Inner Chest – Inner Chest and Lungs – Chapter 28 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

Tightness

(See Angina,
Constriction,
Contraction,
Fulness, Heaviness,
Oppression, Pressing,
Tension.) :-
Acon., Æsc.,
Agar., Alumn., Arn., Aur.,
Bapt., Bar-c., Bell., Bor.,
Chlol., Chlor., Cic.,
Eup-per.,
Ham., Hep.,
Hydr-ac., Hyper.,
Kali-bi., Lact., Merc-c., Nit-ac., Nux-m., Op., Puls.,
Sulph., Xan.

Across, in
hydrothorax :-

Asaf.

Air were forcibly kept
out, if :-

Phos.

Air, better in
open :-

Chel.

Air, on walking in
open :-

Am-c.

Anxious, with difficult
inspiration :-

Calc.

Anxious and spasmodic,
as if it were too full and larynx constricted, especially in evening
and at night :-

Puls.

Arms together in front,
on bringing :-

Sulph.

Asthma, with :-

Brom.

Band, as of a, with
irresistible desire to cough :-

Lob.

Band, as if encircled
in a tight

(myelitis) :-
Pic-ac.

Band, as if a narrow,
were tightly drawn around lower 3rd :-

Chlor.

Band were about it, as
if a, pain :-

Phos.

Bed, after going to

(asthma) :-
Ars.

Breath, must frequently
take a deep :-

CAUST.

Breath, on taking a
deep :-

Tab.

Breath, on taking a
deep, in epilepsy :-

Caust.

Breath, feared to take
a deep, on account of tightness in lower part :-

Lact.

Breath, is obliged to
take a deeper :-

Mosch.

Breath, as if a full,
could not be drawn on account of acute pain and mental anxiety, with
external soreness of chest and abdomen, worse from touch, motion and
cough :-

Ran-b.

Breath, with
short :-

Ruta.

Breathing, when :-

Kali-br.

Bronchitis, in :-

Phos.

Cardiac region, with
aching in, better by eructation :-

Phos.

Chill, during,
across :-

NUX-V.

Cholera Asiatica,
in :-

Ip.

Clothes were too tight,
as if :-

Caust.

Cold, from a :-

Spong.

Compression, as if
drawn together at night in bed :-

Nux-v.

Compression, violent
trembling, from pain :-

Samb.

Constricting and
contracting pains across forepart :-

Mez.

Convulsive :-

Zinc.

Coryza, in,
across :-

NUX-V.

Cough, better
by :-

Con.

Cough, with :-

Myrt-c.,
Phos.

Cough, with desire
to :-

Carb-v.

Cough, tickling, in
evening, with dry

(bronchitis) :-
Phos.

Deep breath or yawn
deeply, cannot take a :-

Ambr.

Dryness, with feeling
of :-

Phos.

Dyspnœa, with :-

Calc.,
Phos.

Dyspnœa in lower
portion, sensation of, as if too full and tight in morning :-

Puls.

Evening, in, across,
with short breath and weakness, in all limbs :-

Rhus-t.

Exertion, as from over,
feeling across, running :-

Hyos.

Expansion
difficult :-

Syph.

Expiration,
during :-

Chel.

Gape, with inclination
to :-

Xan.

Grown fast, as if
something had :-

Sulph.

Hoarseness,
with :-

Calc.

Hoop, as if bound by
a :-

Ars.

Influenza, in :-

Chel.

Inspiration and inhale,
inability to make a deep, as much air as usual

(cold) :-
Crot-t.

Integuments, in :-

Iod.

Internally constricted,
as if air passages were, by an excessive amount of tenacious and
firm mucus that could not be loosened, illusory sensation :-

Puls.

Labor, with
manual :-

Calc.

Laced, as if :-

Ars-h.,
Glon.

Left, in upper, near
clavicle, painful :-

Coc-c.

Lower, across, with
fine stitches felt in outer chest 1st, now right now left, worse
moving, stooping, breathing, in evening, walking, standing, open air
or in room :-

Ran-b.

Lower part were tight,
as if :-

Lact.

Lower part, of,
oppressive

(diaphragmitis) :-
Ham.

Lungs themselves were
constricted, as if :-

Phos.

Mental affections,
with :-

Chel.

Middle, in, and upper
3rd, with dry cough :-

Nat-ar.

Narrow, feels :-

Sars.

Narrow, as if too,
tendency to relieve by deep inspirations

(asthma) :-
Seneg.

Nocturnal paroxysmal

(angina
pectoris) :- Tab.

Oppression on waking
from sleep

(angina
pectoris) :- Lact.

Outer chest,
especially :-

Carb-ac.

Pain, as of a band
encircling in line of pleura :-

Op.

Pain constrictive with
cough :-

Form.

Pain, like
tension :-

Glon.

Pain tensive
across :-

Sil.

Pain tensive, when
breathing :-

Cham.

Pain tensive, as if too
short on outside, on straightening up and walking erect :-

Sars.

Pain as if too tight,
on stooping :-

Seneg.

Painful suffocative
constriction, as if internal parts were grown together :-

Dig.

Palpitation in anæmia,
with, across :-

PHOS.

Palpitation, with, in
attacks at night

(angina
pectoris) :- Tab.

Paralysis of bladder,
in :-

Cic.

Periodic attacks and
pain along sternum

(acute
rheumatism) :- Chel.

Pneumonia, in :-

Phos.

Pneumonia, threatened

(after
Aconitum) :- Phos.

Pressed together

(diphtheria) :-
Kali-m.

Respiration, with
oppressed, across :-

Stram.

Rest, especially
during :-

Seneg.

Right side, in, during
inhalation :-

Chel.

Right side, long
continued, drew body to right side :-

Caust.

Right side, contractive
in taking breath :-

Cocc.

Rush of blood,
from :-

Phos.

Screwed together, as
if :-

Glon.

Sides after dinner,
in :-

Agar.

Small, as if
too :-

Ign.

Small, left feels
too :-

Cupr-ar.

Spasmodic, with panting
respiration :-

Ip.

Spasmodic, with
contraction of throat :-

Ip.

Spasmodic
contraction :-

Asaf.

Spasmodic, constant, in
lower :-

Puls.

Stooping, on :-

Mez.

Stricture in region of
heart :-

Chr-ac.

Sudden :-

Chlor.

Suppressed foot sweat,
after, across :-

Sil.

Talking, especially
when, even a single word, better walking :-

Dros.

Tied, as if, with a
thread with oppression of chest :-

Kali-m.

Unbearable, across

(typhoid
pneumonia) :- Ter.

Upper, across :-

Alumn.,
Dios., Phos.,
Tab.

Upper, in, with coryza
and cough :-

All-c.

Upper left, in :-

Prun.

Upper, in, in
pneumonia :-

Chel.

Upper, across, with
suffocation

(dilated
heart) :- Tab.

Walled up, as
if :-

Carb-v.