Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homśopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Mezereum.
A tincture is made of the fresh bark of Daphne
Mezereum, L.
General Action :- ►
It produces
violent inflammation of all mucous membranes and of the skin ;
internally the inflammation is characterized by burning, externally by
violent itching. ► In addition, its neuralgias are very marked, they
attack principally the face, but occasionally other parts. ► The
periosteum of the jaw and of the long bones becomes the seat of an
inflammatory process which is followed by its legitimate results.
Allies :- ►
Mercury,
Rhus t., Ars., Nit. ac., Iod., Phyto., Nux v., Zinc.
Generalities :- ►
Flesh dried and
shrivelled. ► Stretching. ► Tremulous condition as after too
much wine. ► Stitches over whole body ; in various parts ;
in evening, agg. left chest ; in various parts, with crawling ; hot,
jerking, on various parts. ► Tearing in different parts
when sitting. ► Boring in knees, tibić, wrists and behind ears, all
day when walking and sitting ; drawing B. in arms, knees, skull,
bones of feet and ankles, agg. above ankle and wrist. ► Pain in left
upper arm, right thumb-joint, left ankle and right temple, in morning
after waking, with boring ; P. in tibić and other parts of body,
even when walking ; shifting P., inclined to return to original
spot ; rheumatic, in nape, throat and occiput. ► Drawing pain
through whole left side of body, with sensation of falling asleep, agg.
hand and foot ; wandering D. pain in lumbar region, occiput,
shoulders, flesh of thighs and in various parts of head. ► Drawing
or jerking, now here, now there, then aching. ► Cramplike
constriction across lower pectoral muscles, lower part of back and upper
arms, when walking in open air.►
Oppression. ►
Feeling of great lightness of body. ► General sick feeling ;
amounting to nausea on going into a close room, amel. open air. ►
Discomfort, amel. towards noon ; D., with yawning, stretching, pain
in abdomen and eructations. ► Swollen feeling in affected parts on
touch, without swelling. ► Sensitiveness to
cold air (Ars., Kali, Dulc., Mosch.,
Nux v., Rhus) ; agg. head, and sensation when sitting in
the house as of a cold wind on head. ► Sensitiveness to cold water
in morning when washing and in teeth when drinking. ► Desire to walk
in open air alternating with dread of open air. ► When walking
inclination to go with upper part of body bent forward, to hurry and to
sing, though everything is performed with difficult. ► Restlessness
(Ars., Rhus t.). ►
Indolence ; after deep sleep, with weakness. ► Weakness ;
in morning on rising ; in afternoon ; in afternoon, and sleep
for four hours, with agreeable dreams (with faceache, which never quite
woke her) ; in evening without ability to sleep ; when
walking ; amel. a short nap ; with inclination to sleep, at
least to lie outstretched ; with mental depression bordering on
idiocy. ► Aggravation in left half of body ; of pains, by rest
(Rhus t.) ; (of effects of wine).
► Pains rarely appeared in bed, did not disturb sleep, but
reappeared after waking.
Mind :- ►
Delirium. ► Feels
intoxicated, speaks without reflection, but very lively. ► Merry
after dinner, inclined to sing, dances, jokes and laughs, as if
intoxicated by wine ; M. mood changing to depression. ►
Cheerfulness and desire to work. ►
Hypochondriac, everything seems dead,
nothing makes a vivid impression on his mind. ► Sad (Ign.,
Nat. m.) ; and every trifle affects him disagreeably,
indifferent to the whole world, disinclined to work. ►
Weeping mood. ► Anxiety ; at noon before eating,
with palpitation and necessity to lie down ; in evening, with
trembling ; in attacks in evening, with weeping, palpitation,
coldness over whole body and weakness of limbs.►
► Anger,
with desire to say vexatious things ; A. which he soon
regrets. ► Quarrelsome. ► Inclined to reproach others. ►
Ill humor ; after sleep ; with sensitiveness ; with desire
to run away ; with restlessness and redness and heat of face and
forehead. ► Discontented with himself and his surroundings. ►
Averse to talking. ► No rest when alone, desires company. ►
Indifferent. ► Quiet and contemplative, longing for death. ►
Frightened easily, then palpitation.►
►
Distraction. ► Dullness. ► Difficult to make a
resolution. ► Thought difficult, with pressive dullness of head.
► Thoughts vanish ; when talking ; as soon as he began to
think of anything, inability to repeat anything from memory, confusion,
with pressure in sinciput. ► He looked out of the window for hours
without thought and without knowing what he was looking at. ►
Forgot what he had recently heard, every intercurrent remark of others
confused his ideas. ► Stupefaction on waking from a sound
sleep. ► Coma, with convulsive movements of eyes and upper
extremities, dilatation and insensibility of pupils.
Head :- ►
Tearing. ► Boring
in several parts ; agg. motion. ► Acute pain as if everything
would fall out at forehead. ► Aching ; here and there ; in
morning on waking ; in afternoon ; in
afternoon, with pain on slightest
touch (after a vexation) ; after
moving about and talking much, agg. temples and sides of vertex ;
agg. towards evening, agg. open air ; agg. warm room, agg. forehead
and sinciput ; amel. stooping low ; with shivering ;
sudden, with inclination to close eyes, discomfort in stomach an
vertigo ; just beneath skull, as if brain pressed hard against
bones ; as if brain were shaken, all the afternoon on suddenly moving
head ; as if brain hung loose against skull, hit against bone here
and there on moving head. ► Dullness ; all day, with pressure
in temples ; towards evening ; amel. eating ; dizzy, with
difficult thought ; as if intoxicated, amel.
work ; as if intoxicated, and as if he had been up all night
(Nux v.), as after excessive emission.
► Heaviness ; with inclination to support it. ► Numbness.
► Intoxicated sensation. ► Vertigo ; with flickering
before eyes ; with contracted pupils ; he would fall to the left
; faintlike.
Forehead :- ►
Stitches, and in
vertex ; S. in left upper part in morning in bed ; tearing, in
left eminence. ► Tearing ; in right side ; above
eyes ; in morning when sitting ; in forepart, with jerking
stitches. ► Burrowing superficially in middle. ► Pinching in
F. and temples, with pressure on eyes and jaws, as before violent coryza.
► Boring ; in left ; in various places in bones ; in left
bone ; above left eye and in nasal bone ; frequently in left
side, extending towards temple, with tearing, afterwards extending to
occiput ; burning and drawing, in cranial and frontal bones. ►
Boring drawing pain in bones ; B. drawing pain in left side and
temple ; above eyes, agg. left. ► Pain ; in right
eminence ; above eyes ; in upper part ; in sinciput in
morning on waking, with drawing ; in afternoon ; in bone on
pressure, extending to feet ; beneath bones, extending into nasal
bones ; transversely through forepart of head ; in morning as if
brain became hard, with inability to collect his thoughts ; pressing
asunder, in forepart of head. ► Pressive throbbing. ►
Confusion. ► Stupefaction in sinciput and occiput in evening.
Temples :- ►
Stitches in left,
with tearing. ► Tearing from one to other through head ; (T. in
evening when sitting). ► Boring ; agg. right. ► Boring
drawing pain. ► Compressive griping, extending into forehead and
nose. ► Pain ; and in supraorbital region. ►
Pressure outward in left ; inward on left, extending to above
orbits, when sitting reading, amel. motion. ► Compression from both
sides after violent motion, whereby he forgot the word he was about to
speak and could hardly collect his thoughts.
Vertex :- ►
Stitches in
region ; S. extending to forehead, with heat of face.
Sides :- ►
Sticking in left half
of brain. ► Tearing in left ; in right side of skull ; right at
night when awakened ; in left as if broken, then on vertex and in
left ear. ► Boring in right side of skull. ► Pain beneath left
parietal bone ; on left P. bone amel. pressure, agg. removing
pressure ; as if a plug were driven in on right side of vertex, then
also in left side of forehead, then external to and above right eye ;
in right parietal bone as if suppurating, agg. walking, with sensation as
if bone must be painful to pressure, which was not the case ;
remittent P. in right parietal region as if brain pressed against bone,
agg. bending head to right ; drawing pain in bone above right ear,
returning at night, noticed on every step. ► Drawing in bone above
right ear.
Occiput :- ►
Tearing ; back
and forth in bones. ► Tearing throbbing in spot above nape. ►
Boring in bones. ► Sharp pain in left side, with tension.
► Pain on entering house ; P. in O. and nape on moving
head ; sore pain ; stupefying P.
through right hemisphere of brain to forehead. ► Drawing
pain in right side. ► Pressure outward in left side in evening.
► Heaviness.
Skull :- ►
Tearing on waking in
night and morning with pressure. ► Boring ; in various
places ; in shock like paroxysms, agg. vertex. ► Pain ;
agg. touch. ► Drawing.
Scalp :- ►
►
Dry scurf ; scurf was whiter,
more profuse and drier than usual. ►
Covered with thick, leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus
collects here and there and hair is glued together (Compare Nit.
ac.). ► Elevated white scabs,
under which ichor collects and which is offensive and breeds vermin.
► Scabs look chalky and extend to brows and nape. ►
Hair hangs soft ; H. inclined to bristle ; the long hairs were
troublesome to him, they seemed rough, the hair became curly and grew
rapidly. ► Pain on touch of hair ; P.
on both sides of vertex on touch. ► Biting as from lice
in evening, amel. scratching, but always recurring in another place. ►
Itching on vertex and occiput ; near right side of vertex, amel.
touch ; sticking I. amel. scratching.
Clinical :- ►
Neuralgic headaches, in one case beginning in the occiput and extending
over the whole brain, with tenderness of the scalp, the pain burning and
boring, extending to eye and teeth, and even down to the shoulder, in
another case it appeared to involve the periosteum of the vertex and
occiput, during the pain cold shivering, the parts very sensitive to
touch, and the scalp felt thicker over the seat of the pain ; in
another case the pain involved the supraorbital nerves, was generally
one-sided, agg. warmth ; in one case the neuralgia involved the
ear, which was sore, as if bruised. ► A valuable remedy for
eruptions on the scalp, particularly when thick crusts form, from under
which there oozes a thick purulent matter ; in one case the
eruption was preceded by violent cough which had lasted for several
months and which disappeared as the scurfy eruption appeared, with
falling of the hair, and with violent itching, intensely agg.
heat ; in another case the eruption was preceded by pain in the
cranial bones, agg. night, the eruption itched and burned. ►
Pityriasis.
Eyes :- ►
►
Inflammation, agg. left, in morning on rising, conjunctiva of ball dirty
red, agg. near external canthus, with pain and dryness
(Lyc.). ► Surrounded by brown
rings, agg. about inner canthus, with yellowish pale color of face and at
times circumscribed redness of cheeks. ► Dull, pupils dilated and
sluggish, and eyes turned upward in sleep. ► Staring ; without
thought. ► Pain ; about left
; in evening when reading, vision not clear ; with
dryness, as if conjunctiva of lids
were inflamed. ► Pressure and tearing on and in eyes, agg. orbits.
► Smarting compelling rubbing. ► Biting. ►
Itching of right. ► Heat, with pain in lids ; H., with pressure
upon ball. ► Sleepiness symptoms of catarrh in E. and nose, with
thirst, heat of skin and rapid pulse.►
►
Lachrymation, with biting in eyes. ► Pupils
dilated ; and vision obstructed ; contracted. ► Pain in
balls ; in right at noon on closing eyes ; agg. light, and in
lids ; as if too large, also with frequent necessity to wink. ►
Jerking of muscles of left upper lid ; J. in left external
canthus. ► Agglutination of external canthi, with pressure and
itching, with fluent coryza and lachrymation through the day. ►
Canthi feel agglutinated. ► Inclination to
blink. ► Inclination to close lids ; lids close when
writing. ► Burning-prickling stitches on margins of lower lids.
► Biting in margins of lids ; in canthi, agg. inner ; itching
P. of margins and near nose. ► Itching on margins of
lower lids ; I. in left inner canthus ; in right external
canthus, with agglutination. ► Boring in region of brows. ►
Pain in middle of right brow. ► Burning in right brow, with itching.
► Far-sighted. ► More short-sighted than usual. ► Cannot
see well till towards 4 P.M., lashes seem too long.
► Flickering. ► Vision of sparks. ► Of white, glistening
spots. ► Of black spots on rising from stooping. ► Muscć
volitantes in a dreamy way.
Clinical :- ►
Ciliary
neuralgia after operations, especially after removal of the eyeball.
► Ciliary neuralgia, with pains radiate and shoot downward, with
cold feeling, especially with soreness of the bone.
Ears :- ►
Painful swelling of
right external meatus, agg. lower and posterior part. ► Sticking in
left ; deep in morning and on putting finger into ear the external meatus
seems more open than the other ; intermittent S. agg. left ;
intermittent, and in teeth ; itching S. in right. ► Tearing
deep in left (twinging in one) ; in right ; in left external
meatus in evening, with swollen sensation. ► Boring behind right.
► Pain ; above right in evening, extending to outer margin of
concha, it seemed as if upper ear were painful to pressure, but it was not
the case.►
►
Sensation as if air were distending right external meatus, and
as if roaring in ears would occiput, then in left meatus, with stopped
sensation in ear ; ear feels stretched wide open in
evening and air seemed to enter cold ; feeling of air in right
external meatus in evening, and distended feeling, also agg. yawning,
amel. boring in with finger ; dilated feeling when walking in warm
weather, with coldness and desire to bore into ear ; sensation of air
in right, then left, with twinging, agg. right. ► Sensation of a
wind in right. ► Throbbing behind right, with pressure, changing to
pressure in head, forehead, nose and teeth, agg. motion of head. ►
Stopped sensation in left. ► Tension behind left, with tearing in
alternating jerks. ► Drawing from right mastoid process into lower
teeth. ► Itching in right, amel. rubbing.►
Hearing difficult. ►
Ringing ; in right in morning on rising ; in left in morning
after dressing ; with sleepiness ; in right, with yawning.
► Rushing noises. ► Sudden humming or roaring in right.
► Sound as of a distant mill when lying on left.
Clinical :- ►
Deafness appearing after the suppression of an eruption on the head,
with thickening of the tympanum, entirely cured, with return of the
eruption. ► Chronic inflammation, feeling as if the drum were
exposed to cold air, itching behind the ears, etc. ► Violent pains
involving the teeth and pains in the face, with constant chilliness,
especially after the abuse of Merc.
of when Merc.
has failed.
Nose :- ►
►
External margin of right nostril inflamed and painful. ►
Thicker and shiny. ► Jerking at root. ► Tearing near left
side ; T. in bones. ► Boring in bones ; and neighboring
parts, with drawing pain. ► Pressing
asunder pain in root in morning extending into forehead, with pain in
temples on touch, heat and sweat on head, with coldness of rest of body.
► Drawing pain in both sides. ► Drawing in bones. ►
Rawness internally, with soreness. ► Biting like mustard ; B.
in left nostril, with dryness and crawling in it and stoppage of right,
and vice versa. ►
Dryness, with diminished smell (Nat.
m., Lyc.). ► Burning ; in wings ; near
wings ; near right side ; on back extending towards left side at
8 P.M., with biting.►
►
Sneezing ; in forenoon ; with
fluent coryza ; with sore pain in chest ; violent and
painful ; violent, whereby granular mucus flies out of fauces ; ineffectual
inclination to sneeze. ► Coryza ; with sore pain in
right nostril ; stopped ; stopped, and right nostril scabby.
► Fluent coryza ; in evening, with stopped C., right nostril
stopped by scabs and painful ; discharge of
yellow, at times bloody water, which causes soreness and burning
pain ; D. of thin mucus, which makes nostrils sore and is sometimes
streaked with blood (Merc.) ;
thin discharge ; tenacious bloody mucus. ► Mucus increased and
harder than usual, without coryza, with great noise on blowing nose.
► Bleeding ; brick-red blood from right nostril in evening
before sleep ; trickling from right nostril. ► Odor like warm
offensive exhalations, in evening.
Clinical :- ►
Chronic
ozćna, diminished sense of smell, burning pain in bones of nose and
face.
Face :- ►
►
Inflammatory redness, the eruption if “fat” and moist
(impetigo) ; F. and forehead red and hot, with restlessness and
peevishness. ► Pale ; and sunken, and expression
suffering ; and expression ill-humored, prostrated ; and
collapsed, and limbs collapsed. ► Gray, earthy. ► Sunken and
ghastly. ► Shrunken and cold. ► Cheeks painfully swollen and
painful to pressure ; right side swollen, with heat in face and more
pain than usual in eyes. ► Jerking of right
zygomatic muscles ; in middle of right cheek. ► Tearing ;
below left eye ; in morning ; in left side and teeth after
morning walk ; in side, waking her before midnight, and pain agg.
right side of head. ► Boring in left cheek, with burning. ►
Cramplike pain on right cheek-bone, with tearing. ► Sudden pain on
waking from sleep. ► Tearing in lower jaw ; drawing T. in left
lower jaw and teeth. ► Boring in upper jaw ; left side of
upper ; left lower ; sides of lower.
Lips :- ►
►
Eruption outside of red, with fluent coryza. ►
Swelling ; of upper ; below
left nostril, with burning pain ; lower thick, dry, cracked, scaly
and painful. ► Anterior part of lip, gum and tongue denuded. ►
Outer skin of inner surface of lips as well as anterior gums loose. ►
Sticking together. ► Sticking in upper by right
corner ; S. as if a blister would develop. ► Sore pain in red
of lower, with inflammation, burning on touch, amel. moistening with
saliva or drinking, agg. evening. ►
Dry ; agg. boundary between internal and external parts and shiny,
painful, in evening sore, burning. ► Burning of
upper ; and below left eye ; B. of lips and forepart of
tongue ; of lips and tongue as if sore ;
in right corner as if cracked, in evening ; in lower as if it would
crack, agg. evening and on closing mouth. ► Biting, and on tongue.
► Itching, and on tongue ; I. on left side of margin of lower.
Clinical :- ►
Infraorbital neuralgia involving the face, so violent that the patient
could not wash his face, with profuse lachrymation ; another case
of facial neuralgia, agg. heat, the pain leaving numbness. ►
Facial neuralgia, which seems to arise from the teeth, agg. night,
involving the head, after the failure of Merc.
► Violent neuralgia of the face and head following herpes zoster.
► Periostitis of the lower jaw, with swelling and burning pain.
Mouth :- ►
Teeth :- ►
Offensive mucus.
► Carious odor of mucus on lower incisors. ►
Hollow T. decay very rapidly ; upper molar, with drawing,
burning and sticking, the pain agg. evening. ► Sticking in left
upper molars ; in roots of lower incisors. ► Cutting in hollow,
like soreness, in morning, agg. biting, waking him next night. ►
Boring in one or another, agg. right, with sticking, sometimes changing to
sticking in right cheek-bone, therewith right side of head so affected
that even to touch the hair was painful, with uneasiness, fretfulness and
aversion to everything. ► Jerking in upper incisors ; in last
right molars in afternoon ; in left upper jaw, in which there were
broken teeth, with vesicular swelling, bleeding and suppuration of gum,
and cheek externally painful to touch ; tearing J. from a right upper
hollow molar into temple. ► Drawing in left upper ; like
incipient tearing in right lower, also in left teeth. ► Pain in last
left lower molar as if it should be pulled out. ►
Aching ; in hollow ; in hollow molar ; in hollow
in morning ; in morning on rising, on pressing them together, agg.
upper incisors ; in hollow in evening ;
on touch of tongue. ► Feel too
long and blunt (Merc.),
amel. left, with boring and sticking in them ; left seem too
long ; too long in afternoon, with coldness ; on
biting on them and from fresh air, agg. left upper and in upper
incisors, with drawing pain ; in morning on rising, agg. pressing
them together, agg. incisors. ► Blunt, at night ; upper
incisors. ► Hollow teeth seem very sharp.
Gums :- ►
Bleed easily. ►
Swelling like a blister back of upper incisors, then swelling involving
forepart of hard palate, wherewith upper incisors were painfully blunted
in evening. ► Drawing in left upper alveolar processes.
Tongue :- ►
Inflammation and of
mouth. ► Swelling, redness and white coat ; S., agg. tip, with
white, almost loamy coat (almost like that of Mercury),
with prominent papillć, each of which looked red on a white ground, tip
very red (denuded), in middle of T. a deep fissure. ► Coated ;
white ; whitish-yellow. ► Burning painful blisters, and on
gums. ► Sticking. ► Biting ; painful blisters, and on
gums. ► Sticking. ► Biting ; posteriorly. ► Tip
painful as if burnt ; tongue and hard palate in morning. ►
Burning, and on forepart of mouth, with salivation ; B. extending to
stomach ; extending over whole mouth, agg. hard palate,
with dryness of hard palate, agg. posteriorly and in upper part of
pharynx ; on forepart, with dry rawness ; in tip, with
boring ; biting burning. ► Sensation on moving it as if
forepart were soft like butter. ► Speech difficult at one time as if
breath or saliva were wanting, at another as if tongue were too thick.►
White ulcers within corner of mouth and
on right cheek. ► Discharge of reddish mucus. ► Pain ;
posteriorly on palate from eating not very warm soup. ► Prickling
posteriorly on palate and at base on tongue, with dryness and heat of
tongue posteriorly, after a cup of white coffee the heat involved tip of
tongue, inside of lips, cheeks and gums, with sweat, agg. of face. ►
Burning (Ars., Arum t.) ;
extending to stomach (Merc.
cor.) ; posteriorly on palate and on uvula till
dinner ; agg. pharynx, amel. inspiration, agg. expiration ; in
palate and throat, amel. eating, except the sensation as if burnt with hot
soup, next day rawness, agg. morning after waking, with roughness and
dryness ; in palate and fauces, with
scraping ; and biting, with spitting of much watery
saliva. ► Dryness agg. tongue, in morning on waking. ►
Salivation ; salt.
Taste :- ►
Peppery ; always
after eating. ► Hard and rough. ► Catarrhal. ► Bitter to
beer ; B. all day, with nausea. ► Nauseous posteriorly in
fauces as from hollow teeth, and odor similar to it far back in nose.
► Alkaline salt, with metallic offensive odor from mouth. ►
Sourish-salt. ► Sweetish-salt, agg. becoming heated. ► Flat
sourish. ► Strawlike to tobacco. ► Diminished, tongue as if
burnt. ► Lost, smoky taste to milk.
Clinical :- ►
Decaying teeth, with burning boring pains involving the bones of the
face and head, temporarily amel. drawing in cold air.
Throat :- ►
Swelling ; of
glands below left ear, on margin of ramus of jaw, with pain on pressure in
evening. ► Hawking of mucus ; easy, of granular transparent
mucus ; secretion of mucus posteriorly through choanć, extending
into air-passages, causing hawking, with lachrymation ; mucus, making
singing difficult, she could not utter a pure tone. ► Inflammation
of pharynx. ► Sticking in submaxillary glands. ►
Feeling as if full of mucus, not amel. expectoration. ►
Feeling as if a foreign body were sticking in pharynx when swallowing.
► Pain ; posteriorly in pharynx when not swallowing, at times
on only one side ; in pharynx on swallowing a morsel, with sudden
shuddering, starting from pit of stomach, with nausea and shaking of head
and chest ; as if palate-bones separated on swallowing ; as from
a plug, on swallowing. ► Tensive pain in left side of pharynx on
empty swallowing. ► Soreness of fauces on inhaling open air ;
S. agg. when not swallowing ; posteriorly, agg. swallowing, with
rawness.►
Scraping ; in
fauces ; in evening after bread and butter ; till 9 P.M.,
at times provoking cough, agg. eating ; posteriorly
in fauces and pharynx, agg. empty swallowing, with
biting, as in coryza ; posteriorly
in upper part of fauces, amel. drinking milk and eating bacon, with
burning (Phyto., Merc. c.) ;
in fauces, with tenacious mucus ; and on tongue, palate and pharynx,
with heat and hot breath ; posteriorly in fauces, with salivation and
constant inclination to relieve the burning scraping ; by swallowing
saliva. ► Roughness. ► Rawness of
fauces ; and soreness of F. and palate ; of pharynx, agg.
expiration with open mouth, with burning pain. ► Constriction, and
of stomach ; of pharynx, with crawling ; of pharynx,
with pressure on swallowing food.►
►
Burning, and in pharynx (Phyto.) ;
in śsophagus ; in
fauces ; in śsophagus if he swallows water ; in
pharynx, agg. inspiration ; in fauces, pharynx and
stomach, amel. swallowing food, with anxiety and sensation of diarrhśa ;
with irritation to hacking cough in larynx, like
dryness, anxious oppression of breath and loosening and scanty mucus on
coughing ; extending from fauces to corners of mouth and
lips, where epidermis desquamated, with pain ; scraping B. ;
cool B. on tongue and throat, extending to stomach, as after
peppermint ; biting B. gradually extending from pharynx over mouth
and outer margin of lip, in evening pain in pharynx on swallowing as if
swollen or like scraping, then sticking in pharynx on empty swallowing
painful, especially to uvula and arches of palate. ► Dryness ; in
fauces, and irritation, causing dry fatiguing cough. ►
Drawing and tickling posteriorly in fauces and pharynx. ► Pharynx
posteriorly affected by talking.
Clinical :- ►
Syphilitic sore throat, with burning and dryness extending down the
śsophagus, and inflammation extending into the larynx, with hoarseness,
the cold air relieved the burning but caused pain in the gums. ►
Syphilitic ulceration of the larynx and śsophagus, with violent burning
and soreness.
Stomach :- ►
►
Appetite great ; at noon and in evening ; hunger at 6
A.M., with rumbling in abdomen ; intermittent
hunger ; constant desire to ear without real appetite, whereby he has
less pain ; A. for bacon ; desire for wine and coffee ; A.
disturbed at dinner ; A. diminished ; does not relish the first
morsels ; A. lost ; lost, as
from too much mucus in throat. ► Aversion to meat. ►
Thirst ; in forenoon ; in evening ; during chill ; for
fresh water ; lost, next day great desire to drink ; without
dryness of mouth or really excessive thirst.►
►
Eructations ; from drinking cold water ;
hiccough-like ; in two paroxysms, first a shock, then hiccough like
forcing out of gas ; empty ;
empty, with burning and anxious sweat ; with clean taste of food and
drink ; sour and scraping, tasting of meat ; sour, rancid, agg.
supper, with pressure in stomach ; of acrid fluid ; of liquids,
which do not reach the mouth ; ineffectual efforts to eructate.
► Violent hiccough.►
► Nausea ;
in morning after eating, agg. fat ; in afternoon, agg. eating ;
frequently in afternoon ; on waking at night ; when walking,
with heat in forehead ; agg. walking, with intoxicated
sensation ; agg. in house ; amel. motion, with retching and
eructations of water ; in throat ; in
throat, amel. eating ; with general shivering and
salivation ; shuddering.►
Vomiting ; of
beer (Which tastes bitter) ;
bloody ; easy, of green bitter mucus,
with confusion of head and throbbing pain in right frontal eminence ;
violent. ► Twitching of muscles of pit and vicinity. ►
Inflammation. ► Contraction. ► Sticking after dinner, with
pain in chest. ► Pain ; in pit ;
epigastric region ; at noon after cooked food ; in
pit in evening, worse by paroxysms ; at night ; after
eating, then sensation of undigested food ; in S. and chest after
eating ; and in intestines, with stinging burning in skin,
restlessness, loss of appetite, fever and irregular action of
tendons ; as if arteries were beating against abdominal muscles as
far as prćcordial region ; tensive and spasmodic, agg. before
eating ; pulling tensive P. in pit on inspiration as if a part of
diaphragm were adherent.►
►
Burning ; in pit (Ars., Merc. c.) ;
in pit on pressure, with pain ; B. pressure
extending transversely at intervals, agg. pressure. ►
Anxiety in pit, then diarrhśa. ► Apprehension in pit as if
expecting something disagreeable. ► Feeling as if S. and intestines
were empty and swashed about on walking in morning after sufficient
breakfast. ► Sensation of too long fasting, and S. hangs down ;
S. as after long fasting, in S. and lower part of pharynx, without longing
for food, amel. eating. ► Fulness, with pressure after eating.
► Satiety after a light breakfast, with sensation as if undigested
food lay in it, with uneasiness in abdomen, depression and indifference.
► Disordered by eating too much or fat.
Clinical :- ►
Symptoms of gastric ulcer, with burning and great uneasiness in stomach,
temporarily amel. eating, hence constant desire to eat (Iod.).
► Many cases of ulcers in the stomach, one of which was supposed
to be malignant and incurable, have been cured or greatly relieved by
this drug, always with extreme burning and distress as if the whole
stomach were raw, at times with vomiting of blood, in one case
associated with diarrhśa, passing quantities of blood from the bowels.
Abdomen :- ►
Hardness ; at
night, with tension and pressure, agg. every position except lying on
back, with distress for breath and rapid pulse. ► Distension ;
tympanitic, after vomiting and purging ; painful, in evening, with
short, anxious respiration so that he must loosen the clothes,
eructations, rumbling, difficult loud emission of flatus, chilliness,
shivering and yawning. ► Sunken, so that sternum stood out
prominently when lying. ► Rumbling, with
noises ; R. during and after eating. ► Painful
movings as before diarrhśa. ► Inflammation of intestines. ►
Flatulence. ► Emissions of flatus ; after pain in small
intestines ; with soft stool ; loud ;
short and interrupted ; short, offensive, agg. before stool ;
offensive.►
Tearing. ► Cutting towards
evening ; C. and twisting. ► Twisting before copious pasty
stool, then colic and pressure in anus as if more would follow. ►
Griping ; agg. about umbilicus, with drawing ; spasmodic G.,
with sticking low down in A., starting from middle of A., at times
extending into left side, with hard tension of A., transiently amel.
emission of flatus, with weakness, agg. lower limbs, with paroxysms of
aggravation.►
Pain ; from taking cold in night
under light covers, at last preceded by chilliness in abdomen, with
offensive stool, at first pasty, nodular and brown, then thin, trickling,
with dragging in rectum ; waking him at night after vivid dreams,
with anxiety as if A. would become rigid, hard and adhere to chest, though
there is moving about in it as of flatus that frees itself ; on
walking in open air after eating, then sweat and deathly anxiety, amel.
eructations ; amel. rising and stretching ; with anxiety ;
with drawing in upper part of femur and in nates ; in bed, as from
cold, wet weather ; as if intestines were seized one by one and
constricted. ► Compression and weight in it. ► Heaviness, with
anxiety. ► Sensation of diarrhśa extending to rectum, then creeping
shivering over whole body. ► Burning
(Ars., etc.).►
►
Stitches in region of left short ribs. ► Pain in region of spleen,
agg. deep inspiration, at times more posteriorly in region of false ribs ;
beneath left ribs, as from incarcerated flatus, agg. pressure, amel.
eructations ; in right side of A. as if a piece of intestine were
incarcerated, after dinner. ► Griping flatulence becomes
incarcerated in sides. ► Griping in upper. ► Tearing stitches
in right half of upper, then pressure. ► Pressure over upper, with
tension. ► Sensation as if bubbles formed in upper. ► Twisting
about umbilicus, with nausea and sensation as if water would rise, or like
a faintness. ► Twisting griping in umbilical region, agg. emission
of flatus. ► Cutting below umbilical region.
Hypogastrium :- ►
Sticking, agg.
just above penis ; in right inguinal region, then tearing ; in
left side, agg. pressure and walking ; extending to ilium ;
outward in right flank ; above crest of left ilium, more towards
back, taking away breath ; in right half, and in upper part of right
thigh, with tearing. ► Pain extending towards abdominal ring ;
sudden P. in left groin like pressure upon a sore spot, agg. expiration
and bending over. ► Pressing asunder in right inguinal ; ring
on urinating, amel. bending up knee, returning on becoming erect. ►
Drawing pain in inguinal glands.
Rectum :- ►
►
Stitches. ► Drawing pain, and in anus. ► Urging,
then scanty, soft, difficult stool, then soreness in rectum.
Anus :- ►
Constricted around the
protruded rectum, which is then incarcerated, sore and painful to touch.
► Sticking ; and drawing extending upward. ► Pinching in
evening, and in left side near anus, in lower limbs and on scrotum. ►
Biting sore pain in walking, and burning in rectum. ►
Pain, and in anterior part of anus. ► Tenesmus, and in perineum,
extending through urethra, with tearing and drawing. ► Crawling
before and after stool. ► Itching ; in
region during day and evening before sleep ; like
tenesmus.
Stool :- ►
►
Diarrhśa ; constant, with pain in abdomen. ► Thin,
with discharge of thin blood ; T. and at times frequent, afterwards
hard and infrequent ; T., frequent, preceded by pain in umbilical
region and straining. ► Soft, copious, offensive ; S., copious,
fermented, undigested, brown, passing into yellowish-gray, of sour odor,
delayed ; S., brown, of sour odor, very early in morning ; S.,
grayish and black, with rumbling in abdomen during and after stool, which
was the second one ; S. and scanty ; S., small and frequent.
► Pasty, copious, at short intervals, after urging, then tenesmus in
anus, as in diarrhśa ; P., thick, smeary, preceded by sudden
pressure and followed by biting in anus.►
►
Constipation. ► Hard, slow, with pressure ; H.,
copious, brown, nodular ; the second one H., unsatisfactory ; H.
in morning at short intervals and after long sitting, and after eating
other pasty S. at short intervals, and in evening repeated urging, amel.
emission of flatus, at last a small, urgent stool, that was first natural
and then pasty. ► Brown fćces, containing
white, shining grains ; yellowish brown, streaked with
blood ; dark B., nodular, with pressure, but without much pain, for
the first time in three days and a half ; dark, nodular, not very
hard, with pressure. ► Clay-colored, scanty. ► Pituitous,
almost uninterrupted, mixed with blood and causing excruciating pain.
► Fermented, in part dark, in part yellowish, with undigested parts
and offensive. ► Speedy, then great relief. ► Scanty,
tenacious ; S., frequent. ► Unsatisfactory, with bright blood.
► Discharge of bright blood during and after stool ; without
pain on straining.
Clinical :- ►
Chronic
diarrhśa in a patient who was subject to eruptions on the skin similar
to those of Mez.,
stools watery, with painful tenesmus, which sometimes involved the
urethra. ► Diarrhśa of sour, undigested stools, sometimes with
much colic, stools followed by chilliness. ► Constipation, with
dark brown, very hard stools, at times with prolapsus.
Urinary Organs :- ►
Pinching in
bladder. ► Urging ; in morning ; frequent. ►
Frequent micturition ; in forenoon, of much watery urine ; even
at night, of pale urine. ► Micturition towards morning ; only
once or twice a day and urine pale ; delayed ; indolent in
morning, after rising.
Urethra :- ►
►
Discharge of a few drops of blood after micturition ;
tenacious, transparent liquid in forenoon before micturition ; of
mucus ; watery mucus on moving about. ► (Blennorrhśa, dark
inflammation of inner surface of prepuce, with itching, without swelling
and with sore sensation in evening and tearing and drawing in glans.).
► Sticking in orifice, with frequent desire to urinate. ►
Sticking crawling pain, with emission of fluid. ► Cutting in orifice ;
after micturition ; C. in forepart after micturition. ►
Drawing ; and cutting drawing pain in forepart and in neck of
bladder, when walking in open air. ► Sore
pain sometimes on touch, sometimes when urinating. ►
Itching soreness, agg. pressure. ► Sticking itching in evening. ►
Biting burning in forepart at close of micturition (during
stool).
Urine :- ►
Red. ► Dark.
► Dark wine-yellow, becoming turbid after an hour, later floating
flocculi and reddish sediment. ► Bloody.
► Hot, with reddish sediment. ► Burning. ►
Copious, pale. ► Scanty ; in morning ; in morning, and
dark, hot, of strong odor ; in morning, with increased thirst.
Clinical :- ►
Gleet,
with watery discharge, soreness and burning in the urethra, particularly
in its anterior part, sometimes with hćmaturia.
Sexual Organs :- ►
Penis. ►
Swelling, with warmth. ► Sticking jerking on back. ►
Stitches, and in tip. ► Tearing and jerking
tearing ; jerking T. in P., with wave-like pain above, in right side
of abdomen. ► Acute pain (pain in forepart). ► Burning in
region when urinating ; in region of forepart when urinating. ►
Itching ; internally on prepuce in evening ; on inner
surface of prepuce after urinating. ► Frequent erections during the
day ; violent E. in evening, with yawning and sleepiness.►
Swelling of left side of scrotum.
► Stitch on right side of scrotum. ► Testicles painful to
pressure. ► Drawing pain in spermatic cords. ► Excitement
after an emission, with crawling over whole body, as from lasciviousness.►
► Mucous
discharge from vagina. ► Leucorrhśa like white of an egg. ►
Menses too frequent and lasting too long.
Clinical :- ►
Obstinate ulceration of the vagina and cervix, with albuminous
leucorrhśa.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
Tightness
of larynx and on deep inspiration he hears and feels air pass through
larynx. ► Tickling in larynx as with a feather, causing cough. ►
Hoarseness ; with cough and rawness in chest ; as far
down as pit of throat. ► Voice rough and husky. ► Voice
trembling. ► Inflammation of trachea, with burning pain between
hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage, amel. eating. ► Pain in trachea in
morning. ► T. feels closed when breathing.
Cough :- ►
Only between 6 and 7 A.M. ;
nightly, agg. after midnight ; after walking ; interrupting
sleep ; after eating, till he vomits
sour or bitter food ; from irritation low down in chest, amel.
vomiting and discharge of watery saliva ; with retching and
scratching, or scraping in pit of throat as if something sweet there could
not be coughed up ; in afternoon and night, with bloody
expectoration, restless sleep and heavy, frightful dreams. ►
Violent in evening in bed and in morning, from irritation lower in trachea
than can be reached by the cough ; V., uninterrupted,
causing vomiting. ► Dry ; at night ; day and night, with
emaciation, tensive pains across chest and weakness ; in afternoon
and towards evening, with retching and vomiting ; with scraping in
lower part of sternum an sticking in right frontal eminence ; with
soreness beneath sternum and headache, then expectoration of mucus ;
D. and short day and night from tickling in larynx, one day when the cough
was more frequently the symptoms in limbs were less frequent.►
Expectoration of mucus ; bloody E.
in morning.
Respiration :- ►
Whistling in
nose during inspiration. ► Dyspnśa ; paroxysmal, as from
weight on chest. ► Tight because chest seems constricted from both
sides. ► Lost on stooping forward when his mouth was full of
water ; L. in the middle of his speech and he must begin again.
► Slow ; and suffocative. ► Short, difficult. ►
Full, uneasy. ► Inclined to take a deep breath.
Chest :- ►
Rattling on breathing,
then constant inclination to cough and sore pain on coughing anything
loose. ► Exhalation from lungs offensive like bad cheese. ►
Twitching by right lower ribs in evening, then on lower part of right
scapula ; painful T. like electric shocks in left side. ►
Contraction at times of diaphragm beneath ribs.►
Sticking ; in clavicle ;
beneath left breast ; in lung back of heart ; between ribs
beneath left axilla ; in right ; deep in, on laughing ; on
inspiration ; in pectoral muscles and beneath left short ribs, near
spine, on inspiration ; beneath heart on deep breathing ; in
right side, agg. breathing ; in region of last right ribs, agg. deep
breathing ; in intercostal muscles near heart, agg. coughing and
sneezing, and agg. evening on falling asleep and in morning after
waking ; beneath left breast, extending out between shoulders, agg.
inspiration ; shooting to right side after coughing ; outward,
suddenly in right mamma ; intermittent, agg. right side, impeding
respiration ; rhythmical, below left clavicle, extending deep into
chest, then aching, agg. every inspiration.►
Tearing transversely across
forepart ; T. in right clavicle and in neighboring parts of neck.
► Sharp pain in a spot in anterior wall of chest and region of
heart. ► Cramplike pressure on both sides of sternum when sitting.
► Pain in right ; left ; in a spot in right, then left ; in
region of left nipple ; in lung, in region of left fourth rib, in
evening ; in right pectoral and dorsal muscles in evening ; on
coughing anything loose ; in middle on stooping ; in middle
extending to throat, on holding head up ; in sides on deep
inspiration, as if lungs were adherent and could not be freely distended.
► Soreness. ► Rawness and scraping in C. and throat on
coughing and breathing, it seems as if something would be loosened, but it
is not, with constant inclination to cough. ► Anxiety.►
►
Constriction ; transversely across forepart, with and
alternating with the same sensation across region of scapulć ; in
back part on becoming erect, agg. deep inspiration and then extending
through lower part of chest, the pain amel. bending forward, but is like
rheumatism on moving arms, while bending far backward. ►
Oppression ; with palpitation ; agg. about heart, with anxiety
and with deep and frequent respiration ; as from heart, with long,
deep respiration. ► Tightness ; in C. and trachea on
inspiration ; in region of fourth and fifth ribs on deep
inspiration ; on stooping and when sitting, necessity to loosen
clothes, respiration slow and short ; amel. becoming erect, standing
and towards evening, agg. sitting and after supper. ► Tension in
various parts ; T. in pectoral muscles on stretching arms. ►
Sore burning in a spot on right side of sternum, near pit of
stomach ; intermittent burning behind ensiform cartilage ;
sudden B. pain between mammć. ► Weakness in region of left fourth
and fifth ribs, about four inches from sternum, where the bloody
expectoration comes from (it only occurs from special cause, drugs, taking
cold, etc.).
Clinical :- ►
Intercostal neuralgia, especially after herpes, always agg. night and
heat.
Heart :- ►
Rubbing sound in
prćcordial region, amel. moving about, agg. evening after lying down,
lying on left side and deep breathing, with sensation as if chest were too
tight, heaviness and impediment in region of heart. ► Cramps.
► Apprehension, with uneasiness. ► Action accelerated. ►
Irregular beating when sitting and afterwards at night when waking on
back.
Pulse :- ►
Rapid in
forenoon ; towards evening, with heat and excitement ; in
evening ; after eating, with feeling as if heart were beating near
stomach on left side, twitching of eyelids, unusually distinct vision,
sensation as if he were looking through concave glasses and swimming
before eyes ; and full ; and irregular, hard ; and feeble.
► Feverish. ► Slow ; and compressible, intermittent. ►
Hard ; and intermittent, full, tense.
Neck :- ►
Tearing jerkings on
left side. ► Tearing on left side extending into ear and near
clavicle. ► Pain extending from nape to forehead. ►
Stiff pain in nape and external cervical muscles (Dulc.) ;
in right side of N. and throat, agg. motion.
Back :- ►
Sticking from left side
through chest, on inspiration ; sudden S. near spine extending
through chest into left costal cartilage anteriorly, in evening. ►
Tearing in left side in morning. ► Pain in left side. ►
Tensive constriction extending down to small of back.
Scapulć :- ►
Sticking agg.
afternoon ; S. near right impeding respiration, agg. motion ;
burning, below left, with jerkings ; drawing between, extending
downward, amel. moving the part. ► Tearing on right ; in tip of
left. ► Boring in dorsal vertebrć ; when sitting. ►
Acute pain beneath left shoulder in evening. ► Pain in right ;
beneath angle of left ; in dorsal muscles ; in dorsal and lumbar
muscles. ► Rheumatic pain in left in morning after rising ; R.
pain in muscles like tension an as if swollen, making motion
difficult ; tensive R. pain on right. ► Rheumatism of left
scapula and nape, agg. turning to opposite side. ► Pulsating pain
near middle of spine. ► Drawing pain beneath ; D. pain in
dorsal muscles. ► Drawing in left ; D. in dorsal muscles. ►
Pressure on S.
Lumbar Region :- ►
Sticking in
outer part of right side of vertebrć, agg. motion ; S. in kidney and
pain as if torn. ► Tearing in muscles ; cutting T. low down on
both sides. ► Pain in right side ; P. agg. walking ;
extending to all parts of body ; drawing P. near left side ;
drawing P. in muscles. ► Drawing in muscles.
Extremities :- ►
Trembling.
► Joints unsteady, as if they would give way. ► Tearing on
tibia ; in fingers and toes ; drawing T. outward below right
knee, in metacarpal bone of left thumb, last phalanx of right fourth
finger, also in right wrist at articulation of metacarpal bone of index as
if it had been injured by grasping something. ► Boring in wrists,
ankles and right shoulder, agg. during rest ; in knees, toes and
forearms, with drawing pains.►
Pain in wrists and ankles ; in
periosteum of long bones, agg. tibić, agg. night and in bed, with
intolerance of touch. ► Pain in all joints as if beaten
and weary. ► Drawing pain in muscles ; in various places in
soft parts ; in places, agg. bones of feet, hands and fingers ;
in shoulders and knees ; paralytic, on various places of hands and
lower limbs. ► Drawing in flesh of limbs, fingers and toes ; in
joints, agg. knees, ankles and wrist, with weariness ; in joints,
with bruised sensation often with pressure and boring when sitting ; in
long bones, with tearing in them and with chilliness, shivering and
sensitiveness to external air ; in all joints as if
dislocated. ► Weakness. ► Heaviness on motion ; H. and
dread of motion, cannot make up his mind to anything ; H. and bruised
sensation, as in suppressed catarrh. ► Hands and feet fall asleep.
Clinical :- ►
Periosteal inflammation of the long bones, particularly of the tibia,
with violent burning pains at night, soreness and swelling of the
periosteum. ► Periostitis of the femur, with great sensitiveness
to pressure and burning pain extending to the knee, the parts become
erysipelatous and threaten to suppurate.
Upper Extremities :- ►
►
Sore sensation in right axilla.
Shoulder :- ►
Cracking in left
joint in evening in bed on raising arm, with paralyzed feeling in upper
arm and tearing in elbow on bending it. ► Burning stitches on right.
► Tearing ; as if it would be
torn-asunder in evening, agg. motion, with throbbing and
burrowing. ► Boring ; in joint ; in morning in bed ;
in left when walking, and in wrist ; in left, agg. rest, amel.
motion ; in lower side of right joint, with pinching. ►
Sprained pain where right scapula unites with clavicle, on moving arm.
► Bruised pain, and in upper arms. ► Pain ; on margin of
joint ; in right joint ; in
left at night ; in right join, agg. rest ; in joint as if head
of humerus were too large for capsule ; burning, on right in evening,
then on left behind acromion ; as if he had carried a weight, with
jerking ; paralytic, in right joint, with pain in bones of shoulder.
► Painful paralytic pressure on right acromion in evening when
sitting quietly, agg. letting arm hang down. ► Drawing. ►
Tension in right, with drawing in left. ► Burning in right acromion
in afternoon.
Arm :- ►
Tearing jerks in right
A. and fingers. ► Tearing ; as if in bones. ► Bruised
feeling. ► Left felt out of joint, almost as if paralyzed. ►
Drawing. ► Weakness when writing. ► Weary pains, agg.
shoulder-joints.
Upper Arm :- ►
Jerking in left,
agg. touch. ► Intermittent sticking in left humerus. ► Tearing
in muscles of left. ► Pain in lower part. ► Bruised pain on
touch. ► B. pain, with heaviness and drawing downward in bones.
► Paralytic pain in left, extending into elbow, agg. bending arm
outward. ► Drawing.
Elbow :- ►
Tearing ; in
right ; and in forearm. ► Boring in left. ► Pressure in
right, agg. rest, transiently amel. motion, with drawing. ► Pressive
drawing, extending to fingers. ► Rheumatic drawing and tension in
region of right. ► Tensive paralytic sensation on raising arm, and
sticking on straightening it out.
Forearm :- ►
Tearing in left
ulna ; in left forearm and fingers in morning, with sticking ;
drawing T. close to wrist. ► Boring and drawing. ► Pain in
lower part of left ; in periosteum of right radius, agg. pressure ;
in right, with drawing ; in ulna by elbow, as from a blow ;
drawing P. in soft parts. ► Constriction in muscles during and after
a walk in open air.
Wrist :- ►
Tearing in left ;
drawing T. in right. ► Boring. ► Pain in left ; in right and
finger-joints, with drawing ; paralytic, in right W. and arm, as from
dislocation, agg. muscles, only on motion. ► Burning pain in bones
of left in morning after rising. ► Drawing pains ; in left.
► Drawing. ► Paralytic sensation in right. ► Weakness.
Hand :- ►
Veins distended in
afternoon and evening, skin soft and pliant. ► Swelling, with
crawling, as if asleep ; S. of hand and arm, with heat, jerks and
prickings ; S. of back, with bruised pain in metacarpal bones and
little finger. ► Trembling ; towards evening ; of right,
with weakness of tips of fingers. ► Jerking stitches on back between
metacarpal bones of two fingers ; slow, jerking S. in left. ►
Tearing on back of two fingers ; slow, jerking S. in left. ►
Tearing on back of left and between knuckles ; wavelike T. in back of
left. ► Boring in left palm. ► Pain causing weakness, with
swollen feeling ; paralytic and pressive P. in right bones. ►
Weakness, agg. when writing. ►
Dead on waking from afternoon nap.
Fingers :- ►
Intermittent jerking
and grumbling in bones. ► Stitches in tip of thumb, amel. taking
hold of something. ► Tearing ; in left index in evening in
bed ; on inner margin of left index and middle, with biting burning.
► Cutting in flesh on anterior surface of last phalanx of right
thumb. ► Boring ; and in joints ; tearing, in third
phalanx of right middle. ► Pain ; sore, beneath right
thumb-nail, agg. pressure ; drawing P. ► Drawing. ►
Paralytic pains in bones of thumbs, extending forward. ►
Paralysis of flexors.
Lower Extremities :- ►
Pain in
evening, with coldness and falling asleep. ► Uneasiness in right in
evening in bed. ► Weakness ; with uneasiness. ► Tearing
in right nates. ► Tearing above and on right hip, with tensive
pressure. ► Boring in hip-joints ; right ; in left
trochanter. ► Jerking pain in hip-joint,
extending to knee. ► Sprained pain in region of right trochanter
major when walking.
Thigh :- ►
Movable hardish
swelling above left knee. ► Cracking in right in evening when
walking after sitting. ► Jerking in lower part and on left patella
when standing ; K. in left as if bubbles of air were forming. ►
Sticking in flesh, with burning. ► Tearing, and in tibić ; T.
in thin part of right ; in right, and drawing in middle of left ;
above right knee when walking, then above left ; paralytic, high up on
outer part when standing. ► Boring. ► Sharp pain externally
above left knee, amel. pressure, but immediately appearing on inner
malleolus. ► Pain in bones of T. and legs ;
in muscles ; in gluteals in morning in bed ; in muscles of left
extending into knee. ► Sudden sprained pain
below right nates when walking. ► Bruised pain on inner
side when walking rapidly ; B. pain above knees, agg. ascending steps
and walking on a level. ► Burning sore pain posteriorly on right as
from a fresh bruise. ► Boring drawing pain in joints of T. and
ankles ; wave-like drawing pain extending down whole T., then painful
weakness. ► Drawing in muscles and skin. ► Tension in left T.
and knee as if he had walked too much ; rheumatic T. and drawing
above knees and in legs.
Knee :- ►
►
Jerking in left when sitting. ► Cracking in right in
evening when walking after sitting. ► Sudden stitch in right, then
aching. ► Tearing ; in left ; in right popliteus extending into
thigh. ► Boring ; when sitting. ► Sudden sharp pain
between articular surfaces of left in morning on getting into a cold bath.
► Pressure when sitting ; during rest. ► Sprained pain in
left in evening, agg. inner side. ► Bruised pain in outer and
anterior part of right ; in hollow of right, every motion is painful,
agg. sitting ; sudden B. pain. ► Drawing pains in K. and legs
when sitting, with fatigue ; boring D. pain in K. ► Rheumatic
pain in right on stepping in morning after rising, then sticking in right
foot, back of third and fourth toes, then in left metatarsus. ►
Weakness ; when sitting ; of right (perhaps also of hip) after
rising, so that he could not use right leg in walking. ► Stiffness
of tendons of left popliteus.
Leg :- ►
Swelling of left in
evening ; S. from long standing, agg. towards evening ; of left,
which was somewhat varicose ; hard S. of calf on walking in open air,
with burning pain. ► Jerking in lower part of calf, with
drawing ; J. in middle of tibia, with painful drawing ; of whole
right, towards inner side, a pulling and twisting, at 3 P.M.
when sitting and writing ; slow, in lower part of left tibia ;
sticking, on upper part of left tibia when sitting with knee bent. ►
Slow jerking stitches in right tibia. ► Tearing ; in left
tibia ; in calves ; above malleolus ; frequent, in
tibić ; paralytic, in lower part of tibia in evening in bed. ►
Boring in calves ; above ankle ; in tibić, agg. left ; in left
tibia at night on waking ; in tibić, agg. left, even when walking.
► Pinching in lower part of right tibia. ► Pain above
ankles ; below left knee in evening when standing and walking ;
in tibia when walking ; frequently in right
tibia ; in tibia on every step, as if broken in middle. ►
Pain in tibia as if beaten or as if periosteum would be torn off after
midnight, disturbing sleep, with general chill and thirst.
► Sprained pain below left patella in evening when walking. ►
Drawing ; in calves ; when standing ; jerking, in
calf ; rheumatic, in lower part of right, extending into ankle. ►
Burning in left tibia (See Zinc.).
► Weakness ; when walking. ► Falling asleep of leg and
foot.
Ankle :- ►
Twitching about right
external malleolus. ► Tearing. ► Boring ; agg. left ; in
bones of left A. and toes ; in malleoli and bones of feet ; in
A. and bones of feet when walking. ► Pain in left ; about left
external malleolus, amel. rest ; bruised P. during rest ;
cramplike and dislocating P. around left external malleolus. ►
Weakness when running, with pain as if they would break ; paralytic
W. of outer side when walking in open air.
Foot :- ►
Sticking in right in
afternoon, agg. toes ; (and crawling). ► Tearing on back of
right ; in both heels and right tendo-achillis ; in right side
of left, extending towards sole and heel. ► Boring in back ; in
bones ; in right sole. ► Pain in right ; P.
in bones ; in process of right os calcis ; in
bones of instep, agg. walking ; in right on stepping after
a nap over his work from 10 till 11 P.M., from which
he woke senseless ; with rapid pulse. ► Intermittent burning
pain on right. ► Drawing pain in right sole when stepping on it.
► Painful stretching beneath left inner malleolus, extending into
sole. ► Falling asleep.
Toes :- ►
Twitching in knuckle of
right great, like muscular jerking or like bursting of bubbles ;
painful T. in great in morning in bed. ► Sticking in tip of left
great ; in tips of left when sitting ; rhythmical
burning-prickling, in tip of left great. ► Tearing ; in
right ; left middle ; in last phalanx of left great and in right
side of left sole ; in ball of left little,
extending to sole. ► Boring in left. ► Pain in bones ; P.
in right great like a dislocation ; as from pressure of hard boots,
even when walking but little. ► Sprained pain in left great, when
walking, with coldness of feet. ► Bruised pain in tip of left
middle, sometimes a grumbling. ► Sore pain between T., epidermis
became whitish and shrivelled. ► Drawing ; in left ; with
pressure ; tearing D. through right great.
Skin :- ►
►
Usual liver-spots on chest and arms became very dark, with desquamation.
► Roughness, with desquamation here and there. ► Suggillation
on back of right hand, above index, with itching, agg. wrist. ►
Itching rash on nape ; and back and thighs, worse and gnawing after
scratching, with sticking ; red, itching R. on arms, head and over
whole body, partly in spots. ► Brownish rash on chest and
arms. ► Eruptions like flea-bites on chest, the burning lasts longer
than the spots ; E. like flea-bites over whole body, becoming scurfy
on head. ► Itching elevations on forearms, becoming hard after
scratching. ► Blotches over whole body. ► Desquamation ;
of whole skin.►
Inflammation of a fresh wound (on knee),
with burning and with intermittent stitches extending into legs ; I.
of knuckles of left foot extending over calf and instep and hard tubercles
in cellular tissue, which itch on touch, then burning pain. ►
Swelling of face, agg. nose, eyelids and scalp, with burning pains and
with severe and painful sneezing, deliria, pain in forehead, nauseous
dryness in throat, irritation to dry cough, face soon took on the
expression of erysipelas bullosum, nostrils closed, so that she could
breathe only through mouth, febrile pulse, burning urine, afterwards
desquamation in large pieces. ► Pimples on chest ; lower limbs,
with sticking on touch ; red, on forehead, itching at times ;
smooth red, on right side of neck, sore to touch, becoming flat under
skin ; on left lower part of chin, became a painful boil, with thin,
oily discharge.►
Pustules in beard on lower part of left
side of chin ; like millet-seeds, on forehead at margin of
hair ; burning, red, rash-like on thighs ; red, on outer part of
arms and lower limbs, with tickling burning only on undressing. ►
Boils on face ; left arm. ► Ulcers on
bony protuberance ; papular ulcerating eruption on
finger-joints, itching agg. evening ; U.
covered with thick whitish-yellow scabs, under which thick yellow pus
collects ; with red, shining areola ; with burning
pain in evening in bed linen or charpie sticks to U., and when it is torn
away they bleed ; throbbing around U., with red areola and burning
pain ; drawing pain in U., with sticking on its margin ; itching
about U., with redness ; itching about U., with pain on touch.►
► Itching
and burning vesicles around the ulcers, the
V. dry, leave scabs, the tearing off of which causes great pain and
retards the healing ; burning V., with red areola, on sides of
fingers, in skin, they dry and leave red spots or epidermis
desquamates in round scales ; V. full of clear serum on back of nose,
inflamed skin beneath the ruptured vesicle, then a brown scab ; heat
V. on ball of right hand. ► Ichor from
scratched face excoriates other parts. ► Pale red
eruption, itching after scratching, scabs adherent and depressed in
middle. ► Scabs scratched from nose and cheeks, but other formed in
their places ; honey-like S. around
mouth ; white, elevated, over whole body ; on hard
bases, surrounded by dark redness, between glutei.►
Sticking in left side of forehead ;
in left palm and tips of fingers ; in scar on tip of right middle
finger, in which there had been no feeling for two years ; in
evening, in a previously existing ulcer ; here and there, at times
itching, agg. evening in bed ; in axilla, agg. scratching, with
biting. ► Sticking and burning in axilla ; on outer aspect of
right shoulder ; on inner side of left upper arm ; in right
cheek and on back of nose, where it was associated with boring. ►
Burning stinging in various parts ; on left scapula and
shoulder ; now in right arm, now in lower extremity. ► Stinging
burning. ► Much pain in a slight cut. ► Gnawing in a bruised
wound, with throbbing. ► Sensation of a cobweb or draught of cold
air, in beard on left side of face. ► Crawling in foot ; in
great toes every night, once in fingers as if starting from surface of
bones.►
Itching over whole body ; in
brows ; in beard of left side ; posteriorly on margin of lower
jaw ; on backs of hands, agg. right ; hollow of right
knee ; legs ; in a wound, even after it is closed ; in
hollows of knees and vicinity in evening ; in evening, agg. scrotum
and in nares ; here and there is evening, with heat ; of legs,
waking at night, with pain after scratching ; agg. towards evening,
changing to another place after scratching ; now here, now there,
amel. scratching, at times burning I. or tickling on chin, shoulder,
clavicle, right chest, along lower ribs and back, the later the I. began
the greater the inclination to scratch ; on inner side of calf, not
amel. till it is scratched bloody, then burning, afterwards swelling of
calf and a bloody scab, beneath which there was yellowish matter, with
bruised pain ; on head and over whole body,
recurring in another place after scratching ; on inner
side of calves, with smarting after scratching ; on small of back,
chest, throat and neck, with sore pain and soreness after
scratching ; as from fleas in spots, agg. evening, amel. night.
► Burning itching on nape and calves ; inner side of right
thigh, and on scrotum ; posteriorly on lobule of ear, with tension,
and on scratching desquamation in scales ; of arms and legs, and on
scratching sticking. ► The chills scratches
its face continually, it becomes covered with blood, and the bed is
covered with blood in morning, face covered with a scab, which the child
constantly tears off, and on the spots thus left raw, large
(“fat”) pustules form. ►
Itching behind ears, after scratching pimples that are
scratched sore and painful ; I. on scapulć and right nates, then
elevations, with biting pain on touch, soon opening on rubbing and
discharging blood ; posterior surfaces of wrists, in region of
radius, are scratched sore, then dry, superficial dark brown scabs ;
I. on wrists, then after scratching superficial dark brown scabs, these at
last became white, scaly and conical, the ulcers when healed were brownish
and had brownish areola. ► Skin (Compare Rhus
t. and Ars.).
Clinical :- ►
The
eruptions are herpetic or eczematous, as a rule ; they often
ulcerate and form thick scabs, from under which purulent matter exudes,
this occurs particularly on the head ; the itching of the eruptions
of Mez.
is intolerable, agg. scratching, associated with burning, agg. night and
heat (Ars., Sulph.).
► In eczema it is particularly to be compared with Rhus
tox., though the tendency of Mez.
is to the formation of more purulent matter, that of Rhus
more serous ; in both drugs the itching is worse at night in the
warmth of the bed, and frequently numerous small pimples appear around
the main eruptions. ► Eczema on the backs of the hands and wrists.
► Eczema impetiginoides on the whole face from one ear to the
other, with yellow-brown scabs a quarter of a inch thick, which at times
crack open, bleed and ooze offensive matter. ► In herpes zoster
extremely valuable been for the after-pains. ► Pustules on the
chin, forming scabs. ► Abscess on antrum of Highmore, with
intolerable burning pain at night, extending to the bones of face and
head. ► Psoriasis of the palms. ► Copper-colored spots on
thighs and body, syphilitic. ► On the leg, varicose ulcers
surrounded by bluish-red discoloration, the slightest pressure causes
the most intense burning pain. ► A horny growth on the middle of
the forehead. ► Vesicular eruption on the back of the nose,
forming a scab and oozing matter. ► Pruritus of old people,
temporarily amel. wine and coffee ; in one case the itching always
agg. night, always involving those parts of the skin which were the most
shrivelled, neck, abdomen, arms, legs and face, with sensation as if a
thousand insects were crawling over him, and when the itching was most
intense he had shuddering in the back and extremities.
Sleep :- ►
►
Yawning and stretching ; in forenoon ; Y. in morning.
► Sleepiness ; during the day ;
in evening ; in evening, with yawning ; in evening after three
glasses of hock, with dullness of head ; early in evening, eyes
closed when at work and right leg jerked ; after supper ; when
sitting and reading ; fell asleep in evening when reading. ►
Irresistible sleepiness ; after dinner, with painful
pressure in eyes and inflammation of conjunctiva of lids. ► Long
sleep.►
Sleeplessness till 3 A.M.
► Falls asleep late and wakes before midnight with diminished
sensibility in all limbs, even in penis and abdomen. ► Difficult
falling asleep in evening and sleep at night longer than usual ; D.
falling asleep and frequent waking with pain in bones, agg. left wrist and
knees. ► Frequent waking ; with erections and sexual
excitement ; after midnight till towards morning, he then lay upon
back, with open mouth, dry tongue, tensive pain and heaviness in
occiput ; till after midnight on account of flow of ideas and chill.
► Woke at 2 A.M. and again at 5 A.M.,
with scanty, thin emission. ► Woke at 3 A.M.,
with heaviness in head and limbs, inability to sleep for a long time, then
anxious dreams. ► Frequent starting up in sleep. ► Restless
sleep, disturbed by anxious dreams ; R. disturbed by confused
dreams ; and dreamy, disturbed by formication of fingers ; R.
and unrefreshing. ► Arose in morning satisfied with a little sleep.
Dreams :- ►
Frightful. ►
Nightmare after midnight and after waking falling asleep of limbs and
weakness of hands. ► Vivid, with starting up as if falling from a
height ; V., then sleeplessness after 2 A.M. on
account of irritability ; and anxious before midnight, after midnight
ludicrous ; and unremembered. ► Unremembered. ►
Remembered, towards morning. ► Varied, uneasy, with confused memory.
► That his back was covered with warts and excrescences. ►
Voluptuous, and sensation as if he had had an emission.
Fever :- ►
►
Chill ; in morning ; in forenoon, with cold hands and
feet and rapid pulse, skin, at least of hands, dead and shrivelled, as if
they had been cold a long time and as if they would desquamate ; in
evening ; out of bed, heat in bed ; on motion ; amel. open
air, with fretfulness, suffering as before a severe illness, some
appetite, but discomfort after slightest food ; with
sleepiness ; with thirst for cold water ; with cold hands,
dryness of mouth posteriorly and salivation anteriorly, without desire for
drinks ; with asthmatic constriction and oppression of chest. ►
Internal. ► External, with thirst, without
longing for warmth nor dread of open air. ► As if
repeatedly dashed with cold water, agg. arms, abdomen, hips and feet, with
yawning, lachrymation and perfect warmth of face and hands. ►
Creeping, on both sides of upper arms, over back and feet, with yawning.►
Shaking chill. ► Shivering ;
at 9 A.M., with cold hands ; in forenoon ;
in evening ; general, in evening, also in different parts, down left
leg ; in sleep, so that he bit his tongue ; after stool ;
before and after stool, with prostration and sensitiveness to open
air ; with goose-flesh and cold hands and feet. ► Creeping
shivering, with yawning and heat ; C. shivering, agg. back and down
lower extremities, in evening, with internal heat. ► Shivering in
back, chest and upper abdomen ; over back and arms ; over back
at 8.30 A.M., with cold hands. ► Coldness of
back ; limbs ; arms and legs ; hands ; hands and
feet ; hands at 4.30 P.M. ; hollow of left
knee in afternoon ; foot in afternoon, it frequently falls
asleep ; feet, amel. in bed ; right hand when writing ;
over abdomen and arms, with dilated pupils ; feet and legs to above
knees, with heat of hands and rapid pulse ; externally in arms and
legs ; creeping on both sides of upper arms, over back and feet, with
yawning.►
► Heat ;
towards evening ; in evening in house, with sweat on face ; in
evening ; in evening in house, with cheek ; right cheek ;
hand and arm ; left palm ; left calf ; right shoulder, with
pulsation ; in spots about external condyles of wrists after working
in cold water ; ball of left foot, more when standing than walking,
with stitches ; of scalp, with necessity to scratch it. ►
Burning in skin ; in different parts ; forehead ; right
temple, extending to cheek ; cheek ; right cheek and in tip and
septum of nose ; nose, with burning on dorsum of nose and extending
across tip and towards wings ; nape ; inner surface of upper
arm ; nates ; various parts of leg ; left calf ; right
tibia. ► Typhoid fever, then weakness and finally death from hectic
fever.►
Sweat ; at night. ►
Cold ; on forehead ; feet, when sitting in a warm room ; on
legs, then general heat, agg. head.
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