NUX VOMICA

(Seeds of Strychnos nux vomica.)

(Ten grains of nux vomica seed, finely triturated in a warm mortar, are macerted with 1000 drops of alcohol, without heat for a week, to make a tincture. Of this one drop is raised to the decillion-fold potency through 29 other diluting phials, each filled to three quorters with alcohol, by mens of two succussions given to each phial after the dilution is made.The same medicine is prepared is a simpler and almost more powerful and uniform manner, by taking one grain of the powdered nux vomica seed, and treating it like, other dry medicinal substances, by triturating it thrice with 100 grains of milk sugar (according to the directions for the homeoeopathic preparation of medicines in the second part of the book on Chronic Diseases) up to the million-fold powder attenuation. One grain of this is dissolved in 100 drops of diluted alcohol, and the dilution and dynamization is brought further (as taught in the same book), by means of 26 more phials filled three quarters full of good alcohol, up to the ,decillion-fold potency.

One small sugar-globule, 300 of which weigh a grain, moistened with this las dilution, serves as a dose.

There are a few medicines, the majority of whose symptoms correspond in similarity with the, symptoms of the commonest and most frequent of human diseases, and hence very often find an efficacious homoeopathic employment. They may be termed polychrests.

To these belong particularly the nux vomica seed, which it was formerly feared to employ, because it had hitherto been administered in enormously large, doses (a whole grain or several grains) in unsuitable cases of disease, consequently with injurious effects. But it proves the mildest and .most efficacious remedy in all the diseases whose symptoms correspond in similarity to the effects nux vomica is capable of producing in the healthy human being, when administered in the small doses above indicated.

Some practical instructions may be use, deduced from the results of the careful experience of many years.

Among these .may be mentioned, that it is more frequently required by those persons who are of an anxious, zealous, fiery, hot temperament, or of a malicious, wicked, irascible disposition.

If the menses usually come on some days too soon, and are too copious, the ailments remaining or occurring after their cessation are quite suitable for nux vomica.

It has been found that this medicine, administered some hours before bedtime, acts more gently than when given at other times of the day; but there are exceptions to this rule in cases of urgent necessity. Its administration in the morning on an empty stomach is attended with the most inconveniences in very sensitive persons, for it displays its most frequent and most severe symptoms immediately after walking in the morning.

Next in frequency its symptoms occur soon or immediately after eating and during mental strain. Hence we should do wrong to give it immediately after a meal if we can avoid doing so, and hence, also no mental labour, no meditations or declamations, no reading or writing should be engaged in immediately after taking it (and the same may be said of the administration of all other medicines ).We ought to wait for at least a couple of hours if we would avoid giving its action an improper, injurious direction.

Among other affections, many chronic maladies, also the evil consequences arising from drinking much coffee and wine, especially when the usual mode of life is a sedentary one in close rooms, and those affections caused by prolonged mental labour, find their remedy in this seed; as also several epidemic diseases and other acute fevers, especially such as have heat before the chill or mixed up with it.

Serious ailments from catching cold are often removed by it.

So, also, this medicine is more especially suitable when the patient's state is worst in the morning and when he wakes up about 3 a.m. and must lie for several hours awake with intrusion of irrepressible ideas, and only involuntarily falls into a sleep full of oppressive dreams when the morning is far advanced, from which he wakes more fatigued than when he lay down at night, and is lazy about getting up; as also for those who several hours before bedtime in the evening cannot forbear sleeping, even while seated.

In this, as in some other medicines, we meet with symptoms which seem to be completely or partially antagonistic to one another, alternating actions, which at the same time are primary actions, and which make nux vomica very applicable and efficacious for a number of morbid states.

When, on account of the dose being too large, or on account of unhomoeopathic employment, it causes considerable ill effects, its action may be speedily completely removed by a little wine, brandy, and camphor. For the headache and anorexia it causes the appropriate antidote is coffee; for the paralytic symptoms it produces cocculus; for the over-sensitiveness and dyspnoea induced by it, aconite; and for the great crossness and irascibility, chamomilla.

Physicians who have hitherto been in the habit of imagining and evolving from their own fancy in their studies the powers of drugs and their antidotes, indicated vinegar and other vegetable acids as the surest antidotes to nux vomica and other powerful vegetable substances. As regards nux vomica this is contrary to all the experience that I have had the opportunity of obtaining on men and animals.

The following symptoms are tolerably complete, and give an almost perfect idea of the effects of nux vomica on the human body, mind and disposition.

[HAHNEMANN was assisted in this proving by FLAEMING, FRIEDRICH HAHNEMANN, and WAHLE.

Symptoms are obtained from the following old-school sources;

BERGIUS, Mat. Med.

CONSBRUCH, Hufel. Journ. Iv.

HARTMANN , Diss. Spicileg. ad nucis vom. usum. Traj. Ad Viadr., 1785.

HOFFMANN, FRID., Med. Rat. Syst., ii.

HUFELAND, Journal d. pr. Arzn., i.

JUNGHAUS , Diss. De nuce vom. Hal., 1770.

MATTHIOLUS, Comment. In Diosc. lib. iv.

RADEMACHER ; Hufel. Journ., iv.

SEUTTER, Diss. De nuce vom. L. B., 1691.

STRANDBERG. In Kiernander’s Med. lac.

THUESSINK, THOMAS A, Waarnemingen, xxxiii.

Vecoskrift for Lakare, ii. ii.

WIEL, j. p., Obs. De usu interno nucis vom. et vitr. Alb. Viteb., 1771.

In the Frag. De Vir. There are 308 symptoms, in the 1^st edit. 961, in the 2^nd edit. 1267, and in this 3^rd edit. 1301 .

NUX VOMICA

Stupefaction of the brain. [HUFELAND, Jour. d. p. Arz. i, p. 165.] (From nine grains, in two doses, given to a woman in dysentery.)

Intoxication (aft. ½ hour) [ Veckoskrift for LAKARE, ii, p. 169.] (Not accessible)

Vertigo [ J. P. Wiel, Obs. de. Usu interno nucis vom. et vitr. alb., Viteb., 1771. – Hufeland, Jour., l. c. – BERGUIS, Mat. Med. p. 149.) (From ten – grain doses in a woman suffering from dysentery.)

Swaying feeling in the brain.

5. Attacks of vertigo, as if it turned round in a circle in the brain, with momentary loss of conciousness.

Vertigo, as if he would fall on one side (aft. 68 h.)

Vertigo wirh obscuration of vision.

A giddy sensation in the brain, going from one place to another (aft. 6 h.)

Vertigo (for an hour and a half) after dinner.

10. Vertigo after a meal when walking, that leaves off on standing still (aft. 1 h.)

Whirling vertigo while eating.

Vertigo with obscuration of vision while eating, something like when one comes suddenly out of the cold into the head, with laziness of the rest of the body.

Vertigo like whirling, when he has eructation from the stomach.

15. Vertigo, as if he neither heard nor saw and would fall, whilst sneezing and coughing , or when he rises up after stooping low.

Giddy staggering when walking, as if he would fall sideways or backwards.

When lying on the back, unable to raise the head on account of vertigo and obscuration of vision (aft. 24 h.)

On two successive evenings, after lying down, vertigo, as if the bed went round in a ring with her.

Vertigo of syncope (immediately).

20. Headache, as if from emptiness.

Intoxication.

Drunken confusion of the head.

Intoxication rising up towards the head.

Dazedness of the head as from a debauch over night.

25. In the morning headache, as if he had not slept at night.

Dulness of the head after dinner, which recurred twenty-four hours afterwards (aft. 24, 72 h.). (aft. 24, 72 h.).

Something dull is spread before the head (in the forehead) is the evening in the open air, as if consciousness would leave him for a moment (aft. 24 h.).

Some dulness comes at the back of the head.

A humming and whirling in brain and ear.

30. A buzzing in the forehead, afternoon and evening.

In the open air and sunshine stupid in the head.

A stupefying headache in the morning in bed, on awaking, that goes off after getting up (aft. 16 h.).

Stupid in the head when he holds it erect; but when he depresses it, sensation in the forehead as if something heavy sunk down in it.

When stooping he feels an excessive weight on the head. [We.]

35. In the morning drunken, giddy heaviness of the head.

In the morning heaviness in the head (aft. 4 d.).

Headache, when stooping, as if something heavy in it fell forwards.

Headache, like a heaviness in the brain, in the morning.

Headache after dinner, composed of heaviness .and pressure, especially on moving the eyes (aft. 16 h.).

40. Pressive headache (aft. 5 m.). [We.]

On closing the eyelids (pressive?) headache in the middle of the brain, such as comes on after vomiting.

Aching pain in the forehead, relieved by laying the head on the table; aggravated by open air. with weariness of the legs when going up hill (aft. 3 h.).

Aching pain in the forehead, as if he had not slept enough.

Aching pain over the left eye, and in the bone it pained as if he had got a blow there; he cannot open the eye. [We.]

45. Aching pain over the right orbit, in the morning in bed, when he lies on the right side, and going off when he lies on the. opposite side or on the back.

Aching pain in the occiput in the morning immediately after rising from bed.

He wakes up early in the morning, and with the eyes still closed he has headache in the middle of the brain (aft. 12.h.).

Deep in the brain, in the region of the crown, a down-pressive drawing headache.

Pain in the occiput, as if the brain were pressed or knocked forwards.

50. Tensive headache, at night.

Tensive headache in the forehead,

Squeezing headache.

Headache on the least mental exertion when lying, as if the brain were pressed asunder.

Headache, a. pressing in the occiput from both sides outwards, as if the skull posteriorly were forced asunder, with heat in the brain; relieved momentarily by compressing with the hands for twenty hours (aft. 11 h.). [Fg.]

55. He wakes at night from headache. [Fg.]

From exertion of the head he has pain in both temples.

From prolonged attention an aching and beating pain in the crown.

Headache in the morning in bed, as if on the surface of the whole brain, as if the skull would burst (aft. 10 h.).

Headache; the brain as if pressed and beaten.

60. Headache in the morning in bed, as if some one struck his head with an axe, going off after rising.

Headache, as if the brain were split (aft. 8 h.).

Headache; in the -morning, while lying in bed on the left side, a pain in the right side of the brain as if lacerated, but which goes off when she lies on the right, the painful, side (aft. 52 h.).

Tearing pain in the head to the root of the nose and upper jaw, aggravated by walking.

Tearing in the crown, forehead, eyes with qualmishness, squeamishness and nausea in the region of the chest and weakness of the vocal organs (aft. 2, 12 h.).

65. Drawing tearing headache. .

Tearing in the head at the ear downwards (aft. 40 h.).

Tearing headache, after a meal, with feeling of heat in the cheeks and chilly feeling over the body, at least on the hands.

Drawing tearing and burning pain in the head in the morning (aft. 60 h.).

Burning in the brain beneath the frontal bone.

70. Drawing pain in the head (aft. 6 h.).

Drawing pain first in the temples, then in the forehead, then in the occiput.

Headache drawing upwards in the right side of the brain near the ear (aft. 1 h.).

Drawing in the back of the head as if she were freezing there (aft. 120 h.).

Drawing movement here and there in the forehead towards the root of the nose.

75. Painless drawing here and there in the brain.

Tingling and shaking in the brain when walking and running.

Splashing and bubbling in the head when walking.

Single twitches in the head (aft. 3 d.).

Drawing twitching headache in the morning.

80. Single blows or strokes in the head.

(Headache in the morning, a constant pecking (obtuse shooting throbbing), aggravated by stooping forwards, and then as if a bit of the forehead would fall out.)

Violent jerks or obtuse stitches in the left half of the brain, in the direction from the orbit to the parietal bone and occiput, soon after eating (aft. 10 h.).

Single violent stitches in the head (aft. 6 h.).

Headache, beginning some hours before dinner, increasing after eating : then violent stitches in the left temple, with nausea and very sour vomiting; these ailments disappear in the evening after lying down.

85. Shooting and aching above the eyelids.

From time to time pain in one half of the head, as from a nail driven from above downwards, always deeper and deeper in the parietal bone (aft. 1 h.).

Intolerable (digging?) headache beinning in the morning when lying in bed, going off on getting up (aft some h.).

Shortly before dinner, headache.

Semilateral headache in the afternoon (from 4 a.m. till night) with exhaustion and weariness.

90. External headache, as if the hair on the occiput were painful.

External headache; pain of the integuments of the head as if bruised; the hair stands on end and is painful to, the touch (aft. 8 h. ).

A drawing pain in the outer parts of the head.

External headache; pain on the integuments of the crown, on being touched, as if bruised.

External headache ; pain of the integuments of the head, aggravated by touching.

95. External headache; during cold wind, pain as if the head were sore externally; and yet the part is not painful when touched (aft. 6 h.).

On the hairy scalp and face red, painful pimples or papules, whose apices at length become filled with pus.

(Itching and gnawing on the hairy scalp and nape, as when an ulcer is healing, especially in the forenoon.)

Painful, small swellings on the forehead.

Crawling externally on the forehead.

100. Formication on the forehead and crown.

Itching and crawling in the face as if fleas were creeping on it, which goes off by scratching, but soon returns. [Ws.]

Sensation in the face as if innumerable ants were creeping upon it.[RADEMACHER, Hufel. Journ, iv, p. 573.( From eight grains given to a man in dysentery.) ]

Sensation of tension in the face about the mouth, eyes and nose, with perceptible swelling of these parts. [Stf.]

Painless drawing in the face, on stooping.

105. A twitching as if a thread were pulled in the right side of the face , in the evening.

Twitching in the facial muscles, in the evening after lying down.

Formication here and there in the cheeks, which are red and hot (aft. 1-12 h.).

Small pustules on the cheeks.

Complexion wretched, pale, earth-coloured, yellowish ; but the white of the eye is unaltered.

110. Very red, swollen face. [CONSBRUSH, Hufel. Journ., iv, pp. 443, 444. (From two drachma of the powder taken by a man.) ]

Pain above the left eye in the skin as if he had been burnt. [ We.]

The right eyebrow is painful when touched.

Drawing tearing pain in the eyelids.

Quivering of the eyelids.

115. Contraction of the eyelids, as if from a heaviness of the upper lid, at. the same time gush of tears.

Aching in the upper eyelids, especially in the morning.

Itching in the anterior part of the eyelids (aft. 1/5 h.).

In the evening, itching of the eyelids towards the internal canthus (aft. 12 h.).

On the eyelid a burning itching pain.

120. The border of the eyelids pains as if excoriated, especially when touched, and in the morning.

Canthi pain as if excoriated.

The inner canthus is painful as if excoriated and rubbed raw (aft. 2 h.). (aft. 2 h.).

Mattery canthi.

The outer canthus is in the morning as if stuck together with matter.

125. A sore, dry feeling in the inner canthi in the morning in bed.

Smarting in the inner canthi as from acrid tears, in the evening in bed.

Smarting in the eyes, especially in the external canthi, as if from salt ; they weep.

Dryness of the right eye (aft. 1 h.).

Burning in the eyes without inflammation.

130. Formicating burning in the eyes.

Pain in the left eye as if bruised, with purulent mucus in the outer canthus (aft. 5 d.).

(Pain like needle-pricks in the eyes.).

Itching on the eyeball (aft. 2 h.).

Itching of the eyes relieved by rubbing.

135. The eyes are full of water, as in moist inflammation of the eyes (lippitudo), or as in stuffed coryza.

Painless congestion of blood in the white of the eyeball (aft. 14 h.).

Painless redness in the left outer canthus, in the morning.

Blood exudes from the eye.

Sparkling, staring eyes. [CONSBRUCH, 1. c.]

140. Swelling of the eyes, with red stripes in the white, and aching tensive pain.

Inflammation of the eyes.

Photophobia.

Intolerance of daylight, in the morning, with obscuration of vision.

(Complete obscuration of vision, like amaurosis, for a few hours) (aft. 24 h.).

145. Glittering; a shining flickering beyond the field of vision, especially on the left side, in the forenoon

Herz's false vertigo (aft. 24 h.).

Objects appear brighter to look at than usual. [RADEMACHER, 1. c.]

(Black and grey points hover before the eyes, with stupefaction in the head).

Far sight, presbyopia.

Contraction of the pupils (the first hours).

150. Dilatation of the pupils with very slow breathing.

Externally at the entrance to the ear shooting pressure.

Itching in the internal ear through the Eustachian tube, which necessitates frequent swallowing,

and disturbs the night's rest.

Creeping, crawling and itching in the internal ear.

Single sharp blows in the inner ear, like earache (aft. 6 h.).

155. Stitches in the ear, in the morning in bed, which cause him to cry out (aft. 9 d.).

Tearing stitches into the inner ear towards evening (aft. 6 h.).

Sharp blows in the internal ear (aft. 8 h.).

Pain in the internal ear compounded of blows and squeezing like earache (aft. 12 h.).

Ringing hissing in the ears.

160. In the night a twittering in the ears, as from a grasshopper.

Ringing in the ears. (aft. 2 4 h.). (aft. 2 4 h.).

(Buzzing end humming in the ears as from bees.)

In the morning after rising, a roaring before the ears (aft. 12 h.).

Noise in the ears as from a fulling-mill, at night.

165. (In the morning, hollowness in the ears, so that the words he speaks resound in the ears, going off after dinner (aft. 5 d.).

When chewing and pressing the jaws together a shooting drawing pain towards the inner ear, almost like cramp (aft. 4 h.).

Intolerable itching of the nose.( with S 102) [RADEMACHER, 1. c.]

It drew the mouth sideways. [RADEMACHER, 1. c.]

Locking of the jaws with full consciousness. [RADEMACHER, 1. c.]

170. In the masseter muscles and jaws a sensation as if trismus would come on, or as if the jaws were drawn together, though their movements remains free.

Drawing pain in the masseter muscles.

Ulcerated corners of the lips.

Painful desquamation of the lips. (aft. 3 h.). (aft. 3 h.).

Over the border of the upper lip itching pimples.

175. Sore feeling on the inner surface of the lower lip.

A small ulcer on the Inner surface of the lower lip, painful when touched.

An ulcer with scab and burning pain on the red of the lip.

Ulcerated scabs on the border of the lips, an eruption which on its first appearance causes shooting pain.

In the morning, shooting in the upper and lower lip.

180. The under lip is burst in the middle (a chap) (aft. 12 h.).

Miliary papules containing pus round the lips.

A single hair of the beard on the lip pains when touched, as if a splinter were stuck in there (aft. 5 h.).

A pimple on the skin of the lower jaw only painful when touched.

On the chin eruption of itching papules, the largest of which are surrounded by redness.

185. A tetter-like eruption on the lower part of the chin.

Swelling of the gums.

Painful swelling of the gums with painful papules on the interior, of the lip and on the tongue, as in mercurial salivation.

Swelling of the gums with pain like throbbing in them, as if an ulcer would form there.

Gums swollen as thick as the finger, with throbbing pain, as in a suppurating abscess, on account of which she cannot eat, for five days.

190. Swollen gums with drawing pain.

Ulceration of the gums at an incisor tooth with drawing and burning pain.

Swollen gums with toothache before dinner.

Swollen gums with toothache, which commences with aching (aft. 1 h.).

Toothache as from soreness of the gums in the morning.

195. Continued sore pain in the teeth, increased by exertion, of the head and meditation.

While walking in the open air constant toothache like slight sore feeling, especially when the mouth is opened.

Twitching toothache as if proceedinig from swelling of the gums.

Twitching toothache synchronous with the pulse with swelling of the gums.

Twitching toothache with jerking in the ear, also twisting and screwing in the ear in the morning immediately on waking, and in the evening.

200. After dinner, toothache, at first like a blow or stab into it, then a humming in it like a painful roaring, which extends into the eyes, and is aggravated by walking in the open air, also occasionally lasts into the night ; it is relieved when, she wraps up her cheek very warmly; when it comes again it always commences with needlepricks.

Single twitches each ending in a stitch in several. teeth, in the open air.

Drawing toothache, with at the same time stitches in one row of the teeth, especially when drawing the air in by the open mouth (aft.1/4.h).

Drawing toothache with stitches in a tooth, he cannot tell which.

Drawing pain in the hollow tooth, when he sucks it with his tongue.

205. In the hollow tooth pain extending up to the head, when air enters the mouth.

On breathing deeply (in the open air) pain as if air entered the hollow tooth.

Drawing toothache at one time in an upper, at another in a lower molar, and then drawing in the others to the front, especially immediately after the noonday meal and in the evening, during which red hot spots occur on the cheeks and neck, and the disposition is complaining, he makes reproaches and is desperate.

Drawing toothache from warm drinks and soups.

Tearing toothache, which first attacks a hollow tooth, than penetrates now to the upper, now to the lower jaw, then through the facial bones into the head, and tears in the temple of the same side, recurs by fits, is relieved for some time by sleep, but is renewed by cold water or by a morsel of food getting into the hollow tooth (after 2 h.).

210. Boring gnawing toothache, which is neither relieved nor aggravated by touching and chewing, but is diminished by drawing in cold air; on the other hand it is increased by the warm room.

Digging toothache on exerting the head and thinking; afterwards a painful gland under the angle of the lower jaw , towards evening (aft. 9 h.).

Shooting toothache in several teeth of both jaws. [We.]

Dull shooting toothache in an upper incisor. [We.]

Toothache, as if the tooth were dislocated or bitten out and waggled, with single coarse stitches, only observed on inspiring the open air with open mouth.

215. Loose tooth with obtuse pain increased by chewing, late in the evening, and in the morning

before rising from bed (aft. 12 h.).

Looseness of the teeth.

Looseness of a sound tooth, which is only painful when knocked against.

Falling out of sound teeth, that were previously hardly ever loose.

Drawing tearing pain in the jaws.

220. Drawing pain in the cervical muscles.

White tongue (aft. 20 h.).

Speaking is difficult for him.

She is unable to speak loud.

Dryness in the front of the mouth, especially on the tip of the tongue.

225. Dryness in the mouth in the morning, without thirst, as if he had been drinking alcoholic liquor the previous evening.

Dryness in the mouth after midnight, as if the tongue stuck to the palate, without thirst, and yet great accumulation of saliva in the fauces (aft. 5 h.).

Itching on the left side of the root of the tongue. [We.]

Painful pimples on the front of the palate, behind the upper, incisors (aft. 40 h.).

Painful vesicles on the tongue (aft. 6 h.).

230. Shooting in the tip of the tongue, after lying down, or going to sleep at the midday siesta (aft. 2 h.).

Mouth and fauces are in the morning covered with mucus, and there is yellow mucus in the canthi of the eyes (eyegum) (aft. 16 h.).

Pain, as if rough and sore in the throat, on the palate.

The inside of the mouth, the gums, and tongue are slimy, and as if raw and sore, as from something acrid.

Swelling of the palate with an aching pain, also when not swallowing, and a burning sensation behind the palate (aft. 32 h.).

235. Swelling of the palate and uvula, as if from adherent mucus, especially felt when swallowing (aft. 8 h.).

Sore throat as from swelling on the palate., but not felt when drinking.

Sore throat; an aching in the throat only felt when swallowing the saliva, not the food.

Sore throat; in bed in the morning, sensation of a swelling in the gullet, more felt when swallowing than when not.

Single stitches on the side of the throat, when not swallowing, especially felt when stooping and going up stairs (aft. 1, 24 h.).

240. Itching pricking in the gullet towards the ears when swallowing and when moving the jaws.

Shooting in the upper part of the throat, in the afternoon (aft. 7 h.).

Shooting in the uvula and in the sub-maxillary glands when swallowing, with shivering by day, perspiration in the night and headache.

Aching shooting pain in the throat, as if a plug were sticking in it, more felt when not swallowing than when swallowing.

Sore throat; sore roughness in the fauces, only felt when drawing in cold air and when swallowing.

245. Sore throat as if raw when swallowing (without shooting).

Burning in the fauces, as from heartburn.

Bubbling up (boiling) and burning up into the throat.

Burning in the throat at night; she must sit up, when she lies down it is worse.

Burning in the oesophagus up to the mouth.

250. Heartburn.

Scraping in the throat, and at the opening of the larynx, as after rancid heartburn (aft. 8 h.).

Rancid heartburn, as if from overloading the stomach with rancid fat (aft 6 h.).

Scraping, scratching feeling in the throat, such as remains after heartburn.

Scraping and scratching in the fauces, as if the skin had been scraped off with a sharp instrument, not perceived on swallowing.

255. Great collection of saliva in the mouth (the first 12 h.),

Copious flow of watery saliva from the mouth (water-brash).

On stooping, great flow of water from the mouth, without nausea.

Flow of saliva from the mouth during sleep (aft. 20 h.).

Bloody saliva.

260. Spitting of blackish, almost coagulated blood, at first about 2 a.m., then about 2 p.m., with a peculiar taste in the mouth and a smell of blood in the nose, at the same time there always comes a little blood on blowing the nose.

She has a sour taste in the mouth, and there is a sour smell from it.

Sour taste in, the mouth.

In the morning especially, sour taste in the mouth.

Food and drink leave a sour taste in the mouth.

265. Immediately after swallowing food, which tastes properly, there comes a sour taste in his mouth.

Bread and rolls have a sour taste, not so other food.

After drinking milk, sourish taste in the mouth.

Drinking milk seems to cause acidity (aft. 15 h.).

(In the morning a salt taste in the mouth.)

270. Hawking of a salt mucus from the fauces.

Nasty taste in the mouth.

Disagreeable taste and smell in the mouth and nose, almost sulphurous.

(He notices a sweetish disagreeable taste, and a sweetish disagreeable smell about him.)

In the mouth a bad, slimy taste, herbaceous and metallic united, with discontent and relaxation, in the morning.

275. Disgusting herbaceous taste in the throat, almost like carrots (aft. 1 h.).

Beer has a herbaceous taste to her.

Taste in the mouth as if the stomach were deranged.

In the morning milk tastes bad, as if spoilt.

In the morning he wakes with a perfectly dry throat, and after getting up he notices how badly he smells from his throat.

280. After eructating an ill-smelling vapour appears to come out of his mouth.

On coughing a putrid taste deep in the throat (aft. 2 h.). (aft. 2 h.).

Putrid taste in the mouth.

In the morning before eating, putrid taste in the mouth, which goes off after eating.

Putrid taste in the mouth in the morning, as from carious teeth.

285. In the morning putrid in the mouth, but food and drink taste right.

On expectorating the mucus from his chest he perceives a bitter taste low down in the throat.

In the morning bitter taste in the mouth, but food and drink taste right.

Bitter taste in the mouth, not of the food.

On spitting out the saliva he perceives a bitter taste.

290. Bread has to him a smoky taste.

He tastes little or nothing of what he eats; the food seems to him to have no taste at all.

In the morning milk has no taste to him.

Meat has no taste to him.

Continued anorexia. [HARTMANN, Diss. Spicileg. a.d nucis vom.usum Traj. ad Viadr., 1785, p.20.( Not accessible.)]

295. Coffee has no taste to him.

Diminished appetite.

Repugnance to food (immediately). (immediately).

He loathes sour (black) bread.

Dislike to bread.

300. Dislike to rye bread; when he takes it his mouth fills with water.

He eats without appetite.

The smell of food is disagreeable to him.

Food and drink have a disgusting smell to him.

On walking (for half an hour) he loses his appetite.

305. Dislike to ordinary food and drink, and to the accustomed tobacco smoking coffee.

Thirst afternoon and evening.

(Thirst for milk.)

He has thirst and yet water and beer are repugnant to him.

He became sick and inclined to vomit from smoking tobacco (aft. 3, 8 h.).

310. Longing for tobacco (in the first hours).

Great hunger, also in the morning (aft. 15 h.).

Hunger and yet loathing of food.

An hour before dinner disagreeable feeling in the stomach and abdomen, as from emptiness combined with hunger.

Periodical ravenous hunger in the afternoon, especially after drinking small beer ; after a small draught of it he becomes hungry, if be passes over the hunger without eating then he feels as if he were quite full and satiated.

315. Hunger; but if he eats ever so little he, is immediately satiated, and feels quite full (aft. 3 h.).

After eating an ill-feeling as if he were really ill, and in spite of his malady had overloaded himself with food.

After eating, the stomachache and the metallic and herbaceous taste return.

After eating unhappy and quite sad.

After eating quite hypochondriacal, and affected by the least trifle.

320. After dinner chilliness and coldness.

After dinner and after supper chilliness.

After dinner much heat, especially in the face, that seemed to rise up from the abdomen ;he perspired chiefly all over the back.

After eating heat and redness of cheeks, with confused head.

After a meal external heat of the cheeks, with intense feeling of heat, like burning, in the interior of the cheeks, with very dilatable pupils, photophobia, and chilliness on the arms with goose-skin (aft. 3 h).

325. After dinner great dryness at the back of the throat.

During dinner heat in the head.

During dinner a kind of faintness, at the same time nausea and flying heat, which all went off on lying down.

While eating he perspires on the forehead and scalp (aft. 2 h.)

After dinner he had suddenly squeamishness and loathing, followed by vertigo and tendency to faint; later much eructation without taste or smell (aft. 13 d.)

330. After eating and drinking eructation.

Frequent eructation.

Painful eructation.

She often feels as if she should eructate, but it does not take place ; she then feels as if the oesophagus were spasmodically contracted.

After eating a watery fluid belches up into the mouth.

335. When fasting bitter eructation.

Eructation (belching) of a bitter and sour fluid (aft. 6 h.). (belching) of a bitter and sour fluid (aft. 6 h.).

Eructation of a bitter sour fluid, at night (aft. 12 h.).

After a walk in the morning, some eructation up to the front of the tongue.

After eating (three hours afterwards), eructation of a sour taste and smell, with yawning (aft. 8 h.).

340. Frequent hiccup, without cause.

Hiccup before dinner (aft. 24 h.).

Thirst without bodily heat, and yet drinks oppress the stomach (aft 6 h.).

Thirst, and the drinks are relished, but soon after drinking there occurs nausea, in the evening (aft. 12 h.).

Nausea. [MATTHIOLUS, Comment. in Diosc,, lib. iv, cap. 23.( No such observation found in work mentioned ; but other authors mention his case as that of an old woman killed by a small quantity.) ]

345. When she wishes to eat she has nausea.

Nausea an hour before dinner (aft. 16 h.).

Nausea in the morning.

In the morning qualmishness about the heart, with nausea and flow of saliva; in the afternoon shivering.

In the morning nausea, which spread here and there through the body, as if all were in commotion (aft. 12 h.).

350. After a meal, qualmish, anxious, sick and ill, and as poorly as after a strong purgative;

something rose up from the scrobiculus cordis.

After eating loathing of what had just been eaten, especially when sitting up and refraining from lying down.

Nausea after dinner (aft. 40 h.).

Nausea in the afternoon (about 5 p.m.) (aft. 20 h.).

In the afternoon, nausea in the scrobiculus cordis, but not coming to actual vomiting (aft. 3 d.).

355. After eating sick qualmishness (squeamishness).

Inclination to vomit. [FRID: HOFFMANN, Mcd. Rat Syst, ii, p. 175.( From fifteen grains in a girl of ten.- Should be "efforts at vomiting',' (p. 283.) ]

After palpitation of the heart sickness with clean tongue.

[THOMAS A THUESSINK, Waarnemingen, xxxiii. (Not accessible.) ]

Immediately after eating inclination to vomit.

After dinner and drinking, nausea, then thirst and after drinking distension of the abdomen, like swelling.

360. After dinner inclination to vomit for an hour (aft. 3 h.).

On hawking (getting up the mucus from the throat) retching as if to vomit (aft. 4 h.).

Vomiting. [STRANDBERG, in Kiernander's Med. lac., p. 269.( (Not accessible.)]

Repeated vomiting (aft. 1 h.). [Fr. H-n.]

Violent Vomiting. [MATTHIOLUS, 1. c.]

365. Vomiting of sour mucus , in the forenoon (aft. 20 h.).

Vomiting of sour smelling and tasting mucus towards evening, with headache like tearing ( ? ) round the lower part of the skull (aft 9 h.).

Vomiting of blood.

Vomiting of blood, or belching of blood from the stomach (aft.1 h.).

Aching spasmodic pain from the fauces down, to the scrobiculus cordis, in the morning.

370. Scraping sensation in the scrobiculus cordis.

A constant pressure on the heart (in the region of the scrobiculus cordis).

The region of the stomach, very sensitive to external pressure he dare not let the hand lie on the stomach; because it causes nausea.

Towards evening a sick feeling in the scrobiculus cordis, like nausea.

Continued stomachache. [Veckoskrift, 1. c.]

375. Violent oppression of the stomach. [STRANDBERG, 1. c.]

Pressure in the stomach, as from a stone.

After eating little, aching in the stomach (in the morning).

Immediately after eating aching pain in the region of the stomach, as if from eating too much (aft. 5 h.).

After eating, aching in the scrobiculus,cordis and abdomen, with distension.

380. Aching in the heart (scrobiculus cordis).

After drinking, immediately a pressure in the scrobiculus cordis causing tightness of the chest, with distension of the abdomen (aft.2 h.).

Pressure some inches below the scrobiculus cordis, which causes eructation.

An aching under the scrobiculus cordis, especially after walking in the open air, which when sitting does not go off under a quarter of an hour.

Long-continued stomachache and pain in the upper part of the abdomen. [BERGIUS, 1. c.]

385. In the morning, pressing in the scorbiculus cordis, then cutting in the abdomen with constant nausea (aft 24h. ).

In the morning, pressure as from a stone in the epigastrium, aggravated by walking, relieved by sitting (aft. 14 h.).

Tension in the stomach.

Tension over the stomach.

Drawing tensive pain in the abdomen.

390. Tension over the stomach (epigastrium) in the afternoon (3 o'clock), then pain in the abdomen, as if all were raw and sore there.

Spasms of the abdomen. [STRANDBERG, 1. c. ]

When walking, at every step pain in the abdomen, as if all were sore there.

Pain in the epigastrium, as if the clothes were too tight there.

Contractive, squeezing stomachache.

395. In the side of the abdomen a squeezing, aching pain.

After squeezing aching bellyache and fermenting rumbling in the hypogastrium, watery diarrhoea, quite early (aft. 24 h.).

Contractive pain in the hypochondria (aft. 6, 12 h.). (aft. 6, 12 h.).

Contractive pain in the abdomen.

After eating a little and even on commencing to eat, fulness in the epigastrium.

400. In the side of the abdomen, under the short ribs, sensation of an internal swelling.

Distension of the scrobiculus cordis, which is painful to the touch.

Feeling as if something turned over in the gastric region.

Gurgling in the side of the abdomen with anxiety.

Throbbing in the gastric region.

405. After supper, sensation like a throbbing in the gastric region, chiefly felt on touching it (aft. 24 h.).

Throbbing pain in and under the hepatic region, as if an abscess would from there.

Jaundice, with loathing of food and short attacks of faintness thereafter weak and ill.

Pricking pain in the hepatic region (aft. a few h.). (aft. a few h.).

A chill running over the hepatic region a creeping feeling.

410. Spasmodic pain in the left side of the abdomen combined with a qualmishness, felt especially in the scrobiculus cordis.

Alternate grasping and clawing (now clutching now letting go) in the upper abdominal region.

Griping, bubbling, digging in the abdomen.

When he eats something he has gripping and pinching in the abdomen above the navel.

Sensation as if something drawn down from the limbs were rolled together in the umbilical region, like a fulling and kneading.

415. Spasm in the stomach, clawing in the stomach after midnight towards the .morning, as from a purgative, changing into a burning in the scrobicnulus cordis.

Burning at the mouth of the stomach.

Feeling of burning in the scrobiculus cordis, coming from below upwards.

Especially at night a kind of ,cooling burning (as from saltpetre on the tongue) from the scrobiculus cordis up into the gullet.

Soon after supper a burning pain in the scrobiculus cordis, and further downwards, with anxiety.

420. Sensation of increased warmth in the abdomen, in the morning.

Sensation of a not disagreeable warmth in the abdomen, and as if something unfolded itself there and were in movement.

Ebullition in the abdomen from below upwards without perceptible heat.

(Coarse stitches in the scrobiculus cordis in the evening, and for some time after lying down.)

Shortly before dinner, pain in the scrobiculus cordis as if bruised, which goes off after eating.

425. In the morning in bed, pain as if the bowels were bruised, also m the loins, with a kind of nausea.

Tearing pain in the stomach.

Flatulent colic in the upper part of the abdomen, in the evening after lying down (aft. 5, 10, 13 h.). (aft. 5, 10, 13 h.).

Flatulence rises up in the abdomen, and presses under the short ribs (aft. 20 h.). (aft. 20 h.).

Pain in the abdomen, as from confined incarcerated flatulence.

430. Deep in the hypogastrium, pain as from incarcerated flatulence, with pains in the sacrum, in the morning.

Flatulent colic after stool, as if the bowels were hard pressed by stones here and there (aft. 4 h.).

In the abdomen pressing flatulent distension.

In the hypogastrium a pressure, like distension, when he draws his breath, talks, and touches it externally.

After a meal, flatulent distension in the abdomen (aft. 12 h.). (aft. 12 h.).

435. After drinking, immediately flatulent distension.

Everything he takes seems to turn to flatulence, which rises up and causes anxiety.

Here and there in the abdomen anxious pressive flatulence. [Fg.]

The flatulence seems to rise up into the chest, makes it tight and causes a shooting aching here and there (immediately.)

Early in the morning he has working about in the abdomen (aft.18 h. ).

440. In the abdomen croaking like frogs.

Early in bed along with rumbling and rattling in the abdomen, spasmodic and pinching flatulent colic, with heat in the palms and soles (aft. 20 h.).

Loud rattling and rumbling in the abdomen, in the morning.

Rumbling in the abdomen, in the afternoon.

Loud rattling in the abdomen, with internal movements as if stool were about to ensue ; at the same time she is weak and must lie down.

445. Feeling of a weight in the abdomen.

Sensation as if everything in the abdomen would fall down which compels him to walk softly.

Sensation in the abdomen when walking as if the bowels splashed.

Bellyache with sensation of dryness on the lips, and heat of the face.

Pain like needle-pricks in the abdomen (aft. 4, 6 h.). (aft. 4, 6 h.).

450. Shooting in the left side of the abdomen on breathing deeply.

Stitches in the side of the abdomen on moving.

Severe stitches in the umbilical region. (aft. 1/4 h.).

Shooting in the right side of the abdomen, which takes away the breath, and is relieved by pressing in the hand, in the forenoon.

Deep in the hypogastrium, a kind of flatulent colic; sharp pressure, as with a cutting or pointed instrument, on the bladder, the neck of the bladder, the commencement of the urethra, the perinaeum, the rectum and anus, as if cutting flatus would force itself out at all these parts; intolerable at every step (he walks in a. bent attitude, it draws, him so together), rapidly going off when at rests, when sitting and lying.

455. Cutting bellyache with inclination to vomit.

Continued, cutting pain in the hypogastrium, rising up into the upper abdomen, where it becomes a griping.

Cutting pain in the hypogastrium, with sickness, sweetish, disgusting taste in the mouth, exhaustion and great drowsiness in the morning, returning after 24 hours (aft. 1/2 , 24 h.).

Burning cutting, more in the upper abdomen and more frequently when moving.

More cutting than pinching bellyache, which causes nausea.

460. Bellyache in the open air, as from catching cold.

Bellyache, as if a diarrhoea from a chill would occur (aft. 5 h.).

Pinching in the abdomen (aft 1 h.). (aft 1 h.).

Intolerable pains- in the abdomen (aft. 1 h.). [CONSBRUCH, 1. c.]

After drinking coffee pinching in the abdomen, as from worms, which goes off by bending the body backwards, but is renewed by stooping (aft. 1 h.).

465. Pinching drawing, several times, in the side of the abdomen, from the inguinal ring upwards (aft. 1/4 h.).

Pinching tearing pain the abdomen up towards the chest (aft. 1 h.) (aft. 1 h.)

Drawing pain in the abdomen from the left side over the navel.

Drawing tearing pain in the abdomen.

Drawing tearing pain in the abdomen .from both sides, which unites above the os pubis.

470. Tearing pain in the abdomen, in the afternoon (aft. 4 o'clock) (aft 1 h.).

A forcing down towards the genitals in the hypogastrium.

On walking in the open air a contraction in the hypogastrium and a forcing towards the genitals.

Contractive spasm in the abdomen and uterus, like a griping, and clutching (with increased metrorrhagia in clotted masses).

Weak feeling in the inguinal ring, as if a hernia would come (aft.20h.).

475. Pain in the inguinal ring, in the morning in bed, as if a hernia were incarcerated.

Indication and commencement of an inguinal hernia (aft. 5, 7, 8 h.). (aft. 5, 7, 8 h.).

In the region of the os ilii an aching pain.

Twitching and quivering in the abdominal muscles, under the skin.

Feeling of a running in the right abdominal muscles; on touching the part it is numb, stiff, and feels as if swollen.

480. Pain as if bruised on the side of the abdomen and loins when touched.

The abdominal .muscles are painful as if bruised, only when touched and when moving the body.

Pain of the abdominal muscles as if bruised, especially painful on movement.

The abdomen is painful to the touch.

After quick walking, there occurs on a small spot of the abdomen a pain when touched, or from the pressure of the clothes; at the same place a fine needle-prick is felt.

485.Diarrhoea, especially in the morning and immediately after the (midday) meal of a dark colour.

Diarrhoea. [STRANDBERG, 1. c.]

Evacuation enveloped in white mucus.

Small diarrhoeic motions in the morning, which excoriate the anus.

Diarrhoea of foetid faces. [WIEL1. c.]

490. Green slimy thin motions (aft. 24 h.). (Note.-The production of continual, copius, diarrhoeic motion_actual diarrhoea it is called_is never to be met with in the primary action of nux vomica, as far as my observation goes, and the diarrhoea meet with among its symptoms consists either of very small evacuations, mostly composed of mucus, accompanied by faecal motions and straining ; or when it was a copious, thin faecal evacuation, it was then the secondary action or result in a patient who had previously suffered from constipation and costiveness, with fruitless urging to stool.)

After a motion smarting and sore pain in the anus, in the evening (aft. 10 h.).

Some hours after the motion a burning sore pain, as if a wound had been cut into, at the anus, as from haemorrhoids.

Difficult evacuation passing with burning.

Burning pain externally at the anus, immediately after the motion (aft. 20 h.).

495. After bellyache evacuation of dark coloured mucus, which causes a smarting boring at the anus. (aft. 8 h.):

Small, frequent evacuations.

Stool consisting first of soft and thin, then of hard faeces (aft. 20 h.).

In the forenoon, along with discharge of flatus, involuntary evacuation of liquid stool, followed by hard faeces.

Stools consisting of hard and soft faeces mixed with discharge of flatus, in the morning and after eating (and drinking).

500.Evacuation of hard large-formed faeces (aft. 24 h.).

Constipation.

Constipation, and the same time rush of blood to the head.

Constipation, as from constriction and contraction of the bowels.

Constipation, as from inactivity of the bowels.

505. Anxious call to stool (aft. 6 h.).

Ineffectual urging to stool.

After sufficient evacuation of the bowels frequent ineffectual urging to stool.

Pressive pain in the hypogastrium,. especially towards the anus.

She obliged to go three or four times daliy to stool, with some pinching; she frequently goes without result and when something passes it is soft.

510. When he has an evacuation he feels as if some faeces still remained behind, and as if he could not get rid of enough, with a feeling of constriction of the rectum, not of the anus..

A daily evacuation, but always with a colicky sensation in the abdomen, and when the stool occurs it always seems to her as if enough did not come away, and as if ,the evacuation were incomplete.

Pressing in the rectum before the motion.

When she goes to stool the perssing is more upon the uterus (just as if the child would come away), less upon the rectum.

When she wishes to go to stool a griping in the upper part of the abdomen.

515. Very hard, dry stool, and for some time thereafter a shooting pain in the rectum, as from haemorrhoids (aft. 14 h.).

Blind piles (haemorrhoids) (aft. 6 h.).

Shooting in the rectum, while the stool is passing.

Transient feeling of piles (aft. 8 h.).

Blood passes along with the faecal motion.

520. Whitish faeces mixed with viscid mucus and streaks of blood (aft. 1, 2 h.).

Evacuation covered with blood, and slimy matter along with it.

Along with feeling of narrowing and contraction of the rectum, during the motion, discharge of bright blood with the faeces (aft. 48 h.).

Discharge of blood from the anus.

After a meal, and after exertion of the head and reflection, tearing shooting and constrictive pain as from bad blind piles, in the rectum and anus (aft. 38 h.).

525. Burning and shooting in the rectum with piles at the anus (aft 2 h.).

Sharp pressing pain in the rectum after stool and after a meal, especially when exerting the head, and studying.

Sharp pressing pain in the rectum, before stool, in the morning (aft. 16 h.).

Pain in the rectum as from costiveness, in the evening after eating, which is alleviated from time to time by discharge of flatus (aft. 4 h.).

Aching pain inside the anus and in the rectum, in the evening (aft. 11 h.).

530. Violent aching pain deep in the rectum taking away the breath, about midnight (aft. 16 h.).

In the morning, after rising, painful contraction in the rectum and anus (aft. 10 h.).

Contractive feeling in the rectum sometimes like an urging to stool.

Contraction and stricture of the rectum which prevents the expulsion of the stool.

A twitching in the anus unconnected with the stool.

535. Itching in the anus and hot stool.

A voluptuous, intolerable itching in the rectum, down to the anus (aft. 3 h.).

Formication and tickling itching in the rectum as from thread worms.

Itching in the rectum as from threadworms. [We.]

Formication in the anus at night as from threadworms.

540. Threadworms pass out by the anus.

At the border of the anus itching, which passes into smarting end sore pain, as from blind piles (aft. 1/2 h.).

Itching in the anus combined with sore pain, as in haemorrhoids, whilst walking in the evening (aft. 30 h.).

In the perinaeum, itching after the midday siesta (aft. 16 h.).

In the perinaeum, aching pain after dinner (aft. 2 h.).

545. (After dinner, shooting pain in the bladder, independent of urinating, which is allayed by discharge, of flatus.) (aft. 80 h.).

Urging to urinate.

Urging to urinate in the afternoon.

Painful ineffectual urging to urinate.

Painful discharge of turbid urine. [WIEL, 1 ,c.]

550. (More urine passed than the fluid he had drunk.) (Copious discharge of urine is only curative secondary action in this medicine, after a previous opposite condition in this patient.)

Watery urine (aft 3 h. ).

Discharge of pale urine, the last portion of the discharge consisting of a thick whitish matter, like pus, with severe burning pain (aft. 16h.).

Whilst urinating there is discharged from the bladder very viscid , mucus without pain (aft. 9, 12 d.).

Before urinating pain in the neck of the bladder.

555. After urinating pressing in the neck of the bladder.

Whilst urinating a burning and tearing pain in the neck of the bladder.

Whilst urinating a burning in the urethra (aft. 10 h.).

Whilst urinating a burning pain in the anterior part of the urethra.

Whilst urinating a burning, but when not urinating a tearing pain in the urethra.

560. Whilst urinating an itching in the urethra.

When not urinating an aching pain in the orifice of the urethra, with shivering (aft. 4 h.).,

When not urinating, in the morning and when reflecting, a contractive pain in the anterior part of the urethra, backwards.

Before urinating a burning and pricking pain in the urethra, after dinner.

Itching prick in the fore part of the urethra, which went backwards. [We.]

565. Immediately before he makes water, a pricking or twitching in the urethra.

Before or after urinating the orifice of the urethra pains as if it were excoriated.

After urinating pain on the tip of the glans, as if excoriated.

Itching of the glans penis (aft. 2 h.).

Itching on the glans, in the morning.

570. A smarting on the glans.

A smarting itching on the glans (aft. 2 h.).

Eroding itching on the glans, in the evening and morning.

On the posterior part of the glans burning itching (aft. 6 h.).

Increased secretion of smegma behind the corona glandis.

575. The prepuce is retracted behind the glans (aft. 4 h.).

Smarting itching on the inner surface of the prepuce, especially towards evening (aft. 11 h.). (aft. 11 h.).

Soreness on the border of the prepuce, especially towards evening (aft. 1.5 h.). (aft. 1.5 h.).

Soreness in the bend of the groin.

(Glandular swelling in the groin.)

580. Eroding itching eruption on the female genitals.

Pinching pain as with forceps on the right side of the scrotum.[We.]

Itching on the scrotum (aft. 2 h.). (aft. 2 h.).

Heat in the testicles (aft. 4 h.).

Stitches in the testicles.

585. Constrictive pain in the testicles (aft. 2 h.).

Nocturnal seminal emission with lascivious dreams (aft. 48 h.).

Nocturnal seminal emissions, followed by continued coldness of the feet, not removed by movement (aft. 6 h.).

Nocturnal seminal emission without erection of the penis; followed by relaxation of the lower parts (aft. 36. h.).

Prolonged erection of the penis.

590. Erection of the penis after the (midday) sleep.

For several successive morning erection of the penis.

Sexual desire, but during coitus impotence occurs and the member becomes soft.

On slight excitation, amorous transport (aft. 5 h.).

On slight excitation, or the mere touch of a woman, there occurs strong sexual desire, especially in bed in the morning (aft. 8 h.).

595. An itching burning in the region of the neck of the bladder, in the morning in bed; it seems like sexual desire (aft. 19 h.).

Burning in the female genitals, with strong iuclination for coitus (aft. 15 h.).

Involuntary excitement in the genital organs, and urging to seminal emission, in the morning after rising from bed.

After coitus, immediately dry heat of the whole body, which cannot bear the bedclothes to be removed, and dryness of the mouth without thirst (aft. 5.h.).

Discharge of mucus from the urethra.

600. Discharge of foetid mucus from the genitals.

Painless discharge of yellow mucus from the vagina.

Internal swelling of the vagina, like a prolapsus, with burning pain, which renders external touch intolerable.

In the morning in bed a forcing out towards the genitals.

Menses three days before the time (aft. 48 h.).

605. Menses three days too soon, with abdominal spasms (aft. 72 h.).

Menses three days too early, last a shorter time, and are scantier than usual.

Menses four days before the proper time (aft. 3 h.).

Menses four days too soon, and in smaller quantity.

The menses which had left off a day return for a few hours (aft.3 h.).

610. The menses reappear on the fourteenth day.

Menses at the full moon (aft. 26 h.).

Brings the menses back at the full moon.

The menses, suppressed for six weeks, reappear at the fall moon.

During the menses, in the morning, nausea with chilliness and attacks of fainting.

615. After the menses are established, faintings in the morning after rising, preceded by spasmodic movements in the abdomen, and followed by exhaustion and chilliness on rising from the couch (aft.10 d.).

During the menses she becomes quite weak after every stool.

During the menses faintness (about 2 p.m.) and headache as if the eyes would fall out of the head; she could not hold up the head ; commenced to be chilly until she shivered, and an hour afterwards she had internal burning heat and dry lips.

At the term of the menses headache in the acciput, like an abscess in the brain and as, if festering ; when she lay it was much worse than when she rose up.

During the menses an out-pressing pain in the side of the abdomen (aft. 10 h.).

620. During the menses, after the noonday sleep, a tearing in the left arm and right thigh.

During the menses a crawling upward in the gullet, in the evening after lying down.

The inside of the nostrils is painfully sensitive.

The borders of the nostrils are painful round about as if sore and ulcerated, on moving the nose, especially in the evening.

The anterior angles of the nostrils are painful as if ulcerated, and as if a wound were cut into (aft. 1, 10 h.). and as if a wound were cut into (aft. 1, 10 h.).

625. Increased acuteness of smell (aft. 132 h.). (Merely the curative effect on a previous opposite condition.)

Deception of smell ; it seems to her as if there was a smell of rotten cheese about her.

Deception of smell; he has a sulphurous smell in the nose.

Deception of smell; in the evening he has a smell in the nose like the smoking wick of a candle.

Bloody nasal mucus (aft. 1 h.). (aft. 1 h.).

630. Prolonged epistaxis.

Discharge of coagulated blood from the nose; in the morning.

Discharge of an acrid fluid from the nose.

Discharge of nasal mucus without coryza.

(Can breathe freely through the nose, but it is dry inside.)

635. Frequent discharge of mucus from one nostril which is stopped up as from coryza (aft. 1 h.).

Frequent discharge of mucus from both nostrils which are stopped up as from coryza (aft. 20 h.).

By day fluent coryza, at night stuffed coryza.

In the morning stuffed coryza with extreme dryness of the mouth.

In the morning fluent coryza.

640. Hot in the head as from coryza, with one red cheek, and running of mucus from the nose (aft. 2, 3 h.).

Continual heat in the nose and frequent attacks of coryza.

True coryza, with scraping in the throat , crawling and , scratching in the nose and sneezing (aft. 1 h.).

Frequent sneezing.

Sneezing in the morning in bed, but after rising sudden flow of coryza.

645. Coryza in the morning and after dinner.

Itching is the stopped-up nose, as in coryza.

Foetid breath through the nose.

On stooping ill-smelling vapour out of the mouth and vertigo.

In the morning after rising he has a foetid odour from the mouth, not perceived by himself.

650. Ill-Smelling breath and exhalation from the mouth, which he does not perceive himself, in the morning, whilst the tongue is clean and the taste is perfect (aft. some h.).

Foetid breath after dinner (aft. 36 h.).

Sour smelling breath.

Hawking up of mucus from the windpipe without cough.

Catarrh with headache, heat of face, chilliness, and much mucus in the throat.

655. In the evening before going to sleep, dry, painful catarrh in the larynx (aft. 36 h.).

In the morning he has catarrh in the chest, so that he cannot cough up anythig without pain in the windpipe (aft. 14 h.).

Rough throat from catarrh.

Oppression on the chest; he cannot get up anything by coughing (aft. 16 h.).

Early in the morning dry, painful catarrh in the larynx, with increased warmth of hands and feet, which at first induces him to uncover, but an hour afterwards to cover himself; followed by general perspiration (and cessation of the catarrh) (aft. 20 h.).

660. In the morning, in bed, he has catarrh in the chest (like a fur); he is hoarse and rough in the chest, and on a spot in the windpipe, where the cough, detaches the mucus, it is painful; relieved by rising from bed (aft. 10 h.).

In the morning, on rising, he feels viscid mucus strongly adherent to the upper part of the windpipe; cheat oppressed.

Scraping on the chest so that he must cough.

He feels as if mucus constricted and squeezed the upper part of the larynx, which he must get rid of by voluntary short cough.

Mucus adheres to quite the upper part of the windpipe, causing cough.

665. Tickling in the region of the palate, that excites dry coughing (aft. 48 h .).

Roughness and scrapy feeling in the larynx exciting coughing.

Roughness in the throat compelling him to cough.

Scraping cough.

Itching in the larynx , which excites coughing.

670. An itching tickling in the windpipe, in the middle of the sternum, causing cough (aft. 3/4 h.).

Cough on bodily exertion (aft. 48 h.).

During expiration there occurs a tickling in the windpipe, which causes coughing.

Cough occurs while reading and reflecting.

Cough which returns with violence every other day.

675. After eating , cough.

Dry cough from midnight till day-dawn.

Violent attacks of dry cough, in the evening after lying down, and quite early in the morning (aft. 12 h.).

Violent cough, in the morning before getting up, with expectoration of coagulated blood and

pain in the chest (aft. 18 h.).

Cough at night ; at the same time oppression of the chest

680. Nocturnal cough.

Cough comes at night and prevents sleep.

She could not get properly to sleep on account of cough, and when she thought she would sleep the cough came and disturbed her till midnight; she then slept on tranquilly.

Dry, persistent, fatiguing cough about midnight, when lying on the back, which goes off when she lies on the side (aft. 5 h.).

Cough which becomes loose in the open air.( Loose cough is only curative action with this medicine.)

685. Cough and expectoration are increased when walking in the open air, and are followed by exhaustion.

Cough with sweetish expectoration.

Only during the cough so arcid in the throat, that it pains her in the pit of the throat (aft. 2 h.). (aft. 2 h.).

A sore shooting when coughing.

Cough which brings on headache as if the skull would burst.

690. Cough which causes bruised pain in the epigastric region.

Cough which causes heat.

(Cough which causes cracking in the ear.)

Tightness of the breath and then hacking (short) cough.

Shortness of breath; she cannot draw in air enough, not even when lying; at the same time quick pulse.

695. An asthmatic, constrictive tightness transversely through the chest, when walking and going up hill.

When going upstairs tight on the chest, just as if his clothes were too tight; after sitting down it was relieved.

When the clothes are tight under the ribs he cannot get breath when walking; he breathes more freely when they are loosened; but if he takes off his clothes entirely the breath becomes again more difficult.

The fastening of the clothes over the hips oppresses, and they always appear to be too tight.

Tightness of the chest in the evening and morning.

700. Oppression of the chest. [MATTHIOLUS, 1. c.]

Anxiety in the chest. [We. ]

Oppression of the chest in the evening.

Tightness of chest and anxiety increase gradually far some hours, so that the breath becomes ever shorter, and from time to time perspiration breaks out all over the body.

At night, on awaking from frightful dreams, tightness of the chest, she can hardly get breath, with roaring in the ears, quick pulse and perspiration.

705. In the morning in bed, when lying on the back tightness of the. chest, but when he turns on the right side, headache.

A somewhat painful weariness in the chest, which is not painful when touched, it is relieved by bending back the trunk (aft. 48 h.).

After dinner tightness of the chest; he must draw deep breaths slowly; some hours afterwards shortness of breath (rapid breathing) (aft. 26, 30 h.).

Along with very slow breathing dilated pupils.

At night in bed squeezing on the chest; it is as if contracted.

710. Immediately after dinner pain close under the navel, as if a stone lay there, which almost takes away his breath, so that he can only breathe with difficulty (aft. 70, 90 h.).

A disagreeable feeling in the scrobiculus cordis spreads upwards to the larynx and chokes and shuts off the breath.

As long as she remains up the breathing is difficult and tight, but on lying down in bed it is natural.

In the open air a pain on the chest, as if it were compressed by a weight.

A pressive pain transversely across the chest, which takes away the breath.

715. A pain extending transversely across the chest, with short breathing.

At night a tension and pressure in the external parts of the chest, as from a weight, and as if the side were paralysed.

Pain as if his sternum were pressed in.

A pain in the neighbourhood of the sternum, only by day, when breathing, as if the chest were too short.

Immediately after eating an aching (and cutting) pain in the chest.

720. Aching pain in the left side of the chest when she sits for a little while, but immediately going off when she eructates.

A constrictive pain in the chest.

An asthmatic constriction transversely through the chest, when walking and going up hill.

A pinching drawing pain near the sternum (aft. 1/2 h.).

A drawing under the left breast with anxiety, a kind of oppression of the heart, which makes breathing difficult (aft. 3 h.).

725. Drawing pain in the chest.

Drawing pain in the ribs.

Like a drawing and burning tearing in the left side of the chest in the morning (aft. 36 h.).

Burning on the chest, with anxiety (aft. 20 h.).

Heat in his chest.

730. A warm ebullition in the chest which causes anxiety.

Heat in the chest, which rises up into the mouth and causes restlessness, anxiety, and sleeplessness (aft. , 6 h.).

A warm tension on the chest.

Warmth in the chest internally and externally, with pricking in the pectoral muscles (aft. 4 d.).

Pain in the sternum like needle-pricks, in the afternoon.

735. (Twitching shooting in the chest.)

Stitches in the pectoral muscles, not excited by breathing (aft.3 h.).

In the morning, an hour after rising, some violent stitches in the cardiac region (aft. 7 d.).

Severe stitches in the region of the heart.

Painful blows towards the heart, synchronous with the pulse.

740. Throbbing in the chest.

Palpitation of the heart..

When lying down after dinner palpitation of the heart.

Ebullition of the blood with palpitation of the heart, quite early in the morning (aft. 20 h.).

Frequent slight attacks of palpitation of the heart.

745. In the morning beating in the side of the chest (aft. 16, 80 h.).

Sensation in the chest as if something would fall down (aft. 6 h.).

Shooting pain in the chest, which becomes more violent when moving, in the middle of the chest. [We. ]

Only during the day, a pain like a bruise from the sternum to the scapulae, with stitches and shortness of breath when at rest a when moving.

The whole sternum is painful to the touch, as if bruised.

750. In the side of the chest, under the shoulder, a pain as if beaten and bruised, worse when touched and when moving than when at rest.

On the chest, under the axilla, pain when touched; he dare not press the arm against the chest.

Simple pain in the right nipple when touched.

Painful sensibility in the nipples (aft. 1 h.).

Pain in both nipples, as when after parturition the milk would shoot into the breast.

755. Rigor runs over the breast with tensive pain.

Rigor over the breasts (aft. 1/8 h.).

Itching pricking under the nipple.

(Accompanying afternoon chill, violent shooting in the sacrum which then goes into the sides and tightens the breath.)

On turning the upper part of the body sideways a coarse stitch in the sacrum which takes away the breath. [We.]

760. In the sacrum and ischia a jerking obtuse shooting; on account of it she cannot turn in bed; also when at rest dull pain in the sacrum; she could not lie still, nor cough nor sneeze on account of this painful jerking..

Nocturnal pain in the sacrum, which prevents her turning in bed.

Along with rigor, throbbing pain in the sacrum with eructation (aft. 36 h.).

Contractive pain in the sacrum which then extends to the side.

The sacral and lumbar regions are as if tense; and painful when touched.

765. From a draught of air pain in the sacrum, as if it would break; she must walk bent double.

Pain only by day in the sacrum, as if it were bruised or very weak, as after confinement.

Sacrum painful as if bruised, worse when moving than when at rest.

In the morning, in bed, pain in the sacrum and knees, as if beaten and bruised,