Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Lithium carbonicum.
Head.
Pain over the eyes and tension, as if bound in the temples ;
diminished while eating, but returning soon after eating, and remains as
a pressure in the temples until in the night, and only goes away after
falling asleep.
Pains in a small spot in the right temple.
Pressure in the temples from without inwards, with a pressing pain in
the middle of the chest.
Tension as if bound in the temples, with half vision.
[5] Early on awaking, violent headache
in vertex and temples (after sudden cessation of the menses), with
nausea.
Heavy weight upon the vertex with pressure upon the left temple.
Headache worse when lying down ; it pains everywhere ; better
when sitting ; relieved by going out.
Looking at any thing makes the headache worse ; can hardly keep the
eyes open ; they pain as if sore from morning till noon.
Trembling and throbbing in the head, the pains in the heart extend to
the head.
[10] Head seems too large.
Head externally sensitive.
Eyes.
Stitches in the right eye.
Eyes pain as if sore.
Sensation of dryness and pain in the eyes after reading.
[15] Sensation as if sand were in the
eyes.
Pain over the eyes, with half vision.
The sunlight blinds him.
Uncertainty of vision and an entire invisibility of the right half of
whatever she looked at (during second day of menstruation).
Ears.
Earache, left side, from the throat, with prosopalgia.
[20] Pain behind the left ear, in the
bone, extending towards the neck.
Nose.
Nose obstructed, above and in the forehead, in the morning and forenoon.
Blows his nose very much in the remains behind in the choana.
Dropping from the nose in the open air.
Nose swollen, red, especially on the right side, sore internally-shining
crusts form in it ; it is dry and as if inflamed (at the same time
frequent urinating at night, disturbing the sleep).
Face.
[25] Pain in the right side of the face
(afternoon) from the root of the tooth that has been sawn off, extending
to the temple, followed next day by the same pain in the left side,
passing from the throat to the left ear, causing earache and moderate
brief pain in the left temple.
Throat.
Sore throat extending into the ear.
Expectoration of mucus from the choana and out of the fauces in solid
lumps, especially morning and forenoon.
Stomach and Abdomen.
Gnawing in the stomach worse before a meal, it goes away while he eats.
Nausea and gnawing in the stomach.
[30] Nausea, with fulness in the
temples ; with headache.
Acidity in the stomach.
Fulness in the pit of the stomach, cannot endure any pressure of the
clothes.
Pressure in the hepatic region.
Stool and Anus.
Diarrhœa after fruit.
[35] Very offensive stools (daring the
night).
Very stinking discharge of the flatus.
Violent, painful, dull stitch in the perineum near the anus, from above
downwards, from within outwards.
Urinary Organs.
Sensitive pain, sharp pressure, in the vesical regions, more on the
right side, after urinating.
Tenesmus vesicæ and micturition (evening while walking).
[40] Flashes of pain in the region of
the bladder, inferiorly, more towards the right before passing
water ; pain extends into the spermatic cord after urinating.
Quick strong tenesmus.
Frequent and copious micturition (disturbing the sleep).
Turbid urine with mucous deposit.
Urine scanty and dark very acrid.
[45] Dark, reddish-brown deposit.
On rising to urinate, a pressing in the region of the heart, which did
not cease till after urination (morning).
Sexual Organs.
Men. Erection after urination at night.
Burning in the urethra.
Women. Menses too late and too scanty.
Respiratory Organs.
[50] On inspiration the air feels so
cold that it seems to be felt unpleasantly even in the lungs.
Pressure in the middle of the chest.
Constriction of the chest when walking (after breakfast), followed by
expectoration of mucus.
Violent cough in the evening, while lying down, compelling to rise,
without expectoration ; the irritation to cough is in a little
spot, posteriorly and inferiorly in the throat.
Rheumatic soreness in the region of the heart.
[55] Sudden shock in the heart.
Throbbing ; like a dull stitch in the region of the heart.
Pains in the heart after pains in the bladder.
Pains in the heart before and at the time of the commencement of the
menses.
Trembling and fluttering of the heart (after mental agitation of a
vexatious character).
Back.
[60] Stitch in the sacrum.
Pain in the sacrum, when standing, with confusion of the head.
Extremities.
Upper. Burning stitch in the ball of
the hand, in the left thumb.
Itching-throbbing, very sensitive pain in all the fingers, as if it were
in and upon the bones, extending from the hands to the ends of the
fingers, only during repose ; it ceases upon pressure, when
grasping, and during motion.
Soreness at the margin of the nail, with pain and redness.
[65] Lower.
Pain in the right hip, later in the left.
Rheumatic pains in the lower extremities.
Pain of the knees, above the knees, especially when going up stairs.
Prostrated feelings in the knee-joints, weakness of the knew, on going
up stairs.
Rheumatic pains in the right foot on awaking at night, they pass away on
rising.
[70] Painfulness of the feet, ankles,
metatarsus, all the toes, especially of the border of the foot and the
sole, as if it were gouty.
Pain and weakness of the feet.
Burning in the great toe, especially around the corns.
Great soreness of the corns.
Itching of the sole of the (left) foot on the inner margin.
[75] Pain in the little toes.
Generalities.
Paralytic stiffness in all the limbs of the whole body as if
beaten ; stiff and sore over the whole body, in all the bones,
joints and muscles.
Pressing, as if with a dull point, here and there, internally, as if it
were wear the bone, most in the left side.
Burning stitch which goes from within outwards, and ends in an itching.
Contracting sensation, with shudder.
Sleep.
[80] Sleepiness early in the
evening ; late in the morning.
Sleep at night disturbed by urination.
Voluptuous dreams, tenesmus vesicæ, and erections, which subside after
urination.
Fever.
Shudder starting from the thorax.
Very copious perspiration.
[85] Perspiration on the back of the
hands.
Skin.
Itching, at the anus, in the middle finger around the margin of the
nail, on the side of the thigh, in the sole of the foot, in the palm of
the hand.
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