Condensed Materia Medica

Sticta Pulmonaria stict.

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Mind

General confusion of ideas, inability to concentrate them.
Feels as if she must talk, whether listened to or not.

Inner Head

Dull sensation in head, with sharp pains in vertex, side of face and lower jaw.
Darting in temporal region.
Dull heavy pressure in forehead and root of nose.
Catarrhal headache before discharge sets in.
Sick headache; must lie down, worse from sight and noise; nausea and vomiting, nearly to faintness.

Eyes

Burning of eyelids, with soreness of ball in closing lids or turning eyes.
Profuse mild discharge; catarrhal conjunctivitis.

Nose

Constant need to blow nose, but no discharge results.
Feeling of fulness and heavy pressure at root of nose; tingling in right side of nose; loss of smell; dry coryza.
Excessive and painful dryness of mucous membrane; secretions dry rapidly, forming scabs difficult to dislodge. θ Influenza.

Face

Darting pains in side of face.

Lower Face

Darting pains in lower jaw.

Throat

Soft palate feels like dry leather, causing painful deglutition.

Hypochondria

Dull pain in right hypochondrium. θ Catarrh.
Full feeling in left hypochondrium.

Abdomen

Rumbling as if full of yeast, with severe pain from sternum to spine.

Cough

Dry, worse evening and night, can neither sleep nor lie down; dry, noisy; spasmodic stage of whooping-cough; severe, dry, racking, caused by tickling in right side of trachea, below larynx; biting frontal headache; loose morning, less free during day; pain left side, below scapula; tickling in larynx and bronchi; incessant, wearing or racking, in consumptives; croupy.

Lungs

Oppression of chest and feeling of a hard mass there; hard, racking cough, excited by inspiration.

Heart and Pulse

Dull, oppressive pain in cardiac region.

Outer Chest

Pulsation along right side of sternum, of abdomen.

Upper Limbs

Hands sweat profusely.

Lower limbs

Bursitis, especially about knee.

Limbs in General

Darting pain in arms, fingers, joints, thighs, toes.
Swelling and stiffness of hands and feet.
Heat and circumscribed redness of joints; inflammatory rheumatism.

Position, etc

Cannot lie down: 27. Must lie down: 3.

Nerves

As soon as night came, her feet and legs would dance and jump around in spite of her; had to hold them; hysteria, after loss of blood.
Legs, as if floating in air; she felt light and airy, without any sensation of resting on the bed.
General feeling of dulness and malaise, and when a catarrh is coming on.

Sleep

Sleepless: from nervousness or from cough; after surgical operations.

Time

Morning: 27. Evening and night: 27.

Sides

Right: 7, 18, 27, 30. Left: 18, 27. From before backward: 18.