Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Sticta Pulmonaria stict.
General
A tincture is made of the fresh lichen (that growing on the maple seems the best).
Burning biting-sticking all over body, increasing in intensity all day. ▶ Weariness. ▶ Feeling of dullness. ▶ "Feel the medicine all over me." ▶ Inactivity of mind, inability to collect thoughts. ▶ Dullness of head, with heavy pressure in forehead and root of nose, increasing in intensity during the day; D. of head, with sharp darting pain through vertex, side of face and lower jaw. ▶ Heavy intermittent pain in forehead at noon, agg. 2 P.M., agg. right supraorbital region, agg. 4 P.M., when it extended through brain, agg. right side of head. ▶ Darting pain in temples increasing all day. ▶ Intermittent shooting in right temple at 7 A.M., agg. 8 A.M., when it extended through frontal and right parietal regions deep into brain, the pain agg. 11 A.M., when it was heavy and intermittent, agg. right supraorbital region, almost intolerable at 5 P.M., and extending through brain. ▶ Scalp feels too small or as if drawn too tight.
Eyes feel heavy. ▶ Burning in eyelids, increasing in intensity all day with soreness of balls on closing lids or turning eye. ▶ Fulness at root of nose. ▶ Dull oppressive pain in cardiac region. ▶ Fulness in left hypochondrium. ▶ Pain in right hypochondrium. ▶ Oppression of lungs. ▶ Lancinations in second joint of middle finger, increasing in intensity all day. ▶ Darting pains in muscle soft arms, then in fingers-joints and shoulders, next in thighs, knees and toes.
Clinical
Headache, with violent pains in the eyes, which are sore on turning them. ▶ Earache, with noise and beating in the back of the head. ▶ Nasal catarrh, with profuse discharge of bloody pus, distressing cough and oppression of the chest, cough agg. evening and night, becoming almost incessant, agg. lying down. ▶ Nasal catarrh, dryness of the nose and palate, they feel as stiff as leather, with occasional discharges of scabby, mucus, agg. evening and night. ▶ Catarrh, with constant blowing of the nose, but no discharge. ▶ Hay fever, incessant sneezing, with fulness in forehead and root of the nose and tingling. ▶ Nasal catarrh for many years sneezing, with green discharge frontal headache and occasional bleeding. ▶ Diarrhœa, with much mucus, associated with cough. ▶ Cough, incessant, dry, spasmodic, agg. evening and night, sometimes with feeling of hard masses in chest, pressure at root of nose. ▶ Hacking cough in nervous and hysterical patients, particularly such as are subject to sick headache. ▶ Cough dry, racking, with splitting headache in forehead; cough caused by inspiration, agg. lying down at night. ▶ Cough, with hoarseness, nightly expectoration. ▶ Very noisy cough often spasmodic, like whooping cough; frequently suitable for the incessant cough of measles, which prevents sleep at night, with stuffy and dry nose. ▶ Hysterical chorea, agg. evening and night, constant jumping about, feet and legs feel as if floating in the air. ▶ Inflammatory rheumatism of small joints, intense pain in the neck and head. ▶ Rheumatism of the wrists. ▶ Rheumatism of the knee. ▶ Housemaid's knee.