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Chronic Diseases-- Samuel Hahnemann |
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(Page 60 ... 69) After meals, very tired and sleepy.1 After meals, as if intoxicated. After meals, headache. After meals, palpitation of the heart. Alleviation of several, even remote, complaints from eating. The flatus does not pass off, but moves about, causing many ailments of body and of spirit.2 The abdomen is distended by flatus,3 the abdomen feels full, especially after a meal. Sensation as if the flatus ascended; followed by eructations - then often a sensation of burning in the throat, or vomiting by day and by night. Pain in the hypochondria when touched, and in motion, or also during rest. Constricting pain in the epigastrium, immediately under the ribs. Cutting pains in the abdomen, as if from obstructed flatus; there is a constant sensation of fullness in the abdomen - the flatus rises upwards. Cutting pains in the abdomen almost daily, especially with children, oftener in the morning than in other parts of the day, sometimes day and night, without diarrhoea. Cutting pains in the abdomen, especially on the one side of the abdomen, or the groin.4 In the abdomen, qualmishness, a sensation of voidness, disagreeable emptiness,5 even immediately after eating, he felt as if he had not eaten anything. From the small of the back, around the abdomen, especially below the stomach, a sensation of constriction as from a bandage, after she had had no stool for several days. Pain in the liver, when touching the right side of the abdomen. Pain in the liver, a pressure and tension-a tension below the ribs on the right side. Below the last ribs (in the hypochondria), a tension and pressure all over, which checks the breathing and makes the mind anxious and sad. ----- (1 Often until the patient lies down and sleeps.) (2 At times drawing pains in the, limbs, especially in the lower limbs, or stitches in the pit of the stomach, or in the side of the abdomen, etc.) (3 The flatus often ascends; less frequently a great quantity of flatus is charged, especially in the morning, without smell and without alleviating the other ailments; in other cases flatulence, with a great quantity of excessively fetid flatus passing off.) (4 The cutting pain also at times passes down into the rectum and down the thigh.) (5 In some cases alternating with a contractive pain in the abdomen.) Pain in the liver, stitches - mostly when stooping quickly. Inflammation of the liver. Pressure in the abdomen as from a stone.1 Hardness of the abdomen. Crampy colic, a grasping pain in the bowels. In colic, coldness on one side of the abdomen. A clucking, croaking and audible rumbling and grumbling in the abdomen.2 So-called uterine spasms, like labor pains, grasping pains often compelling the patient to lie down, frequently quickly distending the abdomen without flatulence. In the lower abdomen, pains pressing down toward the genitals.3 Inguinal hernias, often painful while speaking and singing.4 Swellings of the inguinal glands, which sometimes turn into suppuration. Constipation; delayed stools sometimes for several days, not infrequently with repeated ineffectual urging to stool. Stools hard, as if burnt, in small knots, like sheep-dung, often covered with mucus, sometimes also enveloped by veinlets of blood. Stools of mere mucus (mucous piles). Passage of round worms from the anus. Discharge of pieces of tape-worm. Stools, in the beginning very hard and troublesome, followed by diarrhoea. Very pale, whitish stool. Grey stools. Green stools. Clay-colored stools. Stools with putrid, sour smell. At the stools, cutting pains in the rectum. Stools show diarrhoea for several weeks, months, years.5 Frequently repeated diarrhoea, with cutting pains in the abdomen, lasting several days. ----- (1 Which often rises to the pit of the stomach, digging and causing vomiting.) (2 At times only in the left side of the abdomen, passing upwards with the inspiration and downward with the expiration.) (3 Pressing down as if to cause a prolapsus, and when it is passed she feels heavy in all her limbs, the limbs go to sleep; she must stretch and extend her limbs.) (4 Inguinal hernias rise as a rule only from internal psora, excepting the few cases, when these parts are injured by great external violence, or when the hernia arises from superhuman exertions of the body through lifting or pushing quickly, while in a great fright.) (5 Usually preceded by rumbling or fermentation in the abdomen; chiefly in the morning.) After a stool, especially after a softer, more copious evacuation, great and sudden prostration.1 Diarrhoea, soon so weakening, that she cannot walk alone. Painless and painful haemorrhoidal varices on the anus, 2 the rectum (blind piles). Bleeding haemorrhoidal varices on the anus or in the rectum3 (running piles), especially during stools, after which the haemorrhoids often pain violently for a long time. With bloody discharges in the anus or in the rectum, ebullition of blood through the body and short breathing. Formication and itching formication in the rectum, with or without the discharge of ascarides. Itching and erosion in the anus and the perineum. Polypi in the rectum. During micturition, anxiety, also at times prostration. At times too much urine is discharged, succeeded by great weariness.4 Painful retention of urine (with children and old people). When he is chilled (feels cold through and through), he cannot urinate. At times owing to flatulence, she cannot urinate. The urethra is constricted in parts, especially in the morning.5 Pressure on the bladder, as if from an urging to urinate, immediately after drinking. He cannot hold the urine for any length of time, it presses on the bladder, and passes off while he walks, sneezes, coughs or laughs. Frequent micturition at night; he has to get up frequently at night for that purpose. Urine passes off in sleep involuntarily. ----- (1 Especially, weakness in the pit of the stomach, anxiety, restlessness, also at times chills in the abdomen or the small of the back, etc.) (2 Which not infrequently have a slimy fluid oozing from them.) (3 Fistula in ano have probably never any other cause than this malady, especially when to this there are added a stimulating diet, an excess in spirituous liquors, frequent laxatives, a sedentary occupation and abuse of the sexual instinct.) (4 Diabetes, which with Allopathic remedies is usually so fatal, has probably never any other origin than this malady.) (5 The urine frequently passes off as thin as a thread, or the stream spreads out; the urine is only discharged in jerks at long intervals; these interruptions are frequently caused by a spasm in the neck, of the bladder which antagonizes the action of the bladder and springs from the same psoric malady. So also inflammation of the bladder from strictures of the urethra, and the fistula in vesica are always of psoric origin, though in rare cases sycosis may be complicated with the psora.) After urinating, the urine continues to drip out for a long time,. Whitish. urine, with a sweetish smell and taste, passes off in excessive abundance, with prostration, emaciation and inextinguishable thirst (diabetes). During urination, burning, also lancinating pains in the urethra and the neck of the bladder. Urine of penetrating, sharp odor. The urine quickly deposits a sediment. The urine discharged is at once turbid like whey. With the urine there is discharged from time to time a red sand (kidney grits). Dark-yellow urine. Brown urine. Blackish urine. Urine with blood particles, also at times complete hematuria. Discharge of prostatic fluid after urination, but especially after a difficult stool (also almost constant dripping of the same).1 Nocturnal passage of semen, too frequent, one, two or three times a week, or even every night.2 Nightly discharge of the genital fluid in a women, with voluptuous dreams. Nocturnal pollutions, even if not frequent, yet immediately attended by evil consequences.3 Semen passes off almost involuntarily the daytime, with little excitation, often even without erection. Erections very frequent, long continuing, very painful without pollutions. The semen is not discharged, even during a long-continued coition and with a proper erection,4 but it passes off afterward in nocturnal pollutions or with the urine. Accumulation of water in the tunica vaginalis of the testicle (hydrocele). There is never a complete erection, even with the most voluptuous excitement. ----- (1 Sometimes also consumption from the constant oozing out of the prostatic fluid.) (2 With healthy chaste young men, pollutions naturally only take place every twelve or fourteen days, without any attending troubles, and they are (followed by cheerfulness and a feeling of strength and serenity.) (3 Gloominess, obtuseness, dimness of the thinking powers, diminished vividness of the imagination, want of memory, depression, melancholy; the vision is weakened, as well as the digestion and the appetite; stools are retained, a rush of blood to the head ensues, also toward the anus, etc.) (4 The testicles in such a case are never drawn up to the body, but hang down more or less.) Painful twitches in the muscles of the penis. Itching of the scrotum, which is sometimes beset with pimples and scabs. One or both of the testicles chronically swollen, or showing a knotty infection (Sarcocele). Dwindling, diminution, disappearance of one or both testicles. Induration and enlargement of the prostatic gland. Drawing pain in the testicle and the spermatic chord. Pain as from contusion in the testicle. Lack of the sexual desire in both sexes, either frequent or constant.1 Uncontrollable insatiable lasciviousness,2 with a cachectic complexion and sickly body. Sterility, impotence, without any original organic defect in the sexual parts.3 Disorders of the menstrual function; the menses do not appear regularly on the twenty-eighth day after their last appearance, they do not come on without other ailments and not at once, and do not continue steadily for three or four days with a moderate quantity of healthy-colored, mild blood, until on the fourth day it imperceptibly comes to an end without any disturbance of the general health of body and spirit; nor are the menses continued to the forty-eighth or fiftieth year, nor do they cease gradually and without any troubles. The menses are slow in setting in after the fifteenth year and later, or after appearing one or more times, they cease for several months and for years.4 The menses do not keep their regular periods, they either come several days too early, sometimes every three weeks, or even every fortnight.5 ----- (1 Often for, years, yea, for many years. The male and the female genital parts cannot then be excited to any agreeable or voluptuous sensation - the body of the male penis hangs down relaxed, is thinner than the glans penis, which feels cold and is of a bluish or white color; in the female parts the labia are not excitable, they are relaxed and small; the vagina almost numb and insensible, and usually dry; sometimes there is a falling out of the hair of the pudenda, or entire bareness of the female genital parts.) (2 Metromania and Nymphomania are of the same origin.) (3 Too frequent coition from impotent lasciviousness, with too sudden a passing off of immature, watery semen, or lack of erection, or lack of the issue of semen, or lack of sexual desire - menses too copious, or a constant flow of blood watery, scanty or deficient menses; copious discharge of mucus from the vagina (leucorrhoea), indurated ovaries, the breasts have either dwindled down or become knotty; insensibility, or merely painful sensibility of the genital organs, are merely the proximate usual symptoms of sterility or impotence with the one sex or the other.) (4 Consequent sallow paleness and tumefaction of the face, heaviness of the limbs, swelling of the feet, chilliness, weariness, asthma (chlorosis), etc. (5 The menses rarely come several days too late, and flow then in too great abundance, with prostrating weariness and many other ailments. The menses flow only one day, only a few hours, or in imperceptibly small quantities. The menses flow for five, six, eight and more days, but only intermittently, a little flow every six, twelve, twenty-four hours, and then they cease for half or whole days, before more is discharged. The menses flow too strongly, for weeks, or return almost daily (bloody flux).1 Menses of watery blood or of brown clots of blood. Menses of very fetid blood. Menses accompanied with many ailments, swoons or (mostly stitching) headaches, or contractive, spasmodic, cutting pains in the abdomen and in the small of the back; she is obliged to lie down, vomit, etc. Polypi in the vagina. Leucorrhoea from the vagina, one or several days before, or soon after, the monthly flow of blood, or during the whole time from the one menstrual discharge to the other, with a diminution of the menses, or continuing solely instead of the menses; the flow is like milk, or like white, or yellow mucus, or like acrid, or sometimes like fetid, water.2 Premature births. ----- (1 Often followed by swelling of the face, of the hands and feet, painful in the breast and the abdomen, innumerable ailments from nervous debility, excessive sensitiveness, as well in general, as of particular sensory organs, etc., and before the appearance of the flow, anxious dreams, frequent awakenings with a rush of blood to the head, palpitation., restlessness, etc. With a more violent flow of blood from the uterus, there are often cutting pains in the one side of the abdomen and in the groin; the cutting pain sometimes descends into the rectum and into the thigh; then she frequently cannot urinate, or sit down, on account of her pains; after these pains the abdomen aches as if it were festering.) (2 Leucorrhoea, especially the more malignant kind, is accompanied by an innumerable multitude of ailments. Not to mention the lesser ones (such as the itching of the pudenda and the vagina, with excoriation on the outside of the pudenda and the adjacent part of the thigh, especially in walking), hysterical states of all kinds follow the more severe cases of this troublesome flux, as also disturbances of the mind and spirit, melancholy, insanity, epilepsy, etc. Often it comes in the form of an attack, and then it is preceded by a digging in the one side of the abdomen, or by burning in the stomach, in the lower abdomen, in the vagina, or stitches in the vagina and in the mouth of the uterus, or a constrictive pain in the uterus and pressure toward the vagina as if everything were about to fall out, also at times most keen pains in the small of the back; the flatus is obstructed, causing pain, etc. Has the so-called uterine cancer any other origin than this (psora) malady? During pregnancies great weariness, nausea, frequent vomiting, swoons, painful varicose veins on the thighs and the legs, and also at times on the labia, hysteric ailments of various kinds, etc. Coryza at once, whenever she comes into the open air; then usually a stuffed coryza while in her room. Dry coryza and a stuffed nose often, or almost constantly, also sometimes with intermissions. Fluent coryza at the least taking of cold, therefore mostly in the inclement season and when it is wet. Fluent coryza, very often, or almost constantly, also in some cases uninterruptedly. He cannot take cold, even though there have been strong premonitory symptoms of it, simultaneously with other great ailments from the itch malady. Hoarseness, after the least amount of speaking; she must vomit in order to clear her voice. Hoarseness, also sometimes aphony (she cannot speak loud but must whisper), after a slight cold. Constant hoarseness and aphony for years; he cannot speak a loud word. Suppuration of the larynx and the bronchia (laryngo-bronchial phthisis).1 Hoarseness and catarrh very often, or almost constantly; his chest is continually affected. Cough; frequent irritation and crawling in the throat; the cough torments him, until perspiration breaks out on his face (and on his hands). Cough, which does not abate until there is retching and vomiting, mostly in the morning or in the evening. Cough, which terminates every time with sneezing. Cough, mostly in the evening after lying down and whenever the head lies low. Cough, waking the patient up after the first brief sleep. Cough, especially in the night. Cough, worst after awaking in the morning. Cough, worst after eating. Cough, at once, with every deep breath. Cough, causing a sensation of soreness in the chest, or at times stitches in the side of the chest or the abdomen. Dry cough. ----- (1 Inflammation of the larynx (croup) cannot take place with any child that is free from latent psora or has been made free from it by treatment.) Cough, with yellow expectoration resembling pus, with or without spitting of blood.1 Cough, with excessive expectoration of mucus and sinking of strength (mucous phthisis). Attacks of whooping cough.2 Violent, at times unbearable stitches in the chest at every breath; cough impossible for pain; without inflammatory fever (spurious pleurisy). Pain in the chest on walking, as if the chest was about to burst. Pressive pain in the chest, at deep breathing or at sneezing. Often a slightly constrictive pain in the chest, which, when it does not quickly pass, causes the deepest dejection.3 Burning pain in the chest. Frequent stitches in the chest, with or without cough. Violent stitches in the side; with great heat of the body, it is almost impossible to breathe, on account of stitches in the chest with haemoptysis and headache; he is confined to his bed. Night-mare; he usually suddenly awakes at night from a frightful dream, but cannot move, nor call, nor speak, and when he endeavors to move, he suffers intolerable pains, as if he were being torn to pieces.4 Obstruction of the breath, with stitching pains in the chest at the slightest amount of walking;5 he cannot go a step farther (angina pectoris). Asthma, merely when moving the arms, not while walking. Attacks of suffocation especially after midnight; the patient has to sit up, sometimes he has to leave his bed, stand stooping forward, leaning on his hands; he has to open the windows, or go out into the open air, etc.; he has palpitations; these are followed by eructations or yawning, and the spasm terminates with or without coughing and expectoration. ----- (1 Suppurative pulmonary phthisis has probably seldom any other cause than this malady, even when it seems as if the fumes of quicksilver or arsenic had caused it; at least most of these cases of suppurative phthisis originate in pneumonias mismanaged with blood-letting, and this disease may always be considered as the manifestation of latent Psora.) (2 She is suddenly compelled to cough, but cannot do so, as her breath fails her, even to suffocation, with a dark-red, bloated face; usually the oesophagus is then also constricted, so that not a drop of water will pass; after eight or ten minutes, there follow eructations from the stomach, and the spasm terminates.) (3 Usually the attacks last from evening to morning, the whole night.) (4 Such attacks, in some cases, also occur several times in one night, especially when he has not been out in the open air during the day.) (5 especially when ascending a height.) Palpitation with anxiety, especially at night. Asthma, loud, difficult, at times also sibilant respiration. Shortness of breath. Asthma, on moving, with or without cough. Asthma, mostly while sitting down. Asthma, spasmodic; when she comes into the open air it takes her breath. Asthma, in attacks, lasting several weeks. Dwindling of the breasts, or excessive enlargement of the same, with retroceding nipples. Erysipelas on one of the breasts (especially while nursing). A hard, enlarging and indurating gland with lancinating pains in one of the mammae.1 Itching, also moist and scaly eruptions around the nipples. In the small of the back, in the back and in the nape of the neck, drawing (tearing), tensive pains. Lancinating, cutting, painful stiffness of the nape of the neck; of the small of the back. Pressive pain between the shoulder-blades. Sensation of pressure upon the shoulders. In the limbs, drawing (tearing), tensive pains, partly in the muscles and partly in the joints (rheumatism). In the periosteum, here and there, especially in the periosteum of the long bones, pressive and pressive-drawing pains.2 Stitching pains in the fingers or toes.3 Stitches in the heels and soles of the feet while standing. Burning in the soles of the feet.4 In the joints a sort of tearing, like scraping on the bone, with red, hot swelling which is painfully sensitive to the touch and to the air, with unbearably sensitive, peevish disposition (gout, podagra, chiragra, gout in the knees, etc.).5 The joints of the fingers, swollen with pressive pains, painful when touching and bending them. ----- (1 Is it probable that the different varieties of cancer of the breast have any other origin than this psora malady?) (2 These spots then also pain on being touched, as if they were bruised or sore.) (3 In worse, chronic cases, this is aggravated into a cutting pain.) (4 Especially at night under a feather bed.) (5 The pains are either worse in daytime, or at night. After every attack, and when the inflammation is past, the joints of the hand are painful, as also those of the knee, the foot, those of the big toe when moved, when he stands up, etc., they feel intolerably benumbed and the limb is weakened.) Thickening of the joints; they remain hard swollen, and there is pain on bending them. The joints, as it were, stiff, .with painful, difficult motion, the ligaments seem too short.1 Joints, painful on motion.2 Joints crack on moving, or they make a snapping noise. The joints are easily sprained or strained.3 Increasing disposition to strains and to overlift oneself even at a very slight exertion of the muscles, even in slight mechanical work, in reaching out or stretching for something high up, in lifting things that are not heavy in quick turns of the body, pushing, etc. Such a tension or stretching of the muscles often then occasions long confinement to the bed, swoons, all grades of hysterical troubles,4 fever, haemoptysis, etc., while persons who are not psoric lift such burdens as their muscles are able to, without the slightest after effects.5 The joints are easily sprained at any false movement.6 In the joint, of the foot there is pain on treading, as if it would break. Softening of the bones, curvature of the spine (deformity, hunchback), curvature of the long bones of the thighs and legs (morbus anglicus, rickets). Fragility of the bones. Painful sensitiveness of the skin, the muscles and of the periosteum on a moderate pressure.7 ----- (1 E.g., the tendo Achillis on standing erect, stiffness of the tarsus, of the knees, either transient (after sitting, when rising), or permanent (contraction.) (2 E.g., the shoulder-joint on raising the arm; the tarsus pains on treading as if it was about to break.) (3 E.g., the tarsus, the wrist-joint, the joint of the thumb.) (4 Often also, at once severe headache in the crown of the head, which is then also painful externally when touched, or suddenly a pain in the small of the back, or pain in the uterus, not unfrequently stitches in the side of the breast, or between the shoulder blades, which check the respiration, or painful stiffness of the neck or spine, frequent audible eructations, etc.) (5 The common people, especially in the country, seek alleviation through a sort of mesmeric stroking, but without lasting effects; the tendency to over-lifting nevertheless remains. It is usually woman (called a stroking woman) who makes with the tips of her thumbs passes over the shoulder blades toward the shoulders or along the spine, sometimes also from the pit of the stomach along below the ribs, only they usually exert too strong a. pressure while stroking.) (6 E. g.. the ankle at a false step, so also the shoulder-joint. Of this kind is also the gradual luxation of the hip-joint (i.e., of the head of the femur from the acetabulum, when the leg then becomes too long, or too short causing limping). (7 As when he moderately strikes against something, it becomes very painful and for a long time; the parts on which he lies in bed are very painful, wherefore he frequently turns over at night,, the posterior muscles of the thigh and the bone on which she sits are quite sore; a slight stroke with the hand on the thighs causes great pain. A slight knock against a hard object leaves blue marks, suffusion of blood.) |
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