Condensed Materia Medica

Zingiber zing.

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Mind

Forgetful.
Not in least anxious in midst of physical suffering from threatened suffocation.
Good-humored.
Irritable and chilly; also during menses.

Sensorium

Vertigo, limbs heavy.
Head feels too large.

Inner Head

Rush of blood worse about temples.
Pressure into forehead and root of nose when stooping.
Frontal headache over eyes and root of nose; also when he exerts himself.
Headache, worse over left eye; aching over eyebrows, followed by nausea; later over right eye and pressing in left occiput, worse in warm room, but continued in cold, damp air, in motion or sitting.
Heavy pressure, in head from without inward, when walking in cold, damp air.

Eyes

Weakness of sight: dimness of cornea.
Eyes sensitive to light, with stinging pain in eyeballs.
Feeling as from sand in eyes.
Smarting, burning in eyes.

Nose

Sneezing, and ineffectual attempts.
Watery coryza, right side, then left, more in open air.
Dryness and obstruction in posterior nares, with discharge of thick mucus.
Ozæna.

Face

Face red and hot.
Exhausted look, blue under eyes, before menses.

Teeth

Pressure and drawing in roots of teeth.

Tongue, etc

Taste of food remains; especially that of bread.
Slimy, bad taste in morning.

Mouth

Mouth and posterior nares dry, the later stopped up.
Breath smells foul to herself, as from disordered stomach.

Throat

Increased mucous secretion, no fever.

Desires and Aversions

Much thirst, mouth dry, also with heat in head.
No desire to smoke.

Eating and Drinking

After bread: headache, pressure in stomach.
Complaints from eating melons.

Nausea and Vomiting

Belching and diarrhœa.
Nausea: on rising; much rumbling; after morning stool.
Vomits slime; old drunkards.

Stomach

Weak digestion; stomach heavy like a stone; fidgety; cramps in soles, hoarseness.

Hypochondria

Heavy pain in right hypochondrium, toward the back, worse from deep breathing.
Stitches in spleen; stinging.

Abdomen

Contracting colic passes through abdomen while standing; soon after, desire for stool.
Sore pain on a small place right side of abdomen.
Flatulency; costive; gout.
Sharp pain in left iliac region.

Stool, etc

Diarrhœa: from impure water: from water containing coal oil; of brown mucus, worse morning; worse from deranged stomach; from cold, damp weather.
Hemorrhoids, hot and painful.
Burning redness, itching at anus and higher up the back.

Urine

Dull aching: and hot sensation in left kidney; in both kidneys, with frequent desire to urinate.
Complete retention or urine after typhus.
Urine: thick, turbid; dark brown; of strong smell.
While urinating, pain in orifice of urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Yellow, nightly discharge from, urethra.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses too early and profuse, dark, clotted; irritable; exhausted look before; drawing pain in sacrum.

Larynx

Hoarseness.
Smarting below larynx followed by cough, with mucous rattling.

Breathing

Asthma humidum; loosens the phlegm.
Painful respiration; more difficult at night, must sit up in bed; worse two or three hours every A.M. θ Asthma.

Cough

Dry, hacking; from tickling in larynx on left side of throat; from smarting or scratching; with pain in lungs, difficult breathing; morning sputum, which is copious.

Lungs

Stitches through chest, pains in chest, pleuritic.
Stinging pains after motion, also stinging-pressing in region of heart.

Neck and Back

Backache as from weakness; worse sitting and leaning against something.
Lower part of back; as if beaten; or, lame from walking or standing; feels stiff.

Upper Limbs

Heavy, lame feeling in upper arms; numbness, worse forearm.
Rheumatic, drawing pains in back of hands.
Heat of palms of hands.

Lower limbs

Pains in hip-joints; joints stiff, lame.
Burning, stinging, tingling in feet.
Pains swelling of feet.
Heels ache after long standing.
Cramps in soles.

Limbs in General

Dull, heavy feeling; also with dizziness.
Joints weak; back lame.

Position, etc

Stooping: 3. Standing: 19, 31, 33. Motion: 3, 28. Must sit up: 26. Sitting: 3, 31. Lying down: 31. Wants to lie down: 36. Exertion: 3. Walking: 3, 31. Rising: 16. Leaning against something: 31.

Nerves

Foaming at mouth, free urination, spasms.
Wants to lie down.
Faintish weakness.

Sleep

Sleepy, worse afternoons.
Coma.
Sleepless in night, awakens 3 A.M.; falls asleep again late in morning.

Time

Morning: 11, 16, 20, 26, 27, 37. Afternoon: 37. Evening: 31. Night: 22, 26, 37. 3 A.M.: 37. Day: 6.

Temperature and Weather

Warm room: 3. Open air: 7, 40. Cold damp air: 3, 20.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Chilly in open air; in evening; chill goes upward.
Hot and chilly at the same time.

Attacks

Every morning: 26.

Sides

Right: 3, 7, 18, 19. Left: 3, 7, 18, 19, 21, 28. Left to right: 3. Right to left: 7. Without inward: 3.

Skin

Skin feels relaxed, pliable.
Itching on scalp, beard, genitals.

Relationship

Antidote to Zingib.: Nux vom.