Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homśopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Cocculus.
A tincture is made from the dried fruit of Anamirta
Cocculus, W. and A.
General Action :- ►
It produces
violent convulsions and loss of control over muscles ; excessive
vertigo and nausea. ► Paralysis of muscles.
Allies :- ►
Rhus
tox., Zinc., Nux
v., Plumb., Phos., Arg. nit.
Generalities :- ►
►
Starts easily. ► Inclination to trouble. ► Fell to
the ground, trembled, vomited and became senseless. ►
Convulsions ; tetanic ; clonic, in upper limbs, then general,
with frothing at the mouth ; tonic and clonic, with severe
contortions and shocks of limbs and danger of suffocation, trismus, biting
of the protruding tongue, bloody foam from mouth and nose at every
expiration, tetanic stiffness of whole body alternating with convulsive
shocks, with cold sweat, dilated pupils, fixed look, unconsciousness,
convulsive shocks when the skin was pinched.►
Epileptic attack, intoxicated feeling on
sitting down, then staring without answering questions, then fell
unconscious, bent himself together with unintelligible cries, passed urine
involuntarily, general convulsions, the outstretched hands clenched, with
paroxysmal choking in throat, foam at the mouth, hands cold, face covered
with cold sweat and spasmodically distorted, eyes glassy, protruding then
he stood up, but did not answer questions, showed his teeth and bellowed
at those who spoke, endeavored to strike the bystanders, face expressed
rage, then groaning and grunting, after recovery aversion to all
nourishment. ► Twitching of various parts of muscles (Zinc.),
agg. lower limbs, as after a long walk. ► Hćmorrhages. ►
(Compare convulsions with Cicuta and Nux
v.).►
►
Sticking in cold swollen glands, at least on touch, with heat ;
S. in parts previously inflamed, if touched with fingers ; burning S.
here and there. ► (Tearing in hard swollen glands.). ► Drawing
pain in limbs and abdominal muscles, as from taking cold. ►
Paralytic drawing in side of neck and in other places, at times almost
like an intermittent, paralytic pressure. ► Alternation of diarrhśa,
vomiting, sopor and delirium.►
Indolence ; with taciturnity, also
in morning after waking. ► Inclination to lie down. ► Avoids
the open air. ► Restless. ► Want of vital energy. ►
Weakness ; general, several days at 9 A.M.,
with heaviness of limbs, so that she must sleep ; from
slightest exertion, with exhausting sweat ; from slightest
loss of sleep ; when walking ; agg. sitting ; attacks
of paralytic, with pain in back (Rhus
t.) ; so that it is difficult to
stand firmly (Rhus t.). ►
Faintness ; on motion, with distortions of facial muscles. ►
Hemiplegia on left side. ► Immobility. ►
Aggravation from cold air (Rhus t.)
from coffee (Nux v.) ; smoking
tobacco (Nux v.) ; drinking,
eating, sleeping and speaking aggravate head symptoms.
Clinical :- ►
General
tendency to paralysis, heaviness and sluggishness of the whole body,
numbness ; sometimes trembling and jerking of various groups of
muscles ; at times unconquerable drowsiness. ► Spasmodic
affections ; epilepsy characterized by cold extremities and
numbness ; chorea, the patient is exhausted ; hysteria,
especially menstrual, complaints of numbness and weakness of the
extremities ; particularly useful in complaints resulting from loss
of sleep. ► General hyperćsthesia of all senses, intolerance of
the least excitement. ► Symptoms of emptiness and hollowness in
thoracic or abdominal cavities are frequently associated with the
symptoms of weakness of paralysis. ► General bad effects of
prolonged insomnia. ► Nervous exhaustion, with profound weakness
of extremities, aching in thighs, falling asleep of limbs, weak, empty
feeling in chest or abdomen.
Mind :- ►
►
Mania, irresistible inclination to sing and tra la. ►
Weeping. ► Despair. ► Sad ; as
if he had suffered an insult. ► Sensitive ; everything offends
him (Nux v.). ►
Offended at trifles, often to weeping with contraction of pupils, after
weeping loss of appetite. ► Angry ; and peevish, after a few
hours lively and jocose. ► Dissatisfied with himself. ►
Earnest then breaking into complaints ; earnest, little concerned as
to his own health, anxious about others’ sickness. ►
Thoughts directed to an unpleasant object, absorbed in herself. ►
Dread of every surprise. ► Fear. ► Hypochondriac,
agg. afternoon. ► Anxiety ; sudden ;
as if she had committed a crime ; in morning, about the
incurability of a slight complaint ; like a dream, preventing sleep.
► Discouraged. ► Intolerance of interruption or noise. ►
No desire to do anything and pleasure in nothing. ► Time passes too
rapidly. ► Memory lost (Anac.).
► Sits in deep thought. ►
Stupidly dumb. ► Stupefied ; when awake, as from sleep. ►
Unconscious.
Clinical :- ►
It is
especially adapted to cases which present a mental condition of
stupidity, slow of comprehension or cannot think of words with which to
express themselves, the mind feels benumbed, especially with vertigo,
nausea, etc. ► Mental derangements resulting from suppression of
menses. ► Melancholy, is wrapped in profound sadness, with
apprehension, desire to escape, etc.
Head :- ►
►
Convulsive trembling (Cicuta v.).
► Aching with nausea ; A.
agg. cold air ; as if bound up ;
as if brain were bound together by a band ; brain
feels as if rolled up or compressed into a smaller bulk (Rhus
t.). ► Pressure through whole, agg. forehead, in
forenoon, agg. reading and reflecting, until there is loss of ideas ;
P. downward in whole, agg. forehead, agg. walking. ► Aching composed
of constriction, burning tearing, digging and boring. ► Much
affected by thinking. ► Confusion, agg.
eating and drinking ; C. and stupefaction ; C. in
morning, with humming in it as after a debauch. ►
Dullness ; and confusion, agg. reading, so that he must read a
passage several times in order to understand it ; with
cold sweat on forehead and hands and aversion to food. ►
Heaviness ; with confusion, as after intoxication ; sensation as
if something heavy were lying on it. ► (Painful shaking of brain
when walking, morning head or speaking.). ►
Vertigo ; on rising up in bed (Bry.,
Phos.), with nausea, compelling him to
lie down ; as from intoxication, with dullness in forehead as if a
board were across forehead ; when sitting, as from
intoxication.
Forehead :- ►
Sticking above
right eye ; intermittent boring S. in right side. ►
Headache as if the eyes would be torn out ; aching as if something
forcibly closed the eyes. ► Tearing throbbing pain from 7
to 9 P.M. ► Intermittent pain in left eminence
consisting of raging, throbbing, sticking, afterwards extending as a
crawling to right frontal eminence. ► Aching in sinciput. ►
Compression in right half ; wavelike, in left half.►
Stitches in left temple ; crawling
S. in temples. ► Cramplike pain in left temporal muscle. ►
Pain in temples as if head were screwed in. ► Inward-pressure in
left temple ; in right as if a dull instrument slowly pressed deep
into brain. ► Pain in vertex. ► Stitches in right side of
brain. ► Shuddering in left side of occiput as if hair would stand
on end.
Clinical :- ►
Vertigo
as if intoxicated is an almost constant concomitant of Cocculus
symptoms, generally associated with a feeling of stupefaction of head
and numbness and unsteadiness of extremities. ► Sick headaches,
pain especially seated in occiput, extending down spine, extremely
sensitive to external impressions, with constant nausea and vertigo (Petrol).
► Sick headaches, especially brought on by reading in cars and
carriages (Petrol.,
seasickness).
Eyes :- ►
Turned upward. ►
Surrounded by blue rings. ► (Swelling of one and of half of nose in
morning after headache through the night.). ► Stitches from within
outward. ► Bruised pain at night, with
inability to open lids (Rhus t.).
► Pain, with inability to open lids at night ; P. as from dust.
► Pupils contracted ; to their smallest diameter, then as the
spasm abated dilated to their fullest extent, and again contracted as the
spasm returned, the spasm produced by touching lids. ► Lids dry.
► Pressure in outer margin of orbit. ► Dim vision. ►
Dark spots and objects like flies float before the eyes. ► Vision of
a black object that receded from her, turning with her, but she saw
everything clearly.
Ears :- ►
Sensation alternately
in ears as if closed and deaf. ► (Heat in right outer and middle, in
morning in bed.). ► Sound of rushing water,
with difficult hearing. ► Rushing as when listening at a
tube. ► Cracking on forcible yawning. ► Hard hearing in right.
Nose :- ►
Swelling of right half.
► Pain in anterior angle of nostril, agg. touch ; in left
nostril as from an ulcer. ► Sneezing. ► Inability to sneeze
when walking in open air. ► Coryza. ► (Blows bloody mucus from
nose.).
Face :- ►
►
Earthy, and painful expression. ► Red cheeks in a cold
room, with heat in face. ►
Cyanosis. ► Expression rigid and irritable. ► Cramp in
malar-bone, in masseter muscles. ► Cramplike pain in masseter
muscles, agg. opening jaws. ► Pressive sensation in left malar-bone,
rather benumbing than painful. ► Tearing digging in lower jaw.
Clinical :- ►
Paralysis of facial nerve, involving the lids of one eye and side of
face (Caust., Rhus t.).
Mouth :- ►
Incisors seemed raised
up and heavy as if they would fall out. ► A decayed, loose tooth
feels elongated and the gum about it is swollen. ► Pain in hollow
tooth only on chewing, as if loose, no pain on biting teeth together when
not eating. ► Biting in back station on biting together. ►
(Gum sensitive and sore.). ► Tongue coated
white, and dry at edges. ► Tongue dry, with a yellowish coat,
without thirst. ► Pain posteriorly in tongue as if beaten
if he protrudes it far. ► Tongue rough in morning.►
Filled with aphthć, becoming
gangrenous, so that the soft parts of mouth were destroyed and the teeth
fell out. ► (Contraction when speaking, and she must speak slowly.).
► Sensation as if there were a smell from it. ► Burning in
palate. ► Dryness in night,
without thirst ; D. sensation, with frothy saliva and thirst. ►
Sensation as if water collected in it. ► Salivation. ►
Metallic taste, with loss of appetite (Nux
v.) ; M. at root of tongue.
► Bitter taste ; at root of tongue ;
to tobacco when smoking. ► Coppery T. ► Salt T. anteriorly on
right side of tongue, amel. gingerbread. ► Sour T. after
eating ; S. on coughing. ► Slimy T. though-food has a natural
taste. ► Nauseous T. ► T. as if he had fasted long. ►
Food tasteless and seems unsalted.
Throat :- ►
Swollen glands
beneath chin ; beneath lower jaw, and hard, with nodes on forearm,
which are painful on passing hand over them ; S. of parotid gland.
► Violent beating of carotids. ► Sticking in outer parts. ►
Choking contraction in upper part of pharynx, impeding breathing and
causing cough. ► Sensation in pit as if something arrested the
breathing, constriction of glottis. ► Scraping, amel.
swallowing. ► Sensitiveness, food seems as sharp as if excessively
salted and peppered. ► Pain in tonsils worse on swallowing saliva
than on swallowing food ; P. in upper part of pharynx, with sensation
of swelling at root of tongue, which makes swallowing painful. ►
Heat, and in stomach ; afterwards extending with shivering about
head. ► Dryness ; in upper and back part, as if it and the
tongue were rough ; in without thirst. ► Paralysis (Rhus
t.).
Stomach :- ►
►
Aversion to food (Nux v., Rhus t.),
even the smell of food causes it (Colch.),
but hunger ; averse to eating and
drinking ; to sour things, bread tastes sour. ► Appetite lost,
food has no taste ; A. lost for breakfast, he feels full. ►
Hunger in pit of stomach, little amel. eating. ► Thirst, agg.
eating ; T. for cold drinks, especially beer ;
unquenchable. ► Eructations ; bitter
(Nux v.) ; putrid
(Nux v.) ; in forenoon ; empty ;
empty leaving bitter taste in mouth and throat ; of musty air ;
tasting of food ; sharp scraping, agg. evening ; incomplete,
ineffectual, instead of which there is hiccough. ►
Hiccough (Nux v.) ; inclination
to. ► Nausea ; in morning
so that she can scarcely rise (Nux v.) ;
in afternoon after every drink, mostly in mouth ;
when riding in a wagon (Compare Sepia) ;
if he became cold or tool cold, causing
salivation ; on eating ; with
headache and bruised sensation in abdomen ; as from
overloading stomach. ► Vomiting ; during the accustomed
smoking ; frequent ; frequent, of greenish fluid ; (of food
and mucus towards midnight, with bitter and sour taste in throat, and
attacks of suffocation).►
Gurgling beneath pit. ► Pricking
beneath pit, with gnawing. ► Griping.
► Pinching. ► Constrictive pain, preventing sleep.
► Squeezing in pit when walking, and tension. ► Pain in
pit ; beneath S., after eating ;
in S. after eating ; several hours after a meal or at night in bed,
and in pit and hypochondria ; on attempting to eructate ; almost
a stitching in pit on eructation ; on touch ; in pit, impeding
breathing. ► Bruised pain in pit on eructation. ►
Sensation as if a warm were moving in it. ► Sensation as
if he had not eaten for a long time and the hunger had passed away.
► Burning, and in abdomen, agg. about navel.
Clinical :- ►
Nausea
and even vomiting are almost constant concomitants of a Cocculus
condition. ► Nausea and vomiting from riding in the cars. ►
Extreme aversion to food with persistent, slightly qualmish, bitter
taste, metallic taste, putrid taste. ► Nausea associated with
vertigo, agg. taking anything into the stomach, with faintness, etc.
► Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
Abdomen :- ►
►
Distention ; by flatulence, waking about midnight, causing oppressive
pain here and there, some flatus passed without remarkable relief, new
flatus collected for hours, amel. lying on one side and the other ;
with heat and pain. ► Emission of hot flatus before diarrhśa.
► Flatus presses upward ; moves here and there after supper,
and is passed with difficulty. ► Stitches through to lower part of
back, morning in bed ; S. in several parts on stooping. ►
Tearing. ► Cutting when walking after dinner, with chilly sensation
and vertigo. ► Pinching. ► Drawing pain. ► Constrictive
pain, with pressure towards female genitals, nausea in pit of stomach and
inclination to waterbrash. ► Empty feeling, as if she had no
intestines. ► Burning. ► (Compare flatulence with Nux
v., Carbo v., Cham., Lyc. and Plumb.).►
► Griping
in upper (epigastrium), taking away the breath. ►
Pinching constriction in upper, after eating, extending to left side of
abdomen and chest. ► Pain in upper ; beneath last
true ribs of right side, agg. bending forward, coughing or inspiration.
► Bruised pain in hypochondria. ► Stitches in right
side ; left side ; intermittent, in left side near navel.
► Twinges in right side above navel. ► Pinching in left
muscles. ► Drawing pain from right to left side. ► Nausea
extending from right side towards navel, without inclination to vomit.
Hypogastrium :- ►
Rumbling.
► Stitches in right inguinal region. ► Cutting, extending to
upper, amel. standing. ► Painful
inclination to inguinal hernia, agg.
rising from a seat. ► Right ring dilated, a hernia
inclines to protrude, and sore pain. ►
Internal feeling in groins as if stuffed, agg. stepping forward, when it
seems as if the thickness pushed forward and everything would fall out.
► Paralytic pain in right ring as if something would force its way
through (Nux v.), when
sitting, amel. rising. ► Drawing pain in groins as before
menstruation.
Clinical :- ►
Flatulent colic only slightly amel. evacuating gas, attacks come at
night, associated with feeling of emptiness, nausea, vertigo, etc.
► Gastralgia from suppression of menses. ► Excessive
flatulent distention of abdomen and dysmenorrhśa. ► A valuable
remedy in hernias, both umbilical and inguinal ; is particularly
indicated when the abdominal muscles are weak and it seems as if a
hernia would easily take place. ► Flatulent colic in pregnancy,
etc.
Rectum and Anus :- ►
Urging to
stool, with offensive diarrhśa ; U. to stool and to pass flatus at
the same time, then frequent, sudden diarrhśa, in small portion, with
emission of flatus ; U. after stool, causing faintness ; desire
for stool, but the stool in delayed by want of peristaltic motion in upper
abdomen ; ineffectual U., with constipation for three days, then
hard, difficult stool (Plumb.).
► Crawling and itching in rectum, as from ascarides. ►
Contractive pain in anus (Plumb.)
in afternoon, preventing sitting.
► Burning itching in anus.
Stool :- ►
►
Thin. ► Fluid, frequent whitish-yellow. ► Soft.
► (Slimy). ► Constipation. ► Hard, difficult, only every
other day. ► Putrid. ► Frequent, small ; (frequent and
pale.).
Clinical :- ►
Diarrhśa
brought on by riding in cars or carriage, agg. drinking cold water, with
flatulent distention, colic, feeling as of sharp stones rubbing together
in abdomen, numbness of legs, vertigo, nausea, etc.
Urinary Organs :- ►
Sticking in
urethra. ► Pain in urethra on urging to urinate. ► Tensive
pain in orifice of urethra when not urinating. ► Sticking-itching in
forepart of urethra. ► Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty
discharge (constant U., with frequent copious discharge of watery urine).
► (Retention of urine for ten minutes.). ►
Urine watery. ► Urine red, without sediment.
Sexual Organs :- ►
Relaxation in
night, with retraction of prepuce behind glans. ► Sensitiveness.
► Sticking in end of prepuce ; in one testicle. ► Itching
of scrotum. ► Itching-burning of scrotum. ► Bruised pain in
testicles, touch. ► Drawing pain in testicles. ► Excitement,
with desire. ► Emissions at night.►
►
Menstruation too early, with distention of abdomen and cutting-contracting
pain in abdomen on every motion and every breath (Cham.,
Nux v.), with contraction of rectum
(Nux v.) ; M.
too early with distention of abdomen and pain in upper abdomen on every
motion and when sitting, as from sharp pressure of a stone, with pain on
touch as from a an internal ulcer. ► (Metrorrhagia.).
► Leucorrhśa.
Clinical :- ►
Menses
too profuse, gushing, very exhausting, with menstrual colic as from
sharp stones rubbing together, flatulent distention and dysmenorrhśa
and suppressed menstruation, with numbness, remote symptoms, vertigo,
nausea, flatulent colic, numbness of extremities, etc. ►
Suppression of menses, with purulent gushing leucorrhśa and flatulent
abdomen.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
Tough
mucus hangs in larynx and obliges hacking and hawking. ► Irritation
to cough high up in larynx ; I. to cough posteriorly in larynx in
evening in bed, the cough always in two paroxysms. ► Cough every
fourth night, waking at 12 and 2 o’clock, with dryness of mouth, and on
coughing sensation as if the glottis were not side enough ; C., with
great exertion on account of oppression of chest, which only appears on
coughing. ► Suffocative sensation provoking cough. ► Dyspnśa.
► Whistling-snoring, threatening suffocation, agg. inspiration, slow
breathing alternates with suppressed breathing, with face distended as in
apoplexy. ► Breathing quick ; and difficult. ► Short
breath.
Clinical :- ►
Dyspnśa
as from constriction of stomach and hysteria.
Chest :- ►
Rumbling in left side
as from emptiness, agg. walking. ► Sticking in right ; in left
; in nipples ; in left, near pit of stomach, in evening ;
through left into back when walking ; in sternum when walking ;
internally when sitting rhythmical with pulse ; paroxysmal, in left
on inspiration ; intermittent, in false sibs, in front. ► Pain
in middle of sternum, with anxiety, then sticking in sternum ; in
middle of sternum as from pressure with a blunt instrument. ►
Pressure on chest on eructating ; sudden P. against sternum as with a
fist. ► Drawing pain in right side on bending body to right while
sitting or standing ; in side towards back when talking, walking or
stooping, agg. for a few minutes when lying, then. ►
Tensive constriction in right, impeding breathing. ► Oppression,
agg. upper part of sternum, impeding breathing. ► Affected by
reading aloud. ► (Raw and sore.).
Heart and Pulse :- ►
►
Palpitation. ► Pulse rapid. ► Pulse small ;
and hard.
Neck :- ►
Painful cracking of
vertebrć on moving head. ► Sticking in nape on moving head forward
or backward ; S. externally in right side ; pulsating,
externally in left. ► Stiff pain in muscles
on moving neck and on yawning (Zinc.,
Cimic.). ► Weakness of muscles,
with heaviness of head, necessity to
lay head now here, now there, else the muscles are painful, amel. leaning
backward.
Back :- ►
►
Trembling. ► Tearing. ► Boring. ► Pain in
spine as if it would break. ► Piercing pain in all joints of
vertebrć as if sprained or spasmodically drawn together, agg. motion.
► Pain on standing as if fatigued or strained. ► Pain when
sitting, agg. left side. ► Drawing pain. ► Stiffness on moving
shoulders, with pain.►
Sticking in scapulć, extending from
right to left. ► Tearing between scapulć in evening before lying
down, and in spine. ► Pressure in scapulć
and nape. ► Intermittent paralytic pain beneath left
scapula during rest. ► Drawing pain below left scapula when standing
and lying, agg. morning. ► Sharp pressure in loins and region of
kidney in morning in bed, amel. rising. ►
Paralytic pain in small of back ; with spasmodic drawing across hips,
preventing walking, with anxiety and fear. ► Bruised pain
in bones of small of back.
Clinical :- ►
Great
weakness of cervical and dorsal muscles, then severe paralysis ; in
spinal irritation, with great hyperćsthesia of all senses.
Extremities :- ►
►
Trembling ; agg. evening, with chilliness. ►
Cracking in joints ; when walking. ► Burrowing in bones.
► A slight noise shoots through all limbs. ► Pain on motion as
if they would be crushed or broken. ► Pain in muscles on
touch ; P. internally, agg. touch and pressure. ► Drawing pain
in left. ► Seem paralyzed. ►
Paralytic drawing constant and paroxysmal, here and there in bones.
► Paralytic feel in arms and legs, she could scarcely rise from her
seat (Arg. n., Phos.), with
loss of appetite. ► Paralytic and stiff, with drawing
pains in bones and back. ► Paralytic immobility, with drawing pains
in bones. ► Painful stiffness of all joints ;
now in hands and fingers, now in knees and ankles. ►
Feet and hands alternately asleep.
Clinical :- ►
Paralysis of extremities, with numbness, symptoms preceded by convulsive
movements of groups of muscles.
Upper Extremities :- ►
►
Sticking in shoulder-joint and muscles of upper arm during rest.
► Pain in shoulder-joint, consisting of a broken, tearing and
sticking sensation, amel. motion, with heaviness and dread of moving arm,
and in elbow, shafts of bones and between them. ► Drawing pain in
shoulder-joints and shafts of bones on raising arm after eating, with
bruised pain on touch.
Arm :- ►
Convulsions, with
closing of thumb in fist. ► Pain as if beaten in the one on which he
lies. ► Paroxysmal burning pain in left. ► Pain when eating,
and on attempting to raise it heaviness and tired feeling. ►
Paralytic pain on violent motion, as if bones were broken. ►
Asleep and a crawling sensation (Rhus
t.) ; feel asleep and paralyzed during and after a meal.
► Paralysis when writing can scarcely hold his pen.
Upper Arm :- ►
Jerking in muscles
of left ; pulselike, visible J. just above elbows. ►
Sticking in right ; like shocks on outer side,
below ; its head. ► Digging (wavelike drawing) in shaft of left
humerus, bruised pain. ► Pain as if broken on rising it. ►
Drawing in upper part of humerus, with bruised pain. ► Humeri above
elbow seem beaten and paralyzed on motion.►
Sticking in left elbow. ► Sudden
paralytic pain in bend of right elbow. ► Sticking in outer side of
left forearm, extending into little finger. ► Pain in right forearm.
► Pain in radius as if dislocated. ► Intermitting almost
tearing, paralytic pressure in anterior muscles of forearm, agg. rest. ►
Forearm asleep and sensation as if the hand were swollen (Rhus
t.), constrictive pain in muscles and cold fingers. ►
Trembling of hand when eating, agg.
the higher it is raised. ► Redness of left hand, with
drawing in little finger. ► Cramplike pain on outer side of right
hand and in the four fingers, with heat of hand. ►
Now one hand, now the other insensible and asleep. ►
Cramplike contraction of finger. ► Painful paralytic jerking through
fingers. ► Cramplike sticking from behind forward in right index.
► Cramplike pain in right little finger when writing. ►
Tearing boring, drawing pain in fingers.
Lower Extremities :- ►
Paralytic
immobility. ► Jerking in muscles about right hip-joint. ►
Cracking in left hip-joint on turning thigh, agg. walking, with pain.
► (Trembling of thighs when kneeling.). ► Twinging in right
nates when sitting, then shocks. ► Sticking on outer part of left
hip-joint ; in left hip-joint on walking ; in right femur when
walking ; pulsating on outer side of left thigh when sitting causing
involuntary motion. ► Pain in thigh on raising them, as if broken.
► Bruised pain in thighs if he raises the leg while sitting ;
on beginning to walk after sitting ; in inner side of left if he
walks in a circle to the left ; intermittent in middle of left ; with a
paralyzed feeling. ► Painless constriction of thigh, descending into
muscle below hollow of knee, with sensation as if thigh would become
stiff. ► Intermittent paralytic with weakness of knees as if they
would bend under him. ► Paralytic feeling in left thigh, agg. rest.
► Intermittent paralytic stiff sensation piercing left leg from
middle of thigh downward. ► Numbness of thigh extending over knee.►
► Knees
crack on motion. ► Sticking in knee ; left ;
outer part when walking. ► Drawing tearing in patella. ►
Drawing pain in knee on rising after sitting. ►
Knees threaten to sink from weakness, he totters when walking and
threatens to fall to one side. ► Cramp of calves at night
when bending knees. ► Tensive pain in calves on motion. ►
Constriction on outer side of left leg, more numb than painful. ►
Sensation below left knee as if too tightly bound with the garter. ►
Wavelike paralytic pain down outer side of left leg. ► Sprained pain
in ankle on motion.
Foot :- ►
Swelling in evening.
► Boring. ► Tearing. ► Tearing jerks in a corn in
evening during rest, with tearings. ► Bruised pain in bone of
heel ; on dorsum of foot on bending up foot and on touch. ►
Drawing pain. ► Falling asleep when sitting
(Secale c.) ; of
left when walking after sitting, and sticking as from pins.
► Tearing in great toe even during rest. ► Corrosive pain in
toes. ► Pain in metatarsal joint of great toe as if a chilblain or
boil would form, with pain on touch. ► Drawing pain in right toes.
Skin :- ►
Red spots on chest,
sides of neck, behind ears. ► Eruption resembling scarlatina on body
and arms. ► Pimple beneath shoulder, itching under
bed-clothes ; red miliary P. on face, back and chest, itching when
warm ; hard on limbs, wrists and back of fingers, with itching
burning pain, itching and red areola. ► Pustules above nose, on
temples and chest and between scapulć ; below right corner of mouth
with red areola, painful, tense to touch. ► Boil on inner side of
thigh. ► Vesicle at night on side of hand where little finger ends,
discharging next day.►
Sticking externally in skin and muscles
of face ; S. in left side of epigastric region, amel. rubbing ;
on left knee when sitting, so that he must move the leg at every
stitch ; itching, in left axilla, as from a flea ; burning
itching here and there, as from fleas. ► Crawling below right
shoulder, extending to fingers, with throbbing and burning. ►
Itching of ankles ; on back in evening on undressing, with red
pimples ; in various parts at night, then pain after
scratching ; at night, sometimes from pit of stomach to throat,
sometimes on tibia and beneath shoulders, and after scratching, oozing of
serum ; agg. in evening on undressing ; under the feather-bed,
changing to tickling after scratching ; in hollow of left knee when
walking standing still, and on calf and ankle ; here and there, agg.
inner part of thighs, with burning, as from nettles, and pimples, with
stinging on touch ; biting, as after profuse sweat, on
undressing ; piercing tickling, in ball of thumb, not amel.
scratching.
Clinical :- ►
Abscesses at root of the toe-nail, as from a hot iron, with Cocculus
symptoms.
Sleep :- ►
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Yawning constantly in bed, with stretching ; Y. towards
evening ; forcible ; interrupted, with inability to take a full
breath. ► Sleepiness ; in morning, and
constant yawning ; but must open his eyes as soon as he
closes them on account of a frightful sensation in his brain like that
produced by the most dreadful dreams. ► Sleeps late in morning.
► Sleeps with one arm under the head ; (upon the stomach).
► Sopor.►
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Sleepiness from thoughts of the business of the day for an hour and
sleepless after 1 A.M.
► Waking as if he feared ghosts. ► Frequent waking ; and
starting up ; with heat ; as in fright.
► Night restless, with sticking and biting here and there. ►
Cried out anxiously in sleep, called her mother and sisters, anxious rapid
breathing, clutched about the bed, struck, out with the hands, with open
distorted eyes ; without being awake, constant motion of head, agg.
towards the left.►
Dreams vivid, frightful ; vivid,
unremembered. ► That he had done something wrong. ► That his
knees were swollen and painful. ► Of dying and death.
Fever :- ►
Coldness ; in
evening ; in open air ; with colic ; general, with bluish
hands ; of whole body, with glowing of cheeks ; (gradually
increasing, with little or no thirst, with warm forehead, cold cheeks,
cold nose and hands, then heat with anxiety as if he could not breathe,
nausea and thirst, then cold sweat, agg. on head and hands, with continued
anxiety). ► Internal, so that he trembled, but not external, in
evening, with longing for stimulating nourishment. ► Shacking at 8 A.M. ;
in afternoon. ► Creeping shivering ; frequent shivering, then
flushes of heat in head ; S. over lower parts ; recurrent S.,
though lower limbs ; S. across breasts ; in back in evening.
► Chills alternating with heat ; now in one hand, now in the
other ; the heat rising from feet through whole body, with sensation
as if blood rushed into face, but she was pale, then coldness in
shoulders. ► C. of back ; here and there as if touched with
ice ; creeping over back. ► Hands seem cold when held to the
face, but seem warm to each other. ► Cold feet, but hot cheeks. ►
Intolerance of both cold and warm air, of open air, with heat
and redness of cheeks.►
Heat ; in flashes ; internal,
with rapid pulse ; (external, without internal, and without thirst).
► H. in forehead ; and sticky sweat on it. ► H. of face,
with redness of it and thirst ; of cheeks, with redness of them, but
intolerance of open air ; in cheeks, in flushes ; in face, in
flushes after drinking. ► Of hands at 6 P.M.,
with sensation of general dry heat and sleeplessness till 4 A.M.,
then shivering and cold hands all day. ► Of feet, with swelling and
corrosive itching. ► Frequent thrill as when on warms himself by a
fire in cold weather, then heat and weakness so that he must lie down, all
without thirst or sweat.►
Sweat ; on body from evening till
morning, with cold sweat on face ; in morning, agg. on chest and
affected parts ; on hands. ► Cold, on forehead and hands ;
now on one hand, now on the other ; on feet. ► Dry skin.
Clinical :- ►
Intermittent fever, chill associated with flatulent colic, nauseam,
disgust at the smell of food, vertigo, etc. ; chill, frequently
partial, with coldness of lower extremities and heat of head, the chill
mingles with the heat and the febrile stage seems to be imperfectly
developed ; the sweat is general, cold only on the face ; the
attack followed by extreme debility and by numerous Cocculus
symptoms. ► Low types of malarial fevers, typhoid, rheumatic,
relapsing, etc., with intense headache at base of occiput, vertigo,
nausea, extreme faintness, numbness, great difficulty in collecting
ideas.
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