Condensed Materia Medica

Squilla hispanica squil.

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Mind

Great anxiety of mind, with fear of death.
Angry about trifles.
Aversion to mental or bodily labor.

Sensorium

Vertigo in morning, with nausea.
Beclouded and dizzy in head.

Inner Head

Drawing lancinating headache.
Pulsation in head when raising it.
Headache in morning on waking, with pressing pains.
Contractive pain in both temples.
Quickly passing pain in occiput, from left to right.
Stitching pain in right side of forehead.

Outer Head

Painful sensitiveness of vertex, mornings.

Eyes

Left eye looks much smaller than right; upper eyelid swollen.
Contraction of pupils.

Ears

Tearing pain of left ear.

Nose

Child sneezes during cough; eyes water; rubs eyes and nose. θ Measles.
Acrid, corrosive, fluent coryza in morning.
Humid eruptions under nose, with stinging-itching.

Face

Changeable expression and color of face.
During the heat, redness of face, followed by paleness, without coldness.

Lower Face

Lips: twitch, and are covered with yellow crusts; black and cracked.

Tongue, etc

Food tastes bitter, especially bread; or sweetish, especially soup and meat.

Mouth

Much viscid mucus in mouth.

Throat

Burning in palate and throat; dryness in throat.

Desires and Aversions

Insatiable appetite.
Desire for acids.
Thirst for cold water, but the dyspnœa allows her to take but a sip at a time.

Eating and Drinking

After eating: 27. Cold drinks: 27.

Nausea and Vomiting

Empty eructations.
Nausea; during morning cough; continuous, in pit of stomach, alternating with a pain in abdomen, as with diarrhœa.

Stomach

Pressure in stomach, as from a stone.

Abdomen

Cutting pain in abdomen, as from flatulence.
Painful sensitiveness of abdomen and region of bladder.

Stool, etc

Painless constipation.
Frequent discharge of very fetid flatulence.
Diarrhœa, stools very offensive, watery, during measles, or looking black; slimy fluid, in frothy bubbles.

Urine

Continuous, painful pressure on bladder.
Urine: increased, pale, with frequent urging; involuntary; scanty, dark-red. θ Hydrothorax.
When urinating, feces escape.

Female Sexual Organs

Atony of cervix uteri.

Breathing

Moaning, with open mouth; wheezing; rattling, with pleurisy, must sit up; short, from least exertion.
So out of breath cannot drink; child seizes the cup eagerly but can drink only in sips.

Cough

Dry, night and morning; short, rattling, disturbing sleep; spasmodic from mucus in the trachea, or creeping sensation in chest; with headache; dyspnœa; spurting of urine; stitches in chest or pain in abdomen; caused by cold drinks; during measles; after eating; from every exertion.
Sputa white or reddish mucus; sweetish, or empyreumatic or offensive in odor.
The loose morning cough is more fatiguing than the dry evening cough.

Lungs

Stitches: in chest, especially when inhaling and coughing; insides of chest. θ Pleurisy.
Pains in chest are worse in morning.
Especially suitable in pneumonia and pleurisy, after bloodletting.
Heaviness on chest; congestion of blood to chest.

Heart and Pulse

Pulse small and slow, slightly hard.

Neck and Back

Stiffness of neck.

Upper Limbs

Sweat in arm-pit.
Convulsive twitching of arms; cold hands.

Lower limbs

Convulsive twitching of legs.
Cold foot-sweat.
Sweat only on toes.
Soles red and sore when walking.

Limbs in General

Tearing and restlessness in upper and lower extremities.
Convulsive twitchings and motions of limbs, worse in morning and evening, and during motion.
Soreness in bends of joints.

Position, etc

Motion: 34. Walking: 33, 40. Exertion: 26, 27. Sitting: 40. Must sit up: 26. Raising head: 3.

Sleep

Frequent yawning, without sleepiness.
Restless sleep, with much tossing about.

Time

Morning: 2, 3, 4, 7, 16, 27, 28, 34. Afternoon and evening: 40. Evening: 27, 34, 40. Night: 40. Night and morning: 27.

Temperature and Weather

Uncovering: 40.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chill internally at night, with external heat.
Chilliness toward evening when walking, not while sitting.
Heat dry, burning, mostly internally.
Heat of whole body, with cold hands and feet, with aversion to being uncovered; face pale after the heat.
Sensation of great heat in the body, in afternoon and evening, generally with cold feet.
Whenever he uncovers himself during heat, he suffers from chilliness and pain.
Sweat wanting.

Sides

Right: 3, 5. Left: 5, 6. Left to right: 3.

Skin

Eruptions like itch, with burning, itching.
Excoriation in bends of limbs.

Relationship

Useful after Bryon.