, also with much micturition ; and profuse ;
yellow, with urging, then tenesmus and burning in rectum ; next day
none. ► Frequent, almost fluid, with mucus. ►
Hard, crumbling, scanty
, but after dinner the usual stool, then
burning in anus (Mur. ac.). ►
Hard, covered with mucus
. ► Hard ; first part, last
part soft, also during menses, with straining, then burning in anus, then
usual stool in afternoon. ► Of two small pieces, passed with
pressure, then soft stool. ► No stool ; for two days, with
colic and sensation as if diarrhœa would come on.


Clinical :- ►

Constipation, with hard, crumbly stool, or the fæces are covered with
glairy mucus. ► Chronic diarrhœa during menstruation, green
mucous stools ; sometimes diarrhœa alternates with constipation.


Urinary Organs :- ►

Pinching in
bladder when lying, as far as urethra, with stitching. ► Tenesmus of
bladder after 4 A.M. ► Urging to urinate at 10
A.M. ► Desire to urinate, with emission of
only a few drops, then micturition with the stool. ►
Micturition frequent and copious at night
 ; frequent in
morning ; M. slow. ► Urine copious ; at night, before
menses ; C., strongly ammoniacal ; with a stale smell. ►
Urine diminished in amount ; and in frequency. ► Urine hot and
copious. ► Urine bright yellow, saturated, with a loose cloudy
sediment. ► Turbid, with urates on cooling. ► Clayey sediment.

Sexual Organs :- ►

Erection at 8 A.M. ;
morning in bed ; frequent, with little desire. ► Stitches in
left spermatic cord, with beating. ► In female genital organs
sensation in morning as after an embrace. ► Leucorrhœa, with
distention of abdomen ; L., like the white
of an egg after pinching around navel
 ; brown, slimy L.
after micturition. ► Menses too soon ;
with pain in abdomen and small of back, flow more profuse at night
.
► Discharge of a quantity of blood with the stool during menses.


Clinical :- ►

Many
abdominal symptoms during menstruation and pregnancy, constipation as
above, liver swollen and sensitive, with jaundice, flatulent distention
of abdomen. ► Menstruation too early and free, flows more at
night. ► During pregnancy pain in left side of abdomen as if
sprained.


Respiratory Organs :- ►

Irritation in morning, causing hawking, with expectoration of a piece of
mucus and a raw sensation, then soreness behind uvula. ►
Hoarseness
in afternoon, with burning
in region of larynx
. ► Aphonia.

►

Cough when breathing deeply, agg. lying
on right side. ► Dry ; in
morning, also with sticking in fore part chest ; from 6 to 9 P.M.,
from tickling in throat, amel. after lying down ; at
night, preventing sleep
 ; dry mornings, loosens in
afternoon, most frequently with sticking in left hypochondrium ; dry
hacking, also from tickling in throat
, which continues when not
coughing, in forenoon. ► Violent cough at 10 P.M.
in bed, during which water comes into her mouth. ► Cough, with
expectoration ; in morning ; C. during the day, with hawking and
expectoration of mucus ; C. at night when
lying on back
, loose, with sticking in left middle false ribs,
extending to last false ribs and preventing “coughing out,” agg.
turning on to side. ► Expectoration of tough mucus in afternoon.

►

Desire to breathe deeply and to cough
long, with slight expectoration. ► Short breath. ► Suffocation
threatened. ► Breath lost when walking, obliged to breathe deeply
but slowly.


Clinical :- ►

Pulmonary catarrh, with hacking, scraping cough ; cough agg. by
lying on back or right side. ► The dry cough, with stitches in
chest, may become loose in the afternoon or at night. ► Profuse
expectoration, with rattling of mucus in old people, with coldness
between the shoulders.


Chest :- ►

►
Rattling
. ► Stitches in middle of left rib region ;
behind right ribs on motion ; below right breast during menses ;
below right female breast in afternoon when sitting bent ; below left
female breast while standing in fore part in afternoon, amel.
sitting ; in fore part in afternoon and next morning, with
pressure ; sudden fine, come out of left in forenoon ;
rhythmical, in left in evening while sitting ; upward, as with an
awl, in left, afternoons with every inspiration, tearing, in a spot in
left clavicle, with bruised pain on touch. ► Tearing in a spot in
left clavicle, with bruised pain on pressure. ► Bruised pain beneath
right breast, frequently intermittent, also often with short breath.
► Pressure in fore part in evening ; upon left mamma when
taking exercise in open air, and in left side of chest on going from warm
room into open air ; in middle,
in afternoon, with stitches, as if a
morsel stuck there.

►

Heaviness when walking in open
air ; at night, waking him with restlessness, which prevents sleep,
this heaviness awoke him again at 3 A.M., he was
kept in a half-sleep, in which he was partly conscious and dreamed that he
had been hanged and the chest had been hard pressed. ►
Oppression
in morning after rising, amel. eructations, which
came on in open air ; when moving arms forcibly and when
stooping ; like a dry catarrh. ► Tightness on respiration.
► Painful tension under right mamma, frequently intermittent, after
dinner. ► Tension or compression as with a vise in front at lower
part, when standing.

►

Rawness at 8 P.M.
► Sticking crawling in left when sitting. ► Burning spot when
walking in open air ; burning spot on right side. ► Beating
after dinner, extending to pharynx, with heat in face and uneasy
mood ; B. like a pulse in a spot in left cavity, morning when
standing.


Clinical :- ►

In
catarrhal pneumonia of children, with ropy, tenacious expectoration.


Heart and Pulse :- ►

Tearing in
præcordial region, extending suddenly into left forearm. ► Pulse
intermittent ; weak, irregular, rapid ; small, soft, rapid.

Neck :- ►

Swelling of cervical
glands. ► Tearing stitches in neck and left clavicle on moving head.
► Tearing in cords of left side ; intermittent, in cords of
right side, during menses ; in sides in evening, alternating with
tearing in cheeks. ► Throbbing in glands,
with flushes of heat and want of air in throat.
► Stiffness
, with pain on turning it, from nape to
between shoulders. ► Tension in nape at 10 P.M.,
amel. after lying down, with stiffness. ► Drawing in tendons of
nape.

Back :- ►

Aching at 10 A.M.,
during menses, then weakness of thighs. ► Pain when sitting, amel.
motion, with compression as from a vise. ► Bruised pain, agg. lying
upon it ; bruised pain at night, agg. lying upon it. ► Sprained
and bruised pain in right side, extending to middle ribs and axilla,
waking at night, on turning the body, stretching arms, sneezing, yawning
and breathing. ► Tension, preceded by itching of left scapula.

►

Stitches in left scapula during
rest ; S. in left scapula, agg. lowering shoulder and turning the
trunk to the left. ► Pinching in flesh of right scapula. ►
Pain between scapulæ as from a wrench or bruise, or as if muscles were
stretched asunder. ► Drawing and pressing inward in middle lumbar
vertebræ, forcing him to stretch the abdomen forward.

Small of Back :- ►

Pain when
rising after stooping ; waking at night ; when walking, so that
she could not walk straight ; with incarceration of flatus ;
from 1 till 4 A.M., with paralytic pain in hips and
in external surface above knee, and the parts were still painful to touch
the next forenoon. ► Pain as if
shattered ; as if beaten and shattered
, waking between 11
and 12 P.M., with necessity to turn constantly, the
pain lasting till 1 P.M. next day. ► Bruised
pain at night ; at night, so that she can hardly lie ; in
afternoon while spinning, amel. after motion. ►
Painful stiffness, even when sitting, agg. raising the body erect
.
► Sensation as if something elastic like air were pressing out, in
forenoon, after yawning. ► Bruised pain in
coccyx when sitting, agg. when slumbering
.

Extremities :- ►

►
Shooting and tearing in tips of fingers and toes
, then in right
upper arm, now here, now there, 6 to 10 P.M., amel.
after lying down, with anxiety. ► Tearing in left arm and
foot ; in fingers and toes at 8 P.M. on
spinning, amel. by lying ; now here, now there, evening when sitting,
amel. after lying down. ► Stinging in tips of fingers and toes in
afternoon when walking in open air. ► Stinging, jerking and crawling
in tips of fingers and toes from 1 to 2 P.M. ►
Burning crawling when standing, now in tips of fingers, now in tips of
toes, as if they would go to sleep weakness. ► Right more affected
than left.


Clinical :- ►

This
drug has been used in the treatment of chronic sprains. ► It is
one of the remedies when there is contraction of the hamstring tendons,
which seem tight when walking, amel. by continued motion. ► Cures
sciatica ; the pains agg. by sitting, somewhat amel. by walking,
entirely amel. by lying. ► It has been used for the neuralgic
pains in stumps of amputated limbs. ► It is useful for tearing,
stitching pains from ulceration in heels, agg. at night in bed, amel. by
rubbing.


Upper Extremities :- ►

Shoulder.
► Tearing on waking before midnight. ► Rheumatic pain in joint
on motion, right, when left. ► Burning in right, with pressure.
► Throbbing in right, as with a finger, morning in bed, and during
the day. ► Drawing in joint, as after a cold, in afternoon at rest.

Axilla :- ►

►
Swollen gland
, resembling a hard, red ulcer, which separated
constantly into parts, like a large pimple. ► Rapid intermittent
throbbing in left, while sitting.

Arm :- ►

Tearing in left, as if
in tendons, extending into fingers, amel. motion. ►
Heaviness and rigid feeling
in right in evening when spinning.

Upper Arm :- ►

Tearing in middle,
in afternoon, with sensitiveness of arm to pressure ; T., below
shoulder joint, as if in the marrow, as far as wrist, in afternoon.
► Compression in left when leaning it against the table, amel.
motion of arm. ► Right seems paralyzed and rigid in morning.

Forearm :- ►

Pressure in left, in
bed, amel. motion, renewed by leaning arm upon the table when writing.
► Drawing from right elbow to little finger, in afternoon, becoming
a tearing, amel. motion. ► Heaviness and feeling as if asleep in
right, in afternoon.

Wrist :- ►

Tearing in tendons of
internal surface of left, in afternoon ; in tendons of internal
surface of left, with twitching.

Hand :- ►

Stitches in left, agg.
motion, with beating. ► Lancination through hollow of right, while
walking in open air. ► Twitching, tearing behind left thumb, with
swelling. ► Sprained pain in dorsal at lower ends of metacarpal
bones, especially on last thumb-joint, when seizing something, afternoons,
amel. extending hand, when pressing on the thumb-joint the pain passes off
with a cracking sound. ► Beating in right palm, as with a little
hammer, amel. motion. ► Feeling of paralysis in right, and in first
phalanx of right middle finger, when sitting and knitting.

Fingers :- ►

Twitching. ►
Tearing and stitches in various places, here and there, amel. pressure and
rubbing. ► Cramplike pain in middle phalanx of right middle finger,
as if in tendons, on bending fingers inward. ► Painful throbbing
under left thumb-nail from 1 to 5 P.M. ►
Aching in first joint of left index on stretching it out while knitting,
amel. bending it. ► Crawling in tip of right thumb and index, as if
going to sleep, in evening when sitting.

Lower Extremities :- ►

Boring. ►
Thigh
. ► Twitching in left popliteal region, on walking
the cords seem too short, amel. long walking. ►
Tearing in front of thigh when sitting ; in external surface of right
in evening
when sitting down ;
intermittent in left hip, extending down thigh in
afternoon when sitting, at first amel. by rising
. ►
Sticking on external surface of left hip,
at night from 12.30 till 2, amel. pressure, with copious passage of
flatus, and it seems as if the pain were caused by flatus. ►
Pain in left hip as if tendons were too short, in forenoon, so that she
limps
, when sitting there is gnawing pain in bone. ►
Hamstrings painful, as if too short when walking
. ►
Contraction about popliteal region, as if dried up or too short, morning
on rising, so that she could not descend stairs, amel. by long and violent
exercise.

Knee :- ►

Stitches at 9 P.M.
when sitting. ► Stinging in left
when walking in forenoon, then tearing.

Leg :- ►

Trembling of left, with
sensitiveness to touch. ► Slow fine stitches in inner surface below
left knee while sitting ; stitches in left calf when sitting ;
stinging in left calf during rest after walking. ►
Drawing tension when sitting or lying, obliging him to walk crooked, after
which the symptoms pass off
. ► Tension in tendons, with
traction so that walking was difficult, with lassitude in legs. ►
Spasmodic contraction around lower part of left in forenoon. ►
Weakness, amel. night. ► Insensibility of left in afternoon when
sitting (dead feeling).

Malleolus :- ►

Spasmodic
contraction or tearing below and around right inner, when sitting. ►
Throbbing as from an ulcer in left outer ; on walking, and in right
foot.

Foot :- ►

Tearing in external
border when standing, amel. motion. ► Heel,
ulcerative pain in right
, amel. vigorous rubbing ; tearing
in right heel at 3 A.M., in bed, with ulcerative
pain ; sticking tearing in left heel, and ulcerative pain ; pain
in bones of heels as if bruised and contracted when walking ;
spasmodic, painful contraction in right heel evening in bed. ►
Asleep sensation in right foot at night, in left next forenoon.

Toes :- ►

Sticking in left great,
afternoons slowly increasing and decreasing ; fine S. in right little
on standing and walking. ► Tearing in left great, while
standing ; in right great, in afternoon while sitting ; in
external surface of right great, while sitting.

Skin :- ►

Red spots on left side
of chest, with burning itching, turning pale on pressure. ►
Desquamation between thumbs and index fingers. ► Eruptions on face.
► Dry and tottery herpes on face. ► Rash over whole body.
► Miliary eruption (sudamina) after profuse sweat. ► Psoric
eruption over greater part of back and lower limbs.

►

Deep-seated nodes around and below right
wrist, with itching, after scratching they burn, become inflamed and seem
about to suppurate, but do not, with swelling, a reddish brown scurf on
those which are much scratched. ► Pimples after itching and
scratching, on fore part of forehead ; on inner side of left forearm.
► Itching pimple on external concha of right ear ; on right
forearm ; on right side of neck and on left hand, in evening ;
on dorsa of hands in evening and at night, with desquamation of the
itching places the next morning. ► Painful pimple on antihelix of
right ear. ► Sensitive and inflamed pimple on top of right scapula.

►

Boil on right side of abdomen ; on
left shoulder, with tensive pain. ► Vesicle on left side of face.
► Vesicles, with itching, then burning, on right wrist ; on
front of chest and on left leg. ► Tensive burning vesicles on right
shoulder forming scurf. ► Vesicles on a hard base, on and about
right wrist, mostly on its upper surface, with itching, then burning, some
becoming scurfy from scratching, inflamed for a long time, new ones
appearing daily.

►

Crawling in tips of fingers and toes.
► Subcutaneous formication over whole body. ► Itching, now
here, now there, over whole body, evenings before lying down ; over
whole body, amel. evening after lying down. ► Sensation as from
flea-bites at spots on left mamma in evening, amel. scratching.

Sleep :- ►

Constant yawning in
morning, without sleepiness. ► Sudden sleepiness at 6 P.M.,
amel. when light is brought into the room. ► Starting up in evening
on falling asleep. ► Sleep restless ; after midnight, with
frequent waking and turning, amidst dreams. ► Sleepless after
midnight ; sleepless till towards morning ; till 3 A.M.,
without cause ; till 3 A.M., then sweat in
morning on waking ; sleepless night, with chilliness from 3 to 4 A.M.,
then heat, then sweat, all without thirst. ► Sleep full of dreams.
► Frightful dreams all night. ► Lewd dreams.

Fever :- ►

►
Chilliness evenings after down and
as
often as she wakes
, without thirst ;
evenings after lying down and all night. ► Cold feet evening in
bed ; coldness of feet prevents sleep till midnight. ► Coldness
from 7 till 9 P.M., with thirst ; chilliness at
6 P.M., amel. lying down, with thirst ; amel.
evening and night, with shivering ; in evening, coldness running down
back ; creeping between skin and flesh. ► Shivering creeping
over her at 5 P.M. ►
Coldness in back and between shoulders
, at the spot of a
previous pain, only internal, the coldness ending in itching. ►
Chilliness at 5.30 P.M., then sweat before midnight.
► C. and shivering at 6 P.M., and next morning
at 7, then sweat in bed, all without thirst. ► C. alternating with
heat, then sweat in evening. ► Intermittent fever, paroxysm of cold,
heat and profuse sweat. ► Fever paroxysms begin with chill and heat
and end with sweat.

►

More heat than coldness. ► Heat in
face, amel. open air. ► Heat on right side of head every
evening ; in head before midnight, preventing sleep ; in head in
morning after rising, with fulness ; creeping over head ;
flushing, in head in afternoon ; dry, in head on entering room, then
thirst in evening. ► Heat in evening, without thirst ; in
forenoon, thirst in morning after rising ; heat, in afternoon, with
sweat, then thirst. ► Attacks of fever, then chills and heat, with
bloated red face, and thirst during the chills and heat. ► Heat in
palms, soles and face in evening after lying down, with thirst, then
sweat. ► H. over whole body when exercising in open air, with
redness of face and sweat ; over whole body in a warm room and after
quick motion, with redness of face and stinging heat, especially
externally over chest ; in whole body as if sweat would
breakout ; at night in bed, then sweat in morning. ► Frequent
flashes of heat, then sweat. ► Hot sensation after rising, with
sweat of hands and odorous sweat of feet. ► Hot hands.

►

Sweat after midnight ; S. on every
exertion ; general, nights ; profuse ; profuse morning in
bed, without previous heat or chill.


Clinical :- ►

►
Cold feeling between shoulders
.


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