| MIND
Depression, indifference, fear, apprehension, confusion, bewildered,
irritability, stupidity.
Detail.
Great depression, feeling of depression and weakness; depression
in morning on waking, with languor; felt as if I would rather die
than live, as though I would like to take enough to kill myself,
during headache.
Indifference and malaise; no life nor ambition to do anything; did
not care if I lived or died, and decided not to take a drop more
if I ever felt better.
Terrible, nervous, frightened feeling; nervous feeling of fear;
frightened at action of heart; awoke in fright, trembling violently
Felt as if something bad might happen.
Bewildered sensation; head felt mixed, seemed entirely void of ideas;
was an exertion to try to think; very cross and hungry. Stupid feeling
after supper.
Clinical.
Apprehensive, fearful; starts at every noise or even at shadows;
afraid to go to bed alone or in a dark room.
Vertigo. Faintness.
SENSORIUM
Vertigo, on, attempting to rise in morning, as if falling forward;
everything became black, and I grasped for support, with nausea
preventing me from eating breakfast, vomiting of coffee and toast
that I had succeeded in eating; with black spots dancing before
eyes; on going up or down stairs felt as if I were stepping over
too far and should fall; obliged to go to bed; on rising in morning,
when waking, if I sat up, felt as if floating through air; if I
lay down, as if sunken deep in bed.
Faintness spread over whole body.
HEAD
Aching, heaviness; heavy pains; throbbing fullness; darting, shooting
or sharp pains; constriction, tension, pressure, boring; enlarged
sensation; dropping to pieces as if.
Detail.
Aching: in morning with sleepy feeling; and dull; and backache;
neck stiff, carotids throb, weak and weight in it; intolerance of
motion or shock; every step sends a shock through head.
Throbbing, delaying sleep, with bright, star shaped spots dancing
up and down on shutting eyes; heaviness in head and in neck; dull
and heavy.
Full feeling.
Constriction and tightness of, with increasing pain over eyes and
severe pain.
Pressure in, with fullness of, veins.
Felt big, large, with intolerance of light.
Shaking the head produces a feeling of looseness or quivering of
the brain, followed by dizziness, as if dropping to pieces, with
fear that something would happen.
FOREHEAD
Frontal headache, severe, with dizziness, extending into orbits;
toward evening, with nausea; waked at 4 a. m. by intense frontal
headache, increased, of a burning, pressing nature, worse from moving
head suddenly, extending into vertex and orbits, with feeling of
heaviness in eyelids and bright spots before eyes; disappeared during
evening; returned, with increased violence, with a perfectly exhausted
feeling, as if I had had no rest for a long time; made it an
effort to dress; ameliorated by cool water and open air.
Sudden pain over right eye at 6 p.m., with boring through temples,
soon spread over whole head;
no position comfortable, with heavy pressure on vertex, followed
by blurred vision, as if looking
through blue lace; dizziness and nausea.
Throbbing over right eye, with nausea.
Sharp, shooting pain over right eye and m right side; diffused pain
in upper part of forehead, right side, pain extends to base of brain,
with soreness; shaking the head produces a feeling of looseness
or quivering of the brain, followed by dizziness; pain over eyes,
with throbbing above root of nose; aching in a spot over nose; a
dull headache in a space not larger than half a dollar over nose.
Temples: heavy pain in; menses two days early; boring through.
Darting in left occurring again and again; ached violently through
temples and vertex; top of head felt as if lifted in evening.
Sides, pain in left and left elbow.
Vertex, heavy pressure on, heavy feeling in.
Aching in upper half of head, with flashes of throbbing pain, as
if the top of the skull were about to be lifted off.
Occiput; pain in, bewildered sensation in.
Scalp, tightening of and heavy pains in temples, with twitching
m and trembling in right knee; afterward increase of head difficulties,
with great heat and quiet menstrual flow, two days early.
Head sore to touch.
Clinical.
Headaches, with sensation as if the top of the head would come off.
(Arg. n. Bapt. Cact. Cim. Cann. i Helon. Iris v. Bali-bi; Bob. Lac
def. Lach. Merc. Syph. Ther. Ust.)
Head, as if surrounded by a right band.
Aggravation from noise.
EYES
Congestion, burning, heaviness; pains, grinding sore; vision,
bright, blue, black, flashes, etc.
Detail.
Bloodshot, with red margins; feel as if full of sand, with frontal
headache; and heavy, with red, burning lids; and sensitive to light;
photophobia.
Heaviness m; in lids.
Pain in lid of right eye; lachrymation.
Watering of eyes and nose.
Dull, heavy, grinding pain in left eye.
Motion is painful if much out of field of vision, and eyes are sore
on pressure.
Pupils dilated.
Twitching.
Vision, bright spots before eyes; on shutting eyes, starshaped black
spots dancing up and down.
Bright images before eyes, which were sensitive to light and bloodshot,
with dilated pupils.
Blurred vision, as if looking through blue lace; everything looked
blue; atmosphere appeared blue; and there were constant flashes
of light before eyes; flashes of blue light before eyes; vision
of blue sparks; black spots dancing before the eyes, with vertigo;
objects seemed a long way off.
Clinical.
Ophthalmia.
EARS
Pain, dull, darting; noises, ringing, roaring, whirring; dull
pain in right ear and articulation of inferior maxilla, gradually
ceasing; does not know it is in ear or tooth that aches.
Darting pain under and back of right eat
Sensitive.
Ringing in, right particularly; loud in right, loud in left.
Noise like a loud bell ringing at a distance.
Loud noise, resembling a windmill, in left ear; in right ear as
of a valve continually opening and shutting.
Troublesome roaring in both ears.
Noises in both ears and numbness through all limbs.
Clinical.
Earache, pains alternating between ears and teeth; don't know whether
they have earache or toothache.
NOSE
Aching, dryness, watering, discharges.
Detail.
Dull ache at root of.
Dryness of both nostrils.
Watering of eyes and nose; decided catarrhal symptoms. Discharge
of mucus from nose and feeling of congestion, as if it were about
to bleed.
Discharge of dry and bloody scales of mucus.
Right nostril seems filled up.
Nosebleed in the morning.
Odour of food nauseated her.
Clinical.
Fluent coryza.
FACE
Pain, pale, flushed.
Pain in lower jaw and left side of; in right jaw socket.
Pale, even to lips, with heart symptoms.
Much flushed; flushed after heart symptoms; flushed, but body cold.
Clinical.
Neuralgia of face, of left lower jaw.
Mouth
Saliva, dry, burning; tongue coated; taste peppery; saliva increased;
tongue coated yellow.
Burning and dry feeling in mouth and tongue.
Tongue coated thick yellow; heavy white; white; whitish; yellow.
A smarting, strong, peppery taste in mouth, fauces and throat, extending
to stomach, followed by increased pulse and slight heat all over
body.
Tongue seemed alternately to expand and contract.
Clinical.
Peppery feeling on tongue.
An old remedy for toothache. (See ears.)
THROAT
Lump, soreness, dry, husky, pain, aching, burning, stinging; enlarged,
as if; clutched, as if.
Detail.
Aching in right side; and painful to touch; with profuse menses
and occasional dyspnoe; it tired me to talk.
Sensation of soreness in right side of; s., with expectoration of
tough mucus.
Dry and hoarseness at 5 a. m., after sleeping four hours, and it
was a great exertion to talk.
Husky feeling in.
Intense burning and stinging in oesophagus, with slight nausea;
peppery sensation.
Seems clutched, as if in a vise, in morning, on rising.
Feeling of enlargement of.
After dinner felt a bunch in left side of, when swallowing; on going
to bed it shifted to right side.
Throbbing in throat and sensation of swelling.
Clinical.
Burning and peppery feeling.
STOMACH
Nausea, faintness, hunger, anorexia, thirst, fullness, pressure,
fluttering, eructations.
Detail.
Nausea: great, after lunch; seemed to awake me, half an hour later,
and vomited breakfast; with vertigo increased; with frequent chills
and pain in limbs; with headache; with oppression of stomach; could
eat but a little breakfast, as even the odour or sight of food nauseated
me; ameliorated by a glass of ice water.
Faintness at stomach, as if I had been fasting, but when food was
brought, cared to eat only a few mouthfuls, which nauseated me.
Hunger, but food increased nausea, while water relieved it.
Anorexia; could eat but a few mouthfuls at breakfast and drink half
a cup of coffee, which were vomited soon after; with great thirst;
craved coffee and lemonade.
Thirst after heart symptoms; drinking large quantities at a time;
glass of ice water relieved all symptoms.
Feeling of fullness and pressure at epigastrium.
Fluttering in.
Empty eructations, with slight taste of ingesta.
Clinical.
Failing appetite.
ABDOMEN
Flatulence; griping, pain, dragging, colics.
Detail.
Flatulence, rumbling, with soreness on pressure.
Severe griping pains soon after waking.
Griping at 7 a. m., soon after waking; with brown diarrhoea, mixed
with mucus; next morning, griping on waking, continued at intervals
through day, with indifference and malaise; griping and pain; then
watery diarrhoea, fever and chill. (The diarrhoea could not be produced
by large doses).
Pain in right side, below ribs.
Unbearable pain in abdomen.
Colicky pain in right iliac region.
HYPOCHDRIA
Pain, dull, boring.
Detail.
Deep, dull, boring pain in right region; severe, relief from hot
compresses, constant pressure and motion; lying down or sitting
aggravates; with rheumatic ache in wrists and knees.
Clinical.
Should be useful in rheumatism, with hepatic involvement, a not
uncommon combination.
RECTUM AND STOOL
Diarrhoea, burning, excoriating, watery.
Constipation.
Detail.
Urgent call to stool; movement large, dark brown; rather loose and
offensive, causing much excoriation and pain.
Thin, brown diarrhoeic discharge, mixed with some mucus. Loose,
causing burning and pressure for an hour or two.
Stool: small, watery, dark and offensive, followed by severe burning
in rectum and anus; followed by stinging and slight haemorrhage
as from piles; excoriating.
Constipation in morning; stool after supper, in fifteen minutes'
discharge from bowels; next day three stools; on third day, stool
before and after breakfast and after supper.
Slight stool twice a day.
Inodorous discharge, with tenesmus.
Clinical.
The stools of this remedy are characteristically inodorous, very
dark or black, and corrosive, especially during dentition. (Inodorous
stool, compare, Asar. Ferr. Gamb. Hyos. Paul. Rhus t. Verat-a.)
Epidemic dysentery, characterised by spasmodic tenesmus, intestinal
spasms, tympanites, etc.
Cholera, in stage of collapse.
URINARY ORGANS
Urine at night and next morning scanty and high coloured; frequent;
increased, sp. g., 1,025, 1,030; slightly increased, sp. g., 1,0I5
to 1,019.
Clinical.
Profuse, light-coloured urine; nervous women.
SEXUAL ORGANS (FEMALE)
Menses: early; profuse; painful; leucorrhea; ovaries affected.
Detail.
Menses a week before time, attended by a good deal of pain; menses
two days early; early, with increased head difficulties; unnatural
forcing of nature; awoke with dreadful distress and pain, baffling
all description; profuse menses, relieving ovarian pain; felt tired;
profuse flowing; profuse and early, preceded by leucorrhoea; profuse
and eight days too early; bright red; slight dysmenorrhea, ameliorated
by walking and hot applications; very nervous, easily startled and
hysterical; early and painful; too early, with intermittent cramp-like
pain in head and abdomen; inability to lie still; hungry, but food
nauseated; drank much; urine profuse; left side numb; nape lame;
eye twitched, pupils dilated; face flushed; blue light before eyes;
chill; nausea, when vomiting it seemed as if the stomach rose and
fell; pulse rapid; restless night's sleep; at intervals next day
awoke with pain in right ovarian region; frontal headache, head
light; left side numb; left foot went to sleep.
Sharp, cramp-like pain in left inguinal region, which increased
until menses appeared five days early; for about an hour pain seemed
better, but after that began with renewed violence, worse than in
former provings.
Dysmenorrhea, with bearing-down feeling and pain in right ovarian
region.
Leucorrhea, profuse; milky white, thin; whitish after menses.
OVARIES
Aching, shooting, darting, sharp, cutting.
Dull pain radiating, especially into thighs, ameliorated by drawing
up knees, heat or free discharges.
Severe aching pain in right ovarian region, causing me to forget
all other pains and walk the floor; constant radiating from right
ovarian region to hip, thigh and back, with occasional shooting,
darting pain, causing me to hold my breath; at same time leucorrhoea
coming with a gush of milk-white color, ceasing suddenly; it ameliorated
back and head symptoms. Sudden sharp pains in right ovarian region,
radiating down thighs and across left hip; better by lying down
and flexing thighs on abdomen; could not walk straight or upright,
abdominal pain was so intense.
Sharp, cutting pain in right ovarian region, extending about hip
and down thigh, awoke me at 6 a.m.; could not find any position
comfortable, became almost unbearable; better by heat; pain not
continuous, intervals almost regular, of about ten minutes, and
spasm lasts five minutes; pain agonising, could hardly endure it.
Dull pain in left ovarian region; back of neck stiff; better by
heat; pain in left, extending down thigh.
Intense pain in left ovarian region, began feebly and gradually
increased, dying away in same manner.
Clinical.
Indicated in spare, delicate, nervous women.
Dysmenorrhea, neuralgic with agonising, excruciating, distracting
pains, causing the patient to scream out, clutch the hair in desperation,
with bodily contortions and tears of anguish; no relief in any position;
pains extend down anterior thighs; generally left-sided, with neuralgic
headaches, especially over left eye; congestion of head and eyes;
photophobia; discharge scanty, thick, black, in strings and clots;
intermitting every other day; weakness in lower limbs; wants to
sit or lie all the time.
Membranous dysmenorrhea, with contractive pains, great bearing down;
keeps limbs in constant motion, drawing them up and down in bed.
Chlorotic amenorrhea, with oedema and scanty, high-coloured urine;
sight of food nauseates, and the smallest amount distresses; discouragement;
aggravation from getting the feet wet.
Menses irregular and scanty.
Grinding pain in the pelvis.
Great increase in leucorrhoea, during time when menses should appear.
Sacral pains during pregnancy.
After pains; profuse lochia.
LARYNX AND TRACHEA
Hoarseness; aphonia; hawking.
Detail.
Hoarseness, in open air, with husky feeling in throat; obliged to
clear throat frequently; this continued after other symptoms sub-sided.
Aphonia and pain in lower right lung; vocal cords affected. Throat
ached, and it was tiresome to talk, with hoarse voice. Almost constant
hawking, without expectoration, sometimes arising from tickling
in larynx, and again from a sort of oppressed feeling in lungs.
Clinical.
Aphonia from cold or general debility.
RESPIRATION
Detail.
Dyspnoe; cough; oppression.
Constant desire to take a deep breath, long breath, etc.; could
not get air enough into lungs; with oppression; decided dyspnoe,
with slightly increased action of heart; almost impossible to get
a satisfactory inspiration; with severe coughing spells; with cutting
in lower part of right lung.
Suffocative feeling, almost inability to breathe; had to sit up
in bed and turn, first, one way, then another, almost as in a severe
case of asthma, even accompanied by severe spasmodic coughing spells;
with cutting pain in region of heart, makes me catch my breath.
Awaking with a sense of suffocation; feared I should lose my breath
entirely.
Difficult, on awaking; difficult inspiration; shortness of breath.
COUGH
Hacking; spasmodic; stifled.
Detail.
Slight hacking; coming on only in open air, with slight hoarseness;
without expectoration;
sometimes from tickling in throat, again deep in bronchi.
Severe spasmodic coughing spells, with heart symptoms.
Cough, with scraping, sore feeling under sternum, spasmodic, of
a voiceless, stifled character, recurring at almost regular intervals
of about twenty minutes, with sharp pain in lower portion of right
lung; awaking her at 4 a.m.; almost constant.
Cough, aggravated by exposure to cold; ameliorated in a warm room.
Clinical.
Dry cough night and day; from sheer exhaustion could hardly turn
herself in bed; face pale, bloated; dark rings about eyes; head
full and heavy; lips colourless; tongue pale and flabby; shortness
of breath; no appetite; constipated; urine light coloured, alkaline,
sp. g., 1,025; fluttering in stomach; pain in left side; limbs weak
and bloated.
CHEST
Pains, sharp, shooting, cutting, neuralgic, strained; constriction.
Sharp, shooting pain in right side, like pains of pleurisy, occasion-ally
extending through to
scapula, which increased in severity with constant desire to take
a long breath.
Sharp, cutting pain in lower portion of right lung, on deep inspiration
or coughing, of a neuralgic character.
Strained pain on deep inspiration, worse waking at night and turning
in bed.
Slight pain in left side under scapula and in left hip.
Felt a good deal of tightening about chest, which continued, with
much inclination to gape, with difficulty to inflate chest.
Constriction as from running or as from a weight on chest.
Clinical.
Menses irregular and scanty; tight, dry cough, which hurts chest
and shoulders; bowels almost constantly loose; profuse night sweats;
very much wasted and weakened; frequent violent headache, affect-ing
whole head, sometimes with vomiting; feet and ankles oedematous;
bubbling mucus rales especially distinct in apex of left lung; appearance
bloodless and miserable; family history of phthisis; thinks she
is "going into decline."
HEART
Increased action.
Severe cutting pain in region of, lasting but a moment and recurring
at irregular intervals of five minutes to half an hour, making me
catch my breath and turn pale, even to lips, worse during inspiration,
and passing directly through thorax in region of heart; after each
attack was thirsty, flushed and exhausted.
Startled out of sleep at 1 a.m. by severe pain in region of heart,
and then violent action of heart set in; apex beat felt and seen
over a large area, with suffocative feeling and almost inability
to breathe; had to sit up in bed and turn one way and then another,
with cough without expectoration; three attacks at night; once almost
unconscious from agitated, tumultuous beating of heart; pulse rapid;
temperature, 101° at 4 a.m., 97.6° at 9 a.m.; slept hardly
at all.
PULSE
One hundred and more, feeble; 82 feeble and irregular; 80; 74
and soft; 72 and irregularly intermittent; 110; 70; I30; 120.
Carotids throb.
VEINS
Fullness of; sense of heat all through veins, with desire to be
bled.
NECK
Pain and stiffness in nape of neck, somewhat relieved by hard
pressure or throwing head back; in evening, I involuntarily put
my hand there constantly to try and relieve it by pressure.
Back of neck numb.
Dull, drawing pain from nape to right scapula; dull in back of neck.
Very painful, extending into right shoulder and down back; difficult
to turn neck to left.
Rheumatic pain in nape, better pressing head backward. Tired feeling
in nape.
BACK—Detail.
Slight pain in left side and under left shoulder blade; also in
left hip. Ached whole length of spine.
Severe pain in cervical and upper sacral region.
Coccyx seemed elongated, extremely sensitive to pressure, and ache;
could not sit except on foot or air cushion to raise it from chair.
Dragging pain in lower portion of pelvis and back.
Pain in sacral region.
Muscles seemed tired; twitched.
Clinical.
Pain in back, as if broken.
EXTREMITIES
Limbs ached.
Joints seemed loosened.
Numbness through all limbs; left sided; back of neck, especially
left foot.
Limbs heavy to lift.
UPPER LIMBS
Pain, numbness.
Detail.
Severe pain in right arm, beginning above bend of elbow; inside,
just above elbow; in wrist, extending to thumb; slight above inner
condyle of right arm.
Arms felt as if they had carried a heavy weight.
Arms felt better from being twisted.
Pain in right arm and right knee.
Numbness in left shoulder and arm; left numb and heavy.
Pain in elbows; in left, passing to palm, then to shoulder; in both
elbows and back of head, with bewildered sensation; in left knee
and left elbow, extending to hand, then in left side and top of
left foot; in left elbow and left side of head.
Pain in wrist, extending to thumb; sudden cramp-like in wrists and
knees, ending in a steady ache.
A flash of pain in right thumb, extending to hand; another in calf
of right leg.
Pain and pricking feeling in right arm, extending to third finger.
Pricking and throbbing sensation in left arm and fingers.
LOWER EXTREMITIES
Pain, aching.
Detail.
Pain in right knee; dull in right knee; in right leg in morning;
in right ankle; in left heel; severe in left knee; slight in left
hip.
Flash of pain in right calf.
Pain in both feet, shooting up to knees.
Pain in left leg, between hip and knee, and in various other parts.
Aching, particularly of knee joints.
Taken suddenly at 4 p.m. with cramp-like pains in wrists and knees;
wrists especially somewhat sensitive to touch; cramp and sharp pain
soon settled down into a steady ache like rheumatism, with deep,
dull, boring pain in right hypochondriac region, quite severe; relief
from constant pressure and motion; lying down or sitting aggravated.
Weakness; legs and feet feel tired; with pain in knees; it is an
exertion to walk; increased pain, with frequent chills.
Inability to walk straight; floor seemed soft like wool.
Twitching in left knee and trembling in right.
Clinical.
Severe neuralgic pains in course of genito-crural nerves; dysmenorrhea.
Sciatica, agg. hot weather; of anterior crural nerve after Gnaph.
SKIN
Blotches on face, with boils.
Measles, dullness, bewilderment, drowsiness; want of sufficient
development of the eruption.
SLEEP
Gaping; drowsy all morning; all evening; sleepy feeling all day,
with headache; sleep from 4 to 7 p.m. and then from I0 p.m. to 7
a.m. Slept hard all night and awoke languid, depressed, and without
appetite; slept hard and heavy; dreamed of flying over tops of houses;
heavy with constant dreams, till 4 a.m.; soundly without dreaming.
Frequent waking.
Restless night, although very sleepy; continually twisted and turned;
when I did sleep, dreamed of being chased, and when overtaken, about
to be scalped; could not make a sound to call help.
SLEEP
Restless all night, with frightful dreams of being killed or burned.
Sleepy; headache kept me awake for an hour; on shutting eyes there
appeared bright, star-shaped spots dancing up and down.
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